The Daily Zeitgeist - The Future Of Racist Policing, (High) Kids Say The Weirdest Things 7.27.21

Episode Date: July 27, 2021

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Do it. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 195, episode 2 of Der Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Tuesday, July 27th, 2021. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Listen Free TDZ, posted by me, Jack OB. That is courtesy of Grand Rapidians Play Video Games is their Twitter handle.

I believe you, bro. I believe people everywhere play video games. I am thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host, the brilliant and talented writer and podcast producer, Joelle Moniz. Bring it on! A.K.A. The Marvel Defender. A.K.A. Big Sexy. I'm here. I'm back. What's up, y'all?

Wow. Welcome back. Yeah, yeah. The Marvel fans were super appreciative of your last appearance on the show. Y'all really came out of the woodwork. It was beautiful. I love you. It's good to be seen and and heard there's no new marvel news to spread today

so sorry i'll just be here personal marvel no there's personal marvel news in that i watched episode one of loki and it's very good i watched that last night and did you love it i did love it i thought it was really cool. It's really well written. Unlike any Marvel thing I've seen and unlike any TV show I've seen. It's very cool. It's very unique. Very unique. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest stand-up comedians in the world,

Marcela Arguello! Marcela Arguello, a.k.a. Bitch Hedberg aka Bitchy O'Donnell aka Bitcher Prior what's good how are you I'm good man how are you I'm doing great

I can believe it I can believe it too are y'all watching any Olympics how are you dealing with? No. I'm boycotting the Olympics this year, as painful as it is. I really, I like watching excellence.

You know what I mean? Like, it's cool to just be like, like even in sports where you've like never heard of them, I would normally be like, this is boring. It's like, this is the best in the world going at it. That's like my draw to the Olympics. But y'all are out of pocket for 27 different reasons and they can no longer be ignored like the the the wildness of just coming in and destroying communities the wildness of having an event globally while there is a global

pandemic happening right now it's super wild ridiculous the the blatant racism across multiple the transphobia like the list just goes on and so i can no longer give it like my advertising dollar support but you know if a clip pops up on twitter i'm probably gonna watch it yeah i'm monitoring it through twitter monitoring it like it's my job or something but you know vaguely vaguely entertaining and i do feel like the news cycle just the second it started the second the event started everyone just shut the fuck up about covid they were just like well i guess we're doing it moving on yeah i don't like sports i don't give a fuck there you go well that's probably a much healthier attitude to have

towards sports than uh living and dying and thinking that a hat you're wearing is lucky and determines whether your team wins or loses. Are you talking about yourself, bro? What the fuck? Yeah, I am. I did see a clip on Twitter of some designer, black designer that designed a bunch of shit. And it was just a fucking fine ass athlete in booty shorts. And his booty was out.

And I was like, see, this is what we need. We need to have this in the Olympics. And then I'll watch. I've been saying forever, Marcella, bring the booty short back to to the nba okay if you want more fans girl this is where it starts you're speaking my language that's my shit let's go i was watching a basketball with a comedian david bory and he was like man that dude's haircut is whack and i was like what and then he was like that look number whatever i was like oh i literally never looked above his neck i was looking at his body the whole time he does have a goofy haircut now that you mention it yeah i can't there's no reason there's a player jordan

pool who plays for golden state and i like ever since he was like a really good player at michigan he's always had the booty shorts and is just like unapologetically rocking them it's a great look um it's a great look man their thighs out at all times you guys are so stupid yeah i've talked before about how like it's a slippery slope because you i've uh you know never it's too big it hangs out of the shorts come on you're always bragging always bragging no because like i the sun has never touched my thighs and so therefore they're just like it's a cycle it's a cycle jack to break the cycle but it takes bravery it takes yeah your ankles are getting darker and darker. There you go.

They got tanning oil that has bronzer in it. With my shorts pulled, hiked up in my backyard. Oh my God. Don't put that image in my mind. I know. And then some helicopters are going to crash because of the blazing light that's coming off of my thighs. Oh, my God. I'm at my I'm at my my mother's office and there's a I don't know if you guys can see it, but there's a picture. My dad's wearing his booty shorts. Come on, dad. Yes.

See it? Yeah, I can. So strong. I just dropped the battery. But you saw that? Yes. I'm going to go plug my computer back in. Dad's working it.

Inspirational. Now I'm looking around at mom's office. Like, yeah, this feels like a mom's office. There's some kids' paintings. We've got nice ribbons. They look good. Somebody won some stuff. Were you guys talking shit about me?

I knew it. I was talking up your mom's office how dope it looks oh yeah it's really great it was my dad's office then he died and so it's hers now so it's pretty sick mom's gotta take over yeah all right marcella we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We're going to talk about whether it is time to go on the offensive against anti-vaxxers. We're going to talk about the future of racist policing because it is here. We got ShotSpotter. We got a Florida police program where they're like using some weird like pre-crime thing except without the precogs and with racism. We'll talk about fast food and retail workers quitting their jobs and just another look at that. We'll talk about five kids under the age of 10 who accidentally ate a bunch of edibles. And we will look into the background

on all those videos where people are making Spaghetti-O-Pie or making spaghetti on their kitchen counter because they all are made by the same dude, a magician. And I just want to dig in on how that whole thing came about we'll talk about all of that plenty more but first marcella we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history the last thing i searched um is the fucking package i'm waiting for like this shit will not update i hate the usps or whoever your package is through not updating that shit. You got the barcode. Update me.

Is it going to get here before I leave town? I need to know. That's the last thing. I'm like, that's I went to look at like my my Google history and it was like every other thing. Every other like it opened a new tab every time, you know, you. Oh, my God. And it was like literally six of me searching my package. And so just waiting for

these sunglasses to show up that's literally it that's the only thing on my mind right now is me going to new york for two weeks and i'm so excited and oh hell yeah they say no the sunglasses say no and oh they're sick like on the bring that on the lenses they have the lenses are in n and n o they're the best and i'm just like dying for them to show up so I can bring that negative attitude to New York. To New York. The attitude that New York deserves. Absolutely. You know, bringing them to them, you know.

