The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 185 (Best of 7/19/21-7/23/21)

Episode Date: July 25, 2021

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are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh-stravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very talented writer, actor, producer, and the host of the We Need to Talk About Britney podcast, Jen Zebrowski. Hello. Hi, guys. Hi.

Welcome. Welcome. Where are you coming to us from? Where on God's green are you? I am coming to you straight from the home of myself in Laurel Canyon. That's where I am today. Wow. Beautiful, beautiful. Love to see you. How's Pache doing? Are they doing okay over there? Pache is doing great. They kept it going really, they kept it going during this time.

And it actually feels like very European. It's an Italian restaurant in Laurel Canyon. And they moved everything outside and they closed down the street and they put tables out there. And so it actually feels like, you know, you're up against the wall of the dry cleaners. And it feels kind of European in a way. It's like you're like out on a street, but it's closed down. Which street did they close? The one that's between Laurel Canyon and that little side street that the cheaters take to go to try and beat the traffic?

You know it. You know it. I know it. I always look at that, and I'm like, those guys are cheating, and you're going to get stuck at the stop sign when the traffic when somebody turns off when somebody like gets stuck behind me and then like turns off into a side street I it's a race it's immediately a race between me and them to because they're going through the alleyways

and I'm just trying to cut them off at every pass and that's stupid of me that's very dumb your license got revoked yeah I will I will blow through a red light to make sure that they don't get in front of me. Oh, you got a shortcut? But it feels very, so like it's a nice alfresco situation out there.

I don't know why I'm asking the most specific reference about Laurel Canyon for maybe 3% of our listeners that will understand that. Well, 3% of the listeners come on down to Pache, you know, just like, and actually, fun fact, the owner of Pache, guys, we're getting into like real Pache conversation right now. The guy who owns that restaurant, he lived in this house. Like when he opened the restaurant, look at that. Look at that. Wow.

Yeah. Pache lore. Yeah. It's almost like we did a pre-interview for this. And we didn't. That's how good this podcast is. It just happens like that. Stories no one will care about.

Our local Italian restaurant material is unparalleled. Priyanka, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Yeah. So I had to look this up and it was, why is caviar so expensive? Oh, why did you have to look it up? It's really expensive. And I would love to be eating more caviar because I think there's a lot of really good nutritional benefits, but it's ridiculously expensive. So I had started this, but then of course I got distracted. I never finished the article. So, but it's a very like intricate process where they extract eggs from the sturgeon and now sturgeon are endangered. So they only use farm sturgeon and so yeah i i guess

that you know it's it's like this luxury good item i mean it's like it's like the louis vuitton of the food industry apparently yeah and and you just like get this much and it's it's like a it's really expensive it's like over a hundred dollars for like just a little bit. And so it'll totally be like, why? It's so tasty. Like, like, like, I'm not eating fish eggs. Like I've seen how they're extracted and it looks vile. I'm not interested. And then they would put it on some lobster mac and cheese.

And that was it. I was like, I'm a full convert. Delicious. Did not know it was healthy right under that then was best outdoor lunch spots near me because you got to eat outdoor when you're eating your caviar you gotta flex on the on the people yeah full disclosure i have not had caviar in a very, very long time, but I very much would love to if I could get access to... I want cheap caviar. Yeah, yeah. I have a caviar connect I'll hook you up with.

What? Get out of here. No, I'm just joking. I do not. You're like friends of the sturgeon, basically? Yeah, exactly. She's very productive. I feel like you would not want black market caviar maybe but maybe i'm underrating the uh black market caviar i know like these like under the table eggs i i like salmon roe i feel like that's a little yeah salmon roe is like a nice like affordable kind of option right because it's, I think it's relatively inexpensive and nutritionally you do get kind of the same benefits. There's lots of omegas and all this stuff. But but that coveted sturgeon caviar that it's that it's the idea of wanting something that you can't have. You know, I'm sure if caviar was like really cheap, I wouldn't be like, you know, thinking about that.

Yeah. Yeah. Salmon roe is like nature's boba. I feel like that gives you the little boba. Mariah, what is something you think is overrated? Man, a precipitation. Bro, I just told you about all these beautiful, lush green

gardens and rolling hills. Generally, every day, I'd be out walking for like three hours a day just listening to podcasts, getting caught up on phone calls for politics, whatever. And the rain just completely thrown off my day-to-day. Completely. You know what? I know we need

thriving ecosystems. Duh, whatever. You you know the plants but i just i just want to go on a walk man and i can't because it's because it's just torrentially pouring out there today yeah i'm saying it and you know there's that flooding in germany that killed like 150 people so that's real so it's a shit. And we need to like really watch it with the precipitation. Precipitation. Yes. Right now.

