The Daily Zeitgeist - Tax That A@%, Politicizing The Weather? 10.28.21

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

In episode 1018, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of the What's It Called podcast Caleb Synan to discuss Taxing The Rich, Facebooks recent troubles, Fox Weather Just Launched and more!FOOTNOTES: TAX THE RICH? Facebook Papers Show Deep Conflict On People or Profit?  Fox Weather Just Launched, RIP Earth LISTEN: Chunky - Meh Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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National. Oh, I thought. Come on, man. Yo, natal. Natal. I mean, when most of your interactions with the medical industrial complex revolve around babies, that's how I'm going to read that shit. Oh, okay. That makes sense.

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My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jark O'Bruckerserg. I got that from the What Your Name Would Be If Your Name Was Mark Zuckerberg name generator. What? Do they have that? No, I just made that up. Oh, man. I was like, I want to know mine. I can Zuckerbergify your name What? Yeah. Do they have that? Nah, I just made that up. Oh, man. I was like, I want to know mine.

I can Zuckerbergify your name if you're interested. I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray or Markles Grux Zaynberg. Thank you so much. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Pringles are real crunchy gonna eat them with some reeses pringles are real crunchy gonna eat them with some reeses pour those reeses in my bag stacking candies makes me glad but a starburst makes me frown. Though my teeth start to decay. Pringles and Reese's every day. Hope that my friend will want a tray.

Okay. Shout out to Jill of All Trays on Discord for that wonderful Presidents of the United States of America beaches inspired, a.k.a. That's beautiful. Yeah. I love that song. So I love it when people hit me with that

construction if i was gonna offer a light critique i would say that of the um potato chips i feel like pringles are the last one i would kind of pair because pringles turn into just like a soft potato meal once they're inside your mouth but yeah you know nobody fucking asked me it feels like a like it's not it's like a like the communion away for a sexy cousin yeah pringle is yeah like that is definitely made from like a blended up light slurry you know because that when you take the eucharist you know you accept the body of christ that's light and airy you know and that kind of reminds me of a pringle which is has no seasoning on it. Yeah, that's how they came up with it. I think it says that in the Bible, right?

It's like the Eucharist must be a light. Once you pop, you cannot stop. The body of Christ. It comes to those BOC, as they call it. You dealt with BOC. The body of Christ. Yeah, but I think Pringles got hit because they don't have much potato in them. It's a lot of starch, flour, other.

File into the ingredient category of other. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the hottest young stand-up comedians and margarita aficionados in the nation. He's at the top of both lists you've seen him on conan last comic standing bill burrs comedy central stand-up show the ringers and he filmed his first comedy central special in 2021 you may also know him as the winner of the title of wittiest in the franklin county high school's yearbook. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented Caleb Simon. Hello. Oh, man.

With that intro, it sounds like it's going to be somebody better than me. No. Oh, no. Right on point. You earned it all. And we started off with some religious talk. Because don't you have a religious background? Oh, yeah.

My dad's a preacher. Right. Son of a preacher, man. Yeah. That's right. Quite literally. My dad's a preacher. Right. Son of a preacher, man. Yeah. That's right. Quite literally. Boy, that song was not accurate. We've been talking up a big game for 60 years.

They're like, oh, I heard about the sons of preachers. You're like, no. Oh, boy. I don't know if I can touch you as tenderly as that. The reality is. Yeah, it's a lot of. He's just like a real giving, tender lover. Is that the son of the preacher man

in that in that i mean we're probably not even a lover you know what i mean it's just it's just like we're all we're all nice but it's like oh it's not uh we're the guys you date in the first half of a romantic comedy before you meet the real guy that you need right yeah yeah the who is it who meg ryan really fucks over in sleepless in seattle is it's one of the bills i think pullman maybe yeah bill pullman greg kaneers that's that's our yeah that's that's who it is great you don't end up with the son of a preacher man you i always felt bad for that dude like all he did was like have allergies and like he was really nice and also like the kindest person ever when she was like hey so i'm kind of in love with this guy who's not you who i've never met but i gotta go see and he's like do it yeah absolutely

see what a good guy what a good guy, why don't people go after that guy? Yeah, exactly. You're Caleb Sinans of the world, you know? Yeah, we're out here, you know? We don't really have many skills, but we're nice. We're nice, and we have a lot of guilt. So come on by. Come on by.

You have guilt for the three of us. I was just going to the thing like i always heard about catholic guilt and i was like that like they're acting like oh we're the guiltiest and i'm like come on man i'm from the south too i got southern guilt i got the all of them right yeah catholics just they're they love drama they they want to be you know persecuted so they yeah i've had it with catholics am i right thank you who's with me first we first we make fun of the boc and then we uh then i talk shit about catholics this is taking shots at the papal sea what's up i know all right well caleb or carbel mac psych ninskerb are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about that we're going to talk about. The pipe dream, the ultimate pipe dream of America, the taxing of the rich. I think you said free guns for dogs. That is actually way more accurate. We're going to talk about Facebook and Dear Leader, if we have time. We're going to talk about Fox Weather just launched, everyone. Fox News' Weather Channel, baby. Yeah.

It's interesting. It fits nicely into their portfolio because Fox News ignores and exacerbates climate change, which leads to horrifying storms, which then they get to cover on Fox Weather, which, you know, it's a money-making machine. So we'll talk about that vision, all of that, plenty more. But first, Caleb, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are, friend?

