The Daily Zeitgeist - Uncommitted 2024, A.I. Trump Loves A.I. Black Voters 03.07.24

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

In episode 1637, Jack and Miles are joined by the comedian behind the new stand-up album Feeling Myself, Emily Van Dyke, to discuss… “Uncommitted” Made A Strong Showing In “Super Tuesday”, MAGA World Is Using AI To Make Trump Look Like He’s Good At The Cookout, German Man Got Vaccinated Over 200 Times, RuPaul’s Online Bookstore Is Full of Anti-LGBTQ+ Books For Some Reason and more! “Uncommitted” Made A Strong Showing In “Super Tuesday” Uncommitted' vote against Biden blows past goal in Minnesota's Democratic primary Krispy Kreme is giving out free donuts on Super Tuesday Nikki Haley suspends presidential campaign, doesn't yet endorse Trump Biden and Trump see easy wins but Super Tuesday also reveals growing obstacles MAGA World Is Using AI To Make Trump Look Like He’s Good At The Cookout German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times RuPaul’s Online Bookstore Is Full of Anti-LGBTQ+ Books For Some Reason RuPaul Is Sending a Rainbow Bus to Give Away Books Targeted by Bans ‘With the added step of giving your money to RuPaul’: Allstora called out for allegedly dropshipping books under the guise of bookstore for ‘marginalized voices’ LISTEN: Team Tomodachi by Yuki ChibaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You can tell. And worth pride. That was a lot of fun. I just want to press on that damn thing because I'm a sick fuck. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, straight off Lakerson Boulevard. It's the Lord of Lakersham, the great from 818,

and also the Shogun with no gun. Thank you so much for having me. Again, Jack, I know we go show by show, whether or not I'll be the co-host, but yeah, thanks again for having me. Shogun with no gun because gun people have gun problems. Gun problems. You got guns?

You got gun problems. Exactly. That's what my dad said. You don't need no guns. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat a car seat in this case by a very funny comedian who has a new comedy album out on blonde medicine called feeling myself i'm feeling myself i'm feeling my feeling my please welcome to this show emily vandale welcome everybody what's up i feel bad i don't have a too long aka i didn't know i needed to yeah prepare a jingle hey it's okay you know some some people have them most people don't to be honest so you know you're you fit right in with

everybody else yeah it's like people who've been on a dozen times and are like, I don't know, I'm bored. We'll give this a shot. How are you doing? So you're coming to us from a car in Michigan. That's right. From my roots. Yeah. Yeah, I'm visiting. I live in San Francisco, but I'm on a little like travel sabbatical with my kids for the spring.

So I'm in Grand Rapids to pick up my mom and then we're head to ireland tonight so whoa were you just in cuba i was just in cuba that's right yeah i was like wait you are evd all over the place okay rack up those miles what are you doing why are you doing ireland oh it's been on my bucket list and i you know i've got two kids we've've got to do the car seats and everything. So I thought, what seems like a chill, relatively safe and relaxed trip? Plus Ireland has been, I don't know, it's been on my bucket list for a while. So I'm excited to see some castles,

drink some beer, maybe get rained on, see some cliffs, hopefully not fall off them. Right. Yeah. All of those things are happening. Not much besides those things, but all of those things will happen in Ireland. Sea castles, drink beer, get rained on, sea cliffs, if you go on the West Coast. And you got to have a spice bag.

That's the thing I always want to try, is the spice bag. What's a spice bag? Spice bag is like Irish street food. Are you confusing Ireland with the planet from dune oh i think you're thinking of i think you're thinking of doing a spice bag no you don't ever you never heard of a spice bag it's like it's like fries and like like just google spice bag it's like it's an irish takeaway thing or at a chinese takeaway you get it but i always see i'm always into like regional street food and And like I always even like people big up the spice bag.

It sounds like something that John McClane would call Hans Gruber and the TNT cut of Die Hard. Why don't you go grab yourself your spice bag? Yeah. No. Yeah. It's real street food. All right. Emily, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about from the news. We're going to, you know, we talked about Super Tuesday on yesterday's episode. We're going to just take a little bit deeper look into the numbers because Uncommitted had a big day. Big day. Big Super Tuesday. Put the smash on Dean Phillips so bad he had to drop out. Big Super Tuesday. Put the smash on Dean Phillips so bad he had to drop out. They're like, not this guy, but also not the big guy either. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the AI artwork that is being used to make Trump look like he's good at the cookout.

Yeah. Yeah. Spoiler alert, he is not. He is not, it turns out. Turns out Trump needs a spice bag. Trump needs a spice bag. Trump needs a spice bag. For sure. Yeah, you lousy spice bag.

We will talk about the German man who got vaccinated over 200 times. King shit. King shit. That rule. And we'll talk about Alstora, which is like an online bookstore. RuPaul has partnered with them. And it's just like a fucking scam. It's just rot economy, as we talked about on an episode earlier this week.

