The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 317 (Best of 4/8/24-4/12/24)

Episode Date: April 14, 2024

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 333 (4/8/24-4/12/24)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeart on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist uh these are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one uh non-stop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist.

Blake, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by another hilarious stand-up comedian, actor. This one's also a musician, this one, who has a Pitchfork 7.4 rated album. 7.4. Yeah, I hate to mention it. And what is that number out of? You do hate to. I hate to mention it every fucking time.

I guess 7.4 out of 10, yeah, it's not that good. Pitchfork 7. 7.4 is really good. It's better than a lot of albums that I really like. Yeah. I beat a Wilco album. One Wilco album I beat like Sky Blue Sky. Yeah.

Wilco fans were mad about that. You know all the Wilco albums. Wilco is a little bit... I was rated better than one of the lesser Wilco albums. Wilco is a little bit. I was rated better than one of the lesser Wilco albums. Yeah. But in general, yeah. I can also scientifically prove I'm better than Wilco in a bunch of ways.

If we had time. We do have time. That's what this podcast is about. I got a 7.4 for Pitchfork. Yeah. So anyway, I don't like to mention it too many times in a row. And your face, Tweety. It doesn't sound as tough when you're bullying someone named Tweety, unfortunately.

That was my problem with Sylvester the Cat. They have serious... They should do merch with Sylvester the Cat on it. That's a good idea. I couldn't agree more. I don't think he likes that though when people reference tweedy bird with him he hates it no he's like yeah he's like uh i think he's a he's a very powerful man you know i don't think he's anyone yeah i you know he comes on friendly but he is jeff tweedy

and he's got legions yeah of of annoying white men who who him around. What if you got, what if Jeff Tweedy had you disappeared? That would be the most embarrassing way to get off. Jeff Tweedy off to you. I can believe it. He would have like, he would have one of the guys in less savvy fav do it. Yeah.

Let's just say a ghost is born after this podcast where you were talking. Exactly. Yeah, goddamn. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. And now you've revealed, Jack, that you are one of his followers. I am. I am legion. All right. I'll tell you a quick funny story.

Quick funny story. I was in a coffee shop when Sky Blue Sky came out. I've also been in a coffee shop when every album came out. Yeah. But the guy behind the counter was like one of these guys who loves wilco like thinks they're like you know i don't know really important for some reason yeah and i think they're good you know i think they're good yeah you know i like them a lot i mean i've gotten a little bit tired of them but but i mean they put

out like i don't know 100 records or something yeah like yeah way in side projects he has some side project with his son you know and yeah it's called tweety i mean the guy's a megalomaniac but anyway the uh anyway he uh i would love to get in a feud with him because it'd be so good for my social media numbers oh my god oh my god if i could just get him to yell at me once i would get i don't know what I would get, but something. Probably four or five more followers on threads. Who just antagonized you the whole time. Yeah, so anyway, I was in the store and Sky Blue, Sky was like a disappointment. And this guy was like, he just said to me, the guy behind the counter, I was like, oh, what do you think of this new Wilco record or whatever?

I don't even know what I was talking about. I just talked to baristas because I'm lonely. I was like, oh. And he said, it's disappointing when you know what they're capable of. Oh, that's devastating. Which I thought that was really funny to me. Yeah. Like, really. Something that my parents would have said to me.

Yeah. It was just a really weird, like, and I knew what he meant because like, there's a certain class of like music fan that likes, like when Wilco put a lot of computer noises in their songs, like they were like, now we're getting somewhere. You know what I mean?

And then like sky blue sky was sort of just like regular rock and roll without as much beeping or like, and they're like, yeah, we, we know that they're capable of more and i'm like you mean more computer noises more beeping yeah like you mean like dusty computer you mean like you think music's advanced if it uses machines and i didn't get into it with them

because i just wanted to you know i didn't want to have a fight well you know cold war kids don't use the machines they just it's just all talent and vocals you know it's just somebody who knows nothing about music i've noticed that the cold war kid that's my most current reference also the cold war kids they just shouted a tape recorder yeah that's right they never did that shit but anyway this podcast is cold brew got me like uh his book is the advice king anthology uh he's the only person who will go off on a 10 minute sidebar during his introduction it's chris motherfucking crofton hey what's up i never get a aka no one ever gives me one so i'm gonna do one well no one wants i'm sure there's like dozens i've been through the i've been through the desert on a horse named chris crofton there it is

so uh it's pretty good that's it america not neil young just another chris crofton in the wall uh-huh oh you're good at this chris crofton in the wall. Uh-huh. Oh, you're good at this. Chris Crofton to you. Chris Crofton. Hey, come on. Hey, stop, man. We're going to get sued. We're going to get sued by those old sisters who made that one. Oh, my God.

There's plenty of room at the hotel, Chris Crofton. I mean, that one works really well, actually. And I wrote all those. You did? I told you. i told you i told you guys he has a 7.4 on pitch for it chris how how are you doing i'm doing great i'm here in nashville uh well madison technically which is like sort of like the um vape sales district uh-huh right right and um but you know it's all right i'm i'm like having fun over

here you know i'm just had my birthday yesterday hey chris crofton to you thanks turn 55 which is like you know not a birthday you just didn't edit that out unnecessarily out loud yeah you don't want to say out loud there's not like a lot of people are going to be like there's a lot of people just went oh uh you know but whatever you know to like, I'm an oversharer. I'm not going to start lying about my age. I like to tell people the real deal. Yeah. Like grunge style.

