Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: Well Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our
Speaker 1: third seat by the very talented writer, actor, producer, and
Speaker 1: the host of the We Need to Talk About Brittany podcast,
Speaker 1: Jen Zabrawski. Hi, welcome, Welcome. Where were you coming to
Speaker 1: us from? We're on God's Green are you? I am
Speaker 1: coming to you straight from the home of myself in
Speaker 1: Laurel Canyon. That's where I am today. Beautiful, beautiful, left
Speaker 1: to see you. They do it on came Pa is
Speaker 1: doing great, you know, we really they kept it going
Speaker 1: during this time, and it actually feels like very European.
Speaker 1: It's a it's an Italian restaurant in Laurel Canyon, and
Speaker 1: they moved everything outside and they closed down the street
Speaker 1: and they put tables out there, and so it actually
Speaker 1: feels like you're, you know, you're up against the wall
Speaker 1: of the dry cleaners, and it's kind of European in
Speaker 1: a way. It's like you're you're like out on a street.
Speaker 1: Which street did there close? The one that's between Loyal
Speaker 1: Canyon and that little side street that the cheaters take
Speaker 1: to go to try and beat the traffic. You know it?
Speaker 1: You know it. I always look at that and I'm like,
Speaker 1: those guys are cheating, and you're gonna get stuck at
Speaker 1: the stop sign when the traffic man, when somebody turns off,
Speaker 1: When somebody like gets stuck behind me and then like
Speaker 1: turns off into a side street, it's a race. It's
Speaker 1: immediately a race between me and them too, because they're
Speaker 1: going through the alleyways and I'm just trying to cut
Speaker 1: them off at every pass. And that's stupid, that's very dumb.
Speaker 1: What you're licens got rood? Yeah, I will. I will
Speaker 1: blow through a red light to make sure that they
Speaker 1: don't get get in front of me a shortcut. But
Speaker 1: it feels very so like it's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: nice al fresco situation out there. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'm asking the most specific reference about Laurel Canyon for
Speaker 1: maybe three percent of our listeners that will understand that,
Speaker 1: well three percent of the listeners come on down to
Speaker 1: pace you know, just like and actually fun fact, the
Speaker 1: owner of pat Guys, we're getting into like real po
Speaker 1: commun the guy who owns that restaurant, he lived in
Speaker 1: this house like when he opened the restaurant. Look at that.
Speaker 1: Look at that. Yeah, it's almost like we did a
Speaker 1: pre interview for this and we didn't. That's how good
Speaker 1: this podcast is. It just happens like that happens stories.
Speaker 1: No one will care about our local Italian restaurant material
Speaker 1: is unparalleled. We like to scared guess what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? Yeah, so I had to look
Speaker 1: this up, and it was why is caviar so expensive? Why?
Speaker 1: Why did you have to look it up? It's really
Speaker 1: expensive and I would love to be eating more caviar
Speaker 1: because I think there's a lot of really good nutritional benefits.
Speaker 1: But it's it's ridiculously expensive. So I had started this,
Speaker 1: but then of course I got distracted. I never finished
Speaker 1: the article. So but it's it's a very light it's
Speaker 1: a very like intricate process where they extract eggs from
Speaker 1: the sturgeon and and now sturgeon are endangered, so they
Speaker 1: only use farm sturgeon, and so yeah, I guess that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's like this luxury good item. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like it's like the Louis Vatton of the
Speaker 1: food and industry apparently, and and you just like get
Speaker 1: this much and it's it's like a it's really expensive.
Speaker 1: It's like over a hundred dollars for like just a
Speaker 1: little bit, and it's so tasty, like just like like
Speaker 1: eating thing. I was like, I'm not eating fish eggs,
Speaker 1: like I've seen how they're extracted and it looks vile.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested. And then they would put it on
Speaker 1: some lobster mac and cheese and that was it. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm a full convert delicious. I did not
Speaker 1: know what was healthy right under that then was best
Speaker 1: outdoor lunch spots near me, because you gotta eat outdoor.
Speaker 1: When you're eating your caviar, you gotta flux on the
Speaker 1: on the people. Full disclosure, I have not had caviar
Speaker 1: in a very very long time, but I very much
Speaker 1: would love to if I could get access to I
Speaker 1: want cheap caviar. Yeah, yeah, I have a caviar connect.
Speaker 1: I'll hook you up with a what let's get out
Speaker 1: of here. I'm just choking. You're like friends with a
Speaker 1: sturgeon basically but exactly, she's very productive. I feel like
Speaker 1: you would not want black market caviar maybe, but maybe
Speaker 1: I'm moderating the black market caviar. I know, like these
Speaker 1: like under the table eggs. I like salmon Row. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a little Yeah, samon Rose like a nice,
Speaker 1: like affordable kind of option, right, because it's I think
Speaker 1: it's relatively inexpensive and nutritionally you do get kind of
Speaker 1: the same benefits. There's lots of omegas and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But but that coveted sturgeon caviar that it's that it's
Speaker 1: the idea of wanting something that you can't have. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if caviar was like really cheap, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be like, you know, thinking about that. So yeah, samon
Speaker 1: Row is like Nature's boba. I feel like this gives
Speaker 1: you the umrah. What is something you think is overrated? Man? Precipitation,
Speaker 1: bro I just told you about all this beautiful, lush
Speaker 1: green like gardens and rolling hills though gentle and every
Speaker 1: day I'd be I'll walking, I'd be I walk in
Speaker 1: like three hours of days, listen to podcasts, getting caught
Speaker 1: up on phone calls for politics whatever, and the rain
Speaker 1: completely thrown off my day to day completely. You know what.
