The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 183 (Best of 7/6/21-7/9/21)

Episode Date: July 11, 2021

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Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one non-stop infotainment laugh-stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Please welcome Anna Rubinova! Hey! Hi guys, thank you for having me. I didn't realize this was a singing podcast, but I am prepared to sing.

Go, yes. Let's do it. Yeah. Which Bernadette Peters song would you like to hear today? I guess your choice. Something from Annie? Dealer's Choice. We won't make you sing unless you really want to. Oh, wow. Wow. You're going for the movies.

Yeah, let's just guys. We'll we'll forget I ever mentioned it. Huh? So it's good. And where where are you coming to us from? I'm coming to you from sunny Los Angeles, California. Yeah. The palm trees today look frizzled. from sunny Los Angeles, California, USA. Hey, yeah.

The palm trees today look frizzled. The sky is a beautiful gray. Oh, wow. I think that means there's smog. Or dust or something. It might explain a lot of breathing problems. But yeah, just another gorgeous day in reality. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in New York. Okay. And then how do you... I've heard of that. Yeah. I've heard of that. So it's not just a rumor, but that place. It's a real place, huh? What's it like being from New York and now living in...

Being a New Yorker and then being in California, I'm always curious to see. There's always varied takes on that experience. I am so happy I'm here and not there, except for this summer. This summer, I feel like I would have rather been there. But we moved here in 2016 before the election. Right. So if we had to have lived through trump in new york i think we would have been in a really bad mental place which i i mean the sun really helped and the the in if you live in new york you understand this like once winter comes everything feels like it's over like you have to you have like you missed your opportunity you squandered the over. Like you have to, you have like, you've missed your opportunity. You squandered the year and now you have to plan for how are you going to come back

in the spring and summer and fall. In LA, you have the benefit of patience and like, okay, so like, you know, it was a nice day today. It was 80 degrees. That's okay. Tomorrow it'll be a nice day, 80 degrees. It's okay's okay i can i can have fun then i didn't miss out you know yeah and i think that was very helpful for my brain which as you can tell is a little messed up not at all sounds good on my end great thank you i appreciate that not a day goes by sorry so you're not at the point in your la life where you start fetishizing uh the winter and missing the winter and stuff like that that usually comes around like 10 years in oh no it's only been five so when that happens i don't know if winter will exist

in the world but um that's a good point. Yeah. At that point, I think we'll all have like really wonderful like VR AirPods or something that will replicate, you know, the despair of winter accurately. And I think we'll be OK. Right. Sorry. There's now like yard work going out going on outside so that's that is perfectly appropriate it's called texture and we love it on the daily zeitgeist miles i meant to tell you that my five-year-old is now i think heading in the direction that you ended up in where he because he's never around winter like like just in the past couple of weeks, he started like only wanting to read stories about winter. There's like a Avengers story with frost giants and like it's one page of like this one children's book that he has. And he like asks me about them every day.

So he's he's going to get the very particular type of uh la sickness yeah born out of this dry desert you all you want to do is wear jackets because it seems like exotic clothing to you right don't you guys go to big bear lake or whatever yeah but that's like for like a one-off you know like you don't get like sustained periods where like you have to wear like a scarf and things like that. And every person I know who comes from the East Coast, like you don't want that. You don't want that. And I'm like, well, part of me actually doesn't want to be hot all the time either. So, you know, too much of too much of one thing can be bad.

The other thing people forget about New York is when it's hot, it's so hot you can't live. It's 98 degrees and humid. And like last time I was, I was back home. I had to take a full day off for exhaustion, which had never happened to me. I was, I got excited. I, I, um, I went, I went back and I started like walking everywhere. You know, I was walking walking places I didn't have to just back and forth back and forth because I could yeah and the next day I I had to cancel all of my appointments and I had to lie down on a couch for a bit so standard New York in the summer is very bad for sweaty people I would like need to bring a change of clothes everywhere I went. It was real. It was

bad. I sweat through entire suits, not just the shirt part. Yeah, not good. And you also have to have a backpack full of bricks because that's New York. Yeah, that's important. We like to ask our

guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You love to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are you love to ask that question i do love it and frankly i live to answer it i the most recent search in my search history is it was float tank near me auckland which has turned out to be i'll say their name a place called called Float Culture in Eden Terrace. Look, they're not paying for this mention, guys. Well, they better. Well, yeah.

We'll reach out to their people after this. They're chasing that lucrative greenback during these pandemic times. And so not long after this record wraps up, I'm going to go and lie down in a salty, enclosed body of water for an hour and see if that is relaxing. What do you guys think? I mean, I've heard about it. I really want to try it because as a kid, I remember being in the bathtub and I would kind of do the version where I just kind of put my ears underneath the surface and just always be like, this is so weird. And try and like, I don't know. I didn't know about meditating then, but I guess I was doing some form of it with that.

