The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 139 (Best of 8/17/20-8/21/20)

Episode Date: August 23, 2020

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Katie, what's something overrated? What's something you think is overrated in these times? I would say

growing basil for your own pesto. And I'll tell you why. Very specific. Yeah, you grow basil. Look, you get little seeds, you put them in the dirt. Wow, you start growing basil Look, you get little seeds, you put them in the dirt. Wow, you start growing basil. It's great. You're now the mother to basil and you love it and you take care of it and it grows big and strong and you're really careful and you're like, okay, I got to

wait until you're big enough so that I can make pesto because I don't want to kill the plant because it's my baby. Can only shave off a little bit of the leaves for the pesto then it grows big and strong and then guess what happens aphids happens now you got aphids on your plant you're like all right every day is a battle every day i'm going in trying to get these aphids off the basil and then a heat wave comes and then it kills some of your basil and then you're like well at least maybe the heat wave will kill the aphids but no the aphids are alive the basil is dead so now you got aphid pesto and this applies to everyone i believe and no yeah i'm very relatable um not even a reference to the recent heat wave i think we're still in the midst of in the southwest yeah uh yes okay well i'm i support you in the battle against aphids how do you fight aphids like you don't

like you gotta pluck them off or you just shake the shit? You're like, get the fuck out of here. Is it like a tweezer situation? Yeah, you get a pair of tweezers and you pluck each one. And you hold it aloft to the rest of them. And you're like, this is what's going to happen to you. You're going to get gushed. Yeah, curse each individual one. Put them on, like get a needle and just like.

Like a head on a pike, basically. Yeah, Ivan the Terrible-esque situation. No, I think ladybugs, I might sort of recruit some ladybugs. Oh, because they fight them, right? They eat them, yes. Well, yes, you're right. They do fight them. Yeah, sorry.

Fisticuffs with the aphids. You can catch them mid-combat. Yeah, you're like, oh, zoom in on that, Katie. Go live with it. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Woo! Woo! mid combat yeah you're like oh zoom in on that katie go live with it i'm sorry but yes we like a fed verse ladybug battles here yeah i might get some ladybugs i've heard things like uh like i think cayenne pepper on it so i tried that but then i just got spicy aphid basil now which which doesn't make it. I will say it's not the worst pesto I've had.

Right. It gives it a bit more protein anyway. Yeah. I was just thinking about your thing about ladybugs gave me a random memory of Huell Hauser. Huell Hauser. Yeah. Did you ever watch that California's Gold episode?

Yeah. Where he went to a ladybug farm? No, I didn't see that one. So in one of the episodes, Huel goes to this ladybug farm and he's like, wow, so this is where they go to cultivate the ladybugs. And then they're like, and the guy's like very not like as enthusiastic about his job as a ladybug like farmer. And he's like, so how do you get them? And he's like, well, they just sort of... That's a good heel hazard.

We give them a place to sort of proliferate there. And they're sort of like... If you sort of lift up that pile of leaves, you'll kind of see where the colony is. And he's like, just under there? Wow. And so he's like, I'm going to do it. He lifts it up and goes...

And his mind is blown. He even goes to the guy who's like, there's ladybugs under here. And he's and the dude's sort of like yeah motherfucker i just told you that's where they were and bro like i got a long day and like these come these your enthusiasm i don't know if you're fucking with me or not but it's a very like pure huell hauser's uh moment just about ladybugs i think there's a video of of Hillhauser losing it over a dog eating an avocado. Yes, yes. He can't deal with it. He's like,

he loves avocado! I love it! Also, asking the owners, like, is that okay? Is that normal? Is that safe? Oh, that makes me so happy. That is some good regressive content.

Damn, I need to remember Huell Hauser in these dark times. There's a Mandy Patinkin clip I turn to pretty frequently to lift my spirits where it's like he's doing an interview about Homeland, and in the middle, the journalist's wife goes into labor, and he's so excited. He's like, wait, you're having a baby mazel like he's he like is so happy and like can't stop congrats and then the other like journalist is like so getting back to homeland he's like i can't stop thinking about this baby he was just so excited i love that

damn uh we need we need a repository of these feel-good clips it's almost like it probably has that. It's on Reddit already, I'm sure. There's one going around on Twitter today. I think a BBC newscast where this guy is talking about a remote education and then his cat's tail pops up in the frame. He's like, Rocco, please put your tail down. Rocco, put your tail down.

Rocco, I've lost my employment now as a result of your oh dearie me rocco chap would you mind just lowering that tail just a bit be a good chap rocco charlotte let's talk about your underrated what's something you think is underrated uh working for yourself what's that like i have not worked in a writer's room since last since the end of last year and um this has been like the longest stretch of me just working on my own projects and then also the bittersweet blessing i call it of the pandemic which has slowed the world down to a crawl and which has just like made my life so quiet and just let me think for such a long time um and it's just made me really love this time this sounds really terrible

no no but aside from what's going on in the world like i've just had a lot of time to work and think on my own projects and imagine what my life might look like if i wasn't working for somebody all the time and it's been really cool and i want to do more like more of that so more of that yeah just kind of getting more in touch sort of like with your own creative capability and it's like not beholden to the expectations of someone else who's like i need this product and i will use all of your combined intellect to make it for me right yeah for sure yeah it's it's all i i think the other thing too where you're saying it's like it feels bad to say that because i know like yeah like when you're empathetic like there's there is this like survivor's guilt of like man like i'd really it if knowing there's so much suffering is

so difficult and then like sometimes i take it i don't give myself enough space to not be completely consumed by it and not get completely dark and down by it so it's like i think to your point it's also like really good to have those moments where you can just see like within your own immediate life experience that you've you can carve out these moments to give yourself some kind of you know stability and solace because we got to keep our batteries charged for a fucking long time so yeah get those charges whenever you can i learned a long time ago how to compartmentalize this kind of thing you know like yes because the world's always gonna do some fucked up shit like i think there's always going to be something nothing's gonna be perfect and i

