The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 272 (Best of 4/24/23-4/28/23)

Episode Date: April 30, 2023

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All edited together into one non-stop infotainment laughstravaganza So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist that voice you're hearing another of the faces on mount zeitmore it's a banger uh a hilarious acclaimed comedian actor podcast host one of our favorite guests host of the y'all gay podcast the brilliant and talented ever made it okay great i'm not gonna rap i will say my favorite um m&m line ever is fuck you debbie wait who's fuck you debbie who's debbie this is i think this is his ex-wife damn i thought it was watch out things are about to get heavy i just settled on my lawsuits fuck you debbie maybe it was kim's lawyer i don't know

somebody somebody maybe it's his mom oh yeah he also doesn't like his mom it's weird is it about the people he doesn't like i mean for a long time he didn't like women huh wait what sketches i was like re-listened i was like, I'm going on a road trip. I'll re-listen to like Marshall Mathers. Why not put in some classic Eminem? And it's awful. It is his mom, Debbie Nelson. Debbie Nelson. Well, yeah, she sued him.

I will say later in life, it sounds like he turned a corner on gay rights. Yeah. I think it was when he did that acapella rap where he was like and he's orange uh that's do you think his beard is real or do you think that's a hair transplant i think he and jaylen rose go to the same person and i don't know if you know who jaylen rose is he's a former great college basketball player very good nba player uh, one of the great commentators. And he has, he has a hairline that he's,

he's always had like a great head of hair. And then lately it's beginning to look painted on in a, in a way that is. Oh yes. Yeah. I saw his lineup on Twitter. His lineup is a little too, too good to be true at this point

he looks a little bit like a Lego man sometimes it's a little just like just take it off put it on he's handsome painted on hair

I'm not seeing that picture but I believe you Eminem's beard has a lot in common with uh when hulk hogan came back as hollywood hulk hogan and had a weird beard that like didn't match his face and it was just like this doesn't why does he have paint on his face but i think it's i think it's real it's just we had never seen him even with a whisker or something and then yeah it's just like the coloration or something oh it does look crazy yeah so today's podcast is all about hanging out googling googling shit facial hair and yeah why uh what why is something from your search history,

but also what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh man, it's so embarrassing, the things I ask. But the questions, like I just typed in who, what, where, what, what. I'd like to see what, like, and the last few, the how I asked was how many thoughts does a human have a day? Oh, that's a good question. I was thinking like three or four hundred in my head.

And it's 70,000. Isn't that crazy? 70,000. 70,000. Crazy. 35,000 of them are about the left breast and 25,000 are about the right. That's a lot. I remember when I was young and I think I heard this

actually on a radio show where someone was like, the average man thinks about sex every like 40 seconds. And I was like, oh no, I'm not thinking about sex ever like enough. But you are. You don't even realize it because you're 35 thoughts down the line.

I feel like I'm not even aware of all these thoughts that are happening if that many thoughts are happening or my brain is far slower than everybody else's because that seems too high to me. 70,000 seems so inaccurate, but like I think it is, but I'm compelled to believe it and just more believe the fact that our brains are so turned off that we don't even remember all the thoughts we're having.

You'll forget the thoughts you had a minute later, probably. Well, if you think about the thought you just had, that's another one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So you don't have time to register every that's another one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. So you don't have time to register every thought as a thought and clock it. So like, but like I was thinking about it, like every day I wake up and I'm like, I have

to pee a little bit. Can I go back to sleep? I have to pee. Maybe I have to pee all the way. So like every sensation counts as a thought. That's it. That's interesting. Yeah.

I think it must. Cause that's, I mean, and then you like, like when you're talking to people, you'll be like, boy, he's talking for a little while. And then you're like, man, he missed that. There's one big long hair over there next to his ear. Yeah. You can't get it. There's too many. There's a lot.

That seems like too many thoughts. Yeah. That seems like too many thoughts. Yeah. It does seem like, according to Discover Magazine, which is just a webpage, and who knows if it's any more trustworthy than the source you were using. I have to assume Caleb was Yahoo Answers, right?

Uh, Quora. I only trust the real shit. Yes. No, it's Jeeves. Jeeves did, dude. Jeeves knows all. But this Discover article is like this is actually disputed and some people call it a myth but the other example the other number they give are also crazy high like i'm my brain doesn't work in a way where i can just like

they're like actually some people think it's only 15 000 and like my that doesn't 15 000 70 000 are the same number in my brain like that yeah my brain doesn't know that i was literally thinking hundreds in the hundreds yeah yeah yeah i mean i would yeah i would probably think like and i would think in the thousands just because hundreds is but the funny thing is i googled it and told my girlfriend she was like yeah like she never heard that but she goes that sounds right and then she was like i don't think you have seven i think you have like one thousand and i was like oh thanks babe thanks yeah well i like thanks for insulting me sweetheart Somebody actually once said that to me about,

because I was a philosophy major and they were a philosophy major, and their theory was that people who study philosophy or who are interested in philosophy, their brains actually are just slower than other people's brains. So we stop and ruminate on dumb bullshit for longer than other people, which kind of made sense to me. I do think my brain is slower than most brains.

Yeah. That was the only class I didn't fail in college was philosophy. Yeah. Because I was just like, oh, I can just make shit up. We can just talk shit. You got that slow brain. You got that good slow brain. Yeah.

