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June 17, 2021 65 mins

In episode 932, Jack and Miles are joined by Web Crawlers podcast hosts Ali Segel and Melissa Stetten to discuss Republicans obsession with critical race theory, more shitty police antics, what exists in the deep sea, In The Heights bombing, A Quiet Place 2 frustrating deaf moviegoers, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

  1. None of These Republicans Trying To Ban 'Critical Race Theory' Seem To Actually Be Able To Define It
  2. The Specter of Critical Race Theory Is Rotting Republicans’ Brains
  3. Shake Shack Manager Sues NYPD Cops, Unions After False Poisoning Accusation
  4. Shake Shack manager was held and ‘taunted’ after NYPD union falsely claimed he poisoned drinks, lawsuit says
  5. NYPD Crime Response Time Still Lags Three Months Post-Protest
  6. 911 caller in ‘swatting’ incident at BLM leader’s home said he was sending ‘message’
  7. In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
  8. The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price
  9. ‘In The Heights’ Disappointed In Theaters And On HBO Max
  10. Box Office: How Brad Pitt And Sandra Bullock May Determine Hollywood’s Future
  11. ‘A Quiet Place 2’ Is the First Movie to Surpass $100 Million at the U.S. Box Office in Pandemic Times
  12. Deaf Moviegoers and Charity Speak Out Over Lack of ‘A Quiet Place 2’ Subtitled Screenings
  13. DOJ Rules for Movie Theater Captioning and Audio Description Take Effect
  14. For the deaf and hard of hearing, movies are often out of reach. That could change.
  15. CaptiView: a raw deal for deaf cinema goers
  16. New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies
  17. Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Moviegoers Take Their Fight for More Open Caption Screenings to the Council
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, nine, Episode
four up The Daily s I Guy Stay production of
I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where you take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Thursday, June
twenty twenty one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
I'm not thick, but I'm not spelled, and I'm Jeong

(00:24):
n son of jong Il. That is courtesy of Tyler
Aulton at as Victor says, got me again, got him again?
But uh yeah, flag pul sitter about the newly slimmed down,

(00:44):
trimmed down hot Kim Jong n uh and I'm thrilled
to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Miles grab might be that June boy on that cold
brew or it ely Yeah, give me tuna meat, j
Dilla Beat and her majesty Yeah, Okay, shout out to Christie.

(01:09):
I'm a Gucci man. You combine all my interest cold Brew, Italy, Subway,
tuna and j Dela. You missed weed though, so you
almost got them all. And my partner, her majesty, A
shout out to you for that wonderful into the groove
of a k our alarm would have gone off. If
he had hit hit him all, but hit every dimension
of my personality. Uh well, Miles. We are thrilled, blessed

(01:33):
to be joined by the hosts of the Web Crawlers podcast,
two great writers and teammates on the Pistol Shops basketball team.
Please welcome the brilliant and talented Melissa Steton and Ali
Sega Hi Hi. Actually Allie's Allie's not on the basketball team.
Sheause she's an honorary member. I was gonna say, Jack,
that's I don't think. I actually asked when they were

(01:56):
having tryouts again, and uh, no, one circled back to me.
COVID happened. We haven't played in the year. No, I
saw you. Guys posted a picture of yourself is playing,
So I saw it. Okay, it's okay. Can I meet
two comments really quickly? Yes? Yes, please? Okay? Um Harvey
Danger Flagpole Sita is my favorite song of all time.

(02:20):
And also one time I got food poisoning from a
subway tuna sandwich in sixth grade and I threw up
on stage during rehearsal for the class play. And I
haven't had a tuna subway sandwich since. Oh my god.
We knew both of those facts. That's why we I thought, so, yeah,
well we sucked up the pistol, shrimp sparks. You got

(02:42):
to go to our research team and someone's getting fired.
But what what was the play and what was your role? Um?
It was a play on Greek mythology that my music
teacher created and made up. So wrote the play. I
feel like it was like an off Broadway production that
she just brought to my elementary school. And I played

(03:04):
Hara Zeus wife. Yes I did. Okay, that feels like
a very l a teacher. The teachers like, so I
wrote this musical that we're going to have a production
elementary school. Yeah, okay, after that, it's amazing. Were you
able to work it into your character like kind of
improv off of the Oh yeah, totally, Yeah it was.

(03:26):
It flowed right in, just tuned us. Subway everywhere just seemless,
like Melissa, where do you hail from? I'm from the
Great State of Michigan. Kalamazoo hander shout. Yeah, if you're
looking at the hand down here, Southwest got you? Got you?

(03:46):
And did you have any terrible experiences with subway? Tuna
j Dilla Weed, Madonna Black Boles just making sure. No,
I do love that song because it's a theme song
of the show Peep Show, the British comedy show favorite show.
I think we can all agree since we're talking about
how good that song is, that I nailed it my

(04:08):
performance of it. It was your songbird, your beautiful. I've
got perfect pitch. Shocking corn did rendy tasseling. What's corn tasseling.
It's a job I had because when you're like fourteen
or fifteen, you could work as a corn toy tassel
er and they would you would wake up at like

(04:30):
five am. They'd put you on a school bus and
you we went to Indiana to these corn fields and
you would just pull the tassels off the corn. You
would just walk through the fields and it was so hot.
You would get this thing called corn rash because like
what wave up against your arms and you I mean
you got paid like I don't know, eight dollars an hour,

(04:51):
which was like huge back then, especially for child labor. Yeah,
but it was not They would like give you five
minutes for lunch and I get sunburned. What about our union?
What it was? Child labor? The corn fields filterless to

(05:13):
my car. I need to tassel corn, okay, and the
tassel is the tip like that has I mean that's
the thing that looks like top of the Yeah, easy buddy,
Oh that like we okay, right, the part you never
see at the store, that's in the stocks. That's how

(05:34):
a city boy puts it together in my mouth, oh,
from the pictures of the fields, but not what you
get at Whole Foods right when it's already and the
cellophane and styrofoam trade that it comes in that's not
in the field either, right it is. Actually, Yeah, that's amazing.
That's uh. That's some real hardcore ship to be doing

(05:57):
your first jobs like paying on someone's like show, like
that's like our corn d tasseling, or like working at
some persons store that's like, yeah, I don't know a
higher kid, you're like someone's assistant and like that was
my first job and moved to l a woman's assistant
when our basketball team, like in Kentucky, to raise money

(06:21):
for the basketball team. I have no idea why we
needed to do that, but we would work bingo halls
and fish shows like a fish like pH I s h.
That was one of the things you did. It was
like go to fish shows and like work basically worked
the parking lot and like direct traffic. But then you
were at a fish show and like your classmates were,

(06:43):
they're getting fucking high out of then there are that
many fish shows that happened. It was a cool thing. Yeah,
it was. It was just like we had there. There
was like an annual horse race that our basketball team
always worked the parking lot and an angle fish show.
What's your favorite fishcheck? I had? I was not a fish.

