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: last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by the very talented actress, writer, podcaster,
Speaker 1: educator Karama Don't Quo. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. Uh, Mr apple Jack and Miles. I
Speaker 1: do have a question about that apple story though. Was
Speaker 1: it a red apple or a green apple? Because apple? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the worst one. I feel like that's worse. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have a green apple landed my cereal milk than
Speaker 1: a red apple. Hold on, that's very specific. Why is that?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm just I'm just like, no,
Speaker 1: not my huh. And now I'm sort of like, damn,
Speaker 1: am I not thinking critically enough about some of the
Speaker 1: things he's saying? Thinking too critically about that story? It
Speaker 1: feels like a Tim Robinson sketch. I didn't focus on
Speaker 1: the like limb aspect of it. I'm like, what color
Speaker 1: was the apple? Yeah? Like I just had it right,
Speaker 1: here like next to my ahead, and then it just
Speaker 1: went like that, just fluid. So it wasn't I thought
Speaker 1: you wound up, you launched it. Oh so was he
Speaker 1: just across the table from you? Yeah, he was just
Speaker 1: he was like down the table a few people man
Speaker 1: salt bass situation, but like with any it was a
Speaker 1: it was a spastic salt bas situation. Or like you
Speaker 1: were one of those card magicians and you're throwing the cart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly right, right right, Okay, now you see me and
Speaker 1: I've ruined your cereal milk with this half bitten apple. Karama,
Speaker 1: What is good? What's new with you? What's good? What's new?
Speaker 1: I'm about to move back to the eight one eight
Speaker 1: what what? Yeah? Next week I'm moving to Van Eyes.
Speaker 1: Excited about that. And then I just wrapped on season
Speaker 1: one of I Carly, where I was working in the
Speaker 1: writer's room. The reboot our revival, I think is the
Speaker 1: technical term, but you know, people just be thrown out,
Speaker 1: rewords all over the place. And I have an episode
Speaker 1: that I got to write and it comes out in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So that's what's new. Amazing, so dope,
Speaker 1: intersecting with so much I Carly talent recently and eventually
Speaker 1: we'll get Lacy back on here, but I'm never go
Speaker 1: over the weekend Ramsey. Oh yeah, very lovely person. And
Speaker 1: I was just like, man, so it seems like the
Speaker 1: best show to be working on. Yeah, No, I love Lacey,
Speaker 1: love Francesca got. I was like a huge Francesca stand
Speaker 1: before the show, and like when I got the list
Speaker 1: of people who remember those videos, I like had a
Speaker 1: heart attack and I texted all my friends that was like,
Speaker 1: my Rancy is gonna be working in the room, and
Speaker 1: I like had to be normal for six months working
Speaker 1: how do you do as? Not great? Great? A print
Speaker 1: out you wanted to sign from? Hi? Was my first day.
Speaker 1: Blessedly we were working remote right right right, So I
Speaker 1: did not I would have. I would have like, Hi,
Speaker 1: this is a video that you did like six years ago.
Speaker 1: Will you sign crin Summon? No? I mean just generally,
Speaker 1: I didn't do a great job being normal, not just
Speaker 1: Francesco wise. The first day of work, we were introducing
Speaker 1: ourselves and like I said that I thought that Emotion
Speaker 1: by Carly ray Jepson was one of the best albums
Speaker 1: of all time, and I thought it was criminally underrated,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is not a normal way
Speaker 1: to introduce yourself. Just say your name and stop talking. Right.
Speaker 1: You just came with a hot take right out of
Speaker 1: the gate. I will will. Somebody asked me, what has
Speaker 1: Carly ray Jepson been up to since? Called me maybe,
Speaker 1: which was a mistake on their parts of very early
Speaker 1: on in this show. And the CRJ goons came for me.
Speaker 1: But shout out to you all because you did convert me,
Speaker 1: because so many people were like, put that out of
Speaker 1: your mind, what you think you may know, and just
Speaker 1: put this album on and listen to it. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this ship is just really good. This is really good music.
Speaker 1: It's really good. It's really really good. I have a
Speaker 1: for my birthday. For my thirtieth birthday, the room got
Speaker 1: me a Carl Ray Jepson quilt and it's the most
Speaker 1: beautiful thing I've ever seen, and I carry it around
Speaker 1: with me when I travel places, like I'm Linus from
Speaker 1: the Nuts. Don't tell anybody that, oh my god, you know,
Speaker 1: because you're just letting them know. So many of those
Speaker 1: hooks I were like, really really really thank you, like
Speaker 1: you can. They're easy to sing and like, right, away
Speaker 1: with me. There's so many your worms in that album.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, you know what? And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe boys, the Day I Got l A Hallucinations is
Speaker 1: my song. I oh my gosh, yes, just that albums,
Speaker 1: that whole album is good. I'm so glad I found
Speaker 1: my people. I mean, I'm just I'm c RJ curious,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, opening my I'm expanding my horizons.
Speaker 1: And I realized, why did I have that all? Why
Speaker 1: did I have the wrong ideas about this? I think
Speaker 1: so many fandoms are really toxic and that they think
Speaker 1: if you haven't been there since day one, you don't
Speaker 1: you don't have as much legitimacy as people who have
Speaker 1: been there since day one. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: that's true. I think that if you are gathering enjoyment
Speaker 1: from whatever the fandom is, even if it is your
Speaker 1: first day, when it's somebody else's ten thousand day, then
Speaker 1: good for you, and you know to be like, I
Speaker 1: know every song, I know every book. I know that
Speaker 1: she was third place on Canadian Idol. I know that
Speaker 1: she started Frenchy in Greece Live. I know that she
Speaker 1: played Dorothy in the Whiz in high school, which is
Speaker 1: I have feelings about that in the WHIZZI well, let's
Speaker 1: let's because we want to have the positive lives. And
Speaker 1: you know, high school is as a strange time, but yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, gatekeeping is just so exhausting because like I've
Speaker 1: I myself have been like that, like when I was
Speaker 1: in college and stuff, and you know, one college in
Speaker 1: the odds like that was peak, like check on my
Speaker 1: fucking DVDs, check on my albums that I have, and
Speaker 1: you're you're coming at people from like, oh you don't
Speaker 1: know Porti's heads, dummy, what you took? And then I
Speaker 1: realized that's just me because all I had for my
Speaker 1: personality or my identity was to say I knew a
Speaker 1: lot about this other ship rather than being more secure
Speaker 1: in who I just was fundamentally as a human being
Speaker 1: outside of my interest. And then you have to realize, oh, yeah, this,
Speaker 1: let's just just welcome. Everybody, especially the newcomers, can experience
Speaker 1: it and enjoy it in a way that you can't.
Speaker 1: So let them. Let them have that. That's why actually
Speaker 1: you want to be And again, shout out to all
Speaker 1: the night young who are not not like being shitty
Speaker 1: about my first early Carle Ray Jason takes, but we're
Speaker 1: very much like, hey, I get it, but you should
Speaker 1: really you really owe it yourself. You seem to like music,
Speaker 1: you should listen to it. You'll enjoy it, and I did,
Speaker 1: and even the subsequent albums. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: as it relates to when like bringing somebody in, there's
Speaker 1: no better feeling. Actually, when you put somebody onto something
Speaker 1: and you watch them light up being like this is
Speaker 1: so good, You're like, yes, yeah, Well that's why those
Speaker 1: two guys, those brothers on like YouTube, who do them
Speaker 1: like listening to songs for the first time. I think
Speaker 1: that that's why they're so popular because it's like we
Speaker 1: love these songs. We get to watch them fall in
Speaker 1: love with these songs. Like when they heard that drum
Speaker 1: break on in the air tonight, they were like what yo,
Speaker 1: what And I'm like, yeah, right exactly. But for us,
Speaker 1: were all of our like you know, dopamine receptors have
Speaker 1: burned out in terms of like the album, so it
Speaker 1: happens you're like I just need this to live, but
Speaker 1: I enjoy seeing others get life. Is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that's revealing about who you are. Oh from
Speaker 1: the search history. All right, all right, I always act surprised,
Speaker 1: even though I've been on the show many times, and
Speaker 1: I act surprised. Something from my search history is I
Speaker 1: was looking at this place called Club Provada. And now,
Speaker 1: if you don't know what Club Provided is, I know
Speaker 1: there are some people in the Oregon Sight Gang who
Speaker 1: might know what this is, but it's a sex club
Speaker 1: right now. I didn't think these things existed. I didn't
Speaker 1: think sex clubs existed. I thought they were just things
Speaker 1: of fantasy, things that you hear about on television. But
Speaker 1: I decided to run up the old Google machine and
Speaker 1: and plug it in and log it in and look
Speaker 1: up Club Provided. And it's very much a thing. And
Speaker 1: there are sex clubs in almost every city and state.