Let's brag about it. like it's a good thing yeah i'm like an old train yeah i'm not fast but i i'll get there take our sweet ass time getting where we're going just re-watched a movie uh lucy i think was the name of it was scarlet johansson yeah yeah where like she drugs herself up or some shit or something happens and yeah um she has the ability to unlock more than 10 of her brain and i was just thinking of that like and like that whole 10 of your brain thing has been proven by scientific uh methods to be somewhat of a myth but we don't use like it's not our brains don't work like you only use 10 of% of it. Like you use 10% at a time. Is it?

I think what it is. So like you, yeah, you like what one time when you're like typing, you're using that part of your brain. But if you, if you tried to use all of your brain all at the same time, you would just like have a seizure and soil yourself,

you know? Yeah. Like those just don't have a brain, according to Lucy, you would be able to bend spoons and you know. I'll just bend the spoon. If my mind could do shit, I'm not wasting it bending a spoon.

Well, it's like being like, you only use 10% of your computer keyboard at all. And it's like, yeah, at a time. I'm using one letter at a time and like if i tried to use them all at the same time it wouldn't work be gibberish so uh yeah it would be gibberish but yeah lucy and limitless there there's a handful of movies that seem like they're all in the genre of metaphor for a writer who just tried cocaine or amphetamines for the first time.

Like, they're just like, whoa, what if this just keeps getting better and better? What if I just, yeah. It's like that, you know, Rob Hayes has that bit where he's like, if you used all your brain, all your thoughts would be like, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out. Yeah. Pump your heart, pump your heart. We have a new show from this guy david eagelman who's like the foremost neuroscientist in america he's like a stamford scientist he wrote this book the reason i reached out to him in the first place is he wrote this book incognito and the book is all about like how we like most of what like our conscious mind is like just this little like pinhole view on what's happening in our brain. And like our brain is doing, you know, at any moment, it's doing 900 things that we're like not aware of. Like, you know, like pumping our heart, causing us to breathe. And we just have this like tiny little pinhole view. And then there's all these mental processes that are happening in the background

and then rise to the surface once they're fully baked. I'd like to get down to 5% now that I know that. Yeah, exactly. I want to be mostly unconscious. They're going to offer that soon. Yeah. They'll give some? Use less of your brain.

Yes. I like to get down to one. Yeah. Let's let somebody else live this life. I mean, I think that's what our phones do for us, right? It is. They make us use a lot less of our brain. I've guest hosted a lot on the show, and also I've guested on the show.

That was probably the best Google search one that I've heard. Yeah, that was pretty good. Man, I'm Googling my ass off over here. Trying to work it in. What is something that you think is overrated? Basil plants. The kind that you buy in the grocery store.

Those are so overrated and I hate buying them because then I feel obligated to keep it alive when i just want to kill it anyways oh my god well i use basil a lot in my cooking but then like they give you the little soil and then you have the stems and it's sad but it just feels so wasteful because nine times out of ten it dies dies almost immediately. Right, right. Yeah, I've never, I don't think I've ever bought one of the ones that's in soil.

It seems like too much of a commitment for, it seems like a real step up from, you know, I'm spice shopping and they're like, here, how about a lifelong commitment to a... Yeah, that's how I feel. But I can't just find them in bunches anymore not like thyme or rosemary it it has to all be in the soil maybe it's the stores that i'm by but i can't find just already massacred plants for my benefit that's what you need from the throws is

get them to train them to bring you basil yeah but see also like how long does it take for like a leaf to grow because if you like use all your basil leaves off your plant and then the next day you're like well i have to wait like another three months or something me and this basil plant aren't on the same schedule yeah it seems like exactly i have like three right now in my kitchen just like sitting sitting in cups. So I'm hopefully like rotating between all three so it can grow. And then I torture it by pulling off its appendages and I do it to the other one. With great glee. Yeah, with very great glee. And I think all grocery outlets should start adopting this terminology that all produce besides the basil plants are pre-massacred. Like this is our pre-massacred plant section of the grocery store.

That's fun. Outside the dead. Don't go to the meat section. Yeah. And do they let you come into the grocery store with the crows or do they make the crows wait outside in the parking? They wait outside for me, but they help me carry the bags to the car. Like, they're very helpful. Yeah. Bring me the pre-massacred bananas. Yeah, that rules. What is something, Jake, you think is underrated?

What is something, Jake, you think is underrated? Well, somewhat related, I've been eating a lot of Italian food. I think just subliminally it got into my head from watching the show and like watch because it's like a thing that just occurs every now and then is that they're eating like a ricotta or something or like they ate this thing. It looks like a crown made out of bones the other day that I'm very curious about. What? It was crazy. I posted a picture of it on Twitter. I went, what the hell is that I'm very curious about. What? It was crazy. I posted a picture of it on Twitter. I went, what the hell is this?