Yeah. Reflect it back, you know. Yeah, exactly. What are you doing in New York? Are you doing any stand-up? Oh, I'm headlining the Bell House July 31st. What? It's Saturday, actually.

It's Saturday. I'll be headlining the Bell House. I'm so excited. I haven't been to New York since 2019. I haven't performed there since then, and I'm just so fucking pumped. And would love if the Daily Zeitgeist listeners came. I know some of you guys hate me,

but something tells me the New York listeners fucking love me, so come out. New York listeners definitely fuck with you. Yeah, they definitely fuck with me. We had a show in Brooklyn, and the listeners came came out and there was definitely like you know we had a couple come up on stage there was definitely like some good energy there some good energy that i feel like what happened when they come on stage uh so we just like had a sort of interactive part where they had to take a quiz the show is about the year 2000 or dorks and we we just like to like insert school as much as possible into anything

like so these are people going out having some drinks and we're like let's let's do something school-like let's do heads up seven up and then quiz them on it. Oh my God. Heads up seven up would be such a great live show vibe. Heads up seven up. I need absolute silence. We're on a rainy day schedule, New York. Now get in here and do this quiz. That's funny.

I think this is kind of like a cliched thing for stand-ups to talk about but like what what do you feel like the difference is between la and new york crowds well it's interesting because now new york is so heavily gentrified that you can't really tell the difference anymore yeah so sometimes some of the shows can be kind of whack because you get those like overly sensitive gentrifying types that are like, you know, they wear the Black Lives Matter pin, but they, you know, they kick some people out of their homes. And they don't even realize that they're part of the problem, you know, that that type of liberal, which is like they're not the best audience to have in comedy. audience to have in comedy but in the past like maybe whatever it might even like three as soon as three four years ago the audiences in new york they're fucking buck wild they cannot be offended they don't give a fuck and it's the best and i i implore those people please come to my show on

saturday because y'all are the fucking best like real deal new yorkers or people who've lived in new york long enough that they have the mentality of a new yorker but not these like newer gentrifiers they're the fucking worst and they're that's how the la comedy scene is where it's like people who are too sent you know the other thing about la people go because they know celebrities are usually at the comedy clubs because they are like not just on stage but i remember one time drake was at the comedy store like watching a comedy show in this big ass room in the main room and and it was a black show you know like he went there because he wanted to see good ass black comics do good ass black comedy

and that's just good comedy let me just make sure to clarify that i don't want anybody talking no shit about the way i work things but like the second somebody pointed him out that was it for the show everyone just like got up and was trying to see him wanting to take pictures and it was like why why would you mention him he being here like that ruins the show for the comics but it's also like so common and then sometimes like at the laugh factory they get so many celebrities that come hang out that people are kind of used to it they don't even give a fuck so it goes both ways sometimes but the celebrity in the audience and on stage can be kind of distracting in la but in new york you don't see that like they think i like about new york audiences is they love a grimy comic you know like when they're a good comedy audience they

fucking love weirdo shit experimental shit you can put any style of comic on stage and they love it that's not true for la california in general yeah i my favorite kind of stand-up comedy is watching drake watch a stand-up comedy show that's my that's my favorite stand-up experience yeah that seems like it needs to be filtered through through drake uh i mean can you imagine like looking at what drake laughs at oh my god drake laughed at that joke that is really funny you know the hoes are in full effect yeah so much pressure on drake to like i don't know that that would feel weird to be like watching i feel like he likes i feel like he likes that shit i feel like he likes that you guys leave drake alone i don't think he wants to be like i think he loves that goofy attention he's the goofiest uh-huh yeah i'm picturing myself being like having people

watch me and see like whether i am laughing at something and that's definitely me and drake have a lot in common i'm always shocked when you laugh out loud at something i say like when you laugh i'm just like oh my god i have to look at him laugh because he never laughs. That's what I, that's what I miss about being in studio. No, you're not. You're not a big laugher.

I'm a comedian. I can tell you right now. You're not a big laugher. You go like this. You go like this. You go, that's what you do. There it is.

I made him laugh, but I made him laugh about himself. That's just the narcissism. I don't even think that was that funny. Yeah. You can just say anything about me and it'll get a big reaction. Jack has a huge dick. Look, it made him laugh.

Damn it. You're supposed to say it's funny because it's true, but we all know the truth. Come on. What is something you think is overrated? You know what's funny? Last time I was on, big controversy because I really shit on the overrated, underrated thing. So I wasn't going to do it again. But then I did a search in my notes app for the Daily Zeitgeist, and I found an old one.

I guess I had prepared. It said, thanks. The next time I'm on Daily Zeitgeist. So this is from, I don't know, sometime in 2020. Underrated. Making new friends over 35. Overrated. Overrated is staying friends with people because you want to be the bigger person.