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you live in a boring ass place,
Speaker 1: but if you live in a place that like has
Speaker 1: a population that's a little bit bigger. There are sex
Speaker 1: clubs and everywhere. I'm not saying I'm gonna go, but
Speaker 1: I am saying I'm intrigued now. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: good information to have, you know, if if you, if
Speaker 1: you and your significant other decide you want to spice
Speaker 1: some ship up and you wanna you want to go
Speaker 1: to a club, uh, for the certain spice that you're
Speaker 1: looking for that is available to you. And if you
Speaker 1: did not know, now you do because they are real.
Speaker 1: They are real. I thought it was fake. What's the
Speaker 1: sex club? Though? It's a place where you fuck, you like,
Speaker 1: it's like a swinger's place. So like you, you go
Speaker 1: and couples go and they had they make love. You
Speaker 1: don't say the effort on the dailies like guys, Uh,
Speaker 1: they make love and then and then they or and
Speaker 1: then you could tap in and stuff, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: to your comfort. No, no, it's no, yes, yes, everything
Speaker 1: like that. But then, like you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: places do single ladies and couples. No, man, sorry, man,
Speaker 1: sorry if you're single. Man. But it's just a place
Speaker 1: where you go to hook up have sex with your
Speaker 1: partner and or other people as well. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: basically the you see in movies that don't seem real,
Speaker 1: but apparently it is real. You would think we would
Speaker 1: know more about it. That used to just be the
Speaker 1: Wendy's parking lot for me. But god, right, oh you
Speaker 1: hooked up in the Windy's parking lot before too? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you know what you do is you you walk
Speaker 1: outside with three uh what is it? The Frostyes, U
Speaker 1: you spill three frosties on your feet outside. The wendis
Speaker 1: what what? What? What color frosty? The vanilla or vanilla? Vanilla? Vanilla?
Speaker 1: And if you're down for the swirld, you got both? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let him know, like I'm open. See what I do
Speaker 1: is I'll go get it. I'd be like, I go
Speaker 1: in and give me your hottest meat. And so when
Speaker 1: I bring it back to the car and the windows
Speaker 1: fall up and somebody not gonna be like, it's the meat,
Speaker 1: it's too hot, which is true, but they think I
Speaker 1: mean something else, you know. So that's what the wind is,
Speaker 1: parking lot. But it always ends with the same thing,
Speaker 1: which is or this is a wendy. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it ends with. And you know every time I
Speaker 1: don't care, I be like, you're right. I saw on
Speaker 1: TikTok that this clip of this woman who was like,
Speaker 1: I guess she was saying she was a swinger about
Speaker 1: how like if you're in a supermarket and you have
Speaker 1: your pineapple upside down in your cart, that's letting people
Speaker 1: know that you're with it. But again, this is like TikTok.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what it's so funny about TikTok.
Speaker 1: It's like full of videos like this, be like this
Speaker 1: is how this, you know, subculture gets down and I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true. So swinger crew, let us
Speaker 1: know this like an elementary a rumor. I would spread
Speaker 1: an elementary Yeah you know, hey man, you hear it.
Speaker 1: You hear you heard turning your pineapple upside down down
Speaker 1: the phone. Every town has a park where like I
Speaker 1: hear that if you park up there and like one
Speaker 1: of your tail lights is out, you know what that
Speaker 1: means about your tail that light it up? You gotta
Speaker 1: light that tail up if it's out. M I grew
Speaker 1: up with HBO Flex Bragg and they had a show
Speaker 1: called Real Sex. Oh yeah, which I would I would
Speaker 1: always tune into, you know, after the parents had gone
Speaker 1: to bed, and I would see sex clubs and I
Speaker 1: would be disillusioned from any idea that they are what
Speaker 1: what we see in movies. They're usually they usually involved
Speaker 1: a balding man and a with a ponytail. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you ain't going you ain't, I mean, listen, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's uh you know, listen, beauties in the eye that behold. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Let me go on head
Speaker 1: and say these things pre cancelation, beauties in the eye
Speaker 1: to behold, or what you love is what you love?
Speaker 1: You know that looks though, matters what's on the inside.
Speaker 1: But you know, we ain't going It ain't Rareshue diaries
Speaker 1: in there. It's gonna be some you ain't attracted to
Speaker 1: in there. So you know, like it's just know that
Speaker 1: probably going there. You know that, Yeah, you might be
Speaker 1: looking for Restue diaries. It might be payless. What is
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated? Gosh? I think the Loki
Speaker 1: Show is overrated. The whole Marvel universe. I think it's overrated.
Speaker 1: I have not seen it. I've I will. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, were you a big Marvel Universe fan and
Speaker 1: then you watched it? No? No, I I got into
Speaker 1: the Marvel Universe and Lockdown, we got Disney Plus and
Speaker 1: we've been watching Loki and people are always talking about
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I just don't get it, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not insuit at all. People are so into these
Speaker 1: movies and this television show, and I just I really
Speaker 1: don't get it. You know, I started it, didn't finish
Speaker 1: it the same reason. I just did get the appeal.
Speaker 1: It's just not something that I just don't understand. Do
Speaker 1: you like it? I know? I I famously have not
Speaker 1: watched any of them because I'm like a just like
Speaker 1: a completionist. And and I've said this before the show,
Speaker 1: like the tick at which these films came out was
Speaker 1: too much for me to keep up with, and so
Speaker 1: I was just like, no, I'm not I can't do this.
Speaker 1: This is too many films to like understand the other films.
Speaker 1: So a lot of listeners have been like, just watch
Speaker 1: these six in this order and it'll make sense. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's just a huge time investment and it's
Speaker 1: too mud. It's it's a little bit hard for me,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I get it. People. You know they're they're
Speaker 1: really caught up in them, see you. I feel like
Speaker 1: they'd just be baking them up as they go along.
Speaker 1: It's like, y'all, y'll have twelve movies like two TV
Speaker 1: shows I gotta watch to make it all makes sense, Like,
Speaker 1: oh man, wait to do the new shows? Fans is Sandal?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what do you see the storylines about that,
Speaker 1: just his foot where it's like, are we we got
Speaker 1: all kinds of threads that we're going down? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Spider Man into the Spider Verse. I thought
Speaker 1: that was cool. Have you seen that? Right? I like that.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that, So that one, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lot from the low key reactions about
Speaker 1: like the multiverse and the idea that like all the
Speaker 1: Marvel different movies are part of like some multiverse that's
Speaker 1: going to intersect, and like that that movie interacts with
Speaker 1: that in an interesting way. I'm starting to get excited
Speaker 1: about the Marvel cinematic universe just from four, my three
Speaker 1: year old, because he's like now real into like all
Speaker 1: these characters, even though he's like never all he's seen
Speaker 1: is like pictures of them, And so I'm just like
Speaker 1: imagining when he can like finally watch the movies, like
Speaker 1: how much it's going to make his brain melt and
Speaker 1: leak out of his years. Yeah, Or he's gonna be
Speaker 1: jumping off ship. Yeah, he's super there because that watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me watching like a few superhero things, I had a
Speaker 1: bad habit of jumping off of ship, thinking I wouldn't
Speaker 1: get hurt like when I was four, but I would
Speaker 1: try and put enough couch cushions below me to not
Speaker 1: shatter my ankles completely. Like the you know, the versions
Speaker 1: that we had, like when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: into superheroes were like a Hulk TV show and uh
Speaker 1: and Batman the sixties TV show and like I was
Speaker 1: just I was into it. That was good enough for me.