And all these people, Twitter, some people were like, you don't know what that is? Like, they were all dunking on me and stuff. Apparently, it's called a crown roast. And it's this thing where they make a king's crown out of an animal's bones and roast it. Apparently, it's pretty good. So I just have this flavor on the brain, and I was shopping at this grocery store the other day,

and I bought a jar of something called olive salad. And I would like to inform the world that it's an underrated thing in that I didn't know it existed. And that's a form of underrated, right? No one's talking about this. It's a game changer. Nobody's talking about this olive salad. No. In my mind, I'm just picturing a form of underrated right no one's talking about this it's talking

about this olive salad no i in my mind i'm just picturing a bunch of chopped up olives and like with some romaine throwing thrown in there is that kind of what it is okay well it's not there's uh not romaine but it's like other um like olive like things like peppers that you would like soak in oil like that but chopped up and then made into like kind of a thing you can just spread on a freaking sandwich and like it i'm it's changed my life because like you know you try to buy sandwich stuff when you're grocery shopping and you think you're like well what, how hard could it be? And this is a great way to feed yourself cheap. You can never really hit like the way something tastes from a deli. Look, I'm doing the damn Sopranos hands.

Yeah. It's because you don't know about secret stuff like olive salad. Yeah. Oh, man. Really good. It's, yeah, it made me think of a very fancy deli an olive salad like i think it's just technically for like a muffaletta like a po'boy or something like that like a like a cajun thing but it really it hit me because you know a lot of times people make a salad they put one olive on a

on a what do you call it a q-tip a toothpick and then put it in the sandwich just for like aesthetics you know? But it's like, well, you eat a sandwich, you get to eat one olive, like, while throughout the entire sandwich. That's very little olive, right? But this, it spreads throughout the entire damn thing. So every bite, you get, like, that salty briny thing. Oh, man.

I fucking love olives so much. And it's totally happened later in life like i hated olives when i was a kid but now it's probably the food like i can't get enough i like i could not imagine eating too many olives like it's just i i always feel like underserved when it comes to olives i fucking love them they're the best i know these italians the guy they're on to something with the all onto something with those olives underrated not enough people are talking about olives isn't it like the the most popular food since time since the fucking 10 commandments i suppose there's a very famous restaurant named after them but it's also a massive like crime organization that's like built up around

fake olive oil i think yeah olive oil yeah yeah fake olive oil was like a big scam in the 70s i remember there was like i came again i came into into contact with that like researching something else and it was like yeah and then they busted this massive like counterfeit olive oil yeah they got that that off-white supreme olive oil and they got the counterfeit version of it and it was crazy that they were like i mean i think they were making millions it was like one of the biggest money makers for the mafia at one point that's nuts but it sounds racist to say that like it sounds it sounds like you know it's like don't throw me under the bus like that

yeah I was talking about the same thing but like to speculate that the Italian mob is like selling counterfeit olive oil like it sounds like you're just being like yeah and then they had a big meatball shipment come through you know a briefcase full of meatballs

we don't do anti-Italian racism here coming through, you know? Yeah. Briefcase full of meatballs. We don't do anti-Italian racism here. No, no. No, absolutely not. You know what that reminds me of, though? There's an oddly similar story that I came upon researching for some dumb podcast I was doing about the Moonies,

the cult from Korea that sort of is like the origin point of like this weird other thing that's happening in the united states with this guy named king bullet head who's like the guy's son and then like the guy killed shinzo abe killed him because the moonies like the shinzo and the moonies somehow were involved in the thing with his family someone died i don't know bankrupted his mom yeah moody so the interesting weird thing that came out from like u.s occupation in uh in you know korea back in the day they have like a similar thing going on

where they're the source of i guess all of western wasabi and oh wow that's also fake like apparently when you eat wasabi when you have sushi here it's uh horseradish they die green and like yeah probably live your whole life and never actually have wasabi. I'm not going to be surprised if we Google Canada's counterfeit maple syrup operation. No, that's real.

That is real. Because criminals don't do much research. They just Google the first thing. They're like, we're Italian. What do we do? What's the most popular condiment and how do we rip it off you hit you i know you were like randomly stabbed you hit dead on there's a whole maple syrup thing in canada wow what's america's counterfeit it's got to be ketchup right oh yeah it's gotta be we have to have like counterfeit ketchup but that would just you would just become a billionaire and it would be illegal because that's what america is just like just be

all right find the cheapest way to like make something that the piggies will gobble up and then you become a billionaire and it doesn't matter if it's poisoning them because we don't find out until people start dying 30 years later and by that time you're rich enough to like affect legislation so you're not gonna get in any trouble to your point i don't even know if they could export the counterfeit shit like the european like food drug administrators over there would be like nah this doesn't pass the the smell test for us you guys gotta eat that over there yeah yeah wow all right it's actually mostly red paint it's red number 44 jack that's it's that's what it is full of microplastics yeah aren't we all i guess mayonnaise might be the

other thing like that we as we talked about on an episode earlier this week it's always like been very suspicious to me that Hellman's, the biggest word on their label is real. Hellman's real mayonnaise, okay? Stop asking. It's like nobody was asking, but now we're very concerned. Yeah. Yeah.

That's my stand-up bit. That's my one stand-up joke that I'm workshopping. That's fire. You should put that in your type of thing. Thanks, man. If you read a mayonnaise jar a certain way, it says like, hell is real. That'd be cool. Yeah. That's right. Hell is real, people.

Repent. Put all of those letters in huge letters and then sell it. It'll take off. Hell man. Hell man would be a dope superhero of some sort. Oh, yeah. He's named after the mayonnaise. That'd be cool, yeah.