I was raised by Eddie Vedder and Eddie Vedder tells the truth. I mean, he used to. And that's the point right there, Justin. We can come back in here. Come back in on Eddie Vedder tells the truth. He he used to now he has a point right there justin we can come back in here eddie better tells the truth if he doesn't anymore he doesn't anymore though he has a facelift he has a facelift eddie better did he get a facelift yeah he has a face oh man come on i mean it's well done but he's still he got one you know oh really yeah he got i mean i mean well the best one i've ever seen does he have those like otherworldly eyes that like wolf blitzer's facelift was just like all of a sudden his eyes looked like he was like

from david lynch's dune or something like his eyes just like had these weird like shadowy blue like features to them i think eddie looks like he just looks like what he is which is like a guy who gave up on the whole you know i mean he kind of gave up on the the grunge thing you know fighting ticket master and stuff like all that stuff like that i was you know like i was like that's what you were here for i like that guy yeah like the guy was all mad now he's like mr you know he's just like mr chicago cubs or whatever he's pro junk fee now when i saw him when i saw him he made a big speech i saw him in in la before i moved and he in 2022 and he made a speech about how he didn't think that the allegations against bill murray were true because he's hung out with bill murray and bill murray's

rules oh yeah super nice and i was like he went on a long thing about that. And I was like, man, Eddie, you need to drink less wine on stage, you dumbass. Yeah. Oh, no. I mean, you just turned into this guy who I've met. You used to rail against people like what you're. Yeah. I mean, just it was like, dude, you fucking you did it. You fucking got too famous.

All right. Yeah. So anyway, Eddie Vedder would say he was the old Eddie Vedder that I used to like. Would have said he was 55. And I'll tell you one thing. On a blog or on some fucking one time I went on that Reddit they have for Daily Zeitgeist, the subreddit. Oh, don't do that.

Big mistake, right? I know. I know. But I wanted more. I wanted more praise. I was looking for more praise. Now I couldn't get enough on the regular. Underneath the picture on Instagram was enough. Oh, Crofton did a good job, all this.

Crofton's number one. Crofton fever, whatever I said. And then I went on Reddit and Crofton fever. One guy, they always put that on there. That was what the comments were saying. They always put that on there. Crofton fever is sweeping the globe. Don't you look under the Instagram, the Daily Psychos Instagram? Oh, it's always, there's a hashtag Crofton fever the globe don't you look under the instagram the daily

instagram oh it's always there's a hashtag croft truly couldn't possibly anyway yeah so i went on sweeping the globe i went on goddamn the the subreddit and the subreddit said uh that they said that it was sad that i was 53 so i can only imagine like this guy was like, I think it's kind of sad that he is doing this at age 53. And then, and then someone else said, what's he supposed to be doing? I know he's like, what else is he supposed to be doing?

And then the guy was like, I don't know, you know, but I know what he thought, right? Because he thinks 53 year olds are supposed to have a yacht or whatever. Yeah. You're supposed to have a yacht or some shit.

And you should be hanging out at his golf club. Yeah. Country club. Yeah. And another, you're supposed to have a yacht or some shit. You should be hanging out at his golf club. Yeah. His country club. Yeah. And you do that too. You don't just podcast. You do also hang out at your golf club as well. Who does?

You can do it. You pull your yacht up to your golf course. Yeah. I run a whole network of gambling sites. I do a lot of things. You do. You have a lot of interests. I would argue that wine might be the best thing to drink

as a performer at a rock show. Because liquor, that will take hold of you too quickly. Beer will bloat you and you'll burp during your performance. Where wine, I i think might actually be the smoothest thing that you can if you're gonna do it i would say it would have been better if eddie vetter had been bloated during his speech about how his fellow celebrity was cool to him and so therefore can't be a predator yeah also odd that a speech he didn't even make a comment in passing it was rough 2 p.m it was rough stuff and he also said like he called a woman a bitch

like he was like he's like he was wearing a sparkly jacket and some other someone in the audience was wearing a sparkly jacket like he was wearing a sequin jacket and he said like don't steal my thunder bitch and then he felt so bad about it because his old like activist self like was he wasn't drunk enough to forget that so he started saying like women needed to equal pay and stuff right after that and it was like man you are a fucking mess equal pay to buy different jackets than me he was just so embarrassed he was so embarrassed he said bitch when i mean no one really he was and then he went on. He immediately said, like, women's pay was going up or something. And it was like, my God, you are too drunk, buddy. You know, you've you've alienated the Tweety Mafia and now the veterans and bitches.

You've alienated. You should take all that out sorry about that bitches and sparkly jackets you can take that out coming for your ass but i'm 55 i don't know what that means i'm 55 so i get to go to the movies or something for half price or i don't know what happens something no it's the new 47 yeah 55 is the new 47 so you're you're thriving that where we're at now i think that's where we are yeah Yeah. I mean, it doesn't matter. No one can stop me. No one. It's always very convincing when there's a pause in between stop and me. No one can stop me. I'm on hinge. That's right, baby. No one can stop me. I'm on hinge. Me. Yes. He's on hinge. I'm going

to add that to your intro actually next time. What is something from your search history? Okay. I looked up a gif, J-I-F-F. Wow. A gif. Because listen, don't come at me. I play connections. And if I don't understand the word in the context that I think it's insinuating,

I look it up and I don't think that's cheating. So is this after after you've done? So this is the New York Times puzzle game connections that I'm obsessed with. Oh, OK. I was like, I'm sorry. Yo, what the fuck is connections? My seven year old just discovered connections. And like he's obsessed with all those games now.

I'm playing against a seven-year-old what the fuck is connections connections is a grid four by four of random words or like you know things nouns it's the next four to five bathroom hours of your life yes and then oh you have to guess which which four are grouped together into groups of yeah you have to create four groups of four of this like you know grid of words you have to figure out what are the groups and what what are the group meanings here and there's overlap yeah it's not obvious so like one of them one of the groups i think it was yesterday was like charlie hobby like dark and you had to guess that it was all things that could be starting with the word

charlie yeah like charlie horse hobby horse oh oh okay i just did the first one like horse yeah monocle spat top hat i grouped those. I grouped those together just now. Things I wear sometimes. Oh, Mr. Peanut. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. So wait, they did one that was Jif? Jif was within them. Right.

Oh, J-I-F-F is one of them. Yeah. And I was like, is this a file name that I'm just stupid about? Like, what is... Okay. Right. What'd you find out? And I wanted to double check, but there are some people,

aka my husband, who believe that going out of the game into any other source for clarity is cheating. It's however you want to play the game, right? I do that all the time. Crossword puzzles? I don't know this shit sometimes. He thinks you're a cheater. So what are you supposed to do? Just quit?

