Weekly Zeitgeist 13 (Best of 2/26/18-3/2/18)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop
infotainment last stravaganza. Uh So, without further ado, here is

(00:22):
the Weekly Ziteguist real. Uh So. I wanted to start
off by talking a little bit about you know, the future,
right because of it's scary and it's happening right now.
Uh But, like apparently over the weekend there was an
air warfare symposium which sounds really really inviting, where the
Chief of Staff of the Air Force basically said that

(00:44):
it was only a matter of years before we would
be fighting in space, which is very very cool to me.
I don't know what it was. I mean, not that
it's cool, but it's interesting now that like we're actually
having now like people in the Air Force saying, like it,
we need to start talking about these space wars, okay,
because that's the next frontier. Because apparently I think China

(01:04):
had a satellite that they were testing that could like
just disintegrate space trash, but also had the capability of
like disabling and destroying satellites that were also up there.
So I guess like when you think about it, like
so much of our military operations, like we're reliant on satellites,
you know, they tell us everything. They there are eyes
in the in the in the sky, thank you so much,

(01:25):
in the celestial body that is. And yeah, it's pretty
easy to see a scenario where like in a space
war that the first step is like blinding your enemy
by disabling their satellites, so they're like completely confused, they
have no way to communicate. It was just a very
interesting way to think about this because also I think
earlier last year, Mike Rodgers as congressman proposed like a
new uh branch of the military, of the Space Corps,

(01:48):
and like the Pentagon was like, nah, like we're not
we don't want that. Well, the reason is if you
create a new branch of the military, that means you're
your military funding is now going to get siphoned off
into another baby bird asking for food. So that's why
this guy in the Air Force is basically saying, like,
you know, the Air Force is probably the most qualified
to like fighting the space wars or whatever, which is

(02:09):
basically saying, don't create a new one. Give the Air
Force the money to start to start developing the space
toys or whatever the fun. But yeah, like they're asking
for like I think over the next ten years, they
wanted to be spending something like forty billion dollars And
I'm okay with this. I want I want to say
why I've always wanted to be a pilot in space,
you know what I'm saying. And like, if we get
this program up, I think I will start being like

(02:30):
a vegan so I can stay healthy enough to do
it later in life when it's so in your mind
the key to being a space pilot is just to
be vegan. No, I'm like, obviously the programs I can
start today will probably start years from now. The way
that I'm eating right now, thirty years from now, I
can't be How many strites have you had just in
the time we started. I mean I have one, but

(02:51):
I got one on deck. Yeah, And if anybody from
the Cola Color Company is listening, is one of the
greatest advocates for sprite use. I think the most prolific
sprite user on the internet. Right now, you guys are
missing a very big opportunity. Come at me, Vince Staples.
You ain't got shipped on me, is he? A big
Sprite guy. It's kind of sarcastic, but he always like sweets,

(03:12):
like right ads in like on his Twitter because like
everyone like you sold it. He's like, I didn't sell out.
I'm just having a refreshing yeah like that. But you're
treating it seriously like you're giving. I really do love Sprite, right,
but like, I mean, I'm for real, Like this space
thing does sound kind of dope, Like I don't know.
War is bad, Yes, yes, war is bad. It's bad.

(03:33):
It does bad things that separates families. But yo, I
mean if they came back home and said your your
son died and which front? Yeah? Which front? Did he? Yeah? Well,
we're not going that far out. This is not fucking
star trick where they're merely saying, maybe we need to
develop some weapons that we can pop up in space.

(03:55):
But let's uh, I'm fully behind your when you become
a space martyr girl, and we will honor you on
a on the new thirty cent coin whatever is created
after that. So, guys, I was just kind of over
the weekend. You know, a lot happened. Uh see, pack
was a big thing. Also, you had such great seats,

(04:16):
was v I I was at that motherfucker v I
P Skybo exactly. I'm still wearing my lanyard from the
thing that I happen to on um but yes sepack
happened over the weekend. And also Trump sent out a
really classy, uh fundraising email to people where he was
at the bed of a shooting victim from the Parkland shooting,
uh and fundraising on that basically saying like, you know,

(04:39):
we're having some really important discussions. Uh. And it was shameless,
absolutely shameless, because you know, you could connect a lot
of dots that perhaps it was his own administration and uh,
the lacks gun laws and lacks gun control that's associated
with this White House that may have been seen as
a cause of this or at least didn't help much.

(05:00):
So it's just weird that he then used his own
failures to sort of like fundraise on it. He's like,
you guys were doing real bad, Like yeah, man, you're
in charge, but somehow like flipping it on him is
like no, man, see I'm I'm having tough conversation, but
I'm look what I'm up against me In his mind right,
it has to be the successes. Well I showed up. Yeah,
I showed up. Look at me about this, right, child?

