The Daily Zeitgeist - Tarantino’s Mommy Issues, Caitlyn Jenner’s SERIOUS Campaign 8.16.21

Episode Date: August 16, 2021

In episode 970 Jack and Miles are joined by Hot And Rich Show, This Podcast Is Self-Care, and JackAM's Cait Raft to discuss the Tarantino and his mom, the current state of schools, Caitlyn Jenner, and more!FOOTNOTES: TDZ LIVE SHOW TICKETS! Tarantino won’t give his mom money because she yelled at him as a child  How are the schools doing?  Caitlyn Jenner is running v serious campaign LISTEN: Yellowstar - No Genitals, Just Vibes Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Because I chug some doo, baby. That is courtesy of Aunt Triffy. And it is to the tune of a train, as they put it, which I appreciated. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! It's the most fucking awful time of the year. Cause the students are coughing and parents are scoffing at mandates they fear.

It's the worst fucking Parents are scoffing at mandates they fear. It's the worst fucking time of the year. Okay, I was just thinking that to myself because I saw that old Staples commercial. You're just writing your own. You're a singer-songwriter all of a sudden of your AKA. I've just been working it out in therapy. And my therapist has been like, embrace that part of yourself. you don't have to be good at something to say that you do that and i'm like i don't have any record deal and she's like fuck that sing your song yeah so shout out to dr sing your truth uh shemitra james eh i got that it's my therapist all right

she said i could say her name i was like you know, she's like, I don't mind if you tell people. I'm like, all right, then. Good. I wouldn't mind if you did. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the comedian and thought leader behind Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never took place. They are a TV writer and producer whose work you can see on a couple small outlets called Netflix and Cartoon Network. You may have heard of them.

You can hear them on Jack AM, Hot and Rich, this podcast is self-care. Please welcome the hilarious Kate Rowe! Hello! Thank you so much for having me. It's so good to be back here. Welcome back, the yellow one.

What a dream. What a dream. You have a subdued yellow look today. Just pops of yellow today. So, I am wearing a black and white checkered shirt with pops of sunflowers on it. pops of sunflowers on it yeah because i did invent yellow and i do almost exclusively wear yellow but i've shifted my style into slutty crazy taxi summer which is my current fashion theme so i'm wearing i'm wearing anything that would like kind of be a yellow like 1960s taxi so like lots of checkers black and white checkers have made their way into my fashion along with yellow any like abba zabba type so it's like abba zabba sort of aesthetic yes exactly abba zabba aesthetic i mean you know we'll get into the seasons technically it is summer but

i think it's fall right so i should update the theme the seasons are a state of mind obviously seasons are obviously a state of mind abba zaba what a pool i haven't had i forgot about abba zaba days you know i'm that's how bad fucking how uh what is it half baked fucked me up because that's like a scene where he's like abba zaba you're my only friend and he eats abba zaba and i remember always seeing it at 7-eleven like man this should look like a weird ass cab. And then because I fell in love with half baked, then I started eating them. Like, actually, these are kind of good. Yeah, it's long lasting fun.

I don't think I've had an Abba Zabba since like I was like trick or treating age. Yeah. And in my neighborhood, I was I don't know, for whatever reason, there was not Abba Zabba's being handed out where I had like never encountered it in a Halloween, you know, out in the wild until I did it myself at a 7-Eleven. So I don't know, just to give you an idea of my struggle as a child. Kate, I just discovered your magnum opus about why Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never took place. Yes, yes. I'm convinced. Can you tell the people?

Thank you. It can't be fully encapsulated in just a teaser, but they need to go check it out. Watch the entire PowerPoint presentation themselves. Thank you. Yes. a PowerPoint presentation themselves. Thank you. Yes.

It is a 20 plus minute video essay where I make the very strong case that Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born starring Lady Gaga is a movie that takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never happened. There's a lot of, you know, things to strengthen that thesis statement that I,

you could just go to my pinned tweet. It's my pinned tweet. Yes. At Kate Raft. But, you know, one of the things is that Alec Baldwin was like the host of SNL when Ali was the musical guest for the season finale.

And I thought this was back when, you know, the movie came out, Trump was president and Alec was doing all the, all the Trump impressions. And I was like, there's no way Alec would be the host of the season finale. If this was a universe where Trump was president.

And then I like did a lot of thinking and I realized Trump never got elected because nine11 never happened. There's so many more things, but that's just one of them. Yeah, the level of fame I found very compelling. He is pre-9-11 famous. Yeah, his genre is country-ish rock, which just isn't a thing that is as popular as it is in the movie universe. And it kind of was headed in that direction. Will Code was getting really popular right as 9-11 hit.

And it's like, what if we kept going on that trajectory? Exactly. And I think that if the Dixie Chicks didn't get canceled for saying George Bush was bad, there would have been a more like politically ambiguous country music scene. Whereas like after 9-11, I feel like it became way more like conservative. Yeah. so 9-11 never happened it would be more like everybody would listen to country instead of it being like this like politicized like

we love America genre that it like took a shift the film is meant to ask get the audience to examine what our world would have looked like had we not just launched into this failed war on terror and

exactly and as we get to the 20 year anniversary would have looked like had we not just launched into this failed war on terror and exactly yeah exactly and as we get to the 20-year anniversary of 9-11 next month i think it's important for people to watch my powerpoint really it's so good it's so convincing thank you check it out all right kate we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a few of the things we're talking about. We could kick it off maybe with Quentin Tarantino. This is a silly little story, but I think it explains a lot about America. A lot of depth to it.

Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about this being that most wonderful time of the year when we return to school and just checking with America. How's that going? We'll talk about Caitlyn Jenner's run for California governor. Very serious run, Jack. Very serious. Please say that.

