The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 134 (Best of 7/13/20-7/17/20)

Episode Date: July 19, 2020

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Mr. Blake Wexler! Take a deep breath. This is Blake Wexler, aka the Great British Blaking Show, aka Paul West Hollywood, aka the Mars Caponi homie, aka Star Blaker, aka Peachy Bonds,

aka the Cardamon Man, aka the Bread Week Geek, aka I'm Mary Berry Grateful to be here today, guys. Thank you for having me. Wow. Anytime. Anytime. I got like a me. Wow. Oh, anytime. Anytime. I got like a couple of those.

We have missed you. You're on the East Coast. I am. Where I belong. What amounts to my hometown, Ocean City, New Jersey. Shout out to Ocean City. Shout out to Ocean City. People are really wheeling and dealing in a free way out here.

But I'm locked down. I'm wearing my mask. So I'm trying to set an example. You know what I mean? You said mask adoption is not 100%? Yeah, no, it is. No one's wearing a mask here. I would say 3% of people.

I saw someone lick a skee-ball. 3%? The other day. So you're not setting an example. You saw someone lick a skee-ball. If anything, you're like the example parents are going to point at to not be like that counterculture person they're like you see one of them yeah one of those sciencers right it is it is weird where it almost seems like you're making some sort of ridiculous statement but i know i'm you know what i mean like but i'm right

right in this case for once this is the right statement to make so yeah yeah it's odd it's like people just like being like at the hottest beach with direct sunlight and it was like no i don't wear sunscreen you're like i'm just gonna do this and it's not a statement it's just quite literally the bare minimum to keep myself safe and somehow if that's a statement right but or if you could catch uh their sunburn like it was an aerosol in the air you know it would be the same thing right the um i think new jersey is actually like looking good sitting pretty in terms of uh their overall numbers so uh we'll look oh i won't wear that to change in the next couple weeks.

What the hell am I doing this thing on? I feel like an idiot. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So I had to go back a little bit to figure this out because I'm Googling just random things all day for work.

And one that I came up with was Garth Brooks' Breakfast Bowl. Because I saw a tweet that mentioned the idea of, so basically it was a tweet about, who would you be quarantining with? And this person said, oh man, I'll be eating Garth Brooks' Breakfast Bowl every day. It's like, what is that? What kind of sexual maneuver is that?

Unfortunately, it is not at all a sexual maneuver it is though a breakfast that garth has contrived and is in tricia yearwood's uh cookbook whereby you take scrambled eggs and sausage and bacon and tortellini and put it all in a bowl. What? That's just... Yep, cheese tortellini. That is a random word generator. You put it in a bowl sometimes, apparently. He will cook up fries or some sort of fried potato to go with it, too.

And that is the Garth Brooks breakfast bowl. And it's so American that it hurts. Yeah. In the soul and the arteries. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Tortellini. What a violent mashup of food, too.

Just like, I was like, uh-huh, uh-huh, and tortellini. Apparently, he puts tortellini in like so many different things and Tricia Yearwood

has apparently given up on telling him, no, you can't do that. Right. He'll just be like, oh, you're making a breakfast quiche? Throw some tortellini in there. She's like, no,

you're wilding out Garth Brooks and she does it and it's delicious, apparently. Do you take your coffee black? Yeah, black with some tortellini in there. She's like, no, you're wilding out Garth Brooks and she does it and it's delicious, apparently. Do you take your coffee black? Yeah, black with some tortellini in there, please. Just squeeze the pasta, get the cheese in there, stir it in and then let the pasta float on top.

You guys are going to say domo arigato when you have some of Garth's famous tortaschimi. Okay, it's sashimi with a round tortellini. You just slice it so thin. So thin you don't even know. You don't even know.

You don't even know. Oh, man. Garth Brooks, one of my favorite. There's some famous people who are just basically a walking, talking, psychological experiment of like just you know they've grown up in such strange circumstance there existed in such strange circumstances because of how famous they are they're just any video any interview with him any video he posts of himself he's he's just like on a different planet yeah in a very entertaining way hey yeah he's like oh he's just like on a different planet um yeah in a very entertaining way

hey man yeah he's like he's just like gaslit by his own success in a way it's like hey man i don't even know where i am but hey put some trouble on there so as a black kid i didn't really grow up with garth books i the first memory i have of his existence was him on the old 90s show muppets tonight the very short-lived show where he was the guest. The conceit was he was supposed to do a country song for them, and he just never really did. And at one point, he finally agrees to, and he goes out and he performs If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.

