The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 136 (Best of 7/27/20-7/31/20)

Episode Date: August 2, 2020

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the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one non-stop infotainment laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, we are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious comedian, Mr. Greg Edwards! What's going on, fellas? What's fellas what's up man hey thanks for having me on man this is so good to have you it's been too long greg it's been a minute man i've i've known greg we met fucking six years of 2014 i think well i don't i mean i'll just i'll say it if you

want to see me host uh and talk with greg on youtube nation youtube's daily show partnership with uh david katzenberg that's why i got all that quibi hate in my heart um yeah back when you were doing sparky man it's so good to see you man it's so good good to see you too man and uh congrats on the success of the show too man this is dope oh thank you so much i mean the last time we hit the road a pandemic basically cut that short so uh you know but i think that's that's just that's the the gravity of the show the force of this movie shut the nation down we should just how dope it is you know god is just trying to you know bring that ego down a little bit that's what it did that it did to the point where yeah now i cry on zoom therapy thank we've technically we're called super spreaders um but oh right yeah oh anyway but yeah

good to see you good to see you good to see you good to be here good to be here good to be here how's uh how's pandemic life treating you you know i mean i'm kind of i'm kind of having a good time, man. I mean, this is like the most time I got to spend with my lady. You know, we work different jobs, so now we're both working at home. So I'm chilling in the office with my girl. We just, you know, we eat dinner every night. I'm not out running around doing shows. I'm just really spending a lot of QT with my lady. around doing shows i'm just really spending a lot of qt with my lady uh it's been you know it's been trying to just trying to really focus on what's like really important so

i mean besides everybody a lot of people dying right a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their income and all that terrible shit yeah i've been trying to like at least look at the silver lining of uh people are starting to realize what's really important in life and shit like that so yeah yeah there's that morning was a hell of a morning uh just news-wise to wake up to herman cain passing the president the president trying to you know end democracy in our country. NBA is coming back. Yeah.

I mean, look, if the NBA being canceled signaled to us that things were bad, shouldn't we just as much use the NBA coming back to say that, hey, baby, we're back. Or we're dropping to a new level of health. Yeah, right, right, right.

Have y'all watched any of the games the exhibition games i watched a couple of the scrimmages just you know i had just something on and i'm not as a laker fan i'm like yeah let's just let's just get let's get a weird championship in this season i love how quiet it is in there it's like yeah you can hear him yelling that's the great thing about a lot of the sports now it feels like when you used to go to like a community college sports game and it was like yo i can hear the sports now. It feels like when you used to go to a community college sports game, and it was like, yo, I can hear the players and the coaches, dude. I don't even hear them because there's no fucking crowd here,

but I can hear them. You should have been beautiful. Yeah, like it's kind of – You're not talking shit. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to be a list you're going to start seeing as like best shit talkers that have been revealed during the pandemic league

because, yeah, you're going to be able to hear everything. That Dodgers pitcher who said, nice swing, bitch. Oh, Joe Kelly? Yeah, and got suspended for 22 games. Really? Yeah, it was bullshit. It was fucked up. It was fucked up.

I mean, look, we're playing the Astros. You know, there's some fucking problems. You've got to expect something to happen. They stole the World Series, okay? playing the Astros. You know, there's some fucking problems. You've got to expect something to happen. They stole the World Series, okay? From the Dodgers. There's going to be problems. And, yes, he was being – I mean, Joe Kelly, he's like one of those players, like how Ron Artest used to be when he wasn't on the team you fucked with,

where you're like, I hate this motherfucker. Get him out of the fucking league. But then he's on your team, and you're like, yes, go on, Ron. Nice swing, bitch. When you got like the Walton Goggins, Johnny Knoxville crossover face

talking shit to you from the mound, it's really something else. That's a bumper sticker, man. That's a t-shirt. Oh, yeah. Nice swing, bitch. Beautiful.

It's easy. It's easy. Put that comma on the end of that swing. Nice swing, bitch. Beautiful. It's easy. Put that comma on the end of that swing. Swing, bitch. But I feel like the major leagues, because they suspended him for way more than you would have expected, but I think they're just trying to get ahead of the fact

that people are going to be throwing at the Astros constantly because they should be. Because fuck the Astros constantly because they should be. Because fuck the Astros. I mean, what they should do is one batter should go up there as tribute. And you've got to get hit. And then be like, all right, you got your one. Just get it out of the way. The first pitch is from your closer, just like a fastball.

That's how they throw out the first pitch. And the person who's catching it is just an Astro who doesn't have a glove. No, yeah, there's actually no catcher. It's just one batter. the first pitch and the person who's catching it is just an Astro who doesn't have a glove. No. Yeah. There's, yeah, there's, there's actually no catcher.

It's just one batter. He's straddling home base with his arms out like that. Da Vinci fucking diagram. Just straight out. Just be like, all right, man, send it,

send, send it. Let's go. And like, and then, but they do that to protect the other batters, you know? Yeah.