Very serious run. Sorry, I didn't mean to, you know, not put that disclaimer in there. Yeah, yeah. We will talk about the eviction ban and rent relief programs and why they're so damn complicated by design. And before we get to know our guest just a little bit better, Miles, we have to tell the listeners about August 25th, 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 p.m. Eastern. We're bringing you the year 2000.

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Sorry for all of that. Oh, no. I loved it. The people have to know. People got to know. They got to know. I needed to know. I needed to hear that, too. Hello. Hello. Sorry for all of that. People have to know. People have to know. People gotta know. I needed to know. I needed to hear that too. Yes. Thank you. Other than just searching for our live show after you just heard us tease it right there. What is something from your search history? Okay. So I just, I had to check because I couldn't remember. And I looked and it was Craigslist electric scooter. Because I really want to buy... I want someone to have stolen a Lime or a Bird scooter and converted it so that it's no longer an app scooter.

And I want to buy it from someone on Craigslist. I want to do a shady scooter deal. I don't want to be the one to convert the stolen scooter, but I want to buy a stolen app scooter. i want to do a shady scooter deal right i don't want to be the one to convert the the stolen scooter but i want to buy like a stolen stolen property right yeah buy like a stolen app scooter off of craigslist like so bad i really want i want to like zip around echo park in like a in like one of these like scooters but i don't want to have i want to like just buy it right someone who did the work i know i'm an operated scooter i love it yeah has there been no there's nothing like that i don't there has to be there there definitely has to be i was like i didn't i didn't search that hard it's still a journey i want if you're listening to this and

you live in la please i will buy the scooter from you. I want one. Wink, wink. Allegedly. I'll buy one. Allegedly, I'll take it off your hands to repair it myself and then return it to the rightful owner, obviously, because I'm in scooter recovery. I know. I'm not even trying. I'm just openly doing crimes on this podcast. Yeah, no, it's fine. I'm not even trying to hide it. That's what we're here for. Nobody listens to it, don't worry. Oh, yeah. I sell catalytic converters that I steal off of cars on the side. And you can go on the footnotes. There's a link for that, too.

That's you. I'd imagine if you were looking for one, you would go to like a scooter, like an e-scooter repair place, you know, like because I'm thinking of like a 90s movie where it's like eight millimeter and you're like, how do I fucking get down? down like first you got to get in orbit of the scene and then from there be like who are the shadiest cats you know they're like oh that's rick and then rick's probably then rick leads you to like those lines like he's like i have a first gen lime scooter if you're looking for it yes i need a guy like that like i feel there's a guy, there's got to be a guy probably like on my block that does that.

I just have to find him. Or if you work for the companies, let us know how to just make it ourselves. You know, is there some tracking chip in there? I'm sure there is. That's how they find you and tell you not to sell them in front of the metro station. But, you know, what are the secrets here? Yeah. Yeah. I like the idea of somebody just trying to open their own,

like, one scooter, like an Indy taxi cab company. Just a shady Indy scooter. Yeah, we just got the one. Oh, you could use that or you could use mine. Okay, how about this? Kate, would you buy one if someone, it's an above board scooter, but it's meant to look, they got all the body pieces on it. So it looks exactly like an app scooter, but it's actually above board, not stolen, and

you can do whatever you want with it. Honestly, like that's what I was expecting to find. I just think it'd be funny to find someone that like stole it and spray painted it black or something like but like i actually like genuinely just want an electric scooter i would do it above board of course right but it's the end of the day bonus if it bonus if it looks like one of the the app ones but like i just like i live i live it on a hill and i'm like so sick of like walking up and down it. And I'm like, would love just like a little help, you know?

Exactly. I feel like that would be not only a very commonly stolen piece of property, but I feel like the police wouldn't even blame the people after they stole them. If you had a private scooter that looked exactly like a lime scooter and somebody just like came through and like took it they'd be like well that's the problem kind of have to cut them a break on this one that's pretty funny i love that idea uh what is something you think is overrated summer i'm over it i'm done it's fall already huh it's fall it is fall but i'm over like it being hot i don't have ac right now it's a mess and i'm over it i know this is like this is a basic answer but i'm

done i'm done with summer right i mean because what last time you were here we were like i think it was like the end of april so yeah i feel like we had eyes it was like the vaccine optimism was up everyone's like because it's up then it's stuck and we're ready to go out there and now did you go did you have a bit of a like were you feeling hot vac summer and then you're like i'm off this shit fuck it it's all fucked up oh i went i went so hard like i was so strict during like most of the pandemic and then as soon as i got vaxxed i went so hard i was like i went to vegas i went to catalina island i like went on like trips with friends i like went like dancing

without a mask inside and packed like clubs and like i you know i went super hard and then clean too that one i didn't go to i went i would dance at akbar a lot and then i went to like some warehouse party that i paid 25 for that was too expensive that was like not worth it but it was fun still right right right playing the l the LCD sound system song or that's a party? That's the name of a dance party. Got it. Yeah, I know. It used to be at the satellite or something, right?

Yeah, and now it's like at the Terragram. Yeah, yeah. I go to parties. Yeah, I was there. I know. Yeah. I'm at Los Globos. I'm at Los Globos like every Thursday.

Oh, yeah. I went to Los Globos. Yeah. I've been all around. Yeah. All the dance parties but but you've kind of but now what the summer what's happened what why are you souring on summer i think it's too hot i think the vibe is bad you know people are getting freaked out about delta like i think like i haven't decided like what i'm gonna change about. I think I have to stop going to maskless indoor dance parties, for one. Yeah, sounds like it.

