The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 247 (Best of 10/11/22-10/14/22)

Episode Date: October 16, 2022

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. 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 laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmore. A hilarious and acclaimed comedian, actor, podcast host, who you can hear on the podcast Y'all Gay with Allie and Ever. It's one of your favorite guests, one of our favorite guests, the brilliant and talented Ever Maynard!

Ever! I was pissed y'all were going to bring me up after that fart song. Come on. That fart song rules. Oh, do you hate, are you anti-fart? Is that the deal? No, I was like,

man, don't bring me up next to farts, man. Oh, I'm sorry. Because it's so funny that you just like, don't, it's like. Also, I can't follow that. This is indeed October 11th. I'm sorry. Because it's so funny that you just like, it's like, also, I can't follow that. This is indeed October 11th. Yeah.

Coming out day fitting. You have a dyke. Um, I host it. I'm hosting the reverie queer X awards today. Nice. You can get that on reverie TV. Amazing.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to dunk on y'all. I'm in a dunk mood right now y'all i'm i'm fired you say clear the runway because i'm fucking ready for takeoff yeah we're farting off today i'm riled up y'all i i can't wait i just did leg day oh shit i just did leg day and i just okay we'll get into it but i just did leg day as a it's a great way to let people know they're in a lot of trouble. Don't fuck with me right now. Don't fuck with me.

I just did leg day. I just did leg day. It took a lot of pre-workout. Motherfucker, I just did leg day. I'm going to hoist you over my head right now. I'm not kidding. I'm sorry. You want me to use a cart in this fucking grocery store?

I'm using my reusable bag instead of a cart. And now you're telling me, okay, so you really want to. I just did leg day because we can get down in this produce section i just did like that get upset with me try me have y'all ever taken a pre-workout yes so you know how when you take too much like your face tingles dude i very i had a very short run of pre-workout and like using protein shakes and shit because it wrecked me either gastrointestinally or psychologically where i was like i'm emotionally wrecked and i'm i'm ready for it so i think i'm making bad decisions i was like i can handle this yeah it's pre-workout it's not just caffeine it's like bc double a's okay it's i don't know what it is okay i mean that's what it

felt like i went when i started using it was because my homeboy was like doing a lot of muay thai shit and he's like yo this is what they take it you should try this and i was like okay like not knowing what the fuck i was doing and then i was just like yo is my heart and just my i feel like i could feel my blood circulating with every heartbeat. Feel every drop of the blood inside my body right now. Seriously. I've become one with my blood. I'm like, yeah, I'm ready to podcast.

I was like, why am I being so aggressive today? Oh, did you take a pre-workout right before you started recording? I took it right before leg day. My body is jacked. My body is so confused. I'm also excited to tell you about my search history. Amazing.

What is something from your search history? Oh, God. What was the last thing I searched? Oh, collapsible Tupperware. Okay. So, listen. Hold on. No, I'm ready.

This is the life hack we all need. Like I don't, if you carry a backpack, a tote bag, a Telfar, uh, whatever with you, collapsible Tupperware is the way to go. Because like when you get the, like the boxes from the grocery store, it's not like really cold enough to actually keep anything just right. I love, I love a good restaurant with big portions and I am absolutely taking my leftovers home, but sometimes you can't always get them home. So I was looking up collapsible Tupperware and then I found like a great deal and I was like, oh, I'll just get some for me and my mom and my sisters for Christmas. Well, hold on. So in this scenario, the Tupperware, the to-go container at the restaurant you're at is not sufficient enough to transport your leftovers?

No. That's what I feel like I'm hearing rather than being like, because I'm like, is that a problem? Like, you know how the restaurants take away fucking carriers or bullshit? Yes. You never thought they were bullshit. They're not strong enough. Wait, go on, but give me an example. They leak, they're not strong enough. Wait, go on, but give me an example. They're not preparated. No, take me with you on this journey of understanding how the restaurant takeaway containers are bullshit.

Okay, they're flimsy. They're weak. Most of the time, they're made out of paper. You don't even get me started on paper straws. Look, stop putting the honest on stopping climate change on regular people, okay? Hey. Listen, I need my plastic straw. People who sip drinks.

What did you say? I said people who sip drinks. They are the ones who are absolutely the cause of, and somehow solution to climate change. I, I despise, I just, I hate it.

I would rather put my mouth on a raw sidewalk than a paper straw. I hate it so much. You know, put my mouth on a raw sidewalk than a paper straw i hate it so much you like having just the thing in your mouth just dissolve into little like soft paper chunks i got one right here with this coffee i bought and it's like it's it's puffing out right now it's starting to absorb i'm like okay the clock is ticking on this one it makes me so it's not even worth it it's never worth it but yeah disposable not disposable collapsible Tupperware I was looking at different options and trying to find ones that are that had like the separation that way your foods don't have to touch oh wow I feel you on that

yep here's what the inspiration for this and again weird Texas stuff my little sister was at the Texas State Fair and she was like girl I brought Tupperware with me to the state fair it was the best idea now i have turkey leg for weeks so turkey that is that is a large collab like that is a i i feel like you need a tent layout to be getting multiple turkey legs and a piece of tupperware that's kind impressive. Can you hold a bass guitar in there? Just act like you're... In a medium telphar, you could fit like three turkey legs wrapped up. If you use foil

paper and a good long ways, oblong rectangular. I bet you were looking for something juicier or weirder than that. That was the last thing I searched. Well, first, I just like bet you were looking for something juicier or weirder than that, but that was really the last thing I searched. Well, first, I just like the idea of meeting somebody who is dissatisfied with the fucking takeaway shit at a restaurant. Where they're like, yeah, I'm going to take that to go.

And like, you know what? Actually, fuck that. I brought my own this time because y'all are fucking around in here. Right. But at first, I thought you meant that because as somebody who has like a just chaotic collection of Tupperware. Oh, my God. Collapsible Tupperware seem like actually one of the best ways to store it rather than the fucking tornado of plastic that is in like one of my cabinets that I call where we keep the Tupperware. So I thought maybe I was like, oh, this is a solution to the chaos in the Tupperware cabinet.

Yeah. Also a good solution. Yeah. No, see, that is the normal reason why people look it up. I know most people are not thinking, I got to have something that takes up as little space as possible in my purse. Because they are fucking around at Cheesecake Factory. I am such a fucking bag lady. I love it.

Not only do I always have the biggest purse you've ever seen, I bring it on stage with me. And I don't even like, because I just don't trust these hoes to watch my back i love it i feel like so i just the amount of times i'm just like excuse me and i just sit down this huge mary poppin sack and start telling my jokes and i don't think there's anything maybe that's why i'm struggling with these weird crowds i need to acknowledge the giant ass bag this isn't a a big legs. Yeah. They're like, I just don't trust any of y'all in here with my turkey legs. No, I do.

