The Daily Zeitgeist - Super Voter Suppression, VERY MUCH NOT RACIST 3.12.21

Episode Date: March 12, 2021

In episode 830, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Dalia Malek to discuss the Derek Chauvin trial, and LA Times report about how the LAPD mishandled the George Floyd protests, Stacey Abrams working to stop voter suppression in Georgia, Prince William claiming the Royal family isn't racist, Sharon Osbourne defending Piers Morgan, Ron Howard's Thai cave rescue movie, how the pandemic is messing with our brains, and more!FOOTNOTES: Third-degree murder charge reinstated in Derek Chauvin trial Highly Critical Report Faults LAPD For Mishandling Summer George Floyd Unrest Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021 Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states Prince William Says “We Are Very Much Not A Racist Family” After Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s Oprah Interview SHARON OSBOURNE FIERCELY DEFENDS PAL PIERS MORGAN ... How Is He A Racist?!? Piers Morgan says Meghan Markle 'ghosted' him in a resurfaced video that trended after he criticized her descriptions of mental illness Ron Howard’s Thai Cave Rescue Movie Casts Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and More Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States  WATCH: As an Adult - Illingsworth Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Can I make it any more obvious? I smoke the blunts and sell you bidets. What more can I say? Okay, so that is Sk8er Boi, Avril, Canadian, just legend straight to my heart. From the brew. Okay, not the bro. We cleared that up on Discord. It's pronounced the brew, not the bro.

Yeah, brew. All right, shout out brew. I'm still going to use it like bro. Shout out, bro. And also shout out my boys, Chris and Mike D. It's your birthday. You old, washed people. So, ha ha.

Who are those? Get older. Just my boys. Beastie Boys? Oh, yeah, Mike D., yeah. That went right. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Dahlia Malley!

Hello, thank you. I'm sorry, I don't have a theme song. I didn't come prepared. What's your favorite karaoke song? I've never done karaoke because I hate it. I'm sorry. Are you even like a private singer, like in your room, the shower or however you find the venue to sing i'll sing in the car or um sometimes if someone's having a problem i'll like sing their problems to them oh like just i'm an annoying person but i don't like i don't sing well problems they're like your relationship is dissolving exactly because there's no trust and you're like doesn't it feel better now

is that something they're requesting like is that a service you offer that's just you just sing it back to them that's your form of emotional unwanted therapy yeah yeah i like that what's the song okay but what's the song you do sing we don't have to do karaoke but we all have we have we have ones that we belt out the belters what's your belter i used to um like to practice yarling you know that song by creed can you take me I heard a little. I heard a little. That's a favorite. That was beautiful.

Yeah. Where are you coming to us from? Take me Dahlia. There we go. There we go. We got it. I'm here in Southern California. Sunny Southern California, which is... Or rainy.

Yeah, there's a very ominous cloud above my home at this moment. Just your home. We wait. It's like wait noise. It's a chemical cloud. There was a train accident. The temperature today, and I'm going to be that la person that uh complains about it being uh between 45 and 55 uh which is that those are the highs and lows where i live uh it's terrifying that's not what i signed up for asshole uh asshole being southern california or yeah earth i mean god we're not even gonna break 50 right that's not what we pay California tax for.

That's right. Exactly. It's also. But I will. I'm glad this just gives me the reason to wear nine hoodies at once. Yes. I just remembered you can do this. You can wear a long sleeve shirt under a T-shirt.

I forgot this was a thing. And so I was like, oh, I'm set for like the rest of the season. Speaking of it avril levine okay skater boy okay skater girl accordion sleeves just just like adjustable also they don't put uh insulation in the homes out here so it it is cold okay uh i've lived on your east coast uh it's still it is chilly here when it gets cold yeah again i don't i don't mean to ask you where you say you hail from but you you hail from the north easterly quadrant i've lived in boston but where did you say like your blood you know i mean is forged

genetically in philly all right there we go. Which, yeah. Uh-huh. What's wrong with that? Yeah. I mean, yeah. You do you and we'll do us over here in LA. You know what I mean? I've never seen a white person get asked, where are you from from?

Yeah. Right. Exactly. I just want to, you know, I want Jack to have the most, you know, broad experience as a human being. But like, where are your people from? you know broad experience as a human being but like where your people from but if i say like if i just give a simple if i'm just like i'm from boston then like everybody's from boston so somebody's inevitably gonna be like oh i grew up in braintree like that and then i have to be like well i only live there for a couple years get out bro and philly i've never lived there, so I can't really. Oh, right. It's a challenge, you know?

Just a horse with no name or home. All right, Dally, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we are going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. The Derek Chauvin trial is moving forward. Chauvin trial is moving forward. We've got some, I think, five, maybe even six people seated on the jury as of this recording. Speaking of police brutality, the L.A. City Council issued a report telling the truth about the LAPD. And they got it out there before the LAPD could issue their two reports being like, great job. it uh obscuring the truth right but this one is pretty objective and it's from former lapd uh commanders

so uh they're just like y'all we've been we've talked about this so many times what the fuck are you doing uh so we'll talk about that We'll talk about voter suppression just going next level. We'll talk about Prince William's spirited defense of his family, his family's racist past. We'll talk about Sharon Osbourne. We'll talk about when we're getting that check. We'll talk about the Thai cave kids movie. Holy shit.

What the fuck? That is... That sent chills. I've noticed that the Parasite Oscars were Parasite cleaned up. That's one of those things that any time you bring it up, people are like, wait, that was just last year. That seems like it was decades ago. One year ago. But this is a new one that i'm just like

wait what the fuck that i'm like the thai cave thing from 94 right right they're just talking about that now i'm like am i seeing things correctly uh and there's a new article on brain fog in the atlantic that has some things to add to the discussion. So we'll talk about that, all of that, plenty more. But first, Allie, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I actually found out that my Google search history is turned off. So I feel like that says something about me, like it was suspicious. But so I manually went to my browser history and found Google. And apparently I was asking Google, are there women in the mafia?

