The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 179 (Best of 6/7/21-6/11/21)

Episode Date: June 13, 2021

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So, without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Her Twitter account was named one of the 75 best Twitter accounts by Pace. Please welcome the absolutely hilarious Marcella Arguello!

Beep, beep, beep! Yes! Hello. Hi. Sorry for being outdated. What is this show even about anymore? Just getting people's stats wrong. So you won six or seven times?

One of the funniest things about Jack is how his whole... He's just so muted and the vibe is just real chill. And then when he is doing that introduction he goes for it and it really gives me some insight into what's happening in the bedroom with his wife so that's right i'm just into it you know i like it i love to admire another year out of nowhere yeah exactly you get you can't and miles is like the same at all times which is really i wonder what you're like with your parents you know what do you like with your parents yeah i know i just annoy the fuck out of them i was gonna say are you an only child

yeah oh okay that explains it all right end of conversation i'm not interested anymore there we go miles turns it on for his like friends parents I've seen him like run into one of his friends, parents, and like a sandwich shop. And it's just like, shout out Darlene. Yep. Darlene Chin.

We caught it. And I'm like, Oh, cause you know, sometimes it's weird when you see people out in public. And most of the time you see people you don't want to fucking see in public. But sometimes you see like, you're like your homie from high school's

like mom you're like oh my god darling what the fuck bitch bring it in you're not talking to darling like that are you no no i said hi darling how are you okay there it is okay oh you come here too you work around here hopefully i run into you again yeah. What was that sound? I was trying to hold back the laughter. I thought there was some animal dying. No, that's me going. Oh, shit.

I do animal impressions. Damn, yeah. We got to add that to the intro. Also, fantastic animal impressions. Oh, yeah. We got to add that to the intro. Also, fantastic animal impressions. Oh, shit. Damn, that is really something. Who's a chihuahua is that? This replaces Mariah and Beyonce.

No. How dare you? You need to apologize to them. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah.

This is a lifetime of being terrified of conflict to a pathological degree. Do you ever go through an emo phase, like a Gothic phase, Jack? No, not really. I went through like a, just. I think you grew up in the Midwest too much for you to get emo. No, there's plenty, plenty of emo. in the midwest too much for you to get emo no there's plenty plenty of emo i wore cross colors and like carl can i in a town that was like the whitest town in the world and that was kind of my emo phase that was like everybody was mad at me like including my teachers for doing that you didn't get dark you got black that's right he went another direction yeah that's funny marcella what's new we're still in the middle of a pandemic why are you asking me that nothing is new there's nothing

to update i got trying to set up these hookups with these dudes and it's just not working out and i'm very annoyed you know i'm just coming to people's towns and i'm trying to you know make something happen and it's not you know know, I'm just upset. Just upset. Does it feel like the energy is different out there with everyone being vaccinated or it's just kind of the same story? Well, I mean, I'm just trying to not hook up with strangers because, I mean, first of all, men lie.

So, like, I can't trust some stranger to be like, yo, I'm vaccinated. Yo, I haven't been in contact with anyone. You know, it's like like that's out the window so i'm like trying to hook up with people i like pretty much have known or like really like you know kind of trust in some way and it's just not panning out and i'm like really like what is even out there what are the options you know right guy i'm just saying guys you guys are lucky to be in a whatever you want to call it but how do you like triangulate like the people you know you feel like

you have enough uh like mutual friends or whatever to be like okay i think i can kind of understand or gauge how honest this person is i mean if i've known them for you i have to know i have to know them for years to be like this can be a fine one night stand you know because i've had i hooked up with homies and it's fine and then i hooked up with homies and it's not fine and there is no there's no kind of navigating that but you know it's also at a certain point especially now through the pandemic it's like people are definitely approaching everything a little differently you know everybody's just like yeah sex okay yeah let's just do this i don't even want you know i mean oh sex yeah yeah no sex for sure. Yeah, for sure.

I mean, but that's the other problem is that, you know, some people, they lie and they're like, no, I don't. I just want to do this. And it's like, no, you don't. They're like, I've loved you since the first time I saw you. And then they're like, I just wanted you to rip me apart. They don't want that. I'm telling you right now.