A lot of interesting titles on offer there. We'll have to dive into what you can buy on that bookstore. It's just a dropshipping operation. All of that that plenty more but before we get to any of that bullshit emily van dyke we do like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are oh i would say my research history is how many poops per day four-year-old um i'm really on the the poop tracking life yeah with my kids because we just got back from cuba and so i'm like how many poops is too many you know i don't know if we got some sort of

intentional thing or we're just i don't know so that's that's pretty standard wait so you're you're wondering if the there's too many like you're right now you're like oh you're blowing it up pretty frequently right now yeah she does this thing where as soon as I sit down to dinner, she's like, I have to go right now. So I have to abandon the dinner that I've made or bought and I have to go wait in a bathroom with her. She likes to talk. She's an Aries, you know, so she's really into the poop talk. So I'm like, I can't. It's a lot.

It's a lot of times per day to be interrupted. So I'm like, how many times? Yeah. Is there? can't it's it's it's a lot it's a lot of times per day to be interrupted so i'm like is how many times yeah is it is there no i feel like i have a like a little bit over one year old and i was like yo this dude is doing a lot of shits even more and more but then it's like there's really no number they're like no if shit's working that's just yeah don't worry about it sometimes it could be a ton in one day or none and for a couple days that's right yeah turns out there's only too few shits right yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That you don't want to, you don't want to get into that business.

That's a nasty business. The too few shits. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like the deep thoughts from my kids, I have a six year old and a seven year old and the deep thoughts come out when they're taking a shit. They want to, they just want to like ask me questions about the universe and like wow what

goes on outside of like after the universe what's on the outside of that what oh wow i don't fucking know you're like real that's for freshman year of college for you to figure that part out bro yeah yeah my daughter's birthday is on the solar eclipse so i'm gonna have to go into like planets the moon the the whole thing i mean we've gone over it but this is going to be very real i i'm gonna try to swing the solar eclipse as her birthday celebration like the planets and the sun and the moon did this for her turning five so yeah i don't know i don't know if party city has a solar eclipse pack kit yeah right right right man oh we're never gonna get a good solar eclipse this one it's like i feel like right over

paducah kentucky you gotta travel you gotta travel for it i know i might have to go to columbia south carolina nashville lincoln nebraska salem washington is probably the closest place i could catch it damn oh wait no no that was the closest place I could catch it. Damn. Oh, wait. No, no. That was the different one. No, no. It's the April 8th one.

Because I'm guessing we're talking about the April 8th one. Yeah, yeah. That was if you in Dallas, Little Rock, Paducah, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Syracuse, Burlington, Vermont. It's coming for you straight over. That's right. That's right. So I'm going to try to talk my mom to go down to Indianapolis and catch it. That's where a lot of my friends live.

I would love to. I mean, I've every time. Remember, what was it in 2017? Right. When we first started recording the show that happened and we saw like the clips of the eclipse when it just goes straight. Yeah. And Trump looked straight up at the. Yeah.

At the sun. Yeah. Yeah. That's my Google search. Yep. That's it. What? What's something you think is underrated

right now uh women's rights i thought we had women's rights locked in like when i was on the come up in my 20s early 30s i was like we are really crushing it on women's rights right now no i didn't know i didn't know that this could all get taken away so fast we got we're fighting for abortions and we're fighting for, uh, we got no, um, paid maternity leave. We have no affordable childcare. I mean, we're, people are saying I IVF embryos are kids now. It's, it's, I didn't realize. And then you just got all the microaggressions being a mom right now, traveling with my kids, still all the microaggressions, like what's his mom doing with her two kids out in the airport get your get your trash ass back home and cook and clean

and silence where you don't have to see it's like it's all the microaggressions plus the expectations that you have to be like beautiful and effervescent and well-dressed and you get no child care and you get low wages i'm just like like, come on. I thought we were past this. Now we're just heading back. Yeah. We're in America. Yeah. We're just talking too

about how Joe Biden also just can't straight up be like, yeah, man, we're going to figure this out rather than being like, you know, I'm not. We talked about this two episodes ago.

He's like, I've never been supportive. You know, it's my body. I can do what I want with it. It's like Donald's saying that your body right yeah it's actually the lords it's so interesting because if we were if we were forcing joe biden to like donate part of his liver to save a life which would basically be the same thing using somebody's body to keep another person alive right he would be like oh no you're not coming for this liver yeah fuck out of here i'm gonna force me into a liver surgery no no no right have you seen the scar i'm not getting that scar no no no i'm going to the beach i'm going to the beach this

summer yeah that's right yeah you also have a sky on paw patrol oh man this is this is a deep cut i don't know if you guys are with the paw Patrol maybe you are because not yet you have kids man yeah all right Paw Patrol you got it all right so I've I don't know why I've been watching so much Paw Patrol with my son but Sky I think is like one of the only the only or one of the only girl characters but I think so the only one there maybe there's one more yeah I think it's like a Smurfette type division. Like it's just one girl or like maybe another one. That's right. But Chase is the main dog or whatever.