I think so. That's one thing I've had to stop doing. And now that that's not on the table, I'm over summer. I'm like, let's just get on with fall. I'm ready to just have a pumpkin spice latte, dive headfirst into a pumpkin patch like i just won't fall i want to go back to school shopping i'm not in school i haven't been for over a decade but damn that would be fun i just wow i would that feels like a fun time i just i would get so high and just buy back to school supplies like but the version i used to try to do when i

was a kid and my mom's like you ain't getting that fucking binder i'm like but it's it's a five-star mead one it's supposed to last for at least two years those are the good that's the good shit the five-star mead binders with like the cloth covers and then you put the white out you bomb that shit with the white out you know what's up already whiteout pen yep so good yeah i also had that experience where my mom wouldn't let me like buy everything i wanted back to school shopping so i do think as an adult this year i'm gonna like go full-on back to school shopping then i'm gonna give it i'm just gonna wait outside by a man you want this shit yeah i'll just give it to like some cool kid outside of target i just needed the experience of like not saying no to myself in the back to school shopping context because it's all peachy folders all the time.

Do you guys have the same sense memory as me where the like it's kind of like a sweet eraser smell? Do you have that? Oh, yeah, that was more in erasers that were like on Asian pencils and stuff like that. It was like that. It was different than that hard ass red rubber, like the colored mark. Like I remember I would have like these Japanese erasers that were like look like food and shit that I would bring back from Japan. Why do they smell so delicious? I don't know.

Probably to mask all the other terrible chemicals. They just spray a little strawberry fucking reeking. kate what is something you think is underrated well to piggyback on what i thought was overrated i'm gonna say fall is underrated i know everybody already likes fall but they don't like it enough it's it should be longer it should be all year round even yeah i think fall is a state of mind and i think it's underrated what what's the what do you think people are overlooking like what are the obvious reasons you think people like fall and what are the reasons that you're like but y'all are missing the whole other part i think like people like that the weather's cooling down people like that the leaves are changing i mean not here necessarily but like in other parts of the country i think people like just the cozy vibe but i think what they don't what's what's

the underrated part about fall the celebration of death and decay we should celebrate that one we should lean into that it's already a part of our culture our world everyone's dying the world is dying fall is is like literally leaves dying as a season right fall is the best like iconography too it has yeah like pumpkins are the coolest like icons of any season i feel like icons icon and then like the pumpkin is an icon. Like it's like a fun, like Halloween is so fun. Yeah. And like,

it's all like a fun, goofy celebration of like, you know, goth shit, which is like, right. That's our world that we live in. Let's have some fun with it.

Let's have a, let's have fall. Let's have, let's turn every season into the goth season, which is fall. Yeah. And we call it the fall, like rather than just fall, it's have fall. Let's turn every season into the goth season, which is fall. Yeah. And we call it the fall. Like, rather than just fall, it's the fall.

Like, it's the fall of civilization. I mean, we're in the fall of civilization. Let's celebrate the fall. I wish there was a climate that, like California is basically a summer around like year round. It would be dumb if there was a fall year round, which is impossible because you can't be perpetually falling. But is there like a place like that? There has to be like what? But then but then the leaves can't.

The leaves have to go back up on the tree. They can't. Famously, leaves can't just always be. Famously. Or it's the freakiest tree. It keeps on like leaves fall and immediately green ones sprout, turn brown, then fall. And it's like, it does it every day.

We should get like a tree to the beach that makes you turn old. And then it would be always changing colors, like constant constant like every five seconds rapid rapid aging okay because it's time yeah we figured it out the answer jack is the beach from that m night shaw malone movie yes that's right honestly like i loved that movie that's another thing that's underrated is the movie old oh wow that's great i love this is the first i've heard the first positive take

i've heard on it everyone hated it everyone said it was stupid i'm here bravely saying that the old the beach that makes you old is a fucking great film it gave me a panic attack in the movie theater that's powerful i i had to go to the bathroom and yeah like it gave me like it stressed me out like i was so in it and i was like wow that's a good movie like it sucked me like it stressed me out. Like I was so in it. And I was like, wow, that's a good movie. Like it sucked me in. I loved it. I love M night. I always have. I'm a big M night fan. Was there a wait. So it was just the concept of the film made you have a panic attack or just the stress of the film like sort of culminated at a certain point. You're like, Okay, well, I need a second. I need a second. I need a second. I don't know. Maybe it's something about my mental state. But the movie freaked me out. I was like, Oh my God.

Like, yeah, I know somebody who had a full blown, like they went catatonic, like Dave, like got locked up in a panic attack during the movie signs. When the alien crosses the camera and the birthday party, like footage.

Oh, they said that like an ambulance had to be called and they had to stop the film because she basically was like, couldn't leave her body. She was like, Oh my God. So I was like, I leave her body she was like oh my god so i was like i don't i'm like i guess these movies are powerful that was me during old i don't know it's it is super embarrassing but i had a massive panic attack and then i left the theater being like that was really good huh kind of needed that i don't know if I needed the panic attack or the movie, but it's so cathartic. Wow. Like, I love a movie that, like, hurts me, you know?

