The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 69 (Best of 4/1/19-4/5/19)

Episode Date: April 7, 2019

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Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to i heart true crime plus only on apple podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist uh these are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Robert, I want to hear from you. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? How to make dick candle.

Nice. Yeah. Okay. How to make your own dick into a candle yeah that's that's the goal is how to like how to like mold it and like just put a wick in the hole i tried that bro i spent like a lot of time at the doctors to be honest it's my favorite kind of video yeah i wait so you're trying to make a a real penis impression i haven't taken any steps, but I was curious about it. How it's even made. And so I've been looking into the process. Did you see a penis candle and you're like, oh, I can make one of those?

No, it was just an idea that occurred. Just a thought that hit you? Sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep. That's usually when I do stuff, when I Google things that aren't specifically related to my job. It'll just be like, how would you do that? It's like when I looked into how to make liquor out of blood. Like, that's what I Googled.

Liquor. Like, 1.30 in the morning when I'm trying to fall asleep. That's gross. You can make liquor out of blood? Well, no. I was just, I wanted to know if you could.

If you could. And I found a discussion as to how that you could. Not that you can. I want to know if you could. You can out of another human bodily function, right? You can. Guano in the club? You can absolutely make liquor out of poop.

You can make liquor out of a lot of things. Yeah. Great. So, hey, gang out there, keep trying. Keep trying. Shoot for the moon. Shoot for the poo. So you just like...

I just want to get a... Shoot for the poon? I was trying to make a poo joke, but then I realized that means something else, too. Unfortunate. Coincidence. Yeah, really sad. I was trying to make a poo joke, but then I realized that means something else too. Unfortunate coincidence. Yeah, really sad. Just trying to get into your mind, which is a terrifying place to be. Yeah.

But you were just drifting off and then a candle shaped like a dick, like a photorealistic dick. Like, what are we talking here? Yeah, I thought it would be funny to give as a gift to, like, particularly male friends and colleagues of mine. Like, a candle that's just, like, my penis, but a candle. Oh, it's your penis. Yeah, that's what I was looking into, so I wanted to know what would be involved in that process, because

Christmas is just around the corner. Right. And I figure I should start, like, figuring that out now. And I didn't learn much, because I fell asleep. I had some weird dreams, but I might get back into it. Cool. Yeah. Well. What is something you think is overrated? Well, this ties into that video we were talking about, but TV news. I think it's a bad idea. I've come to the conclusion that maybe there's no benefit to daily TV news. Maybe it's 99% or more toxic to just our national discourse and the whole country. Maybe it's 99% or more toxic to just like our national discourse and the whole country.

Maybe it's almost impossible to deliver like reasonable, well thought out, accurate information in the format that TV news currently exists within. What is it about TV? Because this is something like I've seen really talented people have to like be forced into a TV format and it like, they just like fuck it up some, like they just make them worse versions of themselves. Like I've seen, it's just like something about TV that really doesn't work except for the Simpsons. Yeah.

It's the strict time constraints. I think that's part of it. I think it's partly the ad supported thing. Although, you know, you have that with newspapers too. I think it's like just the amount that they try to cover. So you can't, like some subjects,

like if you're talking about the fucking Syrian civil war, there's nothing useful you can deliver to people in 30 seconds, which is what you're going to have. It's also this conventional wisdom that took over that was just like, no, you got to keep their eyes and brains buzzing with new changes and bright flashing shit every four seconds. Wasn't that anecdote about Bill Shine when he was working at Fox was just like there was a fire at a building and he just made all the coverage just about the fire.

And he's like, just show the fire. Yeah. Just show the fire. That's all they want. They want that motion. Because it's really not about informing people. No. It's just about how do you tap into their fears or ideologies.

Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those things like the the fucking momo thing that like came right like that was like a big tv news thing i don't think if like it was all newspapers and online articles and stuff like yeah there would have been some sensational bullshit but like none of like the legacy like the legacy tv media ran with that to an extent like the new york times any reporter who's worth his salt who starts looking at that is going to learn in like 20 seconds oh, this is nothing. Okay, well that's the story, that this is nothing.

Yeah, I mean I think from a cultural perspective, Momo was interesting because it was a monster face that you got to put on something that really is out there and terrible, which is like the children's entertainment on the internet is really fucked, and terrible, which is like the children's entertainment

on the internet is really fucked. And so they were just like, yeah. Oh, that was the thing that was allegedly a video that was convincing kids to like murder their family. Yeah. Which is a thing that people on YouTube have tried to do. It just wasn't real with like Momo had nothing to do with it. It wasn't a widespread thing.

