Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah. So, without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we are very fortunate to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by one of our favorite
Speaker 1: ketzy guests, very funny comedian from Good Mythical Morning and
Speaker 1: the Star Wars Show. He's the co creator of news
Speaker 1: Broke and the host of the podcast Broadcast and pod
Speaker 1: Yourself a Gun, which Miles and I've both been on.
Speaker 1: He is Mr matt Leave. Weep done dirt cheap? What's
Speaker 1: up guys? That cheap math? You leave? And I you know,
Speaker 1: I had to do my full name in order to
Speaker 1: get all the syllables right, but I think it worked out.
Speaker 1: And if you're if you're vaccinated and you're I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make a really tasteless come Joe, do it,
Speaker 1: Matthew Leave Ben his comes dirt cheap because believe that
Speaker 1: they're unseeming is the new gold. So yeah, yeah, matter
Speaker 1: you leave, and he licks both cheeks. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff you can do this, Matthew leave check out
Speaker 1: his wicky feet. My girlfriend, I mean my fiance, she's
Speaker 1: on wiki feet and there's a picture of her and
Speaker 1: I together in which she is on wiki feet. But
Speaker 1: I am not on wiki feed, even though my feet
Speaker 1: are next to her on wiki feed, and I feel,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I'm just not wicki feed famous
Speaker 1: yet and I hope to get there today after this podcast. Wait,
Speaker 1: the picture has you as with open toe, like your
Speaker 1: your feet are exposed. We're both wearing sandals, were like
Speaker 1: at the beach or something anywhere sandals in public. I
Speaker 1: mean that's feminine, bro, That's feminine, like sand told me
Speaker 1: from a young age, And that's feminine like sandals. I
Speaker 1: had a whole thing about not wearing sandals for a minute,
Speaker 1: and does that specifically, I just heard the Jesus. I
Speaker 1: mean it is a genius. And despite of despite his regressive,
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity, I was sure sandals are feminine, bro, I
Speaker 1: mean they are thong sandals. So I kind of see
Speaker 1: where he's coming from, you know what I mean? Or
Speaker 1: you do that, which is funny because at a certain age,
Speaker 1: like a lot of old black men, they rock the
Speaker 1: same kind of leather strapped covered close sandal, which is
Speaker 1: very ironic to me, Like it's like a certain age
Speaker 1: where like my grandfather start wearing him. Then I saw
Speaker 1: like my uncle start wearing him. My dad hasn't quite
Speaker 1: got there yet, but every people know if you know
Speaker 1: that that strappy leather sandal that the the older black
Speaker 1: men in the community rock, but it covers the toes,
Speaker 1: they stay modest with it. Yeah that what you're saying,
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a yeah has like even though
Speaker 1: there's some you know, the air can get through the
Speaker 1: toes recovered. Yeah yeah, yeah, good good, Yeah, keep that.
Speaker 1: You know, you need that space between you and God,
Speaker 1: like only God can know what you're disgusting toes look
Speaker 1: likes thing. I don't like people looking at my toes.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to look at my toes. But
Speaker 1: if I were famous enough and people happen to look
Speaker 1: at my toes on the internet, I'd be like, ah, shoot,
Speaker 1: that's too bad and then move on with That's me
Speaker 1: in a panic if I don't cut my toeails like
Speaker 1: I get that, Like I'm like, oh, I gotta cut
Speaker 1: my toe noes. And then you have to do a
Speaker 1: thing and you've got sandals on. You're like, fuck, I'm
Speaker 1: like trying to curl my toes underneath. I'm always doing
Speaker 1: that because my toes are so long. Like I know,
Speaker 1: my toes are too long, because like my both of
Speaker 1: my kids, when they have gotten to the age of
Speaker 1: being able to like talk and notice weird things, have
Speaker 1: commented all my feet, like without any prompting, you're talking, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got real long toes. Bo. We got like like
Speaker 1: a bear's claw, like you know, yeah, yeah, it's pretty long.
Speaker 1: We'll bring him out for the live show. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can make some good money bringing that out for
Speaker 1: the live show. Ye. Yeah, it's probably someone's fetish, right, Like,
Speaker 1: doesn't it all get started when you're like a kid anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: anyboding can make me horny. Somebody just watch just that
Speaker 1: is my promise to you on this show. Well, Zeke
Speaker 1: and get MAT's feet up on wiki feet so there's
Speaker 1: some balance to the relationship. Yeah. Yeah, First, Francesco, we
Speaker 1: like to ask our guest, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history? I was just looking because I just I
Speaker 1: use Duck Duck Go. They're not paying me, but they should.
Speaker 1: Ducaco is much better search engine than Google and you
Speaker 1: can rely on this like cute little cartoon duck to
Speaker 1: not you know, steal all of your information. Nice. So
Speaker 1: I just this morning. They have a great app and
Speaker 1: you can like erase your entire history and like flames
Speaker 1: go through your phone and it's like and it was amazing,
Speaker 1: like the spiderweb on fire. It's like, I've never done that,
Speaker 1: but now I want to. Immediately, I was an asshole
Speaker 1: with w D forty and fourteen at one point. Wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was the thing you spray a
Speaker 1: spiderweb with. I was flamethrown. I was flamethrowing with the
Speaker 1: w D four and then you accidentally caught a spider
Speaker 1: web and I hit the spiderweb and then look the
Speaker 1: way the spiderweb went up. I was like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then my mom was like, what the fund did
Speaker 1: I say about playing with fire? Like nothing? She's like, what, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm so scared of you? What? So ductor like just
Speaker 1: flame your phone up, just flame my phone up. So
Speaker 1: I don't really have anything there, but I was looking okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm engaged. I believe you're having I betrothed on
Speaker 1: very soon. And you know, Matt and I are I'm
Speaker 1: going to get real. We're very good friends. You know,
Speaker 1: we're like we're the leg You am not only someone
Speaker 1: my best friends, like we're best friends kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you threw a party and invited everyone he knew
Speaker 1: you would, he would see the biggest gift would be
Speaker 1: from you. I think, oh, yeah, probably did you read
Speaker 1: that in a fortune cookie? Read that on a throw
Speaker 1: pillow or something? That's from the Golden Girls theme song?
Speaker 1: How I take everything I just said back? So, y'all
Speaker 1: are best friends and you and you finish each other's sentences.
Speaker 1: You're so stuck with each other. But but I am, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always thought that. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you need more than just being your best friend,
Speaker 1: so obviously, you know, I'm like googling, like should you
Speaker 1: marry your best friend? Articles? You know, straight and you know, look,
Speaker 1: the answers are bad. All the articles I'm reading, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're good, but they're also bad. But but I remember
Speaker 1: years ago, because I've also been divorced, like I am divorced.
Speaker 1: Years ago, there was a great article from some dude
Speaker 1: who was clearly if I met him, I'd hate him,
Speaker 1: but he was like, um, I asked all of my
Speaker 1: wedding guests to tell me what the secret to their
Speaker 1: marriage was, you know, and he like pulled them and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and it was It was actually really interesting.
