The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 429 (Best of 4/27/26-5/1/26)

Episode Date: May 3, 2026

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Um, my, I don't know how interesting it is, but the most recent thing was a search for a Power Shot 3 confetti blaster because I am on tour right now and I do everything myself because I am like a Virgo like I'm very in the weeds and so I have confetti that comes out at the end of the show and I need a hard blast like yeah I need to soak people in confetti I don't want this little like poof and so I was trying to educate some of the different venues on like the real good confetti machines that we need. I need the good shit. So it's a machine. It's not like because there is a

fun thing that I discovered one year's Eve when I had kids that were too young is like there's a thing that you like I think you twist it and it like explodes confetti out of it but like it's also it uses gunpowder to do so

it's very loud and terrifying. It's basically a firework. Love it. Yeah. Wow. I love it. The one you're using is a Like it's actually, you turn it on? Well, I could do a whole show on confetti machines. Okay. But there's blasters that do one big boom and then there's blowers, which continuously feed the audience with confetti.

I love to do both. I love the impact and then the continual hit. I'm telling you, confetti changes everyone's mood. Like, it does. I mean, not that they need their mood change during a comedy show as if I bombed, but you end with confetti. They forgot all your errors. They are like, holy crap, that was amazing. So I really love to fill the whole room with that.

That sounds amazing. No gunpowder. I want to know a person who has a, if I knew a person who had a confetti blaster or a machine, every comedy show I did would somehow incorporate that. Because you know how comedians, we'd just be like, oh, I know somebody who got this. Like, oh, I can use it. I've not even thought of a confetti in the show because I don't know anybody who has a confetti blaster. But now,

but now confetti is coming to L.A. It's coming to the L.A. shows. We're about to blast y'all with some confetti, whether you like it or not. Front row gets hit, and it's going to get hit. Yeah, yeah. Does it come from you? Are you, like, do you have a device

that you're, like, pointing out into the crowd? Is it coming down? I always find it a little, like, after a sporting event, when the confetti comes down from the ceiling, Like it's cool for a moment, but then I feel like it's better if like you're blasting confetti out at people, like a big confetti cum shot. You know, it's funny you say that. I was inspired to do this at the end of my show because I saw Adele in Vegas. And she's dropping shit left and right.

She's got postcards or like little mementos that come down in paper. Oh, wow. The whole time, I'm just blown away by things. It's a very simple concept of paper coming at you from the ceiling. And so I wanted to do that. And I think you have to be in a really massive venue or one that's properly built to drop from the sky. So I just shoot them out at people from the stage. And I do travel with one that is only $200.

And it hits people pretty good. But if I'm doing a big theater, like 1,500 people or more, I rent them out. And they hit them hard. I love it. Do theater, do the people who work at the theater love you? They're just like pulling confetti up. It's three months out of like MSC pressure. You actually have to pay a cleanup fee, so I pay usually a grand or more for them to clean it up.

Wow, that's a showman right there. Yeah, well, I don't have a choice. I'll pay it every time because it's worth it. Yeah. Yes. No choice. Yeah. I like that.

Absolutely perfection. Speaking of Carrie Fisher towards the end of her life, and I didn't get to this during the icon episode, but she did have a habit of bringing glitter, wherever she went and just like glitter bombing people. Now see, that's jail. That's jail time. There is no cleanup fee for that.

Yeah. You will be finding that for years. I went to a Kesha concert once and I, the amount of glitter everyone was throwing, I swear, I was finding it for weeks. It was, that's a rough place to be. Yeah. For play. Great use of your iconography, though. It's like the bill, Bill,

being like no one will ever remember or no one will ever believe you when he like runs up and like hug someone or like helps people. It takes a bite of their food. Yeah. That's what he's doing. Yeah. What is, uh, what's something you guys think is underrated? Katie, you want to start us? I do.

And I have a very simple one that I think is going to be a nice gift for everyone. Oh. Cutting up your banana. Oh. Oh, that is good. If you're going to put a banana on a yogurt or a cereal or a situation, and just take a few seconds, cut that up with a knife, and you are going to have a fancy, fancy day.

South Indian drunk food, yogurt rice and banana, cut up on top. So good. Oh, so good. My best friend in junior high, and then we went to college together, too, she was South Indian, and her mother would always send us the greatest food to college. And it was always like, and she would put, like, hot sauce on ice cream. Oh, that's wild. Yeah, and it was like, I was like, I get it.

She was like, I got to taste something. The salt and straw method. Correct, correct. So I encourage you all to take that moment to just cut up your banana and you will feel so fancy and you will save $12 for the, you know, cut up plate of food that you would have bought. It's also, yeah, it's an investment in your self-worth. You deserve a cup of banana. Correct. You just need a butter knife.

It's my, like, butter knife. But her knife. Butter knife. I hardly know her. I wanted to give you the space to say that. I knew him to come in and I just wanted to help you get it out. Jack, we know each other too well. I find ice cream without hot sauce on it too spicy.

So I don't know what you guys are talking about. He has to actually add mayo to his ice cream. Just take it down a lot. It's a little too much for me. The skim milk is hot. I love sliced up banana on my cereal. That is one of my favorite little treats in the world. Please, I urge you all.

The one thing that those cereal boxes were not lying about was, you know, the little sliced up. I feel like Cheerios maybe for a while. The yellow Cheerios box had sliced up banana on it at one point. Holly, how about you? What's something you think is underrated? Room temperature butter, keeping it on the counter. Wow. So it spreads so easy and it melts so fast.

