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Episode Date: February 25, 2018

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or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist what is a myth what's something that people believe to be true that is not the myth is if you dislike black panther you're a racist i feel like i've been seeing this and i feel like it's

such a weird and that goes back to that guy i was talking about because that's been what's been driving a lot of these like edgelords being like oh people are saying if you don't like this no one's saying that it's like a few fringe you know takes that no one's taking seriously that it's easier for you to buck against that and to be honest it's like no no we don't care like like black people would have been totally fine if all white people were like oh we didn't like we expected that black people went into black panther expecting white people to hate it because we knew it was made for us and that's the beauty of it is like no ryan coogler wasn't trying to make i mean he was trying to make a good movie that you know

was that everyone liked but he wasn't trying to make it for you like there are lines in there that's why i like one take that i heard from someone who was like a non-black person of color they were like you know some of the lines seemed forced and it's like that's a take of someone who who it just wasn't for because they were forced i'm sure it was all the like the grace jones one well well no no that was a solid joke i think it was lines like where it's like all people come from here so aren't wakandans all your people like it's like yeah i feel like if you're not black you don't realize the power of like in a disney movie we are like letting it be known that yes people come from africa this is a scientific fact that is

often forgotten or ignored or used christianity to try and pretend like it doesn't exist. And, or like lines like, you know, I'm sorry if you haven't seen it, I'm not going to say the plot points. I'm just going to say the lines, uh,

which don't give any plot points a lot, but it's like, you know, or the line, uh, bury me in the ocean. Uh, because like my ancestors knew that death was better than bondage.

Like that. I feel like, uh, like some dork, like who is not black is like, Oh, that just, better than bondage like that i feel like oh like some dork like who is not black is like oh that just that's not how people talk and it's like no that's yeah that's through my lens of not knowing anything about oppression that seems absurd right yeah so it's so funny and even the the secondary like sub myth to this is that black panther isn't a big deal it's like and it's so it's so many like neck beardy white guys who are like, it's not a big deal.

It's like, how would you even know? How would you begin to understand what's a big deal for black people when you're not black? Like, that's the fun. That's the hubris of white men. That's going to be a lot of my thesis this year is the hubris of white men. And I was talking about this with Brody and he was saying it's just because like everything they've been taught is that they have a universal point of view that they have that you

as a white dude and in in this philosophy class that you've taken has taught you that like you've been able to make this unbiased universal point of view but it's it's not you don't have the experiences to make an educated decision you do not have the experiences around you probably don't have the experiences to make an educated decision. You do not have the experiences around – you probably don't even have enough black friends to be able to be like, oh, this is important to black people. And it's more than because there's a lot of black people in the movie. It's because of the themes within it and like what it really means. And signaling even a shift in how films are made and Coogler getting the largest budget for an african-american director and then paying back tenfold oh my gosh like yo the the floodgates are about to open because hollywood responds to money yeah and there you go henny there's your fucking profits also i have a question for you because you are nigerian yeah uh and i was talking yesterday

about how like wakanda definitely i think what some people don't understand is like wakanda is this sort of fantasy world because the idea of africa is little nebulous for African Americans so Africa is less abstract to you because you are African American uh in like the most literal sense did that change how I mean like you're saying you people take from it what they will but I'm just curious for you what that was like well I feel like there's like two points that could be made with with uh what you just asked I feel like there's one point in the the thing you said where, like, Africa's kind of nebulous to African-Americans. Like, you know, a lot of African, like us,

it took me a while to realize how kind of blessed I was to be able to trace back my roots on one side of my family. A lot of African-Americans just can't, you know, like you, and especially African-Americans in white spaces get to hear their, like, white friends be like, oh, you know, my family comes from, you know, like you in especially African-Americans in white spaces get to hear their white white friends be like, oh, you know, my family comes from, you know, the Netherlands. Yeah. Like they get to trace it back pretty far. And black people don't get that. So I feel like that's why it's that's another level to why it's important, because it's like, you know, this fictional place. Yes, it's fictional, but it's somewhere we can be like, yeah, this is us. You can't ancestry.com your way back to Africa.

Yeah, and so I feel like a lot of Africans, a lot of shithead Africans have been like, oh, why don't you learn about your actual roots? And I feel like that comes from a place of just true ignorance. Like when I was in my 20s, I kind of had this like – like that same kind of feeling where and it's really just being selfish just making it about you where it's like why you want to care about africa care about me like care about where i'm from and i think to really approach your question for me i i'm my dad's nigerian my mom's from louisiana so like i'm a half african killmonger same thing so the way i took that movie was kind of approaching it from like that kind of psyche of how

it is and trying to fit in with your community even though you are seen as an other because you are half. And I spoke to my friend Opie who both his parents are Nigerian and he saw another thing and I definitely want to give Opie he's a Nigerian comic. I'm going to take

what he said because I think it's a good point. He was saying he felt the vibranium was an allegory for culture, how he feels like Africans from Africa – we didn't have resources to give to black people, but we didn't extend our hand and give them the culture. We kind of viewed African-Americans as the other. And you see it in the way that some Africans do associate with black people. And you like he was talking about like the and I didn't even know this, mostly because my dad married an American. But Nigerians have a word called which is like a derogatory term for African-Americans. Right. Like that's because they're looking at them as they're wasting the opportunity and completely ignoring the systematic oppression and everything else that came. They see us as lazy. And it's also part of the kind of model a big thing where like colleges are disproportionately accepting African Africans but not African Americans. And it's just that model minority kind of cyclical thing that's going on that we also have to address. Guys, see, Black Panther is much more nuanced. I don't know how many people walked into that movie and started having these conversations after the fact.