I feel good. Oh man. But I'm, I'm excited for the NBA batters, you know? Yeah. And I think you feel good. Oh, man. But I'm excited for the NBA. This is going to be, hopefully, okay. It's a tough, it's a weird thing, you know, because on one level it's like, these people are getting better care than, like, the frontline workers just so we can get some shit going on TV.

But then I'm like, yeah, but, you know, it helps distract me from the fact that the frontline workers aren't being taken care of. So what do I do? Oh, yeah. Everything is just so painfully surreal, no matter how you look at it. Yeah, and NBA players

are pretty elite at what they do. Everybody wants to be an NBA player. They're the greatest athletes in the world. I'm like to everybody wants to be an nba player they're like the greatest athletes in the world so i'm not saying they deserve to be taken care of better than doctors but you're saying but you as like a joe schlub you're like well i would i will give up my medical care for them so like that picture that was going around where people uh nfl players were kneeling and in the background a cop was standing up and someone

was like, his job's so much harder than the NFL players. It's like, no, it's not. You can murder people and then get a pension. Right. You get CTE in the NFL and they forget about you. The hardest job. Anyways. In a year. They forget about you in a year.

Right. Noah, what's something that you think is overrated okay this is controversial i've recently discovered dr seuss is hella overrated in having to read the children's books to my baby let me tell you something one fish two fish red fish blue fish is trash trash i did listen the original bars no dr seuss has hits he's got hits i'm not trying to take away some of his great ones but everyone just knows the one fish two fish red fish blue fish i defy anyone to read all 30 to 40 pages of that book out loud to yourself your friends or your child and not be like this is garbage wait there's more than just that one

page that says one fish two fish fish, red fish, blue fish? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Wait, what'd they be saying? What's the rest of it? I've never heard anything else. Do you have a zoink? Go get a yoink.

How much zoink can a yoink go boink? It's just like it's gibberish and lazy writing. Oh, man. I'm sticking, but listen. I'm sticking. He was on a wave. He was on a wave. He was just writing that shit. They're like, I mean, it's going off. The'm sticking by it. Listen, I'm sticking by it. He was on a wave. He was on a wave. He was just writing that shit.

They're like, I mean, it's going off. The kids are loving it. He was the Shakespeare of our time. Come on now. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. I'm saying he's allowed to rest on his laurels of a good catchy title. No one's reading the entire anthology and realizing how lazy the book got. I don't think I've ever.

I remember even as a kid getting tired of it. Like maybe Green Eggs and Ham is the only one I've read all the way through. That's what I'm saying. Because I can kind of remember what it was about. Everything else, I'm like, yo, this is just some shit. We made Green Eggs and Ham.

Right, Green Eggs and Ham has bars. I think, I forget the title of the thing. It's like the Sneetches and the Starbelly Fish or something that was all metaphor for racism. Starbelly Sneetches. Yeah, and like, so he's got some heat. Like I'm not saying as a whole he presents no value, but I'm saying he's overrated. If you look at the whole, yeah. Star belly sneaches. And like, so he's got some heat. Like, I'm not saying as a whole he presents no value, but I'm saying he's overrated. If you look at the whole, yeah.

Because right now you sound a little bit like Lil Xan when he said Tupac was overrated. Right. And those kids pressed him at the Del Taco in Cerritos. I don't know if you saw that video. It was like Lil Xan. No, but all right. I did say harder for Tupac than I would for Dr. Seuss. No, but I just, in the beginning, the vibe of Lacey and I were like, Dr. Seuss.

Okay, somebody better let him know. Well, you know what? I will say this. Like, Dr. Seuss was getting the coins, right? So he had the popping books. But sometimes, you know, when you're getting coins to just crank out a book every now and then, you got to crank out some mid at some point. Right. I mean, there's truly a song that's put on a happy face by Destiny's Child.

I mean, there's truly a song that's put on a happy face by Destiny's Child. And I listened to it the other day in the car and realized that I think they just didn't write the song. It's like, I'm breathing, I'm grateful, so put on a happy face. They have a good chorus, and then everything else is people on the beat. Kelly Rowland comes on, she's like, it's me. And that's it. I was like, where's the song at? And then Michelle comes on, she's like everything's gonna be all right everything's gonna be okay and i was like no one wrote this song but you know that they couldn't give michelle the it's me lyric because no one would know who it was oh no oh is she okay i feel like kelly i

mean i always hear about kelly you know tanitra tan Tenetra? Tenetra is doing just fine. Oh, I'm not Tenetra. Okay, yeah. Well, everybody. That's Kelly, that's Michelle's real name is Tenetra. Really? It is? Yes. They took that girl's name away because they said her name was together.