Speaker 1: I know, we need thriving ecosystems whatever, you know, the plants,
Speaker 1: But I just I just want to go on a
Speaker 1: walk man in I camp because because it's just terrentially
Speaker 1: pouring out there today. I'm saying it. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's that flooding in Germany that killed like a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty people. So that's so it's a real ship
Speaker 1: and we need to like really watch it with the
Speaker 1: participation percipipation right now. But I mean, it's not just
Speaker 1: it's not just ruining my day. Apparently run a lot
Speaker 1: of people day and then out here we might as
Speaker 1: well be on a different planet because we are in
Speaker 1: the midst of a drought. And when you go back wet,
Speaker 1: like my kids thought they were like when we went
Speaker 1: back east to Pittsburgh, they just like couldn't believe how
Speaker 1: green everything was. It's just a different like it seems
Speaker 1: like you're on a different planet when you when you
Speaker 1: go just yeah, yeah, rather than a desert that a
Speaker 1: bunch of people forced into being a right in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the last century, where's the water going to
Speaker 1: come from. It doesn't matter, doesn't cut your mouth. Well,
Speaker 1: fucking reroute the Colorado if we have to. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: they ever get around to that? To this They forgot it,
Speaker 1: just kept building the city. And I mean, well, now,
Speaker 1: like you know, the big thing is like all all
Speaker 1: of the river fighting that's happening where depending on how
Speaker 1: if you're upstream or downstream, like the control that certain
Speaker 1: municipalities have over how much water is flowing, and and
Speaker 1: it's like causing another thing because especially if it goes
Speaker 1: through like tribal ends two, there's like another layer of
Speaker 1: like racism and like ability for them to advocate for
Speaker 1: like the rivers that flow through their territories and things
Speaker 1: like that. It's just the very climate change. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it will always cause more chaos
Speaker 1: and reveal how just inefficient and backwards many of our
Speaker 1: systems are. But yeah, the the increasing stuff in Europe,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is very, very disconcerting because a lot
Speaker 1: of scientists are like, this is what happens because of
Speaker 1: our hubrists, which is true. Yeah, you know, if I
Speaker 1: listen to them, they're like, are you sure, it's like yeah, ba,
Speaker 1: unlike our friend Jack, no offense, real sciences, PhD degrees
Speaker 1: out here running around with beakers and test tubes and
Speaker 1: lab coats. Do science. They know, they know they probably
Speaker 1: Brogan knows some science. Okay. He knows how long it
Speaker 1: takes you to to pass out from being in a
Speaker 1: rear naked choke exactly, Yes, very regular, based on your adity.
Speaker 1: He can figure it out within a half second. He's
Speaker 1: pushing new boundaries on like how wide a human can
Speaker 1: be at the same time, like as being he's wider
Speaker 1: than he is tall pretty soon, which is kind of
Speaker 1: kind of impressed. Are looking like those Musa Next characters. Yeah, which,
Speaker 1: that's science, man. You don't get that way without applying science.
Speaker 1: Science man, that's true. What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Calin forgive me if I've said this one before, I
Speaker 1: can't remember, but I think the movie pop Star Never
Speaker 1: Stop Stopping is very underrated and that a lot of
Speaker 1: people haven't seen it and no one's talking about it,
Speaker 1: even though it's a cinematic masterpiece. Yeah, I this is fun.
Speaker 1: I think maybe you, I feel like someone has said
Speaker 1: as maybe it was you, But I'm I'm down to
Speaker 1: really keep talking about this because Connor for real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that his name? Dude? I fucking love There's like
Speaker 1: the the little old cameos that they get in it
Speaker 1: are like my favorite. I think there Rizz is in it,
Speaker 1: isn't he And there's like a moment I funk, I
Speaker 1: gotta remember who it is. I think it was like
Speaker 1: one of them. He's just man like. I see him
Speaker 1: do some crazy stuff, like one time he just ate
Speaker 1: the blunt. He didn't even smoke it. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: It's a classic. And that's there are comedy movies that
Speaker 1: like go underrated for too long because comedy, like really
Speaker 1: great comedy movies will get bad reviews because film critics
Speaker 1: don't get into film criticism because they have a good
Speaker 1: sense of humor. So like there's you know, Dumb and
Speaker 1: Dumber was like a ten percent I'm rutting tomatoes when
Speaker 1: I came out, and like, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: comedy grewber. I still talked to a lot of people
Speaker 1: who think mcgrouper that are like, yeah, I saw the sketch.
Speaker 1: The sketch was stupid, and I personally ride for mc
Speaker 1: grouper pretty hard. I think that's a underrated comedy masterpiece,
Speaker 1: but yeah, pop Star is great. Do you like it?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to, Yeah, why didn't it get like the
Speaker 1: shine it deserved? It? Were we just like at peak
Speaker 1: Lonely Island or something, and people were just like, I'm
Speaker 1: I look, I love Samberg, but like he's he's in
Speaker 1: a viral video every other fucking day, So maybe is
Speaker 1: that what did it? Because I'm just trying to because
Speaker 1: I remember I watched it after after it came out,
Speaker 1: because a few people are like, yo, you should watch it.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, me too. I saw it at home. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it in I think it kind of got
Speaker 1: mgrouperised in the sense that like people thought it was
Speaker 1: just like a single justin bieber joke type thing and
Speaker 1: they were like, all right, like whatever, that's right in
Speaker 1: the same way that like the mcgrouber sketches, just like
Speaker 1: the same kind of boring, stale joke over and over again.
Speaker 1: But the movie is like so dense with like great jokes.
Speaker 1: Pop Star like people. People should definitely check it out
Speaker 1: and like, don't don't assume it's just like the one
Speaker 1: joke from the trailer or like from the movie poster whatever.
Speaker 1: The movie poster made you think, did you like Walk Hard? Uh?
Speaker 1: I was not a fan of that movie. I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I remember when it came out. I saw when it
Speaker 1: came out, and I was like, man, And then a
Speaker 1: lot of people after the fact we're like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: like a walk Mars the greatest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Really it has some funny moment, it's not it's funny
Speaker 1: because like a lot of the jokes that stick with
Speaker 1: me are not the ones that are like about the
Speaker 1: music industry, you know, Like it's I I feel like
Speaker 1: it's more of a satire of like a series of
Speaker 1: biopics than it is like a satire of like although
Speaker 1: that I I like very specific parts of it a lot,
Speaker 1: but right there, but it's not like something that I
Speaker 1: got back to and rewatch. But yeah, that's one that
Speaker 1: has like people who really right for it too. Dude,
Speaker 1: there's I'm reading this story that there were people who like,
Speaker 1: there were like a lot of music that the Lonely
Speaker 1: Island guys passed on for the film, Like so they
Speaker 1: passed on beats from the Rizza and Jade Dilla, and
Speaker 1: now I'm really upset. But also this listen to this
Speaker 1: because this is and I'm sorry Kitlin to get to
Speaker 1: wu tang with it. But they said with the Rizza,
Speaker 1: they said, quote, we once got sent beats from Rizzo,
Speaker 1: which was crazy. Andy told us d J Sway. They
Speaker 1: were super like experimental, were very like a tonal and weird,
Speaker 1: and we were like, we don't know how to make
Speaker 1: this funny, but it's dope, which sounds very much like
Speaker 1: latter day Rizza. And then they said, um, they also
Speaker 1: sent us a Dilla beat and we're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we can't ruin it. Dilla beat. People hate us if
Speaker 1: we do that, Okay, so they were responsible with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the soundtrack from the movie is like I
Speaker 1: just listened to it for fun. Sometimes it's like pretty
Speaker 1: good music. Yeah, I mean because of like style Boys tracks,
Speaker 1: and well it's I mean it's yeah, yeah, exactly. It's
Speaker 1: basically just all the music from the movie. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: these are my favorite musicians. These fake movie characters made
Speaker 1: some really great music. Have you guys watched Girls five Eva?