I do like miles idea of like doing a guitar case, like the movie desperado where Antonio Benares carries around a guitar case, but like, it's just filled with collapsible Tupperware. Turkey legs. Yeah. You're just there. Also.

I liked what I believed was the reference to the movie toys because l.l cool jay in that film he didn't like his food touching uh he would say in the cafeteria scenes he doesn't like his food and i took that as a habit as a kid because i looked up to l.l cool jay at that time and i was like i don't like my food touching yeah so i demanded similar tupperware as a kid and my mom said well you will eat the school lunch what is something you think is overrid I'm so tired of like Instagram influencers I'm just tired of it like I hate how like when I used to look at Instagram Instagram content it was like oh this is a cute outfit and now everything is like sponsored by a protein powder or sponsored by like some stupid product. And I'm just annoyed.

Like you'll see like a really cool thing like, hey, check it out. I just redesigned my new house. Now check out this pillow. Buy the pillow, man. Or just whatever. And I'm just like, can we stop? I just, I, it's basically just marketing into our faces. And it's like, I think of these instagram like influencers it's like this

is their heyday because it's going to come crashing down eventually it is crashing down right now it's happening and it's like what are you gonna i don't know i just think it's funny like in 50 years well back in my day you know i would sell a protein product and i made a lot of money you know i don't know i just i'm so over it used to be with her Herbalife family all the time. Exactly. And it's all, it's very culty. Oh yeah, it's all multi-level marketing shit. Like in 40 years, will Instagram still be around?

But it'll be like Facebook, only a product that's only used by people in old folks' homes. And they'll be be getting updates like, this influencer house is having a reunion. And we're like, oh, look at them. They got back together. I'm just over it. And everything just looks so fake. I'm just tired.

I'm like, the world is falling apart. How are we pretending that everything's fine? Well, I think the bit, right, is clearly for our generation like commercials stopped working yeah and like so they're like fuck bro these motherfuckers don't watch tv they don't even they can't even fucking afford tv so how the fuck do we get to them oh that's right turn all the shit that they're scrolling through just co-opt what they're seeing and turn that into the new commercial and like and then these people

are able to get a lot of money or whatever but even now like it's that cycle's happening now or before you'd be like oh shit what's this person who i fuck with like what are they wearing is now like man this whole person's a fucking ad now i don't even know what the fuck is real so i feel like whatever the next thing is probably going to be like incentivizing like people to say shit to their friends on some level it's like hey if we record you bigging up the brand four times like on this app you know you'll get a fucking discount or some shit like that because we need even more like subtle ways to like influence people but i don't know hit me up advertising we're all just one pyramid scheme you know what

i mean it's all just one bit everyone's a walking ad and that's what frustrates me maybe it's just more obvious to me now maybe they have been doing it way longer than i knew about it but i just i'm like oh cool this is a paid sponsored content and it also just makes me amazed that people are in their homes fully like creating new content every day about a new product and yeah it works on me and i think that's why i'm mad because i'm like instagram has my fucking number they got to figure it out yeah oh they know me they're like she wants this and i'm like no yeah start throwing it off just start looking for shit they got nothing to do with you and see oh yeah yeah no totally totally so i think they're overrated i don't know what do

you guys think about these influencer people i think it's overrated for like the idea that that they're doing it themselves i think there are massive teams and production teams behind the scenes that are all helping the illusion that they're doing it by themselves but it's it's all invisible you know trickery movie i know i know people who are like to do influencer shit and some are just like they're they're run they run themselves ragged like yes which is the other side of it too because they're like my whole life is trying to get a hotel to be like yo come through and blah blah blah and then you're all you have to think about every day like fuck what's the next thing what's the next thing what's the next what's the next thing if you're not like major i don't know like so when they

describe that shit, I'm like, okay, cool. You do get free hotel stays, but like you have no fucking time for anything. Cause you're always thinking about what backdrop do I set up for this? Right.

Yeah. Like, you know, there's that Abercrombie documentary on Netflix, like back in their heyday, they were hot and naked. Like, I just feel like there's going to be a,

I was an Instagram model and like, right. You know, I had all these sponsorships and she was sponsoring me. And it's just going to be talking about how unhappy everybody is. I guess that's what it is. It's like everyone's unhappy. Shut up and quit acting like you are. It's a lie.

It's like own that part. But that's the fun of social media influencing. It's so curated that you can take out all the parts that make it real. Every famous person is a small to large company. And there's a company worth of people behind them that are, you know, brand strategists and, you know, people, production people. Help you buy new pairs of underwear. Yeah. When they get new webbies.

Exactly. Have an interest in keeping their career going. Yeah. So, yeah. I get it. Shout out to my team shout out my mom yeah yeah keeping you in the fresh and the fresh uns trying to trying to like there's you know we've heard of like really talented comedians who write for you know celebrities on on Instagram. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, like, that's just an invisible way that people are being helped and, you know, creating this illusion. That was such a good way to put it, though, Jack, that every, like, they're like a small or like a medium to large business. Because they are. And I think, yeah, that just, I wouldn't have Instagram if it wasn't for comedy. Like, I think I might have like a private page.

And here's something I did this weekend. But this this needing to churn out content, I just feel like it's made zombies out of so many really cool, creative people. That's all. Yeah. Now it's the art that I care about, man. end up like having very unhealthy lives because they there is this forward inertia of you know multiple people and like families like a whole infrastructure of people who rely on them to continue to be successful at a thing that might not be making them happy but like that's that's not the point anymore like you yeah you as a person kind of become besides beside the point

at a certain point you and at that point you truly are like i'm you as a person kind of become besides beside the point at a certain point. And at that point, you truly are like, I'm not even a person. I'm a fucking I'm a publicly traded company. Yeah. You're a brand. Yeah. That's the crazy part when people become brands. But that's I think the biggest the most insidious shit is for that happened with kids, because we've talked about it before like when that relationship is inverted and then the children are now the ones having to supply and support a family financially that's no child

deserves to be in a situation like that no good you know like it and it's but it's so normal and like there's not much and like so many kids will be like yeah i like that i like that i make my parents happy and shit like that but then cut to like 10 years later and it's all kinds of trouble. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. I follow a kid who makes like silly just like says ridiculous shit and she's very cute. And now I'm like, oh, no. Am I contributing?

Yeah. What's that parent saying? It's like, we need this shit better do too, Millie. Right. Or your power was going to go out. Right. What is something you think is overrated? Activision Blizzard.

This is going to be a vendetta. This is going to be a vendetta. It's going to be a Def Jam vendetta. Yeah. Oh, great game. Great game. I always played as Method Man in that one. Joe Budden was also a playable character, if I'm not mistaken, in that video game,

which was one of the, I think, great hip-hop, early hip-hop fighting games. Obviously, there was Shaq Fu before that, that we all should get down on. Who did Shaq Fu fight in the fighting game? Like monsters. It wasn't like he was drop-kicking Muggsy Bogues or anything. No, Shaq Fu was the worst 2D fighting.