It's like, hell man, and then his whole thing is just mayonnaise. He's got like a horn being fucking made. I really... Cool. Didn't go where I was expecting it. Alright, let's take a quick break and then

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the next step yeah or andrew you were saying maybe maybe he moves on to the other but my hope is he's gonna be announced as a star of the new Daily Wire Studios movie. Maybe a Gina Carano joint. Who knows? Yeah. Gina Carano rom-com with Tucker Carlson. Yeah. I could see that. The woodenest white people acting you could find.

I could actually see that losing a lot of money. It's going to be like an aborted baby came back to Earth, but as an adult to stop drag oh we could write this now we could we could get this outlined and send it off the chat gpt by the end of this episode yeah but it seemed like he was just fired like kind of without really putting a big plan in in place they were just like, yeah, he's not going to be on his show tonight. So wild.

I know. He ended his last show with like, I'll see you next week. So I don't think. Yeah, he didn't know. Yeah. So the timing is interesting just because they just settled that lawsuit with Dominion for like, you know, a long way towards a billion dollars it was like 700 and something million dollars it was it was way up there getting getting close to a bill and so

i don't know it seems it seems like if fox wanted to fire him it would have made sense to do that during that process. So they like get credit from, you know, the plaintiff or the judge or whatever, like for, you know, taking this seriously. So it's interesting that after they settle, they're like, and also your ass is fired. Yeah. I don't know if that's because that makes me think it might not be the reason right because i think there are multiple fox hosts who were sort of cited in the dominion lawsuit that were not fired i mean i don't i feel like we're gonna learn more about this tomorrow or something but sure by the time people can hear this episode yeah they'll have learned more than we do yeah but it's fun to speculate here in the past yeah i think we might not i think you know like they're just gonna i mean it's gonna have to leak right like yeah kendall's gonna leak it i think kendall's probably gonna leak it yeah

kendall jenner no kendall royion. Kendall Murdoch? Yeah. There's so much more vivid to me. I can't remember who is a real life person. I know. It really feels... Well, also, like, as, you know, Succession is winding to its, like, final episode, and it's been a pretty good season so far, in my opinion. But, like, people seem to be really enjoying it and talking about it. Like, an old-fashioned HBO show.

We have this news story drop Monday morning that the speculation is that he had said the wrong thing about the wrong Fox executive in the Dominion leaks. He was on wax saying some wild shit. He was on wax saying he wild shit like in the like he was on on wax saying he hated donald trump which that can't be good for his like popularity with his base i don't know if it like affected his ratings or anything but he i think what does matter is that he insulted the wrong the wrong executive and that executive might have had it out for him. I just love, I love, I would love it so much if he was brought down just by the pettiest, pettiest thing.

Yeah. I mean, I think that's his version of events. I think he's basically like, yeah, they, somebody didn't, didn't like the tuck and had to,

you know, however it refers to himself and, you know, tried to take me out. I like the version that what the washington post gave which was the one that like kind of in the first wave of stories made the most sense that it was just you know he had said the wrong thing about the wrong executive it still also sounds like what tucker carlson would be saying like if you asked him what

happened it would be an evil executive who like couldn't take his harsh truths uh fire you know yeah that's just so wild because it's like obviously this man is a colossal asshole every single second of the day in what world yeah like would you be scared offend or not like, offended by anything he said? I just don't, like, if you already are an executive at Fox and choose to work with him, what, literally, what could he say? Maybe he kept blowing up the shared bathroom. Yeah, it's got to be something like that.

I mean, some of the details from the leaks were that his show and like the writer's room for his show, which apparently there's a writer room writer's room for his show, was like it was just straightforward misogyny on a level that felt like they immediately after were like, I can buy my way out of anything! And those are just the episode scripts. You know? I imagine that their writer's room is just two wheels, and one with

nouns on it, and another wheel with, like, is woke, is cancel culture yeah those just two things invade canada sure fuck it let's go with that that was what his latest documentary was about invading how we should invade and liberate canada but i mean there have been these moments like that there have been moments where fox didn't seem to have the courage of Tucker Carlson's convictions. Like he had a head writer who was discovered to be like an openly racist troll on some Internet forum. And like that guy got fired like the day after was discovered or like tendered his resignation in a way that seemed like someone's like you got to be out of here so it's it's almost you know i love your work and i i agree with everything you said but you can't have that smoke out there bro yeah but it's like that's the shit you say on your

show every night like i don't know it's so weird they're like more careful behind the scenes then i think it's because they can be sued by employees behind the scenes. Right. Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. And also, like, they are creating content for an audience that they don't respect or, you know, understand

or agree with. And so they're just out there basically being like, come slap it up piggies you know of course i said that these people believe stupid shit my viewers are idiots i mean it is brain poison like i that guy i'm sure you probably talked about this but that guy that shot that poor kid uh through the door yeah because he was like oh no it's it's in kansas city yeah yeah it's like a black 13 year old child going to pick up his

sibling at the wrong yeah and he's like some 80 something white guy and he's like oh well i listen to fox news all day because i think it was like his grandson told the news like yeah he's like listens to fox news all the time and he's a racist. He's just sitting there absorbing hate like during his entire waking hours. And so he's like, well, you know, I'm terrified of this child and I'm going to shoot him. And I don't you know, I don't necessarily buy that he was scared. I think it may have been, you know, anger or rage or something just like like you know you're on my porch i'm gonna shoot you but yeah these people are they're just like it's not to say this guy was a nice guy before he started watching fox news but they just sit there consuming

