The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 133 (Best of 7/6/20-7/10/20)

Episode Date: July 12, 2020

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with guns in church voila you got straightway they try to save everybody listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist uh these are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one uh non-stop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Please welcome the very fantastic and hilarious Mano Agapian. Hi.

Yes. What's up? Oh, man. I'm so glad you can see my wigs. I love it. I love it. First thing I was clocking, I saw the Greek flag and I saw the wigs. And I said, Katina Pion.

I didn't see any of that because I just saw your tank top. And I was like, you are very cute and I like your shoulders. Thank you. So I just was distracted. Hey, what about me, Sophia? Yeah. your shoulders oh thank you i just was distracted hey what about me sophia yeah miles i see how beautiful you are every day when we record mono got the nice got the fucking uh tank top with the chest hair out yeah yeah i have about three chest hairs so i i keep them to myself i mean dressing

dressing like a slut is one of the few joys of this quarantine. You also got tight panties on, don't you? Because I saw when you got up. Sorry, I'm really lonely. Oh my God. Those are short shorts. How do I, where do I file a complaint? I know. There's a little Zoom call lurker over here.

No, yeah, I dress, I dress so scantily. I love every second of it. I like short shorts, tiny tanks, and I can't tell if it's because I'm Euro trash or gay. I think it's probably both. Isn't that the same thing? So for you in quarantine, because I bring this up a few times on the show,

clothing to me is just merely a way to not be naked on a Zoom call. Like, I've lost the thing where I'm like, oh, I'm going to fucking wear that with this. Oh, shit. Yeah. Just wait. I'm like, nah, dude, I can't have, I have to have pants on. So I'll wear this pair of sweatshorts or basketball shorts. I don't know if that's the same for you.

You still have a little bit of magic when you select your outfits. It depends with who. I have to, there have been some Zoom calls where I pretended to look like an adult i have to admit oh wow so what it's so what what kind of um you know what kind of uh fashions are we talking about when you have to elevate the game for a zoom call the great thing about like how like no like a like a polo or a button up oh shit do you know what i i have not worn a button up unironically since before the quarantine i don't know why buttons on a shirt have become my arch nemesis i'm like yeah get away from me satan not today not today i wear a nasty t-shirt i hear you i hear

you and i had a couple shirts that actually look like, you ever, I have some shirts that look good on top, but look like shit in like towards the bottom. And I was, and I was able to use those, which made me so happy. Cause like, it like, you know, waist up.

Yeah. It fits on top, but it does not fit on the bottom. So that, that made me really happy to get to use those that have just been sitting in my closet, pretending like my body will one day change. Like I'm loving it up. I'm loving everything from the chest up.

What kind of porn are you looking for? Just glaze over that shit. Oh, my God. What's the vibe right now? You know. I'm glad you asked that because I already cursed out on him. Naughty sleepover? Naughty sleepover.

I love when two friends are like we're friends and then and they're like uh-oh uh-oh which is so wholesome that's the most adorable porn preference i've ever heard yeah thank you thank you so much uh yeah i mean i've always i think it's because i didn't i was a chunky um uh i'll just say i was chunky and i was not hitting my i didn't hit my sexual prime till like 22 or 23 um or i guess do even anything remotely sexual till 22 or 23 and so i think there's always a part of my life that's like wait people in like high school like got to like do stuff that's so that blows my mind right right right right um making up for lost time making up for lost time so um yeah i don't know naughty sleepover is always cute to me i like this so the so the format

of the scene is always the same it's a a sleepover. It's starting off friendly, like not going there, and then do a little body exploration. Then there's like a game, like spin the bottle kind of thing. Or what if we practice kissing, right? That's how it starts. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And gay porn has a really interesting slant.

Like there's also a lot of homophobia in gay porn, which is both problematic but also exciting, you know? Because there's that little twinge of, like, this isn't gay, right? Or, like, we can't force our gayness, but we can't help but act on it. And it's a really weird thing that a lot of gay porn involves itself in. Well, I think that's, like, sort of the interesting thing that porn reveals about the psyche because on some level the people making it are kind of aware of these taboos or dynamics you know within our culture to like sort of exploit to make them that's why i'm like right now i'm like why the fuck is there so much like step

sister step brother shit on the straight side of the fence i'm like what how many y'all are in these blended families and you just wanted to fuck your older step sister it's like it's like remember how uh they did a whole thing about where all the different pockets of the country which porn is popular like which porn searches are and it's like in the most racist places uh the most popular is like, oh, black on white. And then, you know, in these other places, it's like step sister, step brother. And it's like regionally, I would love to know what's happening. I mean, Pornhub has all that information.

If you want to know what the next Cambridge Analytica is, is Pornhub. Because they got everybody fucking figured out. I just want to know why i guess for the ones that aren't as easily explained as oh it's a racist place and so they like to google things that they think are taboo right or be like cucked over porn or something like that i think a lot of the daddy issues uh i think of both straight and gay porn have to do with like because i think we're like the kids kids reaching adolescence now are like children who grew up in this like post 2008 recession or something. And I think they're so used to having like no stability in their economic life that the thought of someone stable who can actually pay your bills is like somehow been sexualized.

Oh my God. You're spitting hot fire right now bro dropping the fucking moab on us okay i thought about it long and hard i was like what's happening with daddies right now and i think that's it and you hear a lot america needs a dad that's why oh yeah wow and and our dad right now is just as bad with money, too. No, he's a stepdad. He's a stepdad, and we're waiting for our dad to come back. Stepdad you don't want to fuck. Oh, a drunk stepdad who crashed his car into the tree, and he's like, it's fine.