But for real, that shit, I mean, it's not just, it's not just ruining my day, apparently. Ruining a lot of people's day. And then. It's just horrific. Out here, we might as well be on a different planet because we are in the midst of a drought. And when you go back, my kids thought they were, when we went back east to Pittsburgh, they just couldn't believe how green everything was. It's just a different,

it seems like you're on a different planet when you go just. Yeah. Yeah. Rather than a desert that a bunch of people forced into being a city at the beginning of the last century. Playing the flag in the sand. Just steal the water from up north.

This looks like a great one, guys. We'll live here. Where's the water going to come from? Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. We'll fucking reroute to Colorado if we have to. Did they ever get around to that? No, they just forgot. They just kept building

the city. I mean, well, now the big thing is all of the river fighting that's happening where get around to that did this no they just forgot they just kept building the city and i mean well now like you know the big thing is like all all of the river fighting that's happening where depending on how if you're upstream or downstream like the control that certain municipalities have over how much water is flowing oh damn and and it's like causing another thing because especially if it goes to like tribal lands too there's like another layer of like racism and like inability for them to advocate for like the rivers that there's like another layer of like racism and like inability for them to advocate for like the rivers that flow through their territories and things like that it's just

a very climate change i'm telling you it's just it's just it will always cause more chaos and reveal how just inefficient and backwards many of our systems are but yeah the the the increasing stuff in europe i'm sure is, is very disconcerting. Because a lot of scientists are like, this is what happens because of our hubris, which is true. And nobody listens to them. They're like, oh, are you sure, bro? It's like, yeah, bro. Unlike our friend Jack, no offense.

Real scientists, PhD degrees, out here running around with beakers and test tubes and lab coats. Doing some science. They know. They know. They publish all this and lab coats. Doing some science. They know. They know. They publish all this stuff. Rogan knows some science. Okay. Rogan.

I don't know. He knows how long it takes you to pass out from being in a rear naked choke. Exactly. Empirically. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Very rigorous.

Based on your neck density, he can figure it out within a half second he's pushing new boundaries on like how wide a human can be at the same time like as being he he's wider than he is tall pretty soon which is kind of kind of impressive start looking like one of those mucinex characters yeah which that's science man you don't get that way without applying science a mucinex is science, man. That's true. What is something you think is underrated, Caitlin? Forgive me if I've said this one before. I can't remember.

But I think the movie Popstar Never Stop Stopping is very underrated in that a lot of people haven't seen it and no one's talking about it, even though it's a cinematic masterpiece. Yeah. I, this is fun i think maybe you i feel like someone has said this maybe it was you but i'm i'm down to really keep talking about this because connor for real yeah isn't that his like name yes dude i i fucking love there's like the the little cameos that they get in it are like my favorite. I think the RZA's in it, isn't he? Oh, I'm not sure. And there's like a moment. Ah, fuck.

I got to remember who it is. I think it was like RZA. One of them, he's just mad. Like, I've seen him do some crazy stuff. Like, one time, he just ate the blunt. He didn't even smoke it. Because it could have been my favorite lines in that movie. Yeah.

It's great. It's a classic. And that's... Yeah. There are comedy movies that like go underrated for too long because comedy like really great comedy movies will get bad reviews because film critics don't get into film criticism because they have a good sense of humor so like there's you know dumb and dumber was like a 10 on rotten tomatoes when it came out and like you know a lot of comedy.

MacGruber. I still talk to a lot of people who think MacGruber. They're like, yeah, I saw the sketch. The sketch was stupid. And I personally ride for MacGruber pretty hard. I think that's an underrated comedy masterpiece. But yeah, Popstar is great. Do you like it?

I'm trying to. Yeah. Why didn't it get like the shine it deserved? Were we just like at peak Lonely Island or something? And people were just like, I look, I love Sam Berg, but like he's in a viral video every other fucking day. So maybe, is that what did it? Because I'm just trying to, because I remember I watched it after it came out. Because a few people were like, yo, you should watch it.

It's funny. Yeah, me too. I saw it at home. I didn't see it in theaters. I think it kind of got MacGruberized in the sense that, like, people thought it was just, like, a single Justin Bieber joke type thing. And they were like, all right, like, whatever. That's. Right.

In the same way that, like, the MacGruber sketch is just, just like the same kind of boring uh stale joke over and over again but the the movie is like so dense with like great jokes pop star like people people should definitely check it out and like don't don't assume it's just like the one joke from the trailer or like from the movie poster whatever the movie poster made you think did you like walk hard uh the dewey hard uh i was not a fan of that movie i wasn't i remember when it came out i saw it when it came out and i was like man and then a lot of people after the fact like i man fucking walk hard is the fucking greatest thing i've ever seen and like really it has some funny moments it's not it's funny because like a

