The Daily Zeitgeist - Teletubbies Rorschach Test On LSD, Psy Op Or MAGA? 10.25.22

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it is Tuesday, October 25th, 2022. What does that mean to me? I mean, there's a couple. Look, it's Chucky the Notorious Killer Doll Day and also National Greasy Food Day. So enjoy both. Is that in the day? Is that in the National Day?

Did they put the Notorious Killer Doll? Chucky, comma, the Notorious Killer Doll Day. Wow. Not a lot of confidence that that character has broken through into the zeitgeist. Also, it's the Sourest Day. I don't know what that even means. It into the zeitgeist also it's the sourest day i don't know what that even means it's the most sourest day of the year there you go i don't know i don't know what it means either yeah i don't know it's not really healthy it says wallow in your petulant mood take sulking to new lows i mean i think great advice yeah oh i see it was

richard again this is like a fun thing because this is like when nothing fucking mattered in 1977 richard ankley of ann arbor created this counterpoint holiday to honor a friend with a sour s-a-u-e-r last name and a birthday landing on this day wow good for you wow cool way to be friends not uh not not such great advice when we're all just like hanging on by a fingernail. To be like, hey, just get into the negativity. It's okay. Fuck it, huh? Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Drack O'Brien Dead. Because we're a week less than a week out from Halloween so I've been spent the weekend workshopping that one a little treehouse

of horror style aka and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray

Mr. Miles Gray aka I think I'm Kate Crotch Betty Cocker door opens indiana sunglasses on the nose hey kid tell me how to get to laser zone okay christy amaguchi look bmf okay love that inspired aka uh and yeah how do you get to this laser zone i don don't know. Just around the corner.

Mr. Ford. Hey, kid. Did he call you? Did he say, hey, kid, by the way? Sorry, I'm eating apples with peanut butter. Look, it was either he said, hey, kid, or how do I get to the laser zone, kid? Or this is me like adding that texture because I was talking to Harrison Ford. And in it, he would be referring referring I'm short round in this version because he's interacting with an Asian person so there's a lot

there are a lot of layers to I think how I came up with that I just feel like he says he opens every sentence like that is an opening or a punctuation to every sentence he says or should be when he's a kid anyways Miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third

seat by a hilarious and talented comedian podcaster and artist who hosted a classic podcast professor blast off those one of my first favorite podcasts brought me into the podcast world uh host the ongoing podcast space cave draw some truly hilarious comics his stand-up special animation cinematographical extravaganza big nothingness can be found at david huntsberger.com which was a smart place to put it because that's his name please welcome to the show the brilliant the talented david huntsberger yeah i want to do like a miles off my oh yeah some space you know space. You know what I mean? Let them know. Let them know you're in a big room.

Yeah. Nice to see you guys. Nice to be back. Good to see you, man. It's great to see you. You do look like you were in a... There's like a science lab slash shop class vibe

going on behind you. Like, truly. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of stuff happening back. You know, the pandemic. You said everyone was hanging on by a thread.

I feel like in the deep stages of quarantine, just needing to, like, keep my hands busy to do something, I just started relentlessly organizing. And I made all this crap behind me just out of free stuff. It was just stuff that was left on the curb. And I'm like, oh, I can use that. And it ended up being, it looks a little maniacal, but it's all very organized, which is nice. Yeah, very organized. There's a Ferrari behind him, you guys. He built a Ferrari out of spare parts.

He's made a Ferrari out of old Ray-Bans. What's new, man? What's going on with you? You know, I finished the wall behind me organization is uh coming to a close i have to get back to normal life i'm assessing the world around us all the time like everyone is some people it never slowed down it never changed other people are reacting like they got to catch up so a lot of stop signs being run through a lot of frantic, hurried behavior that's just baffling to watch. And I'm just sort of reintegrating and re immersing myself in it. And you guys did one of these, all these sketches, like when we were kind of at the end of, uh, everyone's still in their homes, everyone had audio games. So I started

reaching out to friends and just writing little sketches and just a way to like, I was really sick of let's schedule a Zoom and hang out. I started to really hate those. But, you know, reaching out to someone and saying, do you want to do a sketch for like 15 minutes and just goof around and really not even catch up? Just start up the Zoom. They go, how's this sound? That's good. Then we do the script. I'm like, how's life?

Good. Oh, yeah, good as well. And then part company. And then maybe afterward they'd message oh remind me next time i hope i just i moved i have a child like okay yeah we'll talk about that next time right but anyway i did all these sketches and then i've just been like editing them and gonna put them out into the world but that's what i've been up to, really. Nice, man. That sounds like a very productive way to channel the pandemic and post-pandemic or still mid-pandemic anxiety. I think so. And I think it was like the opposite of maybe we get this through behind the scenes things of like how shows are made where you see like production offices and there's like dry erase boards or post-it notes everywhere.

And people are like planning, how are we going to make this thing? And then they start, and then they sit down and you have to open up some sort of software and like, okay, interior, apartment, day. Then you, then you, like after you've planned it all out,

then you have to write it. I just kind of started writing all this stuff and just checking in with my friends just to say hi to everybody. And then after I had all these like dozens of sketches like what am i gonna do with that so some of the sort of the opposite it came from like a good place and then i had to be like oh yeah what would you what would you what would a normal person do here with all of this yeah yeah we were in one of the sketches it was was a blast. But yeah, no punctuation. You didn't even have character names.

It was just a block, a solid block of text. And you kind of had to work it out for yourself. You're the full underscore. I kept having to remind you. Just like 50 underscores. That's you. That's your character. I don't know the letters.

I don't know the keys on a keyboard. I also feel like you're right, that it's affected the way people are driving. I feel like I hear, you know, an average of eight peel outs, like in my neighborhood, like on a regular basis, like in the middle of the day at a time that really nobody, I think nobody's drag racing. Maybe I'm not up on the drag racing scene, but it feels like a Sunday morning at 1030 might not be the ideal time, but people are peeling out. People are driving hard. Yeah.