this like hate like yeah just brain poison yeah yeah i the thing i think with the, it's like, they make this stuff, but like, there's, the problem is there's clearly a contingent at Fox News that believes their news. Right. And like, has some level of power. It's probably like a 70-30, but like, I feel like it's just like, from time to time, they have to throw these people a bone. Yeah, that's right that seems like what's going on this is like i mean admittedly the biggest isn't this the biggest bone they have yeah i don't yeah i thought he had the he had the largest viewers would love to hear you say that but yeah yeah i mean it could be with all the advertiser boycotts his show is not the most profitable but he's definitely got the largest

viewership it's all the carriage fees by the way yeah that's that's the thing you got to tell your cable company don't pay fox don't pay more for fox news right because fox has gone woke that's right let them know folks i mean they they are getting it from that end, right? As, you know, OANN or whatever the fuck is like. Fox doesn't respect our president, our one and true president. Yeah. I mean, I think that it's also like, we'll see whether it's Tucker made Fox or Fox made Tucker. Because, I mean, the thing is, you could put any racist person in there and it will, I'm sure, do fine.

Sure. I mean, he was the replacement for Bill O'Reilly, right? Right. I remember a similar feeling when Bill O'Reilly was replaced. I was like, wow, like a giant has fallen, a giant in the world of racism. This is great news for all of us. And then just like a younger, smarter version of racism this is great news for all of us and then just like a younger smarter version of him more racist for sure is gonna happen and and they will build this

person up like as effortlessly yeah for sure who do you think is gonna be the new tuck oh man i mean i feel like they haven't answered my audition tape, but... I would have guessed... Yeah, I would have guessed either Andrew T, obviously, or Dan Bongino. But Dan Bongino... That was the person I was real scared of because he seemed just completely racist and had a huge podcast

and seemed to understand media somehow. And then they fired his ass on Friday. like he he was just like kind of an up-and-coming correspondent so it does feel like maybe there is like something to that internal fox we're actually a news company versus fox wwe racism energy yeah i mean the the journal that we are at real journalism clowns have the most power probably now than they ever have in like contemporary news not that yeah the majority of the power but i think they have as much power as they're ever gonna have yeah like see we're they're gonna we're losing our credibility as a news organization yeah yeah sure i guess i do wonder if there because there are pending lawsuits against oann and newsmax that i wonder if them being like well

those people are going to be like bankrupted by the end of this year factored in because that like thinking as like a business person they probably are like won't he just like go over there and take his viewers with him so they must have some feeling that like those companies are fucked too it's not their viewers like people like it's like people's grandparents who literally don't know how to change the channel from right exactly they just i mean it's it's burned into their screens, right? Like they turn on the TV, it's on Fox, and they just play it in the background all day.

I don't think they're going to go online to try to like follow Tucker Carlson to wherever he's going. I think it's like such a passive, just like, well, I turn on Fox News and that's what I do. I mean, I think they'll be upset that Tucker's gone, but I don't see them like having the savvy to like, well, I turn on Fox News and that's what I do. I mean, I think they'll be upset that Tucker's gone, but I don't see them having the savvy to like, well, I mean, some of them, of course,

but a lot of them I think are just gonna, they just have it on as background noise. Yeah, and the replacement will be the same shit. I'm gonna put my money in, I wonder what odds I could get for Joe Rogan. Wow. I mean, would he wanna do it it it would be it would be a pay cut and he'd need a carve out for his broadcast but yeah i think i think the uh that time slot is

not very hard it's it's got to be some of the easiest it's the most lucrative per hour work you can do on earth i got it i would say ben shapiro but i don't think he would play well with the older generation like he's he's too much of a little boy yeah he's i think they would just be like this guy's annoying yeah that is a detail that i assumed was from reality but the the chiron for fox being like burned into the screen of because succession like mentioned that as a talking point a season or two ago and apparently that's real like that happens all the time i guess charlie kurt like these are all people who are internet famous it's probably like one of those things where you know a movie snakes on a plane is like

a big deal on the internet and then it comes out and nobody actually watches it in theaters like i'm i'm leaning towards all these people who are like internet famous and then they'll probably pick somebody who has like good news anchor fundamentals for a bunch of like bullshit reasons that yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be a local fox news person or like a 57-year-old Wall Street Journal editor. Like, it's just one of those people. Like some shit you've never heard of. Like Hannity will take his slot and someone's going to take Hannity's slot.

That's true. Everyone moves up. Long live the king. Wait, was Hannity not the most key time slot? I assumed Hannity was the best time slot. Is he? Fox News schedule. I do know Tucker Carlson's ratings were the highest.

Did that auto-complete for you, Andrew? Oh, yeah. No, no. I was going to bookmark. Not a... What do the folks at Fox have to say about this? Oh, wow. It literally...

Yeah, 8 p.m. is just blank right now. Whoops. Like, oh, boy. It's actually just an hour of, like, commercials for, like, gold and, like, you know, fucking, like, anti-woke guns. Yeah. Just keep rerunning Birth of a Nation. Yeah. All right. It's going to be something worse,

though. Somehow it'll be worse. Temper your celebrations, because this 1,000% is going to end up worse. Yeah. I mean, I would say someone like Michael Knowles, but I feel like he's too nakedly genocidal. Yeah.