Yeah. What are you talking about? That tree? Who put that there? Who put the tree there? God damn it. What is a myth? What is something people think is true, you know to be false,

or just flipped out on over, vice versa? I actually got in an argument with a friend, a white friend, because they thought that most of the Indians in the U.S. are Republican because so many of the famous ones are, like Bobby Jindal. It's like all the like all the famous political Indians are like evil. But like most of the voting base is like we're all Democrats. And so like everybody I've interacted with across the country, I've met like one Indian Republican and that's it. And I don't know, but yeah, I think it was like over 70% for Hillary or something like that. But I think you see too,

because the conservatives love to embrace a token minority at any moment. So yeah, it's true. Like though in your mind, it's like, well, politically I'm thinking of these people, but yeah. Yeah. It for the most part, I think most people come to the United States with like a decent, like at least a different perspective on how the world works when they arrive here versus, you know, Americans who are just, you know, weren't in this one culture that they can typically be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can see what this is going on here. I prefer this, this side over here. Cause I think I know where this one goes or vice versa but anyway yeah and i think also like our like we're not like encouraged to like be politicians so like the people that are are kind of like outliers i think um and also like we are like we're just i think like indians in the u.s are just realizing that we do have like political power after like gaining financial stability here. Because it's that immigrant mentality of be a doctor, be an engineer, get your shit together. And then now, in Utah, all of these Indian people donated to the Democratic Party to oust this person who was a Republican in that seat.

And I think they were able to do it and i'm like fuck yeah dad go off go off king yeah i think what's cool i think another thing that's interesting and i i wasn't i don't know i wasn't sure how to bring it up not like it that it's uncomfortable but it was something i was thinking about uh while i was you know looking for dvds to bring in to be a substitute teacher. A friend of mine works in government in Colorado. And, you know, he's been looking a lot at like what's been going on in the country. I think we're really there is a moment here where a lot of people are coming in touch with their power on some level, whether that's being like I'll be more I'll stand up more vocally for the things I believe in. Or I'll confront injustice more head on than I used to. I won't retreat in the face of these things.

But one thing that he was mentioning is like, there really is a problem with our generation even looking at working in government as a possibility, right? Not to say that it's a good or bad thing. But he works with a lot of these people who are of the same mindset that you know the elected officials that's not going to be a problem those voices will naturally come out there i think most people would you know they look at that as being the cool thing of being like front and like being an elected official and having like this pulpit to preach from sure but there's also like this thing of like the bureaucracy of it all too, because at a local level, these people are also

doing, having the kinds of ideas of like, well, what do we do with this budget surplus? And if there aren't as many people who are in the same like social justice mindset and things like that, those ideas can fail to materialize in an effective way because of all the, you know, all the hands that are on it, on its way to becoming a reality. So it's just something interesting because they're saying like, with gen z more than millennials even are completely like they don't even give like the idea of working in government at all in any capacity is like a total like non-starter so something to think about that could actually like work against us is what you're saying yeah or you know like the kinds of because at the end of the day like

sure the policies will be there but then who of the day, like, sure, the policies will be there, but then who are the people really putting them to work and are they doing it faithfully? And are there enough people who understand what the intent is of these laws or whatever to work it out? But, you know, I just didn't. And Gen Z's like, fuck the system. I think everyone is to a certain point.

Which is fair. Yeah. Rightfully so. Yeah. Fuck I'm going to do. Or you look at like oh i work for the government like that's literally how i feel like i would think about it in my head i'm like oh yeah for the go okay but that put on my tie and fucking not smoke weed

uh okay that's 100 like that's 100 when i was a kid for some i don't know if my parents ever explicitly said it like they definitely wanted me to be an engineer um but they, like, I don't think they ever explicitly said it, but somehow I knew. I was like, if I go to the military, if I go to some government positions, I'm going to be responsible for killing people. And, like, I need to stay the fuck away from that. Like, I just knew as a kid, I was like,

I'm not going anywhere near that. Like, that is not for me. And, like, there are plenty of people who, yeah, like you said who would like actually like change the system from within that are being like that just never it's never an option for them yeah which it's protective but no yeah and i have like friends who you know like work specifically on things like health care like for a county or something or a state and they know like what health care would mean to the people of like of their county or something or a state. And they know like what healthcare would mean

to the people of like of their county or state. But then they have other people who are still looking at the whole concept of it completely wrong. And then you end up being like an isolated voice in a sea of like this monolithic thinking. So yeah, not to say that like we have a duty to do it, but it is interesting to think about is like

as much as we want all these changes to like there, there really needs to be a way that we are at the levers at as many points of contact as possible. Because I think that's the only way to optimize a lot of the change. But I don't think it's, you know, that's one way of looking at it, because I think at the end of the day, people are going to do what they want to do and engage with a system of government that they want to or don't. But it's I thought it was an interesting idea. It's like it's like short term versus long term. Yeah. Short term. Like we have to we have to have people in there now to like stop the damage of people dying now. Long term, we have to like totally revamp the system. Now, long term, we have to like totally revamp the system.

Right. Right. Because it's like if you're signing up for a life in like any sort of government employee and you want to do good, you're just signing up for a life of extreme frustration at every single turn. Right. And like, yeah, how are you able to balance that? And at what point does it become worth it versus not? Because it's like, are you, it's one way to look at it.