Speaker 1: I saw the first episode. There's some really songs on
Speaker 1: that too. Oh I haven't, Yeah, I haven't seen the art.
Speaker 1: What's there one d Anyway, I just remember watching it
Speaker 1: because everyone was saying it's so good and yeah, I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed what I've seen so far. Yeah, sold, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we will be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and so is COVID nineteen baby so
Speaker 1: l A County. On Saturday night this past Saturday, we
Speaker 1: went back to having to wear masks again, masking up
Speaker 1: and then in sort of a more broad international scope,
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Olympics is a little less than a week
Speaker 1: away and it's it's just not going well, you guys.
Speaker 1: It's so frustrating, Jack, because knowing that this could have
Speaker 1: been like very much one and done, if somebody had
Speaker 1: had the tenacity to be like, everyone go inside for
Speaker 1: four months, don't go outside, we're gonna mask up, just
Speaker 1: be really really responsible. Here's like ppe for to get
Speaker 1: everybody through the next four months, eradicated, get back out
Speaker 1: there half fun and then to be like we knew
Speaker 1: that the minute they were like, okay, you're good to
Speaker 1: go back out with you like it's not done yet.
Speaker 1: When new variants coming in. My friend worked for the
Speaker 1: CDC and she was like, no, guys, like seriously, don't
Speaker 1: Delta virus is coming, even if you're vaccinated, must be safe.
Speaker 1: So when they say when they've been announced, mass have
Speaker 1: to go back on, like it's you we've crossed the
Speaker 1: threshold of back and forth. I feel very strongly that
Speaker 1: people are like I'm done now. They just don't want
Speaker 1: to to take the precautions and it's scary. And now
Speaker 1: of course our numbers are going back up, and it's
Speaker 1: making everything like clipping averse to people who thought they
Speaker 1: were going to finally become financially stable and they were
Speaker 1: going to get back to like having these like steady
Speaker 1: jobs where they could be out in the world, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking everything from like hairstylists to to photographers
Speaker 1: to anything like that's very basic requires you to be
Speaker 1: in person. You know. All of those lives are now
Speaker 1: again and upheaval, and it's I don't understand why we
Speaker 1: have to keep going back and forth, Like I really
Speaker 1: wish we could just be like we're just gonna stay
Speaker 1: locked down until this is resolved. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: this is this is really random, but did you guys
Speaker 1: see on social media? I don't know what channel, but
Speaker 1: this was like early when people were like, hell no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wear a mask or like I can't
Speaker 1: breathe in those masks, Like it doesn't feel comfortable. And
Speaker 1: did you guys ever see on social media someone was like,
Speaker 1: if you're a straight guy and you don't want to
Speaker 1: wear a mask because you don't like the way it
Speaker 1: feels on your face, you've basically just outed yourself as
Speaker 1: someone that's never eating someone else, Like way to go.
Speaker 1: It was so good, it feels bad. I can't breathe
Speaker 1: my face free. So on Thursday last Thursday, the president
Speaker 1: of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, insisted that there
Speaker 1: was no risk that the games would spread infection and
Speaker 1: there have been thirty total confirmed cases like just within
Speaker 1: either athletes or planning committee members. And the US basketball
Speaker 1: is like starting shooting guard Bradley Beale had to go
Speaker 1: into COVID protocol and will not be able to be
Speaker 1: a part of the Olympics. It's just it feels like
Speaker 1: we're watching, you know. It feels like a lot of
Speaker 1: stories and moments have felt throughout this pandemic like we're
Speaker 1: just watching something and flow motion happen. The power of
Speaker 1: capitalism has become so it's not a mystery anymore to me.
Speaker 1: I guess before I was like, oh, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: system and I've I've always lived under it, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure like what would replace it and put the
Speaker 1: drive to make money in the phase because because I
Speaker 1: can't solve for X, Like what kind of person who
Speaker 1: has any level of intelligence says the pandemic can't touch us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring people from all over the world. It's
Speaker 1: still going on, but there's no way it'll spread here. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no I don't know if that's you know, is
Speaker 1: it stupidity, is it pride, or is it literally just
Speaker 1: we have to make money. We don't know what else
Speaker 1: to deal. You're the Olympics, like you'll you'll get more
Speaker 1: money in a couple of years, and you don't have
Speaker 1: stake in anything you make. The city you choose pay
Speaker 1: for everything. So what is really the problem here? Incredibly
Speaker 1: confusing to me. Well, who pays for the Olympics? Is
Speaker 1: it the hosting city? So I mean there's probably like
Speaker 1: a pretty complicated did weaving of corporate interests who are
Speaker 1: sponsoring it, with the planning committees, with the local government.
Speaker 1: But it has a lot of a lot of money
Speaker 1: tied up in it. Interesting. Yeah. So last Friday, the
Speaker 1: organizing Committee reported four new infections among Olympic related personnel,
Speaker 1: which brings that to thirty total confirmed cases this month.
Speaker 1: There's twenty one South African rugby players went into isolation
Speaker 1: after being identified as close contacts of an infected person
Speaker 1: on their flight. And again, just have to read that
Speaker 1: quote one more time from the president of the International
Speaker 1: Olympic Committee that there is no risk that the games
Speaker 1: would spread infections. So I wonder if some of the
Speaker 1: because some of the sports, the Olympic sports are like
Speaker 1: isolated events, like they're just one person, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do now to throw a
Speaker 1: javelin or something. So I wonder if they like evacuated
Speaker 1: the entire stadium to allow the like one COVID positive
Speaker 1: athlete to like throw his javelin, and then they like
Speaker 1: disinfect the whole stadium and then they like wait a
Speaker 1: week and they allow the next person to come in.
