The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 416 (Best of 1/26/26-1/30/26)

Episode Date: February 1, 2026

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on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zykeyes. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment, laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by an award-winning audio showrunner and creator of the podcast, The Secret Adventures of Black People. Last year, she launched a show called Our Ancestors

We're messy about the gossip scandals and pop culture That made headlines in historical black newspapers across America Welcome to the show. It's Nicole! Hello! Nicole! Hey! Oh, I should yell. I can't yell. No, no, don't.

You don't have to yell. I feel I have to yell. We are compensating. Welcome to the show, Nicole. Are you good? Oh, God. We said something. interesting to say. So instead, I just yell. You could just turn me up later. Yeah.

Hello. How are you? Just super. Yeah, yeah. They're like, audio was really blown out. He's like, yeah, trying to make it seem like she was yelling. How are you, Nicole? How are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. How are you? You know, as you said, up top, precedented times in the country. Um, you know, but I think the, like I was saying before, being black and Japanese. I've heard multiple versions of this growing up, like I'm sure you have of sort of like, let's not get it fucked up about what this country is that you live in.

And I think this is right now, it feels like a lot more people are now becoming a little bit more in tune with that idea, that nobody is actually safe, unless everybody is safe. A lesson being learned a little late, but you know what, better late than ever. And I hope that, I hope that sort of those kinds of realization,

help people get through this very, very, very fucked up time because it's not going to be easy. It's not going to be easy. It's a lesson we learn every decade, two decades. Then we learn, then forget. This is the cycle we're trapped in, unfortunately. But I'm glad that we're in the remembering part of it. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Because it's like in the 2023-24s of our cycles when you're like, and people are like, and everything's okay.

And we're good again. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, what the fuck are you talking about? Don't be fucking right.

Like, well, Nancy Pelosi had a kente cloth on. I thought we were good. I thought it was solved. She's so old. Did you see how she took that knee? That could have killed her. But she did it for us. But she did it for us.

And look at them. I'll just, and still, I think that's the thing, too. We find herself like similar, similar in how what 2020 did for people understanding police brutality. Now we're sort of broadening it to state sanctioned violence, our stupid, ethno, nationalist, white supremacist, immigration policies. But it's like you're at that crossroad again where people go, this shit has to end full stop.

This is bullshit. This is nonsense. It doesn't work. It's not helping. It's only harming. And then just like in 2020, people are like, agreed the cops are wilding out.

But right. But right now. Not all ICE agents. And right now it's like, ICE is whiling out. But we might be able to just like, no, no,

no, no. What if they weren't wearing masks? Would you feel better about this then? Um, no. But anyway, The most consistent American value is state-sponsored white supremacist violence.

And then the calls for more training to solve it. And the calls for more. Yeah. If we believe in two things, state-sponsored, white supremacist violence. And how do we solve it? Training. Training. Training programs.

Yeah, exactly. The person who, like, shows up in the office like, hi. Yeah, exactly. Sexual harassment. Hold on. This person is, this guy's wearing a clan outfit. Well, he came from the consulting company who's giving everybody all the different branches. That's an interesting idea.

What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I mean, honestly, I was just trying to see what was happening with TikTok now. Yeah. Why was the latest? Oh, it's bad. Under new ownership and nothing works. Yeah, it's like scary new terms of service screen pops up. Yeah.

That's like, we own everything you do. Anything you do anywhere belongs to us now. And so I got scared and deleted it. No, TikTok. Is it under American owner? It's under American ownership. Yeah, billionaire ownership. One thing about those guys is they like owning everything.

Yeah, hence them being billionaires. It's ruined. Wasn't there someone, like one of the owners talking about like very proudly how it's going suppress any kind of like criticism of like Israel and now people are saying like ice videos aren't showing up or it's like really hard to get and I'm like oh right so it's working on day one exactly as planned which is like we need to cut off the information supply to young people yeah but it's also not working because everyone's like oh it's glitching out all crazy now literally not working yeah and maybe they don't have the the good algorithm anymore that made it addictive do we have the

the new one, like what is going to replace TikTok? Because this feels like this is what, you know, this is what it, what always happens. And no, it's time anyway. No, but I don't know, go back to Red Note. Red Note. Skylight is one, I think I hear people talk about.

There's like another one up scrolled. I see a lot of people talk about. There's like another one where people like, what's like one that's owned by 10 cents? So we can go back to the feeling of TikTok. And they're trying to get these other apps. But yeah, I mean, that's Red Note, right?

I don't know if it's owned by 10 cent, but it's like the Chinese version. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think generally people are, I'm feeding it. Yeah, but I think is 10 cent banned? Yeah, maybe not, actually. I don't think it is. Or, yeah, I mean, I don't think red notice ban. Either way, people aren't happy. They said one of their latest fuckups was because one of their data centers lost power.

Oh, no. Oh, fuck. You see what you guys you're doing? Yeah. So you're doing storms? All right. Shout out. Doug, what the fuck?

Shout out billionaires, really. That's the number one force. You're really trying to, yeah, turn the spigot off of information for stuff that'll give people independent ideas of what they want. I know, like, let's not change our behavior. Let's just make it, let's just censor the content. Yeah, let's hide our behavior. Like, again, it's like, don't you remember being a kid? That makes you go harder.

