The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 91 (Best of 9/2/19-9/6/19)

Episode Date: September 8, 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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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist what is something you think is overrated overrated i think having the so you know it was just labor day uh yesterday it was and uh i think what a pro the september labor day is is fucked labor day is may 1st that's the international labor day. That's an international one? It is the International Workers Day. Why do Americans do that? Well, because organized labor in this country was brutally suppressed and employers were

like, let's make another Labor Day that's not one in international solidarity with the entire rest of the world. So they made it September, Monday in September. I've just met you and I've learned so much. I am full of information. Especially about labor stuff. You're very informed on labor situations.

Yeah. We're around. You fuck with unions? I do fuck with unions. I don't think that unions are inherently leftist, but I fuck with unions. I would love to be in a union. Who should I vote for in the guild? Oh, let's talk about this off here i'm trying

to get a job um these people are vindictive so when did when did unions officially like go out of fashion was it just when reagan crushed the was it when reagan crushed them yeah yeah well basically like you know i'm not i am not an expert on the history of American labor. But I do know that there was like a huge resurgence in the early 1900s is also when there was a lot of like violent anarchist activity. It was like Chicago. So like with industrialization, there was like a very strong labor movement. People fucking struck and fought and died for an eight hour workday, you know, which we now take for granted. You know, like there didn't used to be an eight-hour workday.

There didn't used to be weekends. So like people really fought for all this stuff and kind of like early 1900s. And then basically from the 50s onward, you know, the government was more like breaking down unions and antitrust laws were either repealed or just not renewed, relaxed so that monopolies could grow. But like in the early era of like industrialization when there were like trains and stuff there were all these when trains were getting big you know there were all these monopolies and then the government was like

well we have to break these up and that helped organize labor but then um you know eventually they were like no this is pretty cool is it going to continue to be a push-pull like do you think like because i was reading so this dude just wrote an article. He created the show Good Trouble. But he wrote a real, I was like, let me see what this dude was talking about.

But he wrote a really good article. Good Trouble. And I was like, okay, let me see what he has to say about unions. And then I read it and I was like, oh, this is actually

really profound. And he was kind of talking about how it feels like now a lot of people, especially with the Trump administration, the Bush administration, are working really hard

to relax and, like you said, repeal some of that shit. And now is the time where we can either, like, not let that happen or it's going to go too far. The airline strike that's going on now is, like, a big example of that. Like, Unite here is a union of airline workers from many different airlines. And they're right now trying to fight for, like, what is it? United, I think, is paying people, like, $9.25 an hour. That's crazy. And they're right now trying to fight for like, like what is it? United, I think is paying people like nine 25 an hour and they're making billions and billions in profits.

So stuff like that is kind of like, it's coming down to the line where people are like, well, we're getting fucked so bad. We don't have any choice, but to do this shit anymore. Cause you just can't live. You know,

these are people working two jobs and still not making enough to live. That's insane. It's fucked. Do we think it was part of like a conscious uh strategic decision to make labor day like kind of a shitty holiday where it's the end of summer like it like makes you depressed a little bit and they were instead of making it the beginning of the summer it's like hey, hey. But May 1st, it's Beltane. It's the horniest day of the year.

It's like a magic day. That's true. Wait, what's Beltane? Beltane is like a pagan thing. Oh, nice. It's like a pagan celebration. It's not the first day of spring. It's like a solstice or something. It's halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.

Right. It's the day that I'm always horniest. Yeah, it's a big, big horn. Watch out for me on May 1st, people. I've been keeping a log of my hornstice. Right. It's the day that I'm always horniest. Yeah, it's a big, big horniest. Watch out for me on May 1st, people. I've been keeping a log of my horniness levels. Yeah. Woo! Woo!

Off the charts today. Let's talk about Dior, you guys. They've got a new ad that is... Which Dior? The Jewish one? Which Dior? Yeah, which Dior? I don't know.

There's two Dior's? There's two Dior's. There's Muslim Dior yeah which Dior I don't know there's two Dior's there's two Dior's there's Muslim Dior Jewish Dior and Christian Dior ha it's not the best

in the biz for nothing thank you so they've got a new ad that is a Native American doing a ceremony ceremonial dance that it says we are the land uh and the text that appears alongside it says an authentic journey deep into the native american

soul in a sacred founding and secular territory what more yes more to come september 1st um more land yes no no no no no no uh more appropriation uh the now this so this is a uh a perfume or cologne i'm not sure which uh i thought it was land no no so we are the land is just the idea. Okay. Obviously. No, but. That's right. So this scent sums up the idea of Native Americans being the land. Does it smell like blood?

Probably a little bit. There's like blood mixed with passion fruit. But so this is a scent that is called Sauvage. It's basically savage with a U added. So we found a longer version of the ad that gives it context. And the way that we get context is we see Johnny Depp. Yes, Johnny Depp walking through a desert with an electric guitar. Finally.

And he looks up, startled like a meerkat. And then there is a young, attractive woman in a wolf fur who looks up at him, startled. Like, what is he doing here? Is she on all fours or is she standing? She's, uh, I think she's standing. It's,

it's actually tough to say. But that's a good note. Right. Uh, and then Johnny Depp shreds a nasty guitar solo in the middle of the desert. And then they cut to that dude doing the ceremonial dance. And then it says, we are the land lady.

Uh, she's just there, you know know does she enjoy the shredding or uh she like it's hard to say she i think she's just aware of his presence but she's not actually like spatially there it's more of like she's the spirit of the land right exactly um is she white what's up with that What's going on there? I don't know. It's hard to say. Man, let's rewrite this ad, bro.

Please. So it should start in darkness. Okay. And then a light comes in, right? Then you hear the howling of a wolf. And then you cut to that lady. Right. And then she's on all fours because she's a wolf.

It would be crazy if she was walking. If she was walking, that's a whole different commercial. So she's all on fours. If she's walking, then it's Crash Bandicoot. Exactly. It's a world where animals are walking. That's not a world we want to live in. No. So then Johnny Depp comes out of the ground, and he's crushing it on the guitar solo.

