The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 110 (Best of 1/27/20-1/31/20)

Episode Date: February 2, 2020

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Well, if I'm honest, I googled some STD clinics in my local area. I got a message this morning from a lady saying, you should get checked. Oh, all right. And I was like, oh, no. And we had sex like a year and a half ago. Okay. So I'm feeling good. Right.

I'm feeling good about it, guys. Okay. But actually, you know what? I haven't checked myself in a while. So I was like, oh. Always important. Yeah. Know your health.

This is a positive text. Yeah. Get your health checked. And, you know, shout out to responsible partners too you know what i mean yes yes yeah that is responsible it's not a great thing to wake up to no no no i believe that's one of the five categories of fear yeah rejection failure high i think you should go maybe possibly get your health tested and 900 missed calls from a parent and also it's a there's such a variety of STDs that's the beauty yeah it's you know like because if I've got like the top dog one right oh life is gonna change right if it's just lovely sort

of genital walk type thing right um those are lovely by the way I have to say lovely they look nice decorate them you know that's something I can handle. You can draw a little face on them. I don't know what gonorrhea is like, for example. Miles, what's that like? Oh, boy. Is that the clap? Still figuring it out, man.

Still figuring it out. Let me get back to you on that one. We've pulled the koala community. Is that the one they have? That's chlamydia. No, that's chlamydia. Yeah, koalas have chlamydia. I feel like a fool.

They have the same fingerprints as well. As humans, apparently. The same fingerprints. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, they have similar fingerprints? Does the FBI know that? I feel like that might crack some cases wide open.

Jack the Ripper was actually a koala. He was actually a koala. It was actually a koala. You don't know. We can't say. According to Live Science, it says, even forensic investigators can have trouble discerning between a human and a koala fingerprint. Take a second look at some open cases.

How is this not a movie? I'm serious. Like a CSI episode. Yeah, like for real. That's a twist. I've heard of cat burglars, but koala burglars? Or a guy with koala burglars? That's pretty great.

Or there happens to be a koala with a very similar fingerprint. I mean, look, dude, I'm going to workshop this. I'll be back with it. Right. Koala's breaking into cia with the fingerprint scanner mission impossible style going to langley style yeah okay yeah mission impossible the crew will add a koala to their squad yeah to replace the contortionists that have another cruise they're like and then you need one koala. They're dangerous. They got chlamydia and fingerprints like a human.

Yeah, but they're wonderful lovers. So it's hard to resist. It would be a good way to get away from murder, actually. If I found the corresponding koala to my hands. Right. I heard every human has a corresponding koala. Which would not be beautiful. Yeah, that'd be great.

Wow, that's the movie. Find your koala. Finding your koala. Yeah. not be beautiful. Yeah, that'd be great. Wow, that's the movie. Find your koala. Finding your koala. Yeah. But that would say what? How many people? 7 billion people in the world? Okay,

so 7 billion koalas? A little much. Yeah. Probably too many. Okay, well, we'll work on that. What is a myth?

I'm so sorry. I'm not sorry. He lived a good life, you guys. And still does. People still think he invented rock and roll. Allegedly. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true that you know to be false? That you can fix a hybrid battery from YouTube clips. No! No! Are we coming full circle on this? It's a myth. Oh, yeah, I'm getting rid of this. Someone's going to pick it up tomorrow.

So for people who don't know, I remember maybe about four months ago. No, it was longer. Was it a year ago maybe? I hate that it was longer than that. I don't know. You come on so much, it's hard for me to keep track. But yes, very early on, you came out saying, I got a Ford Escape Hybrid.

I need to figure out this battery. I feel like there's a way to fix this. It was like eight months ago. Okay. You got some help. You got some tips. Yes. A lot of people send me a lot of great information,

but there's skill involved that I don't have, and patience. There's a ton of patience. It's like the more I was like, because it's like dudes figuring it out, and they're like, do you do this? There are simple tasks, little steps. Right.

There's a lot of them. Also, if you fuck up, shit could go really wrong. Right. You're like, oh, you guys are kind of glossing over that part right yeah it's like it's a video probably made for other mechanics versus yeah or just dudes like you notice like they live in the woods right so they don't their time and my time are different right so they're on wood time yeah and they don't have a little jewish woman just like yapping at them has that been their story well maybe they did

and that's why they live in the wood is that the conflict with you and your partner as you are fixing your car well she was not happy that I just let the car

sit in the driveway for eight months oh right right we're becoming a bit of an eyesore she's got she's totally right oh

she's totally right. She's 100% right. Yeah, it got to the end of that user agreement. Well, it was just more like an eyesore. And then for me, I travel a lot, so I don't need my car that much. Oh, right, right, right. And so for me not to have a car is not a huge deal. Sure, sure. And for her just to have a car sitting in our driveway is a huge deal.