(05:23):
Well what's crazy is too? Like you look, you know
that email clearly had to go through like iterations and
approvals and yeah, and they had to just be like shit,
I guess we're sending this because you know, I can't
imagine that someone on their own was like or maybe
someone did, but I'm a feeling that based on how
tone deaf a lot of these emails were. Like when
the Manafort and Gates were indicted, they tried to use

(05:43):
that to their advantage. The personal like with like Eric
Trump saying something just asking for a dollar, Like there's
clearly I don't know if that's them doing that or
their their handlers like being full on evil or whatever,
but I it's it's an interesting it's interesting before real
shitty at their job, I don't. I mean, I think
their job is to literally take anything that's in the

(06:05):
news and ask for a dollar. Okay, you know so
somehow us the Olympics too, I mean I I don't.
I would bet on some some they have to acknowledge
whatever is the most important thing right now and then
use it to try and the news cycle. Yeah. So
like so their pitch is like, um, isn't it great

(06:26):
that President Trump is going to help, because that's the
thing they still have to say with a straight face,
like we are here to prevent gun violence, right, yeah,
we're here to help. We're here to help. We're going
to solve this. Probably lots of ideas. So, like I guess,
like guns in every hospital room now they were, wasn't
every public bathroom? I am, oh yeah, yeah, I mean

(06:47):
maybe just start with toilet paper taking dumps straight down
the barrel of step who knows. It's very possible. But again,
this sort had a gun installed in my ass that
I could just shoot every time I and they'll say,
I'm not a patriot. I got gunassu. They A'm destroying

(07:10):
toilets quite literally. And look now you're creating a more
of an opportunity for people to invest in new toilets,
bulletproof toilets. I'm a job creator. Yeah, the toilet lobby wins.
So please kick start my bulletproof bulletproof toilet idea. There's
just been a general like lack of shame right over
the last two years that we I know exactly, and

(07:30):
but it's weird. But I know every day you wake
up and you're like, wow, I really didn't they had
to do. I'm still living in that ground hugs day.
But like, what was interesting to me was this weekend
at Sea Pack, which is like basically comic con for
the far right. Um they have I don't know, uh
they you know, there was a few incidences that were

(07:53):
very interesting to meet. For starters. Ian Walters, who's like
the calms direct for Sea Pack. He said that Michael Steele,
who was a black man, Uh, he was the head
of the RNC when Obama was president. They made him
head right after Obama was elected, and he said that
he was made the head of the RNC because he
was black and that was the wrong choice, which is
pretty interesting. I mean I can see that. You know.

(08:13):
At the time, I think a lot of Democrats are
liberal people were looking at that appointment going, y'all just
did that because we voted in a black president. And
so that's how the RNC is trying to come back.
It's like, well, hold on, hold on, you know, we're
also woke up. And then that turned into a controversy
because he said that on a podium like that was
out loud to a lot of people. Uh, and that

(08:35):
It was interesting because this guy, Michael Steele, he's like
a lifelong Republican, uh, and he had to sort of,
you know, call Ian Walters out and it kind of
became a bit of a news story. And then I
think it was this morning or yesterday on his serious
XM show, like he had other people kind of commenting
on this moment. I guess you have been rather critical
of some of the someone talking of the Trump phenomenon

(08:59):
and this Trump project. I think what Ian was getting
to the heart of that was there are people who
are critics of some of the things you did as
you were chairman. What the hell is that my race
have to do with any of that? At the end
of the day, what does the color of my skin
have to do with anything? You just said? So you
mean to tell me that as a black conservative put

(09:19):
in that context, but let alone as a conservative, I
can't be critical of the president. You can be. But
as you know that there are a lot of people,
I think take race out of it if you look
at the criticism, but he injected race into it. Did
that was the I would agree with you. So again,
those with those words that tumbled out of his mouth,
I believed were unfortunate words. It was stupid, it's not unfortunate.

(09:42):
Call it what it is. Don't take the worst out
of what he said. You know him, I know, but
this is where you need to have some grace. Look,
isn't it? What? What the hell do I have to
be graceful for? You've not been very graceful. You've not
been very graceful to the Republicans and the conservatives in
this hole, in this room for a very long period
of time. Wow. Yeah, if that's not a white man

(10:05):
telling him to get in line, I don't know what is. Yeah.
Do you want to keep playing until he says up? Yeah?
I mean so again. I bring this up not because
I'm surprised, right, but because you have someone who has
sadly been shilling for the GOP forever as a black man.
And it's interesting now like he pushed back against someone

(10:27):
saying something about him that, oh, he was only there
because he was black. He pushes back against him like, yo,
this is inappropriate whatever, And then he has other people
been like, well, you've been really critical. Uh you should be.
I think you can handle that with more grace. Again,
all that means is shut the funk up. But also
I mean like I wish that he had come back
and been like, um, sir, excuse me, I am a
homophobe and I deserve to be here as much as

(10:48):
anyone else. It was something it was a black Republicans like,
this is what what do they think? Why do they think?
Let me go to the next thing. So that was
a man of color or who was a Republican pushing
back against who is Republican, getting flat from white Republican
men around him. Right. So then there was also a
panel at sea Pack where they had some conservative calumnists

(11:11):
and like politicians on stage, all women to sort of
just talk to sort of generally about like women in
the party. Uh. And then at one point, uh, this
one Mona Charon, she's like a conservative calumnist. The woman
who was running the panels just sort of went around
It's like, hi, what, like you know, as a conservative woman,
what kind of gets your blood boiling? The first two
women are kind of like, oh, well that feminism has