You don't know what this means? Did your husband graduate top of his class or something? Probably not. Oh, wow. It feels like valedictory high school. Probably not. I don't think so. It feels like that kind of thing where it's like,

I did it the right way and no one else did. And it's like, sure, fool. I don't know. No, if anything, he struggles. Oh, and he doesn't like that kind of thing where it's like i did it the right way and no one else did and it's like sure fool i don't know if anything he struggles oh and he doesn't like that yeah you be shitty with me if i'm shitty you gotta be shitty too don't be trying to fucking do better permanent record that sounds familiar right right oh shit was there no rules in this world it allows you to play the game otherwise you just sit there stuck yeah yeah yeah yeah but sometimes sometimes i like to put the puzzle down and then it pops into my head what the answer is you know what i mean sometimes i go to chat gbt and i just show it the grid and i say what are the answers and i don't think that's cheating yeah right i don't think it is playing the game you're just playing the game. Sometimes I go to Google and say, what are the

answers to today's connection? And then I go and impress my seven year old. And watch this. Watch out. Look how fast daddy does it. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Wow. You didn't get that, did you? Well, that's because you're stupid. Okay. If you want me to do this new one I one i haven't seen give me like two seconds i go to the bathroom really quick to wash my hands he's looking it up in there fucking idiot he has no idea dad i can hear you what oh no you're using bad words you're using bad words in there. No, I'm washing my hands. Wow. Kids are great because you can just trick them. You can blame farts on them.

They trust you. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Not having to drive. Ooh. Not having to drive is a beautiful fucking thing. And I know like there are some people who live in cities where you don't have to drive a lot. I want to talk to you because you don't know the other side.

You don't know. You don't know what it's like to need to have to commute. So you're spoiled. And I was a spoiled brat once. I used to live in Chicago. We didn't have to drive in Chicago. But living in this concrete jungle called Los Angeles that we live in, we have to drive. And man, I love getting rides, man. I love getting rides. I'm telling you now, if somebody ever asked me like,

you want to drive? My answer is going to be no. It's going to be no. I'm going to say no, you can drive. I'll take the passenger seat. I will just sleep. I'll just, I'll lean that. There's nothing like leaning that chair back on the passenger seat putting on some sunglasses have some music playing and like you know only waking up when the person driving has to slam on their brakes like that's a beautiful fucking thing it's beautiful i i don't trust other people to drive like this is my problem with flying too because i'm like just the feeling of not being in control totally a psychological defect on my on my part it's not it's not a good

thing but yeah i prefer to drive you prefer to be in control yeah see i went i had some shows in san diego this past weekend and i i took the train down i was like i don't feel like driving hell yes to a train. I watched, I watched WrestleMania on the way back. It was gorgeous. It was a gorgeous evening of commuting that I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to do anything but sit there. Does the train to San Diego still have that business where you have to take a,

like a bus for part of it? Or does it, is it, do they fix it? I didn't like I, so what I did was i just i i there is a train that comes to and from burbank which is the town i live in don't come find me uh but i but it's like the times are weird it's gonna be real hard to find the the black guy in

burbank in burbank it'll be so hard it'll be so hard so i just go to union station and park and it's like seven dollars to park for the whole fucking day. Yeah. Train there and back. They must have fixed it. It was at some point during last year, like part of the track washed out. Oh, yeah. Oh, on the San Clemente.

Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure that's not related to anything about how the globe is changing in any way. No, you're incorrect. No, it's fine. Earth is trying to have fun, dude. Who don't like slides? I like a slide. Who doesn't love mudslides?

Who doesn't love a mudslide, man? I love a mudslide. You ever seen Romance in the Stone? That shit looks fun as hell. That shit looks great, man. Journeys to the center of the Earth? That shit seems fun. The coastliner is...

How the fuck do you guys have so many mudslide scenes queued up? I can't think of one. Goonies, kind of a mudslide. More of just a water slide in the earth for some reason. I still got nothing. I got nothing. Yeah, the coastliner is a blast. Highly recommend for anybody in L.A.

And you're about to go to the land of convenient train travel, by the way. Bro, I can't wait to get on the bullet train, man. It's going to be great. I also was thinking of something. This is the toxic traits of my brain. Have you ever thought, like, all right, so, like, if you're standing on a platform if you're standing on a platform yes like you see it you see the train coming right yeah and you're like could i jump from one platform to the other yeah miss the train like yes i think about that all the time we're

raised on the same movies man yeah i think i could fucking do it i think that was in the movie entrapment that's how sean connery flirted with Catherine Zeta-Jones was, you know, just jump through a train as a way to just. Yeah, it's so easy. It feels it feels easy to me in my brain. I'm like, all right, the train is that far. I see it coming. I see that. I see the distance.

All right. If I time it because because I don't want to just jump. I want to jump and have there be a hint of peril. Like, I want to jump. All right. If I time it, because I don't want to just jump. I want to jump and have there be a hint of peril. Like, I want to jump and make it. I don't want to just jump and then train a block down the street. I want to jump and make it. So, like, I think I could time it out perfectly and do it.

Yeah. And if I don't, you know, it's been real. Yeah. Let me throw this out there for you, Jakees. Sorry, I got excited. I, I, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the toxic shit that they probably shouldn't try. A fake train tracks and I guess a huge fucking train, two train sized blocks of foam that go by at 30 miles an hour.

Just to see if you could jump across. Other stuff like that. Have you ever been walking up the stadium and you look back and you're like, I wonder if I could jump from here to the court. From the top row to the court. Yeah, 100%.

From the top row to the court. If I could jump far enough out that it wouldn't catch me. I know I couldn't. I think if I jump down, I can jump and grab the next level bar down and then jump and grab the next level. I think I could do so much shit. Yeah.

