The Daily Zeitgeist - Tough Guy With A Gavel, WE ARE ALL ZOMBIE 10.05.23

Episode Date: October 5, 2023

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I'm tired. What are you doing? Like a Stephen Wright bit right now? I'm tired, man. I went and saw the Walkmen last night in Los Angeles. And I was up later. Way up past your bedtime. Past my bedtime.

Our youngest super producer is talking about coming back from an amazing trip clubbing and doing all this stuff and i'm like i stayed up two hours past my bedtime and i am destroying my brain is non-functioning it is thursday october 5th 2023 uh-huh you know what that is of course i know what it is miles 10 5 good buddy or or see i've got the hiccups full disclosure i got hiccups right now it's also national get funky day i don't know what that is national rhode island day day by white people yeah dude you know what's wild the image is a white woman in afro yes That is exactly what popped into my head when I heard it was National

Get Funky Day. Put on your afro wigs. I'm not doing blackface, though. It's okay. It's also National Apple Betty Day. So if you like that, dude, I'm sorry. Look at this fuckery. Look at this.

Anyway, so there it is for you folks.'s also uh please send in your tips on how to heal miles hiccups yeah hiccup day it's national hiccup day on this on this broadcast national coffin hiccup day my name is jack o'brien aka who's this piss king that got me sniffing he's the piss king not mr pfizer did the piss thing to fight off covid he's a piss king oh oh never never not oh that is courtesy of blinky heck omari one thing underrated song in reference to our piss king aarongers, who tried to cure his... We don't have it

officially on record that he used urine therapy, but he just looks like he smells like he used urine therapy to try and immunize... When he said, yeah, I've been immunized, but had his own method for doing it. Yeah, just doing pistol backs.

Yeah, that's right. And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray miles gray and apropos of nothing i'm bad with money please venmo me i'm broke as fuck now baby Now will you bail me out? Okay, shout out to, what was that? Rando Dixon Art, who just said, apropos of nothing I'm every woman, but just I'm bad with money So, I appreciate that My finances are none of my business

Yeah, you know, it is what it is So, shout out to Rando Dixon Art Appreciate that Well, Miles, we are thrilled, fortunate To be joined in our third seat By an award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, TV writer. You've seen doing stand-up on Fallon and Colbert, acting in Super Troopers 2. Please welcome to the show the very funny Graham Kay! Wow, thank you.

You found my old bio before I scrubbed the Super Troopers 2 from it. Yeah, man. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Now, Miles, you sang that song about not being good with money. Is that a PayPal hat you're wearing? Yep. Yep.

Okay. Just wanted to know. Sick PayPal hat. It's like as a podcaster, man, you got to just sell everything out. I'm like, PayPal, wear the hat. You know what I mean? It's a blue hat with a white P on it. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I wish it didn't. That's how this actually, right? Yeah. But also, a lot of tennis players are like, is that Prince? Like, the racket company? Oh. That makes rackets?

It's kind of like a Rorschach test, honestly. It's for podcasts. It's for podcasts. We need to get t-shirts that we wear to these recordings that just say podcast! Internet. Internet funny jokes. What's good, Graham? Where are you coming to us from? Letoklyn new york didn't already have this conversation yeah yeah no uh i'm where i'm come

i'm coming to you from uh downtown america that's right brooklyn new york there it is it's a lovely day do you stay dry in the past seven days in Brooklyn? I was doing shows in Canada, and it was beautiful there. And then when I landed in New York, it was beautiful and dry. And I just missed it. You just bring that in. You manifest that. That's right. Climate.

Yeah. It's wild, though. We were talking about how, wasn't it you, Jack? You're like, I can't believe how resilient New York is in the sensory. One day, the clips are like, the bus is flooded, and people are stranded in the subway, and then the next day... Watch this bus get swallowed by a whirlpool

in Columbus Circle, and then you call New Yorkers, and they're like, yeah, we're good. We're good. Sorry, I'm just about to step into the subway. I'll call you when I get off. What the fuck do you mean? How? Yeah.

I will say that all of those things, like all they, they, it's like all those things were real and awful, but it's like each neighborhood had one intersection. That's low. Yeah. That's where it happened.

And everywhere else is fine. It's just, everyone's, uh, gets their cameras out for that part. Yeah. Yeah. It's just where all the rat piss goes and

develops into a rat piss whirlpool. And, you know, just stay out of there. That's how you get to Narnia. That's right. Gross Narnia. Dive in. Heroin Narnia. Yeah. Just an abandoned stop on the A train. Yeah, it's actually spelled

G-N-A-R-N-A. Fucking Narnia, dude. Narnia. That needs to be a t-shirt. We got good t-shirts coming out of this episode. That's a good one, yeah. It's a rat piss whirlpool. Rat piss whirlpool, Narnia.