I want to encourage your listeners to end friendships. Once you end a friendship with someone, you make mutual friends. I don't know. I'm just saying I just don't like when people stay friends with people that are shitbags or they treat you bad and they're just like well I've known them for 15 years. I don't give a fuck how long you've known that person. If they treat you bad, end that shit. Because the other thing is you can

also come back to the friendship because you're giving them time to change. If they choose not to change, you don't stay friends with them anymore. Space is definitely underrated. Yes. So I think we should be making new friends over the age stay friends with them anymore space you know because i'm definitely underrated yes so i i think we should be making new friends over the age of 35 as often as possible as often as possible and that could mean once a year whatever but like right i love people that make an effort to make

new friends because you should make new friends you should make new friends period do you have a method for making and this isn't for me because i have like so many friends like i'm constantly making new friends but like do you have a method like where you go to make new friends is it usually like at work jack that is the saddest question i've ever no i like i totally have like i don't even have room for new adult friends uh in my life like no but i i have heard this before not just in my own life that it's hard to make like meet new friends and like make new friends well over a really easy way to make new friends is making friends with your friends friends you know that the friend that they

always talk about i always hang out with this person you just have to be like you know what next time you're hanging out with that person invite me because sometimes people and some people are weird about that about crossing that line line. I'm not. I love blending my homegirls from different, you know, cities and backgrounds and jobs. And because I think a good group of friends is friends that are, you know, have different eclectic backgrounds. And that's an easy way to do it, right? But of course, that means that you have to have friends to do that. So if you don't have that, Jack, then you have to just get out there and make friends. I like to keep my eyes open at all times.

I mean, I've made friends with my own fans over the years because I'm just like, this chick is cool as fuck. It's usually women. It's not men. I just want to make that very fucking clear. I usually only make new friends with women. I also have no space for male friendships and men are the worst friends so like maybe jack this information is not good for the men and the male listeners i just know that as a woman women are usually very good at being friends and you can like chop it up with any wherever you go as a

woman you can be at the grocery store it's just like dating grocery store bar at the bookstore you just start chopping it up and you see if and what's cool thing about now is you got social media you don't have to exchange phone numbers you can exchange social media and then social media lets you go like okay is this bitch an anti-vaxxer like you know you can get like more information off of their instagram and it's beautiful that's great yeah it's great and it's slow. I think the other issue with a lot of people being scared to make friends, you don't have to rush into that shit. You just start chopping it up a little bit.

Exchange the social medias and then give it some time. You also have to be wary of people who want to hang out all the time when you're first becoming friends. That's dangerous because you're like, this is weird. You don't have any other friends. Like how Jack would probably be

if somebody tried to make friends with him. He'd be like, let's hang out all the time. It's like, Jack, come on. Get a life. It's suspicious. I've been told that people in their 30s don't do sleepovers. Jack! What the hell?

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vaccinated. And they just did a description of like the town hall meeting was like. So let me just read from that. Candy Peavy, a resident, had warned that the Biden administration would send people door to door to document unvaccinated Americans, a false but widespread conspiracy theory. Not only that, Ms. Peavey had told the hundreds in attendance, but the vaccine was an experimental gene therapy that had killed thousands in the United States. We should refuse to be tracked, discriminated against, bribed, controlled, threatened, shamed, or coerced into compliance, she had shouted to applause. And then, so this top health official who'd won a a lot of awards has a, you know, probably a Ph.D. and M.D. calmly began a practiced monologue on the vaccine. It does not integrate into one's DNA. She said no one in Louisiana has died from the vaccine. One of the safest ever produced. Several women yelled and swore at her before they were asked to leave so i just feel like that

that meeting is just really sets up the dynamic of what we're dealing with it's like some salem witch trials shit yeah it really is that's really wild i want to have such empathy for these people because i want to be an empathetic person i i want to be able to understand and and i'm like even with people who hate me that's like the biggest goal i'm nowhere near there i'm not that enlightened yet if you hate me it's not on site because i'm not a fighter but i also deeply hate you and i'll do anything to ruin your life but i want you to be that bigger person and i i i know that there's so much misinformation spread around and i know that a lot of this is brewed into a cultural divide that has nothing to do with a lot of individuals and

something that they were either raised in or or societally from their neck of the woods neighborhood pushed into but also i'm just sort of at the point of like well then you're gonna die and i don't know what else to do about it like i if local nurses and doctors who are like hey every day i have a young healthy person come in here with covid and right before i intubate them i have to tell them that no they cannot now get the vaccine because it's too late and chances that they're gonna die are very high because they didn't protect themselves i i do think that it might be time just to push forward and start with the bullying. I mean, gently, but you know,

at this point in time, like, no, you cannot come on this cruise, Karen. We are going to airlift you out. No, you can't come into my house or be anywhere near my children. You're not vaccinated. They can't get vaccinated yet. That's freaking ridiculous. No, you can't come into Walmart. You can't go to the movie theater.

Stay your ass at home. You don't want to get vaccinated. Fine. But keep your germs to yourself. It's beyond ridiculous. I want to go outside. I'm tired. I just think it's funny that they are so aggressive, so confident, so disrespectful to people who are vaccinated. And it's almost like they're

trying to act like that's how we're being which we are not we have not been that way like we've been trying to be patient and understanding and also when the vaccine the rollout first happened it was like we're trying to you know older people first and you know doing doing shit in order to be to be thoughtful and they were acting like we were pushing it down their throat and we hadn't been and now i'm like totally like yeah let's fucking start pushing this shit down their throat because that is what they if they could do it they would they can't do it because they have no control over the situation and i also just find it amusing what i had a uh quote unquote fan i i could care less i hope i hope he stops being my fan because he is an anti-vaxxer

and he was like, oh, I would never try to make someone feel bad for being vaccinated. I was like, yeah, you shouldn't, you idiot. There's no reason to make me feel bad. I'm doing fine. I'm totally healthy and I'm happy to be vaccinated. And it's that thing of like, but I am going to make you feel stupid for not being vaccinated because, baby, you are. Yeah. Is it too out of pocket to suggest we go to anti-vaxxer rallies and just pinprick people? I didn't feel my shot when it went in my arm. You don't feel it until the next day. And then they'll just be like, oh, that's probably a bee sting.

It's fine. It's cool. You're good. And then they're back. They don't even know the difference. Give them some J&J. Yeah. One's cool. You're good. And then they're back. I don't even know the difference. I like it from the perspective of you being black and being like, yo, y'all used to experiment on us, so fuck y'all.