lot of the jokes that stick with me are not the ones that are like about the music industry you know like it's i i feel like it's more of a satire of like a a series of biopics than it is like a satire of like uh although the i i like very specific parts of it a lot but right there but it's not like something that i got back to and rewatch. But yeah, that's one that has like people who really ride for it too. Dude, I'm reading this story that there were people who like there were like a lot of music that the Lonely Island guys passed on for the film. Like so they passed on beats from the RZA and J Dilla. And now I'm really upset. But also this listen to this because this is and I'm sorry really upset, but also this, listen to this. Cause this is,

and I'm sorry, Caitlin to get too Wu Tang with it, but they said with the RZA, they said, quote, we once got sent beats from RZA, which was crazy. Andy told DJ Sway. They were super like experimental, like atonal and weird. And we were like, we don't know how to make this funny, but it's dope. Uh, which sounds very much like latter day RZA. And then they said, they also sent us a Dilla beat. And we were like, oh, my God, we can't ruin a Dilla beat. People will hate us if we do that. Okay.

So they were responsible with it. Yeah. Okay. I mean, the soundtrack from the movie is, like, I just listen to it for fun sometimes. It's, like, pretty good music. Yeah. Oh, because of, like, Style boys tracks and stuff i mean it's yeah yeah exactly it's basically just all the music from the movie but i'm like these are my

favorite musicians these fake movie characters made some really great music have you guys watched uh girls five eva yeah i saw the first episode. There's some really funny songs in that, too. Oh, yeah. I haven't seen the art. What's their one? Anyway, I just remember watching it because everyone was saying it's so good. And yeah, I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. Yeah, it's solid.

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night this past Saturday, we went back to having to wear masks again, masking up. And then in sort of a more broad international scope, the Tokyo Olympics is a little less than a week away. And it's just not going well, you it's so frustrating jack because knowing that this could have been like very much one and done if somebody had had the tenacity to be like everyone go inside for four months don't go outside we're gonna mask up just be really really responsible here's like ppe for to get everybody through the next four months eradicated. Get back out there and have fun. And then to be like, we knew that the minute they were like, okay, you're good to go back out with your masks. They're like, it's not done yet. We have new variants coming in.

My friend works for the CDC. And she was like, no, guys, like, seriously, don't. Delta virus is coming. Even if you're vaccinated, must be safe. So when they then announced masks have to go back on like it's a you we've crossed the threshold of back and forth i feel very strongly that people are like i'm done now they just don't want to to take the precautions and it's scary and now of course our numbers are going back up and it's making everything like flip and reverse the people who thought they

were going to finally become financially stable and they were going to get back to, like, having these, like, steady jobs where they could, like, be out in the world, you know? And I'm talking everything from, like, hairstylists to photographers to anything, like, that's very basic, requires you to be in person. You know, all of those lives are now, again, in upheaval, and it's, I don't understand why we have to keep going back and forth like i really wish we could just be like we're just gonna stay locked down until this is resolved did you guys see this is this is really random but did you guys see on social media i don't know what channel but this was like early 2020 when people were like, hell no, I'm not going to wear a mask or like I can't breathe in those masks. Like it doesn't feel comfortable.

And did you guys ever see on social media someone was like, if you're a straight guy and you don't want to wear a mask because you don't like the way it feels on your face, you've basically just outed yourself as someone that's never eaten someone else. And, like, way to go. That was so good. I don't like it. I hate it. It feels bad. I can't breathe. I need my face free.

I'm feeling a man when I do this. It's a problem. So, on Thursday, last Thursday, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, insisted that there was no risk that the games would spread infection. And there have been 30 total confirmed cases, like just within either athletes or planning committee members. And the U.S. basketball is like starting shooting guard.

Bradley Beal had to go under COVID protocol and will not be able to be a part of the Olympics. It's just it feels like we're watching. You know, it feels like a lot of stories and moments have felt throughout this pandemic, like we're just watching something in slow motion happen the power of capitalism has become so it's not a mystery anymore to me i guess before i was like oh yeah that's a system and i i've always lived under it and i'm not sure like what would replace it and the drive to make money in the face because i can't solve for x like what kind of person who has any level of intelligence says the pandemic can't touch us we're gonna bring people from all over the world it's still going on but there's no way it'll spread here

but like there's no i don't know if that's you know is it stupidity is it pride or is it literally just we have to make money and we don't know what else to do? You're the Olympics. Like you'll you'll get more money in a couple of years and you don't have stake in anything. You make the city you choose pay for everything. So what is really the problem here? Incredibly confusing to me. Well, who pays for the Olympics? Is it the hosting city? So, I mean, there's probably like a pretty complicated weaving of corporate interests who are sponsoring it with the planning committees, with the local government, but it has a lot of money tied up in it. Interesting. Yeah. So last Friday, the organizing committee reported four