You said he was going to do a country song! Yeah, he didn't say which country. Ah, there you go, Garth. I wonder if that was around the chris gaines time when he was just upsetting all audience uh expectations this would have been around like 97 98 so i don't remember when the chris gaines thing was but i think it was a little bit before a little bit after that yeah i think that was my first memory of like realizing he was a big deal because the chris gaines thing was like i was like oh you can do that okay that's that's fun i mean i knew his name but i mean not really yeah but at the same time i'm like hey okay yeah all right man cool

hey man you guys are like uh some fiddler on the roof i'm gonna be tevye uh pretty cool um tevye west but god just the like that that is he was already on some next level uh thinking like galaxy brain fame uh when he's like all right i'm at the peak of my it's like michael jordan level where he's just like i'm at the peak of my powers as a country artist i will change my name change my appearance and uh do a appearance thing was a really wild part because changing your name that's just part of being famous people do it beyonce was briefly sasha fierce and that's an alter ego you have it's fine but right changing the look was the weird part the type the genre The genre. And insisting on introducing Chris Gaines

as the musical guest on the episode of SNL that he hosted. That's just me playing peek-a-boo with reality, man. I moved to Kentucky in the 90s and he was like... I was fully unprepared

for the fact that Garth brooks was basically like michael jackson at that point like it was like thriller thriller era michael jackson for uh people who had trucks and cowboy hats and finally what is a myth what is something you know it can be false that people think is true or vice versa i would say a myth is that mouse traps work because mouse traps do not work i have like a gazillion of them around my apartment and um yeah that mouse was not getting caught in any of them but you asked us to call you the human mouse trap uh when we started this call right You just grab them with your bare hands and snatch them up.

Just Ozzy Osbourne but the mouse version. I've been dealing with mice for you know, I've had mice in my apartment once like four years ago, but ever since the pandemic started, there's so many, there's the infestation of pests is just through the roof. I heard, you know, ever since the pandemic started there's so many there's the infestation of pests

is just through the roof i heard you know because of the pandemic mice don't have food to eat so they're just kind of right going to all these apartments that was the yeah like the big story in new york those first two weeks were like the literal rat wars that were happening in manhattan because like it once the food dries up they go in search of other food and then they turn they turn up on some other rat turf and this rat war yeah yeah uh apparently koreatown is like new york right which yeah it is kind of like new york it's probably the closest thing we have oh just sort of like with like more high-rise like apartments and like sort of like architecture yeah yeah yeah i i'm having some battles with uh with the flies the flies are coming in i got one of those uh electrified uh

fly swatters oh you just busted it out yeah it's the tennis racket the executioner wow i didn't and it comes with a hood that you just put over your head okay serena trilliums over here ready to fuck these flies up yeah i like the the salt shotgun that one is more that one's fun yeah yeah because that just like basically like you cock it once and it just i mean it's probably the least humane because it's just like destroying their wings like with the buckshot of like the grains of salt but this is the this is the world we're in right now so i have not seen this i'm googling it right now yeah like look for it's like i don't know fly salt shotgun

that's uh that's one that i've never successfully uh gotta fly with the bug assault as it's called yeah the bug it's probably made by some fucking former blackwater child murderer so i should probably not even talk about it like i can't imagine the backstory to a thing where a guy's like what if you applied the principles of buckshot in a shotgun that you could just you know use at home and kill a fly with man because that shit is cool on a uh on an insect do you have one of these do you have the holster no i i had it um like at an old office and at another uh like at another apartment i had like someone had it and i would use it but i now at the moment uh i am bug assaultless i just i use i try and use um either my bare hands or a towel

oh of course the bare hand one is like like jack said uh that old clyde frazier anecdote man was so cool caught a fly with his bare hands and then let it go and i always try and impress my uh yeah my partner her majesty with it and she just thinks it's so stupid i'm like i caught it with my hand did you see did you see and she's like you do catch it with your hands oh yeah i can catch a fly with my hands with one hand yes yes i can catch you are cool but but here's the thing shit watch me spend fucking 45 minutes listening to Bodega Boys in my headphones running around my house like an idiot.

So it's not like I just come in and snatch this shit out. She's like, yeah, fool, you wasted half a day. And also, go outside and release your hand. I bet you didn't get that shit. Cut to me opening my hands. I didn't get that shit. My friend's wife made fun of him for doing the thing where yeah he would like grab it and then like release his hand very slowly and like there

wouldn't be anything there oh i've done that so many times uh yeah walt frazier uh from the 1970s Knicks, one of the more underrated NBA players and the most underrated announcer because he's just absurd. Right. But he would just walk into a room and slowly reach out and grab a fly, shake it in his hand, release it. And he was like, and kids thought that was cool i was like

i think that shit's cool as hell man like he that was in one of his books of like how to be cool it's like man not everybody can do that you know and also nobody has a fucking like hand span of like 14 inches probably like he did. Don't discount the size of an any man over 6 foot 3 or 4's hand size. It gets out of control. Yeah. That was one thing that I feel like was

I hadn't fully appreciated about Jordan until the last dance was just hand size. His hand just reached all the way around that ball. Also, flies in the 70s, notoriously slow. Yeah. We wouldn't know, actually.

