The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 65 (Best of 3/4/19-3/8/19)

Episode Date: March 10, 2019

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or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. 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 laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado ado here is the weekly zeitgeist all right guys let's talk about lil tay speaking of myths you know remember lil tay legends do you remember her rise to fame vaguely okay so for people who don't remember lil tay she was a young uh asian girl who was talking like she was from the hood and was always popping up with,

well, Vicky, you know, she was that white girl who, you know, I'm black, yeah, so it don't matter how, you know, that wild segment of Instagram. As a refresher, you may recognize this voice of Lil Tay. If you're balling in the IA, I dropped 200 racks on this car, and I'm only nine years old. I've got the keys to this car. See this? These are butterfly wings. Y'all haven't seen this car in your lives. I've been driving this around the Beverly Hills area, and I'm only nine years old.

I've got no license, but I ain't ever going to get no license. She's nine. She's nine. She's around the Beverly Hills area yeah if you're saying wild shit yeah and talking like a true wannabe bling bling era rapper like she used to do a lot of money phone type holding thousands of dollars yes like almost exclusively like I don't think I ever saw her without a giant stack of money no no no. No, no, no. Yeah, that was kind of her. She would cease to exist. Her main thing. Yeah. I don't know that everybody knows who Woe Vicky is.

Do you know who Woe Vicky is? Mm-mm. Woe Vicky is another problem on Instagram. Oh, wait. She's more like a teenager. She's kind of in the- Bizarro. Side girl.

Yeah. Woe Vicky. It's like white girls who- Okay, she's, okay. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Outwardly project blackness, but-

Yeah. In a way that is like. Terrible, inauthentic, appropriating, and offensive and racist. Very offensive and racist. And she claims she's black, too, which is on top of it. She may have pushed back now, but at the time, they were like, what are you doing? It's like, y'all don't know I'm actually black. You know, I got my 23 and me.

And it said. She talks like 50 Cent. Right. Youachel dolezal and was like all right she's like that's what if that was like a cartoon character yeah like a like a fucking wrestling persona yeah so they were part of uh disgusting instagram and everyone was at the in the beginning it was kind of a funny thing about Lil Tay because they're like what is this wild nine-year-old talking about she drives cars and then she kind of things went yeah it was just kind of disappeared yeah so there have been a couple articles sort of catching up with Lil Tay well uncovering the truth about Lil Tay uh people have been doing some internet sleuthing for the past six months.

I think she disappeared from the internet back in June or something. And it turns out, this is going to shock people, she is from not the most stable parenting situation. What? Yeah, her mom is... So the way that she was able to get like next to all these expensive

cars and in these like giant mansions as her mom was a real estate agent who was using her boss's car and like these other properties she was supposed to be trying to sell to like make it look like she uh had all this all this stuff without any kind of actual talent or backstory explaining the source of the wealth. It was never like, here are all my albums that I've put out. It's just like, I'm Lil Tay. I'm the youngest flexer on earth. Right. Fuck you.

Yes. And it was like, okay, fine. So as she became famous, her father reached out. Of course he did. Who was divorced and was like. That's when the dads come in right but he was also like you know he kind of has a point in the sense that she's out there like saying really offensive shit right and she's nine and she uh her mother had taken her out of school to pursue this dream um and there's actually a an incredible video video that I think we have the audio from.

Yeah. So a lot of people were like, this just is very inauthentic. A lot of people like her parents are putting her up to this or whatever. And then there was, there's this video where you can clearly hear it's her brother off camera, essentially coaching her to talk all this shit. Lil Tay be popping on YouTube right now. No, no, no, no, no. What are you doing?

You need to be, like, more ignorant. You have to be like, ooh, Lil Tay, Lil Tay out here. Wait, what did he say again? You still irrelevant, like I said last time. What do I say?

Oh. I know, and it's um line yeah ignorant ass bitch okay uh right ignorant ass bitch okay thank you but she's just a little nine-year-old yeah girl who doesn't know and what the yeah her brother or some family member is just right in the mission. Yeah, make it more ignorant. Like, come the fuck on. So, yeah, it's just this fucked up persona. And, yeah, there's a lot of interviews now because people are like, what happened? Her Instagram got, like, hacked is what they claimed, and all of her videos were deleted. And then there was just, like, one post that just said, help me. Right. And people were like, what the fuck is going on?

And then we come to find out her father basically, like to the equivalent of like child protective services in in uh british columbia and was like had the court order her back to vancouver because like i can't have my child running wild in the streets acting like this and she's back and it's weird this is where it gets odd because the mother claims that he's just like out to take her money but there really isn't money yeah Yeah, I saw that interview. She's claiming both things. First, the father's out to take money. Several questions later, we have made no money. Right.

So what money is there? And also that he's not interested enough in her career. So it's like she's both stage mom and also claiming that the father is a stage mom and then also claiming that they never made any money. Yeah. The mom definitely comes off as, you know, it's obviously just a snapshot, but comes off as somewhat suspicious. There's like. But the dad doesn't come off great either just in terms of not being involved until now. Right.