(11:32):
been taken away from conservatives and it's only a liberal
thing now. Was like okay, whatever. It would just sound
like a lot of people crying because they were on
the wrong side of things. And then this one with Mona.
She was like, let me get you all with a
hot take for seapack. What gets you riled up? I'm
actually gonna twist the surround a bit and say that
I'm disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites

(11:56):
about uh, sexual harassers and abusers of women who are
in our party, who are sitting in the White House,
who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women,
and because he happens to have an hour after his name,
we we look the other way. We don't complain. Um,

(12:18):
this is this is a party that was ready to
endorse the Republican Party endorsed Roy Moore UH for the
Senate in the state of Alabama, even though he was
a credibly accused child molester. You cannot claim that you
stand for women and and put up with that. Well yeah,

(12:44):
and it got like later on there it's a which hunt.
People were screaming. So again, these are people who are
trying to be reasonable in an unreasonable place. Or I
don't know, is it are we just sort of looking
I know what we were saying earlier. Look, the GOP
for many years was now of a progressive party, uh,
and didn't stand for the kinds of things that you
know that we're taking offense to. But now that you're

(13:06):
seeing this kind of I don't know, erosion within it.
Is someone just not allowed to be reasonable or is
that unreasonable? Are we just talking about people who have
just been deluding themselves a whole time? I don't know.
This was just something I'm trying to wrap my head
around of. I think it's all three. I think it's partly,
you know, people deluding themselves, but also the party had
never been pushed to the point yet where people had
to like polarize to what it was like, Hey, are

(13:29):
you going to support a child molester over a Democrat?
And then it turned out a lot of people in
the Republican Party were like absolutely, no question, I would
love to do this um. And then a lot of
other Republicans were like what the fuck no? And then,
I mean, the thing is not a lot of Now
that's the thing, it's not that many. They're a minority
in their own party, and I think just because they

(13:49):
never had to nobody's ever had to publicly make that
choice so far, you know, And now people are like
oh ship, like the really, the cards are on the table,
and if you are not willing to support a child
molester or over a Democrat, you should get the funk
out of the Republican Party. Right, Well, maybe you should
move to the center where everyone else fucking lives, you
know what I mean? At this point that makes you
a centrist because our fucking origin window is so far

(14:12):
to the right that if you're just like, no, I
don't want a pedophile to be my elected representative, it's
like you fucking call me, right, I don't know. And again, Andrew,
we were saying, like, you know, you want to not
arm babies too with Michael, Yeah, come on, the babies
need to be taught at the end. Okay. So we
were talking earlier about what it takes to be a

(14:34):
Michael Steele or like to be even like a Paul
Ryan right like, and to me, it's like Michael Steele,
as we were dug into his biography a little bit,
probably some stuff we could have known beforehand, doesn't matter, um,
and it was like, you know, he's one of those
like fiscally conservative, socially relatively liberal, not that liberal, but

(14:54):
you know, he doesn't hate black people. Outwardly basically, and
that was liberal. Now yeah for a Republicans, and it
always has been, is the thing, like even when he
got started, so like his basic yeah, or whatever you
want or okay, but even not, let's let's say that
not the not internalized racist a version. Right. The story

(15:16):
that women people of color who are conservatives have to
tell themselves is economics that benefit the rich are so
helpful to everyone in society that it is worth supporting
that and all the other yeah, and all the other

(15:40):
stuff is irrelevant, Like it's not great that there are
racists here, but at least guess what it'll it'll be.
It'll be so helpful to have the people who own
Walmart not pay taxes to black people. That is just
the pitch they have to make, which it's wrong, utterly wrong,
but they believe it. Well. It's a pitch that tries

(16:01):
to separate class and race and sex into discrete categories
when they are not. They are all under one. I mean,
I think, maybe I'm I'm being class reductionist, but like
you cannot separate class and race and sex in America.
Maybe in some other countries you get I don't even think,
but like in America, at least the economics of this

(16:24):
country are founded on the idea that, like, it's totally
cool to kidnap people and use them for free labor
as long as you make a lot of money. I mean,
like that's literally like what built our country. There are
laws on the books that make it harder for women
and people of color to get paid as much like
this is still an active institution. And this is what
people talk about when they talk about institutional racism. Is

(16:45):
it's not just a guy like who's like, yeah, I
hate black people, I hate immigrants. Yeah, it's just a guy,
you know, wearing a T shirt that says, like, I
hate blacks. The rules of the game are yeah, okay.
But but what I'm saying a little bit like all
of that is true. What I'm saying is to be
the non cynical version of Michael Steele, which to believe

(17:06):
that recent class and sex can and should be fully separated,
and one can be ignored at the expense of the other.
I think if you believe that, no, so so let
me let me pitch this as what maybe he believes
is that he doesn't believe that those things are inextricable.
He just believes that his solution it will help poor people,

(17:26):
and therefore actually just he he believes and Rand's economic
plan will actually disproportionately help black people, right, he doesn't
think it will make them more free. Yeah, he just
thinks he happens that he's utterly wrong. So whatever, But
like that is conceivably away you could be a black
Republican A You're like, you're like black people are being

