The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 385 (Best of 6/9/25-6/13/25)

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

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hosts doing it anywhere. My old friend from the crack day is a Jeopardy champion. The host of the wonderful podcast, secretly incredibly fascinating, it's Alex Schmitz. Hey. podcast, secretly incredibly fascinating. It's Alex Schmid! Hey! Commit and die, copper. Aka, don't like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-SCHMIDT. There you go. So stupid. Are you going to read the rest of my bumper stickers? Yeah, those. Those were my favorites. The dozens that you sent me. It's so great to be here. And yeah, I know I it's been nice having lived in Los Angeles previously and knowing how large it is, knowing that like, like most

people in my life are probably fine. But also it is as if the United States is invading a country like Los Angeles is very big. Yeah. So I hope everybody's okay in the long run. Yeah. Do we need like insurgent tactics? Like we need to start taping up the street signs so they don't know what streets they're on anymore and they're like relying, you know what I mean? Like real simple stuff, just easy things where they're like, cause these people are out of towners.

You know what I mean? They don't know what the fuck, where things are. I mean, some might be, but you know, little things, I don't know. As the tactics change from the federal government, perhaps the tactics are going to start changing from this side too. But it's- Just re-numbering all the interstates like it's one off would be great. Yeah, exactly. I just do that.

Right, exactly. I'm on the 11 and nobody knows it's the 10. Yeah. That's confusing. I'm on the 011 right now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Take that to Crankerbein Avenue and you'll be right there. Alex, we're thrilled to have you here.

How's it going where you are? You're on the other side of the country, if I remember correctly. It's, yes, I'm in Beacon, New York, which is in the Hudson River Valley. It's above New York City. But I had a very strange Sunday because I was Googling the invasion of

Los Angeles by the United States military while I was at our town's strawberry festival. Really? I don't think it's sweet. Really good. We contain multitudes this nation. It's the greatest country on earth. On one side you can have a military invasion.

More New Yorkers thinking they're better than us. Yeah. Well, we had a whimsical strawberry festival. And the other thing I heard is that almost all of the rest of LA was also like usual weekend farmers market and stuff. It's just so massive. People need to know that it's approaching the size of New York City, a metropolitan area or bigger and then flattened out and spread out and like downtown is not really the middle.

It's just so big. Yeah, Los Angeles County is the biggest city in the world. I think like just size-wise. Yeah, it's massive. It's yeah. And for anyone, are you safe? We are. It's not that there's like what you see on the streets where people are like in the streets. That doesn't mean protesters are just trying to hurt anyone or anything like that. They're not even trying to hurt the police. The police are hurting protesters.

We're okay. You know, we're trying to just live our lives here. It just looks fucking wild because now we have like cops trampling people with their horses and shit. It's just funny to see that a lot of the habits from the summer of 2020 are like creeping back in with people not knowing how to like articulate what's happening or where the, like what, what side is actually instigating violent clashes. But yeah, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're fine.

We're fine. We're fine. We just need to, the horse is purely for the photographic like impact, right? Yeah. That's in no way is that necessary or important, but they just, I think they were like, this will look cool if we're firing these tear gas canisters at private citizens from horseback. Yeah, and shooting journalists. Like a cowboy.

It's all wacky. Anyway. Yeah. And those horses should be in Griffith Park taking people on charming rides, you know? Not police violence. Yeah, the horses didn't want that. It's not what horses in LA are for.

That's animal abuse. They didn't want to be conscripted into this bullshit. Yeah. They're just being pulled around by LAPD helicopters, just like dropped, air dropped from one place to the other. It's real horses. LAPD is like main mode of transport. I feel like the way that most of LA experienced the unrest was lighter than usual helicopter

traffic from the LAPD because they were otherwise occupied. What is something from your search history? I'm reading a book right now, an historical fiction novel, which is fantastic. It came out in 2015 called The Nightingale. It's about the role that women played in World War II for no particular reason, no particular reason that I'm reading about that. And then I just decided to Google what role did witches play in World War II? And I learned a lot.

So yeah, they did in fact play a role. The man who sort of invented or started the religious sect of witchcraft called Wicca or Wiccan, he did a whole fucking like dance in the woods that was documented, which did in fact line up to several of Hitler's missteps and their specific spell was to fog his decision making. And then I'm sure that there were other like solitary witches doing their own cool shit in the woods too. So that's what I Googled today. I like if they started off they're like, we need this man to be on meth.

So that's what I Googled today. I like if they started off, they're like, we need this man to be on meth. Yeah. Put him on meth, God, please. I know, I feel like we need to start doing some dances to fog Elon Musk's decision making right now. More ketamine. More ketamine. More ketamine.

Yeah. Very good. More toosie. Snort the toosie, Elan. Yeah. Yeah. So if we have ideas, I literally wrote a spell and have been posting it on my stories every single day for people to chant over and over and over if they want to for this exact reason. Is it like disrespectful if I chant the spell? Like even if I'm like, yeah, I mean, maybe we could get Elon to do more ketamine.

Not at all. Okay, cool. So all energy is welcome to recite for the recitation of the spell. Yeah, totally. Oh, great. I love that. I love how inclusive this is. It's not like Christianity, you know, like all these fucking rules. Have you done all sacraments before you? No, I'm just asking, like for Christianity, you got to do the sacraments before you even think about eating our crackers.

Closest I've been is visiting Sacramento when I was in fourth grade. Yeah. I thought you were going to talk about the night witches. Do you know the story of the night witches? I know, I was going to say the night witches. I wish to know the story of the night witches. I don't know the night witches. They were not actual witches, but-

They weren't real witches, but they were a group of Soviet soldiers, women who would go fly these like old outdated biplanes, like the two winged things that are like half glider, half plane. And they would cut the engine and just glide over German soldiers and then drop bombs on them. So like they would be completely silent. But the sound of the like wood creaking sounded like broomsticks. And so the Germans called them the night witches. And also they would be laughing their ass off as they dropped the... That is just so beautifully dope. Witches and women are just so dope.

I love it. Shout out to the night witch. Shout out to the Soviet Union for actually defeating the Nazis. Kim, how about you? Anything from your search history? Well, you know, I'm actually defeating the Nazis. Yeah. Kim, how about you? Anything from your search history? Well, you know, I'm actually six months pregnant right now. Oh, both. Congratulations.