They all got actual names. Beyonce, Calandria, and Tenetra. Yeah. That's Destiny's Child. See what happens? They Ellis Islanded their names. Wait, Beyonce is the only one that got to stay gotta be of course her name is literally a last name that her mama like zhuzhed up the last name is bnc and then she made it beyonce wow you know what tina dude you know

what tina all right there needs to be a tina noel's name generator you know what i mean right like you put your name in and then it gets and it gets tina noelsified uh you know what i mean right like you put your name in and then it gets and it gets tina nolesified uh you know what somebody somebody build that yeah oh so launch selectives yeah i remember that shampoo um all right let's look at uh just national opinion around black lives matter just because i started getting like for the very first time, some... So I remember a time when the arguments around gay marriage

were viewed something like the arguments around defunding the police are now. It's obvious to us what is right, but there are political roadblocks that make it not feasible at all in the near term. And then suddenly everything shifted and it was a majority opinion that people who loved each other should be able to marry each other. But the difference between the mainstream public reception of just the kneeling protests, which obviously not the crux of the issue,

but it is like a signifier, have been shifting really significantly. You know, it was a minority, like a pretty significant minority opinion in favor of the people kneeling during protests. And recently CBS News asked people whether kneeling during National Anthem to protest racial discrimination is acceptable or unacceptable, and 58% said acceptable. So we're starting to see at least some sort of shift in the know public perception of of this conversation around police violence and

you know white supremacy but uh you know so when there's a question like this we obviously look to our national expert on these issues rush limbaugh uh who has some interesting things to say on the issue i'm sorry man this fucking old white man he's so out of touch it's so there's like this poll that he was talking about his show that showed like some you know something like 65 there was 65 support uh somewhat of the black lives matter movement and he's just like i i don't i don't i don't understand like what's going on here uh so we're gonna we're talking to this guy who's a he's a he's a cab driver in st louis he's gonna let us know what he's saying so first he has this man on who's a cab driver from st louis and this first they start off the thing they're both kind of in disbelief that they're

seeing a lot of black lives matter yard signs up this is what he's going to describe and he's also tries to explain like what the black Lives Matter yard signs are really about. That's 65% full for Black Lives Matter. In my opinion, 100% reflects the outrage over the killing of George Floyd. It does not reflect support for the full Black Lives Matter. Somehow the poll was able to capture that in the way it was worded or the way they led people or however it was communicated that's what they tapped into half the black lives matter signs out there came up right after george floyd was killed so that's okay i don't know what what

again because i think in the conservative media sphere black lives matter is a terrorist organization funded by george soros that is here to basically wreak havoc on white communities by destroying the police so that thugs uh and millie rockers and break dancers can't run loose on your fucking streets like ray schruber fans yeah the race remember great gang out here uh but rush limbaugh famously has no type. So he's definitely a Ray Stremmer fan. So his whole thing is, so after he hears that, you know, like there's, he's like, he has to cut this man off.

And he's like, wait, people got yard signs? Listen to this one. Are you telling me that as you work your average day driving around in St. Louis, you see Black Lives Matter signs like you would see a Trump sign or a Biden sign in people's front yards? Yeah, sure. That's a long pause he does that. Yeah, I was like, wait, is that?

He was like, wait, hold on, hold on. They're like white people who put a sign in their yard saying that they think black live okay so this is how much he goes even deeper into the denial this motherfucker then he has to survey the studio because he can't believe what this man just said to him on the phone listen this part no no no no wait wait i need to do a survey here. Have you guys seen Black Lives Matter signs in yards? Not in your neighborhood. I have never seen a Black Lives Matter sign anywhere like you see a Trump sign or any other politician sign.

You're saying that Black Lives Matter signs are all over the place in St. Louis? Absolutely. They were originally in the African-American neighborhood. Then he goes on and blah blah blah what what's the fuck 65 people like vanilla coke yeah what is going on there are there are that many race traders oh my god so then he's now so he's he can't he doesn't know what the fuck to think reeling he is he's really he's then convinces himself that it's these pollsters

that are you know work reworking the data to present a you know a very unbalanced opinion of what the country actually looks like you but But the pollsters obviously are doing this purposely because I'm telling you folks, I think this is, this is another attempt by Gallup and whoever the pollsters are to shape public opinion and not reflect it. Because I refuse to believe, I refuse to believe that 65% of the American people support this insanity. Wow. See, I think it goes to show you what our bubbles look like on all sides, right?

Whether it's progressives, liberals, not believing that there is an entire nation of aggrieved working class white people who are looking for just don't know what to make of anything and are willing to vote for this racist guy the same way this man has been so insulated by his uh you know ignorance and racism that he he's not even in a situation to be around people who would voice their support in alignment with the black lives matter movement like that is really telling and whether that's willfully he's not trying to look at it, or he's, it's not willful. It's happening, and it's just very interesting. There's a very, like, visceral rejection he's having to it.