new infections among Olympic-related personnel, which brings that to 30 total confirmed cases this month. There's 21 South African rugby players went into isolation after being identified as close contacts of an infected person on their flight. And again, just have to read that quote one more time from the president of the International Olympic Committee, that there is no risk that the games would spread infections. I wonder if some of the, because some of the sports, the Olympic sports are like isolated events, like they're just one person. I don't know. I don't know what they do now. Throw a javelin or something. I wonder if they evacuated the entire stadium to allow the one COVID positive athlete to throw his javelin and then they disinfect the

whole stadium and then they wait a week and they allow the next person to come in they could have like a really prolonged olympics yeah that sounds great uh i i hope somebody's able to pull that off it just it sounds like it's gonna be such a mess yeah that's too bad. I hope no one dies from it. It does seem like young people are, we're having a hard time getting young people on board the vaccination train. I have a theory about that

because kids don't typically watch the news and there's not a solid space source to get them the information they need to get vaccinated i know a lot of them aren't aware that it's free you can just walk into all the streets and get your shot and be done with it and i think also a lot of misinformation at the top of the pandemic of like children can't catch it uh has thrown a lot of them into just being indifferent about it and then of course you, you know, if you're young, you just tend to be more reckless anyhow. But yeah, I think a lot of young people think they're invincible. I mean,

I was never like that because I think learning about medical illnesses, I was just like afraid all the time. So like when COVID happened, it was just like business as usual for me but yeah like i think there's a you know young folks think they'll they'll live forever right forever they'll just be a cold but it's not just a cold kids it's not people your age have died from this it's yeah yeah yeah go get a shot it doesn't hurt that's really hard too especially when i read about like kids kids dying from it i think that's a hard pill to swallow yeah well speaking of spreading misinformation we've talked recently about ways that q anon has kind of you know gone underground january 6 bad look bad branding for the whole QAnon brand.

And so they've had to kind of go underground, change their look a little bit. One thing that we talked about them doing is competing for spots on school boards. So like trying to take practical steps to make their worldview that there's a satanic cabal controlling everything practical on a local level. Another way that it's metastasized is in the wellness and yoga and,

you know, stay-at-home mom and alternate medicine communities. Some people are calling it pastel QAnon because of the Instagram aesthetic that those communities usually adopt. But basically, the QAnon movement took the opportunity, took the skepticism around vaccines and the pandemic and just the discomfort caused by the pandemic and this idea of like bodily autonomy like that nobody can tell you what to do with your body and like turned use that as like kind of a toehold to introduce q anon theories and there's this article in the la times and also in la magazine uh about how you know these people who are like yoga teachers and sound healers and they're like yeah no all of my friends are now part of q anon like i've had to move and like i think it's a helpful idea to view the world on this continuum of from the East,

East Asia being more collective-minded, all the way to California being the most individualistic-minded of people. I feel like that isn't explicitly true, specifically true, but I think it can be like just broadly speaking somewhat true. And I think that makes Southern California and the whole like wellness movement and the rejection of like Western medicine especially susceptible to some of these ideas. some of these ideas? If there's a lot to exploit within those communities, as somebody who dabbles in and out of multiple crossovers of that community, that truly doesn't surprise me at all. And the more I think about how we are sourcing our information and the fact that there's really no guidelines anymore as far as like journalistic integrity is really just only applies to actual journalists and there's so much information being spread by people who might claim to be journalists people who who claim to be knowledgeable on a subject and and people just sort of take it at

face value it's scary to think that there might be no end to this yeah wow yeah and i i in the beginning i said like oh meditation is really under very underrated but it's like come on now you're gonna you're gonna count on this thing too come on like give me something you know like you colonized our countries you colonized our bodies now you're gonna colonize our minds and our spirits and our psyches come on yeah i mean the this kind of yoga teacher leader in southern california was talking about how she like mid-pandemic had like posted on social media and was like look i'm seeing a lot of these like dangerous q anon ideas popping up and like kind of just laid out why they were bullshit. And she saw like in the comment section, a lot of like QAnon evangelists like just putting their ideas down there being like, actually, like when you look at it this way, but like they use the language of the the ways that people argue online but it's you know

it's just it really is like metastasizing and like uh evolving into a more effective weapon of disinformation wow yeah and i mean it's born of a form of privilege like the ability to be civically disengaged from your local government because you don't think you need to be and then like everything is just you and your version of of the world and yeah what's very uniquely interesting is watching these people like have to collide with the rest of the world every so often did you guys see there's a video floating around i think yesterday of a woman being hauled off of a royal caribbean cruise no she said what happened she was determined to make viewers believe

that royal caribbean faked her covid results which said she was positive for covid and she was like i've already had covid and they're like yep ma'am you can definitely get covid again she was like they're trying to make me get vaccinated they're like you don't have to do anything but get off of our ship like you can't be here anymore and it was like it was so dramatic she's like screaming through the ship and they eventually like literally had to force her off and put her on a plane like a medical plane to be taken back to the states and we're seeing this continuously people be like i'm just not gonna get back there that's fine but you can't come in here now which i think on the one hand is obviously the right choice you can't be spreading this disease