But yeah, glad to get your perspective on that. Yeah. And just to your point, Ryan Coogler released a letter this morning saying – just expressing gratitude for everybody who saw it but saying never in a million years did we imagine that all these people would come out and see a movie about a fictional country on the continent of Africa made up of a cast of people of African descent. But, yeah, the response has been impressive. And just a lot of the conversations that I feel like are springing up around it, like the one you guys just had, have been really more interesting than the conversations that spring up around a lot of movies. Well, it just forces a little bit of reflection, for sure, especially when you watch a movie like that. Yeah, the only conversations you're having after Batman v Superman is like,

man, how crazy would it be if our moms had the same name? You know, it's like, nah, man. Yeah, I'm out here, like, dealing with shit like, yeah. It's funny, like, when I went to Ghana, my dad, who's black, they call him Obruni, which in Ghanaian, that just means white man. But again, that sort of goes back to the perception of African-Americans from Africans, and they thought I was Arab. So they kept insisting I was Arab. But again, yeah, it's very interesting that there are so many levels of perception of blackness and things like that.

So also, yeah, guys, before you come in with your hot take, just realize this is a very nuanced topic. It's not just that it's a black movie and everyone's open arms. It's signaling many other things to many different people. All right. Let's get into other stories that are going on right now. Is it about Wakanda? This one is not about Wakanda explicitly. Oh, good, good.

Like all stories, it is in the background in a way about Wakanda. Right. The Reverend Billy Graham has passed away. He brought Christianity to the masses in America or like brought it back after the Scopes monkey trial and, you know, the Christian church taking a giant L in the public forum on that one, he sort of brought it back and was like, it's okay to be Christian. These values are good things. And he really focused on the better parts of that ethos.

There is a thing that I wasn't fully aware of, a tape that was released in 2002 that is pretty shocking. So he had a conversation with Nixon and somebody was there for it, had said he said all these anti-Semitic things. And Billy Graham had always just said, no, I didn't. And people were like, OK, well, he wouldn't lie. He is basically a modern Jesus. And then in 2002, a tape came out because Nixon recorded fucking everything. And, uh, this is what Billy Graham said. He said, they're the ones.

Uh, so he was speaking about, uh, Jewish people in America. He said, they're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff. The Jewish stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain. I go and I keep friends with Mr. Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort. That was the publisher, I think, of the New York Times at the time. And people of that sort, you know, and all, I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country.

And I have no power, no way to handle them. But I would stand up if under proper circumstances so it's like it is it's a tough one to overcome because it's him being like and i would never tell them this yeah public that's usually like then smoking gun quote because usually they'll say the top part and they won't be like but what they don't know is usually the line that you're always like damn if i just had that't be like, but what they don't know is. Right. Usually the line that you're always like, damn, if I just had that. Right. And he's saying, what they don't know is.

Given the right circumstances, I would – wow. Well, look. He was the spiritual advisor for many presidents. I think he was the closest with Nixon but had been invited to the White House from pretty much every president up until Obama. Even Obama. Yeah. Because he was seen as like this sort of – at least the good side of what uh like i guess evangel i don't know what was he was he evangelical i believe so yeah yeah that when it was still sort of good natured and then uh it perversion began of the

religious right and i think i know like billy graham had people are always sharing quotes like only good quotes about him saying like i think if the christianity was married with social conservatives that would be the end or something like that when people like cc he was a good guy which i'm sure you had great ideas i'm not particularly familiar i just remember that specific thing because when you're talking about you're talking about billy graham like uh the weird stuff he said about jewish people oh right um um yeah look yeah he was a big figure in the united states yeah but one thing i will say is uh nixon is the originator of keeping all the receipts. I feel like, you know, that's been what's weird is that Trumpians have figured out a way around receipts by just denying it.

Like once they figured out that their base will just take that. Like I feel because I feel like the first time it was done, they're like, no. Right. When their base was like, well, he said no. He's like, oh, thank God. These people are idiots. You know, no. Right. And when they're basically like, well, he said no. He's like, oh, thank God. These people are idiots. Right. You know. Totally.

There was an article in Jewish Week titled How Jews Should Think About Reverend Graham's Legacy. And I think it's as good a testament to, you know, his message or what he preached because, you know, they mention his quotes, but then they say, you know, we would have liked for him not to have said that. But that should not blind us to his constructive words, which benefited all religions, including our own. Many of his statements and actions were in sync, both with many enlightened Jews' own attitudes to religion and to the role that religion should play in the town square. And he specifically opposed, like there was a big Southern Baptist push to convert Jews and Muslims in the 90s.

And he was like, no, that's fucking awful. Let's not do that. So, yeah, he really came out in surprising ways, like for some some progressive values that we don't currently associate with Southern Baptist Christians. And it's just, you know, this one quote that is pretty problematic. So that's an interesting, complicated legacy. Yeah. So that's an interesting, complicated legacy. So there's been a lot of focus on Russian bots of late. Thirteen Russians and a couple organizations were indicted by the Mueller investigation on Friday. And, you know, it has come out now that we know who to specifically look at and what organizations were specifically the Russian bots.

It's come out that, yes, they were definitely trying to help the Trump campaign win the 2016 election. But they were kind of all over the place and they continue to be all over the place. all over the place. Right up until the school shooting last week in Florida, you know, they were immediately targeting, you know, both sides of that debate. They were pushing, you know, the idea that guns should be banned and, you know, just liberal talking points, which, I don't know, is kind of a, it's a weird thing to learn that, uh, you know, they're targeting that some of the things that you believe, like I looked and I had not retweeted any Russian bots, which was good. Um, but did you do the thing where you can find out if you did?

