The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 67 (Best of 3/18/19-3/22/19)

Episode Date: March 24, 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 brandon what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are oh man um let's see geez louise i did not do my homework on this one i was i was already because you know everything i was that's right um but uh i i'm a big fan of buttons and zippers okay yeah

i looked uh i look up rare uh ways of fastening clothing because the act of fastening clothing became a really big deal what is fastening clothing you know um this sounds crazy but before you know before you have buttons and bones and uh stones and zippers and clothing captures your shit would just flail open people People would know that you had a sword. People could just freeze to death. They could just see your balls. But buttons change the world. Oh, so old-fashioned would have just been like a pin.

Literally just whatever is fastening, closing, clothing. You might use the shard of your enemy's skull. Oh, shit. A string. Ultimate brooch and flex. Yeah. Yours is cooler, though.

Definitely. Than mine. A string. Are you making clothing? You know, I used to make pocket squares out of dress shirts because they will always match your outfit because they're dress shirts. And if you cut the little tip, the back of the dress shirt is big enough to take and cut and then make into a pocket square. So for a while I was doing that. And that's a really crazy stitch.

It's a nightmare. It's hard to do if you shake. Oh, that makes sense because all the time I was like, why you got that big square missing in your back? Right. I call these ventilation pieces. Yeah, you're like, well, if you wear a jacket, you don't know. What you do is you run into a hospital and you're like,

Oh, God. Oh, God. He almost got my back. Perfect square. Have they come up with anything better than the zipper or the button? I mean, Velcro is a huge, again, Velcro. It's a bad rap. He comes out of his cocaine haze and walks down his Miami backyard roadway to get to his yacht and goes,

I invented Velcro. That's right. His road to his yacht is paved in cocaine. What is, what's something that you think is underrated? White exceptionalism. Let's be real honest. They're just not getting the credit that they deserve. You know, I think some of these scandals that we've seen this week with the ability to not just test into a university, but also then scam your way in is incredible. And these people are not being given enough credit. I mean, you said you were down.

Like when your mom, like you forgot your lunch and your mom brought McDonald's and she was like, I'm sorry, baby. I brought McDonald's because I forgot your lunch money this morning. You were like, it's a win-win for me right I ain't got shit on what these parents just did I'm looking at my mom like strawberries you brought me a bushel of strawberries because you didn't give me lunch money this woman paid half a million dollars to have someone else take the test yeah and also to gaslight their own kids be like no you smart baby you went from 600s to a 1510 on your SATs. That is incredible.

I'm serious. That is some gangster shit. And you know that's why they got the mamas. Because who loves you like that? Who loves you enough to bribe somebody at a school? Yo, mama, they pulled a Forrest Gump in this shit. I saw those memes pop up real quick. They're like, I remember when people used to get in school the old-fashioned way.

Sally Field from Forrest Gump. But this would be like if Forrest Gump's mom tricked him into thinking he was smart. Right, right, right. Like that was the thing about Forrest Gump. He was aware like the full time that he wasn't like as quick as other people. I hate to break this to you, but all parents are lying to you about your intelligence. Oh, yes. And specialness. Not if you're Asian.

Y'all motherfuckers is gifting. My mom was like. They're lying in the opposite direction. I remember when we first started doing multiplication tables, like in third or second grade or something, I was one of the fastest ones. She was like, well, who was the fastest? And I said, so-and-so. And she's like, okay. Why are they faster? No, it wasn't. It was just okay. And I, to this day, I remember how nuanced that was. I was like, okay, right. I must destroy Michelle in the times tables.

And you should have seen me look like a fucking calculator on meth the way I used to do those things. And then I think that's why I have a chip on my shoulder. Yeah. Because now I'm like, oh, they never told me shit. Yeah. I'm sorry, guys, to bring that in there. Were you encouraged as a child, Jack, academically? You seem smart enough that you didn't yeah i was i was i did okay in school i did well enough that they didn't really need to tell me shit oh look at this motherfucker talking like

he invented the night rider and then and then low-key brag was just like man i'm up there getting amazed no but like it's always anytime you listen to it was it was mostly like self-applied pressure like i was just like i was constantly in the midst of a panic attack over my grades so anytime like a cool creative person is on a podcast or on tv being like yeah i didn't really do school so then like i just came out here and became i'm like the opposite of that right right right i did the shit out of school i needed though i needed someone to be like oh really to help me go along otherwise i think i would have cruised right you know right because teachers do teachers do gas you up they're always like oh that was great and i used to i think that's where maybe my parents trying to balance me out because i

would come home acting like i was encyclopedia brown or something right i'm pretty smart for a black kid is what i would tell my parents i'm the smartest black kid in my class so and they were like unimpressive johnson i had to man. So, yeah, I didn't really hear a lot of praise. You think if you were praised more, you would have stuck with school? For sure, man. You come to a shitty job if your boss tells you you sweeps the floor great. Where'd you grow up, Brandon? A little town called University City, which is right next to St. Louis.

