The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 158 (Best of 1/11/21-1/15/21)

Episode Date: January 17, 2021

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Miles, we are thrilled. We are fortunate. We are lucky to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant, the talented, the thrilling Jackie Johnson. I I've been on four times On the Daily Zeitgeist I can't deny it I've been on four times I I've been on four times That's one less than five

And I think that is fun Oh my God. Wow. Listen, I told y'all when I came back for the fourth time, I was going to sing. Wow. And I am a woman of my word. Hey, you did the fucking, what is that, P.O.D.?

It was P.O.D. Payable on death. Layered vocals. The Christian rock band. Layered vocals. I mean, I don't fuck around with covers. That's what that stands for? Wow. Deep. Deep mean, I don't fuck around with covers. That's what that stands for? Wow.

Deep. Deeper than I thought. Well, I don't know, but I know they're like... Those vocals. I think maybe it's different because they are Christian, but I know P.O.D. is payable on death. Yeah, I know. Payable on death is an American Christian metal band

formed in 92 in San Diego. That's what I'm always telling my fellas, my bros on the golf course. You can't take it with you. You know what I'm saying? I remember they were on Cribs once, and they live in San Diego, very normal, and they were like, yo, this is some carnet silo from my noni. Oh, yeah, it was just like a regular house. You know what I mean?

We're just grilling up the carnet silo. And I remember that was always a thing that I'll never forget. I'm like, okay, there's some real ass dudes in P.O.D., even though they got the weird dreadlocks. Danielle, we'd like to ask our guest to tell us something from their search history. Okay, so let me pull this up. Something from my search history,

it used to be, why do my cats hate me? And now it's, why do my cats stare at me? So over the quarantine, mama was lonely and there were two little babies that needed a home. And they're like these bonded twins. And I call them their little ginger tabby babies. They're dumb as fucking rocks. And they're just stupid. But there's Ripley and then there's Hudson.

And obviously Ripley is the smarter, more brave one. And Hudson is a destructive little bastard. So they used to they still do, but not as much anymore, like hide every time they saw me. And I was like, damn, like, am I that scary? And I was reading about it. And they were like, if your cat is hiding from you, it's because you're loud and you're scary and you're huge. And I'm like, well, damn, you ain't even met me uh stop being stop being so on the nose and so uh but it's just like they've been through some stuff uh because they're fosters and i don't know what their history is but i'm

assuming it's not great but they're warming up to me now so like this morning i woke up to two little orange heads like peeking over my bed just fucking staring at me so they're warming up it's just slowly by slowly yeah just gotta be patient they're warming up they have a new game where if I go to go feed them they'll follow me into the kitchen and see which one can get closer before they like

and run away from me it's kind of cute I was gonna say that that's kind of nice that they are going to say that that's kind of nice that they are showing you that respect because a lot of, every time I read about cat behavior, it's always very like status

based and the things that cats do to me are always like they're doming me. They're like just like walking up to me and rubbing on me, which I'm told is them being like, i own this bitch uh you guys can just everybody can walk away off yeah my old my scent is on this man now i have i have two cats too i i adopted a bonded uh pair of cats a few years ago and it was kind

of interesting like in the beginning they were like not they were always fucking with each other like they were just always laying with each other and like when i would i would try and pet them they're like okay thank you full words of food enough of that and it's not like i'm not joking till maybe three years later that i started seeing like you know the kind of shit that you see on reddit and you're like how come my cats don't do that shit like try and sit on my desk or like you know interrupt me or like just jump on my lap and it took three years for that to happen so uh it warmed my heart for that to finally come around and that was because you started killing birds and laying them before your cats right

like the only thing that they respect yeah yeah 100 just a couple squirrels just laying out yeah and i mean i think i was a little off-putting because I found a very cool animatronic cat suit to wear. But I realized it was very intimidating. Well, okay, sure. I paid Rick Baker's FX house for some spare material. They had to make it myself. But yes, let's just say it's better to just come as you are

and let them come to you on their own time. Yeah. It was interesting because the movie Cats, people remarked on the lack of asshole, but your cat suit is actually mostly asshole. Yeah, it is. Very little cat. Mostly cat asshole. Release Miles' asshole cut. What is something from your search history That's revealing about who you are

Okay so I've been doing this thing with my husband Where we show each other a funny thing Every night And mine is This sketch that I love From Mad TV Which is the inflatable man

You know the inflatable man. Uh, you know, the inflatable arm men. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so there's this sketch where it's a couple,

it's like a human woman that marries an inflatable, like the one from outside of the car dealerships. And it's so funny. And for a while you couldn't find it on YouTube, but now you can. And the best part is when they show the bride side and then the groom side and it's just other inflatable and it's so good so yeah that uh bling kapach the stand-up comedian does a great impression of that because he looks like he's got the build of one of those dudes. They delight me. I'm always,

I laugh out loud. Every time I see one, I find them delightful. So simple pleasures. Really? I'm very, you ever seen somebody turn them off? No,

the saddest thing in the world. It's a rare, it's a rare thing, but I remember being like super high was like, yo, that's not right. That's like seeing a teacher outside of school. No one's like party.