Speaker 1: It was like a lot about like mutual respect, Like
Speaker 1: mutual respect is that thing that you really need? And
Speaker 1: and then I think, like, you know, so that comes
Speaker 1: obviously from like being friends whatever. Anyway I'm fishing for
Speaker 1: I can't find the same article. So I'm fishing for
Speaker 1: like reinforcement that that, yes, you should marry your best
Speaker 1: friend type thing. But if enough brides are blubbering about
Speaker 1: it on their wedding day, then I feel like that's
Speaker 1: a good sign. Yeah, I feel yeah, I mean I think, look,
Speaker 1: I think the only one I don't even think it's
Speaker 1: a red flag, it's just a it's a gray flag,
Speaker 1: was obviously the faux pa, the flub with the ring selection,
Speaker 1: you know, but even that feels like you're able to
Speaker 1: overcome that, so you know, you don't can do it
Speaker 1: behind the you know, the new ones on its way. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we did. We did remedy that it's being mined
Speaker 1: by white chicks who went to Sarah Lawrence. It had
Speaker 1: to make its trip all the way from that that
Speaker 1: mine over there, and it's a very particular. It's a
Speaker 1: sort of like reparations for rocks, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a white slavery line and anyway, they're they're working
Speaker 1: on it, and I'm excited for when it arrives. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to remedy that. But yeah, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: getting I'm doing the like the pre the like engage
Speaker 1: jitters of like what are the things, what are our
Speaker 1: what are our problem areas that we're going to just
Speaker 1: sort of highlight to like, you know, if this is
Speaker 1: for real zies, you know, yeah, but I feel like y'all,
Speaker 1: if if you're together that long and you already have
Speaker 1: that friendship, that's like the hardest ship. It's like people
Speaker 1: who would never think about it and then get married,
Speaker 1: the people who have problems. That's you and you both,
Speaker 1: I think, have you know, understand each other's careers and
Speaker 1: what you're doing, what you're passionate about, and you're willing
Speaker 1: to support each other. And that's really what it takes,
Speaker 1: you know, versus someone who's gonna be like I told you,
Speaker 1: doing all that ha ha. Ship wasn't gonna pay off
Speaker 1: like harbor that kind of ship the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not going to work, you know, and put that
Speaker 1: in your little stand up routine. Yeah, I've had excess
Speaker 1: say that to me, Like I thought, if you wanted
Speaker 1: to do comedy, like you probably would have done it
Speaker 1: by now, Like oh yeah, no, I know. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's tough being a creative person and being with someone
Speaker 1: who's like like an accountant, you know, who's like had
Speaker 1: their path like nailed on from college, versus other people
Speaker 1: who rolling that dice to express themselves a little bit,
Speaker 1: or just any field that might not be as like consistent,
Speaker 1: and being a relationship with something like that, it takes
Speaker 1: understanding and respect for them. Be like, that's what my
Speaker 1: partner needs to feel happy, and I want to support
Speaker 1: that because my goal is to have a happy partner.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna get into a story that is
Speaker 1: going to make me rethink whether or not I should
Speaker 1: have just married for money later in this episode though,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, yeah, it's like if neither of
Speaker 1: us makes it in five to seven years, yeah, we
Speaker 1: might just murder each other or do some like joint
Speaker 1: you know, murder some Yeah, yeah, same natural born killers.
Speaker 1: You guys go on a Roman killing spree? Yeah yeah, yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's t M I up to. Or just do some
Speaker 1: comedy sets on a COVID cruise ship or something. Let's
Speaker 1: just go out like this. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? I wanted to ask how many times have
Speaker 1: people said Marvel on this show in the overrated slot?
Speaker 1: Not often? People still into it because I don't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's just it's it's not like a constant thing.
Speaker 1: I think more than like overrated. Sometimes you were just like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know it. I don't there's another Oh,
Speaker 1: I say, having been steeped for work in pop culture
Speaker 1: like my entire life, I just want us to find
Speaker 1: a new toy. So I'm gonna give the slot to
Speaker 1: Marvel fatigue, because honestly, I feel such strong Marvel fatigue
Speaker 1: that I had assumed it had come up on the
Speaker 1: show many many times by now, But I guess people
Speaker 1: are just dombing around. Well, well, I think the difference
Speaker 1: is Jack and I are a unique blend of out
Speaker 1: of touch with the m c U. So we don't
Speaker 1: experience the fatigue because we already I already experienced fatigue
Speaker 1: when like a ninth thor film came out. I can't.
Speaker 1: And also like where I got good my pace at
Speaker 1: watching films, she was like super slow, Like I'm a
Speaker 1: turtle when it comes to watching new movies. So like
Speaker 1: I don't also have the same like media intake, you
Speaker 1: know pace that a lot of other people do. So
Speaker 1: that's my appetite for Marvel stops at movies. And even then,
Speaker 1: I am treating Avenger's End Game like it's a Russian novel.
Speaker 1: I'm halfway through it and have like, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: like stopped because I couldn't. It was just too dance
Speaker 1: for you to dance exactly. It just didn't didn't have
Speaker 1: the time. So my my like, uh, Disney Plus is
Speaker 1: halfway through on Marvel End Game. I think I have
Speaker 1: an idea of what happened training it, like Infinity Stones
Speaker 1: just essentially yes, exactly nice. Yeah, it's it's twofold because
Speaker 1: I'm not just sick of the formula, but I am
Speaker 1: sick of the formula. But it's also like working in
Speaker 1: the industry, it's a weird black hole that sucks up
Speaker 1: every like young independent director who has a very unique
Speaker 1: voice and just turns them into like, Hey, we'll give
Speaker 1: you a Marvel thing or we'll give you a Jurassic World,
Speaker 1: and I'm sick of it. It's overrated. Can you handle it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The School to Marvel pipeline needs to be dismantled, right,
Speaker 1: or the sunset or the sun Dance, the USC to
Speaker 1: Marvel pipeline, the chap Yeah, Marvel pipeline. But you so
Speaker 1: for you, it's more just like you've gotten your fill
Speaker 1: and now you're just like I would like something different
Speaker 1: now like you for you just feel like it's worn
Speaker 1: thin and now you but you do have the oppetite
Speaker 1: for something just something different. I have a limitless That's
Speaker 1: why the only reason I think it's okay for me
Speaker 1: to knock it is I'm their person, Like I have
Speaker 1: a limitless appetite for wacky, colorful, imaginative We're gonna go
Speaker 1: into space and punch this purple guy. Like, I'm on board.
Speaker 1: But every everyone just feels like it's made from the
Speaker 1: pieces of the previous one. In the way where I
Speaker 1: mean you can get into how these movies are made.
Speaker 1: They do previows on like the major effects shots years
Speaker 1: before they bring the writers on. So the writers are
Speaker 1: like stringing together. They're like, well, we know a giant
Speaker 1: thing has to fall out of the sky and we
Speaker 1: know she has to parachute and act three and then
Speaker 1: they'll write Black Widow around it, and I just it's
Speaker 1: not interesting. It's only a good system for getting one
Speaker 1: kind of movie. And I think we're seeing that. So
Speaker 1: you've watched them all because that has been I do
Speaker 1: watch them all for work? And what did watch a
Speaker 1: Suicide Squad? The Suica Side Squad, the new one? I
Speaker 1: don't mean pantic. Yeah, yeah, this is where I'm man.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get a lot of flak for if
Speaker 1: we're really going deep on overrated all the movies everyone
Speaker 1: likes right now, we're overrated. The Suicide Squad sucked. The
Speaker 1: Green Nights sucked. Like every movie, every movie everyone likes
Speaker 1: is is bad and you're all you all just have
Speaker 1: your taste is blunted from the pandemic, is my opinion.
Speaker 1: D Movies are underperforming. TV is overperforming right now. Just
Speaker 1: go watch a series because now, like, what is it?
Speaker 1: What was it when nine Total Strangers or nine the
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman Hulu? Things I don't even know it, but
Speaker 1: it's great every everyone. Every show I hear about there,
Speaker 1: like Mayor of East Town, like I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: It sounds phenomenal. It's like Nine Perfect Strangers is like
Speaker 1: they said it was doing better numbers than The Handmaid's
Speaker 1: Tale for Hulu. Oh boy wo people Like people were
Speaker 1: like this just terrible timing because White Lotus came out
Speaker 1: and it's like a similar ish vibe and that like
Speaker 1: people are in paradise and weird things are happening. But
Speaker 1: it could also just be one of those things where
Speaker 1: it's like White Lotus got people in the mood to
Speaker 1: just continue to binge on this ship. So you know,
Speaker 1: a list talent in a tropical environment being trippy? Do you?
