The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 72 (Best of 4/22/19-4/26/19)

Episode Date: April 28, 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, here is the weekly zeitgeist uh but first if we would like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are so i went to my search history to look but then i saw something that blew my because i don't know

how it got there i don't know where it came from you don't know how it got there. I don't know where it came from. You don't know how it got there? Yeah, it popped in my reading list. And it has, you know, Document 6 that links to, like, L.A. casting. Makes sense. Then Hardcore Trainer Fat Loss Stack at bodybuilding.com. Makes sense. Youramazon.com. Makes sense. Blacktailor.store collections.

Some tracksuit. Makes sense. Okay. So far on brand. The last one is an x videos and it says Judy hopping on some dick Judy getting the full Zootopia

experience I don't know where that came from I don't think this is me but it's in my phone it's not only so you like to get down mobile I don't know what how this how this ended up in my reading list. It's in your reading list?

It's in my reading list. Give him the conspiracy music. I don't know how I got it in there. That full Zootopia experience. Does anybody know what that means? Is that a character? Yeah, Judy What's-Her-Face from Zootopia. Is it a rabbit?

Yeah, I don't know how this is in my phone. Hey, look, man, I'm not trying to get down how you feel. I'm just trying to imagine if it's like the sloths, if it's like that, so it's just extremely slow motion getting it. Or if it's like a Ponda Floor, Major Laz laser video style, like off the ladder daggering. I don't know. I'll look into it tonight for the first time and let y'all know. Wait, so how do you suspect that ended up in your history? I think it was probably one of those things where I was trying to bookmark another video

and then it clicked the next one over. With Judge Judy. Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, you know how much I want to get down with Judge Judy. Because Danny was on last week and she brought the porn take. Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, you know how much I want to get down on Judge Judy. That's so funny because, you know, Danny was on last week and, you know, she brought the porn take. Yeah, man. And I'm glad if he came through.

I think Nerdificent just needs to do a porn episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or a porn show. Yeah. Or just turn Nerdificent into Pornificent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm good with the titles. Yeah, yeah.

That's why I do what I do. Porn in LA. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Porn in LA. Yeah, or we could know what I mean? Porn in LA. Or we could just reboot that one show that was on HBO with Seymour Butts. Y'all remember that show? Live sex or real sex?

No, it was a reality show about his porn business. And it would follow him around. And sometimes he got to see some boobs, which is why Young Ify was into it. But it really was like following like The behind the scenes of like Family business Yeah Oh whoa

That was just like too real Like that was just like ugh Sometimes things get a little too real Yeah I mean That was some shit that I watched when I was a kid Like same as real sex it was like yo this is on tv i can watch it with impunity and you would have been in your 20s when this show came on oh really yeah okay because it came on the early 2000s real sex was oh real sex

was like some shit i watched oh yeah when i that taxicab confessions also put me on to adult things i did not know were possible yeah oh man oh what was that one about like it would show like the That, Taxi Cab Professions, also put me onto Adult Things I Did Not Know Were Possible. Yeah, oh, man. What was that one about, like, it would show, like, it was, like, something in Johns, and it was, like, all the sex workers. There was Pimps Up, Hoes Down. Yeah, that's the one. Then there was Hookers at the Point. And then that's the one I followed.

I think I followed the whole saga of that. Yeah, they had a whole saga yeah they had a whole yeah and then there's really it was weird because like it was probably like a compelling look at sex work but like young if he was like sometimes they show a silhouette of sex happening right yeah that's right yeah that was uh yeah that was like that the pimps up hose down was more like about pimp culture and stuff yeah and then there's that one dude mr white folks yeah who was the white pimp yeah it's just like you thought he was a character from the Wayans Brothers show man yeah all that TV did you just call in Living Color

the Wayans Brothers show no no I mean like when Marlon and Sean because there was that character White Mike wasn't that on Wayans Brothers

yeah yeah I have seen way too many Jack come on now did you watch Wayans Brothers with Sean and Marlon oh you just watched in Living Color

yeah I'm too old oh man well no that was like mid-90s. Yeah. Okay. Or were you on to like, you know, Perry Mason or something? By that time.

I was real into In Living Color when I was like 10, 11. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was my shit. I watched it all the way to the end. Yeah. So that does not age well at all. They celebrated their anniversary, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Living their anniversary, right? Yeah, yeah.