And then but his thing is like, it's weird. It's almost like the dad has a better mind to be the stage parent than the mom, because he's like, I had to trademark Lil Tay. She didn't even trademark Lil Tay. And he's like, and his whole thing was like, if you're going to go and do this and make a career for her, like at least do the bare minimum from a business standpoint that it's protected and you can actually like profit properly off of it. But at the same time, it's like, wait, are your gripes that it wasn't copywritten right or i'm sorry copy they didn't get the copyright someone on twitter is like you can only cancel copywritten anyway uh little missy elliott said that in a song so

cash me outside um and you know it seems like that was more of the issue there were also claims that like his sister her aunt or her his cousin had like babysat her and just locked her in a closet and she had gone out. It was his girlfriend's sister. Or his girlfriend's sister. Yeah. And that was like the closest thing that I saw to some kind of abuse. But no one actually sounds believable in all of it. Yeah, there's nobody good here that she can go to.

It's kind of terrifying. There are no good parents yeah right isn't this scenario yeah it's pretty familiar if you've ever like been involved with or know people who are involved in like a horrible child care child custody thing because it's just both sides just using the kid as leverage and then because lil tay is with her mom in the thing she's like yeah no the the father's bad. I don't want to talk about it. She calls him by her father's last name.

His name's Chris Hope. And she's like, well, Hope never was interested in blah, blah, blah. Right, right. So it's just impossible to know. I mean, at the end of the day, I think the only person who's being harmed here is Claire, what's Lil Tay's real name. Right. Because she says she can't go to school. But then she's like, I can't go to school because I'm too famous.

And it's like, hold on. Right. Wait, hold on. Is that the concern? Or is it that you could be bullied at school? Or is it that you are too famous? Or that one of your parents is saying you're too famous and that they want you working full time on your career.

Yep. Yeah. You know, we're going to talk a couple times in today's episode about sort of the internet being an unregulated place where these crazy ideas or bad ideas can bubble to the surface. And this is one place where the fact that there is no barrier to entry for fame is probably not a great thing. Because you just exploit your kid into making them a spectacle and then try to make money off of it. But that was always the case.

Yeah, that's true. I mean, like, child stars always existed. Yeah, they did. Yeah, this one seems like, because they ask her in one of the interviews, you know, whose idea was it? And she wasn't really convinced it was even her own. Right. She's sort of like, oh, I think I wanted to do it around this time. Yeah.

And it's like, and my brother thought we thought we could do it. It seems like her brother may have told his mom like, hey, maybe there's a way to get real ignorant on Instagram and give her some kind of weird 15 minutes. But, you know, it's, you know, I hope she can grow up to be a healthily functioning adult person because you do not I'll tell you this Claire you don't want to go down this little tape road it is not going to last very long right let's talk about a guy who goes by the name of Ra dude Ra Ra Ra Ra okay so one of the characters from the cohen testimony so there was uh what's the name again matt calamari right who everybody was getting real excited over on

twitter and uh there was another you know this was sort of in passing but during michael cohen's testimony he mentioned there was a scheme where trump used a straw bidder at an auction in the hamptons of like a bunch of portraits that were paintings of people. And they hired this man, Stuart Rahr, R-A-H-R, to bid like at the very end. So Trump's portrait was going to be auctioned off at the very last item to be auctioned. was to put in the highest bid, no matter what the person before you bid, just make the highest bid so that Donald Trump's portrait sells for the highest possible amount of any other item at the auction.

I mean, it's pretty straightforward. It's a disservice to schemes to call it a scheme. It's just Trump was like, hey, rich friend, but make it look like a lot of people want to buy my portrait. Exactly. And eventually this man,

he bid the 60,000. Trump's thing was the highest bid thing, mission complete. And then he was reimbursed. Trump tweeted about it. Trump tweeted about it at the time. Of course he did. Yeah. There's like a great tweet from back then being like, hey, just heard that apparently

my portrait went for the highest amount of money. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Of course. Of course he did. Of course. I didn't know it was in the Twitter era. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So anyway, this guy Stuart Roar. So a few people started kind of looking into this guy. And he is fucking, he, of course, he's caught up with the Trumps because no one is a regular person who's in this orbit. Right. First of all, he has AKAs like us, like Jesus and Mero, like every great superhero, like any public figure who's a god. One is Ra-Ra, or the number one king of all fun. Repeatedly would describe himself as number one king of all fun. I don't know how many superlative sort of things you have to put it.

Number one king of all fun. All. That's three levels of superlative number one king which is usually the highest and then of all yeah and of course the number one king of all fun is a great guy uh so great that he has received a lifetime ban from the sushi chain nobu wow why do you ask well one time uh when he was at one of the midtown manhattan locations he cursed out a manager according to uh this manager uh she says quote he called me the c word and said he would kill me in response to a conflict in which rar allegedly confronted

restaurant staff after not being able to sit at his favorite table. Yeah. So the king of fun comes in. I'm sorry, your table isn't available. I'm going to fucking kill you. Right. Like, what? Uh-huh. So he's a straw man bidder. He's a billionaire.

