The Daily Zeitgeist - The Weekend Update 10/23: Greta Thunberg, Israel, Gaza, Human-Sized Dog Beds, Cybertruck, Jim Jordan

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

In this edition of The Weekend Update, Jack and Miles discuss Greta Thunberg vs. Israel, human-sized dog beds, Elon Musk shooting up a Cybertruck, and Jim Jordan not being able to catch a break!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah! I'm Jack. That is Miles. This is a weekend episode. This is the Monday morning weekend digest ketchup. Exactly. Unless you're on the East Coast. There's a baby tomato ketchup. It's a punchline.

Oh, yeah. Pulp Ketchup. The punchline. Pulp Fiction. Fox Force 5. I am Jack. We already did that. How are you, Miles? I'm great. I'm great. I am Jack. Sorry. Oh, me? I'm Jack.

That's how I am. That's what I am right now. That's what's going on over here. Yeah, I had a good weekend. I had had you know two highlights are part of my over and under the new spider-man game and my 20th high school reunion so you know i'm doing it's just funny to even say new spider-man game and 20th high school because i'm like hey bro never it's like i looked at myself in the yearbook and be like yo bro never change never change dog that's right just gain some more gain some empathy you know what i mean gain some empathy do some work on yourself and some of your patterns emotionally and some you know some you

know some knowledge some history and then stay cool in exactly the way that we define cool right now did you see anybody who was like that i feel like that's more in movies like the person whose like values have not shifted who's like still about that college or high school life and just like can't let that shit go it's like it's funny because like a lot of the people that were like the jock type cooler people are just like pretty normal adults and shit. Or work in government or something like that. Yeah, yeah.

And then it's funny. The people who hasn't changed. My one friend from high school who is now an oncologist for skin cancers. A specialist dermatologist. He is very much the exact same person like from like he was always very like energetic exact same it was kind of wild he felt like dermatological oncologist yeah oncological he said something he said to something specialist and i was like i was like i that means i was like that means skin cancer right he's like yes yes yes and so now

you're just in his texts constantly yeah yeah i was like what do you think bro like i got some things you know i should get looked at and he goes here like bathroom real quick he's like you're a fitzpatrick three to four he's like you're not as at risk as someone who would say maybe say is a fitzpatrick fitzpatrick one is like is that your skin fairness fitzpatrick is irish and irish that's what I thought I was like are y'all just coming for the fucking Brits you know people from the aisles over there like how pale they are and it's like no this person created

this scale yeah he might have been motivated by the fact that all of his family was dying of skin cancer cause that's like us Irish folk we got a bad yeah it's like oh man you got that Fitzpatrick one skin tone. I heard Matt Lieb on...

I think it was on an episode of Behind the Bastards last week doing an impression of Irish people. And he just kept saying, I want to fight me, da. I want to fight my dad. It's been living in my fucking head non-stop break the cycle break the cycle break the cycle yeah have you ever watched those youtube videos of like the irish people who like are still in like kind of clan warfare oh yeah yeah like the

old like bare knuckle boxing yeah yeah yeah yeah. It's like, because that shit is straight-up WWE. Like, they got the whole crew behind them. Yeah, YouTube allowed it to bust into WWE territory. Yeah. Well, but, like, there's, like, a whole documentary, actually. I remember watching, like, maybe 10 years ago, because I was so... Just, I couldn't believe how, like... Like, one guy looked like a human walrus.

You know? Like, his whole whole vibe when he was like, come fight the fucking... I was like, yo, yo, this is fucking lit. I just loved how there were people sitting on a truck behind him like a kid standing on top of a van while he was talking all this shit. Anyway.

And we will fight our da. Mark my words. all right should we tell the people so this is the episode where we catch up with what was happening over the weekend yeah and also uh what was happening with us yeah and um do a little overrated underrated yeah uh i could kick us off with a overrated okay if you're cool with that. Yeah, I like that. I just rewatched Zodiac. That is not my overrated. That is my underrated for me. I was underrating Zodiac.

It was just a little... It's one of those movies that doesn't follow that natural three-act structure, at least not the way that your brain is expecting it to. I think it was just like a little amorphous the first time i watched it so re-watching it knowing what happens really loved it um police science though man holy shit so this is like the the story of the zodiac

killer and like the investigation of the zodiac killer and it's just you it's an infuriating story of police incompetence right where like you kind of know the whole time who the zodiac killer is and all the evidence is there and the only thing stopping people from following it is like this bullshit like a handwriting expert which has like been debunked and probably at that time had been debunked i just like went on google uh scholar to look for like handwriting science used with police work and like the top three the top three references were like 1922 1945 like it's just oh my outdated old school piece of shit science and yeah they're just like nah it can't be him his t's are crossed in a different way right and so much of police methodology is just like gut and pseudoscience.