And I don't know. I'm going to have to admit I didn't really read the article. Just curiosity. Yeah, I think the answer is kind of no. And I'm not sure if that's just because the mafia is made up of patriarchs or if women are just better at getting away with things so they don't get caught. Right. Right. The wildest gangsters, all women. Yeah. But women do generally have a lot of representation in organized crime. So. Right. Yeah. Based on I mean, if I take the Sopran sopranos to be reality there were female bosses you know there were i haven't seen it there was one yeah it was but it was very brief and she was merely

like an object of like toxic masculinity very briefly and then they moved on and you're like okay so i feel like it depends on right your definition of mafia but um there's obviously like a bunch of like drug lords who are women and like Griselda. Right. The Miami cocaine wars. So, yeah, but I I do feel like there's something about the the patriarchal nature, like you said, of of the Italian mafia that resists um i mean what's that what's like the what's a truly for like feminist organized crime organization you know like what do we have i think that's an interesting one of like where they're like hey the the boss is talking create space for her to speak her piece bro you know like where they talk like that or whatever it is. But I'm curious. We'll have to Google it one of these days. What is something you think is overrated, Dally?

I think that sleeping in the same bed as your romantic partner is overrated. I say this because I told my partner pretty early into our relationship that this is what I require, that we have like separate beds, separate rooms. And I know sometimes people wind up in that situation like after they've had a fight or their relationship is starting to dissolve or whatever. But I was like, I want this from the start.

I don't understand why like being in love means you lose 50 of your bed that's i don't know if this is just like i'm a light sleeper or i'm an only child but i'm just like i think everyone else is weird and i i'm like i know our situation is unusual compared to everyone else but i'm like no why are you doing this like so for for you you just don't want a seed bed, any bed. I don't want to share. I'm like, sleeping time is for me. I don't know. When I was still living alone, I got a queen bed because that's how much space I want. I want to be outstretched in a star shape in the center of my bed.

On your back? Yeah, just happy. Bad angel. Because I'm a queen and i just don't think that that should be taken away from me i don't like i don't know if under if do people understand like sex doesn't have to be it doesn't have to happen like as you're going to sleep yeah like i don't know why these things are combined yeah right yeah there's like there's something culturally i think we saw like

grandparents do that with like the separate beds and like i remember there being like black and white tv shows where you would see it and people are just like well that's for prudes let's uh let's move into the brady bunch era from that far away right but i'm like i want my own room not just my own bed like i right my space just to be me and i definitely have read like research that says that that is like a more progressive or like a great way to um you know keep a relationship healthy and especially yeah like if you're saying dahlia like if you are a light sleeper, there's nothing that will get you more off of your shit than not sleeping restfully

that you'll carry into the next day. Because at my house, my partner, Her Majesty, she likes to have all the fucking pets on the bed. So I sleep in these contorted positions where pets occupy the negative spaces that I am not. And sometimes, but then i in

my mind i'm like i don't want to disrupt the little cat right now so i don't want to move my arm and then i'm like fucking myself over if i had my own bed wouldn't happen starting to think i might be coming around to this i'm a real pioneer yeah no for real that's yeah that's like there's all sorts of like whack things that are like really good for relationships, like seemingly whack, like a scheduling, like intimacy being like, all right,

it's Wednesday, eight o'clock time for like weekly, uh, cuddle sesh or whatever. Greenwich meantime. Um, and yeah, this is definitely a good one.

I've, I've been struggling with, uh a similar thing, but with kids. My wife likes to have like doesn't mind when the kids come into our room in the middle of the night and come snuggle. And then I just get kicked to the fucking curb. Your back's fine. Back kicks like motherfuckers. It's bad. I just think there's something to be like we love each other and i want to keep loving him and i i think there's something to be said for just

kind of like maintaining a relationship with yourself while you're in a relationship absolutely i mean credit credit to you for knowing what your needs are and communicating them up front clearly from the beginning which is what most people do not do and then they end up being resentful and like why'd you break up it's like i should have just said we needed separate beds from the john yeah yeah i couldn't sleep right i just i just realized it sounds like i'm just alone in my room jerking off all day but that's not what i meant i like what are you doing in there nothing nothing getting to sleep where's that usb charger the one that for that package that came that had the very vague label on it no

are you like an affectionate person though like are you that doesn't mean because i think a natural conclusion be like separate beds like what no touching no hugging right no i am i like cuddling i'm a cuddler but i'm like there's a time and a place, and it's not when I'm sleeping. Like, get your arm away from me. I like that. Yeah, yeah. What is something you think is underrated? I was just going to recommend a musical artist that I think is really underrated.

His name is Illingsworth, and he's based in Detroit. He's a rapper and a producer and an emcee. And he's just constantly putting amazing stuff on fan camp and social media. And he's hilarious. He has a weekly podcast that he hosts on Twitch. It's called Eternal Invite. And he's just I don't understand why he's not more like too famous to talk to me. You know, when people reach that point in their career where it's like, all right, it's time to pare down my social circle. i'm like why are why isn't he there yet he should be he's just so interesting and funny and i think like people should be hiring him to do you know to produce their songs and his voice sounds like a nickelodeon character he

should be doing like voiceover on people's adult animation projects and stuff he's just he's great he's amazing any particular nickelodeon character well it would have to be a new one um like similar to doug where everybody is like you know blue and purple and stuff right right but like scratchy like roger maybe i'm trying to remember who the characters are now was that roger was like the the dude with the leather jacket who was like the bully oh i don't know is he i don't know if he would be like i could see him being more like a hey arnold type of um oh love hey arnold like a he seems like a protagonist to me right right right yeah what um i love like people who are producer mcs because like it's such a most people are either or and sometimes people dabble in one direction or