You know what I am? I am The Rock and Sam Jackson and other guys. When they jumped off that fucking building and was like, just aim for the bushes. I'm like, yeah. Aim for the bushes. And then they smack the ground. Or like a big fake dumpster

full of stuff and just like a building and you're like, I can jump in. Oh no, that was medical waste that was all the used syringes you jumped into oh fuck anyway so yeah there's got to be some warehouse in like city of

industry that we could host this event at oh man I love that idea yeah I have an overactive call of the void where like anytime I'm like on a building top or just anything, my brain, there is a big chunk of my brain that's like telling me to, you know, do something deadly. Yeah, I can touch that. I love that. I can jump across this street. Granted, at street level, I would never think I could do that. But up here, sure thing. Granted, at street level, I would never think I could do that. But up here, sure thing.

It would be easy. What is something, Ben, that you think is overrated? Okay. You know, I historically have a tough time with overrated because I don't want to be rude to anybody. But I'm going to say it. So many dietary supplements are absolute bullshit. It is insane. Oh, come on. It is insane that we did an episode on this

for Stuff They Want You To Know recently. I can't remember when it comes out, but spoilers, folks. The FDA in particular is asleep at the wheel, man. Totally. No. You're getting caffeine and sawdust. That is what you're getting.

Whatever it says on the back. What was that one story we were talking about where it's like, it may include up to this certain, like, it was just so all over the place, like, formulations, or it's like, I, it could literally be anything. It could be anything. Yeah. That we're taking, vitamin-wise. Yeah.

Oh, wasn't it chewable vitamins or something like that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Gummy vitamins. Gummy vitamins are, like, they're gummy yeah, yeah. Gummy vitamins. Gummy vitamins are like their gummy candy. First of all, delicious. Second of all, they're gummy bears sprayed with like vitamins. Oh, right. And it can be, but it's also true for edibles.

Like some edibles don't have that specific of dosing. And so you have to be really careful. But the same goes for vitamins. They basically take some gummy candy and spray it with whatever the vitamins say they are. And sometimes it gets a lot on there

and sometimes not so much. Oh, I got a good one. You can tell. Oh, shit, dude. This one's, oh, man, it's got like three of them on. It's like when you get that one Dorito that has all the Dorito dust on it. You're like, oh, this is a good one. I think that's a great way to think about it. Doritos.

You know, Doritos are mostly like uniform, but sometimes you get the one that's just opaque with dust. And sometimes they're pretty light. Yeah. You get a little nakey, nakey nacho cheese Dorito. Did you hear, guys? I haven't confirmed this, but I heard, I swear, I read somewhere from the Dorito folks that they don't need the dust for the flavoring

and that it's like a psychological thing. Like it's just part of the Dorito experience to have the powder. I've licked the powder off my fingers And my fingers taste like Doritos And sometimes they taste too much like Doritos And I bite my fingers It feels like a blank corn chip It's not like the flavor is

Enmeshed within the corn chip, right? I feel like that's harder to manufacture Than printing off a bunch of blank corn chips And then, depending on your flavor Dust them accordingly. Oh, looks like, yeah, looks like I appreciate the check. God damn it. I'm wrong.

It turns out it was a hoax. I fell for it. If you go to wafflesatnoon.com, it turns out that. And that is where you get most of your information from. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Number one source. No, we

got to take down the Doritos app, man. We got to take it down. Yeah, hang on. Let me send some tests. It sounds like a contract dispute between Doritos and whoever their dust supplier is, and they're like, we don't need them. We actually don't need them people

like the core corn chip just as much as the different flavors yeah yeah depending on the severity of your brain injury it could taste like anything I just like how both Jack and I were so fucking passionate that that wasn't true immediately without even checking

I was like no fuck you ben the dust is fucking it's useful the dust is gold you were like how would you manufacture that shit yeah yeah because i love watching like how how does she get made type videos and i love seeing like i like whether it's like lunch meat or other shit i'm like oh god is lunch meat bad i've always suspected lunch meat is like a slurry that gets solidified. A lot of it is very processed. That's what they say. Eating a lot of processed lunch meat can be very detrimental to your health.

But what if we could just spray vitamins on the lunch meat? Thank you. Counterpoint. Then we'd be in business. Actually, it would all end up in the little puddle at the bottom of the lunch meat. Oh, yeah. The last shot that you do. I love how wet my lunch meat is.

I like to eat things that are like me, you know? Sweaty. Sweaty. All right. It's a weird tagline, man. But let's see how it goes. I like to eat things that are like me. White and sweaty.

Pale and sweaty. I'm pale and sweaty like sliced turkey dietary supplements are bullshit yes there you go right right yeah that right right uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

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We're back. And Donald Trump has announced his position on abortion. Yeah. Which is hilarious considering he's forced women to have them yes yes of course he you know brought this supreme court into existence that overturned roe so guys i think i think we know where he stands right right well look last week we were talking about the florida abortion ban and how like the Florida State Supreme Court was like, all right, look, man. Yeah, we we're going to go to like a six week ban.

But also there will be a ballot measure where the voters can decide in November if they truly want to have no body bodily autonomy or any kind of access to health care and things like that. And a lot of the questions around that were like, well, what's Trump going to do? and things like that. And a lot of the questions around that were like, well, what's Trump going to do? Because before he's talked shit about Ron DeSantis is like six week ban talk, like when Ron DeSantis was a candidate in the primary. But what now? Like, is he going to say, I agree, because that's sort of like the thing that all the sort of major conservative pundits really want in the obviously the evangelicals also want out of a president? Or would he say abortion is good? Probably not. but we got our answer monday and it isn't a shock to me that like rather than saying like we will pursue an all-out federal ban on abortion he

went with the status quo which is just to be like i think the states should decide and he did throw you know a wacky lie out about how democrats want to do post-birth executions for good measure just to make that seem extreme rather than be like yeah i don't know whatever you and a doctor decide that seems reasonable but even though he tried to have like this non-answer type answer he still managed to like get abortion advocates fucking rightly pissed off because they're pointing out that him saying that is just giving the go ahead for red states to just do whatever the fuck they want to do. But then also at the same time, he pissed off the conservatives because they were looking for him to be like, I'm God, I will as president pursue a federal ban on abortion. And when he didn't do that, they like you fuck you fucked us you fucked us i think

