The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 82 (Best of 7/1/19-7/5/19)

Episode Date: July 7, 2019

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you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

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chris what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are well i feel like i've already used all the good really good ones because mostly i do search for just metal detecting videos and magnet fishing videos and mudlarking videos but i do also like to um look up anything about bigfoot and once again like i don't really care if it's 100 true i i uh i like to care if it's 100 bigfoot you know i don't care if it's 100 true true what I'm hearing about Bigfoot. Well, here's the thing. Now, I think, okay, now, you guys have actually heard me talk about this in private, because this is something I talk about a lot, which is this thing that I've found out that, like, just doing my usual, just seeing if there's anything new on the Bigfoot news front, like

on YouTube, which is best probably for Bigfoot news, I find. Yeah. It turns out that when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980- Like already, I've lost your whole- No, no, I'm still fucking into this. 1980. Do you remember Mount St. Helens when it blew up? It's like the biggest volcanic eruption in the contiguous United States, I believe.

So apparently, so I'm like watching this thing, and like Mount St. Helens Bigfoot bodies was like the thing on YouTube. Whoa. And I was like, what? What? That sounds good. So I looked it up. I don't care if this is 100% true.

Maybe there was only one Bigfoot body. How does that matter? All it takes is one. It's one of those documentaries made by some nut. Of course. But once again, it's made by a nut. Surprise. It's a Bigfoot documentary. But anyway, I think like i'm made by a nut surprise it's a big bigfoot but anyway i think bigfoot's real but it's a separate thing well anyway this guy made a

little documentary and says okay when mount saint helens erupted the army corps of engineers did what they always do which is they went up and they collected all the animal bodies because they didn't want disease to spread okay so they they went up there with a helicopter and I guess like a bag or whatever, and they filled it up with all the animals that were dead on Mount St. Helens. Just one bag? Yeah, I was already like, when I heard that, I was already like, well, I didn't know they did that. I was like, the first thing I thought was, I didn't know that they did that.

After every disaster, they collect all the dead animals? I had no idea that happened. So that did kind of make me think, huh, that's weird. I didn't know they do that. They do that. Okay. So anyway, then this is when I got also, I got a little more skeptical when they said they put all the animals in separate stacks at the bottom of the mountain.

So there was a stack of elk and like, I mean, I just think, why this? So they can be properly buried. Examined or whatever. Yeah. Identified by family members. Yeah. So it was like a stack of elk, I guess, and a stack of deer, and then a stack of raccoons or whatever.

Right. And then they have one stack under a tarp. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. This is all relayed as true. This is not a joke. After the Army Corps of Engineers gets all the animals like they do and put them on an ark, just kidding, but that's what it sounds like they're doing.

Right. and put them on an ark. Just kidding, but that's what it sounds like they're doing. Underneath the tarp, somebody's uncle, who was in the Army Corps of Engineers, talked to this documentary filmmaker and told him that he went and looked under the tarp, and that was a pile of Bigfoots. Wow. And I'm going to assume that was the shortest pile.

Right. You know what I mean? There probably wasn't that. They're tall, but when they're dead, they're just laying down, and there aren't that many of them. That's what I'm thinking. Right. Apparently, there was a tremendous Bigfoot population on Mount St. Helens. In the Pacific Northwest. And so they were very negatively impacted by this explosion.

You should do a benefit concert. Is plural of Bigfoot. For all the Bigfoots impacted by Mount St. Helens. Well, I mean, so this gets further. So then somebody else's uncle. It's always somebody's uncle. Also looked under the tarp. No, he was working.

Not only under the tarp was there a bunch of Bigfoots, but then there was a medical tent where Bigfoots were being, or Bigfeet, and the jury's still out on that. No one knows. That's another mystery. That's the key mystery. And I don't care if that's 100% true. Only a Bigfoot knows, and you can never get him to say.