the other and it's never as good so i'm so i'm always like out out to hear more uh dual threat musicians like that how'd you find out about illingsworth um he's done some work with open mike eagle and they i think they toured together something. I saw him live in L.A. like a long time ago and I started following him on Twitter and I thought he was hilarious and we just kind of got in touch. So we've only ever met on the Internet. But I have I've been in the same room with him watching him perform, but I've never like truly met him face to face. Oh, wow wow um but yeah he's done my show a few times um he's just so funny i think comedians really like him so um well they should you might

hear him on this show yeah this might be an underrated that uh then appears on the show if we can get him sounds like that sounds like he's really famous it's hard to talk he should be right talk to his management i don't don't tell him don't tell him i sent you because then you know i might be overstepping oh god okay we wouldn't we wouldn't dare to do that yeah be like yo dahlia said that uh you could come on the show said you were down as fuck bro it was good i'm just kidding i'll give you his email address and his home address. Hey. Perfect. Complete write-up. His phone number.

There's something about, I am looking forward to getting back to, I definitely didn't feel like I went to live shows as much as I wanted to before, but there's just something about seeing someone live that you really, for the most part, that you just like fully get the energy and appreciation. And then the music is like much better going forward. Like after you, like the listens feel better. Yeah. That's dope. All right.

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They, that was like a question, right? Yeah. Because before he was appealing and it, it was taken out and then now an appellate court has said, no, you need to reinstate that third degree charge. And that is good news because second degree would have been harder to get unfortunately even though there is a video of him murdering george floyd in slow motion that is not enough um because of you know the what like the things that are the uh just how that case needs to be tried um and then manslaughter was the other charge that was out there, and that would not have been enough at all.

So this charge carries a sentence around 25 years if convicted, which is light, again, considering it was straight-up murder of an unarmed person. As people were telling him to get off of his neck and stop murdering someone, and he was just sitting there with his hand in his pocket. Now, you know, the jury selection has is like in full swing. And we've talked about how hard it was going to be to have a jury that looked diverse and not a jury that could have been exclusively white because there were these surveys that potential jurors had to fill out. That sounded like basically saying, like, do you know about police brutality? Oh, then you can't.

You're not good for this trial at all. And as it stands, Jack, you're saying there are six people seated or at least at the time I was reading about it, five people had been seated. Yeah, I think there was a sixth, but I don't know. Oh, okay. Three white men, a woman of color, and a black man is so far what the jury looks like.

So it'll be curious to see what the other seven end up being. And yeah, that hopefully this trial, I mean, we'll see just it's just it's one of those harrowing things because you're seeing how the county is already setting up for it as if like they're protecting this courthouse in the way they would have never protected even the capital um all because this is a trial where people are really trying to seek justice and ensure that there is a real outcome after another murder of an unarmed person by the police right they were vetted about whether they'd seen the footage of Chauvin in this, according to this USA Today article, restraining Floyd. That's fucking wild. I mean, it's another dude, but they don't have any description beyond that in this article. I can't believe that that's his name.

Like, you know, when the symbolism is just so heavy handed, like his name is really Chauvin. Like, it sounds like Chauvinist. Right. Yeah. I mean, and then the other two officers, their trial, I think, is later on where they think it was like aiding and abetting a murder or I forget what the charges are for them. But, yeah, this is I mean, this is a lot of eyes are going to be on this. And I feel like it's pretty easy to adjudicate this one. Right.

Based on like what you're seeing and the fact that the defense has to like have these weird questions in so far as like, did you know this guy killed a guy to be to be disqualifying is so fucked up. When, you know, this should just we should be able to try this in a very straightforward manner but you know three three or two judicial systems as we've seen in this country yeah like what would they do if donald trump was ever like tried for any of the shit that he did would people have to have like not heard of donald trump yeah it would be like cartoon characters or something right like what the fuck they're like wait you've heard it okay uh i don't know it's it's really that would be a really interesting one too because i don't know what you at that point it's impossible to escape the profile of the president um right yeah you know his his indictments are probably coming in a

in a matter of time and we'll talk about oh yeah yeah totally totally uh all right let's talk about uh a related matter the la city council uh released a report that is pretty objective and sort of confirms a lot of the shit we saw on social media the videos the eyewitness accounts of what was happening in the streets in la in response to the george floyd protests it's highly critical which you know that i i'm not saying it's all because uh a tdz guest was nominated to the city council but you know mostly that's it and it notes that the lapd it says mishandled the unrest but like there's just first of all it's frustrating that this same thing has been repeated over and over again uh the one of the former lapd commanders who was in charge of the report was like i've said this shit before. Um,

and he's a former cop. What do you mean like that? Oh, that they've been mishandling it prior to him. They've been mishandling it, that they're under, uh, trained to use like that. A lot of the like goriest shit that you saw was from these like foam,

like these guns that were shooting foam projectiles, but like they would just like straight up. from these like foam, like these guns that were shooting foam projectiles, but like they would just like straight up. Like there was one that with a dude who just had like a chunk taken out of his like scalp basically. But yeah, what one of the details that jumped out to me that they mentioned is secret quote, shadow teams of undercover officers were sent into crowds without sufficient means of relaying

their intelligence to commanders so basically people getting to go in without identifying themselves and just fuck shit up for the purposes of fucking shit up but what were they doing like when they're saying relaying their intelligence, like being like, OK, there's people peacefully protesting. Right. Well, they're saying that that wasn't happening, though. They didn't even have the means to do that. So that raises the question of what is a shadow team doing, if not reconnaissance? And it's probably just, you know, violence, which is what we saw so frequently i don't know that just anytime you get a term like shadow team that sounds like it's a fucking like name of some first first person