it's i think it's just truly he he knows how unpopular it is to be anti-choice yeah so like he is smart enough to know that that isn't a popular opinion so i think what he's trying to do again he just wants to come off as reasonable because it's still early doors and maybe he can get a few independents and then he can turn the dial up as he needs to to to you know get the uh the evangelicals a little bit more energized to go to the polls but yeah it's his meta commentary on abortion has always been like it's very stupid to overturn it because it's unpopular but then right we let him do the meta commentary and then also be like and now he has a fit announced his official position which is just like you know it's the horse race coverage i just i want to bring in

a new angle on this i think it's really messed up that he didn't credit kim kardashian for his standpoint oh yeah wow yeah kim k. Kim Kardashian invented the do you. Oh, I thought Kim Kardashian came out as I think it's a state's rights issue. She went because it's the do you of politics. Right. Right. I think the states should decide. What do you think about Nazis? That's like it's not for me, but like, do you do you do you? Do you? Do you? Right. Really? Do you support Nazism? Yes. Do I? There was a period of time, if you remember, when people were saying that.

Right, right. Do you think everybody else is robots? Is that how? That's the only way that you do you. Wait, so what do they mean? Yeah. Look, I'm not saying vaccines cause injuries, but do you? Should I try a Tide Pod?

Do you? Do you? Yeah. Do you want to? I like it as a comprehensive philosophy. You know, it works.

Makes life so much easier. Yeah. To be Switzerland in World War Two. I mean, do you? i have a lot of good friends who are pro genocide so do you yeah do you and you know it's just hard we hang out all the time we don't talk about politics because we're so insanely wealthy but but just do you like it's just i don't want to bring up i don't want to bring up like real ideas up when i'm trying to bask in my millionaire existence billionaire existence

whatever it is multi-billionaire yeah the rock kind of dabbled in this you know political stance of do you while also saying that the main problem that we're facing though is woke cancel culture so yeah he was like do you but actually the real problem is that people are too mean to Jordan Peterson. Yeah. Do you? Yeah. The rock is a shitty guy. It turns out.

I know it was happening slowly, slowly, slowly, you know, just slowly revealing himself a little bit more, a little bit more. I mean, the cheat meals was the dead giveaway.

Yeah. Fake cheat meals to be like, yeah, i eat like all you little piggies look at me i'm yum uh pancakes but like oh that's right you're not eating them we can tell you're not yeah anyways yeah you're you're shaking sweating pretending even pretending that you want to eat this stuff. But then, remember that other one I remember a few years ago? It was like, this is my cheat meal and it was like $600 worth of sushi. Yeah, yeah. That one I believe. That feels more to

me like what he would do. It's like his cheat meal is like, it costs $600. I eat $600 of sushi. He is not eating that much in and out. Chocolate chip pancakes. Stanley cup of salt water yeah of eel sauce i yeah i drink a stanley 40 ounce stanley quencher full of eel sauce all right we also found out something about trump over the weekend when roseanne went viral

oh my god with a video from a gop fundraiser where she basically said, you know, don't go to college. Do me a favor. Drop out. They don't teach you nothing in college. Email me or Twitter me or whatever you call me and I'll help you with your life. But you got to get out of college because it isn't nothing but a bunch of devil worship and baby blood drinking Democratic donors. That's a direct quote and jack you should really you should have you did you see the clip of her when she delivered this

she had her like hair wrapped like she was miss cleo and she's like in this like wooden room oh my here that i'm sorry that you already read it but watching her hearing her saying i haven't seen it i want to see it pull it up you had me had me at Miss Cleo. Hey, old bro. How are you doing? I'm here at Mar-a-Lago supporting Carrie Lake, and it was a fantastic evening, and our Trump is here, being

the DJ, and I've just danced, and everyone's amazed. So I'm just going to say to you, please drop out of college, because it's going to ruin your lives. Whoa. Do me a favor. Drop out.

They don't teach you nothing good. Email me or Twitter me or whatever you call me and I'll help you with your life. But you've got to get out of college because it isn't nothing but devil-worshipping, baby-blood-drinking Democrat donors. That's what college is. Wait, I'm sorry. Trump is DJing? That's the only thing I got from that. And now we know what they're all drinking.

Yeah, exactly. Man, he has to ruin DJing. I kind of enjoy that. Then she's like, and they were all amazed. She completely glossed. She almost looked like a jerk-off fan. And I've just danced and everyone's amazed. I couldn't tell if people were amazed by her dancing or by Trump being the DJ.

I think they were amazed that someone could eat that many Z-Bars of Dan X and drink white wine and still be dancing somehow. Everyone is amazed. I just time-fabbled here from about two hours ago when i swore i asked somebody to take me home but i guess there's a video of me i'm dancing and don't go to college because the democrats would drink your baby and then you will be a demon donor how did that video come about like obvious i feel like somebody at barlago was like, Roseanne, come here. Roseanne is so fucked up. Let's get this on camera.

Yo, get her to send your cousin a fucking thing about going to college. She'll sell you anything, right? At the top, she's shouting out somebody. Let me hear it. Hey, old bro. Old bro? GoPro. Earl Grow? No, it was GoPro. Earl Grow?

