The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 437 (Best of 6/29/26-7/3/26)

Episode Date: July 5, 2026

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He's calling his ex-wife in tears saying about his mistress. What a mistake that was. To find out what happened, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment, laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Shahjahan, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was recently searching for how to remove a header from a Squarespace page that I made,

and I was unsuccessful in my attempt to inject this code into the whatever HTML CSS portion of the Squarespace page, which makes me pretty much question my worth as a human being. And do you have answers? Do you know? No, I don't. Yeah, yeah. This question brought to you by Casper Mattress. I did exactly what the fucking, you do, type the question in and they tell you in the little automatic AI,

whatever, you know, put this in there. It didn't work. Don't do that. Yeah. It turns out, it doesn't know what it's doing. It turns out. It doesn't know what the fuck it's talking about. Hey, Zite Gang, help Shaja Hahn out.

Please. How are we getting rid of that shit? Please. They help me with my planner fasciitis. Shout out to Zike. Yeah. Wait, did that help? They all sent me email.

and DMs and stuff. Wow. I'm like, this is, you guys are great. Who needs a doctor? You know what I mean? Who needs health insurance? Yeah, it's a community building. I know.

I counselor so much different from Ziking. I'll be on the Discord. Like, hey, my cat got diarrhea, man. What I got to do? And then I still think about it. It's like a few years ago. Your cat is like, dear God, please help. Yeah, I was just like, this is great.

Because I have two cats and they're sisters, but one cat is just completely responds differently to the pet food. And then so my cat needed like raw, whatever, there's something. Anyway, my cat has healthy bowel movements. It's on the RFK diet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Well, the answer is different depending on where the listeners were from. Like where the South Asians like, hey, you should try Cilium Husk. All of them were like vapor rub and Jadryl. Windex, Windex, Windex. Just Windex. Just give him Windex. Shout out to all my Greek listeners out there. I know. Matt.

What's something you think is underrated? Underrated. Well, first and foremost, podcasting in a studio. It's so underrated. It's good to be back. Isn't it nice? It's good to be back. I love being in a studio.

You know what? I love leaving my house. It's nice. Leaving my house and then driving to somewhere and then that somewhere being like, ooh, I'm in Hollywood or whatever. Yeah. The grimyest part of Hollywood. I just want people to know.

I used to record here all the time. And it felt so good to come back to this dirty, grimy block. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This place, when you get out, it's funny because all the people, you see so many tourists on Hollywood. Oh, yeah. And like, they're looking around just like, whoa, whoa, what is? I thought this was Hollywood.

No. What was that Spider-Man smoking crap? Mommy, can we go over here? No, kids go back away. He's like, wow. What does Batman have a black eye? That dude is beaming up through the mask. He didn't even pulling it up.

He somehow got his lips around the stem through the mask. Anyway. I just saw Spider-Man's day. It shot a web. The West didn't go that far. No. It only went two inches. And then Shrek stepped in it.

So. Minnie mouse is Mexican. I don't know. She was dancing by Chata so well. It doesn't make sense. What is this place? It's Hollywood in 2026. It's a dying guy.

It'll be funny if the Joker was normal. Like everyone else is the stroke with the Joker is just a really. The straight man character. Yeah. The straight man is the joke. He's like going to the family. I'm so sorry for what you're seeing right now. These people are completely.

I just want to say we do live in a society. And I would never. And in that society. Go to City Walk. Yeah. There's going to be a. a wonderful, a Vruvian pan flute band that performed there. Yeah.

I remember when they used to have, they would allow buskers at Citywalk. That's right. Underrated, yeah, in person. It is great. Yeah. It is great. The energy is just, it's, it's better. It's better.

It's so nice. I don't want to say that about the show that, like, well, majority isn't done. No, of course. You feel it when you're in person. I just love it because it's like, look, I can look you in the eye. Yeah. I can look you in the eye. You know I'm looking at you in the eye.

Yeah. Rather than a screen, you're like, I don't know. Well, that's the thing. The screen, I'm like, I'm looking at him in the eye, but you can't tell because I'm not looking at the camera. Right, right, yeah, yeah. So it doesn't look like I'm looking at the eye back. You're looking at the computer. That's where whenever Francesca's on and the discipline to go straight down the barrel, I'm like, you're a fucking pro.

She is a pro. She knows how to do that shit. She's been doing it. She will talk to you while looking in the camera the whole time. Yeah. Even when she's not, like, podcasting. Sometimes I'll just be like, hey, what are we having for dinner? And she'll find a camera.

I was going to say, IRL terrible. It's really not good. Chicken cordon blue. That's right. I'm like, Jessica, I'm here. I'm here. Look at me. I see you, honey.

No, no, no. I'm going to make the chicken cordon blue. You go get naked and I'll bring it to you. I'm happy to do that. But if you just look me in the eye. No, no. I'm looking you right in the eyes. You're not actually doing that.

Why did you set up a tripod there so you could tell me about the coronon blue. To look into your eyes. You're not actually doing it, though. We're not actually doing it though. Do you want the chicken or not? I want a divorce now. Okay. Tell me to my face.

I'm trying. Look at me in my eyes and tell me. You're not being serious. You want this divorce. You're evasive. All right. You just make the quorum blue. All right.

Thank you. Here it comes. Chelsea, what's something you think is overrated? Skipping your high school reunion. Hey. Because mine is in two weeks and I am going. Hell yeah. I've never been.

But everyone I tell is like, why are you doing that? Why? How people go. I get why. How many, how many, do you mind if I ask how many years? No,

you can't ask a woman. That's fine. That's fine. No, 20 years. Yeah, that's a good one to go to. I know. I went to mine. And it was like,

you did. Yeah, because I'm like, I went to my 10 year reunion. I did too. And I went to the 20 year. Less people came to the, there was a huge fall off actually between 10 and 20.