To an abandoned subway station where there's a guy down there just eating out of a trash can holding a knife. Welcome. That's right. Somehow playing music somehow you're my kissy boy yeah it's like what uh-oh didn't even know that was a job now play me a song play me my favorite song on the machete in narnia all right well graham uh we are very excited to have you on the show and we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first a couple of things we're talking about miles yep we've been fucking up man we've been fucking up we called it too early on the mccarthy thing we were like he got by squeaked it out but he's still the speaker

and like as we like hit stop on our recording the motherfucker he's out he's out peace so we're gonna talk about that and the fun little fellow that he's been replaced by yeah is that a giant chair behind him or is he a child-sized human it's i mean we've seen many people sit in that chair but he it's like his overall stature does make it it feels like that the that photo of the bidens with the carters right yeah yeah it's an optical illusion yeah without the lens distortion yeah it's just like i don't know man i'm pretty sure and then based on videos i've seen yeah he's he is a short king. Peter Jackson used forced perspective to take this photograph for some reason.

Yeah. And he can swing a hammer, though, man. Oh, yeah. It's a fucking gavel, asshole. All right. I have some respect. The boy can swing. Yeah.

So we're going to talk about that that talk about the conspiracy theories coming together around that uh emergency alert that we all got yesterday a couple minutes early felt like it came a couple minutes early i got 11 18 that was two minutes early yeah two minutes early but anyways there there were some fun conspiracy theories we we got to check in with the elderly see what they think is happening in the country miles we fucked up again yeah we the big time man mean girls day was on tuesday and we didn't even tell the people that it was yeah girls day my bad that's on me man yeah anyways we're going to talk about uh all of that plenty more but first gra, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Well, if I skip over all the moms with huge jugs searches, thumbnails, obviously.

Moms with huge jugs, thumbnail. Thumbnail. JPEG, JPEG. JPEG, yeah. This one's kind of embarrassing. It was, let me look it up here. It's David Foster Wallace on being entirely yourself. Now, that is something that a man of my age

who wishes he read more and wants to figure out who they are would Google. This is a midlife crisis of a search. Yeah. Do you write something good on being yourself? It's just a YouTube video. It's like a commencement speech, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever looked up. And I'm just alone in my home office. i'm like how do i know who i am yeah yeah let me watch this guy wallace will tell me yeah this guy who wore a bandana whatever it was man he really stuck to that shit yeah yeah i mean did you think he was copying

brett michaels or was brett michaels copying him it's it feels like impossible yeah did captain lou albano come first like we really don't know right nobody can say like i i do like what i wish somebody had asked david foster wallace like why maybe they did i haven't like looked through does he touch on it in his on being yourself commencement bandana like does he say like for instance look at this fucking thing that i'm wrong yeah no one was like uh what's with the fucking bandana dude why yeah it's whatever i know david foster wallace foremost intellectual of your generation. What the fuck with the bandana?

Yeah. Some great points here. How do I square that with everything else? But that bandana is not. It is. Just accept who you are and be yourself. Unless you're balding. Cover that up.

It is shameful. Not rock and roll. There's a picture of him in 2006 and he's rocking a full head. Full head of hair? Yeah. Two years before he passed. So, you know, I didn't, I made, is it entirely aesthetic?

I don't know. David Foster Wallace fans, dial in, let us know about the DF. Oh, and the lines are lighting up, Miles. Lighting up. David Foster Wallace fans wallace fans dial in let us know about the df oh and the lines are lighting up my lighting up david foster wallace fans who all use landlines yeah yeah i feel like i i got i got into a real david foster wallace hole in like my early 30s and like we started taking those books out of the library tried to read infinite jest yeah that's what you do you know like i got really dedicated like i really tried i got like a couple hundred

pages in okay to that shit like you know i don't know that anybody's ever made it that far i haven't checked the record on how far the furthest anyone ever made it into infinite jest before but a fun thing to do is when someone says they've read david foster wallace and infinite jest you go especially you go yeah what'd you think of the ending crazy right and then just watch them go what did you think of the ending all the spaceships were crazy dude yeah wasn't expecting that dude the uh his non-fiction was really good though there that the i think big red sun is his like magazine like long ass magazine piece on the porn industry i highly recommend that did he read did he write one uh an essay on on taking a cruise i think he did yeah like a supposedly

fun thing that i'll never do again yeah i remember that too yeah yeah that was good that was good so we're learned people yeah meanwhile i'm like haven't read a single fucking thing i have to read his whole damn name there's too many too many names so anyway my life's in shambles. Yeah. Move on. Yeah. No, I'm kidding. What is something you think is overrated?

Cake. Oh. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I think, I've always thought cake is stupid. You're a pie man. It's just bread. I'm a pie man. It's just bread.