Speaker 1: They could have like a really prolonged Olympics. Yeah that
Speaker 1: sounds great. Uh. I hope somebody is able to pull
Speaker 1: that off. It just it sounds like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: such a mess. Yeah, that's too bad. I hope no
Speaker 1: one no one dies from from it. Have you, Like,
Speaker 1: it does seem like young people are We're having a
Speaker 1: hard time get to getting young people on board the
Speaker 1: vaccination train. I have a theory about that because like
Speaker 1: kids don't typically watch the news, and there's not like
Speaker 1: a solid source space source to like get them the
Speaker 1: information and they need to get vaccinated. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of them aren't aware that it's free. You can
Speaker 1: just walk into walk means and get your shot and
Speaker 1: be done with it. And I think also a lot
Speaker 1: of misinformation at the top of the pandemic of like
Speaker 1: children can't catch it has thrown a lot of them
Speaker 1: into just being indifferent about it. And then of course,
Speaker 1: you know if you're young, you just tend to be
Speaker 1: more reckless anyhow. But yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: young people think they're invincible. I mean I was never
Speaker 1: like that because I think learning about medical illnesses, I
Speaker 1: was just like afraid all the time. So like when COVID.
Speaker 1: When COVID happened, it was just like business as usual
Speaker 1: for me. But yeah, like I think there's a you know,
Speaker 1: young folks think they'll they'll live forever, right for wherever
Speaker 1: they'll just be a cold. But it's not just a
Speaker 1: cold kids, it's not people your age have died from this.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, at the shot it doesn't hurt. That's
Speaker 1: really hard too, especially when I read about like kids,
Speaker 1: kids dying from it. I think that's a that's a
Speaker 1: hard pill to swallow. Yeah. Well, speaking of spreading misinformation,
Speaker 1: we've talked recently about ways that Q and on has
Speaker 1: kind of you know, gone underground. January six, bad look,
Speaker 1: bad branding for the whole Q and on brand, and
Speaker 1: so they've had to kind of go underground, changed their
Speaker 1: look a little bit. One thing that we talked about
Speaker 1: them doing is you know, competing for spots on school boards,
Speaker 1: so like trying to do take practical steps to make
Speaker 1: their worldview that there's a Satanic cabal controlling everything practical
Speaker 1: on a local level. Another way that it's metastasized is
Speaker 1: in the wellness and yoga and you know stay at
Speaker 1: home mom and alternate medicine communities. Some people are calling
Speaker 1: it Pastel Q and on because of like the Instagram
Speaker 1: aesthetic that those communities usually adopt. But basically the Q
Speaker 1: and On movement took the opportunity, took like the skepticism
Speaker 1: around vaccines and the pandemic, and like just the discomfort
Speaker 1: caused by the pandemic, and this idea of like bodily autonomy,
Speaker 1: like that nobody can tell you what to do with
Speaker 1: your body, and like turned used that as like kind
Speaker 1: of a toe hole to introduce Q and On theories.
Speaker 1: And there's this article in the l A Times and
Speaker 1: also in l A Magazine about how you know these
Speaker 1: people who are like yoga teachers and sound healers and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, no, all of my friends are now
Speaker 1: part of Q and On, Like I've had to move
Speaker 1: and like that. I think it's a helpful idea to
Speaker 1: like view the world on this continuum of like from
Speaker 1: the east, like East Asia being more like collective minded
Speaker 1: all the way to like California being the most individualistic
Speaker 1: minded of of people. I feel like that isn't explicitly true,
Speaker 1: like specifically true, but I think it can be, like
Speaker 1: just broadly speaking somewhat true. And I think that makes
Speaker 1: southern California and the whole like wellness movement and the
Speaker 1: rejection of like Western medicine especially susceptible to some of
Speaker 1: these ideas. If there's a lot to exploit within those
Speaker 1: communities as somebody who who dabbles it and out of
Speaker 1: multiple crossovers of that community. That truly doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: at all. And the more I think about how we
Speaker 1: are sourcing our information and the fact that there's really
Speaker 1: no guidelines anymore as far as like journalistic integrity is
Speaker 1: really just only applies to actual journalists, and there's so
Speaker 1: much information being spread but people who might claim to
Speaker 1: be journalists, people who claim to be knowledgeable on a subject,
Speaker 1: and people just sort of take it at face value.
Speaker 1: It's scary to think that there might be no end
Speaker 1: to this. Yeah. Yeah, And I at the beginning, I
Speaker 1: said like, oh, meditation is really under very underrated. But
Speaker 1: it's like come on, now you're gonna you're gonna this
Speaker 1: thing to come on something. You know, like you colonized
Speaker 1: our countries, you colonized our bodies. Now you're going to
Speaker 1: colonize our minds and our spirits and our psyches. Come on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean this kind of yoga teacher leader in southern
Speaker 1: California was talking about how she, like mid pandemic had
Speaker 1: like posted on social media and was like, look, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of these like dangerous q and On
Speaker 1: ideas popping up like kind of just laid out why
Speaker 1: they were bullshit, and she saw like in the comments
Speaker 1: section a lot of like q and On evangelists like
Speaker 1: just putting their ideas down there being like actually, like
Speaker 1: when you look at it this way, but like they
Speaker 1: use the language of the ways that people argue online.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's just it really is like
Speaker 1: metastasizing and like evolving into a more effective weapon of disinformation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean it's born of a form of privilege,
Speaker 1: like the ability to be civically disengaged from your local
Speaker 1: government because you don't think you need to be and
Speaker 1: then like everything is just you and your version of
Speaker 1: of the world. And very unique interest is watching these
Speaker 1: people like have to collide with the rest of the
Speaker 1: world every so often. Did you guys see there's a
Speaker 1: video floating around, I think yesterday, of a woman being
Speaker 1: hauled off of a Royal Cribbian cruise that she was
Speaker 1: determined to make viewers believe that real Cribbian faked her
Speaker 1: COVID results which said she was positive for COVID and
Speaker 1: she's like, I've already had COVID and they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he can definitely get COVID again. She was like, they're
Speaker 1: trying to make me get vaccinated. There. You don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything but get off of our ship. You
Speaker 1: can't be here anymore. And it was like it was
Speaker 1: so dramatic. She's like screaming through the ship and they
Speaker 1: eventually like literally had to force her off and put
Speaker 1: her on a plane, like a medical plane to be
Speaker 1: taken back to the States. And we're seeing this continuously.
