The Daily Zeitgeist - TDZ's Eclipse Day 4/9: Eclipse 2024, Biden's Ultimatum, Marjorie Taylor Green, The Rock

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

On this edition of The Daily Zeitgeist, Jack and Miles talk about the eclipse, Biden's "ultimatum" to Benjamin Netanyahu, Marjorie Taylor Greene and her boyfriend's conspiracy theories over the eclipse, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson speaking out over cancel culture, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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i can only imagine because i can't listen to the show without him on it. It drives me crazy. I lost my bearings. I started one of the episodes in full Joker mode. I couldn't stop talking like the Joker. I couldn't shake it. Because, you know, right before we record, sometimes we'll say, and away we go. And then I took that right into the intro and then

blake encourages it it all look anyway you're back we're here i am an agent of order i am the batman of this show uh so glad to be back to sit shit right um always need a billionaire how's your uh how's your past few days you are you are coming to us from a darkened room wearing sunglasses okay all right you gotta tell everybody about this but yeah i am in a darkened room to understand the vibes i look like what's that michael jackson video with joe pesci is that moon Moonwalker? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it Moonwalker? You know what I mean? I kind of... You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like Joe Pesci in that video, like with the fucked up video. Like, because... Okay, so full transparency. I'm in a... My normally recording area is darkened. I only have my monitors providing light.

I've turned the blue light down very harshly. I'm wearing sunglasses because I'm going to Japan for a really good friend of mine's wedding but i'm only going for like fucking four it's it's an it's a very small amount of time yeah um where the jet lag will may potentially alter my life course um because debilitating case of jet lag i feel like by the time i leave i'm gonna adjust to being in tokyo right and then then i'll be back and then i'll be time traveling again so i'm using this app that i've used that was developed by nasa scientists uh around circadian rhythms so right now in the morning i just gotta i just gotta avoid the blue light for a couple hours and then

i'll be back to normal it helps though i thought this was eclipse based i thought you had like eclipse glasses over the camera i know i wish i did but look i've i've lived in a non-path of oh look at you just put on my eclipse glasses wow you um yeah look at you those are made of paper they're made of the paper. And they're great for Eclipse as well, I'm guessing. They are. We got the official designation, ISO 12312-2. Did send my kids to school with a pair each. And I don't think their school is going to let them watch it, though,

because their school was like, the only messaging they sent out was like hey uh just so you know like the best way to watch this is like just look at the shadows from it because we don't want your kids to fucking go blind yeah no that's that's totally true like do the thing that i remember in school we did because we weren't really in the path of totality much when these have happened it's just like using binoculars or something and projecting it on cardboard and you're like look the two circles are have overlapped and you're like great can i go home now my school we did uh we did just binoculars straight at the sun public hard reset hard reset of the eyes yeah they can't see color but the color like slowly gradually comes back over the course of the next

decade and yeah and you're and the irises of your eyes have turned a beautiful gray i've noticed that's right completely fucked up look like brand stark warging uh right yeah all right uh so this is the episode where we tell you uh what is trending right now what was trending over the weekend uh first we uh check in ourselves with a little underrated overrated uh do you want to kick us off with something you think is underrated sure yes uh group zoom calls um remember those remember those from the start of the lockdowns and that was kind of like our way of really being like okay man we can't see each other physically but as group zoom call with all the homies all the all the friends family whatever you have your different groups that was our way of kind of connecting to each other in a time that felt very disconnected and it was nourishing

i'm here to say that they're still very nourishing. Let's not sleep on this. Just because lockdowns are over doesn't mean that we don't have to, that there's no need to engage in connecting with each other like this. I know people who have continued this since the onset of the lockdowns. And I recently had a nice family Zoom call for my father-in-law's birthday. He turned 80. And it was just nice like when we do this pretty frequently because the family's kind of all over the place and i've done it with friends in the past recently it's just nice it's just nice you know because sometimes it's like a phone call you feel kind of pressure to like keep a conversation moving without being