You can eat bread whenever you want. It's bread with, uh, with, with sugar on top. Yeah. I don't, I pancakes too. Why would you eat a pancake? It's not good unless you put butter on it and like a bunch of other stuff. It's just dry. Yeah. Hard disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion. About what? Flapjacks? Dry flapjacks? Well, I'm not going to say dry flapjacks, but like, I don't say I hate cereal because you have to put milk on it to make it wet. Like that's, you know. It's still dry.

There's never, but here's the thing about a flapjack. There's never an amount of syrup. You put the syrup on and you empty the thing and then you're like, that's enough. And then you talk to your friend and then you look back and it's dry again. Yeah. Well, that's because it has absorbed it and it's like a slurry. Yeah. It grows like one of those like sponge toy things, like one of those little like dinosaurs.

Oh, like a Shrinky Dink? You put in water. Yeah. It grows like a Sh shrinky dink sometimes i still i still enjoy it because i sometimes i'm eating for sustenance and sometimes i'm eating as a means to like sugar delivery method i just want as much sugar delivered to my body as possible as quickly and efficiently as possible and And just drink the syrup then. Yeah. Well,

yeah. Fuck the pancake. I'm civilized. Okay. All right. Teach their own. Fuck the pancake down the syrup. Okay.

I'm taking notes here. Yeah. Fuck the pancake. Just fucking marry the butter on that shit. Yeah. You're good. You're good. Wait, what's your favorite pie though?

Uh, apple rhubarb. Oh, classy. Wait, what is, what does that even taste like? I never even had, every time i see it in my mind i'm like that's not for me rhubarb yeah i mean it's definitely like uh you know probably uh the amount of uh if you were divide the divide the races that have eaten rhubarb it's 99 white people i'm i assume got it got it got it but what's the flavor bring me to your white people world i would say okay here's the about rhubarb is it's gross when you eat it out of the ground

but it's like an onion when you cook it it caramelizes and becomes very very sweet oh so it's it's like a very it's very sugar dense uh sweet it's very hard to describe i've only ever sort of eaten it mixed with other things in pie form. But it's just sort of like, it's basically like putting a sweetener in your coffee. It just blasts off. Takes it to that extra level. Oh, okay. So it's like if you like apple pie, put some rhubarb in there.

It's like an apple enhancer. You can't put more apple in, but you can put rhubarb in to give it like a pow you know what i mean yeah yeah okay it's it it yeah it's so good i i wish i could have when i was a kid i was like why can't i just have like a birthday pie you know and never everyone would be like bummed at me like you know and we'd have to i'd always compromise to be so difficult yeah oh god damn it graham again with the birthday pie fuck i like yeah yeah didn't have a lot of friends kept trying to invite them over for my birthday pie right yeah how much of the work is being done by the fact that rhubarb is one of the great words in existence?

Like, does it keep getting added to pies just for linguistic effect? Or is it an actual, like, great ingredient? Like, would it be added that often if it was just named, like... I never took into account the fact that I might be a sheeple. I'm not saying that. No, it's very possible. I mean, the Joker had that line where he was like, never rub another man's rhubarb and it doesn't make sense at all.

But it's just like a fun word to get your mouth around. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we're changing the perception of rhubarb now it's a great word it's got rube in it i love calling people a rube oh yeah i'm a rube i'm a proud rube i don't know what the fuck's going on with anything no no always have a piece of hay sticking out of the side of my mouth and it is your pie holiday as we were discussing before we started recording. But you do hail from the great white north.

It's my pie's holiday? It's Rupert Pye's holiday? Well, Thanksgiving. It's your pie holiday. Is Canadian Thanksgiving not a bit of a pie event? It's a pie party, my friend. It's like pumpkin. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, Canadian Zeitgang, I hope you turned it's like, you know, it's like pumpkin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Pumpkin. Well, which is Canadian's I can. I hope you I hope you turned it up with. Yeah. I hope everyone's having a great Canadian Thanksgiving out there. Thank you so much. It means a lot. Of course. I'll tell my people.

Please. Yeah. Would you pass it along for us? Thank you. To all of them. To all of them. What is something you think is underrated? Small phones.

