The Daily Zeitgeist - tRuMp bALLoTs, Jessica Is The New Karen 9.28.20

Episode Date: September 28, 2020

In episode 724, Jack and Miles are joined by White Homework's Tori Williams Douglass to discuss the missing military ballots William Barr is fixated on, Vin Diesel's new EDM track, Tucker Carlson being full of shit, the future 'Karens' according to a Reddit user, Animal Crackers, The Kissing Booth 2, and more!FOOTNOTES: Report: Barr Behind Trump’s Fixation On 9 Military Ballots In Pennsylvania Vin Diesel Trades Fast Cars For A FuriousBeat In New Dance Song With Kygo, ‘FeelLike I Do’ A former Playboy model is suing Fox News after Tucker Carlson accused her of extorting Trump Fox News Argues Viewers Don't Assume Tucker Carlson Reports Facts First Amendment bails out Tucker Carlson [OC] Predictions of what "Karens" will be called in the future | Using data from USA social security administration White Homework Patreon WATCH: Htiekal - Fast Life Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 153, episode 1 of The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, fuck the Koch brothers. Fuck Fox News. Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Fuck Ben Shapiro.

Fuck Tucker Carlson. Fuck Fondant. It's Monday, September 28, 2020. My name is jack o'brien aka certified wet diaper for my sweat what to do with my hands it's making me fret yeah i'm standing in line for a duggarita got doritos on the rim of my Dugarita. No tequila, if you please. Virgin Dugarita. That is courtesy of Edmund Alcock.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, shit. Cold brew, cold brew, I've had nine. So much that I might flatline. When I'm podcasting with jack drink it up drink it up drink it up zoom on the screen so much caffeine gotta try to get by till we get a vaccine okay so i mean look we all love our old hip-hop uh thank you to jason christian jason

c 1975 look you saw you saw an inroad with that fuugees one. And then I picked it up. And then you said, oh, okay. You want some more 90s hip-hop? I said, yes, I do. And you came back with Black Sheeps. The choice is yours. Somebody is listening in to the music that is playing in my mind when I wake up. Because that's another one of them. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.

Every time I wake up, I've always got music coming through my head. It's almost always 90s hip-hop. Or if I hear the phrase, pick it up, then that is immediately going to trigger that part of that song. It's jacket for you, pick it up. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Your clothes off the floor, the toys up, pick it up. No, no, seriously. Your clothes off the floor, the toys.

It's the office. You need to be. Oh, oh, my bad. No, seriously. It sounds, your boss sounds good. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant and talented Tori Williams-Douglas. Hey, guys. What's up?

Welcome back. How are you? How's the air been? I've been thinking, you were in Portland. You know, we've been on fire. The air's been particularly terrible up there. You know, how is it feeling now? A little more sky, a little less particulate matter?

Yeah, it's been raining the last two days. Oh, okay. Nice. Yeah, that was rough. That was real bad. Yeah, I mean, I thought we had it bad down here until I started looking at photos in the north. I'm like, ooh.

Oh, my God. Sorry. What planet is this? Yeah. It's our planet, just with climate fires now yeah throw that on the the menu uh-huh i mean it makes sense it's 2020 right yeah that's why i'm like you know honestly like i feel like we should if look if there is a god they'll also give us some cool shit in 2020 like you know so i guess there's not yeah i know right and that's how we'll know y'all

yo it's give me my alien ships oh all the good people all the way i know uh a friend of a friend who does a really good thing for uh hungry people in the pandemic just had like a freak accident and is like in the hospital it's just like yo will can we like get bad things to happen to bad people? Maybe. Right. Right. Right. Every once in a while.

Um, yeah, I don't know, man. It's like the goods are being picked off. Yeah. Right. Um,

anyways, 20, 20 y'all. That's right. Venti, Venti. Let me get a Venti, Venti. Oh my God. let me get a venti venti oh my god let me get a venti venti

absolute horse shit in a cup please and that's this year make sure it's hot extra like that it's melting the plastic cup like i don't even want to function it's just got to be a fucking mess in my hands uh tory we are gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about we are gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about we're gonna check in with these missing ballots the heck's going on with those huh uh who who's telling who's gassing uh donald trump up about these missing ballots uh we're gonna you know cut that news with a with a little We're going to cut that news with a little Vin Diesel EDM track.

Yeah, it can't be all bad news. It can't be all bad news. Sometimes it's beautiful news. Sometimes it's art that will stand the test of time, like Vin Diesel's EDM track. We're going to talk about Tucker Carlson, because a court has ruled him to be too full of shit to be taken seriously. I am officially out of patience with this.

I mean, it should have been a long time ago, but like, how is it still? Well, we'll talk about it. But like how like if that is going to be an argument for your show, you need to open and close every block with you being like and by the way this is i'm a joke i'm a clown i might as well be a wwe wrestler hi i'm tucker carlson here we go yeah i mean like even fucking like law and order is kind of like trying to give you something a little something there and that's scripted you know right uh or cops they do it but yeah i mean i guess with this they can't just be like tucker carlson is a is filmed in front of a live studio audience and everything he's about to say is total horseshit they right they in fact nobody will watch it if

he even had like a small disclaimer that was like uh you should take all this with a grain of salt because nothing he says is actually researched and it's very uh has no grasp on truth like that people watch it specifically for authenticity and because they believe what he's saying is the truth um and yeah anyways so we'll talk about that we'll talk about uh what names we can look forward to being uh the karens of the future uh we'll talk about the shows the Karens of the future. We'll talk about the shows we rewatched or the movies we rewatched. We'll talk about possibly we'll talk YouTube infiltrating Netflix,

what that looks like, all of that, plenty more. But first, Tori, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So my search history the last several days has been all these executive orders that trump is putting out because there's been a lot this month that affects me people i know personally so uh yeah it was like i think i think the first oh god i can't i can't even keep them straight in my head i think that like the first the first one i'm God. I can't even keep them straight in my head. I think that the first one I'm thinking of was the patriotic education mandate. Okay, cool. Patriotic education mandate. Now, just from the name, you know it's going to be good. Oh, okay.

Is that the 1619 one? Well, because he's mad about the 1619 project. Yeah. He decided to start the 1776 commission where we're going to teach American children to love America with all of their heart and all of their soul. His words, not mine. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, having been raised in that environment where America was the greatest. Right.

That could backfire on him real bad. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how many people are like, dude, you remember in second grade when we fucking learned about Thanksgiving, asshole? You're really going to fucking come in here talking on some like colonizer shit?

Are you what? Dude, you know what we learned back then. We wrinkled up old brown shopping bags to look like deer skins and we made problematic Native American art. And that was that, dude. That was American history, y'all. Come on.

Oh, my gosh. I don't know what this is going to look like, but his thing about, you know, he's saying, okay, if California schools are teaching 1619 Project, I'm cutting their, we're going to cut their funding, which i guess legally he can't do right now but then tom cottons like submitted a bill changing that so they can penalize schools that that teach anyway history but teach american history i mean i don't know what the like i think at that point it's almost like the only argument they have you can't say that didn't happen you know like this is this is this is i mean i'm i'm sure they would want to pretend so he piles on right with the banning of diversity training for all federal employees right that was that was the that was another executive order and now he's got this executive order on combating race and sex stereotyping, which says that federal dollars cannot be spent on anything saying that racism exists or that sexism exists.

