The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 343 (Best of 10/14/24-10/18/24)

Episode Date: October 20, 2024

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I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And we are super excited to tell you about our new show, Dudes on Dudes. We're spilling all the behind-the-scenes stories, crazy details, and honestly, just having a blast talking football. Every week, we're discussing our favorite players of all times, from legends to our buddies to current stars. We're finally answering the age-old question,

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Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian Gonzalez story

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Bo. Hey, Matt. Are you ready to tell the readers podcasts. be joining us this week. Wow. Readers, publishers, Katie's, and finalists, tune in to maybe the most unforgettable episode of Lost Culturistas yet. Listen to Lost Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Cheryl Swoops. And I'm Tarika Foster-Brasby.

And on our new podcast, we're talking about the real obstacles women face day to day. Because no matter who you are, there are levels to what we experience as women. And T and I have no problem going there. Listen to levels to this with Sheryl Swoops and Tariqa Foster-Brasby, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one non-stop

infotainment laughs Travaganza Yeah, so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist Well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat By one of the greats, one of our favorite guests, and it's been way too damn long. A hilarious actor, improviser, standup comedian who you've seen on Key and

Peel, workaholics, comedy bang bang, writes for TV shows like Grand Crew and Twisted Metal. Please welcome noted Thought Dad, TM. You can't use that. That's his. And you also know him from Um can't use that. That's that's his. And you also know him from, um, actually it's iffy waddy way. The way he asked was that when iffy came back on the pod, what's good. How you doing? What's up man?

Oh man. We did it. We did it. It couldn't be done. You're back. Everybody doubted us. They said no way this guy gets back on the podcast. And yet he's back in your fucking faces losers.

Look, you know, I remember I like, I remember the last couple of times we, like, we were trying to have you on, you were in a writer's room and you're also like, you have, you're a very busy schedule. And it's funny. I would like, this is what I love about our fans when people are like, Oh man, if he's not on the show or Lacey, not on the show, like, is there, is there beef or something? Yeah.

People, people do many things. They don't have time to do our podcast, our second rate podcast. And then we got to catch them and here you are back in the flesh. We actually just sprung this on you. You were at walking out of one writer's room into another, and we just put a microphone in your face, so we appreciate you stopping for the next hour and sitting down and saying, Oh, look, I'm happy. I always love doing the pod.

I love to hop on. So yeah, it was truly like, yeah, my pleasure. And now I'm here with the fellas. With the fellas. Yeah. We're here. Our new show, WTF, with the fellas. Yeah.

Is that a show? And the logo does look identical to the other WTF with the fellas And the logo does look identical to the other WTF I grew a beard and had my face in a very similar cartoon It's obviously me though if you look closely look closely look at all the sweat And you know Marin can take all those cease- cease and desists and shove them up his ass. Yeah. Yeah. You like that? How do you like that, Marin? If we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search

history that's revealing about who you are? Ooh. Okay. So for mine, I have the, uh, block iPhone offloading apps and Jack Antonov. The first one, block iPhone. So I don't know if, you know, you're trying to save space on your iPhone. And so you go in and you know, you,

you have it offload apps you're not using, but there's some apps that you just download to use. Like, like I have the Giphy app so that I can use GIFs in my text. So we have that turned on since I never opened that app because I only use it as a sticker in text. It just keeps getting offloaded and I'll have to notice when I'm trying to use it and I can't find it. And it truly is like bonkers. So I went to look to see if there's a way to like block specific apps from being offloaded and they're like, no, no, we don't have the, and you would think that there's so many things that I think the, that Apple does that I'm like, you

would think that eventually you would have knocked this out really quick. Right. Uh, like, like, but like I still you know anyone I can't like I can't type fuck in a text message without I've been like don't yeah, but it as a contact I get even but if you use like any air pods and you happen to live with someone else who has air pods And they have that new feature. That's like this air pods tracking you and you're like, nope this is someone this is this is someone I live with I know it's not and Like there's no way to turn that off. There's no way to be like hey learn the air tags

You're being hunted like 300 times a week Yeah, what the new update they were basically saying, you know, oh you you you'll be able to like acknowledge that you know it. And then like, it still doesn't work. And I was like, you would think it'd be the simplest one. And you know, that whole feature was reactionary because they got called out where people were like, yo, people can use your AirTag feature to stalk people.