Phones are getting bigger and bigger and bigger i i have a i have an iphone mini 13 and i just it's a it's a 13 yeah but it's tiny i can it doesn't hurt my hand it's tiny it's i can fit my pocket everyone every time they see my phone they go especially now like i'm dating again they're like girls are like what is that phone do you have an iphone five why is it so tiny i make a decent living right i'm a provider i like a smaller phone normalize a smaller phone that's all i'm saying it is i mean they are getting so big to the point like i even like i like you know more people like men wear like crossbody bags or have like a

smaller bag now they carry it's because the phone takes up fucking 80 of your pocket i'm like at that crossroads too or that i feel like i'm about to dial it back because it like just makes my it looks so like i already have thick legs so when i put something in my pockets it just basically accentuates it in a way that right just fucks up it's very attractive i'm i'm just i'm just wearing shorts using the regular pockets it comes with wow walking around yeah people go do you have did you drive here do you have do you have a bag somewhere stashed i'm like no this is it i got everything i need yeah everyday carry right here in these walking out with a tablet slung around my shoulder what's the biggest phone did you like have like a bigger

phone like what was the biggest you went before you're like fuck this all 12 max oh you did 12 max i'm a 12 max bitch right now oh hell yeah yeah come on but i i lost it what happened was is this is my this is this is my story okay i was i went to the airport like a 5 a.m flight or whatever exhausted i'm sitting in the back of an uber my 12 max on, on the, my black 12 max is beside me on the, uh, on the Uber, uh, seat.

I'm holding up and I'm like, I have like a banana for a little snack. Uber drops me off. I get out, grab the banana. Uber drives off with my phone. I'm holding a banana, left my phone.

Do you pick up the banana? Like you're going to make a phone call with it. Lyft picks up. No. Not you. So anyway, so I went to my destination without a phone and I had to pick up a cheap phone just for like the weekend. And this is like a couple of years ago. And I picked up

an iphone se an old one and that's like it was an iphone 5 model like like bones of an iphone 5 with the brain of an eight and and and and i was like i felt like i was flying like i just stopped picking i was like oh my god you put in your front pocket i was like it was like putting a putting like a tic tac in my pocket i was like this is amazing right right and i and i've never gone back and then i and then i was like when they come out with a mini because and then they came out with it and then only uh old men like me well they have to be exactly my age who remember the five you know remember those the right free free living remember the five yeah but you can't be too old where you don't understand cell phones you know what i mean right so it's like remember

the fifth iphone and then anyway they discontinued it because nobody wants it and yeah yeah well well i feel like i could really take a flip phone again because i feel like that coincided with like where my life peaked in the aughts so yeah i think also like where my relationship to technology peaked whereas like if you need me you can get me here but otherwise like i don't need to constantly be reached or constantly be checking in with the giant screen that has apparently been irradiating my groin for the past four years. Did you know about that, Graham? I have heard news of his groin being irradiated.

You did notice it when you joined the call and saw a subtle glow emanating. It's like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Just coming from my lap. We good, Jack? Oh, yeah, we're good. We good. We're good. Actually, we're really, really bad.

I don't think he's good. Yeah. All right. Well, this has been a pleasure let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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Yeah. And then it all became a wrap. A little behind the scenes detail. I don't give a shit about this story at all. I did not. I was fine getting this one wrong. Who cares? at all i did not i was fine getting this one wrong who cares uh i will be shocked if this ever impacts anything other than introducing me to this fun little guy i lost 17 000 followers

dude i lost so many followers after this fucking completely humiliated but like so anyway he's out and apparently what the thing that we learned yesterday too is apparently some moderate republicans i don't even know what that word means anymore like private racists yeah yeah quiet they were they were calling up democrats and begging them to save McCarthy they're like they said it had a bit of a begging dimension to the requests so anyway he's the first to be forced out as speaker and he nearly took the crown for shortest tenure as Speaker, but that title still belongs to a dude that died of consumption in the 19th century. So you almost had it all, Kevin. You almost had it all.

But the real fun part now is that with McCarthy out, it cleared the way for the person to come in to deputize, And that is Patrick McHenry from North Carolina. Get to meet another little weird, little weirdo. This man has not really been in the spotlight much recently, but he's definitely like a behind the scenes guy, especially like a big ally with McCarthy. That's why he was like in line to take over if anything happened. His first act as acting speaker, evicting Nancy Pelosi from her office that I think he wants for himself because she has like there's like hideaway offices that some members of Congress get to have access to. And he's like, yeah, yeah, you got to you need to vacate. She's like, I'm in California for Dianne Feinstein's like funeral. It's like, yeah, yeah, more on that later.

I guess we can move your shit then. Yeah. And it was. And also foreign majority leader Steny Hoyer also had to kick rocks from his office and this guy mchenry he's been a real tough guy about shit ever since he got the gavel and i just want to play a clip for those of you i just implore you to try and look up this clip of mchenry gaveling out of the like adjourning the session uh because this is some of the most aggro fucking gavel bashing i think i've ever seen just just listen chair declares the house and recess subject to the call of the chair oh shit yo did you the fucking form on that? One more time. Chair.

Okay. It's like a guy who's flying on drugs playing a whack-a-mole game after it's over. He's like, I'll still fucking get him. I've never seen a cry for help be articulated in a bashing of the gavel. Yeah. But here we are. Things are off. Things are not where they should be in this man's interior world.