So when I hear about float tanks and how, you know, the buoyancy essentially makes it feel you completely sort of begin to separate your physical and mental. And yeah, have that sensation. I've been really interested in going, but I have not done it. Wow, man man that is exactly my shit so i'm gonna go and i'm gonna find out i i'm really hard to find out i'm really excited yeah because there's also like the the most probably the most relaxed and best i feel in my life is you're lying down and you're about to fall asleep and it's sort of it's not quite lucid dreaming but it's that moment between consciousness and unconsciousness and you're like man

my brain is taking me wherever it wants right now yeah i think it's i have the same thing because like i love floating and just in general you find me in a body of water i like to float in the ocean where it's calm enough i like to just get on my back and just feel, you know, whatever that sensation is. But I think it's really interesting for what they say is just like sort of this introspective opportunity that it offers people when you're kind of in this situation or in that environment. Yeah. So I tried it once and I have to just a little piece of advice is don't go face down when you're floating that's with a snorkel or not at all not at all and i only lasted a couple seconds you gotta you gotta stop no i i've heard it's trippy i'm trying to figure out if that's like the one episode of joe rogan

that i listened to and i always taught talk. That I listen to on repeat. On repeat every day just to get ready. It was just such a good episode. I couldn't risk muddying the waters with any of the other ones. But they were talking about that and it made it very intriguing. And then there's the Simpsons episode where he like basically it's like tripping. Right. Like is what the the most

extreme version of it that I've heard I like anything I'm into anything that can like put you in touch with sort of the the vast realms of your unconscious mind so I'm this is me saying I'm going to do that too I'm gonna I I don't know why i haven't to this point i've always been very interested in it and it sounds great i'm gonna do it too and i'm gonna do it on my back all right if i can last a couple minutes i can't wait to see the huge spike in traffic that float culture eden terrace is having right now oh yeah and you can say you're welcome when you arrive today even though the episode may not be out you can just just say, you're welcome. And I will. And I'll say, man, this guy's got a bad attitude.

He needs to float immediately. They do, like, clean the water, right? In between floats. Like, you're not laying on somebody else's. There's a drain. And I understand you've got to wash yourself for 15 minutes before and after. That's good. Yeah.

Which is, yeah. Laying in someone else's good. Yeah. Which is laying in some, someone else's soup. Like, yeah. I get a wicked ear infection in there. Yeah. I don't know that it's going to be a brand new soup.

Right. Yeah. I think it's a shared, I think it's a shared soup. I think it's like you're at the restaurant and you trust the other. If you were running a tank business, how many, how many floats you do before you switch out the soup? Two. Well's my tank business yeah i'm trying you know it's like uh running

you don't want to change that oil that's where the flavor is oh yeah all the revelations iron skillet yeah yeah all the revelations are from keeping the same water over and over mix everyone else's hallucinations up with your own. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, Jacinda was just in there. You want to switch it out? I don't think so.

Hell no. It should be an honor to be in there. She was in there. Jermaine Clement was in there, I think, one time. Keep going. I mean, you know, all kinds of people. How many famous New Zealanders you got? That great cricketer.

You know the one. You know the one we're talking about. Guy Montgomery, you know? Many great cricketer the you know the one you know the one we're talking about guy montgomery you know any great because yeah yeah i'm honored that i've made your new zealand celebrity list oh yeah absolutely that's every every person i ask that i mean that's from new zealand i say you know guy montgomery right that's the homie right there but that that is such a like when you know the the airlines we found out don't clean anything in between and they're like take the garbage with you and that's why we all got sick on airlines for so many years yeah so is keith urban new zealand or australia you know damn that's a good question i think

he's australian is he married to no way to know n? Yeah. I think he's Australian. Okay. There are a few that are contentious that we sort of... He seems to be on this list with like Russell Crowe too. Yeah, Russell Crowe is contentious. Both countries claimed him and then both countries were like, ah, you have him. But I think he's Australian. Okay.

Well, he wasn't in the soup, so don't worry. Crowded House is New Zealand, but Australia claims him as the wrong. Gotcha, gotcha. What is something you think is overrated, Derek? Elon Musk. Hands down.

That man. I get that he has tons of stans on Twitter or whatever. But like, like, objectively, the dude is not like a smart person and he's not a good person. Like, objectively, we can just like look at, like, lay everything out on the table, bar any of the excuses. Yeah, well, what about? Yeah, well, what about? It's like the dude

didn't invent anything he's not tony stark we can stop calling him tony stark because he's not he's a dude who's been backed by blood money his entire life we can just like own that and if you want to stand him for that then just say that but you need to own it i stand the blood money yeah my blood money king yeah he i think is probably if we had an official overrated as a podcast or at least if i got to like choose it elon musk would be would be mine just the amount of cultural just energy that goes towards just loving on whatever whatever thing he's promoting uh whatever bullshit scam he's got going whatever relationship he's in like it's just yeah i mean ultimately like you know bitcoin we can go back and forth on it all day like it's it's bad for the environment and the dude is ultimately only looking for himself.

Like, yeah, he's going to try and turn a profit. Dogecoin is what it is because of him. Yeah. He's not in space. He's not going to be in space anytime soon. So you even call yourself a billionaire.

He got that contract though. You know what I mean? That's remember Bezos is real tight about that. Cause he was like, well, I should also have one billionaire. You should share. Cause we're billionaires. We know that concept.

Yeah, we're great at sharing. I love that this is the dystopia. It's like we still have there's I mean, there's still a raging pandemic. There's still like global poverty on a on a on a level that hasn't been seen in a long time. But then for these three guys, they're like, you know what? I think it's time we go to space. Yeah. Again, global poverty for you. Yeah.