You fellas are too sensitive. Oh, shit. Fell fellows are too sensitive daniel we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are okay well it's what's it's it's my current state in life as well a little bit of like what i'm going through i don't know if you guys are hip to this or not but recently as of like two days ago but it's been ongoing before and since then i searched tips for renting a car in kawaii uh-huh are you guys familiar with what's happening in this country and specifically hawaii right now yeah that there's just oh complete rental car. There's no cars. There's no cars. You have to rent a U-Haul, right? For example, I, during a year ago, almost, I think exactly a year ago, pretty much,

I rented a truck, drove to Rochelle, Illinois, picked up my pinball machine that I had sold to have money to move to LA and was able to buy back from the person I sold it to. Wow, I love that. And I drove it back out here and I rented a F-150, unlimited miles for like, I think 12 days. I think it cost me $160, right? Wow. That's where we were at. Obviously that was pandemic pricing, but in a normal year,

I bet that would have cost me like maybe 400. And I rent cars a lot for being on the road and stuff. So I'm versed. Car rentals, if you can find one in Kauai, are going for about $750 a day. A day? A day. So guys, here's the thing. They don't have cars anymore.

There's no cars. I'm not joking. They They don't have cars anymore. There's no cars. I'm not joking. They just don't have it. Every single car rental place of every size and make of car is gone. So now everything's gone to Turo, but there is nothing on Turo. You can find cars for like $150, $200 a day, which is a good deal. And it's like a 2012 Scion XB. It's like a 2008 Saturn. And I'm not joking. And you're going to spend, if you're going to

usually go to Hawaii for at least five days, you're going to spend close to like a grand. Now, there are almost no cars left on Turo. So the next place you have to go, if you haven't gone the U-Haul route, which some people have gone, is Craigslist. And this cottage industry has been created with people just renting their cars. And you see everybody from being like, hey, here's my 08 Corolla. If you want to rent it, call me. To other people who have said, here's the... In the ad, Craigslist ad, it'll'll be like here's a link to our google doc you fill out the reservation form these are just people like yeah cashing in because in the you know so much of that economy relies on like tourism a lot of just people who worked in the restaurant just like

took a big hit so this has kind of become in a good way i i actually feel like like a windfall for them to be able to like make money back just on their own cars that they have. But I've gone so far. I am not a wealthy man. But when you look at renting a $1,200 for seven days in Kauai, I looked on Craigslist, guys, and I was like, do I just buy a $1,700 car and then I sell it to somebody else coming to kawaii or i give it to i like work out a deal with somebody who's running one of these things and say like hey i'll just trust you you i'll leave the car here you rent it out and then give me some sort of money off or or whatever at this point you can be like yo dude i'll pay your car payment for a month yes right you just give it to me for like two weeks because that's not even going to match what the rental rate is. And I know for you, your calculus is that car payment.

Why don't I take care of that? And you can have it most of the month, actually. Dude. So real quick story. I know we got time to get to today. So I go out to lunch with a friend of mine and we're hanging out. Didn't even dawn on me until we're sitting there. I go, oh my God, you have family in Kauai.

And he goes, yeah, I'm from there. I was like, I totally forgot. I go, what I'm about to tell you sounds crazy. And he had not heard anything I just told you guys. He goes, let me call my family. I go, if they'd let me rent one of their cars, if they even have one, but I guarantee you, they already know about this. The island's so small and it's all over every island in Hawaii.

I go, they already know about this. They might already be doing it all over every island in hawaii i go they already know about this they might already be doing it or if they have an extra car i would rather pay them he goes let me call my uncle i mean i don't know he's not too like tech savvy i bet he doesn't really we'll see right we leave lunch 10 minutes later he calls me up and he goes so i just talked to my uncle his car is rented the first three days you're gonna be there he already was on this he goes he said uh he said his uncle told him yeah he didn't know anything about it but his neighbor approached him told him about it and his neighbor's running everything and then they just split some of the money but everyone on the islands is doing this so my current search history is renting a car yo i know there's zeitgang in hawaii because y'all came through for me when I was out there like a year ago.

Look, if you got the, you know, you got the lifted Yoda, bro, on the low for my man DVK, hit us up. Please do. I am desperate. You down to ride in a Yoda, bro? Yeah, for sure, man. They're going to be, hey, who's that holey in the Yoda? Wait, what's a Yoda? Toyota. a toyota oh yoda yoda because i'll be on i'd be on hawaii tiktok too you know i see how i've been on it too i love that when they start talking about their yodas i'm like i love i love the vernacular the slang you get from regional tiktok if somebody out there

is a good person be nice to me and wants to throw me some tips i am open to any and all possibilities it's a free-for-all but also i want you know i'm happy to take care of somebody otherwise what you just use uber right yeah that's a whole on kawaii it's so remote yeah exactly yeah i looked i was like what if i went from this place to this place because i'm obviously uh very the lead i'm planning on going to Kauai later this summer. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. And so, um, I was like, what if I went from there and it was like $60. All right. At that point, if I go round trip, that's 120. I can only go to those two spots. Maybe I do rent a car for $150 a day. That's like an old, I don't know, Yugo. I love a good cottage industry, man. That's the best