like ah what else what else what else yeah like if you're everyone's kind of like hey if everyone's got like 40 minutes or something let's all just hop on and people can just be doing whatever the fuck they want to do chime in chime out um and there's like a flexibility to how we communicate on a group zoom call that i find much easier than having like obviously like a conference phone call and yeah i don't know i'm just i i i realize that's something to to keep in the old quiver of uh social engagement arrows that i fire off into the sun and you do keep yeah you have your uh list of social engagement arrows that you uh are are preparing a ted ted talk about i know and and i and i do appreciate a lot of the notes

you gave me as i prepared you're like i don't think these make sense sort of metaphorically and i was like dude just shut the fuck up man i'm in too deep i've already the robin hood of these social engagement arrows all right and i've paid six thousand dollars for these custom arrows i'm gonna fire into the crowd and then you're like do they have to be metal tipped like this maybe like what if they had those suction things on them on the end and you're like i told you they ruin the entire fucking metaphor it fucks up the aerodynamism okay or dynamics but yeah i that's a really good point i i have not kept up with the group zoom calls um because doing it i challenge everybody

just do it it reminds me of a worse time, you know? Sure. I get that. I'm just like, no, why would we do that when we could go have dinner with each other, but we don't go have dinner with each other. I would contend now might be a worse time than even then. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, but I think more than that, like it's, I think if you really focus on

the, you know, social, spiritual nourishment you get from just like having a fucking, just having a laugh. Having a laugh? You know, shooting the shit, just bullshitting really quick. Yeah. It's fun. Cause like not a lot of shit, you know, like, cause we all have group threads and shit like that, but like the group Zoom, like you can look at each other and talk shit and be, you

know, just be yourselves again. So anyway. Yeah. Underrated. Like, I feel like the other times that I've done group zoom calls is like when there's an agenda it's like we have to like plan this thing like we're gonna all meet up like what and that also give leaves sort of a not a bad taste but just like not a fun so just like doing it for for a hang is a good idea exactly So just like doing it for a hang is a good idea.

Exactly. And also a happy birthday to your father-in-law. 80. Huge. Yeah, yeah. That's huge. Great jeans. Big Paul, yeah.

My underrated is terrycloth robes. Oh, hell yeah. So I just like wasn't really, I just didn't wear them very often. I accidentally wore them. Accidentally? Accidentally? wear them very often i accidentally wore them accidentally this week since we last spoke i accidentally wore a terrycloth robe because i uh have add i do this thing where i take a shower forget to put a towel close by i have to walk across my house just dripping wet what um you've never done that dude that's my worst fucking nightmare is to walk out of a how do i not this makes sense because it's loud in there it's loud in my like i i have the thought of like

i better not forget no fucking towel and then i get out of the shower and it's not there and i'm just like i'm more what the fuck you did it again you fucked me brain you fucked me now i'm running through ass out dripping wet all over the place i think maybe squeaking sounds yeah i know i think i'm more amazed that i just didn't know this specific you know because i love to know everything all all your idiosyncrasies and all your quirks but oh yeah this one i i didn't know that you're you're guilty of a bit of a oops where's my towel um anyways most recent time i did this uh my my wife had a terrycloth robe nearby um and threw that shit on and by the time i got to my towel like 60 of my body was dry yeah yeah and i realized i'd like kind of missed the point of these like i got that they were made of the same stuff as towels

but i didn't really get the functionality of oh uh just i don't know i feel like it should be a bigger part of the sales pitch like if there was a like sweatsuit that cleaned you while you wore it like that's all anyone would talk about is it wouldn't be like incidental it would be like oh that's like this is what it does yeah this shit cleans you yeah um yeah uh i i'm a little bit upset because i remember when i'm not upset but this was maybe four years ago around like the beginning of the pandemic. I kept screaming about how good bathrobes were. Really? For this very purpose.