like i was talking about acceptance earlier of like being able to just accept your sweat and this is part of that like just being able to accept that the world is not perfect people are not perfect but i can still have genuine moments of joy during the pandemic and not feel guilty about my joy and like really be in the moment and present and grateful for being alive not not having a situation where i'm struggling where uh my family is struggling like i feel like really really grateful um because i know it could be so much worse and so i'm not going to like i don't let what's going on make me just like make me not be able to fully enjoy my life right well also not being becoming like

apathetic or disaffected by everything else yeah it's true that you yeah like we can hold many realities right to be true and i have those moments of course but oh yeah i can only do that for so long yeah shout out to my therapist i have to say i highly recommend like a very dumb person's uh understanding of buddhism and the concepts of buddhism because uh i've just like started to think about about the very most basic ideas of, yeah, when you have stress, just experience the stress and don't be stressed out by the stress. But that is part of the human experience and observing the stress. And I got all that from this new book.

I got Idiot's Guide to Buddhism. And no, I just picked it up in a couple of different places. But it really is like just a very basic idea that I feel like in the Western world we're not as familiar with. So much is about control. Yeah. And to experience emotions that are sort of run counter to like, you know, satisfaction or just like sort of like this flatlining stability. Like, yeah yeah you're like you you're like i don't want to be stressed and now you're stressed because you don't want to be

stressed exactly and to your point it's just be like yo you know what these are tools like over millions of years this like physical corpse i'm in like develop these weird ways of figuring shit out through the brain and eyes and ears and all that shit to stay alive and some of that shit is a little dated so sometimes the alarms go off when they don't need to but it's about saying like okay so the alarm went off on the back door oh it's just windy it's not somebody didn't break in it's just windy and it doesn't close all the way so sometimes it goes off like that and just be able to and i think the most important part is telling yourself that you consent to feeling that way.

That's an important step in sort of dealing with those emotions and being like, taking a breath and be like, I consent to being stressed because I know that's not solely what my existence is. That's just a sensation I'm feeling and I consent to that. I just started being able to enjoy Sundays because Sundays used to be the, I would be stressed about the fact that my happy, relaxing time was coming to an end. So it's like I'm stressed by happiness because the happiness is fleeting. And it's just like, that's something that... When even joy gives you anxiety, that's a problem. Wait until you can experience joy on monday like when it comes on sunday yep monday's here it's doing some stuff i don't want to do

have you guys ever watched midnight gospel yeah it's old yeah i feel like it came out a while ago but i literally just started watching it like last night and it's amazing i love it so much it talks about like very profound it's an animated show that talks about these really profound issues yeah it's duncan trussell uh talking to he's like kind of a trippy like what would a psychonaut like he uh has like done a lot of you of thinking and experimenting with the psychedelic things and just has really interesting thoughts. And so it's one of the rarest

type of shows in that you can totally enjoy it as a purely audio experience. You can enjoy it purely as a visual experience. And then when they link together it's pretty cool too it's excellent i love it katie what is something what's a myth what's something that people think is true you know to be false or vice versa vice versa rather

yeah so i actually kind of i think something that a lot of people are thinking about more now that we're all in quarantine is our interaction with wildlife, especially backyard wildlife. And people will often find like little birds, baby birds on the ground. And there's this panic of like, well, I can't touch it because then the mother will reject it. And but it's like on the ground and I see its nest. So what do I do? it and but it's like on the ground and i see its nest so what do i do like how do and i want to reassure people you can pick up a hatchling and put it in its nest and the mother's not going to reject it the mother they don't really like the in general birds don't use their sense of smell that way they don't like smell human on their chick and then reject them based on their smell

oh they will they may like avoid if they see you near the nest they may like keep their distance for a little while because they you know see a human around but they'll come back so if you see if you see a hatchling on the ground or even like a whole nest that's fallen on the ground just kind of like try to figure out where it came from and put it back as close as you can to where it seems to have come from. If you find a fledgling on the ground, you may not need to actually interact with it. It kind of depends. So if you see it's like a small bird, but it's got its feathers coming in and it kind

of can hop and fly around. Oh, like if it's got that furry feather face, like it's all fluffy and shit? Yeah, like if it's kind of actively trying to escape you don't chase after it oh right versus like a translucent skin hatchling that's like right don't inflict early trauma on a bird yeah yeah but i mean if it's if i mean if you can't tell the difference between a hatchling and fledgling don't stress too much basically if it just lets you scoop it up you can scoop it up and put it back in its nest. But if it's running away from you, and it's like, you're a threat,

then I think you can leave it alone. Like, I'm trying to help you. Get in my tight grip. Have you seen those videos, though, where people at funerals, the pastor's holding a dove to release, but they held it too tight, and his spirit will fly like this dove

and you throw it up and it just flops right back down. It's like, oh, you were squeezing it too hard during the sermon, sir. And then there's just following a little dove funeral. Yeah.

And it's like, there are some that are so epic because there's one where this pastor launches it and it just goes up in the air and just like the arc's like. Oh no. Oh no. Just some haphazard. launches it and it just goes up in the air and just like the arc's like oh no uh just you know just some haphazard you know you hate to see it but just a little relief sometimes the um wait so

where did that myth come from because i i always grew up sort of thinking like it'll that's the worst thing you could do for that little bird is like it will fully be abandoned like what is that based off of some like mammal logic or something probably i mean i think it is true with some animals like mammals you don't necessarily want to get your smell on the the babies or mess with them because it may kind of freak out the parent a little bit i don't think it's i just don't think there's going to be a lot of cases where merely having sort of a slightly different smell is going to mean the parent is going to reject their offspring.

