The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 177 (Best of 5/24/21-5/28/21)

Episode Date: May 30, 2021

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Miles, we are thrilled and fortunate to be joined in our 30th by one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmore, the mountain featuring the faces of our fan favorite Daily Zeitgeist guest that's being built in my garage out of Legos and Play-Doh and spit. idea of all time in which he watched grown-ups to sex in the city to once a week for a year till death do us blart which is going to be going on for the rest of his life i believe once a year he will be watching paul blart too until he expires um he is the hilarious stand-up comedian who you've probably seen making fun of American accents on his Comedy Central special. Yeah, what the fuck? The fuck is up with that, bro?

He is the brilliant and talented Guy Montgomery! What's up? Oh, wow. It's all true. I just think you guys talk funny. Obviously not to you, but to me. What's the funnest sound americans make i i you're always like oh i don't know i don't know

oh because the thing i love about kiwi accent is saying like when chips kind of becomes chups Kiwi accent is saying like when chips kind of becomes chups or like any of that orange that, you know, that sort of Australian Kiwi sort of sound. Yeah, those are my favorites, but I guess it's just our, oh. Yeah, we swap a lot of I's for U's. Yeah. We don't even know we're doing it. And when we do it, no one down here polices it. We all just sort of, we know what each other is saying. You get it.

Right. It doesn't sound odd to the Kiwi ear, it turns out. I hadn't thought about it, but without traveling and our borders being closed, there's been a lot less sort of teasing about our hilarious cadence. Right. You know, we've all been striding around the country talking confidently. And I get an email that says, you want to come on the Daily Light, guys? And I say, sure. That sounds nice.

I'm sure that won't be damaging for my self-esteem. Right out the gate. Here we are. We've had enough of your confident speaking. Hey, sick deck you built out here. Nice cock. What? Wow. That is not that's why people get new zealanders to say nice dick oh right the the belief is that we're describing a um a penis so penis obsessed as a people yeah that's all that's all americans wait so i mean the middleman guy were you joking or not

you're saying like tourists come and and clown your accents on your land or not your land but you know the where your people settled uh people yeah yeah australians mostly australians are like um there are high school bullies they're like you are australia to canada oh right so like so it is kind of true like that relationship that they showed in flight of the concords yes they love to ruffle our hair and tell us it's all okay and it was all okay comes over yeah yeah before they ruffled our hair it was fine uh we like to ask our guest mike what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I was searching the Clippers because I was trying to find a way to watch the game. And I don't have cable or whatever this Bally's network is that apparently bought all the Clippers games.

Oh, yeah. That like bought Fox Sports or whatever. Yeah. I have no idea what's going on. I learned all of this very quickly last night when I realized that a national playoff basketball game I couldn't watch because I live in the city that the team plays in and I don't have the right wires coming into my house. Yeah, right. Yeah, there were a lot of people talking about like how they ran the NBA scheduled the Lakers game and the Clippers game at the same time. Same damn time.

Yeah. It's pretty ridiculous. Yeah. It's pretty ridiculous. And I know there's a lot of puzzle pieces with stuff being on the West Coast and, you know, all the moving parts with all the games.

It was the first round, so there's like all of these series happening at once. But you figure they wouldn't even be on the same day. Right. Let alone at the same time. Tiger them.

And this is game two of round one. This was unavoidable. It's not like this is, you know, one team's in the first round, game seven, and the other team's in it. Like, this is just straight up. This was the plan all along. Mike, are you a Clippers fan? I think so. Or I thought I was.

Now I'm just confused, man. I'm just confused. Like, I have no idea what's happening. They seem cursed. Yeah. And it's like, I feel like it's too dangerous to root for them now. Because who wants heartbreak that is for sure coming? Right.

And for people who don't know or might not be interested, you know, one of the big things going into this postseason with the Clippers is that they tanked. They tried to manipulate their record so they wouldn't have to face the Blazers. They didn't want they want to avoid stronger opposition. So they wanted to face the Mavericks. And now they're down to nothing in the series to the Mavericks. They're getting their asses handed to them by the people who they who they chose. Right. And and it's weird because I was talking to Jack earlier off, Mike. I was like, psychologically, you don't want to go in like strategizing.

If your intent is to say, no, actually, I believe this is the team that's the best in the league. It shouldn't matter who the fuck you play because at the end of the day, you're going to prove that through your wins. But to then strategically avoid, oh, Ty Lue, come on now. It's rough. Sorry, buddy. But, you know, maybe he's just a undercover Laker in disguise. It's rough. Sorry, buddy. But, you know, maybe he's just a he's an undercover Laker in disguise. It's so it's so wild. Like the the fact that the Clippers are down to to to the Mavericks to like a team that I think I think most people had the Clippers winning that series.

It really does make you ask questions about like the psychology around both that, like the team that you're playing realizing that you wanted to play them because you didn't respect them enough right and then the psychology around like playing for what is supposedly a cursed franchise well if you watch the last dance i think what we should all take away is you don't make people angry on purpose right don't do that yeah because they will make up reasons have a good job of turning that into fuel yeah yeah like they i think there's a reason that the team that broke the curse for the boston red sox were affectionately known as the idiots like there's like something psychologically complex in sports about like playing for a cursed franchise and you just

have to either like stupid your way through that or just had like through sheer tyranny of will like i'm sure lebron would be able to do that i mean he did that with the calves but not to piss off clippers fans even more but i mean come on uh what is something you think is overrated the los angeles clippers it's rough i think they're overrated? The Los Angeles Clippers. It's rough, man. I think they're overrated. So we don't have to stay on them. I just need to double down on it. We have three basketball fans talking right now.