that capitalism has to offer is just like spontaneity, hustling. Yeah, and I'm the same with you, Jack. I'm all for it. I'm like, hey, I got to assume I'm trying to do right by people, so there's got to be people out there that would try to do right by me let's all help each other and everybody yeah as long as you're not being like yeah three grand a day you're like okay well come on now

back in the day though that's like the way that people got rich in california like the reason stanford university exists is because somebody came out here and just started selling people like shovels and shit. Yeah. Yep. That's who made the most money. And now, I mean, you would be like stomped by some big capitalist force. Big hurts would just like destroy you. But back in the day, that's how

capitalism worked and why it worked. Yep. Yeah, that's dope. What is something you think is overrated? sir i think weirdly the opinions of twitter scholars have become so overrated now because we used to live in a world where like people only spoke when they really had something to say right and like you had to like go out of your way to like get published and like prove that you were smart and blah, blah, blah. And now it's like, I don't know. I just feel like, I don't know, even like Malcolm Gladwell, who I think is very smart and respect.

Like anytime he has an opinion on anything, I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I think. How about this? I think you should only have an opinion about things that we know you're an expert in. But like when people are like, cool recipe. I'm like, i don't want to hear this you know what i'm saying like i don't just leave me alone or like or just like this idea of like let me tell you a story and then you see like parentheses thread and you're like no i saw this thread we're just like this very prominent black scholar uh i'll i'll leave his name out of it but i'll text you guys on the side of course and tell you of course you know

this is like someone who you know during the uprising of last summer and all this stuff is it you know pretty it has some pretty poignant and smart things to say but then he goes on a thread about how he was walking down the street he started speaking to a home uh an unhoused person i'm sorry and um the person's like hey i recognize you you're so and so the professor and like educator and he's like oh yeah that is me how'd you know who i am and the unhoused person said to him, said, just because I don't have a home doesn't mean I don't have access to a library and to

knowledge. And so then he ends the thread by saying, he's like, so I gave that man the $4 I had in my pocket. Then I went home and I donated $200 to my local library. And I was like, you should have done that in reverse.

So you gave someone who's living on the street four bucks who knew who you were! Right. It's so... And I was like, see, this is why I don't need to know anything about anybody. Please, just like...

I think you should get on Twitter if you're an expert of any sort and be like, again, like, yes, aliens are here. Here's the proof. Or like, hey, this is how you can save some money. But like I anything else where like, especially when they like give you these glimpses into their personal lives, like me and the spouse headed up to so and so i'm just like neil degrasse tyson's the worst of it i think oh my god yeah you know i'm just like like if your personality is ruining movies which are like objectively like just the easiest thing to enjoy like outside of candy like alright yeah I think I'm out you know

Neil deGrasse Tyson is so I feel like there he's like a reason I used to be interested in space and then one of the reasons that I no longer engage with space news like I went all the way around on being interested in space because of him exactly

so yeah I would say space because of him. Exactly. So yeah, I would say that the opinions of experts, the personal opinions of experts are overrated. What is something that you think is underrated? Chocolate mixed with fruit.

Okay, mixing it up. Okay, so sweets are overrated. up. Sweets are overrated. Chocolates mixed with fruits are underrated. I love it. I love it. Okay. Go on. Just walking contradictions, y'all. What's fruits? I hate... Okay, I'll say this. I don't like orange and chocolate. Never

was able to get down with that. If it's overly citrusy, I've had trouble. I appreciate that. My brother's the same way. Oh, okay. and we don't know what happened to you guys uh that ruined you but uh you know it's i i feel you a little bit that like that having those like strands the citrus like fibrousness used to fuck with me a little bit to combine that with chocolate but i got over that real fibrous i would have thought it's the acidity that's that could also be it that could also be it yeah is this also this feels like the most curmudgeon-y conversation to have about sweet

how do they make you feel what's your ideal fruit chocolate combo berries berries with milk or with dark chocolate always dark chocolate wow okay uh miles so do you don't fuck with orange and chocolate is there a chocolate fruit combo that you cherry ones that make sense like you know bananas and chocolate like i i can get down with that like a chocolate banana crepe you know what i mean like when i'm in japan i eat that like yeah like they're so good yeah like you know that's when i those combinations kind of get to me but yeah i don't it's it's really because i remember once like some like european orange chocolate or something my parents had laying around the house and i thought like oh here we go chocolate and it just felt it was such a violent combo in my mouth

that I was like I can't this isn't my childish mind cannot handle this combination it's a lot of acidity yeah it was a little too much a little too much so you're just talking about like a chocolate from like a box of chocolates that had like an orange cream filling is that no or like they have ones that are

innately like infused with like it's like an orange chocolate. Yeah. Or like I've had the ones where it'll be like candied sort of citrus fruit with chocolate around it. And I'm like, what are we doing here? Fuck that. I'm a purist. You know, I'm a little I'm a little close minded when it comes.