Just a weird Japanese art piece. Nobody had been hurt or killed or anything. But there is just not just heaps and heaps of garbage that know exactly how to hypnotize two-year-olds. Yeah, I guess. And their parents are just like, yeah, here you go. Here's a smartphone. Yeah, that feeds into my issue more than just TV news. It's just like the amount of poison that people ingest via their eyes that we're all just like, yeah, this is just the way it is.

Yeah. How else could it be? Yeah is just the way it is. Yeah. How else could it be? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Your brain diet.

We've talked before. We've talked before about how like people think about their diet a little bit more constructively now, but we should also be thinking about our media diet. Yeah. I've been thinking about that. Something that we need to like purify. Yeah. Like, cause I watch a lot of trash

shows yeah and i realized too like i'm mainlining just a lot of vapid conflict like on its surface the energy that's coming off the screen is just negative yeah that's why i was like i was having to starting to triage my garbage tv because i'm like i can't just keep giving it that like i have to balance it out with something because i realize like I'm actually in the midst of an experiment to see like if I just only keep it to messes okay I like messy drama on a reality show but shit where it's just like people being like this person fucking sucks

like that shit I realize I'm like the more I watch that subtly I mean not that like I'm I think I'm more stupid for only figuring this out now or just sort of being aware of it how much that sort of can affect my mood a little bit, even on a very subconscious level. Even though I'm not like fully buying into what I'm seeing, it's just that that's what I'm giving myself.

So, you know, I switched it up. Then I watch, you know, Muppets and shit. Yeah. Muppets. Now I only watch Sesame Street. It's really Muppets. It's like a salad. It's like swung the other way

I'm like Mr. Rogers neighborhood I got to It feels relaxing Yeah It is You know You just gotta know

What you're giving yourself Yeah Like I've noticed There are certain podcasts That if I watch I feel like You listen to them No I watch them

Wow damn Just watch the You got six cents over here There are certain podcasts That if I listen to them, I will feel like garbage after. It's just, yeah, it's the same thing as fast food. It's just like you have to pay attention to how different things you're putting into your brain

make you feel and affect you. Because I went on a streak of watching old Dateline episodes on YouTube. Like, two years ago. It was all I was watching for, like, maybe three-week period, because I was just like, yes, bro, more, more. That's terrible. And it had me fucking all kinds of fuck. Like, I became a little more susceptible to

paranoia, or just, like, or my confirmation bias was a little more centered around, like, the really dark shit. Yep. And I was like, oh, yeah, because I'm just, that's what I'm eating all day. Yeah, I can say, like, yeah, because I'm just eating. That's what I'm eating all day. I can say, like, people ask me all the time because of Behind the Bastards, I'm always reading about, like, terrible people. Like, doesn't that fuck you up?

And I joke about, like, yeah, so I do a bunch of drugs. But the reality is that. You're like, I'm already fucked up. The reality is that, like, reading a good book about, like, a guy like Hitler or a guy like Stalin or one of these terrible people, that doesn't put me in a bad place. If it's really good work, like it's edifying. You learn something. I feel better after it.

I feel bad on Twitter and YouTube and stuff. Like those make me feel like shit. Like nothing has convinced me to go buy more guns than like bad Twitter binges where I'm like, oh my God, everything's falling apart. Right, right, right. And that is sort of your vice or one of your vices. Yeah, that is definitely one. Gun buying.

Oh, no, gun buying. I mean, shooting is a relatively healthy hobby, I would consider it. It's like a technical skill. You get out of the house, you do something. Gun buying is debatably healthy, but the actual act of getting better at a physical task, I think, is usually a good thing. Right. But the fact that like your backyard looks like that bunker from Terminator 2 that the people have been building up,

getting ready for the coming of Skynet. They haven't found the mailman. So technically no one can connect that to anything I may or may not have fired on in the night. There you go. I have no idea what you're talking about. All right, right guys let's

get into april fool's jokes huh the best time of the year for those of us in comedy right i don't isn't it a blast jesus christ you sound like a manic i'm not even aware of what what's happening today oh holy shit miles you want to just go micro machine man on this shit so you know the washington post was throughout the day just going here's an updating list of all the april fools things are happening and by the time i got to the 30th thing i was like why why are we doing this so for example uh dj khaled isn't tiktok's new chief motivational officer what spotify turned its discover weekly custom playlist into disco cover weekly a playlist of disco covers. Let's see.

Shutterstock isn't opening a brick and mortar library for stock images. Roku isn't introducing a remote for dogs. Let's see. Halo Top isn't launching an edible ice cream face mask. Yeah, I get it. It's just all like. Well, can I say one side note about disco? Because I just watched the Studio 54 documentary on the plane. I know it about disco because I just watched the Studio 54 documentary on the plane.

I didn't realize like how transgressive and cool disco's origins were. And that the backlash to disco is kind of like what's going on now with like Trumpism. Like the backlash to disco was like Midwestern people getting like angry at like kind of like tolerant, inclusive, like LGBTQ friendly lifestyle. The most famous anti-disco event was like the disco record burning at like an Indians game. Or like I think it was in Chicago. Oh, was it the Cubs? Yeah, that's right.