I don't know if you've seen my shit. I fucking cashed out on Doge right before I hit the stage on SNL, baby. I'm all good. But yeah, it is, again, it's just like that Gil Scott Heron. You know, Whitey's on the moon. Yeah. From the 60s, basically saying we got all these problems downon you know whitey's on the moon yeah from the 60s basically saying we got all these problems down here but whitey's on the moon okay yeah and just the

ambient like not just like covering shit for this show but just like just ambiently like people who i encounter on a day-to-day basis like the amount of respect they put on elon musk's name is just well you know because i think at the end of the day like because we don't realize that the underpinnings of our whole society is basically surviving it's not really that like you're living your life not in this country it's like you have to survive because if you if the revenue thing shuts down you're fucked so like looking at these people who don't have the stress of survival is like, they're like, oh, my God, that's the life. That's the life without really considering everything that's tied to that, which is we're stuck in a rat race where you're not being paid what you should be. And meanwhile, you're like you're big enough. Well, hold on. Let me clarify. I only said that because I thought it was really poignant. What is something you think is underrated?

The thing that's underrated is just is that is sort of the contemplation you get reading a book. Will just published Tarzan Economics, giving him a shameless plug for that. But, you know, reading and engaging with content. I think podcasts are the same thing. When you feel as if there's a conversation that you're part of, I think that's fascinating and way underrated because you feel a connection. And I think this sort of bite-size, constant flow of distraction in social media is really damaging. Absolutely. Yeah, I can build on that a couple of points. is really damaging. Absolutely.

Yeah, I can build on that a couple of points. So just one, it always reminds me when I hear Richard talk about this of what Groucho Marx said, which is, you know, back then he said, television's a fantastic invention because every time I switch it on, it reminds me to read a good book. And I just wonder what he would say

about Twitter and Facebook and the like today. And I often look at a lot of that social media as junk food and keeping with that food theme, a colleague of ours, Noemi Drew, she said to me once, what Twitter is, is the ability to, you're sitting at a big dining table and lots of guests and everyone's broken off into private conversations and Twitter allows you to eavesdrop into all those private conversations. I thought if somebody doesn't tweet, it's a nice illustration of what it might actually mean to us.

But then you have to step back and say, well, why would you want to eavesdrop into all those private conversations? Why not have a deeper one with something you can reward yourself from as opposed to all these distractions? So yeah, it does come across as junk to me. So I'll ditto Richard's point there.

But Miles, something that hopefully you're aware of is that about a month ago, the entirety of UK sport, every sport, rugby, cricket, tennis, football, all said complete ban on social media for four days over a bank holiday weekend, because the original sin of Twitter is allowing people to be hashtag raving racist or hashtag, you know, I love abuse. And it's just absolutely shocking. And I say this in all seriousness, I think it is the id of Western civilization. All the things that we, you know, in classic psychoanalysis or psychology, you'd never say to people in polite company, all the terrible thoughts you have in your head that you would never voice directly to somebody.

People say them all the time on Twitter. And you have someone who's an icon and just deserving of the highest of respect, like Marcus Rashford in the UK with all the stuff he's done with school lunches and so forth. And he just gets the most unbelievable invective of abuse. And you don't know where it's coming from. And of course, no one is going to walk up to him in the street and say these things. And yet the entirety of sport, it wasn't just one sport. It wasn't just a few athletes. It was everybody said, this has got to stop. We've got to take a break here because we're not going to contribute to this, this constant bubbling up of of of an invitation to take potshots at us. gobsmacked is the word I would use when I look at some of the things that I read. And yeah, that even forced one of my sporting idols, Thierry Henry, to like deactivate his

accounts. And he's saying, I'm not I'm not I'm not going to I'm not fucking with this at all. If this is what people come here for and the companies allow this to just run rampant, what is the point? Yeah. And that's why I think a lot of, you know, our guests, even who are comedians, come on to say like, like, you know, we can't stand social media because there is a there's a certain level where especially for comedians, like it's a place to get their jokes off. But on the other side of that, it allows for a lot of people to just come at them and say all kinds of ridiculous things that, again, like you're saying, Richard, you would never hear someone say that to your face. And so we've had to like we've built up these weird calluses emotionally to even engage in social media that, you know, I'm sure resonate in many other ways. social media and will will tell you the the the the the language that's been hurled at nicholas sturgeon this leader of the scotland the scottish national party you know she she gets all sorts of rape threats or what have you on a daily basis and you know you you can't callous yourself entirely

to that stuff it's just no one can right but on interpreting it like when when richard just mentioned it was what was inside people's heads all along, but now it's pouring out. That reminds me of like one day, the anomaly of crime stats is a good reminder for how do you interpret all this activity? So it goes like this. If crime stats are up,

what do we know that's happened? Either A, crime is on the up, or B, we're getting better at catching criminals or c we've changed the definition of crime or d a combination of all of the above but it doesn't necessarily mean crime is on the up it means now we're seeing what people had inside their heads all along i think that's an important contextual point about trying to make sense of this madness as well yeah that's a really good point i mean the the neutering uh effect that banning trump from social media had is something that we talk about a lot on on this

show but like that's truly that that was a moment when i really had to like sit back and be like wow they we we haven't figured this out yet and And what he did, the way he used social media, hopefully, I'm assuming years down the road, that won't be possible in one way or another because it was just so damaging. Now the worry for Scotland is he's kind of done his time in America. Is he going to come back to Scotland and open more golf courses? Cause we got rid of him for a few years while he was making a mess of your

place. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. I mean, it's, it seems like, uh,

the Scots are, are, are definitely more united and giving him a hard time than the people of the U S. So I don't know. He, he, who knows if,

if there's maybe a little MAGA contingent in Scotland, maybe he'll find it there. But it seems like Florida is the place for him at the moment. Florida's got better weather than Scotland. Scotland, we have two seasons, winter and June, and that's your lot. Winter and June. I love it. That's amazing. All right, guys, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the news.