Speaker 1: The Greatest American Hero which was like a joke, but
Speaker 1: I took it seriously. What is sorry something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? I think that being diagnosed with a d
Speaker 1: h D on the app TikTok is underrated. And I
Speaker 1: think being diagnosed with lesbianism on the app TikTok is
Speaker 1: overrated because through the okay, so lately, if you've been
Speaker 1: on TikTok, and even if you haven't, there's like a
Speaker 1: widespread phenomenon of women starting to use TikTok and then
Speaker 1: there for you page, the algorithm, like the algorithmically decided
Speaker 1: feed starts showing them more and more lesbian content and
Speaker 1: content about compulsory heterosexuality or heteronormativity or whatever, and as
Speaker 1: a result, a lot of women are like ha ha,
Speaker 1: TikTok thinks I'm gay, but I'm not. And then like
Speaker 1: six months later they're like, turns out I am gay
Speaker 1: and and it took TikTok twenty minutes to figure out
Speaker 1: that I was gay based on my activity when I
Speaker 1: didn't know. And I'm like, you know, thirty years old
Speaker 1: or whatever the fuck, And I could be interested in
Speaker 1: hearing from the people in their lives if they knew,
Speaker 1: like if everybody around knew and they were the last
Speaker 1: to find out. I think okay, based on personal experience, yes, um.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was younger, having like a lot
Speaker 1: of I would make friends with gay or queer people
Speaker 1: and they would be like, are you sure you're not gay?
Speaker 1: And I'd be like yeah, and they were like okay,
Speaker 1: but are you sure though, and I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just like really comfortable with they're gay people, I
Speaker 1: mean gay people. And they were like okay, but are
Speaker 1: you gay? And I was like no. And then I
Speaker 1: like cut all my hair off and they were like
Speaker 1: you're gay and I was like no, I just don't
Speaker 1: want men to talk to me, and the like, I
Speaker 1: think you're gay and I was like no, it's just
Speaker 1: that i'm kind of like terrified of men. Sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I'm also definitely attracted to them but not women. But
Speaker 1: then all you know, when you if you have short
Speaker 1: hair and you're a girl, a lot of women just
Speaker 1: assume you're gay and then we'll hit on you. And
Speaker 1: then you're like, well, this isn't so bad. Actually this
Speaker 1: is kind of nice. And so are there are there
Speaker 1: people who have been on TikTok now who are like
Speaker 1: I realized through this algorithm that I like, I had
Speaker 1: a moment of self discovery realization. Wow, okay, and then
Speaker 1: what's what about the one I actually I switched these.
Speaker 1: Being diagnosed with d D is overrated. Being diagnosed with
Speaker 1: lesbianism is underrated. It like diagnosed by well, the algorithm
Speaker 1: fucking pitches ship to you, Like they'll start showing you
Speaker 1: something and if you interact with it, and by interact,
Speaker 1: I mean even just watch the video in full, or
Speaker 1: watch it multiple times, or pose it and then restart it,
Speaker 1: they'll show you a ton more ship Like that. The
Speaker 1: algem is constantly throwing shit at you that is popular
Speaker 1: or that it thinks you will like and then responding
Speaker 1: like instantaneously based on here. This is why TikTok is
Speaker 1: so addicting. Because it is so responsive and the algorithm
Speaker 1: is so responsive. But anyway, so a big thing on
Speaker 1: TikTok is like there's a lot of people with a
Speaker 1: d h D on TikTok who are there being like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up. Here's my life with a d h D.
Speaker 1: Here's like, you know, research stuff, my want to know
Speaker 1: if you have a d D or you know whatnot.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of people have made the
Speaker 1: observation that TikTok definitely fucking destroys your attention span um
Speaker 1: And so if you have a d D already and
Speaker 1: you're on TikTok, it's like impossible to get out of it,
Speaker 1: and it's actually a really bad, very overstimulating thing for
Speaker 1: you to do. And if you don't have a d D,
Speaker 1: you will begin to experience a lot of the symptoms
Speaker 1: that people with a d h D experience all the
Speaker 1: time because you're on the app that is like constantly
Speaker 1: fragmenting your focus and throwing distractions at you at like
Speaker 1: the speed of light. And uh so, you know, when
Speaker 1: you go on TikTok and they're like, hey do you
Speaker 1: do you feel like you can't focus and like you
Speaker 1: have a hard time getting offline and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: on this app. Yeah yeah, I'm on the like the
Speaker 1: screen version of cocaine. Of course I have a hard
Speaker 1: time focusing right, And then people are just be like
Speaker 1: and do I It's like we'll hold on, zoom out
Speaker 1: for a second, realize what the activity you're in, Gigston right,
Speaker 1: because it's like if you got off TikTok and you
Speaker 1: still felt all those things, yeah for sure, like you
Speaker 1: might have a d h D. But like if you're
Speaker 1: on TikTok, all bets are off, dude, like this is
Speaker 1: this is like it's like they threw crack cocaine into
Speaker 1: our into our minds again. They were like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: are you like fucked up? Like are you mentally ill?
Speaker 1: And You're like, no, I'm actually on a drug. Fine, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm on drugs right now. Yeah I feel crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: on drugs. Yeah, this I feel like I remember because
Speaker 1: you know when I get caught, because it knows your
Speaker 1: boy used to dabble in the dark street arts, because
Speaker 1: I get all kinds of trafficking content and like basketball jokes.
Speaker 1: It's minds is dancing, basketball jokes, drug trafficking, and construction
Speaker 1: workers showing their packed lunches. Oh interesting, drug trafficking because
Speaker 1: I get sex trafficking because it knows I'm a girl.
Speaker 1: And so I get all of these videos that are
Speaker 1: like girls you know, telling story where they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: me being whatever, you know, sometimes like meeting the guy
Speaker 1: who has a van, you know, and then it's like
Speaker 1: home and they're like I was trafficked and it's just
Speaker 1: like raising awareness or something. I don't know, but now
Speaker 1: I'm terrified. Yeah, And then it's funny you get you
Speaker 1: get stuck on there, just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and then
Speaker 1: like every you know, like seven videos, that one comes
Speaker 1: up like hey hey, hey, hey, hey, I want to
Speaker 1: take a break. Break. You gonna take a break real quick.
Speaker 1: You just take a break. Here's some tips on how
Speaker 1: to take a break. You know, because you've been on
Speaker 1: this motherfucker for a minute that we're even to introduced
Speaker 1: a slight bit of responsibility as a platform to you. Yes, Jack,
Speaker 1: when you are on TikTok for like over an hour
Speaker 1: and a half, a video comes up of a of
Speaker 1: a guy whose face I now know intimately like my
Speaker 1: Space tom now. Yes, it's like my Space tom now.
Speaker 1: And he says to me, Hey, you've been scrolling for
Speaker 1: a long time. Maybe it's time to go to bed.