I've started buttering both sides in my toast because, you know what? We're all going to die. And the under part is where your tongue is. You know what I mean? Yes. Can I tell you something fucked up from my life? Please. If you didn't, I'd be devastated.

Completely unrelated to that. I killed a man. I hit a guy on the way of this recording. Yeah. It's fine. He jumped in front of the car. No. Anyway,

the apprentice reboot isn't happening because it was Brad Jr. Oh, man. I, okay, I take rolls and sometimes I don't,

this is so fucked up. Guys, please don't think less of me. I think I'm going to love this. I think I'm going to love your idea. And then I don't cut them. I slather butter on the side and I just bite into it.

And then I keep doing that in front of the bite. That's because I don't fucking, I don't fucking slice it. I just take a whole roll, slather butter on the side. On the outside. Add more butter. Chomp Tom,

add more butter. Butter as you go. Hell yes. Butter as you go, baby. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Jack does seem like it just, I'm trying to figure out what bothers me about it.

And I think it's the, I think it's the fact that I'm worried the butter is going to fall off. It won't. It won't. Not if you do it right. Then I'm good. Then we're good here. Halleis and I were the same.

Yeah. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. My grandmother would never refrigerate butter. That was not a thing that she had, she was like, no, you don't want.

And milk is supposed to be raw. Am I right, guys? But eggs too. Eggs are supposed to be in the fridge either. So eggs that are actually like fresh from the bird. Yeah, real eggs are allowed to, yeah, you don't, you don't refrigerate them. I'm going to need to talk to people in my tropical places. Please don't listen to this podcast.

This is for white environments only. People in the tropical place have never heard of refrigerating eggs because they don't have to. There's like something weird. I think that's right that there's something weird that is done to eggs by like, you know, factories, egg factories. I mean, stop calling me that, Jack.

I've asked you a million times. I am a woman. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You're broad. What is, Tori, something you think is overrated? I think that, given the Christian nationalist vibes we're getting as a country, I think that using apocalyptic language is kind of overrated. I think that we're like giving them what they want when we're like,

oh, the world is ending and whatever. Because they're like, yeah, that's what you want. We want to, like, trigger the rapture and Jesus comes back and God does this big old genocide and, like, gives us the earth. And I'm like, I don't actually think we should be entertaining this logic at all. I think it's probably not good for your mental health, one. But also, it's like, let's imagine a future without these people being in charge instead of just being like, oh, well, this is the end. They got it. They're taking us out.

Impossible. They will always be in charge. Oh, wait. They very recently were viewed as just wackos who shouldn't be in charge of. anything? I think, yeah. So in the book, The Ministry for the Future, I probably have like referenced this line on here before, but, and to be fair to the author, he's kind of disavowed this a little bit, but one of the lines in the book is people have an easier time imagining the end of the world than the end of capitalism, which I personally took as a challenge.

And I was like, hey, let's do this differently. And so I think that like when I just don't want to be using framing, even if I'm kidding around, I don't want to be using framing that like Mike Huckabee and Pete Hegseth like sincerely believe. I don't want to give them that win. I don't want to be carrying water for their ideas. So I'm like trying to encourage all of my friends to like, let's imagine something different and new that like doesn't. Yeah. What if we did fix some of this shit? I feel not called out, but called in. And I like that. I mean, I was raised like Christian nationalist like borderline culty. So I definitely was, you know, this is what I was taught as like a little kid. It's like we need to, we need to get Israel to attack or get Iran to attack Israel so that

Jesus will come back and then like they'll do all this fighting and God will kill everybody and then it'll be a grand old time. And, you know, once you realize this, like, oh, this is a death cult. You're like, hey, maybe, maybe not like giving them what they want and like imagining an incredible future for humanity that doesn't include billioners or trillionaires or death cults. I'm Jewish, so I didn't grow up around any of that. Like the end of the world type language or revelations. Like that's just not a thing to me. But I do say like every time I talk about, you know, when we're like, oh my God, this is happening right now. I'll go like, oh, you mean in the in the year of our Satan, 26? And I'm like, no, I need to take that out of my

language because it's the same thing as what you're saying. I'm just cowing to what we're It is. I think we're like inadvertently giving into their, I don't know, propaganda about like how the world should be. And it's like, no, the world should be a place where everyone has health care and you can go and visit the biggest living organism on the planet and, you know, or go to a hot spring, go to the deepest lake in the U.S., like, you know, all these beautiful things that you get to do when you're in Oregon. Everyone should be allowed to do those things all the time and have enough to eat and have to be worried about these people. So I'm like, I've been thinking about the way that like my language carries water for fascists and I'm like, I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm just, I'm just going to, it's kind of like, maybe it's like a name it and claim it thing or like fake it till you make it. But I'm like, no, actually things are going to get better. And there are good people on this planet who are working to make that happen. And we should be encouraging and supporting those people and like doing what we can to like care for our neighbors and communities

and not be not being not using this language of like oh the world's sending it's over we're cooked like you know no again it's still going to be happening in 30 years and there will be like a whole new generation who has to deal with the shit so let's work on it let's get started now exactly don't don't give up don't give up like they don't have as much power as they think that they do so like let's not just preemptively roll over and die for them. I'm just going to, what I'm going to do is increase the amount of times that I say when the revolution comes. There you go. You know?