So do you guys go by Bigfoots or feet? You can't. Yeah, but. Need medical care. This guy who worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, his uncle or whatever, said that he stood by this medical tent, and he thought that just these tall guys in big overcoats were going into the medical tent and getting bandaged up. But then he noticed one of them had a huge amount of hair on his wrist or something,

and he was like, oh my God, these are Bigfoots they're treating that didn't die in the thing. Then this other guy, another person's uncle or stepdad or somebody who worked for the Forest Service or whatever it was. These are all checked out. It's the Uncle Whisper Network. The Uncle Whisper Network is very reliable. These are all official titles. Why are they mentioning that they're somebody's uncle?

I don't know. Just to prove that it's not some random guy. So this is somebody's uncle. This is a guy who's tied into a family. This is a legit person. This guy knows people. He's got nephews. He's got siblings that fuck.

He's got nephews. I mean, this guy's people. He's got nephews. He's got siblings that fuck. He's got nephews. I mean, this guy's real. So anyway, he said that this is where I really, I doubt this is true, but I don't know. That there was an Army Corps of Engineers guy who was talking Bigfoot to a Bigfoot. And that the idea is the government knows about Bigfoots. They talk to them.

I don't know what they talk to them about. Right. Because, I mean- Well, how to, like, good tips on child rearing. But if they can talk to them, why didn't they tell them ahead of time to clear out of the mountain? I mean, everybody knew that mountain was going to blow up. Well, that's because, you know, think of what color the Bigfeet are. Right.

If they were white, they maybe would have got the message because they're brown. So you think Yeti are treated better than yetis are treated yes we all know about yetis and all yeti lives matter and their whole fucking groups they got for that shit but big feet they're misrepresented you know what i mean and but whenever i mention this story to people they always are like first of all what are you talking about The Army Corps of Engineers collects all the animals after disasters. And that's when it's everybody else. For them, it falls apart. I'm easy to just, I'll skip right over that.

And then the next thing is like. I'm like, yeah, maybe they don't do that, but maybe they do. I don't know. I don't work for, I don't have an uncle in the Army Corps of Engineers. They're like, sure, sir. Again, this is a Wendy's. So what is your order? Does the Army Corps of Engineers go out into the woods on an ordinary day and collect any animals that happen to die?

I don't know. Just in case this spreads to the... I mean, I'm only agreeing with this because I saw Chernobyl and I know that the dudes are shooting animals. And I'm like, yeah, maybe that checks out. Maybe that's because they wander from the... Sure. But again, you know. Maybe they were worried about zombie animals.

Anyways, Chris. Go ahead. I'm just going to say a tie-in for this is that that just got me going into deeper stuff that I didn't know about. Like in 1924, a group of gold prospectors were attacked by Bigfoots with boulders. Holy shit. And the canyon that that happened in in is called ape canyon now for real for real that's on the map so yeah exactly so so and looking i don't care if it's 100 true so anyway i think it's fun i i don't know if it's true but you know yeah i've heard that story before about the tarp uh and I don't know. It's very interesting.

It feels like to me they would probably do something more elaborate than a tarp. I do feel like that's probably... Why not just drag them elsewhere? Could they put the tarps... How securely did they put them on there? Why were they letting people... And if it's that secure, they're like, all right, work. Why were they letting people peek?

Dude, if you need medical care, go to the tent, but put a hat on and try and play it low-key, dude. What did they do? Oh, my gosh. It's just like, hold on, man. This dude's wrist all hairy. Apparently, there must have been a basketball team in overcoats up on the mountain. Oh, wait a minute.

They're extremely hairy. Oh, my God. I like that they, yeah. That's not a basketball team. That's Bigfoots and Overcoats or Big Feet. Total cartoon logic. Yeah. Overcoats.

But it wasn't until the wrist hair blew the whole planet. Sir, do you have the time? And then he pulls back his wrist. Wait a minute. Great day, isn't it? You don't even have a watch. Wait a minute. No, I have to get back to my kids, you know?

God damn, these bills are adding up. What is a myth? What's something people think is, you know? Goddamn, these bills are adding up. What is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false? Well, I don't know so much if this is a myth, but there's this sense when you, nine out of 10 people, if you ask them what AI is, it's the same people where you ask what gluten is, they're like bread.