Yeah. Well, I also don't really retweet people who I'm not, who I'm not familiar with. So remember that, fans. Spicy. Right. But yeah, I mean, you can go, and there's a website that is tracking basically the specific organizations to watch out for. But I guess, I mean, that's the point of playing both sides, is if you get both fired up, then

nobody will get along, and there you go. Chaos achieved. Right. And I think for a example of how best to respond if you do find out that you have been retweeting a bot, this is a good example. CNN went and spoke to a woman who had led a pro-Trump rally, I think, and Facebook group. And they were like, yeah, that Facebook group that you helped lead was actually put together by Russian bots. And her response was, I think, a lesson for us all. But did you realize that you guys were in communication electronically with Russians?

Not me. Not me. I don't know. You were posting stuff on the Facebook. Hillary Clinton was, and so was all her bandits. Some of the stuff that you, you were in charge of the Facebook, right? You were posting and reposting almost word for word the information that was coming out of this Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg. No. You don't believe that?

Nope. It's bullshit. It's bullshit. Thank you. Well, there you go. He had a pretty interesting strategy here by making sure that this interview takes place right in front of a car whose alarm can't stop going off. Right.

To really just, you know, I know i'm like oh what am i listening to the alarm of this lady i mean it shows you too like that would look like an elderly retiree in florida or whoever it was um who had probably a lot of time living on facebook and got caught up in you know just posting her hot takes and thinking that she was organizing for real patriots and then when they're like oh are you doing – what group was it? Like very patriotic. She's like, yes, I'm very patriotic. He's like, no, that's the Russian Facebook group that you were talking to.

She's like, no. Was basically like, I don't go with the Russians. I just – I mean like at this point it just feels so hard to – like I try and be like I'm trying to be chill, dude. The new 2018 is like me trying to be, you know, understanding, really, you know, not not talk as spicy. It's hard not to talk spicy when like you. It seems like all of Trump supporters are this way where they're just like, no, no. Like, I just need one Trump supporter. Like, look.

Oh, damn. I'm a garbage dude. I'm sorry, dude. Like, you know, you know, I just need one Trump supporter who's like, look. Oh, damn. I'm a garbage dude. I'm sorry, my dude. My dude. Like, you know I fuck with garbage. You see this red hat? You know, make America great again. I love garbage.

You know, I'm trying to- It's a trash hat. I'm trying to blast each other with muskets. Like, I want AR-15s gone, too. Like, I want to get back to pumping, looking like I'm jerking it before I blast somebody. You know? But in a way, like, I get this woman because that's some shit for someone to hit you with off the street. Yeah.

Hey, do you know that you were unwittingly working with Russians? Like, you know what? I wouldn't even be like, fuck out of here. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't doing shit. Yeah, you're the fucking Russian body. But actually, I mean, to her credit, she could have said you are because CNN did cover a rally in the aftermath of Trump's inauguration. a rally in the aftermath of Trump's inauguration. Like there was the giant million woman, you know, protest and demonstration across America.

There was also a Russian organized specific protest that CNN and MSNBC managed to find that one and cover it and be like, so what do you guys think? Right. And they're like, Trump has weaponized this country. Like, just very, you could tell the talking points weren't, like, quite there. They weren't things that, like, people actually believed. But, yeah, so, I mean, CNN got caught up in that shit, too. So I don't know.

I don't know how good I feel about them going down and being like, oh, yeah, well, we found this idiot down in our front yard. I don't think that was a good tactic to blow someone's mind is to roll up on them in front of their house and be like, look at all this shit. Yeah, I think it's about, you know, like it would be like a family intervention or something where you're like, we actually do have information, grandma, that you were fucking with bots. But I mean, I know so many people whose parents like they they saw their parents sharing shit like this on Facebook and had to do that. And, you know, that's a conversation that America has had to have with their parents or uncles or, you know, been like, look, I know that's what you want to believe, but it's just not true. So I don't know. And I'm not saying you're evil for doing this because you just thought this was news or whatever you thought it was true but we're just i'm just trying to show you how easy that shit is right yeah i feel like you're unwitting it's because we're in like the

third wave of internet the internet is fascinating to me just because of like we're the last generation who will have lived before the internet and i remember like very early on my dad my dad like uncles would not fuck with it they they didn't care it was like that's a kid's thing that's what you do right like and then i remember your homework yeah and then you had myspace they still weren't like they were doing checking emails but like like the concept like i remember asking my dad to help me get something from ebay He was like, what? No. Like that's trash. Then like – then MySpace happened and I was like, all right, what y'all doing over there? And then they kind of started infiltrating MySpace.

Then we fled to Facebook and then – What y'all doing over here? That's what's so funny is people don't remember. We fled to Facebook because we wanted to get away from our parents on MySpace. How come I'm not in your top eight? Yeah, yeah. Our parents our parents on MySpace. How come I'm not in your top eight? Yeah, yeah. Our parents gentrified MySpace. We went to Facebook, which its big selling point was you could only sign up with a college email.

Right, with a daddy D. I went to college just so I could do that. I hacked that. Your boy didn't go to college. I joined there, and then our parents came, and there was the first initial, like, oh, my gosh. But then people were like, actually, it's kind of cool to check in on grandma. Right. And so you're getting all these people like, and I feel like that's when our parents kind of got involved in our parents.