Like a movie that's painful to watch. I was like, give me more of that. Yes, daddy. Yeah, please. Take me to the beach. Yes. It really fucked me up when the kids, like, went through puberty super fast and like became like adults i was like that is so fucked like there's something so fucked up about that like oh no it really fucked me up

yes well it doesn't show them like anamorphic but it you know they like have like several like sets of actors playing the kids like throughout their aging process oh wow in your mind you see like a werewolf transition yeah it's like like pubic hair blowing out of their armpits oh my god they should have had that shot sorry this is a lot of spoilers for the movie old if you didn't know uh they'd get older in the movie i think that's the only thing people know that they got how do they handle the clothing situation do is it a incredible hulk situation where they they just like have kind of like i think like once they realize like the kids are like growing like the little boy like can't fit

into his shorts anymore uh so they they kind of address that they have to like change clothes because they can't fit into their kids clothes yeah they don't hulk out though what about when they outgrow their clothes that's the real stressor for me the kids already outgrow their clothes you get like three wears out of them and now you're telling me

it's barely going to be one wear for like five minutes come on that is such a weird part about being a kid is that you just like have to get rid of your clothes all the time. Right. Because you're just like growing all the time. You're on that beach. Is there another family on the down the beach who has a kid who's experienced the same thing? And maybe we could get some of their clothes.

Some hand-me-downs? Like a hand-me-down situation on the beach here? We sent like emergency clothes to school with my five-year-old at the beginning of school year and we got them back at the end of the school year and they're just like comically small like they wouldn't fit into them at all oh oh right great the span of a year use out of this wow yeah where's he going to school that beach beach? Yeah. He goes to. Yeah. His. He's shaving now, which is weird for. Congrats. It's weird for a five-year-old, but.

Yeah. We'll figure it out. Are your glasses broken? Is you guys getting into a tiff? He's getting pretty strong, too. He sneezed and he accidentally headbutted me and broke my glasses. The accidental headbutt is real. Yeah. I saw that the other day.

I felt really bad for this mom who was, like, looking at her baby. And the baby had, like, loose head. Yeah. And it looked like the recoil was so real. I was like, oh, God. Oof. Painful. Not doing that.

Not having a kid just for that. Don't want an accidental headbutt. Count me out. Well, let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and come up with another really good reason not to having a kid just for that. Don't want to knock him on the head, but. Well, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and come up with another really good reason not to have a kid. Quentin Tarantino. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think.

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focus on school and not writing. And this is the quote quote and then in the middle of her little tirade she said oh and by the way this little writing career with the finger quotes this little writing career that you're doing that shit is fucking over then he basically clarified that his mom meant that she didn't want him writing in class when he was supposed to be doing something else when he was quote as he quoted supposed to be doing something else yeah fucking learning you child and then he goes on to say and when she said that to me in that sarcastic way i was in my head and i go okay lady when i become a successful writer you will never see one penny from my success there will be no house for you there's no vacation for you. No Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing because you said that there are

consequences for your words as you deal with your children. Remember, there are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what's meaningful to them. So I'm sure he said and like thought all those things at the moment and then most kids like calm down 15 minutes later and they're like oh i guess i should not be writing in the middle of math class or maybe they don't maybe they like stay mad but dude no but no elvis cadillac i was like that for mommy also it's an anecdote I have about him, the two times I've seen Quentin Tarantino out and I've seen him order a drink, he drinks Cadillac margaritas.

So I don't know if he's been having Cadillac on the brain for a minute. Just a side note. I think he even put that in one of the movies he directed, didn't he? In Death Proof, he makes people Cadillac margaritas and makes the characters, he plays a bartender and makes the characters be like, these are so good.

Your margaritas are the best, dude. Wait, what's a Cadillac margarita? What is that? It's a margarita. It's a floater. Let me just tell me. Let me let me tell you what the difference is here. The Cadillac margarita.

Oh, so they're saying uses premium top shelf. Oh, Grand Marnier. That's what it is. That's the difference makers if there's Grand Marnier in it. I just love that he's like sticking to the same like logic and attitude that he had as like a 12 year old. It's like, no, I'm not going to like mature beyond this statement I made as a child. It's interesting. They ask his mom like the tab was like hey what do you think about this and she was like i love my son like i have no ill will

towards him i think like i'm glad i was at his wedding and like i heard about the she said like i'm glad to know about the birth of his son or something so like there's clearly some distance there oh fuck but then she went on to say i also quote do not wish to participate in this salacious transactional media frenzy so i was like good for you you just said i'm dead in this shit bro don't drag me into this yeah my son's a fucking fuck boy but i don't care i don't need his money anyway so good for her but i also wanted to play this clip from, it's a Charlie Rose interview with Quentin Tarantino from right when Pulp Fiction hit, and he was first becoming nationally famous.

And it's him actually talking about his relationship with his mom. And when he's at the beginning of his fame, he has a much different kind of story to tell about his parents' role in his career so we're gonna hear charlie rose basically like so did you want to be a director from when you were a little kid and this is quentin's answer by the way flying on whatever substance he was flying on for what year is it 15 years 95 94 okay yeah 95, 94. Okay. Yeah, 94. Okay. Oh, it's the only thing that I...

Director, screenwriter, just get me in this business. I want to be there. Well, it was funny. I didn't say director, screenwriter, because I guess I always knew movies were written, but I didn't know what a director was. But actually, my parents said, well, you're going to be a director someday. And I think, I didn't know what that was. I wanted to be an actor, because when you're a little kid, you want to be involved in movies.

You identify with people on the screen. So you say, well was i want to be an actor because when you wrote little kid you want to be a good idea was going to use it while i want to do what they do and uh... so for my childhood all right so you know maybe an actor maybe an actor and i want to be an actor and uh... but only enough though i remember my my mom's also and i remember she doesn't remind me of them where i would like that all the way that i'd like it

place to play with g a judge is a must have you know i had a whole g i jose old all remember all the way movies based that we just kinda like do my And I'd like it shade when I used to play with G.I. Joe's you know I had a whole bunch of G.I. Joe's those dolls Movies basically I would just kind of like do my version of whatever I saw Acting out all the parts with all the G.I. Joe's and I would be like you kind of like directing these little Plays just for myself with the G.I. Joe's and the same thing is like you know I would anyway And I'd see some movie because I saw all kinds of stuff not just her be goes I'm on a car low but like all kinds of like a You know my mom took me to see Carl knowledge and the wild bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid and

So like because you wanted to do it because she would know she just like movies a movie There's nothing he's gonna see in a movie is gonna mess him up, right? And it's like I mean like and there are some kids that she's still saying that yeah. Yeah Today she's very happy. She did that. But it's so she went out of her way to take him to movies that were going to feed his obsession. She told him he was going to be a director before he knew what that meant.