And this is what's happening right now. I'm on the other side of that. Lifelong Laker fan. So I love it. This is when I become my most toxic because a lot of the times I'm, I love the relationship between like a franchise that defines themselves based on someone else. And I just love to see it backfire. But part of me also like on paper, I'm like, I'm like scared of the Clippers until I see the results. And then I'm like, Hmm, let's,'s well it's up and down okay they should be

one like really good i'll be surprised if they lose the series still because i just feel like kawaii will put it together but man it was the last person to go two games down yeah right yeah and then come back win so you know we'll see yeah are you feeling i mean what's i mean you mike you look lost even as we talk about this, I feel like you're watching old Darius Miles highlights playing through your head. Well, I mean, I did have to watch the game in my own mind last night. That is part of it. I couldn't actually see it. So I'm just watching Google for information and live score coverage.

I don't even know how to pirate stuff anymore. Oh, that was a tough realization. Really? See, I didn't know. Allegedly. stuff anymore. Oh, that was a tough realization. Really? See, I didn't know. Allegedly. Don't get me wrong. But also, hey, Zeitgang, holler at Mike on Twitter with some info because there are plenty of ways. Because it's the same thing like Spectrum Sports.

They're like, oh, you're a Laker fan in L.A.? What, do you want to watch your team? Where, yeah, you have to just work around these greedy broadcasters. Yeah, I got I got caught out there yesterday. I didn't know what to do. So, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I only caught I caught like highlights.

And then at the end of the Laker game, they like cut to, you know, they started watching it on the TNT or the whatever. Yeah. So you could get like the last couple of minutes where like Charles Barger, like, oh, man. last couple minutes were like charles barkley like oh man and they weren't even it was funny because they were they were just watching and they weren't really giving commentary but it was commentary and that this is what it sounds like when the four of them are watching something passively right lakers fans uh miles you said you were a lifelong lakers fan and that that's true you had to live through those tough times when they were 500 where kobe was still putting up like 81 and no stop stop stop i was here i was you were there

that one year when magic johnson like was uh lakers fans are so i know my fucking history man like i've been fucking down i've i've held ashes in my hands and been like, what is happening? And then, yeah, the pendulum swung the other way. And now I'm using this to completely become an insufferable fuck. Well, I'm a Bulls fan, so I have no sympathy for you at all. We haven't won anything in my adult life. Yeah. The one loss in the playoffs, the Lakers lost their first game of the playoffs and i was

getting the texts from uh lakers fans being like what is vogel doing right away these people with no passion no context of what a postseason even looks like right it's like we only did a couple times i think it was like against that one series against iverson where we like went winning every single game on the way to the finals. And then when we lost, we're like, oh, yeah, that one loss again, like one of those hard things that Lakers fans had to live through when they lost that one game to Iverson. must have taken your faith you swept everyone else that year but yeah i mean these are the same people who were texting me last year being like vogel should be fired like halfway through a run to the playoffs where they won the championship and they're like back they're like this guy what what is he doing it's like you'd think that it would build up faith but i don't know lakers fans i don't call for heads like that. I'll let it play out. Anytime somebody's coaching LeBron,

part of their job description is to take all the blame for everything. Because we all think that LeBron's really coaching the team and that guy's just standing there with a red board. That's right. Like Ty Lue. LeBron. He's like outside the huddle. They're like, yo, can I playdle. Jumping on someone's back.

What is something you think is underrated? I think it's underrated. And this is again Grey's Anatomy related. And that is all you will be getting from me today is Grey's Anatomy content. So I hope you like it. It is underrated that I really like that men have to be hot now. That's nice that that standard has now been applied to all genders. It's just that everybody has to be hot because it used to be that if you were watching a movie and they introduced a guy,

you couldn't tell if he was supposed to be hot until you heard the music cue or saw the main character's reaction. Because a lot of the time they would present you with like a really average looking guy, right? Not an ugly guy. Just a regular looking guy. Yeah.

But then the characters would be like, Oh, he's fine or whatever, you know? And you'd have to see that to know because they were just like, yeah, we can't find any hot guys we just don't know where to find them or the now or the white guy who like the white cis

heterosexual guy who like was directing the movie just like didn't give a shit was like that guy's probably hot right yeah this guy's fine or the director's like the guy can't be hotter than me because i want to think i can fuck these people in my mind. Right. Also, where would we be without this move? Someone lowering their glasses? Yeah, we'd be nowhere. Excuse him?

Miles just had some sunglasses, just pulled some shades from the ether. I've got all kinds of props around here. We can do a terrible improv scene. Mustaches. Wait wait now he has giant scissors what are you doing with those giant scissors cut it out jack i felt like on sex in the city though too that's when i would always see like norm core ass dudes and they're like oh fuck and i'm like why can't you suit and he's a lawyer like what are y'all talking about yeah it was but it took their reaction for me to say like oh that's what's hot and then for you to

understand what's supposed to be hot actually now that you say that i think about the confusion that overcame me as like a pubescent boy being like this is what they're feeling like this is what's hot i'm like oh i'm in trouble then because then. Because I don't look like some fucking little league coach. Well, sometimes I would see that and I would be like, am I hot? Because I'm hotter than that guy, you know? Yeah. I don't think I'm hot. But, like, if that's the standard.

But there is a completely different standard for girls and guys. And now because of, you know, now we have YouTube beauty tutorials. Nobody has an excuse to not know what to put on their face nobody has an excuse yeah how to alter your face with paints how to moisturize your skin how to dress all this information is on the internet now and uh it's also thanks to a lot of people working very hard there's more people of color on tv so you don't just have to go with the best looking white guy now you can go with the best looking any race guy which really widens your field to the hottest of the hot yeah i mean reggae john from uh fucking what's the bridgerton bridgerton

i remember getting a fight with her majesty i was was like, yo, you think I could be in a show like him? And she's like, hell no. I was like, thank you for keeping it 100, though. I get it. He's beautiful. Anna is yelling in the chat to be hornier when we talk about him. I am horny. This is the most specific note we've ever gotten from Anna.