Right. I do think like it may come from the fact that sometimes animals do reject their offspring for mysterious reasons. Yeah. Like not making varsity basketball. Exactly. Or getting first chair in the band for trumpet. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Doing theater. Yeah. Exactly. Not getting a five on your AP chemistry test yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah cosplaying yeah um not getting the oboe solo i get it i get it mammals are yeah but that's just but we know that because that's how mammals are and we you know we know that's how that looking like a quote- quote unquote little tool as you're playing the French horn. Yeah, no, we all relate to this.

Yeah, yeah, being the little tool. The giraffe on the dance team. You know, it's like all universal mammalian experiences. Universal mammalian, yes, exactly. Yeah. But a kind of second part of the myth is I think people take it to the other direction where they're like, say like, don't worry about picking up nestlings and fledglings because birds don't have a sense of smell. And that's actually not true either.

Some birds don't really have that great of a sense of smell, but other birds actually do. And so that's it. It's an overgeneralization to say no birds can smell. I'm sorry. But sorry, not sorry. Sorry, but we don't deal with absolutes here. Right, exactly. Only Sith deal in absolutes. Thank you. And turkey vultures are so good at tracking smells of like decaying flesh because they're scavengers. There have even been cases

where oil pipeline engineers will pump a chemical that smells like rotting meat, and then they watch where the turkey vultures go and congregate at and use it. It's like, oh, there's a leak right there because they can smell the rotting meat. Oh, shit. Wow. Yeah. I like that. Facts and knowledge.

This is why Katie comes on and blesses us with her knowledge. And for people who don't know, you're not just a hobbyist you enjoy this is a bit of an area of study at least just generally in the biology the sciences that's why we can that's why i call you for medical advice and you keep saying wow i should i'm i'm not the person to tell you this and i'm like but if you could smell this scab i feel like you would tell me what to do about it. Does it smell like almonds? Because that's gangrene. Or you spilled almonds on you. Smoked almonds or natural uncooked almonds. If you taste toast, you're having a stroke.

Which one is the one when you're having a stroke? Burning hair. It depends. Are you eating toast at the time? Well, I'll tell you this. The scab doesn't taste like almonds. Okay. So as far as I can tell.

So, does it taste like toast, though? Oh, no, no, no. God, that would be absolutely a weird scab at that point. It's very, like, salty. We'll get into that later while our listeners dry heave. But first, we'll take a quick break

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for equality so uh the for one of the first people we caught wind of that is going to be speaking at the convention is the maga teen himself nicholas sand, who was the boy who wore the MAGA hat and then was in a face-to-face confrontation with a tribal elder and then sued CNN and the Washington Post, who he just settled his multi-million dollar lawsuits with. I don't know how much, how caked up this kid is now. He won? He settled.

CNN settled his $275 million case. The Washington Post settled his $250 million case. the washington post settled his 250 million dollar case we don't know what the settlement was for but they settled um so i don't know exactly what he is going to bring to this presidential convention um but maybe he will talk about how hard it is to go to private school and then maybe scare the rest of america being like well you know kamala harris will make everyone start using s curl in on their hair in this country uh and texturize her if she is in the white house i don't know exactly what perm 2020 yeah everyone is getting it's like and if your baby hairs aren't laid you will go to jail uh so the other thing i i really don't know what it what the point is

of him um but i think it's really just this whole thing of like you you put a kid up like that who they're like they completely got it wrong because the the full context of the video granted like shows a little bit more than like what was sort of cropped out but the fact is they're gonna just prop them up there to be like you see liberals hate our great nation uh and they hate everything about America. And I think that's sort of the role he will serve. Can we when was that video? Because in my mind, it was like seven years ago already.

Yeah. The magazine. Honestly, it was probably last summer. I mean, in addition to all of the other uh larger atrocities i also would like to say relevance yeah it's uh so we have him going well i just want to say quickly we made him famous liberals made him famous yeah um and it's our fault you guys we have to stop trying to freaking we talked about this on this podcast before stop trying to dunk on republic dunk on Republicans and racists because you're giving them money. We just gave this boy millions of dollars and he's a piece of shit and it's our fault.

Stop retweeting this stuff so that you can dunk on somebody. You're making them rich. So how do you how would you what would you do? Nick, the magazine shows up. You just it's about what you're saying is to resist that temptation to just sort of have like the ego stacking of being like he's down here racist and i'm gonna be up here for having a take on his racism because what good does it do racists aren't reading um you know white fragility they don't give a fuck about being better so you're not teaching anybody anything if you're at the actual protest and you want to come up to the little boy and i don't know give him a shake and then absolutely but if you're on twitter all you're doing the actual protest and you want to come up to the little boy and, I don't know, give him a shake-in, then absolutely.

But if you're on Twitter, all you're doing is trying to get likes and retweets. And guess what? You're getting him likes and retweets, too. And now you just got the little boy paid. We all have to stop. That other blonde woman, all them blonde women who say stupid stuff, that black lady with her dry-ass hair, we got to stop talking about her. Which one? Oh, Candace?

Yes, we have to stop empowering them you know she is a she's got more fire patrol she should have more fire patrol than like california like in our brush fires her hair is drier than the brush honey it can go up in flames at any moment see i'm doing it right now we have to stop see but that's what i'm saying to your point though can you do it because i'm and i'm not trying to put you out there, but I have a feeling if you saw some shit you knew you could have a funny take on, you would be tweeting that shit, too. I really don't do it when it comes to white racists. I stopped doing it a long time ago. You'll never see me retweeting them. I think I have dragged Miss Dry Hair once or twice. And Terry Crews, obviously, because he can't just sit there and eat his steroids he always got to be talking but even that I'm trying to limit it

alright let's talk about Steve Bannon I've missed just seeing his face plastered all over the news and he apparently is as sloppy with his embezzlement and