It's not, it feels different than him just being like, yeah, okay, sure. Yeah, because, you know, there's going to be, these liberals are out here. Yeah, they're going to do anything. It was almost like he couldn't, he's like, they're at our doorstep? Yeah, right. They're here. That're going to do anything. It was almost like he couldn't, he's like, they're at our doorstep. Yeah.

Right. That's so great though. It's great. I mean, you know, it's like when, when it gets to that point where they're like, Oh,

it's here, but I just can't accept it. It was great. You know, it's like those dads that I couldn't accept my son being gay. And then it's just right in my face. And I just got to deal with it. You got to deal with it.

Yeah. It's all right. Time ain't so bad. bad i think the same thing even like with the gay marriage thing right it's like a weird outdated like opinion that has just sort of existed in culture and if you haven't taken the time to examine it or you and your life has not intersected with a person in the same sexual relationship or you know non-traditional marriage uh then yeah like you you you might not be able to get rid of those things but then the second you do and it sort of becomes you're like yeah what the fuck do i care if the gay people get married like that that has nothing to fucking do with me so yeah and then the same way with this like yeah what the fuck do i care if i'm like yeah dude like police need to relax on like this shit. That literally doesn't affect me.

I'm saying, yeah, in fact, I think it would be cool if there was less bullshit. Now, I think a lot of people agree with that general statement, but then when you get down to the defunding and those other sort of details, maybe things start to fracture. But that sentiment of sort of like, do you believe it's bad for police officers to brutalize unarmed black and brown people? It's like um yeah yeah i think so and rest of them was like what the fuck is going on are you serious and then then

so then because i've seen because when we all are faced with some realities and some truths we just cannot accept we got to start spinning the wheels and be like there has to be another explanation so that he's he has an idea where that 65 percent came from and who's really been driving this whole black lives matter uh movement what's it called like the eight the six degrees the eight degrees of like um of dealing of coping was it you know like oh yeah the eight stages of oh yeah like denial That's what he went through there. You saw the whole thing. Coping, trying to rationalize. Negotiating, rationalization.

He went through all of that in that clip. Are we sure they didn't reverse the numbers? It's not 56 or 5% or 6%? In that poll, did they ask if black lives matter or if white supremacy is chill if it's a whole ass vibe they need to word these polls so gen z understands what we're talking about is white supremacy a wave um so yeah this is him now being like okay nah whatever stage of grief is which i guess you just blame white women for everything. Yeah, I guess. Now, I believe that 65% of millennial white women might support it.

But I don't believe 65% of the American people do. I know that this protest is largely driven by millennial college-educated white women. Huh. You know, more and more women, I'll show you what I mean in the next hour, but more and more young women in this country are becoming nothing more than hoods. Your average ne'er-do-well in the hood, white women.

Um. What? Ne'er-do-well in the hood. White women. What? Ne'er-do-wells? Ne'er-do-wells? White women? Hey, millennial white women, you are the new black men. Welcome. According to the eyes of the great Rush Limbaugh. So his whole, again.

Ne'er-do-wells in the hood. You ask any black person. One of my favorite movies. Ask any person who has been around any activism the last couple months. You'd be like, who's driving this? Oh, yeah. Millennial white women. But I think because the allyship is so visible,

and you see, I think that's the problem, is he cannot believe that. He's like, white women? White women used to pull up for racism very subtly and now they're marching for black lives i can't so i think to them because white women are like the greatest force in politics in this country it's like that's who's behind black lives matter right all of these it's not the entirety of the country that is rejecting systemic racism it's these white women who went to Sarah Lawrence. That's who's behind the black lie.

I don't know who Angela Davis is. You know he has a niece. Did she go to Scripps College for Women? It's like, what the heck? These liberal art degree white women. You know he has a niece. There's a niece or a cousin or a second cousin who's behind this opinion

right right who's thinking of shaded him at christmas or something a couple years back you know i'm really disappointed in melissa she she changed her last name because she didn't want to be a limbaugh right shit bullshit so yeah i mean you hate to see it and you love to see it that is my favorite piece of audio we've ever had on the yeah right i think uh yeah shout out to wonkette for pointing me in that direction uh but but i think at the same time this is also this what's going on in the minds of some of these older white racists and younger white racists who are like like like i said it's the fourth quarter for some of these people and they're like i'm not gonna just sit here and

let i'll be damned if i let white supremacy go by the wayside just like that because some college educated white women decided to make some signs um and that's why you know that the opposition will grow i think or maybe you'll see how many people really have that kind of energy like i'm sure it sucks to be like oh my brand my brand is losing. It sucks. But then but just the same, you see these counter protests where there are plenty of people who are willing to, you know, confront allies of the Black Lives Matter movement or anybody who is against systemic white supremacy. So. All right. So let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President

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I think love or anything like that. I think being in love with somebody, if you're really good at it, you can. Yeah, you could, but I feel like I've done, I think I've done the kinds of work out of the kinds of shit where maybe

somebody like you can't change a man because I love somebody. And I realized I'm like, Oh yeah. Like it's not just, they're saying I'm wrong or something, but like I can do better. And in this relationship, I can, you know, move to a higher plane through that. Yeah. Yeah. So for sure. And also, like, let's be real on a superficial level.