Oh, okay. Might have heard of it. Yeah, you might have heard of it. Nelly. Yeah. U-City. If it'll come to U-City dirty. If you go there, that's how we all talk.

In a sing song? Trying to get some cornbread. Maybe I'll go and buy a brand new bed. That's just conversation. Yeah. Put a taco on it, buddy. Taking a step back, let's look at four years ago, there was also a crowded Republican nomination process going on. And one of the hot out of the box candidates was the always vigorous and exciting Ben Carson.

Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Ben. The woke doctor himself. Yes. Who always appears to be half asleep. So he did not win. I don't know if you guys were into politics, but he didn't win president. But he did get-

But he came really close. Right, right. But he did get the job of running HUD from the guy who won, which is Donald Trump. Ah, okay. I don't know if you guys- The guy from the Pizza Hut commercial. Right, right who won, which is Donald Trump. Ah, okay. I don't know if you guys... The guy from the Pizza Hut commercial. Right, right. Oh, I liked his work there.

Yes. What happened to that? I don't know. I guess he's... Oh, Pizza Hut. I don't know. Oh, yeah. But this has always been very weird

that he's running HUD because... It never made sense. It never made any sense. He's not a person with any experience in policy. He's a person with experience in pediatric brain surgery. Yeah. Maybe Trump was like, don't worry, Ben.

It's not brain surgery. Running HUD. And he liked the joke so much. Yeah. He's like, I'm honestly, guys, running HUD is just like, and he's like, okay, I'll take the job. And do you think it was maybe because it had HUD is housing and urban development? Of course. It had the word urban in it.

Yeah. He was like, shout out to urbans. Right. I guess maybe because he grew up in public housing, that was the one connective tissue. He's like, well, he grew up like that. It was a vastly different time. Yeah. But it's such a massively important position that it just, again, it makes sense because

everybody who had a massively important position just came from the fucking swamp and just like hi i need to just i don't want to do anything but i want a job right and like scott pruitt he did a good job of completely fucking up the epa and having a laugh about it but he i mean you would think because ben carson is not traditionally qualified for the position he would be like like Scott Pruitt, aware that people are paying attention to him and working extra around the clock trying to figure out how to get it in.

I think he's smart enough to know I can stay in the job if I stay out of the headlines. How do I do that? By not doing anything. And I'll never generate any controversy because I will do nothing. And that is precisely what he's been doing because we just got a 31 week schedule of his to see what the fuck he's been up to. And my man has been doing nothing. One of the more like effective people who have been appointed because at least he hasn't been like imploding it. Right. But just nothing has improved and nothing has changed.

I mean, he's definitely had some, he's made some shitty decisions on certain things, but not in the aggressive way that'll be like, like policy. People were like, oh, that's fucked up. Yeah. But not like where Pruitt's like, hi, go get this mattress for me. You know, or like, oh, can you give me those Dean and DeLuca like snacks? I like on the, on the secret service dime anyway. So they looked at this calendar through a freedom of information act request. And they basically said,

you know, they looked at a lot of the Fridays for the most part, he worked a eight or nine hour day, but on Fridays, baby there, he had to keep those days. Holy, because my man can't work too much. So they said when they were looking at it for five of the Fridays, baby, he had to keep those days holy because my man can't work too much. So they said

when they were looking at it for five of the Fridays, he was off or had no appointments. He had three day weekends? Five more Fridays. He left before 2 p.m. to get to the airport to fly to South Florida, where he owns a $4.3 million mansion. For the remaining six they were looking at, he had no scheduled appointments past 3 p.m. And in all, he made a dozen weekend trips to South Florida during the 31 weeks. And they also just said, also, you know, he only huddled up with housing and urban development senior staff once a week. But other departments like transportation, treasury, labor, they were doing it either, you know, daily or multiple times a week meeting up. Because, you know, he can't really be bogged down with work. Right.

And just a few other, you know, he liked to, when he'd have lunch, like with one of the authors of like Chicken Soup for the Soul or like the fucking My Pillow guy when he was in New York. Wait, he knows My Pillow guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're great friends. That's what he would do. I expected more of My Pillow guy.

Wait, who's the My Pillow guy? I don't know, but if he's friends with- It's that infomercial? You've never seen that? No. Honestly, I've had a my pillow for years, and I love that shit. No. Oh, really?

