The Daily Zeitgeist - White House Has A Vape Room? Philly DA: FREE MEEK 3.30.18

Episode Date: March 30, 2018

In episode 116, Jack & Miles are joined comedian Katia Kvinge to discuss Drudge Report headlines, Atlanta's ransomware situation, the White House personnel office being a complete mess, progressive Philly district attorney Larry Krasner really cleaning stuff up with his criminal justice reform, GOP adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Trump rolling back Obama-era fuel emission standards, an out of control space station that is plummeting to earth this weekend & can land anywhere, bloidwatch, & more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There you go. What do we call you? The Scottish, Norwegian, American. Queen. Princess. Possible royalty. Well, we don't know. We have to do the research.

Right. How modest of you. Katya, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I tried to look at this yesterday, and I have been looking at so many videos of, did you see that video that went viral of the little girl that ate wasabi? It's so funny. It's just like perfectly comically timed, and I now am like obsessed with kids eating wasabi for the first time.

It's so funny. It's just because, like, oh, like when their sinuses open up. Yeah, but they don't, like, know how to handle it. And, like, all the faces they pull or they start crying or it's just, yeah. I hate saying this because it's like one of those, you have to be there or just Google it. But kids eating wasabi is so. For the first time. Oh, it makes me time oh the new genre video

yeah is it what is it about it is it is it it's just the reactions that are so pure to you that yeah i think so yeah and their innocence and and because i had it like a while ago i ate it thinking it was avocado and oh no yeah rookie mistake yeah And then, but I like, it hurt my head, like a headache. So I was like, smacked it. And I remember writing it down on my phone thinking, oh, I should do this as a stand-up bit. And then I did it as a stand-up bit. And the audience were like, okay.

I'm like, yeah, oh, yeah, that is just what it's like eating wasabi. That's not funny or relatable. Oh, you were just like. I was like, you know when you have wasabi and it hurts your head. And I'm like, okay, never going to use that bitabi and it hurts your head and I'm like, okay, never gonna use that bit again I've actually never had the wasabi headache Have you not? You've never had so much wasabi your sinuses opened up

Oh, I definitely get that but I've never had it go up to my forehead like an ice cream headache Yeah, it's like I smacked my forehead What's the freshest wasabi you've ever had? Oh, I just eat the garbage It's the same stuff that they stick've ever had? Oh, I just eat the garbage. The star that's in a tube or something? It's the same stuff that they stick flowers in when they're like earlier flowers.

That's where my wasabi comes from. Okay, next time I'll bring in the root and I'll grate it for you. Okay. So you can get the real, the whole magilla and it will open your third eye. All right. But the other thing I was going to say is that about your thing, I was at a, oh, it was at the Cracked Holiday Party years ago. And there's like a taco station, but there was also like Asian food.

And the catering people put out a tray of wasabi in the like taco assembly line. And everyone thought it was guacamole. Yeah, completely. And there were many people doing the same thing. And that instantly made me think, I was like, that's not the first time I've heard of someone thinking the OD amount of. I actually really want to do that for a party now do that to friends and just film it cheeky hosts aren't you okay katya what's something that is underrated

um underrated well at the moment i'm house slash pet sitting these two rescue dogs um one of them is absolutely insane when you say rest your house sitting you're for a shelter or for your friend no yeah just a friend and they yeah and they're and those are their that's their pets that's their pets oh so you're being a good friend yeah yeah and um i've been doing a bunch of insta stories of this dog and everyone i'm getting a mix of things like uh this dog needs to be put down and and then And then also, like, is the dog dying? Is it sick? Like, this dog has bitten me three times.

It poops and pees so much, even though I take it out for, like, two, three walks a day. Within the first 24 hours I was there, I had to wipe up, poop, and pee six times. Wow, I remember. But what is underrated about it is I'm so nervous around this dog, I feel like I'm getting a workout every day because my heart beats so fast. Right.

I'm so, yeah, skitty around it. Yeah, that's something that I've learned from having the Apple Watch that now tracks your heart rate and all your physical symptoms is that my anxiety is an actual workout. Every day at the end of the day, I don't exercise at all. And they're like 52 minutes of workout. That's crazy because we record the show for 52 minutes. I know.

Exactly. People say like, oh, what's your secret? Why are you so slim? I'm like, I have an anxiety disorder. I couldn't even say it properly. Oh, yeah. I have an anxiety disorder. Right, exactly. I couldn't even say it properly. Oh yeah, I have an anxiety disorder. The dog is shitting everywhere.

Yeah, when I first saw your Instagram stories, I was telling you when you got here, I thought it was a bit because it was a nearly comical amount of shit and piss all over your floor and I thought

this has to be like the work of four dogs. Yeah. And to know that it's one is very alarming. And it's tiny. It's like a little chihuahua and Russell Mix. I'm'm like how does it have so much pee and poo inside it matter can this thing generate wait and the people who told you to put the dog down was were those people who

were just like I don't fuck with dogs no it was an animal behaviorist she um she works that yeah because he's bitten me three times he's bitten the owner and other people and kids and like and um he's a little chihuahua thing, right? Like a chihuahua Jack Russell mix. Yeah. And I mean, the bites aren't going to destroy you, but they hurt a lot. Right. But yeah, because she said that if he was to really hurt a child, that could traumatize the child.

And yeah. What does your friend think who's the owner? I actually haven't spoken to her. Well, I've sent her videos since she's been away on holiday. Is this normal? No. You're like, love what your dog did with my place. Yeah.

But yeah, I have no idea because it's up to her. But it's hard because then the next minute when he's not biting you or pooping everywhere, he's all cute and wagging his tail. So you're like, I don't want to hurt this. But will he cuddle with you though no no i can't stroke him yeah because he'll bite me if i stroke him listen guys you don't have to be an animal behaviorist to leave a comment on someone's video being like that dog killed that'd be put down that's how i respond to most videos of people's adorable dogs uh katya what's something that is overrated? I was trying to think about this this morning. I kind of, being in LA, find the glorification. I can't remember if I mentioned this the last time,

but the glorification of athletes and celebrities is just overwhelming. And even reading these magazines, the way that they make celebrities seem like they're not even human. And I also the kind of the idea of celebrities running for office, like with Trump, obviously, but even like, I just kind of feel like let someone that's been working in politics their whole life run for office. Like why does it have to be dictated by someone that has a big following or I don't know. I just feel a little bit funny right now.