Yeah, it is weird to watch. I don't know if it's good to be kind of aware of what paradigm you're in or to just do it, like just to be balls to the wall, like cutting through traffic, going to work, chugging coffee, going to do your hobbies and your activities, meeting up with friends, laughing, just living life so fast if you're outside of that watching it you're like what changed what is no one seems to be handling this

well right yeah that is a good description of how i live my life so i get it yeah you know just rushing out you know weekends are for the boys, as Miles and I always talk about. Yeah, man. Playing some tackle football without pads in the park. Could you imagine, dude? Crushing bruise. Oh, my God. Discuss the idea of two-hand touch or flags.

Yeah. No. Yeah. Fucking just separates your shoulder in a public park. Only one flag we respect hell yeah all right well we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we are talking about today we're gonna talk about that trump speech that was interrupted by the the national anthem for some reason and just the the

weird vibes coming off of that whole scene we're going to talk about joe biden being an elderly an elderly gentleman and and questions about that we're going to talk about the return of teletubbies which i feel like a you know this is where our age my age really comes in handy miles do you remember the first run of teletubbies when people when like teletubbies controversies were a thing with jerry falwell right yeah yeah i mean i see i was that perfect age where i was too old to watch teletubbies but just aware enough to be like yeah i think jerry falwell said they're gay. Right. And I think that, and then I was like, whatever, 12. And I'm like, moving on with my weird life.

Yeah. And we might even get to Halloween costumes, all of that, plenty more. But first, Dave, we'd like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Probably belt sanders. Some sort of tool or item. probably belt sanders, some sort of tool or item. A lot of looking up the value of what those,

any given time. Got really into nickel cadmium batteries. They are rascals. They die. And so everyone moved into like lithium ion, but then there's like these middle space of various other like metal based batteries. The nickel cadmiums, you can recharge and bring it

back to life so some tutorials on how to do that type of thing and i think going kind of insane just uh youtube has been so great because you can learn anything but also you know everyone talks about like the wormholes you can go down, you really can find yourself into like, oh, wow, vinegar can really do a lot of stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's magical. It's like they sell it over the counter, this gentle acid, and then you can just clean anything you want with it.

It's amazing. I like the sound. Gentle acid. Yeah, it's so gentle. Like, you can have this. You don't have to go to a special cabinet. You can use this regular average human. It's acid. Put it on your hands. Yeah, get it on your hands a little bit. It's like you can have this. You don't have to go to a special cabinet. You can use this regular average human. It's acid.

Yeah. Get on your hands a little bit. It's okay. Just rinse it off somewhat quickly. It's gentle. It's gentle acid. Yeah. I definitely learned the,

to appreciate vinegar and many other things is like in the pandemic, I was like going through like old electronics and I'm like, Oh, I knew I had a wireless mouse. And then like the battery had fucking exploded on the inside and like, oh, shit. So then learning how to clean that up, get the batteries working again, but then realize it had been crushed too many times with the optics work. Look, it's a process, but I definitely I do know the magic of weird products in your house and taking shit apart. I'm trying to put it back together.

What is what's something you think is overrated it all of this is going to tie together because i think ikea and amazon go kind of hand in hand easy access to things you need consumerism but if you walk down really any neighbor maybe this is just southern california local to maybe it's just specific to a neighborhood but i feel like throughout the city you drive along any street you'll see old broken ikea furniture that can't be refurbished in any way it's just it's just particle board it's just trash the moment it breaks so like old actual wooden furniture you can always fix up and and then amazon boxes everywhere beyond just everything being manufactured in china and all the shipping and everything and i think we buy into when a

billionaire says something like and they must know they're probably right when they'll say like we're actually a net positive for the environment because what we do and looking forward people like yeah it's pretty it's actually pretty good for the environment he said this guy made several hundred billion dollars. He knows what he's talking about. Yeah. But I think the part they leave out is that they deliver trash, not just what's in the box, but people take the box and they go, I got my stuff from Amazon. And they just set it next to their recycling bin.

All the plastic blows everywhere. And then there's just Amazon crap everywhere. And most of the streets now are filled with old broken ikea furniture and amazon packaging supplies so they're both very overrated and now i've become very snobby if i go to someone's house like oh it's so easy we just ordered this from amazon i'm like god i just see i hate it did you fucking really need a scent sickles in fucking 36 hours did you can fucking go to the store or just fucking get it regular shipped or something there there are times i've had to really kill my inner prime lover where like now it's purely like if i've at the you know at the last gasp i'm like oh fuck

like i need this thing i don't have time to get it fine but most part i've learned to do the thing if i like a thing go to the manufacturer's website because they're probably gonna have like hey dude buy it from us and we'll give you 15 off i'll bring it there myself please and do that whole thing and just because you know it really is like we i've had to like really pump the brakes on my expectation for shit to arrive instantly. It's really fucked up. And like you realize how impatient it sort of it just like permeates through your life when you don't have when certain things just aren't. You don't just chalk up to. Yeah, I ordered that.

It'll come when it comes or, you know, I'll have to go to X, Y and z to go get it when i have time versus now like where the can i get it fucking now whatever whatever it just i don't know it makes me kind of more of a dick especially when things don't arrive you're like it's supposed to come on thursday before three yeah like fuck that like just fucking like not everything is an emergency i get when things are but not everything is despite the speed at which we get our goods. Yeah. What's something you think is underrated? Well, at the top of this pyramid, Ed Begley Jr. Everyone made fun of him for years. He was way out of the curve. Climate change. Everyone just made him like a punchline because his house was made out of old egg cartons or something.