But I didn't realize like the symbolism. So I'm like, I think we actually have to bring disco back and not have it be a punchline. I'm not a hater on disco at all. Especially like when you think about people who listen to Justice or Daft Punk. You're like, you're listening to sped-up disco samples, my man. They're not really doing much. That gets at a good point that the sensibility of all these pranks is

they're trying to reach the largest possible audience, so it's all pranks as conceived by the Jay Leno-ish writers. I mean, there's all kinds of weird stuff. There is a Lockheed Martin. They said they had a perfume that smells like outer space. Tinder was introducing a height verification badge. Let's see. There was a Mr. Avo head to rival Mr. Timberhead.

That's actually a good idea. Right, the height verification. Some of these are good ideas. They should do that. I think just come up with a good idea that, like, you can't necessarily get off the ground, but you would if you could. And, like, those are, those, at least they prove that the brand is, like, interesting or, like, has, like, is in touch with them.

Whereas, like, the Halo Top thing, like, edible ice cream mask is just fucking stupid. Or, like, STD verification would be cool. Right, right. And they're like, nah, just kidding. And then what else? Someone said there was like a mineral water popsicle. Like it was just really just lame shit. Ice, yeah.

And one thing that, just ice, but on a stick, so it felt like a full-on dessert. Then there was a weed-flavored cottage cheese. Anyway, it just got, I'm just like, what are we doing? Yeah. And then what I'm surprised wasn't on here was Elon Musk over the weekend was like became a SoundCloud rapper. And no one is treating this like an April Fool's joke.

Right. Is it a joke? Well, I don't. According to him, he's like, this is a new thing I'm trying out. Emo G Records. I believe it. The song he dropped is called R.I.P harambe um and it's like so it's like of the moment it's like yeah clearly up yeah he just got that shit uh what is it what was

harambe like 2016 or some shit yeah the annoying thing is the song is has like a really catchy hook so like he played it for us and like it immediately got in my head so which isn't surprising because he's like super rich and he also like has grimes yeah he also like can like probably data mine whatever is in your head right yeah yeah yeah that's true he's like i have i've yeah using machine learning i've already created the best i know who you are yeah and another thing someone said that there is going to be a pasta air freshener, which I thought, again, on its face, like, you got to do better. Like, the point is to fool us. Jägermeister making bongs now is like, what?

Yeah. Who gives a shit? Again. What are you talking about? They're pivoting, baby. But it makes sense because a lot of alcohol companies are trying to be like, I think weed is the next wave we're going to have to worry about. CBD alcohol. Right.

Guys, Timex is launching a watch with a new 25th hour on it. How did they come up with this? And not just that movie. I mean, come on. Not the Spike Lee movie. Yeah. Which is a great movie, by the way. And underrated.

And about our topic. Yeah. 9-11. All right. Let's topic. Yeah. 9-11. All right. Let's bring it back to 9-11, guys. Where was everybody? Seriously, where was everybody on those flights? I was so young, I don't remember it.

Just kidding. I was working for the Pentagon at the time, actually. So I'm very old. All right. Well, fuck April Fool's. Yeah, just blanket fuck April Fool's. Just blanket fuck April Fool's. Blanket fuck April Fool's.

That didn't come out right. Yes. Guys, it's not easy going through the news every day and being like, we have existential threats that we're constantly facing. And then I'm going to just laugh about them. Right. But we do. But we do.

But we do. And we also go through the news and find out stuff like people are doing drugs and having sex. No. Including, and get this, hold on to your butts, guys, alcohol. They're taking alcohol and then doing sex with one another. Wait, what is this? All right.

Is this an anecdote? Unpack that. Yeah, this is something. So I've been observing my that. Yeah, this is something. So I've been observing my neighborhood. I think this is happening. No, so there's a study in Gizmodo that super producer Anna Hosnia was like, read out loud to us.

And we were like, oh, that makes sense that that's a study. But then the more of it that she read, the more it was like just the dumbest, like, I don't know. It sounds like these are aliens who are just finding out how human species work. Oh, so, but their just sort of assertion was like, there's a growing number of people who do drugs before sex. Are they even saying there's a growing number? Or there's a large number of people who do drugs before doing sex.

The headline is, these are the drugs people like to mix with sex. Okay. And one of them is alcohol. No. And they treat that like a surprise. Right. And even the other one's like, yeah, that probably means you're drunk.

And then, you know, again, all of these things, whether it's MDMA or poppers or fucking weed or ketamine. No, I am just finding out about poppers. Poppers, I can get. In a detailed way. Yeah, yeah. Jack was bragging about how much he finding out about poppers. Poppers I can get. In a detailed way. Yeah, yeah.