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that race because she smoked weed. Yep. She tested positive for THC in a test that she took a few days after the qualifiers. And, you know, again, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency, it's banned during in competition periods. These are the laws and the time frame that begins at eleven fifty nine the day before the competition starts. And they they say like you have a certain amount but up until that window uh the rules change and this so she popped on this test and now because uh you know the the u.s track and field association goes with the same their signatories to the world anti-doping agency like charter and shit that they enforce these laws as well so that for the u.s side the penalty can be anywhere from one month to a two-year ban.

So in the most, if she doesn't appeal and let's say they give her one month, her ban would technically end right before the track events start. But the thing is, because she tested positive, that means her qualifying time is negated. So she is not going to be running in the 100 meter just individual race. So that means alternates, the people who are now the fourth place finisher has moved on to the team and the fifth place person has now become an alternate from the qualifiers. And the best right now, as it stands, the only chance she has is to participate in the four by one relay because the track association is able to select people to participate in that. So this is like really, this is just completely fucked up. The things that I think a lot of people remember from her qualifying win was just her words about everything she had gone through to arrive at this moment.

I'd be having the support of her family that her biological mother had passed away days before. The thing is, she was told by a reporter, a reporter that her biological mother passed away. That's how she found out. And that was when she went and, you know, enjoyed some weed or whatever, just to, you know, deal with hearing this from some other person just out of the blue. And now she's looking at completely losing her shot at participating in the Olympics. And it's just so fucking dumb. Like, I get that the rules are the rules, but this is just such this like anti weed stuff. It's like our prohibition on marijuana is just so built around this pseudoscientific racist nonsense.

Because let's be real, this is not a performance enhancing drug the only fucking performance it's enhancing is like you watching a clip of santana on youtube or some shit or like if you play a guitar this night you're not you're not you're not seeing the matrix in a track race and now your fucking muscles are working overtime so it's just like really disheartening and just sort of underlines just how behind we are in so many ways. Or if you're hosting a podcast about 90 Day Fiancé, I should I should chime in on your behalf there. But that's not an Olympic event yet. It yeah, it's truly baffling.

Like alcohol is not like I guess you can't test for alcohol, but it's not a banned substance other than your coach probably telling you not to do it because it's not going to make you faster. And I would assume marijuana is the same way. That's really strange. But not strange, I guess, to be expected based on the history of racism around marijuana. And the present racism around marijuana yeah i mean it's we we always talk about it as as past tense of you know why marijuana was banned in the first place you know anti-black anti-mexican sentiments and all that and it's like where we have not even scratched the surface of, you know,

the constant stigma that's still associated with it. I watched a short clip of her saying, you know, like this isn't, I'm still young. I'm going to, I'm going to figure it out. I still have a lot of races ahead of me,

you know, to that effect. And I'm just gonna, uh, I'll be back, you know? Yeah that effect. And I'm just gonna, uh, I'll be back, you know? Yeah. Gosh, I, it's so fucked up in every single way. And I just constantly feel like everyone who speaks out about it says a thing and then nothing happens, you know, like we'll, we'll weigh in,

we'll, we'll throw in our two cents and go like, yeah, this is like, this is clearly, you know, discrimination and they're picking on people and it's, but then nothing happens. Like we all know, we all know the facts. We all know this isn't a performance enhancing drug. We all know why it was banned in the first place. We know why alcohol was unbanned, you know, or maybe not. Like sometimes that gets murky, you know, like prohibition ends because of, you know, pressure from probably some corporate shit. And there's just not enough of it here. Right. Or it's cultural, different people. Right. Like it's it's just fucked up in everyone. I'm sorry that I'm ranting and all I can do is curse about it. But no, I mean, it's just it's frustrating because you look at somebody who is performing to the best of their abilities you

know what it means to them and then for them to just get caught up in these relics of racist just nonsense to fuck up your chances to represent the fucking country you'd think like yeah this country's so focused on winning they'd be like fuck up. Who cares if you're smoking weed? This person is going to win the fucking gold medal in the 100 meters. And that's what we're about to put our best athletes out there. But you still there's still this like this. We're still so intertwined with these backwards laws. And I don't know why, you know, again, we're not having I mean, we are having this conversation.

But the powers that be aren't because I think at the end of the day, you realize that they're not interested in understanding what is equity or what is actually fair or not. They're probably taking this. They like having mechanisms of suppression. They like having that in place. They like have they like playing that dumb game of chess that they think they're playing where they're outsmarting everybody. dumb game of chess that they think they're playing where they're outsmarting everybody. And we all can see through it. It's just that they're still in power and they could still make they make the rules and change them at will. So, you know, if a certain person is caught, you know, having an affair, it can be a huge scandal if if Trump. Well, I mean, I don't know the whole Cosby thing. It's like, oh, 35 women came out against him and still it was overturned. So like it's the rules just apply. Yeah.