Speaker 1: So you are into TV? What's the TV show? You're into? Patriots?
Speaker 1: The last TV show I love. But that's like twelve
Speaker 1: years old now, so I gotta stop saying that. Yeahond Sopranos, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the classics. I feel like I've officially left
Speaker 1: pop culture's key demographic and I went out with ship
Speaker 1: like Deadwood, the Wire. Patriot was on the tail end.
Speaker 1: Nothing's really wowed me as another one. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: his way overrated Queen's Gambits suck. I think all these
Speaker 1: things suck or it's me and I'm wrong, and I'm
Speaker 1: just becoming the guy who's like culture stopped for me
Speaker 1: and that's it. No good albums after that. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: still a ton of stuff I'm excited for, Like last
Speaker 1: night in Soho the new Edgar, Right, I mean, I
Speaker 1: expect to blow me away. And I'll say in the
Speaker 1: world of video games, I'm much more excited. There's a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff happening over on that sect. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Tiger King was definitely one of those things that when
Speaker 1: you look back on it didn't really make sense. Helps
Speaker 1: essed everyone was about it. And I think Queen's Gambit
Speaker 1: just anything that's King or Queen related entitled that that
Speaker 1: was like a hack they figured out somehow. We were
Speaker 1: all just super into it. Atlanta comes to mind as
Speaker 1: like an all time great show that's not too Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? Okay? So the
Speaker 1: great challenge has been making me think about the fact
Speaker 1: that that Black Americans as culture makers are incredibly underrated,
Speaker 1: because I started thinking about, you know, like like fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago, maybe even twenty years ago, there was this
Speaker 1: whole thing at the end of the year that people
Speaker 1: would make these blog posts and or like whatever, they
Speaker 1: post something up and they're like, these are all the
Speaker 1: words were canceling this year, And it was all like
Speaker 1: terms that Black Americans had come up with he used
Speaker 1: in like certain situations that white people then took and
Speaker 1: with like incorrectly applied, right. But it was like every
Speaker 1: single years like here's the things were canceling. And it
Speaker 1: was always because black people are always the ones making
Speaker 1: culture here, not exclusively but constantly, and so the uh yeah,
Speaker 1: well are a little great challenge business. It was like
Speaker 1: somebody was like, what is this, So I need to
Speaker 1: follow this, and I'm like, it's just black TikTok and
Speaker 1: Twitter making culture again and then turning into just punished fast.
Speaker 1: They're most brutal ones I hear when people fucking kicked
Speaker 1: the crates out from under people. And half of this
Speaker 1: is a challenge, and half of this seems like a
Speaker 1: set up to go fun with somebody you don't like,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but oh shout out to the listener that
Speaker 1: sent me the one uh the person completing the challenge
Speaker 1: in heels, very impressive. We love to see it. I like,
Speaker 1: I like, I like the one that was in the
Speaker 1: prison yard. Oh yeah, I saw that one too good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then you're like, damn, everybody got fucking in there
Speaker 1: because the person like, oh, they're doing in jail. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, wait, someone has a phone. No, wait,
Speaker 1: everybody else has a phone. Yeah, there's multiple angles of
Speaker 1: coverage in the yard. But you know everyone sur You
Speaker 1: know what okay with that is everybody surviving the milk
Speaker 1: crate challenge because it looks lookies looked like deadly. Oh
Speaker 1: there are some again that like I said, the you
Speaker 1: don't you don't want to cast your eyes upon it
Speaker 1: if you've ever even tweaked your back like showering, because
Speaker 1: I have watching Oh he's done that, bat No, not
Speaker 1: like that, or whenever I watched him, I imagine my
Speaker 1: rigid body falling from those high and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: w was shatter a new million pieces. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: have to look away. Yeah. It does seem like a
Speaker 1: way to thin out the uncoordinated and like people who
Speaker 1: are desperate for social approval, imagine that like a first date.
Speaker 1: We're like, look, before I consider you, I need to
Speaker 1: see you do the great challenge, right, just to know
Speaker 1: if you're fit. Can I show you a video of
Speaker 1: me doing it? So I have to do it right now,
Speaker 1: like in front of you, Like what is I mean? Look,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be in front of me, like
Speaker 1: it can be a video. I'm not asking performed for me,
Speaker 1: but at some point I do need to see some
Speaker 1: kind of video. Yes, well, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that the people who succeed at it make it look
Speaker 1: so easy. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like it's underrated.
Speaker 1: How much core strength, like strength you need to do
Speaker 1: that ship because again, you see people do it calmly,
Speaker 1: you don't realize how strong their legs and core are
Speaker 1: to not start striking, like how of them were like
Speaker 1: I will be fixed at a low angle and support
Speaker 1: my body weight as I ascend and descend. M Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like freestyle rapping. It looks easy, so you're trying. Yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. I'm gonna go try the
Speaker 1: milk Greate challenge and we'll be right back. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and yeah, let's talk Mike Richard's real quick We talked
Speaker 1: on Friday's episode about all the reasons that his being
Speaker 1: appointed the host of Jeopardy to replace Alex Trebek just
Speaker 1: didn't make any sense or made a lot of sense
Speaker 1: when he realized he was in control of every everything
Speaker 1: and was just forcing his way onto being the host
Speaker 1: in a way that was like embarrassing for like should
Speaker 1: have been embarrassing when he first raised it, but was
Speaker 1: just a great testament too, the way bad decisions get
Speaker 1: made in corporate America, where like the powerful guy who
Speaker 1: runs the thing, people are just like, yeah, boss, great idea,
Speaker 1: and uh, it goes all the way until he announces, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: guess what this great idea everybody's on board with I'm
Speaker 1: going to be the host? Oh cool? Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it seemed like everyone once every people found out, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the behind the scenes is how transparently just
Speaker 1: corrupt and like the rat fucking that it took to
Speaker 1: make him the host, plus all of the allegations from
Speaker 1: his past gigs, plus the comments he was making on
Speaker 1: his podcast finally got to a point where he was like,
Speaker 1: all right, yep, I guess this is bad. Now I
Speaker 1: resign with immediate effect, and I will no longer be
Speaker 1: the host of Jeopardy. I just want to read his
Speaker 1: fucking like part of his statement though, because it's so
Speaker 1: whatever quote. I was deeply honored to be asked the
Speaker 1: syndicated show my man right, thank you, and was thrilled
Speaker 1: by the opportunity to expand my role. However, over the
Speaker 1: last several days, it has become clear that moving forward
Speaker 1: as host would be too much of a distraction for
Speaker 1: our fans and not the right move for the show.
Speaker 1: How about it's clear now over the last several days,
Speaker 1: then I'm a total piece of ship who doesn't deserve
Speaker 1: to rat fuck my way on to Jeopardy as the host.
Speaker 1: That much has been clear. Thank you so much. I'm out.
Speaker 1: That's I feel a lot of ways about this, you know,
Speaker 1: because one of the hilarious things, which is, let's just
Speaker 1: talk about exactly what he did he like in terms
Speaker 1: of the test audience that was supposed to judge which
Speaker 1: guest host they liked best for Jeopardy, He like put
Speaker 1: himself on all of those yeah, like did you like
Speaker 1: me in the blue shirt? Or do you like me
Speaker 1: in the gray? And then withheld LaVar Burton, the one
Speaker 1: who like everybody wanted for the very end and only
Speaker 1: gave him a single week, and yeah, yeah, did not
Speaker 1: give anybody else a good ship, but it's a little
Speaker 1: bit revealing as to like how and why people lose
Speaker 1: these kinds of jobs. Because of course there's the like
Speaker 1: he's been canceled for his comments, and I gotta say,
Speaker 1: some of his comments are like exactly what I would
Speaker 1: expect from a game show host executive, Like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: misogynists towards women. You want the models to wear bikinis,
Speaker 1: game show host executive, right or wrong? That's what I expect.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm not saying we shouldn't change that culture.