Jack was bragging about how much he's learning about poppers. Poppers for Las Culturistas. Great podcast, by the way. People should check it out. But it's like one of those things. I don't really know people who are like, yo, we're about to, you want to have sex? All right, let's smoke some weed before. But they do say that weed is mixed with sex.

It really seems to me like- It's more like you're high and then you're like, yo, you're like right well because people who smoke weed are cool and cool people have sex that's right that's yes is that the equation i mean some of us are angst ridden right oh okay yeah and we need the weed to have a sort of veneer of cool yes i love veneers i know you do i have found that it's hard to have sex while having a panic attack. So I never mixed marijuana with sex in my experience. But other people, you know, more power to them. It really seems like it's more of a general survey of like what percentage of the population uses these drugs. And then sure, sometimes sex happens on them.

and then sure sometimes sex happens on them right and then they're the ones that are explicitly drugs you take to have sex like mdma and ecstasy and crystal and poppers yeah and viagra they talk about viagra like a thing which is like how is that even research the whole thing yeah that's the point yeah right because i mean because you have to address your- I mean, without those things, my number of sexual partners would be cut in half easily. I feel like that would be true for most people. Yes. I will say. Yes. In high school, everyone was telling each other, like, dude, you shouldn't have sex

when you're on ecstasy. You should or should not? No, you should not. You shouldn't? Because it would be so good thatasy. You should or should not? No, you should not. You shouldn't? Because it'll be so good that you'll never be able to have a rag sex again. You're only going to be cheming it up. Right. And you don't want to be one of these chemers.

Did they call it chem sex? No. I never even heard of that. That's what the study says. Chem sex sounds like a cop. Yeah, it sounds like a cop is like, hey, guys, we're all going to meet down. The DARE officer is telling you, he's like, no, kids, I want to worry about chem sex. Right. Exactly. What the fuck is want to worry about chem sex. Right.

Exactly. What the fuck is that? Sex with chemicals. Right. Where you have sex with chemicals. Right. Did you listen? Like, were you like, oh.

Yo, it's so funny. One of, like, the first times I did ecstasy in high school, my high school girlfriend, who was an athlete, she wasn't really doing ecstasy. So, like, I was with, like, my sort of scumbag friends and, like, these kids who did the drugs in my high school. And we just got fucked up doing ecstasy so like i was with like my sort of scumbag friends and like like these kids who did the drugs in my high school and we just got fucked up on ecstasy and then i called my girlfriend and because she was like she was just finishing like a

volleyball tournament or something and she's like oh are you guys partying or whatever so she came with some of her friends and i was like i was like i don't know if i can have sex because i was just like so fucked up on ecstasy. I just laid. You can't have sex. I was just like, just rub my back. So I wasn't even in a place to be like that. So it's not even a concern. No, it wasn't. Because I was just peeking.

And I'm like, just rub my back. I didn't even have a Bud Light until I was 19. I'm a fucking cop. Don't worry, man. I'm not like, to make me a better person i definitely like when i got to college and like after college thinking back i was like jealous of the people who were just starting to drink in college i feel like that's like probably the way to do it even though when i was in high school i was like come on right what a bunch of losers

come on okay interesting you felt that way. Yeah. Wait, why later on? Like, what was envious about someone drinking later? I don't know, because I was already, like... Oh, because you had too much momentum? I was already in a bad place by freshman year, so I was just, like... You had hit, like, terminal velocity for drinking alcohol.

I, like, didn't remember most of my freshman year, so I was, like... When did you came to drink your first beer? Well, I was... I guess I was 18. I drank like the first night of college. I'd had like sips in high school, but I was like, we did it! Right, right.

And then I got really into vodka my freshman year, but like whipped cream vodka. Oh, wow! It was whipped cream vodka if I could find someone to buy it for me me slash if I could afford it. And then other than that, my roommates and I had this like liter of Mr. Boston, which was like the shitty Boston vodka. Mr. Boston? It was just called Mr. Boston.

And it would only come in size gigantic. Mr. Boston. We would just like nurse a gigantic gallon of Mr. Boston. I know that I took my- Like anti-freeze sized handles of vodka. Right, and then we would just hide it so that R.A. Russell wouldn't find us. Yeah, R.A. Russell. But R.A. Russell was addicted to drugs.

It didn't matter. Right. But yeah, I don't think it really helped me. Were you drinking pinnacle vodka? I was drinking pinnacle vodka. Yeah, because I remember that being the one where they came out aggressively with flavors. And I was like, whipped cream? The whipped cream vodka.

I liked the, what was the thing that was, my mom liked that shit that was blue. What was that? Hypnotic? Oh, yeah, yeah. Hypnotic, hypnotic, yeah. Your mom was drinking hypnotic? My mom loved hypnotic. Fuck yeah.