I feel like any sketch comedy show isn't going to age well because the nature of sketch comedy, because what happened recently was there was that like Kit Harington episode and they had that nerd sketch and a lot of nerds got real offended at the depiction of nerds and

it's like well the nature of sketch comedy is to have these blown out exaggerated characters like in sketch comedy they are never saying this is what the thing is like you're right that's that is the nature of writing sketch which which made it even more offensive when people were like i'm a nerd and i can write a better sketch it It's like, no, because you just simply missed the main what sketch is. You are saying you can do something better when you are proving you don't understand the nature of the medium that you're trying to go into. That's just, you know, like, and I think we have YouTube to blame for that because there's a lot of stuff that gets away with being called sketch comedy. Where it is like more, you have these more subdued characters because people kind of get it but the nature of snl and those type of like live sketches you're playing these blown out characters so anyway but sometimes the humor is from coming from like actual homophobia

oh yeah exactly like you couldn't play handyman in the tiny avenger now but that's what i was saying is like the the thing of it is when it is when your whole medium is based off of blown out stereotypes, eventually it's already walking that line and then let a few years pass and it's like, oh, this is just trash. This is not good. Plus, I will say, I'm not defending that sketch, by the way. It was not funny. There were no jokes in it. The jokes were like, what if nerds are nerds? I feel like it's very, like a if nerds are nerds right oh really i

feel like it's very like a lot of snl and i realize it's more like the older i get is just like the impression that like middle america would have of like mainstream culture yeah so it's like here's what a nerd would be just like they're coming from exactly the middle of the culture like it's like not yeah yeah they don't have a point of view and i feel like that's why they've been able to last that long is like they are just like always trying to find the dead center of the zeitgeist and it's funny too because it seems like they're the ones that everyone celebrate or blows are are always the niche ones when they do make a need like that what was was the Tiffany Haddish one where she played like a fighting game

character? Oh yeah. It was so funny. And it was because it's like such a niche thing. Right. This is the one that the middle America isn't going to get. You went with a clear point of view and choice. Yeah.

And it was hilarious. I'm just talking about how characters just rock their bodies. They're not engaged. Oh, it's so good. King Vader shit. Yeah. Yeah. I love King Vader so much. They're not engaged. Yeah, oh, it's so good. Some King Vader shit. Yeah, yeah. I love King Vader so much.

Yeah, me too. I know. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I mean... I like it. You're looking at your phone. You're like shaking your head like,

I mean... I love when people do it live because they haven't had an opportunity to actually edit it out. So what you got? What we got? Do you want me to just read them off? Yeah, go.

Because they're really not. Okay, one's Jon Snow. Okay. Soft Boy. Soft Boy? Soft Boy. Okay, hold on. Let's explore that.

Let's unpack. What is Soft Boy? That's not just my rapper name. It's kind of like a fuck boy, but not. See, that's why I Googled it to make sure. It's like a variation of fuck boy, where a soft boy but not see that's why i googled it to make sure it's like a it's like a variation of fuck boy where like a soft boy is like acts very soft and it's like who suffers from ed yeah right yeah sure sure sure yeah y'all think that's so funny eating disorder right uh yes yes no erectile dysfunction trying Trying to create visibility.

That's interesting. Is that a known phrase? Is that a phrase you're trying to get more in the... No, I think it's pretty culturally. It's like kind of... It came out after fuckboy was popular. People were like, well, what about the soft boy? And that was like a year ago maybe. But that's meant to be a pejorative because someone's not being all macho?

No, it's not being on like macho it's no it's not like what's you know because soft you would usually use to like you know like in a hyper heteronormative thing it's like oh you're right no like a woman no no no it's still a shitty type of man who like acts like he does all the boyfriend things like he's like emotionally available and like oh this is nuanced. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He acts like he is interested in you, but turns out he's still a fuckboy deep down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a soft boy. Yo, that's like this dude on Married at First Sight.

I think that describes a lot of dudes, actually. Yeah. Because you'll hear that some dude's a fuckboy who you're like, wait, no way. That dude's like a nice, sensitive dude. No way, dude. Vape and Dave? Yo, Vape and Dave's a fuckboy? Have you seen the smoke clouds, that dude?

Yo, this dude, this other guy on Instagram actually animated one of his smoke trick videos and it looked even way cooler, dude, because he puts lightning bolts around the rings and shit. And you're going to tell me that guy is a fuckboy? So there's no way he hurts women? Yeah. Come on. What's something people think is true you know to be false? That buffets are good.

That buffets are good. Yeah. Wow. Okay. All buffets. All buffets? All buffets? I mean, yeah.

Okay. all buffets all buffets all buffets yeah I mean yeah okay like I guess I guess there are exceptions to every rule but yeah generally come with it yeah generally they all suck what do you think

when in your mind the kind of buffet you're being like that's a bullshit buffet what are we talking about like Vegas buffet oh shit like any

I don't know anywhere soup plantation any like anything of what those mini ice creams yo fuck soup plantation I mean I don't know anywhere. Soup plantation. Any like anything. What? Those mini ice creams. Yo, fuck soup plantation. I mean, I don't really care.

