The Daily Zeitgeist - Tired Tropes, D-Pics For Democracy! 9.16.20

Episode Date: September 16, 2020

In episode 716, Miles and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Ester Steinberg to discuss JK Rowling's transphobic new book, an ICE whistleblower alleging hysterectomies on immigrant women in detention, Louisville settling with Breonna Taylor's family, Carole Baskin on Dancing With The Stars, Chris Evan's dick pic, and more!FOOTNOTES: J.K. Rowling Proves Her Commitment to Transphobia in Her New Novel J.K. Rowling's Pseudonym Has A Disturbing Anti-LGBTQ Connection JK Rowling tells story of alter ego Robert Galbraith “WE ARE ALL IN OUR PRIVATE TRAPS”: TRANSPHOBIA IN HITCHCOCK’S PSYCHO Re: Lack of Medical Care, Unsafe Work Practices, and Absence of Adequate Protection Against COVID-19 for Detained Immigrants and Employees Alike at the Irwin County Detention Center ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US' Louisville Will Pay Millions To Mother Of Breonna Taylor Carole Baskin’s Missing Husband’s Family Airs Commercial During Her ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Debut Chris Evans Is Using His Dick (Pic) For Good Black Rabbit by Prince Fatty, Shniece Mcmenamin  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Go Miles Gray. It's your birthday. We're going to record a podcast like it's your birthday. Watch 90 Day Fiance like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give a fuck as if it's your birthday watch 90 day fiance like it's your birthday and you know we don't give a fuck because if it's your birthday because technically today is not my birthday well technically today is the day we record this but the day that you will listen to this is not my birthday but i'm in the mood so that's the spirit you're feeling birthday at the time look there you know what i mean the biggest mistake you ever made was telling everybody that you're you had the

same birthday as prince harry because it always pops up in trending topics and you're like shit miles didn't tell me it was his birthday again but i'm always gonna know i'm not a big birthday person you know i don't really have i don't do parties last time i what i used to do is just go to um uh what's the spot uh tex on suns you know right there oh my god yeah that's right near me just a little tex lounge drink that's the most i'll do for a birthday that's right near me. Just a little Tex lounge drink. That's the most I'll do for a birthday. That's about it. Yeah, some, like, freaky-ass music, whatever they're playing there.

Yeah, which, who knows? When it becomes a gentrified apartment building, who knows what will be left of that place. We're going to protect the tech for the whole time. Yeah, seriously. Are you going to eat a snack on your birthday? Yeah, I'll have a snack, for sure. I'm going to have, like, probably a cheesy croissant or something. Something rich, you know, just to feel old.

Make sure you're doing something for yourself. You got to. And yes, without further ado, I mean, look, we just started talking, but I got to introduce this other voice. It's not just a disembodied voice we're hearing. It's not a ghost visiting me in my dreams. It is none other than my guest co-host today, the one and only Jamie Loftus. Hi. Here's an AKA I got, right?

Here it goes. Goodbye, Zamboni, queen of Corona. See me and Sonny down by the ice rink. I kind of like that one. That's from B underscore Soar. That's a wholesome one. I like it oh also my aka shout out to you know christy yamaguchi main the one and only shout out to you

uh our best composers we've got a fantastic guest today somebody who is we've we've we've been like when when is she coming when are we gonna when do i get to talk to her when do we get to get into the mind of this person it is none under i said none under when i really mean none other than the wonderfully brilliantly talented hilarious comedian herself esther steinberg thank you welcome very sweet oh welcoming oh it's the least we can do you know just to welcome you with open arms to this little pod of ours the daily happy birthday oh come on now thank you though yep the days the years keep adding up these are fun just let it just let it wash over you i know but when you're like feel joy about that i'm like

when it's pandemic birthdays are the best i know right and i'm like i'm like i just want to look at a blue sky okay well maybe i'll you know every day you got to just kind of lower your expectation every day you just kind of you have to lower your expectations a little bit to so it feels realistic so like i'll be like i would like a less gray morning tomorrow and then that'll feel good not because the air quality is still pretty wild out here uh how are things on your side of the continent esther oh brooklyn is amazing oh yeah it's the one time in my life that i'm like new york's got better weather than los angeles i know dj daniel was in new york last week and he was just gloating he's like honestly the weather

is like perfect yeah three more days but in brooklyn it's spectacular because um there's no tourists so like there's not a lot to do like I can't go to a Broadway show um you know like I was doing every night but that's the lead of the musical yeah when you live in New York it's like Broadway show after Broadway show I mean your whole stuff that yeah and eating grazed papaya right Broadway shows. That's what I think New York is. Hey, shut the fuck up. That's what I do. That must be bad without the tourists, because where are the people who will buy the Spread Love is the Brooklyn Way, you know, souvenirs? I am buying them still.

Okay. But to try to support the Spread Love, it's the Brooklyn Way t-shirts. Yeah, yeah. But it's really nice without them. Can you just tell me? Luckily, I'm not. Sorry to interrupt you. What's the Brooklyn Way t-shirts. Yeah, yeah. But it's really nice without them. Can you just tell me? Sorry to interrupt you. What's the temperature? What's the ambient air temperature, just so I can get a peek into what you're looking at?

I don't know what ambient exactly means. Just the air. I'm sorry. That's me. What temperature is it? So it's 66 degrees, mostly sunny. Wow. And out your window, there is blue?

Oh, my gosh. There. And out your window, there is blue? Oh my God, there's green out there. Yeah, it's just like, it's sunny and cute. But like, honestly, there's like a slight chill in the air, which in LA,

you get like that little chill and you're like, ooh, the little chill. And in New York, the little chill is just like, knock, knock, knock. And then on the other side of the door is like this like winter monster. Yeah, it's when it just frees your knock. And then on the other side of the door is like this winter monster. Yeah, that's when it just frees your ass.

