The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 96 (Best of 10/7/19-10/11/19)

Episode Date: October 13, 2019

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These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Ben, what is something you think is overrated? Oh my gosh. Besides Andrew Johnson in that one town. Yeah. I like the town. Just not the branding.

I think I'm going to go real quick through a few. Sex in space, overrated. Okay. The concept of having sex in space? Oh, no. Apparently the practice. The concept is dope. Okay, right.

Like sci-fi. Conceptually great. Yeah. In practice. Yeah, yeah. That's a weird flex. So you're space fucking recently? You know, not yet, but I was-

A wizard never tells. Well, because there's been this rumor for a long time that there were secret US and Russian experiments to see whether people could have sex in space. I'm just sorry, bro. The concept to see if people could. I know. Well, no, but that's a valid question because. People in NASA are lonely.

Well, like as if. Wait, what's contested that you couldn't nut? There's something that gets fucked up with your blood flow. Right. When you are in zero gravity. And it's like automatically it's going to have to be, or even low gravity, it's going to automatically have to be kind of BDSM,

because you got to get some Velcro in there. Yeah. Also, I'm just going to say it. I think a lot of Vegas is overrated. And I think it's gross when people do like performative selfies with the suffering, you know, when they're like- 05.30 SJK

With the suffering. Yeah. Okay. 05.30 CHKLUK Was that thought connected to Las Vegas? 05.30 SJK No, no, that's when people go to an economically developing country and they're like, oh, look at me. 05.30 CHKLUK Like Yes Jules, famously on Instagram.

05.30 SJKLUK But mainly sex and space. I'm'm just i'm preoccupied with the idea that people put money into this concept we can get to a layer but the people were sitting there and saying all right we need to put people in space let's fucking figure it out how do we grow stuff like who was that one person in the room who leaned in and was like hey hey hey what do you got okay good the agriculture and zero space bowling what do you got? Okay, good. The agriculture and zero space. Bolin, what do you got? All right. So, right. There was an all right, so moment. Right.

And they're like, don't ask Ben. You know what he's going to say. He says it every time. I think we should see if boners are possible in space. That's all I'm saying. I've got a PowerPoint. It's one slide. Maybe?

Yeah. out of powerpoint yeah yeah it's one slide it's maybe yeah but uh it's it's uh it's strange because it's also i've been preoccupied with this realization i don't know if we mentioned this in previous episodes but statistically speaking someone out there maybe even listening now is the world's worst astronaut this is just the hazard of the statistics and that's probably the person who uh who was like, you know what, we really need to prioritize. Sex and space. Do we have any kind of more deeper understanding if the erection is possible in zero gravity?

Is that really the main point, right? If we're talking about is sex possible in space, that's because conceivably zero gravity is preventing someone from having an erection? I forget where I read that, but I do know that zero gravity does fuck with... I think it was carved into a stall at a Buffalo Wilderness. Well, because they say your head starts to grow because there's like... Because, yeah, that's not so cocky.

No, your body is designed to pump blood up against a force of gravity, and so it's pumping blood like harder than it needs to into your head and less hard below the heart well the right the big question to what's what's missing the point about anyone who's like alright let's figure this little resilience right they're not thinking about is good example or good impression of dorks, by the way. Excuse me. That was my real voice that slipped. That was my radio voice. But it was that they don't need,

you don't actually need to have any kind of intercourse in space. You could just artificially inseminate because the big question is, how would an embryo develop? But no, someone's like, you know, what can we get away with? Missionary, doggy.

I just like that when you start searching this, there's clickbait-ass titles to shit that goes, this is not joking, this is from Vix.com. I don't know what the fuck that website is, but it says, you won't believe what happens to an astronaut's penis in outer space. Hell yeah. Please let me know. There's also some really good footage of like different things they're testing out in outer space. And there's, I think, a pigeon.

They released a dove, I think, in outer space. And it's like trying to fly, but it like doesn't know what the fuck. It's not in outer space. It's in zero gravity. I'm pretty sure the pressure would. Okay. It's like in a zero gravity thing. And it's just, it looks really hilarious.