It's wild. He looks like Mr. Peanut is wearing Pee Wee Herman's suit. Oh, yeah. I was saying he's wearing an awful Pee Wee Herman's suit. Oh, yeah. I was saying he's wearing exactly Pee Wee Herman's suit. Right. Or like Leslie Jordan cosplaying as Pee Wee Herman or Tucker Carlson. There was something. Or yeah, or like Martin Short or Steve.

Wait, who am I thinking of? Steve Martin pretending to be Martin Short. Steve Martin Short. Yeah, Steve Martin Short. That's actually what it is. I think a blend of all those. But yeah, he's just a super fucking tough guy. And he's fucking loving it.

He looks like he spent most of his career getting bullied by Dick Cheney. He just feels like he's gotten teased right with every fucking in this weird way kind of becomes sort of starts to look like dick cheney yeah he's like dick cheney's like who who dick cheney bullies like yeah yeah yeah or this would be like cheney micro dick cheney that's right cheney. Micro Dick Cheney, exactly. But now comes the fucking real weird part, which is who the fuck are they going to pick to bring in as speaker? Marjorie Taylor Greene? The fucking ghost of Stonewall Jackson?

Oh, we don't fucking know quite yet. But one thing that people are saying over and over is fucking Donald Trump. There's so many people. And I'm like, I think Donald Trump would be great to become speaker of the house and no rule says a dog can't play basketball yeah no truly um which is funny because their own their own fucking rules that they put through in january this is this is actual rule the republicans have right now in the house rule 26 temporary step aside of a member of leadership who is indicted a member of the republican leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years imprisonment may be imposed so wait who put that in the republicans so that trump couldn't be no i don't think they ever were

even thinking about they're just like we gotta wrap. Like, we're trying to keep this like, if you're, we don't want any criminal Democrats or whatever. It's just some dumb shit. Anyway, it's just a rule, which means that's just like their opinion, man. So I think you guys are forgetting that the Republican Party is the law and order party. Yeah. Yeah. Think about that. Yeah.

I've totally, totally glossed over that part for sure yeah and yeah and now so like the there's so much talk of trump being there i mean i think the bigger issue is like it's like being speaker is like really procedural like you'd have to fucking show up all the time and y'all that ain't fucking happening so i think the reason i don't give a shit about this story is like i've never felt like an important story was affected by who the speaker was am i wrong about that it completely stops the business of the house right that's the big fuck up is like they can be like i ain't fuck we're only gonna look at bills that are calling joe biden a pirate you know fucking demon pedophile

or whatever the fuck it is so really what this is it's going to serve to just cause more dysfunction and really i think makes like a huge government like a government shutdown even more likely because they honestly there's no they really can't come to a consensus on who it could be like on the republican side so yeah what it means is that like legislation will grind to a fucking halt. And, you know, there are a lot of things that need to still be funded that aren't necessarily like new legislation. But yeah, that's kind of that's where it that's where it becomes a real fucking issue for people who might not think it means anything. that we just were talking about speaker of the house and pedophile in the same sentence because talk about dennis hashter dennis hashter uh the one the one person like i guess he just like blended in with the wallpaper a little bit for and he was the speaker of the house from 1999 to 2007 yeah so like that's like when my brain was coming online as like paying attention to politics

and then he just turned out to be like a serial child predator like a serial child molester yeah yeah yeah and it's funny too because nancy pelosi was even like i even let denny hashtard keep his office once like i took the gavel and wow everyone's like maybe you shouldn't have done that maybe that's not we're totally gonna gloss over who he is ah whatever all right yeah moving it's like a fucking it's so funny that it's like a badge of honor for mainstream democrats that like the monsters that they've done business with like where biden's like this guy was a grand wizard in the KKK. We still have lunch together. And I, God damn it.

I still respected the hell out of him. It's like, well, that's fucking bad, man. That's not good. Jesus Christ. All right.

Let's get to some real dangers though. Jack, enough of this bullshit. Let's check in with the old, let's check in with our parents generation, my parents generation, I guess. Cause quite a few of them have just gone off the, you know, Facebook, the meta deep end. And so you may have noticed that your phone started shrieking at you at 11.18 to 2.18 yesterday, depending on which time zone in the u.s 18 for those in hawaii yeah yes for those in hawaii but that was the test of the emergency alert system on everyone's phones conducted by fema to ensure that systems continue to be effective means of warning the public about emergencies

particularly those on the national level so you you mean the globalists yeah thank you yeah first of all how is this not a plot point in an ocean movie like i feel like this is going to be like because they tell you when it's going to be right ahead of time i'm wondering if that's why they threw it off by like a couple minutes because danny ocean and his gang were planning something. But yeah, you use the national test where mobile phones are momentarily down to, I don't know, rob the Hague or some shit. I don't know what they do in those movies. Bring George Bush to the Hague?