And essentially this goes so far that if you have a grant from the NIH and that is what is funding your research and like sociology say. Right. They're like, you have to return that money. Oh, okay. Oh, now they're calling it back? Yeah.

They're like, you can't talk about, you can't talk about, you can't study race or racism if you're getting federal funds. And if you do, then we are going to require your grant money back. i mean uh it's like yeah let's it's all you know it's it's all happening all at once you know like at every at every level it's like let's just try and cut off the oxygen to i love living

in a free country yeah right freedom number one what's free though about you know like free suffering for everyone unless you have a lot of money and then you could bury your head in the sand and then you know do that um yeah so basically this whole it's really funny because this whole executive order on like race and sex stereotyping it says like there's so many typos in it so many typos it's ridiculous Good sign for an education. Yes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

And then it's talking about like race and sex scapegoating, meaning assigning blame, fault or bias to a race or sex or members of a race or sex because of their race or sex. Who, who wrote this? Right. Wow.

Who wrote this? It's just, I mean, someone with the idea that like that's the way you're gonna change the world you know like it's weird that their solution is like okay well we're racist and the way we can keep it like moving is that we just tell people to shut up about it not that they'll live through it regardless and it will be experienced but it's like just that like yeah and then we do that and then uh that should be fine that's a couple the way it's written like is people who don't even have like they aren't familiar with the thing they're talking about because like that

that wouldn't apply to anything that is being taught because they're they're talking specifics no like the that's just the Fox News talking point version of things, that the 1619 Project is going to be like, all men are bad, and all whites are bad. That's not what it is. It's actually just telling you the true story of what happened. So even your wording around that doesn't apply but obviously they'll find a way to fuck it up yeah it's that like parent solution of like where'd you hear that

nah nah nah this is what happened and you're like all right fool what and then you're like dude my parent is a fucking asshole like then you started like going through some shit you're like, dude, my parent is a fucking asshole. Then you start going through some shit. You're like, man, all that was bullshit. I mean, yeah, it's such a superficially cynical move that really is just, it's terrible to see. I mean, it just speaks to the desperation and the lack of any kind of thought that really goes into just being an out-of-control racist. Right. And it's one of those underrated ways that it can always get worse because you do this to the education now,

then you have a whole generation of people who are miseducated about racism and then things start just disappearing from history and you have a whole new status quo of horrible that your mind couldn't have even conceived of because you were dealing with reality. Good times. Yeah. It's great.

It's so great. I'm tired of people saying, how could it get worse? It can get way fucking worse. Well, this is the thing. It's almost like... Way, way worse. It's sort of the same sort of that saying that was going along with like any genocide

or like the Holocaust of like first they came for this group and I said nothing. Then they came for this group and I still said nothing. And there's a large group of Americans that are currently saying nothing. Right. While they are coming for us or other people or other marginalized groups. for us or other people or other marginalized groups and it's funny because like rbg's death sort of set this subtle realization off for some people being like oh shit right it could be like abortion stuff now it wasn't just like draconian immigration laws and uh things that were disenfranchising voters of color and things like that it's like oh these other things oh my god oh my god and it's

almost like it's been they've been coming for everyone this whole time i sound like william shatner in that twilight zone thing there's something on the wing uh and they're like they're like yeah all right bro we're gonna have to handcuff you because you're freaking everybody out i'm like i'm not joking man this motherfucker you know we've been people have been trying to say shit um and yeah for i think that's why the other day when we were talking about what a coup could look like or what the response is like some people just truly don't have the imagination that their lived experience could be as bad as what we're seeing happening to other people it's like well i'm not an immigrant it's like but that's how they're treating human beings and all they have to do is just change the definition of what a citizen is

and now guess who's an immigrant you know and it's just yeah it's you know you have to be a little more flexible and i know it's uncomfortable because it truly is alarming to think that far but you also need that to truly motivate yourself to act in ways to help your community and preserve, you know, whatever this democracy or whatever the fuck this experiment is. Yeah. Educating yourself. Also, like doing things, practical things. Listen to How to Citizen with Baritunde, which like gives you actual practicable, like small steps that you can take. practicable, small steps that you can take.

And uplifting because he has great guests on and people who are just taking things into their own hands or experts who have all this knowledge to share with people. And it's very empowering because you realize what it means to be a citizen. Yeah, and Baratunde used to be editor, one of the heads of The Onion and worked at The Daily Show. So he's a real funny dude too too people should check that shit out now uh tori what is something you think is overrated i i gotta go with living in an anarchist jurisdiction it's very overrated

according to bill barr yeah yeah like i don't i don't know what it means. I'm waiting for them to tell me what this means. But it's, you know, everything seems normal. It's very just normal Portland. This is how Portland has always been. And it just usually isn't on the news. So that's cool. But it's fun to say, though. It is fun to tell people now that I live in an anarchist jurisdiction.

I know. I hope to see those at the airport. Yes, on the postcards. Like a shirt that says, I went to an anarchist jurisdiction and all I got was this t-shirt. Oh, God. Yeah, we need to make that. We need to put that out. That's so stupid.

I mean, what the fuck does that mean? It's just so, I mean, because purely it's for labels. And I wonder what, like, conservatives who live in Portland say to, like, you know, like, if they live there and, like, their friends who are just, like, mainlining QAnon and Fox News shit are like, so how bad is it there, man? Are you, like, you fighting off hordes at your doorstep with your AR? And they're like, what do they got to say? They're like, yeah,'s uh it's a total anarchist jurist uh did you say uh macchiato for for toby yeah that's me it's fucked it's uh there oh my god there's a cop car just exploded uh i think i gotta go what was that uh dude the

like mega dude who was always talking about going to a liberal coffee shop or something? Oh, yeah. Going undercover at a liberal coffee shop? No, no, no. I think it was. It was someone like Charlie Kirk, a Jace, if not Charlie Kirk himself. Yeah. What's his face?

Sitting in a hipster coffee shop. Yeah, yeah. And I overheard. Yeah, Jacob Wool. Jacob Wool. Jacob Wool. They're all the same. He's the best. Talk about people who have an imagination.

I think liberals who are lazy with their viewpoint on what a conservative person is thinks everyone is like a truck driving boat rider or whatever. You know what I mean? It's all transportation based. Truck driving boat rider. Truck driving boat rider or whatever you know what i mean and i think uh with all transportation based with a big belly fucking like lib version of a trump voter but the the same thing's like the other way where

it's easy to be like yeah man like i'm sure uh leftists just are like living in a state of chaos where like even at their dinner tables, they have black masks on and they yell at each other across the table and cook their food with Molotov cocktails and shit. They don't watch HGTV. Waiting for you to say the part that's not true. Yeah, right?