But yeah, you could get you could get ice cream somewhere else. That's very true. Totally. I didn't know that, though. After the show, if you could tell me some other places. Yeah. I thought it was only a soup plantation. I just you know what?

The only reason I recoiled was because I love a breakfast buffet. Yeah. And that's where I think it's a little bit different. Like a hotel in the morning? Yeah, or like on a cruise ship. Okay. Like I'm nasty. I like a fuck.

I just want to blow the plate up. I'm a nasty motherfucker. I'm a nasty breakfast eating motherfucker. And I just want to have like, because on a cruise ship, they have like international breakfast. So they'll have bangers too. Right. Then they'll also bangers, too. Right. Then they'll also have a little Eggs Benny, if that's your jam. And then Asian stuff, too.

I was like, what? Miso soup? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Eggs Benedict with bacon? Damn. I got to go on your cruise ship. Sounds gross. I'm not going to lie.

Yeah, no. I know. That's what I'm saying. And I'm a self-proclaimed nasty buffet dude. OK. But I know that they're also, but when you get into, like, the actual, like, a dinner buffet, that's when the quality is just, like, shit. I think just breakfast, it's easier for me to lower my bar for quality. Yeah.

The quality is gross. Also, I mean, it's so much easier to get sick because people are just touching stuff with their hands and, like, doing the most. It's so bad. Yeah. Well, breakfast buffets. Breakfast buffets. That's the only one I'll defend. And then, yeah, but even like in Vegas too,

there's like the ones that are like good. Prime rib. Are like 65 bucks. And even then you're like, I'll just go to a fucking restaurant. But it's all you can eat. Yeah, but you expect it to be good. And it's not.

And also like the service is usually okay. Right. Like, they come and fill your drinks up or, you know, however often is, like, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I bet those people probably don't even get, like, tipped or anything because people are just like, oh, well, I didn't get served. Well, you're supposed to. Yeah, I know. But, yeah, oh, right, that people would be like, it's a buff.

I actually did all the work. Right, yeah. Oh, right. That people would be like, it's a buff. I actually did all the work. Right. Yeah. Even though you cleaned up my nasty ass mess in between me getting new plates and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Again, always tip. Don't be a dick.

Always tip. All right. We don't normally get into digital security on this show, but we are going to today because apparently some folks out there need it. Yeah, we got to look out for some of y'all. I mean, every year there's always like these lists that come out of like the most overused passwords to stay away from. And a recent one is no different than this.

But in like identifying like these just very particularly vulnerable passwords, they pulled out ones that weren't like the usual just like password or Q-W-E-R-T-Y or like ABC 123. They're like, there's some like very specific ones that are also surprisingly very common. And they're like, you should also stay away from these. And I'm going to start from the bottom going up to the most frequent. Yeah, please.

I love you. Okay, that makes, don't do that one. Right. Cowboys won. The number one. Okay, yeah, NFL team. That makes sense. Michael.

Not sure why. Ashley. Why is Cowboys won as opposed to Cowboys? Probably because the one means extra security. Because now you've gone alphanumeric with it. So the Dallas Cowboys fans are just that extra amount of either cocky or aware of their limitations. Exactly. Exactly. Then Man United.

Yeah. I mean, it's a very, very large football club. Then Superman. Then Liverpool. For Beatles fans? For Beatles fans and probably for Liverpool FC, which appreciates global support. Yeah. And then finally, at the very top of overused specific passwords, blink182.

What? What? These sound like very male-centric passwords. Oh, yeah. Blink182, I could see everybody when i was in like seventh grade yeah oh i was obsessed yeah my yahoo email was like blink 281 or something like that oh the plot thick wait i don't get it what oh shit you turn the numbers backwards yeah she saw hackers and she's like i'm not fucking around with that blink 281 that's funny

because I bet like if they took the you know gender breakdown it's like 75 80 percent males who are using these passwords because we're the ones

who aren't like thinking using your brains you're just not afraid yeah like who cares if someone goes into my cloud

they're not gonna see my nudes. We don't have enough healthy fear. So we're just like, that's probably cool. That's what patriarchy does to men. You grow up with this kind of privilege and you're like, what are they gonna fucking do? I'm not vulnerable.

Society's conditioned me to think I'm the dominant whatever. Fuck it. Nothing can hurt. Blink 111. I wonder if it's because it's one of the main pop culture things that combines letters and numbers. And there are passwords that say you have to combine letters and numbers. Wait, sorry? Oh, yeah. Interesting.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? So that's why we get Cowboys 1. Which is. Why we get Blink-182. Which is, I think maybe the people who are behind it feel like we have to, I think, explicitly just force people to have these passwords because lazily they're just going to be like,

password, please just add a fucking exclamation point or something. It will actually help when people try and just do brute force password cracking. Yeah. All right, guys, let's talk about Playboy Club, where I grew up inside of Playboy Club. Apparently not doing so hot.