Over time we've just become so and so celebrity obsessed. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure like as the divide of people, the haves and have nots, that chasm grows and grows and intensifies. I think it'll only be, I think it's probably symptomatic of that because celebrity worship is like sort of an escapism of like, oh, well, these people don't have to work every day like I do, or these people get to do all these fun things that I'm not able to, so let me fixate on that. I don't know. Yeah.

I think in some cases, celebrities, like I think our culture has evolved so that fame is for the sake of fame. Like people just become famous for the sake of fame. On the other hand, the times that I've met certain famous people in person, and they just have this sort of charismatic, sort of room dominating aura about them.

And you're like, oh, that's why. Right, yeah, that's true. So I think it's a blend. I think we either over or underrate celebrities. Like sometimes we're like, oh, he's just famous because he happened to get in movies. And it's like, actually, when you sit down with that person, they are like, have a genius level ability to just like command a room. That's weird. Yeah. And there is a part of me that would love for Oprah to be

president. That's right. Well, yeah, but it's a completely different skill. I do want to say that. Yeah. Running a country as we're learning, but it's a completely different skill. I do want to say that. Yeah, exactly. Running a country as we're learning every day of the past couple years. Well, yeah, that thing you're saying, I forget. It was like a sociologist or some journalist had a quote who said, it was like, in my day, people were famous for achieving things, and now fame is the achievement. Right, exactly.

Yeah. That's what's known in the world of evolution as runaway selection, right? When it's an echo chamber of, you know, they become famous for being famous and then... Exactly, yeah. Alright, what is a myth, Katya? Okay, so I was trying to think about this myth and

as you guys know, there's like the old wife's tale that if you put someone's hand in water when they're sleeping, they pee. Is that a wife's tale? That's what they say in the UK. It's an old wife's tale. if you put someone's hand in water when they're sleeping, they pee. Is that a wives' tale? Well, that's what they say in the UK. It's an old wives' tale. I guess here it's always been like, as a kid, we always accepted that as fact.

Like, yo, get the warm water cup. Really? Because then my friends were always like, oh, it's not true. Like, if you do it, it doesn't happen. And then I found that if I'm in the bathroom and I can't go, I'll turn on the tap or put my hand on it, and then I'm good to shit. Wow.

Wait, for shitting? I thought it was pee. No. Oh, no. Wait, wait, wait, what? Wait, this is... So first of all, we're correcting the myth that it's only pee

because that could make a sleepover party really much... Regrettable. Much more messy than people were expecting. And yeah, the fact that you can use it to your benefit, that is also something I wasn't aware of. I think a lot of times old wives tales get there for a reason. Not always. The placebo effect is so strong, right?

That maybe it's like a tipping point of group belief or something. right right that maybe it's like a tipping point of group belief or something but i mean i feel like i liken it to the same thing of like there are times when i'll wash my hands if i have to pee or something that like the warm water would like make my bladder be like hey you want to go pee right now yeah or like you know when you get in the shower sometimes like if the temperature is off like i feel like there has to be some kind of scientific like temperature regulation thing or whatever you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom. Yes. Van Damme.

Yes. I wash them before, but not after. Yeah. Van Damme washes his hands before he goes because you got to keep the pee-pee clean. Exactly. Keep the pee-pee clean. Right. But after, it's so clean already, it's not dirty because it's never been dirty because

I've always been keeping it clean. Yeah. It gets your hands cleaner. See? If anything. That's called a little bit of Brussels science. It's like the people that shower before they go to bed because they're like, well, the bed is clean. Right.

There are people like that, yeah. I feel when I do it, it's because I find it easier to go to sleep. I was going to say. And also your body secretes oils at night. That could be a wives tale too. But I always heard that thing too. Or like you sweat the bed. Yeah.

Or you can strip your body of oils it secretes overnight for the day, like in the morning if you shower in the morning. But again, I could be just talking pseudo quack science because I read it on a box of Neutrogena. No, that's what it is. Sweat when my bed is wet. All sweat. Ah, that damn waste sweat.

That damn sweat. Alright. Also changing your pillowcases is good for your face. For your face. Really? If you find yourself with skin trouble. I saw that on Amy Lam, former guest. Amy Lam.

Did you see that on Twitter? Yeah, I was trying to remember who recommended that. I saw that tweet too. Yeah, Amy Lam coming with the skincare tips on Twitter. She has a podcast called Backtalk. It's from Bitch Media. She's the best. All right, guys, let's get into the news of the day. We're trying to take a sample of what people are thinking and talking about today or whatever day you're listening to this.

And you guys, buckle up because we're going to hit, I think about by the end of the show, 9,000 stories. So I got in this morning and I got a feeling that i haven't had in it seems like decades uh and i i opened the drudge report and uh he was focused on convincing conservative readers that the apocalypse was upon us uh here i'm gonna read you guys the headlines let's do a primer today we are recording this is, this is Good Friday today. This is Good Friday. If you are a Christian, and it's a Pesach. The top headlines on Drudge are, Pope declares no hell, which I think was a misquote from an atheist reporter talking to the Pope, but I don't- Wait, so he's misquoting an atheist reporter for the sake of

his Christian fear? I think the atheist reporter, like this is a big story right now all over the place that the Pope declared no hell, and then the Pope is saying, no, there's still Christian fear. I think the atheist reporter, like this is a big story right now all over the place that the Pope declared no hell and then the Pope is saying, no, there's still a hell. I just, I was misquoted. I said no, I said hell no. Right, there you go. Pope declares no hell,

Vatican scrambles, denies report, Buchanan, what did Christ die on cross to save us from? Church rocked, plaster chunks from St. Peter's ceiling rain on worshipers update rise in demonic possessions good friday ritual extreme atonement in philippines and if

you click on that one you're taken to a report about a ritual in the philippines where people literally nail themselves to crosses so it's just like like, oh, wow, these are the end times. But that's when I knew for sure we have what seems like it might be a slow news day. These have been practically unheard of in the era of Trump, but I think he took a powder. He's gone down for a long weekend. Hey, summer Fridays. Oh, wait, it's only spring. Right, exactly. Hey, summer Fridays. Oh, wait, it's only spring. Right, exactly.