shooter or something it's just you can't trust people in positions of power to do something that is like that cartoonishly like cool masculine like the the sort of thing that an eight-year-old would like play if he was playing like cops and robbers uh would come up with i it made me think of like the spy spycraft from the 20th century that like all looked really cool and like gave us the james bond movies and then when you look at the historical document it's like completely ineffective and like they did nothing they just it was just like creating cool toys for people to play with what what's the like i mean obviously anyone who is there looked at news read about it could see police departments everywhere were overplaying their hand uh and engaging in violence you know uh like so okay this comes out and then are they trying to recommend

some kind of recourse just being like objectively this is our analysis and then it's just more of a rhetorical thing for the police union to be like oh well our friends over at the police nice nice research lab said we did everything so chill uh and so i don't actually know what you guys are talking about yeah the lapd has two reports coming they're like okay you got one report we got two and uh one is from like a very police union they're based basically both from police union friendly organizations. They were commissioned by the LAPD. They will presumably say the LAPD fucking nailed it. And yeah, I mean, the point of this report makes is that it's also endangering the safety of officers. So like the police should be concerned about about this, but it's just not happening.

The police should be concerned about this, but it's just not happening. So they're basically like, our shadow team is instigating violence, and then they're reporting back, there's violence happening, and we're right. They're like, yes, this is correct, and we wrote about it in a report. Well, so this report was from a former LAPD commander who now was doing this on behalf of the city council, which, you know, so it was like an independent, like sort of more citizen-facing report. But then the police are going to have their... I mean, it's just been very frustrating and uh disturbing and scary the way the police responded to any any of the protests as just like well again like petulant

children like they they went into the protests like you know children who were like playing cops and robbers being like i'm shadow force one'm going to fuck shit up. And then when people are like, hey, you guys are doing the worst response to this. Yeah, they're like, you have no idea what it's like. Somebody put something in my coffee. The intimidation

too from LAPD. I remember when the city council was being like, well, maybe we need to really look at these budgets. I remember there was a lot of officers who were outside of a city council meeting being like well maybe we need to really look at these budgets i remember there was like a lot of officers who were outside of like a city council meeting basically like lightly threatening and being like we protect you guys yeah how could you do this and if you aren't gonna protect us yeah like who's gonna protect you and when you see that many people you're like oh shit okay yeah i see what they're trying to say but that's where it's like fuck when is the rubber gonna meet the road because every nobody saw what happened and said bravo police right it's like yo fuck just start changing shit start

rearranging their your budgetary priorities to actually address the fucking things we were talking about back then but i think we are too far removed from all of the nuance that was happening in that moment that the narrative has completely just gone back to very lack of critical thought going into the idea of defunding police or what it means to alter our policing it's just more like you with them or you against them i don't know nuance is gone now yeah exactly very like just basic like feuding type shit instead of like looking at it as like this is a criticism of a civil service that you are paid with tax dollars to perform. It's like we got guns. You better fucking listen to us. Yeah. Or you're going to get shadow fucked in the streets exercising your rights. Right. Right. It's just wild to think about fucked in the streets exercising your rights? Right, right.

It's just wild to think about the fact that police are just in a different universe where they can- They're just dudes that didn't make varsity football. And they walk around with guns and can kill anybody they want to and get away with it. It's obviously like a very basic thing that i think we all accept but like there's been various times where i'm just like holy shit like just being in line behind a cop at something or like walking past a cop and like they've got a massive weapon you're just like wow they could shoot me if they wanted to and yeah and it could be a murder and be like i don't know i'm police yeah it's a it's one of those weird things that i feel like we've just kind that has kind of

been accepted because of inertia that i think in any like sort of sane version of the universe we would look at and be like it's like yeah it's a job for someone who's like i'm kind of into killing unarmed people what's that job much in the's like, I'm kind of into killing unarmed people. What's that job? Much in the same way. If like you liked cocaine and money, you'd immediately like, I think Wall Street is where I'd work because I'm sure there's the Wall Street part. But like, you know, where's the money and like a lot of cocaine consumption at? Oh, that's the job in the same way where it's like, yeah, like this. Clearly, you're seeing a pattern here out of this occupation that's only inviting, you know, the incidences are only increasing.

Anecdotally, you usually hear the people who become cops. Everyone who went to school with them is like, oh, my God, that is terrifying. Dude, one of the dudes I know who's CHP was the backup running back, and he was too tiny to play on varsity. So now he's just doing his little man shit on the roads. Alright. Anyways, let's talk about voter suppression.

Another systemic clusterfuck. What's the latest here? I mean, I think it's just just one fact to put down. There are 253 bills that are aimed at restricting people's access to voting, like 253 voter suppression bills on the books in 43 states right now. That's just a snapshot. We've we talked about Georgia, how they were trying to turn the voter suppression clock back to 1859.