Interesting. Yeah. But 20 was kind of, it was more because like 10 was sort of like everyone was kind of, you know, they're like in their. late 20s and shit. So you're kind of young and you still feel like, yeah, yeah, so much as possible.

By the 20th one, I was like, okay, now I see what kind of adults we've all become. Yeah, people have settled into whatever their bullshit is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One kid in mine got so drunk. It was like alarming. It wasn't like, it wasn't like violent or anything, but we were just like, oh, is this your first time drinking our 20th anniversary? Absolutely. I almost guarantee. I feel like there's always one person that gets blacked out. Like every time my mom would come back for a reunion throughout my life, there would be that one person that like really fucking blew it. Or some awkward as fuck happens.

Someone's like, I've always loved you. And you're like, oh shit. Yeah. Yeah. Anything can happen. We'll see.

I'll go back. I've never gone to my reunions. Oh. You're missing out. Yeah. I know. Well, now the only one I have to go to next is my 30. 30.

Right. Right. I've missed 10 and 20. How many friends? It's probably going to be even more fucked up. How many of your friends do you still have from high school? From high school? Yeah.

Man, probably zero. Oh, wow. Like that I actually like keep in touch with? Yeah, yeah, yeah. More from college than high school for sure. But high school, yeah. Like, you know, outside of social media. Yeah, yeah, right, right.

Pleasant trees being exchanged. Yeah. What about you, Chelsea? I have a good number of, I think that it's probably because I live here where I went to school. So it was like easier to, yeah, I've moved away and stuff. But I've been back here for a while. And I had like a very close knit group of friends in high school.

And we've just. Yeah. It was, it's nice. And some of them are, they're not going to go to the reunion? Well, no, I am going with two of my, my best friends from, yeah, from high school. So that'll be, you know, I have like a little, a halo of protection as well. You never know. be like, Chelsea, I love the show.

I'm sure that I'd probably get a love to that. But I heard what you said about the Bible on that other show. There's probably going to be some of that too. Yeah, there's always, there's always people. It's also like a very different political landscape than 10 years ago, obviously. And I don't know who went what direction necessarily. Yeah. Oh, it's funny.

See. Obama was still in office. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For my 10, Obama was there for the 20th. That was 2023. So Biden got back in.

But there was like one guy. who was like almost our valedictorian, he became a full-blown, like, maga doctor. Damn, but wasn't, but wasn't willing to, like, stand on, like, the real fucked up parts about it. It was just, like, trying to act as if it was, like, other reasons. I was just very weird.

And I'm like, bro, you're Filipino, bro. Like, your parents are immigrants. Like, what the fuck is this shit, bro? You're not, they're not going to protect you? Um, anyway, another of that. Let's take a break. And when we come back, we're going to check in with the fucking minions, okay?

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hanging out with Mika Abdallah from the hit show off campus. Congratulations on the massive show and massive success. Got through about episode five. I left the next morning to go meet the guys. Came back. It was like, cool, let's pick up where we left off. And that series had been completed without me. Oh, no. That's like the number one rule of watching something. It's literally cheating. It's cheating. That's crazy. We talk about what it's been like watching the show become such a massive hit.

What's next for season two? And just how close the off-campus cast really is. We're genuinely so close. What's the group chat called? If you can say, if it's allowed to be said on the pod. That's a great question. One of them is off-campus Brazil. Okay.

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as part of of My Cultura Podcast Network on the IheartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jake Brennan, and on the Disgraceland podcast, I explore the wild lives of rock stars and unbelievable true crime stories from music history. These are the stories you haven't heard, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. Like the time Paul McCartney spent in one of the world's most notorious prisons. Imagine that. You're Paul McCartney. It's 1980. You're an ex-beedal, and you're doing time in one of Japan's worst prisons right there alongside Yakuza gangsters and for a ridiculous charge.

Or the bizarre crime Lady Gaga is accused of. Who is the artist Lady Gaga as being accused of doing the unthinkable to, after allegedly stealing her music in style to become famous? And what about that time, Blondie's Debbie Harry escaped a serial killer? The man who had given her that ride she barely escaped from was Ted Bundy. Listen to Discraceland on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Ramsey, what is something you think is overrated? Being normal.

Yeah. Being normal and trying to get people. Yeah, and trying to get people in positions of power to like you or to think you're a palatable is disgusting and horrible and soul destroying. And I'm so over it. And the reason I say this is because today, one of my dear friends sent me a New York Times op-ed written by this guy named Matthew Vines, who's like, he's the author of this book called God and the Gay Christian, the biblical case in support of same-sex relationships. He basically wrote this op-ed piece where he's like, I'm gay, not queer, there's a difference. And he goes on this huge rant about how the attempt to turn gayness, the idea of same-sex desire into this broader notion of queerness. of being resisted to social norms.

Like the idea that many queer people started to say, it's not just that we like the same sex or that we're trans or whatever. We don't want to conform to the social norms of a society that is homophobic and transphobic. He says the more and more we did that, the more and more the society hates us, and the more and more we've lost our case for our civil liberties. We've made the category way too broad, and we've lost the idea that gayness is,

not a choice because the more that you argue for queerness, for critiquing social norms, the more you're suggesting that it is a choice. And I'm like, it is a fucking choice. It is every single decision you make every day is a choice you make about how you want to relate

to the world. You could be born desiring the same sex and still choose to live as a gay person every day. Or a straight person. Yeah, or yeah, exactly. Or to choose to be a straight person. Like, you're choosing how you want to

articulate your identity at every minute. And I think this is such a disgusting argument that's like, it's such an overrated argument that's like, if only we could be more normal, those straight people would like us more. And they would keep giving us our civil liberties. And it's like, no,

the culture they come from is corrupted to its core. Yeah. You know, what did gay people gain in gay marriage? Many civil liberties, sure. And also a 50% divorce rate. and also all of the stress and the anxiety of that, nobody ever questioned whether or not the rights of marriage

should be given to everyone, regardless of whether you're married or not. So this idea that's like, I'm gay but not queer girl, you do you and let queer people do them. Or like, we're LGBT, like, what exactly? And what does that mean?