Like now my dad is like flipping laptops on eBay and just like, like he's just straight up in it. And I think now it's like our grandparents are kind of like, all right, well, I think so. And it's kind of now the first wave, which is us, the millennials, who kind of already are well aware, like, this is fake. This is fake. This isn't real. This isn't. And then the second wave, I think, isn't all the way there yet. They don't have the skills to. And the third wave is they're in la la land.

They're like, everything that is real. The internet never lies. Right. That's the same like when I. Like how, if the internet lies, how can I see my grandson on the the beach on facebook exactly how you can't lie on the internet right yeah that's a really good point i mean there were there were those stories in the aftermath of the election being like we need to teach our children media literacy so they know what is true and what's not it's like the children fucking know it's not it's your asses we're the ones fucking with you half the time

i know the fucking tricks. I mean, yo, when Jurassic Park came out, I straight up told my grandmother it was real. And she believed it. My mom yelled at me because she was like, what did you say to your grandma? This is all in Japanese. But she was like, she was old. You know, she was born right before the Titanic sank. And I guess that's the same kind of thing is that sort of their guard isn't up like ours is.

is that sort of their guard isn't up like ours is so it's easy to be like well it's on this thing this screen because they grew up in a world where people who had access to media were like ordained like being like actual journalists or giving facts so it's like well it's the internet right they did not have that built-in sort of guard yeah yeah yeah i i think to have a clear example of this i learned my lesson that the internet doesn't lie. Back when the FBI came to my house, when I was trying to have cyber sex, when I was in, I'd say, I had to be like an eighth grade. And it wasn't until, because I tell that story now, I told the story on my comedy album. And now I'm at an age where I was like oh there was never a girl like i was cyber sexing with fbi so were you lying and saying you were older yeah no i was i was they just said

the language i was using was advanced for my age so you know your boy your boy was spicy with the keyboard so they thought you were posing as an eighth grader yeah your cyber stroke was that yeah that they thought he showed up but i'm like because like it was kind of like that kaiser soze moment where like i was like wait she disappeared after after a while never came back and then when the dude and i felt bad because the fbi dude i was like and he was like yeah we already like talked to the girl and i was like I was like – and he was like, yeah, we already talked to the girl. And I was like, yo, no. No.

They're like – Yeah. Hold on. Agent Smith? I know. This iffy waterway, man. He's very advanced. I just wonder if the agent misses me. Right.

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Which seems like a waste of resources because you don't need to sow discord. That court is going to diss itself. It is a hotly contested conversation, and we think it might get hotter tonight because there is a upcoming media event that seems almost too crazy to be true. But CNN is basically sponsoring this conversation between the Parkland students and community and that crazy NRA woman from like the NRA videos who just like comes out hot. I think we have some. Yeah. Dana Loesch. Dana Loesch. Yeah.

Dana Loesch. Dana Loesch. Yeah. We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president and the people who voted for him and the free system that allowed it to happen in American history. From the highest levels of government to their media, universities and billionaires, their hateful defiance of his legitimacy is an insult to each of us. But the ultimate insult is that they think we're so stupid that we'll let them get away with it. These saboteurs slashing away with their leaks and sneers, their phony accusations and gagging sanctimony drive their daggers through the heart of our future, poisoning our belief that honest custody of our institutions will ever again be possible so they can then build their utopia

from the ashes of what they burned down no their fate will be failure and they will perish in the political flames of their own fires we are the national rifle association of america and we are freedom's safest place what the fuck does that have to do with guns, my dude? Like, that shit. It does. It's just, yeah. Ideology war. With her videos, they started politicizing, just being like, we're far right, we're holding down the right, and we just happen to have guns.

I like how they set it up where the left are all using knives. They're, like, slashing at the heart of the thing. are all using knives they're like slashing at the heart of the thing so that because i i'm sure that's a fantasy of every nra member is that they get to face off with like some you know thug or like left wing you know the hippie npr bag full of kale right and with with a knife you with it yeah trying to trying to attack you with a knife so they can just, like, light you up. Yeah, so, again, this event is going to be – I don't even know how the fuck everyone agreed to this. This is bigger than McGregor-Mayweather, possibly. Who knows?

But, again, CNN got Dana Loesch to represent the NRA, who – let's not forget some of her past hot takes when she said banning the AR-15 would be like it's a war against women because it's the most popular gun with women. So that's a move to disarm women. That was her take on that. She called people who tried to curb mass shootings tragedy dry humping whores. So I'm curious. When she's in that town hall, it's going to be her, Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson, the two senators from Florida, I think some state legislator, and the victims, family members, teachers, community of Parkland are going to have a town hall meeting. I'm curious if she's going to come with that same energy when you're looking at a parent who's lost her child and is asking what the NRA is, where they stand in all of this. She'll either is going to say that crazy shit because they think that's going to work with their base,

and that would just be a disaster, I think, for PR optics for the NRA. Yeah. Or she might hum and haw her way through it and just be like oh well uh you know totally unprepared or i don't know uh just be really nice and act like oh yes we hear you we hear you just kind of do that version but i don't know based on how she talks in general i can't really it's hard for me to picture how this is going to end up yeah unless they cancel it I'm having a hard time picturing how she's going to not come off as just like the biggest villain in the history of news. with the right wing is that the students who are coming out and promoting gun control are actually either crisis actors, so actors who travel to different mass shootings to pretend that they are victims so that they can put forward an agenda. These are the same people.