Oh, it's so horrific. Because I always forget about that question, so I look back through it, and then I'm like, okay, can't say that one uh i can't say just it's all very embarrassing like can i microwave an egg dumb stuff where you're like oh this is revealing too much one of them was dennis prager young and i was like it was like because he got covid and he looked like shit and i was like did he always look like shit? So I like, I wanted to see him, but I'm just like, this is how I'm spending my time.

Yeah. A lot of them were just me to see what was online about me. So yeah, it was just a horrible, horrible search history. It's very, very embarrassing. Was Dennis Prager a snack? Speaking of microwaved egg. I mean, like a microwave i mean he looks the same he looks the same uh i just uh damn temple of doom shirtless was on there

i just for some reason i can't remember probably at a bar and i was like oh no one was hotter than harrison ford in the 80s. And they're like, no, Ryan Gosling. And it was just like, I don't know why I was in a fight that I had to prove who had the best. Was their argument Ryan Gosling in the 80s? Because that would have been problematic. Yeah. Well, that's why we Googled Dennis Prager Young after that.

Cleanse that timeline. Yeah. 100%. What is something you think is overrated? Ooh, work. That was a no-brainer. For some reason, my algorithm got a bunch of this hard work posts where it'll be a picture of Jeff Bezos pointing at the camera and it's like work hard do push-ups start a business turn off your phone read a book build a house fuck you and it's just like ah like like did you wake up poor today bitch and i'm like no i hate work i've done i'm glad more people are realizing it's a waste of your life and uh get out of here with all that work shit. Yeah.

Yeah. That subreddit is popping. The hate work subreddit? The anti-work one. Yeah. I mean, because I think as more people become so disillusioned with, you know, like the just vile reality of like living in capitalism, it's like you really do like, wait, why the fuck? What's the work for? And horrible.

And the first day I had a job. Yeah. It's so, it's so sad. I can't, uh, I remember literally I was 15. The first day I like worked somewhere.

Right. Or I think I was just about to turn 60, whatever the law was. I was that day at midnight. Right. And, uh, my parents were like, get to work. And I worked at a, yeah, get to that day at midnight. Right. My parents were like,

get to work. And I worked at a, yeah, get to AA. Come on. It's not illegal anymore. And so I, I went to work at this grocery store and it was,

it was like, I had an hour left in my shift and I went to the bathroom and I just like looked out the window at the moon. Like this is, can't be what life is work. Oh, like I was so sad. I'm 15.

Yeah. This is bullshit. Yeah. I can't do it. Yeah. No more work. Yeah. Fuck work.

I did. It's all right. Let's just turn off the mics, dude. Yeah. Let's get out of here. Well, I mean,

so, well, this doesn't work. This is fun. Right. Yeah. I mean, that that's that's the blessing man i gotta see this guy every day you know well fucking can't believe this shit this

guy says we have to cut out of the show anyway what are you saying kevin yeah we love it here what yeah no anything you can do over zoom i don't consider when i think of work i think of stacking stuff picking something up that's heavy oh yeah trust me i constantly in my mind i'm like i'm like thinking of what my ancestors on both my japanese and black sides think of me being a podcaster and i'm like oh yeah they're laughing their asses off they're laughing and then my therapist is like don't you think that they would also be like relieved that you don't have to engage in the labor they had to? That's part of their hope for their future generation.

I'm like, yeah, maybe. But I still hear my grandfather. No, they don't like me. No, they think I'm stupid. They're mad at me. They're mad at me. They're fucking mad at me. You know how.

They're mad. But your grandchildren are going to be talking you up like crazy. Like, oh, he came to this country with eight thousand dollars in his patreon in a dream and he had him and his co-hosts you know they they were doing ad reads before you could oh man it's gonna be epic they were improvising ad reads when they used to be verbatim reads it's great anyway we should mercy kill grandpa before the climate wars start that's right i was talking about two of my friends like about to become a father i'm like do you ever just think of like how they might have to put us out of like put us to pasture

to survive like when push comes to shove for like 60 years oh hell yeah i'll be in the pasture i don't want to be doing nothing yeah i'll be like look me in that pasture baby i'm gonna go to the other grandpa's up to the mountain just gonna watch old youtube clips till we die it'll be fun if you need me i'll be uh out behind the barn with a gun in my mouth just uh waiting for you guys to uh come through just in case you know it's your call we gamed it out to the point we're like well what if you just had a cyanide capsule and like when you're dentures? So then when that moment came, you could look at your kids and be like, I'm doing this for me.

Right. And then you're like. And then they don't have to live with having to put their elderly grandparents to bed. Honestly, that's polite. That's what grandparents should do. Get that cyanide capsule and your reverse mortgage and take yourself out. Get your cyanide dentures, your reverse mortgage, and avoid crunchy foods. I do wonder what having seen the baby boomers growing old as badly and as selfishly as they have will do to future generations of the elderly.

If we're just gonna be like man that sucked like just don't right like they're gonna ruin like the elderly brand because people like the predominating memory is gonna be of boomers not like the silent generation or like some of our grandparents like oh grandpa and then that hatred will extend to the elder, the truly geriatric millennials when it's our time. Like a fucking boomer. And I'm like, what? I was born in the 80s. There's a there's like a counter narrative in mental health that like talks about how the like people's happiness generally improves with with age.

Right. the old like people's happiness generally improves with with age right and but like we don't pay attention to that because they like actually get you know they they turn into things that like capitalism can't use so we just kind of shunt them off to uh rooms where we don't have to look at them but they're happy about that they're happy what's the secret i was putting a broom closet like you figure out how to work your brain and ignore the things that you need to ignore to be happy i guess but i do i do feel like that's definitely not coming through with the baby boomer generation as they all just like descend into you know fox poisoned brain territory oh i know i just it's not a good time like i whatever happened remember when old people will watch matlock and

mash and and like uh yeah some some don knots thing you didn't know why that was on but now they're just they're mad they just go to sleep mad every night? Like, what are you doing? Yeah. Listening to Mark Levin yell at you for five hours a day? What? I love it. You're like, really? Why are you so? Watch something nice, you know? Go to the beach.