Yeah, I was saying reconstruction. I'm like reconstruction 2.0 when that happens, all these people are going to go to jail, you know, until we have, you know, abolition prison. Yeah, so we have a different system. But I've been in that one for right now. you know, I, yeah, I'm like, Elon Musk can have all of his assets seized and he can work as a Walmart greeter. And I think that would be good for him to just like have a comfortable middle classish life, two bedroom apartment, take the bus to work, shake people's hands as they come into Walmart for the rest of his life while everyone else thrives. I think that would be so, so promising for all of us. And like so much like psychic torture for him that like the world would just thrive.

off of the, I don't know, he'd start, like, decomposing in real time. And the earth would start healing. Yes, like, all these good things would grow out of his corpse. Like, I'm just trying to be more creative and like, okay, how, what could things look like instead of just being like, oh, yeah, I'm going to give up, you know, the fascist one. So whatever. It's like, no, these people, they don't win. Like, it feels like they're winning for sure.

But, yeah. They don't have to win. They don't have to. So I do love that quote. And I always say that I think the reason we're, at least part of the reason we're obsessed with post-apocalyptic literature is that it's one of the only places that we can realistically imagine a walkable city, like living in a walkable city. Totally. It's not so dangerous. Yeah.

I truly think that that's actually true. that that's people people are just like man the only way that could possibly happen is like everybody else gets wiped out it's like no you can like go to cities in other countries and like they're just like aren't cars they're going to like zip by and fucking kill you dude like yeah like downtown Tokyo at night i'm like there's yeah you don't see cars it's really weird it's like it's like it's like London and peripheral where there's just like two cars and like Yeah. It's super strange.

So, yeah. Paris has cars, but you don't, no one you know has one because why would you? Yeah. Everyone takes the fucking metro or whatever. And it's so. They give you, you know, you move there. There's just people waiting on the corners with, I was going to say, a bicycle and a baguette. Yeah.

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Here, let me read the news. The, you know, as Americans, we're all primarily worried about how are corporations doing. How does this affect corporation? And, of course, we got some good news. I know it was a big relief to me. A couple weeks back, it was reported that, like, Chase Bank, all of the banks that, do like investment banking and like profit off of like trading volume on Wall Street have had like record great profits. Because when there's volatility like the war in Iran, that like everything is, you know, on hyperdrive and everybody's making a lot of trades.

And they're just making so much money off of this war. But I was still worried because I go to the gas pump. And look, I will happily go into debt paying for a tank full of gas in order for... To help America win. To help America win. I'll do anything and make America win. This war doesn't make any sense whatsoever. But like what, like, if they're charging me that much money, the corporations must be hurting.

Like, hurt people, hurt people. Oh, that's so true. That's so true. The gas company. What about the gas companies? What about the oil company? Yeah. You have to account for the emotional labor that they are putting in at the gas company.

I was worried. Yesterday, I was filling my tank of gas yesterday. And the motherfucking pump dropped out of the goddamn car and gas starts spilling all over the floor. And the first thought I had was, I'm wasting the corporation's gas money. You started putting it in your mouth to make sure you're like, I can't waste this. Come on. Yeah. It's so.

expensive. I'm going quarter tanks at certain points. I'm like, surely this is going to go down at some point and we're just going to go quarter tanks for a little bit here. I have a hybrid and I do that thing where it's like, you know, if you drive it real slow. Yeah. That shit is in E mode. Oh, I got my eye on that RPM. I'm like, we're not going over to that's right. That's right. You keep that shit at a nice, slow pace. And then you see a hill and you're like, fuck! No! It's going to be $5!

My girl, my girl be in the car, I'd be like, it's hot. They were like, don't you turn their air to show. And keep the windows up. Put your head out the window like a dog. What do you think I'm made of money? I need this gas money to go into the country club that I want. That's right.

To pay for a shrimp cocktail. That's $40. So, I'm breathing a sigh of relief today, as it was announced, that BP's profits have more than doubled during the Iran war. So I don't know how that's possible. We're great again. I thought that they were charging the higher prices because of the war making things difficult for them. But it turns out they are charging those higher prices because the narrative that the war is making things difficult allows them to do it.

And people won't be surprised. Are you saying they're tricking us? You may remember this from the pandemic. I don't. Supply chain issues were happening. Supply chain issues, in quotes. And it made everything more expensive. And it made everything more expensive on us.

And then the companies were like, we're barely holding on over here. We're going to die. Oh, I'm just poor old McDonald's. And then the quarterly profit statements came out and they were like, guys, we are fucking killing it. We got to pretend to die more often. Yeah, this is fucking great. So I love that.

And like everything is just a go fund me scam now. The whole, the entire economy runs as a go fund me scam. It's just people going like, oh, I have, I have cancer and a bullet. in my skull and I have and the bullet is made of something that's carcinogenic. That's right. That's probably going to give me double cancer. Yeah, so just give me your money, please.

Just give me your money. It's the same thing. It's just BP saying like, oh my God, I've got cancer again. We're in so much trouble. When we had to clean that oil out of the ocean, it really fucked us. It really hurt us. Howie. fucking sucks.

Everything's terrible, man. It's so frustrating. It's so terrible. Yeah. Their profits for the first three months of the year have more than doubled following a surge in oil prices since the beginning of the year on war.

So, hmm. Yeah, because you see what they did is like the oil prices went up and then they were like, oh, we've got to buy more oil, but don't worry, we'll be able to survive this if we just make everyone's gas more expensive and make everyone else pay for it instead of us.

And that's what they did. And good, good on them because I always like it when America wins. That's right. British Petroleum. A British Petroleum. America's favorite company. That's right. But yeah, anytime there's movement, anytime there's anything that, like, allows them to hide a price increase and hide profits in, they will do it.

Yeah. So, yay. You know, you could make money off it by being one of the stock people if you go into stock market and you and you buy stocks, then that's one way. So if any savvy investors out there, if you're listening, buy some stocks. Yes, good, good call. This is sound advice. Yeah. So stocks are like a little bit of a company. So if you buy a little bit of a company that's doing lies good, then you'll make money off those lies with them. Yeah. So, And you're co-signing it, and that's good.