Thank you so much. So it's just baby, baby, baby. How do babies work? How do I give a baby a life? Just feeling okay. Am I going to die? What's happening? Oh my God.

Why do I have heartburn from everything? Yes. Do you have a lot of heartburn? I don't, actually. Thank goodness. It happens and doesn't happen. You're going to have a beautiful hairless baby. That's the, isn't that the old saying? That's what they say.

Hair comes from heartburn. Hair burns. Yeah, hair burns. That sounds like a silly, unproven thing, but then the facts are once the baby's out and if the baby's breastfeeding, we were talking about this recently, that just eating spicy food will somehow go through your digestive tract into the breast milk, give the baby. That also sounds completely made up to me. The human back loop of like, yeah, yeah.

Right. I mean, babies are literally getting like all of the mom's nutrients from from the breast breast milk. So so wild. Kim can't eat spicy. I was like, oh, so yeah, it's not nothing to worry about for me. You just you just don't like you just don't like spicy foods to begin with. I'm just very sensitive. Yeah? I'm just, you know, I'm a-

Or you're very sensitive? Yeah, I'm just a white girl. I get it. Who eats a lot of cheese and potatoes. I'm just a white girl in the world. It's actually very sad because she asks to try all of my flavorful food for the last 25 years. She's been like, can I try that?

And I'm like, it's gonna be too much. Oh, like a parent? You're like, spicy, spicy. Yeah. Oh, spicy, spicy, yeah, it's spicy, it's spicy. And she's like, no, I wanna try. You're like spicy, spicy. Yeah. Oh, spicy, spicy. Yeah, it's spicy. And she's like, no, I want to try. And I'm like, okay. And then she's like, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. My boyfriend's Nigerian, so it's a tough battle, you know?

Yeah. Right. How do you do the airplane coming in for a landing when she asks to do a spicy food? You're okay if you want. Yeah. No, I do the- It's coming and I'm giving you a chance to change your mind. Yeah, I actually do the night witch where I just like cackle. She knows it's trouble, right? Matt, what's something you think's underrated?

Well, I mean, underrated, I wrote Brian Wilson because I'm very much into the whole Brian Wilson thing. But underrated, I would say, Oh, is there a way I can say this without getting in trouble? Underrated, I would say the people's ability to gather together on mass to protest, despite the wishes of their elders who tell them that the best thing to do is to write a strongly worded letter. And I'm not saying, look, I'm not saying violence is a good thing.

And I, but at the same time, I think it is also very underrated. I think that part of protesting is working outside the boundaries of whatever the status quo is. And it is a crime to do like just to walk, you know, on the street and stuff like that. I mean, this is already, it's already breaking laws. I just am like so tired of the amount of hand, uh, finger wagging, uh, at like, uh, you know, anyone who protests anything because they're like, Oh, you know, someone burned a Waymo. You know what?

Fuck Waymo. Waymo is a driverless car. It's a deadbeat. It's a goddamn deadbeat. You want to know who's taking a fucking job? That fucking car right there. Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. People you're blaming for. And with these fucking ice raids. Yeah. People you're blaming for. And with these fucking ice raids. Yeah. And you know, it's just like the way in which like the entire media class and political class, including politicians who I like or immediately fall into the, uh, the like very obvious right wing trap of like, I condemn violence at protests. I'm just like, you know what?

I don't at protests. I'm just like, you know what? I don't. Yeah. I, I, especially when it's like, there's no condemnation for the violence being done to the protesters or the violence that the protesters are responding to. The, the rush to condemn the violence by the protesters and not specifically call out the actions. Yes. We know the one, the burning of the Waymo is like now iconic. And it's like, that's the one kind of precise piece of violence they have.

And so that's become the central thing. There's been fucking people getting trampled by cops on horses, being shot point blank, like one of them was like straight up a journalist on camera. And so that one became like a little bit viral, but like for the most part, it's just the burning of a way Mo, which yeah, to your point, like if you wanted to create a work of satire about our fucking terrible values, that's like, well, yeah, they, they care more about property and like the tech industry and

money than they do about human lives. Like the fact that everyone's freaking out about the burning of a driverless car. I can't think of a more victimless crime. I can't. My empathy goes to Waymo. It's so insane to even call it violence. It's crazy.

Yeah. I mean, I think that's the biggest thing is the media, especially. And I think just generally, like in the discourse around all this is there's such an issue with even defining what violence is, what falls under the category of violence because it's like, well, you know, like Norm, it's like, so that person threw an old man to the ground. You'd be like, that's violent. A police shoves an old man to the ground. Crickets. It's like, that's violent. A police shoves an old man to the ground. Crickets. Oh, it's like, yeah, nothing. You don't. Looting the store? That is so violent. Denying people, denying people the financial opportunities to feed themselves while enriching yourself.

It is crazy. The like inversion of reality that's done in order to make these narratives. Like the idea that it's like one person is a protester doing, let's say, property damage and the other person is doing violence against that person in order to protect the property. And, and, and his property damage is considered to be the act of violence. And to me, I'm just like, I'm just, I'm so sick of anyone falling for these narratives. Just cause it's like, even if, even if, even if, even if these were acts that were, you know, they're all being like, obviously overblown in the media, but even if there

was an actual riot that happened, once again, the overblown in the media. But even if there was an actual riot that happened, once again, the onus of keeping the peace is supposedly law enforcement. But if law enforcement is the one starting the violence, I'm sorry, they're the ones picking a fight. And that is the big unspoken reality that is at the center of all those stories. The thing that they will not

say. I was reading a LA Times, I think, or no, maybe it was Washington, but I forget, one of those fucking papers that was doing an account of the violence and the ruling crowds. And they talked about people breaking glass as part of the protest. And then as a throwaway, they had like, and then there was a storefront window that was shattered with a beanbag thing next to it. And they're like, oh yeah, it was probably shot at protesters. Yes. But even that one-to-one thing, the police doing the very, the property damage. Yeah.

That they're so mad about when the protesters do it. The police doing that very, the property damage that like they're so mad about when the protesters do it. The police doing that while shooting at people is like more forgivable and just like brushed past as like a little piece of fucking context. Yes. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Michael Swain, what is something you think is overrated?

I mean, I'll keep it short and sweet, but I feel like I have to point at the big board again and just say money. It's like for the rest of my life, whenever I show up on anything where I'm asked this sort of question. And it's, uh, I, again, I don't, or, uh, it's important. I don't mean value, separate those concepts, money, like a billionaire, the billionaire class, as we all know is destroying us, but it's also for no reason they're super unhappy. So it would be healthier for them to understand some kind of, or you can get warm buffets seems kind of weirdly. All right.