Trump is in the toys. Like the rules just don't fucking apply as long, as long as you have the money to support or, or the, or just the power structure. It, it makes absolutely no sense. The Olympics are, are are also just you know

straight trash yeah and and also to have that reporter question this athlete and go like you know are like are you gonna apologize like what are you gonna do like how do you feel how do you how do you know tell us about how you disappointed everybody whatever like you know she's going home and drinking a boxed wine after that like everyone or like taking whatever pills her doctors prescribed her and because those are legal she's fine and this girl smoked weed in a legal state after finding out on the day that she's competing either right like marijuana stays in your system for a bit okay yeah and that's such a good point fucking reporter like probably yeah

and it is really frustrating to see like the way it's being covered by the media the ap like unquestioningly just be you know uh the and then it almost feels like she is she's like okay yeah i own what i did i made a mistake and like i'll be i'll bounce back but like it's just like why why why isn't anyone saying the obvious thing that this is fucking tear this shit down tear this she didn't make a mistake she didn't make a mistake. She I would say she's practicing self-care in a tough in a in a tough situation. Right. And taking care of herself while she's dealing with all this, you know, familial and mental stress. Yeah. With all of the pressure, the full pressure of her being this star athlete that's going to go represent a country that barely respects her. That's a lot of pressure.

And if all you do is smoke a little weed, holy shit. Like, how how strong are you to just, you know? Yeah, I think it's yeah, it's it's only a mistake in this narrow, stupid context of being an athlete and all these weird fucking rules that they have that. Let's face it or mostly we're seeing you know athletes of color be punished for these kinds of things so it makes you frustrated on so many levels because at the end of the day this is a human being who like you have to allow people to have the you know latitude to fucking take care of themselves or whatever i get it and and especially in a context that isn't

running afoul of local laws or putting anyone in danger so really what who is this protecting and i think that the way that you know jack like you're saying the ap just gonna be like yeah well they violated the laws without being like yeah but hold on what the fuck are these laws though like what is what are these regulations for and notice she had to say that in her in her quote apology i am a person i am a human being right like right i i'm obviously paraphrasing but she's like remember i'm not you know i'm i'm a human firstly not a superhero but also not your you know not yours to do with what you please like I'm not... I'm only here because someone pushed me in front of the camera and told me I had to be

sorry for this. Otherwise, I want to run. Yeah. It doesn't even seem legal, to be honest. Because... Can you really punish somebody for doing something legal

days before? That days before a performance enhancer yeah i'm sure this is going to evolve over the you know in the next few days because you know she can appeal and i'm sure that would be a reason to say like i don't know what do you you know you want to see somebody run hot like faster because they're high or whatever like i don't know what that means also i'm going through things can you extend some empathy towards me also these laws are nonsense so what are we doing here but yeah i mean i think i mean the public is definitely like outraged because they see this for what it is and like i think for most people now you know the majority of society is like what's the problem with someone smoking weed like what are we talking about here

we're not all our you know sixth grade teachers from like the 90s who are like oh don't be you're gonna ruin your life and maybe the silver lining here is that she will maybe be a trailblazer in that way you know maybe she is the test case maybe she will turn it all around because of public opinion and because of the situation here. I think, I hope that she will come out of this stronger and more powerful and more successful because of her situation and how she's handling it. It's still not fair, but I hope that is the outcome that she you know gets a book deal gets a movie deal gets all these statues you know like that might be the outcome it's just not it shouldn't have happened and and it shouldn't be happening to everybody in similar situations so

and like that is hopefully a silver lining that people recognize that this shouldn't be a fucking rule. But at the same time, like this is somebody who trains their whole life to compete for these nine seconds. And which is insane that she can do it in nine seconds. But like and and to have that taken away from them is just so fucking cruel that's unbelievable yeah and what's also this idea of like the substances being banned comes from like this paternalistic sort of perspective like well we're looking after the athletes too like what's best for them but it's like well they have a lot more shit on there if you're purely interested in the health of the athletes because it doesn't look like that

and it just rings hollow so you know i honestly i hope that they realize they need shakari richardson at these olympics you know even though you know fuck the olympics they're such a tortured event but yeah i i hope you can run shakari that's a great wrap-up of this topic yeah all right i wanted to talk about residential schools and this is you know an ongoing story that we're going to continue talking about on this show but there's been a lot of coverage of the mass graves of you know indigenous people and children discovered on the grounds of former residential schools in Canada. And a lot of the coverage has treated it as a uniquely Canadian phenomenon. I think we even were like, God damn, this is like evil for Canada. Well, it turns out America gave them the idea for

Indian residential schools. As early as 1819, the United States was institutionalizing indigenous genocide in the form of industrial schools and boarding programs. And then a Canadian prime minister sent a journalist down to document it, and they basically imported it from America. They imported the idea and the ideology from America, which is not shocking but this writer abigail kirby conklin directly reached out and was like yo you guys should know that this is america is very complicit in this i mean america's superpower one of them is just to point at a problem abroad and be like i can't believe that's happening there. Meanwhile, you started this shit. Right.

And just, yeah, and be able to put the focus on something else. I mean, yeah, whenever I'd read about it, I'm like, where are the stories about? Because, you know, the U.S. has a terrible track record with indigenous genocide. So I'm curious when the media here begins to bring it up. But it takes a lot for, you know, corporate media here to begin to talk about history or how it relates to other countries. Yeah.