And that's fine. And that's good to make everybody part of the horrible thing. It should be complicit. Yes. I saw something about those stocks in that movie, Wolf of Wall Street. So it's like that, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So they were buying stocks. And I don't remember the moral of the story, but buy stocks. By stocks, exactly. That's the only moral of the story. Not bonds. Bonds are for bitches. Yeah.

Thank you. For people who are in jail. That's right, exactly. Only bailers get bonds. Let's talk about Gavin News because, so it does seem like people are coming around to the fact that some of the stuff bad, that the system that has currently set up is kleptocracy that's harming everybody. And there's a very small chance that the New York Times might be wrong and that this might be more than just a time. little flash in the pan thing, a little fad. This isn't going to be, there's a chance that this might not be like slap bracelets.

Sure, sure. Tom, my gosh. Kind of slow move towards socialism, but not just be a fun little fad that everybody's getting on board with. So there's probably going to be an opportunity for the Democrats to run someone in 2028 who has a chance. and we already kind of have a sense that one of the people they're really going to be trying to get us on board with is a guy by the name of Gavin Newsom. Have you seen this fellow pretty handsome guy? I've heard of him. Surf's up.

Yeah, baby. That's me and Gavin. Actually. He's changed his voice. You know what's some bullshit? You know what's some bullshit? This is why I don't like Gavin Newsom. One of many reasons.

One is because. his name is fucking Gavin. And he's not like, Hey, Hey, what's up guys? So I'm going to be fucking president soon. And,

uh, shit out there is really sketch. And I'm running on a campaign. Yeah, that's the only way Gavin should be allowed to talk. Yeah. Instead, he talks like fucking Batman.

Like he's got the like shitty, gravelly voice where he's like, well, guys, I mean, that's a thing, you know? It's like he's got RFC's voice,

but like, like pitch, chipped it and corrected. Like, a really good editor. A really good editor fucked with his voice. You'd be like,

oh, that's Gavin Newsom's voice. They put his voice in Pro Tools. Yeah. You put some filters on it. You know, cut out. Put the Alex Jones

Will Arnett filter on it. Yes, exactly. You know, just a little, I mean, listen, you do a low pass,

you do a high pass, you do a little D-Sing. And you get all those bleeps and bloops out of there. And this guy's got a Gavin Newsom voice. All I'm saying is this voice should be different. Instead, it's not.

It should be surfer. It should be served. Gavin, that's it, yeah, you're right. Gavin. That was the only issue that I had with him prior to this story. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I was my first, my only complaint was the incongruity between his name and his vibe.

Yeah. But then I read this story. So this is just a New York Times article ostensibly about Sergei Bryn, the Google co-founder, billionaire. So he came to a very surprising realization. He was like one of these tech billionaires who was liberal. And then he found out, after years of being liberal, that he was wrong the whole time and that after years of spending time and money around only billionaires and 100 millionaires,

the correct views actually happen to be the ones that, benefit billionaires. That's crazy, dude. Yeah. Well, it's called growing up, Jack. That's right. You should try doing it. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, think about it. When you was only making like three figures and then you start hanging out with people who made four or five and six figures, you changed Jack. Oh, yeah. That's true. That's so true. Yeah. And you stopped caring about people.

You stop caring about people when that happened. Yeah. Eventually, I'd like to make so much money that I'm like, you know, I've had a, sort of a political reawakening around the whole concept of Arabs. Right. The Muslims, you know, I just said, I don't know, something changed in me. And now I'm like, um, trans? No, thanks.

Around. Somewhere, somewhere around, somewhere around like 2021, I had this realization like, maybe we should use ER instead of A, you know. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Why can't I say it? Why can't? Maybe, maybe people can't.

Jack, you've been asking for years. I've been asking for years. You can't? Oh my God. Is it finally that day? I think today is finally the day, Jack. Because you know how I always do it with the A when we're all for doing this?

Yeah, when can I do the Hard E.R? You get rich enough and they're just like, you can just, say it now. Around us, what's going to happen? We're going to cancel you? Yeah, what are we going to do? It's just, what's his name? The Supreme Court Justice

handing out the pass for all the plaintiffs. Clarence Thomas. New law. Every white man gets five of them. It's like the Pope giving out a blessing to like a room full of them. Just be like a good.

You have all been granted and your wives. They don't roll over, though. So you got to use up all five. A New Year's Eve is a terrible day for Blackbe Day. Yeah. Just listen to one DMX song and, you know, don't waste it all once. Don't waste it at one go. But yeah, so he's found out the secret information that you only find out when you're a billionaire.

That making billionaires pay taxes like they used to when the country was actually functional, would actually ruin the economy. So true. So true. What a fortuitous confluence of events for him and his fellow billionaires. Well, that's a coincidence. So the article is about an attractive young mega influencer who he started dating around the time that he decided that a kleptocracy under Trump was actually good for the U.S.

actually. Turns out, I should have all the power. And this is so weird. Like, what a, this is so crazy that I found this out. But in this article, he had, there's just a brief anecdote where we find out that he Googles Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, one of the world's richest people, is a longtime friend of Gavin Newsom, the California governor. Oh, cool. Both men attended each other's weddings. Oh, I love that.