Or milk cartons. But he, I mean, he was repurposing things, you know, getting things, you can get the nicest thing made in 1965 through 95 at most like garage sales from someone that's like, oh, this belonged to my parent and I don't need it. You desperately need this thing. Here's the best one you could get. It's still in such good shape. And most people are like, oh, it's gross. A used thing. I'll get this piece of crap from Ikea that'll last me at least two years, probably two years. That was a guarantee for two years. Then it'll break and it's useless. I wouldn't buy this one for a dollar here that will last for another 100 years so i think that just recycling refurbishing recycling you could make a case that everything that you would ever need has been made and continues to

exist and it's just sifting through people's garages currently and we're but we have like planned obsolescence so we're constant we're consumers it's capitalism we have to keep buying shit so everything is made to break almost instantly and people are consistently buying into that so i'm i think that's very underrated to just appreciate and like miles was saying take the time to maybe scrub something up with some vinegar clean it you're like oh this is nice i brought it back to life there you go yeah i'm just looking at the ed bagley jr environmental activism subhead of his wikipedia and he had the an electric vehicle in 1970 which was a taylor dunn golf cart leg vehicle and yeah everybody was just like yeah what an asshole you know like from then until pretty like 10 oh you don't eat meat huh try saying that in the 70s when he became a vegan

too right and most of his contemporaries i would guess are the people that get lumped into that category of boomers where they are let's just dig all the things out of the earth let's keep using fossil fuels let's just burn through it they get that let's just dig all the things out of the earth. Let's keep using fossil fuels. Let's just burn through it. They get that. That's like their rep. He was going against them. He was going to dinners with people his age and be like, I showed up in my electric car.

And remember, guys, we used to do the drum circle. They all used to be hippies together. And then some of them are like, oh, yeah, it turns out this. Remember when I was selling the drums at some of the shows? Well, that took off. Now we're sourcing our material from Indonesia. They just get kids to dig it. It's great.

And then Ed Begley is like, I think I'm going to stay being a hippie. And he got laughed at for it, which is a shame. Yeah, I grew up in the valley, too, Ed Begley. I remember when I was working on a ballot proposition for clean energy, I got in and not into a debate with him. Ed Begley. comes up and i'm like oh ed big because everybody knows you're like you're the fucking renewable energy guy i'm like please sign this and he goes no he's like i'm actually gonna vote no on that and i said why and he's like because the sierra club's against it and i said and i was like bro the sierra club they basically got bought by like the utilities companies to like just side on this for like a very narrow reason that it could interrupt certain spaces but like this is actually a bill to like help get more renewable energy. And he goes, I didn't really think about that.

He goes, wow. He's like, can you give me some more like material? And he like sincerely engaged with me and then like walked off and I was like, damn Ed Begley. Okay. Thank you for that. Like when I think most of the time people would be like, I already know about this. Thank you.

I don't have anything else to learn. But he, I think because I was talking the shit that he likes renewables that he was like hold on i have a minute i have a minute right like that yeah and it's you know if you if you if you want to look good in 20 years be like be on the more progressive side of things because that that seems to always come come back around for whatever reason yeah there's even like a simpsons episode that i remember this joke really well as being like pretty foundational to how i viewed environmentalists when i was a kid because i was a big polluter when i was a kid i was drill drill drill you hated captain planet no but there's a Simpsons episode I remember where he plays

himself and he talks about using a go-kart that is powered by his own sense of self-satisfaction oh yeah yeah great like iconic joke and like great sense of humor about himself but I was also like yeah fuck that guy

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So I can't believe he was willing to show his face after after that 100% man 100% he's out here just saying what he's got to I mean like this is what's interesting so the reason we bring up this rally is like we know his penchant for just like screaming at the top of his lungs no matter how like self-incriminating it might be and like i feel like all of his lawyers are just always like slapping their hand like hands on their foreheads like what the fuck is this guy saying out loud and recently like sorry let me just catch my breath because i was running around the corner recently uh he was he was going like he was going after e.g and car, one of the women who accused him of rape on Truth Social. And previously she was bringing like a defamation suit against him.

But there was this like logic like, well, he was in the he was a president. So it's during his executive privilege. It's just he was doing these as the president of the United States, not as a private citizen. He visited that again and denied all the allegations and added to like his denial on truth social. And everyone's like, oh, well, now you may have brought back more legal trouble because now you've just shot off at the mouth as a loser ass regular citizen. And again, people are like, oh, wow, that's probably not good for his legal troubles. But again, we don't know what consequences this man will ever see. So again, setting the table, people are already concerned about like

what he's saying when he says so. We have this rally and one where he obviously wants to yell at the top of his lungs about how innocent he is and how, you know, the whole January 6th thing is a hoax, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And we know about his penchant for Trump jazz, as we know, the whole January 6th thing is a hoax, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And we know about his penchant for Trump jazz, as we know, where he goes completely off script and says whatever the fuck he wants. So he gets to this moment during the rally where he's trying to transition subjects like a, you know, like a stand up being like, hmm, what else? What else? Oh, yeah. January 6th. I got to tell you. Oh, what else? Oh, yeah. January 6th. I got to tell you. And well, as he's about to go off on some January 6th stuff, we just hear like a spontaneous rendition of the national anthem begin. I'll play this for you because I'm just curious what everyone's take is on what exactly is happening here.

Time he talks and cries. These are the people we have. These are the people we have. But remember this. January 6th, this committee, the two things they didn't talk about, two things, was that the people went down there and you could have had over a million people. So you speak and then you just like gesture to the people.