Speaker 1: There will still be videos in the morning. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: like shut the funk up video. Yeah, you don't even
Speaker 1: know how advanced TikTok is they are. They are regulating
Speaker 1: you so you don't get burned out, so you can
Speaker 1: that's mean to be like, hey, like they should just
Speaker 1: like make the apple start to malfunction or something, instead
Speaker 1: of being like, hey, we're worried about you here at TikTok.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, man, it's like no, you're not dude.
Speaker 1: You keep shoveling all this other ship in my face,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, okay, we're worried that you won't come back
Speaker 1: if you do this, if you go too hard on TikTok. Please,
Speaker 1: if you let us harvest all of your data today,
Speaker 1: there will be no data left to harvest tomorrow. Exactly.
Speaker 1: We don't want to burn you out. You see the
Speaker 1: data fields. You have to leave one of your data
Speaker 1: fields fallow every year, right right, grow new data and
Speaker 1: data data crop rotation. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we will be right back. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and Texas is Texas saying big times. So Governor Greg
Speaker 1: Abbott and his married band of fascists have not given
Speaker 1: up on passing a bunch of bills that would turn
Speaker 1: the clock back to the nineteen thirties. Ish. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we might be we might be being too hard on
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties. But the uh, yeah, you know, they
Speaker 1: see the demographic changes that are coming their way and
Speaker 1: they need to protect their you know, white supremacy, so
Speaker 1: they are doing everything they can to make it so
Speaker 1: that you know, the population as it exists in Texas
Speaker 1: can't vote. Yeah, I mean, that's that's the that's the
Speaker 1: easiest way to hold onto power when you have a
Speaker 1: platform that is unappealing to most and it completely doesn't acknowledge,
Speaker 1: you know, the humanity of the people that live in
Speaker 1: your state. So, you know, the bills. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this because a lot of Republican controlled states after the
Speaker 1: presidential election and because of the Big Lie, they're using
Speaker 1: this premise of like, we need more voter security to
Speaker 1: essentially strip away all the ways that makes it easier
Speaker 1: for people to vote. And that's how they're you know,
Speaker 1: potentially combatting the voter security question, which is a total fallacy.
Speaker 1: So in Texas, they want to ban drive through polling places.
Speaker 1: They want to just severely restrict absentee voting and twenty
Speaker 1: four hour voting, which helps if you have a you know,
Speaker 1: restrictive job schedule, that you have the ability to vote
Speaker 1: at any time of day. And even you know, most
Speaker 1: fucked up is like give poll watchers essentially, like the
Speaker 1: ability to just beat at a polling place and intimidate
Speaker 1: the funk out of whoever they want and really again
Speaker 1: create create scenes that we haven't seen since you know,
Speaker 1: say Jim Crow. And this isn't the first time they've
Speaker 1: tried to do this. The last time they tried to
Speaker 1: pass the bills, Democrats left in protest, They left like
Speaker 1: the capitol to you know, prevent them from achieving a
Speaker 1: quorum to actually have a vote. And then this time
Speaker 1: that the governor called a special session, they wanted to
Speaker 1: force a vote, but now over fifty Democrats, they chartered
Speaker 1: planes to leave the state again to this time to
Speaker 1: prevent them from achieving a quorum to have a vote,
Speaker 1: to go to d C to lobby their federal counterparts
Speaker 1: to pass some fucking bills. Because right now in the Senate,
Speaker 1: we see like with the for whatever reason, the intent
Speaker 1: to hold onto the filibuster is preventing you know, HR
Speaker 1: one and for the people act like the robust voting
Speaker 1: rights bills that we're trying to pass that would make
Speaker 1: it easier for everyone to vote, not just Democrats, republic
Speaker 1: fucking everyone, just to say, hey, this is how it works, right,
Speaker 1: we vote here and they may the best thing win. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So one of the state representing St. Martinez Fisher, he said, quote,
Speaker 1: this is a moment that is going to wake America up.
Speaker 1: We have to decide if we're going to stand for democracy.
Speaker 1: We want the nation to join us, and we want
Speaker 1: the U. S. Senate to hear us and act because
Speaker 1: this isn't this isn't you know, them saying they just
Speaker 1: don't agree with the legislation, like they're they're for votes
Speaker 1: that they're constantly outnumbered in and they still vote for
Speaker 1: them to leave. They're trying to show everybody this is
Speaker 1: so outside of the norms that people need to be
Speaker 1: paying attention to what's happening here to the point that
Speaker 1: they're risking quote unquote arrest. And I use that term
Speaker 1: loosely because Governor Abbott has like doing w w E
Speaker 1: style commentaries like and I'll keep doing special votes and
Speaker 1: special sessions and until we get to election day and
Speaker 1: I don't care. And if they come back, I will
Speaker 1: send the sheriffs or whatever to to arrest these members them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: essentially they will be arrested and arrested and cabined until
Speaker 1: they vote. But again, there aren't any laws on the
Speaker 1: books that actually like what they're doing. Say there it's
Speaker 1: a crime. But they did just vote to authorize the
Speaker 1: sergeant at arms to go out and arrest the legislators.
Speaker 1: But again that's something their jurisdiction is restricted to Texas.
Speaker 1: And would you know, it's a lot of it's a
Speaker 1: lot of blustering, but is happening. It's so crazy to
Speaker 1: me that takes us as the state that culturally is like,
Speaker 1: don't treat on me, small state, get out of my affairs,
Speaker 1: liberty for all. And then it's like, okay, what about me,
Speaker 1: I'm a woman and would like to have control of
Speaker 1: my body. Fucking no, it's like what about me, I
Speaker 1: vote for a different party? No fun, you too. It's
Speaker 1: just like, asshole, it's terms and restrictions apply. It's so naked,
Speaker 1: it's so like, it's crazy that they can get away
Speaker 1: with it, and it's so naked. Can I just I
Speaker 1: had to google this because it's too perfect. There's a
Speaker 1: quote by Hunter S. Thompson which is like so prescient.
Speaker 1: The Republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what
Speaker 1: happened to old man Bush and ninety two. He peaked
Speaker 1: too early and had no response to It's the economy stupid,
Speaker 1: which should always been the case every GOP administration since
Speaker 1: is let the military industrial complex loot the treasury and
Speaker 1: plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of wartime
Speaker 1: economic emergency. Next and quickly comes to mind, along with
Speaker 1: Reagan and his ridiculous trickle down theory of US economic policy.
Speaker 1: If the rich get wretched, the theory goes long before
Speaker 1: their parts will overflow, it will somehow trickle down to
Speaker 1: the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush
Speaker 1: family plates than need nothing at all. Republicans have never
Speaker 1: approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back
Speaker 1: to pre industrial America when only white male property owners
Speaker 1: could vote. Yeah, yeah, that's it. It's still the same thing,
Speaker 1: still the same agenda, just new characters, newcast domes, it's
Speaker 1: but it's like, it's if it didn't affect so many
Speaker 1: people in such an awful way, it would be interesting
Speaker 1: to observe from a scientific point of view, because the
Speaker 1: group of people there, you know, taking the rights away from,
Speaker 1: is increasing and the amount of people that they represents shrinking,
Speaker 1: so they have to do these more and more tyrannical
Speaker 1: things and like just nakedly anti democratic, you know, borderline
Speaker 1: authoritarian lawmaking to suppress the vote. And it's like, at
Speaker 1: what point did they trip over the line where people
Speaker 1: are actually like, yo, what the fuck you can like
Speaker 1: this is crazy, It's hard. I mean, it's it's bubbling
Speaker 1: up because right now a lot of especially Democrats and
Speaker 1: progressives and and anyone who's interested in voting rights are
Speaker 1: looking at what's happening in the lack of movement from
Speaker 1: especially the Senate, because we have this stupid, arcane mechanism
Speaker 1: called the filibuster in place where if you watch on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: even for MSNBC, you'll have people like Casey hunt say
Speaker 1: called the filibuster the tool of the minority rather than
Speaker 1: a relic of the most racist times. But okay, MSNBC,
Speaker 1: thank you for your really cool of coverage, but they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, they won't do away with it because that
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest roadblocks to passing a lot
Speaker 1: of these bills to have, like even with the just
Speaker 1: you know, mathe slim mathematical majority that the Democrats have,
Speaker 1: And hopefully, I think these legislators from Texas are hoping
Speaker 1: to put more pressure on these senators and people in
Speaker 1: Congress to do something because they're saying, if you don't
Speaker 1: handle it up here, we're getting we don't have the
Speaker 1: numbers to do it at the state level. So this
Speaker 1: is the only place where you're going to ensure any
Speaker 1: kind of outcome, especially for your federal offices as well.