But then someone stops him, and it's Elizabeth Warren. And she says, I should be playing the guitar solo, but then someone stops him, and it's Elizabeth Warren, and she says, I should be playing the guitar. Right. And then she takes the guitar and keeps playing it, right? Right. The results of her DNA test flash on the screen behind her. On the screen, just to make sure everyone knows,

we know who she is. She's legit. Mm-hmm. And then all of a sudden, I'm trying to think of where I can take this commercial to where it's not problematic. Well, you want a suggestion? Yeah, tag it in. The wolf girl whips out a bass and they shred together.

Yeah, yeah. They make beautiful music together. Like when Red Hot Chili Peppers was playing at the Slosson Castle. Yes. And then the guitarist and the bassist. I don't know the bassist's name. His name is Flea. I don't know the guitarist's name.

But they were, ain't that the lead singer's name. His name is Flea. I don't know the guitarist's name. But they were, they were, ain't that the lead singer? Yeah. Yeah, doesn't he play guitar? Nah, he's not the guitarist. I want to say John Favreau, but that's not right.

Isn't that the drummer? Go teach a little bit, you know. And they're just playing with each other. Right. I was looking at Trace Cyrus. Trace Cyrus has a lot of portraits of Native Americans on him. Right. Mm-hmm. I was looking at a Trace Cyrus.

Trace Cyrus has a lot of portraits of Native Americans on him for a guy who grew up in, a white guy who grew up in Tennessee and then now lives in LA. Right. But how are you, how is he supposed to show respect?

I mean. I don't, that's a question I'm always asking. Right. Exactly. Trace. How do I show respect for a race I'm not?

Yeah. Get a tattoo. That's right that's right oh well that's why i got so many tattoos of white people on my body what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false all right so when i was preparing for this i couldn't decide whether i wanted to get um all heady and serious or talk about popeye's chicken sandwiches so i kind of cut it down the middle but uh i guess this is now that i'm looking at my notes i took like slavosh zizek notes so this is kind of an intense point but i think i was thinking about this and i was like um myth a big myth to me is uh this idea that like art is a weapon and what i mean by that is like

um you know i mean we're here in la we're in the land where we make all the things, you know, all the media and stuff. So maybe it's relevant. There's a very popular idea in America that like, I'm going to fight Trump with my music or whatever. Or, you know, or with movies and stuff like that. And I kind of also call bullshit on this, I guess. I think it's a very popular myth and it's profitable and what i mean by that is here's what i was thinking about it right so this dave chappelle special comes out and everyone's or everyone in the right wing the bright barts and reason.com so these people are

like you know the cancel culture people don't want you to see this special right and uh everyone makes fun of them because it's hilarious but then you know like a few years ago this lady ghostbusters movie came out and how they advertise it they're like the the bros don't want you to see it i'm like what do these two things have in common right they don't want you to buy my product right so stick it to them by buying my thing right right that's how like capitalism came back around and just molded itself around all this stuff we're talking about and uh it's that's dumb i'm against it yeah yeah i don't know well yeah i think there's the idea that you could somehow just be like

do these subversive t-shirts are gonna bring they are gonna end child separation your heart's in the right place but i don't know if you know if we're talking in terms of an action plan that's the best thing to do but i guess if you're just using it as awareness that's one level of it but i think just to suppose that that that's the you know that's going to directly affect things but it kind of like i think it's advantageous to people in power to permeate these myths because it it really keeps people from doing anything that actually threatens power by thinking like you know well i could do a bunch of boring dry political shit or i could pick up a brick or i could do my hobby and then that's also somehow part of this process

and it's like imagine you're like a king you're inside of a tower you don't want to get in the tower there's always people outside and uh they have weapons right well it would be probably pretty advantageous to like permeate the idea that like weapons are that's not how you do it do it with a song you know right you know what would really fucking piss me off is if y'all stayed at home right yeah that would really fuck me up yeah i don't know so like i i guess this idea gets thrown around a lot of the circles. I mean, I think it's the point I'm trying to make, I guess, is like art is the end of society, not the beginning of it. Like it's the end result.

Right. And so that's what America has backwards to me. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, I mean, all art is political. And so like sometimes when people are going out to specifically make a political statement that they have consciously concocted in their mind,

I feel like sometimes just in terms of the quality of the art, that's, it tends to work better when it's like something that has taken some time to stew in your unconscious. Or just in general, the best art is true actual self-expression rather than like pop music where it's like well this is banging right now if i do something in this world i get swept up therefore and i think that's that's a big difference too if like if

it's like meaning first and then there's like a point in it later right if you're writing a joke if it's funny first and then that happens to have a point of view in it because it's your point of view and it's attached to the things you think about, that's a joke, right? But if you start with the thing you're trying to say, that's propaganda. Right, right. And then you're just a fucking Christian rock musician, and that's not fun.

Well, I was a Christian rock musician for a while. In high school when you were yelling come? Yeah, yelling come, yeah. Exactly. Singing come in the voice of yelling come. Yeah, yelling come, yeah. Exactly. Singing come in the voice of the Lord. Exactly, yep. Yeah. We're called Ecclesiastis.

That's a pretty good Christian. Let's talk about ranch. This ranch dressing, it is ideology. Yes, exactly. It is bullshit. People always say, you know, all ranch dressing it is ideology yes exactly bullshit people always say you know all ranch dressing is political and uh no you miles so hidden valley uh which by the way there is a hidden valley ranch that ranch dressing was invented at i just learned that during the year of our lord 1954 yes apparently uh yeah they their claim the makers of hidden valley ranch are claiming victory

over ketchup that it is now their influence 70 of ranch usage now happens beyond the salad bowl including for dipping pizza fries and popcorn and now this is where i get fucked up they said it has displaced blue cheese as a dipping sauce choice for wings that's a fucking lie that's a lie and that's how i know this whole thing is bullshit. Yes. Because I will never put ranch on a wing. But this is a longstanding kind of conversation that Hidden Valley has been trying to get started since 2012. I found an article where they were like, Hidden Valley is going to supplant ketchup as the number one condiment

by putting out this new product uh hidden valley everything which is thicker and so it sticks better to burgers and fries what here's how here's how they should advertise it they should be like these pc culture people they don't want you to eat ranch yeah on everything fucking own them own them with this extra ranch it's true the cultural elites don't want you to eat they're all that'll give you a heart attack ranch is just fucking i don't i mean i get it i i really liked ranch when i was a teenager uh because i'd never had it really growing up uh because my mom just didn't have that kind of shit in our house and then i would start eating like i had friends who put ranch on everything.

