The Daily Zeitgeist - Scary Rise in Anti-Asian Racism, Diet Coke Addiction 2.10.21

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

In episode 809, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Lydia Popovich to discuss Trump's impeachment trial, the anti-Asian racism, Dems trying to lower the stimulus check threshold, Diet Coke addiction, the Dog Shampoo Guy, and more!FOOTNOTES: Trump's lawyers say he was immediately 'horrified' by the Capitol attack. Here's what his allies and aides said really happened that day. Democrats say they have 'devastating' NEW evidence against Trump for his impeachment trial just before it begins - as ex-President 'forgoes golf to watch every minute on TV at Mar-a-Lago' Rise in attacks on elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area prompts new special response unit 'You have Chinese virus!': 1 in 4 Asian American youths experience racist bullying, report says Progressives Score Victory In Push Against Lowering Stimulus Check Eligibility The real thing: my battle to beat a 27-year Diet Coke addiction Jonathan Kay: The main victims of progressive ‘cancel culture’ are progressives themselves Jonathan Kay: I'll miss Taste of the Danforth, but not the woke lectures on cultural appropriation Twitter LOLs at Quillette Editor for Washing His Hair With Dog Shampoo Quillette Editor Appears on Fox News to Respond to Mockery from Seth Rogen and More Over Dog Shampoo Tweet WATCH: Journalist's tweet sparks attack from 'left-wing' celebrities The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ WATCH: DILLA GHOST DOOM - Sniper Elite feat. MF DOOM Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it is wednesday february 10th 2021 my name is jack o'brien aka the switch kid uh as i'm known uh by the people and i'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co-host mr miles gray uh-oh okay but what i mean that's mid shit faking like you got it in your pockets yeah that's mid shit ugly in them clothes you I mean, that's Mitch shit Faking like you got it in your pockets Yeah, that's Mitch shit Ugly in them clothes, you steady gossip Yeah, that's Mitch shit Telling all your man so you can scram

Yeah, that's Mitch shit Voted out and acting like a sham Yeah, that's Mitch shit Hating on another man's come up Yeah, that's Mitch shit Saying them because you know you a bummer Yeah, that's Mitch shit You a Mitch boy, I'm a mama, uh

Okay, let's get it oh man you remember that num num juice school boy q from juju on the discord because america's favorite crip is in the building honestly famous famous uh yeah i mean blue allegiance he hates mitch mcconnell yeah right exactly i mean just off the strength of the colors You know what I mean? Yes, only That was dope That's all I gotta say about that Hey, thanks, alright That was dope

And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat By the hilarious, the talented Lydia Popovich! Bang, bang, bang There she is Hello, hello, hello Lydia Pop popovich oh lydia oh lydia i wish california didn't get rid of you fuck california where are you so where are you i'm looking in your zoom screen and i see boxes boxes son boxes on boxes i got got big thangs. You know what I mean?

You got to get boxes for them thangs. You got to pack that shit up every once in a while. Drive them cross country. Show what people, you know, what's up. See what's going on. You know what I mean? So you did the thing? I did the thing.

Okay, last time I remember we were talking, you're like, I think your search history was about looking at shit in Tennessee. It was. Oh, right. I was looking for land in Tennessee. And it was oh right in tennessee and now you found land in tennessee now you're in tennessee i have found some land in tennessee that i'm renting temporarily while i look for land that i will be purchasing but yeah i left california dog i left i am sitting in beautiful middle tennessee i am looking out my window right

now into my neighbor's yard uh which isn't my neighbor. It's their deer. My neighbor are deer. I am looking at a series of trees. I'm looking at an eagle feather sticking out of one of those trees. And all I see is just trees. And it's gorgeous. It's absolutely gorgeous. And I do have deer.

I saw three white-tailed deer running through my backyard last night. Can you even? Can you even? No. Not at all. yard last night can you even can you even fucking amazing not at all i look in my yard and my neighbor uh i think was on road rules in the early 90s i think that's the most i can say about my neighbor i believe it so now the track has been replaced with the great outdoors just the great outdoors man i'm just john candy lifestyling out here you know what i mean you love to hear it

watched harry and the henderson's the other day and was like, it holds up. Like, I want this. This is good. I was like, this is going to be my life. This is great, man. So every day I go out there and try to do a little Bigfoot call. You know what I mean? Just find me a man. You know what I'm saying?

Bigfoot Popovich. Let's get him in here. I'm not afraid. There you go. You know? Seems loyal, you know? How was that drive? Did you stop anywhere fun? I got on a plane. Seems loyal. How was that drive?

Did you stop anywhere fun? I got on a plane. I got on a plane. Leaving LAX was terrifying. Truly was one of the more terrifying experiences I've ever had in an airport. It was just so many people. TSA had lost their mind.

There was no sense of normalcy. It was just ridiculous, the stuff that was happening there it's it's a nightmare but then as soon as i i got into tennessee the airport was just crickets like literally nobody there i was like no crickets they work the airport they work it yeah they actually like holy shit jiminy's on it yeah it's a little bit of a change but welcome but yeah so i did it man i'm not somebody who talks trash but now i just need to find my forever land and build or renovate my forever house yeah 10 a knoxville tenneke or tenneke zeitgang uh you know holler at lydia what's what's are y'all uh in real estate you know in the real estate let us know you got you

know 15 to 60 acres i can holler at? What's up? Let's do this. You know what I'm saying? I'm ready to get a land loan. Let's do this. I'm like, for me growing up in LA my whole life, when I hear somebody say 60 acres, I'm like, you're a billionaire. Well, and that's why you grew up in California.

Right, right. No, exactly. That's why. The concept of land values completely fucked up. Yeah. Shout out to the Hector gang out there. Alright, Lydia, we're going to get to know you a little

bit better in a moment. First, we are going to tell the listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We'll check in with the opening of the impeachment trial. We will talk about anti-Asian racism that is continuing to soar in these united states the democrats are already showing just their plan to get destroyed in the midterms we'll talk about that we'll talk about uh how whether q anon is cool anymore. We will talk about cancel culture, AKA not really cancel culture.

What the rights definition of cancel culture. We'll talk about diet Coke addiction. We'll talk about the dog shampoo guy, all of that, plenty more. But first Lydia, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history?