Like my the reason this stuck out to me when I when I read this story is because I remember being like, oh, that's such a cool thing that somebody is actually like giving flowers to their parents, like, and like, you're seeing how because most celebrities don't do that most celebrities kind of rewrite their narrative, so they never got any help but that's why i think this is a very instructive kind of story about just how america works that like he has rewritten his own story so instead of like believing in him and helping him like come up with the idea that became his career and his life he rewrites it so that his mom is like you'll never be shit right and his mom and it's just like that's like i i think about this a lot with drake too like you could you can see the evolution of drake and in his songs where it starts out and he's just like

an actor who had a dream of rapping and his friends and his mom like help him. And soon it becomes like everyone's against him, like starting from the bottom of like, I don't know what you were famous by the time your brain was fully formed. I don't. Right. But we we need the bootstraps myth so bad that I know we reward people for like editing it editing their backstory so and like behaving like complete monstrous sociopaths and like turning on the people who actually helped pull them up out of you know the muck of normalcy we we want them to like turn on those people and just like make it so that nobody believed in me and then i became this right singular genius and it's like my own mother rarely how it works

i mean at this on one level i'm like oh it's interesting he has a lot of violent scenes involving women in this film i'm like curious what is going on really like what version is real was he did he not want to give that up in the charlie rose interview because he had there's some something's fucked up with him and his mom clearly he's got he's got some fucked up shit with his mom and like i would i wouldn't be surprised if he has that kind of complex where he like is obsessed with her in both positive and negative ways and like it clearly comes something's coming out in his work. Yeah. I mean,

it sounds like, I mean, my guess would be like they've probably had moments in their relationship that have been better and sometimes worse. It sounds like it's bad now because she hasn't

met the kid or something. Great to hear about his kid. Yeah, to hear about the kid, like, sounds like drama. Sounds like some drama.

Right. Yeah, I don't know. Then i just think of like who i mean it's and for him to really be like no i don't want to do any like i'm not fucking helping her in no way i mean you'd think that it was chronic just absolute undercutting from his mom because like look i think everybody grew up and you're my we had parents were like man stop fucking with that nonsense or whatever like you need to focus on i never took that and be like i'm gonna fucking show you mom because you want to act sarcastic i'm gonna fucking wait till covid hit i'm gonna be like i don't give a fuck if you need groceries you know like what the fuck is this shit i mean like it's not a good it's not a good look to be like a rich person bragging about not giving your parents money like for such a petty reason like right regardless of the reason like it's

just like you should do that in private like if you're if you're gonna fuck over your parents like and everyone knows you're rich like maybe don't like advertise it doesn't look good yeah those moms clearly very like just the trans salacious transactional media like the transactional i think is like oh wow she's really smart yeah oh that is that's tarantino's mom yeah i mean it sounds like it sounds like lucille bluth you know giving quotes like do not wish to participate in the salacious transactional media frenzy. It's like your son is crying out for help. I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Yeah, I don't know.

His son's name's Leo, too. Oh, okay. I wonder if that came after who. After Leo? I'd hope so. The vaping Airpod fucking king of Hollywood Fucking better Carbon neutral king

Yeah The CNK They did say though that he admitted like Okay he did help her once like he said Like he helped her out of a jam with the IRS Okay He said but no house though no Cadillac Okay so I'm not a total monster.

So it's like, so you did kind of help her then. Okay. It's also I think there's, you know, the part where you hear him say, and she doesn't need to tell me because I remember the story myself. Yeah, there's something. The anger that you can see in this

podcast recounting of the scene that he has chosen to make like sort of the central memory of his mom. It's also that thing where I do feel like when you become very famous, you stop having to develop as a human being. And a lot of this shit feels like early 20s angst that you grow out of pretty quickly and that right you know yeah because it's definitely like yeah that angst of when you're cry screaming at your parents saying you don't even know me right like but into middle age it's it is so funny like i mean i think like you know we all regress around our parents and have fucked up baggage or whatever. It's just funny to be doing that in public on a podcast when you're going to Tarantino.

I guess, hey, we're all human. We all don't want to buy our mommies an Elvis Cadillac because they were mean to us once. We all still say mommy. Yeah. I know, we all say mommy. Let me tell you something, Charlie. I'm like, mommy, fuck you, you know? And she was like, Quentin. I said, no, mommy, I'm done with this. So, fuck you,

bitch. And that's me, Quentin, okay? Like, whoa. That's a good Quentin. That's a good Quentin. If I was Quentin Tarantino's mom, I would just lie about having more IRS trouble. I'd be like, oh yeah, oh no, they're after me again. Time to cut a check. But actually, make it out to Brent's Pool Supply.