(17:49):
burdened by taxes or something burdened by social services, right, Like,
I mean that's the pit. So it's like if you
could conceivably be a non cynical version of that, maybe
that's him. Right, So I put it this way because
like when I first started off, you're like, oh, you're
surprised by this. Do you see this moment? As have
we crossed the rubicon? Is this like a yeah, is

(18:13):
this a way of like as alignment crossed? Or is
this is another step of what is basically normal for
this party? And then what like you know, what do
you see the how how does this look down the road?
Because clearly there are some reasonable people who might be
on the train. Who I mean, there's a lot of
people just openly leaving the Republican Party or you know,
least about it. Yeah, right exactly. But see, okay, so

(18:35):
we're in such a weird place because like, let's pick
a policy like destroying healthcare. Like destroying healthcare, most Republicans
support it on some level for racist reasons. It keeps
these you know, poor colored people from getting a hand
out that they don't deserve a small minority of people
like Michael Steele and at least nominally like your Paul

(18:57):
Ryan's believe it helped those people for question mark, question mark,
question mark, leaving them some kind of a choice in
their healthcare or whatever that we're not telling you what
I mean. That is the pitch, right, That's the thing
is like where it's like so fucking bonker's land to
consider what their pitches that you. So that's why, because

(19:19):
what they're selling is always choice, is that you have
to make a choice. That's what they consider freedom. Is
like that you get to choose between three terrible interests unaffordable, yeah,
or you get to be a rugged individualist and forego insurance. Well,
democrats are the real racist or the left is the
real racist. That's where that means. Now the question is

(19:40):
is that could that even conceivably be non cynical. Why
could anyone actually believe that? I can't. I don't think
anyone going to see pack has a heart, you know
what I mean. I don't think anyone has to write.
I think he thinks he does. Yeah, I mean, I
do think there's a lot of people there that I

(20:01):
think they have ideals. A lot of people have ideals
that you know, you and I might believe are misguided,
but they sincerely believe that this is what will help everyone. Yeah,
well you have to. I mean, I think that's the
only way you can go in there. And then once
you've become a politician, like, I mean, I don't understand
how you can do it. Just it seems to me
like if you're Michael Steele, it would take one day

(20:24):
of meeting another Republican to disabuse you of your premise,
even if like the version of true believers, like you'd think,
like because it's in what happened earlier. Yeah, you almost
hear it. He's like, y'all can't be racist against me,
but like, my man, they have always been. So it's
like it's so frustrating listening to ship like that because

(20:47):
you're like you know, he will not come to the
correct conclusion, which is, you guys are a bunch of
racists and always have been or sorry, I always have
been alive. Maybe he only hangs up with other black
Republicans the rest of the time he was running that
ship for a while. I don't know, man, Maybe his
his whole crew is just other black Republicans. It's a

(21:07):
very it together. Yeah. And also a lot of these
people they're on a diet that a steady diet of
you know, everything you're seeing in the news is not
objective truth and a lie and it is a smear.
So already we're not even approaching problems from the same
reality badge that comes out, the more convinced they are
that they're right in personally right, Well, that wasn't me
to clip, which is like, they're not mad that she's

(21:30):
saying we would endorse a child molester. That's what you're saying,
is a liberal talking Yeah, how could you believe that?
How could you believe that a good Republican could be
even be a child molester? Right? Well, look, so those
people still tell themselves they're a feminists is a thing
or whatever, or I'm a feminist they don't like the

(21:51):
works year old women are adults. Let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we are back. Obviously,
the n r A has been in uh people's crosshairs.

(22:12):
To put it lightly, I do improv on this so hard.
But yes, basically, uh, I west Man, I got my
new show. It's gonna be premiering next week. You guys
are don't love it. Y'all are all invited. I can't
wait to come. I think it's oh wait, it's closed.
Uh that's a deep cut in l A. But so

(22:35):
Delta basically like many other companies. Last week, we talked
about a lot of companies that were offering discounts to
the n r A and how a lot of people
putting pressure on them. FedEx is still fucking with the
n r A, Like they were kind of like, well,
we don't agree with assault weapons, but like we're not
going to turn down their business anyway. That's a whole
other things. Whole Delta basically recently just came out I

(22:56):
think yesterday the day before, saying that they're ending their
discount with the n r A because they're like, oh, look,
we don't want to be in bed with you guys anymore. Uh.
And before they were basically offering all their gun humping
members discounts to their annual gun fucking bonanza, which is
the n r A annual convention. Uh. And that was
like the discount they're getting, but no more. Henceforth you

(23:16):
will have to pay full price. And let me tell
you the GOP and Georgia, because Delta is based there, Uh,
they are not having it. They are basically like acting
like it is their god given right to have a
discounted flight to their convention. And it's it's very interesting. Uh,
I don't know, a very interesting way of going about things.
Because the Lieutenant governor of Georgia, who runs like the

(23:38):
state Senate, Casey Cagel, I believe, he tweeted out, I
will kill any tax legislation that benefits Delta unless the
company changed its position and fully reinstates its relationship with
n r A. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us
not to fight back. Now, I don't know what he's
so outraged about. Like, it's it's very interesting to think
of how they are even looking at this discount or