Right. When you're like, you can't have that. You're like, I can't have that. Watch this. Watch this shit. I'm going to ruin my life trying to have that now. You can't have this thing that you choose to go on, that we need you to choose to go on for it to continue to be valuable. We're just going to ruin it and checkmate.

Okay. All right. I don't think that's how that's going to work. I think other people, but that is one thing. Billionaires are always overestimating how much everyone needs them. Yeah, I'm a job creator. If I didn't exist, you wouldn't be able to feed your family. And it's like, no, if you didn't exist.

someone else would be in your place because your job is actually the easiest one at the company. And they think people are loyal to the brands. They don't know people will just be like, yeah, we'll just go somewhere else. Yeah, we don't care. Yeah. Remember Snapchat? No. Nope.

Friendster? Nope. Hey, the kids do. What is something you think is underrated? Saying no. Yeah. Saying no. Yeah, it's underrated because people act like they want to do stuff.

Like, like they're like, let's go to a thing. And they like, you feel corn. cornered a little bit. And I'm like, why do you feel cornered? You could just say no. Right. And if you don't want to do it, like, yo, I always say if it's not a hell yeah, it's a no. Like if I don't feel it in my spirit, if it doesn't light my whole my ass on fire, then I don't want to do it. And I mean, and that also comes from learning the hard lesson, right? Because if you do stuff that you don't want to do, if you go to a job that you hate or if you, you know, go help your friend move when you didn't want to, then you feel like a resentful sucker that. was like, you know, you don't want to be carrying your friend's belongings into their home and drop it hard because you really don't want to be there. You know, you just drop shit like awesome. aggressive. Yeah. Oh, this shit, wow.

All right. No, I really want to help you. How about here? Yeah. Yeah. Those are dishes. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not a hell yet. It's a no. I'm like, I'm definitely, I'm a people pleaser. So I've definitely had a lot of half-assed yeses. but once I really started to go into therapy, I knocked that shit off fully because then I was like, right, right, right. Actually articulates your needs.

That's the big thing. If you can't be out in front with your needs, like in telling people describing them, then yeah, you're going to end up doing a lot of shit where you're there. Like, because man, there's so many times I've gone to things and like,

what's wrong? You're not having fun? I'm like, no. I shouldn't have even fucking come, actually. What the fuck am I doing here? I pre-tell them my needs. This is very dangerous advice for me

because everything, for me is a hell no. And then I have to make myself do things. And when I do them, I'm usually happy. So this is my question to you. I'm very bad at seeing how things are going to actually. Like my predictions are very pessimistic and bad always. So I just have to sometimes make myself do stuff. And usually I'm happy that I did it. For you, is your internal, hell yeah, pretty accurate? like you're like when I have a hell yeah on my heart that's actually going to end up being fun and when it's not a hell yeah it's actually something that I'm going to regret doing it's yeah it's pretty accurate because I can like you know you could just see like who all's going to be there

like yeah you know and like the energy and um and like sometimes it's like a combination like the activity and who's I'm not going I'm not doing it but like if it's like the balance of well I think I might like whitewater rafting, but I might not like it with these two people over here. I'm going to be like, yes, because I've never been whitewater rafting. And then I'm going to be like, well, experience. And then I'll just stay away from those people. I try to balance it. That's great.

That's admirable. This is probably the number one challenge in my life is like what to say yes and no, too. And like I will often just like go to my wife and be like, this is, I don't, I shouldn't go to this, right? I don't need to go to this. My life is terrible, right? Mom? Mom?

I don't like, I don't like art classes, right, mom? No, baby, you don't. You don't. You don't. Play with your Legos. Play with your Legos. Pick the activity, Jack. It's just the, yeah, social anxiety has fucked up my hell yeah, hell no detector.

And so everything is like, well, I don't want to do that. I'm going to feel terrible about myself the whole time. Fuck that. Yeah. Then it ends up sometimes being worth it. So it's a mess out there. What is something you think is overrated? This could be, this could be inflammatory to some people, but I think Miyazaki.

Some people. You talking about what's going to be? Hayao Miyazaki? Yes. Go on. I'm open. I'm open to this. Tell me, tell me.

I don't think, I mean, as an artist, as pushing genre and form, completely rate it. Like, fine. Overrated, I think, one, I was pretty allergic. to him when I was younger because I was on Tumblr a lot and it would be people who made that their whole personality and if you didn't like it it was a referendum on your taste and I hate exactly as person out. Just to because I don't I don't want people to freak out. I want to come in being like Miazaki as a filmmaker sucks. I know I'm actually going to go there. Okay. It sounds like it. Because not as a filmmaker I think not bad. I'm not saying bad.

I'm saying overrated especially in terms of because I saw Castle in the sky and over the weekend. because I was like, I'm older, I want to give it a try, I want to see it. And when I watched it with an open perspective, I went with a friend who really, really loves him. And I felt affirmed in my impulse that while it's beautiful and wonderful, it's a, there's a lot of internalized misogyny under the performance of, like, a female empowered voice. But I always say, people can't tell the difference between a director who hates women or a director who hates women and loves his mom. And this feels like it falls under hates women loves his mom because it's like it felt like these ideas, not quite. It felt like simplicity driven from an inability to accept complex versus an understanding of the complexity.