it's literally tears people's lungs apart like it's not something you can play with but on the other hand there's the thought of is this going to continue to drive even a further wedge between us? You know, like this bar, you don't need vaccines. Like, come in and just free spread like they were trying to do early on. They're like, oh, we'll do it like the chicken pox parties. Like, just come in here and catch it and it'll be fine. Oh, my God. What's crazy about this story is that people were still willing

to get on cruises that like how are people doing cruises after like what happened with the princess cruise that landed in the bay area like i i'm just like well that's something i will never do again like in my life i also wasn't pro cruise before the pandemic started. This is just like confirmed my anti-cruise sentiments. To go back to Jack's theory of like this space being the most individualistic. The only positive thing about a cruise is an individual's experience of being on that cruise. Because the workers aren't getting paid anything. It's creating horrible results for the environment and on top of all of that there's cesspools for disease like

it's such a problem seriously yeah i don't understand why people are going on cruises especially right now either right you put a hole in that cruise ship and suddenly they get very collective minded so i'm just saying you know maybe we start sinking some of these cruise ships. That was not the lesson we learned from the Titanic, Jack. People did not come together. I thought it really brought people together. I kind of liked what I saw there. Yeah, it brought the movie industry together. Well, speaking of the vaccine becoming more popular, we're starting to see a little bit of a 180 on on behalf of one of our favorite news programs fox and friends uh we we have a little clip from fox and friends is monday morning

broadcast yeah here for you steve ducey is saying just singing a different tune apparently and let's just check this out and yes this is from Friends. This is what you're about to hear. One of the CDC officials said yesterday, look, the pandemic right now is really just with people who have not been vaccinated. Thank you. Ninety nine percent of the people who have died have not been vaccinated. And so what they're trying to do is they're trying to make sure that all the people who have not been vaccinated get vaccinated. And unfortunately, and this is one of the reasons, apparently, the Joe Biden administration came out last week. The administration's been very, very frustrated. They have not been able to get Facebook to get rid of some of the disinformation.

The disinformation is online. The vaccine is killing killing lots and lots of people or it changes your dna or their little microchips none of that is true right and so that's why you have in washington this continuous message misinformation and the surgeon general i didn't know this goes on to basically be like y'all get the vaccine because it'll save your life and everyone's like wait what you guys have been spending your whole lives spreading this the fact that they uh treated that as if this is new information we're just finding out about uh apparently there's a vaccine and so this is spreading among people who don't get the vaccine, apparently, according to the Biden administration. Exactly, what Kilmeade said.

Yeah, Kilmeade said exactly and threw his hands up like, we've been trying to tell y'all. He misunderstands. So upset, just shaking his head, just biting his tongue. Oh, yeah. He hated that they were talking. Because right before that clip, Kilmeade saying like the weirdest thing about essentially like the government's insistence is making people not want to get vaccinated like that was sort of the last point he made and then deuce he's like yeah but here's a thing like it works and people are dying and he's like exactly and you're like hold on dude you you're arguing okay whatever

kill me wait he was saying that the government like isn't being chill enough and that's why we're not yeah he's like well if you're about your freedoms and you hear that from the government it's gonna make people be like heck i want to be in charge of what i want like you know just sort of trying to give a rationalization for sure for people who are being anti-vax and not addressing the fact that their most popular program like spreads those exact conspiracy theories that tuggar carlson like talks about like i'm just asking questions here folks how many people are dying from the so he's not saying it he's just asking questions

on a very popular national news news in quotes program yeah and you know going around saying like they're gonna ask for door-to-door you know get people vaccinated and just creating all this fear around like the administration trying to get people vaccinated and just creating all this fear around like the administration trying to get people vaccinated. I mean, part of me is like, are they like, do they feel that they're have a huge enough hand in this misinformation campaign is like a gigantic company that there could potentially be lawsuits for people saying like, my family member was listening to Fox News, and they were repeatedly saying you don't need this, don't get the vaccine. And then they got really sick when they could have got it.

And now I'm suing for damages. And now they're now they're being like, oh, no, I mean, like, look, we have we have we have a lot of people that are very forcefully saying it, too. Like, it's just I can't look at anything they do and think that it's ever for the right reasons. Yeah, I mean, based on my legal degree, I think they can be sued for that. Oh, hell yeah. You know,

that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Doug, I went to the law school of my cousin, Vinny. I watched like dozens of times as a kid. So I think I know a thing or two.

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Cases nearly tripled in the U.S. in the last two weeks. And officials are kind of officially blaming the misinformation campaigns. We talked yesterday about how this isn't new and the anti-vaxxer movement goes back to like smallpox, but the discrimination against people who do get the vaccine may be new. We didn't cover that. We didn't find any evidence of that back in the smallpox days. Also, as we said yesterday, much more sympathetic to the fear back then when you had to cut your arm open and put cow pus into the wound to get a vaccine. But this new this new trend. So one example, Eric Clapton is refusing to play venues that require proof of vaccines.