That's revealing about who you are. Honestly, let's take a look i i don't even know i can't even tell you oh gosh what did i you know what the last thing that i searched uh was uh disposal and recycling because i live in an unincorporated county so i need to figure out how the hell you get rid of trash when the city doesn't come and get it because i've never done that before i'm a city girl i'm used to like they there's a trash can and they come and get it out here they're like yeah you're gonna have to figure that out so i gotta i need a line on the trash hustle out here man i was uh looking at various places i need

someone to come get my get my trash what what are the rates like when you got a high you got a contract that's what i want to find out i have no idea i'm thinking like i don't know in la it was like 70 bucks a month for trash right so i figure does that mean you ran a truck yeah you ran a truck once a month and take the take the trash in yo you know what jack you might be on some shit i need to flip this around why am i paying someone to pick up my trash when i could buy a truck and have my neighbors pay me right get your hustle and then i get free trash and you learn all kinds of weird shit about them because you go through they trash

thank you drive that sick ass truck are you kidding me and i get to wear neon yellow all day that's my new favorite color but going through the trash thing is like a cliche and spy movies and shit and like 80s movies had people going through other people's trash like when they were trying to find stuff out about them but that is like real deal like they actually that's like the way to find out shit about somebody for real yeah does that mean that all of the homeless people who go through trash in Los Angeles are secretly CIA agents? Are they the best informants? You never know. Gotta keep an eye open.

I was watching that The Devil Next Door about a dude who is suspected in Cleveland in the late 70s, early 80s is suspected of being Ivan the Terrible. Like one of the prison prison camp cars yeah and like his defense just like starts getting all these documents from one of the committees that's uh investigating him and it was just somebody going through their trash like

outside of a new york building and they were yeah, we taped this together. We have all these documents and that holds up in court, apparently. Yeah, which is wild. Because you threw it out, right? So it's just on the street. It's trash. It's trash. So what you're telling me is I should burn all of my trash. Well, that's what I was going to say.

The trash fires, that's when I lived when I was very young in West Virginia in an unincorporated area. See? That was how people got rid of their trash, was trash fires. Hell yeah. And like, you know, other spots in the world, you know, it's still like, yo, I mean. I am the trash people. I burn my shit right here

in my backyard. Man, I gotta look into burning trash. Yeah, so hey, Trash Night Gang 2. Holler at Lydia. You need the plug? Or maybe you got a truck connect so she can start her business. There you go. I am a little hype on the idea of driving around a garbage truck.

That does make sense. Isn't that so ill? Yeah. And just the wildest vibe, though, if I'm not saying you are, but you were low-key going through their trash and creating blackmail dossiers on them and be like, nah, man, you don't get it. This trash thing paid for itself in the first month when I started getting hush money payments from them. I'm going to need the east half of your land.

I'm looking at these Cracker Barrel receipts and these Zaxby's receipts, and what this tells me is he has another bitch. Right, exactly. Interesting. When did you start going to Crystal? Yeah, exactly. seats and what this tells me is he has another bitch right exactly yeah interesting when did you start going to crystal yeah because there isn't one in this county so if you want another i think i should do my own version of snapped but like garbage trash based only yeah and just try to find people just cheating on each other that would be a fucked up podcast where it's like someone goes through the trash of a random building and then talks to a person based on what they know from going through their trash and just freaks them out probably a better youtube prank video but you know right somebody's

a good podcast idea good or or awful one or just a career as a uhvoyant, you know? Sure. Oh, yes. The scam psychics. Oh, Lydia, that's the wave. You go through them, and then you know the little details. I'm like, do you want a reading? I just got a feeling from you. Please sit in my vibe corner. People in the South love to believe.

They're like Mulder and Scully. They just want to believe so you get just give them an excuse to believe the truth is out there though yeah man it's somewhere somewhere it's out here it's out here somewhere i'm gonna find it uh what is something you think is underrated underrated i was just thinking about this this morning because my feet are hanging off of it right now a foot hammock for underneath your desk a foot hammock now this is something i can't even picture i don't think so basically it goes hand in hand with like step your desk game up i made a purchase uh that i think is underrated i think a

lot of people look over it because they're like oh no i can't i can't afford that i got an electric lowering and raising desk so that i can stand up and then sit down without cranking it or whatever. But this thing had the option of a foot hammock. And I was like, a foot hammock? What the hell is that? And I just got it because, like, why not? Yeah. It's literally a tiny hammock that carabiners on underneath your desk and just hangs there.

So when you're sitting like I am and you're leaning back and you're on a zoom thing, you just got your feet on a little hammock. Oh, they're just hanging there. They're nice and supportive. Oh, you know, I've seen another one where like, if the desk was big enough,

it could be a whole ass hammock to sleep in too. Right. That exists too. This desk also has it. It supports, you can buy from them a literal nap hammock that supports someone up to 300 pounds, which I was like,

player. What? I also have dignity and I have a rest of a house where I can nap just fine. That's yeah. That feels like a really fucked up life though. When like you need the desk. Cause you're so, you're such a workaholic.

Like you're like, nah, man, nah, I sleep right there. But I can't do it for the body, but for the feet though, yo,

I'm with it. It's, it's honestly like, cause you can rock it back and forth. If you're like a desk fidgeter it's kind of nice because it gives you some like tension to play with yeah it's it's i mean i really i can't speak highly of it look and look into foot hammocks guys do yourself a favor especially with all this zooming and hanging out inside and virtual talking on the tv phones that's what I call my computer now, the TV phone. TV phone. That's the southern term.

You got to talk on the TV phone. Yeah, your foot hammock. I'm like, that's just, I think those are just slippers. Yeah.

Honestly, if I sewed on little like Sherpa foot like cubbies onto this thing, yo, you might have just inspired a next level

like little hack. Oh, like a Ugg foot hammock basically? Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah okay oh that might be worth like a trip to walmart to cut the tops off of some shitty sandals and just sew it on and be like what did you do right there who frankenstein's that like sit down put your feet in it and then talk shit see how it feels right no fucking innovator yeah mine right uh what is something you think is overrated lydia i mean we talked about it at the top of the the top of the hour california man i was born and raised in california i always

thought california was amazing i i think that it's a perfectly beautiful place uh but dishes are done in california dog uh it is overrated like i just the bay area i left that i came down to los angeles dishes are done in los angeles man there's too many people corona is the epicenter of the world is in los angeles the world that's crazy there's just too many damn people you can't even buy land poor miles doesn't even know what the concept of land is because he's lived in california his whole life yeah i don't even know what a jacket is. Dude, let me just put it this way. The rent that I pay for my home here is $1,900 less than what I paid in Los Angeles.