And so what we herald him as is this feminist and complex to these very like beautiful ideas of humanity. I think we're giving him too much. And then my friend told me his whole things about like identity, family support was that like his family said he was like a horrible and he himself was like I was not there. So it's not someone, I don't know, it just doesn't feel embodied. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah. I mean, I definitely won't push back on that because I think just generally, just Japanese culture. Try push back. No, no, no, it is no, it is very misogynistic like to its core. So that's always going to, it all, that I think definitely bleeds through and a lot of like sort of like those depictions. But help me out though, because people, what I hear is people say he's like

feminist and like he has female leads that are empowered. And I was watching it. I was like, no, but just no. Yeah, I mean, I think I haven't seen Castle in the Sky in a long time, but I think for a lot of the people, they probably limit it to like two to three Miyazaki films and just draw everything from that and are so hyper fixated on their love of that that it's like any fandom where I think it gets, because even for me like, like, yeah, growing up in like with Japanese, I'm Japanese, so ambiently, Miyazaki was, like, always around. I wasn't a fan of every single thing, but I think it's, like, on one hand, because he just completely created a whole other form of, like, animation and an aesthetic that, to your point,

is, like, properly rated. Yeah, I think going deeper is totally fair. But, yeah, I mean, I think the, I think, like, with any fandom, absolutes are probably not great, but I think. Yeah, that's probably what I'm getting at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's everyone. everyone is a human that's flawed on some level, but I think, yeah, I don't know, it depends on your outlook. And I think for sure, growing up in like the Tumblr Miyazaki era is like, it was tough, poisonous because I even was like, oh my God, dude, what the, like, please leave this shit alone. Leave me thinking alone. She does not need to be cut up like this. I will say, I think a lot of

Miyazaki fans are coming with a room tone of Disney movies. And Disney movies messaging around women is... Fair, really fair. Like, is based on the wildest, most sexist tropes that, like, you could possibly embody. Like, I went on the Beckdale cast to talk about Snow White and how they, long time ago. but like they the ways that she every time if you're just viewing it as like a chart of her being in trouble and in danger anytime she does something of her own volition it is exactly sending her to her death and then every time that she is unconscious that's when she is saved it's like the message is like the message is like don't have agency and just be quiet and don't do shit to the point that if you can be untouched, like there's a part where the seven doors are about to kill her with a pickax,

and then she, like, rolls over in her sleep, and they're like, whoa, she's pretty as hell. Then, like, there's a part, like, she gets saved from the coma because, like, she's just laying there in a glass coffin, like, a piece of artwork, and the prince charming, like, here's how pretty she is and rolls up. But then, like, the stuff that she does of her own volition is, like, sprint into the woods, face first and just get like knocked out,

then like break and enter into people, a person's house, eat the most clearly poisoned apple of all time. From a person who hates you. So I just feel like, I feel like, and then from there it's just always, that's the shit is just like, you know, very, that's the under- undergirding message

of a lot of Disney, princess movies. And then to come upon Miyazaki, people like, yo, this is written by like a feminist Judith Butler? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Thank you.

Thank you for giving me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A feminist? Yeah. But yeah, so I think it's like feminist by comparison, but I totally take your point that like once it gets that sheen,

people probably are giving it too easy a pass and just like taking it in as like, this must be fucking great. Because it's not Disney. That's really fair. That's why I say overrated, not bad. Like, by no means he might say bad. It's just that aspect of him felt so overrated to me in a way where I was like,

and you're right, like comparatively sure, like societally sure. And especially you're saying like you're growing up and it's around everywhere, then absolutely it's rated in, I guess what would that be when you're rating to scale, I guess? Sure, sure, sure. Appropriately rated. But yeah, right. Just to add appropriately rated. I think it's like anything.

There's another layer of analysis people can engage in with it that probably people choose not to to sort of preserve the idea of like, no, I need it to be my, you know, my comfort film or creator. That's my favorite line from The Office is when Mindy Keeling's character, Kelly Kapoor, when they're talking about, you know, it's now the episode is under review, but it's when is Hillary Swank hot? And then Kelly's character just says,

no, because if Hillary Swank's not hot, then I'm not hot. That's right. Who is the fairest of them all? It's so perfect. It's a look's acrosy. We belong. Power is transferred based on who is the previous.

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We're back. And how am I pronouncing her name? Barre Weiss? Barry, I don't know. I've always said bar. It's spelled in a way where you go, oh, you're trying to be cute with that name. It sounds like you're spelling it like you don't want me to say Barry.

Right. I guess that's how I sort of perceive it. Yeah, yeah. So I'll just go with barry. Barri. But hey, Barry, look, Barry, whatever. Miss Weiss, the destroyer of CBS News. Yeah.

So she took over CBS News after, having had a unsuccessful blog, those subsidized by billionaire right-wing philanthropist. Don't forget her university, too. At a college that doesn't teach people shit and how to get more calcified

in their bullshit beliefs. So she's taken over CBS News. We've talked about how the CBS evening news with Dopily, what's his name? Tony DeCopal. DeCopal? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tony DeCopal. Yeah, the man who came at Tana Hissy Coates in that interview. The man who came at Tonehousy Coates and they were like, this guy should be the new Walter Cronkite. Right, that's all you need to know.

And he came through and was like, Walter Cronkite ain't got shit on me. I'm the man. And then proceeded to like his very first broadcast like almost burst into tears because he fucked it up so bad. He was like,

are we talking about, who we talking about? Was this the Mark Kelly story? We're not, things are going well. Things are going well. First day, not good. First day at this show that's been on for decades.