AI is the same way where I think most people think of robots or like artificially intelligent robots or people who are going to take your job or robots that are going to take your jobs right whereas ai is really like what allows you to order a starbucks coffee when you're in your car you're still on the train like i mean that's not the best example but like ai is basically part of and parcel of everything that we now do right on our parcel something that you might mail yes exactly i mean she's on brand right that's right you're building a brand here i mean

it is my dream to do a short form web series where i visit all of the post offices of america would that be possible um no not in a million not in one lifetime when they when when development people are like what's the audience right that would be a hard question to answer uh old people who will be dead by the end of this meeting that's right but ai is sort of finding ways to mimic like neuron connections right and yeah well it's also i mean you're talking about elections i mean it's it's really an amazing way to make predictions about things using data right so the human mind can only compute so much um and take into account so much data whereas algorithms can look at vast amounts of data whether it be pictures um well code i guess uh and and then make predictions based on those things right we're better at

catching like tumors and we're better at catching all sorts of things just from like loading scans into uh ai or into hailey jules osment's brain, I think. Is that right? That's right. That's how it works. Yeah. But like, you know, the Raptors used AI to help better their game.

Velociraptors in Jurassic Park used AI? The Drake Raptors. The Drake Raptors. They should just change their name. To the Drake Raptors. I'm so sorry, Toronto. How did they use AI? So basically, you can use AI to make better, again, for prediction's sake, to look at your shot history and sort of better understand maybe where you should be placing yourself on the court.

Right, where you should be taking more shots. That's right. Yeah. So there's machine learning. I mean, this is machine learning. Machine learning is basically now being harnessed in like every possible field you can imagine. Yeah.

And that's artificial intelligence. It's using computers to make decisions. Right. Now, sleepwalkers would imply, that title would imply that we're unaware of something. I would say, yeah. And what are we unaware of? Well, I think people don't think about their data enough generally.

I think maybe in the past two years, maybe. I think also post-election tampering, people started, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people started thinking more about, oh my God, like, Facebook has a lot of information about me, and it's being given to other companies that I don't want to have my information. Yeah. So on the most basic level, not thinking about that enough is sleepwalking. level not thinking about that enough is is sleepwalking right you know the idea now that certain states i mean now there's two only but certain states are you know making uh the government use of facial recognition technology illegal is a good is a step in the right direction i i personally think but i don't think people have an appreciation for okay if like is is the dmv using my face to make predictions about other things legislatively right so oz took the phrase

yeah my co-host took the phrase from a british history book but I but I think you know for him also when he was thinking of the show which he asked me to do a little later on but when he was thinking of this show you know he he started to think about well what are all the things that I don't know that aren't going to be happening in the future but actually are

happening right now yeah and how can I talk to the people who have built these tools who a lot of them are how can I talk to the people who have built these tools, who a lot of them are like sounding the alarm, you know, people who worked at Facebook who were like, yeah, well, they trained, people created the like button, were like trained on the same tools that they use to build casinos. Right. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, it's, you're losing your free will because, you know, there are all these ways that companies are manipulating your mind to make the decisions they want you to make. And so you're reframing it as from a thing about like, well, I don't care what they know about me because I have nothing to hide. And I'm a Boy Scout. No, but you are not in control of your own life because they know so much about you and they're manipulating your life in the background. And some people don't, I mean, I think a lot of people don't care.

I spoke to these parents on the podcast who were like, well, if Amazon knows when I need diapers, that makes my life a lot easier right but it's also are you okay with the fact that amazon also sells like consumer facial recognition technology to government contracts yeah yeah it's all sorts of like my face is very hot so like i want as many people to see it as possible. Exactly. Don't say hot. Cause they're, they're also tracing biometrics,

honey. Oh, wait, what does that mean exactly? Like your actual body temperature. What? Well, I mean, I am a vampire,

a nine titted vampire. So my body is actually very cold. Well, if a hot face actually implies that you are nervous about something and might be carrying a bomb. So yeah. Yeah. That's what they, you never heard the term hot face actually implies that you are nervous about something and might be carrying a bomb. Yeah. You never heard the term hot face? No.