(07:08):
That was when I was into the wood Tang clan
and you gotta pick one that must have been hell
then you like fuck this old soft. Actually there was
one album that I got into that I can't remember
the name of, like Billy Breathes or something like that.
Aren't fish people in tense? Like fish people are like
grateful dead people, like they follow them all around. Yeah,

(07:31):
there are certainly you follow Yeah, I know people who
straight up I mean I know people who did follow
fish around. But yeah, it's that same kind of energy
where because it's like their shows are just so like
they're just so jammy that it's like you go out
there off your board on psychedelics and like you're like,
let's jump rope and yeah, it's like real acid acid

(07:53):
energy acid, just what I want to do when I
take a classic combo of jump roping rave and like
shows or people are on psychedecs. I've heen the weirdest
objects people used to like get their energy out. Like
I've seen people raves with like led jump ropes that
are like like you know what. I had seen those.

(08:14):
And also when I was I was in the marching
band in high school and our drum major who like
was the dude who had like the mace and would
do all like the fucking twirling ship. He would go
to raves with his own like gigantic glow stick and
do like the wildest light shows with his drum major skills.
And he was like he would wear these baggy Jinko
pants and I remember seeing him like and he's like,

(08:34):
hell no, I'm the center of attention at this race.
So yeah, people got nice successories, very cool. Do you
remember those things from the two thousands where it was
like those sticks that like yes, oh yeah, uh fish
shows and renfairs. I feel like that's the then diagram there.

(08:58):
My first interaction with Devil sticks. Was when I went
to interlock in camp in Michigan and there was like
a kid who was crushing it with devil devil sticks,
and I thought it was easy and I was so frustrated,
like I had my mom buying for me. I sucked
and like I broke them and was crying. It was
like a whole thing. I had a couple of friends
with the interlock and it might have been them because

(09:19):
they were because my crew was sick with the devil sticks.
So yeah, that was us. That was yeah, yeah, that
was me. Us. My wife went to the interlock. And
I feel like a lot of I know so many people.
I feel like I missed out. I just went to
shitty basketball camps. And was she a musician? Right? He
said musician? You know? She was actually just really good
at a hackey sack. Her skill was I was plastered

(09:44):
all over like the brochure the year I went, because
it wasn't very diverse when I was there. So they're like,
and look at this young man who is brown like,
and I was like in three pages and I was like, oh,
I'm the star, even though I'm like the third chair
trumpet in the in the youth symphony. Yeah right, we
are going to get to know you guys a little
bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things.

(10:04):
We're talking about. The critical race theory GOP kind of
scare politics thing is continuing to be used and apparently
it's working. We're going to check in with the police
backlash too, being criticized by protesters. Yeah, they're taking it
really well and uh they've they're good at dealing with

(10:26):
constructive criticism. We are gonna talk about just a cool
thing I read about about. How you guys seen this.
You heard about this. Most of the creatures in the world,
on the planet Earth are part of a bioluminescent galaxy
that exists uh below the twilight zone and like the

(10:47):
pitch black part of the ocean. I thought they were
like the occasional fish that lit up. Apparently when you
go down there, it's like a constellation of just tons
and tons of animals that laid up. So we'll talk
about that. We'll talk about the box office, we'll talk
about why a quiet place too is frustrating hearing impaired viewers,
all of that plenty more. But first, Melissa Ali, we

(11:09):
like to ask our guests what is something from your
search history? Oh, well, mine is so stupid perfect. I
just occasionally I'll like pop in or something I'll pop
in my brain, like a memory of like someone I
met or like I hooked up with, and I was like, oh, yeah,
what happened to that guy I hooked up with, like

(11:31):
when I was in high school? And it was that
I met in an A O L chat room And
so the only thing I remember about him was his
name was Alex. He spoke Russian. He went to Western
Michigan University. So I googled Alex Russian, Western Regian University.
Clearly did not result in anything. And why I like
thought that was gonna work. Yeah. More importantly, do you

(11:53):
remember the screen name? No. I tried to actually see
if I could log back into my old AOL emails,
but I haven't checked it in fifteen years. So it's like,
this is the count has been suspended due to inactivity.
Damn it. I would kill the log into my old
AOL email. Oh man, yeah, I feel like that's I've

(12:15):
tried to look for people based on screen names and
it never worked. But never it gave me hope for
a second, because like sometimes it will be like search
screen names, email addresses, whatever to find somebody in it.
Now you always have to end up paying the last
status you have to pay exactly is it is it
worth seventy dollars to find out if someone, when it

(12:36):
is to me is married and has a family? Now? Cool,
good for them. You pay enough. You can just look
at their webcam right there in the moment, what they're
doing right now. I bet you that would be if
in a in a near future, that's probably an option,
Like for more, do you want to access their ring cameras? Oh?
It definitely that. Then you pay the money in they're

(12:59):
like like, can't do that, Ali, what's something from your
search history? Okay? So our producer of our podcast, her
name is Maria, and she is obsessed with this bottled
oxygen like but she like, you know how the severe
elderly or people who are sick have like severe tragically

(13:28):
the severe geriatric have like oxygen tanks, but it's like
you have to wheel them around. I swear to god
this isn't an ad or a sponsored post. But she
you can buy like portable oxygen and just huff it,
and she's obsessed with it. So I googled it and
I was like, what is the deal with this? And

(13:48):
I bought like a case of oxygen. One of the
characters I model my life after Dennis Hopper and Blue
Velvet Rocks. That quite a bit, you get it. Yeah,
the benefits of Huffy just straight oxygen out the can.
I'm so glad you asked aerobic performance, recharge and cover
and um altitude and it helps with altitude and poor

(14:10):
air quality. Oh so if you're going to climb Everest,
which I do frequently. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
if you guys knew this, but oxygen directly fuel of
all body and mind functions, and the air is only oxygen.
Doesn't this feel like a scan? Like someone's like, well, man,
if they're bottling water, Like why the are we bottling?

