The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 189 (Best of 8/16/21-8/20/21)

Episode Date: August 22, 2021

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 198 (8/16/21-8/20/21) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot.

Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, everyone. It's me, Katie Couric. You know, lately I've been overwhelmed by the whole wellness industry. So much information out there about flaxseed, pelvic floor, serums, and anti-aging. So I launched a newsletter. It's called Body and Soul to share expert-approved advice for your physical and mental health. And guess what? It's free. Just sign up at katiecouric.com slash bodyandsoul.

That's K-A-T-I-E-C-O-U-R-I-C dot com slash bodyandsoul. I promise it will make you happier and healthier. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even Lucha Libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, Emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar.

Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream 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 nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the comedian and thought leader behind bradley cooper's a star is born takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never took place they are a tv writer and producer whose work you can see on a couple small outlets A Star is Born takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never took place.

They are a TV writer and producer whose work you can see on a couple small outlets called Netflix and Cartoon Network. You may have heard of them. You can hear them on Jack AM, Hot and Rich. This podcast is self-care. Please welcome the hilarious Kate Rowe! Hello! Thank you so much for having me. It's so good to be back here.

Welcome back, the yellow one. What a dream. Yes. You have subdued yellow look today. Just pops of yellow today. So, I am wearing a black and white checkered shirt with pops of sunflowers on it. Because I did invent yellow

and i do almost exclusively wear yellow but i've shifted my style into slutty crazy taxi summer which is my current fashion theme so i'm wearing i'm wearing anything that would like kind of be a yellow like 1960s taxi so like lots of checkers. Black and white checkers have made their way into my fashion along with yellow. Any like abba zabba type? So it's like abba zabba sort of aesthetic? Yes, exactly. It's abba zabba aesthetic.

I mean, you know, we'll get into the seasons. Technically it is summer but I think it's fall. Right. Sure. So I should update the theme. The seasons are a state of mind obviously seasons are obviously a state of mind abba zaba what a pool i haven't had i forgot about abba zaba you know i'm that's how bad fucking how uh what is it half baked fucked me up because that's like a scene where he's like abba zaba you're my only friend and he eats abba zaba and i remember always seeing it at 7-eleven like man this should look like a scene where he's like, Abba Zabba, you're my only friend. And he eats an Abba Zabba.

And I remember always seeing it at 7-Eleven. I'm like, man, this shit looks like a weird ass cab. And then because I fell in love with half baked, then I started eating them. I'm like, actually, these are kind of good. Yeah, it's long lasting fun. I don't think I've had an Abba Zabba since I was like trick or treating age. Yeah. And in my neighborhood, I was was i don't know for whatever

reason there was not abba zabba's being handed out where i had like never encountered it in a halloween you know out in the wild until i did it myself at 7-eleven so i don't know just to give you an idea of my struggle as a child kate i just discovered your magnum opus about why bradley cooper's a star is born takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never took place yes yes i'm convinced um can you tell the people give them a little it can't be fully encapsulated and just you know a teaser but just to give they they need to go check it out watch the watch the entire PowerPoint presentation themselves. Thank you. Yes. It is a 20 plus minute video essay where I make the very strong case that Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born starring Lady Gaga is a movie that takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never happened.

that takes place in an alternate reality where 9-11 never happened. There's a lot of, you know, things to strengthen that thesis statement that I, you could just go to my pinned tweet. It's my pinned tweet at Kate Raft. But, you know, one of the things is that Alec Baldwin was like the host of SNL when Ali was the musical guest for the season finale.

And I, I thought this was back when, you know, the movie came out, Trump was president and Alec was doing all the, all the Trump impressions. And I was like, there's no way Alec would be the host of the season finale.

If this was a universe where Trump was president. And then I like did a lot of thinking and I realized Trump never got elected because nine 11 never happened. And yeah, there's so many more things, but that's just one of them. Yeah. The level of fame I found very compelling that like he is pre nine 11 famous.

He is. Yeah. He's like, his genre is like country ish rock, which like, right. Just isn't like a thing that is as popular as it is in the movie universe. And it kind of was headed in that direction.

Will Code was getting really popular right as 9-11 hit. And it's like, what if we kept going on that trajectory? Exactly. And I think that if the Dixie chicks didn't get canceled for saying george bush was bad there would have been a more like politically ambiguous country music scene whereas like after 9-11 i feel like it became way more like conservative yeah that's so 9-11 never happened it would be more like everybody would listen to country instead of it being like this like politicized like we love america genre yeah

yeah that it like yeah the film is meant to ask get the audience to examine what our world would have looked like had we not just launched into this failed war on terror and exactly yeah exactly and as we get to the 20-year anniversary of 9-11 next month i think it's important for people to watch my powerpoint really what is something from your search history oh something from my search history? Oh, something from my search history. I, okay. I was looking and literally my search history for the past like three days is all just the names of bars from bar rescue because I've, I've, I've been obsessed with like this bar rescue marathon. And then I just spend the entire day just going, I wonder if that one still exists. And then I'm just Googling like

fifth and vine the ruse like all these ridiculous names he comes up with for these like companies one was like the copper rocket he changed like a thriving bar into the copper rocket it didn't survive wow yeah what the i mean did you so i'm guessing you also are you watch bar rescue too oh yeah yeah yeah i'm myself i mentioned this because did you see that clip of him also are you watch bar rescue too oh yeah yeah yeah i'm myself i mentioned this because did you see that clip of him on laura ingram i did where he's like workers are like dogs and you need to starve them hungry dogs obedient you're like yeah and it's like oh no but i like if you watch bar rescue it's like he could have said worse like

if you watch bar rescue he will be like say you're a dumb idiot sandwich in front of your grandmother like tell your father you're a failure tell him tell him tell him now so like honestly for john taffer like that was him trying to probably make a compliment like for his scale of like what is okay to say have you seen any bars that you know on bar rescue because there's one in the valley that i grew up like never going to because it was like the old washed like elderly bar that we're just like we're not going in there that it was like then it was on and i was like that's what it looks like inside but it's always a startling thing when you see a local bar in there yeah they

did one in chicago and like i mean river north which is literally just where tourists hang out and they were like we're gonna turn this into the local and make it like a bar where local chicago people want to go and i lived in chicago for seven years no one goes to that place like it is just full of tourists who are like oh my god i want to go to the bar from the bar rescue episode right right right yeah wait which one was it before it became the local what was the vibe in that place was it the one where they had all the like art the musicians and shit in there yeah like it was something like beats and notes or something like that like some jazzy name and they had musicians and he was just like this is disgusting music doesn't make money like the owners were like had like this like artistic disposition like we wanted a place

where people could do art they're like but you're broke yeah and he's like what's what's more important sending your daughter to college or putting art on your walls and it's like that's that's how john taver sees the world it's that's amazing yeah it's like that quincy jones quote that god leaves the room when like the question of commercialism enters the conversation like he is the opposite so just god leaves the room every time he walks into a room never known god it's amazing the things he'll do to just be like i don't give a shit about the culture of this bar what you want there was one it's like a pipe like he came into a pirate bar that was run by literal like pirate hippies who were like we love dressing up as pirates in our free time like this was

clearly their passion project and he came in and renamed the bar the corporate like just just named it the corporate made a giant logo of a man in a suit and was like we want business people to know this place is about the business right like the pirate waiters just like couldn't get it together they're just like milady what would you like for dinner and he's just like you need to be normal and then they all like stormed out she closed it down three days later wow yeah that was in uh yeah in maryland i believe i remember that very vividly because i knew people from silver spring and i'm like i'll be like yo do you know this bar do you know this bar you heard of it see like that episode

came out nine years ago i'm like yeah right right okay yeah yeah i mean there's like like i said i google every bar and there's like dedicated websites to like bar rescue updates where they tell you everything that happens the corporate and copper rocket i think i feel like i i don't watch the show but it sounds like he's over too and it sounds like he also prides himself on like being sweet at naming oh yeah he's like i know exactly what this market needs yeah he's like rocket sounds like a steampunk sex toy. Yeah. I thought of something like a mechanical dog penis.