Then you just ask National Anthem about that. And there's people behind him being like yo what the wait the anthem now so they go through the whole anthem they're protesting what's taking place so he just goes on he kind of gets thrown off and he's like yeah that's great they're just protesting they stood up he's like when they first stood up i thought they were protesting well yeah they're protesting they're protesting what's going on in this country which is really a shame folks really ashamed really ashamed you know keeping it vague so that's i'm like what he immediately goes quiet like an obedient dog or something where he knows like oh

national anthem get space let that cook i will be mr america right now and many people were wondering like what the fuck was that about like are they trying to use like a heavy hand to like link their sense of patriotism to january 6th type behavior by being like january 6th call in response now sing the national anthem or are they using like the one tool that they think they have to shut him up, to throw him off without being like, yo, shut the fuck up. That was the CIA op. Yeah. It's like just a weird sigh up where it's like just this. They're like, dude, the one fucking thing that will get him to shut up is if he hears a national anthem and he'll back away.

Like that's where I'm most people are like, what? Just in general, what the fuck happened? What just in general, what the fuck happened? I mean, we have seen that his campaign is more and more willing to use impromptu, irregular music accompaniments when he's giving a speech. So maybe like it does feel like it was somewhat coordinated, like oddly so, and not well coordinated because it feels like he's not really expecting it or was expecting it at a different cue, but it may, maybe like he was like, and then I'll start talking January 6th and then you'll go into the rendition.

But because he doesn't like speak on any prompter or script, it may, maybe it just like kind of happened in a weird way, but it definitely felt, definitely felt engineered to an end. Right. Yeah, it was because on I think like Newsmax or one of the fucking weird quote unquote news networks after the rally, they spoke to this guy who was who was like, you know, being charged with January 6th shit. He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was i was talking to the president's team about that this is him basically talking about how this was somewhat i guess this was coordinated hearing that you led this effort with donald trump tonight to sing the star spangled banner talk

about yeah we have been pushing uh actually i came up with this idea on wednesday and i started pushing kind of late in the game here asking do we started through social media pushes we reached into the president's camp everywhere we could i'm a j6 defendant myself so i've reached into the camp everywhere we could just saying look just singing solidarity with these guys so first of all i love that he's like you know i'm a january 6th defendant myself j6 yeah okay okay sir baby yeah uh just so you know this guy he the shit he's been accused of is like he was banging shots like on nancy pelosi's office desk or whatever during their like alcohol whiskey yeah like drinking alcohol like just pulling up with with the bottles and shit

and being real loud on social media about it but again it's just it's so hard to know what's going on with this group of people because everyone is so zombie brained over preserving like racial hegemony it's hard to know what exact level of depravity they're engaging in yeah it's it's very strange very like the entire like his rallies have evolved into a, in a weird culty direction. This almost feels like a, a callback to like, at least, at least the song they were singing was not some weird, like coded Trump, Trump is our Lord, you know, like some version, at least they didn't all stand in unison, like say a version of the Our Father that had like Trump sub sub-danners.

But it's all very weird and terrifying. Yeah. But, yeah, so the rallies roll on. And, again, we will see what comes of his legal troubles. But as it stands, this man's still just out here running around doing his thing. And if the Republicans win the House, as they're expected to in the midterms, then the January 6th committee is immediately disbanded, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's why they're that's why they've wrapped it up before. And they're like, all right, you've just in case, you know, just in case our plan about not really connecting to people's vital economic issues as a midterm strategy doesn't work, at least we wrap the J6 committee up early. Yeah. And then on the other side of the coming presidential ticket, because I think we're all staring down the barrel of a biden trump rematch so what what's happening in the in the world oh joe biden i know there was comments about like him saying him being like open to other people running kind of it's and acknowledging how old he is yeah so i mean we first have to acknowledge that joe byron will be turning 80 in a month he will be 80 okay

in one month so it's fair to say people have their concerns about another presidential run i mean many democrats have been talking about this since like the beginning of the year like uh yeah i mean like if he wants to but like you know other people might want a shot at that with like you know better ideas anyway what do i know but joe knows this as well and like in this recent interview on or like on this podcast he was talking about like you know if people don't if they're not confident they can vote in someone else the host jonathan capehart his aunt gloria would come on as a show and he's like as a guest on the show. And she would ask, you know, what would you say to my aunt Gloria if she's like, you know, she's also getting older and realizes her own limitations. What if she wasn't you know, what if she had her question marks about like what that looks like to run again? And he said, quote, I think Aunt Gloria should take a real hard look.

And if she concludes that I'm missing a beat, then she should support some other Democrat if they decide to run. And then when asked if Dr. Jill was also supporting another run, he took a very long pause and was like, yeah, you know, like, you know,

she knows the work we're doing is like important. So it's like, I get that you want to, but it's also sounds like you're like, and I'm also willing to maybe let somebody tell me to fucking sit down right the i mean on one hand it's progress he's no longer challenging people to push up contests when they challenge his vitality right right right he's he's matured in that sense yeah he's he's matured which is good at 80 he's he's settling

into adulthood that's just also like the fact that he couldn't give like a straightforward like yeah man she's psyched she thinks we're doing a great job and thinks i'm the man for the job is they are there are they're gonna be like tom brady giselle vibes to this, like his decision to run it back where they're like, Jill's pissed, y'all. She did not want to see this. I'm telling you, I'm the goat, Jill. Get me back out there. I'm undefeated. No, you're not, Joe.

You're not undefeated. But I don't know. I mean, like it. We really are like, you know, like a few people have said it's time for a generational shift here in the leadership because we have people approaching their eighties now fully in the driver's seat figuratively. And in a way it feels literally like, I feel like I'm on a road trip with like my grandpa. Who's like, I don't need no app. I could use paper maps. Why don't you shut up back there?

I know how to get across town. like that kind of energy was like there's so much easier shit to make this easier for you i know you're tired old man let me drive why don't you let us drive now okay we figured it out how did in in in line with that a little bit how do you feel about that? And this to me is more of just a thought experiment, but I'm curious how everyone feels about this. Is this a bit of an olive branch? Is this a meeting in the middle? Is this insanity? I could make, I guess, a defense or I would say that I could, I could, yeah, I could defend or make a case for that if Liz Cheney is running and is a viable candidate, I would vote for her. I think 46 in a row.