Speaker 1: People be like I'm just not going to get back
Speaker 1: toting people. That's fine, but you can't come in here now,
Speaker 1: which I think, on the one hand, is obviously the
Speaker 1: right choice. You can't be spreading this disease. It's who
Speaker 1: literally tears people's lungs apart, like it's it's not something
Speaker 1: you can play with. But on the other hand, there's
Speaker 1: the honest is this going to continue to drive even
Speaker 1: a further wedge between us, you know, like this bar
Speaker 1: you don't need vaccines, like come in and just free
Speaker 1: spread like they were trying to do early on. They're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: doing like the chickenpox parties, like just come in here
Speaker 1: and catch it and it'll be fine. What's crazy about
Speaker 1: this story is that people were still willing to get
Speaker 1: on cruises that like, how are people doing cruises after
Speaker 1: like what happened with the Princess cruise that landed in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Like I'm just like, well, that's something
Speaker 1: I will never do again, like in my life. I
Speaker 1: also wasn't pro cruise before the pandemics started. Say, this
Speaker 1: is just like confirmed my anti cruise sentiments. To go
Speaker 1: back to Jack's theory of like this space being the
Speaker 1: most individualistic. The only positive thing about a cruise is
Speaker 1: an individual's experience of being on that cruise. Because the
Speaker 1: workers aren't getting paid anything, it's creating horrible results for
Speaker 1: the environment, and on top of all of that, their
Speaker 1: cesspools for disease. Like it's such a problem. I don't
Speaker 1: understand why people are going on cruisines, especially right now either.
Speaker 1: But you put a hole in that cruise ship and
Speaker 1: suddenly they get very collective minded. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we started thinking some of these cruise ships.
Speaker 1: That was not the lesson we learned from that heganic
Speaker 1: Jack not come together brought people together. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like father, Yeah, brought the movie industry together. Well, speaking
Speaker 1: of the vaccine becoming more popular, We're we're starting to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of a one eight on behalf
Speaker 1: of one of our favorite news programs, Fox and Friends.
Speaker 1: We have a little clip from Fox and Friends is
Speaker 1: Monday morning broadcasts here for you. Steve Doocey is saying,
Speaker 1: just seeing a different tune apparently, and let's just check
Speaker 1: this out. And yes, is from Fox and Friends. This
Speaker 1: what you're about to hear. One of the CDC officials
Speaker 1: said yesterday, Look, the pandemic right now is really just
Speaker 1: with people who have not been vaccinated. The people who
Speaker 1: have died have not been vaccinated. And so what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do is they're trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: all the people who have not been vaccinated get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, and this is one of the reasons apparently
Speaker 1: the Joe Biden and administration came out last week. The
Speaker 1: administrations are very, very frustrated. They have not been able
Speaker 1: to get Facebook to get rid of some of the disinformation.
Speaker 1: The disinformation is online. The vaccine is killing killing lots
Speaker 1: and lots of people, or it changes your DNA or
Speaker 1: their little microchips. None of that is true, right, And
Speaker 1: so that's why you have in Washington this continuous message
Speaker 1: and information, and the Surgeon General, I didn't know. It
Speaker 1: just goes on to basically like, y'all get the vaccine
Speaker 1: because it will save your life. And everyone's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what you guys have been spending your whole lives the
Speaker 1: spreading the fact that they treated that as if this
Speaker 1: is new information we're just finding out about. Apparently there's
Speaker 1: a vaccine, and so this is spreading among people who
Speaker 1: don't get the vaccine apparently to kill me said exactly,
Speaker 1: and like threw his hands up, like we've been trying
Speaker 1: to tell y'all, but he misunderstands. So upset, just shaking
Speaker 1: his head, just biting his tongue. Yeah, he hated that
Speaker 1: they were taught because right before that clip he killed
Speaker 1: me saying like the weirdest thing about essentially like the
Speaker 1: government's insistence is making people not want to get vaccinated,
Speaker 1: Like that was sort of the last point he made.
Speaker 1: And then Deuce he's like, yeah, but here's the thing,
Speaker 1: like it works and people are dying, and he's like exactly,
Speaker 1: and you're like, hold on, dude, you you're arguing, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: kill meat. Wait he was saying that the government like
Speaker 1: isn't being chill enough and that's why we're Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: like pybody freedoms and you hear that from the government,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make people be like, heck, I want to
Speaker 1: be in charge of what I want to like, you know,
Speaker 1: just sort of trying to give a rationalization for people
Speaker 1: who are being anti vax and not addressing the fact
Speaker 1: that their most popular program like spreads those exact conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1: The Tugger Carlson like talks about like, I'm just asking
Speaker 1: questions here, folks, how many people are dying from the
Speaker 1: So he's not saying he's just asking questions on a
Speaker 1: very popular national news news and quotes program, and you know,
Speaker 1: going around saying like they're gonna ask for door to door,
Speaker 1: you know, get people vaccinated, and just creating all this
Speaker 1: fear around like the administration trying to get people vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I mean part of me is like, are they like
Speaker 1: trying do they feel that they're have a huge enough
Speaker 1: hand in this misinformation campaign? Is like a gigantic company
Speaker 1: that there could potentially be lawsuits for people saying like
Speaker 1: my family member was listening to Fox News and they
Speaker 1: were repeatedly saying you don't eat this, don't get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: and then they got really sick when they could have
Speaker 1: got it. And now I'm suing for damages. And now
Speaker 1: they're now they're being like, oh no, I mean like,
Speaker 1: look that we have, we have, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are very forcefully saying it too. Like
Speaker 1: it's just I can't look at anything they do and
Speaker 1: think that it's ever for the right reasons. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: based on my legal degree, I think they can be
Speaker 1: sued for that. And you know that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, Doug.
Speaker 1: I went to the law school of my cousin Vinnie.
Speaker 1: I watched like dozens of times as a kid, so
Speaker 1: I think I know a thing or two. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of what damages are I saw show. Thank you. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about just the Pandora's box that is modern technology. And
Speaker 1: we're back. And so the result of this antivaxer movement
Speaker 1: that we've been covering is starting to UH kind of
Speaker 1: hit the headlines. Cases nearly tripled in the US UH
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, and officials are kind of
Speaker 1: officially blaming the misinformation campaigns. We talked yesterday about how
Speaker 1: this isn't new and the anti vaxer movement goes back
Speaker 1: to like smallpox, but the discrimination against people who do
Speaker 1: get the vaccine maybe new. I we didn't cover that.