Tables have turned, bitch. I'm freaking your ass. I want that movement to start. The thing from the New York Times article that kind of got me stuck was that they were saying like treating going door to door to see if people are vaccinated as though it was like some bad conspiracy theory and not like what we should totally be doing like why why shouldn't we be going door to door and like asking people if they've been vaccinated and trying to get them

to be and not just that because some people can't get vaccinated because they don't have the resources they can't just hop on the bus or hop in their car and just go to the place that you know like some people have kids that they can't get babysitting uh babysitters caregiving for they can't take a break they can't they they need it to come to their house i was reading an article about this this doctor who she was like, it's been so hard and we've tried to go door to door. She's like, but the thing that has been most efficient are these block parties. We've been started to throw block parties that has the vaccine there and people come and they come with their loved ones and their loved ones are with them. And they

just, we have this information, we walk them through it. And because they started noticing that when they would give this information and people were down to vaccinate and they would set an appointment, they wouldn't come to the appointment. But if you have these conversations right then and there and their loved ones are with them, they all feel more calm about it, you know, because they're not on fucking Facebook reading the friend of a friend's bullshit ass conspiracy Facebook post. Because that's the shit that's stressing people out is all the misinformation. Yeah. These fools love conspiracy theory so I I'm really listen if we can't do it in a way that is humanitarian and sweet and invested in community like by throwing these block parties then yeah I think I'm gonna be like this is for Henrietta Lacks and just like start jabbing people with needles at anti-vaxxer events all right a plan i also wonder

if we should i think we should start a conspiracy theory about vaccines being good like how do we how do we get that going maybe that's the only way to get in their head to get some fucking ben shapiro type to like be like i actually heard and then it's actually right yeah there you go like the tuggar carlson thing he's doing is he's like actually he's not even but the way that fox news is doing it is like they'll say in one moment like guys you need to get vaccinated but then they'll go into like these very entertaining stories that are like red meat for the type of people who watch fox News that are like conspiracies and about like social control. And so they're like making the fun part

the fucking anti-vaxxer part and then like covering their ass by doing like a disclaimer, which nobody's going to pay attention to because that's not the part that sticks in their brain. But one thing that people are doing is basically making it so that your job requires you to get vaccinated

and but the other issue and going back to like oh the walmart's you know getting people to have to prove to to prove vaccination before entering is that a lot of these companies are run by conservatives republicans and anti-vaxxers. Like that's the other core issue. I have a friend who her boss is like trying to get her to go into the office and they're trying to be like, yo, I think we should wait a second. And he's like against people showing,

because they had suggested, why don't we prove if people are vaccinated in order for them to come to the office? And he was like, I don't think that's a good idea. That's a violation of people's privacy. And she's like, he's not vaccinated. he's an anti-vaxxer like that's what that shit is and that's what's fucking crazy this idea that this is an invasion of privacy is so beyond my capability of understanding like if you want to go to schools for a long time you had

to have certain vaccine vaccines if you want to go to different countries you need to be vaccinated for certain things like this is just how globally we protected each other for a very long time not a new idea so the idea of like a vaccine passport being people always want to compare it to like it's like making jewish people wear the star of g like no it's not the same thing it's not a way to identify who you are culturally and to push you out of society it's saying, hey, you're safe to enter, so you don't die and you don't kill other people. It's like, that is bizarre to me. And if we look at, like, we have a bunch of healthcare professionals who have, like, different unions who come together to be like, hey, it should be mandatory if you're going to

work in healthcare to have a vaccine, to have gotten these vaccines so you don't spread COVID, which has overtaxed our system for the past year and a half. And the fact that we have to even convince healthcare workers, and I've talked to people in healthcare who are like, this is so silly. I'm not getting vaccinated. And that blows my mind. You are working in a hospital during a pandemic and it still doesn't register. This stuff is so deep and ingrained into a certain sect of the american population and it's incredibly scary that you can be a part of this industry and still not see the value of getting yourself back like protecting yourself that doesn't make any sense that's just how they see it i mean that's

the issue right that's how they see it they don't see it as protecting yourself they see it as an invasion of their body you know right it's like these motherfuckers really will fucking go anywhere eat anything get fucking shit-faced be hung over for two days and they're just like a vaccine they'll fucking do coke from a they'll buy cocaine from a guy they don't fucking know yeah exactly some guy they don't know it's laced with god knows what they're just like the vaccine is a little too far yeah can't trust it to point, Marcella, about the people who are actually enforcing the need to be vaccinated being not the best people in the world. The NFL, over the weekend, an NFL assistant coach got fired for refusing to get vaccinated. And there's another assistant that is probably not going to be with the team because

he's refusing to get vaccinated so players won't have to get the vaccine but they will be forced into various like protocols and testing and other annoying shit if they refuse which i think is probably like again we just need to make not getting the vaccine the hard decision across the board like if you're firing yeah coaches and stuff so you got to be firing players and i know their concern is well do we have enough players to make a team your benches are deep enough and if not pause your games this isn't it's bananas bananas you're taking people all across the country staying in hotels like attending what are essentially mass, not contamination.

What is the word I'm looking for? Mass spreader. Thank you. These mass spreader events, like watching the NBA finals was the trippiest. I was like looking at the guys in, what was it, Michigan? Wisconsin? I don't know. One of those states.

Yeah. The fact that they were like, there's 5,000, 10,000 people just standing out here in a crowd, not a mask in sight, cheering, mouths open. Things have to be done because I don't personally see people staying inside anymore. I think people are really done with that. And I don't think we can push. I really don't think we can push society into another quarantine. I think people are so beyond it that the only thing to do is to encourage, force, penalize people for not getting the

vaccine. It's just time. I hope we do shut the shit down and then everything falls apart because at this point, what the fuck is going on? Burn it all down. I'm about that too. Alright, let's talk about the future of racist policing. The future, baby about the future of racist policing.