Ha ha, pigeon. Yeah, I know. It's almost like humans being like, we have spent so long marveling at flight. Let's take those birds down. How about this asshole? Try and get some lift out here, motherfucker. You stupid idiot. Then it later died of a stress-induced cardiac arrest.

Let's talk about Sesame Street. This is one of those stories that when you hear it, it's like, wait, what? But it actually kind of makes sense. Okay. Definitely. So Sesame Street has a new character named Carly. She was introduced last year.

She's Elmo's green-haired friend. She first appeared, like the first thing you kind of learned about her is that she was in foster care. Right. But now we're finding out the reason she's in foster care is that she has a parent struggling with addiction. Yeah. So.

Yeah. And a lot, specifically, I think opioids. Yeah. Because the makers of the show were just sort of looking around like, we really don't have the kind of content that is touching this specific demographic of our audience. Yeah. kind of content that is touching this specific demographic of our audience. Because a lot of the addiction data shows that around 5.7 million children under the age of 11 that live in households with a parent with substance abuse disorders. So, you know, in this segment, they were working with like some child psychologists at the Betty Ford Center to

really try and craft like things and language that would really help like a child sort of navigate whatever the world they are in. And they said in this segment, Carly and this other, this little girl, Salia, they each hold up hand-drawn pictures of flowers with multiple petals representing big feelings like anger, sadness, and happiness. They offer ways to feel better, including art and breathing exercises. The segment leans on carefully considered language. Creators prefer addiction to substance abuse and recovery to sobriety because those terms are clear to children. And despite the subject, the mood was light in the room.

And, you know, people were just like it. It went off well, but it seems it's interesting, you know, like that. That's sort of where we've reached a tipping point i guess societally where we're like you know the people who make sesame street also like we really need to also be able to you know make these children feel seen or at least have something they can respond to yeah and i think mr rogers if you saw that documentary he had the same approach yeah um where it was like the point of the show in some way or at least part of the mission, should be how to teach kids to deal with pain.

Yeah. Death. Right. Difference. And I think this falls under that. I do think it makes it even sadder that Sesame is going to HBO Max. Yeah, it does suck. Oh, is it fully, it's no longer going to be publicly funded?

Yeah. Is it because our public funding has just been gutted constantly that i'm sure i mean that's the thing it's like i don't think it's sesame street's fault necessarily because the funding model is so difficult now but it is a bummer because i don't yeah it's the new episodes will be on hbo max so yeah you just have to make what about the archives with like the archives what if i want to put down the ducky? Reruns. Yeah, I think those are available other places.

On YouTube. Yeah, probably. Pretty sure you can watch Put Down the Ducky on YouTube. That's true. Yeah. I love that one. That's a good point. Celia Cruz is in that too.

Wow. For real? Yeah. I remember I was like, yo, who's that lady with the swag? Did you look her up? I was like, Cel, who's that lady with the swag? Did you look her up? I was like, Celia Cruz Azucar. Miles, let's get right into the footie drama alert. Because I need this explained to me.

It's mental right now, man. Okay. Okay, so in the UK, they refer to the wives and girlfriends of footballers as WAGs. Okay, that's what they call them, WAGs over there. And right now there's... What does that stand for? Wives and girlfriends. Got it.

Okay. They call them that here too. Oh, did they adopt that now? Yeah. It's for a long time. They had a WAGs show on TLC or Bravo or something like that. Oh, really? Hey.

So right now the drama is between the wives of two England strikers. Well, not anymore for Wayne Rooney. Wayne Rooney, who famously played for Manchester United and for DC United. And Jamie Vardy, who plays for Leicester City and is a very interesting character. Just some background on Jamie Vardy. Is he still good? He's all right. I mean, he's not nearly as good as the season when Leicester won the league in 2015, 2016.

But around this guy, he was kind of the dude at certain points. He had to play with an ankle monitor on for some shit he got into. Oh, like a police ankle monitor. Yes, yes. What kind of shit did he get into? I think it may have been drink driving or something, as they call it in the UK. Drink driving. And also Wayne Rooney also, he's been cheating a lot on his wife a lot

of drink driving over there too um but interesting fact about jamie vardy there was a in his book he had like a dead leg that he couldn't get over and the physio was like what the fuck is going on with you we're like we're rehabbing you're resting and he found out this dude has just been drinking a bunch of vodka uh and so what he would do is he would fill up like a three liter bottle of vodka with only red and purple Skittles because he liked the flavor. And that was like his fucking vibe. And he also famously would drink. Wait, he would do that before playing or like?