Speaker 1: We should, It's just you know, we're talking about one
Speaker 1: of these, yeah, the last vestige of like the most mainstream,
Speaker 1: the most you know, just like Benny Hill programming that
Speaker 1: we've got, which your game shows Jeopardy excluded, very very different.
Speaker 1: But then you realize that and I think it just
Speaker 1: grows the way that yeah, he did rad fuck his
Speaker 1: way into power, and that seems more egregious to me
Speaker 1: than the misogyny, although of course in terms of the
Speaker 1: word place like treating a pregnant woman, you know, being
Speaker 1: like I should have fired you obviously, that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: and I believe there is a lawsuit for that that's
Speaker 1: just straight up illegal whatever discrimination exactly, exactly workplace discrimination.
Speaker 1: But there's something so obnoxious also because I I've done
Speaker 1: I've worked in this area, but on like such a minor,
Speaker 1: like you know, Internet level of like as a host,
Speaker 1: I've been hired as host pretty much all the time
Speaker 1: hosting producer, and then you work with a producer who's
Speaker 1: like secretly really gunning for your job, you know, who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: but I think I should host this because you know,
Speaker 1: and you're just like, no, because that's give it those
Speaker 1: aggressive notes on your delivery, it's like excuse you can
Speaker 1: give you real quick? Yeah, yeah, oh my god, don't
Speaker 1: get me read. I'll bite your head off personally. But
Speaker 1: but it's so common, you know, And I'm always like,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a host, that's totally all good,
Speaker 1: then you probably shouldn't be the executive producer on this,
Speaker 1: just like take a year whatever, be honest about it.
Speaker 1: Say you know what, I really want to be a host.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this, you know, And that'd be a
Speaker 1: more fair with no one saying a producer can't then
Speaker 1: be a host. I think that's good, But it's like
Speaker 1: there's a more fair way to do that than just
Speaker 1: like in span so they say they were just like
Speaker 1: you're like in a movie, like cutting the floorboard out
Speaker 1: from underneath somebody like right right, right, and they'd be like, whoa,
Speaker 1: that's weird. Disappeared anyway, I'm here now to feel that.
Speaker 1: Let's move forward, like did he give Trebek cancer? Can't
Speaker 1: we not reave that? Move wait for that report. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is frustrating to me that this is being pitched
Speaker 1: in the mainstream as like in the mainstream account of
Speaker 1: this as like getting canceled for a thing he said
Speaker 1: on podcasts, and it's like, that's the least degregious thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you could possibly take away from that, but you know,
Speaker 1: people people want to believe that we're in a runaway
Speaker 1: canceled culture. So yeah, it helps with that story. Thank
Speaker 1: god he's gone. Yeah, but he's still the executive producer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still the EP though, still getting that show runner money
Speaker 1: though he's also he's like, fine, I guess we can
Speaker 1: get Lavarnack, although I wish they did that, and then
Speaker 1: LaVar can be like, look at you, look at you, huh,
Speaker 1: look at yours. Anyway, I'm the new host of Jeopardy Lavaran. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some reports that that are coming in
Speaker 1: about how the federal government and just law enforcement responded
Speaker 1: to the Black Lives Matter protests last year and protests
Speaker 1: about over policing. It seems like they weren't overly permissive,
Speaker 1: I guess would be one. I mean, yeah, this report
Speaker 1: really it's it's not shocking when you just know, again
Speaker 1: when the people the reason people were in the streets
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, we have a system of law enforcement
Speaker 1: that's just built on to you know, just racism and
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and so because of that, it has no
Speaker 1: other option but to operate in service of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: So this report is sort of like shockingly, during the
Speaker 1: uprisings over the white supremacist slant and focus of law enforcement,
Speaker 1: we saw that come to light essentially. And this is
Speaker 1: a report that was shared with First Associated Press with
Speaker 1: the Movement for Black Lives and it's just interest saying like, hey, look,
Speaker 1: as the as the uprisings grew larger and public participation
Speaker 1: grew larger, so did the policing, and the FEDS showed
Speaker 1: up in increased numbers and began handing out heavy handed
Speaker 1: prosecutions to disrupt and you know, and also they were
Speaker 1: surveilling certain members of of of like certain activists and
Speaker 1: things like that, and they're like, yeah, it's very co
Speaker 1: intel proe if you know what I mean. And in
Speaker 1: this like as this group shows, what they're saying is like, look,
Speaker 1: we also found that in about of the cases that
Speaker 1: were brought by federal pro secutors against protesters, there were
Speaker 1: state level charges that would have been completely appropriate and
Speaker 1: less severe. But they're juxtaposing that also with knowing that
Speaker 1: there were just top down orders from Trump and Bill
Speaker 1: Barr to go fucking after people in a much different
Speaker 1: way as opposed to, let you know, juxtapose that with
Speaker 1: the COVID shutdown protests, where you know, you saw some
Speaker 1: white people bringing fucking guns to state houses and ship
Speaker 1: was all good. And so in this sort of body
Speaker 1: of the report, they said, well, we want to really
Speaker 1: show how the U. S. Government has continued to persecute
Speaker 1: the black movement by surveillance, by criminalizing protests, and by
Speaker 1: using the criminal legal system to prevent people from protesting
Speaker 1: and punishing them for being engaged in protests, by attempting
Speaker 1: to curtail their First Amendment rights. It is undeniable that
Speaker 1: racism plays a role. It is structurally built into the
Speaker 1: fabric of this country and its institutions, which is why
Speaker 1: it's been so difficult to eradicate. It's based on institutions
Speaker 1: that were designed around racism and around the devaluing of
Speaker 1: black people and the devaluing of black lives. So now
Speaker 1: they're calling for amnesty for these protesters as well as like,
Speaker 1: you know, to get behind policing bills that are actually
Speaker 1: going to take funding from police and actually put them
Speaker 1: into communities, especially black communities, to make them safer. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like not surprising, but when you again you look
Speaker 1: through and you're like, oh right, yeah, they had orders
Speaker 1: to go harder on these protesters, and that completely makes sense. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: of course. And I'm just happy that the Movement for
Speaker 1: Black Lives did this research and also that it got
Speaker 1: picked up by news outlets, because that can often fly
Speaker 1: under the radar or they're like no, no, that's not
Speaker 1: real stats. It's like no, no, these are grassis organizations
Speaker 1: that actually have more connections with people facing these charges.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's why January six, you know, hit different.
Speaker 1: You know, in the in the wake of all this
Speaker 1: not just that we were seeing, Like you're mentioning the
Speaker 1: anti lockdown protests juxtaposed with BLM protests and the vastly
Speaker 1: different police turn out. Then you had January six, and
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, anyone who ever talks about BLM ever again,
Speaker 1: I mean that was BLM though on January six, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Those are black people in white face, looking
Speaker 1: like old boomers beating the ship out of people with crutches.