The future, baby. The racist policing been here. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, but they have found new and innovative ways. New and innovative ways to be a racist policeman. out to people in their community letting them know that they've been selected identified as like the the wording in the letter actually makes it seem like you've won a fucking like prize or been admitted to like some prestigious institution what they're actually saying is we've identified you as a likely criminal and we're going to be watching your ass so crazy it's so fucking bizarre and like the data they're using is criminal history and also your social networks so they're like pulling data from like i'm assuming social media to like figure out like

to put into their bullshit algorithm that they then will visit you without reason. The police will just show up at your house. They will just keep tabs on you. One person who was part of this program described being cited for having grass that was too long. Now. So they're just like yeah they're just basically looking for an excuse basically once you've made their fucking their list that is horrifying every time the police do anything that i know they view as benevolent right like this idea

is like oh this is gonna really protect our community because we're gonna get a chance to like get ahead or when they were stopping people on the road like putting on their lights and sirens and handing out turkeys they're like oh thanksgiving like how like do you just gave someone a mild heart attack you took years off a person's life pulling them over for no damn reason and to be like beyond racially profiled sweating me out in the streets and racially profiled most people of color have had that happen at some point where someone is just extra watching them to first be notified that you're on an officer's list is terrifying but then to have somebody constantly just roaming around knocking on your door just being like hey just making sure you're

not committing crimes today like you have nothing better to do you have nothing better you're and i'd be interested to look into tampa bay's actual like effective rate their rate of solving crimes because the more we look around like what what are the actual effects of a police department like outside of you guys saying that you're doing good and that you're going to show up and be there and blah blah what is your actual effect it's very low they don't solve crimes if you've ever had to report a crime that's happened to you, police do not care. They don't care that your phone was stolen. They don't care that you were attacked in the street.

They don't care. They oftentimes blame individuals. They oftentimes shrug their shoulders, like, not my jurisdiction, can't help you. Like, there's so little actual community involvement and service happening in police departments now stuff like this happens i'm like this is just criminal but this is nothing more than y'all being bullies and it's horrifying for the poor people of tampa who've done probably done nothing wrong and or just have a cousin who got out of lockup and now

suddenly they're on someone's list because they follow each other on social media what is the point of this where is the effectiveness how is this building community i just like that this is like the mlk of policing they're like we're not gonna arrest you based off the color of your skin but the content of your social media what the fuck is going on here they're like we heard you we heard you last summer so now we're gonna do it based off what you post it's like bro that's not how this show imagine like you're just like a 13 year old boy who just loves the worst kind of rap and just put like uses the captions for his like image like pictures he took a selfie and then just captions it with some stupid ass rap lyric and then and then that gets used against you yeah that's bonkers the times also found that the agency has a separate program that uses school children's grades, attendance records, and abuse histories to label them potential future criminals.

Hi, child. Were you sexually assaulted as a minor? Great. Now you're on our list. We'll be watching you forever. Wow. Looking for an excuse. Bro, these kids can't even get free meals at school, but they're getting fucking free monitors.

Right. Oh, my God. these kids can't even get free meals at school but they're getting fucking free monitors right god there's also a technology called a shot spotter which is like a sonic device that detects gunshots and where they're coming from or tries to do that is very you know studies have shown it's not very successful it creates a lot of false positives but in theory the police are able to make a case for like hey this works in theory and we want to like get to shootings quickly what it does in practice is first of all they only put them up in non-white neighborhoods of course and then then you have the police like rushing to the scene of what might be a fucking firecracker with the assumption in their head that there's going to be an armed person there and that anybody they see is a possible threat.

And so you're just you're just creating opportunities for the very types of policing that we've we've seen just destroying America. Well, and super producer Justin told me that they're like police will reach out to ShotSpotter and be like, hey, can you just make it like six blocks to the left? And ShotSpotter's like, yeah, sure. That's where the sound came from now. Which is, of course, evidence they're going to use not just to arrest you, but potentially in your trial. Like these apps, you know, Ring has obviously been accused of this as well, of basically saying like, oh, hey, here's some footage from a random person's house you can have that police like without any kind of due process or checks and balances we really it's like imperative that we get a hold of these apps and companies that have our data and make sure they're

being used in ways that are not like civil violations right it's just what happened to the right to bear arms i don't understand how like everybody's all like, yeah, we're pro guns unless you live in the hood. You live in the hood, then that's when you can't have a gun. That shit don't make no fucking sense. member had the NRA handbook in his car with him. And when he told the cop, hey, I need to let you know that I have a gun that I'm licensed to carry. That's actually like word for word from the NRA's handbook of how to inform an officer that you have a firearm that is registered. And he was shot. And the NRA didn't say shit. He was killed. He was killed. He was murdered. Yeah, he was murdered by a cop and the NRA didn't say shit. Of course not.

It's fucking bonkers. This shit, this double standard shit is wild. That's by design. They've never wanted black people to have guns. That's like their first nightmare. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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it was a health problem i can't imagine like the eight-year-old mind fuck of like yeah hey let's go outside. And kids are, like, my five-year-old is basically, like, perma-stoned. Like, the shit that he says just sounds, like, the other day asked me how his bones move him. Oh, wow. That's a good question, kids. It's on mushrooms or what?

Yeah. But, like good question, kids. It's on mushrooms or what? Yeah. But like, so I wonder. I do wonder though, like what a five-year-old on edibles would, like they, I'm just so mad at the story that they didn't tell us what the like weird behavior was. That's true because children's imagination is like the most,'s imagination is the most incredible, the most inspiring. That's why they always tell you when you're an adult, just remember your childhood imagination and try to tap into that.

Because it's like, bro, yeah, imagine being high and Mickey starts talking to you and you're just like, I'm fucking hanging out with Mickey Mouse, right? Or whatever, like Teletubbies. Imagine being high as a child and the Teletubbies come to life in your backyard. That would be fucking sick.