Mr. Brin pulled Mr. Newsom aside to a different part of the property. They're at a party at this point for a serious talk. So they're at a party and he's like, I need to use the east wing of your house to talk to my friend Gavin. Mr. Brin told Mr. Newsom that he could not stand the state's proposed billionaire tax. I can't stand it. They were soon joined by Mr. Brin's girlfriend, Jerylind Gilbert Sato, a Trump-loving gut health influencer. Oh, good. Gut health.

That's truly what's important. Racism overrated. That's right. Very important. Even as she tried to diffuse the tension, joking that she would let Mr. Newsom's bad policy slide through because he was handsome, she argued that the measure would wreck California's economy.

Yeah. Mr. Newsom, who had never seemed inclined to support the tax, came out the next month and pledged to defeat it. He declined to comment on the, interaction with his good friend, who is a billionaire, took place at a party thrown by the billionaire Chris Larson and was recounted by three people briefed on it and reflected Mr. Brin's new war footing. And I do think that's appropriate language.

Like this is a war that they are waging on all of us. Yes. They are waging a class war on all of us. They are, you know, nonstop working around the clock to defeat. a bill that would just ask them to pay a little extra in taxes. It's so crazy to me because like, like the amount I pay in taxes is crazy. You know, not going to lie. Like, I pay more in taxes now as I've gotten mildly more successful, successful than like I used to pay,

then I used to make before, which is insane. Yeah. Because like, like, I'm still hurting. Like, well, I'm still hurting. And then I look at these. And then this isn't rooted in anything because it's not rooted in numbers. There are no statistical numbers that shows that not raising taxes on billionaires helps the economy. Like every statistical numbers shows that's not the case.

And so I don't understand, I mean, I understand because they want to line their own pockets. But it's not even, there's not even a good argument because we have numbers that can say this is wrong. Every time we do this or every time we do that, like the economy gets better or we have to dig the economy out of the hole. And then when y'all niggas get into the office or when y'all people who like don't care about tax breaks except for the billionaires, the economy undoubtedly gets worse. And it's just so frustrated. Every single fucking time. It gets worse when they come into office. Every time.

And it's because they're measuring. of economy is completely based on how their personal stock portfolios are doing. That's the whole thing. So with them, they all argue about how great the economy is under conservatives, but it's only for them. Everything else gets passed down to the consumers. So consumers are paying more, working longer hours and getting paid less, and their money is worth less.

And it's like, you know, we're constantly stuck in this cycle. of, you know, chasing that cheese or, you know, the carrot in front of us. And eventually you just, you know, at some point you're just like, oh, do we have to kill these guys to eat that carrot? Is that what you're going to have to do? Now, listen, I, of course, I'm against all sorts of violence in every single, you know, form. But I don't, it'd be so easy to stop, like, the bleeding for, so easy. for like, you know, a huge portion of Americans. And yet there's like an active choice to not do that.

Yes. It's crazy. It's crazy to me because I'm like, well, maybe they're right in one sense, which is like, well, what are you going to do about it? And it's like the answer so far has been not much. Yes. Their solution is vote for Gavin News. Like that's really going to be one of the only solutions we have.

and just like this is when when during the Biden administration Biden would like throw up his hands and say look man I wish I could like divest from like all this Israeli shit I wish I could or like I wish I could forgive your you know student debt student debts but like I sentiment parliamentarian said no yeah yeah like that's what he's taught you you're like politically that doesn't make sense you have the ability to do you have the ability to do you something, what is this dark matter that is preventing you from doing anything when you're throwing up your hands and being like, they, it's just not happening. This is it. This is what it is. The Democratic Party is a machine that is lubed and fueled by the extremely wealthy and corporations. And like Newsom couldn't be more of a function of that machine. A hundred percent. which, you know, the, you know, arguments against it, Jakees, you were making an excellent point,

which is like the arguments are so stupid. Right. Like to try and sit and make the argument that like the being taxed at the rate that people, that billionaires were taxed, like not even that long, like during Reagan. Right. To try and make the argument that, oh, no, that crushes the economy or whatnot. We all know is nonsense. and also would be laughed that by anyone if it was said in an audience at a debate.

The problem is that you've got this political machine in the Democratic Party that when someone is there fighting that propaganda, when someone like a Bernie Sanders, for example, is fighting it, they are actively being shot down, you know, rhetorically or like money-wise by the Democratic Party establishment, who's like, no, we kind of, we require. We actually do like billions. We like billionaires. Yeah. And so, so it is this constant, you know, we're constantly stuck in this position of being like, all right, well, instead of Bernie, we got someone who's going to be real sad about the fact that they can't do anything. Does that help?

Right. Yeah. It all leads back to people voting for Trump because, you know, people on that side of the aisle are, are dumb enough to believe, because he'll lie to them. He'll lie straight to their face and be like, yeah, you'll all get like a golden balloon. Right. And everyone's like, I want a golden balloon. That sounds fucking sick, dude. Yeah.

No war and Iran and a golden balloon. And then, of course, he does war and Iran doesn't give you a golden balloon. That's what happens. But, damn. I think just as we get closer and closer to the election, it's worth keeping in mind, like, why he is going to be the presumptive nominee. I do think it's going to be a, like, he's not going to be pot. Like, it'll be somewhat akin to, like, when Mike Pence, everybody was like, watch out for Pence in the 24 election.