I mean, yeah. Yeah, what are you going to do about it? Yeah, go to the beach so you can see these socialist teens dressed up like God knows what. These kids are confused. They don't know what's going on anymore can't go anywhere it's like they they think they they work at congress they're like oh i gotta listen to these this bill let me read this bill it's like you're you worked your whole life why don't you chill out why are you retiring to watch fox news well every other indicator has shown me i'm completely out of control so this is the one thing i've tricked myself into thinking i can control yeah i wish they would read the fucking

bills they the instead they just you know take tucker carlson's word for it or some dude on facebook what is uh what is something you think is underrated oh i've been talking about this um this is the the best discovery I made During lockdown People always talk about Is John Lennon better than Paul McCartney And the whole thing is a smokescreen George Harrison has been better than all of them This whole time

Nobody knows, nobody knew But yeah, he is the best By a lot And check him out, he's on Spotify Wherever you listen to music This lot. And check him out. He's on Spotify, wherever you listen to music. This guy's great. Check him out. Way better than the other guys.

That was dangerously close to a piece of branded content for George Harrison. You even have the tag wherever. Yeah, he's long dead, but check him out. Yeah. What were the Beatles songs that he uh that he wrote i feel like something which frank sinatra called the greatest uh love song of the 20th century right and while my guitar gently weeps a lot of great bangers and yeah check him out let it be i don't know if he did that. I just did George Harrison Beatles songs.

It's like all of them. Right. Wow. Hey, Jude. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that was Paul. He did that one, me and Yoko in the bed for a while. Right, right.

I'm the drummer. All those classic Beatles. Yeah, but he's very relaxing. Here comes the drummer. All those classic Beatles. Yeah, but he's very relaxing. Here Comes the Sun. Yeah, Here Comes the Sun. Very good for a shower. Nice for an evening stroll. But yeah, very relaxing.

If you're stressed out during these tough times, give George Harrison a listen. Long, Long, Long from the White Album. Yeah, these are among their best. Here Comes the Sun is my kid's favorite Beatles song at the moment. Oh, really? So good. Yeah.

I always watch from the concert for Bangladesh. Yeah, yeah. When Billy Preston comes out to do That's the Way God Planned It. I think that's one of my favorite live performances of a musician ever. But it's weird. YouTube took it down years ago so i always have to go to like daily motion to just catch that clip yeah and it's hard to find that album anywhere yeah and what the hell is the deal with that yeah yeah all right

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And the second pipe dream of America, the one that's in second place between giving dogs free guns, is the idea that one day we might be able to tax the rich and use that money to help the rest of the country. And it's actually it's actually being discussed right now. How's that going, Miles? Yeah, because it's a huge Biden agenda and no one's fucking on board with anything, these Democrats. So Joe Manchin recently made it clear that he is hearing's hearing about this new thing like taxing billionaires. He's like, oh, I got concerns about that.

I don't know. I don't know about targeting people, as he said. OK, because it's the 700 wealthiest individuals in the country. I just wonder his actual quote around it, because he's OMG, very scared. Quote, I don't like it it i don't like the connotation that we're targeting different people that's a very interesting statement and you know we have kirsten cinema who has told i think we discussed lobbyists out loud to their face straight up i will i'm not interested in raising taxes on corporations and things like that but there seems to be some movement because senators wyden Warren, and King have introduced two bills to help pay for a potentially transformational agenda. to absolute nothing, or it'll get held up in courts where they will have to redefine things

like income or accountants can just find even better loopholes. But putting that aside, let's pretend that for this moment of positivity, that this could potentially go through the way it is. So the first bill is aimed at taxing the wealthiest companies who, you know, they've been afforded the luxury of an absolutely nonsense tax code that allows them to basically pay nothing on their profits. So what this bill specifically would do would apply to companies that report more again. So before you start grasping your small business pearls, we're talking about companies who have been generating more than a billion dollars in profits each year. This is who we're talking about, the super wealthy companies. And this is over a three-year period and would impose an across the board 15% tax rate on those profits. Now, when you consider things like Amazon,

how they effectively pay less than 5% on their profits through all the legal fuckery and tax trickery, going to 15% I think would be pretty good place to start. And so that's sort of the first dimension is to go after companies. The second is to go at individual earners. And this is where Joe Manchin doesn't like the idea of just singling people out, like the 700 wealthiest fucking Americans in the country.

Well, it might hurt their feelings. That hurts people's feelings. I know. And listeners and i'm sure you i'm sure all the listeners know someone like this we all have a friend who makes more than a hundred million dollars per year and they have more than one billion dollars in assets for three straight years we get that we're like dude that's my neighbor right relax on relax on this guy so this thing would essentially be like look this is who need who we really need to make sure i'm paying the fucking taxes it would i require them to give the irs a detailed account of how much of

the assets they own or gain lost each year it's called mark to market apparently in lingo terms so like the way that we we talked before about how they avoid is that it's a lot of their money is tied up in stocks right and so like real estate just like keep it in the stock markets and in real estate and then they don't have to pay taxes like the rest of us and but they can borrow against the fact that they have 300 billion, you know, like that they'll still get any loan at the best possible rate, which enables them to just have basically unlimited money. Isn't that the, that's the funniest excuse I've ever heard. Like I can't be, all my money's tied up in stocks. I don't know what I'm going to do. That's like, Oh, I can't pay taxes. All my money's in my pocket.