That's one of those things that we would have no idea if flies were speeding up. It turns out that the guy who created the bug assault is from Southern California, is a surfer and yoga enthusiast. What? Oh, hell yeah. And he's just like an inventor, basically.

But I don't know. I don't need to do much of a deep dive into this kind of thing. I feel like all roads lead to darkness. Tune in tomorrow when that guy's our guest. I feel like you really need to invest in one of these racket smiles. I know. I feel like every time there's one of those rounds people end up hitting each other with them

oh I've never done that oh that's where shit goes left with those electric rackets you start smacking people with them I've managed not to hit anybody with mine oh no I mean intentionally like it turns into a drunken game of I'm gonna wave the electrified

tennis racket at you right does it hurt yeah i i'd imagine it does it uh spark is so satisfying though so when you hit the fly with the electric tennis racket it like you hear a loud pop which is like what killing flies should always feel like there There should always be a loud pop, like you're popping a balloon. And then you get, sometimes it'll stay on the racket. Yeah. And you just get it sparking. So fulfilling.

Yeah. So good. Because, so I'm not doing it needlessly to torture the fly. It's actually, sometimes you'll hit the fly with the shock. It'll hit the ground. And if you don't go and get the tissue right away to come pick it up it'll get back up it just like stuns it for a second all right but if it gets stuck in there it starts smoking and then you get your little

glass tube out you start freebasing that smoke fly smoke um sorry that's so gross but uh just hearing the two of y'all be like yeah and then that shit gets smoking i'm like okay i thought i was bad when i was like i'm shooting the shit out of their wings and they're fucked up everyone has a weird way of dealing with insects, you know. What is something you think is overrated? Well, funny you mentioned the rich people begging to pay more taxes at the beginning of the show. I've been thinking a lot about, you know, rich people doing good things as being overrated.

I mean, there's been all these conspiracies about Bill Gates, which obviously I don't buy. And I celebrate what the Gates Foundation does, and I'm impressed by his work. But the real conspiracy is that you have someone who has tens of billions of dollars in the first place, and can run some kind of shadow mixture of the World Health Organization and the State Department. It's like, I'm glad he's doing it because in the abdication of everybody else doing this, it's good that it's happening. But like, how can it not be? How can it be that, you know, the United States, this incredibly rich and powerful country has basically let an oligarchy, as you mentioned, take control of the functions of the state? I mean, it's no surprise that people are so angry.

state i mean it's no it's no surprise that that people are so angry yeah i mean he has lobbied his company has lobbied all like people who are billionaires have chosen to be billionaires um and they are choosing that and the solutions of them you know being basically oligarchs who solve other people's problems over you know having a healthy social safety net uh in in its place um one way or another you know um obviously bill gates can't snap his fingers and suddenly we have a great social safety net but uh along the way he's made lots of decisions that you know are are are counter to a strong social safety net. I also think it's unreasonable to expect people to act strongly against their own interests. I mean, that's why we have a state in the first place. It's supposed to balance the wealth of society in a fair way.

the wealth of society in a fair way. And so the idea that it's a solution to have people who are grossly enriched themselves volunteer to de-enrich themselves, I mean, it seems to be a little bit pie in the sky. I wonder if those are like the wealthy people there. They seem to be all the wealthy people who didn't manage to get their hands into politics or like get them there.

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Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And then finally, Ivanka is out here with, I mean, at least somebody in this family is bringing out some new ideas. Where's the fresh thinking? So basically her response is, I think there's this thought among conservatives and white liberals also that part of the problem is that unemployment benefits are too good and so nobody wants to go out and get a new job they so now that uh the coronavirus wrecked the economy nobody wants to go out and

get a new job because the unemployment benefits are too good so like now you know people are just going to sit at home. And so Ivanka stepped in, a hero, and said, guys, try something new. If you lost your job, just try something new. Try a different career. On Bastille Day, on the day that- She said, let them eat cake. Yes. Cake that looks like a chicken cutlet. Yes.

Oh, boy. I mean- This eat cake. Yes. Cake that looks like a chicken cutlet. Yes. Oh, boy. I mean. Cool. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool. Very. That out of touch. But this is the culture.