He's like, the more capacious it became the less compelling it is. And I'm like, no, the genius of queerness is it's, says none of us actually successfully live up to these norms. It says you think that gay people are a niche subgroup, a subculture, that in fact, the way that we struggle to feel normal, all people experience this, including straight people. That's the point of queerness. It's to remind you that gender transitivity is not only a problem of trans people. It's an experience everyone has, including cisgender people because nobody ever feels 100% comfortable in their

skin all the time. So like it's a big tent for a reason. It actually makes people feel that they're included in the queer world. Why do you get to own gayness just because you fuck men? Like, chill out. It's just so ridiculous. I just, I don't get it.

Stanley Tucci, technically straight, still gay. Okay? Absolutely. I mean, I just I want to include people in the big tent And I just don't understand why the only way you can make an argument for the rights of gay people is to say that we were born this way. Why? Right, right, right. If I chose to be gay, so fucking what? It's a free fucking country. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can do whatever I want. I'm not destroying the social fabric of the society just because I'm not doing it the way that you want me to.

Right. So I just, that those kind of arguments for normality that's like, but let's just make them hate us less by being normal. And I'm like, they hate us just as much for trying to be like them. Yeah. They hate themselves. Like, that's the problem. Because, like, they've never had to or refused to or pushed away interrogate their own, like, sexuality and queer. Like, straight cis people have never, like, had that conversation with themselves. And that is, like, a huge, like, problem that they've imposed on society.

It's their reaction to not accepting themselves. Totally. And by the way, what has the idea of queer culture done? It has granted more and more people. in the society, gay, straight, bi, non-binary, etc., the opportunity to ask, is this the way I want to live my life?

Yes. Is this joyful? Is following the line of heteronorbidity joyful? Does it bring me everything I want? If it does, girl, more power to you. You know, if it doesn't, you don't have to, but I love, like, something I thought when I read that op-ed piece, which maybe what I should say is the New York Times op-ed

section. No, no. Yeah. Certainly not, Ramsey. Right. Everything they publish is ridiculous. But it made me think of what the queer theorist Eve Sedgwick says. She has this amazing essay that is called How to Raise Your Kids Up Gay. And she says the debate over nature versus nurture is ridiculous. Yeah.

Because whether you chose to be gay or whether you were born that way, doesn't matter if you're in a fundamentally homophobic society. If the society hates people that do not conform to heterosexuality, and you say we were born this way, the conservatives will say, well, we're going to figure out the gay gene and then we're going to eliminate it from existence, right? And if you say, well, I chose this,

they will send you to gay conversion camps. Right. She's like, tell whatever fucking story you want about being gay. Your fight should be to make a world in which the existence of more gay people is a good thing. Right. The idea of fundamental sexual diversity would be valued. And she says in a world like that,

If you want to say that you were born this way over here, more power to you. If you want to say you chose it, more power to you. If you want to say that God gave it to you and it's a gift from the universe, more power to you. She says we should have more stories, not less. And when I read this op-ed, I'm like, this is the fundamental American problem, which is that we want one story to explain everything. We are so incapable of dealing with genuine diversity of thought,

diversity of human experience, uncertainty, the idea that everything, every identity, every term means more than one fucking thing. Right. And like, yeah. Just because you like the word gay doesn't mean it's the only one. Yeah. And like justifications for human existence is a distraction from the inclusion of those people. Beautiful.

Yeah. Beautifully said. It's just, yeah, it's like the exact same patterns of like white supremacy too. You know what I mean? Exactly. All of it is so backwards and it completely ignores like the bigger picture of like humanity. But hey, if that's what you need to power your argument to say this makes me better or these people less than, then that's your fucking problem. Because you know what?

Exactly. People like marginalized people, gay people, people. We have access to shit that apparently y'all don't. Exactly. And that's, I mean, that's upset sometimes for them. Derek Scott would say we have resources in the form of. the emotional capacity to survive and withstand being made inhuman. Right?

Like part of what we've done is we've developed superpowers to live with and through and past being made to feel that we mean nothing. And, you know, to have people who are among our own community saying, why don't you fucking settle down? Why don't you just reduce your identity this one thing? And I'm like, why isn't there room for all of these different ways? if you want to say that your identity is defined merely by the fact that you like having sex with other men and that you are in a loving relationship with a man, bless you, girl, love and light.

And if other people want to do it differently, so what? Why does the struggle for our humanity at a political level need to be a zero-sum game between these moves? Right, right. And also like on the terms of your oppressors too, which is like isn't going to render liberations. in any meaningful way. So put all that shit. Cotons get spent. There it is.

It's like queer people. Career theory is the problem. I love that. He talks about queer theory in it, which is a subfield of interdisciplinary study in the humanities, right? And I love the idea that's like,

so you're saying like a group of a few hundred academics writing over the last 40 years about sexual diversity are like the reason the culture is helpful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like really? Okay, okay, girl.