Yeah. The first time I got high and I wasn't expecting to get high because I was told that you, like the first time you smoke, you don't get high. And then it's like the second time that you actually, but I took like a foot long bong rip and then like was like, all right,

and then we'll smoke tomorrow and I'll actually get high. And then I went into my dorm room and like the Godfather poster on my wall because I was a teenage boy started like the cat literally started moving on my on the poster on my wall. How old are you? Did you say I was 18? Oh, okay.

I mean, that's still a child, technically. Yeah. And I freaked out so bad. I made my friend wake up and tell me that everything was going to be okay. And then he went around. I was in a dorm. He went around and woke all our friends up and then brought them into my room to laugh at me.

That's great. One time I was at a family party and my nephew, he must've been like, how old are kids when they're teething? Oh man. Two. Two, okay. So he was around there.

And there was like one of those like punch, like drink things, drink dispensers that had like a bunch. So I was like tasting each one with him, like trying to play. And so he was teething. He was like a grumpy little guy. And my sister was was like you could tell she was just didn't have enough sleep because he was teething and she had her other daughter too and she's a little older so she was just overwhelmed like give me him for the party i'll take him for the party he's mine so i'm like

testing these drinks i'm drinking them first so i'm letting him have them drinking it letting him have it right and there's four and when i get to the fourth one i pour it and i, letting him have it, right? And there's four. And when I get to the fourth one, I pour it and I just let him have it. Bitch, it was alcohol in that motherfucker. And then like literally like whatever, five, ten minutes later, he is just so happy. Just having the best time of his life. No toothache. I realized it immediately because he tastes, but he was drinking it. That was the thing when he sipped it.

He was like, oh, this shit is fucking good. Which alcoholism runs in our family. Good to know it starts young. And then I drank it because he was so into it. And I was like, oh, fuck, this is alcohol. And I didn't want to tell my sister. I didn't even tell her. I didn't tell her until years passed.

But it was just funny. And the only reason I even told her is because I felt so bad because at that party you could tell. And the only reason I even told her is because I felt so bad because at that party, you could tell, you know, because sometimes when parents, especially mothers, when they can't do something and then someone else just comes in and does it well, it makes them feel terrible. So she was feeling terrible, like, wow, like I can't get my teething baby to stop crying and soothe him. And she just does it. She just comes in and does it at a party. Like she had that look on her face. She wanted to cry because I had him like laughing laughing. I didn't have the heart to tell

her at that time, but eventually I told her. That shit was hella funny, though. I'll say that because he was a ball of joy. He didn't give no fuck about that toothache. Our grandpappy's new. They were like, just run a little rum on their gums and they're going to be fine. I can't justify it that way.

It'll be fine, but i can't like justify it that way like it'll be fine but he definitely drank way too much i was like let me get him a mcdonald's cheeseburger so he just chills out i mean shout out to whoever mixed that punch because like what if a kid can't taste it like they did a they did a great job yeah it was and i mean it was pretty strong. He just didn't give a fuck. Grimy ass little boy. But I do wonder like if it sort of like with weed, because kids are already like in that mind space, if they suddenly like turn into adults because it has like some reverse property or something. I love the idea of a five-year-old getting high

and being like, 9-11 was an inside job, mom. Yeah, I could see that. No, it wasn't, Stephen. Why is he talking like that? Oh, man. I can just picture this whole thing. So they rushed these five kids to the hospital and they were all fine.

But CPS was called and now all the parents are in prison. Oh no. Yeah. Do we know the race of these children? Girl, you know the race of these children. If it's in the fucking news, you know goddamn well

what the race of these children are. Oh, it's everything is fine. We wrote a news story about it. Guess the race. Let me guess. White? Yeah. They were black. We were reading news story about it. Guess the race. White? Yeah. If they were black, we would be reading a totally different story.

Too true. It was in, I think, Canada. Yeah, it was. I bet it was. They're free healthcare and shit. They're just like, let's take these stoned-ass kids to the hospital. No sweat off our back. Fuck them.

I don't know. Alright, let's talk about rick lax so you've probably seen had you guys heard that name before rick lax no but it sounds like a really catchy name for a laxative i was gonna say rick lax so he's apparently the king of viral videos on facebook which is just not I haven't been on Facebook, like actually just looking for something to entertain me in probably over a decade. And but, you know, he apparently has that market cornered. People who pay attention on Facebook like know his name. attention on facebook like know his name so we've we've also seen like these things like table nachos where somebody just like lays a bunch of chips out on a table and like puts cheese on them or table spaghetti where they're always so proud of themselves too yeah so that's uh spaghettio pie which is just spaghettios dumped into a pie crust and then like the most half-assed garlic

bread over the top and then they bake it and they're like this is you know my best yet and there's yeah there's like pride but there's also like a tinge of like it feels like porn acting where there's like i don't know they they don't quite seem like they're actually genuinely in this moment having this experience. And so we had speculated at the time of the spaghetti video where the person just like pours spaghetti sauce on the table and then puts pasta on top of it and then meatballs. With her bare hands. With her bare hands. It's all happening with bare hands.