So you've now officially proclaimed. So she'd yell at me. I'd be like, what is wrong? This is bad. And then finally I was like, I'll look at it from her perspective. You know what? I'm an asshole. Right.

All right. And so RIP the Ford Escape, we're saying, officially. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm the asshole. Oh. That's one of the great realizations that happens to me at least once a week oh yeah it's once a week we're like oh i see why this isn't moving forward right but also hey look a mark of a good self-aware

uh partner too yeah because so many people how many people do you know who will never have that realization a lot they're like nah man they're fucking wrong i fucking hate they're a hater fuck that right yeah no you live alone in an apartment. Yeah, or in the woods making YouTube videos. Where sometimes you need to be like, hold on, put the focus on me. Let me look in the mirror. Okay. That's an asshole on my face. That's an asshole on my face.

I'm looking at an asshole. There's one asshole on my face. Weird like these blocks you get. You know what I mean? Because to me it just wasn't a problem. Yeah. Well, because in your mind, you know that there's an end endpoint that makes sense to you and it just needs to play out. Yeah.

And that's all you're thinking about. It's like, no, but what I'm doing this is for a good reason. Yeah. I haven't explained that to anybody. It's like the way our brain was designed, like there's no evolutionary benefit to realizing you're wrong when you're arguing with another person. Like because just those people would just fight you until you died or something. Yeah. Look how it's playing out on a national stage right now.

It's, yeah, we're just meant to, you know, figure out what our team is and fight on that team. Preserve. Kind of. I think we're more evolved than that. We're getting there. We give ourselves. Well, we have those old habits. Yes. And that's why're getting there. We give ourselves. Well, we have those old habits.

Yes. And that's why sports are good. Yeah. And I think those outlets are good because we figured out avenues not to just team up and be like, we're going to kill that group over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm not saying that. We should do that. Well, a good joke my wife had was like about the truck.

She was like, you know those commercials you hear? Like, you got a junk car? And she's like, oh, he's not like, you know, donated. She she's like who the hell has a junk oh my god we have there it is oh so you're donating it cars for kids no i sold it to a junkyard because you can get money they're just gonna pay it yeah you got miles to feed i also in addition to the behind the scenes look at how they came up with that meme to fool Jeff Bezos, I also want to find out the behind the scenes ad agency work that came up with those cars for kids ads. Oh, you know, the ones where they go, it's so strange. It is. And they're always strange in the exact same way. They've done multiple iterations over the years. And yeah, it really

feels like you are having a horrifying acid trip. I just don't like that the keyboard player, his shit is not plugged in at all. No, none of them. No power cord. I feel like my man on guitar does have at least a quarter inch going from his guitar to the amp. Right. But he's not even touching any part of it. No, I don't know what mode he's in based on those fingerings I'm seeing.

No, I don't know what mode he's in based on those fingerings I'm seeing. Let's talk about a mystery that has been confounding authorities and the zeitgeist for years. Natick, Massachusetts. The parking lot pooper. They have finally arrested. Batman villain. 51-year-old Andrea Grosser. She is allegedly, okay, kept pooping outside of a sporting, the same sporting goods store, about eight times.

And she's been charged with eight counts of wanton destruction of property. I didn't realize pooping was wanton destruction of property because you can clean it up. But do you want to touch it afterwards though? It depends on what got poop on it. You know what I mean? If it's a priceless thing. Yeah.

It depends on the kind of poop. I don't know, man. It's all about how valuable the thing is to you. And this is a whole other topic of discussion. Like the structural integrity, I mean. Yeah. If you can hose it off. Right.

Can you hose it off, I think is the first question. If I don't have to touch it, I can hose it off. Anybody who's had a dog knows the... There are some that are just not good. Yeah. So what happened was that it all started apparently in December. The store owner was like, called the cops. He's like, yo, I'm looking...

He described it as mounds of feces in his parking lot. And they first... The cops, when they were first looking at him they come by they're like i don't know this got to be an animal man it's like a lot of shit like what's going on but then they found toilet paper and shit and wipes in the area and then they also uh the the bowel movements the bms were caught on camera but the license plate of the car was always shielded so they're like, fuck, we see it. There's this person. We see this lady taking wild shits in the parking lot.

So then, this is when you love to see police resources going to something worthwhile. They increased patrols in the area in an effort to catch her, and they literally caught her, not literally, but they caught her red-assed, I guess, and they caught her red ass, I guess. Red hair.

And they pulled up at 7 a.m. on Wednesday of last week. Got her. Got her. And hauled her ass into the county. And the photo, the mugshot. The most ashamed looking mugshot. I almost feel for her. Yeah.