What, do you want me to get it out of there? No. That's not fair. I didn't even use it. Someone took all my money and put it in stocks. I don't know how I'll ever get, I don't know what I'm going to do. Right. And because you're not paying capital gains until they're realized, right?

Until you sell your stocks or you sell your real estate, that's when capital gains come in. So again, like you're saying, Jack, you need some fun money, some funny, fun, fun money to go fucking P-jet around and fuck the earth over and spend your luxurious lifestyle. You just take loans out against your already massive wealth. And then now you can take the interest payments that you from that loan to offset any other income taxes that you would have. So it's just a fucking it's a beautiful setup. And the way the really the easy way to sort of put this into perspective is right because they're able to do these things like, say, I park my money in the stock market so I don't

have to pay anybody fucking anything. And it just chills there. For example, in 2018, the top 25 individual earners in the United States were over worth over $1 trillion. It would take over 14 million, just wage earning Americans, not to say that you're on hourly wages, but people who aren't just like hyper wealthy, 14 million, over 14 million, just normal people to create that wealth to get to $1.1 trillion. people to create that wealth to get to $1.1 trillion. Now, the tax bill for wage earners was $143 billion from those people, from just the wage earners in the United States. The personal federal tax bill for the top 25, $1.9 billion because, all these loopholes to exploit. And we wonder why, like all these, we have no money for like, you know, transformational programs because we're more and more accommodating class of people to find ways to just keep their money very safe.

move forward because I think it'll force, I'm sure people will find new loopholes, but to not engage in at least the beginning of trying to lock this thing down and try and get a handle on income inequality or just inequality in general. Yeah. Wow. We got to stop calling them loopholes. That's a cutesy name for a evil crime. You're lying. You're a cheating shit. What are you doing? I just snuck through a loophole. It's a loophole. A loopy loop. Hey, come on. Look what I found. A loopy loop. It's just like, stop.

People are dying. A loop-de-doo. People are starving and sleeping on the street. Just because of all the little IRS taxi loopies? No. No. People in my community aren't dying because of lack of reason just because it's a little loophole come on i didn't put the loophole there and i think and we saw through the pandora

papers just exactly how this is all working like there's so much wealth out there that is not being taxed and they're laughing their asses off because it's so easy to get. It's not even hard to do because we're not even taking the initiative to be like, okay, we're not going to, it can't be this easy. It has to be just slightly easy. Yeah. Dude, I got bumped up to first class for the first time a couple of weeks ago on a flight. And, uh, let me tell you, I've never been so mad at rich people. The fact that this is just their life all

the time yeah yeah pay your taxes you get to fly first class it's the nicest thing that's ever happened to me well then it's also like whenever you think about like oh i remember that a time i got upgraded on an international flight i thought i was the fucking claw from toy story was coming to take me away like a promise like yes please and when you go there i'm like i'm like shit yeah i'm in the fucking seat that cost thirty five hundred dollars for a one-way ticket to and then you look around and you're like i'm like almost want to like rob the person next to me yo bro you paid thirty five hundred dollars what the fuck are you doing let me run your fucking pockets real quick.

It's also, it also, it's like kind of does your head in, in that sense too, because you, you'll be in the proximity of like, you're just like, holy shit, man, this is a different reality. It's like I spend, these people spend thousands of dollars to just even go to like New York and I'm like, dude, where's the fucking update alert when I can get it for like 200. Right. And what are like 200? Yeah. Right. And what are you doing? Okay. If flying to New York and for a thousand bucks, it's nothing to you.

What are you making in New York? They're about to go to New York and like burn down an entire neighborhood for Raytheon or whatever evil people do. Because man, that's crazy to me. I test crowd disbursement technology okay get off my back so i work for the people i work with people that's what that's what i do yeah working like just finding out like just specific people's pain points and like working through those i create uh okay i create uh terror I create I create terror weapons And evil carceral technologies I invented

Waterboarding in 1996 Yeah Kind of a goof With me and my frat brothers And one of them ended up at the CIA And asked if he could kind of pay me For the intellectual property on that And yeah now I'm here What percentage of CIA torture techniques and asked if he could kind of pay me for the intellectual property on that.

And yeah, now I'm here. What percentage of CIA torture techniques came like directly in a pipeline from Yale frat hazing? Like I'm almost positive. It's like mostly just skull and bones shit that they're like, oh, remember that time when we did that to Bushy? Yeah. Remember that time we got that Al Qaeda cell and then we put them in that

cia black site interrogation room put an eight ball of cocaine on the table and said you don't come out till this is done and then we interrogated them yeah they were all over the place huh so i like this story just made me like because the outrage isn't there like the it doesn't feel like we're mad enough about just the overall state of like how little these assholes pay and i wonder if like one of the things that we've talked about that is unique about the american tax system is that like we have to do the taxes like in other countries, they just send you a bill, and they're like, hey, we figured out how much you owe. This is what you owe, so just send us a check.