What a fucking loser always has been always will. Just being like, what is he? So he's saying, you can be vaccinated and go. He's just saying, I need my anti-vax fans to also be there spreading the Delta variant at my shows. So tears in heaven will be not ironic for that. Yes. Thank you. I want them to think about a specific loved one that they're going to lose due to the negligence of this misinformation while I play the song. That's what I want. And Airbnb hosts are basically saying that you can't stay at their

house if you have been vaccinated. So this is like the new thing that I'm just starting to hear now. So I'll just read from the house rules. Important. Effective May 1st, 2021. We will no longer be accepting guest reservations from people who have been inoculated with any of the COVID-19 experimental, quote, vaccines, i.e. Pfizer, Moderna, GlaxoSmithKline, and J&J. It's been Modena, like the city in Italy. Yes. It's been Modena, like the city in Italy. Yes. New science has discovered that, quote, vaccinated persons through multiple mechanisms of transmission can pass the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein onto healthy unvaccinated individuals.

Thank you for understanding. This is, I mean, that's, it's complete bullshit. Incorrect. complete bullshit incorrect they also when the person what one of the people had to cancel because they have been vaccinated they were like oh unfortunately we can't refund your money uh i can't stress how important it is to familiarize yourself with all the information a host provides before you spend your hard-earned money so airbnb had to basically ban that person and uh but they like this is so common that they actually can't keep up with the number of hosts who are like literal hosts and virus hosts uh who are choosing to not ban people who have been vaccinated. I actually just had to.

So I was telling someone they could no longer come to our house because they weren't willing to get vaccinated. And they claimed that other people weren't allowing them at their house if they did get vaccinated. And I assumed they were full of shit. But this seems to be like a new concerted effort like that right the scarlet new scarlet letters the vaccinated yeah yeah to basically to treat they're not choosing not to get vaccinated as like the easier way to go because right it's easier to just invert the

dynamic rather than address what's happening and say, actually, no, like you're I'm not interested in actually talking about vaccines or what it means or my duty or responsibility to public health or whatever. You are the one that is bad, actually. So jokes on you. It's but it's like a self-selecting pool of people. It's like, OK, well, no one's going kill their own kid to hang out with your dumb kid so like you're just gonna hang out with another like you're just gonna be limited to a pool of unvaccinated people and like let's just be honest they are more misinformed so you're just limiting your circle and your kid's circle circle to very uninformed people.

And not to mention, like, you know, and a listener brought this up, which is a really, really valid point of, you know, people who are like because of their health condition, unable to be vaccinated. You know, people who aren't like being who aren't vaccinated because they're reading hot takes on some message board, but because they're physically it's they're not able to be vaccinated. takes on some message board, but because they're physically, they're not able to be vaccinated. The risk that that poses for people is like, I fucking would if I could, but I can't. And now I'm also at risk too. And there's just so many levels to it rather than just sort of the vaxxed and anti-vaxxed binary. There's so many other things going on that a lot of people just don't care to even see. Even these really rabid anti-vaxxers who are like no fuck that like i'm about my own thing and there have been a lot of tweets i've seen of people screen capping tweets from like a couple months ago it's like look i'm not fucking wearing a mask like i have to live this is nonsense i'm gonna do what i have

to do and you know what i encourage you to do the same and then like today there'll be tweets stuff like i have friends in my 30s that are seriously ill please like please pray for them uh they got sick and blah blah blah and you're just like what it's like no one's lying about like what the efficacy is and what the actual stakes are for people and i don't yeah i think some people may be slowly coming around based on how extreme their like sort of ideology is around it. But it seems I don't know how much it's going to move anymore. Yeah. And also the idea that like, oh, you know, the freedom like I'm trying to free you, you know, I want you to have the freedom that I have, where I'm like not wearing a mask and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, well, it's not freedom because if you are taking the risk, that's your business, I guess. But like what you were saying

about people who are unvaccinated, also for some people who have like long-term issues or autoimmune stuff, the vaccines don't really work for them. So then you are basically letting, not letting, then you're basically letting, not letting, you're the reason those people have to be going back to their house and staying indoors. And you're just the person who was saying, oh, I want everyone to have freedom. Right. You should not want disabled and immunocompromised people to go back indoors for like another year, however fucking long, because these cases are spiking because you're selfish. Yeah, it's just, yeah. But again, it's like no one looks at it that way. It's purely like this weird body autonomy argument where they can't acknowledge the right of other people to safety as well. And it just gets, you know, morphed into all these really