I think like whenever, like that was just part of his shit. I mean, he would drink a ton of Red Bull before playing and famously took a shit while playing Arsenal in the middle of a match. Wait, what do you mean? Like on the field? No, no, no. He like left.

I was like, how come this isn't a bigger deal? He shit on the field? I need more. Another thing is he would say in the season that his team won in 2015 and 16, he would drink basically a bottle of like half Gatorade, half port. What? Every night.

That was his pre-match drink or the night before. And then the day of, he would drink a double espresso and three cans of Red Bull. Damn. Anyway, so he's on his own vibe. So back to the lecture at hand. Red Bull is so bad for you. So Rebecca. Unless they want to sponsor us.

So his wife, Rebecca Vardy and Colleen Rooney, wife of Wayne Rooney, are into some shit right now because Colleen Rooney was noticing a lot of shit from her personal life was ending up in the sun, the tabloid over there, and couldn't understand because she had her own like private Instagram account that was only for people she knew personally. So she was like, how the fuck is shit I'm talking about on here ending up there? So she concocted a little fucking experiment to see how where the leak would go yeah so she started on her stories she blocked everyone she followed or that was following her except for one woman rebecca vardy

okay and was like and for five months started putting in bullshit stories to see if any of them would end up in the sun like so she so she's like, oh, my basement flooded or this other thing. Like she went to Mexico for some kind of experimental thing where she would be able to select the gender of her child when she was pregnant. And these things made it into the sun. So then I think yesterday, Rebecca Vardy. Yeah, she came out with it and was like, so let me gather around, kids. I've been doing this experiment because a lot I've noticed a lot of disturbing things have been showing up in the tabloids.

And for five months I've been doing this thing. And it's Rebecca Vardy and her excuse. Now I will read the defense that Rebecca Vardy tweeted out for this kind of underhandedness. She says, as I have just said to you on the phone, I wish you had called me. If you thought this, I never speak to anyone about you as various journalists who have asked me to over the years can vouch for. If you thought this was happening, you could have told me and I could have changed my passwords to see if it stopped over the years. Various people have had access to my Insta. And just this week I found I was following people I didn't know and have never

followed in my life. Stupid. I'm not being funny, but i don't need the money what would i gain from selling stories on you i liked you a lot colleen and i'm so upset that you have chosen to do this especially when i'm heavily pregnant i'm disgusted that i'm even having to deny this you should have called me the first time this happened heartbreak emoji yeah do we think bullshit i think when you start doing the i mean i'm starting to follow accounts i've never seen come on fam right it's just uh you love to see it though you really do i like it when a juicy secret comes out like that her story is that somebody broke into her account, found out about this other woman's Instagram posts by following her. So someone broke into her account to follow someone else. I guess.

And get secrets about their private life and then sold those secrets to the son. Maybe if we're living in her world. Huh. It's a tough sell. Yeah. It's a hard bargain. That is. No good. Yeah. It's a hard bargain. That is... No good.

Yeah. I'm not buying it. Come up with a better lie, dog. Colleen. Well, the... No, Colleen is the victim here. Colleen. Rebecca.

You... But, you know... Victim. Don't play the victim, Colleen. Colleen Rooney. Yo, Wayne has been doing her dirty for a long time. Damn, man. When she was pregnant,

he was, like, sleeping around on her, having, like, threesomes and shit. So she's been... She's been through it. His she was pregnant, he was sleeping around on her, having threesomes and shit. So she's been through it. His name's Wayne Rooney. This is on her. Yeah, he had terrible hair plugs. You do not marry a guy named that. I thought he was in his 50s.

You did? Yeah. Just legitimately off the photo? Based on I had seen him many years, like a decade ago. And I think it was during one of the World Cups when he was the best player on england's team and i was like oh well that guy must be very old no at that time and now he must

be like in playing on the seniors tour or whatever he'll be 30 i think four this year yeah uh he's dominating he's scored some pretty wild goals in the mLS, which people tend to do when they come over from Europe. So this is like if the Shaq, Damian Lillard beef were their wives? Yeah. Kind of? Maybe. And a little bit messier? I don't know what their beef is to begin with, really.