Let's get one woman. Even if she, even if there's proof she had like snuck into someone's house and slit their throat, I'm like, still, let's try it. The guys have been terrible.

We've had the worst man imaginable. Let's get a woman. She showed some courage. She stood up against her party and like called out what was the right thing to do i think it would make people bristle like how could you her dad's a war criminal and this and this and this and her but is that a middle ground thing we're like i gotta say she's not 85 years old she's younger i don't know there's something there nah she's i mean she's she she says the right thing at the right time, because like on the way to being like, you know what? I'm I got to I got to draw a line somewhere like she was fully back in all this other really cruel shit that Trump was going for.

So I don't know. I mean, like, that's what's so fucking that's what's so fucked up about the situation is like, I don't know, maybe Liz. Is that like a middle ground? It's so dark. is that like a middle ground maybe rather than like meanwhile you have other people like like desantis who's now like and now i have my lgbtq censoring committee i've put together with the force of 1000 angry mothers like it's and he's like the good guy he's the good option yeah yeah i don't know and i think that's what is really frightening and i think that's what shows that it's like well what if like the elderly leaders of the country got out of the way ones who weren't like shocked at the idea of like forgiving student debt or like stimulus checks that were like more than a 1400 because it'll spoil people like, that's the completely wrong mindset to have.

Like, and it's interesting too. I was having a conversation with somebody who was talking about their grandchild who is like Gen Z kid. And, you know, they grew up like they were a boomer. They're like, I remember I was able to, you know, I had a job at 18 and I had my own apartment and I'm just worried about him.

He's still living at home and this, that, and the other. And I'm like, you shouldn't be worrying about him in the sense that you think he's existing in the same time period as you are. And you think, oh, he's lazy. What you need to do is actually extend your empathy towards like our generation and younger here that were fed a steady diet of go to college.

You'll enter the middle class, go to college. You get this. Everything just need a good job and everything will be available to you. And then come the time for us to sort of reap those benefits or those rewards or reap what we've sown from taking on student debt, et cetera. There's no economy. There's no there's no equitable pay. There's no affordable housing.

And that's the environment. It's no affordable housing and that's the environment it's not so much that it's like ah fuck it i'm giving up it's just that we're in completely different worlds and also like most people are completely confused and shell-shocked from the idea like i thought it was gonna work this other way and having to then have a reconciliation with that but i was reading a yeah i was reading a thing about the situation in Iran, um, from a friend of mine posted a thing that his friend was a little closer to the situation had written about it. And that was the sentiment is that when people operate from a place of hopelessness, they're more likely to, to risk it a little more. And as if you get rid of the middle-class, if you put kids in a situation where not only is there no opportunity for you to like go into the workforce and subsist on your own,

you're, and then that the people that house you are making you feel bad about it, even though they were complicit in putting you in that situation. Yeah. You might like that, that is that what it's going to take for people to become active and engaged and like, yeah,

I'll get out there and disrupt the system. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's, I'll get out there and disrupt the system. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's I also don't think I think if Liz Cheney ran, there would be no energy for that. Like, it would be less energy than there is for Joe Biden, because I think like the reason we're seeing Trump and the like people, people have given up on the system as currently constituted and she's like very much in the middle there of like the you know she's a left-leaning republican by today's standards which just means like she's a you know a neocon like she's the type of person who put us in the Iraq war and, you know, cost millions of people their lives. And, like, I think people, what we're seeing is people,

like, waking up to that fact. And there's, because we don't have a mainstream media or political apparatus to give voice to that, and we don't have a system that can provide a candidate that is outside of the system as currently constituted on the left. All we have is a candidate who's outside the system as it's currently constituted on the right, and then a bunch of different options that are within the system.

And so I think anything you do that is like, well, we're going to break down walls by like uniting the establishment Republican and Democrat Party, I think is going to ultimately fail because I think like the message that people are trying to send that just isn't being received by either of the I guess it's being received by the Republican Party in some ways, but isn't being received by the mainstream media or the mainstream Democratic Party is that like your your solution can't be more of the same. to work against these institutions that have got us here, that make it so that our lives are untenable, that we no longer have bodily autonomy. Those are the things. So, yeah, I think Liz Cheney as Democratic candidate narrative makes sense within that establishment media framework, and we're going to see it more and more, I think it's probably missing the point is my kind of read on the situation.

Perhaps this is optimistic, but I've kind of like pulled away a little bit from politics. And so I made a decision that like, if Trump was off of Twitter and out of the office and not doing daily press conferences talking about putting bleach under his skin, I would consider that like a world that I got to just enjoy it. Unless someone knocks on my door and like punches me in the face, I'm going to get out there and like try to be positive about, hey, at least that's not happening. At least that's gone. Yeah. Yeah. And and I remember when you're a kid, it's adults that come over and say, can you believe all this shit about so-and-so and whoever the president is at that time? And you're a kid and you're like, I'm trying to make a fort.

I don't care about that. Right. But money is the thing that, like, draws you into politics. You know, money is the thing, like, essentially to me politics is like, can I be here? Can I make money? And then everyone has their views on, like, deciding that. I'm like deciding that. Right.

And when you're a kid, maybe this hopelessness of, you know, you are at home, you get forced into the workplace a little earlier, maybe like we don't have child labor, but you can have a side hustle. You can have a brand, you can have something online, you have a thriving TikTok. And then you build that brand. We pre-purpose things. We find Ikea furniture on the side of the road. We turn it into this and I, dah, dah, dah, dah. And you're doing okay.