She's clearly dealing with something that's not like she just doesn't have control of right now. I mean look the most cynical way is she gets off on taking shits

in parking lots and she hates the owner of some shit and then she got caught and she feels bad she got caught or yeah maybe she's going through some shit

and that's the only way she can poop. Right. At first like just from the headline alone I was thinking maybe she's like a jogger That's what I thought too. That woman in Colorado. Right. At first, like just from the headline alone, I was thinking maybe she's like a jogger. That's what I thought too.

That woman in Colorado. Exactly. Yeah. Because that has happened to me on a trail. Yeah. Oh yeah. In front of a house. Yeah,

no, jogger poops. I get it. You can't stop it. you can't stop it. But this is her driving. And it's happened to you by saying it's happened to you eight times at the same place, right? Yes.

The same parking lot. Over and over again. In Massachusetts. At 7 a.m. But for her to get in her car, to bring wipes. Yeah, that shows you. That's where I'm like, this is vandalism, right? Like you're trying to, you don't, I don't know what happened.

Like the guy sell you a shitty racket or something, like a tennis racket. Something wasn't right. The hockey shoulder pads weren't good enough i don't know yeah i'm still gonna side with her on this one guys but her hygiene's great yeah i mean yeah because whenever i hear people doing like wild shits out in the open world like who are doing like like a jogger pooper i'm always like are they not wiping are they not coming prepared you know. She could be the new spokesperson for, I don't know. Oh, yeah. What's that? Metamucil or some shit?

Dietary health. Yeah. Fiber One. Take Jamie Lee Curtis off the yogurt commercial. Oh, yeah. There you go. No, don't do that. Active, yeah.

You'll take a dump in a parking lot and bring your wipes. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Well. Sol wipes. Yeah. Great. Well. Solved. Wrap that up. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa? Oh, okay. I can't remember if I've done this here before, but there is a myth that Australia doesn't exist. Oh, word. I mentioned this on the show. No. I've heard this myth. There's a conspiracy theory that- From flat earthers, right?

Yes. Yeah, that Australia as a continent doesn't exist. What happens is people get on a plane, and then they're flown in the sky for hours, taken to somewhere in South America, I think, and then actors are hired to speak Australian. I think and then actors are hired to speak Australian and I mean I don't know how they get around like kangaroos and stuff roos and wallabies because that's the first thing when you're in Australia like oh my god this is wild right right but yes that apparently Australia is just all made up yeah I mean you know I talk about this a lot in some of the Facebook groups I'm in just about how it's used to perpetuate this

myth that there is such a thing as down under this great firmament that we live on which is really more akin to a snow dome diorama I would say floating through the heavens but yeah I mean like if I dig far enough underneath my

house like in the UK I'm probably going to hit Australia, right? So why haven't I hit Australia? No, actually, well, based on, I think if the earth is flat, so you would just fall at the bottom into the infinite space, I think. Or a lot of those- Where they've hired actors. Where they've hired actors.

The thing I love about that is that like the idea that there is this amount of effort going into being like, yep, and then these people will talk a made-up language. We've created an entire history about it being a penal colony. And then, you know, check out the ruse. Right. It also suggests a really, like, vast reservoir of actors who are imaginative enough to have made up that accent.

Yeah. And, like, perfected it. Maybe it was an American actor trying to do a British accent. Hold on, hold on. What's that? What do you call that? What do you call that?

I don't know, am I? Exactly, yes. I think you've got it. Yeah, explain Chris Hemsworth. Right. See, that's what we should do. Get him in a box, see what happens. If he'll spill the beans on what's really going on

I just googled Australia doesn't exist And there's quite a bit of literature out there I'm not saying it's accurate I'm just saying that there's some interesting things to read I'm going to do some independent research And then I'll determine for myself What's the over under on all of those articles

Somehow out of nowhere diverging into antisemitism or homophobia oh because that's all of these books are like yeah yeah this one says the basic theory is that britain invented the convict colony of australia as an excuse to execute tens of thousands of prisoners under the guise of transporting them today everyone is in on the prank, right down to the airline pilots ferrying tourists to decoy islands and actors playing the part like some real-life version of The Truman Show.

All the things you can call proof are actually well-fabricated lies and documents made by the leading governments of the world. Your Australian friends, they're all actors and computer-generated personas. I mean, here's an idea. Go to quote unquote Australia. Right.

Get on a boat and then just see if you can circumnavigate it. Right. That would probably that would put it to rest if it's a secret island or where you are. I mean, I think just that I don't know what to say. I mean, I guess if you are an island, then you could say if you are a flat earther, though, that would be by far the best use of your money would be to go to Australia and live in the Truman Show for a couple weeks. Right. That would be, and just try and be like, aha!