I was like, oh, this is, I'm like, okay, this is a wave. Then it died off because I realized it was just covering everything I ate. And there was no other flavor. It was more just, like, masking shit and ranch. Now I'm, like, really not as into the whole ranch thing. But, like, when you see all these, like, ranch fucking fest, ranch fest they have in Vegas or whatever, where people are like beer bonging fucking ranch it's just like the new fucking bacon where people are mistaking food for

a personality right and i'm a little whoa you know ranch bacon hold on yep well no that's the thing and that's when you look at like the shit hidden valley is making they're like they found a way to weaponize ranch in every possible way by the way ketchup isn't the number one condiment in the United States. Salsa, right? It's actually mayo. Oh, shit. And then mayo by, like, a lot. 400 million containers sold each year.

Then salsa with 271 million. That's probably because of real America. That's right. Catch my drift. Which is funny. I thought there were all those, like, fucking takes, like, oh, millennials are ruining mayo. That's right. Which is funny. I thought they're all those fucking takes like, oh, millennials are ruining mayo. Mayo's dying

because millennials are poor. I think that was a single article we found written by a woman who was mad that people didn't like her chicken salad. It's always somebody with a really specific agenda. Millennials don't want to come over to my apartment anymore. They're killing the coming over to my apartment industry.

Millennials think my Scarface poster is, quote, gay. Anyways, be wary of any ranch news that you hear. I know you guys have been just reading ranch news with an open mind, but try and be a little bit. This is what's wild. There is a ranch dipping sauce, right? If you go to the Hidden Valley site, they have a whole subsection of different ranches you can get. Okay.

One is called blasted creamy dipping sauce, ranch dipped pizza flavor. Now, what the fuck? Ranch dipped pizza? It's basically evoking the taste. The ranch, the dressing that comes out of this is meant to evoke the flavor of you dipping pizza into ranch. It's a flavor. It's a ranch dressing that's flavored as ranch dressing that has pizza dipped in it. That's what I'm saying.

This is meta. Right. There's layers to this. What do you put that on? Do you put that on salad? This is inception. Is this Praxis? This is Praxis, yeah.

That's what that means. It's just fucking, I don't know. I don't know. It's meant to just be like, if you like the flavor of ranch and pizza, but you don't want to just dip your pizza in ranch, you just want to export that flavor to another eating experience. This is where I'm just saying, the layers are becoming too thick and crazy. Do you want to eat an Escher painting?

Right. Do you want your condiment to just confuse the shit out of you? Like that one scene in Labyrinth? Right. Have you ever made ranch? No, I was just actually, I'll actually talk about this later.

I'm into making my own dipping sauces recently and I was realizing how easy it is to make ranch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Making your own sauces is fun. I used to have to make it because i worked at a pizza restaurant and so you'd have to make it in batch and like it's basically just like three ingredients it's just like buttermilk and then like mayo or something sour cream some green shit and then you put it all in a bucket and then you get this big drill thing yeah that's a power drill with a power beater yeah you, there's a mixing head on it. Power beater. Yeah.

You sit there like a construction worker, just like... People walk by, you're like, mm-hmm, yeah. It's really weird to watch it. Was it packets you were adding or was it real like from scratch ranch? No, it was Hidden Valley, actually.

Oh, shit, okay. It was packets of green shit. I don't know what it is. Yeah. I don't know what's in ranch also and I eat it constantly. And look, and we shouldn't know in a way. I don't want to know.

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I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day,

and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire?

Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 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, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them. Why is that? Just come here and play basketball every single day

and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her.

What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Guys, let's talk about the straight pride parade that finally happened over the weekend.

The one in Boston? The one in Boston finally happened over the long weekend. Can I just say, I'm so glad I unplugged from the news for the last couple of days. Well, that's the thing. I mean, this was poorly executed from a number of standpoints, but number one being they held it over a holiday weekend that I had no idea it happened until after the holiday weekend. And I also had no idea it happened until after the holiday weekend because it was just – it kind of – nothing happened. It was a wet fart. Yeah, it was like 200 people showed up, so not few enough to be –

so there's been other straight pride parades. I didn't realize this. There was a, quote, hetero activist who staged a straight pride parade in Seattle back in – I think it was a couple years back. 2015. 2015. And the attendance was lower. Oh, really?

Huge? It was just him. He couldn't find one other fucking weird angry fucker? It kind of takes the wheels off his whole argument. Right. Yeah. That's an asexual parade just by default right he had he had the black and white balloons which ended up being black and white ended up being the color of

the colors of the straight pride movement uh if you want to call it that uh which we shouldn't pride battle movement there's another straight pride parade uh just last week in modesto california uh organized by don grundman a chiropractor who also uh keeps running for senate and losing horribly straight pride parade oh you mean a podcast drop the fucking ball don a chiropractor he's like yeah we got to keep things straight also our spinal alignment oh maybe it's all viral marketing yeah oh could you oh the most like some someone off-handedly said that to him and he has the worst ideas and he's like yeah wait hold on yeah straight pride straight backs straight okay yeah let's do this yeah his logo on his site is a white fist uh next to the words fight the power uh which looks even worse because what is the power right fight out fight ourselves

there's an also an old photo of a lynching on his website that links to an article where he calls black people chumps so um okay Okay. About section of his site, he claims that the crappiness of the web design is on purpose because this... Because it's a meat and potatoes site

that's here to, quote, assist you in both countering and leaving what I term as the matrix, which... Wait, wait. Which is amazing

for so many reasons. The about section of his website says defending the shitty web design by making by being like yeah because we're trying to fucking red pill right here yes and also claiming that he is the one who came up with comparing uh the media to the matrix uh what what i term as the matrix so in a way he's the or like originator of red pilling yes that's his it's weird claim that he's not specifically talking about the red pill like scene analogy in the matrix because he could be saying that the media is like those two albino twins from the second matrix right or some other weird shit yeah he hasn't thought it

through thoroughly enough or his mind doesn't work in that like meta text he's like yeah i'm not gonna lie guys i've only seen the trailer for that um when appearing before the modesto city council to make his case for his straight pride parade uh because nobody wanted it to be on shared county land. So he had to end up renting out a place, which then canceled it there. So he just had it in his basement basically. But when he was talking to the Modesto city council to make his case that he should be able to have a straight pride parade, he had a bit of a Freudian slip where he said, we're a totally peaceful racist group.