This is the culture of people in power in this country. I've not heard a single word from most of these people. a single word uh from most of these people i would say 99 of people on the right uh that actually have any kind of like consideration for like the humanity of it all she's got a job because her dad is president like she literally has a job because her dad yeah well it's not like she went to wharton she's like she went to wharton because her dad went there so right yeah try a new angle yeah well i mean but yeah my dad did go here but right that's not why i went yeah also independently believed it was a school that my i could get into without doing anything so exactly um oh dude this is what are they gonna do like what the clock is

ticking like the only way i feel like they even know this from a strategic standpoint, is making shit darker isn't going to bring more people out. Or maybe in the way that they think. If they're going to try and get more people to soften up to the idea of voting, re-electing him, then you would need to see some bit of compassion. bit of compassion, because it seems like despite what your party align or allegiances are, there are a lot of people looking at this situation like this has we're not handling this properly at all. I think they think if they drive people back to work and into the streets that they can get the capitalism machine going again, because then once everybody's busy, once everybody is out and socializing, then maybe Trump's America won't seem so bad to the racists who are questioning it, because everybody else knows the shit has been shit. But to racist white is out and socializing, then maybe Trump's America won't seem so bad to the racists who

are questioning it because everybody else knows the shit has been shit. But to racist white folks who are like, we're voting for white supremacy, if they're now struggling and below, you know, even further below the poverty line than they already were, and they have nothing to do but look at the news and how their president is handling shit, then they can't be distracted by the fact that he's terrible. If you're a white person in america to a certain extent when trump was first elected you could ignore everything that he was doing because it largely wasn't affecting you right and now it's affecting everyone so i think they're like we gotta get people back to work we gotta get them distracted they gotta they're watching too much news it's like we were saying yesterday like if they if these people were actually good

with their money they would have looked at the the lowest cost version of getting through the pandemic to get their businesses going again rather than just like this reactionary thing of like don't stop believing please and now it's like just getting us in all kinds of shit where now we're gonna have to back our teachers um and like our neighbors like we need there's so many other things like we're going to have to back our teachers and like our neighbors. Like we need, there's so many other things like we're the opening of schools is just like so cynical that it's just, you, you can't,

you almost like, it's hard for you to believe that people are going to fuck around with the lives of children. Like really though. I mean, I mean they already did with the way they don't actually tackle a lot of the mass shooting problems that happened in schools. But even like with the math Betsy DeVosos was doing some people did like the calculations based on

like you know like it could just be this small number it was still dwarf like it was blowing out any numbers that have happened with school shootings in like the history of this country i just i'm waiting on people to realize that the government doesn't care about them like is it gonna happen is it gonna to happen? Is it going to happen? I'm not sure. It's actually quite insane. So, I mean, we'll see shit. Ivanka, what should I try?

What did she say I should try? Try something new. Try something new. She didn't even have no suggestions. She didn't have any job suggestions. Something. Working. Why don't you try it?

Making money. Why don't you try that? You're a terrible guidance counselor, Ivanka. I know. I just go. I go to the guidance counselor. I'm like, so what should I do? She's like, I don't know try that you're a terrible guidance counselor of mine i just go i go to the guidance counselor i'm like so what should i do she's like i don't know girl something new i mean essentially like the the if she is the guidance counselor the student that comes in which is

working america going hey man i'm all kinds of fucked up i don't know what the fuck is going on like i just see no way out of this there's barely any hope coming out of the white house uh and i'm really failing to grasp onto something that could sustain me in an actual tangible way hmm well have you thought about finding something new yeah i have a pamphlet for something new yeah i got a pamphlet for something new no it's it's like one of those pieces of paper never mind miss. Never mind. Just go smoke weed by the fucking... What are those? What are those transportables? Oh, can I hit that?

Portables, portables. Portable classrooms? Yeah, that's when you do it. I remember after the earthquake, half my school became portables because half the buildings were so fucked up. Like our parking lot became our new school. Shout out to 1994.

It's coming. Yeah. Come again. Like our parking lot became our new school. Shout out to 1994. And that's coming. Yeah. Coming again. You guys ready for some truth bombs? Oh my God. Woo! I'm just sorry, dude.

The fact that we're about to talk about how people think, Wayfair, you got just what I need, is involved with human trafficking um i can't stop i don't know like i laugh because i'm so shocked and sad because everything's the only thing i can do otherwise i'm like oh man so many brains are rotten like and are thinking they got superpowers to connect these you know see the fucking matrix somehow out of nowhere yeah scrolling on fucking chrome all day yeah they uh so so basically somebody noticed that um there were some cabinets uh and you, dressers and various pieces of furniture that cost more than they should.

They cost five figures. And they also noticed that some of those cabinets had girls' names, like, you know, Karen, Janet. And they searched the database and noticed that some of those are the names of missing children and boom, bang, bing. Uh,

they, they drew the conclusion that this is how the deep state cabal, uh, is smuggling, uh, child slaves. Now is,uggling child slaves now is, is inside of these cabinets, I guess.

They've moved on from pizza parlors. They realize they've been found out and moved on. They're smarter. They've gotten even smarter than to do it at a ping pong pizza restaurant that, you know, doing it there in the, in full public view.

