The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 121 (Best of 4/13/20-4/17/20)

Episode Date: April 19, 2020

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yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist i want to talk really briefly about a tweet uh the president made at the end of uh last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article noting that his daily briefings had for the White House press briefings are, quote, through the roof. And then in parentheses, Monday Night Football Bachelor finale, according to the New York Times. His only way for me to escape the fake news and get my views across, Wall Street Journal is fake news. Wow. So he's bragging about his ratings in the crisis that is killing more people than anything else right now. It's just surpassed cancer and heart disease as the thing that kills most Americans on a daily basis. And he's like, I'm a star. Look at me, um yeah and that is i don't know how we move forward as a culture from that tweet i don't i don't know also he's comparing himself

to monday night football which isn't happening now, right? Right. What season of sports ball are we in? I forget, but... Baseball? Basketball. It should be in basketball and baseball. Oh, I thought that there was going to be a number. I thought you were going to be like, season seven. Yeah, it's the finale.

This is the finale. It's about episode six or five or six. This was supposed to be the penultimate episode of the NBA where, big twist. But he doesn't understand how like also quotation marks work like at all. No, he does not. The Wall Street Journal always quote forgets, which you could conceive.

Okay, that works, right? Like they supposedly forget, but then he says my ratings are quote through the roof, which you would assume means they're not. Right. Right. Like he was asked recently whether he was being sarcastic. Remember when he said that thing about Mitt Romney? He was like, oh no, that's too bad that he has coronavirus.

Yeah, you hate to see it. You hate to see it. And the journalist was like, are you being sarcastic? He's like, no. Because he doesn't know what it means. He doesn't know what irony or sarcasm. The right actually doesn't know. The difference between the right and left is only one thing. Do you understand irony or not?

That's it. Yeah. Yeah. The right, I think the right, the new White House press secretary had this tweet from 2001. That was Kayleigh McEnany. 2001? That predates Twitter. 2012.

I'm sorry. Oh. That was before I said the answer. She tweeted, how I met your brother, dash, never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya. And that I can see, and I think I've seen people on the right be like, you guys don't know how to take a joke.

But like that doesn't... What's the joke? They don't know how to make a joke. That's not a joke. There's no joke. Racism. They don't know how to joke. Yeah.

Being coy about like just saying racist shit full-throated in public is what they think is humor. It's like, no. Right. That's just what I'm saying. I don't believe that. It's actually ironic. Yeah.

Anyways, the USA Today, another noted left-wing communist publication, just published an article at the end of last week about trump's week leading up to the declaration of a national emergency and uh all sorts of great photos of him golfing and shaking people's hands also talking about how nobody could have predicted this even though there are documented cases of him finding out in January that this was coming. The White House was briefed in November that something was happening. They ignored it. So not a whole lot new. It just seems like it's reached a new level.

Yeah. Well, the whole thing is basically now I think they're pivoting to blaming the World Health Organization, like the WHO. And, you know, to a certain extent, I do understand that maybe they could have been more aggressive with perhaps like really sounding an alarm. But everyone had the information available to them to begin making their own decisions. And that was clear with countries that have done made aggressive moves to try and contain the outbreak. made aggressive moves to try and contain the outbreak. But now I think they're feeling like, oh yeah, okay, we can completely pretend like people weren't telling us as early as November, December of last year to keep our eye on this. And we'll just pivot to, I don't know, man,

the WHO really boned us. It's, you know, cause the US famously doesn't have any way to know what's going around the world in any way. We don't meddle in other people's elections or overthrow governments, but they should have told us about this little, this COVID thing. Yeah, the other body that told the administration about this was the U.S. Army. So I don't know what they're doing. Listen, they're off, you know, on their ships. Galavanting around. Full of coronavirus. I mean, that's the other thing.

It's like he'll throw anyone under the bus to make it look like he has done a good job and we all know no matter how many people die trump will claim he did a good job yeah even with the military with the captain of the uss teddy roosevelt like getting basically booted off the ship and then the secretary of navy having to fucking resign because he was slagging them off in front of his own sailors there's talk like that that that captain may i don't know about the time of this recording hasn't happened but there is talk that that captain may resume his duty as captain of that ship because now trump is sort of like like we're past that talking point in his brain so they're like all right i think we can get that guy back in his position, even though we treated him completely disgracefully. Right.

I don't know. I mean, what has been very clear over the past couple of weeks is just like how much is been put on like states and cities specifically of just like, I almost completely ignore what is coming from a national level at this point. I'm like, okay, what's going on in my state? What's going on in the state where my family lives? And that's what I've been trying to keep up on because it's just like, there's almost everything,

even from well-intentioned people on the national side who are few and far between, it's just like basically useless and really hard to trust the information coming from there. So I've just been focusing on state and city initiative i mean yeah it seems like the the way that this has been handled is so has become so localized that that's like the only reliable way to approach it because it's just like we're not going to get any good information from that administration in what world would that happen that was another one of my search terms was actually,

in my Google search history was federalism because I've been looking at, and like what I thought was federalism, which clearly I'm not a great, you know, US history buff, but I thought federalism was like, you know, the federal, believe in the federal government, like the federal government can dictate, you know, X, Y, and Z, but it obviously is the opposite.