Taking the day off. And, you know, there are some developing stories in the Middle East, but for the most part, it seems pretty quiet. So what we wanted to do is take this opportunity to go back through a bunch of stories that would have been, you know, front page devouring, attention consuming, huge news stories in any other era. But that we didn't even mention in the past couple of weeks because, you know, we're in the period of the end under the administration that we're under and they just consume all oxygen in any room. So I wanted to start out with this crazy fucking story about Atlanta, right? Well, hold on, Jack.

I just have to go back to this. If there's no hell, what the fuck did Christ die for? Okay? You're a real asshole, Pope. Because he fucking died thinking there was a hell. And you're saying now there isn't? Yeah. Okay, man.

Well, whatever. Let's move on to real news. Christ is pissed right now. He's out there being like, okay, so I could have hung out for a couple more years. Anyway, so yes, the city of Atlanta was attacked by some ransomware called, I think it's called

Sam Sam. Ransom? Yeah, Sam Sam ransomware. Katya think it's called sam sam ransom yeah sam sam ransomware katya's right it's pronounced ransom oh sam sam call some sam sam where call sam sam on the ransomware uh yes so this uh ransomware is deployed on you know like cities and other groups that have a lot of sensitive information so in atlanta it's basically like gummed up a lot of their services from, you know, like the ability of people to pay their bills or like the trash pickup or police being able to do like, uh, reports that like they've had been having to handwrite reports. Uh, the city hasn't even been able to process like job applications. Cause like

these guys have taken over the network and taking control and say look if you want to have your services resume uh pay us fifty thousand dollars uh and you get your shit back so uh yes for like the last week they've been struggling with this and they've they've announced some progress which seems to suggest they probably paid the ransom off um but it's a very very uh interesting thing because you know apparently of Atlanta, when a few people did an assessment of how vulnerable they would be to attacks like this, they did not get a very glowing rating on that. And that's usually because the way budgets work, people don't really – we aren't investing in cybersecurity, especially in certain municipalities. They're probably more inclined to invest money on things like potholes and shit they can do right now, not long-term preparation. So this is part and parcel of like sort of a culture that many counties, cities, the country is dealing with of sort of not quite taking cybersecurity seriously. These guys apparently – they're saying since December of last year, of 2017, they've already made a million dollars off of doing these sort of little ransomware attacks

because they do it with- 50,000 seems really low, right? Yeah, but when you do a lot of them, it adds up, baby. And that's why these hackers are clever because they don't go after like 911 or like sewage treatment operations because that can result in like legitimate loss of life.

They just want to make shit super inconvenient that they go, you got 50 grand, so come up off it and give me the 50,000. So that's how they've been able to sort of maintain a low profile. Yeah, you hear that with like fraudsters and con men is that they'll just take like $17 from your account

or something like that. Right. Rather than, like I had that where someone spent $25 of my money on a Domino's pizza because I've been hacked. Yeah. Hey, money well spent, if you ask me. But thank you for the pizza.

It was delicious. Yeah. So again, this sort of also bleeds into the idea of us as a nation, we haven't been properly protecting a lot of our sort of electronic infrastructure, especially coming into the midterms because no one is investing in properly protecting these things. And a lot of analysts think this kind of stuff will just keep happening because it's low hanging fruit. And, you know, bottom line, we need to take cybersecurity very seriously. V seriously.

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and then a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North korea but worse if that's possible listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and we just watched the delightful child wasabi video uh we will put that in the footnotes where uh you can check it out yourself. It is wonderful. You weren't lying, Katya. She's got good taste in viral videos.

So a couple other quick stories that we missed were actually about the administration that we were spending a lot of time focusing on because you can only talk about so much crazy shit. you know you can only talk about so much crazy shit uh so one story just came out today about uh the washington post wrote about the sort of hr the personnel division yeah the white house where they do the main recruiting for appointees uh to the administration comes out of this personnel office right and it's a fucking shit show over there but who would have thought because clearly we're only getting the best people, the best people to work on this administration. Right. But this is the office that is holding up that promise. Yeah. Right. Of having the best people for any appointments that need to occur. So, for example, two of the leaders of the office, as The Washington Post reports, they have spotty records themselves. One is a college dropout with arrests for drunken driving and bad checks.

The other is a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps reserves with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an officer, and underage drinking. So basically— They work in the White House. Yeah. So what has happened is apparently this office has just kind of become a place to give anybody a job. Like if someone just needs a job, they'll go there. You know, as they say, it served as a, quote, refuge for young campaign workers, a stopover for senior officials on their way to other posts and a source of jobs for friends and family. One senior staffer has had four relatives receive appointments through this office.

appointments through this office. And when you look at sort of where the Trump administration is as compared to other administrations in terms of like the kinds of appointments that have been made and that have yet to be made, we are so far behind under this administration. It's crazy, but it makes sense when they also report that like basically this whole office has just become like a place for like young staffers from other departments to hang out and literally as they say uh hang out on couches and smoke electronic cigarettes known as vaping yes they're just vaping on couches so yeah yeah because they hate their jobs and no one wants to work for trump and that's you know it shows the office for recruiting talent that is like very important and a big weak spot for this administration is basically a way to launder untalented relatives for people.

Nepotism HQ. Nepotism laundering HQ. And you go through, is that where they give jobs? Yeah, where everyone's vaping. Can you imagine going in? It's just a huge vape session. What's up, dude? You need a job?

That's amazing. You need a job. Another thing that's just kind of over the top from this administration, apparently Trump's lawyer, the guy who just left, John Dowd. So I heard this on the New York Times Daily podcast, uncreatively called The Daily. The Daily what? Yeah. At least we added a fucking third word. So this reporter for The New York Times, Mike Schmidt, was saying that when he first started looking into the Mueller investigation, he kept hearing rumors that Trump's lawyers were offering people like pardons, being like, hey, just don't believe it because that's so over the top and like dumb and clearly indicative of guilt that there's no way that anybody would do that, any professional person. And now he's like, yeah, no, it's been basically confirmed for us that they were doing this.