What is she, in a fucking rap video? She's mixing it with fucking Hennessy. She's like, I only drink Incredible Hulk's. Well, my dad's been sober since 94, and then when he and my mom split up, my mom was all, like, she was always fine with drinking, but we just didn't have it in the house. And so when she moved away, she was just like, I got this thing, it's called Hypnotic, it's blue. Like, she loved Hypnotic. That was like single mom drink. Was she drinking like Alizé before that? Because Alizé was the gateway to Hypnotic, it's blue. Like she loves Hypnotic. That was like single mom drink.

Was she drinking like Alizé before that? Because Alizé was the gateway to Hypnotic. No, I don't think she was drinking. I think she was basically like never drank. Do you think she went to the store and was like, what's that blue one? I think her whole thing is she's like a basic mom where she's just like, I like the beach. I like blue because I like moon and the beach.

And so she was like, it's blue. I love it. Yeah, she loves hypnotic. Shout out to hypnotic. H-Y-P-N-O-T-I-Q. The most 90s spelling of a word ever. But like, I don't know, drinking, starting to drink in college was bad in a different way because then I was just like, I got drunk

so easily and then I would stay drunk forever. Right. I was drunk during, I remember stay drunk forever. Right. Like I was drunk during like, I remember being drunk during my film history final my freshman year. On purpose? Sort of, but like I just didn't, I underestimated the staying power of Mr. Boston.

Mr. Boston. It's weird that like the cheapest vodkas in the world have like their regional, because like Popoff is the L.A. cheap vodka. But then people on the East Coast have never heard of Popoff and they just all drink Mr. Boston. They all drink. Check it out. Mr. Boston.

Yeah. It must be the same. Like they just rebrand it. Yeah. When you first said Mr. Boston, I thought you were talking about the contestant from I Love New York. For people who remember that trash. I haven't said that in a long time. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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And now, like, I think it's less crazy, basically. Yeah. And one of the things that jumped out to me in the first episode is just like some of the audio you have of people on the right like i don't think people literally calling to murder their political enemies yeah yeah it's it's pretty wild yeah that's a thing yeah i've you i mean trump kind of did it implicitly uh like a week ago when he was saying that like- The bikers for Trump. Right, he has the bikers for Trump and the military.

And if they push too far, it's going to be very, very, very bad. And there's just a little story behind that. When we were going through the drafts of the first episode, I didn't initially have a lot in there about the potential of the president calling on militias and his armed supporters in order to keep him in power. And you were like, you should talk a little bit more about that. And I felt awkward writing it because I was like, this just seems like a step too far. And then he said that. And then he did it.

And then he said that. And it was like, oh, well, I guess I could just pop this all in. I guess what do you say, right, to people who are kind of like, okay, everything seems very stable now what is the road map or what are the events that could possibly lead to it because i think the whole point of your show right like the idea of that it could happen here is that as americans we tend to think of civil wars and things like that as things that are happening like the developing world or and just i mean come on it's it's the u, you know, people, people like their shit too much to try and fight each other

in the streets. But what are the, I guess the different versions, because I think a lot of people think like, is it going to be like coastal versus whatever, like, you know, like what are the divisions that you see? It would be a bunch of different small groups popping up in different chunks of the country, carrying out attacks with the goal of making the country ungovernable because that's how war works now. That was essentially before they seized a bunch of territory. The sort of book that ISIS's

whole fucking thing was based off of that led to the tactics that led to them seizing an area larger than England and Syria and Iraq is a book called The Management of Savagery. The idea is that you don't try to oppose a national military by just starting off by trying to raise an army and fight it in the field like the South did back in 1861. You try to render the country ungovernable so that order breaks down and then you can seize control. And like that actually works pretty well. And I think the United States is in a situation where as stable and as much money as we have, we also have a lot of ingredients that could lead to a really ugly insurgency that could render the country ungovernable. Like they try to think about like how much guys with AR-15s could fight the US military. And like my answer to that is, look at fucking Afghanistan. And now think about Appalachia. Think about what a couple of thousand guys who are really committed to fucking with the

government could do just in that one chunk of the country, and how hard it would be to root them out, how much money it would cost, how many civilians would die, what that would do to people's faith in the federal government, their ability to trust it, like the repercussions that would have around the country, the other groups that would inspire. They just arrested 40 neo-Nazis in Florida with a rocket launcher. There's groups of people who have the physical infrastructure necessary if other people in the country were doing it. Right.

Yeah. if other people in the country were doing it. Right. Yeah. I was just going to say, if people were talking about white supremacists as like a unitary block, the way they think about Islamic terrorists, then I feel like they would sort of recognize them

as a bigger danger than they are. But because the American media and the American brain has a tendency to just be like oh a white terrorist well that's one of clearly just a random guy right how'd that happen right exactly it's always treated as a as a one-off instead of vanilla Isis. Yeah, and Vanilla Isis is a great, great term. Wow. Vanilla Isis. Oh, that's even better than Yalkata.