Yeah. Or commit a crime there and be like, okay, yeah, we're going to court. Right. Oh, very funny wig, sir. Yeah. Do the barristers wear wigs there? I don't know. Yes, they do.

Oh, fantastic. Good. All right. Good, a real court then. On wig day. Yes, they do. Fantastic. All right. Good. A real court then. On wig day. On big wig day. On big wig day. Yes.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? So the serpent in the story with Adam and Eve is never actually the devil in the Bible. It's only in Paradise Lost as a plot device and so most people just assume it's Satan right as the serpent but in reality it could be Voldemort snake yeah it oh man no that's it wait it's This Who's the devil? MTV? The devil was inside you all along

Oh my god So In the Bible There is a serpent That arrives Yeah In the Garden of Eden Yes

That tempts Eve to eat the apple Right Because women are responsible for everything Yes Right And God kicks them out Because God likes androids. Right.

That's a really bad joke. But in Paradise Lost, John Milton uses that opportunity to embody Satan. Right. So. And it's like one of the great characters in literature. Yeah. It's like this Satan who's conflicted, and he's like, I'm evil, but I'm...

It really sort of predicts the thing that happens with movies where the bad guy is more interesting than the good guy. Right, right, right. Yeah. Satan in Paradise Lost is so much more interesting than anything else going on. Than the fallen angel. Yeah. It really is.

I mean, is there a VH1 behind the Bible about the snake who's smoking a cigarette? Like, man, you know, then the fucking Paradise Lost made me the fucking devil, man. Just promoting fruits and vegetables. I do want... So are there alternate interpretations? Like, are they just like, no, it was just a straight up snake? Hey, so don't fuck with snakes, man. That's the point of that.

That was the whole point of that story. I don't know where the fuck y'all got this other shit. It was an anti-snake story. Right. I was just trying to tell y'all not to fuck with snakes. Y'all are just reading way too deep into this shit. And now look where we are with the coronavirus. Right.

Which has been, I think, actually debunked. We were talking about that. I was wrong. Really? Yeah, there was a thing, like we were talking about it yesterday, that it came from snakes, but there's a couple, there's many scientists who are a bit dubious. Right.

Who are like, I don't know about this. Because I think it was one report had that. Yeah. Like with these days, people who are quote unquote journalists, you know, like us. Right, exactly. Just regurgitate everybody i'm still sticking with my my gut on this one man that shit came from snakes all right based on the bible man hey based on the bible hey based on the bible i'm listening right here my bible tells me i mean the garden of eden in a way was like a market

right you know what i mean people go for food like this place okay you know yeah also that shit is very frightening though when you read all the stories about like a lot of the chinese new year celebrations being like canceled to avoid people a bunch of people getting theaters are yeah movie theaters are shutting down they're lagging down cities that are but the world health organization's like no no it's all good it's all great and they're they're locking down like cities that are as large as los angeles in terms of population but that i've like never heard of right because china is just so big so big so populous all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back i've been thinking about you.

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who believe that Trump is actually working with the deep state to take down the deep state because of child sex rings. Right. It's very convoluted, but basically... It is not. Trump ain't in trouble. It is not convoluted. It is very simple.

It's very straightforward. And I am doing a deeper Southern accent because I do feel like that probably represents most of these people. Oh, you'd be surprised. I remember one of the rallies they had, I think it was for the Daily Show or something, they ran into a few cute people. And, oh, boy. It was interesting how quickly some of them, when asked to just think slightly one or two steps deeper than they already were they began to kind of be like huh well well they do seem like easily led people absolutely you have to when you're looking constantly at like dates and times of any tweet and trying to extrapolate

some meaning about like oh this came out this time based here because this all these numbers mean this anyway they're now taking on the coronavirus head on. They have been people like prominent. Thank God. Yes. A lot of like the prominent people in that community, like on YouTube, like this one guy, Jordan Saylor, he's saying, I'm going to have to get home and MMS the whole state. MMS the whole shit out of everything.

Another account is like, I'm going to start using my 2020 spray. These are all MMS, like these are all concoctions related to the quote, miracle mineral solution, which is something that has been promoted. I've done it behind the bastards on that one.

Yeah. A miracle cure, which is basically like, drink bleach, y'all. Right. It's not, hey, it's a little bit. It's a little bit of bleach.

That's what they don't want you. It's watered down. Okay. Is somebody selling this, like making money off of this? Oh, I don't know if there's, I'm sure someone's making, I guarantee you someone's making money off it. I don't know if they're selling like the bleach solution. Got it. But I think what they do is like there's like a fucking recipe and all that.