Which, yeah, that's tough. Anyways, only 20 people were there to celebrate when his party eventually popped off. But 200 LGBTQ allies showed up to oppose them. And that brings us to Boston just last weekend. First of all, they fucked things up initially by using Brad Pitt's likeness. Right.

They were like... It's like the ultimate straight guy. Yeah. Tyler Durden, dog. We're all Tyler Durden. I mean, we just think it's really cool. Him as an image of the straight man, because he's so hot and his body's so tight and like everything about him, like glistening.

Like, I don't know if that's real sweat or like the makeup department put glycerin all over his abs or whatever, but I'm feeling it. What's more heterosexual than an imaginary metrosexual friend? Who's telling you to do all that bad stuff. Yeah. Teaching you how to use hair gel and shit. Right. So about 200 people showed up to march and were mostly drowned out by 600 to a thousand counter protesters.

Didn't they like shift it because the straight pride parade thing became so like such a joke around it that they're like, well, it's also going to be like a costume parade too so i think that was sort of their thinking heading in is how bad like straight culture has nothing to associate itself with so whereas gay culture like the gay pride parades are look amazing right and people have you know things to do visually that make them really fun to look at. They were like, oh, shit. Straight Pride is just black and white balloons. What are we going to do? So they were like, you guys do cosplay.

Do cosplay. It'll be cool. It was so well thought through that on the site it said, best solo costume gets a $100 gift card to something. It's just Halloween? A $100 gift card to something. And a $200 card goes to the best straight couples cosplay for something again. Wowee, wow. The reason that pride parades have a culture to them is that they have an origin.

They haven't just been made from a whole cloth like the straight pride parade. Pride is in celebration of the Battle of Stonewall where a bunch of queer people got into a street fight with the police inside of a bar and barricaded the walls up well the reason i'm bringing this up is that this a straight pride parade implies the existence of straight stonewall right there was some kind of oppression yeah or some sort of street fight with like whoever they're saying oppresses them you know like the pc police twitter yeah that yeah or the queer eye people saying i should stop wearing cargo shorts right that's my fucking stonewall man it denotes the day on which queer i said uh cargo shorts weren't cool anymore oh so brooks running shoes with reebok white socks pulled up to my knees isn't a cool look yeah it's violence against me man the queer eye guys got hired to make over their dad and they like boarded up the

walls and shit they were like they're trying to get in here right oh god the photos look really uh really exciting pretty bleak uh and and lo and behold how many fucking cargo shorts are in this fucking photo dude like even when you look it's like one one, two, three. There are three pairs of shorts in the picture, or four pairs and three of them are cargo shorts. Good ratio. Not a ton of women were showing pride in their straightness and AOC tweeted

for men who are allegedly so proud of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to their event. Seems more like a I struggle with masculinity parade to me hope they grow enough over the next year to support join lgbtq fam next hashtag pride and that set the right-wing media off now their favorite person their favorite lightning rod it gave them something to cover uh it was beneficial to them in the sense that it gave them something to

cover that wasn't the parade itself because that was just self-evidently embarrassing right um but anyways it looks like uh at this point straight pride parades are a resounding oh for three uh but you know keep trying guys i don't know know, man. You seen a Patriot, Patriot Superbowl celebration parade, right? Yeah. I mean, undefeated, bro. Like there's plenty of most parades are straight pride parades,

right? Like, well, yeah, of course. Yeah. Cause it's the monoculture. Yeah.

Yeah. It's fun. There's, it has terrible masks. There's clowns. Did you see the weird green clown guys? No, there's a picture that went around on twitter of like a snapshot of these two guys

that had green like makeup all over their faces and clown wigs and somebody explained it to me it's uh after so they they took the pepe frog and made it alt right you know back in like 2016 and then they kept evolving it like pokemon style so there's like a bigger one called groiper and then the next roiper yeah it's this big bigger weirder pepe and then there's like a bigger one called groiper. And then the next, yeah, it's this big, bigger, weirder Pepe. And then there's this thing called honkler now. And that's what they were dressed up as,

which is like a Pepe frog. That's also a clown. And I don't know what it means, but they certainly could explain why they're dressed up as a frog clown as a way of celebrating the fact that they supposedly have sex with women. Yes. Tons of it. It's fucking weird's fucking weird yeah yeah that is very strange i wish i had not seen those pictures oh yeah it's nightmare fuel miles you you pointed out this look at trump supporters as an expression of this new trend. Yeah, a need for chaos.

So these political scientists, they did like six surveys. They're European researchers, but they did four surveys in the U.S. where they interviewed over 5,000 participants and two in Denmark with somewhere around 1,300 to kind of find like they had this theory essentially that there's a need from for some people who are participating in politics or a democracy that are just looking for what they call chaos incitement which is a strategy of last resort by marginalized status seekers um so what they're essentially saying is like you know trump has

often just sort of tried to create this narrative that America is in chaos. And, you know, that sort of build himself up to be like, look at these other presidents, their failures. It's chaos. It's chaos. It's chaos. We need to change it. But they found that a lot of these people who have a need for chaos, they sort of get that out or express that need by just spreading like conspiracy theories and fake news and all this other stuff and it's not necessarily because they're trying to spread their own ideology it's just that their ideology is that they want to undermine the political establishment elites whatever and try and get others inspired to be like yeah fuck this thing right and before i think a lot of times you could look at is like oh these people want this specific

thing that's why they're tweeting this out but they're you know as they look at it they're like no these people really just do this not even because they believe that it's true they say quote for the core group hostile political rumors are simply a tool to create havoc so in the way they identified these people is that they found that the people who were like really into this sort of this drawn to chaos category, that they had affirmative responses to the following statements. I fantasize about a natural disaster wiping out most of humanity such that a small group of people can start all over. I think society should be burned to the ground. When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking, quote, just let them all burn. We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions.