fraud as he is with getting dressed in the morning, the way that he puts on four shirts, do you think that's intentional, or do you think he just forgets that he's already got a shirt on from yesterday? He probably read some GQ article from 2006 that was about layering, and he just took that concept very literally and he's like yeah you just stack it up yeah i'll wear them i'm wearing 18 shirts at a time basically anytime so who's the joke on because you look like a regular guy yeah the whole thing was uh that whole campaign if you remember i think it was back in 2018 when it was the whole like

well if the dems are gonna try and use money less recklessly then maybe we should fund our own build the wall campaign it was like we build the wall go fund me raised over 25 million dollars for this shit uh just for their you know wonderful monument to white supremacy and so the four men involved in sort of like orchestrating this campaign one they're all facing one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering uh and each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years which we've seen doesn't really matter when people in orbit of trump face these kinds of consequences but

either way we've been keeping up with this story as it developed because first it was like how the everyone was like how the fuck are you going to even do that like you can't just build a fucking border wall because you have the money for it like there's all this like these environmental impact reports there's all these permits that have to be pulled to be done properly and they're like yeah yeah we're good like we can figure it out we can figure it out at one point he was like enlisting like the oath keepers and other like right-wing militias to like right help out to they kept like like trespassing into or like passing over into mexico like that was the last time we checked in on them right yeah international fucking dilemma where like the mexican government is like you're knocking debris into mexico also like this is part of Mexico and you absolutely don't own this

land. And we're also talking about like disrupting, again, the flow of like wildlife or water and things like that. There's not, you can't just do this because you have the money. All right, all right, all right, all right. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Cut to now, they have just been exposed where apparently what they were doing was after that 25 million was raised, GoFundMe was like, you have to actually designate the recipient for this money. It can't just be like, all right, we raised the money, or else you can't use this platform like that. So what they did was create their own nonprofit

called We Build the Wall, sent all the money over there. Then at that point, they're like, and this is obviously, this is because we care about the safety of America and keeping Browns the fuck out. So what we're going to do is we're not going to take any kind of salary or anything like that cut to. We're finding out the amounts of money. Like the 350 grand went to the head of it through all these different shell game companies of being like, let's give it to this nonprofit, then put it in this bank, and then we'll do a wire transfer to this one. At one point, Bannon held like a million dollars in one of his nonprofits and then gave a huge chunk back to the founder of the group, but then had a ton of the money for his own benefit.

And so that's how he got pulled into this whole thing. So they were just doing a little bit of old shell gaming. But it really is the most American scam where you're sort of like hey the threat of the browns look over there white people and then be like yoink yeah right brian colfage that's the name of one of the other guys who got arrested that i remembered from that's the guy who got the last time we checked in on yeah does arrested mean like they got a text on their phone while they were in their mansion yeah right they're like you're in trouble yeah it's like the first text they get is wyd who's this from that's the city attorney are you in a place to

receive like a little bit of bad news yeah it's gonna be fine but oh okay well then yeah why don't you message me after your therapeutic yeah? Don't want to interrupt that. He's like, I'm actually out to eat without a mask on. Can I call you back? Sure, no problem. Wasn't this the plot of season four of Arrested Development? Wasn't there a whole thing, like a whole scheme

with building the border wall, but it was all like a shell game? I feel like that was... Oh, is that the netflix version yeah i freaking love that show so much and some but that brings zero bells to me and i'm like did i even watch it yeah that's all like that had to be the netflix one because i only committed the fox version to like memory yeah oh my gosh that was fox yeah isn't that isn't that's blowing my mind because i i had it on dvd it was given to me like as a christmas gift because i asked for it yeah right yeah i remember it was like a thing

where commoners be like dude do you know about arrested development so funny here's the here's the blessed dvd you can pass around was i i was at rick fox's like Fox's gaming pool party yesterday. Just to look at the fox. Yeah. It was 96. It's Rick, Vanessa. I'm there. It was his eSports company.

I think he's out of it now, but I was with Jared Jeffries doing an interview. He used to play for the Nuggets, and then he became a recruiter for eSports. Anyway, that's just the background and it has nothing to do with what I'm about to tell you. I go to the bathroom. Still necessary.

I go to the bathroom at this company. Women's, maybe. It says maybe. What? Women's, maybe? Yeah,

like the women's bathroom says maybe and the boys' bathroom says George Michael. Like it doesn't say. Oh. It doesn't say. Oh, wow.

I thought M-A-Y-B. Sorry, no, no, no. Maybe it's a bathroom. No, the women's, it doesn't say like women's. It just says maybe. And then the men's just says. Oh, wow. Yeah, George Michael.

Love it. Maybe Funke. It is so funny to think about Arrested Development as a Fox show. There was like a period. Is that why Rick Fox? Not a Rick Fox show, but yeah, there's the connection. 20th century Rick Fox.

I mean, now who's naive? Obviously, it's all connected. Now who's naive? But there was a period where Fox was the only channel where you could have a protagonist that wasn't like the same guy like it wasn't wasn't just like some like very kind like good person um like the anti-heroes and stuff oh like with the shows that they have right the shows everybody else it had to be like this guy's a doctor and uh

he has like some daddy issues but ultimately deep down a very good guy i see like jack bauer is violent as fuck and he's trying to kick heroin that's like oh that's as edgy as we got in the 90s guys um and he acts extra judicially coming to fox you're gonna love it doesn't he bite someone's aorta at one point in one of the seasons of 24? I remember when that show was popping up. I just could not get into it because I don't know why. 24? It didn't bite me the same way.

Yeah, everyone else was like, dude, 24. I was like, I don't know, man. I was like over here on Grey's Anatomy shit. Yeah, I'm like, I'm going to just smoke 24 joints and watch music videos on a loop. That was so much of my immediate diet back then. 24 was the same writers as Homeland and they wrote it as they went along. And so it just got so absurd. I think it's like the same.