Uh, in terms of, I can't argue whether it's, I don't know that it's ethical to amass a billion dollars period, but I just mean he seems to sleep at night or have some coherent identity. But many other billionaires, Elon included, you know, seem like totally eaten alive and miserable anyway. And it doesn't buy me sympathy because they're killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people to figure their shit out. But I do wish they'd figure their shit out because maybe that would help. And regardless, I also mean it in the grand sense where I track so much back to

money used to be a record of goods and services exchanged or potential values stored inside you. And then they're like, what if gambling was legal in the form of the stock market and I could go to school and eat every day and learn and use all the resources of humanity. But my job, the whole thing I spend time on earth doing is looking at legal documents and moving money from one place to another and seeing if it's possible to abstractly make money, make money. Isn't that clever? And is that a good thing? It's clever. Now, later, we all choked to death on our own farts.

And that's that. So good job society. Money was a short term like symbol. We were supposed to use for barter exchange. Look, if AI can do all the art and everything, then maybe we're in Star Trek time and we don't need money. How about that? And then the the art and everything, then maybe we're in Star Trek time and we don't need money. How about that? And then the billionaires are like, no, we still need money. That's my value identifier. And so I just hate it.

So they'll never let that happen. Yeah, that is what all like a lot of really smart people I knew in school, they went into making money, make money. That's it. Just fucking growing money by putting it in various places. And it's a fun thing. I remember at the time being like, they should be building fucking infrastructure, like those people are smart. They should be putting, like making the world better, doing, building things. And I remember feeling childish for thinking that at the time, but I've never really been disabused of that notion.

I do think that that is a fucking huge problem with it, is just like all the smart people, they're just like, yeah, I'm going to go in to make the money, make the money, to make more money. And I gotta say, it's truly not just like a sour grapes, poor person thing to say, but I know enough struggling people, middle-class people, and people who got rich through skill and or luck that I have observed and really find it true. Some are happy and some are unhappy,

almost has no connection to whether, like how much money you amassed. It is just a kind of addiction over like, as Warren Buffett I think said, he was like, anyone who makes, which is still unthinkable to me, 700 grand a year or more essentially has an identical life to me. They can access anything they want at any time.

Everything else is just like frosting on the cake or more purchase power or political buying power or what have you. So, you know, I'll just be happy with my 700 K a year. And that's me. I'm home. You're doing it. You be Warren Buffett.

Just put it in all of our bank accounts. We'll be we'll be good over here. I think he does it. He does. I think he buys himself some cover because he's not very Austin. He's just like so low key. He like lives like I've driven by his house in Omaha. And I was like, oh, that's where he like I was just like, oh, that's like a house.

Ignore that I'm absorbing the resources. Yeah. Millions of there's like that. And they're like, it's McDonald's for breakfast every day. And it's like he has he's a billion. Team that guy. Yeah guy a little man who eats McMuffin moment yeah exactly I was wondering if yeah like do you now you that the Simpsons taught you everything have you switched out beer as the cause of and solution to all life's problems with money no miles I think savvy

viewers will remember that the solution to all of life's problems is to move under the sea. That's true. And eat the little sea animals. It's not going to happen. Not with that attitude. Oh, shit. That has reawakened. I always loved The Simpsons, but like many, didn't watch it for at least 10 years.

And now I'm that guy where I have to stifle incessantly any stimulus is like that symptoms quote relates to that. Oh yeah, right, right, right. To be the Simpsons guy. Don't be college guy. This new franchise not helping with your, whatever the brain condition is that you have, but it's a joy to be home. Michael says a lot of things.

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I mean, so. Yeah, did you see the Wall Street Journal report on the Stephen Miller ice meeting? No, I did not. Which one? Where? The one that led to like this whole movement of like going to Home Depot.

Where is their whole thing? Wherever they are right now. They're at 7-Eleven and Home Depot. Straight up. He was like, you know, gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the worst of the worst, weren't the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to just go out there and arrest illegal aliens, Miller told ICE officials who had come from across the US. Agents didn't need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S.

illegally. A long-standing practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, DC and arrest 30 people right away. I mean, you could, they're not going to be guilty of anything. Right. Yeah. I think your white supremacist ideal of like people who should be arrested. That's it.

He's boy. Yeah. And this one, it's like so unrefined. It's basically like, yeah, bro, there's 30 brown faces out there right now. Just fucking bad them up, man. In the Wall Street Journal, it's reporting from the Wall Street Journal, one of the most upstanding outlets out there. But I mean, even they're like, yeah, right, right, right.

It's because it's so basic. Like for the Wall Street Journal, they're just like, dude, you literally ask any like white dude on the street where the illegals hang and they'd be like, I don't know Probably like a Home Depot. I see them out there. It's like a joke. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a hack joke at this point and This fool is not even a refined racist He's just like the most basic bitch racist ever, where he's just like, I don't know, go to the home depot and it's a 7-Eleven. It's like- 7-Eleven?

Yeah, that one's confusing. 7-Eleven is wild. Like, he's just, I think he's just lumping in anyone who has an accent. Is he like thinking of like Appu from The Simpsons or some shit? Right, that's the thing. That's his idea of a 7-Eleven is like, well, you know, it's like brown people from wherever working at a 7-Eleven. What?

Probably the only place he encounters non-white people, you know? Right. Dude, this one. 11-Eleven and Home Depot. I think this more indicates how little he actually interacts in public because the only two places he can think of are these abstractions that he would never go to. Like a Home Depot. He's like, yeah home depot problem I'm not what the fuck am I gonna do at home depot? I've never going to 7-eleven. We go to we go to sprouts

Exactly I think it's grotesque to have a whole big gulp Someone who likes to take small tiny bird like sips exactly Miller Miller lights. I'm someone who likes to take small tiny bird-like zips. Exactly. Miller, Miller lights, I call them. Yeah, Miller lights, I call them. Yeah. The whole like, just the discourse around everything, it's so again, like, I felt like we're right back in 2020, where we're doing the same things over again, Jack, like you're saying like, oh, it's on the protesters to protest, Greg, no talk of the police. Also, people have no idea how oppression works clearly

when people live in like the areas that are very white and probably affluent enough that they actually know nothing of oppression or struggle in any way. Because I'm going on like Fox News, yes, I know, not good for my health, especially the comment section. They post articles, they're like, illegal immigrant charged with attempted murder for throwing Molotov cocktail.