Be hornier. Anna is consistent with this one. This is the most specific note we've ever gotten from Anna as our producer. Be hornier. Anna is consistent with this one. She's like, if we're talking reggae, John, get the horniness up. Right. Hold on. I'm going to my Zoom recorder and turning up the horny dial. It's difficult to identify with when you're talking about him and just not being horny.

Look, you're either going to get horny or you're going to get down on yourself. I turned off my sploosh mic so you can't hear. Yeah, yeah. The sploosh mic that we do usually ask that all guests have a sploosh mic. Yeah. It's a lav.

It's a lav. It's a lab lav. It's a lav clip to my lab. It's actually one of those omni mics that they use in NFL games on the sidelines. Right. Yeah. Focus sound no matter what.

Just a mic. I shove up there. Channel two. But I turned it down. I turned it way down. From my production people out there. Chris, what's something that you think is overrated? Celebrities.

Oh, wow. Yes. Even though you have a famous Twitch show, Cold Brew Got Me Like on Tuesdays, Even though I myself have wanted my whole life to be a celebrity

because I thought it would solve all my problems. My whole life, I thought that I wanted to be a celebrity because it would give me love without me having to do any work. Right.

I have found out that. Also, I used to be an alcoholic, Joel. You don't know. So as part of my alcoholism, I was like, what better way to be an alcoholic than be a celebrity? Because then you have handlers. You have like a team, you know, of the neighbors. RDJ met his wife that way. Who did? Robert Downey

Jr.'s wife was his handler. There you go. And that's exactly right because I don't want to have to meet people. I don't want to have to put myself out there. I just want my handler to fall in love with me because I'm a celebrity. Done. That's exactly right. That's what I wanted. And I'll never, I'll always have love and I'll never have to do any work. And no rejection. No rejection.

Who's going to leave that orbit? Everyone's favorite place on Earth. The land of no rejection no rejection who's gonna leave that orbit everyone's favorite place on earth the land of no rejection and failure exactly also the land of no action as well it's weird how that works right but i mean no one's gonna leave your orbit of your celebrity because it's unlimited snacks until your twitch show cold brew got me like doesn't start doing as well as you used to then you'll see who's your real friends there's always there is always a cliff bar within reach when you're a celebrity for free yeah and that's enough to keep your significant other around even if you're a monster even if you're a monster you're like he freebases all the time but

i get free cliff bars yeah and these like backpacks we get for free i don't know yeah and free back like cologne and stuff and like free i can only was mug that you can charge your phone uh by plugging your phone into it i got it i got it at the kids choice awards so anyway the idea that celebrities uh first of all yeah because as an addict you're thinking i used to honestly think that like listen if i get out of hand i can go to a you to a mud bath or whatever. It promises. Yeah. You know, right.

And they'll just call it exhaustion. Right. And then I can go back to my other lifestyle. So and they'll also like I can go to the doctor whenever I want. They can check if I'm dying or whatever. And then they say you're not dying. And then I can do coke. You know what I mean?

They'll also fill out descriptions for you. Well, hold on. Whatever pill you want. They got you. You're not dying, but your heart can't handle any kind of amphetamines. I will say that. You don't. Yeah, all right, Doc, but I'm not dying.

That's all I wanted to hear. Oh, right. It's not a deep. No, it's not. It's a good idea. Any of it. None of it's a good idea at all. I mean, it's a terrible idea.

Yeah, that I'm going to do coke and then find out if I'm still alive and then do coke again. But I really wanted to. I thought, figured if you're rich, you could have a doctor in your house. I mean, look at Michael Jackson. Poor Michael Jackson and his own doctor. It was who's like you know give me propofol and he's like i can't say no to the king of pop yeah what are we gonna say no to someone yeah i was like put me to sleep motherfucker say no at all but yeah put me to sleep what did you so what happened did you come out the other side what's your vision now that you have this take so here's my take my take is that it was seeing that it was seeing the the academy awards What happened? Did you come out the other side? What's your vision now that you have this take?

Here's my take. My take is that it was seeing the Academy Awards. And it was lovely because it looked ridiculous. It looked ridiculous. Everyone involved in it looked like an egomaniac. No one wanted to see Glenn Close do Da Butt or whatever the hell she was doing. That was awkward. Yeah, it's because they're fools.

Celebrities are nothing but the worst of us in a way. I mean know i'm not saying they're not talented some of my love but the culture is absurd and this pandemic revealed celebrities to be just what they are which is completely narcissistic versions of ourselves and and once they were stuck at home they just look like assholes because they were just like kind of people like they were just like kind of people i gotta settle down i got you because i remember when they did that uh imagine all the people video at the top of the pandemic that's exactly what i was thinking in my head was gal gadot when i was thinking that shit right yes it's like this person just spends too much time on their makeup and their hair this is not someone i should be my that should be my hero even doing their own makeup and hair listen celebrities have far too much time because people will a organize their life be they're the revenue stream for like at least

six people once you're like at a certain level of celebrity and those people are going to make sure you get to where you need to go so don't worry about driving anywhere they're gonna send a car for you uh your hair and makeup they'll do that if you haven't showered they might even scrub you or they'll just deal with your stink whatever is easiest for the general team right they're gonna pick up your clothes you don't have to worry about that people we talked about this the other day we were offended when a celebrity came to our office and had to pay for their own parking mortified we're like what's happening why did that happen they can't pay they couldn't possibly this person exponentially wealthier than any of us couldn't possibly pay for it it's the whole world opens up to you and it's like on the one hand

you don't want to feel bad for celebrity because they have all of the options right and so of course not but at the same time like that world is so preconditioned that once you like if you're even just a little bit talented and you somehow get swept up into this thing like that's it you're off the extra exceptional celebrity may be like you know what i don't like a shenado connor was like i was really smart to tear up that picture of the pope because i just got to go back home and show where that's where i like yeah that was interesting like i made a smarter decision for my career by stepping out of the spotlight she got canceled so hard for that she's like the only person who really got canceled in history. Well, that's not true.