Yeah, but a story involving the combination of both FEMA and cell phones has obviously inspired a number of conspiracy theories online, suggesting that the alert will trigger microchips in vaccinated people, leading to the great replacement. And they've taken that and turned it into. And that means they're going to turn you into zombies. And therefore, you should wrap your phone in aluminum foil and place it in the microwave for the day one q anon follower even posted that the alert will will activate the marburg virus in people who have been vaccinated and sadly turn them that

quote sadly turn some of them into zombies this has been like a thing that the faux sadness yeah unfortunately you will be zombies and i wish it was some other way i will not hesitate to put one through your dome when you become a zombie because i'm going to protect my family and my you know my franklin mint eggs that i have here uh but like the thing is like you've seen so many i've seen so many like anecdotal posts from people being like yo like whether it's people showing text messages someone on reddit posted like how their landlord is like we're turning off the power during like the time of the fema tests so find a place to be for that stay away from your cell

phones because this could be a potentially catastrophic event for everybody and landlords and parents yeah are two coolest and most trustworthy categories of people right but yeah i mean this is how this is how joe biden's gonna joe biden's attacking the whole population yeah i i have i have a different experience with my parents because I'm Canadian. So I have, my parents are like, they see those memes or whatever, those like screen grabs of older people in America or whomever, landlords. And they're like, you need to leave America now. Right. These zombies who already exist. Yeah.

Right. Control your housing and your power. Get out of there. No, but it's the real ones. Yeah. You could become a zombie. You know how happy those people would be if like even one person who got the vaccine turned into a zombie? It would be the greatest day of 40

of the united states's life oh yeah yeah pretending that they would be sad is the funniest part of this i don't think just one person one person who's vaccinated has a stroke yeah yeah you know and then just news helicopters will descend yeah breitbart helicopters or probably a bus will descend and they'll be like oh this person turned into a zombie and they're like i i just needed someone to take me to a hospital in the first half hour but everyone all the power was off but you can't even dial anything yeah my cries for help went unheard. My phone was in the microwave. Yeah. But some of these quotes, my mom just told me in a panic that on October 4th, Joe Biden will use cell phones to attack the whole population of the United States. Something about a frequency that can harm and kill.

This is the thing I really don't like. Even if you go to school enough, you kind of learn what's possible for the most part, technologically, like on some level. Like, it's wow, like a level of ignorance and like hope to like, I guess, you know, a way to just like the cognitive dissonance all coming together to be like, yeah, it's going to we're taking leaps and bounds technologically here we're now like a liquid injection has microchips that will be activated by a cell phone and then that in turn will turn you into a zombie because we've seen that technology be used before yeah you know what i mean like i i'd sooner believe like it i feel like the obviously the entry point is something like a vaccine something happened physically to someone after they had a reaction versus like going just eons ahead and be like, and then they will become mindless zombies that we will have to wage war against. So, yeah. Yeah. It's always baffling.

Yeah, it's really wild how how quickly some of their worldviews just crumbled with with the advent of Facebook. their worldviews just crumbled with with the advent of facebook do you guys think that i've wondered this and i don't know what the answer is that in 10 years when that generation a lot of them pass will they be replaced with a newer generation of confused people yeah who because we they that generation will be have be more in tuned to technology. But they still believe it, right? Yeah. I feel like Gen X is like getting pretty cranky and misguided. Like, I don't know. I hope

not. Like, it doesn't make sense that they would, right? Like, it does seem like this was a generation that was acutely ill-prepared. Like, just in talking to my parents about technology from the start it's been right not you know it's not it's not the easiest learning curve at a certain point so right which i wonder if that makes it like even easier for gen x or like other younger generations

to sort of fall victim to it because in our minds we're like dude i fucking know i ain't getting got by no bullshit like i ain't my fucking grandma and then cut to it's like our minds we're like dude i fucking know i ain't getting got by no bullshit like i ain't my fucking grandma and then cut to it's like fuck it man they're out of foil at the fucking store so i bought a bunch of hershey kisses to wrap my phone in you know just die of diabetes yeah you don't have to eat them but it's just such a waste too it's a yeah yeah because the kids will keep getting more and more sophisticated like i feel like as long as our you know system is an exploitative version of capitalism like the young people who are who understand the technology better than the older people like they will continue to be smarter by a significant gap than the people

who are retirement age and therefore will probably continue unless like things change and we we have a less exploitative version of techno capitalism like yeah that's what we're probably just headed for a continuous loop of confused older people but like i don't know it's just it's wild like what must it be doing to generations of kids and young adults to see their parents and grandparents just fully just melting just well it's the same way but you see this going the other direction too or grandparents write these fake facebook posts and like i've lost my sweet granddaughter to the woke mind virus right yeah like it's everyone's just saying goodbye in every direction but i think the thing we need is like more youtube pranksters to like do the fema alert zombie prank like in a like an old like go to the villages in florida and just like like only they get it and they're like

they're like fuck just i need to see i just need to see their world come to life and just see how they're going to respond to that although that person may get attacked because they're so ready for it i don't know i don't know they will be shot in the head are you gonna do that within one second a man's gonna come out with like a double barrel shotgun and be like uh i was prepared yeah it's happening it's happening i knew i read bright bart for a reason kapow you know i just i do feel like when you take a step back just like for some reason i like i think because i'm tired i I was reading these quotes in a weird mindset. And I was just like, this is really such a humiliating thing to have happened to your entire generation.