He kind of gets all the action, but he is always like petering out on the courage. Like he's like, I'm going to go save it. Oh, no, I can't. And then Skye's like, I got it. You know, let me go up there and save the day. Skye is always handling business. She has no fear. She has no excuses.

And Chase is up there getting all the action. And then they got to make him feel better. Like, that's okay, Chase. We all get scared. It's like Skye doesn't get scared. Skye's up there in the airplane saving the day. It's like, man, not even Sky can get the, get the,

you know, the accolades that she deserves. Right. It's hard for me to watch. I'm like, right. Come on. And instead it's the fucking guy.

It's the cop. That's fucking being. Yeah. It does include chase, but we have established that in this house. We do believe a cab. Twitter is Twitter. It's not X and a cab does include chase. Those are the two things on our Twitter, it's not X, and ACAB does include Chase. Those are the two things on our yard sign.

Every day. Oh, and also Facebook is... We will never call Facebook meta. It's meta. But to be fair, nobody else will either. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Everybody's confused as fuck, for sure. Also, just from a strategic standpoint, like,

Sky is... Your problem like problem solving group has a fucking air force like it has a clumsy a clumsy fireman uh is like one of the dogs chase who's just yeah a cowardly police officer so just a police officer. It's got Rubble. Rubble's the construction guy. Yeah, Rubble's got tools. But then they have a fucking air force. Like that would be, that is your best weapon. That is the leader of your pack. Yeah.

Is the one who can fly. Who can control the skies. Yes. But yeah, they underrate because of women's rights, you know? That's what I'm saying. Come on. Man, we're off this guy, I think. Man, yeah. Get your son off that Paw Patrol. You know what I mean? We don't need that copaganda, you know, put him on to something new.

Yeah, it really is. And his little buddy. What's the what's the boy's name? I was like, man, you know, with your little buddy. It's a it's a bad situation. Yeah, that I was. was yeah i always want to call him chase but he's not chased but yeah there's like a human 12 year old boy who is the leader and do not trust that guy is he white yeah is that boy white yeah oh hell no bro yeah he's the one pulling all the strings getting the cops to do things okay well maybe that is good for a child to see to be like no this is actually this give you an idea you know what i mean of how

how shit works yeah he runs like the call center or something yeah it's like nine one he's a dispatch for children yeah it's like there's child labor in this show too yeah he's got a fucking job the mayor is a woman of color and is a bumbling fool oh no but the mayor in the movie is like a white guy with the top hat who says things like an unqualified politician what's worse that could happen oh wow oh really that's where they went oh yeah yeah that's where they went all right that's getting political in the in the in the in the mighty pups movie. Yeah.

See, I missed the movie. Thank God. We had aged out by that time. Catch on Prime. What is something, and that is also, yeah, you're also here to promote the Paw Patrol movie. Right. In addition to your stand-up album. I get a percentage of all the sales.

Just go through my affiliate link and that would be great. Thanks. What's something you think is overrated? I think Wi-Fi is overrated. I think that's like a 2000 to 2010 thing. And I think we've, I think,

I don't even know why people are still so obsessed with Wi-Fi. Like people go to your house, like, what's your Wi-Fi password? Like, what is it? 2009? What do you need my Wi-Fi. People go to your house like, what's your Wi-Fi password? What is it, 2009? What do you need my Wi-Fi password for? Just stop. Stop with the Wi-Fi.

You've got unlimited data on your phone. Wake up with Comcast. That's been a toxic relationship your whole life. So just, it's over. Wi-Fi is over. Let it go. It's over. We have so many wireless forms of communication.

You got a hot spot on your phone welcome to 2024 or break up with wi-fi it's old boom yeah and then you also have dating apps not feeling dating apps i honestly i mean this is this is a an unpopular belief i'm not feeling the internet really at all no that's that's becoming popular i think the more people learn about like how technology and tech companies operate like man what the fuck are we why are we letting these fucking jokers dictate everything yeah yeah i know i feel i feel like in my i don't know if i'm like a conspiracy theorist but i'm like wait a second so my phone has facial recognition and it has my thumbprint and ancestry.com and 23andMe has my DNA. Right.