They are not doing well. Yeah. You know, as someone who used to work at Playboy. You're an alum. Yeah, just like Jamie Loftus. Mm-hmm. Things aren't going well over there. And Hugh Hefner's son, I believe, is the driving force behind bringing nudity back to the magazine

and also going, like like just pedal to the metal with opening up this playboy club which you know if you recall we had an opportunity here from gloria steinem recently and she famously went into worked at a playboy club undercover to write about it and when she heard that it opened she's like how is this even opening now right because most people were like who is this for and apparently one of their biggest problems it seems to be the service because page six they're getting very messy and they have a story that's like yo it's hell in there apparently but essentially the managers are just they say are more worried about how the prospective hires looked in a corset and fluffy tail than their relevant experience in the service industry. Service has been so bad that new management had to be brought in and they fired

half of the bunny staff. Now the club has hired real waiters and called the bunnies, although it has kept some of the floppy eared friends on with adjusted job descriptions and slashed paychecks. So now they're basically just having the bunnies just take the drinks from the bar to the tables rather than like actually doing any of the waiting and things like that. And they've like slashed their pay from $40 an hour to $25 an hour. The thing's just kind of in free fall. And when you look at the Yelp reviews, I was like, what's Yelp got to say? It's a mix between like people who are like Wall Street bros who are like, oh, it's fucking sick, dude. It's the tightest fucking place.

Feel like a fucking king. Then there are people who are like oh it's fucking sick dude it's the tightest fucking place if you're like a fucking king then there are people who are like the food is shit then there are other people saying it's not toxic enough for them they're like dude they're not even hot in there one star for that people are like one star because it's so aggressively like out of touch so you know it's being pulled in many directions but there's also a lot of five-star reviews that i suspect are maybe friends of the people who run it. Right. Because they're like the vague ones, like the homey five-star Yelp reviews. You were like, oh, great time.

Five stars, no detail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really loved it. Awesome place. Food was sick. I mean, I got sick from the food. That's right. So I've never been to one of these.

I actually didn't know they existed prior to this story. It sounds like it's a mix between a strip club and a theme restaurant, like a Jekyll and Hyde type thing. Yeah, it's like a Hooters if it went to college or something. It's like this weird fake air of sophistication, but it's still the same Ogle, the server staff type vibe, but also made, that's trying to create that playboy shit

that they're chasing of the dude who walks in and is fawned over by beautiful women and blah, blah, blah. So I think actually they should lean into the strip club model a little bit more and have the bunnies be the entertainment. They don't have to dance or anything, but they can talk to the patrons and like then have real good servers. Yeah, they just don't know.

That's the problem with this company is like they just don't know. They had a club in L.A. that was on the Sunset Strip that was like this little tiny bar. they had a club in LA that was on the sunset strip. That was like this little tiny bar. And it was just like another business that wasn't ran well where, you know, the, the thing that like the battle cry in that company is that like the playboy bunny is like,

I think the second or first most recognized logo on earth, like without context, people know what it is. And that Jordan, what'd you think behind the swoosh, I think, or maybe Adidas, but like

those are like people just no matter where continent like internationally know that that logo and they're just sort of coasting off the strength of that thing and without realizing like it's a dying brand that's left over from a bygone era yeah and they've not really been able to figure out how to evolve with the time so i think they've just resorted to their old ways and just hope like well we'll just catch the people who still think this is like a thing they want yeah it's a little bit too late for sure but i don't know i feel like they can make it work yeah like right if you're gonna if they like did it right if you're gonna be like a brand that's about objectifying women they're half-assing it and that's why people are like confused if you're

just gonna be a disgusting brand that's gonna just just, like, full-on just be like, yeah, come in, like, you can just talk wild to these bunnies and do whatever the fuck you want, like, just be some gross dude, it is what it is. Yeah. But I think trying to thread the needle of being like, it's fine dining, plus, like, women in corsets, and, like, it's just, like, people are like, I don't know what to make sense of this place. Yeah. I mean, Hooters for sophisticated people seems to be like, by definition, like an error, like does not compute.

Those two things don't really overlap in a way that. Oh, sophisticated people can't like the sight of a beautiful woman, Jack? Oh God. I remember like when you were talking about the Playboy Club, I thought we were talking about the 2011 TV show where they were trying to make the Playboy Club. I think it was basically Mad Men came out, they saw that that was a hit, and Playboy was like, how do we get in on this?

Oh, they had a show? They had a show. Let's see here. First episode date, September 19th, 2011. Final episode date, October 3rd, 2011. They aired three episodes. Whoa. What network was it on?

