The Daily Zeitgeist - ZEITRIZI 5/29: North Korean Poop Balloons, Trump Trial, Gaza Pier, Peanut Allergies

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

In this edition of ZEITRIZI, Jack and Miles discuss North Korean poop balloons, a Trump hush money trial update, Biden's Gaza pier breaking immediately, new research into the prevalence of peanut allergies and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is Wednesday, May 29thth the afternoon and uh north korea just taught me something just taught me a little something what uh poop balloons miles poop balloons what wait what do you mean they taught they taught you that it's a thing you're saying you have ideas now it opened my mind um this is this just feels like a thing that i should have thought of when i was in middle school um you know i get that yeah like it doesn't it's not a it's maybe the least precision weapon that i can imagine it's probably the most imprecise weapon yeah yeah exactly like it's just anywhere but here is essentially what you are doing that would be wild if you set up the poop

balloon and it just came right back down on you on your head oh poetic so basically south korea is accusing north korea of sending balloons across the border, which happened to be carrying bags full of garbage and quote, feces. Feces. Um, the, um, 99 feet feces.

Yes. Oh, over to Martin. 99 feces balloon or a Martin Luther reference. It goes either way. Yeah. 99 feces. Yeah.

But, uh, yeah. So they, the balloons specifically have bags attached to them that contain Martin Luther reference. It goes either way. Yeah, 99 feces, yeah. But yeah, so they the balloons specifically have bags attached to them that contain plastic bottles, batteries, shoe parts. Shoe parts?

Just parts? Like maybe like a blown off sole? Yeah. And what is believed to be manure. So this is an exchange. So South Korea has been known to use balloons to send uh k-pop and you know pro south korea propaganda across the border to the north korean people and north korea is like here's what we think of your bullshit those are act those it's not the government doing that though

that's the activist yeah yeah i don't think they have a government shit balloon program, but it sounds like North Korea has a government shit balloon program. I don't know. Like when I was in middle school, when I was at that age, you know, some men just want to see the world burn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like this would have been right up my alley. have been right up my alley oh yeah i mean i was just shooting bb guns at people you know what i mean and throwing stink bombs and smoke grenades and little smoke bombs and shit so yeah i probably could this would have been a little more high-minded well with the bb guns you send it up it gets over to like the part the place that you want to bomb with poop you want to like you want the ability i mean since time immemorial men have dreamed of both flying like birds and shitting on people from above from above yeah yeah yeah now's your chance because you could it floats over neighbor's house that you don't like and then you shoot the balloon with the bb gun yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah um see that that was too multi-modal for me and yeah it's a lot i was getting into i'm like dude i don't know or i could just throw this shit at this person riding by like like a fucking ape yeah i was a shitty fucking kid man i had i learned the hard way a lot of times so um anyway yeah i was a terrible kid i was a terrible kid um so this is a story that i was talking about yesterday or this morning i forget uh about cnn just being wall-to-wall coverage of the trump deliberation um i don't want the fact that they're covering it like it's the Bronco chase to distract from the fact that, you know,

it is actually happening. Um, and they, the jury just went to deliberation to see if the former president who is currently basically probably the favorite to be president again in November, uh, will be convicted of a felony. Um,

supposedly his secret service has already like checked with some jails and prisons to like, see what they would do if he gets put in jail. But it, it's looking unlikely. So that, that's basically, I just wanted to like check in with this story,

be like, okay, so if he gets convicted, what are the possibilities? So if everybody on the jury agrees that a crime has taken place and there are many counts against him, they don't have to all agree on each of the counts, but there's 34 felony falsification of business records charges, each one carrying a sentence of up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Uh, he is an incredibly rich and powerful white man. So probably not going to face the four years in prison, but that is theoretically a possibility. But like this judge who I feel like a lot of people are like,

he's not taking any of trump's shit like has all these quotes where he's like the last thing i want to do is put you in jail sir you're the former president of the united states and possibly the next president as well and yeah so i don't know so in new york state has, quote, broad authority to determine when sentences are handed down after conviction and what exactly they will be. So worst case scenario for Trump, he gets convicted on all this shit. It then goes to this judge who is on the record saying the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail. It probably means he's not going to jail unless he was saying last thing I want to do is put you in jail. going to jail unless he was saying last thing i want to do is put you in jail the way somebody

like holding a knife is like last thing i want to do is have to cut you you know right right right right yeah threat well because i mean that was the thing with all this the uh gag orders and stuff he's like you know he's like i can find you in contempt and he never did um so it felt just like a lot of pump faking with the toughness but i get that it's incredibly i mean it is complex to have someone who has secret service detail go to jail and that's like the thing the other thing that he's mentioned that was like definitely not a threat is that this would be first of all he's a candidate for president of the united states so there are first amendment rights at stake and he said quote i also worry about the people who would have to execute that sanction the court officers the correction officers the secret service detail among others that's wild

though that you could skirt jail because the judge is like it's just gonna be so such a fucking bummer for everybody so you know what i'm gonna let you have this but you are convicted so annoying can you vote that's a great question could he vote for himself it's like he ends up like yo he's running for election like obviously i can't vote so i need y'all to really do me a big really help me out i mean this is the thing like a lot of people are waiting to see what happens with this, because if he gets acquitted. Yeah, that is going to put that campaign on turbo juice. Oh, yeah. The way they're going to be like, thought you couldn't be guilty. Y'all got to feel me.