And I just totally forgot it. I think maybe because in your mind, that's like a dark space, the towel and where it should or should not be. I have towel blindness. Yeah. But it is the best thing. You just put it on and like your limbs become, I always have like these weird blind spots when I use a towel that like always like under,

like on the side of my ribs are always wet. Like I forget. I'm like, I dry my back and my legs and things like that. And then there's always like my sides are wet. The robe, baby, your arms, everything. And you dry very quickly. So it's just good when the weather's cold too anyway so i'm glad you i'm glad you've opened your eyes i love a nice back dry though doing the uh the like towel across your back like you're shining a bowling ball or something you know you do that um yeah

i do i like to get fun with it i i just put the towel across my back and i just bring it in like i'm like a cheesecloth like i'm just trying to squeeze all the moisture out of my back anyway oh okay little little thing about me you may not have heard about that's much less goofy than mine mine's very uh i like no that's like very the studio space yeah but that's what the movies and cartoons have exactly that's what i think i got it from like a zestfully clean commercial in the 80s and have been doing it ever since um yep do you remember that zestfully clean commercial where like they pull the towel out and like you can it like comes up and i was like oh i think you can see that person's ass like when they when they when it pops up um wait what dude you can't but i think what are we referencing there's a shot in a zest

commercial i think it was zest yeah where they like uh put the towel out behind them and the implication is they're naked and it kind of like flies up quickly and i was like wait um i i just remember have that memory being a piece of media of like i think you saw that guy's butt there um you're like dude you just that's what we had you know back then before the internet it was oh trust me i know i remember this i remember pausing tv at very weird moments or i mean a tape at weird moments to be like, oh, okay, wait, I found the moment in question. Yeah. But anyways, I'm pitching more functional clothing.

But this rinses clean away. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think this is it. Fully clean. Unmesh your desk. Fully clean. Ooh. Yeah, yeah.

You see that? Okay, we just watched the ad, and there's a woman. That was some towel control from the actress in this commercial. Unmesh your desk. Fully clean. Woo. You see that? Okay, we just watched the ad, and there's a woman. That was some towel control from the actress in this commercial. Woo! You see? You see how high I was going? No, you're right. It's intriguing.

Yeah. Wow. I thought you were going to catch at least a quarter yeek or something. Right? It comes like right up to the line. Oh, 1992, baby. What a time. Yeah. I were eight years up to the line. Oh, 1992, baby. What a time.

Yeah. I were eight years old at the time. Yeah. I was in my 20s. So that's a little weird. I was 60. I was that into it. But more functional clothing like that. Like, did you know those hats that have the beer cans on them?

You can drink out of those. That's not just a on them? You can drink out of those. That's not just a look. You can drink water out of those. It doesn't have to be beer. It could be anything. Gravy? 10-gallon hats. Those are named for being able to carry 10 gallons worth of water before they start leaking.

Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Not 10 gallons at a time. I think one gallon 10 times before they get saturated. FYI. So don't try and water your horse with your 10-gallon hat and think you can just do one trip.

Okay, guys? And don't come for me in the comments, all our cowboy listeners. I know what you're going to say. Yeah, you don't want cowboy Twitter coming for you again. What's something you think is overrated? Overrated? We're just hitting a saturation of like, United Airlines is falling apart stories.

Right. I'm not here to defend them, but more like the confirmation bias of the media of like, if the word united is in it just fucking cover it just let's go with it totally like if a fucking wheel falls off a plane yeah i'm i'm down to hear about that i'd like to know like are also like a lot of things to do specifically with boeing like on a southwest flight like this engine cover almost completely fucking ripped off during takeoff and they're like nope nope nope nope we're not taking okay we're breaking we're breaking we're

not taking off that kind of stuff perfect great i need to know those kinds of things like i want to understand how the airline industry operates and how little uh regulation there may or may not be uh when in regards to our safety but like today there's this one story just got this a bunch of headlines like about a dog that just took a shit on a united airlines flight i'm like okay fucking boeing dogs dog shit everywhere you know what i mean like i this is this is this is i'm no stranger to me i've i've seen it myself um but like but it's clearly getting caught up in all this momentum about how like a fucking just scared out of our minds are about being on a Boeing airplane that like just rips apart.

So it's just interesting to see how like there's that one or even the story about like the toilet that just like got clogged. It just ended up the toilet got clogged. Like it wasn't really much else, but it's like, it's sort of adding to this environment where we're like, Oh god the the planes they fall apart the dogs shit on them the they smell like poo when i feel like really maybe we can talk a little bit more about how like what boeing may or may not be doing to try and correct the issue or maybe like shame the regulators that allowed

this kind of shit to take place rather than being like, Hey, we need a story, man. I heard a dog farted in the, on the jet way. Let's shame that guy with the extra girthy shits that clogged the toilet. Let's shame of the dog for pooping bad.