Yeah. Okay. You hot face. What I meant was not that. Cool. Good to know. Very fun. Anything that can be scanned and then compared to other things that have been scanned is using AI to detect or like whitelist or blacklist someone. So now they're doing it with a laser called Jetson where they're actually using your heartbeat as a biometric monitor.

So like, oh, that's jack's heart like if they can't see your face because you're compromised they're starting to be able to read people in other way there when i say there it's like darpa is developing these things um so if you have like an increased heartbeat that will like be telling of oh that person well just just how your heart beats is a very particular signature that only you have. Yeah, I didn't realize that, but apparently, yeah. It's exactly like a fingerprint. Yeah, your heartbeat is like a fingerprint. Oh, really?

I did not know that. Yeah. Wow. Mine is super cool. My heartbeat is so dope. Mine is like a hip hop beat. Yeah, it's like in an acapella group yeah it's all very so those are all aie things wow like when you go on jet blue and you're using

your face to board a plane you should just ask people who work at jet blue where's that data going is it a hard delete are you storing that data and then selling it to the U.S. government? And I think the answer a lot of the time is no, and there are a lot of people who are working in this sort of ethical surveillance, if such a thing is possible, who are really like creating tools to also sound the alarm. Same with people who are developing technology to detect deep fakes. They have to create deep fakes in order to detect them.

So, you know, it's the kind of thing to just keep your eyes open to. Yeah. Don't sleepwalk into it. That's right. By listening to sleepwalkers. But if your eyes are open, then they're going to use retinal scanners. Right. That's true.

To detect you. Well, they've now, there's, of course, a Kickstarter. Right. Respectacles. I think they're called uh something like that i want to say i'm i'm i'll be saying it's something spec it's something articles okay and um it turns your eye into that like it feeds it back right into the camera oh really well fund i always think well-funded kickstarters and then you're like malaria like what what in the fuck are you creating this for? That's better than saving people's lives from malaria.

It's just crazy. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. We also have a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Also, don't keep your eyes open, and just keep your ears open and listen to podcasts. They'll tell you everything you need to know. That's right.

Audio is very safe. Walk around with your eyes closed and podcasts in your ears, and you will be safe. No danger there. So basically be a blind hipster for the rest of your life. There you go. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your and we're back real quick i want to i want to check in with the crowdfunded wall uh because so we talked before about how um you know there there were rumors that the dude who got all the money colfage uh was spending it uh miss spending it no but then in May the wall was built by a privately owned brick company in New Mexico and not long after the city served them a cease and desist because they didn't actually get the proper permissions to build the wall wait oh my god so he gave the money to a brick contractor, somebody who builds stuff out of brick, and they tried to do it over Memorial Day weekend because he was like,

then the city won't be paying attention and we'll be able to do this real quick. And the city learned about it on May 23rd and visited the site where they were told to leave. Wait, by the people building the wall? Yeah, by the people building the wall. Get the fuck out of here, city inspector. So the landowner,

the CEO of the brick company, George Kadahi, went to City Hall the next day to half-ass trying to get all these permits after the wall was already being built, submitted the applications, but they were incomplete, so no permit. And Colthage went on Twitter and straight up bragged

that the government wouldn't notice them building the wall because it was a long weekend. I'm sorry, this isn't like graffiti on your junior high locker. He said, we build the wall, plan for a battle. That's why we finished the wall in three days when the corrupt city was partying over the holiday. Only thing left is to pave the road for border patrol.

Boom. Did they even talk about how long the stretch this wall was? So we'll get to that. Oh, okay. So the brick executive is facing up to 90 days in jail for building a wall with no permit. And building part of the wall has led people entering the U.S. in other parts of town or simply walking around the wall because it's not very long. It's not very long. It was purely symbolic.