Speaker 1: We didn't find any evidence of that back in the
Speaker 1: smallpox days. Also, as we say yesterday, much more sympathetic
Speaker 1: to the fear back then when you had to cut
Speaker 1: your arm open and put calpus into the wound to
Speaker 1: get a vaccine. But this new, this new trend. So
Speaker 1: one example, Eric Clapton is refusing to play venues that
Speaker 1: require proof of vaccines. What a fucking loser always has been,
Speaker 1: always will be, just being like what is he? So
Speaker 1: he's saying you can be vaccinated and go. He's just saying,
Speaker 1: I don't I need my anti vax fans to also
Speaker 1: be there spreading the delta variant at my shows. So
Speaker 1: tears in Heaven will be not ironic for yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: I want them to think about a specific loved one
Speaker 1: that they're gonna lose due to the to the negligence
Speaker 1: of this misinformation while I play the song That's what
Speaker 1: I Want. And Airbnb hosts are basically saying that you
Speaker 1: can't stay at their house if you have been vaccinated.
Speaker 1: So this is like the new thing that I'm just
Speaker 1: starting to hear now. So I'll just read from the
Speaker 1: house rules important. Effective May one, we will no longer
Speaker 1: be accepting guest reservations from people who have been inoculated
Speaker 1: with any of the COVID nineteen experimental quote vaccines I
Speaker 1: FIS or Maderna, Glaxo Smith, Klein and J. And J. Yes.
Speaker 1: New science has discovered that vaccinated persons, through multiple mechanisms
Speaker 1: of transmission, can pass the stars COVID to virus spike
Speaker 1: protein onto healthy, unvaccinated individuals. Thank you for understanding this
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's it's complete bullshit incorrect. They also
Speaker 1: when the person what one of the people had to
Speaker 1: cancel because they have been vaccinated, they were like, oh, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we can't refund your money. I can't stress how important
Speaker 1: it is to familiarize yourself with all the information and
Speaker 1: host provides before you spend your hard earned money. So
Speaker 1: Airbnb had to basically banned that person. And uh, but
Speaker 1: they like this is so common that they actually can't
Speaker 1: keep up with the number of hosts who are like
Speaker 1: literal hosts and virus hosts who are choosing to ban
Speaker 1: people who have been vaccinated. I actually just had to,
Speaker 1: so I was telling someone they could no longer come
Speaker 1: to our house because they weren't willing to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And they claimed that other people weren't allowing them at
Speaker 1: their house if they did get vaccinated, and I assumed
Speaker 1: they were full of ship. But this seems to be
Speaker 1: like a new concerted effort like that right, the scarlet
Speaker 1: new scarlet letters that vaccinated yeah yeah, to basically to
Speaker 1: treat their not choosing not to get vaccinated as like
Speaker 1: the easier way to go, because it's easier to just
Speaker 1: invert the dynamic rather than address what's happening and say,
Speaker 1: actually no, like you're I'm not interested in actually talking
Speaker 1: about vaccines or what it means or my duty or
Speaker 1: responsibility to public health or whatever. You are the one
Speaker 1: that is bad. Actually so jokes on you. It's but
Speaker 1: it's like a self selecting pool of people. It's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna kill their own it hanging out with
Speaker 1: your dumb kid, like you're just gonna hang out with
Speaker 1: another like you're just going to be limited to a
Speaker 1: pool of unvaccinated people, and like, let's just be honest,
Speaker 1: they are more misinformed. So you're just limiting your circle
Speaker 1: and your kid's circle to very uninformed people and not
Speaker 1: to mention, like you know, and and a listener brought
Speaker 1: this up, which is a really really valid point of
Speaker 1: you know, people who are like, because of their health condition,
Speaker 1: unable to be vaccinated. You know, people who aren't like
Speaker 1: being who aren't vaccinated because they're reading the hot takes
Speaker 1: on some message board, but because they're physically it's it's
Speaker 1: they're not able to be vaccinated. The risk that that
Speaker 1: poses for people who's like I fucking would if I could,
Speaker 1: but I can't, and now I'm also at risk too.
Speaker 1: And there's just so many levels to it. Rather than
Speaker 1: just sort of the vacced vacced and anti vaxxed binary,
Speaker 1: there's so many other things going on that like a
Speaker 1: lot of people just don't care to even see even
Speaker 1: these like really rabid anti vaxers who are like not
Speaker 1: funk that, like, I'm about my own thing. And there
Speaker 1: have been a lot of tweets I've seen of people
Speaker 1: screen capping tweets from like a couple of months ago
Speaker 1: it's like, look, I'm not fucking wearing a mask, like
Speaker 1: I have to live. This is nonsense. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: what I have to do, and you know what, I
Speaker 1: encourage you to do the same. And then like today
Speaker 1: they be tweet stuff like I have friends in my
Speaker 1: thirties that are seriously ill, please like please pray for them.
Speaker 1: Uh they got sick and blah blah blah, and you're
Speaker 1: just like what it's like no one's lying about like
Speaker 1: what the efficacy is and what the actual steaks are
Speaker 1: for people. And I don't Yeah, I think some people
Speaker 1: maybe slowly coming around based on how extreme they're like
Speaker 1: sort of ideology is around it, but it seems I
Speaker 1: don't know how much it's gonna move anymore, yea. And
Speaker 1: also the idea that like, oh, you know, the freedom,
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to free you, you know, I want
Speaker 1: you to have the freedom that I have where I'm
Speaker 1: like not wearing a mask and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, it's not freedom because if you're
Speaker 1: taking the risk, that's your business, I guess. But like
Speaker 1: what you were saying, a boy, people who are unvaccinated
Speaker 1: also for some people who have like long term issues
Speaker 1: or autoimmune stuff, the vaccines don't really work for them.