I've thought that before about plenty of right wing people that fox yeah still liar there's no bottom there's no bottom well because the thing like the ecosystem for fox news is truly like things that happen on the like in nazi forums or on like right-wing talk radio like bubble up and then make their way there and then they sort of they dog whistle it yeah it's like how buzzfeed used to work with reddit where they would just like buzzfeed was just like a repackaging system for reddit stuff yeah yeah like i, I could see them going with someone who's, like, gotten more, like, started on radio or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, it's like Stormfront kind of goes through a sewage treatment plant and then it's still sewage, but it's not quite as raw as it was. Yeah. Filtered. It's truly, it's a copy editor. Right. It's a copy editor on the various

Nazi screens they found today. Yes. Right. Great. Wonderful stuff. Like, can we replace the Jews with bankers? Right.

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pentagon's official word for ufos unidentified aerial phenomenon i think it's yeah yeah i think ufo is fun yeah like we got hey listen y'all listen walk america yeah we gotta stop changing we gotta stop changing shit all right it's uf. That's what we used to. All right. We don't need a new name. We don't need a new name for everything, y'all. I think they were trying to get rid of the stigma of flying saucers and shit.

Are the UFOs mad? They're the ones who are worried. They're like, we're serious people. We're serious adults sitting at the Pentagon. We don't believe in UFOs. We believe in UAPs, which are... What does that stand for?

UFOs. Unidentified Alien Plants. Aerial Phenomena. Good Lord. Jesus Christ. I don't think UAPs exist, but I do think UFOs exist. Interesting take. Interesting take, yes. I don't think UAPs exist but I do think UFOs exist um interesting take yes I think UFOs are

I mean like I would love to see one you know yeah me too there was one time when I was like riding my bike in Santa Monica at night and I looked up and there was just this like string of lights in the sky and everyone was kind of like pointing at them and looking at them and they like weren't really moving,

but I don't know that that's the closest I've gotten. Like I never, I like Googled and couldn't find a explanation. I was also a little bit drunk. So yeah, well everything's unidentified to us cause we don't know. Like I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Every object that's not like a Delta plane because we don't know like i don't know shit i don't know every object that's not like a delta plane i don't know what the fuck it is yeah yeah

yeah but you are pretty up on the uh tiktok of like what what delta planes are flying over your head i know i have the flight you know the flight schedule you know i know all that shit i feel like i used to notice more planes in the sky when I was a kid, too. And I think, what a wild statement, but I did. And I think it's more now just because we look down. There used to be more planes in the sky, right? What happened to all these planes? I think it's just because we look down so often now.

Yeah, because you're on your dang phone. My dang phone. Well, also, there like roads in the sky so like depending on where you are you might just like be under a fucking highway for like whatever the nearest airport is and you're just seeing that's true you know planes pass by every minute as opposed to you know they they have like specific paths they're supposed to stick to so but i used to notice more drug planes too flying low and shit. Yeah, yeah. I don't see those much anymore.

Yeah, yeah. I don't see that much anymore either. Hey, maybe the UFOs got them. There's one particular instance that I keep coming back to because it really is inexplicable. It's the one where they saw the Tic Tacs. 60 Minutes interviewed the fighter pilot who like made visual contact with them like they were but like there's just more detail on from that story it was 2004 and they like had somebody on a nearby aircraft carrier who like received a call from

an officer and was told like they had to alter their course. And he was, like, really adamant about it. And he, like, made a joke. He was like, what, did you see UFOs or something? And he was like, Sean, I really need you to take this seriously. And so he, like, went outside. And, like, with his eyes, because, like, a lot of the explanations for this shit

that you hear from skeptics is that, oh, it was, like like they have these advanced radar technologies that are just like locking onto mylar balloons or, you know, like just seeing things like mistaking things. Or there's like a trick pattern toward the center of this pattern. Suddenly, one by one, when they reached the center of the circle, they disappeared. the center of the circle they disappeared so that's really fucking weird he says he like looked at the officer next to him and was like did you fucking see that and the lookout nodded and then the next day is the thing is is the day that like a nearby aircraft carrier had that visual contact with the tiktok so it's like really i don't know like something seemed to have been going on there like it doesn't doesn't seem like it's it's not just radars it's not just you know it's like people seeing something with their eyes that is like matched by the radars that is then

like seen by the targeting cameras that they then have on camera and like the the other point they make is that like you know a lot of people will say oh you know it's this trait like it was a light beam or like a radar interacting with another radar or something and he's like that is, that was the very first thing we suggested. That we saw. Like, we thought it might be, and immediately discounted because it, like, wasn't that. So, like, just something for skeptics to think about is that, like, all these people, none of them want to believe in UFOs. Like, they just don't. Right, they just keep seeing them. Yeah, they just keep seeing them.