It looked like shitty Mortal Kombat. Yeah, they just skinned more like an early demo version of Mortal Kombat and put Shaq on top of it. Yeah, it's always funny. Shaq is... Like a mummy with spiky football pads. Okay.

Wait, you have a lot of great character design. It's just like Shaq doesn't strike me as like somebody I want to be a, in a fighting game. I feel, you know, like it, it reminds me of the story where he like stole Steve Nash's ABC show from him.

Right. Like the premise only fits Steve Nash. Steve Nash is like this athlete who can play all these different sports and games and is like really great at it. But like Shaq was just way more charismatic than him. So ABC was like, we'll give it to you if you want it, Shaq. But he's not like an athlete who can do all the different things so it's like very uh just didn't fit nor does like what would if it was Mortal Kombat but with Shaq like that that feels like a pitch that I was like I mean I guess dude yeah the names it's like you could fight

Kaori or Beast or Colonel right or Raja oraja or me there's this like the there's one character called voodoo and i'm sure just a bunch of really uh historically accurate depictions of these characters yeah yeah very sensitive actually a breakthrough in uh cultural depictions of various cultures he gets his own game but dude can't even win to Aaron Carter, so what's that about? I don't know that reference. You don't remember when Aaron Carter sang

the fable of how he beat Shaq? No, I don't remember that. Oh, I didn't know I wasn't talking to him about the cartographers i mean i remember wasn't it like a fuck what that was like a track wasn't it yeah yeah yeah yeah okay yeah it wasn't it wasn't a tell-all memoir yeah how i beat shack i'm like wait was that the book aaron carter how i beat shack or that dumb single that he had.

And it was just a tale of how he beat Shaq in basketball? The song's called That's How I Beat Shaq. Okay. And it's just really like insider basketball like footwork discussions. Oh yeah, drop step. Yo guys, check it out. Guess what happened

to me? Another crazy story. Come on, AC. I was hanging at the court just playing some ball, working on my game. Yeah, we heard it all. I heard the fans scream, and I thought it was for me. But then I saw a shadow. It was 12'3". It was Shaquille O'Neal. What?

What did he say? How about some one-on-one? You want to play? I told him, why not? I got some time. But when I beat you real bad, not To cry it's like Jesus Christ What It's wild when you can like

When the bars are so weak Upon first reading you already know The exact flow of it Here's the thing it's not even a rap Oh my god Could you imagine He's like scared as shit Psych him out.

He's like, there are runs in those lines. Like, he's going on runs. I mean, but it's wild. There's no, like, thing about it. I was like, yeah, you know, like, you know, force him to his left or anything like that. Like, something really basketball related. It's like, I slammed on him, and that's how I beat Shaq. I put a nail in his shoe.

Right. I said, yo, Shaq, you didn't tie your shoelace. He looked down. I stole the ball. I'm taking him to school. Now watch me, y'all. Okay, thanks. I wonder if any coach just, you know, Googling late night before a game came across this song and listened to it to see if there were any, you know, they're like, how do you, how do you prepare for Shaq?

All right, guys. Just wipes off the whiteboard. All right, I'm writing these down. We got a new play. You got to say this. Yo, Shaq, you didn't tie your shoelace and then steal the ball after that. Okay, then do a three-pointer. Is that really the plot of the song?

Yo, it said, I had a plan. I could change the pace. I said, yo, Shaq, you didn't tie your shoelace. Wow. He looked down. I stole the ball. I take him into school. Now watch me, y'all.

That sucks. First of all, you're not fucking dunking on Shaq, Aaron Carter. Right. Look, I don't know why I'm now starting to get really angry that Aaron Carter is lying. See, now this is a real big tough guy energy from Aaron Carter. Yeah. You're not beating shack this deserves a uh miles chokehold slithering behind remove i think the man's been through enough yeah maybe that's what you know and hey maybe he's not right since he beat shack and that's why he's answering for that yeah original close to the sun yeah

was shack involved in this song like is that aaron carter featuring shack that would be so funny because if not they're doing shack's voice which is unlicensed diss track like uh he's in the video i believe okay it would make sense like i'm i wonder if it was like overlapping agency representation or something they're like shack you might as well do this like we can get you like a licensing check because they're going to name check you but the network's paying for it so everybody wins to i mean it's not how i scored one bucket on shack it's how it's how i beat the shit out of implies that he repeatedly is able to use the hey your your shoelaces untied well that's

one of the points which is disrespectful as fuck to to Shaq I mean honestly I think you can only get away with that twice right Shaq not in addition to being one per shoe and this is peak Shaquille like this is he looks pretty

yeah he has hair and looks pretty trim this is blue chips era shack right i believe this is lakers era shack oh yeah this is lakers era shack for sure this is the only reason they would do that song but hold on what was the score at one point they showed the scoreboard in this okay so 119 117 so eric carter put up 117 points on shack that's fourth period though that's fourth period yeah fourth period not fourth quarter okay and yeah like there's nothing again that's i don't know why we're treating this like some actual tactical analysis on how to be shaquille o'neal in basketball when it it was like, and then I did a slam.

I did a three pointer. You know, no one was doing that. You're doing that. I know. Oh, my God. They just showed his shot. Yo, his shot was trapped. Yo!

He shoots underhand. What is that? Oh, no. No. See, now Shaq. Shaq, I got to pull your card, pull your card bro shack you could not you should not have let this happen man i mean i guess aaron carter is uh wait it was a dream oh it was all a dream okay yeah he used to read word up magazine okay that makes sense thank god so the pro strat is to dream that you're beating check yeah like that right

i like that in the end it's like in your fucking dreams asshole yeah yeah i believe his mom said we didn't we didn't hear the line from the mom in the video but it was it in your dreams that the line is in your fucking dreams asshole oh oh okay but oh man it was all a dream i guess that kind of thing could have never happened to me if it was a dream and it wasn't real how to get a jersey with a name o'neill whoa you die in the dream you die in real life your mom felt bad that you didn't even make junior varsity and you were crying on that you didn't notice that you put the little shack jersey in there to make you feel better the next morning with the name of neil it's like the most popular jersey in the city you live in right now his mom's like i got you that for your birthday last year that's why damn

i knew it was real i do wonder it's interesting to me to like i would love the oral history behind this like whether you know you know how there are like certain action heroes who who like won't die in their movies they're like i'll do it if like was this a note from shack that like no it's a it's got to be a dream if i'm gonna participate in this song yeah he's like i'm not a little this little white kid beat me right which again i would like to see shack actually take aaron carter to fucking church yeah on the court yes so with that shot i've never i'm sorry y'all if y'all have ever seen somebody shoot a basketball please watch the music video because what the shooting mechanics of aaron carter i have never i can tell you i've never seen anything like this the version of this song coming together that i

had in my mind was completely blown up by seeing him shoot a basketball because my understanding was like he was he was somewhat like a pet played like a jack harlow kind of dude like playing in a ymca league at least and like that was something he loved basketball but this this seems like it was completely foisted on him and he had never picked up a basketball before this video so i don't know yeah it must have been conceived at an agency. God damn. The bar was so low, man. Like this guy was a Backstreet Boys little brother. And the next thing you know, he has a music video where he's fucking shack up on the court. They're having to cut around not only his basketball playing, but his dancing.