It was like a photo of a guy flicking a lighter behind a tree trunk. Apparently, I guess he had a Molotov cocktail that landed somewhere, didn't really bust open. It was really not, I was just like, oh God. Like me trying he had a Molotov cocktail that like landed somewhere didn't really bust open It was like really not I was just like like me trying to throw a Molotov cocktail It was more like he dropped it. It was just like right and you're like, what is like what's going on? I get scared drop it and run away

You're trying to blow out the fuck So anyway, I'm looking in the comments section there because obviously Fox News is putting the most sensational shit they can put there because the headline had all the buzzwords, illegal alien attempted murder, Los Angeles riots, police. And the comp, again, aside from the obvious bots that are in there, just like fanning the flames with like the same sort of take over and over again. There's also this like ignorance you see from what I'm again presuming are people who are very comfortable and know nothing of oppression. This one person says all caps.

Why isn't anyone asking who is paying for all of this? Obviously, obviously these protesters don't work and are not using their own money. Find who is paying for this and stop them. No money equals no riots. I love this logic. This logic is, first of all, it's telling on yourself because there's just like, listen, when I was at January 6th, someone paid me to be there. Right. All right.

First of all, that's why I was there. That's how their economy literally works. Like Ben Shapiro has a platform because billionaires have been funding his career. Like Charlie Kirk would not exist as a media figure if billionaires hadn't taken an interest in him a long time ago and been like, he's good for our overall, like

future gross tax rate. Like that's, that's why that motherfucker exists. Yes. Yeah. So they know that on some level and it's, yeah, seeping into how they view people just responding to, uh, being beaten to shit. Right. Yeah.

But it's just so funny, like, to look at a group of protestors and just to be immediately the assumption be, well, I mean, certainly they're paid to be there because, I mean, who's paying for those signs? And it's like, it's cardboard. How much do you think cardboard costs? It's so abstract to them that they don't understand having your back to a wall, and then having to enter

physical space to advocate for yourself or others. That they're like, well, for me to do that, I'd have to be paid. Right. Yes. That's the only way because what do you mean? You're just getting out there to help people that look like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.

That's not how it works. Again, it reveals no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that's not how it works. And yeah, again, it reveals no real intellectual understanding of oppression. And two, also no idea how precarious our fucking economy is. And that many people struggle to find meaningful life-sustaining work in this country. So again, you see a lot of you see a lot of social media posts with like Americans going on with their lives.

You're like, oh, I went to this wonderful thing or whatever. Obviously go live your life, but please be acutely aware how bad this situation we are in right now and how it's only going to worsen. And I don't know if it seems like, especially conservatives have no idea how this sequence is going to play out in its worst form, right? Today it's migrants and the people that defend them tomorrow. It's people that are opposing the regime. Then once things start getting really weird and all of their fucking

initiatives start coming to pass, like taking away social safety nets, taking away people who are actively contributing to the economy and the economy starts getting fucked over, everyone begins to feel that pain except for the hyper wealthy. And then go a step further. What happens when your rural hospital can no longer treat your child's illness, or there's no food, or there's food scarcity because of tariffs or whatever. Do you think at a certain point you might not be like, dude, I got to fucking get out here and figure something out like my own fucking kid.

And do you think the cops are going to look at you and be like, this guy's white. He's okay. Right. No, these people are. No, there is no one of us. There is only the wealthy. If you are not them, that's it. The Miami Cuban population is finding out in real time. They thought, well, we're MAGA. We're the good. They don't give a fuck. They are not in solidarity with you. They're in solidarity with these other oligarchs who are like, bro, we need to Hoover up all this money. And when these poor motherfuckers start complaining

and try and act up, we're gonna beat the shit out of them. And that's, they keep it moving. It's that simple. Yes, I think if you don't think you're next, it's just you're short-sighted, ignorant and just a fool. And, and, you know, it was like proven earlier this year when they just started arresting and attempting to deport and sometimes successfully deporting students who were, you know, writing something about, uh, that was positive about Palestine.

Right. And, and, you know, it's like, this is not going to just be, oh, you know, it's just the people who I want to be, you know, oppressed. No, it's going to be whoever the fuck the powers that be decide is going to be oppressing. It's not going to serve you in any way. And beyond that, I think one thing that people need to realize too, and obviously your listeners realize this, but these people in the Fox comment section is like, these cops are not your friends. The one thing that is so impressive

in a really twisted way is the law enforcement solidarity that exists, the fact that federal troops could be sent into a state without, you know, the request of the governor, without the request of the city that they're being sent to. And the local law enforcement is just immediately like, oh, okay, I guess we're doing this. The fact that they would immediately be on their side, it just shows you that like at the end of the day, they're not going to stand there a bunch of LAPD officers and go, we have to protect this city from these federal agents doing overreach.

No, they're immediately going to turn around and join the fucking federal troops against you. So no matter what, the cops will not be on your side. And they never were. They never were. So, you know, if you put any trust in, in like the cops to do anything, you're, you're completely foolish. Yeah. I mean, I think this is why people have, this is why people are resisting

the way they are right now, because, and also these protests are working. If you're really thinking about what the point of this is having ice be occupied by protesters means they are going to be that much slower to hunt down a parent taking their kid to the doctor or someone going to their fucking immigration court hearing so they can abide by the fucking law. And Marines showing up to what they think is a war zone and they're standing on top of buildings in LA kind of laughing because they're like, well, what the

fuck is this? These people are playing like maracas and acoustic guitar. What the fuck am I doing here? Yeah. Like that helps. Ice agents are being pushed out of hotels because the community comes out to make noise and make it impossible for them to rest. These like little victories add up to stifle the morale of these people. And it's not instant, but this is how it just needs to be slowed down.

This is how you're just, this is how a response is going to work. And I think it's also a really good reminder of like why that, this big, beautiful bill of nonsense also has to be stopped because Steven Miller, teenage mutant ninja, Gerbils is asking for a fucking billions more in ice funding. So this is, this is how it's at right now with the current levels of funding and they're saying, bro, we need to turn the money hose on so we can kick this shit up to 11. That means more salaries to hire racist nut jobs who want to

LARP as police officers to expand detention facilities and to turn the kidnapping infrastructure just up another level. So it's all, oh, man, it's like, please, please, please, just this is, this is kind of all why it all has to come together. This is why people are resisting and then just question what's going on or not really examine what the violence is that's being done to the people of Los Angeles, people all over the country now at this point, because there's raids in Omaha. There's raids in San Antonio.