In America, we have these forms. They basically put the mindless, just awful bureaucratic work on us so that we have to do it and i'm just wondering if they do that so that when like the subject of taxation comes up we're like our brain just turns off we're just like fuck like or we're also like more empathetic to other people who have to pay taxes like paying taxes is such an awful thing that we're just like yeah don't don't tax them more like that's that's mean taxing tax is bad you know right like it because it doesn't make sense other than just that turbo tax is like lobbying them but like

i feel like that like the the way that we'll never get Medicare or Medicare for all because they, you know, like being able to make people feel like they die if they left their job. Like that's, you know, I think there's like psychological conveniences at work in a lot of the shit that they do that kind of keeps the system in place. That's one thing that's so weird to figure out where you're like, oh, if I don't work, I'll die. Right. I'll starve and then I'll die. Yeah, no, go ahead and leave your job and then you won't have health insurance

and you could die and in dying, bankrupt your family and all future generations. And then they gotta go, no, we gotta taxes so they've they've managed to convince people okay we need taxes who should we get it from the people with money or the people without it and they've actually convinced people like no the people without it should pay not the people i'm a job creator yeah let me take it from you like what how how do we not take it from the rich guy? What do we do? They're like a thousand bucks to someone who makes like a, you know, 40 K a year. That's nothing to take away from them. But then if I got to pay a million bucks, that's so much money.

Are you serious? Think about that. Don't, and don't think of it as a bit being a proportion of my overall wealth either. Just a million dollars objectively as a numbers too high. Stupid. Not doing it. But yeah, it's just all also very complicated and yeah like it's it's it's funny you talk about like just the barbaric nature of like capitalism

too because you see all these like memes now that are people like quitting on their bosses like text capture threads and like so many of the replies from when they're like hey you got to come in this person's not coming in they're like no i like i told you i needed this time off their first threat is like think about your health insurance or like some weird shit like that and you're like yeah of course because that's the like they're just articulating the the whole grift here which is yeah so it's the threat of death right if you don't give us your labor yeah they call it a taught labor market versus a like labor market with some slack in it and we currently are giving them a taught labor market where you know they can't find enough laborers to fill all the jobs and that is they're like what the fuck is

going on they will be taught a fucking lesson i used used to have to, every job I had where I'd have to go buy and get the check on payday when I wasn't working, I would always make sure to wear something that was impossible to work in, in case they were like, oh, while you're here. So I would wear like a Hawaiian shirt and flip flops and a fucking

cowboy hat. Speedos. You are not getting me to work today. Right. I used to just run in and out. Like I would call You know, like a cowboy hat. Speedos. You are not getting me to work today. Right. Oh, man. I used to just run in and out. Like, I would call. I'd be like, yo, on that Friday, like, yo, the checks in. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right. They're like, all right, I'm going to come up real quick. I'm like, is Mark there? Like, the owner? They're like, no, no, no. I'm like, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm out.

I'm out. I'm out. Because I thought of it like the boss was like half teacher, half parent. Like I thought I had to like if they say work, I got to do it. So I got to work. I can't let them even ask. Right. And it's funny.

Like if are we taught that from an early age, you know, to be as subordinate as possible? Hey, depends on what what party you're in. The reasons could be different. But yeah. Yeah. But other countries, I feel like have healthier relationships and the big differences. Hey, it depends on what party you're in. The reasons could be different. But yeah. Yeah. But other countries, I feel like, have healthier relationships. And the big difference is that their bosses don't hang the, hey, think about your health insurance. Think about your family getting sick and making it so you have to move.

Yeah, but that coercive shit's everywhere, though. Oh, for sure. It's just the laws there don't don't allow that for the most part. Right. Or you could be like in the case like Japan where they're like, we actually need to legislate to get people to work less hard. Right. Because it's destroying the population. Yeah. Oh, wow. Let's talk. Let's talk Facebook. Let's talk about the boss, Mark, who we're all trying to avoid.

I don't want to work today, Mark. You know, the company seems like they've lost control of the product. There are thousands of pages of internal documents that were provided to Congress that provide, like, they basically have all this data on the harms they cause with all of their products. And like, it just shows exactly how they document the harm. They pretend to do something about the harm, but then they slow walk or sideline efforts to address real harms that, you know, they've caused or created or magnified and there's a good example there's this new york times story about their decision to or like they started to test the idea of removing the like button from instagram i think a lot of people remember that and it's

just like it's a great example of how this was a front page New York Times story. The New York Times just covered it as though, hey, Facebook was trying to like address these harms that they saw. They just took the like button away from Instagram and people didn't like it for some reason. And it's like that is a terrible, like half-assed solution that was designed to fail and prove that they have no choice but to like bait people and make them angry it's just like over and over in all these papers in every example where there is harm that is being caused by facebook but that is also making facebook a more effective like ad platform which is essentially what they are. They will... The energy is behind making money and raising the stockholder prices. There's no energy behind the people who are bringing solutions to the table. So they'll

hire these really experienced people with great ideas. And then those people will either... people with great ideas and then those people will either you know they they'll never fire them but those people will just immediately realize like what a load of shit it is and how much they don't give a fuck about any of this and quit and then become whistleblowers which is the part of their plan that hasn't exactly worked out but yeah and their stock price, you know, it was also a report last week that they are giving a global platform to, you know, anti-vax doctors who are spreading disinformation. Their accounts have grown by like 13,000 percent. And that's 13,000% since Facebook identified it as a problem and like banned the so they these like anti-vax doctors have like grouped together. whose accounts then just like exploded and have resulted like one of the leaders of the group is a phd in immunology from the university college dublin who instructed people on like all that she's like stepping into the like realm of like legally advising people on sovereign

citizen bullshit she was apparently consulting the people who stole a covid patient out of the hospital yeah because they were like you you guys are killing him we need to like they're like he's gonna die here he's like come with us come with us and then that guy died yeah then that guy was rushed back to the hospital a day later and died and don't steal patients it was that video's fucked up dude this guy is so desperate and confused this old he's like no no come with us and they're like sir like the doctor's like we really are telling you you should not leave and he's like and he's like come with and the guys like come with us if you want to live and it's like what are you fucking arnold

schwartz in here yeah what are you doing Whatever happened to idiots staying home? Stay home and be a fucking moron. Don't go stealing patients. Keep your ideas in your head. The internet happened, man. Yeah. Facebook just. Because you can find an audience and you're like, maybe I'm not wrong.