And then in the notes, put down payment for hot tub. And then my address i'm sure all like both of those stories are true his mom telling him that he's never going to be a writer and also his mom taking him to violent movies he wanted to see because she could tell that there was something there with him and also telling him he was going to be a director it's just you know relationships with parents are infinite there's an infinite number of like memories that you could choose to go with and it's right it's just i think very american to cling to the one where nobody nobody thought you could do it right yeah because if you zoom out it just sounds like a mom who's like okay he's not paying attention

in school anymore because he's so into this thing and i've i've been there too i've been completely distracted and then one of your parents like hey knock this shit off you need to fucking get through school yeah and then saying something like that but he's like and then she was like this is fucking over for a little tirade as he calls it like a little tyrant wow i love that i love the like the concept of like bashing your child's career like specifically saying like your writing career is over like your career like you're like 10 years old right your little writing career is over like the word career makes me think like this conversation never happened like i don't know if she would say that. Because it wasn't like winning.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And school is back in Sesh, baby. In some parts of the country nevada florida mississippi yeah how's it going miles i mean just a cursory look at the headlines and it's they're terrifying okay so just i just searched school covid this morning because i'm just because you know i i saw one thing about like in so in

florida four teachers just died of covid that's like before the school year even started so it wasn't that they got it in school but they're like four teachers aren't like are like the students are going to find out that their teachers passed away like days before the year started oh my god and they said that three of the four were unvaccinated or at least three of the four were unvaccinated, or at least three of the four were unvaccinated, according to the school union president. And they were like on summer break when they caught it and just tragically passed away right before the school year. And I was like, oh, my God.

So then I was like, what else is going on? Possibly working service jobs to supplement their income, but who knows? Yeah. But then you see another thing in Florida. 400 students and faculty must isolate after a COVID exposure at school. So for over 400 students in Palm Beach County, they had to quarantine just two days after school began because of a Corona virus outbreak at school. And so they're

like, yes, essentially like when school began, 51 students and staff had tested positive. So in total, 440 have had to isolate. I said, oh my God. And this school has a mask mandate, but parents can opt out. So it's not, I don't know what the point of that mandate is. Then you look at Nevada. This other one said more than 80 students were potentially exposed to COVID-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada on Monday after a parent sent their child to school despite both the parent and child receiving a positive COVID-19 test just two days earlier. The exposed students had to quarantine at home

and started distance learning on Tuesday. I mean, so my question, the numbers... They're all fucking car wrecks. The numbers in Florida are worse than they were at the peak of COVID last year when everybody was doing distance learning. I was just talking to a friend of mine who works in software sales and was doing a demo thing for a bunch of clients. was doing a demo thing for a bunch of clients. And he was talking about how at the beginning of the day, everyone was masked because they didn't know each other. But by the end of the day,

he was the only person wearing a mask. He's like, it's not like we got more vaccinated over the course of the day, but people just got a tired of it and be just like more comfortable, I guess, with. And I feel like that's where we're at with just the pandemic at large. We're just like done, tired and also just comfortable with the idea of dying of COVID. Well, yeah. And I think a lot of people, too, though, have like their own like flawed anecdotal data set that says, like, dude, I've been doing my shit and I've been healthy or I haven't gotten sick.

So what is and now I'm vaccinated even better. You know, like there's a lot of there's a lot of psychological things, too, that like I think make people not necessarily that they're like, I don't give a fuck if I die more. So like, I i'm based on this current plan i'm on i've been doing great so why the fuck should i change anything and i think that's where i think for even my i find myself feeling like that too but then i'm like oh right but prior to this i was not socializing i was like i was taking my safety very seriously and it's not it's not that i was out in high risk situations constantly and not getting sick, but like we sort of begin to, you know, rearrange the order of things that sort of make ourselves more comfortable with things, or at least for me, that's how that's

happened. The CDC, I think it was a director of CDC or some health official straight up said, it was like weeks ago, they were like like if you're not vaccinated you are going to get the delta variant like that is how communicable this is like it is it's happening when not if it is a thousand times so contagious prevalent in the nasal cavities of people even people who are vaccinated who are have breakthrough infections there's a thousand times more covid particles i don't know i'm not a scientist but i heard someone say someone at work and this is not a scientist this is someone just at my work but so it could be wrong hey in 2021 that might as well be a fucking nobel prize so some of my work was like,

the regular COVID is like a spray bottle and the Delta is like a hose. Yeah. In terms of just like, you're going to get it. Yeah. And again,

and you look, sorry, I wasn't even done with the headlines because we have to take a trip over to Mississippi. 5,000 in isolation after three days of school was a headline. Nearly 5,000 children,

educators, and school staff are quarantined in Mississippi after returning classrooms at the start of the school year. Some under mask optional policies. The 69 outbreaks reported between August 2nd to August 6th, which is the second week of school for some districts, resulted in nearly 1,000 children and 300 teachers and staff testing positive. Oh, my God. That sucks so bad I can't even say nice after you said 69. I can't even either.

And I famously love 69. Yes. Did I say 69? Oh, yeah, 69 outbreaks. 69 outbreaks, bro. I mean mean that's how bad it is you didn't even notice yeah i didn't even notice that you said 69 and we're trying to bring 69 culture back too it's a shame but yeah i mean it it's just i don't know there every article you read is like it's a, nothing's turning out great.

I think the best piece of news we got is that Lollapalooza only could be attributed to maybe just under 200 or around 220 infections from Lollapalooza. So it wasn't like a super spreader of that. That's good. I mean, it's not good, but it's better than I thought. Look at those pictures. Right. For as many people, you're like, but it seemed like most people were on their side.

Because it's outside. Outside is still the way to go. But still not foolproof, it seems. You know what I mean? Again, you have people who were unvaccinated too there who just had to bring negative tests and things like that.