(24:01):
just the optics of I guess companies distancing themselves from
the n R A. But the reason that he's saying
that he'll kill any tax legislation is because there was
a bill, like for the tax bill in the House,
the State House and Senator of Georgia that gave Delta
like a huge jet fuel tax cut that would have
saved him like fifty million dollars. So now they're saying like,

(24:22):
and it was flying through the House and Senate because
you know, they're like the largest private employer in the
state of Georgia, so they were like, oh, yeah, of
course this makes sense. You guys are like putting your
hub here like of course as a no brainer. And
now they're like, no, you don't get that cut anymore
because you don't love that n R. Right. This is
what gets me so hot about this ship is the

(24:43):
GOP loves it when corporations take a stand on their issues,
you know what I mean. Like when Chick fil a
was just like yo, if you gay, we don't fuck.
They lined up, Like I remember being in Texas and
the Chick fil A was popping the next day, like
hell yeah, get all the chicken U And I don't
give a funk about bird Flute, Like everyone was so
hyped about it, but now corporations are starting to do

(25:06):
takes in the opposite direction, like you know, like I
remember when Mike and I did the whole like, uh,
Mike and I are actually gay? Do you guys remember
that ad campaign that they did, like Mike and I
like we're actually gay, And like gup was like, how
dare you how gonna corporation? Corporation shouldn't be political and
all this ship, but it's like y'all get so hard
for fucking hobby lobby for like you know, check fil

(25:27):
a for anything that fits your agenda. But now you're
gonna essentially just like attack people's jobs because that jet
fuel tax cut could probably help out with Like I mean,
if you look at it, right the after that tax
scam of a bill that was passing December, they saved
a hundred fifty million dollars like instantly, So I don't
think fifty million dollars gonna really hurt them. That's why

(25:49):
they're like, we don't give a fuck and pay full
pressure that Jeff, because they were I think also to
Delta may have suggested I think earlier on they're like
we're fine paying that just put it towards the roads.
Enjoy you like you use that tax money and then
they're like, okay, fine, then don't give us a tax cut,
Like we still don't work with the n r A. Um,
what is that discount? Also, like the discount that they're

(26:10):
getting camp be more than ten percent? You know what
I mean? Like there's no a Delta is giving like
like oh yeah, it's off the n A right now,
go visit my cousins, right yeah, And it's it's not
like these members if they're flying Delta, are gonna get
there anyway, you know. And that's a flight joke. Thank you.
Yeah you fly a lot. I do. I know you
didn't you have a really spicy tweet about Spirit Airlines.

(26:32):
Oh I for sure did I think so? Yeah, I
always always fire tweets where you said I think someone
was begging you for change or someone I probably did
said I think I also said that airline is named
after the thing that it breaks for its customers. Um, yeah,
I hate that. It's like a fucking barn. But yeah,
so with like uh you know, with the n r A,

(26:54):
Like it's interesting because yeah, I thought I thought corporations
had First Amendment rights under citizens, you know what I mean.
But now utterly it's like there because it's a part
of the culture war. Uh, they really want to boo
who their ways. This is the other thing that the
same lieutenant governor said. He said, I'm tired of conservatives
being kicked around on our values. This time we stand
up and fight and show corporations that conservative values are

(27:16):
important not just to Georgia but to the entire nation.
We can fight for jobs, we can also fight for values.
I'm sorry, what are the values you're fighting discount? And
also yeah, well, I mean this is what's crazy is
that it's so clear right that this guy because he's
gonna be possibly running for governor, which is I think
why he's puffing his chest out right now because he
wants to let everybody know. He's like, hey, where's my base?

(27:38):
And I'm right here. I mean, I'm Rob Bason. I
came to get down. Uh he is this shouting this
ship out, not believing it. It's just an empty talking point.
I don't think there's nothing about your values that are
being threatened. If they're simply saying we don't like the
idea that they're constantly advocating for. Like putting assault rifles
in regular people's hands. He's trying to impress everybody in

(28:00):
the club. He's trying to sound very intelligible and like
about this point and try to be like, hey, look
how cool I am. But he doesn't believe anything he's saying,
like you said, right, and it's yeah, and it's a
shame now because like it's it's so clear like who
these guys are who are being bought by the n
r A because they come out and just say this stuff.
There's again, uh, people of the earth, you aren't entitled

(28:21):
to things like a discount on a flight, and I'm
sorry that you used to get that, and I'm sure
you know there's money saved and not everybody's balling out
of control and pay a full price airplane ticket. But
I guess what, it's not your right. So you know,
if you really feel that companies shouldn't be able to
have a say and meddle around and have a voice
in politics, maybe we need to do something about campaign financials.
I don't know, that's that's a side thing, right, Or

(28:42):
maybe if you're worried about how much your flight costs,
maybe just buy one less fucking gun. And then you
could make up that money just a suggestion. Who knows who?
All Right, Philadelphia lived hard? I apologize, Yeah, now you should,
And I'm sorry to our listeners who had to hear
that offensive take. Can we edit that out though? In
uh and uh, We'll let everybody know where to find