So it's just funny because like, well, cause I see the headline, I'm like, Oh fuck, what's going on with Boeing? What's going on with this United flight or whatever. And then it's just something because like well because i see the headline like oh fuck what's going on with boeing what's going on this united flight or whatever and then it's just something to get headlines so you know let's let's try and report on the things that are maybe a little bit meaningful

i think i think we're you know the technical stuff definitely worth talking like another one was about an unruly passenger like a bunch of right but because it was like united it got like all this coverage yeah it's just like extra like extra credit in their mind they're like yeah yeah fucking headline here we go more united chaos yeah yeah exactly because like when i see it again you're expecting something consequential something that will fill you with dread when you get yeah when you get on your own united flight later this week on a boat aircraft but for a dog yeah yeah put a dog flying across the largest body of water in the world um for instance let's just say for instance uh yeah it is it's a subtle form of clickbait that the media engages in where it's they just you know the algorithms tell them that putting

united in the headline is going to get people to click through of course the reason people are clicking through is because they want more information about how the maker of all of our planes is wildly corrupt and right not paying attention and uh not beholden to any regulators um but that doesn't show up in the like people will continue to click through because they're mistaken because you're tricking them but there's no like if the whole media apparatus is run by algorithms then that's just going to always uh always be there is like yeah exactly gotcha um right it's like we heard it's like when you get those ads like we heard you say something about robes and you're like what yeah like that's all my ads are gonna

be robes for the next week um i mean speaking of the internet being like haha got you um my overrated is just the internet as a source of information um this is obviously a pretty quaint take at this point we've known that the internet is bad for a while but there's two reasons i'm bringing this up one the ap just dropped an article uh that was like anonymous accounts on social media are like fucking up uh the you know information that we have at our fingertips. A user on social platform X who uses a pseudonym, a pseudonym, they don't use their full government name, claimed that a government website had revealed skyrocketing rates of voters

registering without a photo ID in three states this year, two of them crucial to the presidential election extremely concerning ex-owner elon musk replied twice to the post this past week he had to he had to reply the same thing twice are migrants registering to vote using social security numbers marjorie taylor green said trump posted his own uh posted on truth saying who are all those voters registering with a photo id in texas pennsylvania arizona what is going on so and yeah it's a made-up thing by somebody who doesn't have to share their actual identity we know how the internet works it's funny that it's like almost

funny to me that the ap is treating it like new information however i'm going through this process myself with my kids kind of now being at the stage where they're learning what the internet is um like my seven-year-old uh when he gets five minutes of screen time will ask to do chrome um and for him this means googling wait is that the drug from mad max yeah exactly hey dad let me do some chrome he's robocop 2 no that's nuke um yeah clone trooper he's just he just wants to google clone troopers and like think images of clone troopers from the clone wars um oh yeah but like he he literally asked me over the weekend and he was like so what's the better way to find information is it book is it tv or is it chrome

and i had to like explain to him that the internet is like not correct um well first i had to explain to him i've never read a book so i i actually don't know i hear good things i hear good books but obviously tv they can't put anything on tv that's not true um no but i was given that 50s style media literacy well if it's on tv yeah um but yeah just like explaining and i was like yeah so the internet is not correct chrome is actually a search engine and it is sending you to a page that might have paid for like that placement just like having them be like wait really what yeah like nobody's checking if this is true you start doing you should do that man

like they're like all right we got to zoom out actually all right seo we should start there what yeah i just want to know how to draw a stormtrooper but yeah it's a couple things uh that are just putting in sharp relief how drastically uh the tech industry has squandered like yeah and i don't think it's like specific to the tech and i mean it is specific to the tech industry because it is a part of larger like hyper unregulated hyper capitalism but you know just absolutely hemorrhaged the promise of the internet to the point that you just can't trust a single fucking thing you read there yeah um we also like they were doing like how to draw videos and like my seven-year-old was like so uh there's this video on the side that has like a really intriguing

question that i want the answer to oh no about like why uh world war ii was really not no uh about why a clone commander's helmet looks like that and i was like all right let's let's click on it together and it was like five seconds seeming like it was going to answer the question and then they like did some high-pitched like like, it was like a fucking Zoom bomber, you know? Right, right, right. And he was like, why would they do that? Yeah, like, exactly. The internet is a bad place for no good reason.