They believe that Sandy Hook was all a false flag event perpetrated by the Obama administration so that they could get our guns, which, man, that backfired for the Obama administration because gun control only got laxer. They didn't do a fucking thing. Man, they shouldn't have killed all those children for that purposes. It just shows you how far we went because i remember the sandy hook and it was like a weird fringe alex jones thing that even the right were like chill my dude that's gross and to see it now like see actual like yeah fox people be like no yeah they are and it's like

oh my god we they've taken over like these are the alex jones dudes and really it's going to take republicans to nut up and vote against Republicans. That's the problem. And I've said this for years is that Democrats are willing to vote for what they think they believe, which is why we're in this position to begin with. A lot of people and they get so mad when you bring this up, but it's facts. A lot of people didn't like how Bernie was treated. And so they voted either Green Party or I felt like I felt like so many third-party people were, like, much louder this last election.

I felt like this was the time they thought they would do it because, like, everybody hates both options. This is our moment to shine, and I feel like we've gotten a lot of split there. That being said, Republicans don't vote against Republicans. They just don't. Like no matter how much – I don't know how many times I've seen people be like, I don't really – but that's better than a Democrat. Like that's their motto is it's better than a Democrat. Right. And I feel like that's how they've taken over and we're seeing them double down in such a weird way.

So I think we got to beat them at their own game i think we challenge them to a uh fisticuffs i'm i'm gonna put my bid in i will catch the net i will catch dinesh's fade catch me in these florida streets i let's go yeah dinesh dazooza uh who if people aren't on Twitter, yesterday was just talking shit to the actual kids whose classmates were killed, who were in the school building. To Tallahassee, to Florida Town Hall, to – The Capitol Building. The Capitol Building because they put forward this legislation or got this legislation to be considered that would at least open a conversation on changing the gun control laws in Florida and making them a little bit more restrictive. And it got voted down by a wide wide as margin to 71 with the children just standing like watching crying um yeah they could have just said fuck you literally right rather than doing that vote but i guess that's that's one way to say so these kids that story got reported and

dinesh tassouza uh who what what's his background He's just like a felon. I don't know. Yeah. That's what I hear is a con. He's got all kinds of dumb. He's a right wing media personality. Uh, but he tweeted like adults, one children, zero. And he was like,

this is the worst news since their parents told them that they had to get a job. Uh, so yeah. Yeah. And then he had to walk that back. He's like, I was talking about the media.

I wasn't trying to make a joke. I'm very sorry. But you know what? You already lost, my man. And what's crazy is right after that vote, so he was laughing at the fact that the state legislature failed to take up this bill. Then immediately after what they did, they passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health risk. That was less than an hour after that. So, yo, shout outs to all the uh the state legislators over

there and my god and now florida stop being so salty when we shit on you like you're like now stop being salty like look like if you want us to if you want you know these coastal elites to stop shitting on florida do something about that until then i'm going extra hard mad spicy coming at you florida talking about how you look like a weird dangling everyone in florida's dangling looks like the state if you write coming up but yeah it's it's uh i mean look yeah if you want to do something just vote and get these people the fuck out and again we'll see tonight because you were going to see yeah you're gonna see marco rubio the senator there and bill nelson who's a democrat he might bill nelson might not even have to say anything.

He'll just be like, oh, shit, I'm gonna let y'all just fuck this up yourself. But we'll see. So is he pro guns rights or Bill Nelson? Yeah, Bill Nelson. What's his deal? I mean, he's a Democrat, I believe. I mean, I'm sure he's somewhat friendly to the NRA because I mean, let's be real. Like, you can't really get into mainstream politics unless you do.

But I know that he has been vocal since the shooting that he's like, yo, assault weapons are for killing. Like, do away with them. So I don't think he's going to go up there and, like, cape for the NRA in any way. I mean, at worst, he'll just probably do some kind of lukewarm proposal about gun control. But, I mean, he's, for the most part, got his head in the right place. Got it. All right.

So we will be watching that for you So that you don't have to Or check it out Yeah, tonight, Wednesday We'll all share our thoughts tomorrow What can we talk about that happened yesterday? We can talk about that town hall meeting Yes

Because he who must not be named was not at that But Senator Marco Rubio was, as was Dana Loesch. We predicted that this was going to be interesting on yesterday's episode because why was the NRA coming out so spicy, like just sending their most over the top, like spokes model crazy person to this event and uh she did not disappoint she was you know respectful of the fact that they had just experienced a tragedy but then uh you know she did a lot of dancing and squirming and pivoting yeah actually she did disappoint last night and then this morning she came out right like these liberals she gave a speech this morning that was very angry and talked about how people screamed burn her at the town hall. Yeah, because what she thinks all these teenagers are like people from the Salem witch trials. Yeah, yeah. Like burn her.

Who under the age of 70 would be like burn her. You'd be like fuck this bitch or whatever. That's how – Delete her like fuck this bitch or whatever that's how you know delete her twitter yeah or whatever but yeah burn her like come on you got angry ass teenagers we they don't talk i said we like as if i'm i'm 33 miles is a cool teen i'm a cool teen y'all that's why i'm going undercover in high schools you can't tell shannon is 65 and, cool teen. Cool teen. He's skateboarding right now. Yeah. I sit on a throne of skateboards with my backwards hat and spinny hat on the top. But yeah, she was a little disappointing in that like, yeah, we thought she was going to bring that energy to the town hall of like puffing her chest out.

But I think she realized with the way Marco Rubio, when he took the stage, they were clearly not in friendly territory at oil. So do you want to throw that clip first? Yeah, let's listen to some sound effects. Yeah, this is Marco Rubio first talking. This is when a student put his fucking feet to the fire. And shout out to these kids, though, because they really are inspiring. I love these kids. Yeah, because when I was in high school, we were not very politically active.