First of all, kudos to you for being able to read this one point font yeah i didn't want to subscribe to popular mechanics and there is a good uh website that did paste bin did somebody did the work but also like it's very funny you know you you said that i was the first time ufos were talked about on the show which i actually now remember since you said it we were all different people then you know different people pandemic hadn't happened pandemic kind of happened i hadn't gotten mixed up in january 6th you know yeah you know i hadn't voted for trump yet like it was a bunch of shit that hadn't happened but like i i always wonder why they don't like just let ufos

and aliens be known right and then the common like response to that is well the world would freak the fuck out if that were to be the case and a part of me has believed that but another part of me also believe but man the shit would probably like unite us and bring like what there's aliens here blah blah blah and then the pandemic happened i was like oh ain't shit going ever united like we are like if aliens come down there's gonna be half the motherfuckers who are scared half the people who aren't half the people who's like you know kid rock's gonna shoot one yeah and then there's going to be another half of people's like those are american aliens they are here they are here in the united states they believe in jesus christ and yeah do they go to heaven that's going to be on fox news do they go to heaven? That's going to be on Fox News. Do they go to heaven? Yeah.

Yes. And so that is going to be the first question that I think everybody, but like the majority of people have is like, okay, so like all the religion stuff doesn't really make sense anymore. Right. But I guess that was true also of like Galileo and like every scientific revolution. Yeah. And they just kind of move on. they're like no it does it does jesus liked aliens too yeah i don't think it would change shit everybody still has to go to work like yeah nothing's gonna unite as long as we all still have to work there's nothing gonna be nice yeah it's like yeah i don't know like motherfuckers gonna be like hey everybody aliens are here stay inside yeah people will be like for how long for two weeks we're not doing that bro we ain't doing that shit y'all said once in a generation god damn it

i'm not fucking wear a mask around aliens i'm gonna fuck one of these aliens can't tell me i would love to see it though what do you think jack do you believe it yeah i so like there's two possibilities in my mind that i think are like i mean there's like billions of possibilities right but like the ones that are like leading my leading candidates for what's happening is, one, it's just real. There's been aliens here for all along, and they are just so much more advanced than we are that, like, they just, like,

don't really give that much of a shit about us, and they also, like, don't trust us. And so, like, a lot of the alien sightings happen around nuclear weapons and stuff, so, like like they're just like kind of viewing us as like they're like babysitters who are just like i hope they don't like fucking kill themselves before they like get to an advanced place but it just feels like they've been here for if if they're here they've been here for a long time. They're both more advanced technologically and also are not interested in killing us because they could have by now. It would have been so easy.

And I think that is why, at least partially, why the U.S. government and the U.S. military is having such a hard time reckoning with this. Is that they're not a threat even though they could be like they're just like they just seem to be flying around and not doing shit i'm like that's confusing because their frame of mind is like well the second you have the technological capabilities to like go and attack and steal people's shit you do that so there there's another like possibility like i i'm also a big believer in the ability of the human mind to just create shit and yeah you know havana syndrome's been an ongoing story we talk about on this where like a bunch of CIA agents together collectively kind of manifested all of these really significant physical experiences where they were like, I heard a beam of like sound that knocked me off my feet and like gave me vertigo

for the next three months. And it's it's like they they don't think they're lying about that like they're the brain is just i'm like so much of the brain so much of what's happening in the brain is like behind the scenes like happening in the dark and you can't really do shit about it so like maybe like one part of me is like maybe this is just another example of that where like it's a mass hysteria like someone sees lights in the sky that have you the most important person in the world. Like the Havana syndrome. The truth of that was that they were like bored bureaucrats in this outpost in Havana where they like it didn't matter. It wasn't dangerous.

where they like it didn't matter it wasn't dangerous have they like cuba and america were trying to ease relations and they invented a thing where they were actually like the target of like this web of international intrigue and sci-fi weapons and like ghosts for instance like a lot of like mass hysteria happens around ghosts and like that's something where it's like yeah like we are incredibly important we're so important we transcend death and you know it's very human centric and whereas like aliens cut in the opposite direction like not all not only are we like not the center of the universe we're not the only intelligent life form we're not particularly intelligent by comparison and they aren't even interested enough to like fight us, let alone like talk to us.

So it's, I, I feel like it's actually not the sort of thing people want to believe. And so it feels like that there's, it's hard to believe because it's got some hard truths in it. Yeah. You know, like they look at us, like we look at birds. They're like, look at it. Look at that one. Go. Yeah. He's eating in it. Yeah. You know? Like, they look at us like we look at birds.

They're like, look at that one go. Yeah. He's eating a lot. Yeah. Oh, man. He's going to work. It's like we're Blake Borey. Yeah.

We're like them like a million years ago, like the way we look at like a monkey house or something where it's like, yeah, they're like really cute. And look at them just figuring out nuclear technology. Hopefully they don't blow themselves up, but we'll just kind of leave them to it. And like we have such a we have such a, you know, high sense of self. Right. We are so important.