Right. Because these other people agree. Uh-oh. Let's bring back laziness. Be a lazy QAnon person. Thank you. Stay home. Stay retired. Come home and watch TV. As all this information's coming out, Facebook's been having one of the worst weeks in company history, as in the history of any company.

50 news stories have laid out Facebook's utter failures to release its own platform. And their share price was rising at the beginning of this week. So it's exactly like the central problem is that all they care about is shareholder prices. And all the shareholders care about is the things that are driving the prices. And they don't give a fuck that they're, you know, breaking the world. Yeah. That movie about them came out 11 years ago we've known like oh facebook is turns out and i'm like turns out it was the number one movie was this company and that was a long time ago yeah good lord it's also really it's i mean, people haven't even begun or slowly the conversations just become coming out about like Facebook as it relates to India, because India is actually the

largest user base for the company, but the United States gets like 87% of the company's like global budget in terms of like time spent on like battling, know misinformation and when you look at what's happening in india and the things that have proliferated on facebook there like this is a whole other fucking crisis but right now there's it's like there there's so many bad things happening that i'm like i'm hoping legislators can keep track of it all because you know the effects are just so far reaching yeah shut it off can we just shut it off like there's got to be something like that one monday shut off turn off this website what does the website have to do to get shut off all right

come on keep the good parts of connecting people like with like a whatsapp or like the commerce things where people can actually support themselves but this whole other shit it's like whatever yeah that's why we'll see what happens i mean this whole week you know the senate is speaking to a lot of people in tech so we'll see what they what they make of that we need we need the social network too because the that movie made him look like an asshole but like a fun asshole who you were kind of like not rooting for but it was like you know you saw the seeds of like what we're seeing come to fruition now but like what that's a that's a great movie and it's also like

you need to for the record show like all the awful shit that has happened since then yeah and he i think that branded him as just like he's a little college student he's wearing a hoodie he's not a super villain he's just he's just in his dorm room being a college boy it's like no he's a full grown man who's evil and rich and destroying the planet and he wears the same thing every day hey man he drinks snapple in his dorm room right okay he's he's on his way to fucking the earth right on my way to destroy everything hitler just wore a hoodie he could brand he would be like oh come on he's got a hoodie on what's he gonna do yeah come on that's michael jordan's mustache he's like just a bulls fan probably come on relax there needs to be like a downfall type treatment of facebook like you know like the like last days like of hitler and stuff where you can just be like dude it's a mess it's

pathetic it's dangerous there's nothing good going on here like there's no there's no cool track from garbage doing like a cover of hotel california or something playing to like make it kind of offset how grim everything is like people really need to see just how you know what sadly that's the only way people know how to communicate like is there a movie that kind of explains uh how democracy is backsliding across the earth because of facebook i mean movies you know, prestige TV shows are incredibly important for like giving people the imaginary or imaginative vocabulary to understand things. So I know. Get it done.

We don't need it to be you. Fucking what's his name? Writer. Sorkin. Aaron Sorkin. Yeah. Sorkin does not does not need to be a sorkin joint no although you know they're fun but i just feel like we would get some

there'd be some revisionist you own the finsta what would sell me a finsta and i'll make this all go away type shit from uh from him yeah he completely doesn't understand it like mark zuckerberg's talking to like navendra modi in india and he's like yes sell me a finsta he's like all right dude click and you're like you see that's how it happened who would be the best director for that for the writer writer director maybe well it needs to actually be to get the information out it should be a real average director who's popular uh right yeah if you won't be able to see it get uh get who's the guy that makes fast and the furious what's that's that guy's name do that that guy the the asian director yeah yeah um what is it james something justin yeah justin Lin. Get Justin Lin on it. We'll see it.

But no, I think, you know, Sam Mendes, because he does, like, really good, like, America's So Fucked Up movies. Right. Yeah. Like, there's, like, also, like, weird, silent, evil people, I feel like is a specialty. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that might be interesting. Because I just think of, like, what's, um, like, Revolutionary. Oh yeah. Yeah. That might be interesting. Cause I just think of like, what's like revolutionary road.

Oh God. That was a fucking neck breaker. I was like, Oh fuck. Yeah. That was tough. That was hard to read. And even like treating like Michael Shannon's character,

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And Fox Weather just launched RIP to the planet Earth. They dumped $10 million into Fox Weather, which is a free a free ad supported 24-hour channel you can get either on tv or through an app and hold on to your butts guys because this weather app uses cutting edge 3d radar and the unprecedented technology future view that allows you to check the weather several months ahead oh come, come on. Several fucking months? It's just amazing that the entire pitch that they're launching this thing on is just such a blatant lie. It's just a total lie. That's impossible.