But yes, this is a student talking with Marco Rubio. Senator Rubio, it's hard to look at you and not look down the barrel of an AR-15 and not look at Nicholas Cruz. But the point is you're here, and there are some people who are not. This isn't about red and blue. We can't boo people because they're Democrats and boo people because they're Republicans. Anyone who's willing to show change no matter where they're from, anybody who's willing to start to make a difference is somebody we need on our side here.

And this is about people who are for making a difference to save us and people who are against it and prefer money. So, Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA in the future? Whoop!

Yes, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool. For sure. Alright, moving on. Is that what the team's like? I mean, is it open? I wish I could have asked to the NRA lady a question. I wish the NRA lady I could have talked to because I would ask her how she can look in the mirror considering the fact that she has children, but, you she avoids those I'm sorry but that's okay

I will answer any questions you guys have about any policy right now right now guys be quiet be quiet you know you know and I will be here all night I just think that ultimately that is not our goal here our goal here is to move forward so hold this from ever happening again. In the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign? I think in the name of 17 people, I can pledge to you that I will support any law that will prevent a killer like this from getting NRA money. No, see, he's a teenager. As a matter of fact, I bet we can get people in here to give you exactly as much money an NRA would have. But it's not. I understand.

And you're right. Can you stand up and donate to that real quick? Ooh. So that was a hard question. So, like, usually they don't get to keep the microphone and be like, no, you're not answering the question. You're not answering the question. And so his, like, little pivot there did not work. Which is crazy because journalists, you could take note.

I mean, look, it looks aggressive, but you have to, especially for an issue like this and people want to squirm and not answer a question directly because they can't bite the hand that feeds them. I'm just glad this kid did it. And that's, teenagers, what did you expect? Now, could his opener have used a little work yeah what was that like the the thing about it's hard to look at you and not look down the barrel of an ak-47 or whatever that that didn't really make sense my man but like that's all right because he then went on to ask a very clear and cogent

uh question which rubio could not could answer. He looks sort of shocked. I'll tell you what I can guarantee you. I'll support any. Are you drinking again, Marco? It's like when you talk to a stepdad with a drinking problem. Man, what's going on? Because my mom's not going to confront you. Your mom, now.

No, Marco. Why was there that beer can in your car? Your mom should not have been looking through my car. Fuck you, my car. But yes, I mean, yeah, shout outs to them. I think, again, it's very interesting to see him say, can you tell them in the name of 17 dead people will you reject the money of the NRA? And he later on went to go on to say, you know, people buy into my agenda.

He said that. He said people buy into my agenda. It's like, yo are you just that like bad at talking like a human being that you can't can't avoid saying people buy into my agenda there was also a moment where he accidentally like gave them something that people were fond of where he was like uh then you'd have to outright ban assault weapons right and the crowd erupted right and then he looks confused he's like oh y'all want that like he doesn't get it we haven't been clear enough right genuinely out there like it was a joke like yeah i mean if we do that we might as well ban all assault right

that's what we want he thought that was gonna be like the equivalent of like and what are we gonna do marry our dogs next and we were like yes we do want to marry our dogs yes motherfucker yeah uh because then then he was like talking about he's like well then there's there's 200 guns like at least that we'd have to get rid of and they're like yeah yeah what's your point but then there's like 2 000 other ones that also define what i mean how do we do that anyway that was also i think part of a question that was that came after a father of a child who was killed at the high school had a question for him and this guy also uh brought the heat for marco rubio your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak.

Yeah, hold that, hold that. I guess shout out to Marco Rubio for actually showing up and just getting people to talk like me. At least he earned that money. You and I are now eye to eye because I want to like you. Look at me and tell me guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week. And look at me and tell me you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns. Fred. Fred. Can I call you Fred? I'm not. First of all, let me explain what I said this week, and I'll repeat it.

I'll repeat what I said. Because it seems like you like it. And then I'm going to tell you what we're going to do. We're going to talk about guns, and we're going to talk about what I said this week. And here's what I said. I said that the problems that we are facing... Let him speak. I think we need to hear it. I'm saying that the problems that we're facing here today cannot be solved by gun laws alone.

And I'm going to tell you what we've done already and what I hope we'll do moving forward. Were guns the factor in the hunting of our kids? Of course they were. Now, I think what you're asking about is the assault weapons ban. Yes, sir. So let me be honest with you about that one. If I believed that that law would have prevented this from happening, I would support it. But I want to explain to you why it would not.

He looks shocked here, too. Senator Rubio, my daughter, running down the hallway at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was shot in the back. Yes, sir. With an assault weapon. The weapon of choice. Yes, sir. Okay? It is too easy to get. It is the weapon of choice. Yes, sir. Okay? It is too easy to get.

It is a weapon of war. The fact that you can't stand with everybody in this building and say that, I'm sorry. Sir, I do believe what you're saying is true. I mean, the assault weapon ban is not really a thing that most like. I think people go into this conversation thinking, well, you know, it's equal sides and, you know, 50 percent of Americans want assault weapons and 50 percent don't. But there was an assault weapon ban for 10 years in our country. It was when Columbine happened. but that was the only mass shooting. And like we talked about after this shooting happened, this shooting was bigger than Columbine. It just didn't seem like it because Columbine was like out of nowhere and had a shooting like that.