And then YouTube has my voice and my face. Like, I don't really get how I'm like a person anymore. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think when we uploaded all of our pictures or our selfies to like show, see how we would look if we were old, you know, like I was just just like we are just uploading all of our faces to catalog for some sort of evil person it could be funny like yeah like how sort of like copyrights sort of like fade after 100 years like oh yeah man i can do whatever with your likeness because they've been dead for 100 years and then like yeah we become the new avatars of i don't know maybe also dr pepper chewing gum or something i don't know but yeah that'd be cool oh man that would be that'd be a great afterlife dr pepper commercials i love dr pepper no but dipping apps are they're horrible everybody everybody hates them i mean

they barely work it's just like it's just leftovers and everybody that's single is like oh you on the apps it's like something you don't want it you don't want it you know so i wish we could like reinvent like having a personality going outside interacting with another person with their personality and you'll have like regular chemistry right yeah well because now it's like it's like yeah one company owns them all and uh it's like sort of like crypto too or like the early days were like no i met my wife i met my partner on the dating i was like oh really and it's like yeah that was fucking eight years ago you know what i mean and they're like not now bro it's different now yeah no match

people are trying to sell you crypto on there right it's getting real kidnappy it's so weird kidnappy jesus that was not that was not an adjective i had associated with dating him kidnappy jesus christ uh what does that mean what how's it getting kidnappy like kidnapper vibes out there yeah before you go on a date you have to like share your location with a friend oh Oh, right. You know, kind of like you're starting end times. And then, yeah, people just acting nuts. Right. And like to get to make sure the person is who they say they are. And, you know.

You got to image search. You make them like have a picture, like have the newspaper in front of them. Yeah. As you're FaceTiming with them. Right. Yeah. That's right. Amazing. Yeah. All right. front of them on yeah as you're facetiming with them right yeah that's right amazing yeah all right uh well that sounds shitty emily but it's great getting to know you a little bit better

we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna come back and talk about super tuesday we'll be right back i'm jess casavetto 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. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups

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The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer this is rip current available now with new episodes every thursday listen on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and the big winners of super tuesday were of course uh anybody who snagged free donuts as part of crispy cream's domocracy campaign great holy shit like i'm always people are like and then like they'll tell you to rock the vote. And I'm always like, nobody's going to fucking do that anymore. That was such a 90s ass.

We live in a different world. Nobody's going to be like, oh, voting is so cool. Let's hop on it. And then democracy. Yeah. I still get all my voting tips from Mudhoney. That's just because I remember how they rocked the vote that oh man diddy was one of the biggest on that mtv did a good job back with those spring break parties

oh yeah and music videos i mean they had a little rock the vote moment there in the late 90s early 2000s but yeah i mean somebody's got to come harder than krispy kreme this is just a whole mockery bad yikes krispy kreme's only corporation defending democracy yeah and they can't even be like unequivocal about it they're like what if we just call it domocracy let's kind of take the sting out of it yeah it is so funny to me that like rock bands were like rock the rock, the boat like that. That's just like not a cool, I get,

if you have the conviction to be like, vote for this guy because, or, you know, like this, this is a side that has beliefs that I subscribe to, but to just be like, vote man.

Hell yeah. Is like kind of funny. Yeah. That that was something we tried tried it's kind of the message we need though like you like music what about voting have you ever thought about listening to music and then going to vote and no matter your belief system do something or a donut i don't know y'all like donuts please yeah unclear uh whether or not customers had to choose between two stale terrible donuts

that everybody's already sick of or if they if they were get got to you know pick their own but trump and biden predictably being the only options for the most part did pretty well obviously nikki haley we talked about did not do so well so I guess Trump was not the only option yeah he was kind of the only option that people were picking and so Nikki Haley has dropped out but people are pointing to their wins on Super Tuesday and saying that they exposed some glaring weaknesses in both candidates electoral coalitions a lot of people have been like with the amount of people that voted for Haley it's like Trump's got a suburban problem, which I think has existed. There's been something that's been developing over the last few years anyway. And a lot of people, too,

like who voted for Haley are sort of like, I don't know what I'm going to do in the fall. So there's, you know, but let's be real. I have a feeling they'll probably just be like, yeah, I guess I'll just vote for Trump again again and then with biden it was the uncommitted movement to vote uncommitted that was spreading a lot of people like it's probably just in michigan it's probably just in michigan no no if you look at the polling a much a significant majority of democrats want a ceasefire and uh the similar majority want the u.s to to stop arming Israel, like in the 60s, like it's not like 60 percentile. So I don't think it's that surprising that you saw these kinds of big turnouts or at least, you know, bigger than expected, like in North Carolina, 12 and a half

percent voted no preference. Nine percent did so in Massachusetts. Ten percent voted uncommitted in Tennessee. In Colorado, 7% voted uncommitted or non-committed as it's on their ballots. And like in other states, some people were said, hey, just write in ceasefire as a candidate. But that's a little bit harder to sort of quantify what happened there. But yeah, I mean, uncommitted got 19% in Minnesota like that's that's no joke give it up to palestinians and arabs and dearborn that like put a path forward like okay we all are feeling the same way this is an action that we're gonna do right and then it's like all right let's do that you're right we are let's let's express together where we're all at so that we can see it in percentages and then you see kamala harris