So now they just, it feels like they're punishing us. We're like, well, then you can't turn it off. You wanted this. You wanted this. There you go in your face now our product sucks. So Yeah, yeah the air tags, right the the those things are super annoying What is Katie something that you think is underrated? Okay, so this may run counter to my financial incentives but putting your phone in phone jail. I have been doing this recently. I have been deciding that maybe Twitter,

also known as eggs, is bad for my mind, my soul, and my body. But I lack any kind of self-control. I have none of that. So I started sort of child blocking myself, physically putting my phone in a cabinet. There's like an app. There's a ton of apps like this, so I'm not really necessarily saying this one in particular is good, but it's like called OneSec or something. And it interrupts you if you try it. Like it doesn't block you from getting into the app because for me that just wouldn't work.

I would disable it and keep going. But it like interrupts you while you're trying to scroll through Twitter and it's like, hey, you really want to do this? Really? Is this how you're going to spend your afternoon? Scrolling through Twitter? Getting mad? And it has made, it's like emerging from a fog

When the fog is made out of neo-nazis and it's beautiful. Hmm Very fascist of you first of all throwing your enemies in jail like that. I know I'm like he's innocent I do admire your willpower and the fact that you're doing that I Maybe this will be the thing that pushes me over because fact that you're doing that. Maybe this will be the thing that pushes me over because I do need to do that. I was up at two in the morning scrolling Twitter last night. I have to emphasize, I don't have willpower. That's why I downloaded it.

That's why I downloaded it. No, that's why I downloaded an app that like scolds me because I have a lot of guilt, No willpower but a lot of guilt. So if I have an app that scolds me, makes me feel guilty, like a real piece of shit, then I'll actually do it. Is that what it says to you? You're a real piece of shit, Katie. Oh my god. I need to go call my parents. AI is going to use the voice of my parents to be like, Oh, is that is that

how you're spending your evening? Really? Is that what you're doing? I like we I like that we don't use it to like, heal our inner children by using it to tell us that it loves us. We're like, no, we create the toxic environment. We weaponize the shame. Get it to do what you want it to do. Make me feel bad. Yeah. What is what's up? Do you think is overrated?

Man, I've tried for years to get on board with this, but I think I'm done with buying, nurturing and watching house plants die. I think I'm just done with plants because they just always fucking they they just immediately start getting sicker and sicker as soon as I take them home. Yeah, they attract. They attract bugs. When I went out of town, I said, I have to have a friend over. It's just too much work and I suck at raising them.

So I think I might be out on the pandemic plant. OK, that's I'm hearing. I'm hearing what you're saying and I'm hearing you go, go on, get out of here. I didn't want you anyway. I don't care that you die. It's an old yellow situation. But I mean, I don't know how much more love and attention can I give these things? They just wilt. They immediately wilt. It's depressing.

Even in the canopy jungle of your room. I know. Survive. If they can't survive here, they can't make it anywhere. I also feel that it might be the widely, vastly fluctuating temperatures and you're better probably killing them and also partially you at the same time. Yeah, it's like your room is like the surface of mercury. It's like the time is like freezing.

It's zero Celsius. And the next day I'm certainly not blaming the plan. I'm certainly not blaming the plant. I'm certainly not absolving myself. I have not been a good father figure to these guys. Yeah, almighty. Some of us just aren't cut out for it. Maybe you need to be like a stepdad to a plant first and then that'll ease you back. You can adopt a plant.

If I could get another household to raise the plant to maturity, then I could come in and take it to go see baseball games. That would be ideal. Yeah. Yeah. Just fostering, fostering a plant situation. Maybe you could be the friend who's watering other people's plants when they're out of town. Oh yeah. Yeah. I can dig that. Yeah. You're not the step plant dad. You're the plant dad that stepped up.

That's right. Yeah. Plants are temperamental. I've had varying levels of success. Like California, Southern California is like, I went from Missouri to New York to Southern California and I trapped Missouri and I tried to have a garden in Missouri and I was very unsuccessful. New York didn't even bother like other than like a couple of orchids that lasted a week or so. Orchids is fancy.

Oh, orchids. I am known in the orchid community. It's like an I am legend situation in the orchid community spoiler alert for the end of that movie. But yeah, they know about me and run when I enter a room. And then you come to Southern California and you just drop an apple by accident and a tree is growing there the next day. It's just the most verdant place in the world. Ooh, good word. Fertile, verdant. Other vocabulary words.

The verdant crescent, Southern California. That's right. Yeah. So I recommend moving to Southern California. I was about to say, that might be the easiest solution here. I feel like that would solve a lot of your problems. Move across the country. There you go.

You can just crack a window. The sorbet flows like water. That's true. It does. They do love a sorbet out here because everybody's vegan. Yeah, I was going to say that. It's actually contractually. Oh yeah.