(14:32):
There's like nothing in here? This is like computer duster
for sure. I remember, like in the early like there
was that whole oxygen bar craze where vegas or like
vault malls and like the Beverly Center and ship would
have like come to the oxygen bar and like pick
some like tranquility mixed with stress relief and then you
just sit there inhaling oxygen and I felt like it

(14:55):
was such a placebo effect or like I mean, at
the time I was like fifteen, I was like, oh yeah,
but I'm like the strawberry, the strawberry is really good.
Yeah yeah, like a like Ashton Kutcher had his own
like oxygen bar and like Weiho or something. It was
next to Gisha House. Yeah, sun up the Chugye club

(15:19):
overs out there that remember the o g s If
you were there at Privilege at the underground after hours
part of privilege, let him go one time where you
can see the people underneath. I have no idea what
you guys are talking. This is l A. This is
I don't get to get Are you from l A? Yeah? Yeah,

(15:40):
where'd you go to high school? I went to Notre Dame,
Harvard Westlake Baby oh shit, okay, so that like Molly
Lambert went there. Also guests whose arm very regularly. Yeah,
but a lot of people Jacob sober Off a friend
of mine. I think also when Miles Off, Yes, I
love it. He cool. Look at that family. It's like

(16:05):
the Olive Garden. Do you feel any like when when
you take a hit off of the oxygen right now? Tank? Yeah?
Could you could we hear right now. Think that's always
like a thing i'd read. Okay, it just looks like

(16:25):
like a I feel like I'm breathing. I don't think
it does anything to tell you the truth. You just die,
your really bad. But I mean there is like they
say that if you're in a car that goes underwater,

(16:47):
you're supposed to like take like five deep huffs of
air and like you'll be able to, like I don't know,
your blood will be more oxygenated. Oh it's a good tip. Yeah.
I just tried it when I was holding my breath
to impress my three the other day, and it works.
I was able to do it by like, you know,
huffing big big breaths before I went under and I

(17:07):
passed out and knock the TV over. Yeah, um, no deal.
What is uh? What is something you guys think is overrated? Well,
I this might be controversial or not golf, m hmm.
Not on my podcast, Not on my podcast. What do

(17:29):
you want me to leave? I want to leave so
we can follow you to the protest at the country club.
I can't. It's it's boring. It's very boring. It's not easy,
and it takes so much time to be good at it.
So and it's expensive. That's the point. It's not take

(17:54):
the point like that's why it's so good and it's
so Yeah, you have to apply for memberships to go
to these country clubs. You can be denied a membership.
It's very like elitist and like rich people. Yeah. And
it takes up the best parts of so much space. Yeah,
so much space. You can build so many houses where
all these dumb golf courses are. So it's it's overrated.

(18:16):
We have like nine hundred amazing central parks if you
bring the gates down and just be like, hey, y'all,
can fucking just enjoy the earth in the city. To
understand l A, Yeah, all you have to really understand
is that. Imagine that in Manhattan if they just walled
off Central Park and only rich people were allowed to
go there. Yeah. Yeah, you have to pay two hundred

(18:38):
thousand dollars to like have a have access to it.
What is, Alie, something you think is overrated? Mine is
also probably will be controversial for some people, but for
me it's Chrissy Teagan, Oh shots fired. I'm just over it.
Just like log off, I don't need to talk about it.

(18:58):
I don't need to know your business is. I don't
care about like how you're feeling, what you're doing your
redemption to her. I just like I don't need to
know about what's going on with you. And it's weird
that you think the whole world always needs to know
what's going on with you. I don't. I don't need it. Yeah,
there's a there's like a wait. She it almost feels
like I have this burden to carry the world on

(19:19):
my shoulders and like, yeah, I have to get this
medium post off to let people know where I'm at
my target money. It's like we've all she thinks we've
all been waiting and like with bated brad. I mean
Mamilissa has, but like we've all been waiting with bated
breath to hear how Chrissy Teagan is doing. And it's like,

(19:42):
I don't care. Just live your life and that will
be so much better than you constantly being online. That's
that do we need from you? Go hang out like
on an island for like a year, just like hang
out with her family, Like she doesn't need to be
on the internet, Like, just enjoy your life. I wish
her no ill will I wish her nothing but the best.
I hope she I hope she's happy and kind and thriving.

(20:06):
I think I just like I don't. I don't need
to hear from her. I don't think anyone needs to
hear from her, like I think it would be a
benefit to her if she Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
It's just like I get it. You know, you're you're saying,
I I fucked up. I need to grow as a person. Okay,
go grow and then you know, right, your growth, that's it.

(20:26):
That's and then nothing as long as you're not out
here denying you said anything, like I never said any
I don't know what they're talking about. I'm fine, I'm good.
And then don't come back and be like, guys, I
know that was hard on me too. Okay, that's what
I will say. And like I don't even want to
get into her apology, but like her her amend's or
her apology was all about like her growth and how

(20:48):
she's doing and like what she learned on a public level,
and not at all specifically like about the people who
she called out or who she hurt on a public
love well, and all these people are like she ruined
my career, and she ruined my life in front of
millions of people, like say specifically sorry to them publicly

(21:10):
if you did, if you, you know, demolish their careers
publicly as well. You know, it was just all about her,
and it's just like I don't care, goodbye, just go
do your thing. It isn't weird to also see like
other celebs right this way, because today I was reading
like Leona Lewis was saying like, oh, I know Michael
Costello has something to say about Christy Tea and you said, well,
I have something to say about Michael Costello and You're
like what. It's just like, let's all about things that

(21:30):
are more granted, I'm perpetuating it right now, like I'm
talking about it here, but right now. Yeah, yeah, what
I is something you guys think is underrated. I'm gonna
say possums. Wow that this might be controversial, perfect it,

(21:52):
but possums. Okay. So I started putting out food outside
my house at the beginning of quarantine because like I
saw like a couple of cats walk up by, like
I want to put out food now. I have a
cat that I named Skeletor that basically lives in my
front yard. I feed it three times a day. It
sleeps in the dirt. It's it's my it's my cat.