That is unitarianism or something with the word unit basically federalism is it is that like there are states rights and everyone's sort of on their own and you know you see other countries being able to sort of like lock down and have like a directive coming out of the federal government and then you see the way our government is basically like, nope, it's on the states. Like, and you're like, all right, well, in times of pandemic, it actually is good to have the opposite of federalism.

Now, none of this, Trump obviously is doing his own special, you know, version of, you know, sadism. But just generally, like maybe during a pandemic, we need actually like one line and, you know, one directive. Yeah. Yeah. Over the weekend, there was a lot of buzz that Donald Trump was going to fire Dr. Fauci because on Jake Tapper over the weekend, Fauci admitted that, you know, the thing we all know is true, that lives could have been saved if Trump wasn't such a narcissistic catastrophe of a president. And then on Sunday evening, Trump retweeted a post that ended with the hashtag time to hashtag fire Fauci.

I don't know. It seems like somewhat inevitable that that's going to happen because on the one hand, you have the person who at least represents the truth. I don't know if he's necessarily like the truth seeking hero that we all have made him out to be. the truth-seeking hero that we all have made him out to be. But Fauci is definitely the person who at least represents the truth in the administration, probably has the most at stake when it comes to disagreeing with the president and at least being willing to put the truth out there. And then the president is just tied to whatever is best for his ego at any given moment. So there's going to be a clash there.

We've seen this play out every time. He doesn't like experts. He doesn't like people with any kind of experiential knowledge that would actually help him or anyone who comparatively knows more than him. comparatively knows more than him especially when it's something like right now trump is clearly like in this headspace of oh fuck oh fuck like the numbers have to look right or i'll go to jail if i'm not re-elected kind of energy and everything is so focused on like what the numbers look like what's the economy going to look like what are this and so when you have the clearly like within the white house everyone wants to keep him safe. So like before Fauci, right, there was Azar at Health and Human Services, who's a former pharmaceutical executive who runs HHS.

He was even even that guy, the pharma ghoul, was telling Trump at the end of January. He's like, hey, man, you got to fucking look into this, dude. Like this is going to be, this could be bad. He's like, this is really, we're looking at some really significant losses here if we don't do anything. And that's why Alex, we haven't heard from him ever since because apparently Pence, Kushner, everyone's like, shut the fuck up. Don't fucking say real shit to him.

No way. Or he's going to get all fucking mad. That's why he's fallen. That's why Azar completely vanished from being head of hhs to like we're like okay so there's this contempt of like don't upset pappy with facts because he can't handle it so just let him make decisions based on non-knowledge that are gonna have real world effects i don't know how they think that's a sustainable like sort of model to manage this all i mean i don't think that they are meant to i think that trump is here to chapter 11 the united states yeah he's well he's doing a great

job i mean that is yeah in a way that is his mo like in life so makes sense wherever he goes bankruptcy yeah absolutely he every everything he touches turns to shit except for his own reputation which he manages to just kind of push his way through by lying and it's but that's within his own head yeah well but it but it works i mean it's worked for for a long time because he knows how to, he's very successful at manipulating people, but nobody comes away from him unscathed. And by electing him president, we let the, we invited the vampire into the house essentially. And I don't, he's not going to leave office without a huge fight that is going to challenge every norm that we have. To your point, Miles, I think there's more and more reporting coming out on the Trump administration, like what was going on inside the Trump administration during these

crucial weeks where they weren't social isolating or recommending social isolating. There was a New York Times in-depth article on Sunday that was pretty went into detail about, you know, people like Fauci who are like pushing. And so I'm assuming that's why he feels comfortable now coming out and being like, yeah, so obviously this guy is fucking up. But it's I don't know. On the one hand, like, yeah, we're correcting the record and it's going to be known. It's going to like people are going to know who fucked up. But on the other hand, from a practical perspective, it's, you know, there are still lives to be saved. And in fact, this might be the most crucial time for for the saving of lives. the saving of lives uh trump is meanwhile uh while he's retweeting things about firing foushee he is being selfish about getting credit for the decision to reopen the country which i i don't see how this doesn't fuck him i'm sure there's some way i'm not thinking of what do you mean selfish like he's like it's my idea it's my decision yeah it's my, it's my idea. It's my decision. Yeah, it's my decision. It's my decision alone.