And I don't know. It's just so fucking frustrating. Yeah. Yeah. So like the handwriting thing is that he cut, they come through and they're like, all right, but this person,

like the, the one, here's what we know about this suspect. They told somebody like a year before the zodiac killings that they were going to do the zodiac killings um that described all the stuff they were going to do in detail that guy yeah reference referenced like the zodiac i think they even said the zodiac thing of the time uh had the watch that the name the zodiac like the only time the name zodiac and the symbol the zodiac killer used had appeared next to one another was in this watch advertisement

and the person when they went to question him is wearing that watch it's just like it's it's this like open and shut case and but they they keep getting tripped up on this fucking bullshit. They find guns in his trailer that don't match the ballistics on the killings, and they're like, it wasn't him. Can't be him. It's like, what? What the fuck are you talking?

It's crazy. And then they finally find the witness, the one person you talking it's it's a crazy and then they finally like find the the witness who the one person who witnessed it and track him down and he's like yeah now that's definitely it's definitely the guy yeah it obviously is look how it crosses his t's though dude i'm i'm the fucking witness dude i'm telling you but he's like ambidextrous and they're like yeah we hear he's ambidextrous and so he like wrote with like wrote the letters with one hand and did the other. They're obviously like very carefully written, first of all. So you can like beat the lie detector test of handwriting analysis.

And also the ambidextrous thing, the guy who they're going to is just like, yeah, no, I've never seen anyone who's ambidextrous like this. That's that can't be. Anyways, fuck police science um it just shows you gave us a very good movie right and also just show you like yeah it's it's gut pseudoscience and mostly ego right because it's just it's just the sheer fact it's like no man i'm convinced it's this person stop trying to fuck with me because i think it's this other thing or like when you see it all the time when like like other prosecutors or detectives are just like fuck it dude we're not taking an l this is the guy let's get him yeah and fucking ignore every other piece of evidence

just in service of this one thing that you need to be true which is i'm right about yes yes it's it's wild it is a good it's a good movie if you've like if you were raised on police movies like i was where the you know cop is able to use his gut and like all those pseudo-scientific shit to like solve the thing it's a good movie to watch and like really sure digest that like this is how police work actually works which is you you're just you know who it is but they're like too dumb to actually say that that is who it is what's something you think is over oh man oh god so you know miles what are you up to oh 20th anniversary uh you know i'm i don't know i have a i do i work in podcasting it's really nothing oh that's oh you

do a podcast okay cool cool cool uh and i was catching up with people like i said uh my terribly planned high school reunion uh but we ended up meeting at a bar right after the official one and that's where you catch up with people again uh it was really nice catching up with some old friends and confirming that how many dudes actually do think about ancient rome i was fucking i could not they're there that's where they are they're at 20 year high school reunion and i indulged a person and i was like oh yeah i mean like where do you where do you think america is it's like actually i would posit that america is less like r Rome and more like Carthage. Okay. Because of the militarism.

I was like, okay, you know what? I have to go drink a beer now, but thank you. I thought it was going to be a joke, but it was a very actually in-depth conversation. So I do appreciate the amount of detail. It wasn't just some guy who watched a bunch of TikToks and was like yeah was suddenly like cicero and knew everything the fall of empire is real we are in the midst of it yeah oh yeah yeah but yeah yeah i don't know enough about rome to like make a bunch of comparisons yeah exactly right to that point but anyway good to know held down by some men out there holding up exactly their end of the bargain of man man thank you for not making us look totally it's just stupid out there uh but anyway it was nice

catching up with them but i just say overrated right podcasting why is it overrated i mean podcasting is overrated so here's the thing uh like that seemed to be the take of a couple people right when i talked about podcasting first, I just talked like I said, what do you do? You say, I work in podcasting and they say your job, fuck your job. No,

they're like, Oh my God. They're like, isn't it? Like, there's just so many podcasts. Like everyone has a, I'm like,

yeah, no, it's true. Everyone does have, including this person you're talking to right now at your school. Um, but it was just like very poetic when some people