Yeah, exactly. Trump, Kelly, not guilty. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you? Are you playing that song for real right now? It's your rallies. But yeah, it's and then, like, obviously, the like obviously the democrats they're gonna be like this guy's a convicted felon so uh either side stands to potentially gain or not i don't know i mean

like this is just the thing with this like again this whole trial's been going on there's been this whole circus coverage but after being burned so many times from following trump trials it's became a thing of like dude wake me up when there's a verdict and what the punishment is i don't care about the antics and all the delaying tactics and the depravity of his lawyers like yeah that's to be expected the thing that i'm the thing that's a uh a variable here is what is the outcome going to be um that's right and yeah we will see we don't know there was a thing you may know by now though there was like a poll that came out um they were polling uh what was it like likely trump supporters and like 60 i'm like i don't give a fuck what happens and

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We're back. And Biden's Gaza Pier, which was one of his ideas for how to address the crisis in Gaza, how to address the crisis in gaza was to build a pier where foreign aid could be let in because like he can't reason with israel to let them let foreign aid in so fine if you won't let it in can i build a pier like on the other side to let it in yeah maybe yeah and that's 320 million dollars this thing costs. Yeah. So $320 million is taxpayer money and it just broke apart in rough seas. Uh, so they're going to need a week to rebuild it. Oh, okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. And is there the ACE, but the aid is getting in for the two weeks that it was open? Cause that was the whole thing you said at the state of the union to try and get the heat off of you that you're doing absolutely nothing for the people of gaza yeah uh it turns out no it transferred roughly 569 metric tons of aid into gaza but none of

that aid had been delivered to palestinians as of last week oh okay okay so so still just like kind of figuring things out it's such a fucking insult man because there's another the the the idf bombed another refugee camp and we're just we're still doing these like like it's like an insult to even say band-aid fixes like these are nothing these these is this is an insult because a lot of people also speculate, like, is that another point of exit for Palestinians to inevitably displace these people permanently? Because we know that's what the aim is here. As much as they're like, we were going to destroy Hamas, which I don't know how that's possible. You're only radicalizing more people by the day.

But, yeah. Okay. Sure. yeah okay um sure the 320 million dollars of who knows what that could have done in this country uh went right to a thing that does absolutely nothing like yeah and this has to be like a terrible l for like the military engineers who built this fucking thing or not i don't know yeah i don't know enough about peers but it's not a not a great look. Yeah, I know about peers Morgan. Yeah, and my sucks.

So maybe this peer is also not great. But again, this is just all this was all lip service during the State of the Union because this was, you know, there's been a constant chorus of Joe Biden is doing absolutely nothing or are nothing meaningful to help these people. And that was the thing that all the like pundits were like, he's building a pier. He's taking it seriously. And it's not only is it like not even operational at this point, but even the aid that was delivered, they can't even confirm that any of it has actually reached Palestinians. So I fail to see how this is a win in any conceivable way but yeah let's continue to the appearance doing his best having done something the appearance of having done something well and it's just a great metaphor for this entire

like absolute just diplomatic fuck up from the united states is like you have we have you have the ability to do actually something that is tangible and you're like what about a floppy pier that will break apart any takers on this floppy pier nope so there's new research on peanut allergies this is a question that has occurred to me as a parent is it seems like there are more peanut allergies today than there was when i was a kid back in the old days peanut butter sandwich fights in schools were oh yeah common as baseball and apple pie joe i'm sure isn't that a thing joe biden said recently probably we said peanut butter sandwich fights all the time jack that's right and i heard him because i thought he was talking directly to me but uh yeah right now the u.s has what's been described as an epidemic of peanut allergies between 1997 and 2008 the number of american children with a peanut allergy has

tripled and parents feeding children peanuts or peanut butter regularly between the ages of four months old and five years old is being touted as a potential like prevent it like they they think the problem is essentially not getting enough peanuts early enough right i mean as somebody who's got a little baby and going into that phase of like eating solid food as a pediatrician's like yeah man you should you should get this stuff that has all these allergens in it to introduce your child to them as quickly as possible yeah uh to help counteract that and i was like oh it's it was just because people were avoiding peanuts because i remember i remember it was one kid cory who had a peanut allergy at my school it was one fucking kid i remember and like that's how rare it was to now you know like at the daycare

and shit i go to they're like yo there's a peanut free fucking zone yes like we can't even fuck around with things that might you turn the corner to come here onto it when you get on the street you better not even think about peanuts or say the word peanut it will get you fucked up out here but yeah so this new scientific study thinks that actually introducing peanuts can reduce the rate of people suffering from a peanut allergy by a staggering 71%. So, two theories. But what's really going on?