come out with her whack ass immediate ceasefire dot dot dot dot for at least six weeks yeah the next day at least spring break yeah yeah yeah at least at least through easter so that we can all have our easter egg hunts right and then get back to the terrible realities of what our foreign policy looks like. But I mean, I think it was something the amount of people who voted uncommitted in Minnesota was, I think, like larger than the margin that Hillary Clinton won by in 2016. So these aren't insignificant numbers. And I know a lot of people, it's starting off as being like, we're sending a message that, you know, to do something if you want us to pull up in November for you, Joe Biden. But what the administration is going to do, it's still just very, it's

lackluster. It doesn't seem like it's actually taking into account what a lot of his own, you know, base of voters is saying. So we'll see. I'm sure we'll get some kind of, you know, gesture towards a ceasefire but i'd imagine these aren't these aren't something they're looking at and they can't just like laugh off and be like it's fine it's fine it's nothing it's nothing it's nothing no these are these are they're it's worth looking at but there's also a lot of people like in the punditry class are like don't worry about that these people are just freaking out and i think that's a really dangerous game to play because there are many people who

are very deeply disaffected by what's happening or aren't also affected by what they're seeing and what their government is having a hand in. So, you know, it feels like an easy win. You know, the polling's right there for you, Joe Biden. Over half of your base of voters is saying, you know, there's a right way to do things, and maybe you should do that. Yeah. It's such an easy out for him, too, because even if he's like, y'all know me, I'm like the original pro-Israel guy. You know, his speech goes back, whatever, 40 years, you know, saying if we didn't have Israel, we wouldn't have.

Yeah. But this is such an easy out where he's like, I don't, if it were just me, I would be in Tel Aviv tomorrow. Right. You know, hug and BB. But my constituents, I mean, it's the easiest out. Like, all you have to say is my constituents have voted. I'm going to do that. And then. Yeah, I don't want to have democracy for four more years. Kind of. Maybe. I don't even know if a full 180 would do it at this point but yeah it's it's hard to know and i mean i think for for many people uh who are who have watched it all unfold in gaza and the west bank are some are truly well and done like they're like i fucking can't do this shit like this is wild that we have a government that can look on at this shit

and not do anything and so I think there's definitely a group of voters who are deep. I don't know how many can be won back, but shit, you better start trying because if this threat to democracy is that large, then you need to look at who you need to win and begin to court those votes

and not just be out here trying to perform for voters that aren't going to bring you into the White House. But yeah. Yeah. Especially since we've been hearing about no handouts, we don't have enough money for loan forgiveness. We don't have enough money for mental health. We don't have enough money for X, Y, Z homelessness, housing, everything. We don't have enough money. You know, this is it. And is and we're like oh we've been sitting on built billions this many billions that could have gone to solve a million things and we

don't yeah i think the first this being the first instagram daily genocide slaughter is a real uh yeah it's been a real turn of the tides yeah yeah yeah uh and there's a lot of reporting that like i there's like there's gonna be a significant shift from the white house uh but i think like many things that we hear in politics we'll believe it when we see it yeah and i think also tonight is the state of the union address that's a huge moment for joe biden to say something of consequence whether or not he's just gonna be like fucking trump's fucking wild y'all have you seen what he said he can't even talk um you better you better say something about what's happening in palestine or else you're gonna have a whew i don't know it's it's a it's a big offer this is like one of the most it's a very consequential

state of the union given uh how support is beginning to, you know, look like it's, you know, not fracturing completely, but he has a lot of shit he needs to begin to, if he wants to write the shit, he has a moment to do that tonight. Yeah. Meanwhile, Trump, I mean, if you're just paying attention to what people who support him are putting out there on social media. Yeah. I mean, this guy's got a coalition. Oh, my God. He's coalition building, man. As he said.

There's some pictures where he is just surrounded by black Americans who just look like they just couldn't be happier. They're so happy with him. As he said, he's like, I believe the black voters will support me because I'm also being oppressed and persecuted and going to jail. Like, that was like the fucking take he had. And he's like, and also sneakers. Also that part. But these AI images that are coming out, like it started like in the last week, this MAGA radio host and his like production crew posted some AI image of like Trump with his supposed black supporters. There's one group where it looks like he's surrounded by a group of black women who are damn sure not voting for Trump. Right.