Are you working for the government or are you trying to change something internally? And I think it's a dangerous game to even think you can, because God help me, I tried getting up in the system, we could do something. I'm like, nope. But I think, I just think just very practically, right? Like sure, a law is put in place, but then those regulations have to be written. And then someone's going to have to build a website and communicate that to constituents. And if those like the people who are in those positions like aren't up to scruff, then like people are going to be like, yeah, what the fuck was that program? That didn't work or this or that or the other. So just a just a thinking, just something I think about in my in my bed at night. After drinking a full gallon of hose water think about in my bed at night.

After drinking a full gallon of hose water. Yeah, full gallon as I'm having a weird fever dream from Giardia. I'm like, dude, are there enough of us being bureaucrats? Fuck. Should we keep this government going or what? I'm like, how do we burn it? Do we burn it down or we like smolder it down from the inside is the call coming from in the house all fucked up on hose so pardon me guys blame the ledwps uh do not also do not look at those water reports okay oh god i don't

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on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. What is something you think is underrated, Teresa? I think Vaclav Havel is underrated. I've been screaming about him for a while, but I think that we don't study enough about success stories of, you know, human rights and democracy in foreign countries. And I think for a reason, you know, patriotism and propaganda. But I mean, most people kind of know about him through his peace efforts, but I first learned about him through studying screenwriting at NYU because we read one of his plays.

So he was a playwright in the Czech Republic. Well, he actually created the Czech Republic, but he was there during the communist USSR time and he used his plays to sort of, you know, kind of like the way comedians do just push his ideas out. But it got so popular that he became a dissident and his plays were banned and then he started um distributing his like they're like one-act plays a lot of them so they're short he distributed them via like the just people and people would put them on in their living rooms to spread the ideas and these weren't ideas like propaganda it was just like free thought. Like he really pushed the idea of like critical thinking

and free thought against the communist regime. And he ended up leading a peaceful protest. Well, you know, people still got hurt, but overall it's like a success story because it was the most gentle revolution. I think it was like 89 in Czechoslovakia where one day they did a general strike with 75 of the country doing the general strike and it worked because you know everybody thinks with money so the communists let them have fairy elections he established the czech republic

became the president and then went on to continue fighting for human rights and democracy and won a peace prize. And it all started because he was a playwright. Yeah. So and we just don't I feel like we think of a lot of those Eastern European countries as like socialists in America where we're almost pushed against them. But he literally defeated communism. But yeah, to American standards, I would say they probably fall on the socialist spectrum yeah so i think that's why we don't study that in our schools that's fascinating that is first of all best underrated in such a long time yeah not to not to shit talk anybody else is underrated no but that's um that's amazing and that's such so interesting like you mentioned comedians in the united states i feel like the thing that most comedians do with their success is just become republicans like start uh trying to like protect their wealth um and that yeah that's so yeah it's almost impossible to

imagine yeah yeah totally we all aspire to become republican it's like tracy and i are actually like running together has there been an example of a an artist in the united states who's like done something that politically relevant and successful because isn't there another like current right yeah the closest we get oh no we have the dystopian version where yeah we got the dystopian version well i think the difference for him was he he didn't um combine the forms like he was still a playwright and in his plays, they weren't. I mean, I guess depending on what side you're on,

the communists could say it's propaganda, but they just felt like, you know, had intrinsic artistic value as plays that explored all points of views. And you could, you know, you could watch it and decide your own. You could decide you like communism after watching it. Like his goal wasn't to change your point of view. His goal was for freedom of expression.

So then when he became a politician, he was doing that job. So I like that he wasn't like, and now I'll just use this to sell my place. But if people are curious, I did buy his, because we read one act called protests in school that I really liked. So I ended up buying the full collection. And I have that. It's only 15 pages. I have it scanned. So if anyone wants to DM me, I'll email you the PDF. I don't want to post it because it is still like, you know, copyrights.

But this is educational. So I'll send it to you if you email me. Send it to me. It kind of speaks to the whole, like at the beginning of these recent protests where people were arguing within the left about what to do to be right um like you know when people posted the black squares and then they started yelling at each other so his that play sort of speaks to it's like two people talking but they're both anti-commun, but they kind of get into this nuance of like, well, I'm doing this because I have wealth and I can't totally show my cards, but don't worry, I'm on the right side. Like there's a lot of that sort of thing.

Oh, my God. That sounds V relevant. And it's funny. He's a funny guy. funny guy uh zielinski is uh the guy i was thinking of in the modern sense it was like a an actual like ukraine comedian who uh became like the head of state uh who we all now know about because he played a president right right yeah exactly and i don't i don't think he's super progressive necessarily. It's not like he was their finest artist who people were going to study in universities anyways

and became their leader. But still, I don't know. There's something about American culture that up to this point in our history has not allowed that crossover from progressive, thoughtful, artistically valid artists over to the political sphere. It's just been Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston.