We need to tear them down and start over. Sometimes I just feel like destroying beautiful things. Well, I relate to all of these statements. Yeah. I agree with all of them. I'm a Trump supporter. Well, they say like a lot of these tied strongly to support for Trump and then even to Bernie Sanders to a lesser extent.

Right. uh tied strongly to support for trump and then even to bernie sanders to a lesser extent right because like these are vague in this in the sense that if you can see like oh we're this capitalist structure we live under like is not working we need to let this shit burn i mean that's the thing we've even said about like fucking burn it down yeah uh but it's very very strong with people who identified as like supporting trump some of trump's earliest supporters were these people who looked at like psychographic data that they had stolen basically from Facebook and were like, we've been tracking like political, like where people were in America politically. And right now it just spiked in terms of people who are ready for like an outsider candidate to come in and just basically flip the checkers table and you know just upend the game and so that makes sense that like Bernie

who's coming in and like criticizing things from the outside and also Trump like both these people who don't make sense to the mainstream media uh would come in and like have some success I mean it shows it's at the very least, there is a growing number of people who feel completely powerless in the system. Right. And now can some embrace just its total destruction? Or other people just want to see it shook up?

Yeah. I mean, people have been wanting, you know, fantasizing about zombie apocalypses for like decades now. I remember when that was like the fucking every urban outfitters gift had something to do with the zombie apocalypse. Right. Like zombie survival guide,

which I read. Yeah. I mean the idea of simplifying things, I think there's something alienating and a little bit like a deep existential terror about the number of people there are in the world and like how big the world is that like people don't really like to kind of tangle with the idea that you're actually just one of you know uh seven billion people your life means nothing right yeah i think i think that fucks with people

and that's where you know a lot of our movies are about finding out that you're secretly the most important person on the planet like in the matrix or harry potter you know a lot of our movies are about finding out that you're secretly the most important person on the planet like in the matrix or harry potter you know like all these huge movies are just like oh it turns out i'm the only one who matters like which is fuck y'all yeah i think this whole movement is tapping into a very human like way of confronting that and just being like holy shit like in america especially we don't deal with things by thinking about ourselves as part of a collective or at least we don't do that well oh no we don't make anything about out of that that's a that is a problem with a lot of people's i don't think uh i mean to quote george costanza we're living in a society

um i think that's the problem is that a lot of people don't move with other people in mind and the day-to-day aspects. And that's what's frustrating. It's like a really good example of that is when you're driving and a bus tries to merge and you see how many people won't let a bus merge. Right. That drives me fucking crazy. I'm always on the bus trucks. Yeah. I always see that where trucks are like in an exit lane and they're like i have to get over or merge like no i have to fuck you it's crazy

it's gridlock traffic and it's like dude what do you like two seconds and it's a bus full of people let them in i don't know it's just you see examples all the time i mean even like the stupid stupid straw thing is ridiculous of like how we're banning straws but like we can't i don't know we can't ban plastic in general right right we're so dependent on that but we want to get rid of these straws um which is proof that like nobody has any good ideas right well yeah and the ones that are would hold like too much of like the stakeholders at the top of industries accountable and they're like no no don't fucking don't bring that spotlight over here. I mean, look at Jay-Z trying to be like, let me fix the NFL. And it's like, dude, what are you doing? They're like, bro, you look like a fucking sellout right now.

Yeah, I mean, he looks crazy. It's also impossible to change what's going on in an institution that's been existing for so long. Yeah, by handshaking with other billionaire plantation owners who are like, yeah, man, yeah, we'll figure this out. It's tough. it's tough it's tough yeah and even with that whole jay-z thing i'm part of me thinks like there could be the element that there is some kind of idea that he wouldn't just so foolishly engage with the nfl like that and then part of me we said this when the story first came out we're like part of me just knows he's a fucking hustler dude he's about that check so he might really be like no fuck fuck cap dude fuck all this shit that's a fucking deal i just signed yeah he's a he's a long-term guy yeah i think about how long he waited for beyonce's

virginity he waited a long time for that and is she a virgin no really it maybe i don't know she only had one other boyfriend before him and she said she was saving it. Yeah, but Beyonce would have that power. She's like, I'm a virgin. I'm a virgin. Thank you so much for waiting. It's me, Beyonce. I'm a virgin. That's true.

It's a blessing to be a virgin. Holy shit, I can't believe Beyonce is here on the day after her 38th birthday. Oh, daily zeitgeist, how you say it? Daily zeit, I don't know how to say that. How's veganism working out for you? It's good. I'm hungry. I couldn't eat my birthday cake.

Yeah, Jay-Z's crazy. But to your point, I do think he is someone who could easily be playing the long game and having the center be money. Yeah. Right. I mean, what is it? Compassionate capitalism, which is not a real thing.

Right. But I think that's kind of what he's justified for himself. You don't become a billionaire by accident. You become a billionaire by being a ruthless animal. Ruthless. Yeah, predator. As he said, you didn't start out from your trunk to reach the roof just to put the roof in your trunk.

Right. That's poetic. You know what I mean? That's poetic. Thank you. And also, as he said, Jay-Z in the range, crazy and deranged. So, I mean, he told us he was crazy from the beginning. So, you know, I mean.

We're on the Ari Melber show. That was relevant. The Ari Melber show is so, so whack. As Jay-Z said, the streets is watching. I have 99 problems, but a B word is not one.

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Should we talk about Starbucks? Oh, yes. What happened at Starbucks? I didn't get that far down in the dock. Yeah, no, no, you want this one. This will lighten your mood after that. I'll tell you if it lightens my mood. Okay, good, good. let me know uh do you go to starbucks first question sometimes okay do you have an order that you regularly have no what do you get just like black coffee black coffee there you go

have you ever used the app to order absolutely not okay well if you anyone who's opened the app and just tried to order something as simple as black coffee, you will see the customization menu is fucking bananas. The amount of shit you can just do to a fucking cup of water is just absurd. And apparently this has been causing a lot of problems for baristas because people don't know how to act with these customizations. So you can add syrups, pumps of flavor syrup, fucking fruit, mashed fruit or whatever. Fucking powders, milks, fucking the amount of ice.