He owned a pharmacy and then used that position to, he realized that he could buy up a bunch of medicine and wait for people to need that medicine really bad and then charge people extra money for that medicine, essentially. So that's how he made his billion. Oh, fun. At the time... Regular Shkreli over here.

Yeah, exactly. Back in 2013, he was involved in a divorce that cost him $250 million. he was involved in a divorce that cost him $250 million. And so to let off some steam, he began furiously sending a sex tape of himself out to various acquaintances, which is such a weird thing to do furiously. Yeah. I mean, that's weird.

I wonder what really happened for the journalist who wrote this article to describe it as furiously sending. Not just like distributing his own sex tape to acquaint furiously. Is it just all caps in the body? Check out this shit. Check this video out of me fucking. That's how anyone would get over a divorce.

Yeah. When they asked about it, he says, I was in France. I was single. Number one king of fun of all fun i'm sorry all fun don't want to disrespect the title of the throne oh damn i was already out when you said number one king of all fun yeah anyone who has a title have you ever met anyone who's like sort of given themselves a nickname that's like i remember a dude who called himself the king of tustin right and t And Tustin is in Orange County.

Okay. Oh, that Tustin. Yeah. Nobody wants to be the King of Tustin. Nobody wants to be the King of any of the Tustins, but that one's worse. What are the other Tustins? There's one in Arizona. Oh, okay.

Yeah. I'm sure that one might be nicer. Or Tustin. Tustin. Okay. No, there's both, I think. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Someone on Twitter, please tell me that I'm very wrong about Arizona. Someone's like, I'm the king of Tustin, Arizona. I just became immediate. I just got worried that I was mispronouncing Tucson. Yeah, yeah. No, I should be very wrong. Yeah, we were in college, a group of kids who wanted to be the,

were kind of the happier, more happy-go-lucky group of kids who like wanted to be the, were kind of the happier, more happy go lucky group of guys who threw parties. Then my group of friends called themselves the axis of fun. Oh my God. Which is weird that you would go with axis because it has the Nazi. Well, there's Harry Nakamura, uh,

fucking Tommy Gilberti. Right. And, uh and Adolf Hitler. Right. It's the crew. Unfortunate name. It's the posse. Wait, what do you mean? You said they were the happy-go-lucky, and you're like, unlike my group.

What the fuck? Who the fuck were you guys? Oh, the sad boy crew? No. No, we were just- We were the mopers. We fucked around too much. Oh, okay.

You know. Oh, so were they kind of like really all smiles having parties? Like, hey, man, welcome. We'll act you some fun. Yeah. No black people. Right. Oh, shit.

I gotta leave this motherfucking party. All right, guys, let's talk about movies. Let's get into it. We have been. Yeah, behold, what do you mean? Let's continue talking about movies because you guys have never heard of, probably, unless Chinese Zeitgang out there, apologies for speaking past you, but I think a lot of our audience probably has never heard of the number

one movie in the world for 2019. It's called The Wandering Earth. It takes place in a future where the sun- Ever heard of it. Is about to- Ever heard of it. Ooh. The sun is about to swallow our planet, and so they've started a wandering earth NASA

project, except not NASA because it's China. So there's like a global confederation of countries. Anyways, it's- Wait, this conceit is really interesting. Yeah, it is kind of cool. It's so the idea that it's the thing that in your first science class when like a teacher goes you know the sun too will also explode exactly one day and consume us all yes it's taking it to that moment where it's about to explode right and we got to literally just tow the earth somewhere somewhere else yeah the best

we've come up with is put giant likeusters on the planet and turn them on. Hell yeah. But everybody has died, or a lot of the coastal elites, thank God, good riddance, are dead because they stopped the rotation of the earth so that the thrusters would work. And that created all sorts of wild floods, which you would... They should have seen coming, I guess. Yes. We weren't planning that one that well.

But anyways, it's not even close. In terms of worldwide box office, this movie has made $656 million. The second place movie, How to Train Your Dragon 3, has made $378 million. So it's like lapping Hollywood movies. It's destroying them. and it hasn't done well in the United States it's just crushing with Chinese audience has it been released in the United States?

it has it's made about 10 million dollars total oh shit that's still better than yeah I haven't seen it in any theaters in LA yeah and they put everything in theaters in LA everything Roma shout out to Spielberg on that one They put everything in theaters in LA. Everything. Roma, America.

Oh, boy, yeah. Shout out to Spielberg on that one. And I think you see a couple things in this. First, you see that most of the US movies in the top five are sequels. You got Lego Movie 2, Glass, and How to Train Your Dragon 3. And that probably has something to do with why Hollywood will soon be lapped by whatever part of China they make movies in. Yeah, what's the Bollywood?

What do we call it? Chinese Hollywood. Yeah, we got to come up with something that is based on Hollywood. Hollywood. It has to be Hollywood-based. It has to be Hollywood. That's the naming convention we've all decided on. Come on, guys.