They were offering Flynn and Manafort pardons. And they think that that offer might still be in place because Manafort isn't talking. He's not collaborating, whereas Flynn is collaborating. Manafort is basically, seems to be dead to rights on what they have on him and would essentially be spending the rest of his life in jail once he gets nailed for this, unless the president pardons him. They think Rick Y gates is the one that told muller probably right because manafort would have found out and by extension told rick gates because they're basically on the same thing right uh and yeah it's that's who knows about this

that's how they're having it confirmed as the muller investigation there's a leak from the muller investigation being like these motherfuckers are like trying to bribe people into just lying like the most cut and dry case of obstructing justice would be like, don't cooperate because I will use a very seldom used law to create an obstacle in this investigation. But we'll see, because the other thing is too, Mueller's smart, and I know they're also trying to get as many charges at a state level on Manafort too, because the president will not be able to pardon a state charge, only federal ones. So we'll see again this is very intriguing because we don't know what the fuck is going on with

muller because this is somehow like the the tightest fucking ship ever and there's only leaks like we only know as much as the muller team wants people to know right so who knows i mean maybe they don't have anything that's why we don't know it's one of two ways they're really being like oh shit or they're like people are gonna be really disappointed or they're doing that thing when Maybe they don't have anything. That's why we don't know anything. It's one of two ways. They're really being like, oh, shit. We don't have anything. Or they're like, nah, homie. People are going to be really disappointed. Or they're doing that thing when you play Uno, and you know you could dead the game if you just get that one more card

and then be like, I'm sorry, skip four wild to red. Here's my last three. I'm done. Uno dead. So we don't know what version of, you know, we don't know. So I want to pretend he's doing the Uno game ender version. All right, let's talk about some good news that we've been distracted from. Miles, you brought this story to my attention.

Larry Krasner. Larry Krasner, who is the DA for Philadelphia. Now, this man campaigned on progressive criminal justice reform, and he won with overwhelming support because he was saying, yo, we are locking up people for whatever and we're wasting money incarcerating people. We really need to look at our justice system and create some sort of equity because it's also disproportionately affecting people of color. So this is a great story because this is a story about someone who campaigned on a really progressive cause and is not fucking around.

So in his first week, fired 31 prosecutors from the da's office because they weren't on board with the shit he was trying to do he said oh well there's a fucking door bro because i have a mandate according to how much support i got to be in this position uh next there was a court order to release like this list of officers from the philly police department that were on a do not call list which means like they're so fucking corrupt or tainted that they can't even be considered to be a reliable witness so that they apparently the last da was dragging their feet boom releases the list and like a lot of these officers have been charged with shit like lying to investigators filing false reports using excessive force driving drunk burglary so like it's crazy it's like fucking bad cops So he got that out Next Okay

Did you have something Oh yeah There's just this amazing film That I saw at Sundance Called Crown Heights It won one of the awards It's all about this guy That was wrongfully incarcerated

I think he was in prison For like 18 years It's just incredible I'm now living with a person That made it Which is nuts Oh actually Neighbors Yeah

But it's all about this, the wrongful incarceration. It's insane. Yeah, well, it's a huge problem and it's something that many people, especially on the progressive end of the spectrum that work in the legal system, have been wanting to reform

because it's a waste of money and we're basically disenfranchising whole generations of people. So next, he also made it clear, he was like, I will not oppose meek mill's release on bail he was just like yo free meek mill right amazing like yo i'm just like a rational human being was just waiting in the wings like reading the crazy ass news stories and he's like this dude this is fucking bullshit yeah because another thing about it is that he's also addressing sort of like the feed and never-ending feedback loop because they have really harsh probation rules in Philadelphia.

That Meek Mill has basically been on probation for 10 years over one thing. And if there's an infraction in any way, they'll extend it and extend it and extend it. So it's very hard for you to get to a place where you can just not be on probation and always be on a knife's edge of about to be going to prison. Right. going to prison right um and the other thing about it was that uh krasner sort of saw that the uh the officer the only officer who testified against meek mill he is just not only on that list of like shitty cops but a former police officer also reported that like that guy lied under oath to put me behind bars so free meek mill free meek mill uh Then he put out another memo to the DA's office, to all the prosecutors, basically saying, like, I'm trying to address mass incarceration, like, up top. Like, that was, like, the sort of North Star.

So he's been doing things like instructing prosecutors, stop prosecuting marijuana possession regardless of the weight, and also stop charging people with marijuana with paraphernalia crimes, because that's usually what they'll do just to get you with something. Oh, we got this pipe, though. It's like, how about you not waste your time on that bullshit? Exactly. Also to stop charging sex workers that have fewer than three convictions with any crime and drop all current cases against sex workers who also fit that description. Also, referring people if they do have more than three cases to like a diversionary program,

which is the first of its kind in this country. So like, wow, we're actually looking at rehabilitating people rather than incarcerating people. Then another thing, too, he wants prosecutors to justify the cost of the sentencing. So they're saying right now the city's spending around 360 million dollars a year to,000 people. So it costs around $42,000 and $60,000 to incarcerate a person. So he told the prosecutors like, look, that's more than like some teachers, cops, firefighters are making. So when you say you want three years of someone in prison, you need to justify to the city why you want a cost of around what $130,000, why it's worth that money should go to keeping this person in prison.

$130,000, why it's worth that money should go to keeping this person in prison. Where did this dude come from? Was he just an outsider or something? Because this feels like the promise of, okay, we need outsiders coming in to do this job. No, he's a lifelong civil rights attorney. So he just understands the criminal justice system and how people are being fucked over. And he was like, hi, I'm here to do something and not just, you know, dupe you into voting for me. I'm going to do it.