You love to see that though when they're like, it's getting away from us. But like they can't do anything about it. Right. Yeah. I think it's the same thing as like soap operas where they're just like we got no roadmap here we're just like yeah what would be the wildest shit to happen this episode we know oh that's back from the dead that happened in that happened in season one of homeland i was like wait what the fuck that's crazy i like looked it up and it was the same writers as 24 i was was like, aha. It's all making sense.

We know that we said they're brother and sister, but now they're not. What is something you think is overrated? I mean, I've been on this show a bunch of times and I can't remember what I've said at this point, but still if I've said it before, once again,

the police. Absolutely overrated. Wait, what happened now? Oh, just, once again, the police. Absolutely overrated. Wait, what happened now? Oh, just, you know, regular shit. I think that Musayu Jerry video,

you know, reignites the rage. Mm-hmm. I mean, not to mention the, like, you know, even the pandemic,

we're seeing statistically police shootings have not gone down. They've not gone down. Nothing's really... Also, I saw that, like,

the largest police union endorsed Trump or, or like sent him a bunch of or donated to his campaign or something like that um but just the police like even after being kind of you know called out on their racism and inaction have just doubled down you know after whining of course yeah just and and you know denying denying culpability they've just like doubled down and like insisted that they're douches and that they want to align themselves with this kind of um ideology which we always knew the entire time anyway but it's just like it's just more surreal watching them do it openly in the daylight and it's just like wild to see like the the violent thrashings of white supremacy like as it's dragged out into the sun more like when it was just like right up in the shade and people

knew it was there it was like well it's there at least not in the sun but now it's being dragged out and it's like like doing everything it can to just like fuck you up for doing that. But that's the thing is like we have to endure this process because this is not some this is not ideology that just came up on like TikTok overnight. This is centuries of momentum. It did not come up overnight. just thinking about the fallacy and the danger of that of um cooperating with white supremacists under the guise of like reaching across the aisle under the guise of like working together and partnerships um and it's just like reaching across the aisle to what i remember like watching this stuff on tv and i'm just like you're literally you don't negotiate with terrorists

like you're literally reaching across the aisle with terrorists like you're literally reaching across the aisle to what what are they gonna do white supremacists like you're not gonna compromise with this person you legitimizing their stance in the first place is bananas and bonkers and absolutely ill-fated it's never going to work and it's just like you know i you you just ruminate as you watch what happens in the country. And it's just like this. That is the fallacy of like the white liberal mindset of let me stay in the middle. Let me not rock the boat.

You know what I mean? And it's just like I think like, you know, moderate Democrats, you know, people who follow Trump but insisted that they were not racist. They have to they have to reckon with this as much as white supremacists have to. You know, like your white supremacist like coddling and soft glove stance with it should also come into question. You know, these people don't do it alone. They're not on an island. They have help. They have accomplices.

Yeah. I feel like it's more and more that line is being drawn uh that doesn't surprise me at all but it's taking a really long time but it's it's finally happening and i'm just like maybe it just took america maybe we have to really really it had to get down to this it had to get real bad for people to understand what's at stake yeah and i'm glad it's finally happening it's like also this like continuum of of people who live here and the timeline on which they begin to see how bad things are in the country and how bad the policies have been since time immemorial

yeah and i think for if you're part of a marginalized group whose history already intersects with the brutal nature of this country and its government then you've probably you're a little bit quicker up the timeline of being like i don't really i don't have like star spangled lenses on when i look at this place right i'm looking at the lens of like yeah like i'm hurting my family's not doing well i have people who don't have health insurance people who don't know if they'll ever go to college people who will never own a home that's one lens people look at it through And then there are people who through their privilege and the hand they're dealt are blessed enough that those, those ills might not be as close to them. So they're all kind of looking like, what's everyone complaining about? It's not that bad. And that's the moment

where you have to say, please take a moment to just, just take a moment. Don't think what's wrong with these people. Just think, is it possible that the country could be that bad experientially for some people that live here? Is that possible? If you can acknowledge that, then you have to be able to begin taking those next steps of like, okay, well, then there's something we can do to ask for better long was this um like assuming that americans were more morally exceptional than they actually were that people could see this without it personally directly affecting them and i kind of just feel like okay it just took your country your democracy literally crumbling and you understanding that my liberation is also your liberation you understanding that if you watch the police murder a black person in daylight that affects you too sandra bland is also you so is eric garner it's not just some black man it is a human being with human rights and when you let that person's human rights go. Yours come into question too. And I feel like everybody's blinders, you know, this false sense of security that people have had that's had to come crashing down.

It's jarring. And put us all in danger, you know. Just like, yeah, like we all have to literally come to the crossroads of we might all like it might get really, really bad just for people to realize that, hey, a black life matters. Yeah. And just to be yeah. And to be honest enough to say it's bad. It's really bad. And it might not be my fault. But the first step is just to acknowledge that it's bad for many other people. And then, you know, nobody again, nobody nobody's saying, why did you do this? It's like saying, we need more people to realize that it's bad. So when you see things like Medicare for all or student debt relief, you're like, nah, we're not going to get to that.

Be like, well, hold on. Because even though my debts are paid off or I have a six figure income in which I don't have to worry about my student debt, dot, dot, dot, dot. There are people who are in the completely antithetical position, the complete opposite position of me, and they do need help. And there isn't anything wrong for advocating on their behalf because you should be like, well, yeah, I'm chilling. I would like everybody to be chilling.

I think like even putting it in the terms of like, you know, let's pay off everybody's debt, which I feel like, OK, that would be if we paid off people's federal student loans, that would be amazing. But even if we don't pay off everybody's debt, you know, making it so that literally anybody could go to college, that is, to me, is what we're talking about. It's not talking about like giving people, letting people off scot-free, which people don't like to see if that's the case. And it's like, fine, if we don't want to see people off scot-free, just make it so that nobody should have to worry about the cost of going to college. Nobody should have to get into crushing debt to go to college. Why can't we have free state college? Why can't we have free public college? You can still have your Harvards. You can

still have your insanely overpriced colleges. But as long as everybody has access to education, that's the point. it's and it's about just like beginning to reformat this idea of things that we've culturally been like shovel fed the idea like our privileges like it's a privilege to go to the university it's a privilege to get health care it's a fucking privilege to be able to live like we have to begin shifting these things for the like normal thing to say is these shit. These things are right. And these things should be free. Like and if we got to break it down for Gen Z, it should be like the new campaign is that shit should be free.