Yeah, there's a few articles. I saw that. I don't know if people remember Sinead O'Connor. That was a cancellation. Oh, yeah. She got fucked just for ripping up a picture of the Pope, which is completely righteous. There's nothing wrong with, I mean, in retrospect.

Even at the time, I was like, who cares about the goddamn Pope? It's like tearing up a picture of Queen Elizabeth or whatever. Congress people who are like, well, they may have been 17 at the time, I was like, who cares about the goddamn Pope? It's like tearing up a picture of Queen Elizabeth or whatever. And now we have Congress people who are like, well, they may have been 17 at the time. I don't know. Is it trafficking? And we're over here like, I don't know. Yes. No, yes, it is trafficking.

There's not debate for this. But to your point about the celebrity thing, yeah, it's, you know, on some level, it's like, sure, the people themselves that they become whatever celebrity culture makes them right you know because it's not that they're like on some level yes some people who get reach that level of celebrity will begin to really i think switch gears into what they believe a celebrity is and then you always have to look for people who try and maintain their humanity through it oh yeah there are like versions where i'm surprised at how like humble some people are not to say that it's all varying depending on who you are but

that there's also just like this thing that they also are uncomfortable with what celebrity culture is and what that means to other people where some like you know you'll meet people like no i'm just i'm just a person thank you so much like i can get that Thanks. Shout out to all the celebrities who refuse to show their kids. I feel like that's mainly who we're talking about. Celebrities are like, no, my child is not a commodity. It's a person. Please leave him alone. Let him develop in private. But I think we also are learning, like you're saying, Chris, too, that when we're all stripped down to like what we really need as human beings,

looking at celebrities, like it just feels very vapid or it doesn't have any substance to it or nourishment because like you're saying it's like these projections of our own egos that we wish to maybe be or can't be therefore it's easy to be invested in this version of a person that we think

you know it's also to be sympathetic to them the new media landscape has made it so like say the Oscars's also to be sympathetic to them. The new media landscape has made it so like, say, the Oscars. It used to be like Best Picture. You really were often like, oh, wow, those people really did some work, you know. And now Best Picture is like Mario Kart starring. You know, it's like it's like Glenn Close. I don't even know why glenn close dude

did the butt i didn't even watch it but i saw you know all the takes of course because i'm our best friends and he called her up and he was like yo glenn please please do this for the best friends no they're not i'm making the story i was like that's a better version of snoop and martha i'm like that's kind of a very elevated duo there like i'm actually like i want to see that dinner party so anyway my punch line that i wrote down was basically during the pandemic i found out that the real celebrities are deer and bears wait i'm hiking from hiking i was so much more excited you know who's got more to offer you know who's got more to offer than glenn close to and to butt a deer a real deer in the forest so what i'm saying is i just realized that the real celebrities are animals yeah like actual animals in nature birds and shit i'm so much more excited to see a bear I saw bears

Joel I went hiking a bunch during the pandemic for the first time and that was just a shift you know what I mean I guess my point was you know what who's not I don't want to see I love that I'm just making this all about Glenn Close doing I don't want to see

Glenn Close I didn't even see it I just saw the takes i never see anything i just see the takes uh so i never watch anything anyway except for enough time except for i'm too busy looking for a diner audio from 1976 right man ordering eggs 1974 rough audio raw raw footage of man ordering eggs so anyway i i just think that for me there was a shift toward like uh you know away from celebrity culture which i liked because i like celebrities too and i love pop culture but it just shifting to the woods literally you know was kind of fun i'm waiting for the first bare vogue cover uh exactly i would vote for Christian Siriano to style it. Let's go.

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And we're back. And let's check in with our old friend amy cooper i mean she's like maybe she her face is definitely on the like mount karen more like of the most famous karens yeah i don't know it's kind of a weird time because she wasn't like barbecue Becky or some of the other ones like Lemonade Lisa, some of the other famous white women who would just sort of, you know, metal and just call the got the reaction it deserved and for if you don't remember it's christian cooper he's a bird watcher he was in the bramble of central park where it's posted everywhere you got to have your dogs on a leash and a lot of bird watchers like to go there and when your dogs are not on leash they can chase the birds away and now you've got a fucking day wasted because this person got the dog off the leash so if you remember the video was him just being like, hey, do you mind putting your dog on the leash? Like, you're not supposed to have the dogs off leash in this section of the park. And she's like, oh, oh, oh, this black man is attacking me.

Yeah. And then, like, you know, if you remember, she was like yanking the dog around by the leash. And people were like, yo, yo, yo, you're not even paying attention to your dog. You're just like flinging it around. So it led to, you you know she lost her job believe the dog was even taken away because they're like you don't even know how to handle a dog on a leash um and you know she and she even had a kind of apology that she did publicly i'll read it just so you can because i think this is a good primer to understand where she's at now so the starts off really clear i sincerely and humbly apologize to everyone especially to that man oh okay okay kiki bomber oh i'm sorry to that man

uh and his family it was unacceptable and i humbly and fully apologize to everyone who's seen that video everyone that's been offended everyone who thinks of me in a lower light and understand why they do when i think about the police i'm such a blessed person i just i don't even need to read anymore she says i've come to realize that i'm afforded a different luxury in my interactions than with the police than other people might be and then ends it with i reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about the about his intentions when in fact i was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash i'm well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive statements about race cause. Cut to she's suing her bosses and former employer for wrongful termination and she was discriminated against.

Oh, no. Yeah. She's really the victim. Let's think about it here. I mean, she, you know, poor thing. Yeah. I think her lawyers are that band Prodigy who are like, inhale, you're the victim. OK, yeah, that's right.