We had speculated like maybe this is a fetish video turns out there's like one guy lacks productions behind all of these videos he's a magician some of the women doing the gross shit with the food are his magician's assistants and his verified page has 14 million followers and he also has 1.4 million followers on a page called rick lax has fun it's it's similar to like the asmr videos where it's like you know there's a fetish but like it's nobody's admitting it nobody's like uh the people who specialize in videos are not like yeah yeah no people are totally jerking off to this wait is

this the same guy that i'm sorry i don't know if i'm jumping the gun here i was trying to read this quickly but is this the same guy no go ahead that makes these videos so that black twitter catches on to them and shits on them and helps them go viral yeah right oh is it yeah yeah because the idea behind them like on top of being like just ridiculous it's like i think you guys talked a couple days ago about how having extremely divisive opinions on social media is how you garner followers so the idea is hey here's a bunch of like really awful videos and black specifically it is i think it started on black twitter but has definitely migrated over to black instagram when there are videos without seasoning you know you have these have these old companies

like um taste made and a few others buzzfeed food did it for a while too where they make these videos and i'd be like there's no seasoning on this and latinx community jumped in too they'll be like this is not how you make an elote like get a life and and learn what you're doing or hire actual people of color bon appetit so anyway all of that happened and then this guy starts making these videos that are beyond the pale like no one's going to eat this no one's going to make their counters that you know gross and disgusting and now there's an entire like genre of influencer who just watches and reacts to this video so if you take like the youtube react videos to different like you know they were reacting to trailers and then video games and then streams now these guys are reacting to these bad food videos and it's listen it's an industry. It's making money.

People are doing things with it. I'll tell you what, Rick Lacks is pissed. Rick Lacks is pissed that people are making money off of his videos without him making a cut of it. Welcome to the end, boo! I love that he thinks he discovered a magic trick.

And it's like, bro, everybody's been hating on white people not being able to cook forever you just you just taped it also if you didn't figure out how to use your 14 million followers to get advertising dollars that's on you yeah i get like 20 emails a day being like hey you want to use your social media for dollars how can we do that with you somebody has definitely reached out to you you could could have reached out to somebody, found a good partnership. SpaghettiOs almost assuredly would have been like, yes, we would like to be mentioned two million times. Here's a couple thousand dollars.

Thank you for your help. Figure that out, darling. Yeah. I wonder how much, because he's a magician and, like, magicians are kind of good at, like, breaking things down to the component. are kind of good at like breaking things down to the component like illogical dynamics that make it like entertaining or may make it like trick people i do wonder like he's not he's not saying he's like i'm not a foodie i'm not an expert uh calling the recipes gross i would object to that so i mean he sounds like a complete fucking idiot. I would have knocked those off the table. What? You wouldn't?

Yeah. But yeah, I mean, the level of commentary on white people cooking on top of whatever fetish it is, on top of... I feel like there's just... This is a very specific type of internet era content where it like checks three boxes, like two of them accidentally. And it's just like,

it becomes a genre because like, then he's like, okay, well, so, uh, randomly Spaghetti-O-Pie is our biggest hit of February. So we have 10 videos coming out this week that's all about people doing basically the same shit.

This is how I feel about a lot of children's content. like 13 billion views are just like the most random strange like kind of dream logic weird things that are bad like but they just are accidentally like hitting on something that is like hardwired into the brain right it's just it's just this weird like scattershot of like human desires that we're like coming into contact with because the Internet is such a weird, disturbing place. Just like Call Me Daddy. I would just encourage your listeners to stop hate sharing things. I feel like that's the root of the problem here is that people love to hate share. People love to dunk on somebody.

You've got to stop doing that shit. That's just such a fucking, that's backwards. You know, people that you like and, and enjoy, you should be supporting them. And you know,

when somebody that you like says something funny or post something funny, you should be sharing that shit as opposed to just being like, Oh my God, look at this stupid fucking video. I would never make this. How disgusting. And then it's like, guys,

you're just perpetuating this shit. You know, i have such mixed feelings about it because on the one hand there's things where i'm like sometimes you can hate something that's bad but good bad you know what i mean uh for me emily in paris is one of those phenomenons where i'm like oh girl this is all this is atrocious like how did get made? This is all kinds of wild. But watching it brought such a sense of community and people just being like, please don't be Emily in Paris. Don't be that American when you leave. And that can be kind of fun.

On the other hand, there's such a lack of curation. I think just in general, in this era, everyone is just like, just pump out as much as you can. Just go. Is it good? We don't care. We don't have time to care. Just release it. And hopefully we get some followers. Did it just reach a couple demographics? Great. Next. There's not a lot of time being put into really like crafting masterpiece or if it is, it's done with people who already have just an insane amount of

money. And you know, that's not a consequence to them. I wonder if we'll see a backlash from this of people being like, you know, I would rather have my content just hyper curated. I wonder if we'll see a backlash from this of people being like, you know, I would rather have my content just hyper curated. I don't want to be dealing with the shenanigans. I don't want to watch six YouTube videos until I find one that's, you know, really good and is actually talking about the things I'm trying to investigate. I kind of hope so. Because while it's great for creators that there's an opportunity to constantly be pumping these out to fail and succeed and to then build an audience around what is successful. That area of the Internet is really fun. And I think it's given a lot of people an opportunity who wouldn't otherwise have had one.

But I also think, you know, there are definitely spaces where curation could be of great value, not just to the people creating, but to people trying to access those creations. I mean, I feel like that might be what TikTok is, right? Yeah. Also, I have to correct you. Sorry. It's Emily Imperi. That's the name of the show.

I don't know. It's just driving me crazy. I couldn't hear a word you said after that. I was like, Emily Imperi. Great. You know, you got to do what you got to do. word you said after that i was like great you know you gotta do i feel like the hyper curated like single channel i feel like when you said that that made me think of tiktok and like the the way that i for people who like spent a lot of time on tiktok like the way that i hear it working on them is like you it takes all decisions out of it and it's just like a you know hyper

intelligence that's good at learning like the videos that you respond to and it just like feeds it to you in a feed right right that's the kind of life you live damn dick you like wands right done here you go a sea of them don't even worry about the people that created this uh not worth mentioning yeah like all machine learning is definitely influenced by whatever the people choosing to who like originally created it and like the self-selection of like what the algorithm is being fed in the first place. So not a good thing for sure. TikTok, I'm going to go out on a limb and say not great.