Several months ahead is like when the butterfly flapping its wings outside my window right now has created a monsoon in india like and we're not gonna tell you what it feels like either we don't care about your fucking feelings we're gonna tell you what the temperature is and that's it yeah no agenda no explanation for why your home was lost in a terrible mudslide due to torrential downpours that could have been anyway no politics just numbers and circles yeah but meteorologists say like anything outside of two weeks is yeah not feasible and lower george soros paid them to take their your weather information from you did you imagine that's what he did the forecast devolve into where it's like now if you're living in new york you already know soros you're on whatever he's deciding is going to happen up there now when we go into the southeast uh it's like what the fuck is this i do all the

black lives matter rallies have created a heat wave yeah Is it just me or is that cloud look like a Jew? I don't know. I'm not. I'm just a weatherman for Fox weather. I can't tell. Just a meteorologist. Anyway, let's go to the Klan hood for the. Like this is happening at a time when the weather channel is like more openly acknowledging the effects of pollution and

global warming and the apocalyptic situation that we're all in the midst of right now and they've even like stated that like they're fully going to cover that as a main part of their weather narratives right of like the nine sickest tornadoes that threw a fucking tree at a house, which is what I see every time I go to the Weather Channel. But yeah, I mean, they have a long history of spreading, or at least Fox News has a long history of spreading climate-related misinformation. They've been dismissive of the crisis one climate scientist argued fox news has been the greatest promoter of climate change disinformation over the past two decades which is a hell of a hater shit dude i mean but that's there's a lot there's a lot of contributors

to that that's like yeah no well yeah it's top when you're ranking groups because i mean you look at it because the united states has such a oversized role in for whatever reason leading the earth into its own destruction that when you have one channel that's speaking to one half of the government being like nah it's fake yeah like yeah i guess it is probably yeah maybe it does deserve that title a little over a month ago fox news literally cut away from an emergency briefing on the deadly storm in New York because the topic of climate change came up. The Fox News, like it was a Thursday morning New York briefing on the deadly storms and floods and a Democratic congressman cited climate change as a factor. storms and floods uh and a democratic congressman cited climate change as a factor and they immediately pulled away and anchor bill hemmer grumbled well that turned political quite quickly so which isn't like also you know in the aftermath of hurricane ida only four percent of major

network coverage even mentioned climate change so it's not like they're alone in this but they do seem to be coming at it from an angle of you know actively dismissing it as opposed to just politely ignoring it right just that's amazing to you pointed a camera at congress and you're like so political today where the hell are they what's going on with this politics yeah i mean it might get to the point where the accepted wisdom is that it is climate change and then there's gonna be like oh there's a fire now we can't show that fire that's too political right there's a hurricane not as political hurricane yeah that's where i feel like eventually that that's gonna have the other coverage is dictated if

they're trying to ignore everything at all costs. We should start naming the hurricanes after Fox News anchors. Oh, yeah. Tucker. That'll shame them. Yeah. They would just like take that as a point of pride. That was a bad idea.

Maybe my worst ever. I'm, in fact, honored. The distinction of a massive weather system with the potential to alter the lives of fuck them but our writer jam was pointing out that like because they so they're they're claiming like we're not gonna not cover it so fox weather we're not gonna not cover it but even if they acknowledge it it kind of creates this dystopian strategy where fox news perpetuates climate change right which leads to more extreme weather which in turn increases viewership for fox weather like when you think about how this project was launched it there's almost no chance that they weren't like

well the future of weather is going to be really bad because of climate change hence there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs there you know i mean you look like they said there's a picture of a what is it a burning building just fucking stay on it yeah you know just that's similar strategies but i i'm curious to see like what the what this weather coverage like yeah because How do you make it patriotic? Right. The Weather Channel at least has... I like how they've been evolving over the years to really help people not have such an abstract idea

of what terrible weather is like. When they're like, okay, you know what a flood is? And they're like, here, with the computer graphics, I will show you what six foot of they're like, OK, you know what a flood is? And they're like here with the computer graphics. I will show you what six foot of flooding looks like, what eight feet of flooding looks like relative like to a street sign. And then people are like, oh, yeah. So for sort of dumb people like me who don't like like we're bad in science classes. Yeah. Tremendously.

Absolutely. And me, I need a movie like Moonfall to make it all right. Click and click into place. You got a movie about this? About the heat wave today? isn't real in the first six hours but you know they're they haven't blamed rainstorms on immigrants yet but that doesn't mean that they're like faux apolitical posturing will be any less harmful in the long run well hurricanes they come right up from the border these hurricanes coyotes but that's that's what you got to do you got to stop at the source. Amen. They start in Honduras, and they take a very tumultuous journey with their children all the way. Some might say these hurricanes are bad parents putting their kids at risk. We need these walls to be damn 10 miles high.

Block these storms. I want storms to come legally through our wall into our country. You know where they're all going. What was the thing Louie Gohmert said the other day about he was talking to a scientist and he just had the most asinine suggestion? And they're like, that's not even physically possible, fool. I mean, I think we're very quickly approaching these kinds of just idiocracy solutions to climate change. Yeah.

Well, can we just stop the heat? Right. With what? Make a big sunshade. Like, oh, shit. What if we all leave our fridge door open for 10 years? Build the shade. Build the shade. Like, oh, shit. What if we all leave our fridge door open for 10 years? Build the shade.

Build the shade. They'd be like, what the fuck, you idiot? You think you can put a big parasol over Florida that's going to stop a hurricane? That book, Freakonomics, like, literally made me buy something very similar. I think I read it in high school. And they were like, yeah, you know and they were like yeah you know a lot of problems seemed really bad but then like somebody solved it like people thought horse

poop was gonna like overwhelm our cities back before the invention of the car and so like one of the things they're probably gonna do is just like put a bunch of particulate matter in the atmosphere that will like block the sun's rays a little bit and like help us regulate temperature and i was like oh okay so i don't have to worry about this for like six months turns out thanks yeah block the sun's rays yeah yeah man see this is bad because we're all going to tune into Fox. What? Just because we're like curious. And then they're going to last forever.