Like, you know, I was watching the video of a beaver who was in a rehabilitation like home when they were going to let him back out in the wild soon. But in this rehabilitation home, he recognized the bathroom is where the water is and was drinking shit from all around the house, building a dam to the bathroom door. So like water wouldn't come out. Just his innate ability. Right. And I'm thinking like you know we as humans don't have things like that right like we they're in every aspect of our the one thing we do have is we can do a lot of things but like we don't do any of them that well like

like we can't fly so we create a plane right uh yeah we may want to build shit but we got to go to school to learn how to do it right whereas yeah it's like innate we come out the womb and take fucking a year and a half to talk and walk whereas some babies come out of their parents womb and them motherfuckers just walking in within two three days right like we do a bunch of shit as humans that but we think we're so excellent well that's what i'm gonna be most interested in when the aliens like if we ever like make contact and can communicate is like what are you impressed with and like what looks absolutely hilarious to you that like we yeah keep doing and you're like what the fuck is with these giant steeples that they put on buildings like why are their towns full of

these things but like they think our music is really good like that's like i'm interested just like hearing aliens take on like music and like what they what they think that i mean we also have like unidentified objects here on earth like we haven't been able to we can't even like study yeah most of our own ocean like there's probably civilizations that we just don't know we truly do not fucking know because we can't get down there like we're dumb i think i think that's where they spend a lot of their time too because like that's the one most kind of inexplicable to me sighting was this tic-tac that was like over a thing that was just below the surface of the ocean and it was just like flying over it like back and forth and like this like random pattern and but there were like waves breaking over something in the

ocean that it was like communicating with over something in the ocean that it was like communicating with or something. And then like, that's when these like a whatever super Hornets flew up and then like it just bailed on that and like came up and met the super Hornets. But that's my sense is they spent a lot of their time in the ocean probably because there's a lot of cool shit in there that might be cooler than us you know i always wonder because like what if there's like some elon type billionaire who's

not wasting his time running twitter who's just developing crazy shit like he's just making this shit and testing it and we're like and he's like fuck they found my weird lights you know right yeah yeah i mean who knows that i think that's wishful thinking for billionaires. That's what I'd do with a billion dollars. I get some weird lights. Yeah. Get some fucking weird lights that are in the ocean. Just freak people out. So anyways, the part of this article that freaks me out a little bit is just like this Lou Elizondo guy who's been publicizing this stuff, which I think is important. I'm glad he's doing it.

The stories that have resulted have been like, what kind of made me grapple with this a little bit more and think be less just like, well, there's probably some rational explanation for it, but his, he keeps like saying, well, probably some rational explanation for it but his he keeps like saying well we need to like

accept these realities because we're we might be like at risk of another pearl harbor or like another 9-11 so it seems like his whole thing and his background is like counterintelligence in afghanistan and it seems like his whole thing is just like we need to like arm ourselves and like get ready to fight these things. It's just like, there's, it's not even, it's not even close.

Like, it's not like there's nothing you can do to prepare. If these things decide to like turn on us. Yeah. That's our, that's our high sense of self. Like, yo,

we can prepare and fight aliens. Like bro, aliens will come and flick us off like a booger on our nails, man. Like, they would fuck us up. They would fuck us up. It's wild. We should find, like, we should

find them. That would unite us. Where we're like, well, look, we found some aliens on, like, a planet, but they're dumb. Let's go fuck them up. Then it'd be fun. We find the only aliens dumber than us. Let's go get some experience in this. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I do think it makes sense as a strategy because that's the only thing the Pentagon is going to pay attention to is like, oh, we get to spend more money on weapons? Like, sure, let's let this information in. And it's probably why they've been willing to take it seriously to this point. It's just, like, as a species, I think we need to hopefully have the ability

to look at the fact that they've been here. Like, there's been these sightings of things that fit the same description as the Tic Tacs since, like, the 1600s. So, like, they've been here here they're not interested in fighting us and like that should give send us the message that like maybe we're the fucked up ones like because we are like whenever we have a technological advantage we decide to kill everything we can with that technological advantage and maybe instead of being like they like when we see these things that have a

technological advantage and don't do that maybe we take a step back and be like oh like we're the monsters and or or this is just like a peculiar to our species or peculiar to like the stage of development we're currently in where we're just like more warlike and we just need to like advance and evolve beyond that but the people who get power from the military industrial complex seem like they're pretty set on you know interpreting everything through a paradigm of let's spend money on weapons to blow shit up unfortunately you know there's nothing like, you know,

those fish in the bottom of the ocean that got lights on them. It's like, like, I don't even know if I believe that, you know what I mean? Like if somebody told me that was pretend this whole time, I'd go, I should have known.

So it's like, but if there's light fish down there, why, why not like light stuff in the sky, you know? Yeah. Right. Like,

I don't know. There's so many. Yes. sky, you know, light things. Like, I don't know. There's so many. Yes. Like the, so I, I read some description of just like what the, like when you get down to that level of the ocean, it's millions of these like blinking phosphorescent or I don't know if that's the right thing,

but like, it's just a galaxy of glowing organisms. There's so many of those. And we just have no idea. We can't even see all colors as human beings. That's how ill-equipped

we are for every aspect of everything. We see seven colors. It's wild. it's pretty wild yeah yeah like we don't see it's pretty wild but that is like caleb that's a very good point like if there's all this light shit down under the sea like why not in the sky right like if there is something as big as a whale in the ocean, why not? Why not a big as well like bird in the sky?

Right. And it's just like, yeah, we have no scope of like what is even on this planet, let alone. Right. Like what is outside of this planet? Yeah. Yeah. There's bacteria and viruses. Like why not some skylight?

I don't care about skylight. It's probably true. It might not even be alien. It's just, you know, I don't care about skylight that's probably true it might not even be alien it's just you know i don't know yeah all right well we gave you your 420 episode a week late folks hope you was high as hell baby caleb on heroin uh yeah not not on her we can't we do officially not endorse heroin on this podcast. That conversation has repeatedly come up. Don't talk to me till I've had my heroin.

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