And it's an incredibly, you know, that there's, it's a no-win decision. And it's one that, like when he first suggested the Easter thing, Kellyanne Conway was like, you can't say shit like that because every death after Easter, if you go forward with this,

you will own every death that happens after Easter from a political standpoint. But it just seems like he is. Oh, damn, I wondered. Yeah, but it just seems like he is too, like, you know, short-sightedly egotistical. And there were a bunch of articles about how governors were going to have to make

their own decisions on a state-by-state basis. And he was like, no, it's my decision. I'm going to bring in my task force, which is Javanka. He's now openly saying, my children are going to be part of the task force. And he's going to consult a couple other people and then make the decision on when to reopen the government but it is it is an incredibly difficult decision that probably should be made by governors but he uh you know being a egotistical dictator um at least in aspiration he wants to be he wants to be the guy who makes the big decision It's just kind of a no-win situation that probably can't be good for him politically if we're assuming that we still live in a democracy, which who knows if we do based on how easy it's going to be

for him to manipulate things and declare martial law and kill the post office and decline to let people vote over mail the post office is like the last that's a barometer for me yeah that's a big one that's gonna i think people are gonna be pissed if they lose the post office that's a that's well and also like how readily they're willing to dismantle everything so quickly without any thought given to it is like that's also just like oh that's we're we're truly in like the darkest timeline at that point when we're like yeah no don't need the don't need the post office just get rid of that thing emergency is everything what was that word you said destabilizations are yes that's right chapter 11 the united states yeah that's right so anyways i

mean that's a that's a big conversation that's being had on both sides about wisconsin pushed through and had uh their primary despite the fact that experts were saying this is wildly irresponsible and we should just find a way to let people only vote over mail because uh going out to the polls right now is deadly uh they still had it and you know there's these fox news articles where uh they they're both sides in it they're like on the one hand people think it's deadly on the other hand voting by mail opens things up to massive voter fraud which again is a made-up problem made a problem that uh you know they continue to insist is a real issue because it's the only way for them to suppress the vote well i think for them it's like oh and also voter fraud on our

side could become a massive problem right they They're predicting how they what they would do, because that's typically the concerns they raise is that they already it's like having like a burglar do your home security assessment or like, yeah, I'd probably get in through there or I could unlock that. No. So you want to lock that up? Yeah, it's good. You asked me about this because there could be massive voter fraud, honestly. Also, what are we going to do with voter fraud?

Do you know what I mean? Like at this point, the things we're asking for are like, voter fraud so that we have income to put back into the economy and have health care so we don't die and also create more crises for public health. Right. Yeah, that sounds about right. The sound you just made sums it all up.

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are considered essential. And he said that basically they will be permitted to operate, quote, because they are critical to Florida's economy. And the governor then basically was granting this exemption, I think for a couple of reasons. Vince McMahon very famously had to pull the plug on the xfl uh last week where like they had to just eat all of that money they spent and they're like it's over it's done and no everyone's fired sorry we don't have any plans to reboot it this

was basically a complete fireball um and so they were hurting for money so i'm sure being able to have wwe going on will help mcmahon you know save some money as well and make some but then also like linda mcmahon who's his wife who served for like in the president's cabinet um and also runs like a super pack like they they committed like something like 18 million dollars of spend in the state of florida for trump's re-election so there's just like it's just the slimiest shit uh and so because of that the wwe can you know perform or compete however you look at it uh just sort of in audience-less arenas or their one audience-less arena that they have in orlando and did anybody watch the like didn't

they do wrestlemania and it was really strange like i saw a screen cap of it and it was just like people wrestling in a black box basically i i mean i know it happened and i i wasn't sure if that things when people said it was amazing was just was comedians i follow who watch wrestling who were like saying it was absolute dog shit but i don't know i mean i haven't watched a wrestlemania in 15 years probably yeah i haven haven't watched a WrestleMania in like three years since I had a wrestling-obsessed boyfriend. So I'm thankful to God for pulling me out of that. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, yeah, what were you...

Last one you caught maybe was WrestleMania 14 when Mike Tyson was in that main event? I think 2016, not proud to admit that, but yeah. Oh, okay, so pretty recent. All right. Wait, is Wrestlemania that recent that it's only in the teens right now? No, no, no. Wrestlemania 14

was in 1998. That was like at the height of when I was watching wrestling and Mike Tyson was in that. Oh, got it, got it, got it. Yeah, it's... Come on, baby. You know what I mean? There was a New York Times article in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend. I realize it's late.