And I have three bathrooms, four bedrooms, two decks, a garage, a circle driveway, and I'm on an acre of land. I'm sorry, two decks? Like a fucking DJ? You on the ones and twos? Yes. What the fuck? Two whole outdoor areas areas like a multi-level deck that's the thing that i think i more people i wish like especially like local california people understood because this to try and like live in in la like it's it's a very specific route or your finances being so tight together

to achieve that that you look at like i remember even trying to look for a house and like being like well what's this get you somewhere else i'm like what the fuck exactly we spend seven times more for 10 times less and then i'm like but i'm of here and that's the only the only thing that's really keeping me and like my family shit like that but like on a practical level like i'm so infuriated at how you know inflated the land costs are especially it just doesn't make sense to me i started adding it up and it's like i've been working my whole life and saving my whole life to buy a house and i started really looking at los angeles and looking around and i left the bay area because i knew i couldn't afford a home there and there just wasn't the land. And then in LA, it's like, even if you're

in the Valley, you're going to have to spend a million dollars to get a decent house. Do you know what a million dollars gets you out here? Nine decks probably. Yeah, exactly. Your decks have decks. A million dollars. You can have 10 to 60 acres at a nice house. You know what I mean? can have 10 to 60 acres at a nice house you know what i mean like and dolly parton will like pull up and be like welcome yeah exactly that's not even where she lived it's just a thing when the state you spend a million you spend a milli dolly she has to fly back yeah yeah it's part of the rules so yeah man california is overrated it's it's there are things in california that amazing like yes avocados fresh produce like i get it like we're paying for things but at the same time it's like man how long are you gonna you know i gotta get my bang for my buck i've worked hard my whole life i wanna i wanna yield yield the results you know right yeah yeah but

when the pandemic's over we can go to the grove so i mean jack we can go to the Grove. So. I mean, Jack, we can go to the Grove fucking right now. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And there is the problem. There is why we're the episode. Exactly. The motherfuckers are at the Grove like it's 2018. Right now.

Walking around. Walking up and down Melrose. Just like looking at stores that have been boarded up since May. And it's like, do you not remember the race war dog you're not here for sneakers what's going on i've been thinking just since like that tweet you're talking about jack about someone saying you know new york is not nice but is kind and la is nice but not kind right and i've really been sitting with that um because i really think about like the real utter lack of community that exists within la because it's a lot of transplants and then a lot of people who are just here to

fucking make money and nothing else and drive in a car where they will not interact with anyone except people they invite into their car um and there's just no sense of knowing who you live with and who are your neighbors are and yeah like that and then hearing lydia like yeah and i'm like yeah man there's just so many there there for all the good things that are that i can see and i've experienced like there's also these other things that are really lacking that i wish were more present but yeah i mean and that's so true i mean the energy in la was wearing down on me a little bit because you're right miles everyone's there for a reason and nobody's there to kind of create a community and people don't seem to have the time

to just have the basic pleasantries and one thing i will say you know i've been here for two weeks and everyone is so nice like the manners are over the top yes ma'am no sir oh how are you doing oh it's so great like everyone tells you a little bit more than you want to know about them right you know and that's when you're like city vibe keeps kicks in you're like telling me all this shit right now yeah like i went and got some keys made at lowe's and the woman was like oh uh you like keys like i had keys in the military and she starts talking to me like i don't like keys i need them to open my house yo literally everybody needs keys right she's like wait what are you talking about so you like keys, huh? You like birds, right? Yeah. You like to flap birds. Exactly. You like, you know, 16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to a key.

Yes. Exactly. Key lows. Welcome to lows. Key low. Okay. Miles would fit in, right? Fit right in.

Yeah. I'm just weirding people out being like, they're trying to make me soft talk. Oh, you're talking keys. Yeah. Oh, we're talking about narco trafficking? Oh, yeah. What? I'm sorry no what i don't think if you if we just go back to the conversation you asked how we made our country gravy and i told you and then you said am i talking about narco trafficking i'm like oh okay never mind that was okay that's what i thought you meant when you said pork sausage i didn't know

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Is this just going to be like because... And this is not me saying that this is not warranted. It's fully, fully warranted. But just knowing how the Republicans are, this is going to be the new reality where they're going to consider this like, well, now we get to impeach Biden for anything once they have control of the House, which will be two years from now, as we'll discuss. Yeah. will be two years from now as we'll discuss um yeah i mean it's it's like such a weird dynamic because the first impeachment was like this it's such a weird thing i mean to other to reasonable people like it's clear what happened but in the logic of trying to convince ghouls uh in the senate to do the right thing it's like it's a wash um and now like

with this time we have like jamie raskin who you know who lost his son like a week before the insurrection where he we found out in his opening argument that his daughter and son-in-law were visiting a dirt on the sixth and they had to hide in Steny Hoyer's office. And they're like, we thought we were done. We thought we were going to get killed. And in terms of someone who is like a legal scholar, lawyer, and happens to be in Congress, yeah, he's a good person to lead this because he's definitely like he's making this his life's work at the moment to actually bring the awareness that needs to hopefully get these other senators to convict, but just watching his opening. And then Bruce Castor for Trump. It's like, yo, this isn't even a legal defense right now.

He didn't say one thing to rebut anything that Jamie Raskin said from what I saw. It's all just, this is unconstitutional, right? raskin said from what i saw just this is unconstitutional right and not and not even that like he was just being like oh like saying like giving compliments to the senators and shit like it seemed like that shit were like you didn't read the fucking book and you had to do the book report so you start off by like doing like well yes because uh the portrait of dorian gray was written by oscar wilde now what's wild is he had a e at the end of his name like it's like you're like bro you're you're gleaning all this information off the cover and you're not saying shit and that's what the opening arguments felt like for his defense i mean is that surprising though oh no at this point no because every

lawyer was like i can't look on at least there were some like moves i could do in my brain to justify completely making an ass of myself in court or quote unquote court of this trial but yeah now he's he's truly dealing with just like really like like they misspelled united states like multiple times in in documents they were filing that's that's where he's at that's next level dude s i think it was like it was just like that one where you're typing so fast because it's like s-t-a-e-t-s oh right right you're just like bro also find and replace that's very simple but so that must have been what they did right that's that's what it seems like to me yeah how do you or that's an amazing no it was like in the first

line it's just a it's all so fucking but that's what's so infuriating because where we have people out there who have real stakes in this i mean not to mention every american citizen this is stakes for everybody. But like laying out the case and being like, okay, he didn't say he incited. How come you have the people who rioted said they did it because the president told them to? Or all these other things.