Like the dance moves are even cut. So you only see like a singular dance move at a time. I don't know why we're so incensed. No. Hey, man. It was an interesting time. I don't know why we're so incensed. No. Hey, man. It was an interesting time. Look what Steven did. We were supposed to talk about Activision Blizzard

and we let them off the hook talking about Aaron Carter's jump shot. Imagine in the 70s if Andy Gibb had a song about beating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. My big brothers, they get all the fame. How am I going to do it? What is something you think is

underrated, Stephen? Aaron Carter's game. Yeah, I think so. I think we can firmly say that. Just because he wasn't goosenecking in the video doesn't mean he wasn't scoring those points. He went from underhand to sidearm mid-shot. That's called versatility, baby.

That's called a scoop up and under or something. He can't even really dance. Yeah, no, he can't dance at all. This is all like, oh, I don't know. I don't even know what to say. Thank you for showing me. Oh, hit that jump shot again. Thank you, Steven, for showing me this.

Because this is underrated. It's been a while since something I was passively dismissed from media. I look back and I'm like, this could bring me out of a fucking coma because it makes me so angry. Yeah. I don't know why. Also, to suggest that you could score 119 points on shack with just the shoelace move also it's disrespectful to him as a athlete also disrespectful to shack as a prankster somebody who prides himself on real dumb pranks real dumb sports pranks and uh

you know he's not falling for that shit here no harder come on man come on aaron carter's uh run on the globetrotters was pretty pretty lucrative though oh this is gonna be the next 45 minutes of the podcast although man you should see i oh man i did forget he was in one of the and one mixtapes though later on after this i remember for that shot we got a show to do people out there in radio land just look up the 30 for 30 you'll yeah you'll love it. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back.

And, you know, one and a half cups of mayo. Sorry, I had to add that. One and a half cups of mayo and the Duke's chocolate cake. Mayonnaise cake. It's only got three and a half star rating. Zeitgang, I know one of y'all had to have fucked around and found out about this. Please let me know if it was fantastic. Okay, I'm sorry.

Back to real life. Back to crime. Not real life, though, actually. Yeah, right. You know, this is on the list with kids using litter boxes. Like, what else is on there? Fentanyl! Hocus Pocus, casting a spell on your family. Libraries being the energetic conduit for satanic energy transfer.

Yeah. Fentanyl-dusted Halloween candy. Although I love those tweets where people are like, guys, you've got to check your kid's candy. And, like, that shit post format now, it's like, I looked into my kid's sneakers and it was Thursday night football. But yeah, this seems to be one of the more potent ones. One of the ones that I see getting taken the most seriously

is that crime's out of control in American cities. The stats are there. Yeah. Are they? No. No, Miles, they're not, actually. Wait, hold not actually wait hold on are they though well that's the thing i mean this has been a very potent tool for for conservatives for decades being like fucking crime because most people don't know their neighbors or whatever and it's easier to just believe shit on tv and be like yes yes, the world is just unfathomably cruel and unusual. And I think a lot of it, too, especially in the last few years, is especially a backlash to the

summer of 2020 when the police had a big coming out party for non-marginalized America, who was very well aware of what the police were like and revealed themselves even further to be an overtly violent group with military hand-me-downs and if yeah people talk about defunding the police then the logic of the right has always been well that means total societal collapse where thugs run cities and you'll get your achilles tendon slashed underneath your mercedes because somebody put a little lulu lemon bag under your front tire that's a reference to that tiktok video i don't know if you saw it. What? That one where the woman's like, you got to be careful.

Zip tie on your door handle. That means they've been spotting you. A napkin in your door handle. It's been drugged. Your hand could go numb. It's the most, it's wild. Who's doing this? It's the 80s all over again.

These are stories that were on the news in the 80s, like local news stories. The Achilles heel slash is old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so old. I've never heard of this. Oh, yeah. Well, this has been like a huge deal.

I hate to derail it. And it's back on TikTok? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Who's getting their Achilles heels slashed? This is like a thing from the 80s. Let's talk about this. Who's fitting under a car these days?

I don't know. I don't know. Who is able to slither under a car like that the just the logic so one of these that i saw because uh former guests jason pargin was talking about it on on tiktok was they they have these videos where people are like look i found the zip tie on my car door handle and that means that they have marked me i just want to like understand the logic like the story in their head is that are they like they can't keep track of all the people they've decided to murder because and so they need to leave a zip tie to be like oh right right that's

like a bookmark for murder it's because these people have no they're so true crime brain brained that the only the most complex thought they can say is that traffickers and abductors work in the same way as like parking enforcement, like where they chalked your tire. They're like, and the other one comes through and they chalk your tire to know you've been there for two hours or you're alone. And then the other group, they're constantly roving together. I don't know. Interesting. But we digress all that to say is there's plenty of material out there in the world to help you feel completely unsafe and things that the fucking

walls are caving in and we talk all the time too about just how journalists like open mouth and just quote-unquote crime statistics like yeah i mean we just saw that in KCN TV. Yeah. No questions asked. Straight-faced, telling that story with an American flag on the screen. Wow. Right. In L.A. and New York, we see this a lot. Especially the New York Times, L.A. Times, they love coming out with a, like, cops can barely hang on with all these crime waves.

Cowabunga, dude. But the fucking statistics don't add up at all yeah murders rose in cities like during 2020 during the pandemic i think people were like well it's pandemic we're in lockdown murder shouldn't be going up it must be the other big news story you know the defund the police and democrats but unfortunately for thesis, murders rose in cities nationwide and jurisdictions of all types. So relative to 2019, the number of murders jumped by more than 30 percent in the largest cities and by 20 percent in places designated by the FBI suburbs. But they were up in rural areas. They were up everywhere. Like, just, it did, and they were up in cities run by Republicans just as much as cities run by Democrats.

So the whole idea that, like, they were up because Democratic city leaders, like, defunded the police is just completely, like, there's just nothing to that at all. Yeah, a family of four was just murdered in my hometown. Right. Oof. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's happening everywhere. It is. I am on pre-workout. I should not have said that so aggressively. But it's a matter of fact.

Crime's happening everywhere. It is. And the thing is, when you compare those homicide rates, they're not even close to what it was in the 90s. Right. And also in that same time, overall crime fucking decreased. Yeah. Okay.

So then you say, fine, 2020 may be an anomaly. Whatever. What about 2021? What about 2022? Well, here's a fun fact. The FBI publishes these crime stats every fall from like data that they source from local law enforcement agencies like sheriff's departments, police departments, etc. And when collecting data for 2021, the FBI, they're saying like, you know, for this year, we're doing something different. We want to use a new system so we can get even more detailed data so we can properly like analyze trends or whatever.