This is all part of like an ongoing narrative that conservatives like have been really trying to drum up for like since Trump has been office saying that like, you know, black voters are leaving the Democratic Party and are interested in the GOP. And they use these kinds of doctored images. There's another one with him like on a porch with some black guys. There's like a supposed black campaign volunteer, MAGA campaign volunteer. And it's wild because like we've said with AI, you just first look at the fingers and then look at the text because it's doing, it's doing things like right now in this version of like mid journey and these other AI tools that people are using, they can't get fingers right. They can't get hands right. And whenever you see text,

try and read the text. Cause it's usually some garbled bullshit. And in this one, his hands are looking all wrong. There's people with like logos that don't make sense. In another version where the guy is talking to like a a like a door to door, like a door knocker for the campaign. One dude has three arms. That's right. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. And like, you know, there is a grain of truth in terms of like where support is going for Biden in terms of black voters, because there's been a 21 percent drop in support from black voters. And that's mostly

young men that are driving that trend. And that's exactly who the Trump campaign and conservatives want to go after because like black women are not moving in that direction at all. So there's this BBC investigation or story about like these images and what the effect is on black voters. And they wanted to see how receptive people were to the imagery. And most people who aren't on AI were like, oh, cool. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't realize like that he was embracing the community like that. And then when someone told him, hey, this is fake, it's AI. They're like, oh, see, that's the thing about social media. Like you can't really believe that. But they said, but if I just if you didn't tell

me that, I really wouldn't have known. And this other voter they spoke with actually said, when I hear messaging from the Biden campaign about how Trump is a threat to democracy, that doesn't really like it doesn't matter because this person was already so disillusioned over the electoral process that that hardly moved the needle for them. And, you know, you think about January 6th, that shit happened without the use of generative AI. They had that many people ready to fucking storm the Capitol without it. And now we're mixing foreign influence campaigns and AI bullshit can cause obviously some very, very real problems in the next eight months. But yeah,'s uh it's we're beginning to see it bubble up more and more it's just wild that they had to revert to ai like that they couldn't find enough

well it's the same five black people that you always see at the rallies there's the one guy who like he's got like the perm like in a ponytail kind of thing there's always that dude who has the blacks for like i like they're almost like characters that i recognize now i'm like oh yeah yeah there he's there he's there for another one but i wonder how much of this is just him not wanting to be in a picture like with you know because like there's got to be he's one of the most famous people on earth like you can find five people who will like be in a picture with him sure you know like it's wild to me that they're having to use ai to well i don't know if it's generate this shit i don't know like it's wild to me that they're having to use ai to well i don't know if it's generate this shit i don't know if it's like that because it's not coming from the

campaign right it's coming from supporters yeah like shit posters yeah who are now just like oh yeah i can get in the misinformation game myself and maybe affect a presidential race because how it all happens like the guy who posted it, this DJ, he posted on his Facebook and it got a ton of engagement. And then when they asked him like, yo, what, what, what are you doing? Like, you know, it's fake. He was basically like, it's not my problem. If they think it's real, he said, quote, I'm not claiming it's accurate. I'm not saying, Hey, look, Donald Trump was at this party with all of these African-American voters. Look how much they love him. If anybody's voting one way or another, because of one photo they see on a facebook page that's a problem with that person not with the post itself so

so by creating an image that shows a thing i'm not claiming that that thing happened no but and if you believe it that's your that's. That's like your problem, man. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, yeah. No account. We got no accountability. There's no accountability to anybody. No. Yeah. AI is scary, but a lot of people do vote somewhat.

They scroll through social media. Oh yeah. Because if you're not looking at an image, like full size, you've, you're good. You'll probably miss the details. Or if you're not as online as some people who's kind of become savvier at looking at shit and being like oh this shit looks like AI then yeah a casual scroll on a fucking timeline or whatever

Instagram feed whatever yeah you'll probably just be like oh shit okay I guess maybe things are moving in that direction maybe Trump is cool yeah we're gonna have to take another look at this guy. Yeah.

But the sneakers are ass. Has anybody worn them besides me? Has anybody tried them on? I think Fat Joe bought the Trump sneaker. Fat Joe's not even fat anymore. So he has no business being in the sneaker game or any game. Yeah. He was just like, I'm a collector, i'm a collector you know and like dude put

that shit down it's not even a shoe worth having like who gives a fuck but but if you put them on and like you could suddenly dunk in them but it was like a monkey's paw curse yeah like mike kind of situation like mike but you had to be wearing the most just unacceptable shoe to dunk looking shoe yeah i have a feeling though the shoes are so poorly made that you will have some kind of career-ending injury yeah and if it did make you play like they'll probably just bust apart and then you roll your ankle like the way zion williamson like this guy was one of the best athletes ever he cut so hard that his shoe just exploded one time yeah like if I just like stopped the way that I stopped, the same thing would happen.

The shoe would just like burst out of five different pieces. Don't you think this is my last thing, but I'm visualizing January 6th, 2025 where everybody's storming the castle is wearing those ugly shoes. And I'm like, they've been working on their marketing and branding for the past four years. Don't sleep. Yeah,

exactly. But then, but also they kind of got like superpowers too. Cause of the shoes, their marketing and branding for the past four years yeah don't sleep yeah exactly but then but also they kind of got like superpowers too because of the shoes like they're jumping like fucking super mario like like over the fucking fence he's like what the fuck let's take a quick break and we'll come right back 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. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the

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and we're back and let's talk about this german man a 62 year old man in germany went on a fucking vax spree this is something we've joked about since the vaccine first hit the idea that like we're just trying to get as many of them as we could yeah hopefully this is not one of our listeners who just like with no sense of humor who took that at face value true zeitgang yeah i love love the zeit he has received 217 shots yeah started in the summer of 2021 yeah he went from june 2021 to november of 2023 he said he was trying to get a shot every four days. Wow. Who's not tracking him? They asked him.