That's all real. You want another burger? Hey, fill up another Corona bottle with some gas real quick. Toss it at this ground beef pack. Tor tori what is something you think is underrated right now i have to go with teachers oh my gosh i just like last i saw six teachers in the u.s have died from covid 19 and i am like as someone who is super adamant about supporting public schools that's just getting to me so i just i really want to give all the teachers a raise and a hug but we can't do that right now so that's that's after the pandemic

but um yeah so trying to figure out ways to support teachers right now because they are doing the work. Are there funds that are just like out there supplementing teachers' income? I'm sure there are, right? Well, you can buy classroom supplies. There's a website specifically for teachers to list the classroom supplies that they need that they would otherwise have to pay for out of their own pocket. So there's lots of really cool options that way and then yeah yeah that's cool that that's cool that they usually have

to buy their supplies it's real cool i love that i love how much we love kids in this country right yeah themselves i don't know you figure it out like all lives matter pro-life fuck the kids though like you're some sort of hobbyist You're just buying all the supplies yourself I feel like yeah Michael Jordan would even be like God damn hold on y'all are going too far with this Fuck them kids stuff

Even him But you gotta do the bare minimum Or it turns into you know One of those feel good stories about like This teacher was on a plane and mentioned how she needed money to educate the next generation. And then they took a hat around and she got $350. Oh, God. Let's put that in a nice clippable Twitter video and everyone can be like, I think we just need to get angry at the leadership here.

The other thing is just because the pay is just so criminally low. I think this shit should be you should be a high, a top level earner if you are educating people, because it's like that's whatever, you know, you get it. It's like it's just more profitable to have a bunch of dumb people you can just throw a few memes at and they think China created all of your problems. Right. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? Okay, this might be a little bit controversial, but a myth. America is a democracy. That is a myth. America was not designed to be a democracy which is why it's not functioning as one and i think it's why we're all falling apart at the seams um because yeah we we uh america was designed to be a constitutional republic right and only certain people were

supposed to have access to any kind of political or social power whatsoever because which makes sense when you have millions of slaves millions of indigenous people like clearly you have to design a system where just you can be in charge otherwise otherwise it's anarchy you guys um but yeah that's that's what this is i'm on a kick about this right now america is not a democracy and you know if you wander over to like the Heritage Foundation, they'll just straight up tell you that it's not and it's not supposed to be. Yeah, that's that's it. Yeah. That's why it's not working.

We could try a democracy. That'd be cool. Let's go. Come on. Don't be so cynical. It's working. I mean, you can try Don't be so cynical. It's working, I think. I mean, you can try that in your anarchist jurisdiction.

Anarchist. Your antichrist district. Yeah. Ooh, I like that better. Over here, we're not messing with that. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, it's just such a mess. I mean, it also just lays bare.

It really is like the ripple effects of what the constitution actually was like it's not for all people that's all you know all like and if people want to fucking circle jerk around the constitution we're like yo read this shit you know what i mean and think about how what the the whole plan the whole point of it is and yeah that's why we're here it's not like they started like all right we as americans know that there are weak people and us as those with people of means must take care of everyone because this is america land where we treat everyone fairly and equitably regardless of their race creed religion or status in society like but you know what i mean it's just like nah man hey you man. Hey, you got land? Okay, cool. You got slaves? Okay, cool. You a man?

Cool. You white? Okay, great. All right, so we're going to run shit. I mean, it's a page one rewrite in the sense that it's like, control all, control F, like, replace all. But, like, do you need, like, it seems like it's salvageable if you just, like, make some very, like it seems like it's salvageable if you just like make some very

like broad like change white male landowner to you know i don't know i'm like we've tried to do that yeah humans and make it human rights instead of it just seems like that's that unspoken uh white maleness of of that version of the of the constitution is kind of they will fight to the death to keep that but you know like look whether it's the you know whatever the fuck that grand jury trial was for brianna taylor and whatever evidence yeah what the fuck happened there right um and we are still trying to find out or, you know, all the people's rights who are infringed upon.

Like, America just always has this thing, like, their best thing is trying to figure out how to, like, carve up one life into being worth less than one life. Right. Like, all right, so one person made three-fifths of one guy is this person. And then let me say this person,

okay, so 15 of them will equal will equal one regular person and you're like we still we're like that mentality sort of echoes still that in that we see inhumane treatment of people constantly uh it's yeah yeah i mean the system is working as designed which is remix the constitution not working for most people yeah no yeah shit well all right that's brutal i'm sorry no that's listen but hey you know this is i think honestly this is part of the process you know you have to kind of fully get your head around every i mean i think for a certain group of people you could look at america and say yeah we have a lot of work to do. There's some people who are gradually getting there like, oh, okay, yeah, it's kind of yucky. And now some people are like, okay, yeah, maybe we have to do more.

But this is the thing. You also got to get to that point where you can honestly look at it and be so bummed the fuck out about it that you can be moved to be on the right side or do something productive. Because, yeah, I think getting cynical about it is like, I understand that feeling. But you know, this thing, this thing, you know, we have a shot if more people can sort of remind themselves of like, what? Yes, yes, that is exactly it. I mean, that's like the point of the Electoral College, right? That's the point of the Senate is that you have to have significantly more people voting a certain way in order to make the process like slightly more democratic um so if more people are willing to show up that that's all we need really like if you if enough people are willing

to show up and there are enough non-voters who are not abstaining for like personal morality reasons like there's enough of us to like make a difference but i think that there's so many people still who are have enough privilege to be mostly unaffected right um so or they're just straight up like accelerationists too that's true it's like yeah no like it actually needs to like it needs to be trumped so people take the streets and like seize the means of production. And we're talking about like flipping this whole thing over. So it all depends on your road to like where, how we get the equity.

But I think it's like hard to, because some people would just feel like, okay, vote then what? Right. And it's like, right. Cause then you vote.

And then actually you're gonna have to stay engaged now. That's kind of the whole point. Actually, it's not vote. And then like, go back to sleep. You have to keep the pressure on. Otherwise we lose, we immediately start losing any ground that we could potentially gain yeah and i

think that we really saw that with obama and just like the hemorrhaging of like local seats right like democrats lost 1200 1600 state seats in like the state legislatures um it was it was a wild number and so yeah i think that we really have to be aware of like we gotta keep gotta keep your foot on the gas if you want to keep this train moving that's not trains don't have gas do they no i mean i don't know some of them diesel diesel trains have gas valve you know not all steam locomotives these days come on you got electric you got your diesel maglev i know way more about this shit now than i should all the yeah i would just say like in terms of the cynicism thing like there's when you look at the things that we have that are good, that do help people lead

their lives and that do function as safety nets for people who are less advantaged, those require action. When you read the history of just any history where good things have happened, you know just any history where good things have happened it's a bunch of you know actions taken by smart people who are motivated so it's not like that we can't afford to be cynical because there's just like so much so much work to do and like by doing good work like small uh you make small incremental changes like that does add up over time but yeah and also it's like it's like it's like it's like you're used to like not driving a car and you're always being like used to being driven around on how like this government is functioning in the direction of the country like i vote for someone and like they take care of it i don't i can't really be

engaged with it but unfortunately the people who've been driving it have been the same fucking people for the last fucking four decades, basically. And they're they've been falling asleep at the wheel as they drive, crashing it into shit. And they're like, yo, what the fuck is going on up there? Like as this car is fucking up. And now I think that's what we need is more people to actually look at how it's being driven and begin to see that like we actually have a role that more people have to be engaged in how this is moving versus a more passive thing of like every two years i just i look at a list of how to check a box when i go to a polling place rather than actually thinking of like okay this is what a shared vision could be of education of a financial system of housing of mental health

support all those things uh rather than just like, I'll leave it up to the person with the letter next to their name that I think I agree with. It's just not, we can't do that anymore. We're also, I'm seeing mentioned more and more, we're also being ruled by a gerontocracy. Right. Just the oldest fucking people who- Out of any developed nation.