Speaker 1: It's like, and again the amount of brain twisting that
Speaker 1: goes on even when you can you just look compare
Speaker 1: the two. You know, it's like, let's pepperball people who
Speaker 1: are like on the side of a road protesting versus
Speaker 1: like taking selfies with people that broke into the fucking capital,
Speaker 1: Like come on, now, come on, Not to mention all
Speaker 1: the ways that BLM demonstrators have also been victimized by
Speaker 1: white nationalist organizations and white nationalists themselves, from you know,
Speaker 1: Heathery Higher being killed, but multiple people have been run
Speaker 1: into and over by by cars. So you know who
Speaker 1: the police is protecting. What kind of speech are protecting
Speaker 1: in moments like that is really significant. Whether they're protecting
Speaker 1: people's right to exercise their first amendments or are they
Speaker 1: allowing cars to plow into peaceful demonstrators the other thing
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, and we sort of forget this,
Speaker 1: but we're coming up on ten years since the Occupy
Speaker 1: Wall Street movement, and it's hard to remember how that
Speaker 1: movement like stopped, and it did stop because of a
Speaker 1: whole lot of cointel, prow and police violence. It was
Speaker 1: because it was very much an occupy we're gonna sit down,
Speaker 1: like not as much of a march movement, like obviously
Speaker 1: not tirely as many you know, black activists involved. The
Speaker 1: tactics were different, but there was massive amounts of undercovers
Speaker 1: who were filtering, infiltrating the Occupy Wall Street movement to
Speaker 1: take it down from the inside. Also then like just
Speaker 1: coordinating off plazas, city halls, anywhere were Occupy Wall Street
Speaker 1: was occupying was fence put up. It was like, you know,
Speaker 1: they were trying to evict a homeless encampment or something
Speaker 1: like this. So kind of remembering all the ways that
Speaker 1: no matter when social womens really pop off, left right, Democrat, Republican,
Speaker 1: the first order of business is stopped them. Just stop them.
Speaker 1: And obviously, sadly we don't take that, you know, white
Speaker 1: nationalists or anyone who's fully armed with an a R
Speaker 1: fifteen who's got a plot to like, you know, kidnap
Speaker 1: the a governor, we don't take them nearly as seriously. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: the white nationalists blew up a state building in Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: and we didn't go to war on white nationalism for
Speaker 1: twenty years the way we did after September eleven. It
Speaker 1: was just a thing that people kind of we got,
Speaker 1: we got the guy, and we moved forward. And it
Speaker 1: was just a lone, lone wolf where you sell more,
Speaker 1: you sell more bombs if the field of battle is
Speaker 1: in another place, in a far off country, so there's
Speaker 1: more money to be made. I mean, they could drop
Speaker 1: bombs in the US, but that only happened in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: that when they dropped it on black activists because of
Speaker 1: the move anyway, But again, history is something something, and
Speaker 1: there's no there's you know, we keep repeating the same
Speaker 1: ship over and over and over. And that's what's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why a lot of marginalized people,
Speaker 1: people who are allies and should just feel so disheartened. Constantly.
Speaker 1: You see all the ship that happens. You's like, fucking nothings.
Speaker 1: We can't even we can barely have a reckoning with
Speaker 1: American imperialism and looking at the after effects in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: and people are like, you know, it could have been
Speaker 1: done better. I guess it's like, no, you go all
Speaker 1: the way back saying we have to stop this pattern
Speaker 1: of sending the military abroad to occupy places and in
Speaker 1: the name of you know, liberal democracy or whatever the
Speaker 1: cover is, but yeah, we still can't. It's just very
Speaker 1: difficult to have these reckonings here. I feel like there
Speaker 1: are multiple cases of people driving into Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: protests that and it just kind of went away. Like
Speaker 1: I remember watching one that was like broad daylight down
Speaker 1: and it was like somewhere in Orange New Poort Beach
Speaker 1: and somebody drove through like within inches of hitting like
Speaker 1: a three year old child who was there, and it
Speaker 1: just kind of went away. It was like a local
Speaker 1: news story that they then were like, yeah, well, we
Speaker 1: got to give the person the benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like a big that didn't become a thing.
Speaker 1: And the other thing Tuesday, and you talk about places
Speaker 1: like Texas or Florida, where they're like, yeah, it's legal
Speaker 1: to run over someone if they're on the road protesting,
Speaker 1: or it's illegal to be in the road protesting. So
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then you can defend yourself with
Speaker 1: your car. But a lot of people noticed when a
Speaker 1: lot of the protests were happening with Cubans in Florida,
Speaker 1: over was happening down in King Cuba. They completely stopped
Speaker 1: a roadway and the police were like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: mostly we're mostly worried about black people. Yeah, yeah, black
Speaker 1: protests or left leaning protests. Really that that's when the
Speaker 1: big guns come out. Like said, there was that pipeline
Speaker 1: protests that I know some people who are at in
Speaker 1: I forget what year it was, it was like maybe
Speaker 1: five six years ago, and as you have the code
Speaker 1: to access pipeline and like the like they were, they
Speaker 1: were like just debting all cell phones, like hacking into
Speaker 1: people's cell phones. They're like on the ground, it was
Speaker 1: just like next level like data and you know, technological
Speaker 1: warfare for people protesting against a like gas pipeline, gas pipeline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really it's really sad because you realize, you don't
Speaker 1: realize how few freedoms we have actually in the United
Speaker 1: States until you try and exercise them. So I've protested
Speaker 1: in other countries and felt far freer than I have
Speaker 1: in the United States. I've been arrested on a sidewalk
Speaker 1: protesting in the United States, you know, just like pending done.
Speaker 1: The order is you off the streets, you know, and
Speaker 1: like feeling that in that moment, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, I've been arrested before. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be arrested. First time for this was against
Speaker 1: the Iraq war. But the second time I wasn't meaning to.
Speaker 1: And it like kind of like stung a little more
Speaker 1: because I was like, man, this country, and you just
Speaker 1: realized that actually, when you do stick your neck out,
Speaker 1: when you do actually do some some real organizing and
Speaker 1: work there is it will be swift, uh, the amount
Speaker 1: that you know that, yeah, your First Amendment Amendment rights
Speaker 1: do not matter at all. You're gonna be arrested and
Speaker 1: purely on ideological ground, purely and yeah, anyway, It's what's
Speaker 1: sad is that that happened a year I mean BLM
Speaker 1: popped off a year ago, I mean many years ago.
Speaker 1: But for for in a in a mass movement way
Speaker 1: last year and this year we've got all these politicians
Speaker 1: now going like nobody wants to defund the police, Corey
Speaker 1: Booker making his sort of epic like ironic stand and
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, but maybe we should. Yeah, but maybe
Speaker 1: the lesson from not just what the protests were about,
Speaker 1: what the response to the protests themselves is all the
Speaker 1: example you need, is all the evidence you need that
Speaker 1: we really do need to redirect funds away from COPAH.
Speaker 1: And then because it's all built on this framework of
Speaker 1: white supremacists, like you know, capitalism, it's the only people
Speaker 1: who have freedoms are those that are going to extra
Speaker 1: like exercise their rights in service of that. So if
Speaker 1: you run over a protester because you are there to
Speaker 1: actually cape for white supremacist capitalism, then you're all good.
Speaker 1: Then it's like, well, you know, how a rough day,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, just you stormed the capital. Here's
Speaker 1: a slate, there's a slap on the wrist. And only
Speaker 1: and again I brought up how there's you know, the
Speaker 1: judges were like, why are you all doing so soft
Speaker 1: on these people? Like they fucking straight up pulled up
Speaker 1: to the Okay, I don't know what is going on
Speaker 1: with you all? But as a judge, I think this
Speaker 1: is fucking weak. Yeah, I mean the selfie, Like I
Speaker 1: was just thinking about the the guy taking the picture
Speaker 1: with the guy in the in the capital on January six,
Speaker 1: versus a person taking a video from their porch and
Speaker 1: during the they said go inside and then shot at
Speaker 1: them with rubber bulls. So yeah, which reminded me. That
Speaker 1: was like, it's funny because the last time I saw
Speaker 1: that was in East Jerusalem, Like reminded me of Palestinians too,
Speaker 1: you know, like in their own homes being shot at,
Speaker 1: go back inside, being being shot at, and rubber bullets
Speaker 1: like from from the police. I don't know. We struggles
Speaker 1: are linked, No, absolutely. We even talked about how that
Speaker 1: in the same way, the same tools are being deployed
Speaker 1: against the protesters that they refined in Palestine and then
Speaker 1: bring to the US because they're like, oh, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been field tested on Palestinians, so go ahead with police departments,
Speaker 1: check these toys that we we know we've cooked up
Speaker 1: for you. Good news, the FDA proved the Fiser vaccine,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know we were waiting for, but apparently
Speaker 1: that makes it possible for companies and institutions to start
Speaker 1: mandating the vaccine. The Pentagon has moved to immediately make
Speaker 1: the vaccine or requirement for all one point four million
Speaker 1: active duty service members, which I have to I have
Speaker 1: to imagine that's going to be a big, you know,
Speaker 1: a big shift. United Airlines will make it a requirement
Speaker 1: for employees show proof of vaccination with him five weeks.