But I do know there is an interesting stat. For the amount of minutes Wayne Rooney and Jamie have already played together on the pitch, they never created a goal-scoring chance for the other player.

Yeah. That's true, man. Not a lot of harmony in that three-line squad. That's how you know. Yeah, that's how you know, exactly. Right. Any thoughts on this, Sophia?

I mean, just too many, almost. Yeah. It's just a mess. Yeah. It's a mess. And it's, I don't, I really don't know if Rebecca Vardy was like trying to make money or she just really hated, you know, there's gotta be something else, right?

Like if Rebecca Vardy really was, and I believe she probably was the one, obviously the leak based on this experiment. She just probably enjoyed fucking her friend over. Was it her friend or was it one of those things where she's like, it's all because you didn't come to my baby shower type shit or like you fucking shaded me at this restaurant right it could obviously be they're competitively fucking the best soccer player in england well i wouldn't go that far you wouldn't no they're not oh were they ever their peaks weren't at the same time okay so it was hard like jamie vardy had his time a few years ago and Wayne Rooney had his like seven years ago. Right.

So. Right, but I'm just wondering if she was like feeling. But I guess historically, right? Like Wayne Rooney was the man. And then when Jamie Vardy had his huge season, then he became the man. So maybe since there were two mans on the block. Okay.

All right. Well, shout out to the England. Shout out to them. While we're on the subject of the People's Republic of China, did anybody see the 70-year anniversary parade last week? Good? Oh, man. One of my favorite parades.

How were they dressed? What was the red carpet like? Was Snoopy there, like in Macy's Day Parade? Unfortunately not. Was Winnie the Pooh? A lot of enormous globe-destroying missiles. I could have used fewer of those and more Snoopy. Oh, it was just a big dick-measuring parade?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And how big is it? Huge. Oh, it's huge? There were also some weapons that I had never seen outside of a G.I. Joe toy box. There was a little motorcycle helicopter thing it was like a two seater

little helicopter that didn't you weren't inside of anything you were just like in an open helicopter thing it was kind of dope that sounds awesome I think the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade could use those I mean I could use those just like a little like golf cart helicopter you could just be like we take off that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen but i'm here for it i think elon musk is coming

out with one right next week yeah exactly flamethrowers and uh personal helicopters uh powered by weed you know because we know there's also uh a slingshot hypersonic unmanned aircraft that looks like a stealth bomber but like in a in hang glider size uh and it's designed to help aim weapons at us air aircraft carriers so wait what do you mean like it's just that's like people looked at it we're like oh so we understand what this does and it's specifically designed to fight a war with us with the with the united states oh like considering our naval technology yes great uh and the other thing they said is that all the missile names are all written on the side of the weapons in english

and the jalapnik editor who was kind of summarizing this was pointing out that that's because the real audience for the parade is us, the Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, fantastic. Well, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Got a plot twist for you, Jack Miles. That the Koch brothers were bad yeah no uh so i did the i set up sex in space because it turns out it is a hoax at least officially there have been multiple sources confirming that no one actually had sex in space that's just a myth because like you said miles it's it's good clickbait right right and uh so people propagated it and jack you are correct that uh everything we know about physics shows us the the circulatory system will be just a in a very poor state right if there's not gravity because it's designed to work with gravity but as far as we know uh there has not been an experiment in actual space maybe some low gravity banging but no uh up

in the shuttle g right yeah i mean space is tight you're basically in i think there were some uh unsanctioned experiments i would think so with one person i mean solo experiments right man i've been up in this fucking space station too long and if if you're listening and you're that person, then write to Jack and Miles. Yeah. I mean, somebody must have, like, there's been astronauts up there for a year by themselves. I'm sure they jerked off at some point. I mean, according to this VIX article, they talk about how microgravity affects the penis. And look, shout out to anybody who has any ed

problems or you can't last just say you were in space a long time right because what it says is the penis does not get as large as it can while on earth and an erection in outer space doesn't last as long as it can while on earth yeah but they say there's an exception every will astronaut mike mullane spoke uh about his peculiar reaction to being in the international space station he claims that several times while in the space station, he woke up with impressive erections that for him has the ability to quote, drill through kryptonite.