Oh no. Weather to the floor. Yeah. You hate to see it. It's like a shot from a, that how to show with John. So John normal name guy from HBO. He,

he always finds like these incredibly poetic, uh, like very sad shots from his everyday life. Oh, How To With John Wilson? Yeah, How To With John Wilson. That show is fucking amazing. I don't know that show. That guy's eye for detail is unbelievable.

It's just poetry. It's a show Nathan Fielder is executive producing on HBO, and it's very similar in ethos in that it's like, we're just going to find something and then just absorb it. Like this guy just walks. He has hours of footage he just takes around New York City. But there are times when he just indulges his curiosity about a thing. And it'll go from being in a grocery store to who knows what else. Or I don't even want to spoil it.

That sounds awesome and I'm going to watch it. It's so worth watching. And even if you've watched it, go to Nathan Fielder's YouTube channel because he has a featurette that he uploaded that was clearly like, I guess HBO gave him money to do like a behind the scenes digital featurette. And it starts off with him and John Wilson talking about like why they work together and what nathan saw in his work and vice versa and then it takes a very nathan for you-esque turn in the middle of it because john wilson goes like yeah i'd like to think like nathan has like a good eye for talent you know like he obviously like he spotted my work and was interested and also like you know he's also kind of working with some influencers and they do this hard cut to nathan running a

tiktok house with all these like shirtless young guys and he's just like stalking in the background like making sure they're doing their choreography and stuff and telling them they can't talk to their families so there's a lot there's a lot it's offering so great he has yeah he there's just all this footage it's like b-roll he is the king of b-roll he just gets like all these beautiful like shots of just weird random shit happening around new york city if i watch it and it's just gonna be a fucking plastic bag floating in front of a brick wall i'm gonna fucking lose it and i'm gonna call you at your house no no it's way better because

imagine imagine he found the person whose bag that was and went to their house and then found out why they had the bag because they were smuggling animals or something. Right. That's how the first one. You know what this reminds me of? He goes to Cancun and's like down there and just like yeah man i don't know i just he's like the biggest like just straight up like fuck boy like just the person you would not dig deeper with in a conversation and it just goes so deep and like profound it's wild it's kind of like that podcast the mystery show did you ever listen to that yeah yeah

yeah starly yeah that's still like the goat show but yeah this one's my favorite i'll re-listen to it like finding out how tall jake gyllenhaal is that shit that was so satisfying or like the britney spears novel one or the first one was like was it must love dogs like the vhs tape that was returned to the store that was closed forever there was it amazing yeah so good but this episode if you if you know everybody has a way to you know striminal hop on your plex server whatever watch this show because this first episode it's about him just kind of looking at some stuff and he gets the idea to go to mtv spring break in cancun and he's by himself and he's just he's just like he's just taking video of everything and it it plays out in a beautiful

way the entire show is really fucking something i can't wait to see it the dying like a inflatable man is the sort of thing that would just be like a throwaway shot in that show. But anyways, people need to check it out. What is something you think is underrated, Jackie? AI taking human jobs. Now hear me out. Okay. I recently bought a robot vacuum, and it is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Wow. It is incredible. I'm going gonna have to call andrew yang and tell him that there's something there's something here let's not jump to conclusions vacuum he knows where my walls are so now like he stops just short of it and will just slowly skim around the side and it's lovely it's like a symphony watching him work wow how many and and he cleans honey oh my god i shed a lot he's just full of my hair all the time oh how often do you have to empty one of them things i mean i probably run them every two days and i probably empty them

every time okay every like two times yeah i had one my dad had like a knockoff roomba uh thing or whatever you know like back when everybody was trying to get on like like the early days of robot because them shits were not that great and i remember this off-brand one he had was so fucking bad like it it it ran into shit it would get confused trap yourself in a corner go off a step and be like sorry y'all uh and then just start that's it for me menacingly like help me and you're just like yo this shit is fucked up yeah yeah i got one knockoff one and uh i got it on black friday and no regrets i mean well the technology is out there we how far we feel like that's I feel like that's something that somebody needs to... Maybe this can be a new thing

for daily zeitgeist. Technology that a lot of people adopted too early. The Roomba is definitely one of those things. Yes, and then someone sweeps in and redoes it. Yeah, and fixes it. There's like... Drones have gotten really

easy to use and cool. Apparently in the past, like, yeah, since the Obama administration, they were so loud. Have you ever been to a wedding with a drone and all you hear is that damn buzzing?