And they say it because you know the claims are like it can cure autism hiv aids cancer and the cure of to that is death right that's exactly yeah and a lot of like the fda is like absolutely not when this there's like there's no research even any like remotely close to uh these claims. The official statement was... A deep sigh. Who's deeper state than FDA, guys? Come on. Exactly.

It's the deepest of the deep state. As Chief Police, a prominent anonymous QAnon account on Twitter, put also one of the movies I'm looking forward to, Chief Police 2. Yeah. It's going to be great. I'm selling 21, 21, 21 spray. It is 1%. Be careful now.

You might end up being – you might get some followers like that. Yeah. Great. But, yeah, they're also saying, like, look, you're talking about you're drinking in these 2020 20 sprays they're like at a minimum you're ingesting 3 000 times more than what we consider the safe limit to interact with bleach like that yeah you know but do your thing any right any bleach in your body not good don't spray't. Spray it, because they spray it, they drink it, they clean it. It's just,

all right, big bleach. There's big bleach, if you ask me. I think even big bleach is like, no, no, no, no. Yeah,

like, what? No. What? No. What are the other, I mean. That was the bleach companies.

Yeah. Their statement was like, they're doing what? Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, God damn it. What? Drinking it? Let's talk about myths.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I hate to keep going back to the well of horses. The well of horses. But I really hate horses. Yeah, you hate it. Last time we were here, we had a very anti-horse episode. Horses kill more people than drunk drivers.

That can't be true. It might be. If you go back far enough, sure. Absolutely. If you include all of the people killed by horses. Take all the stats from the beginning of recorded time up until about 1900. So I think the myth is that horses like people. I think what we're living through right now is a slow attempted genocide of the human race planned by...

Big horse. Big horse. That's right. Wow. What is a way that you think people are underestimating the danger of horses? Like riding them and falling off? It's kicking, you know? Getting eaten by one?

Kicking kills a lot of people. A lot of people get killed by... Don Draper's dad kicked to death by basically a horse. I think it was a mule, but that's just, you know. Getting eaten by one. Kicking kills a lot of people. A lot of people get killed by Don Draper's dad. Kicked to death by basically a horse. I think it was a mule, but that's just a shitty horse. Jon Hamm or Don Draper the character? Both. No.

Jon Hamm Sr. The big ham. You know, as the article you just pulled up shows, Jack, they kill more people in Australia than venomous creatures. Right. So Australia is the deadliest continent and the deadliest animal in australia is the ignoble horse therefore but when australia gets cars like they're gonna be yeah but see that's the danger point jack because when the horses realize they're not necessary anymore that's when really that's when they're when the horses realize they're not necessary anymore, that's when they're going to try it.

Horses are magnificent creatures precisely because I respect the danger they present. I'm not one of these horse lovers. I respect the horse because I know it could kill me with one swift kick right through my chest. It could. It could. Oh, my God. I've seen enough, like, you know, I've been on the internet enough looking at weird videos to see a horse kick is the last thing any person on Earth should ever want. And it's the last thing a number of people on Earth experience.

Yeah, unfortunately. Like Don Draper's dad. Right. Is that a cutaway scene, or is that just a... It's from his childhood. I think it's a mule, but, like, he's... No, there's, like, a scene. You see him as a kid.

Like, his dad gets, like, kicked by a mule or something does he fly back like in the matrix no he just dies horribly just right there yeah in the head i think it's in the head or the chest i forget oh i haven't watched mad men in a while yeah it's pretty 30s death i think yeah most of the time you see videos of people like fucking around with a horse and like kind of smacking it on the ass look you're that you're actually asking for that right stay very far away from horses i mean i've i've been to a horse barn within the past couple months taking your life into your own hands there jack and uh they they seemed very you didn't take your kids away what they know you're on horse barns uh i know it was they're very nice peaceful beautiful creatures as long as you respect them yeah that's what they say about a lot of things peaceful and

beautiful until robert's tag dude don't don't trust a horse the yakuza are beautiful jack yeah they're deadly yeah hey wow oh that's what i meant did i say horses i meant yakuza that's sorry i always get those confused. Do we want to talk about the fact that Trump Hotel in D.C. Oh, yeah. I've been there. Have you? I've been there.

I guess two years ago I was there doing comedy. You were doing comedy at the Trump Hotel? No, God, no. Oh, God. I wanted to. But I was, you know, around D.C. and there's things you want to go see. I was like, I'm going to that fucking place. Did you go to the ping pong place?

Ping pong pizza parlor? Oh, yeah, I did that too. Oh, comic pizza? Yeah, it's not what they say it is. But the hotel, it's extravagant. And then there's just this giant room because it's an old post office. So it is cool. Yeah.