No, they're smarter. Now it's on Wayfair and it's the kids' names and you can just order it like a cabinet. That's how they've done. It really is sort of to the point of like not being able to say you're wrong. You arrive at that. You get this kind of momentum where you end up at a Wayfair page and go, oh, shit. Hold on.

The Anya's shorty cabinet is ten thousand nine hundred and eighty nine dollars this is how they're doing it because there's on your way here you have not for once ever doubted or even took the second to to question what you believe whether that's you know based on anything uh tangible or real so that the furniture they were looking at is more expensive because it is a commercial industrial. So they were looking at home prices, what a cabinet like that would cost in the home department. But they were actually in the commercial department where the cabinets are bigger, essentially. And they just ignored that fact. They're for commercial use.

It's like for a fucking, not for your home. It just happens to also be on Wayfair. But they just ignored that detail. And that one detail could have cleared it up, but instead... Details are for cowards, I want to point out. That's right. For sheep, hey, it's for sheep. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, sheep.

Wear your mask, you're going to hell. Because obviously human traffickers love including clues and easter eggs that could lead to them being caught like batman villains uh yeah right so right this started with like a i think it's a interior design influencer and then another lifestyle influencer picked it up but it's we gotta ban these influencers man but i i honestly this is one of those stories where i look at it and i'm like well so what do like is the internet just bad do we just give up on the internet like how do we how do we what do we do? It's such a mess. And that's such a big, broad question to consider because we have almost too much access to, again, going back to the beginning, uncontextualized information. And without that context, the human brain fucking loves to find pictures in random noise.

That's how we were able to look up at the stars in all of their millions and go, that's a bear with a giant ass tail. Like what? What? No, it's up there. You can see it. And so we want to be able to find like things that will make,

help us make sense of things. But because there is so much more noise than our brains are used to, it's becoming easier for people to pick out those random patterns and just run with them. And without the context you need to be like, oh, that's for industrial grade cabinets. You're storing like giant, like, I don't know, collections of tools for a huge ass farm in one of these cabinets, not your doll collection for your little girl, then you find the patterns that are wrong, and you can't admit that those patterns are wrong. And that's fun, and it's exciting to think

that you've just cracked the code that is secretly... Oh, hell yeah. Like, speaking of the Matrix, that you've cracked the code and gotten a unique insight into the secret that is going on behind the scenes of the entire world. That is powerful. That's a powerful drug.

And they don't want to give up on it. And so, okay, if this was 2% of the population that was just off in a corner somewhere, that would be one thing. But first of all, the actual president of these United States is trying to fan these flames because they're some of his most staunch supporters. There's also a writer, J.M., pointed out this Newsweek article that the title was, here are some of the celebrities who sell products on Wayfair, which you would only be interested in for one reason, as evidence that this conspiracy theory is true. This came out after all this or during the fervor? During the fervor during the fervor to exploit

like yeah yeah totally seo like they see uh this theory lighting lighting up in terms of traffic and they were somebody on their staff is you know with it you know what i mean because i see it everywhere i see all that i see the i see the the stencils and shit on the street in LA. Like, all the where we go when we go all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I see that on the street. It's around, which is very, it's funny because you don't notice it until you really look and go, what the, oh, okay, that's what that is. Shout out to San Fernando Valley.

But this whole, it's interesting, like like the, it's like the same momentum. Wow, what a poorly framed article. I'm sorry, I just had to like, Oh yeah, like what do these people are writing? And I'm reading through it and like, they, up top, they talk about how all of this is, you know, bullshit and how in another article from Newsweek, it's all debunked.

But they still put together this article about, well, these are the celebrities, here are the celebrities who sell through Wayfair. And I'm like, yeah, no one is looking up this information unless they want to know who to shame. So I'm very confused by this choice. Don't bring Lionel Richie into this. Come on, man. Who to shame?

Lionel Richie didn't do anything to anybody. Best case scenario shame. Like, the worst case scenario, you know, cute. Like, these are the people who showed up at the pizza parlor with automatic weapons. Wow, Trisha Yearwood bring it all back yeah what a circuitous episode yeah oh you think garth brooks only puts breakfast in that bowl come on oh boy yeah so now wake up it's fingertips it's all fingertips it ain't totally it's toe it's totalini okay that's you don't realize the it's like kind of the same energy though that was like in the

early internet when like the matrix sequels are coming out and like lost and like people trying to fucking find easter eggs before the writers do it's like that same energy that i feel like when i'm looking at it to your point of like the high you'd be like oh shit i know who the merovingian is actually supposed to be in matrix reloaded okay the merovingians were these christian kings that were in front like dude that what i don't know i don't know where i took that but that's not like the basis for a conspiracy theory slash religion moving forward yeah and but that's the kind of energy you go around and people like dude i figured i don't know i read up on it and that's what this is so therefore this is what it means yeah and this that's also part of why i think that being right is overrated.