Yeah. They have like indoor drones now that just like kind of hover around and you can like play with like it's a hockey puck in midair. But yeah, Roomba is like the one that I got the the generation that I got was the perfect height to just get stuck right under a piece of furniture and you would just have to like do a search party looking for it yeah yeah uh it was just that height um so i'm assuming they changed they changed i mean mine slides under

everything with ease the one thing he does is he will if there's a cord on the ground he will eat your cord yeah yeah you just have to lift all the cords up before he goes yeah i mean i think what i remember when we were doing the live shows we talked about the first mp3 player and that motherfucker was a mess so right you know like yeah there's definitely ones where people are like hey that mp3 thing we got it on this fucking very cumbersome hard drive shaped like a cd player and then like actual technology companies like thank you uh here it is right yeah there's like a some things it takes the second third generation like the

ipod was like the the thing that changed the game but i feel like other things it's like 12th generation after you've been like okay i tried that it's a pain in the ass and it doesn't really work and they like figure it out uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments

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So some of the insurrectionists have come out and just kind of been like our bad. And like people who there are pictures of, you know, being in the chamber, like coming out and just being like, yeah, you know, we didn't mean to embarrass our state or whatever. The main guy, right? I'm sure everyone saw the photo of that asshole sitting where Mike Pence was presiding over the Senate with his fist in the air screaming for you know for begging for his father's validation from the fucking deus up there in the senate right that guy who's like that's a very iconic photo he's also the same dude if you might have seen he was like a guy

hanging off the top of the gallery the senate gallery like about to drop in same guy okay his name is fucking josiah colt and he's from the Boise area. And the whole thing with this is just, it's just funny to watch, you know, because the internet is already exposing a lot of these dumb as fuck fascists. And obviously there are many professionals included, you know, from real estate brokers, lawyers for insurance companies, elected officials. It's everybody, you know. A lot of former military former police active active military active police yeah um so yes it's it's a whole swath of people now but this guy

particular he's like sort of one of these people right because like while the wealthier patriots are the people who like private jetted into dc to storm the capital they were like there's like a class i ret that bitches handle. If you want to, if anybody, Oh yeah, no, she's,

she's done. She's cooked. Like she's, she's cooked. And like, she's, I saw her melting down on Twitter the other night being like, where are my Patriots at there?

There's too many haters. And they're telling, they're tagging the FBI and everything. I didn't do anything. Anyway, there's people like that who on one level are like these sort of more, more moneyed wealthy people who dress up in all the regalia and say all this bullshit that they're not about but they know there's followers who flock to it and feed off of it so for them it's nothing to be like they're stealing everything and then they put their phone

down and they sip champagne um then you have this guy who is clearly like some, you know, guy my age who has probably been on a steady diet of weird red pill Twitter, YouTube, etc. And then this people like this other woman are in his media environment. So then he ends up he finds himself in the Capitol. Now, he's been denying a lot of stuff, but I just want to take people through a timeline of what he was posting the before he left for dc he commented on a friend's facebook photo and said it's time to fight for the freedom of this country from getting bulldozed by the domestic terrorists in office pushing chinese communist agendas and ideology while stripping our freedoms away one by one now is the time to fight please name three freedoms that have been stripped away please but i guess you can but don't worry on on to the next thing then the night before uh the

the siege it's time to take back our freedom it's going to be crazy tomorrow praying that everybody are able to prove a point without violence but you don't know you don't know how it's going to go down okay og say less my man uh so then he got into the Capitol and took all those photos. And, you know, he realized when he got out, he was like, oh, shit, man. Like I was there. But then he realizes he's now very famous. I just want to play a clip of when he got out of the Capitol and is talking all this shit. And then he begins to realize, oh, I'm I'm fucked. I just I just got in the light.

I just got in the Capitolitol building i was the first one i hopped down into the chamber and i was the first one to sit and nancy pelosi that bitch her house her she's she's a traitor she's treasonous but i said like okay so that's him basically being like yeah it was me and we did that although my man you that was not that was the senate but okay that was mike pence's chair um and so that was like the first part then he posts this to his stories this next thing where he it's the gravity of the situation is beginning to hit him i'm sitting here and uh i don't i don't know what to do like you know i'm in downtown dc i'm all over the news now but like i'm just like every single one of those people that was marching, like a peaceful protest, came here to represent America.

We're tired of being lied to. We're tired of people stealing, stealing, you know, from us, stealing our freedom, stealing our liberties. And, you know, I didn't hurt anybody in there. Like, yeah, I did sit in Nancy Pelosi's seat. Like she shouldn't be there. She's's not she doesn't reprimand uh all right i'll stop you there but um he you know it's weird to even hear them articulate out loud because it's like they're realizing their words are actually failing to articulate a real belief system right they're just regurgitating like boilerplate shit they read on twitter which is like the stripping away our freedoms chinese communist prop like they're just words that they string together about this thing of like we're against that and he's like and he's so like oh but you know like i was just like everybody else so once he realizes like motherfuckers are looking for him he sent a statement to his local like news station in

the boise area to get the record straight also he's lawyered the fuck up now uh and he said quote i love america i love the people i didn't hurt anyone and i didn't cause any damage in the Boise area to get the record straight. Also, he's lawyered the fuck up now. And he said, quote, I love America. I love the people. I didn't hurt anyone and I didn't cause any damage in the chamber. I got caught up in the moment. And when I saw the door to the chamber open, I walked in, I hopped down and I sat on the chair. I said my piece. Then I helped a gentleman get to safety that was injured.