(22:15):
It's my outdoor cat. And I also have possums and
raccoons and skunks, and I put out a little camera
so I could see them. Possums are adorable. I know
they look like scary, like pointy cats with like teeth inside,
but they're so nice and they eat a lot of ticks,

(22:37):
and they don't have brabies, and they don't have brabies.
My mom is the same the same crew as you.
She's been. She had started off with her seeing a
possum once and she is like the North Hollywood possum Lady.
She's a card carrying member of like the North American
like Opossum Society, and she's like a possum of it.
And at the first time, like, I'll feed them nasty

(22:58):
what they're fine, Their dusts out, they have brabies. The
scars on their faces because they don't see well, and
they go around the world using the front of their face.
That's why it gets all scarred up. It's not because
they're nasty and getting fights. That's just how they make sense.
And they carry their babies on their backs. Yeah. Yeah,
they'll have like five little possums like just hank like

(23:20):
carrying around on their backs until they're big enough own carries. Yeah,
carries carries me to this back rides for babies. That's
why mine is. Cold showers instead of hot showers really

(23:46):
good for you, actually good for your nervous system. It's
like people do those like cry oh you know, like
you go in that like freezing chamber and it's just
easier and you can do it from home like a
cold plung should just rejuvenating gives you more energy than
hot shower. You'll be surprised. Try it out. Doesn't have
to be a full cold shower, just like go cold

(24:06):
for fifteen seconds at the end of your shower and
it will. I love doing that. I love doing that.
Yeah I see see to a cold water floater on
top of your hot shower. Hell yeah baby, And then
I take a dose of that oxygen and I'm ready
to go. It's funny one of those things that Seinfeld

(24:28):
really influenced for me. And now like I'm just realizing
that as you say it, Like I think when I
was younger, like cold showers because they like wake you up.
And then there was that part in Seinfeld where somebody
claims to take a cold shower and Seinfeld's like cold
showers their first psychotics. And there I was like, yeah,

(24:48):
that's right, like that just resonated with me, and right,
guy who kids, right exactly. I just I need to
go through and just remove all Seinfeld assumptions from my
brain because I could have been the president galaxy brain

(25:09):
and all of sudden, what if airport peanuts aren't too small?
All right, let's take a quick break and we will
be right back to talk about the news, and we're back.

(25:34):
And the Biden administration has been a little strange for
the lack of kind of scandals coming from the right,
Like they I haven't heard about him wearing a the
wrong suit to anything the way that we we did
when Obama was empowered. That you know, Fox News just

(25:55):
could bring up anything about him, and like their majority
racist viewership was just ready to hate him. But Biden
looks exactly like their majority racist viewership. So now they
and I think also his policies are pretty popular, right well, yeah,
I mean they don't remember they didn't want to talk
about the stimulus because You're like, yeah, I need money

(26:17):
from the government. Are you kidding me? I don't I'm
not working right now. So they're like, talk about Mr
potato Head, you know how they have to talk about
Mr potato Head. Dr Seuss And the big one these
days isn't that critical race theory? Yeah, and it's it's
it's completely like like you said, it's we're in a
whole new environment where they can't even focus on even

(26:38):
the low hanging fruit, which would be like, what is
Joe Biden actually done from his campaign promises? Because I
would if you're looking for something to be critical of,
that's something you could go down and listen, like, well,
where is that student debt relief? Where was that that
weird math where certainly turned into a different amount of
stimulus money. But now it's critical race theory. And we've

(26:58):
talked about before how this has been a conscious effort
to create this like outrage over it. And the numbers
I think are starting to show that this is very clear.
Fox News mentioned critical race theory five fifty two times
in the previous eleven months, and then it ramped up
in the last three which there's another number that's like
over six hundred and it's only gotten more and more.

(27:22):
Last week, they've shoehorned it into coverage one five times
in five days. And then so then you see, we've
seen all their coverage or a lot of coverage in
the media of this has been you know, people in
Florida or Texas, like governors and legislators trying to be like,
we gotta stop teaching this, or like scenes of like
outraged like racist parents at these school board meetings being like,

(27:45):
don't teach them history? What is this? It's destroying us?
And yeah, the biggest thing, that's just the biggest miss
of all of this, at least in the reporting, is that,
first of all, it's a decades old academic discipline, but
on top of it, it's just taught at the graduate level,
like when you are in university. This isn't we didn't

(28:05):
grow up with, like alright, kids, and now open up
your critical race theory books. Is like first graders. So
all of the energy is completely misplaced. And this is
all by design because they just need this catch all
outraged topic to get people sort of, they just need
an energy to exploit. And yeah, I think the more
you you hear, what how people talk about it, You're like,
do they even know what this is? Or this is

(28:27):
just the new dog whistle that can play a bunch
of different tunes, right, didn't like one of them was
one of the conservative politicians was asked to describe, like
what critical race theory is and the person whose last
name is Pringle appropriately enough. It basically teaches that certain

(28:48):
children are inherently bad people because of the color of
their skin. Period. H that's a lot to unpack these
people whose perspective, these people when they were doing the
training programs and the government. If you don't buy into
what they taught you, they sent your way to a
re education camp. Huh, what do you mean? The white

(29:14):
male executives are sent to a three day re education
camp where they were told that their white male culture
wasn't there. Okay, let's just let's there, sir. Are you okay?
Because this is like just hearing that in the in
the wake of the uprisings last summer, there were companies
saying like, we need racial sensitivity training because they're clear

(29:35):
blind spots from a corporate culture that needs to be addressed.
And then this is now turned into they're what they're
fucking their heads are bagged and they're thrown into a
fucking van and then driven like the dark side of town.
For like how their eyes peeled open to watch like
a bunch of fucking rap videos. I don't know what
the funk they think this is. And it goes on

(29:55):
still like the other like attacks are people saying, quote,
minority students are going to suffer the most from this.
When you teach students that the system is against them,
they have no motivation to learn. They are not going
to try to work, They're not going to try to
improve themselves. Seeing that part, what are you talking about?

(30:16):
You even I'm going to improve themselves, he says. I
mean this whole idea that it's like, oh, thank you
the savior person for saving me from being defeated by
acknowledging that I'm surviving in a racist construct, Like what
what exactly is the concern there? And I think this
has been going it's it's just gaining more and more momentum.