Just, I think just, that's a good lesson. Be like, you know what, man? Go to the source, you know, for information. Like, if you want to know, like, here, let's see if we can get you an email address for someone at Lucasfilm who might be down to like answer your deep lore question or something who would want to take the time to answer like a young fans thing. Like that's a good idea. Yeah.

My dad was, I was always just like, nah, go to the lot. Like we're going to the library. Yeah. And I hated that shit to the point where half the time I wouldn't even ask a question.

Cause I'm Brian going to the fucking library right now so let's just fucking not i'll just ask at school or so i'll ask a fucking older kid but yeah man i think that's that's probably the skill that like the one the one thing we can teach young people now is like at the very least learn what the source of like that who the answer has to come from yeah for it to be believable yeah because then if you know that it'll be much easier like why the fuck what am i going to trust this guy with a random youtube page yeah they're still at the stage where they think going to the library is like a big treat so that's that's fun um well look the library i grew up going to the amelia erhart library in north hollywood North Hollywood, it wasn't the most fun library.

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All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. This was like one that was clearly built like after the Second World War and hadn't been like updated since. I just had that like feeling of it. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news and we're back we're back and there are headlines that i've seen, like Drudge Report over the weekend was like, war is over? Is the war ending? Oh. Yeah. Okay.

And just a lot of stories about how Israel seems to be responding to US pressure. Yeah. Crazy. What? Wait, the US actually had a say in had a say had leverage or did they not sure i mean this is all going back to this report from late last week when apparently joe biden called netanyahu to discuss just how much you know he really would like it if maybe Netanyahu knocked it off with all the unnecessary deaths. Come on, man.

You mind knocking it off? But people are calling it a, quote, ultimatum, where he said this, according to, like, the readout from the White House. Quote, the overall humanitarian situation is unacceptable and that there was a clear need for, quote, Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. Which because we obviously this all came out of the group of the seven people that were killed by like three, like anraeli like struck this convoy three times uh in succession like yeah one time maybe you get to say like oh whoops that was a misfire but no they were targeted and seven people died and like obviously this led to a huge public outcry and now biden's like all right man uh it's getting it's getting a little too much for me over here. I can only pretend I'm stopping you for so long. And it also said that Biden made it clear to Netanyahu, quote, that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel's immediate action on these steps. Other allies also echoed this sentiment and aid corridors were reopened, although the effectiveness of the aid deliveries that is yet to be seen.

There are a lot of reports about how trucks may have gone in, but the aid isn't quite getting to people. So we're not sure what exactly is going on there. So I know that the White House was sort of saying like, hey, look, we got this thing going on and we'll have to see how this plays out. But like the fact that they were able to open these aid corridors and Biden did get to a point where he said like, hey, man, like USAID is going to really depend on your response here. It just underlines how much could have been done so much sooner. could have been done so much sooner uh and you're just you're like left with what was like the number like 35 000 people need to die 33 000 people need to die before it's like okay that's the acceptable amount of just straight up murder that can occur and then we will draw a line in the sand um and and when you look at him at people right now uh they're they're

saying the people in in gaza they're they're surviving on under like 300 calories a day jesus yeah that's that's like two of the like doritos snack bags that used to get like take with you to lunch one of those bags is 150 calories jesus so people are surviving on less than two bags just to put it in like gross american terms right two bags of snack sized doritos uh is the entire caloric intake for some people some people even less um so we we will see this is an ongoing story but again like this it just it just rings hollow because if you remember when that whole time like that ice cream time he had with like seth myers he was like yeah man we're gonna do a ceasefire hopefully for ramadan that never happened right so yeah just uh yeah it's stop

asking me for a second here while i get this good photo up in yeah the one thing that it this does seem to coincide with is also more headlines about i guess additional outreach from the u.s to like the government of like cutter and like saudi arabia egypt or whatever to try and try and move this thing along but then there's also equal headlines about how the white house is beginning to really see the damage that is happening uh with the base by just with the like unquestioning of aid uh and the the shipping of arms and things like that and they're like oh yeah that i guess this is gonna have an effect um so it's i don't know like on one hand you like you hope to see something come