Speaker 1: This affects everyone, and I think a lot of us
Speaker 1: here are looking at the President and Joe Biden and wondering, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're at this point. It just seems like he's refusing
Speaker 1: to really take this seriously because I think, like, you know,
Speaker 1: without the fillerbuster in place, a lot of real progressive
Speaker 1: policy could come through that would change things for you
Speaker 1: know that I guess the status quo in DC will
Speaker 1: be it's necessary like that. That's the thing that I
Speaker 1: think people are ignoring is that like, like you said, Tim, like,
Speaker 1: because the demographics are chan changing, the Republicans are going
Speaker 1: to like this is only going to get worse and
Speaker 1: more blatant. Their authoritarianism is only going to get more extreme,
Speaker 1: and there needs to be changes to the laws to
Speaker 1: to protect against that. But I think people are just
Speaker 1: because Trump lost the election, they're just less less concerned
Speaker 1: about it and let paying less attention. But like the
Speaker 1: central like Republican Party has only grown more and more
Speaker 1: like startlingly authoritarian, and nothing nothing's really being done about it.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, I think it was the second Obama
Speaker 1: election and the Republicans got their ass handed to them,
Speaker 1: and then they came out with that report about the
Speaker 1: changing demographics of the country and how they needed to
Speaker 1: basically extend a olive branch to the Hispanic community, and
Speaker 1: like they were you know, you get these little I
Speaker 1: mean that maybe that was that was it, and then
Speaker 1: they ignored it. But there are these little signs that
Speaker 1: every now and then they kind of know what they
Speaker 1: need to do, and then they just go and ignore it.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say, like, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be you don't have to walk down this road of
Speaker 1: absolute tyranny, and I think they're only doing it because
Speaker 1: they're so entrenched in the system of just fulfilling the
Speaker 1: wishes of these billionaires that fund the party. And not
Speaker 1: to say that the Democrats don't do you know, their
Speaker 1: own version of that, but it just seems it seems
Speaker 1: like such a smaller, richer, more evil minority of people
Speaker 1: who are calling the shots with the GOP. But I
Speaker 1: did want to ask you, Timp, what is registering for
Speaker 1: voting like in New Zealand? Like how many forms do
Speaker 1: you have to fill out? How many different to make
Speaker 1: sure that you are registered? And then which ideas and
Speaker 1: proofs of address do you need to bring to the
Speaker 1: poll to make sure that you are registered to vote.
Speaker 1: In our last general election, which was last year, we
Speaker 1: had attached to the general election where you you know,
Speaker 1: pick what party is going to be in power and
Speaker 1: what politician will represent your area that you live in.
Speaker 1: We also had a referendum on cannabis law reform and
Speaker 1: I went to the polls Stoned with no wallet, I
Speaker 1: D or anything and cast my vote. That's how like
Speaker 1: it literally could not be easier to vote in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Do you just fill out you just sort of your
Speaker 1: self identify like on your ballot so they know who
Speaker 1: the vote is attributed to or how does it how
Speaker 1: we've gone, we've actually got some pretty good system. So
Speaker 1: there's like they're they're genuinely has been a massive effort
Speaker 1: in New Zealand to make it as easy as possible
Speaker 1: and we've got I can't remember what they're called, but
Speaker 1: they're like an easy vote card. So you register, you
Speaker 1: know a little bit earlier, you make sure that your
Speaker 1: details are correct on the electoral role, and then they
Speaker 1: will post you just a little business card sized slip
Speaker 1: of paper that's got a number on it. You go,
Speaker 1: you go, and you take that to a polling volunteer
Speaker 1: at the polling station and on the day and like
Speaker 1: that's a there's a sheet of paper you put I
Speaker 1: think it's actually may even be pre filled with your name,
Speaker 1: and then you just take a couple of boxes and
Speaker 1: that's your that's your ballot cast and the lines are
Speaker 1: really like I don't want to rub it because I
Speaker 1: see the news footage of you know, especially minority community
Speaker 1: is just waiting in the cold for twelve hours and
Speaker 1: people delivering them food just to cast a ballot and
Speaker 1: it breaks my fucking heart man. And again it's one
Speaker 1: of those like huge disconnects between America exporting the story
Speaker 1: of itself being, you know, the greatest democracy in the
Speaker 1: world in the birthplace of one democracy. It's like, you
Speaker 1: fucking me, We we just have the best pr machine ever.
Speaker 1: It's great to have dreams, it's great to have goals,
Speaker 1: but you've got to kind of be real about your
Speaker 1: current situation and what you're going to do to hit them.
Speaker 1: You know, the factor judge where the US is doing
Speaker 1: their act as great democracy, Like, we love what you did,
Speaker 1: but you know, I had to hit the buzzer on
Speaker 1: that because it was following a little bit short in
Speaker 1: the accuracy department. Just keep working at it and we
Speaker 1: hope to see you next season. Yeah. I can see
Speaker 1: the intent though. The intent is there, and I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: but I feel like Americans don't even acknowledge like how
Speaker 1: simple the government could make it if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: Like it is. It's super intentional. If I can tell
Speaker 1: you one thing from it is and it's like, I
Speaker 1: imagine really expensive to do that, Like it seems to
Speaker 1: me just intrinsic, like it would be cheaper just from
Speaker 1: to allow people to vote and not put these roadblocks up,
Speaker 1: because all of them represent a barrier that someone's got
Speaker 1: to you know, force in like these id checks and
Speaker 1: that someone someone's actually got to be there doing those
Speaker 1: idea checks. But there's got to be a system whatever.
Speaker 1: It's you know, everyone's heard's a million times before. It's
Speaker 1: not about voted fraud. Voted fraud does not exist in
Speaker 1: any statistical way in America. It's not it does. It's
Speaker 1: typically it's been republic kins that have been caught over
Speaker 1: the last year. I been like, I'm sorry, man, I've
Speaker 1: made my j didn't like half his family vote in
Speaker 1: a different state the way they reside to try and
Speaker 1: like swing ship. I mean I think they were just
Speaker 1: errant le vote. I mean it's again, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like these stupid little attempts from people thinking they're going
Speaker 1: to be heroes by doing this really light of voter fraud.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's all that, you know, this whole concept
Speaker 1: because to your point of like, it's never just it's
Speaker 1: if the white ruling class and that balance of power
Speaker 1: begins to be upset, this is when the bills start
Speaker 1: coming in. This is when state houses, start jerrymandering. This
Speaker 1: is when they started restricting voting rights, because again, they
Speaker 1: like voting only if it serves their purposes. And now
Speaker 1: we're seeing them be like, Okay, there's too many of them.