Not great. Not awesome. Damn, Jack, you got those crazy opinions on this podcast. Yeah, wild takes. Wild takes. We're going to put that in a splash that we put on. Get ready for the fire. Back to back, you and Jack. I'm blowing on my finger.

I think it's a gun. Did you guys see this unvaccinated snow leopard at San Diego Zoo catches COVID-19? Oh, my gosh. I just wanted to mention it because it's pretty funny. Who got close enough to the leopard? What zookeeper has done this some anti-science zookeeper that's what I'm saying

it's rampant it's all about instinct Jack make that character zoos, animals, all about instinct baby well Marcella it has been uh such a pleasure having you as always thank you so much for having me where can people find you and follow you you can find me at marcella comedy on everything i'm also i have a new podcast with nicole thurman

called the scroll down on headgum so check that out i know she was on here recently and she's fantastic so um i'm glad you guys had her on. And yeah, this Saturday, July 31st, I'm at the Bell House in New York City. Other dates are coming unless the Delta variant shuts everything down. But right now I'm focusing on Saturday in New York. I'm out. Yeah, yeah. Get there, Zeitgang. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? There is. There it is um robbie goodwin at robbie r-o-b-b-i-e goodwin said being a kanye fan makes me understand q anon and i just really enjoyed that because i used to be such a hardcore kanye fan and i'm and then the trump thing made me be like you know what i really gotta i really gotta let this shit go because at this point so i really

related to that tweet a lot because i used to be like that person that would always defend him and shit and then he put that maga hat on and i was like dog no like you lost me on that like yeah i used to be like defending him during the whole like him versus taylor swift thing and then oh yeah i mean well we get. Let's not talk about that. But you know, I always want, I, I remember dying for the album after the divorce.

I was like, that album after the divorce is going to be bomb. But now I actually don't feel that way anymore because so much shit has shifted in his brain and, and in his life that I'm like, I don't even know if this is going to be worth listening to, but maybe I know I doubt it. Yeah.

I've gone from critiquing Kanye to being genuinely concerned about Kanye. I mean, I really hope someone in his camp is going to pull it. We're entering Brittany 2007 territory potentially. And that's not, it's not fun or funny. It's just very sad. Right.

Yeah. And worse because he's a man. So like the toxic masculinity is on another level you know like britney that was like her saving grace so she doesn't have that in her blood you know god i could grow on and on about these celebrities i swear to god i love that catch me on the scroll down yeah the scroll down sounds like a good place to get more of that i love it joel where can people find you and follow you uh y'all know me i joel monique you can find me all over the internet at joel monique it's j-o-e-l-l-e-m-o-n-i-q-u-e uh jason diamond and i'm jason

diamond tweeted it's wild how fast the discussion went for making fun of the rock's old style choices like the fanny pack how every big fit you like on Instagram is basically something he wore during the Attitude Era. And then post four phenomenal photos of The Rock in an outfit many people would kill for today. Someone responded, he's an icon for a reason. And I can't agree more. Listen, The Rock, infallible. Please don't run for president, The Rock.

Just keep being great. Just keep making good movies. People keep joking about it. And I'm like, it's not funny. I don't want it. I just want him to be hot in movies. Having adventures. That's it.

That's your area. And you're great at it. Joel, what do you think of the hat that he's in in Jungle Cruise? That hat makes the top of his head look small to me in a weird way. It's the first time that I've disagreed with a single article of clothing The Rock has put on. I have many a friend who is a hyper Disney nerd that is someone who visits the park

more than four times a year and they would say... Most of them are married. It doesn't mean anything. They say I would change what I just said. Listen, listen, listen. I feel you uh it's it's ride accurate it's ride accurate and so from that perspective like yay for people who are really into the rides on the other hand rock is one of those people whose body has now grown larger than his head sports people do this a lot where they're like listen i gotta get jacked but your head

can't grow muscle so it stays the same size i. Your head can't grow muscle. So it stays the same size. I wish we had... Your head can't grow as much muscle. That's true. That's fair. That's fair. Steroids can expand a little bit. A little bit.

But not as much as it can expand your shoulders and your neck, which will dwarf your head. We live in an era of large brimmed hats now. I feel like we could have really gone the extra mile and really helped elevate it. But they didn't do that. Exactly. And so here we are. I love like we could have really gone the extra mile and really helped elevate it, but they didn't do that. I love how diplomatic you're being. She knows the rock is a big... Yeah, she very much has a

boner for the rock and that defense really was... We learned a lot about you in that moment because that was really a long way to go to defend that stupid ass hat on that attractive man. He's so fine. Oh my god. I don't want to lose my celebrity love for him, but

every day it's like, is this the day? Is this the day I can go on and love The Rock? Oh my god. That's hilarious. Is this the day? Over the weekend, I was really enjoying the old tweets, the tweets about M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, Old.

One that I liked was from Felipe Torres Medina. He tweeted, M. Night Shyamalan stays in the pool for too long. Takes a look at his fingers and says, Holy shit. That's funny. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off

to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Super producer Justin, what song are we going to tell people to go check out? It's a really good song by J-Rob called Amen featuring Blue November, Lauren True and Garrett Odom. It's a really nice summer vibe. If you like hip hop, you'll really enjoy this song. It's like a jazz sample in the background. So it's really chill. But it's like a Saturday barbecue cookout kind of vibe, I feel like.

So if you enjoy that, if you want to get into that. You know, it's kind of weird to start that on a Tuesday. But, you know, get into it. Never too early. You got to plan. You got to plan the Saturday barbecue and you got to plan the playlist. So that's where you start to get the playlist. It's still summertime.

Enjoy yourself. Yeah. That was also just like a dead on impression of what a mile song recommendation. I know. I was like, this is new. I had to occupy the lane for a second. Yeah. That was beautiful, man.

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