Speaker 1: I can't. I think this is the only way that
Speaker 1: we start making progress, right because I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's something. It just feels like, it just
Speaker 1: feels everything feels like a drop in the bucket because
Speaker 1: like my first thought would have been, like, wait, we
Speaker 1: don't have our servicemen and our airline people vaccinated already
Speaker 1: like that. I thought we did that, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought that was step one. It was just like, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you realize, like, I mean, we've got so
Speaker 1: many people to go. But that just feels like a
Speaker 1: drop in the bucket. What about all the millions of
Speaker 1: people who are either you know, not able to get
Speaker 1: like easy access to the vaccine or the people who
Speaker 1: were just like you know, they've been red billed by
Speaker 1: you know, idiots online and just refused to get it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, I think it's a
Speaker 1: good first step. Yeah, Like it makes it harder to
Speaker 1: like for someone to then be able to like you know,
Speaker 1: reject it and keep their job because we saw you know,
Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett like ruled with on the side of
Speaker 1: Indiana University to be like, no, they com mandate the
Speaker 1: vaccine for like students, like that's and we've been doing
Speaker 1: that for a long time. I'm not I'm not getting
Speaker 1: involved with that. And yeah, and this, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: just gives people, especially you know, employers, more cover and
Speaker 1: I think on some level, hopefully right there's like a
Speaker 1: psychological effect where people will begin to embrace it because
Speaker 1: like we're saying earlier, the whole like well, good luck
Speaker 1: taking an experimental vaccine and approved, those are now those
Speaker 1: talking points are now moot because when you look at it,
Speaker 1: like the vaccine has been approved, they did change anything there,
Speaker 1: like in the state that they've been giving it to people,
Speaker 1: We approve it, so it's not like they're hitting us
Speaker 1: with fives or two point oh the fucking remix that's
Speaker 1: been FDA approved. But yeah, it is a curious thing
Speaker 1: because you'd hope that for people that we're saying or
Speaker 1: so adamant about, like well, I'm just worried that it's
Speaker 1: not FDA approved. Like, I can understand if you have
Speaker 1: fear around it, I can respect that. But if you
Speaker 1: then pivot to some other ship and you start bringing
Speaker 1: up George Soros, and I knew that was just cover
Speaker 1: this whole time, because really this is a philosophical thing
Speaker 1: that you're engaged in, not anything to do with like
Speaker 1: what the actual scientific knowledge is. Yeah, there's this thread
Speaker 1: from a doctor who just like kind of described how
Speaker 1: he deals with people who are vaccine hesitant, and it
Speaker 1: was just it's kind of will link off to it
Speaker 1: in the footnotes, but it's it just what it felt
Speaker 1: like something to aspire to because my experience with people
Speaker 1: who are vaccine hesitant, I have not been patient. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's been very counterproductive though, and like, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: little I do use a dumb guy voice just yell
Speaker 1: ignorant at them. No. But he so this doctor is like, okay,
Speaker 1: so first I said, talked to me. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: spend as much time with you as you need to
Speaker 1: discuss COVID in the vaccine, which like right there, step
Speaker 1: one that is the opposite of what I want to
Speaker 1: do is like spend a lot of time hearing somebody
Speaker 1: spit a bunch of like, you know, conspiracy theories that
Speaker 1: they read on Facebook back me. But then he has
Speaker 1: like good data. He's saying, overnighte percent of doctors got
Speaker 1: the vaccine as soon it was as it was available
Speaker 1: to them. If you focus on physicians who actually care
Speaker 1: for COVID patients, it's nearly. He's like, I'm vaccinated. My
Speaker 1: whole family is vaccinated. No, we've got my eleven year
Speaker 1: old fake ID. No corners were cut in the development
Speaker 1: of these vaccines. That's something you hear a lot that corner.
Speaker 1: They cut corners just like that the emergency authorization thing
Speaker 1: that they always but it was an emergency authorization and
Speaker 1: now hopefully won't know that's yeah. And he's also saying
Speaker 1: like only the only thing that was cut was red tape.
Speaker 1: They just like made it so that this was the
Speaker 1: top priority. Like don't you guys hate red tape? Isn't
Speaker 1: that part of your entire philosophy. These guys are just like, oh,
Speaker 1: these government miracrat red tape. America Freedom do the thing
Speaker 1: you want to do, and then it's like, okay, they've
Speaker 1: they've cut all the red tape for this vaccine, so
Speaker 1: well they had suspicious Yeah, what's really going on? What's
Speaker 1: really happening here? Yeah, he's just so patient and said
Speaker 1: your question skepticism or okay, and need to be addressed.
Speaker 1: He brings up this idea of that they're like one
Speaker 1: of the uh actually scientifically backed risks of the vaccine
Speaker 1: is myocarditis or heart muscle inflammation after the second dose,
Speaker 1: to the tune of about fifty cases per million. But
Speaker 1: he points out that with COVID, like if they catch COVID,
Speaker 1: it's actually five d to three thousand case of per million,
Speaker 1: So it's like not even close, which is the bigger risk.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know. He does a good job,
Speaker 1: but he like acknowledges the one thing that like I
Speaker 1: understand if this is the thing that's making you hesitant,
Speaker 1: like just take I understand, Like at first, blush, that
Speaker 1: makes sense to me that you would be like hesitant
Speaker 1: about that. However, like if you just look at the
Speaker 1: data a little bit further and like actually stick with it,
Speaker 1: you'll see that that's not accurate. I understand people, you know,
Speaker 1: like having a hesitancy for like putting some something in
Speaker 1: their body that they don't know what's in it and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, or like I I understand that people
Speaker 1: have that. So it's like there's some rational there's gotta
Speaker 1: be a way to talk to these people in a
Speaker 1: way that like doesn't put them down and doesn't like
Speaker 1: make them feel like dirt and doesn't make it because
Speaker 1: as soon as you put them down, they feel like
Speaker 1: it's you know, it becomes part of the culture war.
Speaker 1: It's like it becomes an issue of like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just you and you're you know, liberal clowns making
Speaker 1: fun of us regular folks. So it's like you do
Speaker 1: need to try to be kind with it if you're
Speaker 1: in a position where you have to be. As someone
Speaker 1: who's not in a position where I have to convince anyone,
Speaker 1: I just have no patience at all. Four Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: especially since like I don't understand, like I listen, I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm an ex heroin addict. I put so much stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I put in my blood,
Speaker 1: Like it was just like what whatever the guy gave me.
Speaker 1: I was like that's probably not gonna kill me immediately. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh is it brown? Oh good brown, good color? And
Speaker 1: then and then just directly into the bloodstream. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't fully understand the hesitancy, but you know, I
Speaker 1: understand that most normal people don't, and I think we
Speaker 1: can still be frustrated by it. But like, just like
Speaker 1: I I'm I recognize in my limited experience dealing with
Speaker 1: people who are vaccine hesitant, I've were like hearing about
Speaker 1: people who I know who are vaccine hesitant. I definitely
Speaker 1: feel like I could add a little bit more of
Speaker 1: this sort of just patience and like understanding. Yeah, I understand,
Speaker 1: because I mean, like just generally across the board, like
Speaker 1: we're now back to a thousand like COVID deaths a day.