It's back to what I see. It's reading, villainizing reading. Get a grip. We don't have that much power. We really don't. And it's absurd. You should be so lucky that queer theory came along and gave people an amazing vocabulary

to demand their humanity. Right? Like, that's what we did is we gave four generations of young people a language to claim the diversity of their humanity. And if you don't like the way that it plays out, come up with some other terms. Right, right.

If there's nothing new with saying, why can't we just be gay? They finally got good with gayness. Right, right, right. Yeah, and no fucking non-binary baristas for you, bitch. Get out of our coffee shops if that's how you feel. All right, well, the news is also out there. But this has been fantastic conversation. Ramsey, you always bringing it, Paula V.

Oh, shit. We're on TDZ. I forgot. No, no, I mean, no. Oh, yeah. It's supposed to be the day. I thought I was in class. No, but this is, this is everything.

I mean, like, it's, it's, this is like what underpins the news, like, even especially with the Supreme Court rulings, everything. Like, this is, we are constantly finding ourselves at the whims and wills of the oppressors. And you have all these conflicting theories or strategies, tactics to how to circumnavigate all that. And it's like, and the respect the, the respectability shit. No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. Girl, I know.

No, no, no, no. It's so cliche. I'm just like, okay, we've done this, a thousand. and times. Let's keep doing it more. We're not going to use their tools to bludgeon ourselves further. That doesn't make any sense. But GOP representative, Tom

Keen, I just want to talk about him because we've been checking in on this guy, he's the New Jersey Congressman. He's missed 116 days. Wow! And has not and just first missed out and said like, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm sick. And then later on they're like, bro, it's been like 40

days. He said, I got a medical issue. And when I'm recovered, I will return and I will explain further. And people were pointing it to like, but there's like, based on like financial records, like you're using ubers like in other cities outside of your district, you're doing stuff. It

doesn't seem like you're in one place. I just feel like you're being able to right now, my old. So if you could just let the congresspeople will like disappear and not show up. Sure, sure. Of course. Of course. And look, he returned today. We almost made it 117 days.

He capped it at 116 days. Just a third of the year. Yeah. And just spoke directly. He was trying to make Kamala 127 days. Yeah, yeah. He almost did it. He had some spaining to do, as we say colloquially.

And this is, he's just letting people know, yeah, I missed some time, but I want people to understand why I did it. And it's just interesting because keep in mind, this is somebody who constantly votes to slash health care to. to take away people's Medicaid, Medicare, things like that. So this is Tom Keene explaining. This is why I've been gone. Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing.

I did not believe that this would result in a long-term stay. I was given the diagnosis of depression. Now, when people hear the word depression, many people think simply means feeling sad. but depression is so much more than that. It is physical. It is emotional. And until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand how powerful this illness can be. The doctors recommended that I remain in the hospital to address my illness.

They explain to me that this would be the fastest way to recovery. He goes on to sort of explain, like sort of using like, and this is a, affecting a lot of people. Now, when I hear this, part of me is like, I mean, obviously, anybody, I'm not trying to be insensitive because depression is a motherfucker. And I'm sure most of us know how serious it can be. But there's something, there's just something, something so odd about, like, his caginess around explaining himself, the movements that he's been doing, like saying he was where you hospitalized the whole time. And the, but really, the thing that really gets me is that this motherfucker, he got the audacity to cut people's health benefits by being a rubber stamp

for all of Trump's budget cuts and austerity measures all over the place, then ask the public to be understanding of his, you know, absence in office because he said he was hospitalized with depression, which sounds fucking serious, if that's really the case. But it's like, then I'm like, man, it must be nice where you live in a country where you can take off fucking almost four months of work with superior health care to most of us, like in this country, still collect your salary and still come back to your job and ask for understanding. It's just like, it's this, it's just another one of these moments or like, it's the lack of empathy that I see from the right. And then I, then they come out and say, like, I've actually been dealing with some stuff.

Like, I immediately just become, get sort of, it's becoming dubious. Exactly. You just nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is the conservative playbook. Yeah. Which is to act not human, to say, we're above ordinary humanity. Yeah. We are morally righteous. We are angelic. We have God. And then to absorb and borrow and steal the language of humanity from the people who have

been developing it to hear someone so naively talk on the floor of Congress about what depression is. Mitch, we've been talking about this for 40 years. Right, right, right. It's like people in 2008 who became QAnon members later. shocked that the housing market imploded and are like, oh my God, the housing market is so unfair and it's a Ponzi scheme. And it's like, yeah, people who've been doing housing, like struggling. Yeah. For housing equality have been arguing this for 50 years. So instead of saying, we are joining

late to the conversation and would like to combine forces with the people who believe in mental health, they appropriate the language and say, we've discovered it now. So that's what's what's rubbing you the wrong way is that you are actually deeply sympathetic with people who struggle for mental health. And you're like, who the hell are you guys to claim it for yourselves as, you know, your hobby or like, or it's or as if it's the one, sorry, it's like, or as if it's the one valid example of someone having depression, be like, well, of course, I mean, if you need to take 116 days off of work to sort that out, even though I'm like, it, this feels like this story, there's a lot more going on than what's actually happening. That's why I'm like, I'm going to, I won't fully

cast dispersions on it right away. But part of me, like, I look at and I go, hmm, hmm, hmm, just based on the way. You don't usually get hospitalized for 116 days for. Unless, yeah, unless you, yeah, unless something serious happened. And then I don't know if you had to go to some kind of mental health treatment facility or whatever, whatever that path was. But to me, it just some, because you also do see people tactically deploy this sort of like, oh, this thing happened to me to sort of just paint over whatever, you know, the dereliction of duties. has occurred. But we'll see because I have a feeling that this story's going to keep developing or

the other crisis will just hit and then no, everyone will forget. And they'll just be like, yeah, man, you had depression. They like, they also will employ these justifications for like their absence or whatever, but simultaneously, if you were to say like, oh, trans kids might kill themselves if you don't include them in things like sports, then they'll be like, well, that's not a good enough reason. That's not real. Right, right, right. So it's like the end result might be they, you know, they are all for, you know, healthcare for depression, but then they like gatekeep who gets to claim depression.