This is in her lawsuit. She says Franklin Templeton is a company she worked for, characterized a former employee as racist for calling the police on a black birdwatcher whom she had words with while walking her dog in central park oh okay they're saying that was the problem is that they categorized it as racist amy cooper said the may 25th incident was spurred by her fear of the bird watcher christian cooper who she says had a history of quote aggressively confronting and quote dog owners for walking their dogs off leash she even goes on to say that she can even back up her scary black man claims with a testimony from a fellow black man that would also attest to christian cooper's scariness for being like hey have some respect for the bird what like i don't i don't i still don't understand what is so scary but yeah that's it i'm wondering if like

part of their strategy is to wait a year and hope that we don't remember what we saw in that video. Cause like she is talking to the police and being like a black man is like, I forget if she says accosting me or attacking me, but whatever it is, she's definitely weaponizing the description of this person on the phone to the police, which is why everyone's like, you know, you know what the fuck you're doing.

You're saying I can call police and that's why you should stop telling me what I can and cannot do. That is not your place as a black person telling me a white person whether or not I shot my dog on the leash. And that, you know, is what it boils down to. And even her employer was like, yeah, we we're like we don't have anything to say the video speaks for itself right end quote her lawyers fucked up because it should have been like we're suing her workplace for discrimination they were discriminating against cuckoo for coco post people are you kidding me my god that's what the discriminator should have definitely used that language too it's a mental health issue after all yes general mills brought to you by general mills oh shit yeah she's also suing for her lost wages and like a bonus that she thinks she would have got uh 2020 okay i'm sure every every company is doing buku numbers in 2020 uh she also says like

determination caused obviously much trauma and pain and distress as well this lawsuit is not busting busting respectfully sorry it's so funny because she it's like we're watching someone like find out about the internet in real time right but i feel like this isn't even the internet this isn't like a clip taken out this is a three minute long clip where her actions are so clear so she's claiming that she was discriminated against by like someone showing her behavior to lots of people. That's the only thing that happened.

Look, I'll play the video really quick just so you can hear. In her lawsuit, she's like, you should play the whole 911 call. The video starts off when she starts charging at him for being like, yo, can you put the dog on a leash? Please don't come close to me. Please don't come close to me. please don't come close to me please don't come close to me please don't come close to me please please call the cops and i just call the cops

and the dog is like yo you're lifting me off the ground threatening me right there is an african-american man i'm just like i'm not sure if you heard me motherfucker threatening the dog at this point she's literally holding the dog like off the ground i forgot about that part and again i'm sure yeah you need the whole 911 call but regardless nice try uh good luck to you in your endeavors you want to hear my big conspiracy theory hot oh hell yeah all right she you know that thing happened a year ago she she gets famous she gets infamous right all right that dies down we have other things to think about she's like all right everyone's you know

thinking like all right how do we make money off this woman she's the most infamous person and like there's like you know 10 infamous people a year right i think she's trying to make a podcast i mean oh yeah keeping her name up there yeah i mean when i saw that this headline from our outline central park karen reemerges in her final form written by uh miles gray i thank you was almost certain that she was going to be speaking at like cpac or like some some like conservative convention like it's possible yeah totally uh also super producer justin uh is pointing out that she did get her dog back oh thank god dog was like fuck really within 10 days of the incident okay so look look people everyone lost their cool huh amy let's

just let's just call it bygones i don't know what i mean this is the the crescendo to be speaking at cpac you know just like with the mccloskeys who are like pulling guns on protesters and we were predicting we're like, they're speaking. I was just flippantly. I was like, they're going to be at CPAC. And they were, I mean,

the second she starts taking it to like cancel culture or like the liberal media, she's not, there's no buzzwords like that quite yet, but I'm sure, you know, that's because her fed up talk with all the conservatives her ted nugent talk oh god all right i wanted to give a quick update on havana syndrome like do you are you familiar

with what havana syndrome is no when i read this outline this entire paragraph fucking terrified me there's like three different points in it i just like broke out in tears so so there were diplomats just like the real quick thumbnail version there were diplomats in havana at the start of the trump administration who started feeling like they were being hit with a sound beam basically uh they were feeling like pressure changes in their brain they were suddenly like had vertigo like even after the fact I've been in between like thinking that it's like could be a mass psychogenic illness like basically a a mass panic thing and not because I think like people are being babies but because I think the placebo effect and like the power of the mind to

create actual physical symptoms in our bodies is like highly underrated. But the, so the new Yorker differs with me and I've always said they were hacks, but they, they believe that this shit is going on. They kind of wrote an article that went with like the cia take on it that they're they're being attacked by uh probably russia with microwave weapons the new yorker the cia is still kind of on that path and they believe that it's actually spread now to being at people being attacked while working at the white house

and there's been like people suffering from similar symptoms uh i still think the symptoms are like kind of vague and weird and you know it's just very diffuse which is which is what i think which is why i still kind of lean towards mass psychogenic but um so what the u.s is doing now is they're going to try to create these weapons because so that's the other because that always works that always works out great so that that's the but that's the thing that is so weird here is that science doesn't have an understanding of how a weapon like they're describing could do the thing that they're claiming it does. And so now they're going to build weapons that they think can do this with microwaves and train them on primates brains basically to try and recreate the symptoms, which is fucked up. So do we mean like

when they say microwaves right how close is this to the thing that you know you heat soup with in your kitchen like how how like what what is what is the the different differentiation there because i refuse to believe we have consumer technology that has not been tested for use as a weapon yeah i refuse to believe that that is the case. I think they're much bigger. One of the criticisms of any theory that this is a real weapon being used on people is that you would need a thing

that would take up an entire hotel room to create the level of radiation or microwaves that would cause this sort of injury. And after it happens they just like disappear and it like happens in all sorts of places it happens to people like while they're walking on the street it happens to people while they're driving in traffic again the white house which like you would think is pretty secure like that it's happening to people there there's also