We're now Thursday, but I read slow. So give me a break. But it's basically a first person account of a physician who works in intensive care in New York. And it is just dark man it's like they they basically talk about how they and physicians from italy are like that's the only people they can talk to because they're just like so they share this really incredible horrifying experience that like doesn't really compare to any other form of human existence um right but yeah i mean they talk about lack of resources having to wear uh what are

supposed to be single use single patient masks uh across multiple days or until they get visibly soiled that was their actual like the direction they were given was like unless there's like a visible like blood stain on the outside of your mask just keep using the same one because we don't have any masks so many of the people that they are caring for just come in and die there there's like there will be these people who you know they talk about people coming in and being in good spirits and like telling stories and you know joking around and teasing the doctors and then you know within 24 hours they're dead never tease a doctor yeah that's that it it doesn't read as a threat but the way i just described it uh does make it sound

like the doctors killed them for being a lot of people come in think they can tease us uh it's actually uh that's just me being bad at describing uh they they describe the teasing more as a as a sign of vitality And like they're like these lovable, you know, optimistic people who are just like, yeah, well, you know, we'll be out of here soon enough. And I don't know. You're just, by the end, you're just so far beyond questioning

how bad the crisis is and how badly needed the social distancing is, how worth it it's been to paralyze the economy like it's just you're it's literally they're describing hell on earth yeah if you haven't if you haven't read the piece yet like i mean make yourself read it because it just like it puts everything into focus it's i think because yeah it's we have done a good job i think just for our own you know mental safety of just keeping this virus into like facts and figures and data we just look at and go oh it's a curve we're looking at rather than where the where the fucking shit is hitting the fan is in these

hospitals where these essential workers and healthcare workers are going through some of probably the most traumatic shit they'll ever go through as healthcare practitioners, where they are completely unable to do the thing they want to do, which is to help someone live. And I think that's got to be such a fucked up feeling. Like, and when you read these things about literally just seeing people keeled over dead that they were talking to minutes ago and just blew in the face because they they just can't get to people in time yeah really just connects everything for for people i think

that's the power of a piece like this and i think the media needs to do a little bit more of a of focusing it on that because we're just more looking at like like it looks like trump's fighting like new like number like numerical values on a screen rather than trump is connected to this fucking just dark dark awful shit that's happening in these hospitals to creating these conditions i mean it's also like something i wish that media would focus a little more on is you know the communities that covid affects or sorry coven that there you go the the communities that coven affects first uh too like they've seen very little written on like i mean it's it's obvious but it's not really discussed that much how you know it's like low income and majority non-white communities that

this is hitting first and worse a great like local piece that i read just about my hometown about like my hometown is hit like the third hardest in the state because it's a poor city and like it's majority non-white and that is true across the board and yeah it's like not it's not being talked about really that much and i get that you need to like protect your brain and from the like existential horror of it all but like there reaches a point where you're like you have to you know under have a base understanding of you have to confront the truth of it all or there's no way to actually address it because if we compartmentalize and things, and you know, I think this is just part of American media though. Like there is only so much of the 24 hour cycle.

They can commit to the pain of people of color in this country. It's about that headline of, you know, there's an inordinate disproportionate amount of black and brown people passing away from COVID-19 due to, you know, redlining systemic racism, lack of proper healthcare, lack of resources to

have nutritious food and things like that. They could only give that headline maybe a day and a half worth of attention. And even then it was buried under the other things. And I think that's the other part that gets inevitably lost, especially when we have these tragedies again too, is like, let's not get too immersed in the pain of it all because i think i only want people to engage with a story like this to get them to really redouble their commitment to what we do after this because that's really where the stakes are is what the fuck we're gonna do after this because fucking normal 2019 shit was a fucking disaster right so what do we do after this and i think we need to we need to stay keep the humanity of it all within our sight to be able to move in the proper

direction after all of this absolutely one of the other things you kind of get is just how like chaotic it is uh you know at one point she has this breakthrough and she realizes that the patients uh who she's seeing like one of one of the key and she realizes that the patients who she's seeing, one of the key indicators that they test for is the percentage of oxygen in their blood. If somebody comes in and their percentage of oxygen is in the 70s,

then they're guaranteed not going to make it, basically, it seems like. She learns through literally from a text from an italian doctor like they they tried flipping the patients over so they're like laying on their uh stomachs while they're intubated i think or while they're breathing in oxygen and like they find that that makes the oxygen levels in the blood shoot up and it's just like so they start doing that because they

it's just so kind of haphazard because it's all coming so uh you know it's like it's like a tsunami they're just the health care workers are being buried underneath i mean this is not a good example but am i it's like playing Guitar Hero on Expert the first time. This shit's flying at you so fast, you don't know how to fucking play. You're not literate in what's coming at you. And I think that's the thing. We have not had the time in this awful Guitar Hero metaphor to like, we've not been able to wrap our heads around it because we're constantly learning new things every day and i think that's where when people want to insist on going back to normal or getting

the economy started up is like we don't we're not able to do that yet because to do that we have to fully understand what how this virus is functioning and yeah that's there's just like a lot of the world that's not looking that that's refusing to look at that stuff including the fucking president it's so hard to like separate how you feel about the president from everything because there's these uh you know recent reports of the chloroquine um being bad for people with heart conditions which is like most old people who are get it you do need it and then you read that article and you're like aha clorquin's bad i knew it yeah the president's stupid like oh wait no i wanted it to work yeah yeah oh right

it's not about yeah it's not about him even though he he did make that about him yeah yeah i mean miles uh brings up a good point like almost like the from The Doctor's Name is Dr. Helen Ouyang. So shout out to her for writing just an incredible, very, very important piece of journalism. It is shot through with Guitar Hero references. So be prepared for that. It's mostly Guitar Hero metaphors. She used to work for Harmonix before.