And he's going to ruin your life for nine months. It sounds so nice right now, though. I'm just like having other, my family is in Massachusetts. I've just been having them describe the weather to me. Yeah. I mean, look, that's how we've really simplified things. Before I'd be like, man, I wish I had this or that or that. I'm like, tell me about the sky where you are.

And I'm like, and that is a birthday gift. Esther, we're going to get to know you even better. But before we do that, we're going to take people down the primrose path to talk about what we're going to be talking today. J.K. Rowling, she's, you know, we talked about in the trending episode yesterday. But she is continuing her streak with her transphobic work. And it just there's our writer, J.M., has illuminated a few things about her work that I didn't I didn't realize that we'll get into that. In even more horrific news, there's a ice. There's a complaint coming out of ICE detention centers that shows we are quite possibly in the darkest,

further confirmation of the darkest timeline of American history. Pelosi is having trouble to the left and the right of her, trying to figure out how to do, you know, create a relief package for people. Breonna Taylor's mother settled with the city of Louisville. We'll talk about what that looks like. Carole Baskin was on Dancing with the Stars,

just making a fool out of herself. Oh, I was really hoping that wouldn't come up, but yeah. We got that. And maybe we'll even get to Chris Evans' dick pics at some point, because that's just 2020. Yeah, we're going to talk about it. Did you see that picture of Robert Pattinson he had on his photo roll? I have questions about that. Everyone focus on the dick pic. I had questions about the screenshots around the dick pic. Wow. Okay. Well, this is great.

We're going to get into all of that. But first, Esther, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, my search history is sad we have diastasis recti workout which is when the abs separate when you're pregnant you have to work out in a very specific way to try to to get the gap so i've been obsessed with i'm like neurotically worried about this thing that i might not even have that's what all i search and then teething rash what's teething so I had a kid three and a half months ago

Moses we've met over zoom a beautiful child shout out to you Noah Moses is cute my body has been mangled like it's a used car and one of the things that happens to the mangled body that is a childbearing woman

is that the abdomens separate to make room for the baby and then you have the baby and everyone's like oh baby no one gives a fuck about your like damaged um goods so you have to everyone's like get your snap back and i've like refused to snap back sure i'm like oh i will snap back when i feel like snapping back which thank you right yeah and then and then like i finally was like there's something wrong with me and so now i'm like going down the rabbit hole of trying to like google things that are like wrong with women and it's who've had babies it's like diastasis recti is when your abs are still separated and that and I'm also googling like physical therapy and pelvic floor and all this stuff half because I'm concerned and half because I'm like oh there's something wrong with me and that's why i can't

work out like i can't work out snake is truly eating its own tail in this yeah yeah i'm so sick and i can't work out but i need to lay down but also yeah exactly i keep googling until i find like esther just lay down and smoke as much weed as you can. Like a human being knocks on your door from Google and it's like, hey, this doesn't happen a lot, but we'd love for you to just, why don't you have a seat here? I brought a lavender herb mask you can just lay on your eyes just to chill out. We're from Google. We kind of care sometimes. What is something that you think is overrated?

Pumpkin spice latte. Go on. Say less. The fall. All of it. Wow. You live in New York and you don't like the fall? Anyone in LA is like, but the fall is so great.

And I'm like, no, it's imp impending doom it is foreshadowing a nasty weather and so pumpkin spice latte just reminds me that like at some point my shoulders are going to be cramped from being like chattering freezing cold so yeah i don't i don't like the fall and the fall is so depressing because it's the end of summer. Yeah. I still miss the fall. I don't know. I do miss it.

I got a pumpkin spice beverage at Dunkin' Donuts the other day. Why'd you say beverage? Just because it's embarrassing. Is that what you call it when you just get the syrup and water mixed up in a cup? No, it's... Give me a few pumps of syrup on ice. I get the cold brew and then they just like spike whatever gallon of syrup in there. But what's been going on at Dunkin Donuts is they have a Charlie D'Amelio beverage, that TikTok star. And so now Dunkin Donuts is flooded with 14 year old girls who look exactly like TikTok stars getting the Charlie.

What's the whole thing? What's that? What's the drink? She's like a she's a teenager like she's in her early 20s and she's a tiktok she's one of the tiktok girl i mean not to be oh the one that dances girls is like huh huh yeah like she does like three dance moves and that's and she's a millionaire um and she's got a dunkin donuts drink that she has and so now there's a million young women who look like this

TikTok star at Dunkin Donuts all the time getting in my way. Wow, the Charlie is a really not very interesting drink. It's a to-go coffee order. It's cold brew with whole milk and three pumps of caramel. Which is the most teenage

Dunkin Donuts order of all time to be fair yeah exactly i would be shitting for a week i remember back in my day it was called a caramel macchiato okay and we were drinking that in the arts y'all now yeah i'm in my um 30s and i order the oprah tea from starbucks because that's my char. Yeah. Wait, what's Oprah tea? Spill the Oprah tea real quick. For a while, she had her own tea at Starbucks and anything with the word Oprah, I will buy. It feels wholesome. It would heal you.

I would probably drink that. And it's strong. Yeah. I am such an Oprah stan. There you go. I'm Oprah said. Not a bad place to be. I do like a sponsored beverage. I don't know. I know it's wrong stan. There you go. I'm an Oprah stan. Not a bad place to be. I do like a sponsored beverage.

I don't know. I know it's wrong, but it's fun. You can get the Charlie at Dunkin'. You can get the Travis at McDonald's. You can get the Oprah at Star. What the fuck are we doing? By then, it's just like, I only eat what Kim Kardashian shits out, and I will dress like Kendall or whatever.