Moral, yeah, whose moral center, whose just existential experiential center is from a different time like they've accumulated a bunch of experiences that are no longer relevant but because of the system that we have in place it's just you know inertia is more important than who's actually going to be the best at leading and bringing new ideas that actually work and help people. They should have a thing where if you're a sitting politician at the federal level and someone tricks you with an email scam, you lose your seat immediately. Exactly. Yeah. Our company has these sneaky little...

They're not that sneaky, to be honest. But people, they try and do a phishing scam on you and if you fall for it it's not a real phishing scam but it's like it's like yo man like you gotta slip in you gotta pay more attention to this shit uh like they need to do that nationally for politics because like oh really you thought if you click this link here and enter the last your birth date and last four of your social that you were gonna see a video of you know nancy pelosi in a strip club sorry ron johnson you've got to go uh all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back I've been thinking about you

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And we're back. And so we're hearing rumblings, started hearing rumblings towards the end of last week of the missing ballot story that is going to be giving us all hypertension for the next month and a half. Just, you know, I feel like this has strong her emails energy, strong...

Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, so this is... But those nine ballots! They, the story is that they claim to have found nine Trump ballots in a garbage can somewhere. And it was like military. Well, they just, they're like discarded.

Discarded. You know, like not on its way to be processed. Is this like the cop who found the tampon in his frappuccino situation? Is that where we're at? It's a version of that where you sort of need a story to help the narrative along. Got it.

You know, where it's like like it's so bad for those murderers in uniform that people are are fake putting things in there they're actually that's so bad for them they're putting things in their own in their own drinks yes they feel so they're so guilt-ridden that they're putting tampons in their own starbucks okay i also i have a logistical question having never actually been to a polling place so the ballots are sealed right and to be valid they have to be sealed with your signature on them so you're telling me that these nine ballots were opened illegally by someone and red yeah i know i think it was like that they this is so this is where it gets so fishy right it's just that they said these military ballots, there were nine that have, you know, they've just been, they were in a dumpster.

What happened? And so the first story came out when a local U.S. attorney's office just specifically was like, we found nine ballots for President Trump in a dumpster. We are investigating this. And all these former DOJ people, lawyers are like, how the fuck are you going to get this specific about a case you are just starting to investigate and announce that publicly? Like, you would never say, we found nine ballots for Trump in the dumpster. Like, if it was a real investigation,

it would have been something like, there were maybe some kind of irregularities with ballots. It's being investigated. Rather than getting this thing of specifically creating the narrative of like man trump voters are being fucked with essentially and all roads lead back to fucking bill barr on this that he personally briefed the president on this whole thing and that set off the thing where trump went on fox news and, there's something about the Trump ballots and dumps in a garbage can. And that, you know, then right wing media like is now just salivating over this. But the thing that's wild is now that it turns out only seven of the ballots could be discernibly shown to like be cast for the president. And it's more than likely that it was human error

because the way it was being processed, like the ballots look the same for overseas deployment versus people who are on base. And like a lot of the people at the office are like, oh, that's probably just a mistake, like to be honest, a mistake. But this is where, you know, they need these to sow these seeds.

They shouldn't know who was voted for. Like if these were legit ballots, they should not have been opened someone found them like so they shouldn't know who who they shouldn't know they shouldn't have read the point you're missing the point you're missing the point it's illegal to open other people's ballots it is illegal before that before that they were in the garbage though so that was the first bad thing that was the first bad thing okay go reach out to the person who cast the ballot be like okay did you i don't know it just seems like so straight

straightforward uh and yet um i've been saying for a while now that i'm worried about a false flag attack like because that's what putin did to consolidate power we know trump uh is absolutely horny for putin but this is like such a small like i hope this is as far as they go in the in the false flag direction i mean he i mean that's the thing it wouldn't trump is incapable of keeping a secret right say like you know you're probably going to see some kind of violent event in a u.s city uh let's call it i don't know well well i don't know it could be random okay it could be somewhere me and bill talked about but anyway look forward to that in a couple of days about two weeks yeah uh like that's he'd say that shit but i guess that's where bill barr i think is more

he's the one who's the fucking he's's Emperor, he's fucking Palpatine. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's like Palpatine mixed with a minion. He looks a little bit like a minion with. He looks like the baby from dinosaurs. Yeah. Not the mama.

Yeah. Look at the baby from dinosaurs and Bill Barr. They have like, you know, similar snouts. Snouts? Snouts. So cute. Aw,

they're snouts. I know, that's the cutest anyone's ever made Bill Barr sound. Look at his snout. Look atouts. So cute. Aw, there's snouts. I know. That's the cutest anyone's ever made billboard sound ever. Look at his snout. Look at this little mind. Let's cleanse our souls with a little EDM. So Vin Diesel contains multitudes. Oh, yeah.

So he's the tough guy from Fast and the Furious. He's also like his background is as a dancer. He's also a D&D enthusiast. Almost got in a fight with him in a club in Tokyo. He's also somebody who tried to get in a fight with Miles at a club in Tokyo.

He had a fedora made of a FedEx envelope. It was a trash ass hat and me and my homies started booing him. They asked us to leave the club because we got his face we were drunk i was like yeah nice hat look at your fedex ass envelope hat fuck you vin fuck fast and furious it was stupid you know you're fucking 19 and yeah upset at the world and you take it out on Vin Diesel. I mean, as stupid as that might have been on your part, wearing a fedora made of a FedEx envelope

is far stupider. It's stupid. It was like, if you saw it, you would have been so pissed off. Because, you know, it wasn't like a rigid paper one. You know, it's like that sort of papery fabric, like the lightest kind of FedEx envelope, but it's not quite paper,

so it can withstand, you know, shipments. that was like the fabric and it was stitched all it was so stupid but this is okay this sounds like something that japanese people would try to sell to american tourists to me right yeah oh yeah like it definitely feels like a thing he was like hey what's what's good with the japanese fedora or Or whatever, however he talks. I don't know how he talks for real. It's definitely not that, but I'll allow it. That video of him breakdancing is pretty

funny, though. Yeah, so anyways, now he's an artist, an EDM musician? Yes. Yes, he's got a new track called Feel Like I Do. And when you say a new track is this but like the latest from him is he no i think this is probably his first okay okay yeah yeah yeah unless i mean i don't know i can't say you know i'm not i'm not very versed in his entire

catalog but i suspect this is the debut single from one Vin Weasel. Is it good? And it's by a collab with DJ Kygo. Okay. Yeah. So I don't know what that means, but let's listen in because his voice is kind of interesting. So I just wanted to let y'all know, just listen up for his voice. Thank you. And I'm not the type who likes to rush in, but I want to.