It might be a branded piece of content. I'm not sure. Very strange decision. They're supposed to mark those clearly. Branded article. What? Branded content trying to bring back Guitar Hero. There's just weird details that I didn't realize about the disease.

The people who have it, your lungs become harder. They have less give to the point that one of the Italian doctors who she's in touch with is talking about how wonderful it is after a month of just nonstop COVID-19 patients to intubate somebody who doesn't have covid 19 who's in there for something different and they're like ah so nice to like have the those soft lungs it's like such a weird thing but it's also like you know they're just it's it's something that i wasn't aware of when it comes to the thing and also just oxygen level in the blood. Well, one person who clearly has not read anything about the disease is Kellyanne Conway,

the president's, you know, the Donald Trump whisperer whose husband is critical of Trump, so you gotta figure she's cool right anyways she went on fox and friends and as sort of like to to weather balloon this new strategy they're trying which is basically saying everything that's true about their failure to deal with this crisis but say it about the World Health Organization. So it's like, well, they didn't do enough and they didn't show leadership. And yeah, just blaming everything

on the World Health Organization. But one thing she says at one point, and I think we can play a clip of it, but she's ranting about how this disease shouldn't have been surprising to the World Health Organization. So we have every right to know and every right to know because of what's happened here in this global pandemic. But there's another reason. Some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other strains later on. This can come back in the fall in a limited way.

that there could be other strains later on. This can come back in the fall in a limited way. This is COVID-19, not COVID-1, folks. And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that. This is just a pause right now. So there's an investigation, examination to what happened. But people should know the facts. We paid over $830 million over the last two years. China paid 10% of that. Right. And we all should know the facts that paid over 830 million over the last two years china paid 10 of that right and we

all should know the facts that china fundamentally lied and we still don't have the truth and the who didn't stop it but china is the problem yeah so it goes she goes on that rant ends with her saying people need to know their facts but she says that immediately after suggesting that covid 19 is the 18th sequel to covid one uh yeah the first covid franchise that's why you said she hadn't read anything jack she read the first 18 covids bruh right okay yeah or even worse like it's like an episode of scooby-doooo. While we've seen 18 episodes, we know it's always the carnival owner at the end. So why haven't they talked to the carnival owner?

But it's such a fundamental misunderstanding. The entire problem with this specific strain, the reason that they've been wrong from the start when they were comparing it to uh influenza and being like influenza is more deadly it kills more people it's like well but this is so deadly because we don't know anything about it because it is the novel coronavirus it is the first one of these and so we don't know how to deal with it we don't know anything about how to fight it and that is why it's deadly and instead she she has managed to remain so ignorant that she

uh thinks it's just another sequel to uh kovitz the the first kovitz the kovitz franchise they just deal in talking points and rationalizations for their just complete, you know, obfuscate, you know, they're just there to obscure the truth and to give someone some kind of logic path to follow to not you know, keep their brain in a loop that they don't have to blame the president.

It's like, oh yeah, that makes sense. I mean, look, they had 18 swings at this thing. We're at 19 and they say there's going to be another one in the fall, COVID-20 i'm not sticking around for that fuck kevin feige announced we should treat we should treat her like uh like a like a shooter you know like we're always supposed to be like don't don't print their name don't print like the reason they do it do Do not. Do not engage. Yeah. Just like when Kellyanne Conway says something, don't listen.

Don't put it on the news. That would be a good idea if she wasn't on a team that was in charge of our country during like one of the biggest crises in the history

of our country. Hey, I think it could still work. And I stand by it. and I stand by it. And I stand by it. That's why we need it now more than ever. Amid coronavirus. All right. Well, enough of her.

By the way, Fox and Friends does, it sounds like they're about to hold her to it because the really dumb guy, is that Steve Doocy, the real dumb guy? Or is Steve Doocy the guy with glasses? Doocy is the one with glasses. The guy with glasses can't be dumb. Yeah, so he's the smart one.