NBC. It was like a big bet. Oh, shit. Yeah. A lot of dudes walking around in suits being like, the Playboy Club is going to change everything. Right. But it had the bunny

in the bunny logo in the title so it was like an official playboy joint right where they were like our brand is gonna explode yeah well because the people who owned it up until recently were just like a licensing company right who they're they were getting their money out of owning playboy by just slapping the logo on anything and selling it. Right. And then a dude who has no experience running restaurants or clubs was like, I'm going to take this over and has no experience doing anything except being Hugh Hefner's son. Working in that place is a time warp. I couldn't believe the shit I would hear working in there.

Even from the Playmates, man. Some of those Playmates had some racist- fucking takes on jesus like as i was there like in the midst of the election heating up so for 2016 like going into 2016 and like there were just times not even having to do with the election itself but like you know when i was doing video there um we would be like make content like look let's do a profile on this playmate or whatever and asking about like people they would date regularly i would have to cut shit i'm like that that was racist they're like um no thugs like i don't like thugs like i'm not about thug life or like saying shit like then you're like oh i'm like you'll cut all this shit out um

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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. What is a myth? What's something that people get wrong? I mean, you know, what's a myth that you're just looking out there? I think the God of the Old Testament gets a real bad rap. Wow. Yeah.

I think people think he's mean and they don't like him. Yahweh? Yeah. Yeah, Yahweh, Jehovah, you know, all of that. I think he gets such a bad rap. When you're growing up, you're like, oh, Jesus, what a good guy. You know, he seems nice and stuff. Right.

He forgives you for all your sins. But that's not the kind of guy, when you get older, that you want to be rolling with. You want a guy you can count on. His word means something. You know what I mean? He stands for it. He loses his cool sometimes, but, you know, I mean, I used to be a pastor,

so I was a minister at Omega Church. You were? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, at Faith Community Church in West Covina. I hear it's not doing so hot now. West Co, okay, in the building. Yeah, at Faith Community Church in West Covina. I hear it's not doing so hot now. West Co, okay, in the building. Yeah, but I grew up in the great Ikea. Great Ikea in West Covina. The parking is really great.

Oh, yeah, for L.A. people, they know. Like, if the Burbank one's too fucked up, take a little drive out to West Co. This episode is full of L.A. tips. Yeah. Pure L.A. Well, yeah, I'm an L.A. local, native. So, yeah, so I grew up with that, and I never liked the idea of Jesus or I didn't like the idea. I knew even then that the Apostle Paul ripped off like the Jewish religion, like the way

he tagged on the New Testament to the Old Testament was always kind of shady. Like I knew that in my heart. But I was mad at God for murdering people in the Old Testament, which he murders a bunch of people. But the older I get, the more I'm like, well, come on. He can do whatever he wants. You're like, he said he was going to do it. Yeah.

He told you the rules. Yes. And y'all violated it. Yes. And also, if you look at the Bible chronologically, the Old Testament especially, a lot of people put God over time. They say God's above time, so he doesn't exist in the past or present. But if you put God in time, the Bible makes a lot more sense.

Like, if you were an all-powerful being and you created these things, then you would murder them at first. You wouldn't understand. Right. So you see that if you look at God in time and that he was learning to interact with us as a species, as a people, then you can see that he's growing and learning. People don't like the idea of God growing or learning either. Right, because he's supposed to be omniscient.

Yeah, but if you're an all-powerful being and you've never interacted with people that aren't all-powerful, of course there's going to be a learning curve, right? Yeah, it's like when Dr. Manhattan pulls up and he's like, oh, shit, I didn't know I just touched that dude and he exploded. Right. Or just like God was like, yeah, homie, if you're sad, kill your fucking son for me real quick. And then realizes realize like oh let me dial that back for the next next season

season two on god yeah like the pantheon of greek people they're like putting axes in each other's heads all the time and eating each other that's just fun it's like a cartoon well that makes more sense that's why all the greek gods all that stuff they look like us that makes sense that there's a bunch of different gods. Oh, okay, if that effed up thing happens, then that was the god of war or that kind of thing. That makes sense. When you just have one god like that,

he gets a lot of guff, because a lot of bad things happen on this earth. But I'm just saying. Not to me, though. Look, yeah, he was a capricious youth. You know, let's just chalk it up to that. You know, he was learning his way. Young god and then older God.

Older God. Let him get 6,000 years under his belt. Watch this drop step real quick. So obviously we know Twitter is a hellscape echo chamber for people. Real quick, because I think this is true for Steve too, I think we vaguely disagree with that sentiment, right? Yeah, I don't. I love Twitter, but I want to hear.