He said that? Surely not. Well, look, they hyperlinked off. Let's see. Is this to an actual men's health article with him? And let's see. Let's do a quick find. A couple of times i would wake up from sleep periods and i had a boner that i could have drilled through kryptonite uh-huh somehow

that's better than him the image of somebody waking up and seeing their erection going impressive right like drill through kryptonite is such a strange because it seemed it suggests that he's competitive with superman when it comes to the strength of their erection right like he's like well he couldn't touch kryptonite though well right he's like my erection is the best direction in the world superman's couldn't even get through the thing but that's not fair to superman because kryptonite is his thing right like it should have been like titanium you know because then you could have a fair one with superman can fuck through titanium but that's where well then that's where you have to give it up, Wayne.

That's why I'm suggesting that he is... That's where he looks very shady. He's clout chasing and insecure. Of course, Superman can't get anywhere near kryptonite, sir. That's not a fair comparison. But it is apparently a myth, but there's still people claiming that it happens. There was a—

That Superman was born with a kryptonite? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm sorry, I misunderstood. No, no, no. Well, the sex thing. Oh, yeah. There's a French writer in a book, The Final Mission, Mer, The Human Adventure.

He says that it did happen. His name is Pierre Kohler, and everybody in Russian and US space agencies denies it but of course why would you especially when funding is getting cut left and right why would you confirm that? Be like yeah it's like hedonism in space up there. It's basically Vegas They're like hey man the ripping and the tearing

the ripping and the tearing that's what I'm here for. One guy in Malayne in this interview they asked they're like they ask men's health the question, has anyone ever had sex? He says, in the space shuttle program where we had males and females, I can tell you that nobody was doing that because there's absolutely no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the airlock, but everybody would know what you were doing. You're not going out there to do a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.

So I wonder if there have been people who have been like, yo, let's fuck in the airlock real quick. And it's like, to have the thing where it's like, everyone knows what you're doing in the airlock. Is he alluding to something? Tell them that we're fixing the suits. Tell them there's a suit problem. We have a maintenance bay for that.

There we go. I didn't want to derail, but that's weird. This whole show is derailing. Yeah, it's derailment. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, I recently Googled, do shrooms have an expiration date? Because I guess this is fine to admit. You have old shrooms in your freezer?

Yeah. Not my freezer. Oh. My fridge. Okay. I got them in May for Edgar's birthday. They're chocolate mushrooms. I forgot that he's allergic to chocolate.

Not to mushrooms. So he couldn't eat them. So I was like, maybe I'll just have them and do them at some point. But instead of putting them in the freezer, I put it in the fridge because I was like, maybe if they freeze, the psilocybin will get destroyed. The psilocybin will get destroyed or something, right? Right. They're wrapped in tinfoil, but they were not in a plastic bag.

Uh-oh. Fast forward to two weeks ago when I rented an Airbnb Airstream trailer in Joshua Tree by myself. Just to get right, okay. Yeah, and I had been watching that show, Explained, I think it is, about like Explained, the brain. Yeah, on Netflix.

And they have an episode on tripping and I was like, oh man, tripping is like, that makes you get it. That makes you really get it. And I had, you know, in college messed with that. But it's been many years since then. And I was like, I should just do them. I should just drive out and do them.

And I didn't get to Joshua Tree until maybe 6 p.m. because of all the traffic on a Friday afternoon. Yeah, it's a tough drive. Oh, yeah. It took like four hours of traffic. You might as well drive to San Francisco. Yeah. Yeah, truly.

I finally got there just before the sun was about to set. And I was like, should I do them? Should I do them? And I was sitting on my little Airstream trailer bed, like trying to decide, should I do it? And then all of a sudden something came over me because I had brought them just in case. And I was afraid I would die. I don't know. Because they were old.