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And we're back. And there's a new conservative answer. New absurd conservative answer to the 1619 project yeah yeah i mean look we don't have to spend much time on it because as we said we've discussed all the time that you know systems of oppression they maintain their power when people are completely made ignorant of the context the history the pervasiveness and then it can just be like i don't know what's going on that's why the 1619 project is so hated so hated by racists because just a clear light on the you know origins and machinations of

star-spangled racism that we have in this country and it takes away like a lot of lazy talking points like when kids are like well slaves like were educated or like civil war was about agribusiness no no no no, no. You should actually, that's what someone told you because they don't want you to know how horrifying this entire institution was. So again, we've seen a lot of people, you know, whether it's the UNC Chapel Hill trying to take away, uh, Nicole Hannah Jones, uh, tenure and things like that. People are scared of this because it's just true. It's just truth telling about our history. And so Greg Abbott in Texas is now doing his darndest to have his own version to obscure

the racist history of this country. It's called the 1836 Project, which is a reference to the Texas fight for independence. Or you could just say, you know, colonialism and empire, because, I mean, you could look at the Alamo and say maybe that was actually the worst blunders in military history was completely told a different way to create more energy's history to Texas residents, largely through pamphlets given to people receiving driver's licenses. It also awards students on their knowledge of the state's history and values. But some of these specific bills that are part of this House Bill 3979 says, quote, it will limit how Texas educators can discuss current events and racism in the U.S. The 1836 project also requires the promotion of, quote, the Christian heritage of the state. Uh-huh.

You know, Nicole Hannah-Jones rightly pointed out in a thread that this is nothing new. There have been gag orders on discussion of abolition or like anti-slavery talk since the beginnings of this country and this is yet another form of this where they're trying to be like hey let's uh let's just we're gonna steer this conversation where we need to uh and set rules on how much truth you can tell people yeah there's a uh there's a talk about underrated movies there's a 1996 movie uh lone star that where the like struggle to tell the story of like texas history like figures prominently that's right really good but i mean it's like that whole like the whole idea of you know a lot of texas independence is completely stripped away all of the racism and what was you know saying the idea that before all of you know like the

timeline of saying like well it was the over overstepping of these governments that like created like this tyranny that they had to fight against. They already had plans to steal this land from way before any of that. And using things like we're taking this land because they're, quote, lesser people. It's all steeped in racism. And of course, yeah, maybe you should probably get ahead of your own. You know, like there's no there's no clean state history in any state, really. You really want to look at it. But Texas has a lot of nerve, let's be real. Like most of the academic books we use for grade school kids

come out, are published in Texas. Yeah, they have outsized power for it. Yeah. Yeah. And the way those things describe what slavery was, it was work for immigrants bananas you know the way they try to constantly obscure and put down juneteenth celebrations like this is this is a not a people of texas problem but a government of texas problem i would say and it's just absolutely it's hyper

frustrating i guess just to i mean miles already said it like it's nothing new but wow the audacity to be like uh you're super in-depth well researched verified work like life's work cannot be taught because it offends my delicate sensibilities i don't like when people talk about racism it makes me uncomfortable that it black people already have so little history like specifically in this country that we can look to with actual names and dates so much of our stuff has been erased that we're historians are literally guessing you know what recipes were martha washington's and which recipes were her slaves right and and trying to differentiate so that his work can be honored and respected and taught. And it's, it's, it's really frustrating

to have to sit and listen to people in power, try to continue to erase the little bit of history that we, we can trace. yeah well especially because it it goes it runs afoul of the mythology of these places where it's like you see just good good good old christian people trying to forge our way through this country and when we did it like this by you know scaring off people with violence um and we don't want to talk about how much so much of everything is either stolen or exploited from the work or labor of other people but that's just the pattern that we'll can like it's we'll we've we'll never break that cycle even how we look at things today we