(29:03):
you on Twitter. What if we did a bullets for
mileage program? Oh all right, bullet you hand in as
a mile. That's Guy Airlines. I'm telling you right now,
hop on this idea. This is a hot one from
Edgar Moble. I'm not kidding. That's a great idea. That's
just a good idea of handing a bullet. We'll give
you a mile. Yeah, okay, okay, bullets for miles. Thank

(29:25):
you so much. I'm gonna I think I'm gonna brand
that for me. You just yeah, And what's he gonna
do with all those bullets? Oh, I'll probably just throw
them away? Jewelry? Yeah, jewelry exactly so much. I think that,
of course, anytime I need ideas like that, because I
would smelter that I did. It would be dangerous to
smelt down bullets with all the gunpowder inside. Because my

(29:46):
grandfather's brother, uh back in like the thirties, somebody threw
a bullet into a fireplace and the ship went off
and hit my uh, my brother, my grandfather's brother. He
can only talk at rhyme now, oh my god, hit
him in the head like he's not old on you
can talk. Something happened to him like he yo, this
is this is a family legend that I've been living with.

(30:07):
And please don't try and tear it down with science
because my grandfather's brother was hit with an Aaron bullet
that was so in the fireplace and now he's only talking, right,
he's Bubba sparks by the way. Oh my god. So
Jared Kushner had a really bad day yesterday. Uh he
his whole basically security clearance was kicked down from top
secret to secret. Now that might not seem important, but

(30:32):
it is because when you have top secret, you are
seeing like the most sensitive of information in terms of
how we gather it and things like that. Um and
just basically like ship, you wouldn't want people outside of
our government knowing. Uh. And you know, and that's good
because let's look at what his workload is, right, because
he's the smartest man that Donald Trump has ever met
He has the distinct honor of being in charge of

(30:54):
improving relations with China, Japan, Mexico, solving the opioids, working
on government efficiency, infrastructure, trade piece in the Middle East.
I could go on just the ship. That doesn't matter,
but it's insane that his status got downgraded because he
solved everything on that list Home run after home exactly.

(31:17):
I mean, yeah, opioids are out. Uh, Mexico is like,
We're done sending our people across the border and only
these trade deficits. The government is working so efficiently. I
think infrastructure is at all time high. I mean, guys, yeah,
he's done it well. Actually, no, that's bullshit, because let's
really think about this. So after Rob Porter, that whole
Rob Porter scandal with one of the staffers at the

(31:38):
White House basically abusing his wives and the FBI being
like this guy should not be anywhere near any sensitive information,
the fallout from that has caused John Kelly to like
tighten it up a little bit, although he has a
bit of like a war going on with the Javanka
arm of the White House, but he's basically like, yo, okay,
now you can only look at like not the big
boy stuff, but like the kind of big boy stuff.
I do you say big boy and kind of big boy.

(31:59):
I actually was the prize to learn how like inherently
caddy this uh the naming of things is that it's
it's literally secret and top secret. That's not with us
coming to that because it just feels like very pop secret,
very high school status where it's like what's your things? Say,
secret secret by Yeah, you can't sit here? Yeah, can

(32:19):
I see your badge? Oh no, no no, no, no
no no, you don't get you don't get the hot guys.
I would love to see the notes that are being
passed under the table at those you know, you know,
it's a bunch of fucking crazy text with emojis, like
you know, they have an emoji for Trump, they have
an emoji for like Javanka and them, Like it's oh man,
I would love to see that, and I want to
see like everyone else's like Eric Trump's badge. That's just

(32:40):
like oh, normal news. You only get normal news. You
don't even get a secret. You'll get like readily available
public information. It's just also very disturbing because like this
article came on the Washington Post that basically said that
like other countries, list knew that because he is in
such a desperate need for money for that like billion
dollar buildings six six six Fifth Avenue. I believe in
New York that he's just underwater on that his whole,

(33:04):
Like he's very vulnerable because he's constantly looking for ways
to get that funded. And it was like it was
through intercepts that like in wire taps that they found
out that, like other governments are talking about, like yo,
we can play this dude and get some ship out
of him or you know, you know, unwittingly get him
to cooperate with whatever whatever was given countries endgame is,
which is very bad in terms of just negotiating, right

(33:26):
if you go into a negotiation blind and not know
like they're probably gonna offer you this because that's because
they want this or whatever the case. Maybe that's a
very simplified version of it. But without this intelligence, I
don't know how he'll effectively even be able to do anything.
Not that he was, but he just shouldn't be in there,
I think, is really what the point is when you
look at all this, because the White House and this

(33:47):
whole entire administration just filled with a bunch of homies.
Who I guess Donald Trump is just like, yeah, do
whatever you want, man, Like you gotta get your butt
building funded, Like do that however you want to. Let's
move on to another. Really, you know, a genius woman
of color, someone who has stood for the community from
from time immemorial. You might know her as Stacy Dash

(34:10):
if you are someone who's really out of touch with
pop your culture. Stacy Dash played Dion on Clueless. She
was Alicia Silverstone's best friend named after Dion Warwick. Best
Friends with Share Horowitz, one of my favorite movies. Now, yeah,
she's an actress. She's been on there. I think she
was even on the Clueless TV show, like one of
the few people to even be on the TV show.
But if you saw her, oh she was in Mo

(34:31):
Money with David Wayne's. She's had a pretty long career
and I think if you looked her up, you know
what I'm talking about. Well, guess what, y'all She lost
her job at Fox News because she said Obama doesn't
give a ship about terrorism or something like that. She
said ship live on air. So they're like, oh, look
we still follow some rules here. So she lost that job,
and you know, now, she's actually found a new opportunity.