It's not, it's a nice vegan option for me when people want to go get ice cream. And I'm like, but I want to be included. Or like at a, at a restaurant they have sorbet often. So it's nice. It is. It was as an outtry. What do you have in a pre dinner sorbet? Three globes of ice, please.

I don't want to be difficult. Just give me three globes. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll talk about the news. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski. Guess what, folks? We're teammates again, and we're going to welcome you guys all to Dudes on Dudes. I'm a dude, you're a dude, and Dudes on Dudes is our brand new show.

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Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere.

Elian Gonzalez. Elian, Elian. Elian Gonzalez. Elian, Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home

and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the MyCultura podcast network, available on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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My latest episode is with Jelly Roll. This episode is one of the most honest and raw interviews I've ever had. We go deep into Jelly Roll's life story from being in and out of prison from the age of 13 to being one of today's biggest artists. We talk about guilt, shame, body image and huge life transformations. I was a desperate delusional dreamer and the desperate part got me in a lot of trouble. I encourage delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer, just don't be a desperate delusional dreamer. I just had such an anger. I was had such an anger

I was just so mad at life. Everything that wasn't right was everybody's fault mine. I had such a victim mentality I took zero accountability for anything in my life I was the kid that if you asked what what happened I immediately started with everything but me It took years for me to break that like years of work years for me to break that, like years of work. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust me, you won't want to miss this one. And we're back.

Like, how's everybody doing with the election? Like I'm, the fear is on me. I've said for like I'm, I'm, the fear is on me. I've said for like a couple of weeks now, the fear is on me. I'm just like having flashbacks to 2016, reading a bunch of shit about like how the polling can go as in the past, like vastly underestimated Trump. I'm like oscillating between that and then being like, if Trump loses, maybe this is it because his brain so bad. Maybe the whole like open fascism thing will be gone. But how are you guys feeling?

Is everybody hanging in there? It feels like we really like this. Blake and I, we went from like six months out to three weeks out. It's like it just came down the pike real quick and I was like, Oh, the rubber's being the road here. And yeah, I think, I think what you're, what you're talking about is like kind of my anxiety where it's like, the more you read, the less calm you feel. Cause you just keep getting all these like contradictory, you know, op eds you

see, and like they'll con you know, I'm very malleable in my opinion. So like any articles like, you know, like,eds you see, and like, they'll con, you know, I'm very malleable in my opinion. So like any article is like, you know, like, Oh, Harris is a lot for Michigan. Like, great. It's in the bag. We're done. And then like, instantly I'm like, Oh, these polls are all nonsense. Yeah. Michigan's over.

Yeah. Michigan's over. Kiss Michigan. Goodbye assholes. It's Trump country. Yeah. The best thing I've been doing for myself is just trying to remind myself that, uh, nobody knows anything. Nobody knows anything.

Nobody knows anything. Yeah. And by, by saying your opinions are very malleable, that's because you're still an undecided voter like me. Right. That's right. Well, I'm, I'm still pretty much in the bag for Cornell West. Yeah.

That, where did that, what happened? God damn it. He's still going strong. Yeah. He could, he could, he got a victory in, uh, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it, what's it. He's still going strong, man. He got a victory in, uh, what's the state you could win? Alaska? Oh, wow. Unfortunately.

So I think one of the big things that we know is going to be an issue is the, like, what is going to happen at the polls on election day. This was a big concern heading into the 2020 election. I will be handing out comedy flyers at the polls on election day. This was a big concern heading into the 2020 election. I will be handing out comedy flyers at the polls on election day. I will be barking for my show. Hey guys, come see, bring your friends. I'll bring a QR code for my Instagram. They can't leave.

They're going to be in line. Having an assault rifle as well as that. Yeah, come to my fucking show. That's yeah. I mean that you'll fit in better if you have an assault rifle. I remember having these concerns heading into the 2020 election and that was before they staged an insurrection to try and overturn the results of that election. And by the way, Trump has recently gone on record referring to the people who were at it on January 6th as we, Like we, and we were very peaceful.

So that's unnerving. And I think it's just one of the big questions, concerns surrounding this election. Like first of all, how safe will it be for them? Second of all, will there actually be any? Read that first question about how safe it's going to be. Will anybody actually want any? Read that first question about how safe it's going to be. Will anybody actually want to do this job?