You do your thing and then we'll get we'll get cooking no no i mean let's talk about twitter up up front what are your feelings about it what do you mean i just i i think uh for me i think too many white people don't just block the bigots like interesting yeah because i'm like and to me i you know i know the echo chamber thing that is reminiscent of that. And maybe it's just because when I do Yo! Is This Racist, I'm exposed to all this. But I'm like, right-wing thought is available. Super available. Oh, no, no, no. What I mean is just like for whatever side you're on, it's there for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can get caught up in it however which way you want to is what I mean. Of course, you can, like, you know, I follow a few different people who I like to see what's going on on that side of the fence. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah, but yeah, people, me and Ben Shapiro hang out all the time. I do see a lot of, you know, white writers

now that I think of it. I wouldn't have thought that, but I don't host a show called Yo, Is This Racist? They do say like, oh, this,

they'll just tweet about it. Oh, this, this website is making me sick and I can't believe I'm back on it. I've just always, you put down your phone if you want. Yeah, I think that's what it does too. I think part of subconsciously what feeds me, my perception of it being a hellscape is also the feedback loop that will pull you in. Yeah, yeah.

Where I do that more on Instagram where like I just go through stories and I'm not even looking at them shits. I'm just like tapping and I'm like, yo, my brain. I think it just gave out. Anyway, that's beside the point because what we're talking about now is. So there was a Pew Research study that just came out that wanted to answer the question of like just how different Twitter users are from just the general United States population. And just to kind of see like is Twitter actually even like accurate depiction of what people in the united states feel where they where they are demographically and they did this by taking a survey of about almost 2800 uh united states adult twitter users um and then they also shared their handles so they could use twitter's api to kind of get some more information about

them um and they compared that with existing demographic information they had. And the conclusion they came to, Twitter is a lot different than the United States. So Twitter users are younger. They're more likely to identify as Democrats. They're more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall. And they also said Twitter users also differ from the broader population on some key social issues. For instance, Twitter users are somewhat more likely to say that immigrants strengthen rather than weaken the country and to see evidence of racial and gender-based inequalities in society.

And it also seems, too, that the noisiest ones are making the bulk of the content that you see on Twitter because about 10% of the most active users are responsible for 80% of the tweets created in the U.S. Yeah. So, damn. What you're seeing really like over and over your feed is like around the 10% of people who are very prolific. And I think most of those. The top 10% in something. Comedians?

This is fucking great. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. No, I talked to. I'm a stand-up. So, I've seen over the years now that what people get all worked up about on Twitter. And then I'll go bartend in Covina. and I have an open mic on Thursday nights there too.

And I've just known like they – regular people have no idea what the hell everyone's worked up about. Exactly. So it doesn't – and I mean I could see it on the same day. So I know whatever everyone's worked up about online, specifically Twitter because people talk there more than Facebook and all that stuff, that if you even bring up a joke related to that, you're going to look like a moron. Yeah. And I think most people, yeah, like it's the most engaged people tend to be on Twitter, not that they're exclusively on Twitter, but that's a trait that they have. And that vibes with a New York Times report recently that was saying that Democrats who don't post political content on social media tend to be more moderate than people who are more outspoken online.

And they're also more likely to view political correctness as a problem, less likely to join protests, and less likely to donate to political organizations. And less likely to fall into... Democrats who are not as outspoken online tend to fall into that demographic. Old Democrats. Yeah. Old white Democrats. And even younger people who I know

who will vote Democratic but aren't really engaged, they're the same way where they're like, oh, really? You'll say some shit and they're like, oh, that's going on?

And so I think that's all to say that a lot of the emphasis even the news puts on what's going on on Twitter is a little bit misplaced because it's a very specific thing. I think a lot of the hellscape thing comes from people who are surprised at the bad part of Twitter.

You know what I mean? Like, oh, there's so much more racism than I thought in the world. That's surprising to me. So, of course, you can extrapolate who would be surprised by that sort of thing. extrapolate who would be surprised by that sort of thing so i it's just one of the things where it's like i think people don't realize that even though twitter is a hexscape let's say like but the bad part of it most of the is overrepresented in the part of the population that's not on twitter like all the ignorant shit that's much more pervasive in the non-twitter part of you know not by a lot but like a little bit you know it's less surprising like that that was the thing about 2016 i think for a lot of

people that we might know in places like los angeles is like a shocking number of them were surprised by shit and you're like oh like i'm from michigan right like it's like this always sure sure sure sure the reason it's funny because in that study it's almost like i'm from michigan right like it's like this always sure sure sure sure the reason it's funny because in that study it's almost like i don't post that much about politics especially since 2016 because it was such a battlefield right i don't post that much about politics because i do feel like it is mostly other liberals and democrats especially people i know right so why it just feels foolish to me to be like just throwing my hat out there. Now, I will.

I have been crafting my coming out for Elizabeth Warren presidential nominee tweet. It's going to launch at some point, maybe next Friday. A teaser tweet. I've been retweeting other people's. I think Chris Cubis, a comic from Austin, wrote like, I like what Elizabeth Warren has to say. And I retweeted it. It's coming.