Then I left. While in the chamber, I told the other protesters that this is a sacred place and not to do any damage. Some of them wanted to trash the place and steal stuff, but I told them not to and to leave everything in its place. We're still on sacred ground. In the moment, I thought it was doing the right thing. I realized now that my actions were inappropriate and I beg for forgiveness from America and

from my home state of Idaho. My intention wasn't to put a stain on our great country's democratic process. Oh my God, please. I just, I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just, I got caught up in the white supremacy and my whiteness came over me

and I thought I was invincible. But now that there are repercussions. Get fucked. Absolutely. And I do believe that we need to figure out how to, like, rehabilitate people. Because it can't just be like, all right, go over there so y'all can go into some cave world and come back as, like, barbarians at the gate type shit. I don't know what is happening. But, like, is there a process of being like, can you articulate out loud how bad you fucked up?

Do you know everything you said was wrong? Do actually know that do you actually believe that but i don't know how people are deep in the part you have to go to like teach dude about civics about ethics about like like how far back do you go i can't meet him when he's seven no that's what i'm saying i'm curious to know that's which i think brings a larger conversation, too, of like, how can somebody who doesn't want to learn hopped up on this? Because, you know, there is there are people, you know, who are neo not reformed skinheads who come who see the light and come back and things like that. I believe in that. I'm just saying, how do you teach somebody who doesn't want to learn? That's what I mean. But that's what I mean, because i think these are because suddenly the contrition comes out when it's oh no no you're you're you're that's uh that's a criminal offense you're committing and you will go to jail for that

and that's because everything i think that's the thing like whiteness excuse like creates this world of a consequence free world from your actions when you're working in tandem with the larger group of white supremacy and i like that protection goes up in smoke the second like fbi and now they're like wait what i mean but i but it was me it was it was the otherots. And what do you mean? I didn't do it. And I told them it was sacred ground. What the fuck is this?

Fuck that. I was in there telling them not to come up there. That's why I was up on Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi's chair. That's not fair. You should have. Where's the picture of me putting together Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sign? And I was super gluing it. I was putting it back because I'm like, guys, this isn't nice. Okay.

She's a traitor. When I was carrying the podium, I was carrying it to be fixed and cleaned, actually. Yeah, I was taking it to the repair shop show in the UK. Yes, I was taking it to the repair shop barn and no one respects that about me. I mean, the freedoms that they're talking about being, you know, suppressed are the freedoms to spread coronavirus around. Yeah, to not to not wear a mask. they're complaining about that and violently uh you know breaking into uh the capitol building on the worst day of covid in the history of covid in in america uh for you know thousands of people are dying yeah most deaths deadliest day and yeah i don't know. I do wonder, you know, people were saying,

look, you took Trump off of Twitter for a single day and all of a sudden he's repentant and I don't buy that for a fucking second. That's his legal exposure. Right. But I do wonder, like, this is so much, like, the fact that they are that hemmed in by these beliefs. Like I do wonder how much when we're if we're able to ever take Twitter away, take Facebook away, which I don't even know if that's possible.

Like how how much that will give people an opportunity to actually do what you're talking about and at least come up from a for a breath i mean you start off by rounding all these people up and being like knock knock guess who bitch yes absolutely like and then because there's a different you'll that's when you'll realize who you ride what freedom actually is you know what i mean it's like okay am i that down for freedom i'll do that shit in the jail cell or are you real i'm like oh man that was okay i guess this is real or you'll be or you'll just say whatever you have to out of self-preservation you never know with anybody uh trying to rehabilitate themselves or whatever but yeah it just becomes a very complicated situation and even with donald trump's weird ass wooden video that he put up being like, guys, that was so fucked up what everybody did.

I'm totally not with that. If you do that, you're not down with Trump gang. I'm telling you that right now. You ain't MAGA. That was fucked up. And I never said anything like that. And the reaction on like the, you know, the Donald dot win website or, you know, all the other parlor where they congregate was there were some people who were like man fuck this guy he literally told us to do this shit and now that there's

pressure he's fucking holding leaving us with the bag there's that reaction where people are seeing it for what it is like he sold us out there are other people who are like oh my god is is that a deep fake like that can't be he can't be saying that he's saying joe biden is the president um so there's there's definitely within it there are people who are like had enough and are maybe realizing it's all bullshit other people who are just going to out of self-preservation go deeper so it's what i wonder it's so hard to tell what i wonder is like when you see someone, they're just like chaos agents. When you see someone just destroying the very thing that they are claiming to protect and want and like revere, it just becomes really weird. It's like they don't think past the first step.