And then there's the real, real dumb guy. And he's like, well, now we should say. Yeah, Brian Kilmeade. He's like, and we should say. And the fact is that. And you think he's about well now we should say yeah brian kill me he's like and that we should say and the fact is that and you think he's about to correct and then he's just like that china lied so it's kind of amazing just a real off-speed pitch from them jesus i mean that's why they're like currently trying to fight like a designation is being declared a public health hazard like the network like there are

people in ford trying to be like uh yeah they're this is actually the definition of a public health hazard what they're doing on tv yeah democrats are trying to uh push through a bill to give americans two thousand dollars per month during the quarantine during the you know during this epidemic and just kind of overall public health and social catastrophe, the fact that Democrats are doing anything wouldn't normally make an impact, I feel like, because the mainstream media is so scared of seeming like they're biased towards Democrats, but Drudge made it his top headline, the fact that Democrats were trying to do this. So maybe it will get a little bit more attention. But I do think we're starting to see,

just anecdotally, I'm hearing that ICUs in Los Angeles are starting to fill up, and LA County had its highest death rate uh two days ago so i'm i'm worried about uh this city and you know i'm sure other cities around the country are probably going to eventually see something similar yeah and also a looming housing crisis an extreme losing like looming housing credit and and it's uh i know like this is but the like in in our city specifically there are still like promised services that are being withheld that i feel i feel like are you know they're taking advantage of the fact that

no one can really go out and check safely um but there's there has still been talk in california of like oh we're gonna make all these hotel rooms available for unhoused people and it's not happening it hasn't like and so there have been like drive-up protests to the mayor's house like it's just fucking pandemonium no one's doing what they're uh like on a city level no one's doing what they're supposed to yeah why'd everybody get like so aroused about gavin newsom the other day they were just like he should be our president we should never be horny for a governor ever when has that gone well come on that he's sexy enough that he's

a little more than a governor he's he's a late night dream he's a yeah he's a talk show politician like he's doing fine oh for sure first guy to allow would be gay marriages i mean this guy's got it all baby massachusetts was the first state to legalize no the city of san francisco and he was oh okay fair fair fair he would definitely be if there was a movie about a corrupt politician like he would be perfect because he would be like the golden boy who it turns out uh was holding steven seagal's wife hostage or something he does have that energy yeah yeah if patrick bateman's if patrick bateman's life went in a slightly different direction right right. But not all that different. Yeah, not all that different.

Very similar swag. He spent his 30s blacked out and having an affair with his best friend's wife. So not all that different. Who does he think he is? My dad? Shout out. Am I right?

Swish. Is this thing on? It's my dad's birthday. Kobe. Is it really? happy birthday to your dad and I put him on blast alright guys let's take a quick break we'll be right back

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back so one organization that's having trouble with their balance sheet is the girl scouts of america yeah because the pandemic hit right as girl scout cookies were uh being delivered right damn that's my favorite gang firing it up that's my favorite gang organization can you can you order them like online or something i think you can i'm pretty sure you can the the that's my favorite gang firing it up that's my favorite gang organization can you can you order them like online or something i think you can i'm pretty sure you can the the the reason though is like a lot of parents have been like yo these like you know these shits are five bucks a pop you know i get the case it adds up i'm holding all this and now they're like they got to pay their first bill pretty soon a lot of parents and they're like well hold on i have not been able to get my foot soldiers on the block okay selling them rocks yeah exactly rocks they're not playing catch okay well they be maybe tossing a tennis ball up and down the street but

they're not playing catch okay yeah and how do you intimidate your co-workers on zoom to buy the cookies because y'all know that's a thing oh God. How much money would you pay to see a bunch of Girl Scout moms on a Zoom call? Like, what do we do? Or Zoom bomb. Like just like having a fucking panic attack. Well, no,

so that's what. Oh, that's so good. That's kind of the vibe right now. I'm looking at that guy who was saying, like casting some doubt about the empirical evidence on social distancing. He's funded by the Girl Scouts of America. No.

Holy shit. Oh, shit. Big GSC. So, yeah, a lot of parents are worried, like, hey, I've got all this product. I've not been able to move. I know I took it on consignment, but, you know, like, what am I supposed to do here?

And, essentially, they said there have been some reports that the locals have been like, you need to pay because you took them so that's how this works and they're and some parents like i have hundreds of dollars worth of fucking cookies that i'm not gonna put my whole family in a diabetic shock trying to eat for breakfast all day so the a lot of people there's been a lot of concern apparently the main uh head office has said they are going they're working to ensure that no parent or organization is shouldering the financial burden for the excess product but i'm also probably sure that like how would you know if they were a year old anyway like i feel like

half the time i eat a girl scout cookie i'm i suspect it's a year old that's true oh yeah i wonder yeah i mean who who is behind like big girl scout like where does that is there like a huge big girl there's gotta be some like real serious money in the girl scouts somewhere because also i feel like it's one of those things it's almost like a carol baskin tiger farm thing where everyone who does the shit for girl scouts doesn't get paid they all like all the moms are volunteering so people are just running their business they're getting a badge they're getting some flex you know at the next meeting like whoever's moving the most weight and the cookie weight you know maybe they get a scooter or something I remember in high uh in

middle school they used to do those prize contests where it'd be like if you sell ten thousand dollars you'll get an iPod Nano. That don't add up. That's not a good cut. That's not a good cut of the profits. I mean, that's like capitalism, though. They're like, if you do this labor that renders me $3 million, I will pay you $48,000 a year.