However, a lot of the localities haven't switched over to this new system yet. This is from this Mother Jones article. I want to read you that they're saying, quote, as a result, the feds only gathered information from law enforcement agencies representing just 65% of the U.S. population compared with around 95% in prior years, rendering the latest estimates pretty meaningless. In most instances, the FBI wrote in a summary published this week, quote, the data do not meet the criteria for statistical significance. New York City and Los Angeles, the two biggest cities by population, were among those that didn't submit their information to the feds or to the Marshall Project. Neither did most agencies in California,

New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Floridaida some of the most populous states it's almost like they are covering something up so that they can continue a bullshit narrative that serves their needs yeah it's or at the very least right it sounds like incomplete data it sounds like a statistical blind spot if you want to go around waving shit in the air and be like it's a fucking crime wave yeah well fucking pull up with facts don't just pull up with fucking sentiment that someone is feeding you because they feel that their budgets are under threat because they don't know how to treat people humanely yeah and i don't know i just want to play this ad right this is from the New York governor's. Sorry, what did you say? I said okay. I said okay. Okay. Okay, play that.

Gotta. That's what we need. Let me play this ad, though, from the New York governor's race. Lee Zeldin is out here painting the wildest pictures of New York as he runs against Governor Hochul. And I'm just going to play this right now. So you can kind of get an idea of how aggressive the fucking like rhetoric and visuals are to to seed in people's minds that they live in this fucked up hellscape. And so this ad is called Take Back Our Streets. And under the narration, you're going to basically what's playing is like violent, terrible crimes like on like CCTVctv cameras happening

there's no question that the sphere of crime is real there's an old guy getting knocked out there's a shooting in the street you're looking at actual violent crimes caught on camera in kathy hokal's new york and it's getting much worse on kathy h's watch. On November 8th, vote like your life depends on it. People fucking looting and shit. What? Because it's time our families feel safe again. Okay, some of this stuff was clearly staged, but some of it was incredible to see just the KOs.

Dude, the first one, they start off with this old dude just getting fucking knocked out. You're like, fucking whack. Some of that footage looks so old. Yeah. So you look at that clip and you go, holy shit. Like that was straight up. These people have lost their minds.

People fighting at the grocery store. People fighting. That is an effective political ad. 100%. Because it does line up with one-off videos that go viral that you might see to be like why oh yeah i remember something like that now is that happening every single day to millions upon millions of people no but i get that you go you take the most sensational and spin that into someone's reality spoiler alert though his campaign admitted that fucking half of the

footage in that commercial was even from before Hochul was governor. So, for all this shit of, like, Hochul's New York, half of the clips were fucking from before. So, they were just using that colloquially, like, being like, it's her New York, man.

We're just living in it. You see what happened? This happened in New York, man. We're just living in it. Exactly. You see what happened. This happened in New York. Yeah, maybe two years ago. But the damage is already done. Anybody who's already seen it. Yeah, that's how political ads work. One of the other clips was from fucking Oakland.

So the lengths these politicians try to go to convince you that the shit you are seeing or isn't happening or is happening is is unbelievable and not to mention that they've spent something like two to twelve million dollars already in the last couple weeks just trying to get like just to really feed this shit on like in in ads is is pretty telling and it's one of the same reasons why oz is tightening the race against John Fetterman too. He's going back to this crime thing. And I do want to reference. Yes. Yeah.

Dr. Oz. There was an article in the Daily Beast. Were you saying that because you just want Miles to always address him as Dr. Whip, put some respect on his name? Dr. Mehmet Oz. Well, I forgot that he was running. Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, oh. And in the Daily Beast, this person wrote an article just in the second sentence or like third or second paragraph was just being like, you know, with crime going up nearly everywhere nationwide. It's no it's no wonder why Oz would have something to that effect where it's like you're even in this ad where you're presumably writing in hotbed to try and motivate democrats to vote by saying like hey they've got a potent way of getting people to vote you better vote too you're just gonna keep saying this shit of like well it's everybody knows yeah i don't know where's that data at like because everything else fucking says otherwise yeah i mean it seems like this would be a fairly straight like the fact that murders were up during the pandemic and in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, like here are the other things that are up. Gun ownership is way up. Alcohol consumption is way up. The economy is way the fuck down. Like the economy shit the bed because we were in a pandemic and they tried to treat it by giving people a small one time check. So people like these are all things we know lead to desperation and, you know, the circumstances that lead to crime. because the two narratives I've heard the most, and it doesn't matter if it's every mainstream media, whether it's the Daily Beast or the local news or, you know, the L.A. Times,

they're all saying that it is caused by defund the police movement, which never happened. No police was ever defunded, like, significantly. And also they're blaming progressive district attorneys. And those have both been statistically ruled out. Like they have looked at the statistics, the crime statistics, when a progressive DA comes to office in a city, the crime actually either goes down or stays the same. There's no significant connection, a statistically significant connection at all. It's completely fabricated. It's a completely political statement that is motivated to make people afraid. But the thing that gun ownership, you can't blame that because that makes people money. Alcohol consumption, you can't blame that because that makes people money. The economy shitting the bed and like just a one-time pandemic check like we just those one and two pandemic checks were like america had a fucking allergic

reaction to people getting free money so you can't like point that out and so you just go back to these go back to white supremacy yeah you go back to white supremacy oh these people want the police to fund it oh that's what happened the one defunded thing that seems to be making a significant difference and where they seem to have like a statistical connection is social programs like programs that are focused on creating programs that give people things to do besides violence and you know community action like those sorts of things were defunded during the pandemic and they haven't come back and yeah those things work we've seen those things work repeatedly but because it's america that just gets fucking ignored you don't even hear about them when they do work and then they they just get defunded They're the first thing to get defunded. So that's why, like in any sane society, that is the obvious explanation. Like all those factors are obvious reasons why, you know, some crimes would be up and they get completely ignored and turned into a right wing talking point instead.

point instead right yeah i mean it's like oh this house burned down with that had a puddle of kerosene and a live electrical wire flying around next to it i wonder what happened right i think they defunded the police i'm sorry you could have looked right there right okay never mind it's just wild because like in medicine right we know preventative medicine is like the key to living a longer healthy life like to have maximum maximum health to check in with the doctor. We need Dr. Oz. Exactly. OK, thank you. OK, hold on now.