And I was like, fuck it. I'm just going to do it. And I went and I ate it. And at first I didn't feel anything and I was like, oh. This, they expired. I don't feel it. I'll have a little more oh no because i had two just have a bite and wait a little more and all of a sudden the sun went down and they

went wild yeah and i i was i had like brought things to do right some watercolor paints and a ukulele but didn't realize that when it's dark and you're in the middle of the desert alone, you don't really want to paint or play ukulele. You're just like- Just kind of like, you're like, what's out there? What's out there? Yeah, exactly. And I was like, oh my God, my Airbnb host, because there was a guy in a house a bit away.

I was like, he's going to come and kill me. Oh my God. I just ate old mushrooms. They're going to find me dead. They're going to find me dead. They're going to find me dead. Oh my God. So you were like the snowball scene in Willow, what started with two people just kind of falling down a mountain, turned into a near avalanche near the bottom.

It was so stressful. And I kept looking at my phone like, should I text someone? No, no, I can't text them. Because like, what would I even say? What do I say in a text message? I can't even explain this right now. You're like in Airstream, ukulele's useless, also neighbor is killer.

I know. So I was just walking around, just walking around the Airstream and they had a beer and then I drank the beer and I was like, oh, now I feel woozy. And then I went into the bathroom and I was convinced I was in a painting. Yeah, yeah.

This all sounds right. Because you feel like the strokes on your face are paint strokes. Uh-huh. The strokes on your face. You sound like you're on mushrooms now. Well, I'm flashing back. The strokes on your face are paint strokes. I know.

When you think about it. I couldn't even walk really. I was like stumbling around and I finally at 11 p.m. You know. Started you think about it. I couldn't even walk, really. I was stumbling around. And finally, at 11 p.m. You know. Started to return. Yeah, when they start wearing off. By that point, I was watching Disenchanted on Netflix, gripping to reality. Like, this is fine.

This is fine. See, this is why you got to start off a little bit light. You know what I mean? Take a little nibble and just let it chill because you never know how your body's going to process it. This is the same thing people do with edible weed. They take a bite and they're like, that was fine. It was plus.

It was just one little chocolate. Right. And the second one didn't do anything. And I'm kind of hungry. Cut to you like peeling somebody off the floor. Exactly. And yeah, that's why also I prefer, I don't like to have full blown trips really on psychedelics these days.

I like to like microdose. Yeah. That's what I want to do now. But if anyone is curious, you can- They don't go bad. Yeah. You can leave them in the fridge. They will go bad if you don't leave them in the fridge.

Yes. And start growing their own mushrooms off of them. I had some that I took them out and like looking through them, and there were bugs in there. Oh. That was really fucking horrifying. And were they like, hey, man, you want to talk for a second? You're like, oh, God. Those bugs were tripping balls.

So fucked up. So let's talk about something that somebody's doing that seems like a good idea, using kindness constructively. Well, you know, We talked a few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, about that New York Times piece that was a profile on CBP, not CBD, Customs and Border Patrol agents to sort of get a general take on

what it's like there where many people are like, it's fucking terrible. It's a terrible place to work as a woman. There are many people who are just fucking terrible people. There are also people who are just fucking like terrible people. There are also people who are there who hate the fact that this is their job. Have they tried CBD oil? I don't know. I feel like that would maybe help some of the things. It's worth noting. And also just the idea that there are people where the morale is just so low

because like they go to work and they have to interact with children who are just crying for their parents and things like that. And psychologically, that's taking a toll. And then a lot of it, we were also talking about most of us, sort of the ideas like, man, these people are fucking, they suck or whatever. Why can't they just do something else? And then we talked about how not many people just have the ability to fucking quit a job because they're philosophically opposed to it. Because the way this system is set up, you work to live and if you're not working then you could perish quite quickly or your life your living situation could turn very dark very quickly

so the never again action group their immigrant rights group that's spearheaded by a lot of jewish activists about this idea of like not families akin to the Holocaust. They were really trying to figure out, because they do a lot of activities outside of ICE facilities and things like that. A lot of the people around it were thinking, a lot of the times they chant, quit your job, quit your job. And then we're kind of realizing that's just kind of not enough either. It's sort of dismissive to the people themselves.