Like sometimes I watch shows with like a long narrative arc and some sort of central mystery. And I'll try and guess along with it. That's part of the fun. But when I'm wrong, it's like not like, oh, well, this was bullshit. I don't believe in this existence of this movie anymore. It's like, oh, OK, cool. I see what they did there. I get how they got to that point and why I was wrong. That's actually unless it's lost, in which i was like no i reject this this is not right and i turn my back

on this now oh that's fair i mean with fiction sometimes your ideas are better than the ones they end up going with for various reasons thank you fiction yes yes can be fun. When it comes to interpretations of reality, like that's, yeah, it's just a bunch of... Another thing this reminds me of is the fact that the deadliest civil war in human history was a cult in China that thought that their leader was Jesus's brother and 20 million people died. So, like, i don't know it seems like this is one of those frog in a pot like getting hotter and hotter until the water's

boiling things where like if you had told me two years ago that q was as popular as it is and that the president was openly embracing it. And that Q ideology was like as murderous and like openly, like we're ready to, uh, rise up if, yeah, act out real world violence. If Trump is like taken out of office,

like that would be cause for immediate and profuse alarm. And instead it feels like it's just something that feels like a series of ingredients from the past 200 news cycles converging. And it's just like, man, but it's really like those are dangerous elements. Yeah. Meanwhile, it's MS-13 and open borders and you're not going to have windows because of Joe Biden's green revolution plan. That is what is the emphasis of this administration. When we're also looking, just comparing the language always of what the threats are.

It's always people of color, and it's always people who aren't cishet Christian American people. And we should say that, I mean, there's totally good reason to be paying attention for people to have their antenna up about sex trafficking and human trafficking. Like, that is a thing that we're finding out is just all over the place,

especially among the powerful with Jeffrey Epstein, Jelaine maxwell and it's in the zeitgeist for sure and i think it's and it's been such a real world problem it's it's like any like with these conspiracies that's why it's it's uh very easy for them to gain momentum because it has to start with some kind of focal point that is a real world issue. So whether that's like your own financial disenfranchisement being the source of many, all kinds of conspiracies about who runs what in the banks or whatever, or something like this with sex trafficking, there's always this real world issue that give enough people to sort of rally around and then sort of connect these dots. And yeah, it's really, again, we were talking earlier

in this week about the lengths that people can go when they're fully engrossed and caught up in these conspiracy theories. And it shows that it's very real to people on some level, based on what they're reading, they're arriving at a place where this is the reality that they're fighting against. So, you know, on some level you can see why, yes, the material was there in the conversation and culture for like this to pick up as like a trend. And then, but then you get to see like these bad faith things, like this Newsweek article too, where it's like, hey, let's kind of just hop on this right now because that'll get us some clicks. Yeah, yeah, totally. And I mean, this just, if nothing else, it's worth talking about this because this just isn't how, you know, we talked

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and we're back all right guys let's talk about this uh this lead poisoning thesis i i had kind of heard about this uh in the background as as one of the explanations for why crime started going down in the United States in the early nineties and has kind of been going down ever since, uh, the, the thesis is basically, uh, as it relates to crime,

that that was the year that the first generation, uh, after the clean air act, uh, of 1970 hit, hit you know adulthood and started to you know uh make adult decisions and be you know hit the age that people generally uh start committing crimes um and the idea is that because uh the planet was so full of leaded gasoline fumes that up to the year 1970, humans were and especially children were exposed to unprecedented levels of lead. And that's that's a fact that you can test by, you know, that they were testing at the time.

that you can test by, you know, that they were testing at the time. And it's just a fact that people during that time, like from the late 20s through 1970 were exposed as cars became so dominant and up to the point, like up through the 60s was probably when it was at its worst because that was when the most cars were out there belching out this lead gasoline fumes.

Before you go on, Jack, so lead is bad? As it turns out. Yeah, so lead poisoning. So when you come into contact with consistent lead poisoning as a child, it affects, they found a lot of longitudinal studies that say that it affects a person's ability to regulate their emotions. They're more likely to display psychological traits that include impulsivity and egocentricity.

And when were these people born, probably? Where were they born? When were peak, when were these people really getting off on the fumes? The baby boom generation is kind of, so that's what I'm kind of connecting it to. That's a lot of the writing on this has just been focused on explaining there's this big demographic puzzle

that a lot of different explanations have been proposed for, for why crime went down starting in the nineties because everybody, Joe Biden's crime bill. That's right. Well, no, but that Joe Biden's crime bill and like the Clintons,

like all their like, uh, super predator shit was, was a result of the fact that crime just started going up in like this unprecedented and unpredicted, uh going up in like this unprecedented and unpredicted, uh, way in the seventies and eighties.