And it's just a great thing to hear of someone. It feels like what people were hoping like an outsider like Trump coming in would do. It's just like he cleans house. He fucking like, you know, does all these common sense things that people just weren't doing because it was sort of embedded in the system and like in the bureaucracy up to this point. And he's just like, no, this is like very clear logic. Let's just go down.

You're wasting money, throwing people in jail just because, you know, for like for shit that society has moved on from from saying, oh, you should be in jail because you had all this weed or whatever. Right. Or you're a sex worker. So it's good to know that there are sort of these transformational people in power didn't obama do that in his last few remaining months he like released a load of people from prison he did yeah but like this is sort of wholesale changing how the laws work you know what i mean so yeah

yeah you know it's a problem across the country uh you know not many like rehabilitation before incarceration has been like a thing many people want just across the board because you know, it's a problem across the country. You know, not many, like, rehabilitation before incarceration has been, like, a thing many people want just across the board because, you know, especially with drug offenders, a lot of people are offending because they need the support. And our support prior to this was, like, just put them in jail. The thing that's shocking to me, like, as a Brit coming here, is the lack of help for mental health for people out here. Like, seeing the amount of help for mental health for people out here like seeing the amount of

mentally ill people in hollywood and how there's just not really places like in the uk it's like if you suffer from anxiety there are free health care places or um i actually bumped into someone who i lived with a year ago and i saw her uh this was a couple weeks ago she's now homeless and she's living on the streets it's insane and she it was because she had paranoid delusional thoughts and for some reason is now not able to hold down a job or is not with her family but it's just like I feel that there in the UK there would be more of a a place. Yeah. Or like, yeah, there would be some sort of, whether it's cognitive behavioral therapy or other forms of therapy, but there would be some sort of compassion. Yeah. But it was just so insane. Yeah. Well, every year, I mean, people

strip more and more out of budgets for mental health things and mental health programs and, and, and programs that would help combat homelessness, it's just become less and less of a priority, sadly. And yeah, it's true. What are you talking about? The NRA wants to help with mental health stuff. That's every time there's a school shooting. It's mental health.

We have mental health problems. Yeah, well, tell that to Trump's projected budgets that he was putting out before when he screamed at him where he was like, mental health? What do we need money for that for? Yeah, but it's true because our medical system isn't built to help people it's to help people who can afford that right exactly yeah that's a sad reality that we have to live in so a lot of non-profit groups have to pick up the slack and there just aren't enough really to give people the kind of care they need yeah so shout out to larry krasner and to philadelphia they're having a hell of a year man

yeah shout out to Philly. Yeah. Yeah, won the Super Bowl, and the Sixers were looking good until Joel Embiid broke his face. He broke his face? He broke his orbital, and he's out for two to four weeks, which is the playoff push. The nitty gritty, yeah. So if he's out four weeks, he'll be out for the first round of the playoffs. And what, he's going to wear a Rip Hamilton mask? I don't know. We shall see.

Isn't that what, was Rip Hamilton a broken nose or orbital? I forget, but it ended up being a thing where he felt more comfortable with the mask on. Mask off. Mask off. All right. That's a great story that I wish I was paying attention to. We've got to keep it moving though, Jack. We've got to go.

We've got 7,000 more stories. The GOP is adding citizenship question to the 2020 census. Wilbur Ross, who was in hot water with the Trump presidency for dozing off during meetings like a couple months ago, but now he's back.

And in order to get out of trouble for literally falling asleep on the job, he is doing all these things. You know, he was behind the plan for a trade war. And he is also a big supporter of pushing this idea to add a citizenship question to the census. He's also an actual Smeagol. Yeah, he really is. little known fact about him uh so miles why is this bad well think about so the census right everything that in terms of like our government funding uh the kind of seats we have in our representative government electoral votes

how districts are drawn data that's used by every institution to create programs comes from the census where we go around and get a count and figure out who lives in America and where are they and what do they look like and what kind of demographic information can we have because that helps programs. Now, of course, it's highly, highly important because it determines all those things. Now, the way it can be fucked with for like redistricting and things like that is you can start doing things like being able to under report things. So they're adding a question that is asking about the citizenship. So when you take the census, it'll be like, hey, fam, are you an American citizen? That will put a lot of people off from answering the census.

So what a lot of people are concerned is that it could end up basically undercutting a lot of immigrant communities and underreporting up to 25 million people that are in the United States. And it's not just that it could. It will. It definitely will. Yeah, especially right now from. Yeah, with such a xenophobic anti-immigrant sentiment coming from the administration. I doubt anyone who feels that they've only seen news stories about people being just sort of in the most inhumane ways, separated from their families and deported. Even if you served in fucking Afghanistan, that they wouldn't want to participate in something like this.

So I know like in the 2010 census, they undercounted about like one and a half million people of color, which this citizenship test clearly would affect. And then they overcounted a lot of white people as well. this citizenship test clearly would affect. And then they over counted a lot of white people as well. So this is a way for the GOP to sort of begin stacking the deck, uh, by sort of, you know, giving a skewed count of like,

you know, where people are. Right. And also what kind of federal subsidy states would get, because if you're in a state like California, New York, where you have many, uh,

immigrants, there are federal subsidies that you need because you know what the groups you're dealing with or what the needs are from an education or healthcare standpoint. By obscuring those numbers, it'll get all fucked up. That's why many states are already suing to get this question removed. Yeah. By taking a bunch of immigrant families out of the census, then a city like Los Angeles will be undercounted population- by, you know, 20 percent or something. And then their school districts get 20 percent less funding than they actually need for the number of students that they're actually taking care of.

Right. And, you know, that's, again, going with the GOP's sort of policy of not giving a fuck about blue states and specifically targeting immigrants. But this is specifically something that they stopped doing in the 50s, asking about citizenship because they recognized that to have a successful census, you want to get an actual realistic snapshot of who is in the country, where are they, how can we help make this thing run as well as possible? And they realized that people weren't going to answer the question or weren't going to be honest if you asked them intimidating questions like, are you a citizen or not?