No, it was GoPro, right? I don't know. Earl Grove, Australia? I don't know. I don't know. This is how it is with me and song lyrics, too. I just can't. But maybe it was somebody like a woke mega parent whose kid had divorced them.

parent like whose kid had like divorced them being like hey uh i i feel like if i get rosanne to tell my kid to drop out of college they'll uh they'll actually listen call me again i mean if republicans stop going to college college would be a much more enjoyable place yeah but it's not safe for them there it's not safe for them there. It's not safe for them there. They really not safe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should come by my college. Come by my college. I'll teach you all the secrets of looking into directly into the sun and putting a, you know, a Theragun massage wand right to your temple. And we'll just do that stuff to kind of raise our vibration so we can break out of the woke paradigm together. Thank you. Yeah, go do that. Too much anxiety, too many bad thoughts. Give me that Theragun. So the big takeaway for a lot of people is the idea of Trump moonlighting as a DJ, which Axios immediately chased it down. The intrepid reporters at Axios were like,

okay, wait, what the fuck? And Trump has apparently been moonlighting as the in-house dj at his golf clubs for years and so then we get to which just means he has a spotify playlist that he makes everybody listen to whatever he's like oh do you want me to get my dj i'm gonna get my dj let me get my dj booth and he just gets an ipad and're like, oh, fuck. And you know it's an iPad. For sure. You know it's a fucking iPad. Of course it is. And he calls that

his DJ. Is being a DJ still make people likable? Is that what they're going for? Is that how he connects with the DJ? DJ's still got social cachet. You know what I mean? But you gotta actually rock a party. That's the only thing. But he's rocking a party. You can't pull up and say you're a dj and everyone goes miles miles

miles he's rocking the republican party hey can you rock a party though like look at me with my 80s idea of being a dj look i was born in this man rock a party can that young man rock a party though all right i mean ever since I saw We Are Your Friends, I've had a new appreciation for what it means to be a DJ. And yes, they are cool. I do just want to take a brief look at his playlist. Yeah, some ideas. What do we got here?

So he's got Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Suspicious Minds. Okay, a little bit. Plus, Hello by Lionel Richie, Guns N' Roses, November Rain, Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares to You. Oh, wow. Playing Hello and Nothing Compares to You at a party. Oh, my God. Also, Sinead O'Connor hates him.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I know. He has no clue. all right yeah right no we will but you know that's just like to now even now she does a depressed person like you would if anybody besides donald trump played fucking nothing compares to you at a party like everyone would just be like yo are you are you right like right before it's like jesus christ superstar you're like what the fuck it's been seven thousand fifteen days you're like oh no i i mean it just

we've seen before the dictators like are all like a lot of the time driven by an inner like sad creative like hitler was a failed artist it's just so funny to realize that trump is like a failed you know musician comedian dj like that's he's just this like sad emo bitch who wants everybody to feel his feelings. It's so wild to me. We could stop all of this if we just made him the host of The Tonight Show. We could stop it all. This is all really messed up because they're turning this country into the middle east and meanwhile i can't go home everything about it right i he's uh the the having such like you know sad songs that's that's not what hello but again that's the difference yeah is it me you're looking for oh god no we're not like

tonight it's like it's it's true but that's why i think dj is a misnomer because you have to call for what it is it's it's fucking narcissist with the ox cable yeah that's what it is and that's my nightmare is someone like there's nothing worse than someone who's like has no self-awareness and is like, I know what the people want musically. You're like, no, dude, you don't even know what you don't even know what the fuck you you don't even know what drives you because you lack any kind of introspection. And then he puts on the Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown duet version of It's a Man's Man's Man's World? What? What the fuck is that? And then into Macho Man by fucking the Village People?

Macho, macho man. We've all seen him dance to that one where he does the jerking off two guys hand motion. Yeah, he's got I'm actually doing two shake weights actually. Doing tricep isolation workouts. Are we really gearing up for another Trump election slash presidency?

Hey, Zara, like I said, if enough people say, hey, November, take your time. Take your time. Take your time. But who knows? Yeah. And we might. Who knows? Maybe we'll be doing this podcast in some kind of political prison in a few years.

Hey. You know, we'll do it. Hey. It'll be doing this podcast in some kind of political prison in a few years hey you know it'd be fun releasing it via like pigeon you know just like mini discs yeah right just talking to bricks yeah talking to bricks or who knows or maybe the rock will be president and then we'll all have to we'll be in our mandated steroid use classes together. Right. To make sure that we have the strongest army in America, in the world. This is the worst day for me to come off Molly.

God, the day after Molly. Come on. No serotonin. No serotonin left. Help me. Don't worry, folks. I'm pumping and dumping my breast milk. Okay. That's good. You're like, yeah yeah but then yeah never mind never mind pumping and dumping it down my gullet

i'm gonna say like is there any leftover mdma traces of mdma that you could then synthesize that sounds like a really grim question and i know and just for full disclosure this is a bit this is a bit okay so i'm not asking if yeah we're not condoning any of this you're not actually doing molly and pumping a dummy but you know how hardcore i am about taking care of my baby i would pump and dump my breast milk not because there's traces but because it might give her reflux yeah wow yeah if you eat i'm on top of the wrong oh yeah what shellfish what do you have to what do you eat that that that that causes that in the baby reflux specific things yeah yeah this is a very controversial topic miles yeah because a lot of lcs will tell you that these things don't

give the baby reflux that actually other things are going on like a tongue tie but pediatricians believe that it is something in the mother's breast milk causing the reflux they will blame your coffee they will put you on a reflux diet and then they'll tell you you know babies are just gassy right so wait is there an answer it's like so it's this thing where like lactation consultants and then pediatricians have differing views and but but then how are you going to figure it out? Because by the time you get down to it, your baby's digestive system has developed. You're now past that milestone and now they're fine and you don't know what did it. Yeah, right, right, right.

And also your brain kind of forgets a lot of the worst parts of like that first year. Yes. But the thing to remember was that you failed as a mom right right right yes yes right forget the reason why just hold on to that well there's so much there is so much like fucking like pro breast milk sort of propaganda that like it definitely makes anyone who isn't producing enough breast milk feel completely less than because it's like totally what do you mean you're not producing? Oh my God. Are you,

are you, are you a loving parent? It's like, Oh Jesus, dude, relax, man. People are fucking people.

Everyone's body's different. Yeah. And if you're just joining us, Zara is a repeat guest who just had a baby a year ago. Yes. And it's all she talks about. Yeah. Rightfully so.