The hard part about reading all these headlines is like, you just know that this is going to end tragically before they figure out that they should have never gone, like gone back to in-person instruction without these like really simple safety precautions and measures put into place. And I've I'm not a parent, Jack. I know you're a parent, allegedly. And some people I know that are parents, but like, my heart goes out to y'all, because like having to navigate this world where it seems like other parents ideas of safety is diametrically opposed to yours in the sense that it's like, this antithetical thing was like,

well, we're just kind of dice rolling it with our kid but we've but we feel this is safe just feels like total chaos yeah i mean such chaos we're not back to school yet i have to just based on last year it seems like everybody was very into the precautions so i'm hoping that we have we have the the right community for it but right yeah man it's it's so scary i have a couple friends who are teachers and we just like had a big like party i mean not a big party you know like eight of us came over to their house to have like a bye see you until the school year's over like because we're all vaxxed they're vaxxed but they were like yeah like we're just gonna be like vectors of disease for a little bit like we're gonna get covid like just because they're going back to in-person learning and they're like

they're very scared right they're not feeling good about it no yeah uh it's like yeah so this these are the stakes right now and it's the most wonderful time of the year it turns yes yeah it's not it's fall yeah the fall it's the fall it's the fall it's fall it's the fall why is that why does the south go back so early to school yeah i never that's news to me i didn't know that i remember when i lived in kentucky we would go back to school at the beginning of August. And it's like, OK, so it's extra hot and uncomfortable. So we're going to go back because it's the South.

It doesn't fully make sense. Maybe it's like a farming thing or something. It seems just based on a quick search, it seems like it has a lot to do with farming. Earlier start of the season, Southern students would get out sooner in May to help on the farm Than northern students who typically got out of school in June But because of this they go back to school in August While the northerners go back to school in September What about SoCal? We're just vibing y'all We just kind of vibe it out

Hit the marina We just vibe it out Well speaking of vibing it out in SoCal Caitlyn Jenner is running a very serious campaign for governor. So serious. Super serious. So serious. Yeah.

You mean Big Brother Australia contestant Caitlyn Jenner? She was doing a walk and talk tour of Venice Beach to essentially just point at the unhoused and be like, oh, God, what a nuisance, right? Gavin Newsom should be out. What are my ideas for? I don't know. Look, I just got back from Australia. I'm jet lagged. But God, during this, a lot of people had a lot of questions for Caitlyn Jenner. And to your point, Kate, mostly being like, uh, you just were on Australian celebrity celebrity big brother like in the middle of this like what is going on this feels like a stunt so first people were asking like hey is this like do

you have some kind of money making business deals on the side that are like tied to this campaign and she got so fucking evasive i just want to play you some clips of people just asking very normal questions of a gubernatorial candidate at a press conference. Oh, my God. Check this just straight up fucking pro answer from Caitlin asking, are you have you pursued any money making ventures based on this campaign? A lot of people have said that this is a vanity campaign. Can you reassure California voters that you haven't pursued any money making ventures related to this campaign, reality shows, books, etc? I've never worked so hard for nothing in my life.

Yeah, it's, no, I had a prior commitment in Australia that was before this campaign even started. And not like most politicians, I actually honor my contracts. Yes. And I do have a job. I think every candidate that is running on this. Anyway, it's like another minute of just uncomfortable. Hmm. Well, you know uh she also does everything besides make the jerk off hand motion when she refers to the campaign she's like this campaign whatever

she's so over she seems over it i think like it's a i don't know if it's not like it's a valid question but also like it's like when you're a celebrity, the way that Caitlyn Jenner is a celebrity, like everything you do is for your personal brand, which like will make you money. Like so like obviously like she's making money from like being in the news. Like it's going to turn into money, like her relevancy, like she's going to book more reality things like she's going to. Right. Whatever. Like this is the this is the kardashian business model i think the thing my brain is objecting to is that she wasn't more ready to lie like like as a as a politician come on absolutely and the funny thing was like after the fact like one of her reps like reached out to like the

journalist and like answered the question like directly and was like no this has nothing to do with making money and they're like well why and like they just weren't prepared to answer questions on my god it's like well how are you then you're not a serious candidate but again very serious campaign very serious and you know you move. We're in a fucking pandemic. So not just, you know, the unhoused, which I get is a really popular talking point to just smear the poor, but also trying to say like, you know,

hey, you want to run this state? What about COVID? You know, what do you think about, like vaccine mandates and things like that? That might be something you'd probably want to weigh in on as the potential governor. And then this is just another great answer just rapid response you could tell she's been thinking about this it was a no-brainer to respond to such a simple question what's your plan on how to deal with the delta variant if you're governor right now

we have to follow the science california is currently mandating masks in schools republican governor ron desantis is fighting against masks in schools should kids in schools be wearing masks um that's really up to the science of it uh i'm the cdc says they should yes she is such a fucking dumbass what the cdc says but to be honest with you i i'm i don't know if that is the answer masks wait so you said do what the cdc says, we should follow science. But to be honest, I don't know if science is the best thing. Oh, my God. Then when someone like in the crowd, like at like during like the press spray, like when people are just choose taking questions, someone's like, what do you think about mandating vaccines, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, I'm here to talk about the issues

of the day, like referring to the unhoused. And then another reporter is like, we're in a pandemic, though. Crickets. So, oh, my God. Yeah, we're very lucky in the state of California to be looking down the barrel of just, you know, bringing back fucking Gavin Newsom, who's not doing the best or just a republican to fully fuck things up so yeah so fuck september 14th californians time to go to the polls i do like you know that like you know that like caitlin running this like joke of a campaign and then kanye's like whatever that was the birthday party thing like kim is sitting back and she's just like taking notes. Like she's, she's like definitely going to be running in the next like five years for something.

Yeah. Attorney general. These are the Guinea pig campaigns testing out the waters for Kim Kardashian. Right. She's like, she becomes like a total autocrat. She's like,

I've been studying the great minds for decades and it's time for me to make my move. That would be the one campaign I would be frightened of. I'm terrified because she's going to have Kris Jenner in her corner. She's so smart. Kris Jenner's a mastermind.