Yeah, I don't see him getting through a primary. Yeah, I don't think people are going to like him. But, like, that's, it's just instructive to know this is, this is who he is. They're going to shove him down everyone's throat and, uh, he just does not have the juice. He doesn't have the Riz and he's not likable enough. His name, I mean, he, he is another. example of a guy in a political system or a person in political system who is like very a political or a body politic that has become increasingly cynical about politicians and if they look and

sound too much like politicians they are not winning shit right okay Biden was able to eke out a victory during COVID during a pandemic um because he had gotten so old that people were like Well, say what you will about him, but he does seem like genuinely to be a shaky old man. And that's all he's presenting himself to be. So people believed him. You know what I mean? Like it was he did, he seemed like a real person. If he had been, if his brain had been a little bit, like if he had had the same cognitive ability that he had in like, say, 2016 or, you know, 2012 or 2008, I don't think he would have been, he wouldn't have got past.

the primary. Right, which he didn't. Which, yeah, which is why he did it. Yeah. And so I feel like Gavin Newsom is an example of someone who sounds and looks like a politician, acts like a politician, is a, he's the vibe is liar. Yeah. I don't, I don't think he has a chance. I hope not. I hope from your lips. For your lips. Any, anybody giving us any positive. vibes out there. Any hope? Right now? Yeah. I don't know, man. I'm like, I'm afraid. That is also the problem.

That is the problem. We don't know anybody else right now that we probably should run. I honestly think that I think if AOC were able to try to, I would like, she's like having the conversations with people about that, you know. I'd be, here's the thing. With the AOC, strikes me as at least a genuine, like, populist. And, like, yeah, so I think she. I think that's what we need. I think that's kind of our only hope.

Right. I think with her, there is also the problem of sometimes it is a little bit hard to tell whether or not she's serious or lying. They're just like saying whatever needs to be said. But I think I trust her enough, you know, I trust her more than I trust, you know, Gavin, but at the same time, I mean, who knows, dude? I'm not excited about anyone. I feel bad for that, but I also, I also feel like, I don't think we should feel bad.

Well, it's not my job to make myself excited for someone. It's the job of a politician to make you excited for them. That's the thing. Exactly. That's the thing. Exactly. Speaking of being excited for a thing, let's take a quick break. We're going to come back and we're going to talk about rush hour for.

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So the movie is called One Night Only. Mm-hmm. Starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. Okay. Do we know who... Like two babes. Yeah. Two...

Absolute babes. I feel like they're famous, right? Like, they're people who would be in a... Dude, Callum is dating. dating Dula Lipa. Yeah. Like, that's the energy

that I'm getting. Yeah, this isn't just like a random dud movie. This is like a real, a real movie. Yeah. And like everything about it

seems like a real movie. Like the, they got one of the Please Don't Destroy. Like one of the SNL cast members is just like a fun friend, the tall redheaded guy,

just like pops in. He's in everything, Ben. He's in everything. But like, that's, you know, it's like that type of movie where you like,

oh, the comedy guy right now shows up for like five seconds of the trailer. It's not like his movie or anything. Like it's that level of movie and it's just like randomly halfway through the trailer. They're just like on the one night a week or the one day a year that you're allowed to have sex and just like breeze past it. That's just marriage.

I was going to say I'm in the household. Right. Like I do, it is directed by, I think Will Gluck also wrote it. And I know him and I do trust him. And I think that this will be weirder in a good way. Right. Like they're not just going to yada yada past it the way the trailer does. I think this is going to be weird in a good way.

And it's not Christian propaganda? It is not. But it seems like it is. But I wonder if they lean into that. But I do feel that, look, I want rom-coms to come back. And so I don't know. I trust the gluck. I trust the gluck.

Okay, good word. Do you think maybe the message is punishing people for premarital sex will be bad? Oh. No. Couldn't be. No. Wait, I've never seen the purge. The purge is just like you can't.

Everybody kills people. You can do anything you want. Yeah. And so do people just take the whole year to fortify their homes for the one day? You got it. Yeah. Everybody's fortified. So then is that what you do?

You like get hot for like this one day to fuck people? I think, well, so like the day, in the trailer, they are like, she's walking down the street, and everybody's, like, making out hardcore. And it's just like everybody's all over each other. And her and her friend are like, we are going to be very intentional about this as we, like, go through this day. And then, like, five seconds later, her friend's like, hey, I'm leaving with this guy I met in line to the bathroom. So, yeah, that's, I think the dissonance that people are having with this is, like, it seems like a very,

like fun, straightforward rom-com that is written by like funny people with like funny sensibilities. And then they kind of like address the thing, but they're not like, and this is fucked up, right? But like, I think that's, it almost seems like now that

I know that it's written by somebody that you trust. It feels like they're just like, how do you make a movie about fascism? And make it like a thing that people want to watch. And he did EAS.

Like EZA is a very sneaky, sneaky great movie. And so I don't know. I think there's probably another layer going on here. Yeah. That makes me want to watch it. And for any of those like evangelicals or Christo-fascists out there, I just have to point out that if you never get married.

In attendance, I just, I would have to point out the obvious that if you never get married, then it wasn't premarital sex. Just don't get married, folks. Yeah. And then you're just having sex. You know what I mean? That's crazy.

Yeah, because marriage is overrated as well. What if it's just a hard fingering? Does that count? Oh, hard. Yeah, where do we stand on hard fingering? Well, I figure you don't want a gentle fingering if you only get it once. Right. Make it count.

It's, you know. It, uh, what is what counts as sex? What, I wonder how much. Is it just heterosex? Okay, Bill. What's the definition of is? What's the definition of purge? What's the definition of troubadour?

There's so many guys with like fedoras who are dying to answer that question for you. Oh my God. No kidding. And one of them's my husband. I do wonder, like, will we get a couple scenes in the bureau of, like, you know, will there be police actions happening in the background as the day, as the time runs out?