Yeah. I think they, I think Loki they hate you in the control room. I think they fucking hate you. Let's be real, Tony. But anyways, she's prepared to change things up and fight fire with more flaming garbage. She just had an all-hands call with the staffers and laid out a bold new plan for saving the newly magealining network.

If they stick to their current strategy, they're toast. She also said that. CBS News isn't producing a product that enough people want and not enough people trust us. Seems like a problem. I'm with her so far. Yeah. Okay. You've diagnosed the problem.

Clearly the real problem here is streaming. She said that the way they need to shift to a streaming mentality is going to save them because that's where the audience is, which is wild that she's just coming to this realization at a time when, like, this was. This was the meeting that when I worked at ABC News in 2002, 2003, this was the conversation that people were having. We need to break out of the paradigm. People are on the internet.

We need to go there. People are watching less shit. Like, we need to be prepared. That the old people of CB, you know, the CBS watchers would like live like vampires. They'll stay like 75 forever. And I'm like, well, They're like they're supposedly we're supposed to graduate into them, but we're not graduating into them because we value journalism. What?

Yeah. Yeah. And we witnessed the change. You're like, I don't want that. She's like, the problem is, it's wild that she's saying. The problem is we've changed for the worse. And that's going to affect things. So if we're producing a product, not enough people want.

Nobody trusts us. And the way that we get past that is streaming, which I will say she shouldn't. be too hard on herself because the 60-minute segment that she banned, she censored because it lacked the Trump administration's argument on the prisons they were deporting people to that were, you know, where people were being in El Salvador, yeah. Yeah, in El Salvador. That actually did really well on streaming after it was accidentally uploaded by a Canadian broadcaster.

Yeah. That one did really well. I didn't even know about it until like I hit TikTok and I was like, oh, yeah, look at us. Which is wild that they go, this thing that we were suppressing that was news did really well, and it's because of streaming. Yes. Not because you're reporting the fucking atrocities at Seacot. It's a one thing that we're not doing. A brief bit of reporting like squeaked through your no news sensors did well.

And she's like, stream. Dude, shit's popping on YouTube actually. Fuck on this other shit. It's really fucking, it's so, that whole meeting was really stupid too, because she also, at that meeting, told staffers at the CBS Evening News, quote, you've been offered a quote, extraordinary chance to leave. She was saying, she was trying to fucking present this like severance like, hey, if you don't like it, you can get out of here, but we'll also give you more. apparently that the severance package was, quote, an enhancement over what would normally get, a journalist would get as part of Paramount Standard severance plan for employees and just really just said, hey, this extraordinary chance is available to anyone if you want to leave too.

So that's also very. Exciting new opportunities and not being here. Yeah, right. Yeah. So she's also doing it. It's just classic corporate media bullshit. Yep. We want CBS News to be like a media startup. up is her thing about the oldest.

A brand that's been around since the 1920s. So are you going to embrace a diverse set of opinions and actually report from multiple perspectives? Is that what we mean by that? Yeah, we are. A new set of opinions to you, not to me. They're bringing on 18 new commentators, like, basically like Fox News. They're just trying to be Fox News.

and will be cutting staff that doesn't align, whose beliefs don't align with her vision. And some of these new hires, man, I did not know about these guys. They include Nile Ferguson, Patrick McGee, Dr. Mark Hyman, the latter being the wellness guru, who's good friends with RFK Jr. And has claimed that he is pro-vaccine safety.

Oh, do you know what else? You know what else he is for being a doctor? He is a germ theory skeptic. Also, you got to. He doesn't fucking believe in germ theory. He doesn't wash. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Heard. And doesn't believe in germ theory. I mean, that is a thing you can only be in this era where like it's just like, well, actually. Yeah. Yeah. Where it's just like, what's the most provocative thing that I could say that is going to get people's eyeballs on this? with complete disregard for the truth. Yeah.

I'm sorry, he caused himself a germ theory denialist is actually how he's been described. He moved through the skeptic phase. Yeah. When he saw the numbers that his germ theory skeptic videos did, he moved right into germ theory denialism. Yeah. Yep.

He's like, that's not enough. Yeah, exactly. I got to go harder at this germ theory. Yeah. This thing that absolutely changed medicine for the better. Actually,

I think it's good to have all these germs inside you in unsanitary ways. Yeah. I mean, it is the main thing that it helped was women in childbirth. That was like one of the first things that it was people were like, I guess we shouldn't walk right from shoveling horse shit into performing childbirth and C-sections. And suddenly everybody stopped, you know, one in two women and stopped dying in childbirth. I mean, so I could see how somebody in this, with this worldview would be skeptical of that idea.

Everything he stands for is like, I don't care if people die prematurely. It's like, you don't, because his vaccine skepticism is just like, you know, he was writing the preface for an RFK book, like where he was just talking about vaccines. Like this guy is just,

just one of these people's like, I don't know, I think suffering's cool or something, maybe, I don't know, my book term. Makes you stronger. Right. He's perfect for CBS, actually. Right.

Yeah, exactly. And what exactly they want to do. They want to have someone who has the title, doctor to go on there. Maybe someone who's watching uncritically goes, well, this doctor said that actually measles is tight. Yeah, yeah.

So. I mean, we should have seen it coming because yeah, Dr. Phil and these other. Dr. Oz, yeah. Weirdos, yeah. Dr. Phil is my personal physician, so I can't talk too much shit. Oh, patient doctor confidential?