Would it be Chollywood? Yeah. For China? Chollywood, yeah. Oh, that sounds like it could be racist if it's said in an Australian accent. Yeah, you want to avoid that one, Mike. Chollywood.

But yeah, we'll just call it China's movie industry that's thriving. Yes. And we'll overtake the United States' paltry little baby movie industry. It also seems like it's a metaphor for future environmental destruction of the world. And it makes sense to me that that would be more popular in China.

Like we had the, what is it, Day After Tomorrow. That's like our only environmental, that and the happening. Yeah, there's, I mean, yeah, sure. Was the core, no, the core was just about the Earth's core stopping. What about 2012? 2012. 2012. Oh, yeah, mean, yeah, sure. No, the core was just about the Earth's core stopping. What about 2012? 2012. Anyone see that movie? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've only seen the YouTube clips that shows the best parts of shit falling apart really high. Sure. And that's all I've seen. Yeah, so maybe there have been others, but it does seem like, I don't know, the U.S. hasn't totally tangled with the future. I hope in that movie, the U S are like the scorned people. Yeah. And they're just like, or they're just like, you know what?

Fuck y'all. Y'all not part of this. Right. Cause y'all denied it for so long. I wish they put that little narrative in there. I hope it is. The one country that's like, I don't know.

Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I don't know. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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Like he's starting his own streaming service? Yes, he is. It's just E.T. It's all Amblin films. Yeah. films. Yeah, so he has, he's going to the Academy with a case that movies

like Roma should not be eligible for the Oscars. Okay, hater. He said, yeah, they're perfectly fine films that should be eligible for Emmys. The shade, Steven Spielberg. Shady.

What? Go on film master's degree. The Emmys are for television, right? Yes. So, you know, they're not movies. Right. They're movie awards. But his argument is, I think, you know, the second you go to the streaming platform, now

you're dabbling in a TV movie, despite Alfonso Cuaron directing it. Because who's he? He might as well. Just the director of Harry Potter 3 and a bunch of other better movies. Yes, yes. But I mean, it's an interesting argument. I think he's really, I think as he says, once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie.

You certainly, if it's a good show deserve an emmy but not an oscar i don't believe films that are just given token qualifications in a couple of theaters for less than a week should qualify for the academy award nomination which i get yeah to us i get that sort of the logic of that argument but that doesn't take away from the actual product that is being created like you wouldn't be like, Oh, that was Roma's a lifetime movie. Right? Yeah, exactly.

It's, and Roma is better than anything. Steven Spielberg's made in decades. So, uh, maybe. Oh, did you see war horse?

Uh, I did. Was that Steven Spielberg? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I did not.

It's, it's, it's, it's gotten so bad that like the last four, I'm like not even, I'm not, I don't even remember that he's directing. His last good movie was Minority Report

and I stand by that there you go that movie's great it sounds like an old out of touch guy who is like failing to evolve with the evolving times and wants to preserve something that is like

kind of going obsolete right so maybe this will cause to preserve something that is like kind of going obsolete. Right. And I mean, maybe this will cause, you know, your Netflixes to put more muscle behind putting these movies out in theaters. Yeah. In which case, like, I don't hate it. Like the Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers movie, like that was not very well handled in terms of its theatrical release it was like out for a week and a handful of theaters right that was it um and that would have been

a fun one to see on the big screen and Roma like it was available both at theaters and on Netflix for most of its run yeah well also Netflix is like a good incubator too. Like it allows for more independent filmmakers to kind of get a shot at doing something big. So like while I want to say I understand what his argument is, I just think it's sort of, it's a little bit ridiculous too.

And a lot of people point to the fact it's like, well, a lot of these screeners, people are watching these films on DVD anyway. So like they're not getting the theatrical experience and i don't think in any way is netflix necessarily a threat to the like the motion picture industry they're just trying to get in on the awards in a sort of like indirect way yeah i mean that's something that i think i had always assumed until uh this piece was written for us by Jan McNabb, one of our writers. And he pointed out that actually when you look at statistics and studies, the streaming services don't take away from the number of people who are going to see movies or it's fairly negligible. And in fact, the people who stream more hours of TV are the ones who are most likely to go out to the theater to see movies.

Maybe working with the streaming services to kind of use that platform to drive people out to theaters would be the smarter way to go as opposed to being a salty little bitch. Wow. I'm calling my favorite filmmaker of all time. Salty little bitch about it. Wow. I'm calling my favorite filmmaker of all time. Salty little bitch. So salty. I mean, what do you guys think? I think the more interesting conversation and Chris Kelly, I think it was,