Well, there has to be a government reason for it, right? Like, isn't the purge actually, it benefits wealthy people somehow? Yeah. Yeah. Or overpopulation. Yeah. So, like, this must have some, there must be some sort of nefarious reason why this happened. Yeah, like where Republican conventions, like, you know, then grinder crashes.

Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Interesting. I am very, now that I know that it's made by smart people. He's a good guy. I don't know.

I'll see it. Also, I'll watch anything that guy does. I watched that stupid rowing movie he was in that I couldn't. It was terrible. It was like Green Book, but boats. Oh, the Boys in the Boat? God, did that suck? Did it?

Oh. Woof. Okay. I know. It was a good book. I got the boys in the boat. And because my husband actually was a rower. And he was like, this book is great. And the movie was so bad.

But he was the lead in it. And he was also in that one where they die and go to heaven. He's like the first husband. And she has to. Oh, we never saw that. Yeah. Was Miles Teller? Yeah.

That was weird. It seems like there's like we got, we got to revive the. eternity. We got to revive the rom-com somehow. Let's go with like the biggest, craziest. We don't need a high concept. Yeah, we don't need a high-concept rom-com, I don't think. I think we can just, I like the simpleness of it of like,

I'm in love with my brother's friend. Yeah, it's very comforting. Yeah, we don't need all that. Or J-Lo's a maid. That is kind of high concept. It's very high concepts. Although, like, the idea of being like, well, people, the sorts of people who need to see it aren't going to go out of their way

to, like, watch The Handmaid's Tale. But if you do a rom-com that takes place in the universe of the Handmaid's Tale, like, maybe you get some people who are like, huh. The Handmaid's Tale is a rough watch game. I know. I couldn't do it. I could not do it. But what about all the cute couples during their, like, doing dating?

during that. It's a rough watch. It's torture porn. Yeah. Yeah. But I have a hard time watching any like stressful birthing scene in like any movie. It feels like trigger warning.

It feels like you know when they like when male directors or whatever just like insert like rape scenes for no reason? To give a female character or a backstory. Yeah. That's actually all of our origin stories.

Some people get bit by spiders. and women get raped. How does she get her superpowers? Exactly. Yep. How does she get her spite? But yeah, it feels like that sometimes where there's a really traumatic birthing scene.

I'm like, that is such a visceral, painful feeling. I'm just like, I don't, I can't. No, thank you. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not usually done well because if it's done correctly,

it's more horrifying than I think anyone cares to admit. Yeah. Yeah, there's usually a racist nurse. Or if it's a period piece, racist midwife. And somebody's intestines are on the, you know, table and they shove them back in. And it's just so, I don't know.

Anyway, I will see this movie. I think that it'll be interesting. I want to see how they do it. Yeah, me too. Seeing people back themselves into a corner from a writing standpoint. Yeah. And how to get out? I wouldn't have backed themselves into that corner unless they had an idea of how to get out.

Not the gluck. Not the gluck. Not the gluck. You gluck and kidding me over here with this guy? All right. Let's talk about Scientology. Always. Let's move on to something fun.

Sexy. Please. This is actually fun. There's a TikTok trend where people are running into Scientology centers and like seeing how deep they can make it. And they have little gopros on their heads. I fucking love it. It's amazing. It's so funny.

See what it looks like in there. This is from one of the comments on the Reddit posts that helped spawn this story. Somebody said, I love getting to see the interiors of a big secret place. Why do they have a fake old-timey newsstand and faux theater front? I can't wait to see more of these. That is what's kind of fun about these videos. It's like just going in there and you expect it's like a fucking volcano layer. And it's just like they're making bad design, design decisions.

And it's just a weird. Most of it's just like abandoned corporate real estate in Clearwater, Florida. Right. Like it's not, you know what I mean? I love this. I love it. I would, I would love to do this in a Mormon church. I think we should, you know.

I'm in Utah. Get my GoPro. Really? Like, truly do it. Like, like, I think, I think. We're not. I didn't get approved by the bishop, though. Is that going to be an issue?

Oh, okay, then don't. Don't do it. Definitely not. I don't want to be against the rules. They're my elders. I'm running through. They're ripping clothes off of me. You just see the Mormon underwear.

They keep ripping. There's more layers. It's still there. So many layers. But both Scientologists and Mormons, they'll kill you, won't they? I mean, they've felt. Have you read that Sherlock Holmes mystery? Wait, really?

Yeah, one of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The first Sherlock Holmes. novel. The first time Sherlock Holmes appeared, this is from an iconograph episode about Sherlock Holmes. The first story is just like about a murder. Nefarious ones.

And like Brigham Young is a character. And it's like the first one is standard Sherlock Holmes mystery and the second one is just this weird story that like takes place in Utah. If I had the confidence when I was growing up that I have now, I would have brought that to seminary

and been like, hey, so what the hell is this? I already asked too many questions when my friends took me to church. But what are the repercussions for these people that do the roadrunnery? It does feel like... Property. Inside the video, they usually get away. And the Mormon church just like is standing, or the Scientology security people are like standing in the back. Because they're all fucking weak.

Because they're doing undue labor. You'll... they're like it is really wild like the like a lot of the videos the kids like run past them and like do a juke move

and it's almost like the Scientologists are like in on it because they're like whoa like they like fall like their legs get twisted up and shit it's kind of amazing

they're reduced to being the old man and Scooby do like you kids yeah damn it's done it again I wish I had done it more things like this before my skull hardened, like before I was the right to do things. I did a bunch of stupid shit when I was in my 20s, many of which I cannot talk about. But I went to Caltech and

there's a Pasadena Scientology Center and Caltech students are banned from it because we go in and ask too many annoying questions. Like, we just go in and fuck with them. So any vaguely nerdy person that goes in there, they're like, you can't be here. Not very church-like. Only church. Shads. I know. They don't like when you ask questions.