My pillow fucks with Ben Carson. I love my my pillow. Well, he's also a big Trump dude, too. I need to be more critical of who I'm buying my pillows from. Yeah, but I mean, he looks so enthusiastic about those pillows. He loves those pillows. Yeah, how can you blame him? And he makes a great pillow. It's hard. It Yeah, but I mean, he looks so enthusiastic about those pillows. He loves those pillows. Yeah, how can you blame him? And he makes a great pillow.

It's hard. It's hard. I mean, look. Sacrifices have to be made. Hey, pillows over politics is what I would say. Because you got to rest your head on one. Wasn't there also a controversy

where they were spending a lot of money on redoing the office? So like, this is something that never happens. Like the, that the person comes in and is something that never happens. Like the, that the person comes in and is like, we need to redesign the shit out of this place. Right.

Like it's usually a long, like, like decades in between any redesigns. But every Trump person just came in and was like, this is, this isn't going to do. Like I can spend money. Okay.

I think he spent, it was something like he was about to spend $30,000 on furniture. And like one of them was like a table that was over 10K or something like that. And then he blamed it on his wife. Yeah. And then he's like, I don't know, my wife. I don't even know what I was about to do Trump. Just, you know, she handles that. So you're gonna have to ask her.

She handles the table budget? Like passing it off. No, she doesn't. Yeah. And then even like after all of like mbc was the one who first reported on this ben carson had a reply he just said while the role of a cabinet secretary is to advise the president and run their agency the role of mbc seems to be spinning incomplete information and misinforming the public oh you looks like we are both doing our jobs you got

fucking burnt okay ben carson okay the guy who said same-sex marriage is like bestiality. So, you know, he's got a long road ahead of him. But he's actually out in 2020. He announced it fairly quickly. He's like, can't do another term. He was like, I'm out. This is exhausting. Kids out there who need brain surgery again.

Yeah. So, you know, I hope Dr. Ben can focus on that by my dr ben that is wild that he is such a because not only is he taking the job of somebody competent who should be doing that job but he's removing himself from the field of pediatric neurosurgeons which he's reportedly competent yeah so he's like fucking two jobs. Oh, wow. Never thought about that. So go back to what you're good at, man. Sadly, we're like, go back to brain surgery.

Surgeons are a very specific set of skills. I don't mean to sound like Liam Neeson, but it's more like fighter pilot than genius. It's like you have to be good at intense situations. Or Podracer. Right. Episode one, Phantom Menace. Yeah, Podracer is a good example.

Sebulba, he was great with his hands. Thank you for putting it in terms of Phantom Menace. Is Ben Carson Sebulba? Fan theory. Well, speaking of inequality, we wanted to take another look at the college admission scandal. The scandal has, in addition to just being hilarious, a source of hilarious details about rich people's dumb children, it has shown a light on just how fucked up the admission system is, shown a light on just how fucked up the admission system is which is something

that I was kind of aware of like from a very young age like how the admissions process worked and so I don't know I hadn't really taken a step back and been like oh this doesn't make sense as a like part of an egalitarian like or like meritocratic society like this shouldn't be how things work but this story story has helped, I think,

bring people's attention to just what bullshit the actual admissions process is, as well as some of the details of the affirmative action case that was being brought against Harvard already, because it's being alleged that Harvard weights admissions against Asian students. But the one big takeaway I have is white conservatives have complained that minority students have an advantage, but the more you look holistically at the overall way that the admissions process works, it's more accurately described as like an extremely inadequate attempt to try and compensate for all of the extremely unfair advantages that rich white kids have. Because that's like there's been articles in The Atlantic that talks about how college athletes is basically

affirmative action for rich white kids. Because when you picture college athletes you're picturing you know like uk's basketball team or you know uh like really popular widely viewed college athletics but most college athletes are like playing lacrosse and crew and sailing and squash right it's just these sports that only rich white families have access to. And it's just a way to get kids into school. Like Harvard, I think you're like a thousand times more likely to get in with equivalent qualifications if the squash team says they want you or something, like any athletics.

Oh, just to have that little sign off. It's like, oh, there you go, exponential rise. Yeah. It seemed like it was a clear formula like like at the turn, back in the turn of the century. Right. When we were applying to colleges of sort of the idea of like, we need good grades, you need extracurriculars and these other things. And it still was seemingly seemed like there was a, you had a fair shot.

Right. And I think it was starting to to not that it was equally fair but it wasn't as in our face how completely fucked the system was because i think there were enough people still like college was somewhat affordable or it was just in the beginnings of it going off a cliff but like it was able to still create this like myth of of it being fair in a sense and then as the years go on you see the prices come up and you see how like these kinds of things are weighted and like what the makeups are of the different classes and the admissions.