And now Greg Abbott is like, I, I'm having the National Guard, too. It's it's it's everywhere. It's going to happen. And and again, it seems like everyone's built in response as humans, as like the decent American people is to show out and try and be like, you know, what the fuck is going on? Yo, what is this shit? Now, fuck out of here. Fuck out of here.

I do wonder, you know, we've seen how ineffective the mainstream media is. It just, you know, that their, their main narrative doesn't like catch on with people just because they're saying it anymore, right? Like they're not going to convince people that this is fine just because they're ignoring the actual cause of the protest and just focusing on, on the protest. I do like to Matt's point, like the shit that like conservatives have claimed are their values for centuries. Like, obviously, like there, some of them are going to be like, yeah, I mean, it was actually white supremacy guys. Like, right. We're, you know, that's definitely a big portion of it.

But like, I also have to feel like there's a sizable portion who's like, wait, no, they're doing the thing that we were always saying we were worried they'd do, where they come in and try and take our guns and our rights away, and sending federal troops in. Isn't this why we raised militias at a time when they were completely unnecessary for like decades. Yes. Like in the fucking, when I, during the Clinton and Obama administration.

Yes. Aren't some of these people just going to be like, well, this is fucking crazy. I feel like I've only seen more response from like MAGA libertarians. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Those are some of you are like, well, hold on now.

Yeah. I'm an insufferable libertarian because I'm pretty consistent with how insufferable libertarian because I'm pretty consistent with how insufferable I am about being a libertarian. It is wild just to see, uh, I mean, it's not surprising at all, but it's like, it's still, it is wild to see that level of hypocrisy where you're just like, Oh, you guys, it was never, you guys were never like worried about, you know, totalitarianists, you know, uh, government regimes, you just were worried about what you know, totalitarianist, you know,

government regimes, you just worried about what if they were woke? Like what, what if it was a blue haired, it's just a them who was, uh, you know, in control of ice and it's like, you know, as long as the Nazis control the Gestapo, they're like, cool. Yeah. As long as they're doing it in the name of racism. Yes Yeah, the fear of a black planet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah straight up. Yeah. Yeah, the Second Amendment But is to fight against tyranny people. Mm-hmm. Where you at? Yeah, but again tyranny doesn't tyranny doesn't

Exist for them. You know what? I mean,? That's like the way they're looking at it. It's just too abstract. They're just like, yeah, I don't know. Tyranny is the name of my white daughter. Tyranny. Yeah. Oh yeah, tyranny doesn't happen to like people of color or LGBTQ, but that's just, no, no, no.

That only happens to me in a very narrow context that when it happens, I won't even know actually. I love it. Don't tread on me, tread on them. Tread on everybody else. Oh, I'm't even know actually. Don't tread on me. Tread on them. Tread on everybody else. I'm fine with it. Tread on me.

I love tread on. I love the snake, the snake pointing to another snake to step on. Yeah. We need to do that. Don't tread on me. Stomp on the bear. Yeah. Snake.

Yeah. What the hell? Isn't the snake getting its ass kicked in that flagged it like that Yeah, snakes are constantly getting their ass kicked on flags. I gotta say not yeah snakes are always in someone's talents Yeah, there's never like a rule so hard. Yeah snake about to be devoured Yeah, there's not enough like snakes who are I don't know just like chillin Yeah, you know eating an egg the tyranny one, it's like cut in thirds, right? This snake is fuck snakes.

If I had to pick up the thesis statement of flags, it would be fuck snakes. Fuck snakes. Fuck snakes. This is you asshole. You're a snake. But yeah, just there's this detailed report from the Wall Street Journal about just how unjust all these like sweeps are and like how slapdash and racist the policies are and then you like look at their Lineup of opinion articles and it's like Democrats make Stephen Miller's day the editorial board

The LA riots hand Republicans a political edge Jason L. Riley is anyone going to hold rioters accountable? Jason L Riley. Is anyone going to hold rioters accountable? James. Sure you will. Yeah. I think they will. Yeah.

This is what they do. Should we check him with the Elan real quick? Oh God. I've been wondering where he is. I've been worried about, is he scared? He's had some long, hard conversations with his reflection in the mirror. Apparently AKA came down. Off the Ketamine. The Ketamine levels in his bloodstream dipped below levels where he believes that he's literally

flying and he posted that he regrets some of his posts about Trump, which, quote, went too far. Which one? Yeah, that's good. Which one? Nothing far. Which one? Yeah, but joining specific. Presumably they include the one where he mentioned that Trump is a pedophile whose name checked in the Epstein files.

But that's that you like to work with. Yeah, yeah, that I got elected. You elected bro. That's a pedophile. By the way, I helped the pedophile get power, so I'm cool. So my argument's good. You're welcome. Yeah, god.

And then this comes after an interview with Trump in which he said that he has no hard feelings about the whole thing. So he's at all. I mean, did you also see, like, in Rockland County, New York, that election fuckery? That there's like a case that's moving up the fucking New York Supreme Court. The New York Supreme Court, like ruled that, like these allegations of

voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York were like substantial enough for like discovery to happen. Oh, shit. There were like, there were like ones where like all these people voted for Kristen Gillibrand, but then no one voted for Kamala Harris. Oh, that like on the ballots and no one, huh? Yeah. Like there was one town where it's like, what the fuck is this?

They're like nobody, but they voted for the Democrat in the Senate race. So that will not be so wild. Like I really wouldn't put it past the Democrats to have the elections stolen from them while they're in power. Incredible. Such incredible Democrat energy. Yeah, this is a quote, according to the complaint, more voters have sworn in legal affidavits that they voted for independent US Senate candidate Diane Sayre than the Rockland County Board of Elections counted and certified, contradicting those results. The complaint also cited numerous statistical anomalies in the presidential election results.

They include multiple districts where hundreds of voters chose the democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, but none voted for former vice president Kamala Harris. Y'all. None? None. None. That is the, yeah, that's just the statistical anomaly that just leads.