Yeah, I was going to say, Jack, what's really fucking going on here? Yeah, so where are these coming from? Is it all of the microplastics in our scrotum? Impossible to know. Impossible to know. Impossible to know. One thing that one of the microplastics in our scrotum? Impossible to know. Impossible to know. Impossible to know. One thing that one of the most popular theories in America is, of course, that it is caused by vaccines.

Which I don't even understand. Like, it's not even, first of all, like vaccines didn't start in the last 20, 30 years. Vaccines have been around. So there's this one book that is called The Peanut Allergy Epidemic. The cover is blood red. There is a giant needle on the front cover image. And it's believed by, I don't know, one of the people who's running for president, RFK Jr. So in the 90s, RFK Jr. started the Food Allergy Initiative because his son has a peanut allergy.

And he was arguing that certain allergies were caused by vaccines uh he wrote a forward to the book on the book theory that peanut oil is used in vaccines and like that's what's causing it stems from two new york times articles from the 1960s that noted that peanut oil was being tested and flew vaccines there it is there it is there it is guys smoking gun like the amount of fucking research these idiots are doing to find this one reference to peanuts and vaccines um the trials were immediate failures and no peanut oil based edge eventsvants, uh, which is like what, what they were testing it as and flu vaccines were quote ever used in human vaccine.

Ah, shit. But that, that's not, Oh, that's what they want you to think. Yeah. When the author of the book was pressed on this point by Snopes for an article

debunking the theory, uh, she had to admit that she had quote no evidence that peanut oil had ever been used in childhood yo that is such an l to have to say that out loud then it's like oh then you're talking shit right so you're just completely full of shit god no well there's other there's other things too this is a thing with these but i mean like i remember like you know you think about the whole mmr vaccine that everyone was like that's the thing that's that's causing autism is the mmr vaccine or whatever and that got debunked so hard to the point that the author

himself was like yeah i was like i was working on my own vaccine that i was trying to compete with so i had to talk some shit on the existing one to get my name out there and when you point that out to anti-vaxxers they still like yeah but you see it's like it's such a moving target that i'm sure that even these people when the person who wrote the book out loud would be like there's actually no evidence to say that peanut oil was ever used in human vaccines it's gonna be like yeah but you can but you can imagine right this book is a novel okay it's a fantasy novel yeah but um so the more compelling theories nobody knows exactly why peanut allergies are going up but a more compelling theory that is widely accepted is that the world's improved sanitation basically leaves our kind of like

the orca theory that we talked about yesterday why orcas are attacking yachts is because, uh, there's like so much tuna in the sea that they're like, they don't need to spend as much time hunting tuna. So they're bored and just start attacking yachts for fun. In this case, our immune system, like there are fewer germs because of increased cleanliness, uh,

for your immune system to fight off. And so it just is like, fuck it's bored. Yeah. because of increased cleanliness for your immune system to fight off. And so it just is like, fuck it, peanuts. Yeah, basically gets bored and starts attacking peanuts. Right. I have a loose theory that ties in with one of my recent overrateds.

Oh? Because the thing that has changed over the past 20 years is peanut butter has gotten way shittier. It's gone from being the easy to spread kind to the stir kind yeah sure i'm just saying i ate way more peanut peanut butter when i was a kid than my kid when it was gloppy because uh yeah because this shit is gloppy as fuck um glopagos islands in there okay um so so you're saying it okay so the peanut it's less

appealing therefore less appealing peanut butter less peanut butter consumption i'm just saying that is my uh conspiracy theory as to what's going on here i blame big stir peanut butter yeah well the other theory people say is because pediatric experts were recommending giving kids less allergens or avoiding food allergens early in life which is different because as someone who just had a kid recently all i'm hearing from a pediatrician is like it's like no man yeah yeah introduce them to allergens like real quick like just as soon as you can like soy and all that other stuff obviously in case there isn't an allergy that that was the fucking wildest part i remember feeding the geist child

some of this like allergen filled stuff he's like hey make sure you observe him yeah because if there is an allergy i'm like what the fuck i don't want to have to be like on top of shit when i gave him a little spoonful of oatmeal or some shit yeah that shit is scary but he's okay so uh yeah i think that we need to just like start smoking around our kids again that seems to be the smoking not even watching them just letting them play in the street seems yeah we at our house we use cigarettes like incense we're not even smoking them we light them and just leave them around the house leave them loose yeah yeah what was that movie was it the island there's like no it's like a van dam movie where he had to like escape that like island and he used a cigarette as a timer to see how long he

could hold his breath there's like a scene there's a scene where i think it's a van dam movie where he's training to hold his breath because he has to like swim underwater for a really long distance so to train he lights a cigarette and leaves it and like his progress is sort of determined by how much the cigarette how much the cigarette burnt down yeah that's actually really fun and cinematic for a van damme movie i kind of like that a lot yeah yeah yeah very cool very cool van damme uh it's not gonna be the first time i said that and it's not gonna be the last all right those are some of the things that are trending in the Zeitgeist on this Wednesday, May 29th. It was Double Team with Dennis Rodman.

That was the movie. Yeah. So a cinematic classic. Cinematic classic with Dennis Rodman. Absolutely. Damn. I remember that shit. Back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get it. Don't listen to these motherfuckers. Get all your vaccines. Get all your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk

Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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