100%. I mean, again, it's the fundamental, like, but we don't count. We're separate from everybody else. We're better than. We're unique. I mean, I kept thinking the other day, the Daily,

this story that we're talking about really reminded me the daily, the New York Times podcast, did a whole episode about RFK Jr's kind of new mission to desproscribe to get people off of SSRIs. And there's an element, part of what's weird about him is that there's always

like an element of truth at the core of every one of his projects. Sure. Like you're like, we aren't overprescribed, right? He doesn't care about medicine and he doesn't actually care about expertise or any of that. And all I could think was like, why is nobody talking about the idea that maybe people like RFK Jr and people like him in the government have made life such a living hell for people that they don't feel that they can get off of us at our eyes? Sure.

Like, wouldn't you, if you've had 113 days, days of depression, did it ever occur to you that the conditions that people like you have helped create in this country are making people depressed? No, because that would make me feel more depressed than my doctor said, don't do that kind of thing. Exactly. I'm just hiding into my own ignorance. Yeah, it's, I mean, and it goes again, like this is sort of fundamental to conservatism is this. They've completely excised like the idea from their minds that they are vulnerable in any way. Correct. Because all of it is based on invulnerability of invincibility. So the moment, They do intersect with some vulnerability.

It's like, hold on, man. I had it. I had my kids were premature. I have to disagree on this one time, Mr. Trump. We're like, people suddenly they're able to sort of access the idea that they are vulnerable. But all of the policy, yeah, all of the policy is sort of underpinned by the idea of like, well, we don't give a fuck because we're not vulnerable. Exactly. And that's got to be a terrifying place to be.

Horrible. No wonder that's so depressing. Yeah, 100%. Because the second anything fucking touches you the wrong way, you are, you're going to be fucked up. Exactly. Just we all have to admit, we're vulnerable, we need help. And that's why we need to extend that to other people. It's just like a basic, you know, part of human decency or human right.

Anyway, moving on also because it, the American, the great American state fair is well underway. And a Monday was our first Maha Monday because this thing is happening for like multiple weeks. So on Mondays, the theme is Maha Monday. Monday. Still not sure what that means, although I think I may have an idea from some of the clips. The clips that we've seen so far, we were talking about it on yesterday's show, pretty, not pretty poorly attended. And it seems like if anything, I feel like based on the clips I'm seeing, there's more people there out of morbid curiosity rather than like patriotic fervor. They're just like, dude, is it as fucked up as I think it is? It is. It is. I just want to play a

couple of the clips. One is of Dean Kane and Dr. Oz pretending like they're like, man, this is a great event we're talking about here. Shout out to the just shady TMZ camera person, camera operator here for like while they're talking about the event, just doing a quick pan around the empty

field. So funny. So here's Dr. Oz. You mean Superman Dean Kane? Yes. The one who was trying out for ice. The one that the one that couldn't get into ice. Him and her leave. I did not know this. Oh yeah. Kevin Sorbo and Dean Kane are Full MAGA.

Yeah. You guys. And Kevin Sorbo is a shitty improviser, too. That's what I've heard. Yeah. Oh, I'm so naive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Dean Tain was like, I'm going to sign up for ice.

And they, like, they showed a clip of him in the training. He couldn't do shit. He was having a hard time. He was so past. And I'm like, bro, you know your Superman is made up. It was like me trying to pass the presidential fitness test. You would have done a lot better based on, I think, I honestly believe, I think that in his mind, he's like, well, I did play Superman.

and therefore I have been interviewed with the powers of Superman. But here's Dr. Oz and Dean Kane. Just talking on a casual Maha Monday. What a fucking nightmare blunt rotation. At the packed Great American State Fair. Take it away. And it's because there's tons of people here. It's a huge.

Shady camera fan. It's going to get more and more better than as what. You guys. You can't even like relay how few people there are. It's criminal. That's like, abhorapobic. Yeah.

I'll let him keep playing because they're like, oh, yeah, it's a really great turnout. I've got a lot of people here. We have to want to have to like, Stacey Garrity, that woman will be next governor of Pennsylvania right there. There we go. And it's because there's tons of people here.

It's a huge. Anyway, they keep looping that clip. There's like 20 people there. Yeah. And like most of them, I like saw this like clip of this woman. They have like this weird like, wallpaper that makes like some of the columns look like 3D, but they're not.

It's not, it's all flat. It might be Amanda Moore who's, she's posted a lot from the fair, but like all of the structures. They don't like us touching things, but let me, because of the reflecting pool. Oh yeah, yeah. But like, but she touches it and it's like an acme like Wiley coyote

your backdrop. Just like, yeah. Yeah, they've just been printing out stuff and then like nailing it on stapleting on to like plywood. Like for the Trump's arch like there's columns and stuff. There's like sculpting and stuff and really interesting, intricate sort of designs. All of that is just flat one, like just one dimension, just, wow.

Anyway, or two dimensional. Anyway, so then we have also had some really, some interesting powerhouse conversations. Michael Knowles from, I believe, the Daily Wire, he had a really, really fantastic conversation on stage. You know, he likes to debate, as these conservatives love to do. He was there and he debated a 10-year-old girl. Oh, my God. Abuse.