(34:51):
That's her running for Congress, thank god, as a Republican
in California's forty four congressional district, which is a solidly
Democratic district that's like the communities of like Compton, North
Long Beach, Watts, San Pedro, It's solidly Democratic. But for
whatever reason, she thinks she is going to win there

(35:14):
because I don't know, because she's like I actually live
in the district. Um, I don't know where that would be.
I don't know if like I'm still trying to figure
out where Stacy Dash lives in those are Is that
where black Beverly Hills is? Oh no, she's not. She's
not even close. Cunnington Park, Compton, Paramount Carson. You know,
she's not even fucking close. Uh. Well, here's what I

(35:34):
know about what Stacy Dash did is she's basically the
soul black people up the river, like in the terms
of like, uh, every Republican white person has like that
thing where like you know, they're just like, well, my
black friend didn't feel that way, and Stacy Dash put
herself in that for the entire Box News Network or
like any time I just like, I mean, black people
can just be calm with the police, right Stacy, And

(35:56):
Stacy is like absolutely, yes, yes, yes, So I think
that's kind of like what's so wild is that she
is going for these votes in this predominantly black community.
That's just like, yo, what because her takes are crazy,
Like especially during the she really got canceled by black
people during that, like probably before, but especially during the
election when she was just caping for like Republicans. It

(36:20):
was insane. I couldn't believe it. Uh. And you know,
she has some very hot takes, especially on things like
like the end uple a CP Image Awards are beating.
I think we have a clip. Let's just hear like
one of the takes and then we hear Sonny hosting
from the view sort of clapp back on her, uh
not directly, but commentary on this clip. We have to
make up our minds either we want to have segregation

(36:40):
or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we
need to get rid of channels like b E T
and the b E T Awards and the Image Awards
where you're only awarded if you're black. If it were
the other way around, we would be up in arms.
It's a double standard. So you say there shouldn't be
a b E teacher, I don't think so. No, just

(37:01):
like this shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know,
we're Americans, period. That's it, you know. I think it's
the height of hypocrisy that Stacy Dash would say that
there should be no b ET when she had a
recurring role on the B E T show The Game
for one, she was a presenter at the n double
A CP Theater Awards. Yes, I am talking to you,

(37:23):
miss Dash. She's graced the cover of Jet Pride, Heart
and Soul Smooth. Really, Stacy Dash, I mean, I just
think it's incredible that she would give up whatever value
she had in the first place to pander to an
audience that is sort of angry and scared of people

(37:46):
that don't look like them, and she is giving them
the reason continue to be angry, talking about five angry.
And that's doing it for the dollar. When you compromise
your values for money, you know who you are ships
sunny White. Okay. I mean she looks like she's likes it, Okay,

(38:09):
But I was, like she said Jet with a kind
of like a It was it was underlining, you know,
because that's that's jet. Like, that's for my grandmother. My
grandmother was a jet back in the seventies. That's that's
a credit. That is beauty of the week. Oh wow, Yeah,
there we go. This stacy dash character sounds real clueless

(38:31):
if you ask me, what do you think about that? Nick?
Thank you? I thought you were looking for like a
sound sting, like like did you send him an audio clip?
I think, like this just might be my own politics.
But I think a big issue with people is that
like when they react to like be it like affirmative
action or like like a B E T or like
a specific network, they don't see that it's a reaction

(38:53):
to like the norm, right, and that it's like like
a correction. So like why do we have this, like
we shouldn't you know, have his Well, because their needs
to like a society created a hole where that didn't exist,
So that's like why this is occurring. And then no,
but see then she would have to take into account
like you know, institutional racism and things like that. Oh yeah,
and we can't do that. No, no, no, no no, no no,

(39:14):
that's crazy for her mind. It's a lot, it's really
a lot to attack of that I think with the
thing with her running for congress or it is a conversey, right,
I think that's this is a big trend with there
might be a name for this, but like the GOP
people right now where they set some sort of non
like can't win goal and they go after it with
obviously an ulterior goal, like she's not running for congress,

(39:37):
she's running to have her own show, you know. In
like after the Trump thought yeah she was gonna go,
I was like, man, I'm a launch Trump News Network CNN.
It's going to be lit, and he's like, oh noans
really came to that's a very good point. She's running
for TV show. It's what she's running for. And then
when she loses, like oh well, you know, come up

(39:59):
with some fucking excuse, and then uh, yeah, she has
her own show now, so that's what she's running for.
I just cannot believe that she lives anywhere in your Compton.
It's but I feel like or she bought an apartment
there just to scam in and be like, oh, I
actually haven't actually live there. Well, this was the point
that I kind of wanted to make, is like I
was asking if those neighborhoods were there because like older