Okay, like you pissed in Nancy Pelosi's chair and you took her laptop and you want to put your guy in that chair right you're gonna have to clean that piss up like the thing is is like no one's thinking that no one's thinking for the next step they're just so angry at now that there's no there's nothing there it's like after the chaos has been expressed, there's nothing to replace it, you know, and to be like trying to constantly undermine a government and say that you don't believe in it while trying to install your guy in the government. It's like always been the weirdest, dumbest thing to see. It's like whenever Republicans run for office and they say they want less government. I'm like, honey, you're running for government. Yeah, but I want to I want to I want to kneecap it while I'm there, huh?

Yeah, right. Just means I'm lower taxes. The thing that worries me is like there's such a streak of anti intellectual intellectualism and anti knowledge and learning that I'm just worried that once the chaos has been expressed and these people have nothing and nowhere to go and nothing to do like what what the fuck is gonna happen because once they've already pissed on the government and they don't respect it what's the way back yeah it's that's true yeah man i already when you were talking about the them saying that, like, is that a deep fake? I can already see the next two years where there's going to be a huge faction of the mega people who believe Trump died theories like the paul is dead people love to do a paul is dead and just claim that like uh their hero was killed and replaced by a body double of some sort um so that's one thing we have to look forward to is trump is dead this is

this new trump is trump robot um which maybe that'll uh harm his ability to get reelected. And then he's like, no, hold on. I'm not a robot. And they're like, fuck you, bot Trump! And he's like, no, seriously, look at me. Look, you can touch my fake hair and look, this is all... The makeup comes off, guys. Please. I want to see him cut himself to prove he's a human.

Oh my god. Just dust comes out. Just that black sludge. They're like, this doesn that black sludge. They're like, this doesn't answer any questions. They're like, it's him! I mean, there's not a ton to say about the Marvel characters thing, other than that Captain America, as our writer, J.M., pointed

out, was created by two Jewish guys from New York who hated Nazis and hated bullies and the just sheer preponderance of captain america iconography in the capital insurrection is wild it's uh absurd and there's like a poster currently on sale on amazon that depicts trump punching uh what appear to be mexicans in the face with captain america's shield uh next to the border wall which is between the white house and trump tower for some reason um and it's not great it's not a well executed piece

of art but well based on where the statue of liberty is is the statue of liberty even in america no it's on the other side of the wall exactly bro exactly i don't know what that means but interesting vision uh there is also a writer who adopted uh he he was wielding a captain america shield with pepe the frog on it while confusingly also wearing the helmet from the Mandalorian as if he was riding against the concept of losing your virginity. That's a JM joke. Shout out to him. What a, that's a, you know, they like TV. That's just like when shit posting has just completely, you don't know what's going on.

You've completely succumbed to the shit post. And you're like, nothing about policy, nothing about legislatively or experientially what's happening to me. It's like, I am the human manifestation of shit posts. Mandalorian helmet with Pepe shit, like, okay. There also appears to be like a fur lined or no it's just a fur cape it's on the ikea weird sheep rugs that you get for like 10 bucks but that might be like a reference to like a conan uh like type of character Conan the Barbarian Xena and yeah Canaan and then there's also the Punisher logo the the guy who had the flex cuffs zip ties was rocking a Punisher logo and this they love

that one yeah the police love that one even though uh the character was supposed to be representative of uh the failure of law and order to address the concerns of people who feel abandoned wait till they start caping for john brown right you know what i mean exactly i'm serious yeah that's it's only it's in like there's no awareness of what these symbols mean um it's just like what's that he fought the he he did what oh i like that very narrowly superficially without understanding any context like it's it's gonna be like because they're only i mean whatever it's this is just how this movement has been moving but um i've i've always just been thinking about i is John Brown going to he has that that series on Showtime right now so there's a John Brown

oh yeah I didn't even know that that what it's with what is his name Uma Thurman's old husband Ethan Hawke yes Ethan Hawke oh he's got a John Brown yeah he plays John Brown.

Alright. Interesting. Oh, and The Good Lord Bird? Is that what this is? Yes. It's a dark comedy? I haven't seen it, but I just... I know as far as the lexicon, John Brown's here. Right. Or the other thing would probably be if they start caping for

William to come to Sherman. Like, oh, to Sherman, right? Like general Sherman, y'all like he knew it's like, yo, I don't think you even know the civil war history. Like he's the reason why y'all were caught like crying after the civil war ended.

Cause he's like, he fucking brutalized. I'll tell you what, they do know their history in the sense that they were also wearing merch, aping the captain America, civil War logo that read Mega Civil War. So they know that Civil War history, bro. Right. Oh, they know the MCU better than our fucking own country's history, which is like it truly is idiocracy.

Can you imagine when we're like fully elderly and we're like what did you learn in school that hold on that thanos was what with with rush oh my god what happens you take your eye off the textbooks for one second yeah i mean jack you've got little ones like you know by the time that they like are high school aged like the revisionist history that's going to take place about what we all just went through. Yeah. I mean, I'm already teaching Biden's basically Thanos, you know, we all know what's going on here. So, you know, just kind of tying this all into the social media movement of, you know, Trump being banned from Twitter. And, you know, we were talking about the beer hall pushed.