And it does feel like I sat there for a while. It's crazy overpriced like it's that place where like a bud light's like 26 yeah the cheapest cocktail which doesn't even have alcohol is 18 dollars yeah what does it have it's like a virgin cocktail i think it's like a mocktail yeah oh no i was like wait hold on they have mMA? No, it's just a complete, the cheapest drink is a mocktail for $18. For $18, got it. That's where you're entering. How?

It just looks like the shadiest, nicest place you've ever seen. He really must be the worst businessman in the world. Well, so the whole thing is, he has like a 60 year lease or something. He's having to sell it. It opened in like September of 2016, but he's now just like,

we're fucking underwater on this thing. So they have to get rid of it it opened in like september of 2016 but he's now just like we're fucking underwater on this thing so they have to get rid of it apparently in november they were reporting that like the hotel could only fill like half of its rooms throughout the year and could never keep up with like hotels that weren't you know aligned with racists right so uh they've been having a lot of issues in terms of a business the the real victims, though, of this hotel being sold to a new owner and most likely being rebranded is that all the MAGA groupies will have nowhere to go in D.C. That was like their one safe space. Because like you remember like when Kirstjen Nielsen went out to like fucking eat anywhere. It was like, get the fuck out of here. So a lot of the people

are like lamenting. There's one guy, you know, like one of these Trump personalities on Twitter is tweeting. He's like, what will happen

to the MAGA networking and social scene in Washington, D.C. then? There's nothing like the Trump Hotel, nor will many places be as accommodating to racists.

So I think they are, like a couple places are like some, you know, lower level bars that they could go to. But I think the Trump Hotel was one of the few places like you could wear a suit

and felt like, oh, we're highfalutin. It is the, that's what it felt like. And it looked like a place where it was like criminals acting like people. Right.

If that makes sense. Right, right, right. They're like, we're legitimate business people. Right. If that makes sense. Right, right, right. They're like, hi, we're legitimate business people. Hey, we made it. Look at this place. Right, right, right. I mean, that's what it was just interesting. I was wearing like sweatpants walking through there.

Were you asked to leave? No, no. Yeah, they actually were like, here, we have a suit for you. Well, I've also traveled enough, and I give an air of any place I'm in that I'm supposed to be there. Right. Oh, yeah. So they don't, especially hotels. Of course, yeah, yeah.

I'm very comfortable in hotels, so they don't act like, you know, if you don't act like you're not supposed to be there, they can't say shit. Yeah. So, yeah, I think the whole people are kind of, a lot of people who are spending time in D.C., like with that MAGA crowd saying like, this scene's just different now, man. It's like, it ain't the same. Yeah. Just like, because, you know, we've constantly brought up articles about like the sad existence that Trump supporters who work in D.C. have like going around like they can't date. Nobody wants to fuck them.

Nobody wants to talk to them. Nobody wants to be seen with them. I mean, it is diminishing, right? I mean, just when you look at even people who are willing to work for that administration. Yeah, but there's a ton of fans, man. Yeah, that's true. When you're in DC, you still see those people

who are just like, oh, wow, where are you? Especially at the airport, it's a trip. All the gift stores are just like, yeah, they got MAGA shit that you can buy. The gift stores? At the airport? Are you fucking kidding me? You're in D.C. I don't give a shit.

It's all of it. It's not just MAGA. It's wild when you're like, it's funny. I was just comparing it. I was in D.C. a few months ago, leaving that out. I'm like here but i'm like i get it this is what we do we sell shit to people who want most of that town like half that town is a gift shop yeah exactly right and then comparatively burbank if you go to burbank airport like this shit they sell and there's like cbd stands yeah well that's everywhere yeah it's a gafferary burger Yeah right Burbank Air Force is shit

Oh number one It really is stunning though because I mean they were Allowed to like this was a place Where he just did crime He was like yeah you can like come in and Stay there and like foreign leaders Would stay there and just like give him So much money just so that

You know he would like them. Like he was a record label owner. Right, exactly. Like Paola. Yeah. Or he's just like the Hyatt house is where all the fucking Yahoo stay. Yeah. And you deliver the Cokes on the fourth floor,

Maths on the fifth floor, and the Hookers are on the third floor, male or female, because it's modern day. It's power. But that's that kind of. And they were able to stake themselves like millions of dollars up front with the inauguration. Oh, yeah. Which is another thing that's being investigated for overpayments.

Right. So maybe ProPublica did a great thing and they were like, this is wild. How much were you charging? Yeah. How much were you paying yourself? And then the government's like, thanks. We'll take it from here. We'll get yelled at for acknowledging it.