Yeah, they played video of like Trump's speech and then people repeating exactly Trump, like word for word what Trump had told them to do while they were storming the Capitol. And meanwhile, like motherfuckers like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton were trying to do the shit where they couldn't see the video suddenly. Oh, really? Like averting their eyes to be like, like to, you know, not experience what actually occurred that day and to preserve their fucking fragile you know shameless egos the i mean it's at 65 i think is what one of the more recent polls said of people think he should be you know prevented convicted essentially and one of the analysts heading in was like

they fucked themselves trump's defense team fucked themselves by claiming that he was immediately horrified by the raiding of the capitol like in the same way that like watergate the whole thing was the cover-up right it wasn't the initial uh you know breaking into the capitol it was nixon trying to cover it up and like trump's uh whole strategy has always been that he doesn't cover anything up he just does it like it's not illegal um but that so i think people were honing in on this idea of them telling a lie about what he actually did on the day of like as the raid was happening uh claiming he was immediately horrified and immediately like telling people to stand down or whatever. And, you know, there's a quote from Ben Sasse from,

you know, not during the trial, not during this trial, but just generally talking about that day saying it was not an open question as to whether Trump had been, quote, derelict in his duty. as to whether trump had been quote derelict in his duty and then the quote goes on to say as this was unfolding on television donald trump was walking around the white house confused about why other people on his team weren't as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against capital police trying to get into the building this is a republican who's on the jury of this trial but you know they'll like the question isn't really like how many people like what percentage of people think they should convict it's like how many what percentage of people would not vote for a republican if they didn't convict and i think the gamble the republicans are making is that

it's not enough for them to have to do anything. Yeah. I mean, it's well, because either way, even if they have calculated the risk or haven't, the programming is the same. It's just, you know, uphold all of the de facto forms of oppression that have existed at by any means necessary, even if that means just looking a video dead in its eye and being like, that didn't happen. You know, it it it doesn't matter like it's just it's always full steam uh with the same fucking program they should do like a remake of that cheetos commercial the uh super bowl it wasn't me um that's basically that's what that's what they're going with right pretty much it's the same concept yeah oh and one other detail of the impeachment coverage that you know we had been talking about how there was a bit

of a lull since we last heard from trump and you know my hope had been that he was going to stay shut the fuck up for a while at least um apparently his like people familiar with his thinking say he is waiting it out until the impeachment trial is over and then he's gonna be quote guns blazing uh return to politics after the impeachment trial uh because he's gonna act like getting acquitted is you know a, like you did the first time, like it, it's a saying that he's innocent. So,

so it's, and so it won't be tweets anymore. So it'll just be appearances on Fox and OAN and Newsmax, basically. I think so. Yeah. Like that's the only place that he can do that. So,

I mean, so good luck with that, you know, all the best, but you just, you know, fall the fuck back. And I'm also curious what like other, I mean, you know yeah i hope it works out for you uh all the best but you just you know fall the fuck back and i'm also curious what like other i mean you know the democrats seem to know that this is more about getting public opinion uh strong enough that it forces republicans to

actually do the right thing so i'm curious to see what these pieces of evidence and other things we're going to see throughout this trial um that yeah they do say that they have a new devastating evidence we'll see what i mean let's be real the storming of the capital was as devastating as it can get that's why this whole thing is so ridiculous to me because it's like uh how much more do you need guys and honestly it's like this is stuff that has been there lying this whole time this is not new sentiments it's just the fact that people who feel this way don't have to cover it up anymore because the chief of our whole country was like yeah no it's cool that's all good yeah

yeah yeah the winning hand 100 let's get this you know right yeah oh my god it's just okay let's just tamp it down now let's let's bury this shit underground again that's what's gonna happen yeah well they'll try or maybe just it'll it'll come back like with some new mutated Let's just tamp it down now. Let's, let's bury the shit underground again. That's what's going to happen. Yeah. Well, they'll try, or maybe just, it'll, it'll come back like with some new mutated Godzilla type racist party.

I feel like that's where we're headed. Yeah. Uh, just, yeah, because I mean like without the Twitter thing, the Twitter, like him having his Twitter shut down at the same time that he was having to like kind of pull back because the impeachment,

or at least that was his strategy of pull back because the impeachment or at least that was his strategy to pull back because of the impeachment trial like that definitely seemed to work but when you have an authoritarian and a population that like craves him like what really wants his authoritarian like rule and distraction um of course they'll find a way oppress me daddy please and like capital is always on the side of authoritarianism so they're gonna jump on that or find a way to look the other way um right so i don't i don't think it's gonna be enough to just be like well twitter did the good thing and now we're we're saying now it's solved it's like oh it's that easy to actually because the bigger thing was white supremacy but okay yeah well speaking of white supremacy uh let's talk about the uh you know long-term trend but uh recently even uh more troubling trend of

anti-asian racism in america um yeah there's you know i hate crime that happened recently in the bay area uh and it's part of a a broader trend to uh asian american actors got involved with um you know offering a reward to solve the case. And like, so it's finally getting some attention, but, uh, this has been a long-term issue. It's, it's just anti-Asian racism is really,

uh, it's wild, uh, being black and Japanese American. Like I've, it's weird to kind of reconcile what it means to even be American, like looking through the lens lenses of the collective experiences of like Asian Americans and African Americans.

You know, obviously like we had been saying at the beginning of the pandemic, when motherfuckers are out here calling shit, Wuhan flu or China virus, that racist rhetoric was just helping to laser focus all that hatred into what we're now seeing is like just record year of hate crimes against Asian-Americans. And, you know, it's nothing new, but it occupies a very unique blind spot in American society and media just because of especially through like the evolution of like the model minority, the Asian model minority that was was emerging in like the middle of the last century but like you know we kind of have to start at the gold rush because you kind of got to see you're not going to understand like you can't understand uh anti-black

racism without talking about slavery right so you can't talk you can't understand anti-asian racism without understanding the beginnings of uh immigration from from asia into into america so in the beginning the gold rush okay that's when it all kicked off everybody was trying to the beginnings of immigration from Asia into America. So in the beginning, the gold rush. Okay, that's when it all kicked off. Everybody was trying to get to California in the 1840s and 50s to fucking strike gold. That was one of the first significant influxes of Asian immigrants and Chinese people specifically. They were about one fourth of the miners during the gold rush. But obviously, because you have a white majority or dominant class they

looked at these perceived intruders and started engaging in violent terroristic acts of racism to base to oust them from the mining and that relegated a lot of these chinese immigrants to lower wage jobs which is the railroad and farming and things like that and then then slowly they began codifying these into like the chinese exclusion act and saying you know what you can if you want to kick a motherfucker out because they're chinese go do you honey because this is a law now and that sort of momentum evolved so once there was a smaller population of uh chinese workers to work farms and things like that the japanese came in and that

was the next and then that's the next group who okay they're going to work the farms like damn they did a lot with all that little bit and now they're starting to succeed a little bit okay well now we need new laws to kind of make shit hot for them and then filipino americans came in and they like that better because filipinos were part of a country that was annexed by the united states and felt like there was a little bit more of a parallel crossover to work in the United States from the Philippines. So all this like moment, it's, it's been happening since, you know, the beginnings of, of Asian immigration. And that essentially leads to fucking what we saw during world war two, Japanese people, Japanese Americans literally put in concentration camps for years because of Pearl Harbor, yet Italian and German

Americans, you know, do your thing, you know what I mean? Because you're white. And that's just how it goes out here. So it's just like this, you know, looking through all of this, you're like, it's always a thing that has existed, but we don't teach it. So we don't really think of it as a huge part of our American cultural history. But it's also like this evolution of like the model minority in the 60s because a lot of people were pointing at Asian Americans who are succeeding as a way to sort of fuck up the dialogue or conversation around the pursuit of civil rights for black people. Because they're like, well, these Japanese people are like they have their own businesses and are going to colleges and they're doing so well, like minorities are able to succeed in this country, like as this count fucked up counterpoint. Like, oh, there are people who can make money who are maybe achieving higher levels demographically, academically or higher incomes. So it also like what that also does is it it sort of erases the nuance of what the Asian-American community looks like. It's like Nepalese Americans face all kinds of high levels of poverty and unemployment.