And some of the ways people have chosen to enter now are more dangerous for them, which I'm sure he doesn't care about, or the rich people of this town who probably were on board with some of these decisions they didn't care about. But they're also causing people to cross in residential neighborhoods. So people are having to cross into where people live instead of this industrial part of town where they built the wall. And they built some of their wall on federal land and in doing so cut off access to waterways and a public monument. And in doing so, cut off access to waterways and a public monument. So the International Boundary and Water Commission forced the wall people, the wall builders, to prop open a gate in the wall during business hours so they can do their job.

So on top of everything else, there's literally an open door in their wall. Oh, God. Oh, man. Like, pardon me. Fuck. How much money was this? It was $20 million. $20 million. But they didn't say

their goal was $1 billion. $1 billion. They got to $20 million. Which is a lot. A bunch of people took their money back when they were like, oh, there aren't that many

people like us. Okay. Took their money back and he used the remainder to build a small brick wall that has done nothing but embarrass him, get his business partner into legal problems, and we build the wall, which incorporated as a nonprofit in Florida is currently being investigated by the state. Sweet. And he's currently trying to get more funding. He did a telethon to raise money to do the same thing in other cities recently.

What, build an eight-foot wall in other cities? And Steve Bannon was there. That's where Steve Bannon's at. That's the circles he's traveling in now. He's got to work, you know? Yeah, right? Yeah. Wow.

He's just at these fundraisers. He's like, hey, remember know. Yeah, right? Wow. He's just at these fundraisers just like, hey, remember me? Right. The guy who thought this up? More as a metaphor? And then the president took a literally? Exactly. Even a year ago, people were like, oh, Bannon's over in Europe. He's like creating the populist

wave over there. Nah. He's doing telethons now. Shit is... There's still people who are definitely receptive to that message still, as you'll see. $20 is a lot of money. Yeah. I can't imagine

some of these people who don't know any better and really think their hard-earned money is going to something like that that's what's crazy about it it's just like 70 it's some statistic like 70 of americans can't cover a thousand dollar emergency and when you think about that i imagine that the majority of these people that contributed to this 20 million dollars are in that pool possibly you know so i'm just like or boomers who are just like you're're so scared that you're like facing real financial peril and you're going to contribute to some bullshit that isn't even sanctioned.

Yeah, right. This is, it's anarchy out there. But I needed my racist snake oil. Right. It cures immigrants. It's anarchy out there. It's, yeah, regulations. It's not a cool thing to be the guy who's pro-regulations, but they're helpful.

I like how they even still, like, with his tweets, like, yeah, man, we're doing it for the government, finds out. It's like, motherfucker, the best solution, if you're really serious about your problem, you want the government on board with the shit you're doing. I love regulations. Like, I'm from Haiti. I was born in Haiti, and there's no rules there's no laws you know my husband's from india people bribe the police on a day-to-day basis like the police take bribes from people like small vendors on the street street vendors have to pay the police like like that's just an everyday occurrence in india i love laws i love rules and order and i'm glad

that we have them here yeah sometimes they work takes a permit to build your racist monument so that you don't block waterways water them in people's and then also this shit even fails as a fucking fence because you're like and here's a door right to walk the fuck through right and you must leave it idiotic you must leave it also we have refrigerated water there. There's spa water. Spa water. God damn. Look at that.

Look at the law work. Like if there wasn't laws, that means that random people could just build brick walls along their backyards along the southern border. Yeah. But I mean, look, we still have laws and we're still doing this fucking terrible, awful shit to innocent people. So it's like, God damn. How can some laws work?

Some laws work. Yeah. Right. They work for some of us that's right just not us all right guys let's talk about weather reporting uh it's about time we talked about this uh there was an interesting article in the new yorker last week about how weather forecasting keeps getting better and it's basically making the point that it's important to all different industries, so there's a reason that everybody would want to keep making it better.

But there's also, it's like such a complex math equation. Basically, the message I got from this article is that landing a spacecraft on Mars requires dealing with hundreds of mathematical variables, making a global atmospheric model requires hundreds of thousands. I think that's like the key quote from the article. So basically we're still like, it is the furthest frontier, like being able to model out weather patterns.