I'm Chris Kelly, at I'm Chris Kelly tweeted on the night of the Oscars, my top 10 list of movies for this year were, and it was like one, a TV show, two, a TV show, three, a TV show, four, the favorite, five, a TV show. Like, that is a question that I wonder, like, should we just be having the Academy Awards for the best film, filmic things, like things that are made that are like at that level of art like the oj documentary was one that started this conversation a few years back because it was a espn documentary

that was aired in four parts on espn not known for their art house cinema, but they won the Academy Award because it was released in theaters briefly. Right. The question, what was it again? Should we prestige TV shows? Should they be eligible for Academy Award? I don't know because they're not really comparable in that sense. If you have eight hours to tell your story versus two, I have a feeling like

over the long term i don't know it could affect you differently but also a great movie you're gonna be like fuck that was that was that was the shit right i don't know i mean keep them separate but equal cool i have no answer for everything yeah you know it's just a cowardly response to any of like there's no problems everybody yeah i mean i i don't know it to me i just feel like you know if it's a movie because it's a format you know the film is a format right so in that sense i feel like you you should have awards for them but we're watching tv shows on they're made by filmmakers you're right they're on like but screens that are the size of movie theater screens relatively. You have as much access to the composition of what is being photographed as people in the past did when they were sitting in giant thousand-seat movie theaters.

They had thousand-seat movie theaters? There were big theaters back in the day. Wow. Yeah. The golden era, huh? Yeah, dude. I think that for me, I have a complicated relationship

with the Academy Awards because I watch them every year. I'm disappointed by most of the stuff that happens every year. And everyone's like, they don't matter. Just like what you like. And it doesn't matter if something wins or doesn't.

But it does kind of matter because that influences people's decisions to go see other things. Or what they develop. Right. So I don't quite know how I feel about that specifically. What I do want to mention, I want to read a tweet from Ava DuVernay. Is this your Green Book tweet? Mm-hmm. tweet from ava duvernay is this your green book tweet uh green book is not about a book that gets bitten by a radioactive green anyway um ava says

one of the things i value about netflix is that it distributes um black work far and wide 190 countries will get when they see us uh here's a promo for South Africa. And then she has retweeted something from Netflix South Africa. And then she says, I had just one film distributed wide internationally. Not Selma, not Wrinkle in Time. It was 13th by Netflix. That matters. So she's talking about the widespread, the distribution, the accessibility of Netflix movies that don't get sometimes that widespread of a release when it's, you know, whatever studio that's not Netflix. So that, and then I had read

other things to that effect where, you know, Netflix and similar platforms are willing to take more of a chance on filmmakers who are people of color, who are queer, you know, over chance on filmmakers who are people of color, who are queer, you know, from other marginalized filmmakers. And that is huge in this time when representation is so important, when inclusion is so important. So... Well, yeah. And also all the barriers to entry for traditional filmmaking, right? That exists within our established film industry, netflix is a disruptor in that

sense because they're allowing giving people inroads to that yeah through this thing and that's where you know steven spielberg sounds like an old cranky guy because he's like responding to this disruptor now that's like oh what the heck this day oh this thing now that's a movie it's like yeah it is yeah and it's better than the shit you've been making so fall back yeah so you know more power to netflix although I'm still worried about your deficits. Yeah. Hey, but if you want to spend, if you want to send any of that $15 billion production budget that you've got for this year over to us, we will be more than happy to make

you a TV show. Yeah. So Netflix holler. Yeah. No, I agree. We would be willing to take some of your multi-million dollars. Even though it's like taking it from a guy who's writing bad checks, probably. Right.

The cord has been officially cut, it would appear. Well and truly cut. Because the numbers, we're learning this because of the numbers for pay TV subscribers versus cable subscribers, right? Well, yeah. I mean, the whole idea of cord cutters used to be like hippie people or just like people who were against the establishment. Like, I'm not paying for my corporate entertainment. And now as people become like have less money to just throw away on like $80 a month on cable. You know, people like streaming more and the streaming has now sort of led to like this

other form of cord cutting where people just don't want to, you know, give their money to Spectrum or whoever, because we know how reliable that is. But yeah, they went from in 2018, 2.9 million pay TV subscribers ended their subscriptions. And so that's almost twice what it was in 2017 when it was one and a half million. And there's a lot of people that, you know, there's like Sling TV or DirecTV Now, which they call skinny bundles to try and like keep people still on the hook. But even then, that's not really offsetting the deserters. Yeah.

So they had these skinny bundles that they introduced in 2017. And there was like 90% growth year over year. But then in 2018, a lot of people probably lost their job at those cable companies because it slowed from 90% growth to 19% growth. Yeah, man. I had PlayStation View, and I just cut it. Yeah. Because I'm like, I don't watch TV. I watch programs.

Right. But I don't channel surf anymore. Right, exactly. That era's over. That era's over. And let me tell you what the real cable bundle is. Your mom's password. There you go.

That's what the real cable bundle is. Because somebody in your family still got cable. Right, right, right. And all you need is just their login information, and you can still get the apps. I got MTV.com, VH1.com. Yeah, that's the real cable right there. Yeah, it's funny.

I found myself giving my dad my DirecTV Now thing because he was like, I don't know how to watch this thing. I'm like, let me help you out, bruh. Let me help you out, bruh. Now the child has become the parent. And that all happened yesterday after yesterday's episode when we made amends. Right.