(30:36):
But I think this is the part where you really
see what it's all about, because underneath it, it's just
like the other threats are that it will lead kids
to Marxism, and this is the last thing that this
guy Pringle said, he said, quote, this is still the
greatest country that ever ever been in the history of
the world. Okay uh, and the radical left is trying
to destroy that and tear us apart and divide this

(30:57):
country based on racing class, which is exactly what they
do in communist countries. Hum, I don't so you don't.
So you don't know what communism is either, Okay, cool? Goddamn.
They love comparing things to like concentration camps and like
just implying, did you see that? What's her face? Marjorie whatever? Yeah?
I was just gonna say, like as one of them

(31:18):
is apologizing for comparing masks to Yeah, she's like I
had like, was she not forty years to go to
a Holocaust museum? Like? Yeah, have you not taught that?
Was she not taught that? And this is why we
need better education because she didn't know what the Holocaust was.
And it's like, y'all, I was just in that museum.

(31:42):
She literally said, hey, it happened, Like are you what where?
They just don't know. I saw this. I saw this
TikTok the other day for this like Republican lady was
complaining about the Quaker oats guy on the canister and
is like, if we're gonna change anti mimah, we should
get rid of this slave owner around the this can

(32:04):
of votes. And like someone was like, that's not a
slave owner, that's a Quaker, that's a completely different that's
not a slave owner. You just no one knows what
they're talking about, right, Yeah, I mean, and I think
even with that Marjorie Taylor Green comment, it's like it
just shows you how much of a threat these kinds

(32:26):
of people are when this is their worldview. And then
they enter the halls of Congress too, you know, drum
up legislation that is trying to reinforce their worldview where
maybe the Holocaust I don't know, I don't know there
were you there, Yeah exactly. That's like her. So I

(32:46):
went to like a shitty public school in Michigan, and
I know about the Holocaust. Like at the very least,
we didn't have parents at home that we're saying, you know,
it didn't happen. The teaching because in eighth grade we
took a trip to d C. I may have told
this story before before we're going into the Holocaust Museum,

(33:08):
our teachers, before we got off the bus, said Hey,
I just want to let you know we got a
letter from a parent that said that the Holocaust never
happened and that they didn't want they didn't want your
classmate in to go to this museum. I just want
to let all of you know. I'm not going to
say who it is, but I just want to let
you know that there are people who are going to

(33:29):
deny what all of the things you are about to
see in this museum. And it was really a pointed.
It was like it was like everyone's like, yo, what
the funk? And I'm growing in l A. Were like
we saw a Shimmler's List, it was best picture. But
like then we go in and that was sort of wow.
That was my first time even hearing that. People were like,
what do you but that ship happened? Like what are

(33:50):
you talking about? Holocaust deniers? Until maybe like ten years ago,
I had no idea it was a thing, right, yeah,
all right, very cool, cool time. Marjorie Taylor Green, what
let's talk about the police real quick? Uh they're back.

(34:11):
And then it was easier, so uh one just kind
of smaller scale thing. But the manager from the shake
check that's supposedly poisoned the milkshakes. A poison is suing
the NYPD because yeah, they arrested him, interrogated him for hours,
like continued, Yeah, and this was this was after they knew,

(34:37):
like after they had happened. Yeah, they went to the
emergency were on the emergency people were like, you did
not drink bleach, Like that's just not a not a
thing that happened to you. So they came to him,
were like this tastes a little off, and he was like,

(34:57):
oh my god, I'm so sorry, and gave them vouchers. Uh,
they come back two hours later and arrest him after
going to the emergency room, and then their union immediately
like reports that they were poisoned on and it like
goes viral because again, the right just needs something to
complain about. But onto kind of the bigger stuff is

(35:20):
just the general reaction backlash by the police to just
the fact that they were criticized, openly criticized. There are
now like more and more documented examples of police refusing
to answer calls for help and being like, well, you
should have not defunded us, then come on. And there's

(35:45):
this argument that conservatives have been making since Ferguson. It's
called the Ferguson effect, and it claims that because people
protested the police, there was a spike in the murder
rate and that's because like the police were scared or something.
And the facts sorry that the police when their protests

(36:06):
just disassociate just like check out and will not protect
those people. Like I I've talked about how I've like
anecdotal cases where somebody was robbed and called the police
and they were like came the next day and we're
like sorry, but you guys shouldn't have like talked to
your council person and tell them they shouldn't have defunded us,

(36:27):
and like the funding change is tiny, it's like almost
non existent. It's not real. It's just the police being
fucking petulant. And yeah, I don't know, and I feel
like this story is being covered in the margins. But
it's not like there's evidence that MYPD response time to

(36:50):
like crimes in progress has dropped since the protests, even
though ambulance response time has like gotten quicker because they're
fewer cars on the because of the pandemic. And it's
not a like the police are like yeah, because people
were retiring because they their feelings were hurt. It's just like, well,
fucking hire new people, like what these aren't good if

(37:12):
you if you're feel that's that means you aren't the
kind of person who should be protecting or serving fucking
anybody rather than your own like racist fantasies that you've
you entered the force with. And I think it's also
just when you see things like that too, you're like, well,
what is what is? What do the police really? Do?
You know what I mean? Because do they prevent crime?
I'm not sure? Is that is that how we prevent

(37:33):
crime by having the police? I don't think so. I
think it's because people are destitute and resort to extra
legal things to survive, or because the nature of trying
to survive puts people in a different mindset. Your behavior
is completely different. It's this example. Always say, it's like
the same reason why you don't see a lot of
cops in Beverly Hills, the same reason you don't see
a lot of cops in Burbank unless you're brown and

(37:54):
you're driving down Magnolian your system is too loud. But
like that whole idea is those areas are well supported.
So because of that there's not the same sort of
forces acting on people to commit crimes. And I think
that to to think like, oh man, you just gotta
have more boots and they're just brutalizing people. That's that's
it's all. It's all fucking it's all. It's just a myth.