It hadn't happened in a long time. And it was because weapons like this had been banned for 10 years. And it was because weapons like this had been banned for 10 years. And there's an amazing clip from I think it was the Daily, the New York Times podcast where they talked about how they had a clip of Bill Clinton talking about how people who were advocating to keep assault weapons. They want these to go to shooting ranges to fire them. And I think they need to get a new hobby. Like, they need to read a good book or something. And everybody laughed at it. And, like, that is, like, people were like, yeah, fuck these people who want to take AR-15s to shooting ranges over, like, the safety of people. And when this assault weapon ban went into effect, 70% of Americans were in favor of it.

And then when it lapsed because politicians didn't keep it going, didn't do the work because they were being, you know, funded by the NRA, still 60 something percent of people wanted it. It's just harder to get people to give a shit about a thing that is preventing things from happening when they haven't happened for 10 years. Right. So I don't know. It's a it. I don't think it's as controversial as as you would think, based on the fact that like the NRA is out here putting out such a strong message.

You would assume that, you know, they speak for a big chunk of Americans and they're a minority, a pretty small but super vocal minority. Yeah. Yeah. It sucks that people's hobbies are like, I want to shoot guns. And I get that, you know, like I've seen so many videos where people are like, it's really fun. I want my gun. Right.

But I'm just like, can we I do think there needs to be like more places where people can express their rage. So I wish that there was rage cage places. You know those places where you go and you smash plates? There should be spots everywhere, easily accessible, cheap, where you can go and within the safety with a professional, go shoot off a gun for fun. Or go break some plates, go punch some dummies, something like that. That's like, let's use your hobby without having all these guns out there that children

have access to. You want a CCC, a community catharsis center. Yes, exactly. For people to get their anger out. I mean, personally, like I've shot guns a lot and I really do enjoy shooting guns. For me, there hasn't been like like a there's not a catharsis about it i think it's because i grew up inundated with images of guns and shit that i just like began to like romanticize like the idea of shooting guns but i think there's a difference

between being able to shoot a gun or hunt and then being like saying like oh i have a right to like a like a military style gun sure that's like for you to just kind of feel good that like yo i got that gun from this thing or whatever yeah but like i think the idea of an assault weapons man it shouldn't be that controversial because like bro we're not saying you can't hunt or do this other shit that you're saying is part of the american culture but do you have a right to have the same shit that the military does no even if it is semi-automatic and i know a lot of people want it like especially on the nra it's like well the ar-15 is like it's not the m4 because it's not fully automatic look let's be real like you don't need that gun to be a hobby shooter you know what i mean and you also if you

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and they have to be able to defend their family against the police state when obama takes back over and comes for them and he already has brother right the shadow government is in full force uh uh hey so the nra uh they they have some interesting ideas. And one of those ideas is so they have been fighting for a long time to have this mascot, Eddie the Eagle, the NRA's gun safety mascot. He's just a giant cartoon bird. They want him to be basically the only thing that is used to stop children from playing with guns. That makes sense because, look, gun control is out of the question. Right. So let me do you one better. I'll make a cartoon character that will put the responsibility on children to be safe around guns and not on fucking adults who have them around guns. Right.

I don't – yeah. around guns and not on fucking adults who have them around gun right i don't yeah it's crazy to think that this is a solution that they put forward but it makes sense because the solution is always anything but gun control yeah so so this designer who designed eddie the eagle took the assignment thought you know this is a fun thing that can convey a message about gun safety uh and then she found out that the nra was uh arguing that eddie the eagle is a superior alternative to negligent storage legislation or laws meant to punish adults when children shoot themselves or someone else with an unsecured gun uh so yeah it's like assuming sexual harassment will be stopped because of pepe Le Pew and not sexual harassment was.

And here I think we have some samples from some of Eddie the Eagle. So this is the earlier version from the 90s when Jason Priestley, legitimately Jason Priestley, is in this video interacting with Eddie the Eagle. But this is the rap that Eddie the Eagle says, so when you kids find a gun, you know what to do. Then, behind the broom, I saw a gun. At just that moment, the kids saw it too.

I didn't wait. I knew what to do. Drop the beat. Stop! Don't touch! I'm Eddie Eagle, and I like you too much. To see you get hurt, and that's why I say if you speak a gun, just Drop the beat. Broadband. Broadband. Dance along at home. Nice run.

Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult. Talk it over with a grown-up you trust. Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult. Talk it over with a grown-up you trust. Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.

Thank you, Jason. Good rhyming. Good rhyming. I said stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult. An adult you trust, which honestly, I don't trust any adults right now.

So who are we going to go to? I'm going to run to other teams. I guess wait until Monday till you go to school and tell your pe teacher that's really cool nope that that rhymed yeah it would not have worked and they should they should have tapped me to do that um but yeah it's a it's such a bizarre thing because like the situation is like kids playing in an attic and then they're like whoa what's this old fucking like rifle doing here? But I don't know. I guess it's a weird thing to also normalize guns for kids too.

That like, yeah, this shit just might be around kids. Right. So you know what to do. Well, kids, it's America. You're going to find some loaded, unsecured guns laying around the house. This is what to do. It's on you to not shoot yourself and your friends. Have you ever had a friend who was like, hey, you want to come over and see my dad's gun?

Did you ever grow up having that? No. No? No, that's never happened to me. All right. Never mind. Wait, so it happened to you? No, no.

Not like that. Miles is just going to invite us over to see his dad's gun. No, yeah. Anyway, but yeah, my dad has a really cool gun. No, because I think because that's always like a situation like you hear about. They're like, I remember kids would talk about like, yo, my uncle has a gun. Because in California, not everyone had a gun. But who is in that situation?