of this on the other you can't help but feels just so deeply cynical because how long does it take for something to happen that is actually going to you know uh equate to something that is that is like a tangible pause in the violence and hopefully something that is permanent um but yeah ongoing he's giving the ultimatum like is he saying you know we just approved this like 300 million dollars worth of like you know arms like that that would be frozen or like i i guess i'm trying to figure out like what the ultimatum actually is i that's the thing i don't know like what those just implied yeah it just it feels like a bit of yeesh yanking a little bit but we're still going on a walk we're still going on a walk but yeah i'm letting you know you're on so again that's

why it's like so difficult to discern what exactly, what is the actual tangible policy here. Yeah, yeah. And thank you for putting in terms of the leash that you use to kind of keep me in order when we record in person. Oh, Jack, look. That helps me understand. What we do in the privacy of our Zoom calls. It should stay private. All right.

Back to the eclipse uh marjorie taylor green and her boyfriend are um really paying a lot of attention to the eclipse they're yeah they're like you know i mean i fun i i actually haven't listened to the clip that you've put in here but i uh assuming it's just you know it's a fun science uh activity you can do with your whole family absolutely um her boyfriend brian glenn um who he was like one of those like right wing quote-unquote reporters really he's like a guy with ass eyes who's on tv and just rants about racist stuff and he's like yeah he's a reporter for the right um he is gonna let's just let's just he's he's broadcasting straight from his car which you know that's that's where the most serious things are communicated

um this is him warning everybody about you get right with god something's going on with this eclipse right now and oh yeah as of this recording yeah i had not seen him before but yeah you you have nailed it i was like what are ass eyes i pictured them in my mind this guy's got them yeah those are ass eyes yeah what you looking at ass eyes um but again as of this recording the eclipse has not happened so we don't know maybe this episode doesn't get out because we will be taken away in the rapture but let's just allow uh this man to to just give you a warning uh-huh i want you guys to have a fantastic weekend and here's why this might be the last normal weekend that we have for quite some time i mean we've got this solar eclipse on monday this very rare solar eclipse who knows what the fallout from that will be. Plus, that will be combined with several earthquakes.

We've already seen a few already. And why not sprinkle in this infestation of locusts that have been dormant for years and all of a sudden will attack mankind. So why not? Oh, then throw in Joe Biden trying to get into a war with Iran for whatever reason he wants to do that. So on that note, have a great weekend.

We'll see you next week or maybe not. Wow. Dude, this guy is so all over the place, man. First of all, I love that earthquake. Earthquake did happen. We know about that. That hit the East Coast. Was that New York, new jersey area right um but it seemed like he was predicting

that that's just the tip of the iceberg man like oh yeah we've already seen the earthquake starting and uh as you know that's just this that's gonna be so many more earthquakes to come uh once you get through that one oh man then we got that we got earthquakes uh then we got that then we got well we got the eclipse coming very rare eclipse up really there was one fucking seven years ago you know what i mean fucking that house across the united states but when it happens during the trump administration it's actually a sign that things are cool um yeah right um and then he said the locusts again they're fucking cicadas we go over this a lot they have like there's apparently there's like two different kinds of cicadas that are coming out like one was on a 13 year cycle

and another one was on a 17 and so the math just lined up that they're both coming out this year right um and that's a normal occurrence if you know if you live in an area where there are cicadas but again they're not locusts uh because someone was like i guess like locusts are actually more of a type of a grasshopper and cicadas are more of a cricket if we're gonna get really in the weeds about this so no um so he's ranting and raving marjorie taylor green has nonstop been like, this is bad, man. We're just Christ. I don't know.