Before any of that happens, we're going to see how the Donald Trump Jr. Scott Disick ticket works out in the 2020 right exactly lord disick yes yikes bring them together oh there was another thing i wanted to mention during this like walk and talk tour of you know of trying to appear as like a serious candidate who's trying to address things like the unhoused population in the in la she was like walking with like three like homelessness advocates who were like trying to explain what's going on and what's needed but they were also like pretty hostile with her and even though this is like an event made to be like i'm gonna be talking

with advocates none of them were like oh yeah i'm not i would never endorse her they're like she want to talk i'm telling her i'm telling her as a candidate, like what's needed. But like those people were there as to be to endorse her at all. So the whole thing was like a very bizarre press event. Yeah, this is one of those unfortunate political situations where I think Californians need to get out there and vote for the lesser of two evils. California's need to get out there and vote for the lesser of two evils. Because if, you know, it's yeah, there's going to be a lot of Republicans who are voting. And so, yeah, Californians just all need to go out and vote no. And then we'll hopefully do better the next primary.

Because the other thing is, Jenner's behind in the polls. Larry Elder is in front, the black conservative radio host oh yeah so you can only imagine what kinds of ideas for progress he might have or doesn't have but yeah it's truly a fucked if you do and super fucked if you don't kind of situation because like i said last time if diane feinstein were to go down the governor is the person who would pick the replace the interim you know replacement for the senator so if that were to happen on, the governor is the person who would pick the replace the interim replacement for the senator. So if that were to happen on their watch, you could now just see the Senate math going

real wacky all of a sudden. And also a lot of the executive appointments they could just replace. The policy stuff would be a lot harder because of the veto proof majorities in the legislature. But the other stuff as it relates to executive appointments and those other responsibilities could easily cause plenty of fucking just nonsense. Feinstein's pretty old, too. Yeah. Yeah. Turns out.

Turns out. Well, Kate, as always, such a pleasure having you on Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, such a pleasure. I this is the most beautiful paradise of a podcast. Thanks for having me. Where can people find you? And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? My best friend, Joan Haley Ford, was just tweeting about her tits going off at TSA.

And I thought that was pretty funny. So everyone follow Joan for good tit tweets at joan haley ford i think and where can people find you um i'm at kate raft and i do a twitch show with my husband it's called jack am that's twitch.tv slash jackam every weekday at 7 a.m. Pacific. And also, I want to plug, I have a single out on Spotify or wherever you get music for my group Yellow Star. If you want to stream, it's called No Genitals, Just Vibes. Nice. Hell yeah. It's about not having genitals.

And just vibes. If that's your vibe, stream No Genitals, Just Vibes vibes okay we might have to write out on that one yeah yeah miles where can people find you what's a tweet you've been on twitter instagram at miles of gray also gold if you like 90 day fiance check out the other show 420 day fiance with sophie alexander and i uh that's also on twitch.tv slash 420 day fiance some tweets that i like first one is from callie at callie blocks i am b-o-l-b-l-o-x-a-m tweeted being new at a job is so embarrassing for no reason it's true that's like feels like the weirdest first day of school shit's like you at that school where you don't know anybody is definitely what those first couple of days at a new gig is like. And then another one is from Dan White at Dan White.

Tweeted, set up my stepdad's Wi-Fi with a screen cap of a conversation with someone called Frank Dupepe. And I guess this is his stepdad. He says, hey, Dan, we're having dinner guests over and can't figure out this new modem you set up. What's our Wi-Fi network? He replies, Frank's big, fat, throbbing Wi-Fi. Jesus Christ. Why would you do that? It was the default suggestion.

I swear to God. Or the Xfinity guy did it. But I definitely didn't make it. What's our password? Password. didn't make it what's our password password frank hyphen got hyphen uh hyphen dui hyphen in hyphen 2009 exclamation point fuck you how do i change this fucking thing like you have to bring the modem to the top of it i just goes on and on but yeah what stupid one of the greats you can find me on twitter at jack underscore O'Brien.

You can come hang out with us at the live show like we mentioned. Yeah, yeah. Link to Tix in the show notes. Sharnites. Sharnites. A tweet I've been enjoying. Jeff Loveness tweeted, ask Ted Lasso who he voted for in 2016. Wait, I found

Joan's tweet, if I could read it. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's a two-parter. TSA guy felt up my tits today. He had to remain professional, but you could tell he was impressed. And then here's part two. So apparently

the TSA just considers my boobs a potential deadly weapon now, which is fair since everyone who sees them comes to death. That's great. Great tweets. I also like to tweet from Allie Siegel, who tweeted, a former guest Allie Siegel, who tweeted, whoever named the spider daddy long legs seems horny.

So true. So horny. So true. So horny. So true. The horniest name of anything ever, maybe. Yeah. What is the, what's the history behind that?

Daddy Longlegs. Honestly, I never thought about that. Excessively horny. Excessively horny. Check out Daddy Longlegs over there, huh, honey? That's a fucking spider in our attic.

All right. All right. All right. Whatever. Oh, my God. But who is he? Who is that? Who's that?

Who is that? Very fuckable spider. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the tickets to our live show as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what song are we sending people to go check out today i mean i feel like it's a no-brainer at this point you gotta go on down to spotify and check out the new single from k

rath no genitals just vibes yeah yep and just put that in your fucking ear holes right now. Yup. Yes. All right. It's from my group, Yellow Star. Shout out, Yellow Star. Shout out, Yellow Star.

Shout out, All Things Yellow. Shout out, Stars. Exactly. The movie channel. And shout out, Daddy Long Legs. Yeah. All right.

Well, we're going to suggest you go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist, the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending.

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