Same with Hmong people. kinds of high levels of of poverty and unemployment same with uh humong people like it's it's not just chinese japanese and indian americans which i think everyone's just like see asians are good they're good you see them they're doctors they got and so it when we have all these acts of of racism it's it's not quite registering for people like it's like oh oh that's awful but it's not sort of i don't think seen as the same uh level of violence or the sheer terror it causes for a community uh because of these other examples it's not part of the narrative of what the experience is for an asian american person so i mean when you look at like what's happening especially with in the bay area um you know in san francisco an 84 year old man from Thailand, he died after being attacked on his morning walk.

There was in Oakland, a few people in the Chinatown in Oakland there were getting shoved, attacked, robbed, you know, people were taking cash out for lunar new year. So people were like, they're going to get God. Like, that's just the thing people were thinking. Cause people have are walking around with more cash. Um, and all is still happening even when you look at what's happening, like, in our schools. Because there is this report that came out that, like, Asian American Pacific Islander students in California were the group that were most likely to experience bullying. And on top of it, like, a majority of students, when they were talking about what kind of racist rhetoric is normalized, it seemed to be that a surprising amount of students were like, it seems like Asian jokes are like, are not as offensive, even though it's the same territory of it as a racial joke.

Um, so we're, we're having to have this real reckoning with what it, what this, what the conversation has been between Americaica and asian americans because no one is actually i think because for me i wasn't taught about any of this shit in school and i grew up in california it took my parents to be like do you what what you said in the gold rush what they saying about asian people right right huh what that they like to do laundry yes oh okay uh no but i'm saying like because we don't have these uh real conversations about our history as a nation for the mistreatment of any group be it indigenous people latinx whoever like we're only we're only doomed to keep repeating these sort of things and i feel like it's really happening again right now because this isn't this isn't it's not a conversation that's had enough about like observing anti-Asian racism and what that means and what everyone's part is and trying to combat that.

So, yeah, it's and there just needs to be better, I think, education to across minority groups. Right. And there just needs to be better, I think, education, too, across minority groups, right? Like, if you want to take a look back and you're talking about the Japanese internment camps, right? I think it's something I didn't even know until I was in college and actually kind of like really diving deeper and studying different things. And one of the things that I studied in college, I have a degree in Latin American history. And one of the things that I had no idea about until I literally took Latin American history was something called the Bracero Program. until I literally took Latin American history was something called the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program happened around the 1942, 1943, 1945, which is coincidentally the exact same time

that we are interning Japanese Americans who at that time were the primary source of agricultural labor. So the United States government had to figure out a way to pick all these crops because they had put people in internment camps that were picking these crops. So what they did is they made a deal with Mexico to allow workers to come north to work for seasonal

portions of time. So sort of temporary ability to come in and primarily up and down the state of California specifically. So you also started seeing animosity between groups because you were seeing Mexican people coming in, taking work from Asian jobs. You have to kind of look at how all these pieces sort of pattern and network together, you know, and it's important because the country, you know, our governments have done the same thing to all of these groups. Like you said, what we've seen with Native American people, what we've seen with Asian people, what we've seen with Latinos, what we've seen with black people, like it's the same playbook, but it's done in a way that sort of silos and makes these communities more wary of

other communities and other minorities and white people in general and until we start putting this together and really speaking openly and really start leveraging and understanding that we need to speak up as within our own racial groups and also as racial groups as a whole against the government like we're never going to get anywhere there has to be acknowledgement of this stuff there needs to be education and that's one example there's been so many examples of that that basically are institutionalized racism yeah and it's wild too because even even within communities right because even with my black cousins i was jackie chan you know i was jet lee or whatever and but then I don't I'm not in my cut what the for my fan what the fuck am I gonna say you know like it's it's love or whatever but then you get

older you got to actually realize we actually have it's so casually said yeah there's never a checking of it's like you're not gonna reduce me to this one version of a celebrity or whatever you you're touchstone for Asian culture like it's the same shit like if someone come to you and some white guy called this oh hey what's up kobe bryant or some fucking dumb shit about whatever black celebrity it's the same shit and i think yeah it's it's it's just like over the summer where you know i found myself imploring people to check anti-black racist talk or any kind of fucking discriminatory language that it has to start within where you were at because you don't want people to think you're somebody who you can say shit like that or you can you can perpetuate these kind of um discriminatory

perspective race it's fucking racism called racism you know what i mean um so and now it's the same thing but i think it's now it's like do we have to keep pointing out it's like okay so the summer was for black anti-black racism the fall is for asian right fall is now awareness around anti-asian racism when it's like we got problems with racism like come on like guys yeah and it's not again and it's not it's not again and it's not it's not always necessarily about white supremacy but it can because it can happen within groups that aren't white but in terms of understanding like what we're seeing like we also have to know like this country was also letting americans know like we don't really give a fuck about asian

people you know what i mean and that's the thing that taste is historically still in the sort of the back of everyone's mouths, whether they know it or not. And, you know, and in the Bay Area, you know, where the first significant group of Asian immigrants are coming to, we're still seeing this play out centuries later. and I think that's what's important is and even in the United States we're still replaying the same things because we're not actually taking the second to be like I can't believe we did that as a country and we really should have never done that that is barbaric reflection yeah don't try to explain it don't try to contextualize it just acknowledgement and reflection yes this occurred and okay no that is not good it is how can we make sure this never happens again right yeah plans of mooching forward it took like the 80s for a congressional fucking committee to be like i think the japanese internment uh program was based on racial prejudice like oh my god the 80s but that's that's the pace at which we have these

mini reckonings that you know at the end don't seem to have the effects that we need them to the i mean it does go back to white supremacy because like even you know if no no matter what group you are that's being discriminated against like it's impossible not to let that poison like seep in let that lie oh yeah i mean i and i meant that not that it's like an obviously internalized white supremacy but not to say that this is only occurring with white people against whoever you know what i mean like so yeah like even from colonialism right exactly right it's all of coming here and that now that there was a white person from a European country that, oh, now we have brought civility. You know what I mean?