I don't know. And it feels like I do. And I was frozen when you walked in the room. I don't know. He's got like, there's something about his voice. That kind of works for me. It sounds like his voice. His voice works.

It's soulful. It's soulful. I'll give him that. But it sounds like a cameo. Like, up, but if it was like chopped and screwed. I think he could feature on some EDM stuff. I don't know about him having a recording career or anything, but yeah, that was okay. Okay. That was very, as DJ Daniel called it, beach house.

Not like the band Beach House, but like house for the beach. Oh, hell yeah. I like that. I hope that, I mean, because he's 53, right? So let's, context. But we know Aaliyah famously said, AJ, none but a number. Right.

You could also be sued by his agency for saying that. So keep that quiet. Oh, apologies to Wikipedia for my false information I really hope that like after I mean the song is okay you know what I really want him to do is a cooking show

on Netflix I think that is like after he's done with his music thing like a cooking Netflix please if you're listening like give Vin Diesel a cooking show. This is my life. He's so full. What do you first see that show looking like?

It's just him in his kitchen. He's like, hey, what are we cooking? He can bring his little buddies in for each episode, and they can make a dish together. Oh, bro. What is this, souvlaki? That's not how he talks. This is throwing me off so much. can like make a dish together oh bro what is this souvlaki wow i know like miles has great impressions and then ben diesel

i just like it it's like an energy yeah hey what what is it hey you sound like kind of a new york uh plumber or something. I like it. And he could like make cocktails and then like sit down and like drink and just give like life advice. Cause he's kind of at that like uncle age, right. Where he's got like lots of life experience and like some wisdom or whatever to pass on to the youths.

I just think it would be awesome. He seems like a very fun person to hang out with, which I know everybody says about everyone, so whatever. He parties. Does he? I would like to see... I've seen him

out a couple times and I've been pretty impressed with how hard he goes. This is why, Miles, this is why I want the cooking show it's because i like i know i cannot hang right right right then goes hard i know that i cannot hang so like in a kitchen show right give me give me the kitchen right like let's have some conversations because i know that i can't go as hard as... All right, put a little wine in this sauce. Stop. Stop with the voice.

Stop it. A little bit for the sauce, a little bit for me. Miles. A lot for me. Oh, fuck. Okay. That is something that... I know there's a British show where people get drunk together, like a late night show

where people... Part of the fun is that people actually get drunk, but I feel like America doesn't have that cultural touchstone where you can get drunk with a famous person and see that they're a fun hang when they're having a couple drinks. Oh, shit.

Yeah, because that's like every publicist's worst nightmare. They're like, hold on, you want to film my client just get absolutely shithoused on camera? Right no we can't do that we can't yeah but i'm sure some of them i'll let vin do that right not my other clients i can't control vin um anyways or rather i'm sorry let's use his christian name mark sinclair oh wait vin diesel his name to mark sinclair look i hate to Mark Sinclair. Aw, so cute. Wait, Vin Diesel is named Mark Sinclair? Look, I hate to do it, y'all. I hate to drop that nugget on y'all,

but is this your king? And then finally, just while we're on the subject of important news, Kara McDougal sued Tucker Carlson for whatever slander, libel, whichever of those applies. And the case was thrown out because the judge said that nobody

could possibly take Tucker Carlson seriously. I'm tired of this defense. It happened with Alex Jonesones even though he eventually did have to pay people some money it's not true it's just not accurate it's not how people like i remember like even the daily show i remember back in the day john stewart's daily show they were like what we come on after like cranky anchors. No one takes us seriously, but that's not like people. If you are giving actual opinions on real facts, like you need to take that, that,

that is a responsibility. I'm like, this shit is, I'm tired of right wing people getting, getting away with us. Like we, we make it clear off the rip with our terrible singing. Like,

look, I hope you didn't tune in for, you know, the height of you know this is not the salons of the intelligentsia of years past uh but yeah well yeah let's be real yeah this is probably this is probably the most uh intelligent podcast you could ever listen to but yeah there is this thing of it's it's weird that the judge's thing is like a reasonable viewer could conclude that tucker carlson's rants like you would take those with an appropriate amount of skepticism because of his quote reputation. But I'm like, nobody's nobody watching him is like now. Come on now.

We know what happens when Tucker comes on. We got to be we got to be a little skeptical because we know he comes in a little hot. So let's not take everything as a gospel truth. Unless he's talking about defending white supremacy and dismissing violence against unarmed black people. Okay. Now let's see what he says. Oh yeah, this is all true. This is all facts. Yeah. Anyways, fuck Tucker Carlson. I think I've said that once or twice before.

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So in case they were any, any, but the I in Tim is a one. In case there's any confusion about this, we're crediting the right Redditor. But yes. And underscore and it's B-U-R-R. Full disclosure. Yes, yes. Anyways, Tim Burr went and did the research and figured out what the future of Karen's looks like.

Yeah, just based on the number of births, you know. Number of births, number of names. Karen is at the peak right now of, you know, the type of people, the age of people who are going to be calling the police on you for doing something inside your own house. Or that you're dribbling a basketball too loud. Well, that's totally understandable. Excuse me. They come from down the street.

I remember this woman said that when we were kids, and we were dribbling in someone's driveway. You're dribbling too loud. I'm like, what the, what? Okay, do you have another ball do you have some new ball technology because i can't hoop without dribbling the fucking thing ball technology sounds amazing i hope this is like i hope this gets funded by like a vc honestly that would probably how you would get men more interested in male birth control if you called it ball

they're like yo dude you got the latest in ball tech they're like yeah dude i got the on off switch to my like bluetooth vasectomy why can't they why can't they use their powers for something good like i mean look at yeah if you can get people to sign up for the army by making that shit look like call of duty in the commercials you could probably do something with ball tech. You know, it's like, gotta date balls, D-Act. And like, you do all this shit. Although, that's not what's happening. You just get a vasectomy.

But the commercial looks like that. And then they're like, yeah, man, I gotta get the ball tech. Yeah, exactly. It's just marketing. It's marketing. That's all America is. It's marketing. So anyway, back to Kare marketing. That's all America is. It's marketing. You know? Yeah. So anyway, back to Karens. Back to Karens.

Karens have had their run. And up next, watch out for the Lisa. The Lisa is our next Karen. Lisa is going to reign supreme as the person calling the police on your friends and children of color throughout the late 2020s. At which point, they will be replaced by the Jennifer.

Jennifer's will take over in the 2030s and then will be replaced by the Jessica in the 2040s. The way you look at it, all the Karens were born between 1945, like truly the boomer, and then it started,

it really probably peaked around 1972, something like that. And then you go to Lisas. Lisas had their huge peak in the, what is this, late 60s?s yeah late 60s and 70s jennifer's are truly like in the solidly in the mid mid 70s into the 80s and then the jessicas are like the 80s and 90s so jessicas are gonna be the karens of millennials yes right yeah exactly so like lisa's because i feel like if karen's are the boomers right of karen's yes yeah then lisa's are lisa's and jennifer's are sort of the jennifer

xers yes uh probably and then we got that's funny because i dated two jessicas uh in my lifetime as as a young man it was such a popular name i I think that that's literally all he's looking at here is it was Jessica was the most popular name for like 12 years or something. Well, and I think obviously, you know,

it takes more than just a name to display that kind of behavior. But in my mind, I'm thinking about people I know who like I know at Lisa who is like a Karen and she's Karen

already Karen. Yes, Karen. And I know and I know a couple Jessica's and Jennifer's that I could possibly see a future as. Early Karens. Yeah, like aspiring Karen. Aspiring.