But that was just the fucking tip. And it's becoming clear now that the Trump loss has triggered the one of the most overwhelming pushes to suppress votes based on the bullshit lie that, you know, we got to figure out these voting systems. They're all out of whack. So Texas, Montana, Iowa, Florida, fucking anywhere, everywhere, you know, 43 states, basically, it's happening in real time. And so, you know, at the same time, the house is trying to push through HR one, which would

make voting access much easier, like same day voting pre-registering kids. So when they turn 18, like they're immediately registered to vote, like all these things to make voting easier, quicker, more efficient. And what they want to do is basically by having H.R.1 there, they can remove a lot of the bullshit roadblocks from a federal level and saying, like, this is how things are done. But Republicans are against it. So that brings us to the passage of the bill,

where it can't fucking pass the Senate because of the filibuster and Joe Manchin and Sinema. They will not budge. So Stacey Abrams, again, coming down from on high to offer wisdom and guidance onto alternative ways to think about and combat this voter suppression, is talking about the only way to quote only way to head that off. the rolling back of voting rights, is to invoke the elections clause of the Constitution, which allows the Congress and the Congress alone to set the time, place and manner of elections at a federal level. The judicial appointment exception, the cabinet appointments exception, the budget reconciliation exception are all grounded in this idea that these are constitutionally prescribed responsibilities that should not be thwarted by minority imposition, which is what is happening in the Senate. So basically create a new norm. Is that kind of the idea or just a way to bypass the filibuster saying, consider this, like if we're having these other ways to bypass

it, this pretty much falls in line with the same ideals that allow these other processes to sort of skirt the filibuster. And, you know, right now, with all these bills and a lack of anything, action, trying to address the filibuster, we're moving closer and closer to the point where the Democrats will quite literally just give away their power to the Republicans for the next 10, 15 years, because they don't want to end the filibuster. Like that's, it's going to, that's what it's going to be. If we can't pass these laws, then you're just going to let all these voter suppression bills rock

at a state level. How the fuck do you think you're going to win an election? If they're like, they're, they're going, they're turning it up even hotter than what we've seen. So it's just like very disheartening. And a lot of experts are like,

this is the most fucked up thing happening right now amongst the omni fucked crisis that we're facing. But as it relates to votes, this is something we really need to keep our eyes on, because like that, the rules are going to get switched up on people and they're going to be at a polling place with no way to vote. Right. to be at a polling place with no way to vote right yeah and this is all being done in response to made-up conspiracy theories about you know how people were voting multiple times or you know whatever whatever the fuck trump is either of y'all vote absentee or early or anything like that outside of like going on e-day uh i went early uh to a polling place i voted by mail early right and i'm i don't california is luckily not one of those states but like even ones where you think things are on the level like i implore you to like listeners to look at what is happening in your state houses to be fully aware because this is how they carve out this minority rule

by changing the rules in 43 states and negating the actual ability of people to just exercise their vote it's it's like you know it's it's violence at every level now right um and this is just so squarely aimed at reducing the vote of people of color as well, especially like it's just, but we knew that we saw where, where the gains were made and how people were winning their elections were carving out those majorities. But this is, you know,

this is the reflexive clap back from a party that has to maintain de facto white supremacy. Yeah. I mean, mansion, like the, the idea that Stacey Abrams was putting forward, like would mansion or cinema ever

go for that like what yeah i think i mean it's not ending the filibuster i think that's why it's like well then do fucking this thing at least like what are y'all doing and also it's almost like what are y'all doing why does it even why are we even like yo take joe mansion and cinema and be like yo we need to get you right because this because of you you might fuck this up for hundreds of millions of people right because of your whatever whoever's paying whatever your donors are telling you to do or whatever your fucked up ideology is like we're at a point where maintaining the filibuster just allows the republicans to fucking stop it all so you really hope like they're like are they seeing the problem the same way that i think regular people

are seeing it and activists are seeing it yeah the fact that we have to convince people to care about like the filibuster or like there's just all these different ways that politicians since basically reagan and clinton uh on the democrat side have like been buffered from having to answer to voters like with these like non-majoritarian institutions who basically have all the power they regulate the economy. They make decisions that actually matter. And we don't vote for the people on these central banks or the massive corporations. They have huge influence on the politicians,

and that's the thing that they're trying to keep going more so than looking out for the best interests of people. Yeah. That seems like that's the Democrats way of sort of M.O. for for the foreseeable future unless something changes drastically. I mean, it might just change in that they completely cede their power. And it's like it's just like, what the. OK, this is really the this is how it's going now you know like they're don't have the imagination or you know that they don't give a shit at the

end of the day because where they're at socioeconomically the the problems of that world probably won't get to them and it's like they're systematically like there's so much like the way that these institutions have kind of insinuated themselves into the system is by is through complexity. Like it's it's you know, you need to have a law degree. You need to like understand these like massive markets. You need to understand all this shit. And so it's only people who have like graduate degrees and like, you know, are it's,

it's a very small like group of technocrats who can even like understand the shit enough to, you know, care and do something about it. And that's like a whole other, I don't know. Whole other issue we have. Yeah.

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And we're back. and we're back and uh the megan markle prince harry oprah interview uh has the the issues raised therein have been put to rest by uh prince william uh he has uh he came with the fire take he was walking out and a reporter goes, have you spoken to your brother at all? And he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, but what about these allegations? Are you? And then I think the reporter literally go, are you a racist family?

To which he replied, we are very much not a racist family. Very much not a racist family. Oh, indubitably. Hell yeah, dog. dog i mean we are in fact so unracist that we bullied the one person of color out of the family and through the and through the child to the wolves um so how can we be racist i said a woman of color was almost part of my family how could i be racist yeah nailed it we come from a long line of colonizing the entire world because we believe that they're inferior to us. But we are not racist. At one point, we thought the earth fucking belonged to us, that the sun would never set on all the shit we own.

That was the motto. You know what I mean? But I get it. You know what I mean? You caught yourself in a weird spot suddenly like, but now I'm racist just because of the racist past of this entire monarchy. It's just not fair, everyone. And he's in a very small circle of the people. It's him. It's his wife or it's his dad who could have been the person who was speculating about the color of the baby's skin before it was born. So, yeah, I think the hotter, hotter taste. You either did it or you're protecting the person who did it.