Child abuse. Or maybe it's like not a debate. I don't know. Maybe it's a discussion. But anyway, he's on stage with a child. And this is what they were talking about on Maham Monday at the Great American Fair. But the one area where the sale of witch trials went a little far is I would say they weren't organized enough. You had these like random judges, you know, kind of burning these ladies.

I'm not, I don't know if they were guilty or not. But I think more, if it were more formalized, built up a little bit more, maybe with like a grand inquisitor or something, that would have been a better way to do it. I am so impressed. I could not. But the one area. So what are we living in? Literal child.

About the Salem witch trials. About the burning of women. Of all those women. And that he doesn't know if that, if they were guilty of being witches. It could have been more organized. What's your take? 10-year-old child? There's another clip.

Why? 10-year-old future witch. Look at her. He's like false. Jackie Robinson never said that. You're an idiot. It's literally, that's what's out of the fair. Yeah.

This is so perverse that this is what people think is normal now. This is that we've arrived. I don't even have the words, you guys. I don't even think based on the attendance. It doesn't, it seems like most people don't think this is. is normal or worth your attention. But yeah, clearly to the operators, organizers of it, they're like, yeah, this is good. And also just, I think, a testament to how poorly organized everything is, like, when it comes

to the right, like, it's like with these sort of cultural events because they, no one is really subscribing to their version of mainstream culture that they want to choose this. I genuinely worry for those children. Like, that is insane. I know. Who else wants to come up here and get fucking rinsed by Michael Knowles? You know what I mean? like, Jubilee, surrounded by 10-year-olds.

He's going to run the formalized witch hunt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, are we not basically seeing the long-term outcome of failing upward? Oh, 100%. Right? Like, if you are able to fail upward in this society, in a runaway train version where it never ends, what you get is these very monumental. decisions like three Supreme Court justices and the running of the 250th anniversary

celebrations by these kinds of people, by people who have no idea what they're doing, who have run purely on unearned confidence and arrogance. And this is what we're seeing. This tattered, unraveling kind of like mush. But also apparently there was like another committee that they like lay weighed, Way-Wade. Way-laid.

Way-laid. That was supposed to originally be, like, it was a non-partisan committee that was supposed to run this. And then Trump was like, now. And then just like, let me just do it this horrific way. That's why we have Queen Latifah at the Coliseum from that same non-partisan group. Yeah. That's our official 250 that we get in LA. Here's another clip.

This is Maha Mondays of this. Just some guy who was like ranting about all kinds of stuff up there. I think this one he's talking about. breast implants. Women in them that are all able to connect about breast implant illness only in the last call at five to ten years. And so fortunately, these women are now learning about BII. They never knew it.

Previously when they got the rest implants placed, it wasn't until 2020. Wow. That the trial was on. The breast implant blackpox warning. So this, so yeah, this is this dude is up there talking about breast implant illness to a packed crowd of threes. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, just some really next-level stuff happening there at the Great American Fair.

I will say this, though. The one thing that I have been reading about is this fucking fireworks show, because there's footage of how they, right now, obviously, the reflecting pool is closed is fenced off, but typically they do launch fireworks from the reflecting pool on 4th of July. So it's like, so it would be fenced off. But now they're putting all the fireworks in. And this is, this is what we've heard, right? Trump said this is going to be the largest.

fireworks show in history. Like, yeah, right, asshole, you say that all the time about everything. But if you're talking just about the sheer numbers of shells that are going to be, like, launched. It's going to be so bad. So a typical 4th-July show in D.C., they say roughly between 17,000 and 20,000 shells for a 17-minute show. This year, they are going to have a 40-minute display that will use more than 860,000 explosives. And they will be set off along the reflecting pool as well as in the West Potomac Park and eight barges on the Potomac River.

Deport the dogs and cats, please deport the dogs and cats. If you're in the DMV area, get your dogs out now. Leave now. The previous record held by Manila in the Philippines was the Guinness World Record Fireworks Display Show in 2016, 89,000 fireworks during a New Year's event. this just like feels just so like typical wealthy absentee father like yeah sorry i fucked up your party to compensate how about one million fireworks yeah yeah just like what the fuck no one even asked for that shit i used to do shit like that when i was like in my 20s and just like didn't know like it was a terrible boyfriend to be like all right completely fucked that up here's like way too big a bouquet

of flowers yeah and they're like no i just need you like fucking listen. Overcompensating. Yeah, exactly. No, here's material overcompensation for you. I know I completely, no one's spoken to the Fourth of July. Here's 860,000 explosives to be launched. I'm so sorry to the way you're right, babe. Will this, will this distraction of destroying your eyes and years help? Yeah. What's also crazy is like, it's like a, the security level is like the same as the like state of the union or an inauguration. So for the people that go, you can't, like, you can't bring shit there.

If you're trying to see it, they're like, you can't bring a lawn chair. You can't bring a cooler. They're gonna, somebody's going to, like, pee or poop themselves for sure. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm sure people will probably expire from trying to endure a 41-minute explosive show directly overhead. But who knows? Who knows? But, yeah, he's looking out for everybody with this fucking crazy fireworks.

Well, and with the way things go with this administration, this is, that is what is projected and then they will end up releasing 12 shells. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, with like a lighter. Six of which will not work. Yeah. Also, just to know, Lord of the Rings. The fireworks display doesn't start until 1030 at night because this dude wants to talk before. Of course.

So it's just like, it's going to be great, guys. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. I hope he scares himself. He gets really scared of the fireworks. No. This is what it would have been like if I went to Vietnam, but luckily I got out because I'm a draft dodger. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see what happens. But that'll be the 4th of July. Big question marks there. All right. Let's take a quick break when we come back. Just got to touch in with a beloved book.