were like oh you know i tried to get into it but i sound not like they like weren't they haven't they didn't know the gospel of podcasting i had somebody from zeit gang no pull up mid conversation on some i'm so sorry to interrupt your guys conversation are you miles gray yeah daily zeitgeist and i was like oh why yes i am thank you so much and what is your name you had them do that you paid them to do that i apps shout out amanda who i told i downloaded her with all the details about the podcast and talk about how we were talking about gaza this week yeah say something like that okay she really came up she's really this moment was really kind and it was just one of those moments where like so it's like the kind of thing you would in a scripted movie be like they fucking paid that person to say that at their high school reunion and i did it so thank you for that little bit of uh serendipity um synchronicity

that that occurred uh because it's not overrated you see this is the power of podcasting you create community with people and yeah you can also flex on people at your 20th anniversary were people a little off by the fact that you broke down weeping after the person came after Amanda came up. First thing one of my friends who like friends from high school who I'm not really like we haven't you know kept in touch since first thing they said was how much you pay her to say that. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like

for shout out to a man and shout out to any Zay gang who come up especially when you know we're with other people that please please don't feel like we don't want you to. Oh, no, I, I welcome interrupt me feeding my child. Yes. To fucking ask for a picture, whatever, because it is so different,

just especially in the pandemic, like, and we haven't done a live show in a long time. Oh, my God. That will change soon. But like to realize we all exist in physical space yeah no i have no idea that people listen to this show in any like real sense like i'm still living off of the time like three years ago where my wife and i were out to eat and the waiter at the end of dinner was like by the way like huge fans like gang and i was like say how much my wife and it was very embarrassing we did get asked to leave after that because uh you were you were so celebratory i

threw my plate on the ground amanda said she actually ran into you at a ucb show years ago and she heard your laugh and tapped on your shoulder and told me to shut the fuck yeah hey jack i know that's you with your fucking weirdo ass laugh your laugh is too loud man uh all right um that's amazing shout out to that gang god you guys are the best truly the best fan base did we ever mention that there's an article in what was that article where they talked about how that gang is one of the oh yeah fan bases oh yeah that was that was in uh life hacker life hacker yeah shout out lauren paself writing that one up yeah yeah we're out here with the shout out to the other big podcast but obviously zeit gang this for the children we always hear that

from yeah from our guests too you guys are always uh almost always kind to the guests and we appreciate y'all um underrated i'm going with the aurora borealis um oh yeah big one night okay northern lights uh but why call it the northern lights where when you can call it the aurora borealis uh great name i believe coined by um galileo but yeah uh did you see them recently yeah yeah i might have been high man the aurora like whoa got hit by the winds of jupiter up there no i i actually i just saw a picture like somebody's iphone picture that they took a friend of my wife uh who's from alaska was just like yeah by the way this is what the night sky looks like in alaska like a lot of the time and i don't know i always assumed that

like you had to like hike out in the middle of nowhere and, uh, you know, use trick photography, but no, like the night sky just like turns into a like work of trippy psychedelic arc, like on a regular basis. Right. Like the, and the explanation for what, you know, why it happens is like even crazier than like what it looks like it's like

right like the particles are deflected toward the poles of like particles are coming from the sun that are like going 20 000 miles per hour and then like crashing into other particles and like those particles have like light signatures and so like oxygen is green and i don't know it's just like one of those things that yeah when you think about it you're like fuck it was better when i was like it's a light show that happens yeah it's i don't know i like as an adult i was like man when you really think about it like that big red storm on jupiter is pretty cool um which it is but like we like our planet just turns into a fucking light show like for a lot of the year just like it's like glowing in all sorts of like wild fluorescent colors like

for a huge chunk of the year um and and i was totally underrating that i'm just being like yeah oh okay northern lights yeah i get it right right yeah that's that's definitely something i i want to see with my bear eyes for sure yeah your bear eyes um still in bear mode from last week people were mad that we didn't mention paddington in our bear episode no but you know what we're trying to be serious and asking the only the most serious of questions then it gets the beers in the joke town talking about made-up bears come on yeah come on um but that wasn't oversight we're sorry about that and we forgot about uh mean girls day october 3rd. Yes. Those are our two only mistakes of the past 12 months. I also

think I was underrating how much I rely on typical Hollywood hype machine shit to get excited about a movie because I did not notice that Killers of the Flower Moon, the new Scorsese movie, came out last Friday. That was one I was looking forward to and then it just