Medicare, your medical insurance should be free. It's just like I'm going to pay taxes. Why should my taxes go to a murdering police station? should my taxes go to a murdering police station right you know like i don't know if this is also true but i feel like i read i'm not gonna say i feel i think i read that um a lot of these civil suits that families bring against police are paid out of the police budget yeah so they're paid out of taxpayers budget especially in la that's 100 yeah so it's like why aren't they being paid why aren't these uh why are the taxpayers having to foot the bill for murder like that doesn't make any sense we are paying the insurance policy to keep them yes at the very least like it should it should

hit their budget in a way that they are permanently uh they get there's a permanent cost to lives lost for no reason it's just nothing makes sense i was just gonna talk about this brianna taylor thing because i keep saying like i feel like this call to you know arrest the cops it's like why are we talking about arresting cops these guys are following orders what about the mayor what about the what about the people who who called for who let the no no not warrant happen the state ag like it's just like you know we it's to me it's the same thing as like blaming individual white people for racism which i which nobody is doing but white people sometimes seem to think that that's the case it's like it's not this individual thing it's like this very structural thing that could change so that when individuals don't follow you know protocol when individuals

hurt other individuals they you know we have structure set up so that they pay exactly so that they pay consequences for it and i think everything's stupid that's what we'll kind of get into that sentiment too with this sort of like ig activism thing because it's taking something that's really complex that makes sense which is arrest the people that killed brianna like yes very narrowly absolutely these people murdered her right so get them but there's also this thing where we're taking like that whereas activists are thinking on a much larger scale but we have this thing where we we're starting to distill it down to these really oversimplified sort of sentiments and we're losing the real thrust of what we are what we've been screaming for what we're screaming for is policy fundamental structural change that's what we're

screaming for yeah but they're like oh but this but this uh precinct captain yes can break dance like he was in breaking too yes Yes. And he kneeled. And he did the Black Power Fist. And he took a picture with some little black kids on a basketball court. It's like, get out of here. And I feel like on the other side of that line that's being drawn,

when we looked at that clip of the New York Police Union representative just having a... Oh, yeah, just crying. A t having a crying complete yeah like a tantrum absolute tantrum like this is there's been this underlying sort of alliance between white supremacists and the police and a feeder system of you know back and forth white supremacists becoming police police becoming white supremacists there's there was an open uh white supremacists becoming police police becoming white supremacists there's there was an open uh white supremacist gang in the los angeles sheriff's department um and i just i can easily just like looking at the next 10 years whether trump wins or loses and claims the election was rigged or

uh loses convincingly but everybody's mad about it. I could really see this sort of, you know, the developing fascist wing of our country allying itself with this sort of temper tantrum police force that feels like it's losing power and like that just needs to be something that we're prepared for because America is not above that and that is how you know that how things just completely fall apart and it seems like it's happening in real time in

front of us yeah our president is stoking that fire actively daily yeah yeah and now that he's stoked it I just don't know how you put it out without just completely uh abolishing the existing police force um like yeah and then and then just again like you said you drag all this white supremacist shit out into the sun it's going to start thrashing same it's gonna and like we're not even beginning to see what that thrashing looks like with law enforcement because like right now they're just dealing with a lot of people who are saying a lot of things. And municipalities, some are acting quicker than others. But it's not quite getting to that existential point.

And we've only seen the kind of underhanded bullshit tactics. Like, they put a tampon in my frap. Or whatever the fake shit is. What that looks like when they need then they need more hardcore narratives to justify their abuse and all that this this is all being caused by like the only reason we have these conversations around these specific incidents is because we're able to see specifically what is happening on video without that without that objective evidence like none of this happens so it's just them being caught and then being like fuck you right for catching us um white supremacy is kind of like

fucking like narnia or some shit like only the people that seen it believe in it and other people be like ah come on that's that's that's a bunch of and i'm like look look in my fucking eyes i have been to motherfucking narnia bro i'm not lying this shit is fucked up so true please believe me look at all these other people millions of us have seen it and just trust us and look even your friend who you thought would never have been to narnia he had also been to narnia can you can you please understand this is not some fake shit it's like there's levels where you almost, some people just, if they haven't experienced it firsthand, they're just so unwilling to just acknowledge the sort of the dark depths

that these institutions can go to. Right. I wrote this essay called The Absurd Reality of Being Black in America. Just this one essay after I was devastated after George Floyd, but I'll share it with you guys. Cause that's what it's talking about. Oh,

fantastic. Oh, awesome. Yeah. Is it online so we can link off to it in the footnotes? Everybody's going to see it in the footnotes. Footnotes. Um,

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and we're back what is something you think is underrated um something i think is underrated sorry peeing in the shower you know you looked at us and noted and knew that we were doing look like i think that you didn toilet pee in the shower. But I guess I'm saying, you know, I don't even know why I said sorry. I think we're in the majority, the pee shower. Yeah, yeah. Look, I... We are. You know, speaking of the next topic, I think it's a myth that women can't aim for the drain.

Oh, okay. Or point their P. I've seen it. Yeah. I've seen it. I actually had a moment where I basically had my four-year-old. He was taking a shower, and he was like, I got to get out to go to the bathroom.

And I was like, do I just tell him? Do I just tell him now? Your wife busts down the door like the Kool-Aid man. She's like, do not tell him to pee in the shower. You're wearing the bathroom, so. The bathroom's all around us. There are a few people who really get incensed by the idea of urinating in the shower.