have you know there's videos going viral of people who are gig workers begging for better tips because the wages they're paid to deliver food are not enough to survive and we're still like you know some it's just like oh wow that's that's a problem but maybe in this very singular thing rather than like no we have a history of doing this like this is our entire country just built on this and we still can't zoom out enough to really take that all in and begin to do something better yeah and then they call the other conservatives call the other side snowflakes and claim they're overly sensitive they're like oh y'all can't handle history okay damn all right there's a new pro publica report i want to talk about real quick uh that basically is illegal what they're doing uh they're republica yeah they're basically revealing

these dudes tax individual tax information they're like we're not going to tell you where we got it but their argument is that this has greater public value than like not doing it essentially that like there's enough public value uh so it's not I mean, it's not illegal. Like, it's just when they interviewed Bloomberg's people, for instance, they were like, and we think this is indefensible to reveal the tax information about private individuals. So they'll probably be sued over this. But it's worth it. That's what I'm saying like if you actually if you want to actually do stuff that's for the greater good it gets you into trouble because the people in power are corrupt pieces of shit that of course don't want this shit revealed like that's exactly speaking to what i just said it's so frustrating it's this evil cycle so it's like shout out to them for actually fucking doing this yeah yeah

absolutely well tell get us angry jack what is it all right all right so yeah not to overcomplicate this because it's like evil as fuck but basically what they did is they looked at not just that go up in value and you know they become they make a hundred billion dollars in value in a year but they don't actually sell that stock so they don't have to pay taxes on that um and so just to put that into perspective uh between 2006 Between 2006 and 2018, Jeff Bezos's wealth shot up by $120 billion. And again, our brain can't even process what $120 billion means, but it's just an unimaginable amount of wealth that could solve world hunger like 10 times over. Meanwhile, typical Americans his age paid more in taxes than they saw in wealth growth. That is for every $100 of wealth growth over that period, a typical American paid $160 in taxes. Bezos paid $1. So we're paying, the average American is paying more in taxes than their wealth is growing over a period of time because the way that most of us make our money and grow our wealth is through our income. like Bloomberg, are all just foregoing an income, basically,

but still making billions and billions and billions of dollars through growing their stock holdings. They are able to pay less than we are. And so think about if you only had to pay $1 on every $100 that you made. Don't even say that shit. don't even say that shit don't even say that shit it's so funny because everyone's first fucking brutal lesson with this fucked up system that we have is when you get that first fucking job and as when you're whatever age you are you're a teenager whatever and you're like fuck yeah i'll make x an hour times everything i did oh shit i'm getting like 200 bucks in this check.

And then you get it and you're like, what the fuck is all this other shit they just took out of here? I thought I made this money. And then even to know that these people are like living the fantasy version that we were as kids where it's like, okay, yeah, maybe like a dollar comes out. Like I could fuck with that. Not 26% or whatever the fuck it all ends up being oh it's fucking infuriating and also leaves me again that we have to start bullying these motherfuckers yes thank you so that's what we were talking about yesterday is just we need to make jeff bezos the most hated person on earth and then make sure he knows that

because he clearly looked good on that Megan Thee Stallion cover yesterday. He clearly wants to be liked because he's risking his life to be liked to go to space. He is clearly desperate for public approval. I mean, even the way he dresses, you can tell he's desperate to be liked. What a loser. He's been lifting weights and eating almonds for the past like 15 years to try and get ripped which is

like nobody wants to see that man but like that's i think it hits him up inside that people like elon musk even though i think they should but i think he really is like fuck man i'm cooler than elon musk like let's do a video i'm wearing a cowboy hat and drinking a beer with my brother i barely talk to that's what i love about this report is that so rich people have been taking advantage of america's sort of you know being just incredibly horny for individualism like and wanting to like lionize anybody who becomes a public celebrity so they make themselves public celebrities elon musk hosts snl bill gates gets to like lecture on anything he wants to give a speech on and like assume to be an expert warren buffett gets like a flattering documentary on hbo

and pro public is basically using the fact that they have created these public profiles for themselves and being like, that is going to make sense to people. how much this individual motherfucker like is stealing from you right basically while you pay more in taxes than you actually make right so in a way you should be able to pull up to one of these people and be like where is my lamborghini yeah because you that's at minimum that's what we're looking at uh that you've siphoned out from me so let me get that and i'll be god damn that's where i wish again there was just places where you could run into these billionaires and I have all their goon, like IDF, former security guards,

like harangue you were trying to keep you away where you can really get in Jeff Bezos space. You want shit. And everybody knows you a fucking fraud. I mean, shout out to that dude who slapped that French. Macron. Like God,