It's like a Skinner box set to humiliation. box like set to humiliation like it's just like you will spend your the the time when you're supposed to be like the gray eminence of your society you will spend that time being so badly and easily tricked by the dumbest shit ever repeatedly it's just like yeah it sucks man it's i don't know like has that happened before maybe like in history but it it has to do a weird thing where even if like gen x isn't so easily and badly and stupidly tricked i feel like we'll be ready for that we'll just be like yeah well can't trust people over the age of 60 at a certain point so we'll just get for gen x we'll just get the remaining uh band member like the remaining the surviving members of the pixies to just do a psa right and be like zombies aren't real yeah you know

like okay okay all right yeah yeah we'll take away your doc martens if you say zombies are real no no okay sorry sorry i don't know no please and that all that being said this generation is still in control of like most fortune 500 companies and the united states yeah i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about the tinfofoil. Yeah, they're fighting each other over it. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk Mean Girls. We'll be right back.

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We have to acknowledge when we failed and we fucked you here big time. Yep. I apologize. All I can do is try and be better going forward yep and catch next time it's mean girls day yep because this is you guys missed out you weren't ready when somebody at work was like hey did you see that it's like mean girls day or something and then you said what what and then you're the and it's it's on us man it's on us i'm really i'm damn it o'brien i feel like don zimmer after that fight that he had with the yankees i'm what do you say i'm

embarrassed i'm embarrassed i'm sorry that's what i feel people should just say i'm embarrassed through tears like that's exactly yes that that's how i feel like 40% of the time. So just make it acceptable to say I'm embarrassed. Yeah. Weeping. Wait. So it's Mean Girls Day because that date, October 3rd, was like referenced in the movie. In the movie. Yeah.

Okay. Shit. What is wrong with us? It's yeah. There's a scene in the movie where Lindsay Loh lohan says on october 3rd he asked me what day it was and people are like sick this is we need something to distract us yeah there's a headline on the internet that was like mariah carey is gifting us with the holiday tour and we are here for and i was just like god damn it like what the fuck

like what is wrong with us yeah we're just like thank you mariah please please keep the the headlines coming i'm here for it we are here for it i'm here for this branded content really she is gifting you something that you're going to pay thousands of dollars to partake in? Here's a gift of an ad. Maybe the alert did activate

the vaccine. I think we're fucked. Thank you, Mariah. Thank you, Mariah. You are our queen. We're all here for it. We're here for it. Every zombie now.

So to celebrate this, Paramount launched a Mean Girls TikTok account, posted the entire movie for free, broken up into 23 clips. Because who says cinema is dead? The way it was intended to be seen by the filmmakers vertical

video broken up over 23 clips on vertical video so you can only see one character at a time even group shot right right right but this is like so cynical because you're like oh nice try assholes you're break you're putting the movie on fucking tiktok essentially but i'm like i don't know is it the whole movie we broke it up into 23 different videos yeah so what's that and they make ad kind of they make ad revenue off of that and that it's a type of ad revenue they don't have to share with the creators so where's lohan's cut thank you that's what i'm worried about you know where's like what's her what is she taking home after this nothing just herbie the love buggy residuals that's it yeah that's right yeah oh was it fully loaded what was it called herbie herbie fully

loaded herbie the love bug i think i think that yeah loaded. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not caught up. I'm not brushed up on the canon. On the Herbieverse? Well, you brought it up, man. I know. I'm so sorry. What did you think of the ending? The aliens?

What did you think of the ending? It was giving chill vibes. And I was here for it. And I was here for it. It's actually a weird ending where it turns out it's like a time loop where the last scene actually feeds into the first scene. And it's this infinite loop of Herbie's being fully loaded.