Because there is a massive shortage in poll workers owing to a mass exodus in 2020 caused by the pandemic, first of all, and then countless Trump-inspired threats and intimidation campaigns. Like that, it was ugly in 2020. Like there, I still remember it, like some of those scenes in like Detroit, where there was just like massive crowds of Trump supporters, like chanting, stop the count outside of counting locations. Yeah. Yeah.

They're talking about the count from Sesame Street. He's an immigrant. Get him out of here. What's he doing in this election? I'm going to take your job. I want to stop the count. The shortage is pretty understandable since more than half of election officials have reported being concerned about the safety of their colleagues or staff already this year, because.

Yeah, there it's just, there's constant like threats, there's a lot of like right wing training happening. So yeah, it's, it's not just that like concerns that voting sites will be understaffed. There's also like right-wing conspiracy theorists are actively trying to use the shortage to install their own poll watchers as workers in swing states. Who will watch the watchers?

Right. Yeah. So they will watch the watchers. They're going to watch the watchers. I got to say, all these factoids you're dropping here are not making me feel any better about this selection. I know, it's not, well, yeah. How are you feeling? Good, well, let me just wreck that for you. Right, hey, so let me just check.

This is a picture of an armed insurrection at my local high school gymnasium is not setting my mind at ease. Yeah, and I feel like that's, I don't know, it feels like a tangible thing at least, but it's like a very scary one. Yeah. They, they keep in these like places where they're recruiting and training right-wing poll watchers, they're talking about acting as a spy or a Trojan horse.

That's literally how like a Christian right influencer described his plan. So you dress up as a poor worker. Yeah. Yeah. This is a dress up as a poor worker. Yeah. Yeah. This is a t-shirt of poor worker. I don't know if they know specifically what happened. Hello, I work for the government.

There was a, there was a, um, uh, USC, like their, their football team is called the Trojans. Like there's like all their sports teams are called the Trojans. And they had like a warmup video this year where they were like pretending to be in the Tro- like they showed a Trojan horse and I'm like showed themselves and it's like, wait, no, you guys are the Trojans.

Like you're the Trojan horse fold you. It was a get to the Trojans. Well, these football players aren't much on book learning. All right. They're not, they're not history majors. No. But anyways, that's what the Christian right planning to do.

There are safeguards that would prevent these workers from interfering in the electoral process, but their presence will probably lead to at the very least, a lot of misinformation, which, you know, is what we're seeing happen. A lot of like just with her that's straightforward as hurricane relief. Sure. Trump and JD Vance spreading hurricane misinformation. What does training entail? What does it mean? Are they getting trained in martial arts? What are they doing?

You've seen those videos of like terror camps. Are they getting trained in martial arts? Like what are they doing? You've seen those videos of like terror camps. IDS is gonna like train them on how to fuck up voters. It's a desert camp and they're doing the monkey bars and then firing. All these elderly pole workers are kicking some serious ass come Tuesday. I'm guessing it has very little like physical training and more just like here's where to apply and here's how to make your presence felt even though you're not supposed to, you know what I mean?

Here's how to use a voting machine that was made in 1980. Right. So people, the States have been desperate to hire new poll workers because of this And they're so desperate, in fact, that in Kentucky, they've been putting QR codes on beer cans and wine bottles, allowing people to easily sign up to be poll workers and presumably it's too late to back out of it once. That really is something you wake up. Oh my God. I'm doing, I'm doing what this week? Oh, why do I ever agree to make plans? I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm like, Oh my God, I'm doing,

I'm doing what this week? Oh, why do I ever agree to make plans? That is crazy that, that, that they're trying to get drunk people to sign up because they're like, only drunk people would be, would be willing to put their bodies at risk. You know who loves waking up early on a weekday? Alcoholics. Right. Top of crack of dawn. weekday? Alcoholics. Right. Top of crack of dawn, they'll be out there.

Yeah, I'm sure we'll have the best. Just election day won't happen because nobody shows up. Yeah, let's do it on Wednesday. Too fucked up. Nebraska is allowing counties to draft workers to fill election vacancies. Sort of how we do jury duty. Yeah. Which poll workers get paid though, right?

Yes, they do. How well they get paid is another question. That's that seems to be the solution right there. Just give them more money. Ah, okay. But like we don't want to do that. Wait a second. Okay.

No. And also we're going to take away whatever healthcare you have. How about that? All right. How about that? How about that? So they're apparently turning to child labor in this worker shortage. The children yearn for the polls. So all the young ruffians with their TikToks and Sony discmans. Is that right?