So I guess 12 different attorneys general are suing to get this question taken off the census yeah it could be well no it will be detrimental and it's fucking cheap you know it's cheating and i get it you know i i mean if i was a a fucking scumbag who did whatever the fuck i had to do to win elections and shit like that yeah you probably feel a big l coming big l rest in peace uh but that like in the midterm elections and you're going to try and do whatever you can to offset that going into 2020. But yeah, this is the kind of same shit when the GOP took over a lot of state legislatures and began their aggressive redistricting. This is a way for them to offset pockets of Democratic voters and immigrant communities. Right. Nice try. So we do, unfortunately, have to move on.

There's really nothing surprising about the fact that Trump is rolling back Obama-era EPA emission standards to the early 2000s, late 90s, when, like, Hummers were cool. And, like, people thought that global warming was a thing for movies set in the future. They're now changing that. And Scott Pruitt, who is the head of the EPA, who is currently living in a townhouse owned by the wife of a coal lobbyist. Yeah, energy. Yeah, I think many segments of the Energy Department. Yeah, he got a sick deal to live in this condo.

It's like 50 bucks a night whenever he stayed in. He doesn't live there now, but for a few many months he was living there. And a lot of people were like, this seems a little weird. Like that, I think technically it's not illegal. But again, when you're someone who's regulating the energy industry because of the impacts on the environment, it doesn't look good when you get the homey discount on the Airbnb like that. You know, we talked on a past episode, I think it was our hundredth episode. I was talking about my underrated is like, you know, little uncool

pieces of progress, like, you know, Priuses became cool in los angeles and like that is something that i've definitely made fun of in my life but now i can see that we live next to a beautiful mountain range in los angeles whereas before you couldn't see the mountains uh and that's a sign of progress this is like directly attacking that sort of progress and you know we'll once again not be able to see our surroundings because of uh bad air yeah and pruitt's just a fucking loser monster like he was like using his like protection detail to go to like disneyland and like spent a hundred thousand on like first class flights and he spent 40 grand to put a fucking soundproof booth in his office yeah like you

recording a mixtape what What the fuck are you doing? All right. We can move on from that because there is an out of control space station plummeting to Earth at some point this weekend. We don't know when. It's a Chinese space station. And according to the story we have here from the Daily Mail, areas that could be hit include New York, Barcelona, Beijing, Chicago, Istanbul, Rome, and Toronto. areas that could be hit include new york barcelona beijing chicago istanbul rome and toronto so what the fuck can land fucking anywhere are they like on the same like latitudinal or longitudinal line

that it makes sense that it's a function of the rotation of the earth i have no idea and i'm not i'm too lazy to even look up what those words mean, but I think that's the only... No, I think I know what you mean, yeah. But again, it's crazy because they lost control of this thing like two years ago. Right. Like, look, we kind of lost control of this thing, so hopefully it'll burn up in the atmosphere.

Yeah. This just makes me appreciate NASA and how exacting they are with their calculations. Because they're like, yeah, it could be 16 hours on either side of this time on this Easter Sunday that this thing's just going to come rocketing to Earth in flames. It's the size of a school bus. So just keep an eye out on Easter.

Oh, so a school bus-sized piece of space shit is going to crash into Earth, possibly. Yeah, during a 36-hour window somewhere around Easter. So just keep your eye peeled. Oh, you know what? I'm looking very briefly at a map, and it seems like Istanbul, Barcelona, they're kind of sort of on a similar line. Latitude. Latitudinal line.

Latitudinal thing. And again, let the space experts and the Zeitgang tell me I'm wrong. But it would just be funnier if they were just like being like, hey, man, it could go anywhere, man. It could be Toronto. It could be LA. It could be fucking Cancun. We don't know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know. Are you? That would be fun to think of the different reactions of the different countries depending on where it would land. Right, right. Especially if it's like Easter Sunday when it comes down. Will someone use that as like a religious thing?

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And Super Producer Ana Hosnier just showed us a map of the globe. And the map, it was basically a probability map showing where the space station might land. basically a probability map showing where the space station might land and it appears to be all of the habitable land in the world on either side of the equator yeah um so yeah just keep keep an eye peeled uh oh wait so you're saying and this map that you're showing me is the map that the chinese are saying it could land in this section, that's so unspecific and dangerous because it's like anything north and south of the equator. Yeah.

So Los Angeles falls in that. It's just that it's probably slightly more likely to fall on the latitude of New York and Chicago. Well, guys, if it's coming to a city near you, please go live on Instagram and message me because I would love to see this shit come down on you. Oh, man. And I'll do the same for you.

I'll do the same for you if it comes down on me. I will go live and you can see me in my last moments. The good news is it's probably going to land on Russia just because most of the world is Russia. And Russia tends to have constantly rolling dashboard cams.

Asteroids and shit too. Have you seen those videos of Russian people driving as they charge Asteroids? Yeah, a meteor is just screaming towards Earth, and they changed the channel to a Britney Spears song. I was like, oh, I love this song. Russian driving videos are my favorite. Yes.

They're so fucking addictive. And the accidents as well. Yeah, the culture is just like, I know there are rules, but they don't apply to me. Totally. It's how people drive. It's like, I'm going to just make a wild left turn into oncoming traffic because when they hit me, and then they do.

Yeah. There's so many good videos of people just responding with utter calm to almost certain death experiences. A tanker is barreling towards them, and they miss it by an inch, and then just keep driving. Yeah. I've seen one where like a car like tipped over and like caught fire and like they, I think drove through like near a fireball and the guy just goes,

bleh, bleh. Which is like, oh shit. But like so calm. I was like, bleh. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, guys. I think you know what time it is. It is time for Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. And we've been having a strange phenomenon with our tabloids for the past couple weeks where they've been releasing multiple weeks of the magazine.

Last week, we got two issues of the Inquirer, Examiner, and Globe. And I was like, okay, well, maybe they're just taking a break off. And then when I went to get the Blo today they had this week's issue and then this week us in touch and okay all had double issues are the dates on them like yeah like today I bought the April 9th and April 16th issues of us weekly okay and the same for in touch and okay well clearly that space station doesn't land anywhere where people live because the globe has not written about it in their April 9th, 2018 issue, which you'd think that would be a leading story. Nah.