They're like, yo, what? Why did he? Why did you do it? He said, for personal and private reasons. Like, it wasn't even like you thought, like, maybe this guy was going to be like, yo, I'm trying to be some fucked up Batman villain origin story. But like on the right wing and like the fucking vaccine made me like a woke zombie or whatever. No. And like, in fact, because of this story, this like researchers at a university reached out and like, he was like providing all of these like, like samples and doing all this and helping them

with analysis. And they're like, yeah, like, I mean, it really did nothing like good or bad. It's not like he had became super immune to COVID or he didn't have any adverse reactions but like the guy did kept saying like he's like but i never got covid and but the people are like we can't say this way or that way that that's because you got vaccinated 217 times you might just be one of those people like when you take too many vitamins right exactly yeah did he just goes on walgreens like uncoordinated walgreens no he was buying vials on like on his own he was copping vials of the vaccine to like i guess have administered in private but like yeah he did get like it started out because he kind of drew the attention in like some kind of fraud case um that i think was related to this but then they didn't press charges

um and then they're like, I don't know. I guess do you, bro. But I think it's a good story to tell people who might be vaccine hesitant. You're like, yo, this dude got it 217 times. Okay. Really? And that way he's doing the Lord's work.

This is just viral marketing for the vaccine. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, RFK Jr. is in shambles right now reading this story. He's like, fuck, 270? He's like, 200 vaccines? Nothing happened?

Ugh. Just wait. He's like, he will suddenly died. That will happen. The great Twitter trend that always happens when anybody has

any kind of issue and then they're like, here's a vaccine, here's a vaccine, here's a vaccine. But yeah. You know that's what got David Bowie, right? he died in 2016 exactly yeah he was experimenting yeah

right yeah i did i'm just i do though i'm really i wish we get to the bottom of what the re the why is for this because that's's just, it's wild. Like, clearly something's up with this guy. But I really, like, I wish he didn't just, like, keep his response so sort of short to being like, for personal and private reasons. Yeah. And that's none of your business.

You know what I mean? Between me and... And God. And my doctor. I think if people were so extremely anti-vax, it only makes sense that there's someone extremely pro-vax just go for it yeah like they have to and maybe the guy was like i ain't getting this shit i'm gonna get a vaccine every four but also like i remember the first time i got it i was like i had

to lay down for like a like a half a day i was like yeah i'm watching t like i'm not doing shit so may or maybe this guy's like just really into feeling a little bit down from having a uh like his jabs or whatever or maybe he just wasn't feeling and he's like i'm trying to feel what everybody else is he like got the jab and like immediately starts nodding a little bit you're like wait what the fuck is that are you good yeah he's like i'm sick bro really like oh what do you what do you mean he's like i'm vac sick like i gotta get right i need another fucking jab okay all right that pfizer you got that pfizer yeah all right let's talk all stora yeah very lazily named bookstore that the way that they pitch themselves they're like an online bookstore that

offers fair compensation to writers and that's they that's admirable yeah yeah i good i would buy that that's great uh-huh they are independent author owned and also completely full of shit no we found this out rupaPaul is launching a rainbow school bus that will distribute banned books to kids and also partnering with Alstora in selling their books. But the launch of Alstora

has been riddled with controversy. Shoppers noticed that the site which purports to uplift the voices of underrepresented groups including LGBTQ plus people, women and communities of color. Features a bunch of books by white supremacists and anti LGBTQ plus authors like Kirk Cameron and Libs of TikTok's Shia Raychick. Yeah, good. That's interesting. Wow. What happened? How? What's going on? There's like so many translations

of mine conf on there too yeah i didn't know there were this many additions i thought i thought i mean yeah they want to spread that message i guess far and wide and it's just wild how like when they're pressed on it they're like oh oh oh like they didn't realize until people started pointing it out and then like it seemed it looked like certain titles began disappearing. And then they said, oh, we have like a flagging system now. That is community led. Oh, great, great, great. It's on you guys.