It's interesting to me that like fascists at that time, you know, I've talked before on the show about how the creator of the loudspeaker blamed himself for the rise of fascism yeah because it was this new technology that enabled uh one person to reach a stadium full of people as opposed to uh just you know whoever was in earshot. And that is an explanation that gets swept under the rug because it's not interesting and it's just kind of weird to think back of technology we take for granted as something that when it's new and unregulated and people don't know how to deal with it can lead to the rise of these authoritarian and fascists, you know, hate groups that turn into like national governments that wage war. But one of the commissioners at the EU or the EU commissioner was speculating that,

you know, this could be the, a turning point for social media and for just big tech in general if they actually follow through and keep using their platforms to prosecute fascism and fight fascism. Because the thing that is needed is for them to to i don't know like they need to take responsibility as publishers not as platforms they need to quit it with this platform shit because when they act like they're just a platform and everything is unregulated fascism just inherently wins out like the they need to to be putting at least as much money into the regulating of the

information that's getting spread on their platforms as they put into trying to grow their platforms, if not more. Like, I mean, they also just put an entire industry of fact checkers and journalists out of business. So like go hire all of them and put them on fact checking and,

uh, having some responsibility and what your platform, uh, is used for because it is used as a publishing tool and you're just not, not acknowledging that. Yeah. Uh, and even the, uh, you have to explain censorship to people again i'm sorry you do uh it's so sad how people just go like you can't i can't do

racism wherever i want this is censorship no that's like if you get arrested uh and they're just saying based on just solely what you can't say that you're arrested for saying that now for committing for saying that for having to take too hot, you are arrested. No, they're saying you're engaging with a private company. You know what I mean? And you have entered an agreement by using their services and for them to just fucking mine the shit out of your data for you to say that shit. And when you violate it, that's when you're taken off. And I think even people that... Like, there are people that are much more intelligent

who understand this is not a censorship thing. But I think the interesting take on it I've seen is like, I think this just demonstrates the gigantic power of big tech, though, too. That a couple companies go, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's pull the plug on this. And suddenly it's quiet. And then you're like, so what does this mean exactly? Do you have a monopoly or something?

What's going on here? Because I think that's another issue that obviously has to be addressed as well. But the idea of, you know, all this other shit is just such a deflection from, you know, five people lost their lives because this person in the Republican Party just basically, you know, bankrolled an insurrection low key and used a bunch of stooges and people on Twitter to kind of keep the momentum going. stuff uh i retweeted this guy gabe del delaje uh who tweeted just to be clear the president being able to invade your consciousness anywhere at any time to spout off psychotic nonsense is way more orwellian than the president not being allowed to do that um which i think is a good way to kind of put the whole thing into perspective. Yeah, and like you were saying, just the immense power that these platforms have and that they have totally just taken for granted or claimed that they aren't responsible for wielding up to this point.

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outfits and like set design stuff amazing yeah if you want a vibe yes okay but this show doesn't do anything well like there's it just makes me so mad it's like this is a failure of not just a whole department but like several departments. The only people that were on it were the set designers and the fucking costumers and whatever, because the show is a woman that just basically doesn't do anything other than take pills and then look up at the ceiling. That's not even how drugs work. You don't immediately become like it is so annoying. That's not how chess works. It's not how drugs so annoying that's not how chess works it's not how drugs work it's not how fucking anything works and they have that magical negro trope i cannot

i cannot she doesn't see this woman for like a thousand years and then she shows up in the end and she's like i've saved you my only purpose was to give you purpose right i fucking truly hated it anyway so i also i mean i not hated it i hated how much everyone loved it i found it mediocre let's put it like i think that's fair i think that's very fair it's it is a sports movie uh right played out over seven episodes there is no more takeaway uh than there is from like friday night lights or something like that no but there's like no drama in the chess either yeah she's just real good oh like she's just like wasting people and then she's like all right time to fucking trip out on drugs to get my life together that's literally it and well i think drugs help her and make her better at chess and then there's no reckoning for

any of it yeah she just decides to stop using drugs and is still good at. And that's, as you know, exactly how drugs, how drug, how any kind of chemical dependency works. Yep. Yep.

And just like that, I got off of it and I'm just back on my life. It's perfect. So I suggest it highly recommend these drugs. If you want to be a chess fucking prodigy, it's just make no sense as a movie whatsoever. It's a collection of images. I guess that's what I think.