(38:14):
And yeah, I wonder why there is less sort of
energy to cover this, because it felt like if this
came out sort of last summer, this would have been
reported more. But I think it also shows how the
media how's up a role to play in upholding these
systems of oppression by saying like, well, we can make
it hot to a point and then we'll ease off,
and then we won't really give substantive reporting on this. Right,

(38:37):
there's this writer Thomas apt A BT who just released
a book called Bleeding Out that's sort of a manifesto
for targeting violence. And the book points out that basically
all the methods that the police used to police neighborhoods
where a lot of murders happen our counter productive. And

(39:02):
we're seeing like Biden's infrastructure bill, which is going to
get watered down, but like, at least it started out
with a lot of this guy's ideas like really well
funded in it. And I know that at a local
level a bunch of different city councils past funding for
non police like emergency response, which is something we've talked

(39:24):
about on the show as like yeah, there's a mental
health issue or basically any issue that doesn't involve somebody
who is physically harming somebody, like send some there should
be an option to call somebody who's not the police, basically, um,
And that is we're we're starting to see a little

(39:44):
bit more funding. So there is small victories, but it
just isn't really breaking through to the mainstream just how
toxic the police response to those protests have been. But
we'll have a lot of articles about this in the footnotes.
It should be like most disqualifying, you know what I mean,
Like if that's your behavior to say, like it's like, well, look, honey,

(40:06):
I didn't I couldn't clean the gutters because you asked
me to to get the garage tidy. If I have look,
if you asked me to do that, I could have
done the other thing. So like it's that same shitty
logic of well you inconvenience to me, So now I'm
gonna just be I'm gonna have this resentment and completely
disengage from my work. And it's just like that in

(40:28):
and of itself should be such a horrifying thing for
people to learn that these people are like even exercising
that kind of agency, to be like, nah, while we're
still paying them too. Yeah, yeah, with ceremony with our
real American dollars. I mean, the fact that there is

(40:48):
one type of person is allowed to just go up
and shoot someone based on their judgment and not face
any legal repercussions. You would think that that would be
the most you know, scrutinized group of people in the world, right,
Like we would, we would be all over those people.

(41:10):
And when we even try to like give them a
modicum of like responsibility for the actions of their worst
the people who are just wantingly killing people, they react
like this. It's just such a broken system. Like it
really makes you realize why people are asking for the

(41:33):
abolition of of police. It's because they helped protect the
property from the billionaires that don't actually pay their salaries,
which is the whole irony of it too. Right, All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
talk about a cool thing I read, and we're back.

(42:00):
And every once in a while I read an article
in The New Yorker and it makes me really proud,
and so I have to like tell everybody about it
that read something in the New York Yeah. Sometimes I'll
just do a whole segment on a cartoon that I've
read and like why the joke was funny. Um, sometimes
I don't even get it. I'm informed later by the
listeners like, no, that actually wasn't the joke, but um, anyways,

(42:25):
I just had my mind blown by this article about
kind of the deepest parts of the ocean, which we've
actually been talking about on the show in the context
of like unidentified aerial phenomenon and submerged phenomenon, because you know,
these like white tic tics that people keep seeing tent
to be around bodies of water and around the ocean,

(42:48):
and so some people speculate that that's where they're coming from,
is like the sea floor. But this just kind of
blew my mind just in general, with without any context
of of aliens that so the they're only only the
top layers of the oceans are illuminated. There's the sunlight zone,

(43:10):
which extends about seven feet the twilight zone, which goes
down another feet and then everything below that there's just
no there's no light. And down there, like every the
light is created by the animals themselves. There's like bioluminescence.
And apparently bioluminescence has developed in like fifty different ways.

(43:30):
It's not like everybody figured out the same trick evolutionarily.
It they all developed like in different ways using different methods.
And it's super cool. So this explorer like goes down there.
It's apparently really really hard to get to that depth
because you know, you have to lower a camera, you
would be like crushed as a for the most part.

(43:51):
And when they get down there, explorers are always like
it's like a firework show down there. It's not. It's
not like every once in a while there's there's a
glowing animal. It's like they're just everywhere because some avatar
type ship. Yeah, it's really it's like some avatary ship
and it's and there's so many animals down there that

(44:12):
are are bioluminescent that this scientists says that she estimates
that it's most of the creatures on the plant, like
most of the organisms on the planet Earth are down
in that zone, and we'd like, yeah, because we don't
know what's down there. Yea, we just don't know. There's
aliens down there. People are like there's aliens in the sky.

(44:34):
I'm like, guys, have you been in the ocean. There's
aliens down there. I don't even know what's down there.
Look outside the planet? Is this like? Because I always
see like whenever I've seen like those Planet Earth type things,
those are always the most fascinating sections for me because
I'm like, yeah, I've seen birds and other stuff, but
like all of this, I don't know technology or these

(44:56):
evolutionary traits that they've developed. It really is. It shows
you like we they're so little we really know. And
but when you say that most of the organisms, you
mean like numerically in terms of the number of like
different species like that, I think it's the number of animals.
The number of animals, like there's so many down there,

(45:18):
And yeah, so that's like the thing that Yeah, I've
seen the you know, the David Edinborough nature documentaries, and
I always got the impression like, yeah, there's like a
handful of these like really cool like bioluminescent creatures down there.
But for the most part, it's supposed to be like
a desert down there, and this scientist is like, no,

(45:40):
it's incredibly like active and full of life and full
of like glowing just whild It's like a it's like
a light show down there. Yeah, you know who um
is just recently hosted a nature show and it's like
the most distracting thing of all time ross from Friends,

(46:01):
David Schwimmer, and it's like I cannot get through it
with his voice being the one it's like the beautiful gazelle.
Like it's so bad. Wait what it's all like Discovery
plus or something. Yeah, that's a Joe bad. I thought

(46:22):
it was a joke and it's so serious and I
was like, who is this for? I guess friends fans.
It's so bad. Wow, Like yeah, I don't think, you know,
great scientific commentary. When I think David Swimmer, I'm greatly
because he was a paleontologist on the show, so they're
like he should do I don't know, to have some

(46:43):
fucked up data that suggests like this like ven diagram
overlap of friends fans and people who like the like
like nature ship too, maybe aith type combo or like, no,
it sounds stupid, but they're just doing numbers. Yes, I
mean that makes total sense. So like Friends is one
of the most popular streaming shows of all time, and

(47:04):
people like Nature Diet, Like I think a lot of
people watch nature documentaries on there. So George stands and
narrated a nature documentary. Yes, that's literally I made a
reference to that yesterday and yesterday's episode. Well, my god,
there you go a lot of a lot of time

(47:26):
felt references. Alright, let's let's talk about the box office.
I was very disappointed to see that the movie and
the Heights bombed, Like I think people were saying, like,
at least they were expecting at least twenty million at
the box office, and it made eleven. And also nobody

(47:47):
watched it on HBO Max. It had fewer people watch
it than Cruella and Cruella costs like thirty dollars, and
in the Heights was free, more people paid to see.
Karl was good. I'm sorry, Karl was good. It's really bad.