Yalkata? Yeah. Yalkata. Oh, wow. But we're fucked. Yeah, we're fucked. Real quick, though, I do want to hear, because you have some quotes in here from people who like the right is openly saying they will kill liberals if they try to impeach Trump.

And I think we have a clip of that. Yeah, we have a clip of one of the more extreme people on the right. Yeah. Alex Jones. Mr. Alex Jones. You're trying to start a civil war with people. You're taking our kindness for weakness do you understand the american people will kill all of you if you want a real war a 1776

i'm not the one that's calling for violence you're gonna get wrecked bad i don't want a war i don't need some you know coming of age deal to kill a bunch of liberals i just can't but i also feel like i'm in dereliction of as a citizen of my duty not saying we have to start getting ready for insurrection and civil war in that instance what are the sides the diametrically opposed sides that alex jones like is it liberals that he's just thinking people with their npr bags are going to just pull up and try and you know bore, bore him to death with pony bear tracks? No, he's talking about like the potential of like what if they try to impeach President Trump or try to – what if, you know, he voted out of office in what surely the far right would consider to be an illegitimate election.

You know, I think one thing even more than Alex Jones because his popularity is a little bit on the wane, although he still speaks to hundreds of thousands of people every month. I think one thing you have to really take seriously is the growth of the QAnon conspiracy. There's a great journalist called Ben Collins who's been covering it pretty heavily who just posted pictures from outside of a Trump rally where there were like a hundred some odd people

all in Q regalia out there. And the easiest thing in the world, even easier than finding Alex Jones talking about wanting to kill liberals, is finding QAnon fans talking about wanting to murder people like when because they believe that like everyone against trump is part of a vast pedophilic conspiracy that's also like the reason why they're not rich like it's it's this whole multi-faceted weird cult but like it's growing it's not stopping it's spreading outside of the united states i have friends in london who are talking to me about seeing fucking more q stuff at protests like it's this this new kind of cult

that like we haven't really dealt with before where there's like no head and no organization but like these groups of people radicalizing each other i just found my neighborhood papered in like q anon flyers yeah um like it's fucking scary. And I will guarantee you all of those people own guns. Yeah. Well, no, I think we even, oh, I don't know if we spoke about it, but there was that one QAnon conspiracy theorist who was really getting frazzled

over the lack of arrests that were happening because they were like, we were promised. Like things were going to happen. And her worry was like, if I'm afraid if these arrests don't come we're gonna have to go and knock down john podesta's door right so they they think that robert muller is going to come in and arrest right or that yeah definitely hillary clinton round these people up and john podesta's part of it right that's what they're saying like so she was saying if robert muller doesn't start arresting the clintons and the obamas and john podesta is part of it right that's what they're saying like so she was saying if robert muller doesn't start arresting the clintons and the obamas and john podesta

not i will therefore realize my conspiracy theory is insane it is i will then have to go start killing people myself well it's like that guy who blocked one of the numerous now terrorist or attempted terrorist attacks that almost ended in bloodshed was the guy who like parked his armored vehicle on the Hoover Dam filled with guns and tried to block off access to the Hoover Dam until President Trump unleashed these sealed indictments he believes exists. Right. And the president retweeted one of these people a couple of days ago. Yeah. And it wasn't about a QAnon thing, but it was a very prominent conspiracy. And it's like.

That was on that weekend where he did like 50 tweets. What are you fucking playing with, buddy? Did you just not notice it? Or are you fucking playing with something really goddamn dangerous? Like, I don't know with that dude. Right. No, I think he is perfectly willing to like create a huge civil war sized conflict or like, you know, a civil insurrection if he thinks it's an existential issue regarding his claim to power. And I really think, I mean, Michael Cohen during his testimony specifically said

he does not think there's any chance that there will be... He said, given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Yeah. I mean, who knows him better than that? And like, I don't know. That's a thing to be scared of. And it's part of why I wear when people like Elizabeth Warren says stuff like, I don't even know if he'll be a free man in 2020. Because it's like, like fucking Nixon. Sure, he deserved to be in prison. But like, that's why I don't even know if he'll be a free man in 2020 because it's like fucking Nixon. Sure, he deserved to be in prison.

But like that's why we don't do that in this country. We don't jail our – even when they commit crimes and like you can argue that maybe we ought to. But also like part of why we don't is because that's why we've had so many peaceful transitions of power. Because we know we're not going to go after you even if you do commit a bunch of war crimes. Like that's just... It's the American way. It's fucked up, but maybe it's better than having all the civil wars that the Romans used to have

when they would do shit like that. Like, I don't know, but there's an argument to be made. And, like, I think everyone... Like, right now, we're all hanging out in, like, a warehouse filled with gasoline-soaked rags, and everybody's playing with matches and yelling at everybody else for playing.