But yeah, I think the other thing too that this whole thing, the growth of streaming has also just created a huge clog in like awards competition too, because now there's so many people offering all kinds of like premium content in 1992, for example, for the Emmys, there were 29 dramas and 50 comedies submitted for eligibility.

In 2018, 159 drama contenders and 117 comedy entries that's crazy they're gonna need to start making the voting for this shit like a full-time job yeah yeah yeah nobody's watching any of these things yeah it is too much tv on right now uh which i just started watching fucking Umbrella Academy. Shit is really good, but like I didn't even... Yes, don't listen to Culture King next Monday. It took so long for me

to be like, alright, I got through Russian Doll, I got through all these other things, I'm like, now let me watch this. I'm actually pretty impressed so far. I've only seen like the first three episodes. It's great. I'm liking it. It's great. That's the one thing that I do like about the streaming aspect is because there aren't advertisers, because the channel doesn't really go off.

There is no downtime for streaming services, right? It's on demand and the creators have more freedom. Yeah, you get more freedom. So because of that, people are taking bigger swings because you have to. So because of that, people are taking bigger swings. Yeah. Because you have to. But also, you're getting really good fucking content where they don't have to ease into a story.

Right. You can just get right into the fucking story. And it's pretty dope, man. It's pretty dope. Let's talk about the true danger to America that is Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitic statements about Israel. So she was at a bookstore answering somebody's question about her perceived anti-Semitic comments when she pointed out that there are Israeli lobbies that fund various lobbying efforts. Yeah, that shape our foreign policy.

That shape our foreign policy. And she said, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it's okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. I want to ask, why is it okay for me to talk about the influence of the NRA or fossil fuel industries or big pharma and not talk about a powerful lobbying group that is influencing policy?

So that, I don't know if you could hear, but those were clearly the words of an anti-Semite. Well, the thing that her critics are jumping on is this dual loyalty trope that has been used anti-Semitically, that people who are loyal to America and Israel, that their allegiance to Israel makes them anti-American. And a lot of people take that, go further, and they say, by extension, every Jewish person can't be trusted if this trope, if this is what they're actually hanging on as the evidence for the anti-Semitism. The use of the word allegiance. Right, exactly. And I mean, the dual loyalty thing, it's not exclusively for Jews. I mean, Japanese-Americans had to deal with it during World War II, and Muslims especially have this same thing of, oh, you don't know, like, who are they loyal to?

Are they really American? Are they not? When I look at it, I'm like, I get that her words, you know, as maybe it was slightly awkwardly worded that it opened her up again to being able for people to criticize what she's saying. But at the same time, I know what she's getting at with this statement. She's saying that I can talk about the NRA, these other industries that influence policy. I'm talking specifically about a foreign country that is also influencing our foreign policy. But all of her critics just want to avoid having a proper nuanced debate over the relationship between the United States and Israel. Right. And I think they're also reacting to what she looks like, right? Right. Yeah. She's in hijab and she's muslim and so it's very that's what i'm

saying like i think y'all are more islamophobic than her being anti-semitic right because when other people like you know for example jim jordan the fucking great man out of ohio comes out saying he tweeted at jerry nadler who's jewish i said at least pretend to be serious about fact-finding jerry nadler as we said, Judiciary Committee chairman. He goes on, he says, quote, Nadler feeling the heat big time jumps to Tom Steyer's conclusion, the S is a dollar sign, impeaching our president before first document request. Okay, that is textbook anti-Semitism. You know what I mean?

Tom Steyer is also Jewish. You know, I'm not seeing much backlash from his party about this tweet. when that's straight, straight up, you know, anti-Semitism. You're not seeing much from his party. Not seeing. Yeah, wow. Swish. Wow. Damn.

Swish. Drop the fucking. It's so, I mean, and I'm sure that this is just going to keep happening. And, you know, thank God she is just like pretty uh direct and relentless with uh her viewpoints on things but it's just like if if people don't come at her just treating her like she's not even a legitimate member uh then it's i don't know it's just like there's no respect uh for her position at all so it's just completely delegitimizing. So the House is now, you know, Democrats are now trying to drag her

and put a resolution on the floor condemning anti-Semitism. Wait, Democrats are? Yeah, yeah, Democrats are. Because they're the ones being like, okay, we got to snuff this out. Like, this is no place for, quote unquote, anti-Semitism.

And it's a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, but they don't name her directly. So it's sort of like an indirect rebuke. Right. But they're basically going on the floor and saying, we do not stand with her in asking these questions. Sure. Or just saying, or it's more just point blank, step by step saying, these are anti-Semitic tropes we condemn. You know?

I love a live subtweet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just subbing the shit out of her. I love a live subtweet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just subbing the shit out of her. But meanwhile, Ilhan Omar in her own district, there are people saying like assassinate Ilhan Omar in West Virginia.