It's like we're finding a way to make it so easy to just emulate celebrities and now like the marketing just like yeah just order what the celebrity gets now and that's like a new thing you can do late capitalism is wild but might try the charlie at some point don't know late capitalism is wild and then you just hear like a you drinking the end of a cup through a like. That's crazy. What's that? Oh, it's a Charlie. Anyway, it's whole milk. Three pumps of caramel swirl. Oh, man. What else? Let's see. Underrated.

Esther, what do you think is something that's underrated? This is going to be like an embarrassing Oprah thing, but self-care, unplugging, journaling, being alone with your own thoughts. Yeah. I'm talking no music, no computer, just you, yourself.

One-on-one in your mind. That's like, I'm really into that slash trying to be more into it. It's very hard, but then it's so rewarding. You're like, wait wait i've been alone in my own thoughts for 30 minutes yeah and i didn't run out of the room screaming i think this is all right it's progress it really especially right now i mean good lord you could as somebody who has to look at the news every day and look earth and it's ugly eyes like every morning it's uh it has become a very major part of like my routine is to meditate in the morning and meditate at night

because i just need to be able to like you don't want to like because you know i would do that shit where you wake up days we don't know esther is body rolling to the idea of meditating like shout out to the idea of regular self-isolating oh wow you should be on tiktok with all those moves um but like no tiktok no it's spyware then we need one just yeah we well i guess well who's taking over it now like oracle or fucking microsoft's had a tug of war either way miss me with that i'm too old for it y'all i will do what i used to do upload videos to youtube um like it doesn't work the same way but it's really like necessary like for me i can only speak for me like to try and start my day at neutral because a lot of times i can wake up and be like what the

fuck happened today and go into my phone and be like come on world give me confirmation that it's all going to shit which yes there are many ways to look at it there are also ways to feel really good about things that are going on in the world like there are moments where you can see how communities are coming together and how other people are trying to create solutions but getting to like neutral i think is a real skill i'm trying to cultivate more and more right now because it's 2020 is draining the fuck out of everybody like realistically and whether you're compartmentalizing and not actually realizing that's happening it's good to even if you don't think that you're like i'm built for i'm built for fucking 40 40 fuck 2020 like no you

gotta fucking be real with yourself trying to beat up to 2020 come at me what's up bro i'm at oh you guys are scared not me i will cry in my room alone i mean just give yourself some time tell yourself you know we got to take it one day at a time because yeah shit can get overwhelming so damn quick so yeah anyone who is still like 2020 come at me is terrifying to me i'm like i think it's come quite enough and we should not really you know it's come quite enough yeah i am 2020 sub submissive you're simping 2020 i mean it's really yeah it's i think the people who are like that though like it's truly the most scared people because it's it's just it i think it's easier for them to just like scream running into the fire

than to be like, okay, it's a fire, and I'm scared, and that's okay. I don't need to like put my chest up against it. Maybe I need to figure out how to protect myself a little bit and protect our own. What other routines you got to get in your own mind, Esther? Like what's your self-care? What do you do? Do you set a timer? You got a tape you listen to?

Well, I like tm which is like just like quiet your mind and for 20 minutes put a little timer and then it's just one single mantra which i love i also like very oprah like to take a long bath there you go and like to like when i also i can't just like do yoga like for some reason i need to like light a candle put on swing music put on like a glow light like i really have to like set the mood because i'm i was i used to like go to a yoga class and now i have to like create serenity in my apartment though the same place that i have like daily crisis and like anxiety so now i have to like i mean i feel like i'm always putting on a play and the play is like

okay this is relaxed esther playing like put on the character right right right be the sip some yogi tea and like pretend you're zen yeah oh and then it'll happen yeah yeah we gotta walk before we run you know uh finally i have worried that the brain can't handle the amount of information like were we supposed to know every single problem in the entire world no definitely not were we just supposed to know what's happening in our community i think we should probably start locally uh because that has the most immediate effects uh and then you know zoom out but i think it's all you know it's as much as people can handle yeah literally as much as you can handle in a day without exploding yeah and just you know realize it but this it hopefully it's temporary in the sense that like anything

everything's in flux and we may just have to see the ugly part of the cocoon. What is it? A caterpillar before the butterfly comes out? I don't know. That's my weird Zen way of doing it so I don't scream. Finally, Esther, what's a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Well, I have heard so many things about open relationships.

And it's just one of these things where people have so many opinions like those don't work. Those do like blah, blah, blah, poly open. So I will say I have explored an open relationship and it went very well. So that's my, it ended because some people are like, oh, like all this dating things. Like, oh, if he wants to be open, then that's not okay. Blah, blah, blah. So basically I was open in an open relationship for a minute. And then it ended because we realized we just want to be with each other. So it can.

Wow. That's so nice. I wasn't ready for that third act twist yeah the third act twist was we were monogamous then open then married and had a kid and if it wasn't for being open like yeah you wouldn't now i'm like for you was it open was the openness helped you sort of realize like the value of your partner? Or was it kind of like, or you're like, man, I thought this shit was cool. It's really not that cool. Like I'm more built for monogamy. It was all of it.

It was like get in. It was also that and get in your last harass. Yeah. Sure, sure, sure. That feeling. I feel like that's like a problem that so many people have of like oh i feel like i didn't get in my last whatever before i said and damn that's amazing i mean i don't know how many people get it in unless you're like really out there fucking like i don't know how many people like feel like oh yeah i got my last hurrah and i don't know like

i feel like it's a concept that a lot of people have if you look at marriage as like a fucking trap door or like what i'm trying to say is find the one you look at marriage as like a fucking trap door or like what i'm trying to say is find the one you love and then together fuck a bunch of people before you get married yeah but don't be shady and be like let me see your phone real quick and be like okay really okay well no do you as long as you're happy uh don't look at my dms though yeah well i'm glad to see it's come full circle this is like a script it's like the new millennial like sleepless in seattle or some shit you know what i mean like it feels like like because i look at i know a lot of people too who have explored open relationships as well and people i did not think would and have either like worked on and be like actually this

suits me more because i realize i am not a monogamous person and like i'm kind of like i have a different viewpoint on relationships and then so other people who have experimented and then realized very quickly what they wanted but you know i feel like where's our script about this you know what i mean where's our modern love story about like trying to deal it's trapped in covid development i know isn't there like some covid movie that's about to actually come out that's like leaned so heavy into the pandemic? There was already a series that like came out on Hulu that was like love in the time of COVID.