It's just also funny that I'm also like, I don't want to wait. Wait, so what is it? Like, did they fuck around? I mean, It's just also funny that I'm also like, I don't want to like, wait, so what is it? Like, did they fuck around? I mean, Trump kept saying weird shit that people were taking like, oh, you got to look into it. But then you have like a lawsuit like this and you're like, hold on. Wait, huh? Oh, fuck. Well, I mean, you have to remember like voting, you know, skepticism has never been a bad thing. It's never been.

The problem is, is that Trump did what he always does very expertly, which is just co-opt a sort of leftist narrative and make it into his own personal shield. Like fake news was something he started saying after it came out that there was a bunch of fake news on Facebook and shit like that. They were just pumping out fake stories

And then straight up the the very like definition of fascism like is that taking leftist? platforms and ideas and Reappropriating them for purposes of power. Yes. Yes, and and it was like, you know the Obviously the 2000 election was something that heavily contested. Even 2004, there was some fuckery with the, you know, the I think Ohio voting booths or whatever the fuck. Like the fact that there is election fraud that can exist is not something that, you know, it's the fact that Trump poison-pilled it for everyone who's a liberal, because all of a sudden they found liberals going like, no,

our elections are safe and secure. And it's just like, okay, all right, calm down. Just, you know, I understand like Trump is lying about stuff. He just makes it up and hopes it becomes true. But like also, yeah, no, you know, this, this sounds like fuckery to me. I wonder if they're getting there. They got to, they got to stick together because now this lawsuit's moving around and they got to make shit. Right. I mean, obviously also so much of his wealth depends on government contracts. So he can't really just, I feel like that's where he's finding gas. He just wants to keep getting rich the way he's been getting.

Trump also just said that he's open to mending things. He said, I just, I think he was mistaken. You know, people make no hard feelings. Guys got a problem. I also need him a lot. We, we kind of need each other in this fucked up way. Oh God. It's awful.

I just, you know, low key, I think we're all hoping for some sort of Thunderdome situation, but. Nah, it doesn't look like it. That is how Elon Musk's dad, is his dad's name Errol Morris? Errol? Errol Musk, right? Yeah. Sorry.

Errol Morris is the filmmaker. Errol Morris is the filmmaker, but our writer, JM, wrote Errol Morris. Wait, his dad's Errol Morris? His dad's Errol Morris, the great documentary filmmaker. Errol Morris? The great documentary filmmaker? Errol Flynn? I don't know. But Errol Musk said, this is just alpha stuff.

His son having a temper tantrum online was just alpha stuff. Very alpha. Yeah, we all looked at that. It's like two gorillas fighting for dominance. Yeah. And being like, no, I won for you. You're a pedophile. I didn't need him. You're a pedophile. I didn't need him.

You're a pedophile, which by the way, his favorite claim to throw out there. Anyone who's seen Gorillaz in the mist knows, that's exactly what gorillas do. They stop and they go, you're a pedophile, mother-of-pearl. They ride behind a keyboard and call each other pedophiles until one of them apologizes.

Yeah. Jesus Christ. There's also this headline too, because you know, during that tweet storm, he was talking about how Trump needs to be like, like just, he needs to resign and like I'm backing JD Vance. There are people are saying that's also made Trump really paranoid. Oh yeah. He only, he only brought JD Vance on the ticket because of Musk's pressure. Yeah.

And so he's just like, now he's kind of like some Rick Carlyle ask head games, bro. It's Tony Soprano when everyone's laughing at his jokes scene. Yeah. And he's like, no, it was a tough stretch of the game. We didn't, they didn't, they had their best defenders in there. Cause Brunson was on the bench. Yeah.

You know, that's NBA, deep cut NBA reference. NBA. It's those head games where you just slide something in and the person's like, fuck you have to work about, worry about JD. I mean, I'm sure like that once that was said, I was like JD Vance is pleading with Elon Musk behind the scenes to like apologize and take his fucking tweets down because he's fucking catching on bro. He's catching on. He's not up to it man.

No, yeah. He's a, yeah. You'd be surprised these opportunistic motherfuckers bro. Yeah. It doesn't mean they'll do it well, but they will fucking, they'll show their ass. For sure. Luckily, I think Trump, one of the geniuses of Trump, unfortunately, is his ability to like surround himself with like the most rizz-less motherfuckers in, in like you could imagine and how not

attached to him they're just so weak and, you know, pudgy. Like yes, you know, like, I think Elon is only strong because of the money, but personality wise, Riz wise, he has nothing. He's just- He's a negative 69. Yes, he is unlikable to the max. So that's, I'm not worried about- What is a negative 69?

Would that be like you try to suck your own dick so hard that your head falls off? No, no, no, that's not what it was 69. Would that be like you try to suck your Of all the levels he's just down to a negative 69. Oh, that's just where the meter landed dude, I don't know Oh damn, so you had nothing to do. It was out of your hands at that point No, you know, maybe it'll be like 420 a share. Yeah, we don't We don't want to impugn the good name of 69 Yeah, we don't want to impugn the good name of 69. That's right. No, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, negative 69 is when you guys are doing a 69, but everyone just goes PP. Oh, yes. And you're like, no, not PP. No, that's not what we're supposed to be doing. Oh, no, I don't like this. How much longer? Stop being so negative.

How much longer? Are you done? This is a negative 69. It's like a, you know, sort of a human centipede or human centipede closed loop. Anyway. The negative 69. The negative 69. I think we have our screenplay idea, you guys.

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podcasts. And we're back. And we like to check in with the tanners every once in a while, you know, see what they're up to. Like people who like cure leather? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The DJ tanners, the DJs who cure leather. The only tan, like the tanner that I wish was not still famous

is unfortunately the one. The one who's famous. Because all of them twins kind of just dropped off, right? Like they're not doing shit. They just took their money and ran. They were like, goodbye. They're my favorite kind of billionaires. We leave the prestige for our little sister.

They're my favorite kind of billionaires because they're just like, we're disappearing. Like we're out of here. Yeah, exactly. I feel like they are on the strangest yacht parties. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, because wasn't one of them like Sarkozy's brother?

Yeah. And their yachts shaped like a cigarette. Yeah. Yeah, all of them. Would you say one of them is Sarkozy's brother? One of the Olsen twins? No, she's dating Sarkozy's brother. Yeah, yeah.