Oh, my God. How quickly I've changed because someone was like, do you like Harry Potter? Yeah. I fuck with Harry Potter. Hardcore. Yeah. For entertainment. Not anymore. We're not allowed to fuck with. No, no. See, and that's why i was on the wave before anybody you know entertainment clothing the house decorations you know like all the decor yeah there's so many things that are so easily changed oh yeah i mean yes i actually haven't heard that myth that much you've never heard someone say you can't change a man? I don't

think so. I don't know why it's on my mind. It's probably because I've been thinking about Sam Rockwell not wanting to have children so much. Right. Because I also don't want to have children, but I want to have his and I'm like working on it. Whoa. Okay. So hold on. Your policy shifted quite dramatically. You went from i want to be childless to the only reason i am on this earth potentially to procreate is because of sam rockwell yeah i would have sam rockwell's babies we would both have to change our minds but i do feel like i could i could do it you know i can change i feel like i could change any man. Yeah. Really. Yeah, absolutely. Is that like, is that cocky?

With enough rope and ether? I mean, anything is possible. That's right. Finally, Noah, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa? Well, I don't know that a lot of people think it's true, but I'll say based on stories and tweets that have been surfacing over the last few weeks, I would like to attack the myth head on that white Jews are fake Jews that stole the identity of the original Israelites. And I'm not even here to take away Judaism or identity from anyone else.

I'm not here to say that the original Israelites were white because we all know that they weren't. The original Israelites and Hebrews were absolutely black or brown. But I, as an Ashkenkenazi jew am not here as a result of identity theft right right i am also truly a jew that was more the result of diaspora and expulsion that led into europe yeah i like the way that you phrase this because you mean what you know i was gonna say no man you're not gonna go to a barber shop with that talk man right this is peak hotel yeah this peak hotep okay we with a real hebrew israel like this is like nick cannon got caught out there nick cannon yeah it's getting

hot out there yeah it's really something else girl that's why you got your period like very hotep it's hot peak hotep yeah it's um it's very many interesting conversations had to be had i know people who work at the radio station where Nick Cannon records his show at. I used to work there at Power 106. And, you know, I saw some people defending him. And I'm like, what are you doing exactly? And they're like, well, like him as a person, like he's good to me. And I'm like, but the thing you have to understand is what he said on his face is just just bold anti-Semitism.

Like, well, the thing is, I'm, I'm not even coming for Nick specifically. Not even that. I'm just, yeah. Right. But all the statements that had been coming out when it started with Deshaun Jackson's repost of a fake Hitler quote, it's like, I can't speak for every Jew, but I know I was never bothered or offended by the idea that the original Hebrews were black. I don't think anyone was arguing that or upset by that.

I was offended by the idea that the identity was then stolen by white jews who are using the hebrew identity to dominate the world through a zionist global agenda and i'm like now you're just talking tinfoil hatchet right right right yeah i will say though i think that in polarizing times we do start to see like our jewish brothers and sisters kind of come back out of the woodwork because i won't lie i do i have felt at times i want to articulate this in a way that's clear and not offensive but like some minorities have been able to not be minorities at times oh sure whereas i've never had the privilege to do that absolutely um and so i think that some of the things that they're saying comes

from this animosity of like oh we're not allowed to not ever be minorities like you know what i mean but it's articulated in a horrible way and it's very anti-semitic and it's not even accurate which is why it's so embarrassing to see so many people defending it because I think where their real angst comes from is that and not from white Jewish people stealing identities. Yeah, I mean, I will say this. I don't think there's any question that both racism and anti-Semitism exists. And I also don't think there's any question that it's more difficult to be black in America and arguably in the world than it is to be Jewish in America. So there's a lot of layers to this discussion. I'll also say that I think the Jewish community could have been better over several decades

of not resting on the we march with King in the 1960s. There's absolutely ways that the Jewish community in general could have been better allies over the years and over the decades with the black community. Not to say that there aren't Jews or the Jewish community that has consistently been on that. Like, I would like to think that I have always been a good ally to the black community, but I'm just one person.

But, but that is a separate discussion from the idea that white Jews aren't Jews at all. Like, right. We're talking about two different things. They're conflating. Right.