People, I'm hinting at it. God damn. But yeah, that's one reason I don't – I wouldn't post about political stuff. Yeah, right. It's because it's – Oh, for you feel like I'm not offering anything to that conversation. Yeah, I know. There's so many people.

It's congested right now. Yeah, everybody's saying the kind of same things about that stuff. I don't – and also, like I said, 2016 was a big lesson where I don't want to be fighting with my friends. I have so many people who I dislike because of 2016 now. Right. That if they weren't posting the way they were on Twitter, that I would think better of them. I think the internet – I mean I'm very careful about what I give the internet, and I don't give them too much of my real self.

I write a lot of jokes, but I just don't think I, these strangers don't deserve my real thoughts or my heart or anything like that. Sure. Or even just in general, you don't want to, you're giving your power away in a certain extent by even being candid in a certain, to a certain level on the internet. Yeah, absolutely. On a podcast I'll talk about it. My friends will talk about anything, but I just know that there's, I see the way people interact online and it's like you wouldn't say that to my face yeah and so why are we doing this here and so i just in that way and i know the internet as good for a lot of people who've never had voices or anything like that but i think in that way it's pretty bad yeah so especially with politics i don't want to interact if i felt like i doing some good, I'm a bartender in Covina,

which is almost the Midwest, basically. So I'm talking to Latino guys about stuff all the time. I'm talking about politics there and when I'm talking to them face-to-face, but I don't think it does much good on Twitter. Sure. All right, guys, let's get on to important news. Is Will cheating on Kate? Yes.

Okay. Jamie, you wrote this headline as fuck Brexit. Is Will cheating on Kate? Okay. There's already some attempts, I think, from within the royal family to spin this. William is on some sort of press tour right now to draw attention away. I'm just going to share a thread from a writer i really like nicole cliff yes nicole yeah who is very who has really uh really thought this story

all the way through so basically of course you know prince william he's from a cursed family which i love uh i love a cursed family you know, like all he has to do is not cheat on his wife to break the curse, right? Turns out he cheated on his wife. Here is the story. Okay, so I'm quoting Nicole Cliff here. So last week, the son ran a very odd piece about how Kate and Wills had broken up

with their couple best friends, the Cholmondelies. Oh boy. It's pronounced Chumlee. Oh, really? That is wild. Yeah, it looks like a five-syllable name, but it's a two-syllable name. The piece included the phrase rural rival, which was the only indication that there was a real story here. The Chumlees are Rose, a former model, and Rose's husband, much older, very rich, very appropriate to be friends with the Cambridges.

Wills and Kate flipped, and the son got one of those more serious warnings. There's no story here. Back the fuck off. As the story begins to spool out, and we were talking about it before, it's been mostly on U.S. media to cover this story because U.K. media needs to stay in the good graces of the palace

or they can't cover anything anymore. Oh, interesting. So they send out the little tea dumping weasels to get the story for them. So that Will was caught having an actual affair with Rose and Kate severed the social connection with more verve than is her usual style. Giles Corrin tweeted and deleted how how impish, that the affair had been common news for months if you were a fancy person.

The source for the story is widely supposed to be Rose running her mouth about it to her friends. So basically William is cheating on Kate with one of their friends who's married to some old guy. Right. Which seems to be how rich people

like roll based on... That's literally how my parents' marriage ended and they didn't have... They have $4. You just don't fuck each other's friends. Wait, they cheated on each other's friends? With each other's friends? My...

I'm really putting him on blast right now. Yeah, you don't have to. It was in 1994. But yeah, just like people just like fuck each other's friends and then, you know then you have unhappy children. That's what happens. The Jeff Bezos thing was like he was sleeping with that dude's wife while he was staying at their house as a friend.

Oh, my God. Yeah, it was very, I don't know, shady. And then they were at a party together him and his new girlfriend with the ex-husband and like they were like photographed together just being like hey we're rich we don't care it's it's just i don't know so that's the prevalent theory it seems to be like increasingly well sourced it's really hard for UK reporters to report on it. There's another, much like the Bezos scandal, I think

just from the few pictures I've seen, that Rose and Kate look so similar that it's like, why do this? Just like Bezos, the woman he cheated on his wife with was a doppelganger, like a dead ringer for his wife.