I, I, I walk into the tar pits right now. Please. You know, the ones that the very people who are fueling the rise of Trump, like the boomers, et cetera, like already hate so much, just nonstop, like it's their favorite thing is to complain about them. That those people are going to be like a sea of those of these children are going to be awaiting the boomers at the polls, according to this plan, which I, I feel like would, would be the equivalent of like a bunch of people with ARs. Like they would be there to make the boomers feel safe, but then the children

would just, they, they wouldn't know what to do. They'd be pretty furious. It's a bad situation where you have like some stone 17 year old, like counting ballots or being entrusted in carrying a box of ballots to someone's car, you know? Yeah. Did you ever like have to do like high school, like fundraising work for, I think I did it for my basketball team where we like worked at parking lots of like a fish show or like, it was just like, they would just have to grab high school students and be like, yeah, you're doing child labor, but you're doing it for this program that needs money to like pay for gas to go to like the next away game. So you just went up to people with like nitrous balloons in their hands.

Yeah, exactly. And they're like, hey, come to $20. Like worked a bingo hall where you couldn't like see three feet in front of your face from the cigarette smoke. Just like, you know, just stuff like jobs that could have been staffed by people and paid for. They were just like, no, we'll just throw these children at it. And it feels like that is the level, like the, the lowest level of, of like employment that you could possibly have is like, we'll just make high school kids do it because they will think it's like good for their resume. That's like how it's being pitched to them.

Yeah. I worked on the, uh, the last day of American democracy. Yeah, exactly. But it's actually like all over the country, officials are actively recruiting high school students to become poll workers. And while minors aren't allowed to become poll workers in every, in every state, a loophole allows for it as long as they're pre-registered to vote. Pre-registered.

There's going to be a whole group of like weird incel dudes who have it memorized like the ages that they're allowed to be poll workers state by state. Might be able to get laid in this, uh, insurrection. In some cases they're paid just like regular poll workers, which I don't think as much because in other cases they're simply asked to work for free pizza because the gig is such a quote resume booster. So surely the solution to this national emergency is not to treat election workers even worse, but that does seem to be the direction that we're going with it. I think it actually

might be a good thing because imagine you go with your like, AR whatever to the polls, you're this angry Republican, and then a fucking teenager just roasts the shit out of your shoes. Like, what are you going to do? You know what I mean? You're armed, but disarmed. There's nothing crueler than a teenager who has something to prove. Yeah. I think a person with a gun might be a bigger... Yeah. It's kind of hard to make fun of the shoes of people who are carrying ARs, but yeah. Yeah. Nice's kind of hard to make fun of the shoes of people who are carrying ARs, but yeah. Nice gun, loser.

Well, what are you gonna do? Shoot me, you bitch. Yeah. It's a bunch of getting shot at in exchange for two slices of Domino's pizza. Right. But it's, I mean, it seems like a bad idea in terms of just like accomplishing the thing you're looking for. It also seems cruel when you keep in mind that like the reason there's a shortage

of poll workers in the first place is due to widespread harassment. And we're like, Oh, just throw some miners in there. Throw some miners with the problem. And the fact that they're actually like that they're even selling it as this is valuable life experience. If you engage with like a disaffected voter who's mad at you, like this is a quote, for Caswell students, dealing with the occasional frustrated voter can be a valuable job skill experience, she said.

One of the people who was speaking in favor of this plan. It's not the same talking about it in a classroom as it is with a people who was speaking in favor of this plan. It's not the same talking about it in a classroom as it is with a stranger who's coming in, yelling at them. She said, they have to learn. This is a real, this is real life. This happens. If I work at McDonald's, somebody might get mad whether they're right or wrong.

It's a valuable on the job training. Love to learn about suffering and danger because it because later I will also experience suffering and danger. Right. Let's scam life experiences. Right. Every bad thing that happens to you, that's valuable life experience. It's really exposure. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

Exposure and life experience are in the same boat here. Yeah. Exposed to a mad man with a gun. I 100% would have done this to be in like the honor society or something. Like I would have been one of the kids they duped. I would have been like, yeah, I'll go. I don't care. I'll it's good to add to my resume. Yeah, it's good to add to my resume. Just cover so much bullshit.

I know they can get you to do anything and nobody knows there's like no way to fact check that. Yeah. So I mean, Django, as you said earlier, the easiest thing to do would be to pay poll workers like the essential workers they are. Yeah. You'll have to pay them once a year too, for the record. This is a nice one.

Yeah. They are. Yeah. You'll have to pay them once a year too, for the record. This is like some. Yeah. Some poll workers make less than $10 an hour, which seems like it's too low. Yeah. And that illegal, but maybe not in some states. Right.