was in theaters without me realizing it. I think it was like i didn't see the standard like cluster of ambient noise that comes with a movie coming out and like the stars of that movie being on late night shows because because the actors are still on strike right right right like i was always like who gives a shit about the actors like being on you know not who gives a shit about them being on strike but who gives a shit about like them not being able to do interviews or whatever but i do think i missed i missed this premiere uh i missed the the drop date because it wasn't happening so i'm gonna see that yeah i felt the same way like suddenly i was just seeing like there was a clip going around of the osage language consultant who like had a take on the movie after seeing it and i was like wait this is on the oh it's oh it's out yeah shit okay

because it is out also too i think i've just turned my like i was in the movie i was in the movie theater last sunday and i saw a trailer for it but i just kind of i think i just turned my mind off when the dates come out because i'm like i don't know it's a must be coming out in like a couple like a month or something yeah it's the trailer's thing now and that's never gonna happen yeah yeah our brain is bad at that the human brain um what's your underrated um underrated is pretending you are spider-man um and like i said like there's a new spider-man game out and i've said this before i think on the show about how i just love to be web slinging like i like you can go around you could beat the fuck out of like bad guys who are trying to like rob

old ladies or like save a guy who's like hurt himself unintentionally with illegal fireworks that's one of the things that's really one of the things you can help like fuck himself up with fireworks and you got to take him to the hospital wow i was like bro what the okay it had like a backstory about like a like a family member anyway but like i've been spending so much time just flying through the fucking streets of new york like i'm like i'll do this thing i'll go from queens down to fucking williamsburg downtown brooklyn take the bridge over uh go through fucking midtown and the upper west side because they have like a pretty it's a gigantic map so i'm spending all my time just like in this weightlessness of being Spider-Man. And I think this game is like really good because there are a lot of games that are based on comic book characters that don't usually typically fully capture like in your fan mind what you think it would be like to be this character.

Like, right. There's like a Batman game and you're just like strong as fuck and you beat the shit out of people. And like you could hide in the dark, but it just doesn't quite feel like i'm like i don't know batman's also like a billionaire and like where's my mate where's my maybach where's my rolls royce i should be driving yeah it's just like gta but you're a billionaire yeah whereas this is like i just love that it's a fully open world i can just go to the top tops of buildings do a bunch of backflips off of them and never worry have to worry about landing hard uh and so i find myself like in a very childlike state just in awe of the fact that i'm like what if i could go around on my own webs

uh and for that you know insomniac games they'veac Games, they've done it again. They've done it again. Yeah. You want us to get on board with public transport? Let's get us web slinging around. Yeah. Best way to travel. It's got to be up there. Oh, yeah.

And now he has this new capability where he can turn his shit into a wingsuit. So if you get high enough, you can just start gliding around and you're kind of flying a little bit. It's all very... I'm still getting my hands on this thing. So I'll come back and you'll see. Based on how high you are as a player of the game? Yeah. There's a thing of breathalyzer you blow into. Measures the THC.

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This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI

in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. social media on Friday, Greta Thunberg posted a photo of her and some of her friends showing support for Palestine and calling for a ceasefire.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You better not be calling for no ceasefire. That's right. That was kind of the... Some pro-Israel accounts quickly claimed that her photo was an anti-Semitic dog whistle because of a toy on her couch, which they, so it's a blue octopus plushie.

Yeah. And they said it is obviously a reference to the Kraken from Nazi propaganda cartoons from World War II, in which it was a well-known sign of the Nazis for the anti-Semitic term international finance Judaism. Also, by this logic, an entire Seattle NHL team is also anti-Semitic. Yeah, and Trump's whole legal... Oh, actually, that probably holds up, too. That one, I do believe. Okay, yeah, that might have been aptly named.

But, I don't know so she pointed out and a lot of people pointed out that uh the these are reversible these reversible octopus toys are kind of everywhere right now um and they are you can like reverse them inside or out and uh they are alternately happy and sad whether you reverse them inside and out um they are a tool often used by autistic people as a way to communicate feelings and she is autistic right and. And like, yeah, sure. Okay. Nice try. Nice. Right. Um, I,

I don't know. It's, it just, there's, there's been this like social media. And then, so she deleted the post because she didn't want there to be any mistake about what, uh, she was,

she was trying to communicate, but there's just, about what uh she was she was trying to communicate but there's just this seems to be a big thing that is going on right now where uh by expressing you know concern for the people in gaza um innocent people in gaza you're you can be branded as an anti-semite oh yeah oh yeah uh or or if you or if you say like i, I've seen things where it's like, people call for a ceasefire and they're like, oh, but you don't care about the hostages? It's like, that's like implied.