You're like, oh, like it's not even like education anymore. It's just merely, can you get into this next phase of your life that will help ensure that you're part of a certain class? Yeah, it's like they're like shopping for the name brand colleges almost. And it is that way with rich people because it just used to be more indirect. You pay for the really good admissions count, like, you know, tutoring and all that. But now they're just

literally buying themselves in. And the funny thing to me is that a lot of the schools that people were paying like hundreds of thousands to get into were like, I mean, there's also obviously the IVs and stuff, but then there were just a bunch of schools that are like they're not bad but they're not like what i would think a lot of them were you're gonna shit on miles and i's alma mater no no none of them were bad so i have to say they're all great schools but like i went to high school in paul alto where they were also very overly in a negative way um and there's an emphasis on getting into college and so not from my perspective, but as a general zeitgeist at my high school,

some of these schools were considered safety schools that people were paying to get into. Like, you know, and I won't name them because I'm going to get so much hate, but I'm not saying me. I mean, I went to a safety school, but... Yeah, you went to safety school. I went to safety school, yeah. It was very safe.

It's right in New York City. It's the safest city in the world. No, but it's just funny because it's like already on that level, the rich people are like paying to just try to get into like a, not mediocre, but like an okay school. Yeah, fine school, not the most elite, but yeah. But instead of just working because it's pretty attainable, instead of just doing the work,

and with all the resources they have, they could have just done the work and probably got in. Right. And they refused to do that the work and probably got in. Right. And they refuse to do that. And that's so funny to me. But then it shows you that there's even levels to that sort of wealth, because if you're super wealthy, then you just pay for the,

to make the multimillion dollar donation to the school. And you go in through the front. You buy a wing of the hospital. Right. Exactly. Boom. Now your kid's in or whatever. And now it's like,

well, we don't have like 90 million, like expendable income of like tens of millions but we got a little couple hundred k to pay some like grimy coach to say they're it's funny that they think they're at a disadvantage compared to minorities and it's like you know why like the like i was a kind of a nerd in high school because all the cool kids were hanging out you know so like if you're a rich white kid not that you have to be white but a lot of these people are if you're a rich white kid having all the parties and you're not inviting the minorities and you're being exclusive well guess what they're doing when they can't party with you

they're studying because they have no other choice getting stronger all i'm saying is i would have partied i would have thrown my grades away if you guys just gave me a chance okay and you could have taken my spot in my mediocre safety you could be here on the daily zeitgeist. You could have just invited me to your cool party, but you didn't. Yeah, I could have been at that party, and I would have pierced my belly button too at that party. Yeah, so I just studied instead, okay? And that's why I got smarter. But one of the details that kind of put this into perspective for me is that Harvard has more legacy students. Legacy students make up around 14% of the undergraduate population than black

students who make up 6% of the Harvard population. So that just shows what they're looking out for, what they're actually interested in building out. It's building out people who are willing to help them achieve their goal of going from a $33 billion endowment to like a $4 billion. I don't even know. It's like their endowments of these schools are absolutely absurd. And that's the only way that I can think that they are justifying the addition of legacy students. What do you need to be considered a legacy? Just one parent, two parents, three parents?

I think family member. Just anybody? Then boom. I think it has to be parents to be parents though right right it can't be like an uncle yeah and that's not counting like all these you know people who just have an uncle or a friend or like a friend of a friend who like pulls some right right right right right the provost or whatever the fuck yeah because it just shows you i mean like it's like anything it's like wealth that like they're even trying to put up safeguards against other people getting into it. It's like, oh, you can access this generationally. If you're trying to do it the other way, it's going to be much harder for you.

We tend to just pick everybody who's already been around here. Right. The educational theory and all of these really advanced academics have known for a long time that the best thing for a person's education is diversity and being around people with a diversity of backgrounds, economically, racially, all of these things. But they're saying the thing that makes these schools so stubbornly rich and white is legacy. It's just legacy but that just never gets brought up as like uh well yeah you know why do we why is this even a thing why is that a thing at all like i that feels like one of those things that hopefully in a generation everyone's gonna be like holy shit you guys did that that's how things were back in your day it should be that like there's one argument like, legacy shouldn't count against you, but it shouldn't count for you.