Speaker 1: So then you're basically letting not letting. You're the reason
Speaker 1: those people have to be going back to their house
Speaker 1: and staying indoors, and you're just the person who were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I want everyone to have freedom. So now if you're
Speaker 1: being in any way like serious about that, then you
Speaker 1: should not want disabled and immuno compromise people to go
Speaker 1: back indoors for like another year or whoever fucking long,
Speaker 1: because these cases are spiking because you're selfish. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just a yeah. But again it's like no one looks
Speaker 1: at it that way. It's purely like this weird body
Speaker 1: autonomy argument where they can't acknowledge the right of other
Speaker 1: people's to safety as well, and it just gets you know,
Speaker 1: morphed into all these really bizarre takes through a steady
Speaker 1: diet of misinformation, and we still see again, like people
Speaker 1: are saying, it's the misinformation that is making this even worse,
Speaker 1: and we have social media platforms that are just still
Speaker 1: fucking refusing to do anything about it, and we're only
Speaker 1: and again we're only seeing the numbers go up and
Speaker 1: then you know when inevitably there's gonna be some kind
Speaker 1: of lockdowns if things don't improve, what are they going
Speaker 1: to say that? Like, you know who's to blame again
Speaker 1: this time? Right the auchi. It's very difficult to take
Speaker 1: somebody who is an anti X or like being morally
Speaker 1: indignant because the like trying to take the position that
Speaker 1: they're being discriminated against. No, it's absolute horseshit. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like it's fucking absurd, And people will post memes like
Speaker 1: you know, oh, there's vaccinated only classes at the yoga studio,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I would never go to a
Speaker 1: whites only yoga class, So no, thank you. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't know a fucking thing like we're saying it
Speaker 1: takes like that is just so disingenuous, or you're so
Speaker 1: ignorant that you don't understand how unavoidable someone's races and
Speaker 1: the effects that have been operating in a in an
Speaker 1: oppressive system versus having the choice to get a vaccine
Speaker 1: or not. And again you get because there's this all
Speaker 1: these steady streams of misinformation. If you're not thinking critically,
Speaker 1: you'll look at that and go, yeah, actually that makes sense, Right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that on and again we're and here
Speaker 1: we are. Yeah, and the people who do have who
Speaker 1: are you know, compromised or can't get the vaccine, And
Speaker 1: then like the people who refused to get the vaccine
Speaker 1: for quote ideological reasons, I'm sure are going to start
Speaker 1: using that as an excuse too, so that then it
Speaker 1: becomes like difficult to tell the difference between somebody who's
Speaker 1: an anti baxer and somebody who's legitimately like can't get
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Right, So alright, well, let's check in with
Speaker 1: the Olympics. I feel like this is now our our
Speaker 1: entertainment is to just watch the Olympics fucking go very badly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's some stuff happening, but yeah, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of you're not reading a lot of updates,
Speaker 1: and like, man, fucking everybody's doing well. There's no COVID
Speaker 1: actually being transmitted. They really got this thing under control. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean a wild bear broke into the Olympics softball
Speaker 1: stadium at that At this point, like, can't we just
Speaker 1: be like, you know, this is somebody doesn't want this
Speaker 1: to happen. We just need to like cut this thing off. Um.
Speaker 1: It's funny because the tweet that that I saved for
Speaker 1: today is from Raj Handelman and it's Olympic news is
Speaker 1: so wild. Every item is like entire Danish swim team
Speaker 1: lost in lava pits. Or opening ceremony producer resigns after
Speaker 1: people recall his history of eating stop signs or God
Speaker 1: begs us to stop. Yeah, it really feels like that.
Speaker 1: There's been Yeah, like the director of the opening ceremonies
Speaker 1: he has some weird holocaust joke he made like in
Speaker 1: the nineties and people were like, what is this and
Speaker 1: he's like like they're like, okay, get this guy out
Speaker 1: of here. Another person who is a composer there like
Speaker 1: he was bullying a disabled classmate and they're like, okay, this,
Speaker 1: sorry this this person also won't be participating not just bullying,
Speaker 1: but like torturing. Yeah, yeah, actually disabled students the And
Speaker 1: now we have a like the first athlete for the
Speaker 1: U S who was actually set to compete who has
Speaker 1: tested positive. Like there have been alternates that have tested
Speaker 1: so they were just there in case someone else tested positive.
Speaker 1: But Taylor Crab was about to compete in beach volleyball
Speaker 1: until he tested positive and he's now in quarantine and
Speaker 1: wondering if he'll even play at all. Spoiler alert, he
Speaker 1: will not because of the rules, and his first match
Speaker 1: was supposed to be Sunday, so they had to fly
Speaker 1: in an alternate And the rules are pretty clear in
Speaker 1: regards to what happens when the athlete tests positive, but
Speaker 1: there's also room for Japanese health officials to determine some
Speaker 1: of these things, like so if any athlete test positive, quote,
Speaker 1: they will not be allowed to compete continue in their role,
Speaker 1: and then the quarantine period will then be determined by
Speaker 1: Japanese health authorities depending on their severity and like the
Speaker 1: symptoms and things like that. But there's also been like
Speaker 1: really inconsistent rules about what happens with contact tracing because
Speaker 1: if there if there is like close contact with an
Speaker 1: athlete that's been tested positive. There are some certain isolation protocols,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of being loose with that because potentially
Speaker 1: you could be like, oh, okay, the entire US men's
Speaker 1: volleyball team has to go into isolation now because one bird,
Speaker 1: like an assistant had covid andre interacting with all of
Speaker 1: them for hours. Like there's all these weird like it
Speaker 1: just feels like something like that could happen or they're
Speaker 1: going to ignore it. But it almost feels like like
Speaker 1: the set up for like a comedy from the nineties
Speaker 1: where like a guy goes to the Olympics but everyone
Speaker 1: in his like event has COVID, so he wins gold
Speaker 1: by default, and it's yeahh oh god, he's he just
Speaker 1: got kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a mask.
Speaker 1: So that fits. Are you kidding me? He fucking went
Speaker 1: off on a plane being like, I'm not wearing a mask, bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: mango kicked off a flight for not properly wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: Yeah the mango. Yeah, the mango does not wear a mask. No,
Speaker 1: the mango dies. Yeah. Yeah. So this, like this beach
Speaker 1: volleyball player was apparently not practicing with his team. Is
Speaker 1: that like what we're to believe at this point, Well,
Speaker 1: he's it's like beach volley but I think he's just two.
Speaker 1: So they do it and do it in pairs, so
Speaker 1: I think his partner I wasn't. That's the thing. At
Speaker 1: that point, You're like, well, what about the contact racing,
Speaker 1: And they're like, well, look, we can't sunk up the
Speaker 1: whole Olympics. You tell me he wasn't tell me after
Speaker 1: a six spike they weren't kissing each other on the
Speaker 1: mouth a little bit, not by spitting in his mouth
Speaker 1: while figuring him. That's not okay, bro, six spikes Stan.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of these officials are homophobic.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then even the bear breaking, it's just
Speaker 1: so it's it's so comical and just also like like
Speaker 1: imagine that the bear was sent in by God. God
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what else I can do,
Speaker 1: Like maybe this fucking bear. I don't even Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't even funk with God like that you know
Speaker 1: was religion. But part of me is like, man, maybe
Speaker 1: that's God. Maybe that's Jesus. That's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: don't either. But when you see a bunch of signs
Speaker 1: like that, You're like, I don't even what's the Like,
Speaker 1: is there going to be a formation of like flamingos
Speaker 1: that flies in and spells stop? What are we waiting for?