we, we, we wish we all wish. Yeah. Shit shit i mean god knows how he's gonna be punished but like damn like that's the shit we do wish we could yeah like straight into my veins you're like yo you smacked your look you wanted to smack the shit out your leader and you did that must have felt fucking good it must have felt real good i'm just thinking about because these numbers are crazy they pay a dollar for every hundred or whatever the fuck right and it reminds me i because i keep thinking about how miles to what you're saying like when you're a teen but when i was six my like we on halloween halloween was a day i learned to hate the government was my dad would like have i told this story before i don't know but like my dad at the end of trick or treating,

we had all our candy out and he would walk through cause we'd be trading our candies. He'd be like, tax man's here. I'm here to take 10%. And I was like, no! 10 is all the numbers I know.

That's all the numbers. That's huge. And he would, he would take, and he wouldn't just take some of like the like the gross circus peanut candies he would take like some snickers and yeah i mean yeah he would but he was like you gotta learn about uncle sam you gotta learn how the government works i was like i fucking hate the government when i was six years old because my dad taught us about taxes

and it really like it's just it's wild now that i'm an adult to be like this shit is so fucking corrupt and it feels so out of it's just so out of hand and again which is going back to the same point it's like we need people really in the system that aren't fucking trying to all be aoc and like actually like infiltrating this damn system and it's so frustrating and you know i can't say too much shit because i was like 25 when i was like because i was like you know doing going to marches and doing this and that and i was like do i want to do this and really do this or do i want to pursue comedy and selfishly i was like i want to do comedy because i do want to be happy because i saw the like how fucked up and deep and how unchangeable things really seem and how it felt like even if I got into politics, like even the most change I could do would still leave me really fucking sad.

Yeah. You know, like it's really shitty when you think about how fucked up it is because it's like you know my family's from el salvador and like the shit that's going on in el salvador right now is like so crazy and it just every like every topic we talk about all you guys talk about on this show it just it's like fuck man it's this shit is relentless relentlessly endless you know like ah it's the end we're just waiting for i think we're waiting to die that's what we're doing we're waiting to die or just like the tone of what we talk about to always be the pressure we're feeling is because the weight of the wealthy is being just put onto

us all of us they don't do shit they just take every day they're the same people who pay our fucking cut our paychecks but at the the same time, they don't pay shit. Yeah. This whole thing is built upon exploitation of your work and your wealth and things like that. And I think right now it's much easier to be like, fuck, man, I want to make it like Elon. Right. I want Warren Buffett money. That is, you know, and that's like that.

And I think that is because we're the most propagandized fucking beings on Earth that we can't even be able to like only a few people are like, no my shit in comedy and just do whatever the fuck i wanted to do it was because i realized yo this system is it can't be changed and it can't be infiltrated like the real substantive change is going to be like when you know american people begin to understand how much we have to work collectively to be in to be like oh shit they figured out how to fucking stop working and put the brakes on do you think the pandemic opened a lot of people's eyes about that yeah for sure yeah i don't know i don't know where we're at now like what that means measurably yeah but you can tell just from like reading like profiles on people who like after the pandemic were like yo

i'm done doing this other shit like i'm done being a bartender actually like it's too much work i don't like the energy but people are pivoting to like i want to organize uh better outcomes for people who work in bars like that's more fulfilling to me and i think i think once people get i think for yeah the churn of capitalism stops for a second and people were like yo what the fuck matters we do yeah i think the only thing i would correct in what you said is that it's not that it's impossible to change it's that the change that we desire is impossible to see in our lifetime but i definitely think that the change will be small but it will be needs to be constant and needs to be um with as many people that i don't want to say think like, but have maybe progressive ideas that go in there and they

do the best that they can with this fucked up system. Because hundreds of years of bullshit. Yeah. And I think as you see it play out in more places, because it's not just people in the inner cities and things talking about gentrification, you're seeing it happen in Ketchum, Idaho yeah or like it's near like where all these celebrities and like rich people buy properties and it's driving up the cost of living for just these normal people in this small town that like their town is like yeah man we're thinking of letting people pitch tents and park their rvs to live there because we we haven't we don't have any regulation on affordable housing that like even people in these

midwestern places, what the fuck is this? Like, why are wealthy people allowed to just turn up the rent prices on us out of fucking nowhere? Like, we're the people that serve them and they want us to live in fucking tents? And it's like, yeah, man. Oh my gosh, this is so crazy.