And I'm like, could you read the room less? Like, no, we didn't at all. No, we didn't even walk into the room. Um,

well, I guess, I guess we deserve it. I saw a second of that and I was like, Boo! Yeah, just throwing your shoe at the TV. You're like, wait, we didn't fuck the TV up. You're like, it shouldn't have been on.

I was like. All right, well, let's take a quick break and we'll get back to put another one of our heroes to bed after this. put another one of our heroes to bed after this. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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your name is trending it's going to be about transphobia and it's true uh J.K. Rowling has really gone all in to fully take the mask off on her turf turf card and letting people know just like what her worldview is. So all of the things that were bubbling up was this book called Troubled Blood, which is part of the Cormoran Strike series of detective books that she writes under a pseudonym A Cormorant Strike. And isn't it a transphobic pseudonym? Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah. How about we get to that now? Let's just do that part now. Let's start there Her pen name is Robert Galbraith

which many people have pointed out, including our writer J.M. McNabb, that is very similar to the name Robert Galbraith Heath. Jamieie what is he famous for uh what is he famous for wait let me uh he oh he was the uh pioneer of gay conversion therapy who tried to cure homosexuality by implanting electrodes into the pleasure center of the brain uh that so that was his thing that's an interesting name to sort of uh model yourself after she though uh before before you hop down jk's back or whatever the saying is and then

drag her to cancelvania or whatever you kids do uh is she is saying charlieipping a Charlie. Sipping a Charlie, just vibing on to Cancelvania. So she claims that the name is a mashup and not the kind the hood internet does of songs that are really cool. It's a mashup of two names that she really loves. Her quote political hero, Robert Kennedy, and her childhood fantasy name,

which was Ella Galbraith. That is bullshit. I don't believe it for a second. Who has Ella? And her childhood fantasy name, which was Ella Galbraith. That is bullshit. I don't believe it for a second. Who has... Okay, I mean, I'm not trying to look. I'm not trying to shade fantasy Twitter, fantasy listener, if that's your vibe. But, like, how many of y'all had childhood fantasy names? Fantasy last names that weren't, like, the last name of, like like the most actor the most i had was a name i

wish my parents named me growing up like i was like when i was like i wish i wasn't miles i wish i was dj did you have a name that your parents almost named you that you think about sometimes yes my mom wanted to name me byron oh that's a good name after lord byron i almost got named randy with an eye which i'm kind of glad i avoided dude randy would have been sick i would have been like i don't even i would have been a totally different person shout out to the homegirl randy from high school she used to let us smoke weed in her jetta uh but yeah no this i don't believe that sounds like an absolute lie to me did you ever have a fake name esther as a kid so my middle name is k as in k-a-y and i when i was a really young kid i like lied and said that it was k

zuki and like but but esther was oh i don't understand hold on come on k zuki what's going on what i think that people are teasing me like what's that middle name k and it's like my name is supposed to be esther hyphen k so it's like, my name is supposed to be Esther hyphen K. So it's like one word. So when I was growing up, my teachers would be like, Esther K, Esther K. And I think I threw away the K when I became an adult. And I'm just like, I don't need you anymore. I don't need you, K.

You don't know me. Tears down your face. Yeah. You don't know me. And K just was like being a little kid. Who's Esther K? And it was all these boys picking on me. Yeah.

I mean, look, we're dumb animals. And the only way we know how to show interest is to be mean and toxic. It's an evolution I don't think we've overcome. Oh, what's your Starbucks name? I'll be like Jasmine. Oh, okay. With a Z and a M-Y-N? I don't care how they spell it.

I don't know because they spell it. They're like, how do you spell it? I'm like, I don't know because I made it up. But I don't want anyone yelling Esther because it just kind of sounds like my mom. And it's just- Oh, Esther's dope. Esther. I'll use my middle name for coffee sometimes. At Jamba Juice, I used to say my name was Torf.

T-O-R-F because I was a stupid little troll asshole. And they'd be like, what's your name? I'm like, Torf, bro. T-O-R-F. Everyone at that Jamba Juice fucking hated you. They hated me. As I walked up in a motherfucking embroidered polo shirt with my name fucking embroidered on the front of it. This shit said Miles on it.

But I worked upstairs at the laser tag place. They knew what it was. That's just how I was with my baggy ass khaki cargo pants. Oh, God. It's laser tag twerf. Yeah, here it comes. Here comes later. Pretty soon, they just wrote Miles. They're like, fuck you. And I'm like,

oh, damn. It was good when people didn't put it together. But back to JK Rowling. We digress because we were so thrown off by Ella Galbraith or whatever the fuck her name is um so the the this whole series uh has been like just just this weird thing it's about this fucking like detective or whatever and this specific installment deals with the cold case quote of a woman who disappeared in 1974 and is believed to be the victim of Dennis Creed. This is where they lift text directly

from the book. Quote, a transvestite serial killer. That's how she's describing this. Obviously, transvestite is terribly derogatory and outdated. It's not even close to talking about what a trans person is.