There were like signs calling for her death at gas stations. Then at CPAC, there was a poster like a meme that had 9-11 above that says never forget. And then it shows Ilhan Omar like seated in Congress and says, I guess we forgot. Right. And then it shows Ilhan Omar like seated in Congress and says, I guess we forgot. Like it's and but yet I don't see people defending her and trying to put forward resolutions that condemn this kind of Islamophobic rhetoric that's coming out, especially from the right. So it's just it reads very there's just there's just a double standard when it comes to it. And I think a lot of it has to do with because Israel, the alliance between the United States and Israel has been just an accepted fact of our foreign policy, that Ilhan Omar is, I guess, a disruptor, for lack of a better word, because she's openly, constantly questioning, what about what's going on with Palestinians? Are we saying we also support

this behavior of what Israel is doing to Palestinians? And that's a thing, that's a facet of this conversation. I wish entered the coverage more rather than just saying like, oh, she's saying, she's talking spicy about Israel. Like why not actually talk about some of the things that is happening? The things that she's saying and acknowledging are things that the UN have pointed out, like that Israel was actually sniping private citizen Palestinians. Journalists, paramedics, yeah. Shooting them indiscriminately in the head,

murdering them. And as unsurprising as it is that the Democratic Party does not support people who are trying to start an actual conversation, it's like, Jesus fucking Christ. Well, some Democrats are saying to even question the alliance is unacceptable. Right.

Now that I think is actually very dangerous. You know what I mean? I think, again, anti-Semitism is very real. We're not trying to say this is some kind of boogeyman argument. It's very real and very dangerous. But using it as a shield to avoid reasonable, constructive debate is absurd and dangerous in and of itself. It's very real, as illustrated by the Republicans, politicians, and the white supremacists who support them and who support the president. But it's okay for white men to be racist, apparently.

Yeah. And again, a clip has been going around, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caping for her girl, Ilhan Omar, defending her, thank you, and pointing to a quote, a thing that Jerry Falwell Jr. said at CPAC over the weekend. He was basically like,

I'll shoot AOC if she tries to take my cows, basically, you know what I mean? When he completely obscured the substance of the Green New Deal to be a take my cows bill. And then in December of 2015, Jerry Falwell said this to like 10,000 students at Liberty University, where the Falwells, you know, that's like their conservative Christian college. And these are his takes regarding guns and Muslims.

If some of those people in that community center had had what I've got in my back pocket right now. See Alice? Is it illegal to pull it out? I don't know. Is that? Anyway. anyway I'm always if more good people had concealed carry permits then we could end those Muslims

before they walk in and kill us end those Muslims so I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage so again a lot of people were like oh she's mischaracterizing what he said there. He wasn't talking about a genocide of Muslims.

He just meant and those Muslims who came in and shot up that Sam. I think he's referring to the San Bernardino shooting again. Even the rhetoric being used is fucking wild. We are in the wilderness officially. And this shouldn't be a surprise because, you know, Israel and the far right Christian conservatives have just forged an alliance with each other over the years because they like it's the holy land for Christian conservatives. They do a lot of PR to invite them over to Israel and help to build, like to make them allies, essentially. And so this is a very prevalent thing that's happening. And you can tell that this sort of anti-Muslim or Islamophobic

rhetoric is definitely situated on the right. However, you would think that the Democrats, too, could also understand what Ilhan Omar is trying to say. She's not saying anything about Judaism as a religion or people who are Jewish. She's not saying anything about Judaism as a religion or the people who are Jewish. She's talking about as a matter of policy. Are we can we go to sleep at night in good conscience, knowing that we're supporting a country that is committing just terrible atrocities? Right. And then the Democrats like refusing to have the conversation basically by nicking everything she said accomplishes nothing. It just like it means that the conversation isn't going to happen. And I think that's a testament to the influence or the sort of not influence, but just sort

of how hard line the idea is that the U.S. and Israel are just together forever. Don't talk about his BFFs and avoid any of the ugly stuff. Right. But again, you know, you would hope that people could see what she's trying to say and understand that this is a more nuanced conversation she's trying to have about our foreign policy. And I would also say, please phone your representatives, because these people are signing bills right now and they're trying to throw Ilhan Omar under the bus. I understand that she could have worded that differently. Ilhan Omar under the bus. I understand that she could have worded that differently. I can see that because that did open her up to them using a very indirect way to try and paint her comments as anti-Semitic. However, all these Democrats are piling on in this sort of this performative thing of saying like, oh yeah, that's terrible. That's it. We're not going to discuss it either. But then the question is, how can we have a actual discussion about this without it being some kind of weird navigation of a minefield of being like, oh, this could go into anti-Semitic territory?