Uh, and then for no real reason that anybody has been able to identify starting in the nineties that started going down. Um, and you know, this is Malcolm Gladwell, uh, wrote about this being from broken windows,

policing and Rudy Giuliani, which turns out is bullshit. And there's a lot of different explanations. The Freakonomics people wrote about it being the result of Roe v. Wade, but that doesn't hold for other countries. So it doesn't really make sense that that would be a cause. And so this writer, a bunch of writers have pointed to lead poisoning being the thing, because once lead is taken out of the gasoline in a country about 20 years later, almost like clockwork, their crime starts going down. So it's really interesting that there's, we'll link off to some articles that kind of explain it in more detail but basically uh there's this mother jones article that says

it's basically unassailable that lead poisoning explained who committed crime and ended up at the cruel you know bottom part of our social strata. Taking that, if that is true, and we take as a constant that America is not a meritocracy, but more of a lottery based on where and to whom you're born. And I feel like it would be inevitable that the same would be true at the top of our society. it would be inevitable that the same would be true at the top of our society. Like the, the baby boomers who grew up and were exposed to all this lead and have damaged impulse control, uh,

who are still in positions of power, still running our country, uh, that that would have an impact on them and just on our world in general, since they've been, uh, so greedily holding on to power uh for for so long um and so aggressive about it i don't know it it just seems like it's a it's not not a thing that i found like you know somebody else really making the case for there is there was an article about how baby boomers as a generation were more uh sociopathic than other generations and they

like mention as an aside the high lead content of their blood being one of the very unique things about their generation um but it seems pretty i don't know like i mean it it tracks when you think about one of the things that always surprises me when i really do look back is just how weirdly crime infested the country was at that point like it wasn't just scare tactics and it wasn't just movies where like oh you go to the city you're gonna get mugs like just a fact like oh that dude has like seven knives on him oh that woman just got mugged while i was watching as it turns out there was just a weird amount of currency serial killers so many of them during this time period so i should say that i got uh i started looking into this because i was uh listening to an episode of last podcast on the

left and they were talking about the fact that these three major serial killers uh whose names i'm i'm not remembering but they all came from uh the same neighborhood at around the same time uh or the same town at around the same time and it's like such an aberration like that that's not normal normal behavior uh and there was just an overall spike in serial killers in the 70s uh and be there being geographical hot spots of serial killers would suggest like literally something in the water so oh i don't know santa cruz is i was saying santa cruz there was three serial killers active at the same time yeah exactly um yeah so i don't know and hey london ontario too canada you got yours too there's a there's a whole thing of like few towns had

multiple serial killers active at the same time and when you look at with each other trying to get to the top of their charts much like arsenal v liverpool Except we're at the top of no chart. And when you look at three of our last four presidents, they were born within three months of each other. George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump were all born, are all at the slightly older edge of the baby boomer generation. like slightly older edge of the uh baby boomer generation and you know they have very variously uh completely fucked up our our country in pretty aggressive ways um just feel like we go too hard on george bush you know like ever since ellen you know i think we were all

supposed to realize uh you know that george bush he must also be involved in the Wayfair conspiracy because I don't know if you saw the image, the way they were talking to each other. They were signaling to us what the real truth was, what's in the cabinet named W. Yeah. And presidents have what? Cabinet. QED. Wow. Gotta go.

For the CIA shuts us down. For the deep states gets us yeah so anyways just i mean this is also a very hopeful spin on things that like we are just being poisoned by this about to uh pass from this earth generation so this isn't any sort of like actionable uh ideas here other than don't inhale lead. I just think it's an interesting thing. And let's not forget, though, going back to Flint,

the number of lead pipes that are still in use in this country is extremely high, and it's something that can be solved. It's going to take a lot of money and time, but it can be solved. It's not that much money. Hold on, hold on. You lost me at it's going to take a lot of money and time but it can be solved it's a not that hold on hold on you lost me at it's gonna take a lot of money miles is big on austerity uh um regular hi over here um the uh one other detail of it is that people have been pointing to

the year 2020 as a year to look for a drop in violence in the middle east because that's when like 2000 was basically there 1970 in terms of removing lead from gasoline so uh that's one way i mean that's a convenient way to explain terrorism right right it's like yeah nothing to do with the united states foreign policy it's it was the gas i'm pretty sure so i mean in a sense it's always been about the oil and gas right damn we need an improv team here between the oil and gas yeah all of this is can be like seen as a very convenient like sort of well that that was the answer and now we don't have to worry about anything and that's yeah definitely definitely not what we're saying i remember always

as a kid though too seeing unleaded gas like right i mean like well why would you like gas or or just when i saw it i'm like well where do you get leaded gas yeah i'm like why why do you get unleaded i remember always asking my mom, because she would say unleaded because it was still the 80s, and I'm sure people had habits of saying that or whatever, or that was a way to describe gas, but it always bugged my mind. I was like, shouldn't we get the good shit?