Only people who look like Tom Cruise or like they aspire don't look like Tom Cruise. Himbo's in here. I also know that if I had moved to L.A. in my 20s, I would a thousand percent of become a Scientologist.

Yeah. I say, you know, I'm not susceptible to cults and I am dating an... Yes, you are. And I am dating an improviser. See? There's just, you know.

You know. You know, who was sleeping with the enemy. Oh my God. Holly and I were in it. When it, like, We were an improv when there was still just like one girl on a team. Yeah. Like, it was bad.

Did she make the sandwiches? Was that what her job was? No, she was a prostitute or a mom. Yeah. But never the, never both. Never both. At least that would have been interesting. If Will Gluck wrote it,

he would have, the mom would have been the prostitute. So some of the stuff they're doing, to answer your question in response to this trend, one of the things is very funny, they're taking the handles off the doors that the people are using to pull open the doors. They're just like, yeah, the churches so that they won't pull it open. Yeah, so they won't open it.

There's also, there's also an Instagram account of this guy who like literally stands outside the Scientology Center in Hollywood, I believe. And as they're trying to like recruit people, he like knows all the names of the Scientologist. He's like, hey, George, you're trying to bring people in today. then they like scutter away from him like and he like gets people to not buy into their stuff he's like don't talk to them they're a cult they do these things blah blah blah and his videos are very entertaining because he knows all the people who work there and they try not to break like they try not to laugh when he says funny shit and they like they have to like hide

and close the door see this is what happens when there's no no third spaces right yeah you just hang out outside so you're i don't know i like this you want to go hang out outside the Scientology Center guys. This is no, no harm, no foul. This is fun mischief. This is great. This is exactly in my mind. Because a lot of these are like, a lot of these are like what I would probably consider

annoying white teens. But this is like TMZ being sicked on politicians. It's like using your annoying qualities for good. This is exactly. You just have to target the right people. Yes. It's like as a big old white lady, sometimes you have to use that. for good and to step in

when you see, you know, the cops. So I don't know. I like it. I think it's, I say good job, good job, gang. Good job, broccoli headed teens. I used to always marvel at the Scientology Center in Los Angeles when I would drive by because they have a huge

cross on top of it and it's kind of like where's there a cross? Like the symbol of like the crucifixion like a piece of like that has nothing to do with it. But also it's funny. Science is in their name because there's no science in there, but I guess

I guess there's no Christ and Christianity either. Yeah. Oh, no Christ in Christianity. That is really weird. That is, I never thought of them of us. Where the cross come from? Yeah. I bet. I always think about science because I'm a fucking nerd and I get really pissed when they use our branding. Right. Where did you go to school for? I did bioengineering

and English. Yeah, I majored in going clear. that's so awesome I wanted to be originally I wanted to be a genetics counselor oh and then I hated chemistry so much that I didn't do it what's a genetics counselor like if you have a baby you smash it so it's kind of like science meets therapy so you like you like you like smash up genes and you say here this is this is what it's not genetic engineering it's not like making a perfect child it's more of just like explaining why your child isn't perfect. Yeah. It's more of like this is what. You smash together your genitals and I'll smash together your jeans. Yeah.

Exactly. But if you're Christian, you're just smashing together jeans. Just denim rubbing on denim. You got to. You got to. The church is officially decrying these incidents as hate crimes. That is the troubling part of it is. Scientology is saying it's a hate crime?

Scientology. That's the only church. When I say the church, I mean Scientology. Everyone should know that. The, they're, which does feel like they're laying the groundwork for doing something like fucking horrific because right now they're just letting the people go.

But that is, I don't see how that's a hate crime. No. But they're not always. They're not a protected class, right? Or Scientology? I guess religion is technically. They are.

That's kind of, that's the trick. This one trick. The doctor's, want you to know about is just to not pay taxes and claim hate crime they truly like that what they did is they you know blackmailed the head of the IRS and made it so that the head of the IRS like couldn't say no to them they got religious status and now they have so much money because they don't have to pay taxes yeah but it is interesting for them to call this a hate crime when like they routinely spy on their critics there's a crazy story about

like David Muscavich, their I guess Scientology Pope guy. When his dad left the church. He is the short king. He is the shortest. The one short king, we do not stand. And that's it. Where is Shelley?

Where is she? That's the other thing. That's a hate crime. She's in Lake Arrowhead. I think that's the, she's in one of those cabins. They have these cabins, these like rehabilitation cabins in there

and that she's being kept in there. Which honestly, I could use a break. So she's at a writer's retreat and the fucking Lake Arrowhead Scientology cabin. She's working at her spec script. Next thing we see it's going to be these guys like parkoring into the cabin. Okay, sorry.

Jack had something to say that we didn't. That is like the buildings that they're running through, if you read the book going clear, like there are rooms in there that sometimes are holding people who are having troubles with the teachings and are getting into trouble, you know, so. Yeah.

So they need to be rescue missions. There's prisons in there, yeah. Yeah. But they. There's also a prison in Eagles Stadium. That's true. What? As there should be.

As there should be. Okay. That's great. There's definitely Eagles jail. Is it like Disney jail? No, it's a real jail. Does Mickey Mouse come in and be? No.

There's a cruise ship jail. Yeah. There's a, there's a judge and there you can go to Eagles court. That's so crazy. It's like the military has its own court system. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So does Philadelphia.

They shouldn't allow that. Now, that seems like too much. I think they should actually. Let them sort it out how they want to sort it out. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to miles.

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