Nah. Oh, shit. I've got the April 16th National Examiner, you guys. Yeah. That's way in the future. So what's happening in the... Well, here, let me tell you what's happening in the April 9th Examiner. Okay.

Camilla Parker Bowles is dying. Okay. Katya, what do you think about this? We all are dying. Boozer needs a liver transplant. Now, has this in... You're from the UK. Has this news made it to y'all?

No, that's so... Oh, well, why would they print that then? Yeah. Sounds like you're standing up for your countrymen. Boozer needs a liver transplant? That is funny. Yeah, and they also just show the saddest thing. Okay, so what's in the April 16th examiner, Jack?

So the April 16th examiner ties directly into what Katya is saying about we are all dying because they say dying Betty White, 96, plans own funeral. Damn, what if she dies before? If you're 96 and you haven't planned your own funeral, You are laying down on the job. And then they just show her without makeup and they're like, look how sick she is. She's a 96-year-old human being. She's fine.

Garth Brooks is eating himself to death, apparently, just because they have a picture of him in a baggy sweatshirt. And it looks like he's gained a couple pounds. So eating himself to death and show a picture of his wife's face and it says

Trisha's heartache. Who, Trisha Yearwood? That's his wife? I believe so. I just know the name. I don't know the person and that was a reflex when I said that.

Not a country fan. Jumping back in time a week, the April 9th issue of The Globe. The main story is Hillary Clinton clinton brain cancer battle oh no so i it's because all the uraniums she's been handling right so i had to read this i had to go through uh to actually see because the photo is what just her falling down some steps it's the picture of her falling down a couple steps in India. You've probably seen the footage

somewhere on Fox News. So the writing of the article is just so vindictive and so clearly informed by President Trump's point of view. They say the ailing granny was in India to

promote her whiny book. Wow. They say Hillary collapsed a second time, but they're just talking about her stumbling once, and then people try and help her up, and she stumbles down another step, and they're like, two collapses, because she fell down two steps.

She's got BC. They say she suffered a concussion and was admitted to the hospital with a blood clot lodged near her brain that hampered her memory, leading to reports she's secretly battling a brain tumor. So even the idea that she has a brain tumor is a mistake in this story, but they're calling out. She got that blood clot. Uh, she's also suffered two strokes and went to detox after confessing to Chelsea, I'm an alcoholic. A source tells God.

After confessing to Chelsea, I Benghazi'd everyone. She's boozing, popping pills, and eating like an elephant out of control. She's now crushing the scales at 248 pounds.

Dude, Donald Trump is- There's no fucking way she weighed... There's no way. It's because... Wait, I'm sorry. How much did they say she weighed? Yeah, doesn't Trump weigh that much?

248? Isn't that what Trump was claiming? Yeah. My computer crashed. I think she said that he was like 238 or something. Yeah. It was like one pound below obesity. Oh, right.

Just before you technically have to say someone is obese. They say 239 pounds. Is what Donald Trump weighs? Is what Donald Trump weighs. And they're saying Hillary Clinton weighs 248. No way. That is clearly planted by Trump. It's for him.

He masturbates to this article. Yes. That is- Oh my God, she's fatter than me. She's got brain cancer. This is great. That is so crazy. Her whiny book.

Right. Like, what the- Okay, anyway. Kat Like, what the fuck? Okay, anyway. Katja, what you got? I've got all the stuff on the Royals. Oh, yes, and you can tell us. You can be the bringer of truth. Sorry, just real quick.

We're not saying that this is written for Trump. Like, just throwing that out there. These magazines are all published by a guy named David Pecker, who is one of Trump's closest friends in New York. The New Yorker has written about how he specifically writes articles protecting Trump and criticizing his

enemies. He was buying stories that were negative about Trump and then killing them so that they wouldn't come out. Like Karen McDougal? Like Karen McDougal, the Playboy Playmate. We're not joking when we say this is written for an audience of one. To go off of that, there was a story that came out about how David Pecker is basically now courting people in Saudi Arabia

and being like, yo, I'm homie with the president. You can come meet him. And bringing people to the Oval, taking photos at the Resolute Desk, as they call it, with the president. And then also doing shit like puff piece wholesale advertisements for like Mohammed bin Salman, the King of Saudi Arabia.

Yeah, you can see that. Yeah, someone on, shout out to whoever the user was on Twitter that sent us the screen grab of the magazine. It looked like Vanity Fair and it was like just being like, who is this new cool King of Saudi Arabia? Like totally like it's a puff piece

that had zero advertisements in the magazine either. totally like it's a puff piece that had zero advertisements in the magazine either so like it's clearly just funded by them just to be like hi this is part of my new uh pr image spin campaign uh will people read this i don't think many people are uh i'm sorry uh correction uh on hosier pointed out he's the crown prince not the king but yes mbs but it's like the magazine just looks like an ad to be like meet the sexy new bachelor in town uh and it's like what there's a lot of wild shit going on over there but again david pecker has this kind of power so that's why we talk about it's a huge media apparatus that is doing crazy crazy shit yeah uh sorry katya that was a big aside. Katya, back to you. I've got the royals here.

Our royal watcher. I'll do it in my best queen accent. Perfect. What we have here is stories that are all about Meghan Markle. I think I pronounced that wrongly. Markle. They're saying that one of them, Harry's got cold feet, which is silly. You don't think he has cold feet?

Of course not. Well, maybe. I don't know. Look at that photo. He looks like he has a thousand yard stare. Like someone said, hey, you ready to get married? And he went, uh. Are you ready to be committed?

Oh, no. Oh, boy. Go. And then there's the queen humiliates Meghan. Now, what's that? What are they trying to say happened there? Well, Elizabeth publicly snubs Harry's bride and fears actress will ruin the monarchy. Oh, dear.

Because black. Well, I've just been watching The Crown. I'm actually still only on season one. But I know there was a whole thing about Elizabeth's sister fell in love with a man. There was a whole taboo relationship. sister fell in love with a man that uh there was a whole taboo relationship but i in the uk i hear that she really likes megan and she's given their blessing for the wedding we'll see yeah america loves racism racist in-law stories so like you gotta come up with your grandma talking spicy yeah what else you got um battle royale um megan markel is making royal waves already by challenging palace protocol

over who will walk her down the aisle. To that I say, just let her do what she likes. Yeah, so I like that when I showed you these, you're like, what the fuck is this? This is just fucking slanderous bullshit. Because in the UK, they have a modicum of respect for the royal family.