I think it might be because we put so much emphasis on monetary success in art. To become successful, you have to make a lot of money. And like that usually dilutes the art. Not always. OK, I know it's not always true, but often it dilutes the artistic value. So by the time you get to that point, you do dilute the message a bit. Whereas and I'm not a communist i'm an american whatever you guys want to say is fine but i like money too um but i also feel like

when you get to that level if your only goal is money then it's going to be less about spreading ideas and more about just keeping your wealth and your business because at that point people depend on you so it's not like selfish to keep the business going if you're paying people's rent you sound like a communist but okay uh up to sinclair yeah cynthia nixon would be like a recent example of someone who has like attempted to do that but i guess yeah there's far less left-leaning examples that are successful. Right. And Upton Sinclair tried it in the early 20th century. The actors aren't writers. They're stupid.

Yeah. Well, their whole goal is to take on any other character but themselves. And then we, like, erase writers. So I feel like in Europe,

or at least back in the, you know, philosophical enlightenment days, it was a lot more reading and focus on ideas. And now it's all about appearances. So yeah, I mean, Cynthia Nixon, I don't know her policies enough.

I remember when she was running, but she's famous from an acting role. So we don't know how she really feels as a person until she comes out and says it. Right. Yeah, that is interesting. That is what our politicians are, is essentially actors. It's deep man just fucking nailed him bro uh that's why i'm unsuccessful in hollywood

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are hilarious um guys my search history lately has been how to move to canada how to move to netherlands how to move to germany um and has there ever been a black writer on the simpsons those are the things that i recently searched for there hasn't been a black writer on the simpsons there has actually i don't think there's ever been a black woman michael carrington is a black writer on the simpsons and i'm pretty sure mark wilmore is also i don't know if he's currently but i'm pretty sure he did write on the simpsons but anybody in those first eight seasons i don't know right i don't know and i highly doubt it i highly right yeah but yeah interesting yeah you and so

you're also looking at some cool getaway options. Some cool getaways. Some refugee situations. Because Americans have been blocked from going to other countries. You're not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. But I just want to be prepared. Because to me, I'm not looking at it just because of what's happening right now.

Because I've been black this entire time. And it's been dangerous the whole time. So I'm just like, I just think long term, do I want to be in, and I'm thinking like this because of the response that America has had to a lot of these crises. And it just feels like overall, America doesn't seem to have the political will, at least not yet.

And I'm like, I don't know how bad it needs to get for there to be like, you know, every fucking mayor in America, every fucking governor in America, like, you know, standing up and being like this stuff needs to be passed right now. So so it's that kind of mindset, that long-term mindset that's getting me to Google these things. Until the class of people changes that are in politics, it's never going to change. Because we have people who are operating in a completely different realm of existence. And their antennae are tuned to a completely different frequency than the human beings that are their constituents. So they're so oblivious to everything and nothing is pressing. beings that are their constituents so they're so oblivious to everything and nothing is pressing it's only like they're so oblivious even in the midst of crisis even in the midst of everyone in the country becoming enlightened to what's really going on and they're oblivious to their own bias

and they're oblivious to their own ability to like they're still very much tied to these, these, um, the politics of six months ago. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just like, like the way that the Los Angeles in particular has put up such a fight to

defunding police, doing anything. It doesn't show any real moral reconciliation. It doesn't show any real like apology, like, Holy shit. we're sorry holy shit we're racist and so are our policies and here's what we're gonna do to change it it is an emergency and it's like and also everyone here is poor um and you know and there's too much

income inequality and we need to fix it right now what can we do so i just i just feel like right now what can we do so i just i just feel like girl i'm tired i'm just like you know what let me go let me go somewhere that is not trying me mentally constantly did you find out is there like what's the easiest place to move to that's not america yeah none of them at this point you gotta have an easier time getting into holland texas than the none of them are easy i none of them are easy my my husband has some family in canada which is why it's eat that's the first option but otherwise it's like you know none of them are easy yeah and i don't have any skills i'm like a television writer in hollywood like a lot of these for high for high skilled workers you know you can if you get a job there

you have to get a job and also it's just this is like a very i'm very privileged like i don't have ties i don't have children i don't have things that can make me that can make it even harder to move um but it's hard to move anyway it's so i'm and i just started looking into it especially when you look at that covid map of north america and you look at the like that border wall up north they're like bro you must be out your mind yes we let a single one of you assholes in here right and i totally get it i totally get it you know i'm an immigrant to america so i i get it but those were the days huh. I wanted to get in here instead of the fuck out.

The Mexican border also, yeah. Yes, they have said no to us as well. I mean, not officially though, right? Have they done it officially? No, but there's definitely stories like, yeah, border towns are like on alert. Yeah, please. Yeah, they're on alert.

And as they should be, you know, as they should be. America has a completely incompetent response to this crisis and if anything i'm just like you know i don't know man like when when trump won in 2016 it wasn't to me like a trump thing it was just like an america thing like i didn't look at like i still that's why i would still leave you know even, even if Joe Biden wins, you know, this is an American problem. This is not Trump individually. And the response to this crisis has shown how incompetent our systems are, you know, structurally, foundationally, how racist they are and how hard like an executive the other day i was pitching a show about a black family and um you know one of the things that i was talking about was like how they're gonna how they experience racism and he's like but is that gonna be relevant you know

because the world has changed and the thing is like this person very innocently said it because they they don't realize right they don't realize really and and it is like that to me is so quintessential of the american problem yeah well we had that we had that march so isn't it yeah we had the march yeah people saw the video right so we painted black lives matter on some streets yeah that was done by a company that cuts trailers for movies right right it was that one on hollywood boulevard and then they cut a deal with the city where they That was done by a company that cuts trailers for movies. Right. It was. That went on Hollywood Boulevard.