Yeah. Exactly. That's why your social anxiety is so, so hot. He's got a lot of interesting. interesting things to say about the journal entries that I sent him. Now hold on, Jack. Now hold on. You didn't want to go to this birthday party?

Why not? Didn't think I'd know what to do with my hands, Dr. Phil. Well, I stood in the corner. Oh, Jesus. All right. Nile Ferguson, though, this guy had eluded me. So he's a conservative, British historian and political commentator who made headlines in 2018

when he had to resign from a Stanford University free speech program after leaked emails exposed his plot to get Republican students to conduct opposition research on a left-leaning student

the fuck he needs opo for and then what? Right? Like, were they going to docks him? Like, what was it? Well, his emails, it's really the tone. It's really in the tone of these emails.

They're just like laughably like movie villain. coded. He at one point instructed his minions. Now we turn to the more subtle game of grinding them down on the committee. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Oh my God.

Asking them to unite against the social justice warriors and urging them to bury whatever past differences they may have for the common good. And now we turn to the more subtle game of grinding them down. The student he was

talking to was, by the way, the son of Susan Rice, a former national security advisor to Barack Obama. He was the president of Stanford College Republicans at the time and he responded to that email saying slowly we will continue to crush

the left's will to resist as they will crack under pressure. What? Interesting. Yes, master. Yes, master. Indeed, we will. This is the son of the national security person from Barack Obama's sign? Yeah.

That person was a person. included on an email. Like this professor was also emailing John Rice Cameron, who's her son. No, Rice Cameron's response was slowly we will continue to crush the left's will to resist. Oh, that's why I don't have kids because you don't know how they're going to come out. Just acting like any national security. I'm just saying, like I don't even if it's under Obama, I feel like national security might. Also, you might be like, we treat people well. But if you're for a living, like ordering drone targeting of wedding parties, then maybe. There might be a little gray area on who's a human and who's not, for sure.

Also, that Stanford Free Speech Program is the most frightening collection of words I've ever heard. Because you know that's just like Silicon Valley, all like autocrat. Stanford is captured. Stanford has been captured. They're cranking out the hits, man. Yeah. But more recently, he's been writing for the free press very well. Voices Free Press, debuting with a genocidal rant that urged the Biden administration to invade Gaza.

He also offered political insights like comparing the 2024 election to Barbenheimer. So he's like a serious thinker that is going to save CBS News. Wait, what? It's a Barbenheimer? The Barbenheimer election while Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness. On the other screen, we have the dark, fissile energy of Donald Donald. Trump. Okay.

By Nile Figginson. Get out of here. Get fuck. Anyways. We'll see what happens, man. I mean, look, I think Barry, you've got to, you're, you've half died. You've diagnosed the problem, but have completely arrived at the most incorrect conclusion possible, which is so funny.

Nobody trusts us. And therefore, we need to double down on streaming by putting the most untrustworthy voices everywhere on our platform. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, again, she wasn't put in there to be effective in terms of making CBS a new, like a good thing.

She was just there to like completely muddy the waters in terms of what people are ingesting what they call quote unquote news and having the name like CBS. It helps. It helps. Just generally, it seems like their problem might be the unpopularity of their message because that, okay, they're eating shit as when they tried to put it on like a major. news network on a major just like one of the major networks nobody wants to watch that shit and then in a more slightly more niche community uh even the fat fascism kink community is not a fan yes the our fucking fascist subreddit has announced that they will no longer allow content or role play featuring ice leaving users stunned that ice is even too evil for the fascist kink community wow yeah it's It's even on the subreddit drama page because the moderator contends with the reality that their kink sub might be problematic.

Oh, really? Really. This is the post. This is interesting. He said, this is from one of the moderates. Hello, everyone. This is Brandy. Back again for some reflection.

This post isn't coming from me in my capacity as moderator, but as a user and doesn't reflect any official stance of the mod team, but merely my own. I've been stewing lately in the aftermath of the shooting of Renee Good and now of Alex Pretty. I've been acutely aware of beyond troubling trends here in this subreddit. First, when we put the community on pause after receiving a wave of input from users that we ought to update our policies, the amount of hostility that I and the moderates received for merely trying to respect the wishes of you, our users was appalling. And this is going on. Apparently, this was like a whole back and forth.

That's just a weird. I mean, what an, like, already, that's such an odd kink to have when you're like, I want you to dress up like Heinrich Himmler and just blow my. back out right now. Like, what the don't be that way in real life? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. What's your fantasy? To be fucked just, oh my God,

just crazy, every which way by Heinrich Himmler. I want my legs shaking of the SS. But I need you to wear this SS armband. Yeah. The pink community is kind of wild because like, like, okay, we're grownups. I've been in some areas

where it's like, yo, you know, radical consent, right? Like, we're not, there's no, and there's no bullshit here, you know, everybody's welcome. All bodies are good bodies. We love that. And then you go on like the message boards because I'm not going to those other parties in real life.

And they're like, yeah, like exactly what you said. It's like weird race play. Right. Crazy like medical fet shit. Like, so it's like, is this them meeting in the middle? Like, hey, I want to be weird, but like you can't really be weird. Yeah.

And I think there's, you know, some people who have, like, shit tied, you know, sexual shit tied to, like, taboos. And, like, maybe this is the ultimate taboo for them. For white people. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's not a good time for that shit. Yeah. Well, it's interesting, too. It seems like the timing is not good.