But yeah, we can convert that to pizza. And so now we're doing conversions of dollars into pizzas, which is good math experience. If you spend a fraction of your life working at the polls, how much will you have left? A number of states have enacted new election worker protections, but the federal response has just been, I don't know, not great. They put together a special federal election threats task force, which has resulted in 17 total charges.

There've been over 2000 reports of threats and harassment to election workers and since the task force was created in 2021, but only a hundred of those were even investigated because like a lot of, you know, government enforcement agencies, they are drastically understaffed and underfunded. And then they're like, well, the government sucks at their job. And I was like, well, you put like three people on a thing that requires a full company's worth of people to do that. It sounds like they need to hire some teenagers for the investigation.

I know exactly. We got some teenage PIs in there. Some shrewd kid detectives. I mean, if movies have taught me anything. Encyclopedia of Brown would get to the bottom of this. Thank you. Exactly. All right.

Anyways, so don't be worried about the intangible things that you can't control. Be worried about the tangible things that you can't really can't control. Unless you want to volunteer to be a poll worker. Yeah, ask your children if they want to. Do you know where your kids are? Getting the shit beaten out of them at the polls. Yeah.

It's, God, what a time, man, when they used to just have an ad at night at like 10 o'clock being like, hey, you have kids. Do you remember that? Oh, shit, dude. Wait a kids. Do you remember that? Oh shit, dude. Wait a second. I do have kids. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Granckowski. Guess what, folks, we're teammates again, and we're going to welcome you guys all to

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Trust me, you won't wanna miss this one. And we're back. And there was a moment in the 90s that it seems like neither of you remember, George Manning's team. We're both too young and beautiful. We can't remember that. Right, and that makes sense

moisturize interline Moodang practices so John F Kennedy jr This is kind of a thing that has been a I feel like a bit memory old But he was just in let unless you watch Seinfeld He was just so famous for being hot and everybody just wanted to fuck him so bad. I remember him because my mom has huge crushes on attractive presidential-like men. She was obsessed with Bill Clinton.

She was obsessed with JFK Jr. I'm like, I remember my mom being horny for him in the 90s. There's this profile of him back in the day that where they're like it's about the launch of George and The person writing the profile is just so actively Hostile toward everyone who is not John it's like they're like when he enters the room like it becomes John F Kennedy jr. In like bright colors and then a couple of gray blurs behind him. The gray blurs are actual people who run the magazine. The writers just like, yeah, they sucked comparatively.

That's just how much you want to fuck this guy when you're in the same room with him. They don't love him like I love him. That's right. I'm looking at a picture of him. I see it. I see it. There's one of them with his shirt off and he's just got like sort of a solid like tea of hair like from his belly button up like under his nips. It's like sort of a pretty. He could have know, movie star. I could see that. Yeah. And apparently was an actor. Do they do they let them have that kind of body here anymore, though? Because I feel like it's all Marvel smooth now.

And that's one of the problems with America. If you ask me, that's why they killed him. The Marvel Manscapes. That's right. So JFK Jr. passed away in the 90s. The magazine was just basically a match of the two things he was known for and it didn't really make sense other than that he had this sexy media image capital to spend. So he was like, okay, I'll do a politics magazine that's sexy. And

so they would have like Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington on the cover. And this was the image of that is insane. Like I cannot get over because we we joke about like Halloween costumes like sexy Abraham Lincoln. And this bitch was doing that in the 90s. It's pretty good. It does make me down bad for George Washington, which is unexpected. It is the hottest George Washington has ever been. It is the hottest George Washington has ever been. And yeah, that's, you know, our founding fathers could be in a pornography. And that is exciting to me.

Our founding baddies. That's me. Our founding baddies. That's right. Our founding baddies. So the New York Times recently reported that the rights to the magazine were scooped up a few years ago by a little known conservative lawyer named Thomas D. Foster. Now it has become an extreme right-wing publication with a QAnon devotee as editor-in-chief.

And in fact, QAnon is kind of the only reason the magazine was able to come back because of the belief among QAnon that JFK Jr. is still alive. I mean, we all believe this, right? I don't have to put this on. Yeah, he's still alive, secretly working with Trump. He's going to come back and reveal the storm or whatever the fuck you and I believe and reveal all the baby tapes. No one with that amount of chest hair could actually physically die. I don't believe that. Yeah, no. It's impossible.

I am disappointed in this magazine because the cover is so boring. It just looks like sort of a discount version of Oprah's O. It's just like George and sort of this plain font and then like a giant Q. Like I feel like there's just gonna be a book recommendation for, you know, kind of like. The new cover is just a big George, just a big G or a big George with a giant Q on it. Yeah, exactly.