There's absolutely validity to what you were saying. And I think frustrations boil over and then discussions bleed into each other and things get said that have nothing to do with each other. But in terms of the myth, I'm trying to dispel. I'm trying to get rid of the myth that white Jews are fake Jews. uh and then when they had to realize they're like oh right what i said is dangerous and bad actually i don't mean that then there was a secondary effect where people were like why are you letting these white people silence you and then there was like there was another level of not examining what was being said and like this whole thing was being reduced to like you see what happens when you speak the truth right and that's when that becomes like a snake eating its tail where it's like okay you say jews control the media then you get in trouble by jews or in the in the media and all of a sudden jews look bad for calling out anti-semitism just

because they're using the media to call out the anti-semitism that was spread through it so it's like damned if you do damned if you don't well obviously also i think that what people forget is that anti-semitism and the whispersispers of Jewish people having control and power are literally what sent Germany into the Holocaust. So it's like hate speech is so dangerous and you can't get upset with people for stopping it immediately because it's killed people. It's been so dangerous. But I think people don't want to look at it as like, oh, me saying that is actually anti-Semitism. I think it's like a very narrow way to preserve your ego to be like what i said is facts and therefore what you can take from that i'm not gonna i'm not interested

in the nuance of what i said that's what i said right and deeper than that i will say a lot of jewish people aren't even educated on jewish history to the point where like anytime anti-semitism arises jewish people are always holocaust holocaust holocaust but the truth is there's been uh anti-semitism that has hurt jewish people based on economic anti-semitism or the rumors of trying to dominate or control things since the beginning of european civilization and so it's like it's been happening for way longer than before 1940 right and so that's where it gets dangerous there's a historical precedent going back to the 800, 900, 1200, 1400, where Jews were expelled from countries or attempted to be genocided over the

thought that they were controlling finances or, you know, the media or resources of the time. Right. So that's where it gets historically dangerous. But that being said, it's a tough time. A lot of people are frustrated and there's a lot of misdirected frustration and anger and i understand yeah and also just because anti-blackness is pervasive so you know i think a lot of that is just reactionary behavior from people who don't

understand that they're talking about two completely different things um and it's really disappointing though i love that nick cannon apologized i know you weren't speaking specifically about him but his apology felt very sincere i loved it i loved it honestly it was like i wasn't sitting around waiting for an apology from anyone but i thought that his apology was incredibly authentic sincere i was moved by it i appreciated it and uh and all i'll say to kind of wrap up the subject because I don't want to dominate the show with this topic. But I will say that one thing I've been very outspoken for is it's incredibly important that Jewish people out there don't use this as an excuse not to continue to support the black community in their fight for equality. I think it's really, really important now more than ever that Jews double down on their allyship, support Black lives matter, support black causes and continue to build that relationship as opposed to

letting this be a bridge that burns down. Absolutely. And also we're not a monolith. We're not all hoteps. Like, yeah. Yeah. I also,

I also don't think the things that have been said are representative of the popular black communities thoughts, but the reason that kind of amplified is there's, it's being said by a lot of black people who have large platforms over the last few weeks it's just intensified with black celebrities coming out and saying it's a it's a wild how many like old hip-hop people i've had to put down because of that i'm like damn pete rock right now i guess i will just reminisce over you now uh how you used to be embarrassing us embarrassing us but also i want to say no that's actually uh

to just cap this um when people offend a specific group or you know anyone it's never the responsibility of people who are their fans or whoever to like accept their apology so the fact that you said you read his apology and you thought it was sincere to me means more than me thinking that because i wasn't the person who was offended you know what i mean so yeah see all good moving forward and positivity and love well yeah and i think that's what that's really what's going on i think it just shows how fraught the whole environment is and how tense everything is and there's because it's palpable i mean the but aside from the financial economic and existential risks that have already existed that are only being exacerbated by the pandemic now they're we're attempting to have some kind

of reckoning with white supremacy and systemic racism in the country on top of like a thing where we're like what's going to happen in the election is this going to be some kind of total fuck fest what what is going to happen we just don't know so yeah it's uh very tense times which is why we all got to just take a second remember you know we're all gonna we're all on the same team most of the time most of the time most of the time i would say actually most yeah 99 of the time unless you're in that one percent husky pomeranians you guys need to fucking stop with designer breeding. I don't know who all you are, but I have seen too many fucking Husky Pomeranian mixes in my Craigslist searches for puppies I will not adopt. Here's the fucking thing.

When I came on this podcast a few months ago to talk about how I had chickens, some people replied to let me know that roosters were extremely violent and would rape and murder hens. And that's why you had to have tremendous amounts of hens to one rooster or else the rooster will just go crazy. I did some research because this was very upsetting to me. And I found out that this kind of aggression in roosters is not natural and is the result of selective breeding. It is an unintended side effect of selective breeding for other traits like being fast growing, having large breasts, and not developing certain kinds of diseases. So the chickens that I have, there is a very low probability, number one, that the roosters will turn out to be as aggressive. But the point is that when you selectively breed animals for certain traits, you are also breeding for other traits.