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the Northeast is going through a fucked up heat wave. President Trump was like, it's going to be 107 on the 4th of July, and I'm going to do the longest speech ever to, he literally said to show everybody that I can do it, which you love to see. However, unfortunately, he won't be trying to do that in 107 degree heat.

It's only going to be maybe 80s-ish by the time he's talking at 9.45 at night, which again, so stupid. Because, yeah, everyone's, everyone can't wait for the 10.30 p.m. fireworks show. Isn't it 11? Is it 1030 or 11? I mean, I think 1030 is the earliest it could be. Okay. Given how long Trump's speech goes, how late he is. Oh, right. It's just going to keep pushing it. It could be fucking 1 a. You'd have no fucking clue, which again would be disastrous.

It was like, half the fucking DMV area was asleep by the time the actual fire, where they'll probably be awoken by them because it'll be a massive explosion. Yeah. But anyway, they're going through a heat wave. And Mayor Mondani in New York, he said he envised his constituents in the city of New York said, stay safe and hold on to your butts here. He said, quote, set your air conditioning to 78 degrees to prevent overstrain on the power grid. What the fuck? Okay. So a number of right-wingers on social media probably freaked the fuck out against this.

Just like, hey, man, you don't want the fucking power to go out in a heat wave because that would be disastrous for all. We have Vivek Ramaswami who said, quote, this is what socialism looks like, folks. The right answer isn't restrictions or mandates. It's drilling, fracking coal and nuclear. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, also made a similar point writing, quote, welcome to socialism Okay, thank you Spencer Pratt

Disgraced loser Fuck boy who tried to run for Mayor of Los Angeles and failed I think you're I think you're supposed to get the fuck out Spencer He posted Show us your thermostat

Kami Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports 78 degrees Welcome to communism people Hope you enjoy Again no one knows a fucking thing about any system of government.

It's all reflexive. This person said it. I'm just going to call it socialism because he's saying to not strain the power grid. He didn't make a law. He just was like, hey, this is cool. He's not like, the law is this. Yeah, you're not getting arrested. And now I'm taking over the power.

It's like, no, it was a gentle suggestion. Hey, you sure you don't want to make the power grid to fucking go out? Let's just try. If we can, let's not go lower than 78 degrees if we can. will help if we just all have that in our minds. They say this every year to them. Yeah. Even if you go to like gas companies' websites, they say 78 degrees is what they say.

Like every year, Texas has said it. Every year they say this. What's funny is Eric Adams said the exact same shit last year. You know what I mean? This isn't fucking new at all. And again, to your point about Texas, noted power green. failure expert, Senator Ted Cruz, who loves to go out. He loves to fuck off out of his state when the power grid is strained.

He said, quote, in a first world country, you could turn on the AC. Wow. That's cool. He said, but as a community note quickly pointed out, the state of Texas has repeatedly made the exact same recommendation as Momdani because their grid is super fragile out there. Super fragile caliber spialidocious, okay? Yeah. But anyway, so this isn't anything new.

And you're like, but 78 degrees is like kind of a specific number. It turns out it seemingly originates with Jimmy Carter's response to the energy crisis in the 1970s. In 1979, he asked all federal buildings be set to 78 degrees in the summer and 55 degrees in the winter to offset the quote, incredible strain on resources. And even though like Carter wasn't really popular at the time, the idea of keeping the AC at 78 degrees was supported. by around 77% of Americans who are like, yeah, that's a, that's, that's a fine temperature if outside is, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we could do that. I mean, here the, unfortunately, I mean, I, I, I'm aware of the times we live in, right? Good, good, good, but, you know, this, it's so disingenuous, they know. Yeah, yeah, they know, Ted Cruz knows. Yeah, sure.

Dave Portnow, no, no, all these bitches know. They fucking know, like, this. They know this isn't new. They know this happens every year. They know this is what people say. They know people say it to me. People have been saying it for years. I turn my shit lower to 78. If I'm cold, if I'm hot.

And if I'm cold. Yeah, sure. And if I'm fine, I'm fine. I'll keep it. But, like, we, this is so disingenuous. And that's not the surprising part. The unfortunate part is that we have to give this time. We have to, like, talk about this.

We, like, this becomes a part of the new cycle, which they also, know. And it's just the entire thing is just fueled by disingenuine. Yeah, sure, sure. Dish, I don't know what. It's ingenuous. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And it's like, is laughable is funny. Well, yeah. And I think everything is so reflexively just like whatever they do is socialism, which will be funny when it'll be like, oh, like, if in a fantasy world, America actually has like universal health care, they'd be like, welcome to socialism, folks. And I was like, yeah. Yeah, thank God.

What are you talking about? We have free health care now. Great. Oh, welcome to socialism, folks. Here's your free daycare for your kids. There's your free daycare. Welcome. Donnie created new buses and there are three seats instead of two.

Socialists. Welcome to so. Welcome to free bus, dickhead. Well, the stupid air conditioning culture war is kind of, you can kind of draw a line back to Ronald Reagan because he pushed back against ACs. limits during his first presidential campaign and denouncing, quote, conservation measures that hinder an individual's lifestyle, which isn't that surprising. This dude was literally an air conditioner salesman for General Electric.