And then you feel confident like, oh, someone is my voice. Maybe I can get energized. But the big brands, the people that have been influencing politics for generations, like Coca-Cola and Walmart show up and go, that's adorable. You make a million dollars a month. That's adorable. You have no idea what we do to influence the world you live in and why we keep scraping just a little bit more for ourselves and a little bit less for the middle class. So then that group, maybe those kids, like they are the ones with this gigantic audience. Andrew Yang or the party that he's putting together and understand like automation and how it's influencing socialism and, like, the market and stuff like the the that

is going to change things but yeah it just feels like the establishment is going is going to be working extra super duper hard to try and influence them away from that and try and basically replicate what we saw them do with ed begley j Jr.'s generation where they were like, yeah, yeah. So that all that stuff was silly, right? Anyways, here's how you make real money and how you become a serious adult. And like somehow just like selling out to the values and like belief in the market economy and like the idea that the market can solve everything that just got enmeshed with our idea of like what an adult is for a long a long time and i think there's younger generations that are that they don't buy into that and so maybe we can see

some change but i do worry that it'll have to get worse worse even worse than it already is yeah i mean people I don't know. I mean, it's like through your own suffering, people tend to learn lessons. And I think that's the problem is that right now, like if you, you're feeling the pain of inequality, that you're, if you do a very cursory search to try and figure out why your situation is what it is, you probably are going to arrive at some version, which is like, well, sorry, I have work going on at the house. So if it sounds like people are mining through the walls, it's because they are. But just like, you know, you'll either hear some version of, hey, everything's great. We're working towards it day by day. And we're going to figure that stuff out. Just sit tight and we're going to be all right. And another one is,

we're gonna figure that stuff out just sit tight and we're gonna be all right and another one is hey man maybe we need to be fucking people up more so like things will be better and maybe we should learn like like lean into your anger to figure out a way to solve this rather than something that's like empathetic and like to your point dave like there's clearly like we're at a moment where a lot of people like well this shit doesn't work that's for sure like i don't need to read more or study more to know fuck whatever they're doing over there because i don't see shit changing and that's fucking it doesn't work for me and i think yeah it's hard to figure out how you're going to like which way people are going to fall after that realization clearly there's one version which is like the extremist right version, which is like, I don't know, well, maybe preserving racial hegemony and the status quo is

the way that we can just stop things from getting worse. We'll just keep it at shitty, like peak shittiness now and maintain that. And others are like, well, you know, there's a lot of stuff we could do. It's just pretty, it's just kind of outside the realm of anything we've imagined as a country before, which is like being humane to people and rich people making less money. One thing I do think we can all agree on is there's definitely money to be made with this younger generation. I'm in the process of choreographing a smooth transition from this career to being the social media and just career media manager for my six-year-old and four-year-old. That's kind of my five-year plan. So as long as I'm making the Benjamins, you know what I'm saying.

You get it. Got to get into this woke baby content. I got these little white kids, they're reading Friends, Fanon, and Bell Hooks on Instagram Live. they're doing numbers man these people can't get enough of woke babies woke baby great name for a talent management firm i mean we're so close justin i'm gonna trademark it after this episode i mean if idiocracy is already that becomes so real now i mean we're not far off from like a channel called Woke Baby TV or something. All right, let's take a quick break.

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of ever giving a shit about this sort of thing right but it was this big media like the place it did cross my radar was a media panic about whether it was like instituting evil satanic or you know queer ideology into babies like this is a show so i find like as part of your baby's mind yeah this is this is a show that like the uh this is a our writer jam put this story together you know did a lot of awesome research and i i watched teletubbies footage for the first time and it is very strange have you guys have you guys watched any of this footage or yeah when it came out i remember being just because i was like like fine what is it and i remember being like oh this is like for babies because like they're not even using words yeah i mean like this is like all vibes yeah it's all

just rolling hills a son that has a baby's face inside of it and so that that's what it was originally so one controversy with a new one we'll just get into that because this is probably the news hook you'll see is that the redesign you know the same way that like Star Wars fans will like don't want anything changed. They just want you to release the same movie again. I guess this Teletubbies update. People are mad because instead of being inside a cartoon sun, the baby's head is just floating out in space, like out in the sky. And then their sunbeams behind the baby's head. And people are like that's

weird that's on the other hand the original the original design also extremely strange so i'm not i'm not sure i can like fully understand any complaints about actual criticism where people look it's not in a sun it's not an irradiating sun beam yeah that that doesn't surprise me at all but yeah that that is apparently a complaint that some people have had what they just dropped the first trailer last week so we'll see if this has any what do you call like the ultra fans like the ultras for teletubbies is there like a group of them yeah tubos tubbers yeah tellies tubies tubberinos yeah but there's like a crew of them? Yeah, tubos, tubbers, tallies, tubies, tubberinos. Yeah, but there's like a People article that was like,

Reboot looks mostly unchanged in design, but some fans have been left raging at one major difference, and it's just that the baby's head. One fan, me. Some fans, me, and muttering under my breath when I first saw it. But it is such a strange universe they've created. And it seems very psychedelic, which kind of makes sense because a lot of the understanding or at least theories on what psychedelics do for people's minds is they like remove all the doors or like you know different filters we've built up over life just to like be able to get through day-to-day life so you know

be able to focus on something boring and psychedelics like allow you to peel those back so you're just at a place where there's like none of these filters and everything's coming in kind of unfiltered. And that would seem to be like how a baby would perceive the world. And when you spend time with babies, you do also have that thought. You're like, oh, man, they seem like they're tripping with the stuff that they're interested in. Like they're just like the plants are growing. The grass is moving. How do my bones move me is the trippiest question one of my kids asked me that I can remember.

But that's just like par for the course. They're constantly saying shit where you're like, what the fuck are you talking about? What the fuck are you talking about? But so I think just generally it makes people uncomfortable because there is like a logic there that resonates with their inner child or their inner baby. I guess inner baby is completely different from inner child. And that's like the thing that Teletubbies does that other media for children doesn't do is it, it actually seems to create a world specifically for babies using baby logic. Actually, this, this story made me like go and Google just have,

have people watched Teletubbies while tripping and like, what was their experience like? And I will say, I can't recommend it for, for everyone based on the, like one person who's like diehard was like, love watching the Teletubbies when tripping. This is a direct quote from a mushroom enthusiast forum.