All this shit is in there. Well, now they're saying, look, we got to fucking pull. We got to pull this shit back because y'all are going to ham on these modifiers. And now they have to limit modifiers. Before pumpkin spice season? Yeah. Exactly. I think it might have been pumpkin spice season that occasioned this change.

Well, the whole deal is now, this is the thing. Gasp. They're limiting modifiers. You can only add the same ingredient only 12 times. So before that, people were going into the 20s and 30s. What does that mean? So you could be like, I want this drink plus 30 shots of espresso. Okay.

Or I want this plus- I think it drink plus 30 shots of espresso. Okay. Or I want this plus- I think it's like 30 shots of vanilla syrup. Yes, exactly. So these are some of the drinks people were ordering. Okay, yeah, this will help. A venti nine shot, one pump mocha, nonfat, no whip with exactly four shakes of cinnamon. That's something you can do in the fucking app. Okay, here's another one.

I mean, nine shots makes some sense to me. I mean, that's just added caffeine. That's just extra coffee. Yeah, for sure. I get that. Let me get more of seeing it. Are you guys fighting right now? How about this?

A cold brew, 10 pumps of vanilla, 5 pumps caramel, 5 pumps classic syrup, 5 pumps more of caramel, 5 pumps white mocha, whole milk, coconut milk, mocha, whole milk, coconut milk,

heavy cream, almond milk, sweet cream, cinnamon, vanilla powder, sweet and low, What the fuck is wrong with this person? stevia,

Splenda, sugar, dark chocolate curls, and extra whipped cream. See, that's what happens when you're not getting enough pumps in your pussy. Wow.

To start ordering this lot of shit. Yeah, you need other shit in your life to help you make you feel better, but that's ridiculous. That really feels like somebody who's taking advantage of the freebies and shit. They're like, you know what? I should put all that shit in there.

Like, I don't care if it's... It just sounds like a sad Karen. Yeah, and it will melt your teeth. I mean, yeah. The teeth, I just worry about people's dental health. I worry about insulin spikes, diabetic shock just happening

straight up in the drive-thru. Another one, the thing that was the most absurd to me was called the 2020. Someone just get a grande with 20 pumps vanilla, 20 pumps hazelnut. I was hoping it was Barbara Walters, John Stossel themed and not something like that. No, dude, old school, her and Hugh Downs.

I'm Hugh Downs. But yeah, 2020 is, what the fuck? That's crazy. That's not even a thing that I feel is drinkable. This is what people do when they don't have a personality. Right. They have no culture. I think it,

no sense of self. I think this is straight up addiction. Like I think this is sugar. Yeah, it is. Sugar addiction. Like straight up, yeah, sugar being like the thing that kind of you know you're it's like the rat hitting the lever until you get all the

all the pellets but do you what do you think sugar pump withdrawal looks like somebody who's sick off off coming off sugar i mean it's a lot of headaches right it's a lot of just like not feeling like yourself no yeah like no appetite because i because i took myself off of like sugar addiction like years ago and it's fucking hard yeah well because i was just like you gotta understand my metabolism has been fucking great it looks like i was a kid it moves at the speed of it really does so i can just eat whatever the fuck i want and sugar was like top And it still is. If I could have donuts to every meal, I would. Oh. I really would.

Favorite donut? Oh, God. Cruller, probably. Wow. And it depends on- Classic. Yeah, it's so good. Wait, so what were you at your darkest moment with the sugar?

Just like no water and just drinking soda. Wow. Like that was my water was drinking soda. Favorite soda? Coca-Cola Classic. All right. If I'm feeling spicy,. Favorite soda? Coca-Cola Classic. All right. If I'm feeling spicy, get a little cherry Coca-Cola. But that's what, so, and I still struggle with it.

But it's part of why like I get my coffees with just milk is because I was starting every day with like tons of sugar in my coffee. Right, right, right. You can't start your day with that shit. Yeah. You know, caffeine already is bad enough. But that sugar shit, it's tough. and my coffee. You can't start your day with that shit. You know, caffeine already is bad enough, but that sugar shit, it's tough. But like, because I also get migraines in general.

So like when I started getting, I mean, I lost 10 pounds almost immediately and I didn't realize it was just like the sugar. That's all it was. The sugar just got off your body. Yeah, it just got off my body. And so those withdrawals are tough. And even now i i'm like oh i need to eat sugar and i'm not diabetic which thank god right it's seriously thank god

because i should be and i actually got tested which was funny because every time i i'm like can i just get my blood tested they're like you're skinny you're fine i'm like that's not how anything works right fucking idiot you should see Here, look at this montage. Yeah. And. A doctor? Yeah. Just take my fucking blood, please. What's your secret, ma?

I'm sorry, what the fuck? Yeah. I'm here because I have really bad headaches. Okay, go ahead. Go off, queen. And I like made them test my blood. But, you know, but that's the other thing is that that people, if you, especially if you're not, if you don't quote look diabetic,

people will really dismiss you. Sure. And I was like, no one's gonna help my sugar addiction except me. Nobody cares. Because also the only thing that I would get is which I do have now is acne. And it's one of those things where people are like,

oh, that's it? Good for you. That's a blessing. And I'm like, that's still not, my body's still reacting negatively to this consumption. And yeah, so I think, yeah, people just have an unhealthy sugar addiction. And it's also like,

it's easy to dismiss sugar addiction because it's not opioids, it's not booze, it's not drinking and driving. It's just like, oh, having sugar. It's not affecting my job negatively. Right, even though you're a bitch at work, Karen. Right. Fix that. They're like, we're affecting my job negatively. Right. Even though you're a bitch at work, Karen. Right.