Yeah. Right. And yeah, it's interesting because there's also something with like the fall off, I think. Yes. Like you need a brief like uptick and then a fall off uh presumably it's because these kids are just so horrible that everybody meets them and is like we can't name our kids that shit done calling lisa sucks did you meet that girl lisa down the street

um but yeah because because like katherine or sarah or like names that are pretty. Yeah, they don't have the peaks and valleys. Elizabeth is one that comes to mind. That's been like solid for a long time. Although Mary's probably fallen off quite a bit. But Gertrude. Gertrude, you know, you're evergreen. Girl names.

You're evergreen. All right. Let's talk about what you guys rewatched and what I watched over the weekend. So I watched a movie called Animal Crackers. It was completed in 2017. Hit the festival circuit in 2017. Apparently, there's a festival for children's animated movies uh and then just released now uh because it was just had such a bad rollout um that is called animal crackers

you guys watched the kissing booth too yeah electric boogaloo okay no, I'm out. The worst joke on the internet. Such a bad joke that white supremacists have now taken it and made it their rallying cry. They're like, break in? What are you talking about? The sweeping scene with Turbo from the first one. Yeah. Boogaloo shrimp, asshole. Anyway, yeah.

What is this? It was cute and um doll yeah yeah bit dry yeah bit like day old uh microwaved fried chicken okay something you know it's like it just does it i don't know it you know it has like all these things like it's trying to do because they're sort of like mo Molly Ringwald is in it. She was in the first one, too, as one of the moms, where there's these nods to these tropes of these kinds of films that were high school friend films from the 80s and 90s.

There was one attempted slapstick physical comedy sequence that fell so short. I was like, oh, they almost didn't. Nope, and they gave up on that. Okay. Let's see. What other tropes? Using the school's PA system

to just sort of trigger any massive plot point to embarrass someone or declare love. You love a high school PA system that was so readily accessible to the student body. I mean, but that is true, right? Did you do PA stuff we did resistance you had to go to the you had to go to like a fucking you had to go through like five office doors at my high school right get to that thing like you couldn't hijack it right no no no i mean

okay so i think that they intended maybe i'm wrong i feel like the intended audience for this movie was like junior high 40 year old men we're on the same page here for sure yeah no I don't know like that's who I felt like would find it fun yeah and interesting I love you know because here's the thing you know how movies inform half the shit you do as a kid like it'll tell you

like how you dress how you talk you know like you just like who kid? It'll tell you how you dress, how you talk. Who among us didn't see some shit on TV and be like, I'm that person now when I go to school Monday? Oh, yeah. Just wait till I pull up with this TV energy or movie energy. I just picked up some bad fucking habits. I feel like movie characters are our Greek gods, right? They're who we model ourselves after and who tap into something.

Or how many kids were Jim carrey in the 90s oh you know like that was their whole personality somebody stopped me from talking to you you have any idea how many rooms i told people to not go in do not go in there or just open a sliding glass door that's soundproof. Anyway, great scene. But there's definitely some kids who I thought were the funniest humans on the planet who were all Jim Carrey impressions. And they just had better facial control than most 12-year-olds. The thing with this, though, is I like like the main characters like their dream school is berkeley so like they've already incepted the minds of kids to go to like lib anarchist central berkeley where like berkeley is like it's more coveted than harvard basically because her boyfriend goes to harvard but she's still a senior

and she's like but i want to go to ber Berkeley with my best friend. And like, there's a whole sequence. You're like, if you don't know about Berkeley, it's like the coolest school in the country. It's in Northern California. They do like a whole thing about it. And it's what I find really funny about this. That part is that she is really into, Elle

is really into it because that's where her mom met her best friend. And I don't know't know like are people really that jazzed about the college that their parents went to it depends some are i remember like some kids i remember i had i had homies who were like yo my parents and they were like i can't get in there so i'm not gonna apply like but they would have wanted to if they could afford it and had the grades for it but i don't know i think it all depends on how much your parents talk about it. Like my mom went to college in Japan,

so I was like, I was going to go to Japan or whatever. My dad was like an artist. So I was like, what? Just honor your trippy side? Okay. It's funny how I feel like it goes in waves, like the cool college to go to in movies like for a period I think was Duke and there was like Georgetown for a while I remember that was the

school he went to in Terminator not Terminator Transformers 2 um and Berkeley it's like the fashionable and then Harvard's just always there as like the brand that equals smart. Right. But you got that big Wall Street energy going to Harvard. There was, you know, the other thing that was they always,urities over high school relationships that carry into the university period, I found to be really eye opening. And I didn't realize a lot of those insecurities I was experiencing myself at the time. And it took this film for me to realize that that was happening so i really i really like how they played that up of just sort of like someone's in high school someone's in college will it work won't it um yeah that's what it's about it's a high school

college relationship it's that i mean how would you like even describe it because it's got so many elements to it there's a what is the titular kissing going on like there's too much there's way too much going on with like the one the protagonist and then all of the boys like and first of all i can barely tell any of them apart so there's that but except for margo you can't tell the boys apart yes except i can't well i can't tell all the cute little white boys apart like they're adorable and i'm just like who which one are you because she has so many in her life yeah and some are friends i was a little bit lost sometimes but um yeah yeah the one funny thing was like this idea like presumably right this isn't written by someone in Gen Z, so it's probably a millennial or even a Gen Xer's idea

of what the lived experience is like of Zoomers right now. And I like that a lot of it hinges on her being like, first of all, for people who don't know LA, she wants to go to Berkeley, that's fine, but then she thinks, maybe I'll go to Harvard so I can be with my boyfriend. And her boyfriend is the guy from the first one, right? From the first one, yeah, yeah's fine. But then, like, she thinks, like, maybe I'll go to Harvard so I can be with my boyfriend. And then her dad's like, oh. And her boyfriend is the guy from the first one, right? From the first one, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kissing Booth 1. Kissing Booth the first, yes. Right. And now, like, the dad's like, look, I gotta be honest with you. I don't know if we can afford Harvard, you know, because it's tough or whatever. But she, like, lives, like, in, like, Laurel Canyon, which, if you know LA, like, you ain't broke living

up there uh because like at one point she's getting her mail and her address is there saying she lives on laurel canyon boulevard i'm like okay i can let that go uh but then there's some other timing issues i have but the other thing is they find out like what colleges they get into like near their graduation right you know. You usually know well before you graduate where the fuck you're going. But when they graduate, they're like, so did you get into Berkeley too? And it's like, what the fuck?