They don't go, oh, the queen's racist and she hates that Meghan Markle is going to taint the bloodline or whatever. We have articles that say this kind of stuff as well. What is that? Just in the Sun? Yeah, the Sun and the Daily Mail and the kind of ones that like to stir stuff. That are owned by Rupert Murdoch. Yeah. I don't know.

Not to this level. Yeah, exactly. This is kind of next level. Now, you're headed back to this level. Yeah, exactly. This is kind of next level. Now you're headed back to the UK fairly soon. Yes. Will you be there for the royal wedding? It's in May, isn't it? It's in May, yeah.

Well, I'm either there for three weeks or three months, depending on the job. So if you are there, what will happen? Like what will be going on during the royal wedding? Will there be parties? Yeah, it's a mix. Like in central London, there'll be, I think, more than likely the parade. And I imagine there'll be people doing sort of strawberries and cream and little gathering picnic with the telly on.

But other people will just be living their lives normally. Really? Yeah. So it's like the, I'm trying to think of what an American equivalent would be. Like the Thanksgiving Day Parade? The inauguration? The inauguration.

Yeah, that's good. But are people going to take time off for this? No. I think it just depends how involved they are in the royal wedding. Right, but would you, is it normal for someone to say, oh, I'm taking that day off during the royal wedding,

where someone might be like, oh, it's game seven of the World Series, like I'm gonna take today off to watch it. I remember there were news stories and maybe this was American media just wanting to make England

seem weird or exotic, but I think I remember there being stories about people taking, or businesses being closed for the royal wedding for Kate and Wills. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I'm sure there's a bit of that, and then there's also people that are just like, just keep going. Yeah, whatever. Keep calm, carry on. That has nothing to do with me. Yeah. And the other ones, just again, more salacious shit in the Enquirer,

Charles caught in palace sex ring. The crazy thing is when you actually read it, it's not saying anything of substance, and it's always funny that they can get away with this sort of like it's just clickbait. But a source tells. Right. Yeah, exactly. According to Insider.

Right. But yeah, they can publish next week's news ahead of time, which is possible when you're just making everything up. Yeah. Katya, it has been a pleasure as always having you. Thank you so much. Where can people find you and what are you going to be on? Where can people see you? So I do Instagram, Twitter, mainly do Instagram at Katia Kvinge. Give them a spelling.

Yeah. Katia is K-A-T-I-A and Kvinge is K-V-I-N-G-E. is K-A-T-I-A and Kavinga is K-V-I-N-G-E and I'm going back to the UK I'm recording a BBC Radio 4

show and the way that it seems to work in the UK is a lot of sitcoms they started out as radio shows

so we're kind of in the early stages and hopefully it'll become a TV series oh wow I didn't know that yeah yeah

there's been a lot I was actually I meant to look at that this morning, but there's been a bunch like... The Mighty Boosh. The Mighty Boosh. Red Dwarf. The Mitchell and Webb look.

Little Britain. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah, they started as radio shows. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah, yeah. That's a big one. Yeah. It started as a radio show.

So that's kind of a standard pipeline of really good radio show becomes a successful TV show. And you are going on a really good radio show. And so we will be seeing you in American crossover sitcoms on NBC in about four years. Supervising producer, Kaji Kavinga. Right. And then we'll be able to put a plaque on here. Here sat Kaji Kavinga of famous whatever the show name is and she talked about

shitting to watch yeah exactly warm water we know your secrets Miles where can people find you you can find me trying to figure out

how I'm going to get a radio show so I can have a TV show you have a radio show man yeah I guess so see that's what I'm saying Jack this is good news you know what I mean

just wait until the Zeitgang is a TV show please anybody can they help us? Yes, me, social media, Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation, Miles of Grey. I keep the handle consistent. I'm probably going to try and get into some Fortnite. I tried playing it last night. Did not go very well.

So I'm going to try to step my game up this weekend. Didn't go over well? Like you got killed very quickly? Yeah, I was getting killed quickly. Then I was like, I didn't understand the game I was in I'm you know I'm figuring out you know I mean I got to get my feet on the ground and then we will begin for

nighting okay you can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter you can follow us at daily zeitgeist on Twitter we're at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram we have a Facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to articles containing the information that we talked about, as well as fun viral videos we mentioned today. And the song that we ride out on.

And Miles, what is today's song that we're going to ride out on? Well, you know, we've been talking a lot about Wild Wild Country in the office. Super producers, Nicks and Annas, have been talking about this Bill Callahan song, America! With an exclamation point. That's in the documentary and actually just a really good song, as it turns out. So they just put me on to Bill Callahan. And now it's my duty to put Bill Callahan on you unless you already knew, in which case, fine. I'm sorry.

Bill Callahan already knows about our listeners. Okay, perfect. So, yeah, you know, peep out Bill Callahan, America, you know, in honor of our UK guest. Just to let him know where we're at. All right. That's going to do it for this season. Season 24 in the books. We will be back next week with season 25.

Talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. America. America. America, America, America You are so grand and golden Oh, I wish I was deep in America tonight.

guitar solo America America America America I watched David Letterman In Australia Oh America You are so grand and gold-golden I wish I was on the next flight

To America Captain Christofferson Buck Sergeant Newberry Leatherneck Jones Sergeant Cash What an army What an air force What a marine America

I never served my country America America America Afghanistan Vietnam Iran Native America, America. Well, everyone's allowed a past they don't care to mention. America, America Well, it's hard to rouse a hog in Delta

And it can get tense around the Bible Delta America America America America America America America America America

America All the lucky suckle teeth on this tall pig knuckle meat All the lucky suckle teeth on this tall pig knuckle meat Ain't enough teeth Ain't enough teeth Ain't enough tea, ain't enough tea, ain't enough tea Ain't enough tea, ain't enough tea, ain't enough to eat In America America I'm back home

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