Speaker 1: It's like what we're all going through here is fucking
Speaker 1: it's brutal. It's not psychologically healthy, but like it's there's
Speaker 1: we're going through a shared trauma, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: try to have like compassion for like recognize that as
Speaker 1: I'm like getting like clenching my fists and getting ready
Speaker 1: to like scream it. So that's why I feel like
Speaker 1: it's important to figure out if people are anti vack
Speaker 1: or vaccine hesitant, because I think some people will use
Speaker 1: the language of anti vactors and are actually just scared.
Speaker 1: And i'd soon I have more compassion to arrive at
Speaker 1: a conversation with someone where we just get to the
Speaker 1: point where it's like, we're not gonna don't wave facts
Speaker 1: and figures in front of my face if you're not
Speaker 1: willing to get this vaccine, because what you're talking about
Speaker 1: isn't the same thing as what I'm talking about. If
Speaker 1: you're scared and this this movement has just given you
Speaker 1: a way to articulate your fear around it. That's a
Speaker 1: completely separate issue. And I have a little bit more
Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, that's fine. I can work.
Speaker 1: I can work with scared. I can't work with angry
Speaker 1: and thinks they know more than fucking a hospital. That's
Speaker 1: those are just completely different sort of planets that were on.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just that I guess, I guess patients
Speaker 1: will work. But I mean when you have a third
Speaker 1: of Republicans who are just still like I'll never I
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck what it is, then you're still
Speaker 1: looking at some interesting outcomes. Yeah, have you guys been
Speaker 1: watching any of Russell Brand's content recently. No, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you like. Without even thinking about it,
Speaker 1: You're like, ah, ship, I know exactly where he falls
Speaker 1: on this, and uh someone posted a video of it
Speaker 1: and he was doing a lot of like kind of hedging.
Speaker 1: He's not saying he's anti vax or anything, but he's
Speaker 1: just start question. I can't do his voice, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you know, it's just oh, I say
Speaker 1: one thing and then it's another thing. And uh, I
Speaker 1: was like, ah ship, even if he's like just trying
Speaker 1: to be inquisitive, like, it worries me about media figures
Speaker 1: sometimes who kind of fall into like the wellness space,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I think it behooves you and behooves
Speaker 1: the rest of the world if you're in that wellness space,
Speaker 1: as like a media figure to try to de radicalize
Speaker 1: people rather than feed into their or you know, because
Speaker 1: it's true, there are there are things that the government
Speaker 1: you know, fucked up, and there are things that like
Speaker 1: you know, vaccine efficacy may not be as perfect against
Speaker 1: delta as everyone thought it was gonna be. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of breakthrough cases, but like your audience is ready
Speaker 1: for you to say some like you know, crazy Q
Speaker 1: and on ship about vaccines and sorrows. You need to
Speaker 1: lead them away from that ship. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: I think. So Russell, if you're listening, come on, man,
Speaker 1: do better. Yeah, yeah, he is. He is a gang.
Speaker 1: But he's trying to come on and or like not bro, Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk about kind of a a big breakthrough
Speaker 1: for the vaccine when it comes to thought leaders on
Speaker 1: the right, we got Trump and Moe Brooks talking talking
Speaker 1: that uh sense doesn't doesn't seem like it's going over
Speaker 1: to well and we're back. And so there's this tweet
Speaker 1: from one of our favorite primary news sources, lad Bible,
Speaker 1: because here on the Daily Z I guess uh and
Speaker 1: it it's kind of gone very viral, asking if you
Speaker 1: had to save three shows from being like you know,
Speaker 1: memory hold from history, just like taken wiped from the
Speaker 1: pages of history and like we they just never happened,
Speaker 1: which of these nine would it be? I'll just read
Speaker 1: through them. The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: The wire Boardwalk Empire, Ozark, Prison, Break. I did not
Speaker 1: see that one coming. Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad,
Speaker 1: so for me, like the Sopranos and The Wire. So
Speaker 1: this is basically a question of, like, okay, so with
Speaker 1: the remaining seven spots, what's the one show that gets it?
Speaker 1: Because of the Sopranos and The Wire are like the
Speaker 1: best soprano why I don't honestly like part of me.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm really angry at Game of Thrones and
Speaker 1: I don't care if nobody remembers that ship. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I would save I mean I would. God,
Speaker 1: I can't Deadwood be in here. I know Deadwood in there,
Speaker 1: and like, I mean, Ozarks fine, but like reallys of Anarchy,
Speaker 1: I get Breaking Bad. Ozark seems like too much of
Speaker 1: a newcomer and also too similar to Breaking Bad. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Yeah, I mean I prefer
Speaker 1: Deadwood Overboardwalk. So yeah. Also, these shows are all like
Speaker 1: kind of in the same genre. Yeah, I'm like, these
Speaker 1: are sort of the same show. Like if you take, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think you save Sopranos and you're going to have
Speaker 1: a list just as long of killer shows that um,
Speaker 1: because the Sopranos existed, Like without the Sopranos, you would
Speaker 1: have none of these other shows, in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: the Sopranos like changed TV forever. Like the Sopranos is
Speaker 1: the reason TV has like a cinematic kind of feel
Speaker 1: to it now where you can sit down and you
Speaker 1: can watch hours and hours and hours. Yeah of the show.
Speaker 1: I think the Sopranos in The Wire, the first four
Speaker 1: seasons of The Wire are like could stand with any
Speaker 1: like American made movie, any American novel, Like I think
Speaker 1: they are as good as any of Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just don't feel sentimental for any I do. I tried.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't get past the first season of
Speaker 1: Walking Dead, and only did I only watched because Frank
Speaker 1: Derabon because in the first in the first season, I
Speaker 1: was like, I just and I I used to be
Speaker 1: really into this aombie apocalypse, like yeah, college and stuff
Speaker 1: that was you know when that was like this ship
Speaker 1: and people like yo, man like zombie apocalypse stuff. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I got the Survival guy Dead,
Speaker 1: let's check it out. And then I say, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't for me, because here's the thing. Walking
Speaker 1: Dead is just the same day over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Like I'm like, I'm like, it's not unlike
Speaker 1: living in a pandemic. You're just doing the same thing
Speaker 1: every day and it's exhausting. But oh, man, Sopranos, I've
Speaker 1: watched I probably watched that show five or six times,
Speaker 1: re watched the entire thing. I'm like, it's just so good,
Speaker 1: and I see something different about that show every time
Speaker 1: I watch it. I used to have sex streams about
Speaker 1: Tony Soprano. Okay, it changed the game for me. I
Speaker 1: was like I did not know that. I was like
Speaker 1: this or were you Dr Melfie, Like what was the contest?
Speaker 1: Are just pulled up in that Cadillac and you're like
Speaker 1: the weirdest sex dreams I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: I literally, and it's it happens to every woman that
Speaker 1: watches that. Every stray woman that watches The Sopranos has
Speaker 1: a sex stream about Tony Soprano, whether they want to
Speaker 1: or not. He was he was on the subway in
Speaker 1: his disgusting bathrobe, just waiting at the Union Square subway station,
Speaker 1: and I was just into it. I was like, he's
Speaker 1: just had his bathrobe open, and I was like you're
Speaker 1: just like he's like a pig, and you're like, I
Speaker 1: fucking hate you, and then you're just like, I also
Speaker 1: would give it to you can get it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: really Upsettings. It doesn't feel feminist, it doesn't feel progressive,
Speaker 1: but god damn it if it's not the truth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a Polly Walnuts sex stream guy myself,
Speaker 1: where he's just repeating jokes to you over and over
Speaker 1: again and he's clean, you know, like I'm like pretty tiny. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: except for the Pine Barons episode. So I for me,
Speaker 1: it comes down to Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad,
Speaker 1: and I think the ending of Breaking Bad I'm definitely
Speaker 1: in the minority and that I think the ending of
Speaker 1: Breaking Bad was like as bad as the ending of
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. And if we still get better call
Speaker 1: Saul like because that's not on the list of shows
Speaker 1: that gets wiped out of history, then I think you
Speaker 1: you save Game of Thrones because it's like different, it's
Speaker 1: not similar to these other shows, like it's a whole.