(48:08):
I don't think that's the hot tap. It was bad.
It was it was ridiculous, but I was entertained the
whole time I heard it tells the truth about those
fucking Dalmatians, right, They're evil and will kill your mother.
They should have been dead. Yeah, Ellie was furious. Elie
said it as a joke where I was like, what
is the origin going to story going to be that

(48:29):
Dalmatians killed her family? And then that was the origin story?
Sorry spoiler alert in the first scene, right, yeah, it's
a person that's like her Bruce Wayne moment. My god,
these hundred and one Dalmatians family. I haven't watched it,

(48:51):
which I should have like wanted to watch it. It
was like a in a dark period of my life
for real Hamilton's dork. I saw The Heights on Broadway
loved it. Was really like rooting for this movie, and
I just think they fucked up the marketing like they
it just seemed like the marketing, all the ads I

(49:14):
saw for it just it seemed like it was just
another like West Side Story type thing, like or you know,
a musical set in modern New York, and it was
like they were The thing that's cool about it is
the way that like the rapping like carries the story
forward and it has like, you know, a momentum of

(49:36):
its own, and they just like don't have that in
almost any of the trailers or commercials for it. It
reminded me of like when they released Frozen and like
just made it made the first trailer about Olaf the
Snowman because they were like scared that people would see
that it had two sisters at the center instead of

(49:57):
like a guy and a girl and would like wouldn't
watch it. They were like hiding the thing that was
good about it because it was unorthodox. Basically, yeah, I mean,
I'm sure that all the sort of controversy around like
the colorism and things like that that's consumed like a
lot of the coverage recently more than me even hearing
what people thought of the film apologizes you know, for

(50:21):
the lack of representation of like Afro Latin XT people
that could have been in the film and things like that.
So yeah, I don't And the trailers almost seemed like
it was like it didn't register to me that it's
a musical. I know it's a musical, but when I
watched this stuff didn't I'm like I didn't know either,
but like a very high energy action film with dancing

(50:42):
or something, that's what I thought, and it was like
a yes, there's also like something that felt sort of
Obama administration era about like how I don't know. It
was just like really on the nose, like he's wearing

(51:03):
a shirt that says Nueva York and the trailer like
it's like, yes, we're in New York and we are
part of the community. Yes, the way by York. But yeah, anyways,
the marketing just felt like it was kind of selling
it short according to people who have seen it, which yeah,

(51:24):
is the problem. Bummed to see it didn't do better,
and then When's West Side Story come out, like it's
like what the fuck? Who planned out their release schedule here? Like, hey,
you're going toe to toe with Spielberg's West Side Story. Well,
I think the pandemic planned it out, like maybe, but yeah,
I do think they were supposed to come out in
the same year during the pandemic, because I remember during

(51:46):
the oscars when we began, that was when I begin
to see even more West Side Story and in the
Heights like footage. I was like, this is confusing to me. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm mixing up the two in my head
right out, and I don't. I'm certainly that doesn't help.
But yeah, again, something that if you showed the rapping,
would have like made it a very like the wrapping

(52:10):
and west Side story is supposed to be not very good.
I've been told it was all written by Maclamore, right,
Alan Menkin and Maclamore. Also just checking back on something
we've speculated about, the idea that like streaming shows aren't

(52:33):
really as popular as we treat them. I guess a
lot a lot of the time, like that low key
show that everyone was talking about a week ago. This
guy Scott Mendelssohn from Forbes, who I think is one
of the smartest people writing about kind of the entertainment industry,
was pointing out that like the equivalent of eight million
dollars worth of ticket sales saw that show like the

(52:56):
opening week, like for a Marvel thing, it would have
been a complete like disaster. But people treat it like, oh,
Loki is like a big show, and it's like no
nobody nobody really watches that ship, but we treat it
like it's a it's we treat it like it's another
Marvel movie or something. So anyway, so you'd luck good

(53:18):
luck to them, good luck to those, good luck to Disney,
good luck they make it. They make it. Hope they
I mean they're they're they're so uh they're they're known
for being very economic. I think they'll survive. Yeah, No,
I I do have high hopes for that company. I

(53:38):
think they're going they're going places. The only reason that
I want to watch that is for what's his name?
Ohm Wilson? I miss you know, Wilson and Wilson. What's in?
What's he in? Yeah? What things? Oh? Yes? Oh yeah?
And uh. There was like a little piece of viral
marketing where Tom Hittelson did a oh and Wilson impression

(54:01):
to like add a press junk hit and people are like, oh,
I'm so here for this like Owen Wilson impression, and
it was like so bad. It was just him doing
a fucking American accent. I'm like, what's happening? Alright, Let's
talk about the movie people are actually watching was which
is a quiet place to which, Yeah, it kind of

(54:24):
became the first pandemic era movie to make more than
a hundred million dollars at the U. S. Box office, which, again,
like you talk about people that we root for here,
John Krasinski's designer sock vendor business, that's we were always
concerned that that's making enough money, so happy to see
him have good things happen for him. So there's a

(54:46):
minor controversy in the UK about the lack of subtitled
screenings offered to the public on this movie, which is
like the protagonist of this movie is a deaf character
played by a deaf actress, um and like a huge
breakthrough and like creating a role model for hearing impaired viewers,

(55:09):
and they just like aren't showing it in a format
that would be like possible for deaf people to watch.
And this kind of story, like jmr Writer kind of
did a deep dive into just what the whole process,
like what it means when they say, okay, closed captioning

(55:31):
devices are available, Like that's just a little screen that
they give you the plugs into your cup holders some somehow,
and it just like says the words on it, but
you have to like look back and forth between the
screen and like this tiny little screen in front of you,
which sucks. Like that's people are like this is awful,

(55:52):
like and it's also like all of it is like
based off the dumbest presumptions on how people watch movies
or would repel someone from going to a movie or
attract someone to going to a movie. Like the idea
is like, well, we can't, we can't have more open
caption films. People don't go, right, That's why. So in
the UK they do open caption which is like putting

(56:13):
the captions on and just on the screen, and like
there's a certain number of movies that have them, which
seems to be the better option for everybody. But there's
a controversy because they're just not doing enough of them
in the UK right now. But so there's been a
push to do open captioning in the US, and like