That first day, everybody's going to be like, what's this racist weather going to be like? It's too late. Made too much money. Can you imagine like they just go too hard and even their own viewers like, look, I just want the weather, man. Right. Like I watch Fox News for like my like to get my racist mouthwatering. Right.

I just want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow. Yeah. Please don't say critical race theory. Caleb, as always, such a pleasure having you, man. Where can where can people find you, follow you, watch you all that? Oh, yeah. You can find me on Twitter. I had to start over on Twitter because of some I got banned. So follow me at dumb Caleb., all that good stuff. Oh, yeah. You can find me on Twitter. I had to start over on Twitter because I got banned.

So follow me at Dumb Caleb. This is a good account. I'm not impersonating anyone. I didn't know you couldn't pretend to be presidential candidates. I thought that was fun and funny. Wait, really? Yeah. I saw other comics doing it.

It was just fun. You change your profile picture and your name, and you're like, hey, I'm Trump. I'm Biden. I thought it was fun. Then I got it took down. Now I'm dumb Caleb and it's just me on there. I got a podcast called What's It Called? with Dave Ross. It's really dumb and fun, but I love it.

Listen to that. What do you guys talk about? We rename stuff a lot and we don't know what our podcast is called. It's an excuse to about? We rename stuff a lot And we don't know what our podcast is called And it's just an excuse to riff Like we renamed Titanic And changed the name to Boat And then we Photoshopped

Then we get on Twitter and we're like Hey if you have a dumb name For home improvement And then someone tweeted in Home Depot And someone renamed it Man's Labyrinth. And we laughed for eight days. It's just super fun.

Give it a listen. A lot of funny people tweet in. What's it called again? The show? What's it called? Hey. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh, so Twitter is like the you know it's the worst website it's it's amazing how facebook just

is the worst and then twitter like i guess a lot of people just don't have it but uh i saw a tweet uh one of the tweets that makes me laugh so hard i think about it sometimes i love steve martin on there i know he's an old guy but uh one of his that made me laugh is uh it was a quote tweet and from like nasa or something it was astronomers just found 20 new moons around saturn and he said i knew about him last year but who the hell's gonna listen to me i just think he's the funniest uh he's still the funniest guy but uh that's so funny man yeah twitter can be a nightmare but he's the funniest. He's still the funniest guy. That's so funny, man. Yeah, Twitter can be a nightmare, but he's funny on there. Yeah, it really can.

Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also, the other show, 420 Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra. Talking 90 Day Fiance. Let let's see a tweet that i like this one is from uh jason kander at jason kander just since we're talking about taxes he's tweeted elon musk beware if they can tax a billionaire like me they can tax you regular people too regular people we've been paying our taxes this whole time bro

which feels very much like the like billionaires are realizing like yeah that doesn't work we've been here that's amazing should we just call it like the best at capitalism tax is that just like some compliment in there that they award not just stop saying tax right yeah yeah it's gonna be like the most baller it's called who's paying this tab right ballers only club there and every week the ballers only club has to gather like because you know like what was it the un or something food scarcity sort of subdivision was like you know like two percent of elon musk's wealth could wipe out global hunger but yeah whatever you know and then you do it like that you're like okay man who's got the tab on global hunger who's got the tab right uh like modernizing

like irrigation and like sub-saharan africa who's got that tab and then it's all ballers making it rain you know that's what they do yeah if there's a rapper that could brag, like if DJ Khaled was like, I solved, you know, this bridge came from me. I was the guy that made that. Then it would be cool. It'd be cool to be like, oh, hell yeah. My taxes do shit. Right.

Right. It's all about branding. Yeah. Balling isn't about having three Rolls Royces. Balling is about giving people educational financial choices. Yeah. Hell yeah. You know what i mean proving the post office like can we just honeypot them like put somebody who they're interested in

romantically in there like rhymes should have done this but like and then just like just too busy reading marks by a street sign right and. And then just be like, Hey, like it's kind of fucked up that you haven't ended world hunger yet today. Like that's. Oh, right. Like Megan Fox or something. Yeah. I feel like Elon Musk secretly loved Megan Fox.

Cause he thinks transformers is like the best film. It's like, I don't know. Elon, are you weed? And he's like, yeah, I'm weed.

I'm weed. I'm weed. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Let's see. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Maggie Winters tweeted, oh, great. Here comes James and his giant fucking peach. Fuck that guy.

And Brody Goop. Oh, my God. Brody Goop tweeted I could change Logan Roy Good luck Oh that's great Just groaning Yes we've seen it James

Oh it's great No you're right it's huge Fucking huge man You don't have to bring it every time Yes, we've seen it, James. Oh, it's great. No, you're right. It's huge. It's fucking huge, man. You don't have to bring it every time. It's all people you know. Like, they know about your peach, dude. That's the best tweet I've ever heard. 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. You guys heard about these things? No. Called DailyZeitgeist.com. It's where we post our episodes and our foot notes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as a song that we think you should go check out, maybe. Miles, what's the song that we are sending people to go check out today? So this is a, you know, a rapper, sort of multi-hyphenate artist. Milan Ma. Chunky,an chunky no from the uk but via zimbabwe and you know like in the grime scene and just like all kinds of different music scenes but

this is a really dope track called meh m-e-h because it kind of sums up the vibe right now but the track is anything but meh it's very you know it's just like that uk rap i love the accent i love the lingo i like the production and i think you will too so go check out meh by chunky oh yeah yeah mad by chunky yeah all right well the daily is like as the production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio go visit the iheart radio app apple podcaster wherever the hell you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us. But we are back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. And we'll talk to you all then.

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