Oh, right. And it is, we are getting better at it, but it's over the course of decades. You won't be able to notice the difference from one year to the next, but from one decade to the next, if you looked back on the 90s and compared how accurate the weather forecasts were back then to today it's pretty it's a pretty significant difference like what are we batting now uh i don't they didn't break it down to a percentage but it's just a much higher percentage and they can get

more detailed about like when things are going to happen what's funny yeah how like weather really is one of those things that are so hard to accurately understand because we don't even understand our own planet so much to really be able to do that. That's why I know the Juno mission to Jupiter, that probe that's going around Jupiter, is actually also very important for weather reporting too because the more they can understand about Jupiter, it holds so many other keys to understand even our own weather. So I'm glad we're not using that old ass almanac anymore. Right. Yeah. But we do understand a lot, right? It's like super sophisticated technology.

It's sophisticated, but there's still a lot about planetary formation we don't know. When you look at Jupiter, basically, they say a lot of the material that wasn't used to make Jupiter helped create a lot of the other planets in the solar system. So it's like we have the end product, but we don't have the recipe. Right. And that's what we're still trying to figure out. But I do think it's crazy that like

this crazy, complicated and sophisticated technology is just associated with Al Roker. Like that's what I think about weather. It's just like a dumb friendly guy in front of it in a suit with a happy sunshine sticker behind him. This is also like scientists.

One of the stories is that our ability to forecast weather was the deciding factor in World War II because when they were going to plan the D-Day invasion was like really finely tuned and like basically Germany's weather forecasters were like it won't be during this period because it's going to be stormy and allied weather forecasters were able to like pinpoint a specific day that it wasn't going to be stormy and like do a surprise attack on that day. And like, uh, I think one of the famous generals from world war two, people were like, why do people speak English instead of German today around the world? And he was like,

because we had better weather forecasters. Like that's the shout out to meteorologists. Yeah. Meteorology. Um, science shout out to science shout out to barometric pressure readings. But there's also, there's also all sorts of ways that it gets fucked up. At a certain point, the butterfly effect does come into account, like chaos theory.

So just you walking down the street, you can never have a fully accurate model of what the weather is going to be in the next day because you walking down the street like creates a small draft that creates you know can like ripple off into a million different directions so right you'll never get it fully accurate because there's just never going to be a input mechanism that is taking like readings at every single atom, like on the globe. So you just have to like get as good as you possibly can basically. Um, but it is one of those sorts of progress that I feel like we take for

granted because it's just always around us. It's always there. I'm still going to get fucking mad at that app when it's wrong though. Right. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was gonna be hot today I'm gonna have a fucking pool party

66 get the fuck out of my face weather channel but yeah salute to all the meteorologists out there yeah alright I'm gonna start the myths out with the fact that so my myth is that we don't know what happened to that plane

which one? From like four years ago. MH-17? Yeah. Yeah. We know. We do know? Yeah, we basically know what happened.

So what happened? So it was the pilot. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So- Oh. Are you talking about oceanic flight 815? No, the Malaysian air flight.

The Malaysian airline. That disappeared. That's not lost. So we have- So basically the reason we didn't think- I mean, it was a very strange event, but the reason that people weren't able to put it together pretty quickly was because Malaysia is a fairly corrupt country and they didn't want it to be pinned on them as like letting this dude fly a plane.

So he was like made to be this like, you know, totally stand up person with a 100% record. And so the main piece of evidence, like there were all these different beacons that showed exactly where the plane went and it like made this big turn. And it's just, it can't have been a hijacking and it can't have been them flying, like passing out and the plane going on autopilot like it had to have been somebody was flying it and the only rational thing is that it was a pilot but the main piece of evidence that like kind of nails it for me is the pilot had a flight simulator in his house and one of the flights that he had taken was this exact route okay crashing into the antarctic ocean like do it he he had done

that memory card they checked that memory card and it was crashing it yes and it was the only one of like a thousand different ones that he had done on like sped up so it's like usually he does it for the experience and practice right but this one he was basically either doing it to see how quickly the fuel would run out or as sort of a clue to people like yeah i'm doing this that that's what people but yeah he had flown basically that exact route in a flight simulator but they had like basically covered it up there's there's a really interesting magazine article about it that people should check out anyways Anyways, we know. So wait, hold on, time out.