Like, yes. Release the hostages and ceasefire, yeah. Those don't seem like incompatible. Don't seem incompatible, yeah. Right. It's like, well, we can only do one. So which one is it?

Um, but yeah, then like you saw like the at Israel Twitter account has been chiming in on all kinds of things where like they came at Greta where they said that the trying to appeal to Greta Thunberg by being like, you know, Hamas doesn't use sustainable materials for their rockets. And you're like,

huh? That's okay. Sure. I don't, does anyone, are there any sustainably made munitions anywhere? It's like, are,

like, are you going to then be like, and what could our carbon neutral fucking bomb that we use? and then the other one of like, you know, Hamas, the, like,

you know, the hump, like you could know hamas the like you know the hump like you could have died in the hamas massacre the the appeals to like people's like interest to try and get them to like relent on their desire for peace is very very odd and like yeah i think the gen like the geneva convention tweeted something but like there's even rules to war and then like the idf or the israeli uh like at israel account like quote tweeted it and was like uh like israelis have a right to live also and you're like yeah that's literally the people who are talking about the geneva convention about like okay yeah so that's that's where things are still. Yeah. The, uh,

is Israel's education ministry is wiping any reference to Thunberg from the curriculum since she is quote, no longer eligible to be an inspiration to kids. And this article in which they, it's being announced, uh, says that, uh, she posted,

she, uh, published a post over the weekend supporting the Hamas terrorist organization. It's like, is that what she said? No. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

So it's a weird, very difficult time to be stating that you don't want innocent people to die on any side uh right now right and not have like and not have a nation states twitter account be like oh not you doing this and you're like what the fuck yeah and yeah like and also no one said that shit but this is but this is all part of you know the fucking the the process of manufacturing consent for what's happening there you have to like you have to like drone out any voices that are calling for an end to hostilities and like some kind of process to rectify the situation just to further this whole policy that we're seeing now which is total scorched earth and displacing people and putting as many children in harm's way, which, you know, are the future of Palestine. So it's a, yeah, it's not

ending. And I mean, we're going to talk about this on tomorrow's episode too, but I think I was also just seeing, just watching like the pace of MSNBC this weekend, it'll be like, okay, here's a person from the UN, like a human rights advocacy group, like, on the ground telling us what's going on. They're like, oh, my gosh, it's so bad. Okay, thank you. The next guest will be, like, a military advisor who's just, like, calling for, like, the death, like, just to destroy Gaza. Like, it'll be like, here's one person who's saying it's bad. Here's another who says it's okay.

I'll push back lightly. here's another who says it's okay i'll push back lightly and then we'll have then we'll have a congress person who'll give you the american version that says like yeah well i mean it's hard to differentiate between civilians and the terrorists so you know like it's just that's just kind of like the tough part about this whole thing right and not offering like any off-ramp to just this terrible terrible loss of life so yeah uh i wonder i mean i i was always curious like when the coverage of this becomes like something the mainstream news doesn't want to talk about anymore like whether it's because it's like it's just not getting enough clicks or all right that we've we've manufactured the requisite amount of consent to continue this operation.

I don't know. But yeah, it's everywhere. They managed to not really pay attention to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for a long period of time, even though they were being waged explicitly by the US. like explicitly by the u.s so yeah i feel like we're probably not that far from them just drilling it out of people's you know destroying people's will to be involved and pay attention but yeah and we shouldn't you know we we have to keep paying attention because yeah because i mean yeah fuck i was fucking 17 18 around the time of the first Iraq or the second Iraq war. And you're seeing like already claims that Hamas is like, you know, they have instructions on making chemical weapons and things. It's like it's like the playbook all over again.

Like WMD is like, well, it's not just this. It's like a much larger thing. So, yeah, it's's uh it's it's hard to watch this all happen again like almost beat by beat yeah all right uh let's take a break we're gonna come back we're gonna talk about human dog beds and uh what stage of collapse that signals or is it human dog beds in carthage, Miles? I should ask my friend next. This is just good old-fashioned. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, we'll be right

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A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian, now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest. I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning. In a story about faith and football, the search for meaning away from the gridiron and the consequences for everyone involved. You mix homesteading with guns and church and a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked.