Fix that. They're like, we're out of Stevia! Yeah. Just screaming. But you know what? Worry not. For people who are, if your order is a 2020, you can still get that embarrassing-ass drink. You just have to order it in person and say it out loud in front of other people at a

Starbucks. That's a great way to shame people into reducing their sugar intake. Well, that was a theory a lot of baristas had who they interviewed when they were talking about this. They were just like, you see it more in the app because they feel like

those people don't have to go and tell a human being, hi, I would like a 10-pump vanilla, 5-pump caramel, 5-pump classic syrup, 5-pump mocha,

home-bought coconut. Yeah, because it's stupid. It's crazy. Yeah, people would be like, what the fuck? See, shame is good. Yeah. You do need to bring back

a little bullying in schools. Well, yeah, just let you know. At least get feedback from the outside world. Feedback. That's what we call bullying. Feedback. Yeah, thank you to the woke bully. You rebranded it as feedback.

So I've got some feedback for you. So I've got some feedback. Push them down. I've got some feedback for you. What the fuck is this outfit? Right. That's funny. I'm going to write a bit about that. Give you feedback. Push them down. I got this feedback for you. What the fuck is this outfit? Right. That's funny. I'm going to write a bit about that.

Your feedback. Thank you. I got some mom, dad, I got some bad user feedback. I got terrible feedback at school. Was it from Marcella? Your teacher, Marcella? Is that why we have those scripts? Your teacher.

It was Miss Arguello again. Oh, shit. She said I walk dumb. Well, Jimmy, you do walk dumb. Get your pigeon-toed ass, man. Get the fuck out of here. Oh, I was pigeon-toed when I was a kid. Were you really?

Yeah. I went to a wedding, and somebody's mom put them on blast that they were pigeon-toed. It was hilarious. And nobody knew, because we knew him as an adult. Right. So we didn't know that he was pigeon toed as a kid and she hella put him went in she went in on him was this during the toast like very sweet yeah they were giving speeches but it was like free speech it

was just open speeches which is yeah fucking ridiculous that shit happens a lot at weddings i hated it it's just non-stop there are some times when it's like a fucking bad open mic yeah and everybody's like oh oh shit, you know what? Maybe I'll, you know, I would like to say something too. Like, no, no, no, no, no. The stepfather doesn't need to say something again. Yeah. And most people don't talk well.

Yeah. Right. And it's like very circular too, because everybody's fucked up at that point. Like, you know, I just want to tell everybody, when I look at these kids, I've just been, I just feel a lot of love for them. Their back turned to the whole room. Exactly. And I got a lot of hope.

And I feel like just you look around, everybody's rooting for you guys. And we're going to – we just got a lot of love for you guys. And, you know, no matter what, no matter what, just look into each other's eyes. I don't know. Yeah. You're just good at this. I know. He's so good at drunk.

Because it's my favorite shit there is the other thing though too that you said that reminded me get your finger out of my face just finger waving I don't know

it's this caffeine is the like at weddings when like family members go in so hard on the people that are getting married

and you have no idea I saw I'm not gonna name names because I think these people might listen to the idea. I saw, I'm not going to name names because I think these people might listen to the show. Yo, I saw someone's sibling do a whole fucking song about how they shit themselves. Right. And I was like, yo, that's fucking wild.

This was like at a rehearsal dinner. Oh my God. If they listen, you know they're going to know. Yeah, they're going to know. That's not a thing that happens a lot of weddings. I went to a wedding on Friday and the bridesmaid, whatever the fuck that shit is called,

the best woman, the maid of honor. I think best woman is a better term. Best woman is better. The best woman was giving her speech and she was like, and then they went through that breakup and we all,

because we're all comedians, we all booed. We were like, boo! Because he broke up with her, we were like, boo! Oh, damn. And she really talked about their break, because they had a big breakup. And I leaned over to my friend who was there, and I was like, girl, don't ever, if I ever get married, and if you give us beef, don't ever bring up the bad times.

Don't bring up the bad times. That's not what the wedding is about. Not even if you're trying to juxtapose that with how far we've come. Just bring those bad times. Sure. Just breeze over it. I mean, we remember. I think we all remember.

Remember when we called you the Zan man? Whoa. You blacked out in the Vegas strip. Shout out to the kid, Mero. But yeah, oof. Yeah, weddings are, there's some good times. Yeah, Zeitgang, let us know if you've ever seen a parent or relative single-handedly nearly bring down a wedding with a speech. My dad was talking about a speech he saw at a wedding recently where they talked about how quickly the woman slept with the guy.

Oh my God. And that weighed into how he knew. And that's how I knew that my son was marrying a whore. Right, exactly. But she was pretty chill.

She also slept with me and your mother. I don't know if you know that. Things got wild in Tempe. Tempe. It was definitely in Tempe. Oh, man. Tempe. It's definitely in Tempe. And it's time for Miles to quiz us on some upcoming Hallmark Christmas movies.

First of all, let me posit this question. It's about time. How many of us enjoy a terrible Christmas movie? I'm not with you. I'm a trash human. I'm also not with you. Okay. My blood type is terrible Christmas movies.

Okay. Because there's no better way to just ignore your annihilation fantasies you have than to sit on a couch and watch these meaningless films where a person from a big city has to move to a small town to figure out the meaning of Christmas. Right. It's typically the construction. Now, the reason I asked is because, to me, these films are so formulaic that at times, from the title alone, you can begin to figure out what the plot of the film is.

So Hallmark just announced their full list of holiday movies and the titles with some synopses. And I just wanted to see if, you know, for some media savvy individuals like yourself. Right. I like garbage media and garbage movies. Right. So I think and just knowing how these films are developed, how the titles all have to be kind of witty.

This is the deal where it's 31 Christmas movies in the days of September or December or something. Yeah. Where they do. Yeah. They would just pack it every day, basically. I think it's the... I think October 25th? I'm getting started a little early.

It starts October 25th. October? There's 40 films they have, first of all. So here we go. I just want to put this title up to you. Wow. This one is called A Christmas Scavenger Hunt. Okay.