So, like, if you're born into a family that has, you know, a good work ethic and your parents studied to get into Harvard and you were taught with the same values, then it should be, like, indirectly easier for you to get in because you've learned from them and learned from their experience. But you shouldn't get weighted extra because you're a legacy. If anything, you should be blind. Yeah, it shouldn't be a box you take yeah and most likely if most likely a lot of um the genes will pass on to at least half those students so some of those legacy

some of those kids will be legacy anyways but they they should never feel guilty not giving you a spot like i i didn't get into stanford my parents both went there and they sent a letter oh my god to apologize because I'm surprised you said that out loud. Stanford sent a letter? Yeah, because I was a legacy but I didn't,

and I didn't expect to get in and I didn't have the grades but I, it still was interesting to get that because I was like, oh, that's right,

I guess I'm a legacy and I'm, you know, they don't really donate to it so they wouldn't have weighted me any differently but think about all the kids who do

and they're getting, like, these letters they send out as a way to keep people in the family and keep them donating to just be like you're special don't worry we couldn't give you a spot but like we still want your parents to donate yeah legacy students are so we have all this information about harvard's admissions because they are specifically who is getting sued. And they were able to do a statistical analysis of who gets in based on what grades. And legacy students are five times likelier to get into Harvard. But they said that Stanford, that's not true at all. So don't worry about it. Oh, I know.

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And we're back. And Devin Nunez is back in the headlines. He is suing his mom? No, okay, sorry. I misread that. I guess I didn't do enough research on this story. He's suing Twitter for $250 million. Oh, okay, that makes sense.

Yes, like magazine. Right, because he thinks that Twitter was artificially holding him down. Oh, he's tweeting because he got shadow banned? Yeah. That's what he claims, which is the most sensible part of his suit. The other parts of his suit are like, people were mean to me on Twitter. Oh, people tweeted at my mom. Well, no, no.

So here's the thing. He's suing Twitter, and then he's suing two anonymous Twitter users, at Devin Nunez's mom and at Devin's cow. It's not my cow, dude. A political consultant, her name's Liz Mayer, who's a Republican political consultant. And all these accounts and this woman, Liz Mayer, he's suing them for defamation.

And then accusing Twitter of shadow banning him and other conservatives. And then he's just saying like, oh, this is just the beginning. I am suing so many people. A lot of people are are like this is just a stunt because let's be real this isn't going to hold up like it's you're the first person to sue twitter right exactly and also for defamation you think people like it has to pass the first thing where people would be like oh this is at devin nunez mom is actually at devin nunez mom who says he has herp face you know what i

mean and when you read the you are impersonating my mother and this is a dead-on impression mom is actually at Devin Nunes' mom who says he has herp face. You know what I mean? And when you read the fucking- You are impersonating my mother. And this is a dead on impression of my mother. There is no way. Right. And so he goes on, you know, more specifically, he's saying that Twitter, quote, intended to generate and proliferate false and defamatory statements about him and influence the midterms, was trying to intimidate him, you know, during his investigations, blah, blah, blah.

Everyone's just sort of laughing it off. Now, when you really look at some of the things, it's really absurd. Devin Nunes' mom or Devin Cow, I can't remember, one of the anonymous accounts, posted a meme of a human centipede with Putin at the top, then Trump, then Devin Nunes. And he was like, oh, this is defamatory. They're like, are you actually, y'all hooked up in a weird medical experiment like that? Then he points there's like points to tweets like from at Devin Cow, sadly, it says hanging out on the dairy in Iowa looking for the little treasonous cow poke is that is the bio of Devin

Cow, which has 45,000 followers. And another one says Devin's boots are full of manure. Oh, boy, God, you And another one says, Devin's boots are full of manure. Oh, boy. God. You might go to jail, sir. Fox News might report that his boots are full of manure. Yeah. This other one, he's utterly worthless, and it's pasture time to move him to prison. All right.

That deserves being sued. That's bad. That's a bad one. So these people are anonymous, right? I don't think you got it. So it was move. Does that change anything? Yes. That's okay lazy pun so he's going on you know saying we gotta we have to figure out who's behind these accounts because like pretending to be my mother and my cow he says because quote the corruption of american democracy and society

by intentional falsehoods fraud and, and defamation must stop. I'm so glad that the handle at Devin Nunes' mom is making it into a court document. I know. But in the actual complaint in the lawsuit, it says, The identity of those behind these Twitter accounts is a matter of great public concern whether the accounts are controlled by wealthy Democrats, the Democratic National Committee, an opposition research firm such as Fusion GPS. What? I don't know.

He's trying to connect us to the Steele dossier. Yo, the DNC is not this good at Twitter. It's definitely not them. No. And then it says, or, quote, the Russians, or, quote, the Chinese, with quote. I don't know why it's quoted. Or some other foreign government or non-governmental organization. The corruption, anyway, goes on, blah, blah, blah.

So I like that he's even trying to be like, could be gps i don't know y'all yo i don't know i think the coke brothers are tweeting at me right it's it's really really just a troll move but it's a pathetic one yeah and also like when you look at when he talks about oh you know i'm getting shadow banned like you know when when you actually look at like why the metrics are low for certain people twitter has an algorithm in the wake of all the bottery that was going on. Debottery. Yeah, debottery. Thank you.