And that's what I feel like to me seem like the most opinions like, Oh, this shit looks slick, like from the stills and like little excerpts I saw. And then I think Jack, you were saying like, it just makes it feel like, like sports or like this,

like rock star. Like it's just more like, yeah. Like when you're watching, you're like, yeah, but it's never like, I got a like rock star like it's just more like yeah like when you're watching you're like yeah but you're never like i got a fucking meaning out of it right right but there's like so many amazing like basketball movies and stuff that have drama and you learn about the sport and it's fucking love and basketball yeah are you kidding me there's so and there's like

shows about football where i didn't know shit about football but i'll watch it and i'll be like oh i learned a ton i now understand you love that show coach it feels like coach is really where it's at for me it does feel like it feels like a movie that would only exist if or a show that would only exist if it was based on a true story and it's not based on a true story or even like inspired by a true story it's just like yeah we just kind of made this up from the the novelist who made uh the natural and the pool hustling novel that became the pool hustling movie with paul newman so it's just like he just writes fantastical sports stories. But yeah, I would also give a shout out to the casting because I do think the fact that they found a living, breathing anime character

helped a lot for the... Shout out on casting a model to just look pretty when she moves pieces around? Come on! And also the director who played her mom, who I had never seen in anything, or who played her foster mom. Oh, that's Emily Heller's sister. Yeah, she was great.

Muriel Heller, and she's amazing in it. Actually, let me give a shout out to that. Her acting is fucking sick in it. She does all of the work for everyone in terms of acting. She pulls the whole thing have cars tried doing uh the thing that like shoes do now like release retro like i would fuck with like a old like i put a picture in the dock of like this old uh like 90s hatchback that i would like if you could get a new one of those I would drive a Mustang 5.0

uh like an old school drug dealer like a hybrid yeah like and you could just put a speaker in that shit to make it sound like the wild exhaust I mean like they they're bringing the Bronco back that's like the closest thing I can think of of them being like huh huh remember when OJ but it doesn't really look like I mean mean, it's based off of it. It's just a behemoth of a car. But yeah, I mean, sure. Why not retro these cars? My dad still has a Bronco from 92 and he drives it to this day.

It has almost 400,000 miles on it. Oh, hell yeah. What color is it? It's like dark navy with the white top. Oh, yeah. What color is it? It's like dark navy with the white top. Oh, yeah. And when I was in high school, I was embarrassed by it because it was a 90s car and this was the 2000s. But now when I go home, I'm like, Dad, can I drive to Bronco? For a photo shoot?

But I can't anymore. It is now a classic car and it's on special classic car insurance. It's a classic car? car and it's on special classic car insurance it's a classic car anything over 25 years old is a classic car so it gets filed under a different insurance policy is it more or less more because to to repair it would probably more damn got the oh i don't know i don't know looking like oj and ac cruising down the 405 i mean it's really cool i'm not gonna lie yeah it doesn't start nine times out of ten but when it does right i mean i don't want the interior and like the engine to be the 90s version

like yeah it should definitely be an electric vehicle or something but just like the the body and the design i feel like there's like something dope about some of the some of the old cars hey just so you know john johnson my dad has kept it up real nice the interior looks clean wow so if y'all want to come to dallas bring a trailer right in the trailer.com just win that thing up but yeah i think the other one a 2002 nissan skyline r34 uh i'll take that retro yeah i'm not a car guy so i just like looked up a picture on google imagesages and was like, yeah, this one. This one will do. I always called it a rabbit because I think there was a car called the rabbit that looked like that.

What was your first car? What was everybody's first car? My first car was a, I mean, it was basically my mom's car, but it was a Chevy Blazer two-door. A two-door SUV. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. It was basically the little brother of the bronco right exactly what about you jackie yeah i drove a gold chrysler sebring convertible because that's what rose mcgowan drove in jawbreaker and i said i need that oh my god that's what was the main song from that?

It was used, but it was pretty cool. That soundtrack. I had that soundtrack from Jawbreaker. Ah, you, ooh. Ah, you, ooh. Ah, you, ooh. Ah, you, ooh. Yeah.

Man. Maybe I'll sing that next time I'm here. All right. Other pitches I have for you guys. A mall that is just completely like from the 80s. Like you just take that Wonder Woman 84 mall and just like bring it to life. The Stranger Things mall. Yeah. The Stranger Things mall. I want to smell incense in Spencer's gifts.

Yeah, exactly. And flip through the blacklight posters. I want to go to Walden Books. You know what I mean? I want to go to. Yeah, exactly. Walden Books. go to walden books you know what i mean i want to go to yeah exactly walden exactly i want to go to motherfucking uh imaginarium you know i mean and walk through the little door on the side like the jimbery store okay i want to play with the rain stick and imaginarium and they'll go to sharper image oh yeah and be told to get off yeah told to get off because I'm a child. But really, man, I'm not a serious

customer. Oh yeah, sharper image. Go to A&W. Go to fucking Orange Julius. Yeah. They could do that. These brands need to hire me. Look, for any savvy

entrepreneur out there that listens to the show and wants some bad advice from a podcaster, listen this idea i have it's all about experiencing shit after this like yeah i cannot imagine a dam that is like holding back something more like ferocious than people's desires to like be around other people and just do what is like normal quote unquote and i feel like that shit is going to be reduced to literally like walking around a sick ass mall that looked like it did 30 years ago you know how like people go to rent fairs and they get into character like i want to go into an immersive mall where no one has their phones no one's allowed to have phones out oh shit right and you have to dress up.