Yeah, right. It's the same with all these companies, with social media, with Amazon. It's all about what we talked about with the Rod Economy episode. It's growth. They're just worried about getting as many users as they possibly can before they have any idea what to do with that number of users. Yeah. So they, you know, if everything, if this is basically like a bookstore that is created and driven by the community, yeah, it's going gonna be a fucking mess in the same way that like facebook is a complete mess yeah well they they said that it's like well you know

if when people flag a book they're like we want we're not gonna remove it but quote the proceeds from flag titles to support the fight against book bans of diverse literature uh that's where that's where it will go and then like another when they asked again there was like this sort of comment of like we're sort of like a library you know like where you need to be able to understand sort of ideologies of hatred to also educate you're just like okay wow you're really doing this shit huh like that's okay well that's that's a nice pr spin on it but when you're launching this bookstore uh you know i mean rupaul's already revealed themselves to be like a big capitalist without really giving a fuck about like what it in on it but when you're launching this bookstore uh you know i mean rupaul's already revealed themselves to be like a big capitalist without really giving a fuck about like what it means

as long as like they're getting paid but yeah it's like you said this is what happens when you're just looking at like getting that just scalability man just gotta scale that shit gotta scale and yeah you get a few mind comps in there yeah. You can't have you can't have an online bookstore without having 14 editions of Mein Kampf Child's Illustrated version. And, you know, it's it's really a mind boggling array of Mein Kampf. Yeah. I mean, booksellers have pointed out that the reason why AllStora has all these terrible books is because they're a dropshipping operation that simply ships books from a major book supplier. Basically the same method that every bookstore uses to buy their books with no physical store or content curation. Ah, okay. Well, get paid.

Get that check. Get that check. Just trying to get that check. Absolutely. And get out. Get that check. Get that check. Just trying to get that check. Absolutely. And get out. Yeah. All right. Well, Emily Van Dyke, what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist.

Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Thank you so much for having me on. People can find my album, Feeling Myself, on anywhere they stream music. Apple Music, Spotify, download on Bandcamp. The label is Blonde Medicine. You can follow me on Instagram at Emily Van Dyke. And yeah, that's it.

I'm really excited about this album. I also have like a little new YouTube clip out if you want to see some video. But yeah, thank you guys so much for having me on. I really appreciate it. Oh, no, it's great having you. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying besides, of course, your album and special? I'm really liking Taylor Tomlinson's new special.

I was able to catch her in Oakland when she was working on it. And I'm really just admiring her work ethic and the amount of content she's put out. And yeah, I'm just following her closely. Like, OK, Taylor, I see you out there working and doing, doing, it's doing a lot. So yeah, she had me laughing a lot in this last Netflix special. We see you. All right, Miles, where can people find you? What is the work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah. Find me at miles of gray, wherever they got at symbols. If you like basketball and i know you do check

jack and i out on miles and jack got mad boosties that's our nba podcast if you like 90 day fiance i talk about that shit too on 420 day fiance that's the other podcast uh and i'm also on uh not this week's behind the bastards but the last two episodes behind the bastards uh with robert evans uh and sophie lerman, some tweets that I like. There's just one that I thought was really good. Oh yeah. This is from how underscore do underscore I underscore PDF at how do I PDF? Uh,

it said fitted sheet being taken out of the dryer. Like I have a secret and the secret is your wet laundry wound up in it. Uh, because I always, I'm like, how the fuck does this shit happen? Every time it's always in the corner of the fitted sheet. Yeah.

Always just a wet ball. Like that thing, when you get it out is a weapon. Oh yeah. Like that. All your wet laundry in the like half semi dry fitted sheet. And it's just, yeah.

Crowded in there. Yep. Yep. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying. I've been enjoying those clips from the Cerveza Cristal marketing campaign from Star Wars. I don't know if you guys saw those. No.

Basically, when Star Wars debuted in the 80s, I think it was, this marketing team in Peru, I believe, basically cut little moments of product placement into Star Wars. So they'll cut open the Tauntaun and then four ice cold Cerveza Cristals will come out of the bottom of the Tauntaun. It's crazy. All right. You got to show your kid that one yeah but uh the thick husband and father tweeted cerveza cristal marketing team putting ads in star wars movies for the first time and uh it's the clip from back to the future where he's like i guess you guys aren't ready for that yet but your kids are gonna love it because it's really being

enjoyed also mr carter just why in the fuck are cereal bags not Ziploc yet? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Carter. What is happening? Where are we at here? Alright, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on

Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? You already know I was

fucking slapping this one. This is the rapper Ko, K-O-H-H, but on Spotify you'll probably search Yuki Chiba, C-H-I-h-h but uh on on spotify you'll probably search yuki chiba c-h-i-b-a uh and this track's called team tomodachi and it's this japanese rap song that's kind of blowing up on youtube and i was like yo this shit fucking goes hard so i hope everybody's team tomodachi which means tomodachi means friends let's be team friends okay team friendly out here yeah yeah i love that

yeah it's like that there's even some some choreographed dance moves in this shit. The music video is dope. It just kind of reminds you of like a fun sort of like everybody on the block kind of music video. Yeah. Anyways, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning.

Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending. And we'll talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, 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. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films

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