bizarre takes through a steady diet of misinformation. And we still see again, like people are saying it's the misinformation that is making this even worse. And we have social media platforms that are just still fucking refusing to do anything about it. And we're only and again, we're only seeing the numbers go up and then you know when inevitably there's going to be some kind of lockdowns if things don't improve what are they going to say that like you know who's to blame again this time right the ouchy it's very difficult to take somebody who is an anti-vaxxer like being morally indignant because that like trying to take the position that they're being discriminated against no it's absolute horseshit yeah it's like

it's fucking absurd and people will post memes like you know oh there's vaccinated only classes at the yoga studio but you know what I would never go to a whites only yoga class. So no, thank you. And I'm like, you don't know a fucking thing. Like saying it takes like that is just so disingenuous or you're so ignorant that you don't understand how unavoidable someone's race is and the effects that have in operating in an oppressive system versus having the choice to get a vaccine or not. And again, you get because there's all these steady streams of misinformation. If you're not thinking critically, you'll look at that and go, yeah, actually, that makes sense. Right. I'm going to take that on. And again, we're and here we are.

Yeah. And the people who do have who are immunocompromised or can't get the vaccine and then like the people who refuse to get the vaccine for, quote, ideological reasons, I'm sure are going to start using that as an excuse, too, so that then it becomes like difficult to tell the difference between somebody who's an anti-vaxxer and somebody who's legitimately like can't get the vaccine. Right. So. All right. Well, let's check in with the Olympics.

I feel like this is now our our entertainment is to just watch the Olympics fucking go very badly. Yeah. I mean, there's some stuff happening but yeah there's not a lot of you're not reading a lot of updates i'm like man fucking everybody's doing well there's no covid actually being transmitted they really got this thing under control no i mean a wild bear broke into the olympic softball stadium at the at this point like can't we just be like you know this is somebody doesn't want this to happen we just need to like cut this thing off it's literally cursed um it's funny because the tweet that

that i saved for today is from raj andelman and it's olympic news is so wild every item is like entire danish swim team lost in lava pits or opening ceremony producer resigns after people recall his history of eating stop signs or god begs us to stop yeah it really feels like that it's just there's been yeah like the director uh of the opening ceremonies he has some weird holocaust joke he made like in the 90s. And people were like, uh, what is this? And he's like, like, they're like, okay, get this guy out of here. Another person who's a composer, they're like, he was bullying a disabled classmate.

And they're like, oh, okay, this, sorry, this person also won't be participating. Not just bullying, but like torturing. Yeah, yeah. A mentally disabled student. And now we have the first athlete for the U.S. who is actually set to compete who has tested positive. Like there have been alternates that have tested. So they were just there in case someone else tested positive. But Taylor Crabb was about to compete in beach volleyball until he tested positive.

And he's now in quarantine and wondering if he'll even play at all. Spoiler alert, he will not because of the rules. And his first match was supposed to be Sunday. So they had to fly in an alternate. And the rules are pretty clear in regards to what happens when the athlete tests positive. But there's also room for Japanese health officials to determine some of these things. So if any athlete tests positive, quote, they will not be allowed to compete, continue in their role. And then the quarantine period will then be determined by Japanese health

authorities, depending on their severity and like the symptoms and things like that. But there's also been like really inconsistent rules about what happens with contact tracing. Because if there, if there is like close contact with an athlete that's been tested positive there are some certain isolation protocols but they're kind of being loose with that because potentially you could be like oh okay the entire u.s men's volleyball team has to go into isolation now because one part like an assistant had covid and we're interacting with all them for hours. Like there's all these weird,

like it just feels like something like that could happen or they're going to ignore it. But it almost feels like, like the setup for like a comedy from the nineties where like a guy goes to the Olympics, but everyone in his like event has COVID. So he wins gold by default or something. And it's Chris Kattan. Yeah.

Oh God. He just got kicked off a plane for refusing Catan? Yeah. Oh, God. Thank you. He just got kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a mask, so that fits. Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, dude. He fucking went off on a plane being like, I'm not wearing a mask and shit. Bro.

Yeah. Mango. Kicked off a flight for not properly wearing a mask. Yeah, the mango. The mango does not wear a mask. Yeah, the mango. Yeah, the mango does not wear a mask. No, the mango dies. Yeah. Yeah, so this beach volleyball player was apparently not practicing with his team. Is that what we're to believe at this point?

Well, it's like beach volleyball. I think it's just two, so they do it in pairs. Oh, okay. So I think his partner, I guess, wasn't. That's the thing. At that point, you're like, well, what about the contact tracing? And they're like, well, look, we can't fuck up the whole Olympics. You're telling me after a sick spike, they weren't kissing each other on the mouth a little bit?

To celebrate a little bit? Yeah, how do you celebrate? Oh, not by spitting in his mouth while fingering him in the b-hole? That's not your... Okay, fine. Oh, bro, six spikes, standing 69, go. Seems like a lot of these officials are homophobic. But yeah, dude, and then even the bear breaking...