Just throw that term away. If you hear anybody say it't need if you hear anybody say and it was thrown away decades ago but yeah hey but when you hey when you when you really got to show your ass though you're gonna dig up old ass terms they say that this review from the telegraph goes on to say quote one wonders what critics of rolling stance on trans issues will make of a book whose moral seems to be, never trust a man in a dress. Okay. Doesn't the Pope wear a dress? I mean, yeah, if we want to go there, yeah.

And his dresses are fly. You know what I mean? It is just so upsetting. I'm just so disappointed. And I was never a Harry Potter person. Ever. So I'm so proud of that. I'm one of those people.

I'm like shittily proud, but it was really like, I was too old at the time anyway. So it was never, I was never like pushing back against like what all of my friends were doing. Like, Oh, you guys read your Harry Potter.

But at the time I was like, in that book for kids, I was a pervy days and I was a little edgelord. And I was like, a series of unfortunate events is better. Oh, that's right. Which is an equally shitty child take, but Snicket hive over here. I was like, a series of unfortunate events is better. Oh, that's right. Which is an equally shitty child take.

Snicket hive over here. I was right. Yeah, I mean, it's transphobic. The tropes that she's talking about, I think I mentioned it last week with Jack, but there's a new documentary on Netflix from a few months ago called Disclosure that covers all of these tropes in media really thoroughly

and I mean just kind of breaks down what the man in a dress as a danger trope represented and it's just I don't know. Yeah, it's in Psycho, it's like with Norman Bates dressing as his mother, fucking Buffalo Bob

and Silent Hill and the Lambs very directly. It's all's all so anyway to go on you know this isn't the first time that it's happened there was another one in the second cormoran strike book of the silkworm there's a woman named pippa who stalks detective strike before attempting to stab him uh strike traps this woman in his office then revealing her identity as a trans woman uh with rowling adding in a description of her adam's apple and hands the detective then tells pippa that prison quote won't be fun for you not pre-op this is just all straight hateful trash like it's un i don't know what does she like beam up she smokes a fat bowl and she's like

all right time to get in my fucking garbage mind of robert galbraith and write this book people have too much money yeah yeah yeah like she's just like quadrupling down on it at this point it's like embarrassing for her too because it's like why are you it's the the creepy creepy creepy obsession over like menstruating body it's like it's just the fucking creepiest weirdest thing in the world to i don't know and it's actively harmful this is so gross this is yeah so i can't believe this story is still happening you know what's funny though because you see a lot of people like come to her defense on twitter and it's all like these sycophantic people who like need work or like the cursed side of blue check yeah yeah right where they're like oh we got to get together even though like it's the totally wrong take because who knows

in the end i might maybe it's a little good to have this person like have my back but you know that we've we see it in every industry uh moving on to uh just another dark story there's been a complaint being filed in georgia uh against ice um someone who's working at detention facilities whistleblowing and the complaint has gotten a lot of attention because of like it talks a lot to do mostly with detainees being denied covid tests and treatment when they're showing full like telltale signs of infection and only being given like ibuprofen and like over-the-counter medicine or just being complete just told to like like fuck off essentially um and then another dark detail that's starting to come out is that

in this complaint there are allegations that detainees are being forced there are forced sterilizations occurring in these facilities where like these detainees are being told they might a doctor that's colloquially known as the uterus collector because whenever this doctor is seeing a detainee it's like almost a guarantee that it's some kind of sterilization procedure um and many people like you know i mean the unfortunately it's mostly the progressive wing of the democratic party is like full voice being like this like what the fuck is going on um and just another you know another dimension to the absolute campaign of like terror that this administration is enacting on people that don't look like you know the posters from the 50s right um well where to begin uteruses jesus fuck i mean it's due with a uterus we're like on some straight up dr mengela you know this is like eugenics shit but this is where we're at

yeah i mean and it's like eugenics are so is so like baked into so much of what exists in the world already but it's i mean just like this level it it it sounds like a movie the fucking uterus collector sounds like a quentin tarantino character in a 2025 movie like or 95 yeah yeah really any era to be honest um this yeah this is really timeless can we just i think we can all agree that i have no notes uh yeah it's but again this is you know it's it's really sort of indicative i say this because this year is coming all over it's coming fast and it's one thing after the other like we they didn't you know they could only give two seconds to the fact that trump knew about russian bounties on u.s soldiers or he's denigrating the the families of fallen soldiers or general like it just it's it's going and going and going and i think it's it's this sort of like looking at the news that can give you this feeling of like holy shit like where do i put my attention right now? And my big question is, has this crazy, horrible, awful things always been happening?

And is the first time in history that we have cameras everywhere and we have social media that's like we're all finding out about the details, which is a good thing. It's like it's all being exposed. But again, this is what we know. What do we not know is yeah the dark side is like even though we know it the people at in power are they going to be compelled enough to do what's right uh because it's hard to tell you know right i mean especially because there's so much happening that the fact that a story like this horrifying could be buried to basically the bottom of the news who knows it seems like they're even with very very pressing issues

it's only the issues that are getting a ton of public attention that are really acted upon yeah um yeah it kind of reminds me of like i don't know if you guys saw athlete A but it was the the Olympic team's gymnastics oh no that documentary doctor and there was complaints about him like molesting and being inappropriate for so many years

it could have stopped with 10 women more complaints it could have stopped with 20 but they got to like 500 and something women were molested by him and it took that long so it's like well yeah there's already important to get it early because victims just stack up i mean there were already allegations of sexual abuse happening in the facilities you know and i think that's where we realize how ill-equipped like democrats are to figure out how what what can even be done because like they're you know at the time i

remember there are people trying to enter facilities and then uh they were like uh you can't actually enter here and like i'm a fucking congress person what the fuck are you talking about i can't come in here and like that's this is such a, ugly dimension on top of the science denial, on top of the unabashed, unfettered killing of black and brown unarmed people. It's like it's truly a fucking all you can eat nightmare buffet of this year. But all that to say is, like, I know it's hard to hear stories like this. I'm like, what can we do? At the very least, you just just figure out how you're going to mobilize every single person you know to vote to start yeah this is this is the kind of story that when you come across it you're just like what the fuck could i possibly do but like