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we're back. Oh yeah. And I've been hearing tell of human-sized dog beds for a little while now. Super producer Anna Hosnier was onto these and being like, should I? I want to. Should I get dog bed?

But can I look at myself in the mirror? But these are real. I just read a review for a human-sized dog bed that costs $400 and is made of memory foam. And the review of the dog bed itself seems solid like it's it's it's comfortable uh it's like it's obviously not long enough for someone who's like over five foot seven to like lay fully out in but you know in a dog bed you you probably just want to get fetal in it like a dog would um but as i just looked at it i'm like

hmm what where what is this like what's the need here for this sort of like give up this device because look i'm all about taking comfort to like whatever extreme necessary i used to take the fucking headrests off the like the rear seats in my car as a kid and you know how like they got the two metal prongs in it like for the car headrest yeah i would take one and put one in one and then the extra one i would put one in the other one so i would have like this dual v flying v headrest i used to call this shit darth vader i would do that in the car wow yeah yeah so i'm no i'm not gonna yuck anybody's comfort young i was putting people at risk by removing the headrests in cars when i was 17 yes i was 17 when i was doing this but like

this is like i don't know like are we at the place now where people are just like for god fuck it all let me be a dead dog phase like where we just want to fucking lay down and die because i get that too feed me treats while I'm on my bed. Yeah. Like, um, I totally, I see the appeal.

Cause I, I think all the time I'm like, I want to do something like that, but it's usually something to help me like deal with how like the dread that I have about the world rather than like, this is peak comfort being in a dog bed. They have it in the middle, in the,

in the picture that shows it in use. Um, they have it where a coffee table may go so it would just it kind of just sits in the middle of a living room so it's not it's not like this replaces your bed it's like this is a centerpiece of your communal area um you may have heard two wows from me as you described what this was one price point four hundred dollars wow that's a lot i can't believe they're charging that and then a second wow when you said memory foam and that was me saying wow i would i would pay the four hundred dollars for this oh now you're like memory oh fully made of memory foam yeah yes please memory foam to help melt away those troubling memories i guess is the way that could be marketed but yeah that's right

i mean like i it what like you're to your point like it would have to replace like a coffee table a dining table like unless you live in a gigantic place that you could just be like yeah and there's my dog bed i just like to fucking bliss out on or just hide from the world on uh fine but yeah i'm like that's why i'm like is this i think you just put it right next to the door where like a dog bed would go like you know like where people leave their shoes right right right like yeah just put it there for like you come in from work and just kick off your shoes and fall into the dog bed. Where's that version of Mr. Rogers' neighborhood when he's like, it's a fucked up day on earth. Fuck it.

I'm keeping my pumas on and I'm getting my dog bed. Fuck my house coat or any of that shit. Yeah. Go off to the land of whatever that place was. Make believe. Yeah. We take the little train there yeah well let us know if you want to get that dog bed is it like in a way i think comparatively it

makes the snuggie or the slanket seem like a legitimate piece of like wellness technology when it's like oh yeah you wear a blanket yeah yeah but going to extreme dog bed um you know i guess i guess it's up to the user how they how they see it i guess i look at that and when i feel like i want to get in dog bed it's because i feel like shit not because i'm like that's optimal comfort but hey teach their own it feels like it would be good it would work very well as a compliment to the snuggie you know have a couple of these around the house and then you're wearing the blanket already and then you can just you know that's right out your depression yeah that feels like a air like a thematic airbnb where it's like no beds in this place only human dog beds only slankets

and a soft surf machine yeah you you're just put on the slanket the second you walk in um all right uh so that's what we'll be up to for the next two what that's why you won't be getting any episodes for the next three weeks uh miles and i are just gonna be uh quote unquote testing this slanking it up yeah all right uh let's talk about elon musk real quick a couple things over the weekend a video surfaced of a tesla cyber truck driving along the road full of bullet holes on the side oh this guy what the is it like because because somebody was into some shit like or this is no it's like a marketing thing i think it was a viral marketing stunt um the car's ability to stop bullets uh oh that's presumably fired by cannibalistic marauders in the barren wasteland of the near future is okay uh caused by elon musk is uh