And then they cut a deal with the city where they were like, and you can power wash that shit off in 24 hours. Oh, nice. And it's like, okay, so this was just a branding exercise. It's just a gesture. Yeah, it's a gesture. Yeah, it's empty bullshit. And I'm sure the people on that company were like, you know, we didn't publicize it,

but we paid for that there. Yeah. There's an article in The Atlantic that people should check out called The Three Weeks That Changed Everything that is by an amateur pilot. And it compares, it tries to do, like I guess every time there's a plane crash, the National Transportation Safety Board does like a deep investigation and so it tries to do that same sort of investigation into what went wrong with coronavirus and the american response and it's pretty enlightening it does uh suggest that it really is basically we had all the systems in place we just had the wrong uh administration in yeah no way I'll read that. Yeah, it's worth checking out. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true, you know to be false, or vice versa? Oh, God. Everything's so serious. You guys are like, she's so funny. And she takes everything seriously. Dude, billionaire fragility is so real. So the myth for me is that billionaires earn their money.

They did not earn all their money. They exploited other people's labor, intellectual, physical. They have vast schemes of not paying taxes, which allows them to accrue that amount of money. Their investments then double down on that. They didn't earn their billions maybe a few million yeah but like getting into the billion bezos trillionaire territory stop with the they

they earned it oh yeah because one day i'm gonna smart man really figure out this new fangled i don't know like whatever project you've got you're working on it's not gonna succeed okay nobody wants to fund that yeah oh the billions though you know would be so sweet that's why i want to go easy on them because one day i could be one right and i don't want people to go hard don't go hard on me because i could be a billionaire too so that's why that's why i praise my corporate overlords uh Shout out to Bezos. That worked for a shockingly long amount of time. And I do think that history books will look back and be like, wow, people were just cool

with these five people having all their money. Yeah. And just robbing from them. But yeah. And it's funny because it happened before. I love looking at these old photos of the robber barons with their giant mustaches and robbing from them but yeah you know and it's funny because it happened in before like i love looking at these old photos of like the robber barons with their giant mustaches and like yeah like if billionaires just had to dress like like curly mustache top hat we'd all be like hey that

guy's fucking has way too much money right like if we had to all be covered in soot and then every every billionaire had to wear a top hat, it would be a lot clearer. The top, yeah. They're disguising it with athleisure. Jeff Bezos always looks like he's coming back from a hike and so we're like, well, okay. I don't know.

At least he's staying active. Cool tech vest. Yeah, he's... He's one of the people. We just need to normalize looking at billionaires as criminal activity. That's really the difference. Because right now, we look upon a billionaire and go,

damn, look at that. That would be tight. Unless they spend half their time giving their money away, like just actively giving it away. Dude, more than that. If you have billions of dollars, you're good with 10%. Give giving it away. Dude, more than that. If you have billions of dollars, you're good with 10%. Give 90% away.

But I think we also, like the discourse is like, these people are stealing from everyone. And like, you know, remember when the fucking Panama Papers come out, we're like, okay, so rich people have like sucked the fucking earth dry and then they hide their cash like in

other places so no one can ever touch it because they're like fuck you mine you can just die for due to lack of resources and but it's still like oh man so fucking cool man fucking have like nine jets and shit it's like no bro this is this is criminal shit i want a space tank. What's it called? Space tank? Tesla tank? Cybertruck? Cybertruck. Cybertank? I like space tank. I mean, Cybertruck sounds lame too,

but I remember I was in someone's Uber or Lyft or whatever it was. I don't mess with Uber. And he was, this guy, the driver was telling me all about how he's saving up for the Cybertruck. And I'm just like, no. Pull over. Pull over, bro. Pull over. Let's talk. You don't need a Cybertruck. how he's saving up for the cyber truck and i'm just like no pull over pull over bro yeah pull over let's talk you don't need a cyber truck nobody needs one nobody why are you saving up i mean that's the other thing like we buy into this crap right it's like you're driving for

lyft right now like that's fine but like clearly you're not in a cyber truck situation right now. Right. And the dissonance of having your belongings in something and them not being poorly rendered in a 16-bit video game is like it's going to look really weird in the bed of that thing. Yeah, the fragility of the people who have power is pretty shocking and just constantly on display these days with the the way the police have responded to uh requests that they because they know how they know how bad they know how bad they are right you know what i mean and they they're like the second everyone is on the same page realizing how bad this is, then I'm not in a good place.

So that's why, you know, the same thing with like the police. It only used to be a little number of activists and they could deal with that. It's like, yeah, well, let's just, you know, mainstream media hasn't caught up yet. So we're good. And like, we can still laugh, laugh and smile and act like we're working hand in hand with the fucking community. And like, we can still laugh, laugh and smile and act like we're working hand in hand with the fucking community. But like when the public sentiment changes, look now they're like, oh, fuck, the lights are on and they're seeing this shit for what it is. And now, like, it's just like the lamest defenses, like self victimizing, like crying at a podium because of the work they do for the communities.