When people interact with fringe accounts, what they consider fringe accounts repeatedly, they say, oh, that's someone who's interacting with sensational fake news and is probably like this isn't the kind of user that it's that's sort of a safe a fail safe to be like that's how we're going to try and curb it because you're interacting with accounts that are you couldn't just remove the nazis that would be crazy no of course oh god yeah right they did real good at getting rid of all those isis accounts so if you're interacting with bots you get flagged and yeah or because so many conservative accounts are bots and because they are parroting or their followers are bots yeah or retweeting bot tweets same shit that he... Or their followers are bots. Yeah, or retweeting bot tweets. Then they're like,

oh, you're trying to amplify this user. You might be a bot. Yeah. But avoiding even considering that and just being like, oh, I mean, look at what's up. We're getting deep-stated. Yeah.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Jack Dorsey... How's your day going, Devin? Ugh, deep-stated again. Deep-stated again. Deep-stated, bro. Someone's pretending to be my cow, I mean.

Someone's pretending to be my mom. My real cow is furious. A journalist tried to look into, there was something with Devin Nunez's family claiming to be from California, but they actually own a dairy farm that they had moved to, I think, Iowa or Idaho. And a journalist tried to look into it. And Devin Nunez's actual mom and his actual cal tried to intimidate this person and basically start talking to people in the town to tell them that they would be in trouble.

It was very menacing. They were shadowing him everywhere and shit. So the stuff that, again, just you always have to know whatever conservatives are accusing other people of, like that is what they do. And bullying. That's why they're so sure you're doing it. He does that shit in real life.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and also like when you think about that dairy farm, there's a lot of, you know, they're like, they may be employing undocumented immigrants. Yeah, that was kind of the idea behind the story is he was going to look. Oh, to look into the dairy farm. So this family just doesn't ever talk about the fact

that Devin Nunez is their son. It's just removed from all their documents. No wonder his mom's a shrewd. Yeah, so he went and looked into it. No wonder his cat was doing all this shit. It's because he's, first of all, the family's not actually in California where he claims. And also his backstory about like being a pull himself up by his bootstraps thing is bullshit.

And also they employ tons of undocumented workers. And that's the paradoxical, you know, world we live in where people on one hand can be like, oh, we got to do something about this. Like, and they're my employees. Yeah. Exploiting their labor. People on one hand are going to be like, oh, we've got to do something about this. And they're my employees. Yeah, California Republicans and farm owners got a little bit of a bite in the ass from voting for Trump. They were like, wait a second. Wait a second. I thought you were going to take away the other illegal immigrants.

Not the ones that I. There's other ones. The ones at the border that are the rape ones. Huh? Not the worker. All my chattel. Yeah. My chattel. ones at the border that are the rape ones. Huh? Not the worker. Not the, all my, all my chattel. Yeah.

My chattel. It's really, it's really just, it's pretty funny. I mean, it's a really good cell phone. Yeah. No,

honestly it is. And then just to, to, to see the like response from his family to be like, we've got to keep this under wraps. Don't tell anybody. I mean, nothing says,

you know, I murdered Devin's brothers and buried them in the cow shed, like following around a reporter and being like, nothing's going on here. Why don't you just go? And if you talk, you're in trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, boss. Very normal family. Alright, guys,

let's talk about soda, sody pop, pop, depending on where you're from, what century, because nobody calls it sody pop anymore, I don't think. Sodipop. Pop. Finally. Depending on where you're from. What century. Because nobody calls it Sodipop anymore, I don't think. But so SSBs is what we're referring to them as now. Sugar sweetened beverages. Yes.

What about the carbonation part? What's anything? It's not just soda. It's like the wild sugary drinks. Okay. So we're just talking about sugar water. Sugar waters, Gatorades even. Like Gatorade? Wacky juices. There's a lot about sugar water. Sugar waters, Gatorades even. Gatorade? Wacky juices. There's a lot of sugar in Gatorade.

Yeah. It's a sports drinks. I mean, it's not like as well. I brush my teeth with Gatorade. That's why I treat Gatorade as water. I know. You take that mouth guard. You just put a little bit of Riptide Rush in there. Jack's looking a little yellow. A little jaundiced. So this study comes out from Harvard. i think everyone had always known our parents had always been like soda's bad for

you and if you had an immigrant parent yo they said that she was the devil my mom would never let me drink soda same yeah and i had to sneak off to my white neighbor's house to be like can i have a sprite right oh you know when i got coke birthday oh really birthday that's it what like a eight ball or just a gram pretty sick parenting anyway so uh this this study comes out that basically was showing that like any you know depending on how many sodas you drink the more you drink can increase your risks of dying from any cause not just something specifically just like in general there's linking that to lower life expectancy. So they're saying,

this is from this study, says compared to drinking sugar sweetened beverages less than once per month, drinking one to four sugary drinks per month, that was linked with a 1% increased risk. Two to six per week, 6% increased risk. One to two per day, 14% increased risk. Who's drinking one to two sodas per day in 2019?