And the fact that some of them are, like, immediately moving to wanting to fuck ICE agents is, might reflect poorly on your community. Because I think they banned it. Well, so what happened is that this is they go on, quote, if the community has tipped past the point of catering to liberals exclusively to primarily right wingers, Nazis and Nazi apologists, right wingers, then it's got to fucking go. If any of this post is upset or scared you, the reader, you're probably part of the problem. For the rest of you who are actual liberals just trying to express your fantasies safely, I apologize.

I don't mean to deprive anyone of a safe space, but to give you the behind the scenes perspective, this place isn't safe. I honestly think if you get any modicum, of pleasure of like this fucking thing. There's something, you gotta zoom out a little bit. This time for, figure something out. Time to do something. Self-examine.

How way to make yourself a victim because like, yo, like, like you said, like the zoom out, it's a microcosm of the world we live in, which is like very white and very privileged and very like all the things that, you know, this is, this is, they're representing it. Like, so we need to have the safe spaces. we need to like protect our fetish Reddit community. Yeah, like I know we got, we have a place for liberals to explore this problematic kink. I think it's like it also is revealing that it's like,

this is for liberals to like explore this. Somebody made that shit up. It's a safe place. But like. And then they're surprised when it's overrun by actual Nazis. Well, yeah. And it's like, well, I can help you out with that. It lacks that awareness, right?

That I think is endemic of like. like what the problem is a lot of like liberal white voters. Like I see this all the time with people going, it's like Nazi Germany. Oh, no. No, it's like America. It's like Jim Crow. It's like Jim Crow actually. It's like American history.

Well, no, but I mean like to the point where it's like the, like the, you know, the, the, the Nazis, we talk about the Nazis were studying Jim Crow. Jim Crow laws to be like, okay, this is how you fucking subjugate people and create second class citizens and keep them out of your fucking society. Hitler learned from. Henry Ford. Right. Car guy. Like, how racist do you have to be to be a car guy? That's more racist than the guy that's like racist, racist, racist.

Yeah, who's putting the protocols. It's not that Henry Ford had a picture of Hitler next to his desk. Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford next to his death. Like, that's how bad was. But I think, like, even just our, the American culture's inability to say Jim Crow and everyone go, God, that was so fucked up. So yeah. See, because it doesn't have the same weight because we're still in this place where the atrocities committed to black people, especially. Just it doesn't occupy the same part of the brain.

You have to go to Nazi Germany where they go, oh, white people. Right. That was wild. That was wild. I can wrap my head around that. I can't get, I can't experience a requisite outrage to look at something that was so specific to our history and be like, that can never happen. I think that's the thing that I'm really worried about our inability. to really move forward

because we still have this huge blind spot to our own history and being able to reckon with that. So I don't know, it's hard to be like, and we're going to solve it now because X, Y, and Z. I'm like, I've been struggling. Like, I feel like we as a nation,

not us on this call, but like where we kind of slipped up as a nation is, you know, when they were showing, when you go to the museums and the pictures of like the Little Rock Nine going into the school and these like, you know, white women and like old grown up people spitting at children. And I'm like, they're still alive probably or something like there's no like you didn't go find them. There's people who have seen lynchings that are still alive.

Are still alive and they're just like chilling. Like that's the blind spot. Right. Like and we let that shit go and we let that shit go and here we are. Yeah. Now motherfuckers are taking your neighbors away. Yeah. And now you have a subred.

it being like, damn, is it fucked up for us to dress as overseers and having sex? What the fuck? What the fuck? Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck? Yes. It was interesting.

We were talking about how the Trump administration's plan to bring ice to the Winter Olympics in Italy. Yeah. And we were looking at a story from within Italy about a deportation campaign that they were doing inside the country. and in Italy, they were like, this is like the Italian Guantanamo. So like in America, we have to try and refer to the Nazis to like other it to be like, these people are like the Gestapo. This is like Nazi Germany. And everywhere else in the world, they're like, no, we don't need to go that far back.

This is like America. This is, you know, they can see it clearly. They say Gestapo. Oh, I thought these are slave catcher patrols. Right. Oh. Say that. Nobody was like ice.

Right. Yeah. What the fuck? I thought this was a normal Tuesday in America. What? Right. But ice is really losing the crowd at Reddit. Anti-iceice messaging is reportedly all over Reddit right now.

Even in non-political subreddits like our cross-stitch, our cat bongos, which is all about playful drumming on cats. And our massive cock, which now contains posts. such as how hard I get when I think about abolishing ice. They're invited to the party. Exactly. Oh, man. So many. I mean, there's a, I think Ryard wrote an article, too, about how the Minnesota subreddit went from, like, stuff about the timber wolves and the Vikings and like hot dish recipes to one of the like organizing like a focal point for Minnesotans to like to organize.

And obviously that's where the first instance of the Alex. Pretty video was posted also. And I'm sure they're probably, they're like, fuck, man, we just spent all that money on TikTok. So we got to get Reddit too now, even harder. Because, you know, Reddit does, I mean, they're definitely open. They're open to fuckery. But yeah, they're really, we got to ban our massive cock. Yeah.

The Trump administration is taking control of the subreddit, our massive cock. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I wonder if the Minnesota subreddit is, like, if anybody, you. is like also being like, hey, real quick, did you guys hear Janus might, like a Janus trade might be. Oh, in between? Because the, because the Timberwolves are in, like, in the talks.