I quit after third grade because I just wasn't, I'm not a born salesperson. I was just like, I can't run a business. I'm nine. I can't run a business. I'm nine. That's what these nine-year-olds are doing. Did you guys do magazine subscriptions?

Oh, yeah. Magazine drive? Magazine drive. That is wild that they just had us out there selling candy, magazines, just garbage. Oh, yeah, they're wrapping paper. At one point, they brought in all these different classy gifts that you could buy for your parents that cost... I bought my mom a jewelry box that immediately turned the table it was sitting on green.

The table? Yeah. That was through the school. There's so many scams. That's wild. Yeah. I never really even thought about it. I bought my mom through there a pair of earrings, those nice adult gifts, and now she has a

limp. The only thing that wasn't a scam was the fucking scholastic shit. That was. Oh, love the book club. That was great. Book club rule. Because that was when you were getting something for you. Yeah.

Yeah. Because I got all the erasers. And when they bring out those big red fucking cases off the truck that you knew would open up into a sales like bookstore stand. I'm like, yep, here we go. It's time for the book sales. Hell yeah. The thing with the

magazine drive there was always one kid at my school and i'll call his ass out by name david hamanaka his mom worked at a fucking like i don't know fucking hospital or bank or some shit because this motherfucker was i'm not joking he was moving like more than like some grades combined like through his mothers like through wherever his mom worked and we're all i was like man fucking everyone's like david hamannak is gonna fucking get the fucking pizza party and shit that's the frustrating thing is like if if in order for you to do well at this people had to you had to like know people who have money which i did not and you had to have very likable parents,

which is not everyone has likable parents. Or unlikable. Right. Right. Nobody wants to be shook down like that. That's not fun for anybody involved. Yeah. I think David was messing the bag up, though, because if you move and wait like that,

you got to get in contact with the company and be like, look, I don't want this Razor scooter. Cut me off 15K. We need to work this we need to work this deal out man i got the orders right here oh shit you got hamanaka that's fucking tight pizza party so i do want to restart the conversation on what movie we should rewatch with our listeners over this weekend. Let's pick one.

Give it a shot. There's a thread in the Zeitgang Reddit that's got some pretty good suggestions. 12 Monkeys, a goofy movie, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, some that we've been talking about on the show contact jaws um contagion is one that kind of makes sense because everybody's rewatching it yeah we're living it right now i've seen it because it's our life right i wake up and open my eyes and contagion is playing i was like turn this shit off stuck in a simulation i can't take off my vr headset yeah what i know somebody at netflix is just writing another uh season of black mirror

and it's literally gonna be this shit you know they're just jizzing away just writing it like writers have been covered in their own way is one of the funniest phrases I've ever heard. He's off there just jizzing away. That's how it works, guys, right? That's how it works. It's like, yeah. It's as if there's no gravity. You get excited and it's just like someone stepped on a bottle of lotion.

I'm sorry for that analogy. No, no. It's like the feather at the beginning of Forrest Gump. It just whimsically takes off, jizzing away. It's like WALL-E spraying that fire extinguisher around in space. Movie-wise, Contagion, to me, feels too on the nose. 12 Monkeys? I've thought about 12 Monkeys a lot.

I haven't seen 12 Monkeys in a minute. Oh, 12 Monkeys is so good. That's one of my favorites. Is it fun? Yeah, kind of. Is it sad? It's got Brad Pitt. Yeah.

Okay, strong argument for fun. Dan says no. I'm getting a vehement no from Dan. We've got to watch something fun. Oh, this movie doesn't look fun at all. Little Rascals? Oh, wow. I've never seen a goofy movie and that's apparently

a classic. It's good. You haven't either? Nah. Caitlin and I were talking about how one of the best parts of a goofy movie is you find out... Don't tell me. You find out Goofy's last name is Goof. Spoiler alert. They call him Max Goof. You're like, wait, that means his dad is Goofy Goof? Goofy Goofy's last name is Goof. Spoiler alert. They call him Max Goof.

You're like, wait, that means his dad is Goofy Goof? Goofy Goof. Yes. Hell yes. Oh, man. Like how DJ Khaled's real name is Khaled Khaled? Yeah. Is that true?

Yeah. Wow. So do we want to do a Goofy movie? We want to do 12 Monkeys. We want to do... Let's go to Goofy movie. I think that do 12 Monkeys. We want to do... Let's go to a goofy movie. I think that's... Got to start fun.

Classic. Looking at a film like that old that's meant for children through my adult eyes during the quarantine, I think I'm going to have a lot of interesting analyses. Yes.

A goofy movie. That is courtesy of Ohal D. Roy. That was his recommendation. All right. Ohal D. Roy. That was his recommendation. All right. Ohal D. Roy. Well, then watch over the weekend, y'all. You got your homework, so you don't get left behind on this discussion. All right.