Right. You have to let a white man say it, apparently. Yeah. Well, if a white male Democrat had said stuff like that, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation right now. Right. Yeah. But even then, I just don't know. How can we actually put down on

a list this is what the un human rights watch people are talking about this is that this is the aid we're giving them what is our role in this what is the influence we have over them maybe changing their policies what what how can we have this discussion it might be i mean this is like assuming that people would react in a reasonable way but just like maybe couching it and the fact that you know she's not the first person to have this thought it's she's one of the only people in the whole body willing to say anything about it but it's like if this conversation is happening in other you know like in the un then i don't know it's happening in israel like yeah it's even happening here. The people in power in Israel are the furthest to the right of the powerful people. And even the party that Netanyahu was courting for his coalition government was so far right,

even AIPAC was like, ooh, no, no, no, not them. Like, you're going too far, my guy. Yeah. And that says something. And I think these are reasonable conversations to have. This is, as a country, we need to be aware of who we align with, what is being done with our help indirectly or directly. And I think these are all very reasonable questions to ask. And I think it's just really counterproductive to just instantly dismiss these questions as just being anti-Semitic.

And again, yes, probably could have worded that differently. And I think that's part of Ilhan Omar's process of, you know, understanding how the people are going to just react to every single thing she says. Right. And it sucks that that's her language has to be even more nuanced. But again, I think at the end of the day, the aim is still the same. Is this the right thing? Are we doing the right thing?

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Listen, I've never seen the Minions. I've never seen any of the Minions movies. I couldn't really tell you what they're about. But I know that I like the Min minions and i think they're fun and people who are hating on them uh are the same kind of people that hate on guy fieri like that grain shade and torres joke they're just fucking bored and they're mean spirited and they got nothing better to do and i think the minions are fun yeah i do i think that it's a little scary? They're all guys? Sure I do. But I got hurt the other day. Brag.

I tripped. By a minion. Congratulations. I got two scabs. Dry or wet? They were wet for too long. I was worried they were infected. Oh, God.

But now they're dry. They're past the weeping phase? But I went to CVS because I didn't have a first aid kit at my house. And there is a regular first aid kit and there was a Minions first aid kit. It cost $1.50 extra but I'm like, man, those guys make me smile. I got my first aid kit and all the band-aids are funny. The one I'm wearing right now says, it feels right to be a little wrong and then there's a Minion. I was like, I'm laughing already. It feels right to be a little wrong.

That's like a lyric from a song from the 80s about having an affair oh yeah and it's also how the minions feel about my scab i think they're fun is one's name is is one uh is one named kevin i have no idea it's a mixture is there i don't know that's terrible i've've seen one Despicable Me movie, and I was like, all right. I don't understand why people need to hate on the Minions. It's just edgelord bullshit. Minions are fun. That's not even edgy. You know what I mean?

It's not even a thing where I'm like, oh, yeah. Like, fuck. Or I can even see it. It's just like, you're just so angry at a weird humanoid whatever these things are. What are they? They're technically not humanoid even. But what are they? It's officially, I don't know.

They're little. They're like cough droppoid. There's a lot of, it's weird because they're kind of like the Oompa Loompas, except their slavery narrative is not as heavily, but they are definitely, they only work for bananas, which is not okay. Yeah, right. But they weren't captured from a rainforest by some imperialist white explorer.

Yeah, what's their backstory? I don't really know. I haven't seen the movie. And forced to worship Christ? I checked with... And wear steampunk goggles? I'm sorry. My boyfriend says they're paid in bananas, not money.

Right. So they should unionize. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, for sure. Quite a banana republic. Now, is it weirder, do you think, for a community, a. Yeah, yeah. Oh, for sure. Quite a banana republic. Now, is it weirder, do you think, for a community, a fictional community, to be all boys like the Minions?

I didn't realize that. It's very smirky. Or to have a single female like the Smurfs? Oh, like the Smurfs. Yeah. No, I think that, well, I think that, you know, it would be interesting to see Minions. Maybe they have. There's like, what, 700 Minions movies?

Right. Maybe there has been a female Minion that's become canonical over time. Right. Sorry about that. That's my Minions alert. They're here. We've been talking about Minions for over five minutes. I mean, I don't care for the whole narrative of that one female Minion must colonize the world.

But it seems like the Minions may be asexual and that they just pop in other ones. That's what I was thinking. Right. I don't know. But in that case, it's on their creator, who is what? Goofy Steve Carell or something? His name is Gru. Oh, okay.

Oh, maybe. I went to Universal Studios last week and there's Minions Land and I could not figure, I was like, this movie must be crazy. There's an orphanage. There's an orphanage in Minions Land. In the Minions Land and I could not figure I was like this movie must be crazy. There's an orphanage. There's an orphanage in Minions Land. I think he's evil and has some interaction with orphans whether he like adopts them.

There's Despicable Me fans who are like punching their steering wheels right now because we're getting it wrong. I went on the ride and it was something about there was a very sad adoption narrative that happens on the Minions ride. I was like, this is like, Steve Carell forgot about adopting a daughter. And at the end of the ride, he's like, just kidding.

I remembered. I was like, what the fuck is this? I just came here for Minions. You can't have real parents in American cinema. You got to be an orphan of some sort. Your parents have to die horribly or else you're too soft. Totally. You have too many advantages.

I mean, that was always your parenting creed. Right. Exactly. Don't be soft. Don't be soft. Ghost your kids and let them lift themselves up by their bootstraps. So I faked my death about a month ago on both of my boys. I'll watch them grow from afar.

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