Yeah, yeah. So on Monday they were's sort of dismissive to the people themselves. Yeah, yeah. So on Monday they were thinking like, okay, what can we actually do? So they launched a website that would match ICE agents with confidential career advisors like you would in college. That's amazing. To try and find a way for you to get another job

so you can fucking quit this disastrous evil organization. Yeah. And they said from that launch like two people immediately like hit them up from outside the like atlanta area where they were first trying to like get people to uh like sort of notice this project but they said yeah those people who came out uh were just immediately like yeah i don't want to be i do absolutely do not want to work here anymore and they the comment that one of the people left who was interacting with the website confidentially said something like,

I'm drowning in this place. So, you know, I think there is this idea that we think that every person that works there is just an automaton who's hell-bent on doing harm. And I think there are some people who are, but there are very much also people who, you know, like we were saying too, like border patrol in certain areas

is a very quick ticket to a middle class lifestyle. You could just have a high school education and start making decent money. So shout out to them for using sensible tactics. Because again, I think one thing we've learned throughout this whole week is that money fucking makes everything move. Values, they don't matter. Because at the end of the day, nothing works without money. I also just want to say that I think the way that becoming complicit and evil works is it happens kind of in a certain way slowly,

but then you're like, what the fuck? And I think it does, you were mentioning the Holocaust, it totally makes you think about the germans that lived in nazi germany that weren't like gung-ho nazis but then right we're also caught there and i don't think anybody came and was like hey this this is your ticket out of the nazi party or whatever yeah one less is like uh be a defector or something and a conspirator and be executed. Yeah. So, and I feel like giving these people a way to leave something that is like, so, I mean, someone making you complicit in evil is fucked up. So giving someone a way out, I think is like actually a real way to work at the problem

as opposed to just be like, this is fucked up. Well, I mean, it definitely helps weaken that agency. But I think, yeah, the real solutions have to come from further up. But I think that's where we're at least acknowledging the humanity of people who are in a situation they probably also don't want to be in. And that there are people like that. Again, and they're also evil fucking monsters who are out here getting off on watching children cry. Yeah, or who are, when journalists come in be like oh so

you write fake news oh right so you write for the fake news why don't you admit no propaganda propaganda yeah you have to admit that that's what you do and you won't and you'll get your passport back yeah it's like i'm sorry i happened to a journalist named ben watson uh i think at lax or maybe jfk um so here's some propaganda suck my shit yeah that is some propaganda for sure let's get into the real important news of the day what is trending on porn hub yeah why y'all trying to watch the joker smash that is the question uh so to be or not to be yeah y'all trying to watch the joke apparently this happens every time a comic book movie comes out. People see a movie and then immediately want to watch that character fuck somebody else.

I guess. This movie in particular seems like the most disturbing. I don't know. It is the least sexy movie I think I've ever seen. It is the least sexy movie I think I've ever seen. There's a part where he, there's like a love interest-ish part that was like distractingly out of place to me. I was just like, what the fuck is happening?

Why would, he's like not regarding him in any sexual capacity. Just doesn't even seem to play into like the themes of the movie. Right. But apparently, I think this ties into an overall sort of fetish of clowns and like harley quinn well i mean there's also that cycle of violence and sexual release that

you use to radicalize people too right like i mean not to like read into it like that but you get so fucking worked up and then there's like you're like oh i get my violence and i get my sexual release yeah or there are people who are just like, I really want to see the Joker smash. Because this movie, there's something about this character that is so hot to me. Yeah. But like Pornhub says they track like what people are searching for. Like they track your fantasies. Does that mean they like put out a call for like content that fits this shit?

Or like how is there all of a sudden so much Joker porn? Well, no, it's just that people were looking for it on Pornhub. It doesn't necessarily exist yet. No, well, they're just like, yeah, so on... No, the thing you have to understand, all possible porn exists. That's also true. Yeah. But they say over 741,000 searches involving the word Joker

in the first four days following the film's release. Yeah. And then the first, the biggest day was Sunday when they saw 291,628 searches for a clown getting down. So is this like presumably before or after people have seen the movie? I don't know. See, that's hard to know too. Right.

Are some people like, man, before I see this, I got to jerk off to the porn version and then I'll see the movie or else I'll be distracted. Yeah, then I won't get distracted by how much I want to fuck the Joker. Right. And and after they see this very like bummery kind of non-sexy movie then they're like okay this is my this is like all right i'm into this yeah let me see if there's porn um did you like it i was i still don't know how i feel about it i from nightmares it gave me nightmares yeah for like the like literal like political nightmares. So I guess it was effective. I think it tapped into something for sure. But did it make you horny, baby?