And eschewing any native cultures that are there to begin with. Right. And it just gets replaced. It just gets replaced. It just gets replaced. The ways the Germans were treated, like the go-to villain of history because they symbolize evil, right? Like the German Nazis. The way German Nazis were treated in POW camps. There's a POW camp in Alabama where they were treated like a part of the community, welcomed into the community, uh, Nazi POWs, you know,

after the fact, like actual, like people who had roles within the Nazi government and the Nazi war effort were welcomed into the U S government like that. Yeah. It's, they make sure that you can't miss the message, you know,

right. It's pervasive. It's like, well, yeah, they were on some fuck shit a couple of years ago, but they're going to help us make big bang bangs now. So,

you know, all is, all is forgiven, but yeah, it's, it's, I didn't even realize, you know,

like that even in California, right. That groups of kids who are most likely to experience that were Asian American. Like it's, yeah. And it, and I think that's really indicative of the work that still has to be done because that's where you're seeing, if that's happening in schools now, this shit is not going away for at least 50 years. In California where-

You know what I mean? Like that's, and if so, we have to actually, we have to do all this work now to ensure a better future for you know we might see it we might see a glimpse of it but at least we got to do something to let leave something good for the next generations to come along and not have to deal with this shit yeah all right let's take a quick break and we will be right back this summer the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close

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And real quick, checking with the Democratic Party on things not relating to impeachment. In the 2020 campaign, it was Trump is a bad guy and he is not going to help you. If you're poor, we will help you if you're poor.

Now vote for us. Yeah, now vote for us. And then they are changing the $2,000 to $1,400 and making it a higher threshold for people to be eligible for it. And just like all sorts of shit that it's just it they they talk themselves into yeah they want it to be like no i can't be 75 000 can't be the income cap for you to get a stimulus check we need to bring that down to 50 000 but then everyone's

like so you're gonna help less people than even trump did right the right are you talking about like what is that doesn't even fucking make sense on paper you know what i mean that's you're only making fifty thousand dollars a year jesus christ we should be sending you fourteen hundred dollars a month just because yeah exactly i mean like off the strength of this everybody should just be getting that shit just because because you can afford to but yeah it's really it's just such a bizarre thing right because these centrist democrats are like yeah i think that's the best move so progressives had to do the thing where they're like um not helping people is a bad look and they'll be able to say that trump helped more people like oh right

right right right right okay okay okay okay yeah okay so so then they decided to keep things as they were so 75 000 is still the cutoff in this uh the latest iteration of the bill but it's like yo midterm campaigning is gonna kick off in the next eight months some are about to kick off in weeks because that's just how fucking hot shit is right now um and on top of all the already the voter suppression tactics we're seeing at a state level because the machine is learning how it got hacked by the will of people to vote

it's just such a dumb thing policy wise to have this like a memory in someone's mind to be like remember when they said 2000 and it was 14 remember when it was 14 and then they said no but you have to make if you're like in the middle, no no it's only for these people and it's going to be less less help for less people it doesn't make sense and it's the kind of shit that's just so infuriating you're like how the

fuck are you going to hold a majority when you're walking into shit like this off just in the first fucking hundred days yeah uh the progressive wing of the party is gonna need to hold hold the line and i i'm surprised that that was as successful as it was yeah you know that they weren't that they weren't like okay bernie bros or whatever you know okay aoc is not your friend like that sort of shit like pushing back as much as you know as much as possible it does seem like that worked but i can't i can't imagine that's gonna hold for too too much longer especially once republicans are pushing back and you know like i think we have seen though that chuck schumer is beginning to have some feeling that he can get primary from

the left yeah you know so there that's the and again it all boils back that's the only thing that's going to get these people to act is you got to put their status at risk yeah that's it that's all it doesn't really matter about the fucking policy they're like well don't talk to my status i'm a senator don't fuck with that don't fuck with that okay what okay fine i'll be for bail reform because my status is at risk not because it's the right thing to do imagine that making choices based on what's right and what's the proper thing as opposed to i live in los angeles what you're physically impossible can't do it don't even know what you're talking about don't have it yeah took

that part out when i moved but it but it is like a it's but that's what's so funny the bar is so low in that sense that like just by a decent person, people are like, it's Lord Jehovah. Come back. This person said all people deserve to live with dignity. What kind of Christ figures? It's like, no. What are we doing?

Why have we made that such a far away thing to reach for? Right. That's the unattainable. Yeah. Is the right thing like that says a lot amount like you know just by framing it like that you know what the thing nobody you know what time it is you know exactly what time it is help people that's that's that's ridiculous that's wild why would we do that that doesn't make any damn sense um yeah we'll see i mean that's i think we're

all watching to see what moves are being made uh everyone's saying, like, if you don't help people, you're going to lose support. It's that simple. It's that simple. Nobody's going to be like, oh, I voted against Joe Biden because he gave me too much money to help me when I was downtrodden. Right. Right. Yeah. Like, who has ever said that?

Like, who is ever like an issue voter been like oh my god the help the help was too much now i get there always be that group of people who are always anti-social welfare anything of course who didn't receive it and why would we help somebody why didn't they just take care of it themselves i've got nine billion dollars i've been saving it and hoarding it how come they don't do that well i don't understand what do you mean you haven't sold fossil fuels oh i know why it's because they have to probably provide insurance for their for their employees that's the problem with them that's why they're upside down what you gotta do is pay them under the table right and diet cokes uh miles you're reporting around this article that is a truly wild journey uh through the life of uh the author who was addicted to diet coke

like from age four uh for on to like through her 30s 27 years yeah 27 years of diet coke addiction and the the idea of diet coke addiction seems like people who are like oh my god i'm addicted to this new salad that i just tried and not like but this is like this it's for real definitely yeah puts you in the mindset of this is because as bad as i think we talk about this a lot on the show because you're a self-proclaimed dc boy you know what i mean you're literally sipping upon a dc right now yeah um but like how we talk about it's like a thing where for you it's like it's like the perfect little bit of caffeine and you don't have the cow whatever like it and i think there's always a joke about like diet people are addicted to diet coke

but it's because like we're actually seeing people in real time like no but i this motherfucker literally can't go like more than a few hours it's ill too because diet coke is like it's never like nobody's like oh i'm addicted to diet mr pibb like no it's always diet coke like it's a very specific and people who are into diet coke are into diet coke yeah there's some descriptions in this article that made me want to go drink a diet coke because she's like the caramel flavor like floods my brain pan i was like oh i need some yes i literally thought when you guys brought this up that we were going to be talking about lisa from the real housewives of salt Lake because that chick nonstop Diet Coke.