A lot of people. A lot of motherfuckers are. Really? Yes. So, first question I had, does this transfer to diet sodas? Okay, so, cut to, there's a study from the American Heart Association that said, drinking two or more of any kind of

artificially sweetened drinks. One caveat here is they've noticed that in the study that these drinks tend to affect women more than they do men. Oh, thank God. Well, hold on to your butts because just drinking two a day can increase your risk of a clot-based stroke or heart attack pretty significantly.

Shit. Someone get me a damn 18-pack. I want to die. Especially if you're over 50. So again, these aren't like just saying, they're not saying to treat this as like a monolith, right? Like everyone has different health situations, different exercise

routines or whatever. But in general they're just saying like, if you just let it rock and you're drinking wild sodas all the time, then maybe it will wear you down. All I'm hearing from this is that this is a socially acceptable way to drink yourself to death. Yeah, exactly. You won't shit yourself in public. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. You won't shit yourself in public.

Yeah. You can go to work and drink sodas. Nobody says shit. Right. Exactly. I'm like, I'm pouring Coke in my whiskey bottle. Yeah. Right.

You're like, ooh. Yeah. Ooh. More bad news for white people. Juice is also just sugar water, it turns out. Do y'all not have moms? Is that what's going on? Do you guys just, do Americans just not have moms is that what's going on do you guys just do americans just not have we just i thought i thought orange juice was just juice health

it was just orange was eating orange liquid yeah yeah yeah uh no that's that's real bad for you i think also i'm over here drinking a big glass of yogurt i know we've got the kefir whatever kefir kefir what do you call that we don't know. I don't know, man. My throat is too clogged up. It's so fucking moist. You're so phlegmy. I'm so phlegmy from this kefir. I can't believe you guys have kefir in the office. It's so luxurious.

We're out here. You know what I think it is, though? It's probably like our parents not growing up outside of the United States. They grew up, especially my mom, the US has bombed the shit out of Japan. So they're like, what are they doing over there? Right. Like soda? I. Like soda. I don't know.

Although now, yo, Japanese sodas are so fucking sweet. Yeah. It will, I little preserve your insides. If that's a thing with sugar, but they treat it as like a novelty,

like KFC, like it's not a daily staple of the diet. Well, you know, on a continuum, people are gaining weight there because more sugary foods and more, you know, like processed foods are entering the Japanese diet. But, you know. But culturally, like that's not a that's not a thing that you just like keeping your food. Well, there's a lot more like there's a lot more awareness of basic nutrition in pretty

much almost every other country. And a lot of that, I think, has to do with poverty. Right. You know, it just has to do with like when you're poor and you only have a few things to eat like you can't really fuck up you know yeah you're like oh let's get that fried cheeseburger and also you know like nutritionally speaking versus uh versus price soda gives you like nothing you know it's just fun to drink it's sugar you know tastes good but like but i think soda companies target people like lower income communities with their marketing and assume that there is like an information desert and a nutrition desert. So, yeah, you know, it happens in both ways, I think. Yeah. And that's why it's the sense of that juice is bad or that soda is bad is just like there's no tradition that they're latched onto.

It's also why our food is bad. There's not a traditional. Yeah, but everybody's eating unhealthy, though. I don't think white people own that solely. I'm out here thinking, you know, my grandma thought juice was good too. Right. I mean, juice is good.

I mean, it's delicious. I mean, if you're comparing juice to soda, obviously juice is better for you. but not that much better.

Right. Well, it's like, you know, I feel like every- Unless it's juicy juice. Yeah, every other culture

in the world is like, oh yeah, fruit is candy. Right. Fruit is candy and then you also have candy which is made of sugar, right?

But I guess like white American culture is sort of like, fruit is a vegetable and candy is a food that's right there you go uh that's how i was raised and i'm sticking to it uh we'll get into fox and friends later because they were drinking uh milkshakes in time square i cannot wait for conservatives to be drinking big gulps in protest of this cultural marxism against soda yeah just straight up getting cancer to own the lip that's right well at the other end of the spectrum sort of a underdog a scrappy underdog

candidate who is starting to get a lot of attention uh i will note that i've been talking about him for a year now peaty butts as i call him peteigieg is super hot right now. CNN calls him the hottest candidate. PB? Really? Yeah. They call him the hottest candidate? The hottest candidate right now. Like in terms of just looks?