Beautiful, beautiful child. Thank you. Beautiful child. DJ. Yeah. Rightfully so. Beautiful child. Beautiful child. One of the best DJs. She played a remix of this Justice track I hadn't heard in a long time and I was like, wow. She knows the hits. She likes the French EDM stuff too.

She's a big Taylor Swift fan. Alright. Yeah. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift and Britney Spe right. Yeah. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift and Britney Spears. Okay. Wow. Yeah. My kids were into the Beatles when they were very young and then don't remember any of the songs that they were into when they were like one or two.

Are they like, you're lying, dude. I wouldn't listen to this shit. I wouldn't listen to this shit. This is stupid. Who the fuck is Lucy? Why are they in the sky with diamonds dude get out of here alright let's take a quick break and we'll be right back I'm Jess Casavetto

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And, okay, a guy installed eel aquarium in his rain cistern. Just something, I don't even need to talk about this. I just wanted to bring it to your attention, Chris. It seems like a cool thing, like an underground eel cave that you can just like build into your house i don't know if this jogs anything for for you as a fan of weird underground shit on youtube well i mean i'm just i'm just i've gotten so hooked on a couple things now it's just the mind exploration and the guy who finds the bottles that i i don't

really i don't need any eels or anything like that but i i respect like you know anybody who's uh going to the trouble and i don't i don't i'm not that kind of person myself i'm the kind of person who has a clip light and you know milk crate and uh and and you know and a youtube and uh that's my life you know what i mean like and maybe a banana you know on the counter so there's not a lot happening like as far as like decoration or anything for me so the idea of like putting a an eel farm in my basement is like just from a labor standpoint i just think about a lot of work yeah like i could be i could be watching television during

that guy's a bit of a try hard whereas like the people who you kind of pay attention to are more people who have a shovel and notice that there's a little dip in a field and go and uh are like yeah people used to shit there and uh drop their bottles yeah and i like to i like to watch them do it i don't want to do it i don't want to dig i like to sit on my ass i like to write poems they are one of the least you don't need to exert yourself and yeah i like those kinds of things i like thinking i like looking off into the middle distance yeah like i don't really want to like fuck with eels you know what i mean like and that's the problem is like when you have like a significant other like like a woman who you know might be interested in a man that did some stuff, I think that is a good idea.

I think a woman, even if she didn't like the eels, might be like, well, this shows some initiative. Yeah. And she'd be right. I'm guessing this is not. Yeah. Look at this guy. This guy I just met, he has an eel farm in his basement.

I mean, that's not what I ever really wanted, but I've been divorced twice and you know, slid pickings. And this guy, I mean, if he has enough money. They took half your eels. The woman took half of your eels. He has enough money to be raising a couple of chimps. Yeah. And,

and he has this eel farm. So this guy, I mean, you know, he's a driver's ed instructor. So your read on this is this guy just built his underground subterranean eel farm for the ladies. Yes. That's like a way to show that he is motivated.

Or because he's insane and has sex with the eels in some way. Right, yeah, yeah. There's always the chance that this is like, to him, what the moths are to Buffalo Bell. There's only two reasons a man does anything. Yeah, and they're basically the same reason. Yeah, they are the same reason. It's the same reason.

It turns out it's the same reason. Are you having sex with the eels or are you trying to obtain sex by having the eels? Yes. All right. Polly. Hashtag obtain sex. Obtain. Oh, God.

Oh, fuck. Should we talk Polly the uh biking yeah so we've talked before about how a lot of uh western european and american cities were essentially designed by cars like it's like a new species came along and was like we're cars and and we're just going to have you change everything to be as efficient for us to get from one place to another. But there have been a couple stories that have made us feel like maybe it's not too late to undo some of that damage. Usually, those things are happening on the Western European side of that, not in the American side of that. I understand. It rarely comes from here. It does not. On our side, we had like a couple months at the beginning of the pandemic where

New York was like, we're just not going to have like cars around. We're going to like let people walk around a little bit. And we were like, what if they left? And before we could say, what if we left it like that, like finish that sentence, they had already like let the cars back. All the birds killed themselves when the cars came back. It's like, oh, there's nature here. Why is that? But so Paris is showing us like what this would look like. They have this very ambitious climate plan that includes transforming streets into zones reserved for pedestrians, bicycles, and public transport. Like these zones sound like Central Park a little bit.

Like what if it was all just, you know, I guess Central Park has like a couple roads that go through, but they're like usually closed and like there's like one car at a time going through it for the most part. And so this plan aims to have like 30,000 parking stands, 1,000 spaces reserved for cargo bikes, 52 kilometers of provisional tracks, 300 kilometers of bicycle tracks, 1,000 kilometers of bike lanes. Just, I don't know, it sounds cool to me, like that that would be how your city is designed, is just, like, a place where you could, like, walk around without being concerned that your child would be, like, pancaked by a fucking muscle car, you know? Yeah. 90% of my mind when I'm walking around with my kid is like, well, how do I ensure that they don't run into the street and get run over by a fucking car? And it's wild that, you know, we didn't have any say in that. It was just like that used to not be the case.

And then over the past 70 years, they were just like, yeah, it's better for commerce. So we're going to make it so you just have to keep your fucking head on a swivel at all times in order to get from place to place and the consequences couldn't be fucking higher by the way if you if you screw up and as a an avid uh cyclist i have the lower body of a hippopotamus i am very pro bike but i've known or i've seen that american cities will do something where they'll they'll claim that they're very bike friendly but in that like oh we have so many bike lanes but they're not protected oh my claims that's so that's nashville that's nashville yes so it's like oh no we painted a green stripe on the street so it's on the side of the highway yeah on the side of the highway so yeah it which yeah with all all the you know motorists will be like oh sure there's a bike lane on the side of the highway so yeah with all the

motorists will be like oh shit there's a green stripe on the ground that no one sees and yeah I think that's the vernacular around it too can be often misleading when because there's nothing better than a protected bike lane and to your

point it'll get rid of less or it'll cause less emissions people are also you're getting around and exercising like you don't have to be going a thousand miles per hour it's like oh like you get your heart rate you're moving your body around a little bit you know it's and it's kind of like 10 extra minutes to get where you're going even if you're going like across town correct yeah it's good for you you'll feel better it's such a better way to like have a civilization and like this they built this shit and now more people commute to work in paris like now as of now like they they've been doing this for the past few

years it's like going to get more and more ambitious over the next five but as of now like more people are commuting to work on bike than car and like when they started this that was like unheard like they were like well no like of course not that's you know it's it was like a an american city did you see the the just quickly that the paris speaking of just not only are they walking or biking to work, but they 25%, they just had a story in the New York Times, 25% of Parisians live in public housing. Not affordable housing, public housing. And that's what I ran on when I ran for city council. I ran for this affordable housing, this notion of affordable housing.