Right. The hot speculation is maybe it's Kate. Because if it was Kate, like that would just be, you know, they're like, oh, OK. Right. Because we expect it from every like everyone else you'd expect it from. I mean, not that you say you don't expect it from anyone, but Kate Middleton would probably have the biggest, you know, rehabilitation to overcome of like her image if she's outed as like the. are in line to inherit the throne so um if if william stepped aside but she never would would that it would go to harry right he would be the next no wouldn't it be art that his son oh shit yeah okay no that's gonna it takes a minute for my my brother from another mother to to have that crown upon his head so yeah and this whole And this whole thing, it just continues. Like it has a life of its own because we're getting another version too,

because there's so many British expats that live in the United States. So like we're getting the ripple effect over here too. And yo Sharon Osborne, I think may get one of the crowns. And I mean that with a pun intended of the, some of the worst takes I've ever heard in trying to pick a side in this pierce morgan megan markle thing it's like okay so on the the talk she was already like going on about like free speech it's like i don't understand if it's free speech like that's when you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. OK, you've already lost because you're using free speech to talk about something that is so just tainted with racism. And then her co-host, Cheryl Underwood, you know, is a black woman, was trying to like explain some shit to her.

Just listen to this exchange because it's it's it's just it's just fucking disappointing. Because it's just fucking disappointing. No. I feel even like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is a racist. So that makes me a racist. And for me, at 68 years of age, to have to turn around and say, I ain't racist. I'm just going to pause right there. What was that, Sharon?

I ain't racist. Is that how you talk? What's it got to do with me? Go on, Sharon. I want you to hear from me. It's about her, though. I will ask you again, Cheryl. I've been asking you during the break. I am asking you again.

And don't try and cry, because if anyone should be crying it should be me this is the situation you tell me where you have heard him say educate me tell me when you have heard him say

racist things educate me tell me it is not okay I can't even stand to hear cheryl labor to fucking explain to sharon osborne what the fuck she's talking about but boo this trash off the stage educate me but i'm not gonna listen to anything you say me and don't cry what the fuck was that you're talking you're looking at someone who undoubtedly has experienced racism in every flavor and capacity trying to let sharon osborne understand the nuance of what it

means when someone is dismissive of you describing an event where you have been discriminated against or treated unfairly with you know with racial prejudice and she's just like i don't like nuance point to the thing on the chart that's racist and it's like see if if this is the game you're playing you're not actually interested in being educated not at all not at all oh the the guy who brought up he said like pi like, Piers Morgan, you know, Meghan Markle cut you off and you've been, like, mad about it ever since. I assume that was, like, from a journalistic standpoint. Like, he had been asking, like, she used to be a source that worked with him and then she stopped working with him and he had his feelings hurt, like, professionally about that. Right. But somebody surfaced a clip recently that showed that he actually went on...

They were friendly. They had a couple pints together. And then she ghosted him, according to him. Oh, my God. And his feelings are hurt. Okay. And that, like, let's just play the clip because it really does speak volumes. At two hours in the pub, she had a couple of dirty martinis and a couple of pints.

We got on brilliantly. And then I put her in a cab, and it turned out to be a cab that took her to a party where she met prince harry and then the next night they had a solo dinner together and that was the last i ever heard from mega markle i have never heard from her again so what happened she ghosted me ryan mega markle ghosteded me. Do you think she just went, go? I'm afraid. Look, I really liked it. This is why it hurts.

Oh, shut up, you fucking scoundrel. The fuck is that? I don't think that was a date. I think he thought that was a date. Right, right. And she didn't think it was a date. And he's still mad. Right.

And then because he's doing that thing, too. Because, you know, right after after that, like this, you got hairy because I which is you're putting out there, you know, like, what if? I paid for her martinis. I paid for her cap and she still didn't put out. Right. Yeah. What the fuck? I mean, yeah, definitely. Like he had that look in his eye, which is like the entitled man, like sort of fantasy world you live in where you can't see what the situation is. And you're like, I ticked this box and I ticked this box and there was no copulation.

Right. I do not understand. Where is the thing that I am owed? and then the fact that he that that person uh that the i guess it was meteorologist called him out for being so brutal and just endlessly uh talking shit about mega markel in the media was like that was the breaking point where he was like that probably has something to do with your personal past with her and that was the breaking point that was when he was like that's it I'm out I'm out that's right Alex Beresford is the

name of the dude and yeah he really he said later on too he's like I didn't want him to quit I wanted him to listen right yeah I mean but you know what Alex you can't save him don't worry about him you know Sharon Osbourne might be able to though I mean, wow.

It's just like that thing. Like it's it's for whatever reason, when people aren't they themselves don't understand the nuance of racism. It's just a just like immediate. It's like, I know racist. I'm not racist. This is not racism. It's like, well, Jesus. Why are you shouting then? Relax.

But either way, we found out they're very much not a racist family, so we're good. Yeah, exactly. Moving on. Nothing to see here. I heard that the whole family doesn't have a single racist bone in their entire family history. And a racist bone in their entire stolen history museum.

Not a racist bone contained in those artifacts we've stolen in fact oh jesus it's funny too because when you really think about it like yeah like the monarchy is like the boss level of like white supremacy like if you're like if you're doing like you're tracing it back you know what i mean like because we we're getting it second hand like we're just taking the shit y'all gave us and made it better in america i guess i mean like oh you really want to say out of mystery people hold my beers but like in this sense like the sort of inability to just zoom out a bit and look in the context of our global history like where this this institution is placed and and being like if we let's not really acknowledge that in a significant way that still allows for

these people who are alive now to not suffer the sins of the past monarchs. The frustrating. All right. Let's talk about a new entry into the, I can't believe this happened in the last three years. Right. Hall of fame. this is fucking wild to me the thai uh cave children rescue was june and july 2018 that was 2018 2018 we had, this show was up and running. I vaguely remember like looking at a visual of like how narrow the cave is or how harrowing it was.