And I understand if very narrowly it's like it's urine everywhere but on the other side of it it's like it's being immediately flushed down with water right right and also like i'm not i drink enough water i'm not doing like the wild highlighter yellow pee that's like stinking up the whole building. Don't they say it's sterile? Is that a myth? It's sterile. You shouldn't drink it. It's not good for you,

but it's sterile in the sense that it doesn't have any living bacteria or viruses in it. So you can get sick from drinking pee? I think it's just not good for you. Even if it's your own miles this is that's my favorite last time we talked about this 45 minutes ago uh or last time we talked about this it lasted 45 minutes so i just have to no no i actually don't hey roy you

get sick from drinking your own pee he's like yeah man he's like even if it's your own and like woody harrelson just looks i like, what the fuck? And he's like, huh? Sorry, I steal most of my materials from shitty Farrelly Brothers movies that I saw in 13. Which one was that? Kingpin is not shitty. Oh, I just watched it recently. I love Kingpin.

And so your myth is that women can't aim? No, I just added that in there. My myth is the myth of't aim no i just added that in there my with my myth is i'm the myth of jiffy peanut butter there is no jiffy peanut butter there's jiffy and skippy but no jiffy oh what the fuck in a way i can prove that's weird i never critically thought about that because when you said i'm like, there's Jiffy. Right. And then I'm like, wait, no, it is Jiff.

It can be simply proved. That's like one of those Berenstain Bears or Shazam, the movie Shazam with, is it Sinbad? What was Shaq's favorite movie? Kazam. Oh, Kazam. Kazam. He's Kazam. I am Kazam.

movie kazam kazam kazam he's kazam i am kazam there's like this merging that happens in people's mind where they think that there's a movie called shazam i mean there is with uh what's his face um a recent one yeah yeah yeah recently recently uh with chuck from uh the tv from the tv right zagrileva yeah, yeah. But yeah, that's so weird. I hadn't even thought about that, that Jiffy, I have definitely believed that Jiffy is a peanut butter

and based my entire life around it. Yeah. Oh, I got to get a tattoo altered. Let me just Google how much it's going to take to take the gonna take a cover up it's all off center because they took the f and the y they're like why is it left oh no no if they had a little mascot oh i like uh what's that one laura scutters is that how you say that one the natural one i haven't even heard of that that's the one in the glass one that like separate you because it's just straight up salt and peanuts uh i think it's called laura scutters that separates and that you have to stir

together and then it drips out he's saying laura scutters so much because i was always like it's one of those i think also because you said give me that scutter butter she was uh yeah the woman was an entrepreneur like she has like a whole backstory starting in monterey park i think maybe that's why like i don't know i remember that was like the my my dad uh would always buy the peanut butter like and it would never be jif because like that's not peanut butter and my mom didn't care because she's from japan so it didn't matter to her so i was that's what i had and I was like, man, I want it to be smooth, not like this rough shit. And then as I got older, I'm like,

nah, this has that good-ass peanut flavor. Isn't it funny the things that change as you age? Yeah. That's one thing that I haven't been able to change my allegiance to breakfast cereals. I can't do the kashi or the actual natural. The bullshit. The bullshit. The sticks and bark.

I still need the name brand cereals that I grew up with and I still need the chemically derived Jif and Skippy peanut butter, which I definitely would have said Jiffy if you hadn't just busted that myth but i busted it right out of the what's your favorite brand now i have to talk to my financial uh advisor because so much of my money is is in jiffy peanut butter i like i'm trying to

think here's the thing um justin's i would eat justin's peanut butter it's also the kind like i get the little packets and go in the airport when I would travel and then put it on the apple, take a bite. That was my plane on the road snack. So good. But there's nothing like a Wonder Bread, Jif, smooth peanut butter, and I guess Smucker's, I would say, strawberry jam.

Or do a jalapeno jelly. What? No, not for me. I guess smuckers, I would say strawberry jam. Or do a jalapeno jelly. What? No, not for me. I hear what's your California bullshit. I'm telling you, get that jalapeno jelly. I remember red pepper jelly. Put that on a turkey sandwich.

Yeah, red pepper jelly is fine. Jalapeno jelly. Super producer Anna Hosni loves it too. She blessed me with a jar recently that I've already used up because I love pepper jellies. Great for eating anything, really. The one domestic thing my dad was really good at was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Look, it's not a high bar,

but he would put the peanut butter on both sides and then the jelly in the middle so it wouldn't soak the bread. It was so good. But it does risk a bite at the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Blowout. That's kind of something I'm into.

The blowout risk. I love how we're like, one thing my dad was good at was looking at me every now and then. I'm just kidding. Like every fifth time I was like, dad, look, I'm on the diving board. So you had the WAP tactics for eating that sandwich. Exactly. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated?

Something I think is overrated is a little bit personal, which is grad school. I am a PhD school dropout. And while cleaning my apartment, I found an old journal from when I was in grad school. And reading it, I was, y'all, I was so broke. And I hated my life so much. So I'm going to say grad school and reading it, I was y'all, I was so broke and I hated my life so much. So I'm going to say grad school overrated.

How long ago did you drop out? I dropped out of grad school. God, like 10 years ago. So kind of a while ago, kind of a while ago now. Um, that's enough distance.

Yeah. It is enough distance. I went to university of Maryland college park and I was trying to get a doctorate in African-American women'sican women's literature um yeah it was looking back like i really reading reading this whole journal entry i had a flood of all these memories of just being very broke and also working as an adjunct and in the journal i describe going to a meeting with like actual professors and adjuncts where the professor at the end of the meeting was like, Bridget, would you like to take these bagels home? Because I know you have no money.