God is clearly upset with us and we need to repent. And you're like, y'all, this is not the fucking 1700s. Like we're going to get away with this shit. He could have. He could have recorded that video five years ago. Like the cicadas come on a schedule that we all know about the eclipses happen on a schedule that we've all known about um the u.s president is always threatening to get into a war with iran um and earthquakes you can find earthquakes happening everywhere

all the time granted not usually in new york city but he shouldn't care about new york city right yeah no uh but also like this is the other thing if if everyone does get right with god does that mean things like the eclipses will stop happening yeah well cicadas stop i mean do the earthquakes stop too those are natural i don't mean to ask too many questions here god but i'm just curious what what's the deal here what am i getting in return for repenting um but yeah margie taylor green she's just been she's like defending him she said many have mocked and scoffed at this post and even put community notes yeah because it's fucking misinformation at you know to use the formal term rather than straight up horseshit said jesus talked about this in luke 12 54 to 56 yes eclipses are predictable and earthquakes happen and we know

when comets are passing by however god created all those things and uses them to be signs for those of us who believe okay well i just talked about community notes in luke 12 54 to 56 that's wild yeah exactly and it's also interesting too this couple right they're marjorie taylor green she like they divorced a couple years ago like her and her husband and then this dude and his like wife divorce like they're this is born out of an affair this their this current relationship and like they denied it even though like all these people in georgia like saw them together like out in the open but like then when they were asked like no i have nothing i have nothing romantically involved with this woman except for our love for conservatism and the bible and then it's like okay yeah we're fucking yep yep we are i thought it was personal trainer but uh she moved on from personal trainer

to uh yeah i mean he ass eyes might also be a personal trainer. I mean, but yeah, either way, they are together now and making our timelines just that much more unbearable as it is. So they're just like, this is projection of them feeling bad about their guilty a like outside of Christianity behavior and being like, see, we knew it. He's punishing us. We're right. Oh,

I told you Marge. I told you. Yeah. All right. Uh, let's take one more break and we'll come back and talk about, uh, what the rock is cooking these days.

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everything to do with an interview he gave to Fox news in which he said he won't endorse Biden this year, like he did in 2020 because his goal as the rock, as America's elected the rock is to bring this country together and he wants to keep my politics to myself um and you can tell that he was serious because he was wearing uh michael douglas falling down glasses uh those frames iconic man yeah but like giant ones he's gonna take a bazooka to a construction site, though? Like that epic scene in Falling Down?

Yeah. That movie is so fucking weird, but sometimes you kind of need it. He's wearing glasses for what I have to believe is the first time ever in his entire life. Yeah. Perfectly clear frames. Well, yeah. um yeah perfectly clear frames well yeah these are i call these apology glasses when people put glasses on sort of out of nowhere like when they go to court you see this a lot when people have to go to court yeah like just to get sympathy and you're like or you're doing like kind of a

mea culpa because you said some fucking weird unacceptable shit and then you put your glasses on to be like you wouldn't cancel a man in glasses would you um that's the vibe preemptively was like i'm gonna say something that's gonna get me canceled and i'm gonna wear the glasses just so people are used to it exactly dude he's wearing the protective glasses just preemptively to be like oh i i could tell just from seeing this i'm like he's gonna say some dumb shit yeah and he did uh he he's said that america's big problem is cancel culture uh yeah exactly that's why your own fox and friends saying you're not gonna endorse joe biden we know we know when i asked if he was happy with the state of america he replied no and when they asked why he said because of cancel culture and woke culture um

okay so do you know anything about the economy no anything about things how are you doing there oh great i've never made more money in my entire life yeah i have nine jets but yeah all you've got to do is uh you know just spend 20 hours a day working out and then create a persona on social media where uh you pretend like you eat food like the rest of us um but then never actually show yourself eating food um oh man this in and out huh um um uh you're clearly just moving that back behind your head yeah what are you doing he's like i can't eat this crap man but yeah i mean we kind of knew it at the time but the the uh the rock for president shit uh will go down as one of those

like moments of american insanity that almost that is embarrassing almost immediately in retrospect i don't think he's giving up you know oh yeah this looks like we're getting closer and closer to this guy fucking thinking he can do something other than just raise one eyebrow really good i think that is what we're seeing i think this is the launch of political the rock he's like yeah weather ballooning his candidacy his his you know possibility as a serious politician i just mean the popularity of that idea uh because this is not gonna go oh yeah yeah oh right right because there was a point when we there were people we're all like the rock will save us yeah the rock the rock is like the the sort of chaotic or the positive neutral the neutral good that we need