Like there's clips of him where he's like, well, Nancy, here we are. We've blown out the fuse from using our electricity. Like this guy is, like, he has been big AC for since the beginning. And also makes sense, too, that like the second he came in office, he took down the solar panels that Carter had installed on the White House, like, anything that was remotely close to being like, this is good for the environment. He's like, I have to absolutely vaporize any trace of that sort of mentality. And also, interesting fact, has people have argued that air conditioning was a huge factor in Reagan being elected because air conditioning allowed for like

the mass migration of people to the sunbelt. So creating a huge demographic shift in like Arizona, Florida, these places now because AC made those places like Nevada because it made like air conditioning. Those places now were habitable and people are like are habitable and we're like, this is great. This is perfect. This is just from a PBS article about like air conditioning and Reagan's elections quote. And that Sunbelt coalition is crucial to Ronald Reagan's election in 1980. Now it's possible that Reagan could have gotten elected without air conditioning, but he would have had to have built a completely different political coalition to do it.

So AC is absolutely part of that story. And again, even before the mom done anything, I don't know if you saw, there's like been a ton of, like, Europe's had obviously terrible heat wave. There's like a thousand excess deaths, the French were reporting because of a heat wave there. And on social media, there are like complaints for Americans are like, I'm in France right now and there's no AC and I'm fucking dying. Like it's so, but it's true. Like it was really hot. And for Americans who are used to AC, they couldn't handle it. But now there's like all these like opets.

coming out, like the Wall Street Journal has one that says, Europe is hot as hell. Why doesn't it want air conditioning? Why doesn't it want air conditioning? I think that the mayor of Paris encouraged locals to hold back on air conditioning units calling them a scourge. Yeah, because he said it will make

the city even hotter. And in response to that article, the deputy mayor of Paris posted a slideshow on Instagram, basically saying, quote, as the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, you bear significant responsibility for global warming and the consequences we in France are experiencing. Your cities are 90% air conditioning.

This is not unrelated to this. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, something that I feel like is a bigger picture thing with this is like the need for the right to continuously push this like hyper individualism, which relates to socialism because it's like if it's all about you and your air conditioning and your comfort, And it's not about community-based, like goodness for all. Then they can continue to make sure that we don't have any kind of unification together. No collectivism. No, yeah.

Like, every way we can have this personal freedom at whatever cost it takes. Which is crazy because when the chips are down and people are actually faced with a disaster, the human impulse is to work collectively. Like when the grid goes down in Texas, those Texans are looking out for each other. Like any scenario. you see where a natural disaster hits and the normal sort of infrastructure that people are used to goes out, people are fucking helping each other. So it's interesting that like so much of their plan is like we got to chip away at empathy as a concept. They're always talking about empathy and how like empathy is fucking gross and disgusting or like collectivism doesn't work. Yet those are the apps. Those are like the engines that keep humanity alive. Yeah. And it's hard to rewire that just because you think you're dumb fucking. Barstool sports god is like, welcome to communism. Welcome to communism.

Yeah. Like, you think someone like at that point, like their AC goes out, the grid goes down and they're going to be like, do you need help? He's like, no, I'm fine, dude. I'm not a communist. You're going to be like, help me. Yes. Yeah.

Absolutely. I'm going to push this thing right now that I think is really cool. I did it. It was an eight-week course. It's called CERT in its community emergency response training. And it helps you figure out how to like help. during a natural disaster and it's totally free. You learn like basic medical, basic firefighting, search and rescue.

It's a very fucking hole. And it's everywhere. And I just feel like more people should know that it exists. Because if everybody just took that course and we had a natural disaster, it would just be like, it would save just countless lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just people had that skill and knew how to work together. I know in LA, they have them online, I think.

That they offer them, like just so you have those skills, which we got to do one of those things where teenagers from drama. class in their high school, like, got blood all over, you know, put blood all over them and we're screaming. And like, we had to like carry them out and figure out how to like fix their wounds. And it was cool. It was wild. That's crazy. Yeah.

I mean, seriously. But I just want, like, a lot of people don't know that exists. And I think it's really cool. Yeah. Right. That's a resource. I mean, especially like in a place that is susceptible to any kind of natural disaster, which at this point, let's be real.

It's fucking anywhere. And we got the big one earthquake, you know, that like both of our. And you got them. Was it like the Cascadia abduction? Yeah. Yeah. What is that called? I think it's a Cascadia.

Yeah. And then you guys have one. Cascadia. San Andreas. San Andreas. We got two fault lines. Awesome. They're like ready to pop.

But the Cascadia subduction zone, that's the, that's a big baller subduction zone. It's a big time. Yeah. And I'll just be out there. Yeah. It's my little helmet that I got from CER class. Yeah. Everybody get trained up.

Because at the end of the day, like, and I think most people have realized this, too, like, especially with. like ice raids and all the, you know, new American fascism that's emerging is that like truly communities like we're the ones that are going to keep each other safe because trying to rely on the state to do that is, is not going to be a guaranteed victory. When at the end of the day,

like merely knowing your neighbors is such a, like just knowing your neighbors will exponentially increase your chances of survival. Because I feel like so many people, especially in L.A., they don't fucking, they don't know most of their neighbors. Like they don't know. Like, you will get very silvers. You don't know, no.

You better. No somebody. Yeah. No somebody. I don't worry if if something go down, I'm a knock on my doors. I'm like, oh man,

I don't know you, bro, but I need help. Who's there? Who's there? Like, it's me. I'm 114, brother. You be seeing me.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't know each other well speak to each other. We drive and say hello. That's you, the baseball uniform guy? Yeah, bro. You know me.

You know I live here. Let me in. Okay. Okay. You know I live here. Let me in, man. You got water? I need something. I'm struggling. I'm dying down there. I need something. And if someone came to my door, I would do the same thing. We're like, yeah, man. Yeah, absolutely. And it makes things less scared. You know what I mean? When you know you can face things like collectively rather than individually, which again, like to your point, Chelsea, if people feel more inclined to think about their own rugged individualism, that also makes you more scared of everything. thing, more frightened of everything because you don't have that sort of the benefit of thinking of

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