Right, right. Bring out the Copper Rocket. You're like, oh, no. And then sometimes he'll change the name of the bar, but he won't get them a new liquor license under the new name. And then they have to close down, and they get screwed over three of the bars. they were like yeah he just like changed our name

and got us a new sign and all of it was illegal right because we can't do business as this thing because you don't have a license for it wow okay so yeah little like oprah kind of thing where people got the car and then they didn't realize they had to pay the tax yeah they had to pay the taxes it's yeah so there was just a i wonder if he was on laura ingram to like raise awareness of the bar rescue marathon like if that's why he was there honestly probably because that is all they show on paramount like right now like there's a whole tv channel that just plays bar rescue all day there you go yeah that he went on laura the ingram angle to drag wage workers and then also and also just give some press little bump to his tv yeah to just john taver's most embarrassing manager moments what is something you think is overrated chan oh overrated i'm gonna say being friends with

your neighbors you know uh because people are always like be friends with your neighbors create a community you have people there for you it's like yeah i have people knocking on my door all day asking me for favors it's like i feel like i went i was i went hard i'm like a big like say hi to people in the in the hallways like make a chatty conversation and uh you know what now like legit like we've got we've swapped keys there's people being like literally i wouldn't be surprised if people were like oh my god i forgot to flush the turd i left and i left for work could you go and like get in there and flush it for me? And I'd be like, no.

Wait. Boundaries. All right. So you started off, you're a very positive person and you like engaging with people. But it slowly started turning into like, this is a little bit now we're kind of you're kind of having me do shit for you. This isn't just kind of like friendly reciprocity. Like, what's the what's some shit that you've been, you know, what's the situation you've been forced into

due to your kindness? Alright, I have a neighbor who's probably listening who just constantly, constantly goes out on trips and makes me take care of their cats. What? Oh, fuck. No, no, no.

One time I was like, oh, I can't. No, no, no. One time I was like, oh, I can't. I'm sick. This was true. I was like, I'm sick. I actually haven't even been able to get up and like to feed myself. And they're like, oh, well, we already left.

So like, please feed them. And I was like, oh, no, whoa, yo, yo. Wow. That's wild. And I'm not even kidding. I don't like it. Oh, no. Well, that's definitely lack of boundaries. I was a, And I'm not even kidding.

That's definitely lack of boundaries. I was a, they were like knocking and I'm in this acting class that's on zoom and you do like three to four hours every single day. And I was like, Hey, I'm like, I'm in rehearsal. And they pushed the door open and like looked around to like prove that I

was lying. And I was like, Whoa, it's not a computer. That's like a relationship. I my God. You need to chill. That's like a relationship I've only seen in sitcoms. Yeah. Of like people who, like the neighbor who is that pushy. That just strolls into and you're like, oh, here they come.

I don't watch sitcoms. I'm not into them at all. And yet my life really, yeah, you know me. But like my life really does take a sitcom energy right right right yeah you don't need to watch them you live it yeah i'm like i i get so i get panicked when i have to ask people to help me with shit that's how i am because i'm like oh my god like i already asked them to i remember they watched my cats three years ago i can't go back to them right even though i brought back like bottles of wine and thanks to be like thank

you for keeping my animals alive but i i'm always like i'll fight with my partner i'll be like well you gotta ask somebody this time we've been doing my homies oh yeah you gotta do it this time because i can't yeah and that's me and i fly out my family members like i've flown out my super exaggerated because sin is also like super high maintenance so like i like did an apartment swap with my dad once when i took a job because i was like you need to take care of her she's your granddaughter right and so i usually just like literally fly out my family to take care of my cats well yeah hate to hear about those pesky neighbors but yeah otherwise it's good to otherwise, it's good to know.

It's good to know who you live around, too. And then sometimes you'll discover, oh, maybe they don't want to live near me. But that's fine. Yeah. I got to know who I live around. I know a lot of the hot goss. That's for sure. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I feel like I really got, like, especially in quarantine, like, I live in a 42-unit building. Right. Right. So it's like, oh, my gosh. You got stories. Yeah. Yeah. in quarantine like i live in a 42 unit building right right i was like oh my god stories yeah yeah we have a neighbor across the street from us who is uh wild and usually drunk and loves to talk to us no matter what to the point that i have like coping mechanisms for getting to the car without like when he's out on his front porch which is almost always yo is his name richard no oh because i lived across the street from you're

describing this neighbor i had years ago who was always out on his porch and if you came home when he was drinking you had to go have a drink with him yeah dude come on what are you doing yeah yeah go yeah yeah i got vanilla stoli man yeah yeah and you're like oh fuck and then i remember her majesty she was like yo i can't go out there right now he's gonna ask me and i remember i would have to do like i would have to periodically entertain the invite so i could say no the next 15 times. Right. Right. Right.

All right. I'll come over this time, but you know, I'm going to tell you the next three months. I'm going to say, fuck that though. Cause I'm, I got shit to do.

Right. Right. I know. I do the thing where I pretend that like everything is really bad and I'm going through the worst time of my life. And then they like remember it. And I'm like, Oh fuck.

I have to like, remember that lie. I told on the fly. Cause I'm like, Oh, things are really bad for me. I can't have this conversation. Right, right. And then, you know, it's very bad. How's your father's ankles?

Like, what? He doesn't have ankles. What are you talking about? Exactly. What's something you think is underrated? So part of my trip is i was actually in south carolina and i got to go to waffle house for the first time and i saw that tweet we don't have waffle houses up here so i think people are missing out on the on the heaven-like experience

of waffle house so more i think waffle house is underrated because we should have them everywhere what'd you get oh I got so many things. I got so many waffles. I got hash browns with the smothered and covered and all that kind of stuff. Capped? I love smothered and covered. I did all of it. I got enough variations that I was able to get the full Waffle House experience.

I stole a Waffle House mug. That was pretty fun. I first asked the waitress, can I buy this mug? She's like, no, but you can steal it. And I was like, cool. And then I gave her a very good tip. There you go. It all comes out. That's actually something that ties into climate change because there's the Waffle House index. Yes. Right. Because Waffle Houses just never close unless they absolutely have to. People use the number of Waffle Houses that are open on a given day as a representation of how bad things are, basically. Yeah.

From a natural disaster. They all have their backup generators. They're a very good way of looking at disasters in localized areas. Right. Yeah. very good way of looking at, you know, disasters in localized areas.

Right. Yeah. They're like, sadly, we're like more industry should take note of Waffle House. Robust future forward ideology. Yeah. Waffle House is underrated.

More, more, more Waffle Houses. We think in the future, like if it's like demolition man style dystopia, like the Waffle House is like our refuge for like, is the bastion of civilization.? Like, if it's, like, Demolition Man-style dystopia, like, the Waffle House is, like, our refuge for, like, the dregs of humanity. It's the bastion of civilization. Yeah.

Yeah, it's the... That's the one part of Mad Max Fury I don't really like is when they talk about, like, the golden arches or something. Like, we should just have that, but for Waffle House. Be like, that's, like, the one thing we all, like, remember as being a thing. Right. It's, like, the one part of civilization still standing. Somewhere there's a

Waffle House that's still open. We have to find it. And somehow still getting product. Still getting product. Somehow. Somehow. Still getting hash browns, still getting waffle batter. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, like I feel like Waffle House

the, like maybe Taco Bell takes over the, is the Elysium kind of level restaurant. But then Waffle House is like the, what Dennis Leary and his crew eat instead of rats. Oh, yeah. They actually just are like, Waffle House is there for the people. I mean, I'll believe it. Waffle House is for the people. I mean, you know, as this corporatocracy chugs along like eventually it will

be like yeah did you go to waffle house to get your covid test and and uh medication distribution like yeah yeah i feel like what a dream yeah i feel like things work better in our brand of like hyper capitalism when there's like two big brands like coke and pepsi as opposed to like you never just have one brand to dominate or when you do it gets weird like america after the fall of the soviet union so yeah i i think demolition man got it wrong there's going to be a second brand and i do like waffle house is the prediction for that i just think if we're already leaning on waffle house for refuge in like bad weather i think that bodes well for whatever the you know the new white house will just be the waffle house probably that is the new wh yeah yeah there you go

yeah this out of the wh president blah blah blah it's like oh god i wish i was there at the waffle house joe biden could be so much better if he just moved his house into a waffle house they just serve waffles he'd have a better idea about like minimum wage for sure he would have things he would have a lot of he would have a better idea about a lot of things yeah if he was forced to always work in a waffle house yeah that would be like a cool like if i was one of the guys who worked for uh biden and uh pod save america like a waffle house tour of like america would be like a good like kind of blue collary like a gimmick that they could do and it's branded baby and it's branded that's right it pays for itself'all. I mean, get the paperwork up.

So you ride for Waffle House over the International House of Pancakes? Yes, yeah. I have been to IHOPs before and they pale in comparison to the beauty and the potential of Waffle House. But is there anything that even comes, because I don't know anybody who's like an

IHOP stand or even when they went IHOB with the burgers. They did that. Oh, man. I totally forgot about that. I actually like IHOP a lot, but I went abroad. So like I'm very international, you know. So that's kind of that Euro flavor.

I've had panekuken in Europe. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. MTV's official challenge podcast is back for another season. That's right. The challenge is about to embark on its monumental 40th season, y'all. And we are coming along for the ride.

Woohoo! That would be me, Devin Simone. And then there's me, Davon Rogers. And we're here to take you behind the scenes of drumroll please. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The Challenge 40 Battle of the Eras. Yes. Each week, cast members will be joining us to spill all of the tea on the

relentless challenges, heartbreaking eliminations, and of course, all the juicy drama. And let's not forget about the hookups. Anyway, regardless of what era you're rooting for at home, everyone is welcome here on MTV's official challenge podcast. So join us every week as we break down episodes of the Challenge 40 Battle of the Eras. Listen to MTV's official challenge podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent, revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available

now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Some people won't give you the real talk on drugs, but it's time we know the facts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. fentanyl into their products because it's potent and cheap, and the dealer might not even know. Keep yourself and others safe by knowing the real deal on fentanyl. Get the facts. Go to realdealonfentanyl.com. This message is brought to you by the Ad Council. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And let's talk about masking laws around the country, specifically Texas, where they are basically run by Republicans. All the big office holders, all the big judges. Yeah, are all Republicans.

And despite what like present tense science is showing us, they're just like, nah, I can't can't can't tell us what to do. Yeah. The name of personal freedom. And, you know, we talked about how there have been small little acts of rebellion in Florida and Texas wherexas where people were like i don't give a fuck what the governor is saying like this sounds like absolutely asinine and dangerous to be like dude you're not gonna can't can't force people to do what's safe for everyone that's absurd and now we're seeing a little bit of pushback so we talked about how two counties basically said we don't give a fuck we're gonna mandate masks in schools fucking come come see me

then and apparently the supreme court did governor abbott was like hey supreme court they're trying to flaunt my like my anti-mandate mandate and they essentially blocked the this initial mandate from bexar and dallas counties and like these are some of the biggest school districts in the state that they represent so you know it makes sense why they'd want to keep it safe. So some commentary from officials there, the city attorney in Bexar County, Andy Segovia, said that, quote, he said, first of all, the mandate remains in effect. And quote, the city of San Antonio and Bexar County's response to the Texas Supreme Court continues to emphasize that the governor cannot use his emergency powers to suspend laws that provide local entities the needed flexibility to act in an emergency. OK, that makes sense. And then in Dallas, the superintendent of the independent Dallas Independent School District said, you know, fuck it. We're not we don't give a fuck what the court

said. Like there's how can you say we can't do this? This doesn't make sense. Quote, we're going to have the mask mandate tomorrow. We're going to be benevolent. We're going to be nice, but we're going to be firm and we're going to enforce it. So, yeah, I mean, at a certain point, can they just be like, we're going to do it from home then? Like, if you if you insist on not letting people wear masks while we're in like we'll go back to shitty i feel like that's worse than the mask mandate right because because texas is so like we refuse to believe this a lot of school districts aren't

even offering at home options like you have to be in school right because it's all you know like if you think about all the dynamics right it's like they they want the kids back in school to alleviate the pressure on the adults that are workers so they don't have to be at home with their kids they're less of a crunch for the child care because they're at school again but then on top of that if you do the mask then you're reminding people that the covid rates are going out of control which could which could create another lockdown which obviously entities like the Chamber of Commerce absolutely hate because they've been like, do we have to keep the revenue flowing? So no matter what, everything's just sort of linked to this idea of like never wanting to acknowledge that it's bad enough, that something has to be done for the sake of just letting business rip or business as usual. I mean, I get why it's better for the anti-vaxxer parents

to have their kids at school. I'm just wondering, if it's not a mandate, can they just be like, well, you're not allowed in our school? Just go from home then. And because the governor, along with all these other rules, also put in place rules where the school districts can't tell parents if kids test positive for COVID. They can't share the number of students

who have tested positive for COVID. It's like you, as a parent, even if you don't want to send your kid in, you don't really have the information needed to be like, oh, I just keep my kid at home or like, oh, the numbers are going off the chart because they're just like, nope. How'd you get those numbers? The governor says it's a secret like we're not

say and yeah he's got a cool demeanor though despite the numbers going up and also finding out that he's been asking for assistance from outside the state because the situation just becomes increasingly dire it's like so much you know so much double double speak and just lack of acknowledgement happening that yeah it's just yeah the chaos still continues yeah i'm a fifth generation texan like my whole family is in dallas and i i feel like i don't know it's like the perfect example of just everything texas is like on the one side you have these people who are like we're never gonna wear our masks and then the other side you have these people who are like we're never gonna wear our masks and then the other side you have these people who are like we will do whatever we have to do to wear these masks like we don't care we have to go to the Supreme Court and fight you

we don't I know in Houston they like some people they did a restraining order against the governor yeah so that they prevent him from like being able to like you know do anything about people wearing masks so i just feel like it's just like the two like staunchest like just the most stubborn sides like fighting against each other right in the stubbornest state in the most yeah the most stubborn state and everybody's just kind of like i don't know what to do. Right. Right. All right. Let's talk some fake meat. We know that... The copper rocket? The copper rocket.

The copper rocket. Fake meat, the copper rocket. That's right. We know that, you know, the factory farming in the meat sector is a huge contributor to climate change and that changing our diets can help slow down the rise of temperatures and just generally, I mean, it's mainly the oil companies that can slow it down and, you know, massively powerful corporations and governments that can slow it down, but definitely changes to our diets can help our step in the right direction.

diets can help or are stepping in the right direction and yeah so so people are doing a study about just like what happens when you offer you know the better fake meat impossible and beyond in a market because there's a lot of talk about saying like well when the fake meat reaches the same price as regular meat because right now like you know are impossible just like kind of reduce their prices to sort of encourage more consumption of impossible meat but a lot of people like you know speculating around like when when is there going to be a tipping point where these like these alternative meats become you know more highly adopted and again it's always been about price they said if if it becomes just as cheap as beef, then we'll probably begin to see an uptake in it. And like right now, a lot of people project that alternative meats could be around up to between 11 and 22% of global meat eating. Right now, it's like not even

a fraction of a percent. So, you know, what is it? Is it going to be a flip of a light switch type change? Well, it's not so easy. So this student who was working on their PhD project at UCLA sort of used the dining hall at UCLA as her experimental lab because at the UCLA dining hall, impossible meat and regular beef, those items are offered at the exact same price. So there's nothing more expensive to go for the like meat alternative. And so what she saw was when they sort of unrolled or began to premiere these impossible meat tacos and burritos and salads and things like that, students bought 9% fewer animal based entrees. But on the other side of it was sales of vegetarian meals declined by 4%. And so this is something a lot of experts have

feared was that essentially that it's sort of reinforcing this idea that we have a meat-centered diet no matter what. We're like, well, if it's not real meat, then it needs to be fake meat because you got to have meat in your diet. Not really people saying, oh, we can also embrace staple vegetables as well. there was like this again a food eating trend being seen from 1961 to 2013 they looked at when chicken and seafood became more available than other meats american didn't americans didn't eat less beef or pork per capita they just ate more meat overall and that's what's happening around the world we're like exporting this thing so it's it's tricky yeah i i feel like i fall in

line with that where i i get impossible burgers when i want an impossible burger like i i will just crave that it's not that i'm like oh this is me making a more healthy choice it's just like sometimes i'm like no i want an impossible burger so i'll do that and i'm not helping the world right yeah i'm the same way i love i love impossible that's my favorite of the meat alternatives but the way we all work as people and just how things are marketed to us it's clear especially for americans like the idea of meat being a thing you eat to have your complete diet has just been like just rammed into our skulls from birth. And a lot of the experts like it's not just so much as being able to offer cheap alternatives to beef. It's like we have to de-emphasize it to like culturally in saying like cultural shift.

Yeah. Like when you do, you know, your fake food pyramid for kids, like not having to sort of reinforce ideas like you got to be eating that beef, though. You know what I mean? If you want to grow kids, because it's not exactly getting the same outcomes. And also, like we have a lot of subsidies, the government, there's a lot of government subsidies that sort of keep this industry operating in the same suboptimal way that it is. So more than that, it's like we got gotta kind of legislate this stuff to make it work properly but yeah you know i mean the food pyramid that we grew up on include two to three daily servings of meat yeah probably i'm pretty sure i feel like i mean yeah it's like you should have me at the

bottom is just all bread stuff it's like like there's like 12 servings of bread and then it like makes space at the top for and some sweets you know yeah you can have a little candy which i don't think is like a necessary part of any diet right you can't apparently yeah candy i mean yeah i mean it's part of like for like more of like a happiness diet you know give yourself a little candy I mean, who knows the way that how these sort of FDA charts are like created. I'm surprised it wasn't like and you got to have three Hershey bars every week, too, to keep your bones strong. But as a kid, that is how I saw I'd be like, mom, look at the top of the pyramid. It has like he's a candy. You got to have dessert. That is like a man.

It's an impossible amount of food. Speaking of impossible, it's like, all a candy you gotta have dessert that is like a mandatory it's an impossible amount of food speaking of impossible it's like all right six to eleven servings of bread cereal rice and pasta that's so many what eleven servings i would be like i wouldn't be able to move if i ate eleven servings of and like the secret here the reason they're able to get away with this is because like a serving is actually really small but that's right that's but you won't know that yeah you're gonna be like okay a slice of bread is one serving so let me eat this half a loaf uh eat five pineapples three heads of cabbage fucking big turkey legs, a cheese wheel, and a little drizzle of maple syrup on it. Yeah, that's your sweetness right there.

It's like this idea that you can eat your way to healthiness by getting all these different things in. And it's just like, actually, the thing that needs to be emphasized is eating a little bit less. And how we consume. But yeah, that's the thing. It's all a great funnel to just get people to be like, consume, consume, consume, consume. All right. Let's talk about the FAA.

They recently announced that they've reached a new milestone in record time after going through 3,889 reported incidents. They've now charged people with fines that have gone over $1 million. So I think that we should just take this as a report card and say congratulations to America. We did it. We did it.

Killing it. Absolutely no one knows how to act. Everyone is on some other about-to-snap type energy, no matter what. Yeah yeah there's like a sort of collection of some of the fines that have been doled out and these aren't just like little slaps on the wrist some people are like 45 000 fine against a passenger in may of this year because someone is allegedly throwing objects including his carry-on luggage at other passengers refusing to stay seated lying on the floor in the aisle, refusing to get up,

then grabbing a flight attendant by the ankles and putting his head up her skirt. The passenger was placed in flex cuffs, and the flight made an emergency landing in Virginia. Another one is $42,000 for a passenger in May on JetBlue from a flight from Queens to San Francisco, allegedly interfering with crew members, failing to comply with the face mask mandate making non-consensual physical contact with another passenger throwing a playing card at a passenger and threatening him with physical harm making stabbing gestures towards certain passengers and snorting what appeared to be cocaine from a plastic bag, which the cabin crew confiscated, the passenger became increasingly agitated, and the crew equipped themselves with flex cuffs and ice mallets

to ensure the safety of the flight. If his behavior worsened, they had to divert to Minneapolis. Ice mallets sound like a Marvel Universe weapon. I'm assuming it's just mallets to break up the ice. Yeah, yeah. It's the little ones because when they get the bags of ice on board, you got to... Right. It used to be an ice pick, but you can't use that anymore because it's a weapon, I guess.

Right. Oh, that makes sense. Do they have ice picks on the flight? I mean, I don't know, but I assume that's why they... I've never heard of an ice mallet. I assume that's just the thing that they had to invent for a plane. Right. Yeah, yeah.

Because, I mean, like, if you're breaking up ice, well, I don't know why you would have to break up ice at your house. But usually you'd use, like, something, like an ice pick, right? You don't use, like, a meat tenderizer. What's it for? Like, isn't an ice pick, like, old school? Like, if you just got a block of ice, you know, like. Yeah. And you're just like, hey, you want to.

Just gets in there and chips it apart. And you're like, hey, you want a cold scotch on theotch on the rocks like and you just like putting the fragments in a glass ice experts. Let me know how this works. But whenever I get a bag of ice, you just slam it on the ground. Yeah, but I think if you're a real deal bartender or sorry, mixologist, I think you still have to, you know, pick your own ice. Like you have to have like bespoke ice cube shapes. Right. Of course you do. The other thing, another fine was over $30,000 for someone in January, allegedly assaulting

passengers around him because someone in his row would not change seats to accommodate his travel partner. He told his travel partner he would need to bail him out of jail for the physically violent crimes he threatened to commit. The captain returned the flight to the gate where law enforcement met the passenger. Southwest banned him from flying. And then it says the FAA does not put passengers on no fly lists. So whenever whenever that happens on my plane, I like to turn to the guy next to me and go, I wonder which vaccine he got. Yeah. I mean, like this, this, I feel like this stuff is just a huge indicator for how angry, stressed, depressed, how little fucks people give at the moment. It's a little jarring, you know, like to the point where the last couple of times I was on a plane, I was bracing myself for shit to kick off.

I'm like, please, like if i hear someone like laugh loudly i'm like oh god they're about to go down well we just keep we keep adding more and more rules to plane travel while uh offering less and less service so it's just like you get in the airport and you're immediately having to do the whole like tsa exam and now it's like you know have your mask on at all times and this and that. And then meanwhile, like flights are like canceled, delayed. People are spending like, you know, three days on an airport and then you shove them into a plane after all that. Like, yeah, it's going to be some bad stuff happening. Yeah. I mean, there it seems like the airlines are understaffed as well.

I had to change a flight and spent five hours on hold. Five hours on hold? Five hours. I have the screen cap because we were like, wow, this is record. We were just doing it as a bit. After a while, we were like, there's no way they're going to come on and help us. And then they did. They ultimately came on. They were super helpful and rebooked our flight for us. But literally five hours of

hold time. And so I have another theory here that, because aren't flights not serving drinks right now? Some aren't. In flight. So I'm wondering if this is people realizing they're not going to be able to order drinks on the flight and like overshooting the mark when they get drunk before

the flight and like so they're just extra extremely because this all seems like shit that i would have done when i was blacked out that's at various points not you would have stuck your head up a flight attendant's skirt on no i guess not all of this stuff okay you would have snorted you know doing drugs in the open yeah i feel like that that one felt like oh no i could oh no what's the date on this 2021 thank god okay yeah it's you got to pregame. And then sometimes you pregame a little too much. And it ruins the actual game. Because some of the fines are also for people drinking outside alcohol on the plane.

Like they're bringing it on board and things like that. I mean, yeah, it's a combination of things. But in general, I think there's also this thing when we were just reopening and things like that meant we just don't we are we're feral some of us are just out here wild you know like yeah i mean i got in trouble at the staples center you know what i mean because i was too wicked against the suns in the playoff game so oh really yeah remember i remember i took my name down and shit because i was screaming they. They're like, hey, man, you can't be screaming shit like this from the stands. I'm like, I'm sorry. Oh, my God.

I'm sorry. It was 2020. I'm having a hard time. And I decided to get cathartic at the Laker game. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, once you just like marinate in your own house for about a year, while all the news is like, you know, teaching you different ways to hate each other.

Turns out once you stick them back together. Right. Yeah. It's not a great situation. Yeah. No, absolutely. Yeah. Have you seen any?

Have y'all seen anything on flights? I know DJ Daniel was telling me he saw something recently when he was coming back. Like his flight took a minute to get to the gate because someone was wilding out. But I don't know if you all encountered unruly flights. I haven't been able to fly. My wife is very pregnant. So our last trip we had to drive to Montana. So we did it as a road trip.

And then our in-laws were taking a flight on the way back and they got the flight got delayed like three or four times in the space of I mean, it was still a faster drive than it was a flight. But yeah, something about like knowing that you're going to do that drive seems preferable to, you know, having the goalposts push back over and over while you're just sitting in an airport somewhere. Right? Yeah. This dude I was sitting next to like shit his pants was like throwing food all over the place, you know, punched me. It was my three year old, but it was still still a pretty, pretty dynamic performance by him. Yeah. He's going to be on the no fly list. God willing. After that.

But yeah, it's, I, I have a hard time noticing anybody else when, when I'm traveling with a, with three-year-old, it's just head down. Every flight is chaos. Apologizing to people.

Yeah. I mean, he's actually not that bad, but yeah. Do you ever give a, like, is that there? Is that normal?

Where people like, are like, I have a baby. Here's like, here's apology gifts. Yeah. Yeah. I'm preempting. Or give, like, is that normal where people are like, I have a baby. Here's, like, here's apology gifts. Yeah, yeah. I'm preempting. I'm preempting the chaos. Yeah, the earplugs.

Yeah. Yeah, like, we're usually trying, like, make contact with the people around us. And sometimes they're just like, why are you talking to me? And sometimes they're like, oh, I get it. You know, I have a kid or i have a nephew and yeah it's it's good just to like have because otherwise you just feel like if there's silence in the interact like you haven't interacted with them you're just assuming the absolute worst about how they feel about things so yeah it's it's always good to just like kind of make brief

contact that becomes like a new like little bit of decorum from anti-maskers or on flights. Like, hi, just so you know, I'm going to refuse to wear a mask. So I'm really sorry. Here's some gift cards. Right. But it's just my freedom. And I understand that's probably going to inconvenience you and that's not fair to you. But here, just please take these ear plugs and these flex cuffs.

My family, just we can't weather the price drop on my semen so i'm gonna have to important to me that uh my semen goes for top dollar yeah uh in the year 2022 so well let's talk about let's talk fox news real quick because they are gonna have to announce their vaccine status probably just internally right like we're not going to get to know their vaccine status are we no i mean oh man hippo laws yeah hippo hippopotamus is going to protect them and i'm sure look you know what's going to happen somebody there's going to leak this shit and then it'll be all on wax i don't know maybe it will maybe it won't but that seems like that's what could happen to take the wind out of some people's sails maybe it'll get i don't know. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But that seems like that's what could happen to take the wind out of some people's sails. Maybe it'll get. I don't know. Look, but here's the thing that's been passed around. If you worked at Fox, they got this real nice alert. It says, Dear colleagues, as all of you know, the health and safety of our employees has been our priority at Fox News Media since the start of the global pandemic 17 months ago. Whether at work or at home, the COVID-19 pandemic has had

a tremendous impact on all of our lives. Here are some of the steps we are currently taking, given the recent rise in COVID cases nationwide and the spread of the Delta variant. One, we have asked all, and it's like underlined, employees, whether on-site as part of our essential workforce or working remotely, to upload their vaccination status into workday that's how i know this shit's real they just said and please put it in workday um and then it's like this is being done for uh space planning and blah blah blah it says all employees must enter their status in bold no later than today august 17th by the close of business so that's a little that's interesting yeah a lot of people i mean it's not what you that's a little that's interesting. Yeah. A lot of people. I mean, it's not what you that's not what's on the air, though.

Right. Yeah. What are they doing it just to make sure that people aren't falling for this vax bullshit? You think that's what's going on? Because I could actually see the person leaking it being either, you know, somebody who's like, ha ha, Tucker Carlson sucks and I'm going to show that he's full of shit. tucker carlson sucks and i'm gonna show that he's full of shit but i could also see somebody leaking it because they're like they betrayed us by getting the vaccine type shit so either way i don't care why you're doing it please leak this information it's probably the anti-vax people don't want to be around all those vax employees and they're worried about the you know what to do

their sperm more gelins or whatever they're worried about yeah larry cudlow is like i can't do it like i can't be around people like that just i'm i'm all in on uh come futures but is is fox news even that popular anymore it feels like it's kind of it's kind of like diet soda to the real hardcore q yeah i mean they're still doing numbers they have been you know people have been migrating to newsmax and oan but it still seems diet soda to the real hardcore Q. Yeah. I mean, they're still doing numbers. They have been, you know, people have been migrating to Newsmax and OAN, but it still seems like it's still part of your full,

your complete and balanced right wing diet is you got to have your, you got to have your vegetables in the form of Fox news, I guess, before you get to the suites of Newsmax and Mike Lindell. You got to, you got to smuggle in a little, a Ziploc of OAN and your underwear just to get that hit. Snort it in the flight and then fight all the passengers.

But I mean, it's funny because they clearly know, right? Fox News clearly knows as a business that the only way to operate safely is to do this because they know that COVID is serious shit. They know that COVID is serious shit. But then at the same time, it's like, well, we just want to make this place as safe as possible for our goons to go on camera and then be like, it's not then. Don't worry about it. Fuck Joe Biden and vaccines. Just go out there and be free because we know what the people want, because we're all in Manhattan. We know what red America is thinking.

It's like, yes, fuck is fuck is this hey they're in enemy territory you know they're just plotting from behind the lines the yeah i i don't know it seems like fox's ratings are still pretty dominant but we're just like not really paying attention but they're just as popular as ever and then you also have the oann and shit like that yeah and then they're in weird like but it's funny because all of those networks have like double speak going on where like some people will be like no like it's serious and then like 20 minutes later they're like telling you like it's gonna turn your arms to like lizard tails and who knows what the fuck yeah i did develop grayscale after I got the vaccine,

but that's just... Trying to attack people in a boat, you know? Is that why your hand was wrapped in that rag? I was like, what happened? Trying to keep that on the low, but yeah. A little grayscale. Never hurt anyone. Have you tried sacrificing your child to the fire god?

Oh, yeah. The one that punches you and poops everywhere. Yeah, yeah. My consultant, my grayscale consultant, has recommended that. We're just kind of looking at various options. Let's talk Canadian election real quick. Hell, yeah. Yeah, baby.

North of the border. Let's go. Canadian election coverage. The thing that the Zeitgang has been clamoring for. This is just it's always interesting. It's like finding out about the laws of physics on another planet. It's like this is like they can, for instance, call a snap election. So Justin Trudeau just was basically like, hey, we're having an election on September 20th because he thought he would get regain a majority in the house of commons so it's like a impromptu election what a dumb system it's like they don't even have like some right-wing

talk show hosts to spend millions of dollars making a new election they can just call it that's the sap election dissolving parliament let's go let's go let's do it let's go. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's go. It was supposed to be October 2023. So we're going off two years, one month early. Is that? No. Yeah. That's how math works. The conservative party tweeted out an ad using a jib jab animation from the year 2004.

It's very wild they basically just like copy pasted trudeau's face onto baruch assault from willie wonka to be like he's complaining he's a he's a complainer and people are just pissed at trudeau for calling an election at all like it seems like the worst thing that he did was call this election i love how polite even the attack ads are in canada like i remember when i was in toronto when this election in the lead-up to the election when when trudeau got elected and like the attack ads on them were just people people in bars and like other places were being like we just don't think he's experienced enough

and that was like right i don't care for just attack ad yeah right i don't think he has the right ideas to be qualified to be quite honest with you and here it's like he's a fucking demon who eats fucking puppies like wow i think the slogan, he's just not ready. So it was just a bunch of people being like, I just don't think he's ready. Wow. Which like leaves the possibility. It's like, I might consider him if he was ready, but he's just not. So I guess I'll be voting conservative this year. Yeah.

And the other thing is like, to your point of like, why are you calling an election right now? Cause it's a very, like you're saying there's a, there's another wave of COVID happening. Cause the Delta variant is also making its way through Canada. And a lot of people are like, this isn't the right time. Like it just shows a disconnect between the politicians who are like, well, I know true dose or the logic is I did a great job with COVID.

So maybe if I call a snap election, they'll come back, they'll help vote liberal and give me a majority. and then that'll help me out without realizing people are fucking just exhausted and drained and then you want them to vote in person during another wave of the pandemic and they're also like vote by mail isn't a really popular thing in canada either so it seems like a bit you have to vote by moose oh boy there it is hey all right but yeah just yeah and they're saying like his numbers aren't even like strong like they they think that he's probably going to get the same like he won't even get the thing he

was hoping for right at this point so shout out to Trudeau, kind of a cell phone. It seems like this reminds me a little bit of like the Brexit thing where they were like, OK, let's do the sensible thing and hurry up and get this over with. And then turns out people aren't as rational as the liberals think they're going to be. international as the liberals think they're going to be. I've made a terrible mistake. But yeah, a ton of money to have an election and then just kind of be like, oh, I got the same votes, huh? Fuck. All right. Well, I guess they don't like me as much as I thought. All right.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about important stuff like the new host of Jeopardy. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of

that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You love your kids enough to take them to see their favorite band. Love them enough to make sure they're buckled up in the back seat. Show them you love them. Keep them safe. Visit NHTSA.gov slash the right seat. Brought to you by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts.

I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours.

BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it.

That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm.

Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And school is back in Sesh, baby. In some parts of the country. Nevada, Florida, Mississippi. Yeah. How's it going, Miles? I mean, just a cursory look at

the headlines and it's they're terrifying. OK, so just I just searched school covid this morning because I'm just because, you know, I saw one thing about like. So in Florida, four teachers just died of covid before the school year even started. So it wasn't that they got it in school, but they're like four teachers aren't like are like the students are going to find out that their teachers passed away like days before the year started. Oh, my God. And they said that three of the four were unvaccinated or at least three of the four were unvaccinated, according to the school union president. And they were like on summer break when they caught it and just passed away right before the school year. And I was like, oh, my God. So then I was like, possibly working service jobs to supplement their income.

But who knows? Yeah. But then you see another thing in Florida, 400 students and faculty must isolate after a covid exposure at school. So for over 400 students in Palm Beach County, they had to quarantine just two days after school began because of a Corona virus outbreak at school. And so they're like, yes, essentially like when school began, 51 students and staff had tested positive. So in total, 440 have had to isolate. I said, Oh my God. And this school has a mask mandate,

have had to isolate. I said, oh my God. And this school has a mask mandate, but parents can opt out. So it's not, I don't know what the point of that mandate is. Then you look at Nevada. This other one said more than 80 students were potentially exposed to COVID-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada on Monday after a parent sent their child to school, despite both the parent and child receiving a positive COVID-19 just two days earlier the exposed students had to quarantine at home and started distance learning on tuesday i mean so my question the numbers fucking car wrecks you know the numbers in florida are worse than they were at the peak of of covid like last year when everybody was doing distance learning. It just feels like I was just talking to a friend of mine who works on software sales and was doing a demo thing for a bunch of clients.

And he was talking about how at the beginning of the day, everyone was masked because they didn't know each other. But by the end of the day, he was masked because they didn't know each other. But by the end of the day, he was the only person wearing a mask. He's like, it's not like we got more vaccinated over the course of the day. Right. People just got a tired of it and be just like more comfortable, I guess, with. And I feel like that's where we're at with just the pandemic at large we're just like done tired and also just comfortable with the idea of dying of covid well yeah and i think a lot of

people too though have like their own like flawed anecdotal data set that says like dude i've been doing my shit and i've been healthy or I haven't gotten sick. So what is, and now I'm vaccinated even better. You know, like there's a lot of, there's a lot of psychological things that too, that like, I think make people not necessarily that they're like, I don't give a fuck if I die more. So like, I mean, based on this current plan I'm on, I've been doing great. So why the fuck should I change anything? And I think that's where I think for even my, I find myself feeling like that too, but then I'm like, oh, right. But prior to this, I was not socializing. I was like, I was taking my safety very seriously. And it's not, it's not that I was out in high risk situations constantly and not

getting sick, but like we sort of begin to, you know, rearrange the order of things that sort of make ourselves more comfortable with things. At least for me, that's how that's happened. The CDC, I think it was a director of CDC or some health official straight up said it was like weeks ago. They were like, if you're not vaccinated, you are going to get the Delta variant. Like that is how communicable this is. Like it is. It's happening when not if. is a thousand times so contagious prevalent in the nasal cavities of people even

people who are vaccinated who are have breakthrough infections there's a thousand times more covid particles i don't know i'm not a, but I heard someone say someone at work and this is not a scientist. This is someone just at my work, but so it could be wrong. Hey, in 2021, that might as well be a fucking Nobel prize. So,

so one of my work was like the regular COVID is like a spray bottle and the Delta is like a hose. Yeah. In terms of just like, you're going to get it. Yeah. And again, and you look, sorry, I wasn't even done with the headlines because we have to take a trip over to Mississippi. 5,000 in isolation after three days of school was a headline.

Jesus. From the article, quote, nearly 5 nearly 5 000 children educators and school staff are quarantined in mississippi after returning classrooms at the start of the school year some under mask optional policies the 69 outbreaks reported between august 2nd to august 6th which was the second week of school for some districts resulted in nearly 1,000 children and 300 teachers and staff testing positive. I mean, that sucks so bad. I can't even say nice after you said 69. I can't even either.

And I famously love 69. Yes. Did I say 69? Oh, yeah. 69 outbreaks. 69 outbreaks, bro. I mean, that's how bad it is. You didn't even notice.

You didn't even notice that you said 69. And we're trying to bring 69 culture back, too. It's a shame. But, yeah, I mean, it's just, I don't know. Every article you read is like, it's a bad, nothing's turning out great. I think the best piece of news we got is that Lollapalooza only, like, could be attributed to, like, maybe just under 200 or, like, around 220 infections that Lollapalooza only could be attributed to maybe just under around 220 infections from Lollapalooza.

So it wasn't like a super spreader event. That's good. I mean, it's not good, but it's better than I thought. Look at those pictures! For as many people, you're like, but it seemed like most people were on their way. What is it? Because it's outside? Outside is still the way to go.

Yeah, but still not foolproof, it seems. You know what I mean? Right. And again, you have people who were unvaccinated too there who just had to bring negative tests and things like that. But it's just the hard part about reading all these headlines is like, you just know that this is going to end tragically before they figure out that they should

have never gone like gone back to in-person instruction without these like really simple safety precautions and measures put into place. And I've, I'm not a parent, Jack, I know you're a parent, allegedly. And some people I know that are parents, but like, my heart goes out to y'all because like having to navigate this world where it seems like other parents ideas of safety is diametrically opposed to yours in the sense that it's like this antithetical thing. It's like, well, we're just kind of dice rolling it with our kid. But we've but we feel this is safe. Just feels like total chaos. Yeah. I mean, such chaos.

We're not back to school yet. I have to just based on last year, it seems like everybody was very into the precautions. So I'm hoping that we have, we have the right community for it, but right. Yeah, man,

it's, it's so scary. I have a couple of friends who are teachers and we just like had a big like party i mean not a big party you know like eight of us came over to their house to have like a bye see you until the school year's over like because we're all vaxxed they're vaxxed but they were like yeah like we're just gonna be like vectors of disease for a little bit like we're gonna get covid like just because they're going back to in vectors of disease for a little bit. We're going to get COVID. Just because they're going back to in-person learning and they're very scared.

They're not feeling good about it. No. So these are the stakes right now. And it's the most wonderful time of the year, it turns out. Yeah, it's fall. Yeah, the fall. It's the fall. It's the fall. It's the fall it's the fall it's the fall it's fall it's the fall why is that why does the south go back so early to school yeah i never that's news to me i didn't know that i remember when i lived in kentucky we would go back to school at the

beginning of august so it's like okay so it's extra hot and uncomfortable so we're gonna go back because it's the south it doesn't fully make sense maybe it's extra hot and uncomfortable, so we're going to go back because it's the South. It doesn't fully make sense. Maybe it's like a farming thing or something. It seems just based on a quick search, it seems like it has a lot to do with farming. Earlier start of the season, Southern students would get out sooner in May

to help on the farm than Northern students who typically got out of school in June. Because they go back to school in August while the Northerners go back to school in September. What about SoCal? We're just vibing, y'all. We just kind of vibe it out. Hit the marina, bruh.

We just vibe it out. We just vibe it out, bruh. Well, speaking of vibing it out in SoCal, Caitlyn Jenner is running a very serious campaign for governor. So serious. Super serious. So serious. Yeah serious. So serious. Yeah.

You mean Big Brother Australia contestant Caitlyn Jenner? She was doing a walk and talk tour of Venice Beach to essentially just point at the unhoused and be like, oh God, what a nuisance, right? Gavin Newsom should be out. What are my ideas for? I don't know. Look, I just got back from Australia.

I'm jet lagged. But God, during this, a lot of people had a lot of questions for Caitlyn Jenner. And to your point, Kate, mostly being like, uh, you just were on Australian celebrity Big Brother, like in the middle of this, like what is going on? This feels like a stunt. So first people were asking, like, hey, hey is this like do you have some kind of money making business deals on the side that are like tied to this campaign and she got so fucking evasive i just want to play you some clips of people just asking very normal questions of a gubernatorial candidate at a press conference oh my god check this just straight up fucking pro

answer from caitlin asking are you have you pursued any money-making ventures based on this campaign a lot of people have said that this is a vanity campaign can you reassure california voters that you haven't pursued any money-making ventures related to this campaign, reality shows, books, etc.? I've never worked so hard for nothing in my life. Yeah, it's, no, I had a prior commitment in Australia that was before this campaign even started, and not like most politicians i actually honor my contracts um uh yes and i do have a job i think every candidate uh that is running on this anyway it's like another minute of just uncomfortable like well you know uh she also does everything

besides make the jerk off hand motion when she refers to the campaign she's like this campaign and whatever she's so over she seems over it i think like it's a i don't know if it's not like it's a valid question but also like it's like when you're a celebrity the way that caitlin jenner is a celebrity like everything you do is for your personal brand which which will make you money. So obviously she's making money from being in the news. It's going to turn into money. Her relevancy.

She's going to book more reality things. She's going to... Right. Whatever. This is the Kardashian business model. I think the thing my brain is objecting to is that she wasn't more ready to lie. Like, as a politician, come on.

Absolutely. And the funny thing was, like, after the fact, like, one of her reps, like, reached out to, like, the journalist and, like, answered the question, like, directly. And was like, no, this has nothing to do with making money and they're like well why and like they just weren't prepared to answer questions on my god it's like well how are you then you're not a serious candidate but again very serious campaign very serious roles and you know you move on we're in a fucking pandemic so not just you know the unhoused which i get is a really popular talking point to just smear the poor, but also trying to say like, you know, hey, you want to run this state? What about COVID? You know, what do you think about, you know, like vaccine mandates and things like that? That might be something you'd probably want to weigh in on as the potential governor. And then this is just another great answer. Just rapid response.

You could tell she's been thinking about this. It was a no brainer to respond to such a simple question. What's your plan on how to deal with the Delta variant if you're governor? Right now. We have to follow the science. California is mandating masks in schools. Republican Governor DeSantis is mandating masks in schools. While Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is fighting against masks in schools. Should kids in schools be wearing masks?

That's really up to the science of it. The CDC says they should. She is such a fucking dumbass. What the CDC says. But to be honest with you, I don't know if that is the answer. Masks. Wait, so you said do what the CDC says. Yeah, we should follow science. But to be honest, I don't know if science is the best thing.

Oh, my God. Then when someone like in the crowd like at like during like the press spray like when people are just she was taking questions someone's like what do you think about mandating vaccines blah blah and she's like i'm here to talk about the issues of the day like referring to the unhoused and then another reporter's like we're in a pandemic though crickets so oh my god yeah we're very lucky in the state of california to be looking down the barrel of just you know bringing back fucking gavin newsom who's not doing the best or just a republican to fully fuck things up so yeah so fuck september 14th californians time to go to the polls.

You know that, like, you know that, like, Caitlyn running this, like, joke of a campaign and then Kanye's, like, whatever that was, the birthday party thing. Like, Kim is sitting back and she's just, like, taking notes. Like, she's, like, definitely going to be running in the next, like, five years for something.

Yeah, Attorney General. These are the guinea pig campaigns testing out the waters for Kim Kardashian. Can you imagine? Right. She's like, she becomes like a total autocrat. She's like, I've been studying the great minds for decades and it's time for me to make my move. I mean, that would be the one campaign I would be frightened of. I'm terrified.

Cause she's going to have Chris Jenner in her corner. So she's like, yeah, I know Chris, Chris Jenner's a mastermind, but before any of that happens, we're going to see how the Donald Trump jr. Scott Disick ticket works out in the 2020.

Right. Exactly. I feel like those two. Lord Disick. Yes. Yikes. it works out in the 2020 right exactly lord disick yes yikes bring them together oh there was another thing i wanted to mention during this like walk and talk tour of you know of trying to appear as like a serious candidate who's trying to address things like the unhoused population in la she was like walking with like three like homelessness advocates who were like trying to explain what's going on and what's needed but they were also like pretty hostile with her and even though this is like an event made to be like i'm gonna be talking with advocates none of them were

like oh yeah i'm not i would never endorse her like she wanted to talk i'm telling her i'm telling her as a candidate like what's needed but like none of those people were there as to be to endorse her at all so the whole thing was like a very bizarre press event yeah this is one of those unfortunate political situations where i think californians need to get out there and vote for the lesser of two evils because if you know it's yeah there's going to be a lot of Republicans who are voting. And so, yeah, Californians just all need to go out and vote no. And then we'll hopefully do better at the next primary. But yeah, because the other thing is, Jenner's behind in the polls. Larry Elder is in front, the black conservative radio host.

Oh, yeah. So you can only imagine what kinds of ideas for progress he might have or doesn't have. But yeah, it's truly a fucked if you do and super fucked if you don't kind of situation. Because like I said last time, if Dianne Feinstein were to go down, the governor is the person who would pick the interim replacement for her as a senator. So if that were to happen on their watch, you could now just see the senate math going real wacky all of a sudden and also a lot of the executive appointments they could just replace the policy stuff would be a lot harder because of the veto proof majorities in the legislature but the other stuff as it relates to executive appointments and those other responsibilities

could easily cause plenty of fucking just nonsense fe Feinstein's pretty old too. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Turns out. Turns out. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist.

Please like and review the show. If you like the show, uh, means the world to miles. He, he needs your validation folks. Uh, I hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk to

you Monday. Bye. Thank you. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.

Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding. I'm Amber Revin. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with Season 2 of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs,

answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it.

Captain's Log. Stardate 2024. We're floating somewhere in the cosmos, but we've lost our map. Yeah, because you refuse to ask for directions. It's Space Gem. There are no roads. Good point. So, where are we headed? Into the unknown, of course.

Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit. With a hint of mischief, one episode at a time. Buckle up and listen to In Our Own World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust us, it's out of this world. Do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from?

Like what's the history behind bacon-wrapped hot dogs? Hi, I'm Eva Longoria. Hi, I'm Maite Gomez-Rejon. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. And this season, we're taking an even bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba,

and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.