And usually those traits are like... Ones you don't want. Neurological dysfunction. Yeah. Sure, sure. Right, sure. Right. Right. So that's why that's why purebred dogs are so much more nervous and prone to developing different types of diseases than mutts, you know, or, you know, like just dogs that are interracial people. Yes. Interracial. Famously interbred dogs. Yeah. But like and when it comes to designer breeding, what you're doing, especially with this absolute monstrosity, that is the Husky Pomeranian. what you're doing, especially with this absolute monstrosity that is the husky Pomeranian.

And let me say this. First of all, very cute. Very cute dog. Holy shit. I'm just looking at it right now. Yeah. You're looking at it. What you're looking at here is a mini, mini husky.

It's cute. Yeah. But a Pomeranian is not a healthy dog. And it is not good. Yeah. Miles just saw one. All right. Now think about its joint problems, Miles.

Yeah. Fuck that. No, i don't care that's evil yeah nuts it's it sucks because i'm like well cute little little husky puppy and then i realize it's it's actually a fully grown husky pomeranian mix and then it's like kill me i mean dude pugs can't give birth naturally like pugs they have to have cesareans because they can't give birth vaginally because they're so bred and the breathing issues like i had a friend who had a bulldog who was like you know they had to breathe that flat ass face and it was like yes the end of its life was so horrific sounding i'm like your dog is dying and it's like fucking up our mushroom high in your backyard

can you do something about it that's the worst thing to hear when you're high on mushrooms is a dying dog. And you're looking at it and it's like eyes. And their eyes are watering and it's like, please just help me, sir. And I'm like tripping so I'm like, yes, I will, sir. Tell me where to take you.

Pet cemetery. Yeah, like and what's really fucked up and truly overrated about these dogs is nobody's getting a Husky Pomeranian. People are breeding big dogs to be smaller so that they can get them in an apartment building that has weight limits.

Right. Or travel with them. Or travel with them. They're portable, yeah. And that's really fucking shitty and it's really irresponsible and it is not okay

to get a dog when you cannot care for that dog and it's even worse to interbreed a dog and do designer breeding

to get a certain look and not think about the health of the dog and the needs of the dog and it just makes me so fucking mad every time I see one of these cute ass puppies and i they're so cute and they make me so upset right you're like what's going on you're like i love this and then it's a tragedy but it's also cute

and i want to i love it and i hate it and i'll give it an overrated yeah yeah right right it's like i want to give it a little kiss on its tiny little head but then i'm just like huskies need to be bigger than that huskies need a lot of room you know like they're especially especially in la this is a thing with like people get huskies and they don't know how much work they are they're really smart dogs they're really big they're very good at getting out you have to have a very high fence you know like they have a very strong prey instinct and i just can't tell you how many fucking ads i've seen of like we got a husky and we didn't realize that we would need to walk it every day. We didn't realize.

Yeah. We didn't realize what it was. We didn't fucking Google it, you know? Yeah. So, you know, just saw one on a walk and we're like,

that's beautiful. You know, just to like, you know, be cultural historians. Do we, how far back do we take this mini dog trend? Cause I feel like Paris Hilton made it like standard rich person accessory.

Well, it goes all the way back to the Chinese emperor. Right, right, right. But I'm thinking like in now, like sort of how modern, like the modernity in modernity and how we're looking at it now, like how that's really sort of reasserted itself as like this. Like sort of class signifier almost to where it's like dogs are putting a chihuahua yeah but paris putting a chihuahua in a purse was like a very big this is an accessory thing yeah right yeah um and then yeah it is designer it's being designed for its looks and without any conception of what what the what its insides are like or what the experience of the dog is people don't just want to get chihuahuas a naturally small dog right because they're very of what its insides are like or what the experience of the dog is going to be like.

People don't just want to get chihuahuas a naturally small dog because they're very nervous. And their heads are all big. I don't like that big-ass brain on them. The other thing about chihuahuas is they're way less nervous in the wild or when they're feral because they run in packs.

They run in packs of eight or ten. and they can take down a coyote. So if you put a Chihuahua with a bunch of other Chihuahuas, I mean, immediately it's chaos. Yeah. But then, but then later when they bond, they're like,

they help each other. And that's why like one Chihuahua. It's not fun to have around the house, but it's, it's natural. They're safer. Right. Yeah.

When a Chihuahua is like barking all the time, it's cause it's like, I'm the only fucking Chihuahua here. Hello. Hello. Hello. That's because it's like, I'm the only fucking Chihuahua here. Hello? Hello? Hello? That's what it's saying. You guys aren't going to bite anyone.

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I know. Cause I had this talk with the global fashion exchange and it was real. And it was about black lives matter because if you have me on, you can't be canceled. I cover all bases. It's like, okay, we can talk about the magic bullet.

Yeah, exactly. I'm like, ha ha. But I finally have an advantage in life. Thanks. Isn't that so, but isn't that so fucked up to

think about though like i know we are all have probably been approached have had opportunities to do things and it's on a wave of yeah we got problems uh it's a big it's a big problem complexion or diversity in this campaign or this workplace and And it, it, it has like that fucked up way of fucking with you also of like, damn, like, am I, is this cause I deserve it? Or is it because people more powerful?