for some reason a selling point of the cyber truck and it so he came out at once the picture started circulating and was like we emptied the entire drum magazine of a tommy gun into the driver door al capone style um no bullets penetrated into the passenger compartment uh so first of all tommy gun well why'd you use the tommy gun that's maybe he's like yeah he's old bad guns but okay hey you know have some respect call it a thompson you know what i mean but i guess he really i guess in his mind too like he sees everything in like meme form so like right the meme of someone being like like just rattling off shots would be like some capone-esque tommy gun thing but yeah sure great uh your car the car that you

bought to protect you from machine gun fire that you are in no way actually facing uh seems to actually you know stand up to the test so great his favorite part of home alone is when the guy says i believe you but my tommy gun don't and fires the shots. He's like, that's who they should have made the movie about. But other people pointed out that like the windows don't seem to have been shot at and right. That's obviously the windows shattered during the 2019

demonstration meant to highlight its durability. He's like that. Even the window. Give me the hammer. Don't use the fucking. I don't care. I don't care. Watch this. Oh use the fucking i don't care i don't care i don't care watch this um oh my god i don't care buy it pre-sale up now yeah so i this the cyber truck is like coming out soon ish i think uh some people do have them from what i've seen like i feel like i've seen some people post pictures of them like in the wild yeah elon bros are like and other car companies must be shitting their pants right now look at how this

thing stops a bullet dude um what the fuck i feel like they you they might have used nerfs just like i'm not i'm not saying it's impossible that they used a real gun but i'm just saying like they might have used nerfs on this um but yeah or like just a bunch of golf balls yeah you know just fucking rip them into it but i just love i love the elon fan mind where they're like this useless thing that has no practical application for the rest of the earth has everyone shitting themselves for this level of innovation like toyota was like oh my god they've got bulletproof doors just below the windows that seemingly leave your brain totally vulnerable what isn't it like do isn't it just because like the outside is just fucking steel

and like it weighs like like a fucking metric fuck ton so it's like sure like you're not like coming it's not like this is lighter than a feather but we'll stop like and even then nobody's looking for you in your cyber truck okay he did recently say uh on an investor call we dug our own grave with cyber truck uh which hits the market next month. So he's, you know, won't become profitable for at least 18 months. Oh, Jack, I'm sorry.

It's a newly created stainless steel alloy, which they have been granted an exclusive patent. Hell yeah. Wow. Guy's a genius. The real Tony Stark. Anyways, he also spent the weekend attacking Wikipedia,

which there's a good Guardian column we'll link off to, but the author was like, the sight of Elon Musk charging toward Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. That's exactly

how I felt. I was like, yeah ah that's the right order of things because yeah it's you know first he killed twitter and he just wants anything that is created socially that works yeah is going to bother him because he wants he wants to destroy that he doesn't want there to be a world where something like that can exist because it kind of undermines the entire argument for him being a billionaire right right yeah and also like in an in an era where people like especially who are billionaires or you know know, that are powerful, they benefit from people not getting all the information they need. So if you can turn Twitter into, like, a fucking weeble wobble funhouse where you don't know what the fuck's going on, or even Wikipedia could eventually be like, bro, nothing on there is true at all. Then you're going to have to listen to your fucking homie that's been

red pilled who's got a blue check that's right yeah exactly just a full man it's crazy how much wikipedia like very recently wikipedia was known as like a somewhat flawed encyclopedia yeah like is you know people can add misinformation to, but it's mostly good. And now it is so much better than everything else on the internet because everything else on the internet has just taken a complete shit. And now we're just like,

just save Wikipedia, which I agree with. I feel like if we could just do a complete reset right now of everything that we've created with like online technology of the past uh 20 years i think i would keep wikipedia i would keep shazam um i would probably keep reddit but just like have like add a bunch of moderation or something um and uh you know relaunch twitter without this guy owning it like

those i feel like you would have a a pretty like that that's the best that we have had you can connect over niche interests you can get kind of a rolling news source you can get a repository of historical information and also answer the age-old question of what song is this what is this exactly like i'd start paying for music again if you gave us our not-for-profit shit and just like fucked off and stopped ruining everything about the internet would you do you have that the shortcut built into your phone i remember when we found out about like that ios thing where you could tap the back of your phone and make it do something. I had it do Shazam, but now I just errantly Shazam shit all the time.