They're one of the teams that people say it could happen. No, it's pretty much completely shifted to like a community-centric subreddit. That, for that one, our Timberwolves. Our Timberwolves. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about Sea Monsters. We'll be right back. New year, new goals, and in this economy, a better money plan is more necessary than ever. I am Matt. And I'm Joel. We are from the How to Money podcast. And every week we help you to spend

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That's been a lot of different places. The mainstream media like CNN has been very careful about how they talk about this. Drawing a circumstantial connection between their efforts to make videos about ICE and the difficulties they had posting them over the weekend. So they were like, this is circumstantial. We don't have any proof. And it's really impossible to test it. Yeah, it's like they wrote it. It's like they wrote that paragraph with their hands up.

Like someone has a gun on it. Like, you know, we're just drawing circles. You know, you're not trying to say anything here. Just go ahead. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like NPR was a little bit more like TikTok says they're looking into why many users have been unable to send the word Epstein and direct messages.

So they're at least saying it's happening. What is it litigious? What are they citing as their inability? are they like to actually say what is happening regardless of its intent or whatever, you know what I mean, or like the intention behind it. I guess they don't even want to allege that they're engaging in censorship like that. Right.

If they're really being like, why is TikTok saying that? No, why are like, why is CNN? Why is CNN being so like middle of the road? Because that's, like, that's what the oligarchs have told them. That's what their oligarch leaders have told them is the, is the thing that they're missing is that they need to be more middle of the road. They need to do, you know, you saw how Kamala Harris ran to the right and how well that went.

Well, they were like, that's what we need to do. We need to, instead of giving people what they want, we give people what they want from other people. And then we're for no one. Yeah. Yeah. the idea that this there's no way to know like they literally in this CNN article shucks and really there's no way to know because the the the fucking I cannot think of the word the algorithm is behind club because the algorithm is a black box so we'll never know

and it's like maybe you just tried DMing the word Epstein to something. Like try that. It's also like we literally have been given our algorithms on Instagram. It isn't a black box. Like you can look at an individual. Yeah. I just like how when they're talked, when they're asked about it,

like a spokesperson for TikTok just goes, well, we don't have rules against sharing the name Epstein and direct messages. So we're investigating why some, that's weird. We don't have rules about that. That's crazy. So just so you know officially,

we don't have rules about that. But behind the scenes, there might be some filters being set up. Yeah, Yeah, this all feels very reminiscent of the time TikTok was seemingly blocking users from writing free Palestine when the app returned after being taken offline in the U.S. Right. Remember, like, the app went away, came back, and suddenly people couldn't write free Palestine. So this is the wild-ass journalism that CNN hasn't thought of.

The people at 404 Media, great site, were like, I tried this myself on Tuesday morning using two different throwaway TikTok accounts. Using one account, I could comment free Palestine without a problem, and that comment is still up as of Wednesday morning. Using another, my free Palestine comments were immediately removed repeatedly, and I received a notification that I had violated the TikTok community guidelines. I could comment with a nonsense phrase, free shavacado. Free shavacadoo. Hell yeah. Yeah. Using that same account, however, and TikTok didn't remove it. So I feel like that was pretty straightforward.

I think we did the experiment that CNN. CNN seemed to think was impossible. And back then, you'll never get... But then they'd have to write that, Jack. That's the thing. Back then, you'll never guess what TikTok's excuse was for why the thing was magically eating posts that said free Palestine and kicking those people off.

Temporary instability. Hmm. And that's not true. Oh, exactly the same thing? That's not true. Temporary instability. Oh, the exact same excuse. This, do you guys watch Vanderpump Rules?

Only the first couple seasons. I'm aware of it. Like CNN, all these people reporting reminds me of like Jacks Taylor admitting to cheating. He's like, there's actually no way to know if I did, if it was existing. However, those women, I don't, it's like none of it. And you're like, we could just ask. Oh, you could tell us.

You could tell us. You could say no way remembering your brain having experienced it. I couldn't speak from nobody's perspective. Was that something that happened? Yeah. There's actually no way for you to know if I'm telling the truth or not. So. Stability was temporarily instable, so, yeah.

Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn, whereas the Asian countries, such as... And therefore, never given a name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe someone just accidentally bumped the switches that turn on and off ice and Epstein. Like the new... To say it's like power outage and temporary instability causes them to ban accounts. Just, I mean, people, it's funny because I was looking at the TikTok subreddit to see, because a lot of like the people on there, I don't know how much they represent sort of like all users, but they're all like, we're getting the fuck off this. I'm on red cent. I'm on fucking upscroll. They're all like leaving. I don't know if it still seems like that's that's still a minority of people. But at the very least, this should show you like, you know, guys, this is how like oligarchy works. You know, like they can they're trying to control.

the entire conversation around things like the Epstein files, which implicate a lot of oligarchs and just terribly powerful people, not to mention the genocide that's happening, not to mention talking about the current legal crisis, constitutional crisis that's happening in this country. They're just trying to mute any kind of thing where people are going to exchange ideas and begin to be like, that's right.

Holy shit. Oh, my God, let me put the pieces together. Or let me go further in my education to understand and what the forces are that are affecting my day-to-day, even my little app where I was just watching hamsters make little pancakes. But, you know, this is the state of- TikTok is being controlled by a group that involves the Ellisons.