Now you're saying that it's usually about a city girl who has to go back to the country. Not always, but it's always some very, very generic rom-com construction. Yeah. I'm assuming this is sort of a gift to the magi kind of deal. Okay. Where they've sent each other out on these scavenger hunts and they get the thing, but they had to sell their other thing that matched with it to get the other present for that one okay does everyone know what

gift of the magi is no okay this is like yeah it's like one of these tropes i mean it's a it's a story but now it's a trope where um let's say like um you, the guy gets a haircut for the girl, or gets a hairbrush for the girl. And then the girl wants to buy something for the guy. And so she like cuts off her hair to sell her hair to get money for the guy's watch. But then the guy had to cut off his hand, you know, to get money for the hairbrush.

Oh, wow. And so they give it to him and they can't use them anymore. She's like, well... But they learn a lesson about love. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm guessing this guy gets a star for that. I'm sorry.

I'm just going to cut you off and I'm just going to tell you. Oh, it's not it. Jack, just go for it. Okay. Scavenger hunt. There's a Christmas scavenger hunt that happens in the city or the country. And a couple is competing against each other or a man and a woman are competing against each other and eventually fall in love.

Nearly fucking spot on. Wow. When Belinda heads back to her hometown for the holidays, things get complicated when she's forced to team up with her ex, Dustin, at the town's annual Christmas scavenger hunt. Yeah, the town's. Okay, how about this? Yours is, by the way, just way too meaningful. See, this is a Hallmark executive.

If I could do it again, I would have said it's just a scavenger hunt that ends with her finding a diamond ring. There you go. How about this one? A Christmas duet. Okay. Again, I would have said it's just a scavenger hunt that ends with her finding a diamond ring. There you go. There you go. How about this one? A Christmas duet. Okay. The titles give you everything.

Yeah. Okay. So I want to go with the competition aspect. They're both auditioning for the same chair, cello or something. Okay. Interesting. So in the end, one of them gets it, but then they decide to do a duet instead. Yeah.

And I'm going to go with the girl is coming from the city. She's a musician. She's moved away to apply her musical trade in the city. She's going back home. Her ex or high school boyfriend is also there, and they end up duet, like playing music together and falling in love. Wow. Okay, so it's about a well-loved music duo, Avery and Jesse. Famous for their duet

Wouldn't Be Christmas. They haven't played together in years and have since gone their separate ways. Avery has given up music and opened up a beautiful simple yet idyllic lodge in snowy Vermont. While Jesse still tours and he's struggling to find the same kind of success they had as a duo.

When fate brings them together, can they find happiness and success once more? I bet that bucolic rural setting is better for the soul than his touring and worldly ways, if I had to guess. Okay. One last one, because this is just so absurd. This is called picture a perfect christmas this is so zany though you're probably not going to get it but i just like that they think this is a thing that would be a good christmas film um so a christmas family picture

something something i'll give you a hint it's about a photographer okay now think of a photographer that really has nothing to do with Christmas. Okay. But don't be obscene. Like a magazine photographer. I'm guessing it's a school portrait photographer. Okay. And he takes pictures of different schools, and then when they get-

He takes pictures of schools? You mean he's just a creepy guy outside of a school being like, all right. He's not employed by a company. Luther Wilson Elementary. Click. Got it. So he takes portraits of all the kids at different schools. And then he accidentally switches.

He accidentally sends the wrong prints to the wrong family. That was in a Christmas movie. On Christmas. No, it's just Christmas is like a background. Yeah. Right. Because it's just a commentary on how long it takes to get the pictures. Interesting.

Because they took the pictures nine months earlier. He's a, okay. Can I try one more? Sure. Yeah. A dating profile picture taker? No. Ah.

It's shit. Look how angry he got. Oh, serious. Damn you, Hallmark. The movie centers around an extreme sports photographer who returns home for the holiday to look after her grandmother and ends up lending a helping hand to a neighbor who needs assistance watching his nephew.

What does that have to do with extreme sports? Oh, they're going to fall in love. There's probably an opening. Yeah, right? Exactly. She's probably picked up a few tricks of the trade from her extreme sports people. And I bet the kid is having trouble

with some manner of extreme sports or just like the building up the courage to do something and in helping the nephew her and the uncle fall in love or it's like it's just a picture you know what i mean don't get intimidated by the picture it's just a moment i watched one of these yesterday on the plane a christmas No, but the exact same structure like a Hallmark film. It's called Falling in Love, Two Ends. Christina Milian lives that corporate

rat race. I think she said hamster wheel in the movie 48 times. And then she enters a contest to win an inn in New Zealand by writing an essay. She wins it. And then throughout the movie- Wait, she wins it?

Like she becomes a proprietor of this property? Yes, so she moves to New Zealand and then to get this idea like, but it's a mess and she's got to clean it up. Money trap situation. People keep saying about how this guy was running this scam. The contest was a scam. And then at the end, there's no scam.

They never bring up the fact that anyone said it might be a scam. And then it just works out perfectly. And she has impeccable managerial skills. Impeccable. I love it. Speaking of scams, I have a friend who's visiting in town and they like got a place through one of the, I think, Airbnb or not Airbnb, the other one. VRBO. VRBO.

And it's just a complete scam. They took really nice pictures, paid a lot of money, and then the place is a complete dump. Holy shit. The person emailed them. The person emailed them the next day and was like, I'm going to tell everybody

that you threw a huge party and destroyed the place if you try and get your money back. And they're like, what the fuck? You literally sent me evidence of your plot. They sent... I mean, what about the screenshot of that message? Can't they send that to VRBO?

They didn't say it like, I'm gonna tell people that. They said, you threw a huge party last night and ruined the place. I don't want to tell people. That sort of thing so anyways yeah have friends who live where you're going check out the place if possible yep and uh just don't don't contribute to housing crisis crises but how many times can they get away with that like vrbo gets a complaint every time someone stays there yeah i mean a lot of these companies

are not staffed as well as you would think. I had a dispute with one of those companies. Shit. Shit took forever. Right. And there was shit coming out the toilets. And they're like, you want your money back? Yeah.

I'm like, yeah, there's raw sewage on my feet. In the toilet. Yeah, exactly. Not come out the bottom of the seams because they sped up the renovations too much. I've seen it a hundred times. I watch a lot of house flipping shows. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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