right now no yeah what was it was him and who's the other celebrity people were like they should run for president together and then we'd be saved um like oprah or something or like dolly parton ted lasso i mean dolly parton has has a little bit more going on for her i'd say but she's smart enough to be like i don't want anything to fucking do with politics yeah but i mean yeah i i feel like maybe he thought he could kind of both sides this one and be like yeah you know it's cancel culture woke culture because like these are the people that he spends most of his time around um yeah vince mcmahon yeah yeah yeah ran this by my political consultant vince vince mcmahon yeah he thought it was a good idea uh but like if you think about who is in the rocks mentions like this

this reminds me of elon musk right that like the only person like if you if you're actually paying attention to your social media followers um like you're going to if you're the rock or elon musk you're gonna think that like this is what everybody believes that canceled culture and woke culture is like a major problem for this country um yeah yeah poor guy he's gotta he's gotta hear the cries of the canceled poor guy i go to bed every night with the the cries of the canceled echoing through my big fucking head yeah oh man and that's when i knew i got a message from god that i too need to throw my hat into egomania 2024 i'm also running for president alright and finally we have a new record

for a comic book selling for 6 million dollars to some anonymous rich asshole Action Comics number one featuring the first appearance of Superman just sold for 6 million dollars

this beats the past record which was the same uh the same issue which sold for 5.3 in 2022 uh but this one is like rated at an 8.5 i think which is like the highest like the highest conceivable quality for something that was printed in like the 1930s i think maybe next to trump's copy of mein kampf which is a better condition a reverse printing yeah well that one actually combines like it's a old printing but it also has the thing that we were talking about last week where like celebrities you know junk becomes famous because there is like shit on it from them because trump like jacked off all over his mind conf copy and so it's got you know that going forward as well

uh but this uh so a copy of action comics that was graded 0.5 so like i can't imagine what that looks like must be like they like found it in the bottom of a tackle box or something it's just like covered in like fish guts and uh you know tattered uh sold for 408 000 last september um so i you know this isn't that interesting to me i just like know that as valuable comic the superman action comics number one but i'd never really thought about what's inside like what's in the comic and right yeah you just think of the cover you're like yeah you just think of him holding up the uh car right right so the actual comic itself involves superman not like matching wits with

lex luther or you know battling a super villain but rather just like going over and beating the shit out of a domestic abuser um shit all right superman he just goes uh shows up at this house says hold it and a guy oh this guy's like a belt about to hit his wife yeah he has a he has a belt over his head he's about to hit his wife um and the guy says what do you want like not not uh commenting on the fact that this person is like wearing tights uh and just bursting through his door in a cape uh and this is the first time anyone's ever seen superman he's just really nonchalant about it uh his next line what do you want don't get tough as superman lifts him off his feet and throws him like into a wall

and tells him you're not fighting a woman now um so whoa tough is he also has this sick burn tough is putting it mildly the treatment you're going to get. So Superman was kind of slick with it right away. Don't get tough. Tough is putting it mildly, the treatment you're going to get. You're going to get sunny? Okay. So it's not just a Superman comic.

It's an anthology of a bunch of different comics. so it's not just a Superman comic. It's a anthology of like a bunch of different comics. So you're also paying $6 million for, uh, an early edition of sticky mitt Stimson, uh, which is a guy with a humongous ass, um,

who also happens to tiny head, humongous ass, uh, my type. Uh, no. Yeah. Everybody in this town is kind of everybody's kind of yeah people are weirdly proportioned um so he cut he's like behind a wall stealing fruit from a a grocer who has just enormous swollen forearms uh like just popeye forearms but like also like almost

more it looks like a baby like baby forearms oh yeah yeah no they're one it's like it has like the like sort of lines like when like toddler like where you just get that line on your wrist like babies yeah you got baby so chubby that you got the baby fat uh wrist line yeah it looked like you were in a fishing line bracelet yeah this guy's just looking at the sky saying airplane so uh a little step back to like when airplanes used to be cool or maybe it's a reference to the superman comic before maybe this is uh implying that this takes place in the same universe as Superman and, you know, just a town where everybody looks really looks like babies. And then the Sticky Mitt Stimson's mitts are not as sticky as they should be because he drops one of the pieces of fruit. And then the giant baby man chases after him and says, thief police.

So, you know, you're getting your money's worth with this um that's wild that that's in the six in the six million dollar comic you get it yeah yeah dickie mitt stimpson what a name yeah right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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