Oh, fuck. It's just the limitation of the human mind. Like, I can't conceive of a billion dollars nobody can conceive of a billion dollars who doesn't like have a billion dollars like no it's and the most money i can conceive of is like that scene in blow where they had all the fucking cash in like legal boxes and i'm like oh that's a lot of money but that's the most i could even fathom for money ever think about like how you could spend all all the money you could possibly like get your mind around in a single year and you would still have hundreds of million dollars left over. Yeah, that's fucking crazy.

When I worked when I was a bank manager, it was I was like responsible for wiring like millions upon millions of dollars every day. That was one of the things I had to do the first thing in the morning. it fucking fucked with me man i was like i don't understand this i hate that i have to do this i'm really like i felt like i don't want to use the term slave because that's the you know little little overzealous but it's like it just felt i just felt i felt so small like a surf in a medieval oh my god it was the beginning of me starting to be like, I do not want to do this. This feels so fucking weird. It feels out of touch.

It feels unnecessary. Like also, what are these companies really doing? You know, because I mean, if you know anything about anything, you know none of these companies are just fucking clean all the way through. It's not possible to have that much money and not exploit labor and and people and it's just it's so it's just bizarre the money and we and what's fucked up is that money isn't even real it's a

concept that was created right and and yet here we are it's controlling everything it's fucked up yeah i mean just think about the amount of money that people are making off of moving those wire transfers from one thing to another compared and like not adding value to anyone's life other than their clients or whatever. and actually serving a purpose in their communities don't make shit and then are made to pay 160 dollars in taxes for every hundred dollars of wealth growth. And that makes them hate taxes, which the billionaires use to their advantage by being like, yeah, taxes suck. Am I right? Let's let's get rid of all these high taxes that are killing us. Am I right? Elon Musk didn't pay any any he paid zero dollars in taxes in 2018 milkshake these assholes you know i also was i'm just like we would respect these people a

little bit if they were like okay i'm not gonna pay taxes but i'm gonna give this city a million fucking dollars like when tulsa tulsa and you know they have their issues but they they put that park together out there it's this free park that's available to everybody and it was like the wealthy which I'm assuming it's like the guilty white people you know it's their money and they open this insanely huge but free outside park that is available and you know for anyone to use and it's beautiful and you know the historical implications are there but i was like well that's fucking nice but these millionaires did this because the city needed it and and again it's tulsa so they have their own bullshit yeah that they haven't dealt with anything where they

can just sort of wash over their own acts by doing like these little yeah but i i just like as and it's not like the best use of money but i was just like that was the first time i was like oh yeah so millionaires billionaires can actually do something for cities they just choose not to like it was just that room that's that is how i felt about it when i got to like i mean i enjoyed it it was you know got to see it before it opened and that was cool as a comedian, but it definitely like fucked me up. Cause I was just like, are these people and their money? It's just too much.

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that they were just going to be like, we figured out it's aliens, y'all. That's what it was. Anyways, yeah, it's just more confirmation of what we already know, which is that we don't know anything. There's no explanation. Was this coming off the Big Tic Tac? Is that related to the Big Tic Tac from a couple years ago i loved that big tic tac yeah they're not gonna tell us what's going on with the big tic tac yeah you know they never tell you what the big tic tac really is and and i'm sick of being teased about it i want to know what's in there i want to know who's in there i would be i feel like honestly best case scenario is it's aliens but probably it's not and it's something really scary inside the tic tac right i just i'm like just do what y'all gotta do at this point that's how i feel

about it like if y'all if it's aliens do what you gotta do if it's just some weird secret society with future tech do what you gotta do but like the teasing it's like just leave us alone like you know what i mean like just do the thing like do the thing right do the thing you need to do but like just like moving in shadows and you know the fact that we have to hear marco rubio be like i'm the guy to talk about it. You know what I mean? It's whatever you're trying to accomplish is already not being accomplished because he's now involved with it. You know, now that being said, if it was like a dream scenario, it would be really funny if they were just like, we're angels. And everyone's like, my god i mean i think that's what i do think that's what the conservative side is hoping for because like

i'm seeing this covered in conservative media as it's not aliens y'all because they didn't say it's aliens people are like see we told you it's not aliens. Which, like, nobody was saying that this report was going to be, like, aliens definitively. And nobody, like, I don't know. I don't know anybody who thinks that, like, yes, it's definitely aliens. It's just, like, I'm intrigued by the fact that we don't know what the fuck it is. Like, that's interesting to me. Oh, you don't think it's aliens? I don't know what it is. I honestly don't know what the fuck it is like that's that's interesting to me oh you don't think it's aliens