the fact that what this is happening at the same time that we're seeing things that science can't explain happening in the sky and now apparently in the sea, over the ocean, and under the ocean. There's now a submarine data that suggests that, similar to the flying Tic Tacs, submarine sonar has spotted things moving through water at speeds that don't make scientific sense and so it's a weird moment where suddenly like the military is just coming out and being like uh yeah so like we don't know but this shit is weird uh and they're doing that on like a number of fronts so you could skeptically say like they're using this as a ploy to make people scared to create like another arms race with instead of the soviet union like a imaginary threat thanos right thanos basically but it is it's still just kind of a mess like the whole story just like the reporting around it it's still scary though it's still just kind of a mess like the whole story just like the reporting around it it's still

scary though it's scary it's very scary these words are very scary there's something about increased white matter in here i don't know what that is what's white matter right so that's the thing like they talk about the people who suffered the injuries when they examine their brain on scans they seem to have uh increased white matter which or decreased i forget one of the two but it's a bad one where like the thing that connects thoughts is not there as much as it should be oh no it's important yeah exactly wait what the thing you said they're trying to re-reverse engineering and test it on primates you said yeah okay so that's the beginning of planet of the apes is it right there you okay so that's the beginning of planet of the

yanks is it right there you go is that what the fuck's gonna happen like you're like oh you just supercharged their brains up right i don't know what that's i just that's what i'm hoping for fingers crossed it does seem like yeah this would be a great origin story uh at the same time the it's probably just uh going to make those uh primates lives shitty uh for the rest of their existence like it has for the people who work in the state department and again by saying mass psychogenic illness i'm not saying this is something that they could just snap out of um sounds like what you're saying you sound like you're saying they're whiny yeah exactly get it yeah stop whining.

Couldn't be me. Right. I do hope, though, that this does lead to, I just want to see a silverback gorilla rip off parking meter out of the fucking sidewalk with concrete on it and just like chuck it through like an armored sheriff's car. Yeah. You know, like when these primates are unleashed. I'd like to see that from afar.

Yeah. I think I'm actually just, I'm just thinking of things i've seen in planet of the apes right yeah yeah yeah okay so those first planet of the apes movies are dope yeah i i would suggest you watch those oh great wait movie yeah yeah yeah uh the what the franco and then the uh other one those are those are pretty cool all right let's take a quick break now that we're all suitably terrified and we'll be right back.

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and we are back and the olympics are almost here oh my god which is wild i i don't know i guess there's usually like this impending media like cloud that seems to always be looking forward to the olympics and in america at least i don't know if that's how it is in new zealand guy but like i the winter olympics you realize it's happening once it's started and it's on TV and people are suddenly talking about it. But the Summer Olympics, I feel like, is always a big deal with a lead up in the media and in the sports world. There's qualifiers or that kind of thing. Simone Biles, the greatest U.S. gymnast of all time, maybe the greatest gymnast of all time has been like doing this routine on the vault that is like unprecedented and that's that's really the only piece of mainstream news i've

seen that like kind of crossed over into the zeitgeist where i would have been like wait why are we talking about gym gymnastics again oh there's an olympics coming i also realize how ignorant i am too with gymnastics because like simone biles just does things so effortless i'm like okay yeah that looks normal right right right and then and then i remember i think it was like franklin leonard past guest or someone was like can someone explain to me like i know this is historical this double pike your chenco that she just busted but like i don't i beyond just seeing that looks like just some very cool shit. Well, then someone's like, check out Mary Lou Retton's 1984 vault that got her a perfect 10 in 84.

And you'll see how much the game has changed. And then you watch the tune like, oh, OK, right. She just came up. Mary Lou Retton just came up to the vault and then did a somersault underneath it. And that's what got her a perfect 10 which is my famous vault routine. I think it was the judges first time

seeing a gymnast. I think that was the first event. Oh yeah wow pretty good. Whoa holy shit. There's an interesting thought experiment though that if you only watched Simone Biles then you'd be like God wow incredible what all gymnasts can do. Right, right.

And that is kind of how it is. That's the only thing that me, a non-gymnastics follower, like really sees is the greatest like single acts of. Yeah, I'm sure that's true of like all sports. I mean, it's like anything, right? Like someone might watch Jokic just land a weird shot. we're like, yo, that is difficult to even take a shot like that. Or people who play, you know, who think soccer is easy. Try trapping a ball that's coming from, you know, just 40 feet above your head and effortlessly just trapping the ball. There are so many little skills that like, yeah, that are born out of ignorance.

just trapping the ball. There are so many little skills that are born out of ignorance. That's why I'm just trying, especially with Simone Biles, to inform myself so I can truly appreciate just how next level this shit is. What you're talking about is very exciting to me, Miles. Hopefully there's some sort of large-scale international platform where the best athletes from every country

can represent themselves and show us these different skills. Well, Guy, you are in luck, friend. Because Japan, Tokyo 2020, even though it's 2021. That's my favorite thing about these Olympics. It's like they think that no one is going to remember COVID. Like when we look back on this, we go, that's right. Those went ahead in 2020.

Those games are going to be asterisked to hell. You know what I mean? Like when you're looking at a, do people still look at almanacs like i used to when i was playing in san diego but the whole thing with this is like right now tokyo is in terrible shape japan is in awful shape in terms of the covid situation the vaccinations have like stalled out less than five percent of people have their first shot major metropolitan areas have declared states of emergency the osaka hospital system they said is completely under strain if not like on the just brink of disaster because of the amount of people that are having to be admitted and the united states government is even telling america's like don't even think about taking a trip to japan

right now don't even try it even though yeah we we're probably the worst place on Earth to go a few months ago. But don't even think about going there. Is that to Americans or American athletes? To Americans. Now, the United States Olympics and Paralympics Committee has said, Don't even think about not going. Yeah, exactly. Simone Biles, you better get your ass on that plane.