I'm like trying to describe it. I assumed that was like, I don't know, before this podcast, maybe like on a, on a previous podcast or something. I honestly thought it was in my mind that makes sense but because i thought it was last year like 2019 or two years ago 2019 but that felt like two

years ago or three years ago so i wasn't sure but that was jarring to see that because we knew that immediately that like we're like okay so this is a movie the second we heard about it and it did become a movie which i guess is now being directed by ron howard um and it the apparently they've got the casting is pretty far along i think the most recognizable names for american audiences is our colin farrell joel edgerton and vigo mortensen and so mortensen is playing uh someone who plays like the the Cave Rescue Council. I think that's the guy who Elon Musk called a pedophile. Oh, hell yeah.

Who's gonna play Elon Musk, though? I wonder if there's a part for him. They better get him in there. Farrell plays John Volanthen, a veteran cave diver. Okay, fantastic. And Edgerton is Dr. Richard Harris and just a cave diver again. It's just a bunch of cave divers.'re all cave divers i don't are we gonna watch this is it gonna be good like it was this a film for a pre-covid world i don't know but yeah like i remember at the time like oh that

could be interesting but part of me now is like i think, I'm really angry at the fact that I don't know how linear time operates anymore. Yeah, not at all. Well, all right. So there's a an Atlantic article that's kind of on this subject of like the brain fog and like the fact that we can't really remember what things were like before. I can't remember what things are like now, let alone what things were like before i can't remember what things are like now uh let alone what things were like before and like i i think i was describing the fact that like when i like started parking in this building i could remember like where i parked but after like four months of parking in the building i had no idea because each memory

was just like going into this sea of like nearly identical memories and so it was just like and like that's how i feel about every day now it's like every day just goes into this sea of nearly identical days and i have no kind of frame of reference or like you know point to orient things around and that's kind of part of this theory this guy mike yassa who's a neuroscientist at uc irvine says uh that we're all basically walking around with some mild cognitive impairment based on everything we know about the brain two of the things that are really good for it are physical activity and novelty. A thing that's very bad for it is chronic and perpetual stress. And basically living through a pandemic is exposing people to micro doses of unpredictable stress all the time.

Yeah. Like feeling like your things are out of your control is one of the greatest causes of stress or contributors, exacerbators of stress. And I feel like we've all felt that way a little bit. trauma is the other way i've heard this talked about yeah where it's this again it's every level it's covid it's economic recession it's racial unrest it's disaster like natural disasters so like yeah we're and then on top of it there's like a media environment too that i've seen saying is compounding these stresses just by the kind of media you ingest on top of it is just a recipe for like yeah just consistent like low-grade trauma that is you know building up over time it's a little tough yeah is that why thai caves feels like it was you know two decades ago. Did they have cell phones back then? I know. I know.

I'm like, they had divers? Were they going around in those like copper helmets? Like those old diving bells? Are they okay? Did they come out all right? If I tug on the cord. Yeah, the kids are all right. I think there's just the one, I think one person. They're all adults now.

Yeah, at this point, right. They're like, yeah, they're in their 60s, I think. Yeah, they got grandkidskids they're doing all right dally have you done anything like in terms of addressing the monotony of lockdown like how have you created strategies to combat these things are you even experiencing something like that because i feel like people have different resiliency levels when it comes to the lockdown i feel i'm definitely experiencing that it's actually very cathartic to read like terms that like language for it. Right. Because I kind of thought I was just getting old and losing my memory.

But it seems like it's a bit deeper than that. So, yeah, definitely. I am. I've been I'm a stand up comedian. So I've all my shows have had to go on Zoom now. And it's it's not ideal, but it's also a great way to keep talking to people um if i don't do those i'm just talking to my dogs and that's insane because i talk to them with this voice and i can't do that voice all day so it's um that's one thing that helps kind of just i have something to look forward to a few times a week. And it does kind of break the monotony. But other than that, it's so hard for me to remember when things happened.

I'm like, was that early in the pandemic? Was that five years ago? I don't know. Oh, yeah. I've been trying, I've also been trying to do like morning pages, which is just like, it's like the artist way, like journaling. Yeah. which is just like um it's like the artist's way like journaling yeah i do like 750 words every morning just to like articulate what is triggering depression or just vent or just talk about what just articulating thoughts yeah because i'm like i don't know what i did this week right so um

that's been extremely helpful just getting um one, one of my, uh, friends, one of my comedy friends said it's kind of like, um, taking a shit in the morning. It's just kind of like you get that out of your system. Right. Right. And, um, that's been really helpful for me. Your first 750 words. My first 750 turds.

Yeah. Indeed. Having dogs is good too. They force you to go outside and breathe fresh air. Yeah. indeed. Having dogs is good, too. They force you to go outside and breathe fresh air. Yeah. But like with kids, though, Jack, doesn't that somehow break it up? Or there is also a pattern, too, with like the ebb and flow of them with their schoolwork. They definitely break things up for sure.

It's just like every other part of the life that's like framing it. And just physical location. I remember watching my nieces and nephews like, or like, I remember that's like, those are the parts of the pandemic. I remember like doing it safely and being like, yeah,

like, well, we can watch the kids for a little, I remember that. Cause it's like, there's so much going on, but yeah, with the COVID stuff,

the funny thing. And there's this other research paper that, you know, they're, they're talking about the just cascading trauma effect or whatever. And they're saying, so what do we do about it? What do you think the solution is from experts just in general? How can we remedy what's happening for people that are stressed out right now? What do you think the solution is to this? The, the pandemic being over, I don't know.

What can the government do? know like help people that's all they're saying they're like the trauma is compounded when on top of it there are people who are being like i have no like there's no i have nowhere to turn yeah i'm not getting educated i'm not getting ppe i'm not getting rights as a worker they're saying all of these things would be just particularly effective um for like those that are you know especially at higher risk for for covid and things like that so just like a you know it's like the simplest things but we're just would never i don't know just cross the river across the rubicon into like help. Yeah. Without strings attached. America's always been like a very like cold world.