Did he do it on purpose? Yes. What? And the breadcrumbs are that he did that run on a flight simulator? He did a practice run on his computer game. Yo. And that's not unheard of. There was that Egyptian air flight where the dude just like nosed it into the Atlantic

Ocean. There's been a couple of flights like nosed it into the Atlantic Ocean. There's been a couple flights like that where there was the German pilot who flew into the side of a mountain with a bunch of people on board. I've heard about that. Yeah, so it's really sad but it is also like I feel like the media

is somewhat exploiting it because it's like a huge mystery and they like talking about it but it's actually just a very sad story. What article is it? No, that's super. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know too well? Oh, I was going to say overrated, but I guess I did them both at once.

So then I'll do a myth is that people with cute socks are fun people. I love that myth. I think the biggest sociopaths in the world use cute socks as a way to disguise or to try. Right. To get Venus flytrap. Yeah. You'll meet the most sociopathic hedge fund motherfucker. Right.

And he'll be wearing the cutest socks you ever saw. Right. And I'm just telling you, ladies, I'm wearing white socks right now. Yeah. They're not cute. What brand are those they say doc on them i will what brand is that that's cb uh gml that's my cold brew got me like tube socks um so i i just want to let you know that i am a nice person uh with nothing i have no money or

anything because i am a nice person and you know my socks are normal and it's my way of saying I will treat you right and if you're if I was wearing socks

that had little typewriters on them or I don't know what people get on their socks you know you better watch out for me because I'm trying to compensate for some evil shit

that I got also sometimes I do wear cute socks and I'm still nice but it doesn't mean that's the thing where's the a thing. Where's the line? You know, where's the line? That's you don't know.

I would say draw the line when the guy you're dealing with with the cute socks is a fucking creep. Is it the color spectrum? I would say if the guy you're with is a creep, that's where you should draw the line. And don't let his cute socks factor into well, he's a creep, but he wears those cute socks. So now it's more like, don't let cute socks

dilute. I'm just saying cute socks so now it's more like don't let cute socks you know dilute dilute I'm just saying cute socks have been weaponized by bad people interest and you know what I don't care if that's 100% true or not

I'll fuck with that I'm never gonna get out of that one I love that I figured I don't care if it's 100% true I totally

that was 100% a real thing I said dude I know that's yeah you know what I mean though I mean like even if it's like yeah even if it's said, too. I know. That's, yeah. You know what I mean, though. I mean, even if it's like, yeah, even if it's super far out and I know it's bullshit, I still like to try and stick with it. Yeah, just try it out. Just for the fun.

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podcasts. And we're back and so are Janko jeans. Did you wear JNCOs? I had a whole JNCO outfit that was like cream jeans, cream shirt with black stitching on it. Oh, my God. I'm creaming my jeans thinking about that. You had an off-white JNCO outfit? Yeah. Oh, my God.

It was shorts and a shirt, and the shorts came down to like right above my ankles hell yeah yeah bro i had rock aware shorts that were like that long back in the day um did you ever wear jinkos i did i rocked them you did yeah damn i'm the only one not rocking jinkos you never rocked jankos no because i mean when that was for like ravers right and i wasn't like i'm already i had baggy jeans but the way, how baggy those things were, I was like, nah, I don't have enough candy necklaces on to rock the JNCO necklace or the jeans. Wait, what was your style when you were rocking JNCOs? They were just like a light blue jean color.

Okay. And I was just like. What were you into at the time? I was really lost as far as my fashion style. I was, what, in middle school? I think I was like 15. I was in middle school, too. I was in middle school, yeah.