Right. Because we got work to do. But yeah, obviously the people representing the athletes believe that it's going to be a perfect bubble. No problem at all. Don't even worry about it. Meanwhile, the polling shows that even the people of Japan, look, on the other side of this prior to it i spoke to friends and family in japan they were like oh the olympics are coming that that'll be fun because again any opportunity for nationalism japanese people love you know i mean i think like most countries but you know for japan there's like certain sports where we really excel so this felt like a good moment now 80 of the people in japan are against hosting the olympics this year 40 want a postponement. 43% want a complete cancellation. So, you know, but since a lot of money has been made, what, are we going to reprint these t-shirts?

No. They printed 2020. The t-shirts become more valuable. Yeah. I would love if these got canceled to get my hands on some Tokyo 2020 merch. That is a hot ticket. Whose spearheads of cancellation? Is it the IOC?

Is it the Japanese government? How would that actually function? I think that would have to come from the IOC because the Japanese government has not put up any resistance to the games. So it's going to take the executives for the ioc to wonder is this worth it i don't know i don't know what their calculus is it probably does have to do with the amount of fucking merchandise that's probably been produced with the numbers 2020 on it or some shit but i don't know like i mean i would be interesting though too to see how many athletes if any refuse to participate they're like yo this is just're like, yo, this is just reckless.

I'm sorry. This seems so reckless. I don't know if you want me to put myself at risk and other people. Like, no, I'm off this. The athletic cycle of an Olympic athlete is so, like, they've got such a limited amount of opportunity to be the best at what they do. And also, so many of the sports that take place the olympics are just so you know like they're not there's not a light on the show on

them in the three years in between every ceremony their careers have the life cycle of a cicada it's like you get this one chance to come out every every four years and so i mean i can i can understand purely from an athletic perspective how some of these people are like i'm god damn i've been working so hard for this i just want to go to the olympics once like i might be there one opportunity and then but you i mean it i i feel like it's it's just it's ridiculous that it's happening and it's it sounds like yeah money drives it and if it's going to go ahead then an athlete's going to be like, well, I have worked towards this. They're putting it on.

I'm not going to not go. And then it's sort of a similar thing happened. I don't know if you guys, you almost definitely don't. The IPL, the Indian Premier League, it's a T20 cricket tournament that is the most expensive in cricket. It takes place every year in India. And they, in the face of what was ostensibly look like the worst covet 19 crisis that happened across all of the pandemic was

raging through india and then they created this biosecure bubble and like you know millions if not billions of dollars are being spent creating this league and you're they're playing cricket and what is a biosecure bubble and then like it's so incongruous with the news you're reading about what's happening in india yeah and then about halfway into the tournament there was a biosecure bubble breach and all of a sudden that highly contagious strain of covid is ripping through the players and then all of them are panicking and trying to get charter flights out of the country and you know i mean that india didn't have the the facilities to you know take care of its citizens the people who who live there and i i just can't have a feel like you're

going to see i mean and i don't know if the ioc pay attention to that they must have because it's the only other massive multinational sports league that's trying to take place in the middle of a of a hot spot but yeah it is a very damning warning and advertisement for what is almost inevitably going to happen if these games go ahead. I don't know what you can do to prevent that. I mean, I think in their mind, they'll be like, forget that example.

What about the NBA bubble? That worked, huh? And they're like, well, don't, that's not, hold on. So you're selectively picking anecdotal evidence to justify this? Why, Miles, is the number of vaccinated people stalling at under 5 percent? Is there opposition to like getting vaccines or? I think it's just the distribution is just not happening as efficiently as it can.

But, yeah, just I think just getting it available has been the hardest part. Right. Right. Yeah. All right. Well, staying on sports in American sports over the weekend, it was kind of a surreal experience where suddenly fans were back. and Madison Square Garden in New York City, where the New York Knicks play, was packed to the gills with people screaming and shouting and not masked up and packed to the main. Sorry, not the gills. Yeah, I was going to say. Real horse's ass on that one.

There was a golf major, and it went from there not being anyone on these courses, like watching the tournament to like an unprecedentedly drunk and like out of control crowd, just like crowding the players and like pouring onto the course. Like, I don't know. My dad watches these.

I don't watch them. My parents are staying with us and that he was just, he was like, I've never seen anything like this. They were like running up to the guy as he was like about to win the tournament, like patting him on the back and like grabbing him and shit. And he was like, what is happening? But it's I don't know. It's it's surreal to see that many people in that small space in a world where we know that the U.S. is not really doing like strict vaccine passport, like vaccination passport. You know, the New York Knicks and the New York Nets, Brooklyn Nets, who also had full attendance or almost full attendance. They had they said that there was like 90% vaccination, but I don't think they're

checking people's paperwork. Maybe they are. Maybe some level. I don't know. I'm trying to go to game three on Thursday. Of the Lakers? Yeah. We'll see. I know they just say pull up with your vax paperwork or whatever or like a negative

PCR test from within 72 hours but we'll see you know but people yeah i guess they are yeah but it's just it yeah but there is this energy though to the like the madison square garden game i could not believe what i was saying i think it's a combination of things it's that new it's the the knicks are in the post season again i think for starters mixed with just the post vax world that we find ourselves in but yeah it's it's i mean people are able to switch it up real quick i'm like just now being like a little bit more like yeah fuck it baby i'm feeling feeling safer ish yeah i mean the like uh i flew back east over the weekend and everything is like fully masked up.

And like, you know, when you're inside the airport, when you're on the plane, like you have to be wearing a mask the whole time. Still, somebody ordered like two drinks in a row and the flight attendant was like, why don't we take a break? Because you need to put your mask back on because you've had it off. Like having this drink for five minutes straight. Hey, maybe I need another one. I think that was also at play. But the situation is so bad on airplanes. I'm surprised you didn't see some shit go down because didn't a flight attendant get her?