And he was right. Yeah. Wow. That would be the same way if I look back on when I was a PA and just doing my Hollywood odd jobs where, yeah, very much someone who had me on a shoot would be like, hey, you want to take the crafty home, man? Because I know you got roommates. And I'm like i'm like i would sir and thank you so much even though these pop eyes biscuits are harder than hockey pucks i will drop some water in them and bring them back to life in the microwave thank you sir yes you want to be insulted but you also you know what low-key you're like fuck yeah i'm gonna take this shit i'm broke as fuck are you kidding me i'll take the loose potatoes too because i could i could fuck with those later i'll make hash browns i don't know but just i'll yes i'll take everything loose potatoes

i remember very specifically what were you paying on this was another well first of all when i used to work on hell's kitchen the gordon ramsay show oh they would let the uh they would let the production staff they would let us have at the ingredients that they would use for the the night's challenge every day so like i remember one night i brought home i'm not joking a motherfucking hefty like construction shopping bag full of shishito peppers wow that's too many like it's not even yeah you can't how can one man have so many peppers yeah uh but like that was like the vibe there but there is an excitement when you get the the man have so many peppers. Yeah. But like, that was like the vibe there.

And, but there is an excitement when you get the, the potatoes was from another shoot. And that was to do with California chicken cafe. And they were like roasted potatoes. And I was like, I can just make like little potato patties out of potato pancakes with these.

When I get home, put them in the food processor. That's what I did. Oh my God. I don't want to derail the episode, but I'm obsessed with Gordon Ramsay and ramsey and i have so many questions this episode has no rails by the way i think you heard the intro right can i can i just ask one thing you heard my ak yeah i mean you know this show but thank you so much yes normally we are so focused. But for this one moment, I will indulge your question, Brizzy. Yes.

Okay. Is it, so I've watched all the Gordon Ramsay properties. Yeah, same. On the kids show, he's so sweet to the kids. It's adorable to watch him interact with the kids. But as you know, on the adult show, his whole thing is like being kind of mean. Is it an act or is he actually kind of a gruff person? He's, well, okay okay so i didn't work on master chef kids i know someone that did and says he's he's i mean he's overall a kind guy

that's what i've heard he turns it on when you're cooking then you enter his world where now he has a take on the shit you're doing like if you're just walking around he's gonna be like oi what's with your hat it's not like you know it's like when so for example on that one of the seasons i worked on two seasons of hell's kitchen um on one of the seasons he changed the craft services company uh two i think three times in the season because he felt the craft meal wasn't up to his standard for what the crew should be eating so like he would come by and just taste like like sort of make a small plate of whatever the crew was eating and then the next day there'd be a new crew there

and we're like what happened to like he didn't like the food let me ask you this have you ever seen that video of him of him having another chef taste his pad thai and he's so he's so excited to get oh and the guy's like yeah it's the best yeah well because it's like a thai chef who's like bro this is something like this is whack i don't know what this is fool but like don't this is i'm gonna take any disrespect and gordon ramsay's sad he's so sad the guy the guy he's like he's like what do you think about it do you like it do you like it and he goes and then he's like uh well you know what do you think and that guy is like what do you want to know about it's like, what do you want to know about it? What do you want to know about it is not the feedback you're looking for.

It's great, yeah, because tables, it's such an inversion of power of what you're used to seeing in any kind of Gordon Ramsay clip. That's so funny. The most delicious food has ever been to me is working as a busboy or a dishwasher in the kitchen seeing like all this

delicious food and just being broke and hungry and then like getting a plate of french fries with hollandaise sauce or something like that so another thing too hell's kitchen so you know i don't well it's it's it's a reality show but you know quote unquote reality so like sometimes the the the servers like walk away from the past like as if they're going to put food on a table but they aren't and it's just for the shot and they walk straight through the set and go to this other back corner where they'll just put the plates down and the the knife fights that we had over those plates oh yeah they're like i mean you got the you got to taste the duck last night i never had duck i'm gonna try it and then you're like this shit is so good and then you'm going to try it. And then you're like, this shit is so good.

But it is like that moment where you're like, where do I have to be to eat like this all the time? But that still affects my taste in food. I love French fries with hollandaise sauce. I love Italian food because I worked, when I was in high school, I was a busboy and a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant where they had like solid food. But like that food just looked so good to me. It just like, yeah, just the the dream of that food. That's the reason why I love Domino's is because when I worked at the laser tag place doing kids birthday parties, that was the pizza place we had to deal with. So if you had the birthday, we were like, OK, so we order from Domino's.

And whenever you'd clean up half the time, parents don't want to take back like a half a pizza so we take it in the back and the starving high school kids devour the shit out of it i remember like you would have 10 minutes between your like three o'clock party and your 3 15 party and i would have to fucking like like condense five slices in like a like a baseball and just like eat it like that you don't like an apple but it was like so good too to the point where like i always have those memories of eating dominoes and be like this is sustaining me until a massive celebrity can then watch you clean up and be like yeah yeah there's been a few dr dre yeah maybe wild uncomfortable oh have you talked about that i didn't know her name and name harrison ford caught me with uh my pants down because i had

ice cream or i had ice cream cake all over my pants that i had to like a kid threw a slice of ice cream cake at my crotch uh and i like i needed to clean like because you in one day at my job you would do like three or four birthday parties like in your shift and so in between them i was like i can't go out there like i need new pants so i was like furiously cleaning them and harrison ford came the back door and like just like opened the back door and i'm there with my pants around my knees like a washcloth like scrubbing the crotch of my pants like in my underwear and it's him and callista flockhart and he has like his like sunglasses and he dropped them like sort of

like to look at me and he goes is this that laser zone place i'm like i'm like i was like the entrance is in the front mr ford and he's like and he just didn't even say thank you he was just so like if i think i fucked his day up but like you can that's a whole podcast masturbating or whatever you were yeah like whatever this is you freaky freak boy masturbating with ice cream cake yeah yeah looking looking at Callista, he's like, I told you, these kids are fucked. 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.

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