Like, it's just bullshit. And I think it's the same thing with billionaires they know it's like a pyramid scheme where they're just siphoning up all this revenue from people and they're like man one day they might figure out that like i'm sitting in an office and they're breaking their backs out there but i've got like a hundred thousand of them doing at the same time so i'm like laughing my ass off uh and when people begin to actually put that shit together then they'll be like oh oh oh well hold on now because i started this out of a out of a garage back when you know your parents could give you a loan to buy a house to start a business out of okay let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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and censorship this takes signal and takes it to in the opposite direction. The opposite direction. Yeah. So, you know, right now, obviously, the conservatives' favorite sport is yelling obscene, racist nonsense and then claim censorship on a privately owned website that is not the government. But OK, censorship. So that, you know, social media tends to be like the last place where these like right wing ghouls and goblins can engage in their trolling and just overall pwning of the libs. And but they always find themselves on the wrong side of Twitter bans, you know, and then that's why they're like, you're being censored just because I'm not even dog whistling. I'm bullhorning anti-Semitism, like with these memes I'm posting. I'm just saying it out loud over and over.

I'm like, George Soros is a Jew who controls black people to kill whites. Okay, send. You're like, that is not a dog whistle. That is not a whistle of any sort. That is a very, very aggressive yard sign, actually. You are right. That is a very, very aggressive yard sign, actually. You were. So. It's a song.

All these cries of censorship has, you know, led people to be like, essentially, especially from, I think, the left even saying what conservatives say to people when they criticize, like if a progressive criticized the country, it's like, well, if you hate it so much, why don't you go start your own country? Why don't you leave and start your own country? So this is kind of a logical extension where the right is now, why don't you go start your own Twitter then? Why don't you go off, do your own thing? And you can just be you guys. Just do your own and just not bother anybody. And they did. Hence Parler.

And just reading their about page is fantastic. Just gives you an idea that this is such a safe space. It says, Parler is a non-biased, free speech driven entity. Our goal is to offer the world a platform that protects users' rights, supports publishers, and builds online communities. Parler aims to empower users

to control their social experience. Users can be responsible to engage content as they see fit. We are not regulators. We are not governors. We are a community. Parler accepts your right to express your thoughts, opinions, and ideals online. Okay?

So remember that. They accept your right to express, unlike Twitter. Right. Yeah, it just sounds like a terrible place, to be honest. Just like Twitter. I mean, yeah, it's like not that Twitter is a fun place to be, but it's just, there there's I mean, and there's been a number of apps like this that have cropped up in the past as well. And they all sort of tend to be done away with kind of quickly. I remember there was one called like, do you remember?

This is a couple of years ago, but it was called like the Great American App. Sorry, I unplugged my headphone. What would you say? There's oh, there was something called that. I think it was, let me double check, but I think it was literally called the Great American App. That was like another conservative, you know, just a place where people can be racist towards each other all day long. I thought that was Facebook.

That's the thing, it's like they don't even really need their own because they're already doing it. I think they really wanted to, though. You know what I mean? Because the thing is sort of like... Wait a minute. The Great America app includes ride wait times for your favorite rides. An interactive guide to any place on the park.

Oh, that's Six Flags Great America. They have an app, though. Hey, Six Flags is riding the wave into the future. Okay, so it's called the, yeah, Great America was the name of the app. I think it no longer exists. All that to say, there have been attempts at this before, and it never works, and it's always really embarrassing. Right. always really embarrassing right and yeah the problem is right and this is where we begin to see what the real relationship is of conservatism in this country to you know i guess the rest of

society um so when they have their own private party they go and they're like oh finally they go and their whole thing is like well a there's just like i think like 400 000 people on here not that many people on here and everyone is just singularly all MAGA minded, which means there's no libs to fucking pwn or to troll to the point where this is in this political article. They say, quote, the MAGAfication problem is so bad that CEO and founder John Matt

has openly begged progressive pundits to join the platform offering a progressive bounty, quote unquote of twenty thousand dollars to any left-wing influencer with a following of fifty thousand or more users on twitter who make an account he's begging he's gonna pay as they see libs to come on so they so his like to defeat the purpose of his sad sad audience has someone to argue with. That's where we're at. Can I pay you to come over to play with my child?

Is that okay? Because I know no one likes to play with my kid. I will pay you to come over. And then maybe he'll just throw shit at you. Can I? Okay, I was trying to find it. I can't find it. But there was somebody who got on Parler early, two people,

and they made the real Candace Owens and the real Tommy Lahren accounts before Tommy and Candace got on there. And I was trying to find it, but it's so funny, dude. They're progressive people who just made those accounts. They got to. And they had 60,000 followers immediately. That is wonderful. So it's,

I think it's all to say that like their experiment is backfiring. You know what I mean? Like they, even one of these people who's describing a parlor in comparison to Twitter, this guy, Will Chamberlain is just, just trash.

He says, the question is not pure engagement. The question is influence. Twitter is interesting because there's so many people, prominent people that can be influenced. Parler is not that. So this idea that it's like, so you need to go to a larger platform to influence people,

but they aren't interested in your bullshit and therefore cannot be swayed. So your solution is to keep saying the thing that is only repulsing people like the loop is really flawed uh much like yeah any kind of you know shitty ideology but it's really like in a way i'm like i can't believe some people have to begin connecting the dots on some level, right? Because I mean, not that I, I count them to think,

be that critical, but the MAGA set has to know, like, they can't go beyond the CIS headset in terms of people they can bring in. So like what, what it's going to give here. It's just, it's like,

it's interesting because like, I think for people on the left who are like or activists or whatever, we are fighting for people. And it seems like these people just very literally are just fighting against people. So if you completely disengage and don't give them attention, which is what everybody is saying to do with Gun Girl and Tommy Lahren, it's like they're literally just making money being shit bags because they know that they can make money doing that and culture like a rise out of people they can get a rise money doing they'll make money and so it's it's like it's more evil than the people who like actually believe that shit because it's like oh you're literally just doing this