That's the energy that I get is they're involved with the guys who are in that room that Liam Neeson infiltrates and taken. Oh, 100%. All the rich people who are just sitting back, bidding on... They're doing rare earth mineral deals right now. They're like, babe, we used to do, we had our line of kids clothes, we have moved on. We're moving rare earth minerals. Rare earth mineral deals.

A super producer, Victor, said they're watching the real squid games in a dark basement. With no mask on too. We're not shook, babe. We're proud of this. Yeah, we're good. The story about one of them being the first person that was called when they found Hugh Jackman unresponsive allegedly is- Heath Ledger.

No, no, no. Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger. Don't bring Hugh Jackman's good name. I was like, what happened to Hugh Jackman? Are you great at showmen? Yes.

I've always confused him. Yeah. She's like the wolf from Pulp Fiction or some shit? I think, yeah. That is the timeline. I would suggest that she's the wolf, but I'm assuming that she has a wolf that works for her, and she was more the Marcellus Wallace in that situation. She's like, what happened? Okay.

Let me call Leon Panetta at the CIA really quick. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, on the other side, and less cool than that, is Candice Cameron Burr? Buray? Buray, yes, yes. Is it? B-U-R-E.

It's more of a burr vibe, but I guess we're pronouncing it buray. Honestly, I bet it is burr, and she was like, it's burr-ay. I bet she added the A onto it. Yeah. She's married to the hockey player, Valerie Burr-ay. Oh, bummer. So she has a podcast, I'm sure.

It's like in queue for most of our listeners right behind this one. They go back and forth between the Candace Cameron Beret show, I believe. The Candace Cameron Beret podcast. Ah, okay. Good. Well done, Candace. And this one is just like one and two. I always see it in the year-year wrapped rankings right below when people send us, they're like, TDC was my number one.

The Candace Cameron Beret podcast, number two. It's an odd Venn diagram. On this podcast, she was talking about how she doesn't watch scary movies because your TV, when you think about it, is just a portal. I'm so tired. Sorry, what is this, Poltergeist? I'm so tired.

Look, I understand how movies work, but there's, quote, still something that can be incredibly demonic while they've made it. The person, this is when I think Kurt Co-host came in and said, absolutely. Hold on, they're real. Should we just hear them actually say

it's lightning, they hear it. The clip that we have I think is even cutting out the liquid death part which... Oh, we'll get to the... Yeah, we can get to the liquid on the other side of this. I don't even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV because to me that's just a portal. Listen, I'm in the film industry. I understand how it all works. Hold on. I didn't even realize that's how she was going to fucking... Look, listen, I'm in the industry. I fucking know how the portal works. Okay? What the fuck are you saying? I've looked at the physics. I've looked at the metaphysics.

And look, this is how it works. This poor bastard sitting across from her her just like, uh-huh. But again, it sucks being a co-host because you got to agree with your host all the time. Don't I know it? Tell me about it. There's still something that can be incredibly demonic while they've made it. Oh, for sure. That's the one that got me.

Oh, for sure. The guy looks away and goes, oh, for sure. Demonic while they've made it, oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that gets opened up and let in. And that just reminded me, like you posted something a while back about liquid death.

Yeah. What? What? Yeah. I sure did. I like how she just says, I think it's, I feel like it's a portal. No, like not even anecdotal evidence.

Usually like a crackpot like this will be like, so my friend's daughter, you know what I mean? Would do some shit. Usually that's howpot like this will be like so my friend's daughter, you know, I mean would do Usually that's how these like terrible misinformation Conspiracy podcasts work like some bad anecdote. She's just like and I get it also liquid death and you're like, oh, okay Yeah, you need to get your best friend's daughter possessed by one of the final destination movies, Candace Cameron. Right. You're fucking up right now. I guess we'll just let her do it.

What about? I want to hear what she has to say about Liquid Death. Here, let's pull that back one more time. You reminded me, like you posted something a while back about Liquid Death. Yeah. And you're like, so do you want to buy a product that is literally being. Cursed. Cursed.

Literally. As it's going out into distribution. That is literally being. Literally being cursed. Cut away to the placeholder of her just being like, ding. Does anyone know how to get out of here? Like just. No.

The Earth. Like off the Earth right now? Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen that meme where the old man's in the wheelchair and he's like, I hate this escape room. And the nurse is like, sir, this is planet Earth. Liquid death.

Literally being cursed as it's going out into distribution. What that means. That would be so cool if they were doing that. Are they doing that? Are they literally cursing the liquid death water or are they just saying like the name liquid death? I think it's because it like has a skull on it and I'm like, girl, do you know that you have a skull

like inside you? Like you have a skeleton in there, just bouncing around. Oh, they're, I think they were, I think they were doing it for marketing and this is the thing that happens when evangelical freaks see it. Good for them. In Liquid Dith's latest video,

the company hired a working witch doctor known as Mystic Dylan to put a... Yes! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan!

Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan! Arcane! And these motherfuckers are so bored that they are using that to be scared of. They're staying out at night because of Mystic Dylan putting a curse on bottled water. All of the water in the company's warehouse.

And again, that's just part of their troll marketing. They're like the church of Satan. You know what I mean? They just know, they're like, watch this shit. Watch us get some fucking clicks by saying this shit. Guess what I'm picking up at Costco in bulk now. Curse and death water. I love that.

Yeah, wow. Good for her. I mean, I'm glad that, it's also funny, that dude had such like janky youth pastor vibes too when he's like, any like evangelical dude rocking Jordans, I'm always like, bro, when is this scandal about to drop with you fool? Like, I'm not falling for this shit just cause you got the Jordans, I'm always like, bro, when is this scandal about to drop with you fool? I'm not falling for this shit just because you got the Jordans on.

Really stylish haircuts from five years ago. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Literally, I don't know, it's opening up a portal to hell. Can we get, as horror movie fans, can we get a horror movie recommendation? Like what's the movie that is most felt to you? Like it's opening a portal to hell that maybe we could recommend for a

camera. Hold on. Give us a, okay. I'll tell you what. So I'll tell you one. Kim's going to agree with me. And it's actually one that, uh, was kind of the inspiration for us starting a podcast, if I'm being honest. Yeah. Kim and I have been friends for many, many, many years. We wanted to start a podcast,

but we knew that we wanted to have something to talk about because we knew that we could talk to each other for ad nauseum for 24 plus hours at a time just about our own lives and musings and things. We were two of the only sort of group of our friends that really liked going to see horror movies together. When we went to see Hereditary. Oh, I thought you were going to say the other one. Oh, well, you should talk about that one. So yes, I guess that's the one. Okay, so Kim's right. There are two.