Yeah. Who, you know, are Trump's close advisors and who he- Owned CBS now? Yeah, you know what I mean? Has made it possible for them to become incredibly and illegally powerful when it comes to the media landscape. So, yeah, spike and downloads for TikTok, alternatives and 150% increase in TikTok uninstalls. And people are also pointing out that TikTok terms

now include, you know, the right to, I think they want to have the right to know what your immigration status is and sexual orientation, which is not uncommon for social media networks, apparently, but still, I think it's a change from before, which not, that's probably not good. And people are also pointing out, like, there's, this is going around. So this week it was reported that meta has been blocking users from sharing links to the ICE list, which is a website that compiled the names of what it claims are Department of Homeland Security employees. And Amazon is very involved in powering a lot of the ICE operations. Computing services. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Well, that, yeah, I read the thing about the cloud. Yeah. Yeah. Seems as bad. Apple also removed the ice tracking app de-iscer last fall, which they accomplished by... Tim Cook. Tim Cook is out there just deep throat in the boot at every opportunity. He's like, oh my God, I love Melania, the movie.

He went to the Malania. Private screening. Private screening. But he might just be a fan of cinema. You never know. He's a fan of making money. Yeah, that's... I wish we got to that story because that...

The Melania thing is funny because it actually does connect to the Stephen Miller thing. Let's do it. I came into today, Miles. I said, today I'm making the editorial decision. We're not going to cover the Melania documentary because we've covered it for like five days running. Because it's not even a movie. It sums up how backwards everything is. You have an oligarch paying $40 million for the licensing rights to a documentary directed by a sex crime.

Okay. And then throwing another $35 million in marketing. So this fucker costs $75 million to try and prop up the image of the first lady who they're trying to make like the soft face of fascism. It has everything. Sex cream, by the way, is going to be a vocal family. Oh, sex cream. Yeah. Shout to Jamie Loftus for that one. Yeah. Early days. Menggazi.

From the recurring segment we had at the time called Mengazi. That's pretty bad. the Me Too movement. Shout it to Zite Gang. That was a Zite Gang creation. That was Zykegang. But yeah, she is still promoting the documentary by opening the New York Stock Exchange. Of course.

For all those movie fans who work on the trading floor on Wall Street. You know what it is. It's the only places that'll have her. Yes, exactly. Because Jordan Belford invited, I'm sure. Yeah, original Wolf of Wall Street. That shit is so fucking stupid. Like, it is also like, it's either going to save us.

or like or take him down because it's that classic sort of story of like and his temperamental wife actually like killed him in his sleep and it's like why it's right it's so ridiculous it's so fucking stupid but i'm pretty sure that doesn't happen in the documentary i would watch if that was what happened to the documentary yeah yeah but i don't think she's a bloodlet i think that's in there but if it if it was like an unauthorized documentary that was just you know like we got a queen of versailles style like you inside the house and like you just saw how dysfunctional their relationship was and like that like the only time they interact is like on a fucking outlook calendar of like appearances except for invitation yeah yeah where she has to like consult her lawyers consult her contract in order to decide if she has to go to any of these meetings but what about that log line or the tagline for it on the poster yeah yeah so jaya was pointing out that uh the the the poster that everybody's seen, because they only made one, has the tagline, a new film.

No, this is real. Hey, hey, that's so real. A new film, first of all. Swish. It's giving Be better or do better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Be best. Be best. Be best.

Be best. A new film, Melania. Speaking of Be best, I will say she's missing an opportunity because she loves to plagiarize women who are like in similar positions, you know, the former first lady Michelle Obama, but with the Be Best speech, I think she really fucked up by her popcorn bucket, which we talked about, which is just the, a new film movie poster

around a tin popcorn bucket. There is a Megan 2.0, M. Threegan 2.0 bucket that is like M. Threegan's head. And I'm just saying like, Oh, just paint Melania's face on there? Yeah, she already looks like that shit. Like you just change the what's on her neck to being like whatever the fucking

why he wears and make her jaw unhinge. I think, bro, she's smart enough to be like, that's going to open the door to countless memes. And I will not have it. And that's true, man. If you had a thing to crack open the head and do, yeah, that's not going to happen. But the thing, the reason why I really wanted to bring this up is because Michael Wolf, the guy who wrote Fire and Fury, he's saying that one of the reasons why,

potentially Trump could be rethinking the the deportation campaign is because Melania was, quote, pissed off that the ICE murders has taken the attention away from her movie. What in the Dudley-Durzley? Like, 37 last year. Like so wild. Because also, like, it's just so funny to see how the truth social account for Trump is just spamming promo for the movie too. When it's like, I don't know.

She's like, you must post about it more done. And he's like, fine. I don't know. No one gives a fuck up. Yeah, like just sort of, you know, trying to hype it up to the base. But again, ticket sales in major blue cities look abysmal as we looked on the AMC apps and regal cinema apps. They're going to, they're going to buy out theaters.

Like they have unlimited money at this point because of the oligarchy. They're going to buy out the tickets. I just, our citizen. journalists need to be ready to show, show that the theaters are actually empty. Right, to go there and be like, I don't know, this is, this is a sold out show. I'm looking on my, here it is, there are no tickets, and it's just me. If somebody wants to write like a new-ish film, I will play Melania, and we can redo it all, but truthfully, shot for shot.

For real. It's got to be such an intro. Like, it would be like, have you ever seen Dogtooth the first, like, Yorgos last month? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, I feel like that must be what her life is like, you know, inside the White House. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world demiles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye.

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