Like every scene she's driving through a fast food drive through like and a large Diet Coke. Like I've never seen her eat food. But is Lisa the one who got the tequila company? Yes. And accidentally recently poured glue in her eye and had to go to the hospital. She got nail glue in her eye. I don't know how you accidentally use nail glue in your eye. For people who don't know, Real Housewives of Salt Lake,

it's trash. Super producer Anna Hosnia, we be texting all the time about this. It's ridiculous. And also, I just want to say, I tried to look for Lisa's tequila. You can't find it in stores, so it's a scam. Yeah, it's also probably trash tequila. Yeah, exactly. Oh, Utah tequila from a person who is not from any

traditional culture of making okay fine but you made a fun diamond bottle so that's fine but yeah this diet coke thing it really it's it like when you see what she had to go through right she was saying she was on a seven can a day pace, basically to the point where like, there will be moments where she would get up like before she went to sleep. Cause she's like, I'm hell nine waking up and get going to the store for my DC. That's the motherfucker been waiting for me. And I need my morning diet Coke waiting for me,

but it's, but it, it all tracks. Right. And that's like why she had to do all these things. Like she thought she could just be like, all right, I'll stop drinking that shit. But realize like there's a physical dependency. She had to see a therapist, addiction expert, a behavior counselor, a hypnotherapist.

And even was like on a, was it, was she on like a diet Coke, like Facebook group too? Yeah. Diet Coke addiction Facebook group. But I mean, that shit's real like that's yeah and like the one thing in the article that i i wasn't crazy about is like she was like as demoralizing as it was i like sought help for my you know like kind of treating the idea of like getting help for your diet coke addiction as like a ridiculous thing uh or just shame around addiction in general yeah

shame around addiction which is like yeah everybody help you need help yeah i mean just be glad that shit was diet coke yeah i could totally identify with the like i i used to uh have the coffee maker like timed to make the coffee in the morning because like otherwise i couldn't like i couldn't trust myself to actually put the two ingredients in uh correctly like in the morning after like nine hours without coffee jack i'm gonna suggest that you've never tried opiates i'm gonna just say let's not just not even for fun. Don't even, like, if you break something, like, I'm going to need you just to, like, just chew on a leather strap. You know what I mean?

Like, let's not, don't, you don't need the sweet, sweet goodness of Oxy flowing through them veins. I'm well aware. You're a great father. You're, you know, you're a wonderful man. I'm well aware. Let's keep you on the straight and narrow, guy. If he ever goes missing, we need you start a diet coke plants and then opioid factories yes yes diet coke thing though

like how does because you know i drink a little coffee but it's never to the point where i'm like i'm not a person who's like i don't talk to me till i've had my coffee type because i know i'm in you know her majesty's kind of like that, but like what happens? What's the road to the runaway train of diet Coke addiction? Like it starts off. Cause what were you drinking it for the caffeine when you were a kid? Or did this start? Like,

how do you get to diet Coke become a part of your routine? Are you talking to me? Yeah. Like I'm thinking it starts off with being like, Oh, I get to pick me up from a cup of coffee and you're like okay that's cool i like that it helps me and then you start being like okay you know what i'm gonna do another one and then another one and then it's never really fully

been a part of my like mountain dew at a time was part of my process uh i needed that shit to like get through for real ones fourth period uh but diet coke has always been like on and off uh and usually it's like pretty soon i realize like i have less energy after i'm drinking diet coke like within an hour than i did before and so i i'm able to like kind of pull myself off but it is caffeine in general is a constant uh up up down down type situation for me right where i always need need some caffeine uh lady how you with the caffeine you know what i used to be really bad with it and i've actually i'm in a good spot i definitely uh i enjoy it i don't like to start my day without it um i am cranky in the morning regardless of if i have

coffee or not i'm just like the sun is up my eyes are open you can fuck right off until I tell you to yeah and that usually happens around 10 a.m. I start loosening up a little bit okay I've got it down where I I front load my morning I have a pretty serious cup of coffee in the morning or I make myself you know like a two shot latte at the house one of you know one of those two situations and then I usually keep it to that and I try not to drink it the rest of the day. I have my front loaded. I have a really nice strong cup of coffee.

And then I keep it going. And I just drink water the rest of the day. I'm actually not a soda drinker. I'm not a tea drinker. I'm very into bubbly water. San Pellegrino is my bubbles of choice. There you go. So I try to keep it-

Bubbles of choice. Bubbles and flat. And then every once in a while i like to surprise and you know get a little treat get a little sody pop okay what's that what's that i do like the dr pepper big fan of a dr pepper but it has to be ice cold and i like it in a can um and i rarely get through a whole can of dr peppers those little half cans are kind of my joint well you can't even wow that's some real shit you're like that's you're definitely not a soda drinker. And you're like, I can barely get through a can of soda. Yeah.

It's too much for me. I'm like, I'm like, I start gulping it down and then I'm like, it starts making my stomach feel gross. And I'm just like, Ooh, I shouldn't have this in my body.

And then I just stop. And it's hard for me. Like I really do. I just, and I let you my coffee. I like a little bitter. I don't like it. Super sweet.

Right. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a water lady. I've just, but you know what though? fucking love cheese though i take my fats i take my fats i fucking love cheese and eating cheese is pretty much eating opioids like i can't put that shit down i can't say no and butter i can't say no milk out of my life but cheese and butter yeah butter i

mean butter will never butter will never leave i think i could give up cheese before i gave up butter yeah oh wow think about it it's tough because butter influences baked goods so many other things you can put butter on anything and it tastes better not being able to put butter on a steak get the fuck out of here i'll punch you in your face or just having a good old-fashioned bite of butter you know you got dip it in some sugar there's a butter cop you know you ever have butter on the cop where you just peel the paper back man there is a butter the only place i know where to get it is pavilions on vine and melrose oh yep yep yep with the panda express built in yep it comes wrapped in a white paper

And it is from Belgium I forget the name of it but it's white paper And it's just wrapped in a block That is the best butter It is $7 a pound I will not lie to you But go buy that butter right now Because it is hand done in the way they do with Belgium And there are swirls of salt and cream in it

And if you talk about wanting to have a slice of butter Oh my Lord Jesus, baby Jesus. All of the Jesuses. Oh, the press. It's in the round.

It's like almost round, right? No, no, it's, it's, it's a brick. It's like somebody cut it off a brick.

It's not the big fat one, but it's circular. Like, yes, it has cursive on it. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Blue and red writing. Get that butter. Shout out to butter. Oh, shout out to the dairy. Do you love that butter? Do you love it? Yeah. All that to say is I wasn't a big Diet Coke fan because I don't like a Sparta May. So that's the thing. I used to be the same way. I would never drink a Sparta May.

And like I had it in my brain, I think from a very young age that it was like poisonous. So like even the taste like really fucked me up. And like, I was like, I'm allergic to that stuff. And then I just pushed through it for the sake of the caffeine. But this article is now a part of me. The way,

the way this article, I don't know, like this article might as well be sponsored content to the addictive mind for diet Coke. Right. I had the same experience with nicotine one time with uh an article that was about like quitting smoking and uh yeah i was just like well this only made me really want to like try all of the things yeah the this talks about like how the the doctor is like it's really bad for your stomach that you're drinking eight of them, but don't worry about the aspartame. That is not as dangerous as people think. And I was like, I'm going to go crack a Diet Coke.