Don't let me. I want to do that. I was going to do that pivot way better down the road. Now, doctors like like they all they tell us this because their mandate as doctors is to fucking study illnesses and tell us how to live healthily that's why we okay i got it okay let's put a pin in this because i got to come back to something okay and then i'm speaking broadly right because i have i have many gripes with uh with our medical system as it is even as it relates to my own family but you would never go to a doctor that always said, Hey man, call me up when shit gets bad. I don't know why you want me to like check up on shit. Just call me up when it gets so bad, you need medical assistance rather than how can I figure out

ways to sustain someone's health. And it's important to look at the language too, with cops, right? They're called law enforcement. They're not called guardians of our public safety. Although they say servant protect on the cars. They were actually about keeping us safe. Their mantra wouldn't be call us when shit gets bad. Right. It would be what if we are actually what we are. The whole point of this is to prioritize safety, analyze things and look at what the causes are so we can keep people safe.

Yeah. I have something that's we can keep people safe. Yeah. I have something that's going to break your heart. Please. Two things. One thing, serve and protect reminded me of this. I bought a new Carhartt sweater. Who doesn't love a nice Carhartt? Yeah.

Especially a national coming out day for lesbians. We love it. Yeah. I ripped the tag off and it said Carhartt to serve and protect the working person or something like that. But I was like, is Carhartt a cop brand? Is Carhartt a cop? Cop brand? Have I been deceived?

Somebody needs to look this up. No, remember, they pissed off all the fucking right wing people. Oh, they did? Yeah. Yeah. Because they were like, like yo y'all need to get covid vaccines they're like i'm burning this shit well they matter they better to take a second look at that at that slogan then yeah but i mean they i mean they were hoping that you would feel like get the warm and fuzzies from that yeah but uh yeah i mean again like that's why

it's just like if you want to take up for if you want people to take you seriously if you're actually talking about safety and safety is the concern and crime and all this shit then what the fuck are you doing to prevent it not call me up when shit gets bad i want the we're trying to prevent this shit from the first place but again i think this is where this sort of metaphor overlaps with medicine, because sometimes it's just simply not profitable for profitable to cure an illness. Right? No. And that's kind of, I think, where we find ourselves like sort of just repeatedly being like, but I think the confusion, I think, still like cycles over and over again, for those of us who might not have fully grasped, you know, kind of how this all

works and what, what it's intended to actually serve and protect. Yeah. When I was diagnosed, so I have frontal lobe seizures and it's not like to describe it, it feels like deja vu. I don't know if I've ever talked about it with y'all, but I get like auras, like I'm still like conscious and my body doesn't shake, but you'll feel like a sneeze is coming on or like, and then I'll get massive headaches sometimes like they're rolling. And I had like MRIs and I couldn't figure out. And I was like, I guess I'm psychic,

you know, like cocky about it. I was like, I'm going to start charging people money. And I finally saw a neurologist who knew what it was. Yeah. And I was like, oh great.

He put me on this medicine he was talking to me for about an hour about what i'm finally on now which is lamectical about the joys of like how it could really help me it could also help anxiety and depression that was also caused by frontal lobe seizures and i was like great and then instead of prescribing me that he prescribed this oh my god it's like an intense it's for people that have like grand mal seizures or like I was like, great. And then instead of prescribing me that, he prescribed this. Oh, my God. It's like an intense. It's for people that have like grand mal seizures or like seizures where they shake and they can't operate motorized vehicles. I forgot what it's called.

But it's like an intense medication. And I was like, I don't think that I need that. Like these happen like, I mean, they're not consistent. It's like a couple times a month or it happens when I'm stressed. And he put me on it. I didn't take it for like months. And then I finally did. And I felt like I wasn't making rational decisions. I wasn't feeling like myself. I was like, this is not for me. I was so irritable. I had like nothing. I was like, oh, I'm going to stop this immediately. I called him up.

We have another conversation. It's like an hour and a half again. And I'm like, I think I'd really like to try Lamictal. I think I'd really like to get on that. And he's talking to me about it. He's like, great, I'm going to prescribe that. And he goes, well, you know what? What?

I have a bunch of free samples of this. Holy shit. And he was pushing. The same one? one no it was another drug but basically drug companies will like samples yeah push samples and i was like i can never trust this man again right instead i went to a therapist who recommended me to a psychologist and i got lomictical my life has been i have some samples of this which is something i've been noodling on in the lab. Yeah, I was like.

It's a proprietary drug. I mean, what is that? It's for headaches? Yeah. Little, yellow. Yeah. This will work. I forgot the name brand of the drug,

but I was like, how dare you? Well, it's wild too that, like you said, the flow of the conversation was, this thing I think would be great for you. However, that's not the one I'm going prescribe to you yeah i was like forget this this sucks yeah there are a ton of bad doctors and the entire medical industry is no i don't trust them i also don't discriminatory yeah yeah i think my like when you're like all the family reasons like same with mine yeah man i just

had a cousin pass away man and it's really frustrating she she the doctors told her she had fibroids for the longest time it wasn't cancer yeah it was and it was by the time they diagnosed it it was stage four yeah and there was nothing they could do to my family nothing they could do and you just you're like how are we that's a whole separate conversation. And I'm like, I'm still grieving that loss. But I'm so sorry. There are times where you're like, I don't what is what what is this thing doing for us? Really? If people can fall through the cracks like that. And I get, you know, there's a million one reasons for that. the cracks like that. And I get, you know, there's a million, one reasons for that. All that to say is when it comes down to like keeping us safe and healthy, like you have to really look for the people that are actually putting that at the front of their mind and saying, well, this is actually the way to do something. This is the way to stay healthy. This is how we can actually prevent crime by supporting people and not maybe denying people who are having like issues, especially for women's health and being like,

ah, it's something else, something else, something else. But anyway, that's a whole separate thing. And shout out to people that covered for me while I was gone the last couple of days. But yeah. I'm so sorry, Miles. No, it's shitty, you know? But this is part and parcel.

My family's not alone. People's families are not alone in this. This happens a lot, especially with women of color women in general anybody like people if it just it's there's a lot of disparity going on around us for sure yeah a doctor ruined my mother's life and a surgeon yeah similar thing yeah and it's yeah okay Similar thing. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Give me that pre-workout. Give me that pre-workout. I'm going to get barbecue and I'm going to think about this.

Yeah. Give me a drop of pin for that. I need some hot legs. I have to go back to leg day now. Compartmentalize. Go. My feelings go in my legs. Yeah, exactly. It's quad day my my therapist is actually my peloton instructor that's it really helps me

get it's actually tunday on peloton shout out to tunday all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back. And Burger King is, you know, they're putting that people have done this before in the past. I feel like it used to be more common early 20th century. People would be like, there's a massive financial reward for anyone who can take a picture of a fairy or, you know, whatever shit they believed back then. A sprite. Yeah. The rewards have gotten significantly diminished, though, unfortunately, since that time.

So Burger King is doing a promotion this Halloween. is doing a promotion this halloween now just the idea of burger king doing a halloween promotion might cause some people to have some negative memory so we're just going to say it right up front what the last time burger king did a big halloween promotion trichinosis they did a black burger that turned everyone's poop green. Which, wait, what? They released a burger that was black. Or I guess, no, no, no. I think the bun was black, which they claimed was like from the salty or the smoky infusion of A1 sauce. Like there was A1 baked into the bun. there was a one baked into the bun.