I don't know if it was a flight attendant got their teeth knocked out on a flight recently. But that is so out of pocket. But they're still like making everybody wear their masks you know i didn't i i had a you know a fake thing covering conscientious objector card that i held up sir uh it is my right uh all right get off asshole get this asshole off he's saying some kind of body provenance weird i don't know what the fuck he's talking about but it's just funny that the place that they are letting people like finally experience the being in public without a mask is like this just unhinged like emotional environment where like it's encouraged to just lose your mind on the refs and the opposing players like the the next game they

were like chanting swears at like this young young this guy was like really good player young yeah and he did tell them to shut guy what's it been like for you man because i know you've been really quiet during this whole section because probably because you haven't i know new zealand's in a bad place you guys haven't had crowds in a minute so this probably sounds like found fantasy yeah yeah we can only dream i mean yeah we've had crowds at sports games since i feel like maybe july or august last year and um the plan was to, it was elimination. It means that, you know, watching these American sports games and stuff

and you see people like all these people who are clearly pissed up and packed in close proximity to people who presumably they didn't come to the game with, with a mask hanging around their chin or off in the air or like holding it to gesticulate. Just waving germs everywhere. Exactly.

No one's wearing masks at the stadiums because you have to wear masks on public transport. You have to wear masks on airplanes. But in the airport, you're not wearing a mask. I don't actually know what the functionality of it is. It seems crazy to me that you wouldn't wear one all the way through the airport if you've got this sort of idea. Just on the plane.

Yeah. But so, no, I mean, there's, we've even recently, we've started playing, there was a super rugby Aotearoa competition, which was like just within national borders. There are five franchises who play rugby against each other. And then in the last two weeks, we've got an open travel bubble with Australia now. So quarantine-free travel between the two countries. And we've started playing Super Rugby Australasia, I think is what it's called, or whatever. And now we're playing international matches. And you're watching sports games in Australia where, again, people aren't wearing masks. But I mean, it's like going to a sports game was one of the first things I did

when we got let out of lockdown. And it was like the sense of I can viscerally remember the intensity and the relief and the excitement and just, you know, being in a crowd and all of that emboldened and underscored by the fact that we knew that we had isolated, like that, you know that we had eliminated COVID-19. And so the consequence was not there. But I think it's just too difficult. I mean, your guys' experience of it and your relationship to it is so different.

I can't imagine how difficult it would be to go to an NBA game if you're in New York and you support the Knicks and you're at Madison Square Garden for the first time, what, what 10 years or something and you've just gotten out of your house for the first time in two years right you got to remember to fucking keep a mask over your your mouth like yeah trey young probably can't hear you the only way that you're going to get through them is if you can read your lips yeah right yeah it's it's a it's the assumed responsibility keeps getting passed down to the individual like it's it's yeah the same thing with just like with the cdc's bizarre like mask mandates we're like i don't yeah if you should well actually i don't know maybe if well how old your kid and it's like what are the fucking rule what the fuck y'all are that oh forget it essentially as a way to let businesses put it on businesses now to say that's on you to

decide because we don't we don't want to be the boogie person anymore for the chamber of commerce who is allowed like these politicians are allowing allowing them to put more pressure on us and the other people who are trying to do right by this pandemic yeah and also just box office continues to be you know it's not fully there but it does seem like the people who are releasing movies are getting a better return than like the Wrath of Man. Jason Statham's new movie is going to be the best performing Jason Statham movie to date, despite being like almost indistinguishable from uh other jason statham to a non-statham head yeah i'm not gonna sit by while you poo-poo the filmography of the great jason statham but like the met you couldn't get i could not tell you the difference between the wrath of man and the mechanic too uh like in terms of mechanic too

yeah oh no one of them is a sequel for a start yeah my bad but it's just i feel like people studios are probably realizing that they're leaving money on the table if they're continuing to not release movies like there's just no competition So you can really like do well. And Demon Slayer is continuing to, it's now made 45 million in America alone and is the biggest movie ever in Japan with a $400 million. And it's the biggest grossing movie of 2020. Wait till fast nine comes out,

Jack. Yeah. Then we'll start seeing, you know what i mean because the family man when your family or whatever the fuck that line what was it all of when you're here your family maybe that's all of garden not fast and furious yeah but it's i'm the two share remarkable thematic similarities it does i did like the energy around that fast and furious movie though is kind of funny to see like even though it seems jokey but this does feel like a good time for a movie like that to come out in the u.s for at least the people who want to be safe and go to theater but yeah yeah and new zealand they've been playing i'm sure they're doing it in america too you can go to

the cinema and watch all the fast films at the moment. They're just rolling them out. Oh, really? So cool. They haven't done that. That sounds great. That's a great idea. Damn it. Because you can't really understand. You can't understand F9 if you haven't recently taken

an F1 through it. Do I need to know the past material to understand this installment? Yes. What do you think? You're going to make sense of a flying car in the fucking sky? No. It was a light crescendo to this point. It's less

about the flying car and more about the relationships between the people in the car. In the flying cars. Right. You're hung up on the car part and it is what about the air between the characters and what's contained within and if people uh watch one through eight and have questions about why someone who always talks about family uh the vin diesel character who's obsessed with family never mentioned his brother before this one yeah you

know oh he has a brother in this one yeah bro john cena he should have also mentioned his brother before this one yeah you know oh he has a brother in this one yeah bro john cena he should have also mentioned his brother is john cena that's a fucking big deal that's uh that's an interesting casting decision okay yeah cool anyways guy have you is f9 out in new zealand no no not yet are you you just treating New Zealand like a fantasy world? Is Fashion Furious 10 already out there? Oh, man. And there's no COVID. That's cool. Although it's probably not as big a deal to have flying cars there

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