I taped them in the morning to see what it would be like to watch them while on shrooms and it was the coolest. They are cute and everything in the show is super colorful can't watch them without laughing my ass off it'll bring the child out in you i guarantee it but then like some of the responses to this were like this is do not listen to this person like i when i watched it i saw like demons in the sun baby i swear it like the sun baby as it's about to dissolve into sunlight turns into a demon for first split second this person was like big tip if someone's having a bad trip turn on the lights put on a teletubby tape and set the person who is sad mad scared whatever

in front of the tv and give them a blanket or a pillow i don't think that's good advice necessarily you could you could try it but, but they might attack your television. I like that we're finally doing real research into psilocybin and baby vibes as a way to heal people. But I also like the idea of Teletubbies as this Rorschach test of, dude, watch it. And you're either going to be like, this is fucking crazy. I can't handle it. Or you're like, oh, this is like some dumb ass baby shit. But I get it.

Like, cause you're like, I'm baby. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. But I mean, like just random controversies are pretty par for the course. Like we said, there's backlash from parents who thought the show was dangerous nonsense. Others pointed out it was dumbing down. The simplicity was damaging. Well, education experts said the simplicity was exactly the point.

There's constant repetition. Some people were like, the plots are just crap. There's no sense of place. The camera placement doesn't make any sense. It like yeah i don't like the fucking characters are called like inky winky and like poppy lulu like right what the and you're like i don't know i mean the mise-en-scene like huh come on and then they try and get real for one episode, like the one where they had a bear come into Teletubby land. And it became it was like outlawed in various countries, censored by the BBC because it was too scary. I watched like five minutes of it.

It's truly it's actually not as creepy as like a lot of the commentary makes it seem like the bear i i think i might have seen the one that was like post some editorial changes but the bear just like talks with a silly like i'm a bear and i'm here to eat whatever i want and you know it still has the sunshiny vibes there is a voice that repeatedly tells them to like run and hide from the bear which is dark here i think we're gonna play a little segment um there's the bear is this like two-dimensional cardboard yeah i'm the bear i'm the bear with brown fuzzy hair scary okay jack we gotta, we gotta knock this shit off. It's fucking crazy.

I like that it's posted by NASCAR fan 2048. Yeah, that's who's posted this YouTube video. I caught up some Teletubby stuff from time to time. It says this is custom made. So maybe this isn't like pure Teletubby. He's like, look, man, I'm in a NASCAR in freedom and freedom also extends to the media, where I will upload

the unedited Lion and Bear Teletubbies episode. The red band trailer. So, this is not very... Um, okay. I'm looking over there. Because it has, like, a...

I'm still feeling... That's the noise that the bear makes okay so the lion is chasing the bear so they're children are learning about the killer be killed world of yeah hard to know where they um i don't know okay fine i remember the thing with jerry fallow was because the one was purple and had the triangle like thing on their head they're like you see right i study i study gay semiotics i know about this stuff right and that was the big that was the big thing that there's a character i think it's tinky winky who wears a tutu and carries a purse and is a boy and or is i guess like that these are gendered gender fluid and cubbies because it was the 90s instead of

being like that's there's nothing wrong with that they were like what you're wrong it's a bag yeah it's a bag who gives it holds back it holds back so i don't know like i can just i can see this being a a thing for the right to come back with when they're already you know responding to like i i think when we see a cultural reboot that was like something that was popular in the 90s and then it comes back in basically the same form in our modern world like we saw this recently with hocus pocus where a mom was like and there was a witch on my tv and like that is satanic and it's like oh we've moved we've moved backwards this is this is like we're we're regressing culturally so this is just another one where i would be on the lookout for another example of the right finding a way to freak out about this i think it really is like in this way it it does

say something about your subconscious where if you're sat in front of a piece of media that doesn't have like an overt structure or narrative that you begin to fill the gaps with the weirdest shit right really we're going with oh no i know what they're trying to tell a baby through this thing now is just really I don't know telling of whether like how how how like much our intellects have just gone in the gutter where people don't even know how to just sit in that and be

like huh I don't know what that was okay fine or be like I hate when it's quiet I don't like to be with my thoughts so a TV show which is the equivalent of being with my thoughts is not the kind of place i want to be therefore i can project all this other weird nonsense into it yeah hard to know hard to know yeah i mean it's definitely weird but so are the minds of babies and like all programming directed at babies is like the blues crew or blues clues is that the one where they just like turn to the camera and they're like what do you think and then sit there and

wait for you to answer like that's very strange that is an uncanny experience that like would be just as easy to be you know to feel demonstrating, you know, that they are autonomous slaves to the Illuminati because they're just, there's long periods of silence that make me feel uncomfortable. So it's, I think into this culture that we find ourselves dealing with, there's going to be overreactions from a right that is going further and further, just spinning further and further away from the planet and any sort of gravitational force of reality. And this feels like just pay dirt for them. So it'll be interesting to see. My familiarity with content, especially produced material on television,

is that it has to go through a lot of yeses. And then even beyond pitching it to a room, you might have a writer's room. If something is birthed out of cable access. Yeah. I mean, my friends have these weird costumes. We got them when we were traveling abroad and we started filming ourselves just making baby sounds. And someone picked that up. Oh, that was the beginning of Teletubbies.

That would make sense. As opposed to like someone going into a room, opening a briefcase and like setting out. So here's what I'm thinking. People just sitting there like I'm trying to follow you. I appreciate you pitching to us, but go through it again. So I wear this suit. My friend wears this one. We make these sounds.