i don't know what it is i honestly don't oh i i i don't think there's any other answer like just i well i just think statistically it's like what are we what are we doing right like what do we think it's it's either and this is like, so this is going to get really convoluted for a second. But it's like, either we are becoming closer to viewing an objective reality, right? And because we're getting smarter and we're viewing an objective reality, we're seeing things that language has kind of sliced from our purview by learning certain words right you know like and again noam chomsky and a few other people talk about you know how like language dictates literally what your reality is yeah right yeah and it's like the world is completely different from us to a spider to a dog just by like the mental fitness that you have right so so it's either that or it's aliens but

like i i mean what's the is the other you know like option on the table that it's what it's tech from a different like country yeah i don't i don't think that's likely or at least i hope it's not that but i think that's what conservatives hope it is because that takes them down a direction of we need to tool up for the coming World War IV or whatever. Yeah. But yeah, I mean the- Against them Chinese space ships.

There's just, I agree. There's like an overall hopefulness to, at least the reason that I hope it's aliens is that they are just observing us or doing work in the background that suggests that our fears of a warlike alien species that's going to come and murder us all might just be us imagining like a future based on our history like the further back you go the more warlike humanity is and like there's reason to believe that the further we progress the less likely we'll be to intentionally kill each other which would be like this group or whatever entity that's behind these things like is much more advanced than us and maybe they're just i don't know like maybe this is just the equivalent of like a fish seeing a person snorkeling you know and they're just like what the fuck and then they disappear and you're just like

huh well that was weird you know it's just i don't know. I mean, I've heard I feel like whenever UFOs come up, like I obviously they exist in some capacity, but they're but they're never like the study of UFOs aren't helped by the people who super believe in them. Because anyone I've talked to that is like UFOs are a real thing are like objectively a scary person that I didn't want to spend a lot of time with. a scary person that I didn't want to like spend a lot of time with right but but it is I mean I don't I'm trying to remember what movie is making me think this but the like I've definitely seen it like proposed in like bullshit theories and pop culture stuff where it's like oh it's the American government and then they make the report to make it seem like they don't know what it is but they do know what it is and it's like whatever peeing in the pool yourself make it seem like they don't know what it is, but they do know what it is. And it's like, whatever, peeing in the pool yourself and then being like, feels like there's piss in this pool, which I've done.

Just pulling from my lived experience. Right, right. But I don't know. I mean, I hope it's aliens. It's like the little, what was the Amy Adams alien movie? Arrival. Arrival. The aliens came and they're like, we're friendly.

We just want to let you know you're going to date Jeremy Renner. It's like such a weird, here's my problem with that movie. It's like, so they had to come to us. They're an an advanced unstuck from time civilization and they had to come to us to get help

in 3000 years like it's just like I was like what are we doing here it's just an impossibility you know what I'm saying like if someone came to me right now they're like hey i'm the smartest living creature in you know the known universe but i need your help in 3 000 years i'd be like you're lying like there there's nothing i

there's nothing i'm doing 3 000 years from now that i'm not doing right now you know what i mean like this is i this is the peak you know and so uh that's that's yasser's critique of arrival a movie that came out four years ago your silence was definite i i feel like these have more in common just based on like the one anecdote that's like unequivocally uh it was like a fighter pilot who like went up to it and it just like kind of circled in front of him but like almost like playfully and then just like zipped away it really reminded me of like a spielberg alien like just like kind of a friendly like goofy alien who's just like yeah you know playful and then

just doesn't want anything to do with us really at this point, which. Well, so I read this report in Popular Mechanics, you know, years ago, and that's kind of what they propose. Right. They're like any advanced civilization is knows we pose no threat to it. Right. So they're sending satellites there. You know, like there's not an alien in that. Space cart going going like whoa cool a pilot like you know what i mean right they're looking at us they're like this place sucks it's like smoky and dirty like let's get out of here bring our little drone back or whatever you know and like i i think that's the biggest thing but i don't i i think that's probably the most sane version of it but i don't

think you can even propose that version without like three of my neighbors walking outside with a rifle right now and shooting like it's just like if we're like no no no they don't care there's not even beings in those things they'd'd be like, it's space Mexicans, you know? And it just don't, you know, like it's just, we're dealing with psychopaths. There's just no way to be like, oh yeah, no, it's there. They just happen to be smart and checking us out. You know what I mean? Because I'll also say like, even if it was your neighbor who you've known for years, if they were like, hey, I'm just coming by your house to check on things, you'd be like, why?

So the fact that it could be an alien, I get the anxiety. Looking in through your windows. Yeah. Hey, hey, just wanted to make sure that everything was A-OK over here. We cool? All right. That's going to do it for this week's

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