(56:35):
theater owners have basically like just sandbagged any efforts to
do this. Like they they'll be like, Okay, yeah, we wanna.
We're gonna do a study where we like do open
captioning and see if it like changes the box office.
And then they'll like put open captioning on like Cats,
like on a Thursday morning, and then like put not

(56:59):
open been captioning on Avengers End Game on a Friday
and night and be like, well, I think that speaks
for itself. Guys. We can't Yeah, we can't do We're
gonna be drowned. We're gonna drown, and just the loss
of profit from doing this. Like I watch I my
wife and I keep the close captioning on all streaming

(57:20):
content that we watched. I always have my TV like
that's that's the thing. There's a lot of like just
analysis that shows people who like watch even TV shows
or Netflix with it on aren't hard of hearing or
hearing impaired. Like it's because a lot I remember, like
I first started doing it when Deadwood came out because

(57:42):
like the dialogue is so dense and like you know,
colloquial and of the time that I was like I
need to see the words they're saying it. And it's
been a thing that carries on, like certain things. Sometimes
I'm like sometimes they'll distract me from actually like looking
at like the cinematography and whatever. But for the most part,
I don't mind it. And that's what's like so bizarre

(58:03):
because there's not it doesn't seem like there's a sentiment
from people who would it require open caption to be
like I would never Yeah, I don't thin people are
vehemently against it. I don't think there's going to be
like protests outside a MC like right, you know, with
misspelled signs because you actually think about it actually, And

(58:27):
there's even like this thing with like during the pandemic,
like a lot of child development people were saying like,
if your kids are gonna watch TV, like put the
captions on because it's reading when they're very passively begin reading.
Like it's not a bad thing to do, so to
send my kids to school for the rest. Yeah, I

(58:49):
mean apparently Game of Thrones was a big people have
looked at. There's a huge uptaking people who just leave
the subtitles on for Game of Thrones because it was
like hard Dick kind of figure out, Okay, that person
is actually different from that guy with a white beard,

(59:10):
and should have had that for Mara beast Town, right,
they actually had to. This would also be really helpful
for Christopher Nolan movies. Oh my god, I feel like
he intentionally fucks up the sound he does. I couldn't
cared tant right. So there's a there was a theater

(59:30):
in Milwaukee that just made it exclusively open caption screenings
because it was so hard to understand. Yeah, it's impossible,
it's really it's so you have you seen it. It's
so impossible. The music is so loud, like the action
is so mixed it's terrible. But I literally thought something

(59:53):
was wrong with my TV, right all right, this has
been since being in Dark Knighted Rises, like they like
kept having to like funk with the mix because it
was just completely often nobody could understand what he was saying.
Dun Kirk was fucking violent, like the sound and that
was like aggressive and like damaging. And then now apparently

(01:00:17):
Tenant is you just can't hear it, like I don't.
I don't know what's happening at all. To be fair,
nobody knows what's going on in that movie, so right,
but you would think that you would make sure people
could understand the words that people were saying. But that's
sort of the experience, that disorienting situation where you know,

(01:00:43):
Chris Well, I walked out because I didn't know what
was happening. I was just gonna say, we should watch Tenant,
but we are watching, uh for this week. I guess
it'll be tomorrow's episode or Monday's episode. We'll talk about
a Netflix show recommended by super producer on a Hosnier

(01:01:03):
called We Are the Champions. So if anybody wants to
watch that with us and talk about it. We'll talk
about it on in a Streaming Corner on Monday's episode.
Give you a couple of days with that. Well, guys,
this has been so fun having you on the show.
Where can people find you and follow you? Melissa? You
can follow me at on Twitter, I'm at Melissa's Stetton

(01:01:27):
and Instagram and whatever. And then web Crawlers are podcast
about like mysteries and true crime and colts and stuff.
It's at web Crawler's pod on Twitter. And then just
search web Crawlers well the internet, Ali, Where can people
find you and follow you? On Twitter? I am Online
Allison A L I S O N. And on Instagram

(01:01:49):
I am Ali baby ninety. It was my first all
screen name. I don't consider myself baby. But and then uh,
Web Crawlers podcast on Spotify, iTunes wherever podcasts are your
Alley Baby nineties from Oh my God It's so um

(01:02:17):
And is there a tweet you guys have been enjoying
it so randows from Seawan O'Connor, and it said there's
a skeleton in the movie Coco with some big gas naturals.
My question is how I've been thinking about that tweet

(01:02:38):
for a week and it just is so funny to me.
That is so is so good minus from Noah Garfinkel
and it's uh Yoda is short for your dad, so
good Miles will find you. What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter?

(01:03:02):
Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also, if you want to
talk ninety day, check out the other podcast for twenty
day Fiance, or you know, get high talking ninety day,
then let's we might have to have a high compo
after this. And a tweet that I like is from
oh No, she twittin at oh No, she twittint the

(01:03:24):
baltim Mermaid and tweeting so Governor Pete Ricketts of Nebraska,
I believe it is. He tweeted something said critical race
theory is an attack on our country's core values, and
she started quote tweeted that with the picture of Regina
from Me and Girls. He says, so you agree you
think our country's core value is racism, which is just like, yeah,

(01:03:45):
that's that's kind of what's happening. When these people saying
this out loud, You're like, so you get that, You're
so really the the whole argument is we want to
hide the racist history. You can find me on Twitter
at Jack Underscore O'Brien Uh tweet I've been enjoyed. Bailey
Moon tweeted God removed the mc rib from the menu

(01:04:06):
so Ronald McDonald could suck his I'm dick uh and
then sharene Lonnie Unice Shiro Hero six six six tweeted,
who wrote this about me? And it's a reductress headline?
It's a yikes. This woman made a self deprecating joke.
Then friends started consoling her way too real. Uh. You

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can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at
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off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as a song we think you should go
check out. Miles. What is the song we think the

(01:04:53):
people should hear? They should check out track called feel
Like by this artist in May and it's got like this.
It starts off feeling like something you know, your own
aunts and uncles. You're listening to a family you know,
outing or some ship starts smooth, but it has like
a a smooth jazz, trap, the soul vibe to it,

(01:05:15):
and I just love like this sort of convergence of
many different styles, but it's very easy to listen to.
So yeah, check that out. Feel Like by Aaron may
al Right, Well, the dailys that Guys a production by
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