Speaker 1: Like flamingos have are normally unable to travel to this
Speaker 1: part of the world. If this has never before been
Speaker 1: seen anyway, Coming up next, we have some own bioges
Speaker 1: beating in the floor exercide like what they're like, we
Speaker 1: do not know how they got inside, honestly, but anyway,
Speaker 1: our next event. Also, the bear hasn't even big chaptured.
Speaker 1: So this wild bear broke into the softball stadium. They
Speaker 1: haven't been able to find it. It's been spotted twice
Speaker 1: and it's still on the loose somehow, clearly religious like something. Figure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean then also the country of Guinea, they were
Speaker 1: just like this, they we're out. They just pulled out,
Speaker 1: They fully pulled out. They're like, now we're off this man,
Speaker 1: because they're the smartest country in the fucking world. Can
Speaker 1: we give them a gold medal for that? Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1: I mean, I got you. Anyone from the Guinea Olympic team,
Speaker 1: if you're in the San Fernando Valley, drinks on me here,
Speaker 1: whatever you do on me, and they'll send you weed
Speaker 1: gummies or something. I don't know what you mean. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you get down, but we can figure
Speaker 1: something out. But there's a thing. Um. Two volleyball players
Speaker 1: are being you know, ruled out of the games too
Speaker 1: because of like another fucking outbreak on this check Olympic team.
Speaker 1: And now they're just like we're fucking we're out, Like
Speaker 1: what the funck? And again it sucks because to even
Speaker 1: let these athletes believe they're going to compete, Like I
Speaker 1: get it, like if you're an athlete, like I don't
Speaker 1: know how the fund is it gonna work. But if
Speaker 1: they're saying the Olympics are going down, then you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, all right, I'm gonna train so I can
Speaker 1: do my ship. And now, like the stars, just like
Speaker 1: we were crying, we were swearing, we were just crying.
Speaker 1: We can't fucking believe this is happening, and like we're
Speaker 1: not even symptomatic. But you know, again, this is the
Speaker 1: fucking cruelty of insisting on having an Olympics, where again
Speaker 1: it's not just the massive danger to the people in
Speaker 1: Japan and anyone working around the event, but just to
Speaker 1: funk over these like athletes who quite literally don't do
Speaker 1: anything except these fucking sports for their whole life. Jesus.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like because I was thinking, I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's so brutal because they're so infrequent, but that's what
Speaker 1: makes them, I guess so special for the athletes too.
Speaker 1: But it's still brutal. If anything takes you out, it's
Speaker 1: another four years. And for a lot of people that's
Speaker 1: not even a thing because you won't be able to
Speaker 1: do it then. Yeah, especially if like at a certain age.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. So God,
Speaker 1: it's like an Olympics are so evil, but it's like,
Speaker 1: can we do like a yearly thing that's like more
Speaker 1: chill and like not evil for everyone? I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I just say, having in one place and
Speaker 1: you can do it every four years, but just keep
Speaker 1: it in one fucking place. Don't destroy multiple cities, you know,
Speaker 1: every four years, trying to build a bunch of ship
Speaker 1: that doesn't get used after the fact. I feel like
Speaker 1: every two years because I don't want people to not
Speaker 1: like get their shot. I don't know. Oh, you're like
Speaker 1: really like, oh, I want you to get a lot
Speaker 1: of gold medals. Well, I just like I don't want
Speaker 1: people especially I think it doesn't favor older athletes, and
Speaker 1: it's like as I'm getting older, I'm like, I want
Speaker 1: bit just to get another chance. That's gonna have the
Speaker 1: chew Olympics. Old geriatric millennials and athletes to be like,
Speaker 1: we have another games for the older folks. Let them
Speaker 1: forty year olds run. Let them run some of them.
Speaker 1: Do you know they're still kicking, They're still Let him
Speaker 1: synchronized swim, Let him do all of it. Synchronized swimming
Speaker 1: is a young person's game. Those nick kicks really go out.
Speaker 1: Actually it was really hard, and they really do tire
Speaker 1: you out. Yeah, sure, I can't imagine. I mean when
Speaker 1: you do that, when you see the underwater, that's the
Speaker 1: funny thing though too. I'm like, and then you see
Speaker 1: this stuff underwater, look at how their fund is having
Speaker 1: to stabilize their ship being all inverted in their arms,
Speaker 1: like doing all this other ships so wild that skills.
Speaker 1: It's like a duck seeing the ducks feet underwater. By
Speaker 1: the way, in Tokyo just reported highest daily COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: case number in six months on the eve of the
Speaker 1: Olympic Games. So technically start let's yeah, starting to cancel
Speaker 1: it or anything. I was in Tokyo, remember like last
Speaker 1: year or before everything got shut down, and one of
Speaker 1: the things we did was go to like there's like
Speaker 1: a galaxy experience and like one of the whatever where
Speaker 1: we were, and uh, they gave out all these Olympic
Speaker 1: pins and now I have them, and they're this really
Speaker 1: weird like enameled pin expenditure that this company put so
Speaker 1: much money into to give out to everyone for free
Speaker 1: of a game games that didn't happen. And I was thinking,
Speaker 1: I was like, I should hold on to this because like,
Speaker 1: what a weird memento of a weird year. And then
Speaker 1: suck coming around. I'm sure they have these pins that
Speaker 1: are now an even more fucked up reminder of a new,
Speaker 1: more fucked up year. Is so crazy, still calling they're
Speaker 1: not sucking around, really, they're not that branding. That branding
Speaker 1: is staying or put. I didn't know that, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that, you know. They were like, dude,
Speaker 1: we've fucking made millions of hats. I mean right, I
Speaker 1: do think two is going to be our year though, Right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a good one. I feel like, shut
Speaker 1: your mouth, all right, that's gonna do it. For this
Speaker 1: week's weekly Zeite, guys, please like and review the show.
Speaker 1: If you like the show, uh means the world of Miles.
Speaker 1: He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: great weekend and I will talk to you Monday by
Speaker 1: there and the