Yeah, you put them in the bag like at a Dave Chappelle show. Yes, you walk them over. And everyone is like cosplaying as a different person. And like, we have to do this. And it's Clinton's first term. I mean, at least Disney should have this

like as a section of the park or something. Oh, yeah, like Mall World. Yeah. Yeah. Just get a 90s world. I mean, somebody, look, you're one of these people who buys a bunch of distressed brands of the park or something oh yeah like mall world yeah yeah just get a 90s i mean somebody look you just you you're one of these people who buys a bunch of distressed brands that were big in the 90s so you own all the fucking copyrights and things like that yeah and then you team up with

these abandoned mall owners and be like yo i know this sounds wild there's a ton of abandoned malls you think this sounds wild but motherfuckers will come here and shop i oh i will buy all of the limited to i will buy limited two sweatshirts pants everything go around uh chess king i'll fucking i'll i'll write my parents information on that dumbass raffle to win a mitsubishi eclipse in the middle of the mall and all it does is sign them up for like junk mail for life and they're like what the fuck is this i'm gonna miss mitsubishi that's actually what drove that generation uh to to be as bad as they are is all the junk mail that's where it started god do you know anybody who ever won one of them

no it's a scam to get your information wait i mean someone had to win even if it was actually right i won one sweepstakes in my life from the back of a uh pizza box or not a pizza box a cereal box and it was like a uh like one of those it was sort of like a broke knockoff lego set but i said so i had to send away for it it came and it was like a tiny it was like five pieces that they gave you like that wasn't even worth this the postage yeah it took. Yeah, exactly. Some bullshit. My mom got to be on a billboard once because she won a radio station contest. Oh, that's tight. That is very good. I've never won like a-

Yeah, she just had a bumper sticker on her car and they like found her or whatever. I won a raffle at my block party in 97 where I got a basically industry copy of the batman forever soundtrack and by industry copy you knew because they drilled that hole in the barcode in the backs because you're like this shit was not bought from a store this shit came out the warner brothers offices um and i remember being like yo because i've never fucking won anything i remember looking at that ticket and i'm calling the number out and i'm like i'm in motherfucker get me that batman foreverfucking soundtrack. That was a good soundtrack.

I have another. Yeah, that is like, I wasn't Batman forever. I'm sorry. Sorry. So it was Batman and Robin. That's the one that had the fucking Lucy Silverstone. Yes. And also had a Smashing Pumpkins track on it.

That's a forgotten bop. Honestly, we just rewatched all the end is the beginning of the end is the end or whatever. Jack Pumpkin's track on it. That's a forgotten bop, honestly. We just rewatched all the Batman films. The End is the Beginning of the End is the End, or whatever I feel was the name of that song. The End is the Beginning is the End. Is the End. And that's a good song.

Was the movie better than you remember? I don't remember. I remember that fucking soundtrack. Bone Thugs. The movie is very, very silly. Like, ridiculously silly. Almost, I guess when when i saw it i thought it was fun like the joel schumacher batmans you know they are very campy but it was really really silly i i'm a batman forever dale oh yeah yeah for sure man forever is dope but ben like batman returns the dinosaurs? The Ice Age. Thank you.

I just love Jim Carrey. I don't know if I ever can not. No, I... Batman Returns is dope. It's getting to the point that, like, all, like, film people are like, Batman Returns is actually one of the best movies. You gotta check this shit out.

Yes. I know, I saw it bubbling when people... It ended up on a lot of Christmas film lists, I remember. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, okay, cool. But up on a lot of Christmas film lists. I remember. Yeah. And I was like, okay, cool. But yeah, that song by Bone Thugs. Look into my eyes and tell me what it is you see.

Man. 97, take me back. I feel like soundtracks are a nostalgia. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Because I think the deals are just different now. And people are like, I don't know if I'm going to license my song for that thing when I can make more money by not having it on this compilation CD, essentially. And also, gone are the days of like, yo, Puff Daddy made a song just for the new fucking Avengers movie.

You know what I mean? Yeah, because it was Come With Me was the fucking, my God. People were like, what is Diddy doing? Yeah. Okay, another pitch. If you opened a Blockbuster in LA where you could rent a wireless VCR that could be attached to either your TV via Wi-Fi or Chromecast or something like that, I feel like people might be into that.

What if we just, I think the other version is just put vhs quality things on netflix yeah like it's a thing like just be like you want that shit 4k 1080 720 motherfucking vhs bro but the experience of going to blockbuster i feel like people still fuck with yeah that seems like a bit of the mall thing. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I mean, these kids, these teenagers, you know, they don't know the struggle of going to Blockbuster on a Friday night and everything's out.

All the new releases are out. Oh, you want to play Earthworm Jim on Super Nintendo? See you in seven years, motherfucker. Because somebody been re-ranking it. Get on the wait list, bitch. Would you like 35 copies of Titanic, though? Yeah, it's like...

Because we got that. No. Actually, just crush me under a pile of Titanic VHSes. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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