Right, right, right. Especially when they say, it's definitely a better option than full sugar Coke, but it's the amount you're having that is potentially harmful. Yeah. Okay. Well, all right. That sounds about right diane sawyer by the way uh like a 12 pack a day uh unbelievable amount of diet coke consumption is pretty real yeah yeah fucking rack all right yeah yeah all right d soy real quick did you guys hear about or see the tweet from the dog shampoo guy uh jonathan k i did not okay yeah and miles i know you've been off social so i wanted to catch you up on this uh

so this dude tweets uh so it turns out uh his name is jonathan k and he tweets so it turns out i've been using dog shampoo on my hair for the last few months. Parentheses, I only discovered it when I ran out and needed to get more. This is partly my own fault, but it doesn't help that at Arm & Hammer has the word, quote, pets in like four point typeface. I'm guessing this is common. And he posted this with a picture of the bottle. And it does say soothing oatmeal shampoo and then for pets, very small. But there's a big dog on the on the bottle.

And so people were like, is is this real? Like, is he actually serious? And he was like, look, guys, people are pointing out the dog thing on the bottle. I've seen lots of shampoo. He said, quote, lots of shampoos I used in the past have pictures of waterfalls or people cleaning dishes or gauzy drawn women frolicking in pastures or dudes under waterfalls. And people were like, yo, you've been using dish soap.

Dude. What's the logic of even buying any of his like products for self care? Oh my God. This just reeks of like, I don't know. Is that my mom's house? You know what I mean? Like exactly. Like I've never bought anything for themselves or they're like,

I think the bottle was blue. It's yeah. It's shithead. 19 year old thinking. We're just there like forever. Oh, it's not for topical use. The heck.

Um, he is a editor at a, you guessed it. Libertarian, uh, magazine. Racist. Right. Cause he wants to be left to his own devices uh to make his own decisions uh which he's clearly good at yeah um and this all paved

the way for him to make an appearance on fox news complaining about how he was attacked by the left i just i like how seth rogan like hopped on that thread and was like, dude, this guy's fucking dumb. He's just saying, how objectively stupid do you have to be? And then Jonathan Kaye's like, been trolled by at Seth Rogen. Achievement unlocked. And he says, Rogen replies back, I'm not trolling you. This is objectively stupid. I honestly have no clue who you are beyond this stupid tweet.

stupid i honestly have no clue who you are beyond this stupid tweet and then his mom his mother barbara replies to also a racist uh commentator by the way oh my god and it's like my son is a journalist oh yeah and then he's like yeah thanks mom i got this it's like this but to your point it really is playing like out like shithead 19 year old kid. It's like, oh no, my mom had this the whole life. Right. It's like, yeah, but did you also have a dog that you bathed in there? Yeah, but I don't see how that's relevant. Oh, nevermind.

Nevermind. He's a piece of shit. And just his whole, I mean, I just love that you could look at a thing that has a dog on it. And you're like, there's no, no other analysis has to be done. Like, thing that has a dog on it and you're like there's no no other analysis has to be done like why is there a dog why does it say for pets if you're even looking soothing oh good soothing oatmeal shampoo for my undercoat right like what the dishes thing is so funny to me that that's that was his pull to be like yo people do this all the time right lydia it has been a pleasure as always having you where can people find you and follow you

people can find me on the interwebs lydia popovich.com is my website um i'm on instagram and twitter at hater tuesday um yeah sometime when comedy is real or i feel like uh comfortable enough to come out and do it somewhere i will do it but otherwise you know look at my pictures read my tweets send me a high five i like yeah tips on trash removal in tennessee hell yeah man let me know what's up let the newcomer to the state welcome them with open arms uh is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? You know what? I've been trying to stay off of social media for the most part.

I've found my life to be cleaner, so that's going to be my tip. Delete that app, man. You know what I mean? And when you got something to say, call a friend. And say, hey, remember the old way we used to share feelings? Man, I've really been thinking about x y

and z and have a real thoughtful conversation with an actual human instead of just firing off thoughts that's that's what i think i think we should get off fighting like fighting invisible people in your mind yes or the peanut gallery like ripping you apart like i don't even know what am i doing to myself yeah man what is happening exactly exactly the self-torture is no though we're steady on social media i mean do what you got to do if you have to but i'm all for living in real life i'm trying to take it back man there you go rewind miles where can people find you hear you experience you and is there a tweet you've been enjoying uh twitter instagram at miles of gray and also 420 day fiance oh and also i'm on alex schmidt schmitty the clams podcast secretly incredibly fascinating uh where we're talking

about refrigerators and it's by far if you look i didn't know shit about refrigerators until he just started dropping just science upon my brain uh and we have a really great time so check out uh that podcast because it's a really good time now for a tweet that i like you know i have not been on twitter recently or instagram or even tiktok i am i have been experimenting with being on the social media on and off, but you know what? I always have time to check out my Reductress. And it just says, this is great, at Reductress, three sad lamps who should just try going for a run or something.

It's like these desk lamps that look all fucking, all wacky and stuff. So shout out to the sad lamp gang. And then another one from Reductress, four apocalypse ready workouts, even though you die the instant you run out of contacts. For anybody with bad eyesight gang, I feel like that way is, I always worry like, yeah, what are y'all going to do if you lose your glasses? That's why all those tech billionaires are getting LASIK. LASIK, right. Or you need like bunkers in New Zealand.

You need pairs upon pairs of Kurt Rambai eye protection, basically, at the ready. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Carol Channing Tatum O'Neill tweeted, Armie Hammer's existence, darkness aside, feels crafted by the 30 Rock writer's room. It's like if there were a famous actor slash air called

Donkey Donut, and we were all just like, okay. And then Chris Cologero tweeted, the gap in my resume? It was then that I carried you, my child. And then Steve Costillo tweeted Batman

begins at conception and then Darth tweeted David Lynch must drink so much beer to come up with this stuff I just love someone who's so broed out that's his process

that shit killed me David Lynch must drink so much beer that was uh darth erogenous the daily zeitgeist is uh oh you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're'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 the song we ride out on.

Miles, what are we riding out on today? Well, you know, February, early February is always an interesting time because this is around the time where jay dilla's birthday is on the 6th and then his death anniversary is on the 10th today is the 10th so i what i wanted to do is do a track honoring two people uh that have actually uh left us and this is going to be jay dilla plus mf doom uh from this like very like it was like this this project that that um stone still put out that was called uh dilla ghost doom it was j dilla fucking ghostface killer and mf doom um and they're and the two mcs are rapping over dilla's beats this track specifically is called

sniper elite and it's mf doom spitting over Dilla's beat called Anti-American Graffiti from Donuts, which is one of my favorite beats on that album. So rest in peace to two goats. So, yeah, shout out to y'all. This is Sniper Elite. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning.

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