besides vote and but it's on top of that i feel like it is also just like on the public to continue to talk about stories like this and not just let it be like a single day of like wow this is scary uh and then something scary is gonna happen tomorrow and then move on but it's like stories like this in particular where it seems like the only thing that um institutions are even at least acknowledging are things that are getting a lot of negative attention and so it's like unfortunate that we have to like k-pop stan mobilize every time something horrific happens but i feel like that is a big part of it of like not letting stories like this just slip through the news cycle because then they just continue to happen yeah uh so yes uh these are the kinds

of things that there are so many headlines that you could miss something like this. That's as horrific as the forced sterilization of ice detainees. Let's move on to another story that, you know, had attention, then didn't and then goes back and forth. Breonna Taylor and her murder. It seems that the city of Louisville is prepared to pay her mother twelve million dollars in a settlement over the no knock warrant that they served that ended with her killing. The settlement will be the largest paid by the city of Louisville, I think, before eight and a half million was the highest. And they said there will also be some police reforms as part of the settlement. I'm not sure what those reforms are, but I do know that only one person of the three officers involved had any kind of real disciplinary action over this. And while I think this is a good first step, I think at the end of the day, like we're all also want to see real change happen within how this policing

is occurring. I know they're saying like, well, okay, we'll knock off the known off no knock warrants and we'll stop and we'll wear body cameras. But as far as I can tell their budgets haven't been touched, I haven't seen anything about,

you know, qualified immunity is still a huge issue, uh, that things are going on. But, um, at the very least if this can bring any shred of comfort to her family i think i think it's great um but at the very least we know that the work still continues because the you know the the killings have not stopped

and from what i understand like the reason the money is so important other than like you want to you know take care of costs and stuff but like the money is so important other than like you want to you know take care of costs and stuff but like the money is important because if if the city has to pay for these mistakes and it's millions and millions of dollars then the city is going to be like let's let's take some precautions because we don't want to continue paying millions of dollars in lawsuits like that's the goal is for the cities to make changes and if it's because of money then i guess we'll take it yeah i wish la just didn't do the thing though where they're like damn it costs money all right so then the police need their

own budget just to settle and we'll give them that like so many of the proposed solutions that are still going around involve giving the police more money which is just like fucking in i mean especially where we're living in a city where the police budget is a billion dollars you're like how could you not you know make it work with a billion dollars why are why are there additional taxpayer money getting you more body cams which you will continue to disregard like and conveniently lose footage from well i think that's the thing like to esther's point too is like they also want to make it so like a cop would have to actually insure themselves so the city isn't paying for this

shit and be like okay so uh you got the money or you like who's who's paying for this because not the city anymore uh and you can't just murder people uh without any sort of sense of justice or consequence. And that's all that's being asked. Yeah. And also, if you live in the city of Los Angeles, be sure to vote for Measure J coming up in the election. We'll be talking more about that to come. We'll have some people to talk about that because I think that's a really important thing locally that can be done. All right.

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paso doble she did too i saw like a passing clip of it as i was like going through my feet this morning i mean she apparently people were trashing her paso doble skills uh said it was straight trash and she danced to Eye of the Tiger, which was a total surprise because I don't see how those are related. How did they get there? The whole thing was just very strange. You know, like a lot of people were like

kind of being like, it's weird because like Tiger King, no one really comes out of that looking like the better person, you know know in terms of like whether you're doing like a more whimsical form of like animal abuse or just more of like in your face fashion killing your husband yes which is another element where people like we just there's a lot like sort of attached to carol baskin it's not that she's just the tiger lady like likely

murderer that's been on dancing with the stars so no sean spicer allegedly yeah like every piece of shit that is like that needs more press has been on that show but so the thing that was really really breathtaking um is that during the broadcast a commercial played and it's from the family of don lewis her missing husband wait what they paid money to air a commercial when carol baskin was on in the tampa and jackson markets. And it was a few others in Florida. And I'm just going to play the audio from this just so you can imagine. You've just seen Carol Baskin do her Paso Doble. She's literally Gail. Oh my God.

I'm Gail. I'm Gail. Okay, here we go. And this is the commercial that played. I'm Gail, one of Don Lewis's daughters. We are a real family. And to us, he was daddy. I'm Linda, one of Don Lewis's daughters, and we miss our dad.

I'm Donna. I'm Don Lewis's oldest daughter. We need to know what happened to our father. I'm Ann, Don's former assistant. All we're asking is justice for Don. Don Lewis mysteriously disappeared in 1997. His family deserves answers. They deserve justice. Do you know who did this or if Carol Baskin was involved? $100,000 reward has been funded. You can call the tip line at 646-450-6530 good for them honestly i'm like if my dad got tiger disappeared the least you could do is get him a little commercial with bad audio

during the broadcast yeah it's heavy it's like that's what's so weird. It's like, even on a show like Dancing with the Stars, apparently Charles Oakley danced better than Carole Baskin. The idea that a commercial then comes on with a family begging for justice, like, well, it's, again, fucking 20, fucking 20, y'all. And I am chewed out. They just do am dancing with the stars with just accused murderers and that's where we're at right i feel like just they're yeah like let them have their own season they yeah they should do like the canceled season and it's just like male comedians who've been

accused of like sexual assault dance the cha-cha and then we do our murders because it's 2020 i feel like masked masked singer would be a good platform to for cancel people too because they're like oh look how talented i am but i'm dressed as a parakeet just kidding i'm a murderer how do you feel i love it yeah that tricked you actually you know what? Sit on that idea, Jamie. I think we need to, we need to call our friends over at Fox for that. Is that, is that where Masked Singer is? Oh yeah. Or I don't know. Obviously.