It's just so... It's so comical. Yeah. And just also like... Like, imagine that the bear was sent in by God. Yeah. Right. God was like, I don't know what else I can do.

Like, maybe this fucking bear. I don't even. Yeah. And I don't even fuck with God like that, you know, established religion. But part of me is like, man, maybe that's God. Maybe that's Jesus. That's what I'm saying. I don't either.

But when you see a bunch of signs like that, you're like, I don't even. What's the like? Is there going to be a formation of like flamingos that flies in and spells? Stop. Cancel the fucking Olympics. What the fuck are we waiting for? Like flamingos have are normally unable to travel to this part of the world this has never before been seen anyway coming up next we have simone biles exactly eating in the floor exercise

they're like we do not know how they got inside honestly but anyway our next event also the bear hasn't even been captured so this wild bear broke into the softball stadium. They haven't been able to find it. It's been spotted twice and it's still on the loose. Somehow. So it's clearly a religious, like something figure of some sort. Yeah.

I mean, then also the country of Guinea, they were just like, fuck this. They bailed. We're out. They just pulled out. They fully pulled out. They're like, they were just like, fuck this. They bailed. We're out. They just pulled out. They fully pulled out.

They're like, no, we're off this man. Cause they're the smartest country in the fucking world. Yeah. Yeah. Can we give them a gold medal for that? Right. Exactly. I mean, you got the, I got you.

Uh, anyone from the Guinea Olympic team, if you're in the San Fernando Valley, drinks on me or whatever you do on me. I'll send you weed gummies or something. I don't know what you mean. I don't know how you get down, but we can figure something out. But there's a thing. Two volleyball players are being ruled out of the games, too, because of like another fucking outbreak on this Czech Olympic team. And now they're just like we're fucking we're out like what the fuck and again it sucks because to even let these athletes believe they're gonna compete like i get it like if you're an athlete you're like i don't know how the fuck this is gonna work but if they're saying the olympics are going down then fuck you you're

gonna be like all right i'm gonna train so i can do my shit and now like the the stars just like we were crying we were swearing we were just crying we can't fucking believe this is happening and like we're not even symptomatic but you know again this is the fucking cruelty of insisting on having an olympics where again it's not just the massive danger to the people in japan and anyone working around the event but just to fuck over these like athletes who quite literally don't do anything except these fucking sports for their whole life jesus i don't know it's like because i was thinking i'm like it's so brutal because they're so infrequent but that's what makes them i guess so special for the athletes too but it's so brutal

if anything takes you out it's another four years and for a lot of people that's not even a thing because you won't be able to do it then yeah especially if like at a certain age you're like this is my last one that's what i'm saying so god it's like an olympics are so evil but it's like can we do like a yearly thing that's like more chill and like not evil for everyone? I don't know. Yeah, that's why I just say have it in one place and you can do it every four years, but just keep it in one fucking place. Don't destroy multiple cities, you know, every four years trying to build a bunch of shit that doesn't get used after the fact. I feel like every two years because i don't want people to not like

get their shot i don't know right wow oh you're like really like oh i want you to get a lot of gold medals well i just like i don't want people especially i think it it doesn't favor older athletes and it's like as i'm getting older i'm like i want bitches to get another chance that's where we have the chuglympics for the chuggy mother for the old geriatric millennials and athletes to be like and we have another games for the older folks let them 40 year olds run let them run some of them do you know they're still kicking they're still let them synchronize swim let them do all of it synchronized swimming is a young person's game those leg kicks really tire you out actually it was really hard and they really do tire you out yeah sure i can't imagine i mean

when you do that when you see the underwater that's the funny thing though too i'm like man fuck you because then you see this stuff underwater like look at how they're fucking having to stabilize their shit being all inverted in their arms like doing all this other shit so wild that's skills. It's like a duck. Seeing the duck's feet underwater. By the way, Tokyo just reported highest daily COVID-19 case number in six months. On the eve of the Olympic Games.

Technically, they started today. Yeah, starting today. Let's not cancel it or anything. Nah. Nah. Nah. Nah. I was in Tokyo, remember, like like last year or in 2020 before uh everything like got shut down and one of the things we did was go to like there's like a galaxy experience in like one

of the whatever where we were and uh they gave out all these 2020 olympic pins nice and now i have them and they're this really weird like enameled pin expenditure that this company put so much money into to give out to everyone for free of a game games that didn't happen and i was thinking i was like i should hold on to this because like what a weird memento of a weird year and then fucking 21 2021 coming around i'm sure they have these 2021 pins that are now an even more fucked up reminder of a new more fucked up year isn't that so crazy still calling it 2020 though they're not fucking around really they're not wasting their money. That branding is staying put. I didn't know that.

Yeah. You know they were like, dude, we fucking made millions of hats. I mean, right? Yeah. I do think 2022 is going to be our year though, right? That's going to be a good one. Shut your fucking mouth.

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