It's like if we just, if we let it pass, nobody will know. They won't talk about it. So, like, the Catholic Church we know is, like, just a criminal institution, you know, from even when all of those like white kids were getting molested in boston right like they're a criminal organization that that has built an entire empire on like actual human misery and suffering and it doesn't it doesn't surprise me that that the pope or or many of these sort of like religious figures are like, well, you know, everybody's nobody's perfect to kind of describe like murdering children and taking them from their families. And the fact that like a few of the churches have burned down people. Oh, my God.

Oh, these churches. It's like you're lucky that all that they came for was the building when you came for their children yeah like i don't we do so so much pearl clutching over like the protection of children but here are mass graves of children it's kind of like yeah well what do you expect what do you want it was a different time yeah right it's like well i don't know it's kind of the same now because we just it's it's just more technological. And now it's about separating people and families. And it's it's the same energy.

It's manifesting in different ways. And even to your point, I mean, like there's a papal decree, you know, before the colonization of the Americas, where the pope was like hey spain portugal go do your fucking thing over there enslave these people convert them that's your right i'm the pope i'm out go do it like that is like the all of there's they go hand in hand with each other yeah so i think the first episode that i that i was here with you guys on like i was talking about my indigenous ancestry and like so that in itself like sort of touches my history as i was reading and you know like a lot of the documentation that we have about the mexica empire what people call the aztecs because the aztecs were like a federation they weren't called aztecs they were

mexica and there were several different tribes and they were like a federation of communities when when the spanish came like there's there's an account written by a spaniard where it's like well we were welcomed into tenochtitlan with like incense miko because they thought we were gods and like the the ego and the arrogance on top of that and it's like they didn't think you were gods you smelled you smelled like shit you didn't bathe you were filthy you were filthy they had working sewage systems they were essentially spraying you with axe body spray on pond entry and you didn't get the hint they perfume us like we are their like we are stinky pieces of colonizer shit and so but it's like but but it's like that's the record that's the record that, that persisted that, you know, cause a lot of the stuff was burned.

A lot of the stuff was destroyed and a lot of indigenous history tends to be oral or it tends to be passed down through stories, storytelling. giving Spain and giving Portugal permission to sort of like go to town, go ham on, you know, my ancestors was like, was part of that sort of that was part of that, of that record keeping, I guess it's like, you know, Oh, these, these people are savages and these people are, you know, they had to, they had to come up with a story to justify what they wanted to get done yeah and it's tragic that like that is the story that gets passed down in schools or just like the top surface level of like history so when when we talk about indigenous people or we talk about you know sort of the the atrocities that happen to us like there's just that topsoil level of like well you guys weren't even really civilized anyway and you know well you guys were just roaming around in the woods thanksgiving

like everyone chilled together so yeah the problem is like i think we were just more lit as a society and you guys yeah it's just sort of all of these all of these like colonial sort of it's like well why didn't you why don't you just ask any of us like they're you know yeah go directly to the source it's not like it's not like we disappeared it's wild like that you talk about that because i remember one of my first like history classes in college was about iberian history so we're talking about spain and you know colonization of the americas and things like that and i remember this is in college this person raised their hand when we were talking about indigenous people and their being and then being forced conversions and things like that. This person was so sincerely confused in this lecture class, raised their hand and out loud one thing that they didn't think it was a hot take. They were sincerely confused in a class about the Americas.

Then they're saying, but I thought they wanted to. And you realize, yeah, that's that's a lot of the shit that we have to spend our time overcoming is these lies that we're told. Yeah. If that's your automatic perception of perception of Native people pre-colonization, then nothing's a genocide. Then nothing's terrible. Then nothing is a humanitarian crime. Yeah, we were doing them a favor. And the idea

that all these things are lost to history, like there are entire histories that are untranslated because nobody bothered to learn the languages and read them. And it's also like this idea, like that idea that they are less advanced, that their civilizations were less advanced. Like they were more advanced. They were cleaner. They had sewage systems. They had sewage systems. The only reason that they died is because of like there there was a lot of obviously like military brutality. But it was they were weakened by plague. Like it was just the luck of the draw of the germ, the germ theory that basically fucked them over and it was like 90 of the continent was depopulated and that's the reason not it's not that there was like better much better technology or yeah because yeah like it

literally they like the mashika empire built an island they built an island in the middle of a lake for to like the epicenter of trade. I don't know how you get more advanced than that. How about shitting your doubloons on a ship? Or the folks in Arizona and New Mexico who built cities into the mountains. There's so many sites and structures and things we'll never know about because they were because they were dismantled because they were destroyed and like the lifestyle was for every for every obviously i'm not going to speak for for every every indigenous person or wherever they come from but like lifestyles were just different that, you know, like these sort of permanent massive structures to like pat yourself on the back of how awesome you are didn't exist for a lot of people.

Like, you know, some people were nomadic. Some people were sort of like, oh, we have we know we go where we follow the food. any sort of actual research that like or oral history that's been that's been written and documented by other indigenous people like there's there's so much to learn and there's so much like when you truly understand like how fucked over we were in terms of like jack was saying like yes the smallpox devastated the population but there were also government programs, both from Spain, both from Portugal and the United States, like the intentionally killing buffalo to starve natives. You know, being able to these residential schools, literally being able to purchase native children like for ten dollars. Native children, like for $10. Like it's multifaceted in, in the way that the genocide occurred and is still going because of, because of like, I know, you know, people on the Navajo Nation, like who don't have clean water, like they don't have running water.