They could have made Cindy Crawford dress as like sexy Hitler if they were gonna go right wing. But why make it boring with this? It reminds me of those tweets about how graphic design has ruined the aesthetic of everything and like minimized everything and taken away its personality. I'm like, this is so sterile of an image. Yeah, it looks like shit.

Yeah. I want the maximalism of a Ben Garrison cartoon where everything is labeled. There's pectorals and butts everywhere. Yeah, I feel like that used to be how the right communicated, was just with the most convoluted political cartoons. Fortunately, it seems like the kids version is going for the maximalism though, because there's the George Jr. ones that is just littered with various themes and things like, what are the Northern Lights, which I assume, like who is Thomas Jefferson, what does he accomplish,

how to be grateful, What are the Northern Lights? I'm assuming the last one is about how Jews have created giant magnets that are to suck the coins right out of your pockets and those cause the Northern Lights. Plus make your own rock candy. Make your own rock candies in there. The editor in chief is somebody who has suggested that old issues of George

contain messages from JFK Jr. blowing the lid off corruption, both from the past and into the future. He's also previously promoted the adrenochrome theory, which states that all the popular celebrities are killing children and drinking their adrenochrome. What is adrenochrome. But yeah, What is adrenochrome? It's like a chemical, as far as I know, and this could be incorrect. I don't know. I never fact check my favorite Q writers, but it's like a chemical your body

releases when it's about to die and then like they just like drink it. Oh, is it like good for your skin? It says on Wikipedia, it's the oxidation of adrenaline, and it was the subject of limited research from the 1950s to the 1970s as a potential cause of schizophrenia. While it has no medical application, there is a derivative that is a hemostatic medication.

Okay. So. It just changes your blood pressure. They also have lessons and teamwork from Daniel Boone, noted slave owner Daniel Boone, or fashion advice from the Apostle Paul. That's in George Jr. What would Apostle Paul, like just robes or something? Sandals and a robe.

Sandals and like a gross skid mark loin cloth? All the way into middle parts, okay? Yeah, he did have great hair. If you look at some of the paintings from back then. His bag that was attached to a stick was a Louis Vuitton, first of all. The Zoomers did bully me into adopting a middle part again. I've tried it and it is fun.

Yeah. I enjoy it. It's looking good, Kate, by the way. Thank you. Good middle part. Thank you. Well done. Thank you.

Good job, Zoomers. You're mission accomplished. Fixed one of us. Then over the weekend, we've got a BO report, office report things continue to still be not Baffo for Joker Folly ado and it's only a dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah is I watched for fully or do

It's gonna be French for friend of your anus or something. I French for friend of your anus or something. Yeah. Friend of your anus. I watched the trailer for it and I'm so fucking bored. I'm like, how did you make Lady Gaga boring? I don't understand how they managed to do this. I'm like, what is the point of watching? I don't understand from the trailer what the point of the movie is.

It's a musical, right? But what is the point? It's a musical where the director seems to think that he's inventing a musical as he's doing it because he was like,? It's a musical where the director seems to think that he's inventing a musical as he's doing it. Because he was like, it's not a musical. It's a movie where the characters break into song when they have something emotional that they can't express otherwise. It's all about the songs they don't break into. Right.

Haven't heard of Bollywood at all, my guy? Come on. Right. No, he absolutely has not. I don't understand the plot because it's just like them singing and then putting on makeup and walking down the steps. OK, we get it. The Joker is gay. We all understood that before. We all understood this was musical theater. What is the point? He's like twisted, actually, when you think about it.

Oh, no. So you're all a little bit twisted. Now, hang on, hang on, hang on. Are you saying he's a little messed up? Cause that- This guy might be a little bit messed up. Is he all messed up? Cause no, I'm not a little interested in this movie. Do we live in a society?

What? Is he a little bit of a anti-social kind of guy? Cause I'm into that sort of thing. And there's a way in which one could argue that we live in a society where one could say, anyways. You exist in the content. You exist in the content all of which in which you are coconut and a society. Yeah. Remember, we're so charmed.

That movie, Joker, so it's been out two weeks. The first one made like literally a billion dollars. Uh, they were expecting big things. It is now in fourth place after two weeks. It's, it did really badly. Its first week, it was like one of the lowest performing comic book movies of all time and its second week. It fell harder. Uh, It is the worst decline in history

for a comic book movie. So from a like worst ever start to the worst decline ever in the history of comic book movie. I just love that this makes me feel like vindicated for everyone who's like a fan of Andrew Tate somehow. I'm just like somehow this made me win over them, like this failing. Right. In your face, Tate fans. Although I think they didn't even go to see it because they're like, woman? What? Yeah.