Speaker 1: We gotta pull up the gate, we gotta put up
Speaker 1: the ladders, we gotta make sure that it's impossible now,
Speaker 1: because this thing is gonna get away from us. And
Speaker 1: the freaking thing is the Republicans have understood for a
Speaker 1: long time how to do this. The structural stuff organization
Speaker 1: is not the federalist society. They understand the power of
Speaker 1: state legislatures and getting judges on the benches all the
Speaker 1: ship that like I imagine typical Americans don't really pay
Speaker 1: much attention to because you're living your goddamn lives. You know,
Speaker 1: you're you're keeping the lights on, you're trying to pay rent,
Speaker 1: look after your family. And the Republicans are like putting
Speaker 1: all of the most dastardly people and these roles where
Speaker 1: they can just tweak shit enough and a little bit
Speaker 1: here and a little bit there in this court and
Speaker 1: you know, the Sheriff's department, and then all of a sudden, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got like a third of the state that can't
Speaker 1: cast a ballot. It's so crazy. America loves to brag
Speaker 1: about how we have like the best colleges in the world,
Speaker 1: but all are like educated. All that education is going towards,
Speaker 1: uh like educating people to be in the federalist society,
Speaker 1: like how the looted ways to make voting harder. And
Speaker 1: I got to say this though, aversing the advertising industry,
Speaker 1: I get. I get sweeped up in this stuff when
Speaker 1: I'm on podcast like this, and I've I've got to
Speaker 1: just put it on the record. I fucking love America
Speaker 1: and I love Americans. Okay, okay, yeah, I mean nothing
Speaker 1: you said would indicate otherwise. I mean that like the
Speaker 1: only thing you've you've been on podcast where you said
Speaker 1: something you made an observation about Americanly like this guy
Speaker 1: fucking hates America. Man, it's very easy to get into
Speaker 1: a det spiral about how bad the democratic process says
Speaker 1: over the people like oh, yeah, no, welcome to Welcome
Speaker 1: to this show. It's called the daily death spiral. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I was listening to your stand up about how much
Speaker 1: more progressive the healthcare system and grand Theft auto is
Speaker 1: than the US healthcare system. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: really good observation. And no lies, not not a single
Speaker 1: lie detective. Even the name has a utopia of a
Speaker 1: medical like it's wish fulfilment. It's like, God, damn, could
Speaker 1: you imagine? All right, real quick before you blast off,
Speaker 1: let's go to space real quick. So Richard Branson went
Speaker 1: to space. First of all, I just want to say
Speaker 1: the headline on Drudge Report, right wing media outlet, but
Speaker 1: it's uh like the single page. It's just a single
Speaker 1: page with a bunch of links, and it still competes
Speaker 1: with like New York Times for page views. Like this,
Speaker 1: this is the most popular news single page in America.
Speaker 1: So I always like to check it. And on Sunday
Speaker 1: their headline was Richard Branson Branson blast off with the
Speaker 1: big headline. And then above that, Death Valley hits a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty degrees fahrenheit, within four degrees of world
Speaker 1: record exclamation point, palm Springs, highest every tempts per month,
Speaker 1: record temperature, strampower supply, USA, hottest June reservoirs drying up.
Speaker 1: In addition to this being just like a boring pissing
Speaker 1: contest between rich guys, apparently Bezos is not impressed with
Speaker 1: Branson's He Branson didn't break the carbon barrier, which is
Speaker 1: the internationally recognized barrier for space, and Bezos like that,
Speaker 1: he didn't really go on our sprays. And I mean
Speaker 1: they didn't do a good job convincing me either with
Speaker 1: the video. They just they didn't even like put on
Speaker 1: astronaut suits. They were just like in some glasses floating
Speaker 1: around but commercial baby, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 1: ships and giggles. But uh yeah, I just keep picturing
Speaker 1: Bezos and Branson like saying we as they fly into
Speaker 1: space and contributing nothing to the mission, and the actual
Speaker 1: astronauts having to like stop their complicated work to like
Speaker 1: look over and be like, yeah, wow, are you really
Speaker 1: doing it, sir? This is great? Great worry Yeah, just
Speaker 1: over and over base Like this is so fucking sick
Speaker 1: right now, I'm so sick that thank you, Mr Bezos.
Speaker 1: We have to I'm checking the telemetry right now, so
Speaker 1: fucking sick. I can't believe it. That was approximately how
Speaker 1: eloquent Bransom was. He was like, that was I've done
Speaker 1: some ridiculous stuff, but dude, that was ridiculous. That was
Speaker 1: like that was his That's one small step from me
Speaker 1: was dude for donk Well, he told he was like
Speaker 1: for all the dreamers out there, He's like, I'm a
Speaker 1: grown man in a spaceship. I believe your dreams. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're in a plane that went up that didn't even
Speaker 1: bust the car, be barrier full. Just relax and and
Speaker 1: do something with your money to help the earth that
Speaker 1: you left that is on fire as we speak. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that just that, Like, I feel like a movie wouldn't
Speaker 1: put those headlines right next to each other during the
Speaker 1: like headline reel where when a movie is like trying
Speaker 1: to montage past an apocalypse to get to the post apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Like having them on the same headline is a lot
Speaker 1: Like that's very on the nose. Yeah, the ship that
Speaker 1: rich white people do is astounding to me. And and
Speaker 1: it's mostly because like, let me, let me actually something
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack like, could you imagine jay Z going
Speaker 1: to space? I could you could? I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: they're going to space. I mean, look, he signed a
Speaker 1: deal with the NFL, But but going to space, no, bro, No,
Speaker 1: in general, jay Z grew up port. Jay Z ain't
Speaker 1: about to go nowhere. That's gonna kill him like that
Speaker 1: easily and losing his day own money, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: after seeing him on a wave runner with his vacation hair,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I've seen it always Jay, But yes,
Speaker 1: with this, with this, what you're putting down right now, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I understand the point you're making for sure.
Speaker 1: Like it's just you know, listen, we could talk about
Speaker 1: richness all we want, capitalism, billionaires blah blah blah, but
Speaker 1: somebody get Jackie's a billion dollars. First of all, all
Speaker 1: help some people. I'm still gonna keep up. I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna keep a lot of my money, but I'll help
Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know what I'm saying. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I'm not doing. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: fucking space. I'm not doing ship that's gonna be close
Speaker 1: to killing my ass. One thing can go world. The
Speaker 1: most I'm doing is getting on the plane. That's the
Speaker 1: most thing. That's the most I'm doing. I'm not jumping
Speaker 1: out of a plane. I'm not going beyond the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand, Like, what makes you want to say, well,
Speaker 1: what have I done? I made? I made four billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Fuck let's go to space. Like I don't don't understand it.
Speaker 1: It's so wild to me. And then we just left them.
Speaker 1: There's just like a fork in the road I think
Speaker 1: for really wealthy people where it's like okay, like I've
Speaker 1: bought everything that can be owned, and then you're sort
Speaker 1: of like okay, and then you get to this fork
Speaker 1: in the road, which is like maybe help people like
Speaker 1: in a significant way, or the other side of the
Speaker 1: road goes build spaceship, and they're like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: build spaceship, build spaceship. I'm also mad they go into
Speaker 1: space because I'm tired of I'm tired of like Twitter
Speaker 1: memes and ship about it, like it's just I'm so
Speaker 1: tired of people. Oh well, they're sucking up the planet,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to leave it like okay, like it
Speaker 1: all it all spawns just boring takes. It's all bo
Speaker 1: on the nose. It's boring, but gotta I mean there
Speaker 1: they're doing it like you don't need a meme because
Speaker 1: the meme, like all the writing is there in this pause. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a really good point about just like
Speaker 1: that some something about the confluence of like personality defects
Speaker 1: that makes you become a billionaire. It's going to space.
Speaker 1: It's wanting to like feel proud of that. There's like
Speaker 1: something bad person energy. Like I'm reading this book The
Speaker 1: Power Broker about Robert Moses and the guy who like
Speaker 1: designed a lot of New York City and was like
Speaker 1: a racist piece of ship, and like early on he's
Speaker 1: like the super idealistic guy and he's publishing a paper
Speaker 1: that he worked on with like twenty people who adored him,
Speaker 1: who he was like a really good leader to, and
Speaker 1: then when it comes to like taking credit for the report,
Speaker 1: he just like takes all their names off the report,
Speaker 1: like he's just there's just like these certain character defects
Speaker 1: that make you really successful in America and all they
Speaker 1: also happen to make you like a very shitty person.