So Hereditary, I feel like, was the movie where I was like, there is a supernatural evil entity in the world, and somebody made a movie about it, and I'm here for it. They captured it. It really did. I think it's kinda hard to scare Kim and I. We like the scare, so it's hard to give us nightmares, and I feel like we did sort of have to talk about the movie a lot just to process it.

I am now realizing I haven't seen hereditary because I actually agree with Candace Cameron beret that there is an evil in this world and watching that will open evil into my life. The stills of Toni Collette's face screaming opened a portal to hell when I looked at it, I was like, bro, I can't, no, no. Damn, we actually agree with her. But the one Kim's talking about, you should, the one, I always forget what the full title of it is. Oh, I thought you were going to say, thanks killing. The exorcism of Emily Rose.

Emily Rose by the coward Robert Ford. I think I might be mixing up my music. Wait, why that one, Kim? Rose by the coward Robert Ford. Wait, why that one, Kim? Cause it is such, cause it's dealing directly with demons entering your body. It's the chick from Dexter Dexter's sister. Oh yeah. Yeah. But she did all of her own. I don't know if you call them stunts, but like, moving.

Yeah. Contortion. And it's wild. I don't know if you call them stunts, but like, Oh, contortion shit? Yeah, contortion. Yeah. Wild. Oh, really? Like the way she can make her face move. Yeah. Like this was, this was no AI.

This is no AI. Wow. That's all I'm saying. This is no AI. Says the priest as he's smoking a cigarette looking. This is no AI. But yeah, that was- We couldn't even talk about it afterwards. Ketra kept trying to bring stuff up, and I was like, keep it to yourself. Wow.

Don't talk to me. And that's a disgrace. Yeah, I need to close that portal. I need to process. I need to process the portal. And Kim was like, please close the portal. I don't want to be in the portal. And I was like, but we're here, and I have to talk about it. I've talked about everything. But to just taking that, Candice Cameron Bure has never watched any of those movies. Nobody who she knows has ever watched any of those movies.

I bet she's talking about Beetlejuice. She is talking about Beetlejuice. She's definitely talking about Beetlejuice. She's talking about Philadelphia Jack with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. That's what the folks she's talking about. Poltergeist was definitely cursed though. Right. That's true.

Yeah, so producer Catherine pointed out that Poltergeist is one that the evangelical- Stuck with people. People, like they just, they have so little to worry about in many cases, and so they're just like making up shit to like be scared of and telling each other ghost stories and it is fun. Rather than going to therapy. Yeah. It is fun.

Cameron. Cameron, yeah. When I lived in Kentucky, like there was like a lot of, the best basketball game after school was Fellowship of Christian Athletes and then they would give you a Christian like testimony afterwards and I saw some wild shit. Fascinating. like testimony afterwards and I saw some wild shit that was like yeah, the Dark like the darkest shit that you've ever seen outside of a fucking recovery meeting That like yeah, I talked about one

I talked about one that always stuck with me where somebody was like Talking about how their sister died next to them in a car accident. And as she died, they knew she was going to hell because she hadn't been saved by Christ. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah. And then somebody we knew, like a kid who we played basketball with, died of a brain aneurysm. And the moms started gossiping about whether or not he was saved. What a horrible fucking existence. Yeah, yeah.

What a horrible existence. But that's what they got going on. That's, yeah. Candace, Cameron, please start, you need to worry about the real threat. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are out here selling depleted uranium, okay? To bad actors, okay?

I also am not entirely convinced, and I hope this is true I really do because I have a very soft spot for child actors in my heart. So like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are kind of the only billionaires where I'm like you do you ladies like your billions? That's a rough road truly honestly cuz I'm just like whatever these Little girls saw like as children like I'm just like you deserve billions But I'm also not entirely convinced that they're of this planet like I feel like they are the strongest argument for like aliens living among us I really do

I went to elementary school with them and they were pretty normal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're cool Yeah, yeah, were they cool. They were yeah, they were cool. Yeah, they're just normal. They're cool. Yeah. Yeah. Are they cool? They were. Yeah, they were cool. Yeah. They're just normal. They were there in school. Oh, there we are. Oh, my cutting out seat because I signed an NDA and I'm putting myself at tremendous risk right now. Hold on. Somebody's at my door. I need to go get that. Somebody's at my door. I'll be right back. I'm sure.

That actually makes me so happy that they were like, like, normal. They had friends, you know what I mean? And like they were just, you know, they were in the grade below me. You know, Mary Kate asked me, you know, she wanted if I could take her to the dance, you know what I mean? But it wasn't like that. We didn't have dates to the school dances back then. You know, it's nothing. You know what I mean? No big deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then they seem normal.

I mean, growing up in LA, like I grew up with a lot of kids who were on TV and in movies and yeah, it's definitely a, it's a variety. Like, you know, Michelle Trachtenberg, you know, rest in peace, I went to high school with her. And you know, she was also like a very normal kid and like, but I get like, when you are acting as a kid, there's so much more psychological, like such a psychological burden on you to keep working to either support your family to like not be bullied by other kids. It's like it's it's yeah, it's fucked up. That's why I like to your point. I'm like, if you make it out of there, fucking God bless you, because I knew, I know too many kids that didn't.

Maybe I'll mention this in my plug area, but this is not something that I normally talk about, but just because it's coming up. Like one of my day jobs is I actually work with professional actor children and I mentor them in like life skills and sort of give them normal childhood opportunities and events and things like that. And we have like a monthly life lesson kind of group or whatever. And it's actually a nonprofit organization called Looking Ahead that is free. Like if you're a professional actor, it's free. You can be in it from the age of nine to 18

and you're in it for the rest of your life, even if you quit acting. And it's specifically geared towards the types of struggles that professional actor kids are dealing with that are just like, there is no other, there's no comparable situation to it. It's a very singular situation. And I have a lot of feelings about child actors.

Yeah, it seldom works out. And it seldom ends up with a kid being able to have their childhood or their childhood innocence intact without having to either, you know, best case is like, you grow up rapidly. Yes. It's like the best case.

Yeah. And it's worst case, It's just all the self cases you don't grow up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So that's the real portal. Candace, maybe reach out to your former co-stars, see how they're doing, help facilitate some uranium. Tell them to put the depleted uranium down. Yeah. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist.

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