Right. And people are like, actually it's like this weird food coloring that is so foreign to the human body that like the intestines can't, like can't absorb it. And then it comes out as I, some of the speculation was that it was bile. Like that's what was turning the poop. The poop.

They had probably so much concentrated food dye to make it just like here black that it's like either a ton of dark green or a ton of blue or something. You ain't getting true black. When, like in Japan, when they did like the black, they would use squid ink, which probably goes down a little easier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And but I think where America's like, I don't know, just a bunch of fucking green. Yeah. To make that work. Dump it in there. So this one seems like it's unlikely to give you green poops, although we don't know yet. It's still very early on in the stages. But this is called the home of the ghosts. Whopper seems like the ghost whopper would have been the, but they pluralized it, home of the ghost's whopper. Not possessive.

Wait, ghost whopper is a different thing. The ghost whopper is a different thing? It's a different thing. Yeah, say whopper I've already eaten. Well, I think as a tie-in to the ghost's whopper, which did, the one that

you ate, was it maybe the addition is now it's multiple ghosts in the Whopper? I have eaten multiple Whoppers. So let it play me in the comments for that one, too. Making it plural is just very questionable because then it's Ghost Swappers, Ghost Swappers Jr. It feels like Attorney's General. Yeah, it's Ghost Swappers. Ghost Swappers Jr. It feels like Attorney's General.

Yeah, it's in there. As a tie-in with the Ghost Swapper, they are adding a ghost detector to their app, which is a real ghost detector in the sense that they're adding an electromagnetic field detector inside the sense that okay it has it has they're adding an electromagnetic electromagnetic field detector inside the bk app which is something your phone already has like there are apps

for this i was like yeah i was with my at our family reunion this last year we have like a dinner at this hotel that everyone says is haunted and like my 12 year old cousins were all like running around with a ghost detector app and apparently it actually detects electromagnetic fields oh which our phones i did not know the phone did they tell you that or did you look that up later i they told me that and now as part of researching this story our writer jm has told me that, and now as part of researching this story, our writer, JM, has told me that it's a real thing. Our phones contain magnetic field sensors, and if your magnetic field sensor detects a ghost in your field via the magnetic field detector,

you will get a coupon for a free burger. So that's the reward for proving there is life after death and that our consciousness does go on after we pass from our mortal okay but back to the cell phone thing right our our cell phones already are like they emit radiation that was like the whole thing of like remember being like, don't put it towards your head back in the 90s and shit. Right. So is that meter just going to be like. Sure.

Reading itself like is that fuck up its own shit because it's already admitting its own radio. I don't I'm just like it feels easy to gain. Right. My five gray. gray mile five gray so i mean i don't know how it interacts with the radiation coming off your phone but people do point out that the reason that the ghost hunting industry has glommed on to emf detectors is because there are there's a ton of emf fields out there. Like your mouse is emitting EMF detectors right now. If you're using a mouse, you know, phones do it,

two-way radios, any kind of electronic device. So you're using a cell phone that has an EMF detector, but the cell phone itself, like you said, is letting off EMF fields. So a camera battery pack is also something this oh so so for like ghost hunters like emf is the best thing because it's basically a confirmation bias machine yeah it's a conference oh shit look at this the whole place is lighting up in this best buy right my my girlfriend watches the ghost adventure show a lot and they have one in there that will

when it detects a ghost it'll detect like a stick figure they're like oh somebody's some some presence has appeared on your shoulder and it's a stick figure and then it will move so erratically if it was a ghost it was the ghost of somebody being too much caffeine rock tumbler or something they're like the blow up car lot net yeah blow up car lot thing with the air arms the wacky arms car lot thing yeah the nope alien detector yeah i mean what so one guy who sells paranormal kits for hundreds of dollars admits the quote exact nature of the connection between emfs and ghosts is a mystery so you know what i love shout out to the ghost hunters man yeah i can't i love i love what y'all

do i love how much money i'll spend on something like this. Truly, I've never seen someone be so committed, especially when like it's not a mystery. Like, how are you going to use scientific devices to try and prove something yet be completely ignorant about the like the myriad of ways you can get electromagnetic radiation to show up on an EMF thing? It's whatever it is. up on an emf thing it's whatever it is we're passing like the one of the big kind of myths of our time is just this like technocratic myth that you can solve anything with technology and like something like an app in your phone essentially so i i feel like in 20 years that's the thing we'll look back on and like parodies and satires of this time period will make fun of us for that but that this proves it's still alive and well that we're like oh you want proof of the afterlife yeah there's an there's an app for that jack right

right at least we know why stalin's ghost returned yeah exactly did mike cernovich have this app and he does he does and he just got a coupon for a Whopper as well. You know, he thought that was like such a great, like poetic piece of poetry. Is he even referencing something about so-and-so's ghost has returned? Or it's like. I got to give him the benefit of the doubt here. I mean, Mike Cernovich, that guy. Fucking asshole. Like, i don't know i

don't understand whatever i get it i used to write you know raps back in the day that were very heavy-handed i mean i'm always saying shit like that lincoln's ghost has returned kublai khan's ghost has returned john bonnet's ghost has returned his ghost has returned. JonBenet's ghost has returned, folks. JonBenet and Tupac's ghost have returned together. And they're collabing on this track. Plump-legged people. They're making a sick cameo in this Ghost Adventures

episode. Check out their IMDb. But anyways, this is all just to say congratulations, Burger King, on a Halloween deal that won't alter our fecal matter. it's a this is all just to say congratulations burger king on a halloween deal that won't alter our fecal matter that's i mean it will forward it's not expressing i guess yeah yeah it will no i mean it will alter let's be real this in in the way that any burger king will alter your fecal matter right but all right let's move from ghosts to aliens this is so yeah so cue cue the curb horns this story is like all i've been thinking about since i since i read

it but apparently so scientists during the cold war decided to create a new mineral that would be a superconductor that they could use to you, make the computers on missiles better, presumably. And they created two fully man-made minerals, just like noodling in the lab, called Hedite and Brenzonate, I think, because they wanted to ensure I wouldn't know how to pronounce it ever. Yeah, dude, chemical Twitter is going to come for you, bro. H-E-I-D-E-I-T-E.

We don't need two... Heidi T. You mean Heidi T come for you, bro. H-E-I-D-E-I-T-E. We don't need two H-E-I-D-E-I-T-E. You mean Heidi T? Heidi T, yes. Heidi T and Resniani. It's good for your voice when your throat's feeling itchy. Heidi T. It comes from the Swiss Alps. Yeah.

Heidi T and Biscotti. So anyways, they invented this. We're very proud of themselves. And then a few years later, people are like, oh, but these meteorites that have been arriving for 100 years also have that mineral on it. So between 57 and 68, they invented them. And then they started finding them in meteorites, which, you know, like when analyzing meteorites, meteorites, they found them. So, right. Right. Obviously, that's more of a, you know, you learn a new word and suddenly you're seeing it everywhere.