I think you're just watching the tiktok on a loop oh shit just started over but this seems to be something that media companies are doing more in august two peacock shows premiered on tiktok prompting a wga strike captain to be like are we like accounting for whole episodes of tv being uploaded on tiktok and twitter and our contracts now right and i don't think they are but they're like you forced our hand now we're just going to dump things in the street because that's the only way that we can avoid paying you anything jesus yeah well keep your keep your eyes on your tiktok you might you maybe you can watch uh like a new film or something and in a way that no one asked for but yeah it's like i know

like this is a good this is gonna be a thing like inevitably as the industry is trying to figure out to like well we gotta pay them more but we gotta we gotta make line go up on wall street yeah where like where are we gonna find new pockets for this kind of shit and this is like so cynical like just putting a whole fucking movie on tiktok like it does feel pretty like a like an act of violence to the people involved in the film yeah well graham uh it's been such a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can follow me on Instagram at

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You're named Ham? There are no Grahams in America. Yeah. Anyway, so it's Graham K. Mr. Graham. At Mr. Graham K. on Instagram. it's Graham K Mr. Graham at Mr. Graham K

on Instagram I have a off Broadway solo show which Paste Magazine gave a 9.1

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and yeah it's off Broadway at the Under St. Mark's Theater. If you live in the New York area, October 5th and 7th and 12th and 13th and 14th, you can get tickets at GrahamK.com. Also, if you don't live in the New York area, I have a comedy special. I have the poster hung on the

knobs of my armoire behind me it's called graham k live in a bowling alley and that's on uh youtube and you're going to want to go to www.shiftkey uh gra No, YouTube. Anyway, you get it. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Pardon me? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying?

Work of media? Yeah. Work of media. Archimedes. Work of media. Social media tweet. Oh, work of media. A work of media, my good sir.

Oh. Sorry, I had an aneurysm there. Uh. No media, my good sir. Oh, sorry. I had an aneurysm there. No, I said it really unclearly. Jeez. A work of media that, I mean, I, I mean, I, I, I, there are a bunch of friends' work that I'm, I'm really impressed with. I'm really happy to know them. My buddy Django Gold has a really funny comedy special he put out on YouTube.

He's a writer, a former writer on The Onion, former writer on Colbert. Really smart, weird guy. Great joke writer. Yeah. Yeah. Big fan. Django was on this podcast.

This very podcast. Not too long ago. Makes sense. All right. Thanks very podcast. Not too long ago. Makes sense. All right. Thanks, man. Miles, where can people find you? What's the work media you've been enjoying?

Twitter, Instagram, Shift2MilesOfGrey. Wherever they got the Shift2 symbols at. Also, find us on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack got mad boosties. This week, we're going through all the fucking wild shit that happened in between episodes. Also find us on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties this week. Man, we're going through all the fucking wild shit that happened between episodes. I'm going to the box and Jimmy Butler on media day. It was such a good one.

Also, the good thief is obviously the true crime show. And if you like 90 Day Fiance, catch me on for 20 Day Fiance. Some tweets I like. It says this one is from at Gary Witta. And just like so there's like the cameras are all over this trump trial uh and someone took the picture of the back of trump's head and scary witta gary witta juxtaposed that with the same from star wars where darth vader's having his helmet put on and you're like look at the back of those heads looks he does look like his head is

cleaved in half a little bit. Well, it's because he's got nothing up top. So you know what I mean? So back there, you know, it's bare, baby. Have you seen a picture of his dad's head? It's very weird. It's misshapen.

It's not a good head. Fred Trump is not a good head. Trump is not a great head. Has not a good head fred trump is not a holder of not a great head has not a good head because of his dad he's got like homer's head yeah yeah yeah yeah it's very strange head all right you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'bBrien that is shift to Jack and then underscore is next to the zero shift shift minus sign O'Brien I'm so sorry

I started that we love it we love it folks there's a cool video Trunk Fam shared on Twitter John Like you know him yeah yeah you do of course you do yeah the dude who does the like camera work for the winning time and the way he's able to get all these like smooth tracking shots like going through around the court

is he's fucking just nasty on rollerblades so he's like rolling around with a fucking steadicam and swooping around on rollerblades which yeah i did he turned rollerblading into like a sick cinematography career which is like Unbelievable yeah because last time I was Talking about doing soul grinds you know Yeah and then Riley At good post Riley tweeted gritting My teeth as a woman shows me a meme On her phone Snoopy wouldn't

Do that that's not real Jesus Christ You can find us on twitter At daily zeitgeist we're at at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes,

where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. What was the song that we think you might enjoy, Miles? What was the song you think people might enjoy? This is a group called Divine Angel, which is like this collaboration between two artists, the Yoruba British artist Mava of Earth and then an Asante British artist named Angel Seca. And together they are Divine Angel. But really, they are making like just really like this new fucking version of like afro punk jazz kind of shit this is a track called obiri but it's spelled o-b-i-n-r-i-n and it is the remix by isco i-z-c-o and it's just like a

really fucking dope track like from their vocals to the rhythms and if you like the words Afro-punk futuristic then plug this into your brain now sounds like a way that you might misunderstand my name O'Berry Jack Orbian Jack Orbian anyways we will link off to that in the footnotes

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