They're very, yeah, it's like they want, they want all the Joker with none of the boobas. But it's like the whole Harley Quinn thing, I think, is there's been, it's been come out of a lot of Ingles, right? There's the cartoon version of her where it's supposed to kind of be an update. There's the older cartoon version of her in the old animated series. There's always this dynamic of she's like kind of in an abusive-ish relationship with the Joker. And then there's also like the movies, I guess, the one with Jared Leto.

And, you know, like it's always about this sort of like, hey, like they're both kind of messed up, but it's sort of an abusive relationship or codependent or so on. Abusive relationship, the Tate fans are back in. They're like, now wait a minute, is he a little twisted, is he a little abusive? This guy's a little nutscuck.

We got some red flags over here. Yeah, I just, I don't really know. I mean, I don't know. I kind of agree with you, Pallovia. It seems kind of boring to me. It's like, oh, he's like kind of crazy, but she's like into that. It's like, okay.

I don't know. Yeah, it's like I saw a whole movie in. I don't know. I was a teen girl once. Yeah, I was a teenager. I remember that. I mean like, oh wow. You know, like, oh, he's kind of veggie and moody. That makes him attractive. But it's, you can't make a whole movie out of that.

I remember feeling bad about JFK Jr. I remember having those emotions. That's right. So in case you want to blame it on clowns, do not because the number one movie this weekend was Terrifier 3, which is a horror movie that was released without a rating. It's so fucked up. This shit is so twisted. Oh, wow. But I thought, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Clowns are funny though, Jack. They're funny and you have them at parties. They're sweet and fun. I have a six. They are makeup puppies. Okay. Yeah. They wear big shoes, they make balloon animals. I don't understand how they could be scary. So I have a loose theory that like,

you can tell how good the box office for a movie is going to be based on how many people dress up as that thing for Halloween. And my six-year-old only knows clowns as horror movie, like scary things, based on just how many people come to our house for Halloween for trick-or-treating, dressed as the scariest fucking clown you've ever seen. So I think there's-

There's not a lot of good clown representation in movies these days. Yeah, there's not. Right. It's like Patch Adams and people are like, fuck you. Yeah, we haven't had a good clown in a while. Even Ronald McDonald is just Grim grimaces friend at this point. Ronald McDonald is a participant in the US imperialistic cause. I mean, you're not wrong.

And that's the scariest clown of all. Okay. I think horror is having such a fun moment right now and I love it. I'm like so happy that there's like all these horror movies that are throughout the year too. I'm looking at Terrifier 3 on Google Images. It appears to be a clown Santa who is covered in a sort of red substance that is either menstruation or blood of another kind. He looks fun.

He's just horny. He's just a freak. It's menstruation. It's just- Hey, you know what? It's like, if you look, fellas, don't be squeamish. Exactly. Every day. Or ladies.

Everyone, ladies, fellas. This is our pivot to the joke, to take over the Joe Rogan audience. Fellas, don't be squeamish about menstruation. Don't be squeamish about menstruation, especially if you're a scary Santa clown. Yeah. Your suit's already red, so get right in there.

Because the movie is set at Christmas and features scenes of art, the clown dressed as Santa Claus, a Christian group in Kansas City protested the Satanic Santa, which obviously never a bad look for horror movies to the point that I have to assume the makers of this movie were just sending chain emails to people at this church being like, man, somebody should do something about this movie. I know. I would start holding press events at these churches. I know. Right? Has anyone ever done an evil Jesus movie? Jesus, but he's an evil clown?

We're actually going to cut that out of the episode so that we can go write that together. Right? Yeah. Yeah. He throws his crown of thorns like a boomerang and stabs people's eyes out. It's always just right off of that. It's like all the Exorcist movies and stuff like that.

It has all the iconography, but it's much more subtle. No one's ever had the balls to do an evil Jesus. Yeah. Jesus bad? Question mark, question mark, question mark. More at 11. Yeah. Who would Jesus kill?

Jesus is like so twisted and dark, I could fix him. Oh my God. Yeah. Who would Jesus kill? Jesus is like so twisted and dark I could fix him. Oh my God. Totally. He's alone. When he's in the desert, he is having thoughts. He's having gouts. I hope we get protested. I hope this episode gets protested.

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