Stop playing with matches as they throw them around the room. I taped 50 matches together. Watch this one. Hey, you stop it. So, yeah, and you get into a lot more detail on like, you know, what the various versions of a civil war could look like in America because it wouldn't look like you've spent time in active war zones in other countries and it doesn't look like one side versus the other, right? No, I mean, mostly it just looks like a bunch of people trying to go about their day and

sometimes things explode. Yeah. Or there's always shooting going on nearby and you're just like, well, it's been pretty nice in my neighborhood for a while. I hope that continues. I got to go pick up shit from the store. Like, it's just life for a while. I hope that continues. I got to go pick up shit from the store. Like, yeah, like it's just life for most people. And like,

unless you've got some sort of like hardcore plan and desire to go, go out shooting. Like most people will probably just try to keep their shit together. Yeah. Like keep your eyes low. Yeah. Don't make a big thing and hope it ends. Which is why so many civil wars end with a dictator in charge,

like in Syria, where eventually enough people are like, I just want it to be over. Yeah. They're like, fine, this guy promised no more shooting. Yeah. Right. Look, when I listened to the episode, the trailer, I was freaked the fuck out. I mean, because it's a very, very troubling idea to try and have to wrestle with that level of instability and violence could actually just break out in the United States. And I know your intention is not to freak people out or just

be necessarily fear mongering, but I think it's a, what is sort of your goal, I think, in presenting people with this information? I'm trying to think of it sort of like a vaccine in the hopes that like if you talk about this enough and get this out enough to people and like get this idea in people's heads of like how much of it, and rather than just talk about a civil war and get this out enough to people and like get this idea in people's heads of like how much of it and rather than just talk about a civil war and like this like yeah and you should buy you should buy this you should buy that it's like this sort of aspirational thing which it's been on the far right for a while you talk about how much it would suck exactly what would happen exactly how difficult it would be to contain once it gets started and then like at the

end like the last episode is going to be trying to talk about the concrete actions people can take to try to make it less likely like the goal of this is to inform people of the danger like it's not fear-mongering in the way that like if i see that you're looking at your phone while you're driving and you like turn a corner and are headed towards a wall if i say miles there's a fucking wall right like that's the goal like that's the goal is to be like there's a fucking wall out there and like maybe maybe look at the wall and and see if that see about pumping them because i think that's sort of the the effect it has is because it's sort of you're able to sort of concretely see what a reality like that could look like and we already do i think as americans you try not to ever entertain that because it's just a chilling thought.

But when you look at sort of the kind of rhetoric that's happening, it's something definitely that like people have increasingly become afraid of, especially with the increased number of like violent attacks and the sort of ideology of these people. I mean, the idea that this is kind of a first time that somebody is really bringing up the possibility of a second American Civil War in like sort of center to left media is like not first time anyone's bringing it up, but really like think about it. I think it was in 2016 with that crack dart. Right. Yeah. But this is something that has been talked about on the right constantly for years and years since i was fucking 18 and going to gun shows in texas like they have only thing people talk they've been horny for a civil war for so long so that's also something that your show helped me realize and it's a real win-win for me from a content creator standpoint because

if there is a civil war then i'm i'm the guy who called it and if if there is a civil war, then I'm, I'm the guy who called it. And if there's not a civil war, then I get to take credit for there not being a civil war. I saved everybody's life. That's great. Really? It really works out great for me. One way. You're also the one who's most well-prepared since you have that stash of,

uh, heavy artillery. I mean, look, I'm going to say, I'm sorry, Robert, but like,

if there is no civil war, I'm going to have to give that up to Kendall Jenner. Yeah, she did hand that cop a Pepsi. And I'm just saying, and I know you might want to point to this podcast as maybe being there, but I see that as the real. Imagine aliens in like 1500 years. And that's the point at which Earth began to heal. We're like we're worshiping a golden statue of Kendall Jenner in the Pepsi commercial. That did change things,

man. It did. Like when, can you picture the Pepsi, like ad executives talking, like thinking about like 20 years from now, man, this is going to be a moment.

This is going to be a cultural watershed. It's a moment, dude. It's like when Apple stopped 1984 from happening in 1984 by doing that ad. A commercial titled 1984. We broke the fuck out. Yeah, and fortunately, smartphones have saved us and made us completely impervious to authoritarian oversight. And so happy.

Super, super cool utopia they brought us. Yes. Yeah. Super cool utopia. Your next podcast. There's another scientific study, not nearly as informative or as important as the one on chem sex. Oh, people that are fucked up might have sex? Right.