You walk across the stage, and they give you the college you get to go to. Right. I got Berkeley! Oh, the thing that would seem like a generational disconnect was so because this kid can't afford Harvard, Berkeley! Oh! That's how they... Oh. The thing that would seem like a generational disconnect was, so because this kid can't afford Harvard, she has to go into, like, a Dance Dance Revolution competition

to win prize money? And I was like, who the fuck is playing DDR still? It's retro. How'd you pay your way through college? It's retro now. I was playing Area 51 to get through college. Time Crisis 2, like a man. Okay, so what really bugged me about this

was the fact that she's allowed to ride a motorcycle, right? On the one, like literally. Yes. The deadliest highway in America. Who's going to let their 17-year-old daughter ride a motorcycle? The PCH is, I think, the deadliest or second deadliest uh road in america but that's cool yeah and i just can only imagine that that bugged me i was like your parents are just incredibly full of neglect benign neglect i mean yeah but it doesn't match up geographically

sorry it doesn't it also doesn't match up geographically because if you live on lower canyon you're not taking pch to go to school fucking anywhere you know but again that's me being a angrelino uh watch you know when you're in la sometimes you just like to take a different route to stop by the ocean real quick on your way because it's on the way to everywhere yeah you live in la you're always by the ocean, bro. Just a quick note to anyone who visits Los Angeles and goes, we should go to Santa Monica and see the water. No, thank you. Don't go on PCH any time between fucking 1 and 7 p.m. It's just gridlocked.

Go in the morning real quick. It's so funny because whenever you have to take PCH somewhere, you always see a group of confused, confounded tourists in convertibles who are like looking around like what is there an accident up there yeah you're like they're like welcome to la man it's a fucking hellhole it's if you want to meet some uh very authentic los angeles uh german tourists authentic Los Angeles German tourists go to the beach in LA. That's where you meet the most authentic of German tourists visiting LA.

Can somebody just explain to me what is the kissing booth? Does it take place at a carnival? Is there a carnival where I don't even know what a kissing booth is, but I keep hearing about this movie. First of all, There was no booth. Nah, it was troubling.

Which was very disconcerting for me, having grown up in purity culture, where it's like you can't just kiss people out in the open when you're in high school. On stage. That's sinful. Why would you do that? So that was odd.

I mean, I guess I get it, right? It's like you also can't as teachers like send two high schoolers into a booth and have to close the door so what is it gonna be but yeah so basically they put on blindfolds before they kiss and they have like this talk at a party no it's like it's like at a fucking rally it's like yeah it's on a stage event basically oh and i that just reminded me of this video that went viral did you see the video where the kid kisses his mom like it's a prank where the kid is like all right like you are gonna kiss one of your classmates and they he like makes out and then the blindfold comes off and it's his mom

like and it's in front of his whole fucking class no anyways real viral video that I don't know it might have been staged it might have been viral video that's probably one of the hottest ones I've seen on the internet uh so no what's what section of corn corn porn hub are you

using yeah yeah I think you like mom stuff no yeah mom stuff yeah mom stuff that's cool hashtag mom stuff from how stuff works um is that it but is that a thing is that based on something the kissing booth thing i honestly the first one again i've was out of my mind i don't know what like i was high i didn't know what was going on it doesn't seem like it was based on anything that actually happens just because i don't know what i guess i'm old i don't know what kind of school would sanction an event where there's like a kiss off right and this is the trouble of not really knowing the first movie so if i take it just as this piece on its own i don't know what the fuck kissing booth is

because to me it's about a young lady who's worried that her boyfriend is hooking up with a hot lady from the uk in boston and she has to win a ddr competition so she can pay for college and then she's also kind of like cock blocking her best friend that's all like that's what i think the movie's about. That seems fair. Which one does she kiss? I can't even remember which one she kisses when she finally gets up there. And then she runs away. Was it Marco's? It was Marco, I think.

Again, because they kissed after the DDR competition. Look, if any of these words or combination of words appeals to you, then yes, by all means, check it out. It's over two hours though, so it was a little trying. Animal Crackers is also long for a kid's movie.

It's an hour and 50, but it's like, that's long. Usually, I'm talking, I'm looking for 80 to 100 minutes. 100 drops. Animal Crackers, very solid premise for a kid's movie what if those cookies kids still

my kids at least two-year-old and four-year-olds still fuck with animal crackers those are uh is that brand still going strong with the yeah we got a whole big barrel of them and then we get the trader joe's ones which ones do you guys get i think we got ours at costco okay years ago and we're still working our way through that yeah um but yeah so the the premise of this is what if those cookies turned you into the animal you ate bro think about that like animorphs exactly um but i feel like the people who made it were changing their mind about what the movie was going to be as it went. Because it opens with a musical number sung by the villain played by Ian McKellen. And he's really going in.

Sir Ian McKellen. Sir Ian. I'll have you know. But the song is just real bad. And then it's almost like they realized how bad the song was because there's no more musical numbers except for one more song by that dude later. I think they were just like, yeah, Sir Ian,

you can just do your thing. But otherwise, this is not a musical. They do a musical montage to queens don't stop me now that works really well but they don't have there's not like it's not a musical except for that um which i thank them uh and how do your kids respond uh so feeling the music i meant musically because i know that that's a good barometer If the track is lit, it was not lit. The kids did not dance. The kids were.

But they but there's a lot going on while it's happening. So they were just they were just settling in. I'm my son. My four year old is going through a period where he does this like fake laugh. That's kind of startling. So that was something that it just kind of happens at random throughout so but there there are some good good moments of physical comedy as they're as you would expect when people are constantly turning into animals um john krasinski emily blunt are oh that's right

uh they're probably like the best thing about it they have like a chemistry that comes across in the voice performances the cast is definitely the best thing about it it's like you got Danny DeVito in there you got Gilbert Godfrey Sir Ian like it really they like went all in on the cast

and it's fine they really went all in for gilbert godfrey i mean i mean but when you're talking about yaga like that yeah yeah he's done some classic classic roles then he lost his whole fucking affleck check when he had to make a japanese tsunami joke i remember oh yeah that's right yeah you hate to see it you hate to see it y'all there was also a 9-11 thing that he did Oh yeah Have him do animal crackers

Yeah exactly He likes to go with the edgy stuff The animal crackers You know I'm I'm glad that It was good I guess Or are you saying it's good? No I would say like of the kids' movies...

You've had to sit through? I've had to sit through. It's probably right around Trolls. It's not great. It's fine. The kids really enjoyed it. Probably sub-Trolls, I would say. Sub-Trolls.

So Trolls, I would say two and a half stars. This would be more around two. Fine. It's not as bad as, as I started watching it, I looked up, like, the history of it, and it was, like, funded by Harvey Weinstein and, like, the Weinstein Company. Then, like, when they went away,

they switched to, I think, like, Relativity Media, and that company went under, like, right as, as like the movie was supposed to be coming out so it just like had a absolutely cursed uh road to to children's eyeballs but I don't know that my standard for what is like when you look at some of this shit I I have this little section, uh, that I've had on the doc for a little bit about just how, like the really shitty YouTube stuff I've talked about for a while. Like that's just basically like guess and check like viral videos where they

just like put a bunch of bright colors and catchy, like nursery rhymes to like music to to hypnotize kids. That shit is now infiltrating Netflix. There's this thing called Cocomelon that is a transport from the kids' YouTube world, and it's not great. That guy who tracks the success of things on Netflix was writing gushingly

about who's like, I, it's not slowing down. It's so successful. Uh, and it was just, it's just garbage, but it's like mouths are opening wider as they watch the drool.