God damn it. All right. Let's talk about the new emoji. Hundreds. Have we all really gotten on board not calling them emoticons anymore? Yeah. I think, well, because emoticons were, is that the ones you would make

out of like alphanumeric signs yeah that was the the og and then emoji is like in japanese like emotional letter or similar or and that's where we get all the faces and crying and puke face and daisies and vampires and shit but it's weird they keep adding more and more i feel like i don't notice when there's more like there's a i think the last one had over 80 or something added i'm like oh really and then i'm like oh cool who's in charge of that you could be a like a brunette vampire if you want is there like a central authority there is the unicode consortium and that's horrible alex schmidt current host of the cracked podcast uh our colleague, just submitted a bison emoji

that got approved that's in this batch of updates. So now Alex Schmidt and Kevin Costner will both be the only two people who can say they did all they could to fight to warn us. Oh, you're using the buffalo emoji? Oh, real casually, huh? There's a lot of food ones. I like the little seal holding its belly.

Won't use it. Made me laugh. And then there's one that is going to be a chef's kiss, which I think is important. Oh, that is important. But what it is, I believe it's pinched fingers, kind of like an Italian, like, hey. Yeah.

That's critical for Italian-American culture. Yeah, so we've really had a rough century. All texts will be reduced to an emoji. We'll begin and end with that emoji. But they say, you know, you pair that with the kiss, like the lips. Boom, now you got a chef's kiss. Chef's hat? Chef's hat?

If you wanted to. Yeah. Pinch fingers? I mean, yeah. Look, it's all up to you. That's the beauty of these things. And then now we're getting blueberries, bell peppers, flatbread, tamale, fondue, teapot, mousetrap, okay, potted plant, a toothbrush, and many other ones.

Thank God there's a toothbrush. Yeah. There's another one that's like a roach, and just one's like a rock. I mean, I guess, is this where we're headed? We're like, there are going to be some people who are completely illiterate and just, these are our new hieroglyphs? I mean, are they replacing ones that, like, are some being retired as they bring in new ones? I haven't heard of one being retired. They should, right?

I mean, it needs to, because otherwise it's just going to be harder and harder to find the one you're looking for. Oh, so you're saying there should be some kind of like relegation system? Like there's 26 letters. We don't just add new letters. So we should take them away if we add new ones? Yeah. Propose a new letter right now, John. Like a Q, but slower. There we go yeah uh is that is that f and q mixed together

that's only good for anton fuqua yeah exactly you could say fuck real real simply too though yeah that's what like the rebels that's how they pronounce few well all right i bubble tea i'm glad we have it i can't believe teapot and bubble tea were added at the same time it seems like teapot was a real been around oversight and that really says a lot about modernity yeah it does olive come on guys olive was the first food i don't know we should have added all of the first food. Respect our history. Yeah. Damn it. All right.

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and is interfacing with humans. PETA's angry. Yes. They say, times change. Traditions evolve. treatment an animal exists and is interfacing with humans pete is angry uh yes they say times change traditions evolve it's long overdue for phil to be retired by creating an ai phil you could keep punxsutawney at the center of groundhog day but in a much more progressive way oh my god talk about taking your town's annual tradition in a fresh and innovative direction and i say that wrong because i just think it's hilarious and i say that wrong because i just think it's hilarious did they spell it wrong no i just like when i want to make fun of people think using innovative in such a wacky way yeah oh it's innovative um yeah in the future miles

as you sit upon the crest of one of the last bits of dry land in north america trying to cut gills into the back of my ears yeah Watching the jet ski gangs fight it out over what used to be Los Angeles. As your son or daughter says to you, Daddy, when the waters were rising, what did the good people do to stop it? And you'll say... We did everything we could.

And you'll think about that robotic groundhog. We did absolutely everything we could. That's a good opening to this film where i shed a single tear because i realized my family and i are about to be murdered by roving jet ski gang right and then you go into the reflection of my tears yeah you go into the first ai punk yeah and that's the whole movie's just about that quest exactly but the opening is really dark yeah family about to be just and the last line is you saying we did absolutely everything we could machete to my throat we did everything there was no other way to prevent this black fade to black but it's funny because their whole thing is again

they're saying they're a prey species their argument in terms of uh in terms of like an ethical treatment of animals thing is it's a prey species uh they actively terms of uh in terms of like an ethical treatment of animals thing is it's a prey species uh they actively avoid humans being in close proximity to the public causes these animals great stress okay let's see if their hair is gray that's how we really know um and when phil is dragged out of his hole and held up held up to flashing lights and crowds he has no idea what's happening so would no other fucking animal on earth know what's happening i'm sorry that i mean i understand the other things i feel bad about it but it's not like the problem is like okay i'm sentient i know i'm i'm punk satani phil i'm whoa what's going on here i'm the 40th of my name right wait but what are all these people doing

here now satani phil 40th of my name, if that, it's one of those things, like, I'm never gonna stand up and support factory farming, but if, like, your choice for an evil to fight is, like, once a year, this animal whose health and welfare are otherwise deeply cared for has a stressful day,

an animal that would have been a prey animal living in the wild being hunted. And having no predators now. Yeah, having no predators now. Yeah. One rough day. Right. Come on, now. Yeah, having no predators now. Yeah. One rough day. Right. Come on, guys.