Speaker 1: And I feel like going really wanting to go to
Speaker 1: space and like have people recognize you as guy in
Speaker 1: space is one of them. Like even with Trump, as
Speaker 1: you were pointing out, like even Trump like wanted to
Speaker 1: get involved as like a want to be billionaire. Absolutely
Speaker 1: he's even when he was Trump took credit for the
Speaker 1: for them going to space, said I'd rather see Richard
Speaker 1: into playing today than me in the spaceship. Richard loves it,
Speaker 1: and Bezos loves it, and a lot of rich guys
Speaker 1: love space. Okay, you will explain that someday, but they
Speaker 1: do love space. That's a real quote he said out
Speaker 1: his mouth. And then he goes on and say they
Speaker 1: love spending, they love sending racket ships up. And I
Speaker 1: made it possible for them to do this. I actually
Speaker 1: said to my people, let the private sector do it.
Speaker 1: These guys want to come in with billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Let's lease them facilities, because you know, you need a
Speaker 1: certain face. Silities just end up brackets. And we have
Speaker 1: those facilities. We have the greatest facilities because we are
Speaker 1: leading the pack in space by far. I'm so mad.
Speaker 1: I'm so mad at Donald Trump. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: let me tell you why, Hey, what's going on? You know?
Speaker 1: Try overall think the presidency is bad? Uh in general.
Speaker 1: I know I'm about to upset a bunch of people
Speaker 1: out here, but I think even if Lord Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: got into the White House, that niggas gonna do some
Speaker 1: bad ship because just the office of the presidency is bad.
Speaker 1: But some people would be better than others, right, I'm
Speaker 1: so mad that Trump is on the lower spectrum, if
Speaker 1: not the bottom of bad presidents, because if he wasn't,
Speaker 1: this nigga is the funniest motherfucker in the planet that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, like that, she is pure comedy, and
Speaker 1: I can't enjoy his comedy because she's such a terrible
Speaker 1: fucking person. Like what you just read is a scripted
Speaker 1: television show. Yeah, the scripted television show that we can
Speaker 1: enjoy because he's serious, like and not in a charming way,
Speaker 1: not in the fun way. He's serious and like all
Speaker 1: the crap that spews out of his mouth. But okay,
Speaker 1: once he's dead, I feel like Trumps movies are gonna
Speaker 1: be like an entire genre because it's like he is
Speaker 1: Michael Scott, Like he's a Michael Scott level like character
Speaker 1: just in in reality. But the unfortunate then fortunate reality
Speaker 1: is that the stakes are so high that those like
Speaker 1: translate to real world outcomes that are just deadly. That's
Speaker 1: they're just yeah, that can funk up a whole goddamn nation.
Speaker 1: But like the immediate instinct at the at the front
Speaker 1: of that quote to be like, look, I don't even
Speaker 1: want to go to space like a like a kid
Speaker 1: who just lost a race and is like I didn't
Speaker 1: even want to win. Yeah, he's like, well bet of
Speaker 1: than than me. I would rather see Richard in the
Speaker 1: plane than me in the spaceship. Richard loves its, loves it.
Speaker 1: But it's like that that was like, that's not anybody
Speaker 1: else's thought except billionaires. Billionaires are the ones who are
Speaker 1: like looking at him being like, mother fucker, so space
Speaker 1: money space also, Trump push your line as are you
Speaker 1: know your ass wouldn't go to space, your scary as
Speaker 1: you know your as when you go, you wouldn't get
Speaker 1: near a rocket? You No, that's not at all almost definite. Yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. How much time we got?
Speaker 1: Five minutes and we're back. And the privatization of like
Speaker 1: kind of security forces on a on a very small
Speaker 1: scale is being delivered to Americans via a new Ring product.
Speaker 1: Yeah drones, baby, yeah they. I don't know why this
Speaker 1: would make anyone feel fucking good about anything, but like
Speaker 1: you know, Ring and that entire home security industry like
Speaker 1: is built on like scaring the funk out of people
Speaker 1: and getting them to buy into their version of reality.
Speaker 1: Where like every neighborhood in America is filled with dangerous people,
Speaker 1: and like the only way to protect yourself is to
Speaker 1: like have constant surveillance and apps where people can like
Speaker 1: talk about their neighbors and and you know, and and
Speaker 1: get off some of the most racist takes you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And you know, like we talked about how like when
Speaker 1: Ring was bought by Amazon, then they were putting out
Speaker 1: ads for like looking for crime reporters to help like
Speaker 1: create content for their ads. Again to keep this sort
Speaker 1: of cruel and unusual world narrative going for all their users.
Speaker 1: And as if having a ton of hackable cameras wasn't
Speaker 1: enough to make you feel safe, Ring has announced this
Speaker 1: new product which is called the Ring Always Home Cam.
Speaker 1: It's a fucking drone that will fly around your house
Speaker 1: so you can check all the nooks and crannies when
Speaker 1: you're out of the house. So I'll just read it
Speaker 1: like it looks so like it like looks like Wally's Friend.
Speaker 1: It's made to look so non aggressive, but it's a
Speaker 1: miniature quad copter with a camera on it. And they
Speaker 1: say the Ring Always Home Camp is a drone camera
Speaker 1: that you can program to follow preset flight paths throughout
Speaker 1: your home. Yeah, you'll get the most out of it
Speaker 1: when paired with a ring Alarm subscription, since the drone
Speaker 1: is automatically triggered to lift from its base to fly
Speaker 1: preset paths. In the ad for it, it was basically
Speaker 1: some person leaving their house and like setting their alarm,
Speaker 1: but then a guy with a ski mask decided to
Speaker 1: open a window and the alarm went off, and then
Speaker 1: the drones like like to check and this guy's checking
Speaker 1: his phone and it looks like this like steady cam
Speaker 1: shot going through your house and it arrives to the
Speaker 1: point of entry where this guy with the scheme mask
Speaker 1: is in and the guy sees and he's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. It's a little quad copter. I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: you know what, crime over and like leaves and it
Speaker 1: follows him home and he decided to change his life
Speaker 1: and go to college become an engineer for ring Um
Speaker 1: and I it's weird that like again, as if there
Speaker 1: we don't have enough ways for you to put cameras
Speaker 1: in your own home, Like I guess they're trying to
Speaker 1: be like stationary cameras are for victims, but like for
Speaker 1: those of us that embrace the surveillance state, you can
Speaker 1: now invite it directly into your home, and the potential
Speaker 1: for bad ship with this just seems infinite. Like the
Speaker 1: idea that now you're gonna deploy security drones within your
Speaker 1: home is just like such a nightmare a situation for me.
Speaker 1: But I just won't also point out that, you know,
Speaker 1: Amazon and the police are using Ring cameras to basically
Speaker 1: privately crowdfund their own surveillance networks. And it's a little
Speaker 1: I think not many people aware of this all but
Speaker 1: two states, Montana and Wyoming. Uh, this is from the
Speaker 1: Verte quote. Now have police or fire departments participating in
Speaker 1: Amazon's Ring network, which lets law enforcement ask users for
Speaker 1: footage from their ring security cameras to assist with investigations.
Speaker 1: And they say now, figures from Rings show more than
Speaker 1: nine departments joined the program in for a total of
Speaker 1: over two thousand. And they're saying that even if you're
Speaker 1: a person who if the police say, hey, we'd like
Speaker 1: to obtain some of the footage from your ring camera,
Speaker 1: some people who own the cameras don't even have the
Speaker 1: ability to say no. They're just like Amazon will just
Speaker 1: go around them. And be like yeah, okay, here it is.