It's not affordable anyway. You know, like what they're talking about is affordable for, you know, if you're upper middle class or middle class. Like, I mean, I don't even know if there's such a thing as a middle class, but, you know, there's there's like affordable is like, oh, fourteen hundred bucks for a one bedroom or something. That's still out of the reach of most people who work in the service industry. something that's still out of the reach of most people who work in the service industry and that's most was a lot of the certainly the artists who live here and uh and just regular people work in the service industry i mean that's the gig economy is the service industry i mean you can't make enough to pay 1400 a month rent doing that no matter how many fucking door dashes you deliver and so like you need subs and people are like oh what about if about if we don't what if we don't want public housing?

Look what happened to public housing. But that's just like what happened to public housing? I mean, yeah, it's like got some crime in it, but so does regular housing. And also those people still live in Nashville. Otherwise, they wouldn't be here. They are in public housing and that's why they're here. And so Paris, unfortunately, has like, you know, hasn't been brainwashed like America into thinking like that cars are in the Constitution, you know. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Because they've been around for a thousand, ten thousand years or whatever. We've been around for 200. Well, you know, in this current incarnation, a couple of 300 years, you know, and it seems like most of the time we've had cars as far as I notice. I think it. Yeah, I think it would work. Like, I really think we could just like if we just kept trying in cities in cities around the U.S. as far as I noticed. I think it would work. George Washington had a car.

If we just kept trying in cities around the U.S. So this is being done in cities around Europe. And this mayor who has instituted this, it's a major part of her platform. And she's so popular that she's running for president now. Amazing. It's been done in London, Milan, Barcelona. And those candidates have also gotten like huge marks. It's just like an easy way to I mean, I guess not easy in the US, but it is like a guaranteed winner if you just do it in your city. Because people want

walkable, livable cities where you don't have to worry about just taking a step in the wrong direction and being killed. But we can't, in the US, we can't do anything about it because we're captive to

I don't know, fucking chambers of commerce? Bruce Springsteen songs about barefoot girls on the hood of a dodge yeah yeah exactly you know which i love that song but you know this we're just brought up to think cars are as american as as apple pie and fucking freedom and i mean you're not gonna take you're not gonna take my car is the same you'll get the same resistance like you're trying to take a gun yeah well i keep my gun in my car cars yeah you can't take my cars it's got my gun in my guns well okay so why don't you show me what my gun rack looks like on the back of that 10 speed it's in a fuck you it's in various saves in my car it's in my car in various the only

walkable city i'm comfortable with is the walking dead that's it so otherwise fuck you cars in general let's just like a cars in general were a terrible idea like the whole idea it was a bad idea it's just that nobody everybody likes them and that's the problem so they just like them so yeah that's the you know but really big picture cars were a terrible idea and i'm going to say one thing real quick uh because i know we're running out of time but i want to say there's this documentary called my architect on criteria what if you promoted humanzy again like you forgot that you ever talked about it or didn't i wish oh fuck i would have been the greatest episode ever if i said that also I just want to interject.

Humanzee. I don't know the name of it. There's this documentary. Go to YouTube and put it in Humanzee. There's probably a bunch of stuff that comes up. I can't remember. It says Psy on it. I don't know what channel that was, but a sci-fi maybe?

SCI. SCI. Do we talk about this yet? I'm 55. Thank you. So I just wanted to say that there's this this documentary called my architect and it's about this architect named louis khan but it's about his son who didn't know him because his dad had three different families that didn't know about each other and his dad was five foot

six and severely burnt as a child in estonia and he came to america and became this he didn't hit his stride as an artist until he was 51 which i like and uh i'm already kicking his ass you were so um that ass yeah so so he he designed these buildings he designed the capital of bangladesh and anyway he was a terrible dad but it's this beautiful documentary about nathaniel khan but his khan is not his real name is he changed his he was jewish he changed his name in the early his father changed his name in the 20s or something but anyway louis khan is this architect anyway his idea for philadelphia and that's why i thought of it he lived grew up in

philadelphia after he came from estonia and he wanted to he was one of the architects that he had a huge proposal for downtown philadelphia and um and it was to have cars all left outside the city and this is in and he was laughed out of town and everybody said oh you know he these william f buckley types and one of whom's in the documentary still angry about it he's like he wanted to leave the cars outside of town fucking idiot you know like we have the cars in town and in this country in this country country. You know what I mean? That's right. So I don't know who this fucking guy thinks he is. But anyway, and it was just so interesting because he was right. The idea was that there would be these giant car parks or like, you know, like car garages that were also kind of beautiful that he built all around the city.

Everybody would walk from them into the city. So there would be no cars in the city. It's just waiting there for somebody to put it together and become incredibly popular. But it's just wild that, like that would be so popular with young people. It'd be popular with the elderly who like can't really drive at this point.

But it's like that mainstream money making commerce you know albatross like it there's got to be a like if one city pulls it off like it will become such a like tourist hotspot like i would just like go there all the time just to like experience a city without cars that would be fucking wonderful have you been to the grove have you been to the grove the grove is the best example the closest we have to this in the u.s it's incredible and they have like an eiffel tower that shoots sparks out of it and stuff yeah grove stunning stunning that's why we should have elected Caruso. Thank you. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles.

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