for money it's not even some idea that you're right. Um, right. And, and so when you remove their source of income, then they, like, they have nothing. So it's like, oh, it's just very clearly painting a picture that you are only like adversarial and are not part of a community that's fighting for a greater good. Cause like, if you take what happened with like my Milo Yiannopoulos, like back in the the day of like people just stopped engaging with him and he kind of had to disappear like yeah completely deplatformed lost everything and you should because you can't you shouldn't be able to profit off of hate like that and I think to your point you know like right-wing celebrity is just built on unsustainable ground to begin with because like you say like you gain notoriety

by saying provocative shit that is on the fringes of acceptable discourse or you know public discourse to an audience that is only seeing like destruction yeah they go there because it's like break some shit i want to see you fuck shit up there's no interest in growth absolutely zero interest in growth it's pure destruction which is just like the logical pivot for powerless people is the next best thing is if you can't build then you can destroy uh because then at least you can feel some power in the destruction of something so when when your celebrity is built on something so chaotic, it naturally just gets you ostracized from the mainstream, yet they need, the whole thing is like their existence

is purely built on just being in opposition to whatever they perceive as the mainstream. So it's just like, yeah, like if your whole complaint about a site is that there aren't enough people to troll, then like on your own site, then you were never interested in freedom of speech to begin with you know what i mean what the fuck are you doing

like how are you spending your time um just explaining to people who agree with them why you shouldn't care about other people yeah it's just boring very i i i did just want to because i'm looking at the basic rules of Parler, are listed in the doc. And I will just, I mean, just a quick Mensa shout out. What are some highlights for you? Well, unlike the Mensa organization in Parler, you cannot threaten to kill anyone in the comments section. That's not in the TOS for Mensa?

No, that's why they kept threatening to kill me, and no one would get kicked out.'s why they kept threatening to kill me and no one would get kicked out. Wait, they kept threatening to kill you? There was like one guy that would repeatedly just like, yeah, nonstop. And they would not. Wow, you should have been on Parler. I should have been on Parler.

Come debate me on Parler, coward. You're safer on Parler. Yeah, you're safer on Parler than Mensa. Isn't that, look at i mean it does say something a supremacist organization but that's another story but the but the the rules for parlor are your username cannot be obscene like cum dumpster i like that you really had to write that like thanks what's the most obscene thing i could think of wait he said cum dumpster in there? Like cum dumpster. What about cumster?

Yeah. What if cum dumpster is your last name? What if you're Michael Cum Dumpster? What are you supposed to do? No pornography. Doesn't matter who, what, where, when, or in what realm. Ted Cruz is out!

He is not going to be on Parler. Dude, what realm? Whose conservative uncle wrote this? In what realm? Dude, you know why? Okay, because you... So, okay, you know the other one. What was the other one that said feces?

There's something... They had to separate that from cum dumpster and porn? Yes, this is another one. When you disagree with someone, posting pictures of your fecal matter in the comment section will not be tolerated but can i listing out literally someone else i like that they're like not yours i'm like okay this is my this is my my friend my post yeah yeah your own poop well i think this is the thing a lot of leftists and progressive trolls signed up in numbers also because you know the trolls be trolling no matter what side you're on.

You need each other or else you just what is life? And a lot of people were like they were they were like immediately kicked out. And so they were like, OK, cool, free speech thing here. You're like just because we come in here to argue with the thing, which is people wanted already but i'm sure there are people doing like the pig ball poop image and like they only take one one type of shit posting okay again it's just like that i mean i know that the we've been just but like this time last summer we were doing this to the jeremy runner app and now we're doing it to fucking the most evil conservative app. This is the same way that the Jeremy Renner app was taken offline, with these exact tactics.

And that shit worked. If we could take Renner down, we could take Parler down. Everyone, get excited. And it was launched in 2017. The Jeremy Renner app was meant to be a place to do fun things and then it got taken down jeremy renner i mean we we talked about it basically all last summer but like the jeremy renner app you could buy stars so you were giving jeremy renner money so that jeremy renner would see your comment and then you could also give stars to

other users, but you're still just giving Jeremy Renner money on an infinity loop. It's madness. It's genius. Okay. Renner app's gone. Let's do it to Parler. Done.

I mean, Parler, it's just pretty chill, you know? Like they say, the biggest complaint is it feels like a MAGA rally, and that's from their own users. And're like yeah i get it so it's sweaty and like it's an old man ranting you are getting corona as we speak somehow through the phone mono what is something that you think is overrated overrated oh boy okay i'll go here. McDonald's. I think McDonald's is really overrated. What triggered this response? It's just bad. It's not good.

Like, I just, I, okay, McFlurries are good. I love a McFlurry. See? McFlurries are good, but I think I'm just shocked that they're able to do so well when their burgers taste like rubber and the fries are fine. But I mean, I just don't get how it can be so successful. I really don't. You know what? It's the same thing like with the porn, right?