Speaker 1: There's to this question that the options are just not
Speaker 1: acknowledging feel like, you know, they're basically like if you
Speaker 1: could pick three of these nine very similar shows. It's
Speaker 1: not a hard decision, is what I'm saying. Or but
Speaker 1: in my mind, like to your point, Rosebud, like where
Speaker 1: what the Sopranos did to transform sort of prestige TV.
Speaker 1: It's almost what do you like? Oxygen molecules, water, a
Speaker 1: pepsi can, a carbon molecule, a blanket or orange, and
Speaker 1: you're like, honestly, without the oxygen or the carbon, none
Speaker 1: of this is possible. Anyway, this conversation is moved, yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I will say Breaking Bad is a great show.
Speaker 1: But I got to that episode about the Fly and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm done with this shows so mad
Speaker 1: at that episode. It was like, I've never been so
Speaker 1: infuriated by one episode of a show where I just went,
Speaker 1: I don't care, I don't know who was on vacation,
Speaker 1: but this episode is trash. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just when a show can do that to you, though,
Speaker 1: there's something magic about that, because it's not often I
Speaker 1: feel like I will rage quit a show and I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you fucking dumb, you fucking writer asspholes? Like that
Speaker 1: one season a Dexter where who was it was? It
Speaker 1: like Edward James almost was like a look spoiler alert
Speaker 1: for I don't Season five of Dexter Or four when
Speaker 1: Edward James almost was a figment of Homeboys imagination the
Speaker 1: whole time. I know, I was, I don't think that
Speaker 1: counts as a spoiler. I think that counts as the
Speaker 1: favor you're doing somebody. Yeah. Absolutely, But like that was
Speaker 1: just one of I had the same thing where I like,
Speaker 1: I fucking turned the TV off, like you guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so mad reminds me of like there's a
Speaker 1: therapist that I follow on Instagram that I've been taking
Speaker 1: advice from, like just for like two years now. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, God, everything she says it is so genius.
Speaker 1: And then she like came out as like she's in
Speaker 1: a three person monogamous relationship the other day, and I
Speaker 1: was like, fuck this lady. Like I was like I
Speaker 1: can't God damn it. My friend and I were like
Speaker 1: texting about it, and it felt I was like it
Speaker 1: feels like a knife to my heart. I've just been
Speaker 1: I've just been taking every word she says is like
Speaker 1: pure wisdom and truth. And now I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: everything's alive. Yeah, all right, And finally, let's just tell
Speaker 1: them NASA has weighed in on the length of the
Speaker 1: perfect power nap, which is, I don't know. This seemed
Speaker 1: very short to me, but then again, I am constantly tired.
Speaker 1: It's NASA, Okay, So if they know anything, I like,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, they know about the things that happens
Speaker 1: to the human body and how to kind of work
Speaker 1: around that because space, because yeah, you know, getting tired
Speaker 1: in the like our circadian rhythms, like there are points
Speaker 1: where we're gonna get tired, like twice per day, like
Speaker 1: it just happened. Some people can push through it. Other people,
Speaker 1: like you know, that's why five hour energy exists. But
Speaker 1: so like you know, everyone's like, what do you what's
Speaker 1: the twenty minutes an hour? How do you get that
Speaker 1: little bit of sleep that can actually help you? And
Speaker 1: according to NASA, they said, we found that pilots who
Speaker 1: slept in the cockpit for twenty six minutes showed alertness
Speaker 1: improvements of up to fifty percent in job performance improvements
Speaker 1: by thirty percent compared to those that didn't nap. But
Speaker 1: they say twenty six minutes actually could be long. They
Speaker 1: are thinking that between ten and twenty minutes is enough
Speaker 1: to get you into like these first two stages of
Speaker 1: your sleep cycle that give you like this sort of
Speaker 1: restorative rest. But in my mind, I do I could never.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to take a fucking ten minute nap.
Speaker 1: I just don't, like I don't have the skills to
Speaker 1: like set a timer, you know, like you know, because
Speaker 1: have you ever tried to take like a power nap,
Speaker 1: but like and you know, you're like, funk, I think
Speaker 1: like thirty minutes, but then half the time I'm like
Speaker 1: thinking of how I have to wake up in thirty
Speaker 1: minutes that I'm not actually able to take that nap.
Speaker 1: So more than anything, I'm asking, how do y'all even
Speaker 1: take a fucking power nap twenty minutes? Like what, I've
Speaker 1: never taken a nap that wasn't an accident. I have
Speaker 1: never in my life taken a nap on purpose, Like
Speaker 1: I have fallen asleep in places, but not on purpose.
Speaker 1: When I was like when I was in high school,
Speaker 1: you know, like puberty, and like you're just have to
Speaker 1: sleep so much because your body is just like a
Speaker 1: fucking wreck. I would come home from school and I
Speaker 1: would sleep for like an hour and a half minimum,
Speaker 1: but like that was in my mind. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm like I gotta sleep, like and I
Speaker 1: would have to do like, you know, other extra care
Speaker 1: like that was in jazz band on the orchestras and
Speaker 1: ships like funk, I gotta go get some fucking sleep
Speaker 1: before this other thing. But it would have to be
Speaker 1: at least an hour for me to like be able
Speaker 1: to kind of get into it. But you know, listeners,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you prepare for a ten minute?
Speaker 1: And that Jack? I know you because like when we
Speaker 1: when we're on the road and there's times like when
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a gap between, like when
Speaker 1: we check into a place and they're like then we
Speaker 1: gotta go sound check or something, You're like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta take a quick nap. I'm like in
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes. Yeah, I was. I was hoping that
Speaker 1: the answer was gonna be four to five hours is
Speaker 1: the ideal time for No, Yeah, sometimes just like closing
Speaker 1: your eyes. But you're right, like trying to do it
Speaker 1: less than twenty six minutes is just too much on
Speaker 1: a knife's edge. Like I feel like that's for people
Speaker 1: who like have a power down button on their body
Speaker 1: that they can just hit and like immediately go to sleep,
Speaker 1: or like for the people from Inception, like that, you
Speaker 1: just like immediately where I guess drug users. That's what
Speaker 1: the people an Inception essentially were the Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: I that seems to like I do. I know there
Speaker 1: are people like that who are just like nap and
Speaker 1: naptime go yeah, and can fall asleep. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but my husband does that every day. He comes home
Speaker 1: from work, takes a nap and then goes out and
Speaker 1: does spots. I'm like, whoa, that is well impressive, that
Speaker 1: is impressive. Maybe we're just like sleep gluttons, you know,
Speaker 1: where we're like I'm sorry, like ten okay, NASA like
Speaker 1: utes fam and I don't care if I wake up
Speaker 1: in the middle of it and I'm groggy and ship.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not even gonna blame us for that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blame NASA because I think they're working too hard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they need to relax. I think
Speaker 1: they should keep it up, but just like we're not
Speaker 1: all operating at NASA levels, yeah, we aspire to. Maybe
Speaker 1: NASA needs to fucking relax that were like, I'm really
Speaker 1: worried about the NASA pilots. That's what they're doing to them.
Speaker 1: I mean talking about pilots rights or not. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
Speaker 1: please like and review the show. If you like the show,
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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By S.