Whoa. There's one about how counties with more trees spend less on Medicare. Yeah. It makes, I like this study. Okay. So they analyzed nearly every county in the continental United States. Oh, wow. And they showed that, like, Medicare costs just tended to be lower in these places that had more forests and shrub lands than ones that were just sort of, like, that had other types of land cover.

Like, just straight up concrete jungles and shit like that. So, like, better air quality. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, you know, they also found that like urban and rural counties with the lowest socioeconomic status appeared to benefit the most from increases in forests and shrubs. And they also just found that this relationship

like persists even when you look at economic or geographic factors and it was just sort of like, wow, okay, where there's more green, people tend to be a little bit healthier. Now they don't go and say that this is necessarily arguing that the presence of the greenery directly lowers health care costs. Just go breathe next to a tree and you will be saved. I think we should knock down a couple targets and make some, you know, we need more forest people.

There's all these forest people in Europe, right? In the black forest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my favorite drink at coffee. There's a bunch of forests. That's my input. Forest expert, Jamie Loftus. Thank you so much.

But no, but it does add to like this sort of, there's a growing body of evidence that's saying like green spaces are actually really good for just health outcomes. So there's like, there are studies that have shown that people in ICU, they recover more quickly and have fewer complications after surgery if their hospital rooms look out over trees rather than parking lots. And also they say other studies have found that forest walks can influence potentially health-promoting hormone levels or anti-cancer immune cells in the blood.

I think it's just good to be in nature, just in general. Yeah, I think it's good for your mental health, good for your physical health. There is no woods where I grew up, and the only place where there was even some woods was the big graveyard. So my mom would be like, go take a walk around the graveyard.

Throw some fresh air. We would just trespass on golf courses. Oh, that's nice. At night, because nobody's out there. Yeah, no. That's all you can do in LA. Yeah. Well, we would do it because the fairway was like,

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What's that? Those bars when you're in a hotel that are supposed to protect you from people barging in. Okay, this is my story. Wait, what do you mean the bars? You know the security bars? Those like... That latch?

The latch, yeah. So I checked into a hotel in Palm Springs this weekend. And when I went up to my room to open the door, the latch was already closed. So when I went down to the front desk, I was like, the latch is closed. She went up to my room to open the door, the latch was already closed. So when I went down to the front desk, I was like, the latch is closed. She went up with this like tool to open the latch so that I could get into the room

and it was a booked up hotel. So I couldn't, she didn't have another room for me. So the latch, the whatever, the metal key thing that she has broke in the door. And so she finds out from this other hotel guy that you can just use your plastic card the key card

put it in an envelope kind of like jimmy it in there and like lift up the latch oh fuck which makes me think like fuck

wait which what are we talking about we're talking about the like little U-shaped thing that you flip over that you just pop it in and it pushes it

or like if you just crack the door a little bit and then you can nudge it out yeah alright there you like if you just crack the door a little bit and then you can nudge it out yeah all right there you go there you go like a tips for murderers brought to you by the dailies wow that's so funny i mean that makes sense right because if you did have someone that was incapacitated like in a hotel room who did have the latch on like yeah it would be terrible to be like there was that case of the woman who was raped in her hotel room because it was in Iowa in 2014 where the doors locked.

This assaulter convinced the front desk person to let him into the room. And then she had the lock on the door. So then they got the front desk person to open the room up with the thing. And then he went in and raped her. Oh my Jesus Christ. This was in the news this month. What the fuck are we supposed to do? I don't know.

I was really freaked out this weekend. Because in that chain one, you can just clip with bolt cutters. Yeah. Right. We've all seen The Professional. Yeah. I'm trying to think. I'm just impressed by this scam, though.

Meaningful door locks. Right. I suggest just putting a bunch of chairs in front of the door. Yeah, like properly just barricade the door. Shit. And then like a bunch of cans and like bells and shit so you hear them coming like barriers and barriers.

Right. You shatter a light bulb and you put the broken glass pieces in the hallway so you hear somebody walking through like Mission Impossible. I am a big believer

in home alone style security systems. Exactly. Well, I guess Zeitgang, if you have tips to properly secure a hotel room, please hit us up with your suggestions. Yeah, I know that was

super depressing, but I feel like I just discovered this. Well, that's super depressing, but also super useful to know that there's, despite you feeling secure, there's still a vulnerability. Scam queen Lacey Mosley, Taz is coming for you. She just gave us the new game. But Taz is coming from a different angle. She's like, protect yourself. Yeah, seriously.

The scammers don't get you. Right. Or protect yourself. And then Lacey's angle would be like, Lacey would be like, don't let that thing hold you back.

Put a key card in an envelope and get you whatever you're trying to steal in that room. Hopefully it's not an assault and it's something lighthearted. Yes. But again,

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