You don't want un-anything. Make the cars and the brains go fast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the guy who helped develop lead gasoline thomas midgley jr did uh at a at a press conference poured lead gasoline into a bowl like poured it over his hands put it under his nose huffed it uh and to prove his point new the state of new jersey was still like we're you know fuck all that uh but oh my god i'm he had to take a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning he also apparently i'm just looking this up he

apparently also helped invent cfcs like freon which ate a whole ozone layer so this dude shout out to you right and then in 1940 at the age of 51 and then there's more in 1940 at the age of 51 just like talking about his two of his inventions like might have destroyed the world and killed a bunch of people well in 1940 at the age of 51 midgley contracted polio which left him severely disabled he devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed in 1944 he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation that's how he went entangled with august alcina wow an entanglement it was truly an entanglement wow this dude could not stop he could not stop inventing things that would kill people like it was just like he's like ah damn it not again yeah darwin his deal with the devil was i want to be a

famous inventor yeah exactly right your wish has been granted oh my god what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or where you are? Search history. I searched recently Charleston Riverdogs jersey because they canceled minor league baseball, I believe, a couple or like a couple weeks ago, I think, officially. And my parents live in Charleston where the Riverdogs play. It's a class A affiliate of the Yankees. And I was wondering, I'm like, God, they've probably, because they've laid off players,

like their minor league baseball players just won't make any money this year. So I was wondering if there's a way I could support that team, which is like a thing I love to go to. Bill Murray. First Barry Weiss and now the minor league baseball. Sorry, that was like 20 seconds too late. It gets worse and worse. I know. Our heroes. Barry Weiss and now the minor league baseball. Sorry, that was like 20 seconds too late.

It gets worse and worse. I know. Our heroes. Anna, we need Jack's medication. The Zoom delay is getting real bad. Sorry, what was the Bill Murray aspect? Oh, Bill Murray. What if there wasn't one?

What if I need my pills as well? He is a part owner of the team. So it's this little minor it looks like a little league stadium and then bill murray is just sitting in the stands and he'll come out and do bits like uh because he lives in charleston south carolina and it's great it's so much fun didn't you say you stop by there like as much as possible right like if you can there's a game you try and go oh i go to that one of the last recordings that like you it's a must it's a must for you to see the the river d's it is the river d's as all the big fans call it yes that is correct um and i only have so much to talk about dogs yeah that one syllable we had to go to half a syllable i just yeah I saved you the guh. Guhs are exhausting.

It's the only word where a letter is longer to say than the actual word. I love going. It's just going to a minor league baseball game is really, really fun. What is a river dog? Is that just a dog that lives by

the river? Is that a name for a type of fish? An otter? Yeah. I think it's just a modifier that they just threw on there because they didn't want to just call them the dogs. It would be like if Notre Dame just called them the Irish, which actually they should do. You know what? Never mind.

It's not like that. They don't have to call them the fighting Irish. And I'm not sucking up to you right now jack i think it's terrible uh what they do over there and to paint that entire culture as fighters i think is wrong the oh you know what it was charlie weiss was canceled they canceled charlie weiss dude this this river dogs origin story is so lame. First they come for Charlie Weiss. Sorry, go ahead. The reason they called the River Dogs is the owners had a lab named Taco or possibly Chaz.

I don't even know why this is disputed according to this article. But the neighbors called the dog a River Dog. So then, yeah. Well, there's a Portuguese water dog. Profuse urination? Why river dog? Did they live by a river?

No explanation? Just the neighbors called it a river dog because it was dirty? Looked like it was bathing in brown water. Look at that old river dog, huh? That dog's always in the river. Wow. That dog might as well be a fish. Woo-hoo.

I tell you. Is that Taco or Chaz? Keep telling you, Mel. The dog's always in the river. Wow. That dog might as well be a fish. Woo-hoo. I tell you. Is that Taco or Chaz? Keep telling you, Mel, the dog's name is Lucky. All right. It's a river dog. But it's in the river. I've never heard an origin story that sounded more like it was being told by a drunk person than that river dog.

Yeah, and you never asked. Hey, you know why they call it a river dog. Well, you know why they called your river dog you know why i call river dog don't you well we don't ask him follow-up questions we did it once and it was the worst decision we ever made charleston river dogs mainly you know how to call them right because the gold clangs the owners had a dog a taco yes sir we're in wilmington delaware and i don't know what you're talking about i have to go do some tax-free shopping now, but thank you for that. I'm going to incorporate now, if you'll excuse me. Good.

Good day to you, sir. I have to incorporate. I have a nude incorporation, so if you could please. Oh, shit. 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.

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