And I was just trying things out. I was just trying makeup out. I still wasn't buying a lot of my own makeup. I was using my mom's makeup. It was a real experimental time. I mean, I did ditch them soon after that. Yeah. But I would rock them with like white

sneakers and like some sort of rock i don't know i don't have braids or so i have no i was doing a lot of weave at the time like there you go hair extensions just trying to be cool i was just doing my best yeah just trying to find that that target they were like it was a lot of the, what do you call those kids? Like the goth kids would rock them. Right. And so I felt like I'm not goth, but like I'm trying to figure out my style. But that was a goth trend. Yeah, definitely a vibe. A lot of chain, a lot of hanging off of it.

Yeah. Well, let me just tell you y'all something. They're back, okay? And I don't know if you remember back in the day, you could get that shit pretty much anywhere. It was like Pacific Sunwear, fucking wherever. It wasn't like trying to get off-white, some Virgil Abloh type shit. Well, now they're coming back,

and it's like in limited quantities, and they're trying to make it like a bespoke denim experience. Why not? Because you know how much the cheapest pair of jingles cost in the new issue or the new reissue 225 dollars yeah up to 350 for the fucking the le limited edition shit wow yeah capitalism um yeah and they look exactly like they did before they are huge they look like you hate your parents. Yeah.

Exactly. You hate your parents in the early 90s. Right. Yeah. But I guess that's so funny how everything's coming like cyclically back. Yeah. Because I was wearing, I have like a Christina Aguilera stripped Justified Tour t-shirt. And at the farmer's market, this like younger woman was like, oh my God, that shirt's so

cool. Where'd you buy that? And I was like, at the tour in 2004. And she's like God, that shirt's so cool. Where'd you buy that? And I was like, at the tour in 2004. And she's like, wow, that's so cool. As if it was like, that's like currency now. It's like, damn, where'd you get that old ass shirt? I'm like, come here. Look at this old guy, guys.

I was also wearing a lot of bell-bottom jeans at the time. Yeah, by LEI. Where were you living at the time. Yeah, by LEI. Where were you living at the time? Massachusetts. Norwood, Massachusetts. I went to Norwood Middle School. But even then,

we felt like, oh, it's coming back. Like, bell-bottoms to the 70s. And I think bell-bottoms are back again now. And did you have the heels of them all

just stepped on and tattered from walking all over them? Yeah, just like the JNCOs. Everybody has to have, everyone has to have ratty JNCOs, at least around the hem., everyone has to have, you know, ratty JNCOs, at least around the hem. Yeah.

But yeah, I'm just, it's so weird. I just don't get it. And these are the moments where I'm like, yes, I am old and I do not, I no longer understand. I think it's like the everlasting value of nostalgia. Right. That's all it's showing us.

Like my, these whole last like 10 years i feel like ever since like netflix came on and friends is the biggest show on netflix the office is the biggest show on like everyone's just recycling old things yeah yeah nostalgia is valuable let's just regress together in every possible way i mean this might be like i i think this is the line if fashion cycles back to like real baggy jeans like that like i'm not going with it i'm done i'm stuck here yeah yeah i think i'm just wearing straight leg jeans for the rest of my life cuts yeah no boot cuts if anybody if people start dressing like michael jordan again yeah I'm out. Yep. Oh, man. We're all at that age, though.

I feel like millennials are all at that age where we're going to, whatever we're doing now is what we'll be doing when we're 50. Right. Yeah. Like what I'm listening to. I started listening to Lauryn Hill again because that's what I was listening to when I was like in high school and college. Right.

And it's still fire. Yeah. And I was like, yo, this stuff is still, I'm starting to listen to The Score again. Right. I was just like, this stuff is fire, yo. The Score is so good. the score again the skit i'll be listening to it till i'm 50. now there's like little nas x i don't know who that is or why it's happening oh he's the mean god yeah but i don't know him you know i'm just like oh i'm at that age when i just like ignore new stuff yeah there are times too when i'm like looking at like even artists I know

like rappers and I'm looking at the features and I'm like who the fuck is this person? Like Toddler Man 42? Isn't that a fucking screen name? Like are rapper names just now screen names?

Yeah. Like XXRoxyChick182XX? You're right. That's true. I mean like that would be nice. All right. That's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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