I act like I don't know. I know. The Chaos Channel. I've got it tatted. Wait, was that Fox? I don't know. Is it? I don't know.

Look at my. Lacey knew someone who was a body double for the masked singer. Lacey Mosley did? Yeah. Lacey's former, okay, I might be misremembering this chain, but Lacey's former roommate used to be a body double for the B-roll of the masked singer. Because it wouldn't be like- Oh, got it. An actual, that celebrity dressed up.

Yeah, like Rumor Willis wouldn't show up for the B-roll. That would be Lacey's roommate inside of a flamingo costume. I see. Was Rumor a good singer? Rumor, I think won or like came close to winning. I only watched the first two seasons. That show's been on for two years, but somehow there's like 19 seasons.

But Rumor Willis is a close one. Wayne Brady. Yeah. watched the first two seasons that show's been on for two years but somehow there's like 19 seasons wayne brady yeah yeah he won and then uh t i'm underrated yeah and his like gorgeous vibrato one this is something like the 29th season of dancing with the stars and i'm always like all right whatever like remember when it was Bristol Palin and that was like the news? They've always managed to always lower the bar, though. To the point where it's going to be the Covington

Catholic magazine. Whoever was speaking at the RNC, I think it's just like the pipeline to Dancing with the Stars. Like Stormy Daniels, has she done it? If she hasn't, she must be furious. That seems like... Or whenever What's-His-Name finally gets fired, whenever a Fox News anchor gets fired,

they'll probably just trickle down there at some point. Yeah. Roger Ailes. He's dancing. The ghost of Roger Ailes has competed, I believe. One last bit of really important info before we go. Yeah. Chris Evans.

He plays Captain America, correct? That's Captain America? That's him. I always mix up my Chris's, but I double checked. He's always, that's a joke. He's one of the Chris's that we don't know which one

with the muscles in the face. He's, I think, the most famous Chris. Maybe neck and neck with Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt, Chris Hines, Chris Hemsworth. Chris Hemsworth. There's just a lot. Chris Flick, Chris Nezu. These are people I went to school with. Chris Hemsworth. There's just a lot. Chris Flick. Chris Nezu.

These are people I went to school with. Chris Angel. Chris Angel. Mind Freak. Y'all respect the Mind Freak, please. Chris Jenner. Oh, there we go. So this Chris.

Okay, I missed the whole thing, but I know it's trending that this, this Chris specifically had, he accidentally uploaded his own dick pics to Instagram. Can someone break this down for me that he, he did. It was on his IgE stories. So he was my understanding. And I, I didn't have a ton of time to prepare for the Chris Evans dick pic story.

So please don't drag me in the comments, but he did one of those, I didn't have a ton of time to prepare for the Chris Evans dick pic story. So please don't drag me in the comments. But he did one of those like screen records where he was going through his photo roll. And then if you like stopped it, you're like, oh, what is going on in this photo roll? So there was like it was like a screen share mistake where I think maybe I don't even know if he accidentally pulled up his photo roll or if he was just pulling something up but he has a million bajillion fans who were like gonna screenshot everything and so there was a pretty fascinating photo roll at play there was a dick pic but there was also a lot of other stuff where there was like there were a couple of memes that I think he just like saved to his phone to send to people and there was also a picture of robert pattinson standing in a sweatsuit in a kitchen and i was like like as if he took it on his phone or like from a shoe no see that's the

thing is i'm pretty sure it was not i'm pretty sure it was a known existing photo of robert pattinson which is even weirder of like shading him why did he save that picture of robert pattinson are they friends with that's the story i find compelling but yeah everyone i guess people i guess people wanted to see his dick i don't i don't know i'm like i don't need to see a guy named chris's dick you know like how hard could that possibly be growing up in america it's like standard by like 15 a guy from massachusetts named chris that shows you his dick and then says it was an accident um yeah ben they're not interested this just happens so much guys are like oops my penis um jamal murray did you guys hear like his he accidentally posted a

um blow job from his girlfriend who's like a college athlete. And he's like, I'm so sorry. But it was a phenomenal video. Isn't he Canadian? That you should not watch. I'm not sure. I'm so sorry. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm so sick of guys accidentally. Why, like, that's the other thing. of guys accidentally why like also like that's the other thing i feel like it's like because didn't he he like followed up this story by promoting his like political non-profit and being like my dick wants you to vote in november or whatever he was sort of like while i have your attention uh i guess vote november 3rd which i'm like i i guess but i don't know every i i think i'm just very skeptical towards every time a guy is like you saw my dick by mistake i'm like, I guess, but I don't know. I think I'm just very skeptical towards every time a guy is like, you saw my dick by mistake.

I'm like, but was it by mistake? It could have just been, I mean, I could get very tinfoil hat about this whole dick pic situation. In a new six-part series on iHeart called Evan's Dick. Was it real or accident or not? Just a segment called this chris yeah how many oopsies nude dick pics from men versus like what women just never accidentally posting nude pictures i don't it's amazing i've never taken a photo of my penis unless it was for medical purposes.