I guess it's a very small number of kids who are like actually going to be like, wait, stop. Don't touch. Right. Yeah. Leave the area. Tell an adult. Thinking about my childhood now, I feel like I should have been a person who found a gun because all of my neighbors, like especially during the holidays or on birthdays, they

would shoot guns like into the lawn or in the sky. And it was like a big deal. And people were constantly dying like during the holidays because of like straight bullets. Really? Oh, I am. Yeah. Like every like. Where'd you grow up?

Puerto Rico. Okay. And Bayamón. of like straight bullets yeah really oh i am yeah like every like where'd you grow up puerto rico okay and bayamon um and they like yeah like that's how you there were less firecrackers and more gun shots right right right interesting which i'm just like wow and i didn't think like i i don't know i never saw anybody be like let's find it you know yeah it's funny i remember during like the holidays there would be billboards in la thatA. that was like a child. And it had a poem that says, when you shoot bullets in the sky, when they come down, I might die. And I remember being a kid and being like, yo, what the fuck is going on? Yeah, because I know in certain areas, yeah, like people will just clap guns off for like just to set it off and have a good time.

for like just to just to set it off and have a good time but yeah that's true like i didn't realize that it would be so prevalent that like it was a a huge problem and that was like an eye-opening thing for me as a kid because i didn't have any legal it's just a sad thing because this is their response to like kids shooting being near guns or loose guns that this is their answer to it constantly like they had to revamp this think, in a response to another child who had shot another child because a gun was laying around the house. Yeah. No, it happens constantly. Yeah. I also don't get it because their whole thing is like, if you put in laws against guns, people are still going to get guns on the black market.

It's like if you tell kids to stop, don't touch and run away from a gun, they're still going to grope the gun, shoot their friend, and then hide in a closet and cry until their parents find them. Yeah. Anyway, so I guess it's a fitting way for the NRA to handle a very serious problem is to really not do anything in a very insulting way. Mm-hmm. Cool. Cool. Yay, lives don't matter.

We wanted to go out on something a little bit lighter. matter we wanted to go out on something a little bit lighter uh we have the very good news that the u.s women's hockey team has won gold who they beat who they beat uh canada oh canada oh in canada's won like what the last three or four years they won oh have they is canada good at hockey i don't know i feel the u.s is the greatest team that ever existed in canada sports yeah i mean it's the same as basketball it's like america's it's america's sport right uh anyways but hey maybe canada you know how they have that small town where the oh shit uh sorry i'm just trolling it's not a village it's ottawa and it's the capital and hey i called their capital city uh a small town yeah it's guys it's all love it's not a village it's ottawa and it's the capital and i called their capital city uh a small town yeah it's guys it's all love it's ottawa their capital cities yeah river freezes

over and they all ice skate to work and it's a beautiful magical land and we just beat you in women's hockey so jack they're gonna remember that when you are fleeing with your family to immigrate yeah they're gonna be like oh wait jack o'brien hold on oh let's pull up that app yeah you have some fucked up takes on this kind of get the fuck back in california you sick piece of shit anyway yes but uh that happened but also let's really talk about the real news okay right peeps you like peeps uh i don't mind them i wouldn't go out of my way to find them but you know what yeah i'll pop them i feel like for any american person around easter time those just grotesque things pop up uh and they've announced like a bunch of new flavors which for starters i don't like peeps at all same as uh candy corn i try it every year or like every however often i'm around

i'm like oh maybe it'll be different flavor this year. This is shitty. But they have new flavors. Now, hold on to your butts because they have Neapolitan flavor. They have sour cherry, pancakes and syrup. Sour cherry might actually be good. My problem with it is just that it's so dull pouring white sugar into your mouth. It's just the taste of sugar and nothing else. So if you give me a little sour, you give me a little something, I might be into it. And they also have

orange sherbet, lemon sherbet, and three mystery flavors. You know that's like matcha, green tea. You think so? But that would be insane if peeps were like, oh, now we have green tea. We're woke.

Yeah, I think they are. They're going to be insane if peeps were like, oh, now we have green tea. We're woke. Yeah, I think they are. They're going to be like woke peeps, a new thing. I feel like, yeah, I just can't. Marshmallows in general don't really appeal to me unless it's in my hot cocoa. Hot cocoa, yeah. I was just going to say when you were like, no marshmallows, I was like, this guy's never had hot cocoa. Oh, yes. Especially the Swiss Miss with it already mixed in for the lazy people.

So good. So good. But again. Or Cool Whip. Just throw a whole bunch of Cool Whip on that shit. Oh, my God. Whoa, that's wild. I love hot cocoa.

Oh, wow. Did you have the S'mores Girl Scout cookies? I did. They're really good. I haven't had those. They are chemically delicious. They are. They're very.

They're chemically delicious. It's like they found a way to add more sugar to Girl Scout cookies. They like jammed it in there. And it's like the sweetest cookie they've released yet. But I like it a lot. It's pretty wild. I was sort of surprised at first. I had, I was like, this tastes like fake everything.

Right. And then like any good American person, you eat seven more straight, one after the other, and then you just get into the motion of eating them continually. And then I devoured an entire box. You woke up on your couch three days later. Yeah, exactly. Blacked out with a bunch of boxes around me. But yeah, so peeps, I don't know if people like them. I just feel like it's a thing that people either like or just fucking hate and avoid completely.

You know what's really fun is looking at a peep and then scraping off its little chocolate eyes. Damn. Alright, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to

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