Like it goes back to your childhood. A lot of the time, McDonald's was literally just the fucking reward for shit. Right. You know what I mean? a lot of the time mcdonald's was literally just the fucking reward for shit right right i mean and then if you didn't really expand past that like you might be caught in this feedback loop of feeling mother or father's love because you did good at the t-ball game and you went to mcdonald's and now you're 38 and you eating fucking you know your big mac and it's the same thing and like oh but i know what you mean because like like I, as I got older, I couldn't really fuck with the burgers anymore. I was just like, I like as a, you know, drunk at night,

there's only the one place open. Fine. Like I'll hit a double cheeseburger. No problem. But as I got older, I was like, the breakfast was the only one thing I could not shake. The sausage egg McMuffin is the one thing. And I'm not saying that's like necessarily,

I've had better sausage. I've had better muffin, I've had better cheese and better egg, but it is- But I like the little hash browns. See, I think the breakfast is good. I think the breakfast is good. I really do. Or like parts of it are so tasty. The hash browns, unbelievable.

They're so delicious. What was everyone's McDonald's intake like being, you know, not fully American American kids? I didn't eat any any like fast food until I was like 16 or something. OK. And then it was like a weird treat because I bought it with my own money when I was taking classes at the Santa Monica College over the summer. Oh, shit. Cause I bought it with my own money when I was taking classes at the Santa Monica college over the summer. So it was like one famous star,

please from Carl's jr. And I was like, Oh yeah, here's my dollar. You know what I mean? But it's not that it was like good, but I loved it. Yeah. Um,

see, uh, yeah, I, what did I, you know what? Growing up, my mom liked Taco Bell more,

which is amazing which now taco bell's over fuck taco bell bye girl um but my mom like i was looking into that yeah talk to me because i've sworn off because i'm i'm a tb tampa bay buccaneer taco bell buccaneer and yeah obviously with everything going on there was there a lot like there were a lot of reports about these fast food businesses that were supporting trump's re-election right from so the head of taco bell made a statement saying that as a company or him that has never given money to a candidate uh but there was a there are franchise owners that were and they were connecting these owners of taco bell restaurants to the corporate

entity and saying that by association that meant taco bell but let's not forget though they were also giving people shit like some of the workers from when black lives matters masks and shit like that so right taco bell definitely fired that guy they did taco bell um i don't know what to do i know i know this is the world we're in I want to try the grilled cheese burrito they made a grilled cheese burrito I'm not gonna lie look when everything was going down I said I don't need

another fucking second of Taco Bell then that motherfucking grilled cheese burrito I just saw what it was on paper and I said I'm high and I'm trash but now is it Taco Bell that't betray those mini tacos now too that's jack in the box jack in the box I know I saw some stuff I know I was like that sounds like it could be taco wait so mono is so is taco bell like your mcdonald's then like if you

regressing to childhood like food it's taco bell? Yes. Yes, Taco Bell is awesome. Yeah, I think it's delicious. My mom would get the cheesy beans and rice and eat it like a lady. She would get... How do I put this? Yeah, with the spork and chip. With the chip.

It was a spork. It should have been a chip, man. But my mom, my mom, just like Eddie Murphy's mom, my mom would make me what she thought was a McDonald's burger, but it was not. We got that at home. Exactly. We got that at home because my mom would make, and I think, Sophia, you can relate. My mom would make an overly spiced burger. She would put oregano and lemon and like onion in it and i'm

like no this is not a burger this is a kefte this is like a little meatball um that's how greek is fucked to me it's a it's a meatball and that's and that's that saying in greek uh where you say like y'all even eat shit with oregano which is scott that means oregano or something like that oh scott yeah that literally means shit with oregano yeah yeah because i was like what because i heard these greek people talking about this like yo because we put oregano on everything and yeah oh okay they put oregano on everything but yeah my mom couldn't make a real american burger so maybe the burger was just ruined for me at a young age but you know what but now you're sitting on one of those like immigrant fusion waves where you come out with like the fucking Greek burger.

You know what I mean? With the little feta on top. And people are like, ah! You know what I mean? Totally. A lamb burger with feta. That's four food trucks right there. Okay.

Right. Exactly. All over the country. Is that saying, what is that to, like, what is that? What do you, in what context do you say that? It's like, it's like,

you know, it's like lipstick on a pig. Right? Oh, you know what I'm saying? You know, when they, it's like,

you're like, you're covering a problem with, yeah, with something that'll barely help. Yeah. In Japanese, we call that, baba no atsu gesho,

which means an old woman's way too much makeup. Like honey. That's not going to fix being old. That's harsh. You can't put all that makeup on. We know. We know. That is harsh.

There are so many funny, funny cultural, all those cultural sayings. They make me laugh so much. I think I told you guys this. There's one in Greek that literally means shit in your face and made the closest water to wash it off with being Constantinople. There's a Yiddish saying which is shit in the sea and die, which is also pretty fun. Oh, that's fucking great.

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. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. Thank you. How do you feel about this, kids? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit,

where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white and prints. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar.

Just kidding. I'm Amber Revin. Okay, everybody. We have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay?

Or Lacey gets it. Do it. Captain's Log, Stardate 2024. We're floating somewhere in the cosmos, but we've lost our map. Yeah, because you refused to ask for directions. It's Space Gem, there are no roads. Good point.

So, where are we headed? Into the unknown, of course. Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit. With a hint of mischief, one episode at a time. Buckle up and listen to In Our Own World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust us, it's out of this world. What happens when a professional

football player's career ends and the applause fades and the screaming fans move on i am going to share my journey of how i went from christianity to now a hebrew israelite for some former nfl players a new faith provides answers you mix homesteading with guns in church voila you got straight away they try to save everybody listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts