The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 194 (Best of 9/20/21-9/24/21)

Episode Date: September 26, 2021

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She is the brilliant, the talented, Jamie Loftus! Wake up in the morning feeling slightly giddy. Pack up Sunny and Flea. We're about to hit this city. Before I leave, grab my wallet and a couple of Tums. Because when I leave for hot dogs, I'm going to have some yums. I'm done talking about veneers. No time for ice cleaners.

Eaners. Because this is the summer of wieners. Wieners. Slice top heat those buns up all crispy. Hamburgers can miss me. I want those furters grilly. It's still going. On top, onions chopped, mustard and that ketchup sauce.

Relish if you wish. Talking hot dogs like. That was so long. That's from Uncle Brew at the underscore Brew. Brew. The Brew. The Brew.

Great contributing contributor. Really brought the heat today. Hope I did it justice. Wieners, wieners. I thought there was going to be a hockey reference to go tweeners but i was that was me projecting i was like oh maybe some some new england hockey lord interject there but oh no no uh summer of wieners wieners yeah how's that been how did the summer of wieners treat you oh it was uh it was good my body is i say, basically recovered and I have to kind of jump in for round two soon.

For people who don't know what we're talking about, how's the summer of wieners? um yeah i've just been having a ton of sex no i um have been working on a book about hot dogs for a couple of for basically the summer and we were traveling around eating hot dogs everywhere all over the country and just been like talking and thinking about hot dogs for several months the same stretch of months where a study speculated, heavy on speculated, that eating a hot dog takes away 36 minutes of your one human life every time you do it. The summer I ate like 250 hot dogs, but I digress. How much time does that give you at this point? Are you down to like...

I'm like essentially a time traveler. Wait, you did how many hot dogs did you say you think you ate? It was around like 200, but I need to do the final count. Let's call it 220 times 36 minutes. Okay. Probably only like a week that you lost, right? Right? I mean, I don't know.

132 hours. That... 132 hours. That's 132 hours. Okay. So it's like, fuck it, you know? Yeah, dude. And also, something, something, serotonin extends your life. It's kind of gravy to me. Exactly.

It all comes out. That's about five and a half days of your life, apparently, that you lost. Worth it. I went up you lost. Worth it. I went up to 220. Worth it. See, I also fully think that if I looked deep enough into that study, it was funded by like big lettuce or something. I'm like, who did that study?

How do you arrive at a figure like that? Lies. All lies. Big hamburger. But the summer of wieners. I know. I was going to say, I was going to say it speaks a lot to Jamie's where Jamie's at that she thinks the primary competitor to hot dogs is lettuce like you know the thing the two things that you make a salad out of either lettuce or you know a bunch of hot dogs. Chapter one, the food spectrum. To the left, lettuce. And on the other end, the hot dog.

We all exist on a spectrum of lettuce to hot dog. And I'm unfortunately just fully a hot dog. The one hot dog, one of my first memories is actually a hot dog experiment myself where I was staying with a babysitter and she was like you're gonna have three types of hot dogs we're gonna grill them we're gonna boil them and i forget what the third was but yeah i was like five three hot dogs like all different kinds i remember one being a little bit burnt and uh and then i threw yes so yeah

you don't like burnt hot dogs i didn't say i didn't like throw up from the taste i think i just it was too much for my little body my dad also had like a i i've been like very interested in how everyone has a story about hot dogs even if they don't think they do we're like my dad also i was like well what's your hot dog memory and then he was like nothing and then two days later he told me the most like the weirdest story i'd ever heard about him yeah it was that harsh too he's like shut up actually wait but then two days later hours later you're walking out he's like jamie stop i'm i need to tell you i need to tell you something i haven't been forth right and then he told me about a time he worked at a like a dog track when he was 15 because he's

very old and and then he was like and he like ate 10 hot dogs in a day and then he went to the hospital i was like that's a hot dog story like what are you yeah you look me in the face and say you have no hot dog story when you've been hospitalized over because that's like 1970s hot dogs that's a lot of nitrates yeah yeah i i think why when i saw like on i think drivers die like triple d or some like food network show when I first saw like the Ripper, those deep fried hot dogs, they like come from New Jersey. I was like, yeah, fucking intersection of all of my belief systems. And I spent like an entire summer with like my buddies. Like we would like do all kinds of fat. We would fry the hot dogs in. We rendered like five pounds of bacon to just deep fry our hot dogs in bacon grease and we would spiral cut them. So they had like the most surface area

for like maximum crispiness. Dude, I got, I've been very invested in that market. We need to talk. Everyone, everyone has a ridiculous hot dog. Wait, I, okay. I'm going to text you about that later dogs and I'll do it in a voice so she Kathy you haven't had

my spiral cut hot dogs Kathy really liked your Irving she did she did yeah that's huge for you Miles put it on the resume yeah what is something from your search history right so from my so all of my answers to all these

questions all surround the same theme right now so recent search history the thing that is predominant in my search history right now is i'm looking for like really good cycling shorts uh because i recently got into like biking and i went on this like 30 no 40 something mile bike ride this weekend and like my butt hurts like my sits bones like everything is in like deep deep pain and now i need to like gear up and actually buy actually good cycling gear what shorts make a difference i'm so ignorant yeah like the like the padded shorts oh right i'm also looking for like a different bike seat that has less padding compared because apparently that's better

too so it's like my search history is all about biking right now and specifically about like my butt pain how to relieve butt pain from biking what kind of seriously though like a road bike gravel what kind of yeah i have a 10 year old road bike that i bought when i was doing my undergraduate degree and i never really got into it very intensely. And then I moved to New York City and I was too scared to bike in New York City. So but I have a bunch of friends who like are very intense cyclists and they are building up my confidence. They're taking me on rides. I went through Central Park this weekend

and Times Square and like contended with those those cars. And it was a good experience. and like contended with those cars. And it was a good experience. I'm also getting on my bike. I just got an electric bike just to like kind of commute around so I don't drive my car as much, which is great. But part of it is I live in one of the most hostile places for someone to be on a bicycle, which is L.A. And I, like you, like my partner she goes to she'll she'll bike into work

so she's like very comfortable on the roads i i grew up almost getting hit by cars to the point where i rode the road my mostly would ride my bike on the sidewalk which you're not supposed to do just to like avoid the stress of that but as i've gotten out more i'm i can totally identify with like the comfort level because like i at first hated cars like flying by me when I was on a bike. And now, you know, I'm like, OK, I'm learning my safety, like sort of protocols, how to keep my head on a swivel, know how to how to read my body, to signal to other cars and things like that. And I'm slowly gaining that confidence. So like defensive bike techniques are so important. And I'm like slowly

learning them yeah yeah new york is no joke you i i've i used to bike around new york a lot and have almost been sandwiched by a bus in between like a bus and a parked car i don't know why i think la is more hostile i think it's because i see more people in new york being like i don't give a fuck i'm out here right and in that one i'm like oh it must be easy to bike but when i'm on the sidewalks of new york i'm still like man i would not bike in this shit at all yeah i guess it's all about you know learning you know learning the environment and getting used to it yeah i'm just getting comfy on my bike you know yeah i've definitely felt the pain of not having the right my cycling pants were corduroy and yeah I started

a fire yeah at one point it was not good just leaving a trail of fabric behind you what is something you think is overrated guys have you heard about this thing the Oedipus complex have you heard of it?

I can't believe it. That's all. Anytime you bring up Freudian psychotherapy, all everyone's talking about is the Oedipus Complex. Do you know what it is? Do I know about an Oedipal Complex? Yeah. Yeah. You kill your dad and you have sex with your mom?

And then rip your eyes out what is that about that's gross i remember in high school we had to read oedipus rex and i was like bro this is the one where he has sex with his mom and rips his eyes out and like my teacher was like there's a lot more than just that and i'm like okay I thought you were going to say she was like spoilers Miles I think it's just more like this idiot this young smart ass decided to just be like we don't need to read this

this guy bangs his mom and rips his eyes out we're good I can tell you everything you need to know yeah I'm the spark notes right here as a learned man of books uh andy is the oedipus complex like overrated like did freud say oh this is something that happens like sometimes and people are like freud said we all want to fuck our moms or is it did freud actually say that

shit yeah it's not like freud himself it's our sick society it's our sick society that like uh like really fixated upon that and then turned it into like a porn genre right yeah that is wildly popular what is it if you're at your stepmother though that's still edible it's step step step step step step step step edible i think the other version is the electric Step-edible. Step-edible. Step-edible. Step-edible. I think the other version is the electric complex, if I remember right. But it's gross. Let's stop talking about it. No one's doing it.

Has it been? Wait, when was the last time you had to confront something like this? Because I feel like, man, I haven't seen it on Twitter recently, but has something come up recently? We're like, here we go with the Oedipal shit. Just like all these creepy billionaires are doing this kind of stuff. Am I right? Billionaires killing their dads

and sleeping with their moms. That's why we got to get rid of them. It's not about any economic stuff. It's that they're these gross creeps. Right. I mean, you think Epstein's the only one these gross creeps. Right. I mean, your mouth. You think Epstein's the only one? Right.

Yeah. They're all like that. Yeah. What's something you think is underrated, Eli? Not to invite too much controversy, but phone calls. Okay. I get it. I get that texting is useful in a lot of situations. I probably 60-40 text the phone myself.

But this kind of raw hatred that's come against the very idea of speaking on the phone in the last few years is really strange to me. It feels like a technological step backwards. They said, well, you know, what if we don't have to write these letters and telegrams anymore and we could just speak our thoughts into another person's head directly and that we sort of undid that that's strange to me right that it's like now i can do instant telegrams to a person's pocket telegram station yeah you're like ah fuck no yeah i definitely see like there is i don't know if it's generation i think because like as it for me is like a teenager or whatever talking on the fucking landline was my blood. You know what I mean? There's no other way to communicate.

I mean, there was AIM and shit like that, but the phone was like the next level because you could just leave the line open. You're both watching a TV show, not talking for fucking 30 minutes straight, doing your homework and stuff like that. And so I think part of me, I still have a love for those times. So I definitely, you know, I don't understand the hate for the phone. I guess if it's like for work or something, maybe that's why, but other than that, come on now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you lose so much via over texts. Like there's been studies that found that, you know, emails just don't try to fucking tell a joke in a work email because you are going to fail. People are not going to get it. You guys are right to kind of compare it to telegrams. I read every text that I receive

in the voice of a wistful Civil War soldier writing home, like in a Ken Burns documentary. So that's just how my brain works. And you say stop too, I think. Yes, I do. I do. Yeah. Well,

what else, how else do I read the periods out loud? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I, I agree. I'm on board,

but you know, the, this Gen Z audience of ours is going to tear you a new one, buddy. Go for it. There's only three people in the world that'll still talk to me on the phone. Right. So, yeah, which is also funny when i think about it like of the people and i'm like i call them like it's the same 10 people yeah yeah that's another level though of like friendship though too like are you in the phone zone oh the phone zone yeah because that's

like when you know you're like i have to call this person i have to talk to them voice to voice yeah oh man i'm stuck in the phone zone with this one guy sucks man sucks just get me to the text zone already yeah i do you guys like when do you fit in your phone calls like my my wife is really good at like staying in touch with people my wife uh and she'll like call them when she's driving somewhere like she's just like has a routine where she immediately like goes to her phone whenever there is like a free moment where i would be listening to a podcast essentially she calls people right because podcast hosts are my friends and so that's me jack yeah i have parasocial relationships but i i don't really have a a time for it it usually happens on the weekends for me because like i'm i'll be like meandering

and i'll get a text and then i'm like fuck it i just need to call to like keep this thing going or half the time it'll i'll just call because i i'm driving and i don't want to i don't want to continue a conversation over text wild it's more sometimes just born out of safety more than like i gotta talk to this person i'm like yo i'm driving man let's fucking let's talk about this shit in the car yeah so i don't have a routine eli what about you mine's usually driving that's kind of yeah yeah because it you know atlanta i think similarly to la very car heavy city and it takes half an hour to get anywhere. All my podcasts come while I'm cooking or cleaning.

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There are mostly Haitian migrants currently living under a bridge and basically just waiting to see if the United States will help them. Yeah. And the answer seems to be no. It's sadly they're seeking asylum in the United States. And what, you know, Trump and Biden, they seem to be doing the same thing, which is basically telling them, no, we are unable

to do that. Biden hasn't deviated much from Trump's policies, which is essentially like wait in Mexico during this period. And we will use a CDC guideline to sort of justify sending people back on flights, no matter what, under the guise of essentially protecting the U.S. from COVID. And a lot of people are really skeptical whether or not that is even having the positive results they claim to have by saying like, oh, these people, we got to get them out because of the pandemic. But it's just a way to justify the inhumane treatment of these people who are seeking asylum. And, you know, again, cramped conditions, glacial pace of processing people just we're seeing the same problems, you know, just sort of play out over and over. Displaced people as subhuman And also to try and create A scandal that they can campaign on For Joe Biden because xenophobia Is a great motivating tactic

For their base which is to point at something At the board and say look what's happening Because of Joe Biden get out there And vote for someone who will treat them Like not people And we've already seen pictures of The fucking border patrol like on Horses whipping people I don't know if you saw those images yet, but it is a really, really terrible scene. And Biden is totally aware of this. I think the dynamic, especially as it relates to the conservative sort of painting of this this incident right now and i think that's why he's barely changed the policy since he's took

office because he doesn't want that he doesn't want to give the right the the optic win of essentially being humane and allowing them to turn it into this guy's just he's just basically burning the borders down you know it's free for all over here at this point um and it's and then at the same time continued sort of disregard disregard for Haiti's place in the Western hemisphere and why we're at this place, because there's typically a really strong connection between people who are seeking asylum in the United States or trying to get into the United States and us meddling in their country at some point prior to that and destabilizing it.

And this is a really good example of that yeah for sure yeah i mean i think you know the backdrop behind all of this is like the earthquake it's haiti's having lost its president to assassination very recently and yeah it's it's sad to see you know the fact that biden isn't doing very much right now yeah and is not changing post-trump is not is not really reversing many of these policies yeah it's it's um it definitely feels like an optics thing for sure yeah it's it's the only way you can man i think because already there's problems as it relates to you know the the covid mandates as you know he's trying to play a very

walk a fine line with that there's also like he's got the un stuff mandates as you know he's trying to play a very walk a fine line with that there's also like he's got the un stuff happening this week where he's like gonna try and like beg like macron to like like the u.s again because the whole submarine sale incident but yeah i mean i kind of saw a vague reference to that but because francis yeah because they were like, hey, like we sell nuclear subs, not you guys to Australia. It's just it's all part of the pact of the New Zealand, Australia, sort of U.S., sort of, you know, Pacific pact against China. But, you know, when it comes to the Haitians, you know, like there have ever since that earthquake in 2010, you know, Haitians, you know, like there have ever since that earthquake in 2010, you know, it's caused many people to seek opportunity outside of the country at a like a larger rate. And then the pandemic killed off a lot of jobs that people had in places like Brazil or Chile and things like that. So they're moving further to try and find a way to survive.

and this time there were a lot of social media rumors that were like fueling a lot of the optimism for these migrants which essentially that they were like well there's protected status for Haitians but that was really only applying to the the people that were within the United States and now they're being met at the border with whips and horses and just saying like this now is not the time and putting people on flights back to a country that is like verging on a like full on like hot civil war. Yeah. And so many people like this doesn't even make sense. Like this is just this is like cruelty upon cruelty to do this. And, you know, to the point of like U.S. intervention in Haiti, this has been an issue. You know, Haiti's economic development was hamstrung the second that they liberated themselves

with a slave slave rebellion from France. And France essentially said, OK, well, we'll acknowledge your independence if you pay us for the lost property that the slave owners experienced as a result of you liberating yourselves. And those payments were being made from the beginning of the 19th century up until the last payment, I think it was made in the 40s, the 1940s. And, you know, again, the U.S. was very, very quickly entered Haiti, like towards the beginning of the 20th century, took over the treasury and was sort of essentially saying like, OK, 40 percent of all the wealth in this country is going to be redirected towards,

quote unquote, debt that you owe the US or France. And this has just been, this has kept Haiti from actually being able to grow as a nation and also be part of a global economy. So just like so many layers of, yeah, of trauma and death to deal with but this again this is this is the thing that the american media or mainstream media will never do is like give you a real primer on these countries where people are coming from and understanding what the u.s's role is and how they got to where they are and on some level should be arguing why we should actually be helping these people because it's typically it's always reasons to like why we shouldn't i mean joe biden famously said in like the 90s that like

haiti was just inconsequential to the united states and that's why he was focused more on the balkans so yeah i actually didn't know he said that interesting yeah yeah it's it's really and it's like very like he said it in very dark terms, like essentially saying like if it sunk into the sea, like we wouldn't really Jesus, we wouldn't think twice about it. 90s Biden tells on modern day Biden a lot like quotes from 90s Biden, like about Israel. And he said if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot in terms of our interest. Oh, nice. Cool. Yeah.

That was 1994. I do not. That is wild. That is not a great quote. No, but he's not. He's full of not great quotes. Right. You know, like, and all the time you're like, no, he said that.

He's sort of one of those people. We go, he said that. And then at the other side of your mind, you're like, oh, yeah, he said that? He's sort of one of those people where you go, he said that? And then at the other side of your mind, you're like, yo, yeah, he said that shit. Yeah, right. I can also see that. Yeah. I mean, the hope is that he is politically adaptable and changes and kind of feels the pressure to move towards a more humanitarian place.

But that is, yeah, when you're doing shit like what he's doing at the border right now it kind of suggests that he hasn't really changed that much with regards to how he feels it's not a fight he you know this is like another thing like i think yeah he he expended a lot of political capital like divisibly because of the afghanistan thing because i think like we shouldn't have been there this is always going to happen so someone had to do it because every person before me lied that they were going to do it so we have to do this to like move things along yeah did i is there a better way to do it yeah probably but he didn't and i think you know immigration is just another one of those third rail issues in this country where if you suddenly have any movement towards a humane policy towards allowing people into this country or people who are looking for a better life or asylum, that all it's going to do is you're going to now have to face just a media culture war against this idea that you're saying, like, America doesn't matter.

And this is just some place for people to come flood and be dirty or whatever right and i don't think yeah it doesn't seem i don't know how many people have moved sort of past being able to look at a situation like that and kind of not have that take up all the oxygen in the in the news yeah it's another example of just you know the u.s government basically understaffing the people who are processing people who are making claims of asylum. And then, you know, they even if they had the right policy in place, they would, you know, just be like, yeah, but it's the same thing with the distribution of rent relief and, you know, the eviction ban. It's like they don't they they can have all these big ideas and policies, but then they don't actually staff it up. So you don't have the bureaucracy in place to actually do anything with your with your ideas. Right. I think Del Rio is having a huge problem with that, like specifically.

Right. Because they're arresting a bunch of people. They're putting a lot of these people in jail and they just don't have the staff to like. To like take care of these individuals, to process them like it's it's it really is like in Del Rio, it is bad right now. Yeah. And the sad thing is that all these images just will make someone who's not as informed just think that there's no solution to something like this and it's like right i don't know we have border patrol we have you know customs people who work on this but they still i mean this is this is this is why we got to just tighten stuff up rather than really understanding like no we're not we're not we're not servicing these people in the manner that we should be we're not we're not creating, we don't have the actual infrastructure to deal with this because this

isn't, this is only going to increase as climate changes and gets more intense and causes more environmental disasters. People are going to move. That's just a nailed on fact of our world.

And borders are not. People still move. So there is some like i mean i don't know when that reckoning is going to come but you know that's going to be a huge part of how we adapt to the changing world is understanding that like we we have to let go of these ideas of like no you're from there you can only stay there and you stay there till you die and if you don't like don't even think about coming here because we only have enough for our stuff for us and we're not even worried on trying to think of how we can make it all work. the routes that people cross the border that are hospitable, so that pushing people to extremely hot and unforgiving terrain, like they are killing people. They're straight up killing people

as the world gets hotter and hotter. Heat waves are already the deadliest form of natural disaster in the U.S., and they're just pushing people into regions where, like, in terms of how much it's changing, the number of days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit per year is expected to climb to 60 by mid-century, up from the annual average of 28 between 1971 and 2000. Like, that's more than doubled in, you know, 50 years because of climate change. It's going to really kill a lot of people. And but again, it's like sort of this, we're not doing anything like they're they're the ones who are who are doing it type logic that conservatism by doing nothing, like just by by doing nothing, rather, it allows the Democratic Party to just not get called out for doing cruel things, but, you know, passively do the cruel policy that makes it easy for them to triangulate with conservatives. Yeah, I mean, so there's so many thoughts regarding heatwaves. One is that, like, actually nobody knows that they are like

the deadliest natural disasters like people don't think about them they don't happen in a as a shocking of a way as like a wildfire or yeah or a storm you know it's such a different kind of death it is also an incredibly terrible death it is really really brutal like if you like look up an article that tells you exactly how people die from heat waves, it is not pretty. And on top of that, you have border patrol agents dumping water at the border. Like when when these nonprofit organizations leave water for migrants along those routes, they dump the water out. Yeah. And that that to me is really something that every time I think about that, it's just like I can't even imagine I can't even imagine doing that as policy. Right. Because, yeah. And the way I think we have these departments set up, it's just to be like, OK, who's who's willing to brutalize these people?

It has nothing to do with compassion, meeting these people with compassion. It's like these are invaders. So take away anything they have that would potentially give them safe passage. Like you're saying, like cynically, just like cutting open water containers and just leaving it. So there's no, there's nothing for a fucking human person who is wandering the earth to try and have a better outcome for themselves. Yeah. Just fundamentally, we have just such a barbaric system. And I think just in general, in most countries,

just think of immigration as this like dirty thing or bad thing rather than like acknowledging our place in like a global community and understanding like, you know, at a certain point, I think a lot of Americans are under the assumption

that America will be the best place to live forever, no matter what happens to the planet. And, you know, I think not many people put themselves in a place with what if you were trying to cross a border? Right. And what does that look like? But I think exceptionalism has completely put that out of people's minds because that's the only way you could look at this and not have any compassion. I think me as someone who's so worried about what the future holds for this planet and future generations, it's all I can think of is like, well, that could be you. That could be us. That could be anyone. Yeah. I mean, except maybe the super rich, right? Right. Yeah. The super

rich are going to be just fine. And other than that, it could be anyone. Yeah. Yeah. How do you want your kids and grandkids to be treated when they're trying to cross the Canadian border? Right. Like everybody's trying to get the fuck out of America. Right. All right.

Let's flush our systems with a nice story of down-home activism succeeding. You know, last summer, there were a lot of organizations and schools circulating lists of suggested books and other materials to help broaden people's perspective on race and white supremacy. You know, not... So anyway, like, not all of them were done in good faith. That's probably... we can discuss that another time. But in York, Pennsylvania, their school district's diversity committee released a list of all kinds of great stuff for students, teachers, and parents to check out. And like clockwork, concerned parents stepped in. They couldn't process the demographic changes in their community and decided that the reason that their community was less white was because kids are reading books about American anti-black racism.

Yeah, that seems to logic. At least that's the logic I've seen. It's like, well, this is causing more racism. Huh? What? Yeah. What are you talking about? The comments at these school board meetings.

And this is sort of pre the full blown critical race theory screaming matches like this this, this, this happened like sort of on the heels of the summer of last year, parents were saying the same stuff. This is racist against white people. Like there was like a children's book that was like about Rosa Parks. And it was like the most children's book I've ever seen. Like, I can't, my kid reading this and then feeling guilty that they're white. No. Yeah. And I can tell that this book is what it's going to say rather than like, you know, being about a kid's book that's humanizing all children and being like, there's nothing fucking different.

So because of all this outrage, the school board banned the materials or rather they said they're putting a freeze on the list until they had time to review it because they don't like the word banned. So the great thing is that the kids at this high school, they didn't let that stop them from educating themselves. And they certainly didn't appreciate the sort of like unilateral nature of these like books and articles and stuff just being restricted. So they started protesting daily.

It started off with like a couple kids and then it grew into like the hundreds. And they eventually created the Panther, I think, anti-racism union, student union. And I think their mascot's called the Panthers. But, you know, again, you love to see it. The great coincidence. They knew that was going to scare the shit out of Fox News. And their parents were like, ah, Panthers, no! So their voices were eventually heard.

They were able to go to a school board meeting to sort of speak up on what they thought. And this one student, Ida Gupta, said, our thoughts are being invalidated. There's only one portion of the community that this band represents, and it's not ours. Yeah. Yeah. of the community that this band represents and it's not ours yeah yeah and like it kicked off like a whole uh like domino effect of of support because they were so vocal like parents sort of were like damn okay like i guess i should if the students also care like there's ways for me to also get involved the like the band books thing ended up with the one of the authors of some of the books this guy brad melzer he came up to give comment like the library said like you know what we don't care what the

ban is like we will fully stock all of these books and make them widely available and then on monday this school board unanimously voted to unfreeze or whatever unrestrict whatever words they want to use those books and articles and documentaries. However, though, along the way, they were like mumbling stuff about socialism and like communism, even though it's like, well, you know, it's just communism, obviously. Like we got to keep it.

Anyway, fine. It's unanimous. Yes. Communism, the famous communist principle of doing what the majority of people want to do. Yeah, that's awesome. That's very encouraging. I do keep coming back to this idea

that people are pointing to how nationally unpopular some of this shit is. And that, yeah, the majority of people want to recognize that racism is wrong and for some reason it just popped in my head as we were doing this story i think it was like my inner barometer was like this is getting too encouraging so i have to put something depressing in here that uh nazism was very unpopular you guys it was pulled in the 30s for decades uh and and then they like below the 30s and then they swept to power they never won a popular election so yeah you know as long

as this is hanging around as long as they are trying to silence people who are telling the truth you know we we can't be safe unless we're you know constantly fighting this shit like these kids did it it's i mean it's like we said earlier the established power just coming in and saying well this is what this is what people want and uh you know and that not reflecting those opinions at all yeah well one of their high school teachers like sort of gave this comedy is like man these kids are like heroes like you know like i can't believe like the effort they put into this and it's like everything they did is commendable but then you know it's just sort of like this idea that he was sort of pointing out is like you know most americans and school children and most parents they support this kind of educational material for their kids like and and they know that it's actually unfortunately it's part of american history but it must be taught so it's just like a good a feel-good story in that

sense but i think also like to your point about like nazis and stuff i think kids now are just or people now they have an ear for dog whistles like where before the dog whistle only resonated with the dogs you were trying to get, whose attention you were trying to get, because it wasn't resonating at that frequency for you to be aware of. And I think so many more people now, you know, and in some cases to an extreme, can be like, can just sort of parse through things and understand like what's happening. best defense that we have is that people just general awareness of like what discrimination looks like in most of its forms that it's like hard to sort of like give it like a very you know innocuous or euphemistic name of a bill or something and hope that no one notices right i'm so blown away by the the idea that learning about racist history is going to make people feel guilty like it might be my ego talking but i'm

like i read about horrible racist white people in the past i'm like oh thank god i'm not like them it makes me kind of feel better about myself right away you're like oh good there's a baseline at least yeah yeah okay doing better better of average all right i'm yeah i'm not nathaniel bedford forest right good that's a start we just learned about this guy uh gubernator morris we did an episode about him and he was this very very anti-slavery founding father that we'd never heard of before and you know we're my wife and i talking about our public education and not having been taught about this guy and wondering why he was so buried and And, you know, it's like, cause he makes everybody else look bad. But I think in not studying these things, we also lose out on learning about cool people like that,

who were doing the right thing. Right. Yeah. That there was someone standing up to them during the founding of the country, because before you thought it was a, he, we love america sign it bye and also like the way you're taught history i remember i like when i was very young i didn't think slavery existed until the civil war right right you know what i mean like that it was like a like it became a problem and like there weren't slaves during the their wait what for a while huh okay didn't realize that i mean like so it's funny how even how like when slavery is even introduced to school kids like in a textbook it's almost like

it's almost treating it in a vacuum it's like and then there was the civil war because slavery happened that one day yeah yeah because yeah they were trying to do a slavery and they the the good guys fought them off like the Avengers and one. Right. And they'll, they'll tell you, well, it was the times.

That's how people just were. They didn't know any better. And then you learn that all these people did know better and said, Hey, this is bad. And Thomas Jefferson and everyone said no to that. So. Yeah.

That wasn't a scene in Hamilton. Wasn't they left that one out for the one guys? Like, Hey, y'all tripping about slavery, huh? Right. Hey, hey, hey, come on, pipe down, pipe down. We love Alexander.

Like they literally leave it unspoken. He's like, we know who's doing the planting. Right. It's just like, oh! That's actually not good enough. Yeah, moving on. That's not an oh type moment. I'm sorry, the bar is too low for that O. All right.

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it sounds like those guys from the Phantom Menace. Oh, yeah. The Trade Federation. The Trade Federation, yeah. Or those creepy Asian from the Phantom Menace. Oh, yeah, the Trade Federation. The Trade Federation, yeah. We have a trade. Or those creepy Asian aliens that are like, no, is that racist? I don't know, really?

No, let's just ignore that. Let's all love the prequels and ignore all that stuff. Yeah, for sure. I'm a prequel kid. What are you talking about? But yeah, yeah, it sounds like we're going to be run by the Trade Federation in 30 years. Yeah, so they're saying, and this feels a little bit bold to me, But yeah, yeah, it sounds like we're going to be run by the Trade Federation in 30 years. Oh, yeah.

So they're saying, and this feels a little bit bold to me, they're saying 2021 is going to be a record-breaking year for Halloween spending. I feel like any prediction on behavior that's that far in the future just seems a little cavalierier based on like what we've just lived through like maybe but i would say if you would use a folk if you were to take a focus group that is just me i would say that's very accurate you're like i love this it's actually gonna be triple last year well this is the thing that they're looking at right because they said when the cdc last year was like do not not do Halloween, assholes. Do not do it, please. For the love of everything that's holy, just fucking don't.

Nobody listened. People still spent over $8 billion. This year, they're saying it's going to be over $10 billion when it comes to costumes, decoration, candy, and they say pet costumes even more. That's the shit that's really on the come up is pet costumes so a lot of the spending a bulk of it 3.3 billion is going to go to costumes that's 27 percent more than last year and then and that's like you know like the last time it was like spending was at that level was 2017 and then 3 billion on candy another three that they think

is going to be on decorations and i know we've seen people lose their shit over the 12 foot skeleton you know like i've for like an entire year we know people that have been up to brandy posy i'm looking at you uh who have been just cannot stop thinking about this 12 foot skeleton so you know they're saying like that on top of kids costumes they just see it going up and up and up. But the really the pet costume thing is experiencing a lot of growth. And that might make sense if people who actually kept their adopted pets from the pandemic, you know, that they would be dressing up their pets. Because for me, I don't really buy.

I don't really dress up. But my partner and I, we like to find shit for our dog. That's, that is fun. Yeah. I can, I can definitely, I'm like,

I see that part of the spending. I've already got a little tune squad Jersey for my dog. And that's just like, that's just the start of it. What's your, what, which Jersey is just generic. It's just generic tunes.

No, they didn't make like a specific, like Bugs Bunny, like Michael Jordan one. Right. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. So I don't know. specific Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordan one. Right. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, so I don't know.

I mean, it seems like a combination of like, because this summer was shitty and we do have vaccines, so people are going to feel a little bit more, you know, lively for Halloween. Plus, you can do this shit outside. Trick-or-treating does take place outside. And I feel like to get into it, it's like you're not,

you can really just decorate the exterior of where you live and still kind of like get, you know, express yourself like that rather than like coming inside and seeing all this other spooky shit that you have set up. But I don't know. What's your take here, Joan? I think, I mean, my honest feeling is

I think the reason like Halloween will be big this year and why it's kind of just like spooky season has been growing in popularity and like recent years is that is kind of like tied to the fact that we all feel like we're gonna die we're all gonna die like in set like even before pandemic times like you know fucking global warming all this like we just feel very close to the brink and i truly believe that like halloween is like this little release valve every year we where we all kind of like get to collectively like laugh and have fun with death so it makes sense to me that it has just been you know i i feel like in the last i mean i've always been kind of like a big halloween fan

but i just feel like in the last like five to 10 years, I've just seen a huge blow up online of people who are like, I'm a horror influencer. I like love horror. I love spooky stuff. So I think it makes sense that this would like, even outside of, you know,

whatever the trends are saying, like psychologically to me, it makes sense that this is going to be the year that we're all like, yeah, like, fuck it. Like, let's just all like laugh at the grim let's all just like put on put on pennywise costumes and laugh at the grim reaper right like i love this so funny that bloody knife prop yeah hell yeah i mean yeah like more macabre yes after all after the year we've had like yeah what's so scary about a bloody knife this there was another weird stat in here that said 69% of adults surveyed had already picked out their costume for this year. Like picked it out, like put it together or just like decided what they said.

Okay. They've already picked out, like, not to say that it's been purchased, but they know what they are going to or how they're going to dress up, which is wild to me. I'm a, I'm definitely an outlier when it comes to Halloween. I think of something literally the two days before I had, I would have to go to a costume party. Like I'm not, I have friends though,

who are like keeping track of shit throughout the year. I'm like, Oh, that's stupid. That might make a good costume. That's they got their eye on it. And those to see 69% september already yeah i think people are i really i to your point joan i i just think people are really ready to die die

i think skipping halloween like that's one that that's one holiday that like just the human like experience needs like we can't just skip halloween we need to dress up like gory car accidents and go out and walk around around each other and my three-year-old has been asking when it's going to get spooky like for weeks now which is early like yeah i mean not from my perspective but yeah i'll let you parent your way yeah yeah they were like what are you doing it was it's gonna have been months ago what are you doing you have a you have a costume picked out joe oh i have a couple yeah so what's your what's your like uh you're the rhythm in which you understand when you're gonna have a costume like do you have a costume?

Like, do you have a deadline? Is this do you typically know by this time of the year? Usually no. By this time of year, I will say like I did go through like a hard like kind of like as much as I love Halloween, a hard like not big on costumes phase because I was doing a lot of like sketch comedy with UCB for a bunch of years, and costumes just didn't feel as special. And I got much more into, like, spooky dress-up, you know? Like, Halloween, like, really nice, like, Halloween-themed dresses, like, suits, stuff like that, that I still, like, I still incorporate into my Halloween wardrobe. Like, I just, I'm very excited. I just got a, like,ice inspired like power suit i would describe it like a magazine like halfway between beetlejuice and the good wife that's what like the look is and i'm okay and i'm like i have a event that i'm planning that for we're all going

to like a little like spooky like uh halloween cocktail soiree that i'm ready to wear that for but yeah usually like i don't know i don, usually, like, I don't know. I don't really have a whole, I don't know that I have any, like, consistent costume rhythm. It's just kind of like what I'm feeling at the time. I will say one of the, like, one of the straight up costumes we have planned out is Kate Raft, former, like, former guest of the show

and my comedy partner. We've, I've always been very into the Chucky movies. They are just recently getting super into the Chucky movies. And we're going to do a combo costume of me as Tiffany and them as Glenn slash Glenda, their gender non-conforming non-binary child from Seed of Chucky. So that's going to be one of our costumes,

or one of my costumes. Not all of our costumes are going to be group costumes, but we're definitely doing that as a group at some point. Yeah. Nice. What about you, Jack? You got costumes? I know you and your family.

I see your family photos. Y'all go in. I have the same Batman suit that I wear every year. Oh, right. The one you say that's ill-fitting Batman. Yeah. The crotch is about like an inch too short so it's major yeah yeah so you gotta it's batman who has a towel on

that's right man just out the shower low crotch batman yeah so our three-year-old is into superheroes. That makes it super easy. Our five-year-old is into trains and garbage trucks, and he wants to be a garbage truck. Oh, shit. That's awesome. I love that. That's like one of those requests for kids who have dads that are handy and good at building stuff, that that just isn't me so if you i am envisioning have you ever seen those like really impressive like

transformers costumes that people make yeah like that into a garbage truck would be mind-blowing okay don't let your kid hear that yeah yeah i'm sorry yeah actually put your kid on really quick i'm like you know it'd. Here, let me show you this video. This little boy went from an 18 wheeler into a fucking robot. Yeah. That'd be cool. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. I, whenever I asked for stuff like that, my mom was just like, no. And I was just like, all right, I'll,

uh, I'll just, I'll buy this one hat that says SWAT on it. And we're all black. And I'll be Keanu Reeves from speed. The first Halloween where I was like I'm not doing like we always grew up with those costumes that were like plastic mask and then like plastic smock with like the character's face on it it's like yeah it's like

how elf dressed but uh but yeah I the first Halloween that I was like oh I can just like I can make my own costume I can build my own thing was like game changer for me what was it do you remember uh yeah yeah yeah this is like former life but i was very into the x-files at the time and i i put together a little like agent molder costume molder yeah and probably i i wanted it i felt i wanted to go scully but you know different times different places right right right that is uh uh yeah i was that is something i should do i should fulfill that that dream at some point and do a scully i mean jillian she's killing it right now jillian i i am watching so much just like x files right now comet tv is just airing it all the time and i'm like holy shit she's so good in that yeah so good in everything but i'm just like just like, yeah, I have great taste again.

She's great. Shout out to me as a youth. Shout out to me. I was so unique. I watched The X-Files in the 90s. Come on. Who else was doing that? I would watch The Simpsons and The X-Files.

I had just like unique taste back then. I know. Yeah, I'm a unique one. I'm an outlier yeah all right let's talk about some some like kind of topical halloween costumes that are being floated uh we went through pop sugars like list of different ideas and i thought there were like some cute ideas in there i think the the one that was on the list and also also, Miles, you found in the place you go for your Halloween costume advice,

the New York Post is the Bernie Sanders sitting with the mask on, inauguration, with the mittens just looking unhappy to be there. They've converted that into what the New York Post is describing as a sexy Halloween costume costume it's that e-girl vibe because it's from dollskill.com so they're the one making it so that it's like you know it's it's a little a little bit something different for the youth the coat doesn't appear to be trying to approximate what what bernie was doing but yeah i would say my issue with this is

that it's a very like performance-based costume so like to get you gotta like fully sit and do the pose to get it across it's like are you ready to do that are you ready to do that all night right unless part of your i guess that's where a fun costume is like you'd find a way to build the seat into the ass of your costume. So you could be like, oh, who am I? And then you just like, boom, hit the pose. And they're like, oh, shit, Bernie. I thought you were just somebody who was masking and had mittens on.

The other one that's performance-based, and I don't know how you do it necessarily, but if somebody pulls it off it would be amazing is they suggested doing some manner of recreation of the bidens next to the carters where the carters i love that i feel that's i feel like that's easier to pull At least there's something more evocative about that than the Bernie one. Like, yeah, if you like get this, like, you know, I think you'd obviously,

you would be Biden or Jill, or you'd be one of the Bidens. And then you'd want to like make a little like chair with a little Carter inside sitting on it to like attached to your side and then you would just kneel and you get it across right i think that's great it's a couple you can even yeah you do like you do like a muppet style jimmy carter oh yeah and then you could do a puppet shit you could be like what's that jimmy yeah yeah i think that's a great idea

yeah that's a performance based one i like yeah see and i as much and i'm so excited by the idea but then the second i think about the effort i'm like okay what i need like a child like a a chill like a preschool reading chair that's like plush or do i have to make one and wrap it in fabric then make a muppet i will that would be a good one for my family i was gonna say yeah if you have a kid that's a good one with a five-year-old yeah you go to your five-year-old you're going as jimmy carter yeah don't no discussion yeah especially when you're like oh like okay what did you want to be i want to be iron man you're like well put this wig on because you rosalind carter get in this seat get in this chair

yeah there's uh another one that i don't know it feels a little weird for so it's promising young women woman the uh nurse costume that's not a good i i'm not yeah yeah because first of all most people are just gonna think that you're a sexy nurse. Exactly. And then I guess you have to go into the explanation of like I'm specifically this sexy nurse. And I don't know. I don't know. And then you're like oh that sounds traumatic. Yeah. The costume's character. Well no no no. It's fine.

Yeah. It's a movie about how our society enables and excuses rape culture and the costume could have been designed by one of the frat guys in the movie. You can't bob for apples and have a good story after.

Yeah. And by the way, my character gets murdered by one of these frat guys. Like, oh, spoilers for Promising Young Woman. Sorry. If you were going to see it, you would see it. Hey, spoiler alert for Promising Young Woman. If you haven't seen it now, what's going on? Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.

This is me before I'm about to be murdered by that guy from GLOW. Yeah. That guy from GLOW. I don't know his real name. Yeah. I'm so bad with names. But yes, that was enough for me. Yeah, guy from GLOW.

Yeah. Carrie Boucher's husband. This was me before I was about to be murdered by Carrie Boucher's husband. That's also how I know him. So that's one of the bad ones. There's a bunch of Olivia Rodrigo looks, like her album cover, White House appearance, one of her videos. The cat lawyer with, I feel like you could knock that out with just a color printer. Yeah. And a suit.

Wait, what was the cat lawyer? It was a lawyer on a Zoom call who couldn't get rid of the cat filter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you could just put the cat filter up your face. The thing is, the overly meme-y ones, because I don't know how to pronounce meme. I'm using it as an adjective. But those meme-y meme ones those memes yeah yeah those are like they just feel like sort of flash in the pan yeah although i don't know why at the same

time i'm like loving the carters and biden's version i'm like that's the shit right there yeah disregard everything i'm saying i don't know what i'm talking about the only meme costumes i want to see are of m from the Drew Carey show. Thank you. Yo, shout out my boy. My one of my best friends in junior high. He went as Mimi from Drew Carey show. He killed that shit.

That's great. That is very cool. You had a very cool friend. Yeah, he was just like because he loved the Drew Carey show. And he was like he was like his whole thing was like, man, Drew Carey's like too normal looking, bro. It's not a costume like we're fucking if I go as Mimi, I got the muumuu on, you know what I mean? The wig, the makeup. Yeah.

Did like, did anyone give him shit or like, were people just like, fuck yeah. Most people, nah, no one really gave him shit. Most people were just like confused. People didn't understand like the reference. Okay. Okay. And I didn't either. Cause when he, when he when he

came to school like that said what the fuck is this he said me me from drew carey so i said i don't watch that show and then i then he then like he had to because there was no internet like to readily show a reference photo he had to like go home and bring a tv guide to the next day and was like this person and i'm like oh shit yeah that that tracks yeah i love this kid i want to i want to know i want to know where this kid is now i i love it it's yeah drew carrey show i love the drew carrey show yeah yeah mayor from mayor of east town i feel like if you just vape and are in a cold weather climate and can dress in cold weather clothes that would be fairly easy if you can get a wawa wrapper that yeah you know flesh it out a little bit that's right that's like i feel like that's

going to be a very low effort costume yeah you need like a m65 military jacket over like a uni clo down vest with a turtleneck yeah and you're vaping baby you gotta end yeah yeah and then the weekend had some kind of iconic looks this year that would be easy to easy enough to pull off with just clothes and a glove and some face bandages sure that's those are kind of the ones that jumped out at me there are some other ones like in this they have another article it's like 50 plus clever costumes that'll make you say why didn't i think of that and one is a chip on your shoulder and someone just is holding a bag of lays on their shoulder yeah no that's pretty uh why why didn't i think come on now because i don't know stupid oh right because it

sucks because it sucks and i yeah and i'm and i'm pretty great i would never think of something so dumb or if you're a smart cookie you're wearing a cap and gown that's with like you're holding cookies. Yeah. So a nose mask with in like a runner's gear for runny nose. That was pretty. Oh, boy. So don't do those. Don't do Promising Young Woman or anything too meme-y. Unless it's woman or anything to mimi unless it's mimi yeah

unless it's mimi from drew carey show uh and or the carter or the body yeah if you could somehow do both the bidens with mimi from drew carey show yeah yeah Whoa. What if that crossover happens? If Mimi Bobeck were a Biden. You remember her last name. Good job. I just, I had to look it up right now. I was trying to figure out where the, who the performer,

like what they're up to now. Okay. Cause a part of me was like, I don't know. Did they go Magda or some shit? I never know. Like Kathy Kinney seems like some. Yeah.

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