Nice. Best Austin Powers quote in years. He loved it. Michael Moore loved it. Really? He's praising it. He says it's a masterpiece and that it's dangerous if you don't see it. That's what he said.

I do think it's worth seeing just as a cultural moment. I read this comic, Felix Bitterman from Chopper Trap House wrote a review of it for one of the blogs. It's a mediocre shit nothing movie that people are reacting to because they just their brains are broken but i i didn't find maybe my brain is broken but i didn't find it to be like pointless or like a mediocre movie i found it to be like i i get what the significance is i don't know if it's i don't know how like there's there's huge political questions tied up and like how i feel about it overall but um yeah well let's not uh distract from the fact that harley quinn is actually the most searched character video game comic or otherwise of all time video

game movie or comic uh uh ever searched yeah higher than like Rabbit. Higher than that other rabbit. Lola Bunny. Lola Bunny. Some things are pure. I think cartoons are not going to work. I feel like Lara Croft. I wonder who's number two. To Harley Quinn. Lara Croft? Batwoman? Catwoman?

Ratwoman? Or like, yeah. Keep going. Datwoman? Datfan? From Last Comic Standing? Yeah. Ratwoman? Or like, yeah, keep going. Datwoman? Mm-hmm. Datfan? Yeah, Datfan. From Last Comic Standing? Probably.

All right. Let's talk about China. China. We love China. Moving on. We love China. Thank you so much. All right.

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Literally, I want to believe in it because I love the idea of it. But every time I give it to anyone or try it for anything, that shit does not work. Like my mom was having pains and I bought her this fucking fancy CBD emu cream. They're like, it's made with emu fat. It penetrates deeper. They're like, here, it's a million dollars. I was like, all right, it's made with emu fat it penetrates deeper they're like here it's a million dollars i was like all right it's for my mom right i'm like did it do anything she's like no and anytime i'm like oh people are like yeah it helps with anxiety i'm like you should try it

and they're like no it's like i don't really know what the fuck it does do well i think the most effective case for it was with anti-seizure applications. Because I remember that was like one of the big things where there were children who- I saw that video too. Well, not even the video. I mean, it was like a whole thing. No, but there's like a bunch of videos that have gone viral showing of people putting CBD oil on like the feet, the bottoms of the feet of people who are having seizures and

it helping and stuff. Oh, on the bottoms of their feet? Interesting. And I've heard that it helps in like Parkinson's and my husband's dad has Parkinson's. So we've been, I've been giving him all the CBD and that shit does not do anything for But your point being that CBD, like people are constantly like, oh, have you tried CBD oil? Just in conversation.

And that's rarely a illness or like a malady that people are bringing up conversationally. Like, man, I keep having these seizures. I don't know what to do. Like to Advil? And I'm not saying it doesn't work for anything. I'm just saying I don't think it works for most of the things we're trying to use it for

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To catch the spirit, yeah. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows from my praise band I was in called Catch the Spirit. Yeah, yeah. They were great. You band I was in called Catch the Spirit. They were great. You love to wear white linen when you perform. It's so beautiful. It's about purity and it's about talking about coming to Jesus in the purest form as possible. I've only ever seen you as God's virgin.

Has that white linen shirt ever been buttoned up? No. No. It didn't seem like it. Well, it depends on how I'm feeling. Right. That's how he gets new additions to the church. No. No. It didn't seem like it. Yeah. Well, you know, it depends on how I'm feeling. Right. That's how he gets new additions to the church. Yeah. That's how I bring him in.

Yeah. But only those who are pure of heart. And he will find a gust or a fan or something just so that I can blow him behind him a little bit. If they just want to say, who's the king of the jungle? Who? Who? Who's the king of the sea? Bubble, bubble, bubble. Who's the king of the universe? And who's the king of me? His name, bubble, bubble. Who's the king of the universe?

And who's the king of me? His name is J-E-S-U-S. What? Wow. That sounds like a... Catch the spirit. That's the kind of jams we were rocking out to. Yeah.

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