Just running down their chins is unbelievable. Uh, so I will take something that actually has a story and you know a coherent logic over fucking coco melon um but yeah you should try it try harder netflix don't don't go with this just garbage i mean if it's about watch time you know those people though then that those boardrooms are like look man if we need eyeballs, just get this YouTube crap on here, too. Exactly. Take a page out of their book.

Yeah. And just rot people's heads from the inside out. Yeah. I mean, we had a process in the 70s where children's TV became regulated and needed to have educational value. And now we've got this overstuffed brain butter just goes down easy. But it's just made by some amateur who has no experience with child development who just kind of data hacked his way

into knowing what two-year-old brains respond to. Right, it puts a wig on and throws gravy at a wall and is like, baby! And you're like, what what the fuck that has nine billion views oh my gosh i mean some of them are cute like some of the little oh they're super cute and then some of them are just like why am i watching this child opening 18 presents right now like i don't understand that the whole unboxing thing is mystery box shit have you seen the ones where it's like adult

like it's live action stuff and it's like adults who do stuff to entertain kids but it's really weird and like guavages haunting Chris Pratt has one like he does one with his kids

on YouTube that's just yeah it uh anyway so i think some of them i think some of them are actually cute and educational and then some of it is horrific i mean chris pratt's is i actually was watching some of it over the weekend and i think it's pretty cool the whole like way well the way he made the entire passion of the christ accessible to young children i'm sorry torture scenes i really thought it was really something exceptional so credit to him getting the word of god out there it's exactly the passion of the christ except instead of blood sparkles and confetti come out when uh jesus is being and they talk about the cat with nine tails it's an actual cat with nine tails

rather than a nine-legged whip. It's really something else. And Pontius Pilate is a pilot who drives a plane. Bam! And Barabbas is a caveman. Oh, gosh. Oh, my gosh. Now I'm stressed out thinking that he's

proselytizing for Christianity on his little YouTube channel. Who knows? For those of you who don't know, that was a joke, but it could be real. You never know. Yeah. He's a cool guy. A cool guy who just has a little story to tell you about a man named JC and his 12 friends who have a pretty sick message. Cool.

Well, Tori, it's been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist, as always. Thank you. Where can people find you and follow you? Usually, I'm on the internet. Oh, hell yeah. I love that place. I mean, I feel like most of us are there these days. But yeah, my Twitter and Instagram are just at Tori Glass.

T-O-R-I. So yeah. And my website is whitehomework.com. You can check out my podcast, Patreon, all that good stuff. Nice. Yeah. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh my gosh.

Okay, so I might need to unpack this for you, but it's important. Okay. So the tweet, hot take. Teaching missionaries, like church missionaries, that it takes eight no's for someone to say yes is part of the reason why so many people in church don't get what consent is. Oh, my God. And that's what they told us in church that's literally like when you've had it when we would go and like um you know go to the mall and

try to get people to come to church or whatever yeah that's what they would tell us they're like it takes eight no so you either tell the person eight times before you wear them down enough to get them to come to church with you or you have to tell eight people so eight knows to get a yes what is consent right yeah just keep keep chipping away like christ would at their will yep that's just how how you do it miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying uh you can find me and uh where i would twitter instagram at miles of gray also my other podcast for 20 day fiance i'm just talking about 90 day fiance you know the vibes over there uh a tweet i like um uh you know i don't i haven't really been in on twitter so i don't have a tweet

oh wait this is another one from last week i you know i like i got the throttle off that shit it's it's really fucks with my like blood pressure and shit and fucks with my well-being like i'm not fuck i'm not joking when i say i'm like you people who follow me on instagram i haven't posted shit on there months like since fucking april okay i'll hit you with a story or two, but there's something about when you get pulled into that thing and you, like, when I realize how the lack of thinking that's going on

as I use it, I'm like, ooh, nah, nah, nah. I need to be more, like, intentional with what I'm giving my attention to rather than just sort of becoming a passive writer to my fucking phone screen. Anyway, with all that said, past guest Yedoya Travis at Yedoya OT tweeted,

if I get one more producer telling me they can take more black projects because of, quote, everything going on, I'm exiting the Zoom. Jesus Christ. Man, that's F-A-C-T-S facts. With everything going on. Ooh, that, yeah, that euphemism for like,

white guilt 3.0 or whatever they're calling it, you know, everything that's going on right now. Everything that's going on now more than ever. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's like diversity. You know what I mean? Gotta get diverse. Yeah, we're going to

we're going to diversity university this year guys nope oh my god cancel it Miles we just gave them an idea

cancel culture right now they're gonna use that diversity university bro take me to diversity university well they can't now because they get

federal funding and they can't talk about diversity if they get any money from the federal government. Come on down to George Soros Diversity University. Tweet I've been enjoying. Wint tweeted, hate it when I slip up while changing a roll of toilet paper and the spring loaded holder. And the spring loaded holder.

Sorry. Oh, no, this is great. And the spring-loaded holder fires the cardboard tube straight up my asshole. I don't know why that. I couldn't get that out. But that's very funny to me. Serious misfire. Serious misfire. Why was it back there to start with?

It just happens sometimes. I mean, that's fair. You're just changing it. And then, yeah. Yeah. That just reminds me. There's so many stories of people showing up in the emergency room where they're just like, yeah, I don't know.

How did that happen? How did that happen, man? It's just like I fell backwards I don't know how that happened, man. It's just like, you know, I fell backwards onto my plunger. And then I did it five more times in a row, and that's why all of He-Man's

action figures are up my asshole. I've got Skeletor and She-Ra up there. Anyways. We've got a car toy up there. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

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You know, you're going into the week. You're like, oh, man, I need something to just, you know, vibe to. Nothing too freaky, because I just got to keep it level. Oh, you know how. V-Y-B-Z. And I was looking through, and I see this artist. And I go, this is a weird name. Eight Taiko? Yo artist and i'm like this is a weird name eight yo this is a fucking weird name and then i'm like what is h-t-i-e-k-a-l and i'm like

backwards it's lakeith and then i look and on this album cover is lakeith stanfield and lakeith stanfield has been making music y'all um and when I tell you that it sounds like what you would expect his music to sound like, picture that in your mind, and then it kind of is what you would expect. Yeah. Lakeith Stanfield, not only a fantastic actor, but also a great musician, it turns out. This track that he has is called Fast Life, and he is on his kid cuddy you might he might as well be called lakeith muscuddy uh because the vibes on this track are like i'm not joking he is just going in on like basically his own kid cuddy thing and it's not bad so yeah uh lakeith take it away

this is a kid catchy more like yeah it's like a catchier kick. Fast life. Take this fast life into the week. All right. Well, we are going to ride out on that. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever fine podcasts are given away for free. That's going to do it for this morning. We'll be back this afternoon to tell you what's trending.

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