That's like, as my question about dick pics, I'm like, I don't object to their existence, but I just, I'm like, when you, when you're really horny,

why would I don't, I don't get it, but maybe I'm just like, sex is so embarrassing. Why would you want to document it? Yeah. I went to church every Sunday, so I don't know anything about this. I don't think women like dick pics you say women women don't like dick pics

in in general it's a very the women i know don't like dick pics except i do know a couple of women that do and those women are extremely vocal they have an inbox like a whole gmail setup for oh shit and they are like women who are poster children for like i do want your dick pic so if there is a woman that wants your dick pic they really make it known yeah right right right no yeah that's yeah just like how guys will say they'll be like send nudes please can i get a nude like women are like yo let me get that shaft shot real quick from the underside. I think my least favorite part of this Chris Evans story is Mark Ruffalo finding a way to insert himself, which is he just added Chris Evans and was like, bro bro while Trump is in office there is nothing you could possibly do

to embarrass yourself silver lining and you're just like shut the fuck up Mark Ruffalo I've never seen Irem Madison quote tweeted him and was like Mark I know you have that man's phone number Mark Ruffalo being like

oh free attention by talking about my friend's penis yeah i thought he was gonna be like how did you get a hold of my photos yeah oh god uh i mean it's like they're not bad people but they're just corny as hell and it's exhausting i've never seen though this much support for a dick pic though like his like even his fan accounts that like they love him they were like here's stuff here's pictures with him and his dog it's okay and then other people were like i love it was it safari or i can't remember if it's safari's dick pic or meek mill one of the two they're oh yeah and like recently but no a while ago oh. Oh yeah. I think that was phenomenal. That I felt like that, that was, um, definitely celebrated that one.

Yeah. Safari's nudes. I think that was like in, that was like two years ago. Wasn't it? Again, men are just like, oops. Yeah. Every five seconds. And here I'm over here.

Like that was two years ago. Wasn't it? Safari's Nudes? I believe that was February of 2018. Let me look at my almanac of accidental dick pics. Chris Evans is just like, he could be literally any hot person to me. So ultimately,

I'm just like, this is a generic looking hot person who's gotten a lot of press for dating comedians? Jenny Slate? Jenny Slate? That's the most interesting looking hot person who's gotten a lot of press for dating like comedian jenny slate jenny slate that's the most interesting thing about him is that he dated jenny slate he dated a woman with a personality and we're all like oh my god that's interesting as someone who's from who hails from the commonwealth jamie is he is he traditionally like boston hot he uh in some pictures in some pictures he like had like when he's like relaxing and then sometimes he's wearing a little silver chain you're like oh he's definitely from massachusetts

he's a fuckboy from massachusetts but he doesn't really present that way i know that when i was uh still writing like clickbait for the boston globe um when I first got out of college, you would just have to like do some write up every time Chris Evans took a hot shit. And so I think I'm just generally like, you're like, oh, Mark Wahlberg, like stepped. Chris Evans pooped this morning and it was just like a news story.

Jenny Slate wore shoes because she's like from there too. I think we need new heroes and again Lil Poopy. Lil Poopy from Brockton, Massachusetts. You know what I mean? Let's we'll just

I'm from Tampa, Florida. So all we have is Carol. Well now we have Esther. I heard she took a poop yesterday. There we go. Yeah, you had to write about that on your blog. Yeah. Esther, thank you so much for stopping by the show today. Really appreciate you.

Where can people find you and follow you, support you? And what's a tweet that you like? I mean, sadly, I'm like stepping away from Twitter because all social media is kind of evil. Twitter because all social media is kind of evil but anyone who like just outwardly blatantly shit talks Trump and doesn't care if they lose followers is my favorite tweet

and I'm on Twitter at Esther K and then Esther.Steinberg on Instagram and I've got a new podcast coming out about interviewing female comedians about their birth and motherhood journey so it's called stand-up mom anyways that's uh when's that

coming out um probably in the next couple weeks it all depends on when my son stops teething and uh that's really the schedule okay well we will we're sending vibes the teething so the teething ends yes exactly this work out to the world uh jamie what about you i can find me on twitter at jamie loftus help instagram jamie cries superstar i'm gonna shout Instagram, JamieCrySuperstar. I'm going to shout out a tweet from Aida Osman. This just made me laugh this morning. She said, I've always wanted to be a whistleblower, but unfortunately I don't fucking know anything. That's from at ShutUpAida.

I love that. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Let's see some tweets that I like. Okay. So this is a tweet from this mom. And so she tweets it as a photo test. She said, her tweet says y'all.

So my child asked to wear her sunglasses to school today. Fine. I figured they were going to take them off for, for picture day, because why would you need sunglasses for fall pictures? y'all she puts a picture her little daughter's like eight or nine is stunting with her sunglasses on like holding the edge of the frames in her school photo and it's like the greatest energy i've ever like it oh my god it's like i've never had something make me smile so instantly so please, please check that tweet out.

I'm going to retweet that shit. So just look at my page if you need to find it. Another one is from at human Aaron. The tweet is you can say, OK, John Mayer to any white dude playing guitar and it drives them nuts. It's the greatest thing ever. Go try it. That's great. Very, very flippant. Also, you can find me on my other podcast while

i'm at it for 20 day fiance where i'm just getting high talking about 90 day fiance with sophie alexandra it's just a nice break from this world we're in right now uh so stop by and check that podcast out you can find us at daily zeitgeist on twitter at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page we got a website dailyzeitgeist. Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page. We got a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post the episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Thank you. Where we post our,

you know, song of the day. And the song we're writing out on is really good. Alright, so this track is called Trip to Dusseldorf. Which, if my memory serves correct, that is somewhere in Germany?

But this is a track from Salmon Cat, and this has got, you know, I'm about to say the same thing over and over. It's got vibes. It makes you feel laid back. It makes your big toe shoot up in your boot. Yes, it does that, but the vocals are very ethereal.

They make you go transport you somewhere and be a bit of a stress release valve so check this track out trip to dusseldorf and uh i guess we'll see you i'll be the same uh and like we said uh what is this the daily zeitgeist yeah it is it's a production of iheart radio so for more podcasts check out the iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts until then we will see you later on for trends and that'll be that thank you guys for joining me uh peace and blessings love for y'all and be well. Bye. All the time my phone goes, why'd you need to call? I don't wanna talk, I don't wanna talk about it. It's just a cold, it's just a feeling.

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