Phenomenon or like you are thinking about buying a red car and suddenly you see red cars everywhere, I think, is the way like one of the mental ways people illustrate that mental pattern of just, you know, once you know about something, you're going to actually recognize it. But a new scientific paper is saying that actually the creation of these minerals is so specific and unlikely that their existence in meteors suggests that they actually came from extraterrestrial technology so how wait but how is i see i don't know the first thing about this kind of synthesis technology yeah so it was done by like layering like doing multiple layers of existing like head is made by combining high dt is made by combining chromium, iron, sulfur, and titanium. And then the other one, I think, is made by carefully layering chromium and sulfur. So it could be just that they lack imagination and are like, no way this stuff could be made by anyone

except us geniuses right it's like no it's it exists it's just out in space well is it that we even think that it has to be extraterrestrial because we can't even wrap our heads around that it could have absolutely like naturally formed like that right so that's what they're that's what they're trying to like come to terms with. They're circling back and being like, it's so unlikely that this would have come together, given what we of interesting ideas around that I think are missing from our understanding of what contact with extrater that we are going to encounter something like this that is evidence of extraterrestrial life that was around, you know, millions and millions of years ago. Because, like, when you look at how long we've been in existence, it's, like, such a tiny blip of time. Yeah, we're new kids on the block. such a tiny blip of time. Yeah, we're new kids on the block.

We're extremely new kids on the block, and we don't know how common it is for intelligent life to survive for millennia and millennia and for millions of years. So it seems very possible that the evidence we get might be a piece of crumpled up metal

from a spaceship that exploded like, you know, a hundred million. But we might not even perceive that as a crumpled up piece of metal from a spaceship. It'll be like this interesting substance that we found. And then it's just where, then we can begin to be like,

well, where the fuck did it come from? Right. I bet the scientists a thousand years from now who sent those medals back in time to prove that time travel was real are so pissed right they're just like come on we're like mr policeman we gave you all the clues which they will use that quote because that movie will last the test of time oh yeah they imprint that on a gold disc shoot it into space and then it'll come

back gold disc it's just a dvd of that movie they just sent out they're like and that is our whole civilization's intelligence on one flat disc i mean it it's interesting like every day it's like scientists are having more claims that are just sort of leading with the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Like there's one about like Mars where they're like the Martians may have made themselves extinct with like climate change. Right. And it's also like, wait, what? And then you're kind of like reading into like why it's the the shift of more like of this possibility is really interesting because the other day there was also like a mathematician who i couldn't even begin to explain but like using like mathematical proofs trying to conceptualize how it's more likely than not that we are not the only living

intelligent beings in the universe based on like the concept of like a biogenesis or whatever so i'm just like oh i hate that trick math yeah like oh what's your birthday minus that by how old you are he's using a little fortune teller folded up in paper all right okay what's your what's your birthday my birthday is may okay one two three four five okay now pick how many rooms do you want in your home? Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Okay, aliens. Aliens are real. I'll take that. I mean, they have some of

that math, some of that trick math in this article. They, to quote, there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and there are potentially trillions of galaxies in addition to ours. Multiply the two, and you get a total population of stars somewhere in the vicinity of one followed by like, you know, dozens of zeros. So if other galaxies are like our own, most of those stars have at least one planet the size of Earth.

sense that it's kind of weird that our science is so skeptical and doesn't like put this on the radar as like one of the possibilities when we're looking at things flying into our solar system from outside of the solar system you know we've all seen the jodie foster masterpiece contact and they say like if there is no intelligent life out there it's an awful waste of space we've all right had that tattooed on our bodies we all have like we're famous famous theologian like time magazine cover theologian matthew mcconaughey is uh is the person who's saying that i love the invention of that as a as a possibility in america a theologian who is like so hot and cool that they become like the hey i kind of fuck with aliens too like joel austin right joel austin what a hunk oh man but we were we were all

we were like knowing what we know about the about the Egyptians and the types of simple machines they had at their disposal, there's no possible way they could have moved these rocks to form the pyramids. Like, then people figure out, oh, no, they put it on logs and like rolled it. Yeah, right. Like the Easter Island things. Like, yeah, they kind of walked them. They just rocked them back and forth and they were able to kind of just like get them to move across the island. You ever had to move a refrigerator by yourself? Yeah, me too. You just got to rock it. That would be funny. Like them going back in time and being like, so how did you do it? And they're like, oh, you just kind of rock it a little bit. I don't know how to put this. I offered my buddy some beer and he came over and helped me. Yeah.

I was like, hey, dude, I'll get you breakfast from McDonald's, man, if you come early, dude. But the idea that we will make first contact with, you know, pollution from alien farms or factories or just an uninhabited

structure that just like kind of drunk drives into our atmosphere or is just like nobody's driving it anymore and you know i i think a lot of this interest is coming around amua mua coming into our solar system making the mamua it's like that giant i don't know people call it like a space cruiser size right but you know it's just a giant rock that is very oblong and not not the shape that something again similar to this like they're like that's not the shape something would naturally take like on its own it's too like long and thin it's good that people describe it as like cylindrical and cigar shaped and then it like sped into our atmosphere

going faster than anything should be going and then like made a right turn and left our atmosphere going just as quickly so that that again feels like it could be it might have opened different that there's a harvard scientist who is like now really interested in this stuff and is constantly getting quoted about like yeah we need to that needs to be one of the primary explanations that we're willing to entertain so like that's not people aren't going to be like this. That's definitively what this is necessarily. But they are saying like that it feels unscientific to just rule that out at the outset. show up because the assumption that oh there must be some aliens flying around thinking god we need to find a planet of people who kill each other and once a year shit green right okay guys so there are aliens and they are obsessed with us with our green shit. That seems to be the automatic assumption once you mention the idea of aliens. Like, oh my god,

you guys are so into us. You guys are so thirsty. Everybody who says they were Marilyn Monroe in a past life. Yeah, exactly. I was either Cleopatra or I was Marilyn Monroe. One of the two. I was Joan of Arc. Yeah, that's who everybody gets to be.

I was Joan of Anarch. I think that was from Coming to America, when that woman puts a lighter over her hand. I was Joan of Arc in a past life. And just like waves her hand over an open flame. Yeah, yeah, sure. We all were. Yeah, yeah, all right. Keep it moving.

Anyways, so I don't know. This is something we're keeping an eye on. Extraterrestrial life. Evidence of extraterrestrial life that might be boring when it shows up, but the implications could be profound. Dude, with Blink-182 getting back together? I know. I bet that tour is probably going to be some kind of like,

we might see some shit. What if Tom DeLonge is like, yo, you guys want to see something fucking wild?'s not even a blink 182 concert he's like i'm sorry i had to use blink 182 getting back together to spread the fucking truth okay all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. We'll be right back. Outro Music