And I think this is just like laying bare how like live and let die. Like with the emphasis on the let die side of things. It really is. Shit. Well, what a way to end things Dalia it's been a pleasure having you

where can people find you follow you see your stand up all that good stuff my website is DaliaMalik.com and I'm just Dalia D-A-L-I-A on Twitter and Dalia Malik on Instagram and all the other socials

what is there now? Clubhouse. Oh yeah, you're on the house? You're on the Seahouse? I'm on the Seahouse, yes. Any shows over there? I've been just, whenever I'm eating lunch alone or something, I'll hop on there and give people bad advice. I've been creating a room called

Bad Advice from Bad People and I'll just pretend to be an expert on all of life and give people advice that's very ill-advised. Do you sing it? I should! That's a great idea. I will next time.

Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? So this is by Kevin Titt for real. It's comedian Kevin Titt, who is based in D.C. So that's Kevin Tit, F-R-E-A-L. So this is like the GOP talking and then the Democrats talking. So GOP, fuck it. Let's just do slavery again.

Dems, no, we are better than that. Maybe something more like indentured servitude. Right. So easy. I loved it. I than that. Maybe something more like indentured servitude. Right. So easy. I loved it. I love that. That was like my most recent retweet. So I just wanted to share.

I mean, another point on the two lovely parties in D.C. I mean, what about all the ground Democrats seated to not get one vote? Yeah. The bill passed with not a single republican vote and why'd you why'd you why even water it down y'all why why why you know what i mean like the absurdity of all of it is just on display and then like fuck man miles where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Um,

you can find me on, uh, let's see the other show for 20 day fiance, where we're talking about 90 day fiance and a little bit of herb. You get it. You get the vibes. Uh, come by.

We have a good time. We also talk about married at first sight and other reality trash because we're trash dwelling, single-celled organisms. Uh, some tweets that I like at uh dis x pics tweeted the point of twitter is to say things you're 20 sure of um another one from max guapo tweeting i don't want a 1400 stemmy in fact i want 1400 taking out my bank account i love hustling hard and getting it out getting out the mud hashtag no handouts so funny and then um a few more this was from reductress at reductress

okay boomer this five-year-old doesn't know his rising or moon sign and then there's another one that is just so hard to describe but is julie grinder at julia bridged uh tweeted i'm worried this clip has changed my life and it's like the reveal from the masked singer where i don't know if you know what happened they ripped spoiler alert for the mass singer if you have not if you know if you care about spoilers is it singer or dancer i feel like it's what do you mean the mass singer is it the it singer or dancer? I feel like it's... What do you mean? The masked singer? Is it the masked singer or the masked dancer? There's two shows now.

There's a masked dancer now? I believe so. Oh, my God. Get us out of here, Jack. Get us out of here. No, but the masked singer, the snail was revealed, and it was Kermit the Frog. So it was like puppet-ception.

And everyone's like, minds are being... And the video is cut together so dramatically. It's like a fucking coked out fever dream. That whole show, every clip I see of it, seems like it is a... Yeah, it's like from a different world. Who is controlling the Kermit? Right. Yeah, yeah.

Exactly. Well, that's what we're going to find out next. Because there's going to be a Kermit on the next episode. Then you're going to reveal that it was Fozzie inside a Kermit. Oh, my God. Just like the juxtaposition, too, of these celebrities being like, Oh, my God, it's Kermit! And literally being Kermit arms with it.

But juxtaposing that with like this situation in our fucking country right now it's like it's just we're we're truly at you know bread and circuses uh time now so we have reached the height of culture the heights absolute heights it is the cool zone as robert eckman describes it paul f tompkins tweeted if there are any sound editors reading this you don't have to add feedback every time a microphone appears on screen and uh adam serious uh at brow tweeting tweeted customer i'd like to buy a bagel with cream cheese me uh sorry we only take cash manager can i talk to you there's also a picture uh that i don't know if it's photoshopped or not but uh root beer flavored vape juice flavored root beer.

Whoa. Flavored vape juice flavored. Yeah, it's like a two liter. So the root beer is mimicking root beer flavored vape juice. Yes. I mean, that's got to be fake. It's got to be fake, and yet. It doesn't matter. Kermit was

in the snail, y'all, so anything's possible. Have you ever vaped root beer? does it taste different than real root beer yeah it's a great question it's probably got a little smoke is it like no this is artificial root beer it's not right yeah yeah it's not a naturally derived root beer that you're used to that That comes from the earth. And Anna Granta, ADHD coach UK, tweeted something that I did not know was a symptom of my ADHD. But this makes sense. ADHD is spending the day in waiting mode because I have a thing at 1 p.m. Is that not normal? Is that just us?

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

you go listen to now uh miles what song uh is our recommendation for today okay you inbound pass me the ball and i'm dishing to the wing the dahlia right now to recommend an ailing's worth track for zeitgang to listen to oh hell yeah i love this play okay so this is from the album i didn't ask for this which i recommend the whole album but this song is called as an adult i don't know if i should tell you what it's about or just let it be a surprise. No, just let us know. Give them a reason to listen. It's an autobiographical song, so it's about a time that Illingsworth shit his pants as an adult.

Hey! It's more common than you would think. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I know so many people. And I'm really glad that it has a theme song now. Now we have the shitting your pants as an adult anthem from Illingsworth. Yeah, I know so many people. And I'm really glad that it has a theme song now. Right. Now we have the shit in your pants as an adult anthem from Inlingsworth coming straight to your ears.

But check that out in the footnotes because that's where we'll link off to it. All right. Go check that out. The Daily Zyka 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. We are back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to y'all then.

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