It's not about the women, it's about the numbers the woman he cheated on his wife with was a doppelganger, like a dead ringer for his wife. Oh, really? It's not about the women. It's about the numbers and the younger and the better. Or I personally think like a psychopathic need to conquer and be like, I got your wife. And be like,

it didn't really matter because I didn't value her as a person anyway. You basically stole my trophy and we're going to make more money tomorrow. Who cares? They're the worst. the main question is are we all doomed to become our parents right or i mean he literally looks like he was doomed by some manner of curse to become his father because there was like a point where he was considered

very handsome and then like it just flipped and he turned into like it was like he morphed into his father like that scene in thriller where michael jackson becomes a werewolf it was just like his ears started growing out and like his his hair started falling out it was very sudden i mean it happened like right around the time he started to assume more of his responsibilities right which is probably went according to nicole and some of the others uh that are reporting on this like he's been cheating on her since they first got together this was kind of always his like wait is that part of the responsibilities with this now you must cheat after trials yeah it just sort of became part of the job i just feel like this

is so much more of a a betrayal, because people follow the royal family. You don't really serve any other purpose than to sort of be cannon fodder slash entertainment for like citizens, right? So like your dad, when you cheat on your mom, there was like some, like he married Camille. Like the one he was cheating with, like he was in love and like the crown wouldn't let you

be with the person you wanted to be with. You had to marry like the right person. Dope. We scrapped all that now. You could just marry pretty much whoever. They're pretty cool with it. Just talk to us. We'll get the media trained. We'll cut off whatever their former

resources were. I'm going to let them be in the palace. It's fine. So if you didn't really want this girl, you could have just left her alone. We like Kate now. We've grown accustomed to her. She's cute. She's your high school sweetheart. So for him to just be like, I don't really care. I'm going to throw you into the spotlight and then destroy you,

because even then, no one's going to blame him. It's definitely going to be her fault. It's kind of bullshit, and it's frustrating. I do. I mean, it's like, every time a story like this comes up, there's always the edgelords who dive into your mentions, and they're like, who cares? I've been trying to, where I think with the 2016 election,

I got too sucked in, and I think a lot of people got too sucked into politics as drama and viewing it as these are my stories and not going to affect everyone I know. So now I cling to the royal family. Because they legitimately don't matter. They like literally nothing they do matters. And it's where I can get that hit.

Yeah. I don't care what they think about a damn thing. I just want to know who's having sex with who. I want my stories. Yeah. This is a great development in my stories. And it's not just gossip magazines, guys. Scientists, specifically body language scientists, are thinking that there is a frostiness has entered their sort of physical relations to one another in public. It's not just that they're British, right?

So, yeah. I mean, it's as good as done as far as I'm concerned. Wild. All right. We're going to take a quick, and we'll be back with less important news. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

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it all the dicks away please yeah that's such an interesting uh well i mean i guess it's not a surprising culprit because it's an easy culprit to just be like yeah people aren't fucking because they're watching tv they're like tv's been around for 50 years it's been running on a 24-hour cycle for gosh near 40 years now it's been a long time closer to 6 or 70 years now and we've had 24 hour TV since like the mid 80s since our cable came out

so no we're all fine Netflix programming can be good I'm not going to call it so great at stopping people from intercourse that's weird I've never let an episode of Grace and frankie stop me before he wants you to have good sex if anything is a very horny show i love man make my own charcuterie board at my house watch they taught me all about

sex toys for the elderly and i didn't know and now i'm informed. I love it. Aware. I love that show. This is viral marketing for Grace and Frank, just so everyone's aware. But two things that made me question the study. One is that the scientist behind it is the same scientist who a couple months ago was talking about how Generation Z is like headed for the worst mental health crisis ever because of social media. So she seems to be one of those people who is like, the sky is falling because of the latest technology.

And that's generally a bad bet. If you look through history, this is one of those things that gets written out of history. But there's always, always, always a freak out about new technology yeah you know they there were great horror movies yeah there were freak outs about written music when they started writing music they were like now everybody's going to be able to steal my sonnets and steal my uh steal my uh symphonies and they were like really busy about that so like just any sort of media or technology is going to freak people out I do think I feel like corporations

and people who are trying to addict us to like little skinner boxes are like better at reaching us now than they ever have been I just think it's weird to call out Netflix because that is the one medium that we like do together they ever have been. I just think it's weird to call out Netflix because that is the one medium

that we like do, do together with as couples a lot of the time. So it's like, why would that be the one keeping us like, I think a lot of like mobile games and social media on mobile phone, like our phones are definitely like solitary devices, but like Netflix and you know, what TV shows we watch.

There's an entire phrase around getting it on and watching Netflix. It seems like the weirdest place to start the attack. Yeah. Wait, what is it? Netflix and chill. That's what that means? Yeah.

So I don't know. We'll see. Who the fuck knows why people are having less sex? Whatever. Sex is boring. Sex is boring. Moving on. Yeah.

That is my main conclusion. Sex is not as good as the stuff we have now. And it's boring. And that's why people used to have so much of it. Guaranteed satisfaction out of the things you do. Yeah. There are some things I know deliver more consistently. All right, that's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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