Speaker 1: So this is just a very there's like so many
Speaker 1: layers to this that it just like there gets spooky
Speaker 1: and spookier and spookier when you look at it. What
Speaker 1: are the cops doing? We're not doing Rather that they
Speaker 1: need like entire cities to be on ring camera, right
Speaker 1: like this really, I mean this is this is all
Speaker 1: the ads that the defund the police movement really needs,
Speaker 1: right Like people still need to depend on like fucking
Speaker 1: cameras flying around every inch of their home and that
Speaker 1: still maybe doesn't even prevent the crime, Like what the
Speaker 1: hell do we have the cops for? And then that's
Speaker 1: then we go step for like and then the rain
Speaker 1: camera gets super welke. It's like, but what is crime?
Speaker 1: Is it? A is a sectrum of a of a
Speaker 1: society where there's no social safety net and people are
Speaker 1: driven to such desperation that their only financial recourse or
Speaker 1: to commit property crimes. Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos and blah blah.
Speaker 1: But it's like like I don't know where they Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like the simple question is, wait, what what
Speaker 1: about police? If I need super drone to shoot away
Speaker 1: a suspected burglary, A burglar from my home. Right, where
Speaker 1: are the cops watching my ring fotage? I guess. But
Speaker 1: but the cool stuff when it's aimed at someone's backyard
Speaker 1: and they got a pool, it's like, Okay, that's not
Speaker 1: you're not enforcing anything. Have you Have you seen any
Speaker 1: of like the YouTube videos of people putting guns on
Speaker 1: quad copters, because that's happening. I saw. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I saw a terminator to a judgment. Basically, I have
Speaker 1: an idea of what that's like. But you're saying people
Speaker 1: are now I mean just like home homespun homespun killer drums.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, well yeah, I mean that that that
Speaker 1: goes along with that, like lego glocks that that just
Speaker 1: came out. People like they're like, it's just a cool
Speaker 1: gun that they glued legos on to like make the
Speaker 1: gun more children. Yeah, that's cool, but can end to life.
Speaker 1: And because that's because we're talking esthetics. But I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think about, like one of the big arguments
Speaker 1: for gun ownership in America is like the fan to
Speaker 1: see of like that that iconic figure of guy in
Speaker 1: ski mask breaking into house and getting to shoot someone
Speaker 1: with impunity and like I can just imagine, like it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's much of a much of a
Speaker 1: leap to a world where this thing rises out of
Speaker 1: the ground with a fucking handgun and attached to it
Speaker 1: right and again inherently like anything on that Internet connected
Speaker 1: could be hackable. So who knows what other eventual applications
Speaker 1: they have. I don't know if anyone. Again, I don't
Speaker 1: know who this is for, but this seems like a
Speaker 1: very specific person who's consumed a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: Facebook posts and like neighbor app posts to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need this, I need this. The only way to
Speaker 1: feel safe is drone. Just yeah. They make it look
Speaker 1: they make this ship look cute as hell, and the
Speaker 1: commercial like it's not some it's not know indicating what
Speaker 1: our bleak future looks like. It really was meant to
Speaker 1: look like a fun thing that would make someone reconsider
Speaker 1: committing a crime because it saw you. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some good news in this crazy mixed up world. A
Speaker 1: corporation bringing two groups together after at long last, you know,
Speaker 1: this has been years of these groups butting heads and
Speaker 1: Hines is is here to bring the hot dog people
Speaker 1: and the hot Dog bun people together. It's a I
Speaker 1: think it's a Seinfeld joke maybe about like how you
Speaker 1: know hot dogs come in ten packs, hot dog buttons
Speaker 1: coming eight? What's the deal with that? Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: that Hines is trying to broker a piece here, broker
Speaker 1: an accord between the two. But don't they own the
Speaker 1: fucking aren't they all owned by the same like three
Speaker 1: companies anyway? Yeah, General Foods, Craft or whatever. They fucking
Speaker 1: owned the bread and the hot doug people. Is it
Speaker 1: really reaching across the aisle or I guess in this
Speaker 1: romantic version it is. Yeah, the I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 1: are all owned by like one of two companies. So
Speaker 1: the reason that they're said that they have different counts
Speaker 1: is hot dogs used to be a thing that was
Speaker 1: sold by butchers, and butchers tend to go with like
Speaker 1: the ten pack for all things because that's just like
Speaker 1: what makes sense, like what's the easiest count. And but
Speaker 1: then bakers go with eight because bakers, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they don't they don't play by Yeah, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: mean but that, but that's not an even ten. Like
Speaker 1: bakers are loose cannons when it comes to numbers. They'll
Speaker 1: just they'll throw thirteen roles at you. They don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck, you know, like is different than you're does
Speaker 1: and fuck the meat bread balance. Here's another loaf. Go
Speaker 1: But is it because maybe because eight, because it's divisible
Speaker 1: by four and twelve is their god. The dozen is
Speaker 1: the god of the of the baker. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: basically I think the reason the dozen is the god
Speaker 1: of the baker is the reason that they have the eight,
Speaker 1: which is that they have trays, like baking trays that
Speaker 1: are like built in fours, so you always have like
Speaker 1: like multiples of four for all baking products. Who's making
Speaker 1: the tens? So that's what out further, that's what Hains
Speaker 1: needs to be thinking about right here. So are they
Speaker 1: going to Is this like a real thing? Is this
Speaker 1: like a marketing thing? They're just trying to They had
Speaker 1: a bad, damnit, Jack, I was hoping for substantive change.
Speaker 1: They had a bad because they and they were like
Speaker 1: Embroider and accounting scandal that I know we all followed closely.
Speaker 1: Their CEO had to resign in twenty nineteen. Process were
Speaker 1: already falling before the ketchup shortage during the pandemic. So
Speaker 1: they're like, uh, we're back. It's not really like a
Speaker 1: growth product. It's not like people are still finding out
Speaker 1: about catchup. So I don't know, you're like, did you
Speaker 1: hear what they did? That's the Oh they make the
Speaker 1: red stuff. Oh so it's the So they're acting as
Speaker 1: so the condiment maker is acting as the intermediary, neutral
Speaker 1: third party to create this accord. I see, I see,
Speaker 1: I see, I see. That's why I buy Nathan's. They
Speaker 1: come in eight and the buns come in eight, right,
Speaker 1: but they match up? Yeah, because I have a terrible
Speaker 1: I have a terrible I hate when you got extra,
Speaker 1: but I just can't handle this ship. It really bugs
Speaker 1: me again, along with me being a completionist and not
Speaker 1: watching a lot of the m c U films. I
Speaker 1: don't like getting a ten pack of buns when I
Speaker 1: only have eight francs. Just did you watch all the
Speaker 1: low Keys? No? Okay? Any anything well that that I
Speaker 1: think towards the end is when they like revealed the
Speaker 1: large m c U like crossover a possibility. I only
Speaker 1: know about this because Toby McGuire was trending, and my
Speaker 1: Google alert that tells me every time Toby McGuire's trending, Uh,
Speaker 1: hit me up and wait, not Toby McGuire. What who
Speaker 1: did Toby McGuire played Spider Man. Yeah, so people are like,
Speaker 1: finally Toby McGuire is gonna like enter into the m
Speaker 1: c U. Our dreams are answered. I don't know people,
Speaker 1: people are weird. Yeah, oh yeah the McGuire us McGuire
Speaker 1: stands and uh yeah that that's so. His name was trending,
Speaker 1: which always intrigued me, and that that was the reason
Speaker 1: because like they opened the possibility of like all the
Speaker 1: different Marvel movies being connected and like some great crossover event,
Speaker 1: which I think excites. So it's really just a scheme
Speaker 1: to remake the remakes and remake those That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you best pronounced art art. All right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please
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