Yeah. They're like, this isn't a song. They're like, this isn't a song. You're fighting with your mom. We're arguing. Yeah. Okay. Mine is camera and home screen because i have too many apps and my kids

like to dig deep so i know yeah yeah need the triple tap to take me back to the home screen um all right should we talk about jim jordan or leave that for all right let's talk about this i mean this guy fucking he tried again he he and look the long and short of it jim jordan is no longer in the race for house speaker much to the dismay of other republicans uh apparently like after uh like like this happened like one of the reporters was getting calls about like what is he doing like what's going on what is he thinking because a lot of the maga energy was trying to get behind him because this is a moment where the fringe of the Republican Party because

numerically the people who are like frothing at the mouth MAGA people they are in the minority numerically and they're trying to use this to be like this is the full takeover okay um M A G A we run in this G O P shit okay I tried to do a takeover

so the break is over. Yeah. But now, because of the chaos, they have nine fucking people that are now tossing their hat in the ring. Eight of them, only eight of them are white men. So there's that. The other being Byron Donalds,

who is a black man who hasn't even completed his first term. So just even like, you know, I hate to say you're not qualified for the job, man, but you haven't even completed his first term so just even like you know i hate to say you're not qualified for the job man but you haven't even been in congress like a fucking term so like yeah the speakership is a little bit different and yeah and only two of those nine actually voted to certify the election so you already know they're not fucking they're out oh like the 2020 election yeah they're in the uh stop the steel shit exactly the other seven no the other seven are stop the steel only seven of the nine stop the steel seven of nine shout out

uh deep space nine uh or whatever that star trek thing was uh and also uh it's just getting ugly like there's this guy tom emmer he's the majority whip he's known to the party because of his position, but he's like, I guess, like, you know, seemingly the most normal. And by that, I mean, like his Wikipedia has subsections for things like bullying, drunk driving, Nancy Pelosi, machine gun video, whatever the fuck that is. So he's like, you're like, OK, yeah, maybe normal. But then he's already getting attacked on his whole drunk driving career I don't know yeah and like the bullying thing I was like well maybe it's anti-bullying it's like no he was like against bully

like legislation that was gonna protect people or change like the curriculum anyway he's now getting attacked on like Steve Bannon's show and a lot of people are like oh maybe he didn't because he hasn't full voice supported Trump's like next presidential run show and a lot of people are like oh maybe he didn't because he hasn't full voice supported trump's like next presidential run so i don't know as it stands it looks like it it's just a

continuing fucking embarrassment uh for everybody involved uh and but the republicans keep doing this thing where they're like oh well you know the democrats like they're trying to rope the democrats into this mess as if they had like they're trying to rope the Democrats into this mess as if they had, like, they're responsible or had a fucking hand in any of it. Right. But y'all got the majority. You just can't agree amongst yourself. Yeah.

And I'll just play this one clip of Newt Gingrich. He has an idea. He has an idea on how to just turn this mess around. I frankly wish that they, and Calista and I have talked about this, I wish they had a woman candidate out of all the candidates they've got running, you know, somebody like Elise Stefanik or Beth Van Dyne, who had been a mayor of a city before becoming a congressman. I think in some ways, given the level of rowdiness and the level of juvenile behavior, it's conceivable that a female speaker would be more effective in actually getting them all to get together and stick together.

That's the key. They have to learn to stick together. Anyway, I love that he's like, all right, guys, I'm not being woke. I'm not being woke. I'm actually being regressive by saying we need a woman to take to just, I don't know, man, we, can you do the work now?

Can you get, can you help get this, these, these rowdy fucking characters together? Yeah. Oh, Newt Gingrich. Uh,

but no, I don't think we're going to see that anytime soon. Yeah. I don't know that. Like, I still, uh, have a tough time giving a shit about this one because the narrative that I'm seeing is

the candidates now have a much lower public profile than any candidates for Speaker of the House prior to this. But I'd never heard of any of the Speakers of the House before they became Speaker of the House. I'm not versed in who any of these people are so right um yeah i mean it's gavel banger still in gabby bang bangs gabby bang bangs is still he's still holding a little wooden peepee and smashing it till the live long day but we'll see what happens yeah he's he's it doesn't look good for him obviously if

they're they find someone else to be speaker but yeah i mean the real importance is like if you think politicians are getting shit done before they're literally not getting shit done now because it's just like oh no i want to be yeah and it's like nothing's gonna happen i mean you know the next thing is mid-november, another potential government shutdown. Will they get it together by then? And, you know, and sadly, people are going to like lose their job or like, you know, have to be furloughed. Or if they, you know, rely on government assistance and things like that. That kind of shit. That's all in jeopardy.

Jesus. All right. Well, those are some of the things that were trending over the weekend continue trending into this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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