They don't have paved roads in a lot of places. Like the U S government, like literally like killing them out of neglect. Yeah. Because it was sort of like, oh, you want to be your own autonomous nations? Fine. Go ahead. But don't ask us for anything. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like, sure. We took all of this, all of this away from me and told you we were going to pay you for it. But right. We're just going to stick you over here and let you do your own thing. Right. We'll pass. We'll get that checked to you sometime.

Yeah. Yeah. America doesn't remember because it doesn't want to remember. Because this is the DNA of America. So they incarcerated thousands of indigenous children. We still have a country that is built on mass incarceration. There's the imprisonment of migrants along our border with Mexico during World War II. It's just repeating structures within American society that we

don't want to examine and fix because that's how the society works, essentially. with specifically with indigenous people it's really like just go fucking go look up cahokia and the they built a striped mountain that was like made of various colors of soil and clay that they had brought from like hundreds of miles away in st louis that like put the great pyramid of Giza or the pyramids in Egypt to shame. And the reason that like you've never heard of that is because they were about to build a fucking parking lot on it when somebody realized what was happening. Cahokia was like the biggest city in the world during the 1200s. And America systematically and intentionally doesn't want to honor these histories because they were erased for a reason. And, you know, there's still a lot of America's ideals that are tied up in the reasons that it was erased and why you never learned how advanced indigenous civilizations were. But it's actively being ignored. It's actively being written out of the news, out of history.

And people just aren't bothering to study this stuff because it kind of contradicts, you know, the central American ideal, I guess. Exceptionalism. Exceptionalism. It can't be exceptional if you're mediocre in comparison to the indigenous people that you're.

You just moved into a like apocalyptic society and like moved into people's houses, like fucking Goldilocks and started like just pretended like you did all the work yourself yeah anyways we will continue to cover that as america hopefully deals with its own history of residential schools i mean it's wild to think there's more of a concerted effort to not teach history at the moment oh yeah you know like that's picking up so much space especially on the conservative side is this whole you know like when you especially what does it relates to critical race theory that's not even being taught in elementary schools but it's there they know that it on the subconscious of a lot of conservatives they

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But when you look at the top ten for the most part, it's a lot of reality shows. Our new producer, DJ Dramos, was pointing out that Too Hot to Handle is constantly trending in the top five because they just dropped season two of that, which is the hot people try not to have sex with each other reality show where $100,000 is at risk or they're competing to win $100,000. to win a hundred thousand dollars and yeah miles you were you were reading somewhere that it's just like netflix may be more the safe like cbs version yeah which is funny in this write-up in in wired about netflix like every paragraph whoever wrote this i'm just gonna big them up by name because they were clearly i think you should leave now fans because every like opportunity there was to talk about i mean the only thing to watch on netflix is obviously i

think you should leave season two and then like three paragraphs later it's like and i mean were it not for shows like maybe i think you should leave season two that's about to drop netflix might not have anything and i just love when people like are hardcore so kate nibs i see you you tim robinson stan i love the energy but in this piece was writing you know globally netflix is the dominant streamer like that that's just without a shadow of a doubt when you look at the net the nielsen ratings like that's reflected it's like netflix is the default top 10 and then if another streamer has a like big movie or a big show come out they will sometimes crack the top 10 for like a week.

And then it goes back to all Netflix. But the now, you know, they're saying with HBO max and Disney plus, they're finding their kind of rhythm in terms of original of original releases. And like many new services coming online because it used to be like, well, at least Netflix has a lot of stuff.

Now it's become like, if you like horror, if you want anime, like you're probably not going to go to Netflix, you'll go to like crunchyroll or something like that and then in the summer you had like a lot of the movies were coming on hbo max mortal combat that mortal combat film came out the godzilla and versus kong film came out and like those did numbers that apparently made the army of the dead on netflix just seemed like a mild hit and so all of this together they're kind of saying like well it seems like it's sort of netflix has definitely lost its place in terms of like the prestige area and if even if you want to talk about them wanting

to be a full-fledged film studio amazon just went and bought a whole ass film studio in mgm so they're like how are they going to keep up? Because it seems like now they're real big hits are, I think you should leave. And maybe, and sexy beasts were the people wearing like prosthetics to look like animals and shit, that dating show. And they're like, where has the prestige gone? Yeah, it's interesting.

I mean, and when you look at what, like they have all these accidental hits, like that art film in quotes from the guy who directed Into the Void. But the premise was it's a art film where people are actually having sex. And then there was the 365 Days, which was just a soft core porn. Those were like among their top 10 shows so i mean they acquire a lot of content and then just let the let the people sort it out and supposedly they make their programming and like what they invest in decisions based on what people tell them they want so yeah it's this is sort of what happens when your um your commissioning is

done by an algorithm right like there are so many studio execs or whatever at netflix but it's like what do they do they take meetings with people then go into a big room with you know a smart board with math equations happening and then come back out and say sorry right i don't yeah it's this i because even i think about it i look at it through the prism of stand-up comedy there was that window where if you got a stand-up comedy special on netflix it was this close to sort of like getting on carson or letterman you know eons ago where it was like there was a certain amount of prestige attached to that but now it's as though it's it's nowhere near i mean i don't think that they stream the

same numbers and it's just not like they give out those huge deals to your chapelles or your seinfelds or whatever but in for ordinary comedians it's still fantastic but it's just there's no care or attention paid to it it's like this is one of the cheapest things that we can commission and i guess we'll give it a go and if people it, then we'll we'll know to keep coming back. Right. And they're and they're kind of and Netflix is in a new phase. You know, they're no longer borrowing money for the first time. That was always a thing where it's like, where is all what are they doing?