Yeah. Yeah, I think mostly looks and also like body. He's like a pedo, was never in a band, and paid attention in school. Right. But the wild story about him that's like kind of going around on social media is that he learned a language because i i forget which language it was but he read a book by an author that had been translated to english and then

couldn't find any of that author's work that had been translated to english like none of their other books had been so he just learned that language to like read the rest of that author's book so wow yeah he he speaks like seven eight languages like that that's impressive yeah he's he's smart as fuck he was a road scholar he was afghan war vet yeah afghan war vet it seems weird i know he knows how to say his own name but buddha judge seems weird is that how you say it yeah yeah i'm pretty sure buddha judge buddha judge yeah the name's gonna be a problem for him i feel like buddha rebrand i think pd butts is like people call mayor pete i know which is actually pretty good president pete president pete yeah

just do that please there you go please call me President Pete. Call me President Pete. Also, he looks exactly like the coach of the Celtics, which is being pointed out online. Brad Stevens, Pete Buttigieg. Yeah, they're definitely from similar dimensions. Yeah. And yeah, Rhodes Scholar went to Oxford. I mean, he's... It's funny, too, because when you...

Man, the town hall he had was... He had a really good... Not like it's a performance, but like... He seems highly competent. Yeah. He showed himself to be, like, someone we need to be paying more attention to. And I hope the other news outlets. Great couple.

I actually haven't seen his husband. Is his husband cute? Yeah, they're like a good looking couple. Nice. What's the husband do? I'm not sure. Okay. I know he's all up on Twitter being charming though.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something about being a huffy puff. Launching the charm offensive for old hubby Pete. Oh, he's doing Harry Potter talk on there? Yeah, yeah. He talked about it. Oh, okay. Everyone on Twitter loves Harry Potter.

Mm-hmm. If there's one thing I've realized, yes, it's that. I don't know anything about him. Neither do I. But good for him. Yeah, but again, I think, I really hope he gets a little bit more coverage because, man, when you hear him speak, you're almost like, oh, wow. He has his demeanor is very settled.

He's hyper-intelligent. He's like Beto but standing on ground level instead of a counter for some reason. Not putting his feet on your eating surfaces. Some poor barista has to wipe that up, Beto. He's in New Hampshire right now, I think. Yeah. Just leaping from diner table to diner table. Smashing glasses like Ron Burgundy when he gets the flute out.

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to be false? That Irish people have a good sense of humor about themselves uh it's around whoa i well listen i'm half irish okay i'm half my yeah so i'm just curious not that that was an interesting take i'm like what where what happened he's gonna fight me no it's well around uh saint patrick's day every year this pops up between my former coworkers and I at the Boston Globe where I wrote a piece in early 2015, Peak Draft Kings. Okay, yeah. PDF. Picturing it. Okay, yeah. I wrote a piece about I just shadowed a bartender in Southie in Boston during St. Patrick's Day and just wrote about his day and like how crazy it

was and everyone was drunk and all this stuff. And for some reason, like someone had a vested interest in going after the people who wrote for this website at this time. And there was a whole- The Boston Globe? The Boston Globe. And it was like a separate, it was boston.com it's needlessly complicated but the boston herald published a print story the next day about how i was wrong to say that that people were drunk on saint patrick's day in boston and they got they got a state representative to to make a quote against me yeah every day is a drunk day in southie, but St. Paddy's Day runs by a completely separate set of laws, wrote Loftus, whose website says she's also a stand-up and sketch performer. How did they convey that disgust in that text?

And then, quote, I'm surprised such bigoted views are still tolerated at Boston.com, said u.s representative stephen lynch right it's very disrespectful added former mayor raymond l flynn we experienced the finest day of our lives yesterday with family faith and friends we could dismiss these comments as from uninformed people they don't know us yeah holy shit st patrick's day for irish people it is usually about faith they fucking came for me yeah when i saw what was going on in the sunset strip yesterday it looked like a lot of people faith-based yeah just a lot of activity yeah yeah i mean in that bar in indianapolis we were all pray yeah i mean colossians I believe, says, vomit in the streets to show thine faith. Yes, exactly.

I mean, and so I learned. Yeah, you don't have to obscure what St. Patrick's Day is about. I get maybe some people want to respect it for that day. A lot of people just take it as drink fest in March. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Shout out to Irish music to get the Irish back on our side.

I went to a couple of things of like live Irish music and one of them was good. Yeah. Hell yeah. Like some fiddling. Yeah. Like fiddling and like weird instruments that, and there was like a woman dance, like doing the jig thing that is briefly took those classes, the Irish dancing classes.

It's hard. Listen to these great Irish Americans still holding up their tradition. You know, weird instruments and that lady doing that jig thing. It was a lot of fun. Anyways, I just wanted to honor my heritage with that

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