Yeah, and you know, they fight tooth and nail against factory farms. But yeah, I think this is their newest moment to sort of re-shoehorn their name into the conversation. Yeah, it's a PR thing.

The best is the guy who's the president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. This guy, Bill Dealey, he's like, look, Phil is treated well and he enjoys his routine he's fed a healthy diet his habitat is temperature controlled the fucking burrow is inspected by the department

of agriculture every year he lives well but this is the best part which shows you how assholey humans are this is when he completely negates everything goes and if he's so fearful of the cameras if he's so fearful of us in the crowds why doesn't he just make an attempt to run away then oh come on mic drop that's his rebuttal to this everyone loses in this um there's no clear winner well i'm ready for the waters to take us yeah please yeah us to be and and punk satani phil to lead us against the roving jet ski gangs. Yeah, but the AI version, otherwise it's exploitative. Yeah, exactly. Right. PETA also doesn't think we should

be allowed to have pets. Yeah. Right, because they're not for animal slavery. Have you talked to a dog, PETA? They're pretty on board. Yo, my dog would fucking die the second I let his ass out. I'm sorry. Objectively, there's no way to live better than with me.

That's kind of their whole deal. Our friends and animal companions, we just think that they would have been better off if they got to live their own lives being hunted. Also, we invented dogs.

It would never have existed without us. Right. Nature doesn't make dogs. I mean, yeah. Again, this isn't a pro animal cruelty show by any stretch of the imagination but when you go to the extremes like oh yeah i guess with the opening

horse stuff that could seem like we're just like really mean about they hate horses i do hate animals i love horses i hate horses i love animals i just wish uh wealthy white people care about people first yeah peter i am not I am not a huge fan of. Fully agree. But I also think that in this world of constant frustrations, like the ones we've gone through today, one of the very few things I'm unequivocally proud of humans for making is dogs.

Like, okay, we got that one right. We really fucking nailed that. We really nailed dogs. Especially when you're like, the healing magical properties of a dog. Yeah, they're incredible. Yeah, they're like helping people who are in our prison system. They find bombs. Yeah, right. Some can sniff other diseases.

We really did kind of nail it with the invention of dogs. Yeah, they rule. You know what? We at PETA very much love the animal companions who share our homes, but we believe that it would have been in the animal's best interest if the institution of pet keeping breeding animals to be kept and regarded as pets never existed i mean i'm i i in favor of like breeding dogs yeah like like there's plenty of strays yeah they look they they can fuck

on their own yeah they're they're doing all right look i'm a magician i can fuck on my own time yeah uh i mean do you think any of these pita people are so like they love animals but they're like oh i can't have an animal house uh yeah i do not i i know a lot of them actually do fought like have animals in their home but like the attitude their attitude is still i don't think there should be any pets but they're here and so i'm going to try to take care of these animals because it reduces their suffering but i wish they'd never been i wish they didn't exist because their existence is like explicate it's like but i can't but but they're better off with me even though i think the institution is cool but then i

there's other shit yeah dogs like right come on yeah well i mean look also i just don't know what i don't even know in their minds what they meant when they said an ai groundhog like they would a random number generator basically like an algorithm like right on a like running some like a computer program on a screen and then be like winter more it's like they just have such little respect for the intelligence of the people of puxatani that they're like you'll still be a big deal you'll still for the intelligence of the people of Punxsutawney that they're like, you'll still be a big deal. You'll still be the center of everything. But like in a forward thinking way. Right, yeah.

It's like, maybe they really believe that. I mean, no one's got a lot of respect for the people of Punxsutawney. Well, they should. No. People of Punxsutawney are the salt of the earth. No. Them and horses, no sir. They deserve each other. The official count, let's just see. i just want to find the official count uh let's just see i just want to see how many punks satani fills there have been because there is a record

40 seems like a decent guess but i don't know how long groundhogs live i never mind man is it a lot is it like a depressing number i mean it's been since 1887. 40 this year, man. 40 this, yeah. Yeah, they buy them in six packs. Oh my God. All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show.

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