But, you know, I think this is part of their long term strategy. And yeah, things like Disney Plus and HBO Max, even Paramount Plus, they're siphoning away people's like watch time. Like, it's funny, like I have Netflix. and HBO Max, even Paramount Plus, they're siphoning away people's watch time. It's funny. I have Netflix, but again, I'm really only watching to probably watch I Think You Should Leave or Sexy Beast or the F1 show or something like that. It's only a couple things I feel like I need Netflix before.

Whereas, ask me seven years ago, I was like, oh my God, man, you don't have fucking Netflix? What the fuck do you do? How do you live? And again, these analysts are looking at it as because they're just they're so ubiquitous. And now globally, they just have such a lion's share of the eyeballs that it's just going to be more like CBS, where they were like the first to broadcast. But now people are just like, oh, no, like it's it's around. But I'm not I don't fuck with CBS because I think it's cool.

It just happens to be the biggest thing. Yeah, and I mean, the way that these other streaming apps are popping up and qualifying their place, it's like there's only so much money in people's wallets where eventually you have to choose. And you can't just choose something because it's got one show. You'd go to your friends and watch it, but you can't just be like, I'm going to get Netflix because they they're gonna have a new season of tim robinson's show in another year or two years it doesn't make any sense but here i am waiting for

tim robinson wow waiting no more i know you gotta came out today as we record this yeah you gotta um meet out your your value you're getting from that show because that's a year's worth of netflix subscription distilled into what six episodes i flew through them i mean when the first season came out i probably just watched the first season three times over yeah just because like the replay value was like sort of it was infinite for a while and and i had to do the thing where i didn't want to start memorizing all of the bits like with other things i've watched because then i just find myself performing along with my tv rather than being like an audience because i like it so much i'm like oh man if he tagged me and i could do this sketch with him it's just like it's a real advertisement for

stupidity that show because it is the stupidest show on television and also the best and it's not a coincidence well you can't be that that's the irony of it is like you have to be really smart to be able to pull off the shit that's that dumb you know yeah it's not just like oh man look at this bozo just falling over himself it's like no like you gotta you like that's the i think that's why i really love shit when i watch i go this is so fucking stupid but it's so good it's a performance style as well because it's just it's such commit every character is so entrenched in their you know like in themselves this commitment to everything is so real yeah it's just like you can't look away because it's like these these beautiful little car crashes where the drivers i mean literally in one sketch it's like these these beautiful little car crashes where the drivers i mean

literally in one sketch it's like the driver's saying there wasn't a car crash which is so perfect for our country a car crash happens like it clearly wasn't me even though everyone saw him do it yeah i think there's a reason that that resonates with people stupid people making embarrassing mistakes and then refusing to admit it for some reason that that resonates with people stupid people making embarrassing mistakes and then refusing to admit it for some reason that that resonates with the modern world i i had a kind of related streaming question with regards to so it seems like all pixar movies from now on are just coming out without like they're just going to be disney plus products and i feel like that's like there's this new luca one about like a kid who's a sea monster that is apparently a metaphor for like

lgbtq like you know being yeah it's a metaphor for disney acknowledging that queerness exists in the world right exactly as a monstrosity yes exactly but it's like it's just going to be dropped on disney plus it seems like and that's what happened with soul they dropped it for free and i don't know it feels like do you guys feel like it's devaluing like pixar movies like it just feels like it's less of an event now when pixar like onward came out last year and like that wasn't really a a big thing i think that came out before the pandemic so it hit theaters but i don't know i think there's a few things happening i'd imagine it's a response to the fact that they're not going to pull huge numbers at the cinema and then also there's

some element that it could be a marketing strategy it's like uber gave out really cheap cab rides for a while so everyone was like man can't believe all these cab rides are so cheap and then they're like okay are we the only thing you use is this how you get around now well guess what cab rides cost 70 now and you go oh what the fuck is this oh yeah and the drivers were subjecting them to hell yeah it just sucks that their loss leader is like the most artistically valid thing that they were creating as a studio i feel like yeah in pixar movies like they're just like yeah we'll just like throw the slop out to the kitties and by treating it like that, because apparently I was listening to like an industry watcher talk about how even though these movies could make a lot at the box office,

the most valuable thing to them is stock price. And the only thing that drives stock price is subscriber numbers. It's not like if you have a hit at the box office. So now they're basically all they care about is driving like disney plus subscription numbers so they're going to like not even release some of these things into movie theaters even when movie theaters open back up it's so grim that the world is being run by old white guys who are just running around following maths right exactly yeah All in the name of

fucking shareholder value. Like even now we have things that are just like no, no, no. What are you kidding me? You're going to put a movie in a movie theater where people are going to go and you'll make millions, possibly billions of dollars? Nah, nah, nah, fam. We need the subscriber numbers to go up so these fucking

day traders and everybody else who are in on our stock, then they can feel good. that's what we're in the business for we're no longer disney teach a man this other thing to watch a movie and he will watch a movie once in a day all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday.

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