That's what we're going to watch it. I'm looking forward to it. And that's one that I can probably watch with my kids. So that's not bad. You can watch 12 Monkeys with your kids. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, for sure. I mean, they've seen all my top five.

They've seen Pulp Fiction. They've seen 12 Monkeys. Yeah, Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. That's just good parenting. Yeah. That's my favorite kids movie. That's just good parenting.

Oh, yeah. Mine was Eraserhead. Reservoir Dogs, goofy movie. All good dog movies. Cool. Lacey, it's been a pleasure having you, as always. Oh, it's been so fun. On the Daily Zeitgeist. Nice you as always where can people uh find you and follow you you can find me at d-i-v-a-l-a-c-i diva lacy on all platforms um if you want to hear my podcast

scam goddess pod we recently got into uh twitter fights during the quarantine which was fun and exciting uh if you're into that sort of thing famous um twitter yes yes and there is one quarantine app uh but the sound quality is trash and i told everybody that a bunch and then they still tweeted at me like lacy this sound i was like bitch i told you i told you um so you know i don't know if we're gonna do any more quarantine ups because we have banked episodes but you know hey whatever we're the show um right and tweets that i have been enjoying oh also single parents this week uh there's a full episode of me having a baby that came out on wednesday so if you want to go see me have a baby um on tv like do that, and then a tweet that I've been enjoying. I have two guys.

One is going to require some little audio. So I'm gonna try to play it through my mic so you guys can hear it. But here's the one that I'm going to read. Um, look, I'm not going to shame someone for coming out, but pollen, you should,

you could have waited. We're literally in a pandemic. Uh, and that's for all my allergy people. Cause every time I take a social distancing walk, my nose start running and I'm like, I got the wrong. Immediately, Cardi B's voice comes in my head like coronavirus. And then this is a tweet that truly had me on my knees. And you don't need to see the tweet, but it is a woman talking in her journal and i will

play it for you one moment your diary i'm trying to figure out what my nigga not texting me back he said he's trying to get his mind together for the quarantine but you've been on quarantine because you ain't got no car at this point i just want to live in this nigga's skin so bad so i can see what the fuck he be doing when he not with me. Like, I don't want to belong to the streets no more. Because there's not even no streets no more. He probably on to me because I said we was going to link after the quarantine. Okay, so what I'm lying. It sound good.

So just text back. I really just want one boyfriend, but if God want me to have three, then 12 it is. I'm not putting up with this. I already got a lot of shit on my plate. People keep asking me, am I okay? No. Bitch, I want to sit at a restaurant. three than 12 it is i'm not putting up with this i already got a lot of shit on my plate people keep asking me am i okay no bitch i want to sit at a restaurant i want to get my hair done i want to get my nails done but i keep seeing fresh box braids and full sets popping up on my timeline like no i'm not okay doing drugs and the house is getting boring now i want to go somewhere on We're on drugs outside. Yes, Corona, we tired. We get it, sis.

Let us out. That is so good. Drugs outside. If God want me to have three boyfriends, 12 it is. 12 it is. A perfect monologue. Yes. Oh, and I should give credit to who that is from.

That is from Kia the Cali girl. Kia the Cali girl. Shout out to you. That was amazing. Jamie, where can people find you? And what's the tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus. Help Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. Listen to the Bechdelcast. Do whatever you want, really. Let's see see a tweet I've been enjoying is this is from at skoog uh it says it says millennial culture is texting someone to let them know you're going to call them so they can mentally prepare for the eventual phone call which which I think it gets even worse when it comes into zoom because I'm like on the phone, I'm a pacer.

So being like confined by Zoom is also like a whole nother level. But yeah. Isn't that how the CIA gave Bin Laden the code name in Zero Dark Thirty? The pacer? The pacer? Yeah, because he would go outside and walk back and forth. I don't know. Again, don't ask me why.

Zero Dark Thirty hive. Big or low hive. Miles, don't ask me why. You're a dark 30 hive. Yeah. Big or low hive. Miles, where can people find you? What's tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram,

PlayStation Network, Miles of Gray, and also my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra getting high, talking about just a wonderful garbage show

that is 90 Day Fiance. A tweet that I like is from past guest alissa lynn paris and i can relate as someone who is uh shacked up and quarred up uh then her tweet says so how was your day me to my boyfriend after spending every waking second with him it's just weird we have these habitual like pleasantries still hardline and you're like oh so how how's work today and i'm like i know you you you heard me screaming through the door anyway so it's not

much new i said i said good morning to my boyfriend this morning and he said don't lie jesus it's really dark that's just a grizzled old man shit don Don't lie. Oh, also, sorry. One more tweet because a lot of Zeit gang were tagging me and it was from The Onion. It said from at The Onion, boyfriend announces plan to spend infuriating afternoon speaking in Australian accent. Oh, my God.

Wow. You better hold on to your butts, mate, because I'm about to get into a really bad habit. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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