Of course. I mean, I think, yeah, look between all the therapy and books I've been reading, I'm definitely not second guessing myself. Like I used to anymore, but that is like this sort of secondary effect where they're like on one

level. I think we all laugh where it's like, yep, look at a lot of people about to get hired, get raises and things like that. Look at my African American. Yeah. But half the time is not half 98% of the time it's done for the complete

wrong reasons. And I think we were talking about this at the very beginning while it's welcome because you need to do something. It, you also want it to feel like it's because people are also simultaneously understanding what the situation is and their part in helping rather than like okay man we look fucked up but it's a good thing though too i've just you know it's it's it's a it's another element where even the as as you as we see opportunities for diversity inclusion

there's some a lot of the offers are still kind of tainted in this way that don't feel like it's because we're actually moving forward in the way we need to and we'll get to that too as we talk about but as a scammer i don't care how i get through the door uh as long as i get in that bitch and like we're we're all exceptional here we're exceptional negroes so when we get there we're gonna be exceptional so it doesn't matter for me i don't worry as much about white folks' intentions just because as much as I wish that the majority of white people would be kind,

I'm from the South and that's just not been my experience. And I still love the white folks in my life who are friends and family. My mother right now is about to be published. She's completely redoing the HR in her company. She has everyone reading white fragility and they're not allowed to do what about isms and they're not allowed to like speak in

certain ways like when they're in these big meetings and like she's educating people and she's also bringing them she had a white man tell her that her his son who is gay had would not speak to him for more than five minutes on the phone. And then when he started reading White Fragility and she started reforming the whole HR department, he said he called his son and he was like, did you think I was racist because I voted for Trump? And he was like, absolutely. That's why I don't talk to you.

Like, you are a racist and you're against the rights of my people and what I need. And he said he started crying. They had an hour and a half conversation. So I was like, you know, if you get rid of the racism in your life, it does enhance your life like you free yourself from a cage you put yourself in where you just think you're better than everyone else and it also puts a big pressure on you where you have to be better than everyone

else at the time turn that shit off i'm tired as hell anyway so back to people not knowing who the fuck you are i didn't mean to digress because that was the main point i didn't want to get sidetracked with the social justice bullshit. You're fine. I wasn't going to forget. I wasn't going to forget. This was a good motherfucking conversation. Yeah, I like it. I like it. No, but I will say I was talking to the Global Fashion Exchange, which is like this big whole fashion network that controls what happens in fashion,

like how skinny models are allowed to be this and that anyways. And so I was talking to them on their live on Instagram. And they said, what's the biggest disservice that happens to you as a model? And I said, well, I said, if you Google top 10 models, top 10 transgender models on the planet of earth, I'm there. I said, if you Google top black model, black trans models, I am there. I said, I want you to name two other black trans models. I said, that is a disservice because I'm not even rich. I'm the most famous one in the world. And I'm not even rich because y'all aren't diverse or inclusive at all.

Right. So don't ask yourself why I'm not in the Burberry ad. Ask Burberry why they're racist. Do people ask you some dumb shit like that? They're like, Arise, how come you're not in this thing thing like without completely acknowledging it's like are you aware of the hurdles like that society in this industry have put in front of me they're like how come you've never walked versace i'm like well i've been a model since i was 17 been openly trans since 19 i'm about 33 they had about 13 years to get it right so i'm gonna say they never got it right and so i'm

pointing the finger at all of them because you never got it right. And so I'm, I'm pointing the finger at all of them because you never made the right decision and you make the trends. You tell everyone what's beautiful. And that's why you having two black models is not diversity on the runway. That's why you having one Asian model is not fucking diversity on the runway. You have 42 white models. What the fuck is that? Yeah. In New York fashion week, I can't walk down the street of New York without hitting nine black people on the shoulder with one block. I'm just saying, how do you have a whole runway with 42 white women go down and pretend like we don't buy clothes to? I mean, I always look at our consumers. The African-American population, like when it comes to like GDP and like how much money we spend in privilege.

Oh, we love. Listen, I love a shoe and a bag. I love drip or drown. Drip or drown. Yes. But you know what's crazy is like I've never obviously spoken to you, but as soon as I saw your face, I instantly was like I know this person. That's why I Googled you because I was like I know her. Like I've definitely seen her face like many times. So the good thing is is like you got the Naomi Campbell,

so you're going to be looking young forever. And now that everybody's getting woke, you're about to be in everybody's campaign, Chad. That's what I said around 33 also. Don't get specific with the age. Right. I had to hit that old girl stride. I'm like, I'm about to be on the old L'Oreal boxes with gray hair. I'm like, thanks for finally catching up, America. Okay, I won't have a wrinkle to my name.

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