It's like a star child baby thing. We've studied babies. Who says yes on that? Are they just like, yeah, I mean, that's our network. We just try anything go for someone in europe that is definitely where that happens not in the united states but i think people that have like extreme dogmas are like no this was yeah like the illuminati yeah purposefully putting together all these ingredients it's like yeah right when the

aquabats fell apart as a ska band they knew they that was a setup move for Yo Gabba Gabba. Like what? Just the sky wave crested and then they found themselves in a good position. But I was curious if like I was going to be able to find somebody who like tripped and watched Teletubbies with like baby mindset. like tripped and watched Teletubbies with like baby mindset. And they were like, yeah, it's actually just like very straightforward. And it feels like you're just watching a PowerPoint presentation. This all makes total sense. If you are in a baby's mind, it's like very clear. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And how would you know how you would be inside of a baby's mind? Oh, I was on a significant amount of LSD. Oh, okay.

It wasn't through anything satanic. Success has such a strange affect on people. Years later at a lunch, you know, with that, just I've made it kind of, well, it's cute you think that, but when I was making tubbies. See, the thing about a pitch, the thing about a great pitch, and I learned this on tubbies. Right. There's someone that had that, like, stacks of money from Teletubbies.

Such a dick. Calling Tinky Winky wink because like they have to come up with a nickname that makes it clear. Oh, my friend Tony played the first year and what a diva couldn't get him in the costume. And finally threw money in, throw money in every problem.

That's a solid story about to tell. I go on all day. That's right. solve it. That's the story I tell. I go out all day. That's right. Oh, shit. Well, David Hunsberger, as always, truly a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? DavidHunsberger.com. It's really the only place I'm hanging out these days.

Most of my stuff is there. And then the sketches I wrote are going to come out as a podcast soon. I'm having some tech issues, but eventually they'll come out and that'll be at davidhansberger.com. And then also this website called theendlessabyss.org where it's like a membership thing.

So you can become a member and get access to like a whole world of all these sketches. That is the endless abyss. The endless abyss. It ties into the world. It's a whole thing. Yeah, yeah.

Amazing. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? I wish I did. I haven't been. I have not been on Twitter. I've really enjoyed it, but I miss out on some great tweets, some sweet tweets, as I call them. And I apologize, I don't have a great one queued up today.

That is okay. That often happens on our show, and we always greet it with admiration more than anything. It's like, good for you. It's weird every now and again. I'm like, oh, it's so weird to think of. It's just like people standing on the bank of a river, just like throwing a leaf in

and hoping everyone will look at it and just chucking leaves. And then when you walk away from the river, you're like, what a strange thing for humans to do. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a tweet or some other work of social media

that you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Find me in a local Lakers fan support group somewhere. Also, find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties.

Wow, this week's episode is going to be something, huh? And what else? What else? Oh, also catch me on four 20 day fiance with none other than Sophia, Alexandra, uh,

some tweets that I like the first one at, uh, Craig McDermott, uh, tweeted date idea. I eat too many edibles and you take care of me. I think I like that. That feels good.

Uh, another one is, oh yesofy princess at uh miss non-human tweeted the sixth love language is being haters together which i also feel yes that that that is very true and then finally chef at el cocinero 386 tweeted there's a new jamaican near me. And when I called, they answer with fuck you want, bro. I ordered three meals. This is going to be amazing. That's amazing.

Let's see. Rajat Suresh tweeted. I can tell exactly which songs Jack and Antonoff produced simply by looking at the produced by credit on a song. Jamie Loftus tweeted, searched corn in my photo roll and unearthed this classic and it says and yet a trace of the true self and it shows corn arrow corn syrup exists in the false self corn syrup into candy corn i thought that was an interesting meditation on the nature of of life zach silberberg tweeted, what the fuck does CVS even stand for? And I commented, said this really resonated with people in a way I wasn't expecting.

Hello to my friends who refuse to Google CVS. And I am in that group. Then there's a Twitter account, Strangest Media Online, that I've enjoyed a couple videos from. So just go check that out if you haven't seen it yet. And then Person People Blumpkin Spice Edition tweeted an interaction they had with Instacart. It said, didn't want to go to the grocery store because of this weird mist that was all over town. And my Instacart shopper said they couldn't deliver because they were trapped inside the grocery store because there was quote something in the mist an instacart replied and said hi there if you need assistance please reach out to us via dm we're happy to help and then they replied it seems like they're trying to figure it out but they definitely

gonna miss the scheduled delivery time they took a vote and they're sending one guy out into the parking lot with a rope tied around his waist to see how far he gets. From the Stephen King novella, The Mist. But that's a lot of fun when you just tweet the plot of a book and take it seriously. Isn't that at a supermarket too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It takes place in a supermarket. Like they go to the supermarket.

Everybody gets trapped inside. Shit goes down. Yeah. Shit goes down. Well, you can find me liking tweets like that at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? This is the new single from the hit band Consumer Value Store. Wow. They really drilled in the wall for that one. Because that's what CVS means. I have no idea. Consumer Value Store. Wow. They really drilled in the wall for that one. Because that's what CVS means. I had no idea.

Consumer Value Store. Oh, shit. You just ruined it. Wow. Consumer Value Store feels like it was created by an algorithm. 100%. And created by an algorithm in the 80s when they just found out what an algorithm is. Hey, come down to Consumer Value Store where we provide tremendous value to you, the consumer,

and our consumers value our store. So this is actually going to be a track called Shy Guy by Brijean, B-R-I-J-E-A-N. And they're a duo kind of mixing disco and house kind of stuff. I'm still kind of on my house kick because this, I think since we're talking, we're talking about Teletubbies and tri kind of stuff, I'm still kind of on my house kick. Because this, I think since we're talking, we're talking about Teletubbies and Trippin' and stuff. This feels like if you got stuck

inside of like a Barbie, Malibu Barbie Corvette or something and the radio station only played one channel. So it's kind of cool. Listen to some texture. So check it out. Briejean, B-R-I-J-E-A-N with Shy Guy. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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