(40:21):
black people live there, you know what I mean. And
older Black people don't know what the word canceled means,
like they don't know she have a TV show. Those
are the one who got canceled. And I think that's
why I was like saying earlier when we're talking about it,
is I could see my mom, who doesn't live in
those neighborhoods. She lives in McAllen, Texas. But if she
lived in those neighborhoods, I could see her being a
upper middle class black woman being like i'd vote for

(40:42):
this nice looking, respectable black woman, but I would. But
if she's not talking that ship though about like empowering
black people are disenfranchised people, and she's pushing some ship
like we'll be t older Black people were down for
Ben Carson likes like let's not forget that, like older
black people are just like like I think we forget
that a lot of older Black people aren't hell it

(41:03):
into respectability politics, like you know what I mean, especially
the N double A C P type ship boarding Republicans
a stretched though I'd be one thing if she ran Democrat.
That's true, that's there to flip parties, like in this climate.
That's true, that's true. But I don't know. But I
know what you mean. Ben Carson was a black man
from the streets who turned into a doctor and was
like the greatest neurosurgeon of all times. So like, I

(41:25):
don't know, I can see them being like, well, she's respectable,
she dresses clean. I mean, maybe Stacy has it a
solid chance. It's just it's just heartbreaking because I had
the biggest crush on her as a kid. Yeah. Imagine
she's run against a white boy, like you know what
I mean, like this young white boy, blue eyes. No,
she's she's running against I think Latina. She's runn against

(41:49):
the incumbent right now is in the net by gust.
So she lost that one. You might win some, but
you just lost one, Stacy. Uh. I remember? Yeah, my
dad used to take pictures for a remember HYSB magazine
Young Sisters and Brothers. Um he he did a like
a photo shoot with Stacy Dash. Like, let me go, Dad,
I want to meet Stacy Dash. He said, I had
to go to school, so shout out to him. Let's

(42:10):
take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
we are back there was an article in Vanity Fair
with Babs herself barbera strizzy barber strisand where she was
basically did like a really cool interview. But the thing

(42:31):
that caught everyone's attention was the fact that she has
two dogs that were clones. Are our clones of her
beloved Coton de Tullier Samantha, who died in seventeen very tragically.
Because dogs die was so well pronounced Samantha, Samantha, thank
you so much as Samantha isn't is she's our favorite
sex in the city character. That's our anyway, that's a

(42:55):
complete tangent, I went on because we were laughing about
that last week anyway, So a semit to Dietzingen. But
you know what, when you got fucking money, you don't
have to accept death. Okay, Oh you gotta have is
fifty tho dollars and you can fucking do a xerox
of a fucking dog. And so basically, with like cells
from the dog's stomach and mouth, she was able to

(43:16):
create two clones at fifty thousand apiece. Uh, and they're
just straight up living clone dogs that she has of
her her beloved old dogs. Love. It's not even one clone,
it's two clues. That's like I beat death twice. Yeah, exactly,
like Darren God, like, are you gonna take him away
from me? God? Okay, well guess what to you want

(43:36):
to see how this goes? What do we learning? God? Yeah,
and watch until they like have some really bizarre health
issues down the road. But yeah, clone dogs are so weird.
I used to work like one of the clients that
are lobbying firm was a very wealthy billionaire and he
had a clone dog used to walk around with and like,
I'm pretty sure I don't want to say that he
sort of helped, Like he did this very early on

(43:57):
and was a very big funder of like like cloning
dogs or at least getting that technology to where it is. Um.
But his whole thing was too he loved this dog
so much. He cloned many of them and like put
them in foster homes like group homes, because he was like,
these would be great therapy dogs, which is a good
I think it's an interesting use of your money to
do that, Nows, just to make your your puppy come

(44:19):
back to life. I mean, look, that's your prerogative. Do
what you want. Your money but I think I don't know.
I don't like that for a variety of reasons. I uh,
probably like the silliest is that I don't think the
dog wants that, which I'm anthropomorphizing, getting a personality. But
like I think about my own sweet beloved Jackson, my dog,

(44:39):
and he wouldn't like that, I because he wouldn't know, Oh,
that's me, that's my that's another me, that's my consciousness.
He would just resent the idea of me getting close
with another dog. That's it is not him right, even
if or him genetic right. It's also like the article
is so bunkers because she says she's gonna wait for
her two dogs to grow up to see if they

(45:01):
have Samantha's brown eyes and her seriousness. And in my
hand was like, or else what Barbara? Like? What if
they're not the exact dog you well in love with, Barbara?
Then I'm gonna drop another fifty k for a good one.
Go back to the cloning doctors to get it right
this time. Six k. Okay, my heart out for this
exactly what was her big hit? The way we were

(45:26):
too rendition of it. I'm just saying, I'm just picturing
her like singing that to her dogs and them not
responding in the way she wants and she's like, no,
these dogs are fucked. Yeah, they love it, So these
are flawed. You could have warranted anything. They will be
different dogs, right, because they'll be different. It's environmental. It's

(45:46):
like being a right, right, that's the whole. But I'm
sure there has some overlap because even like separated, I
aren't there like stories about separated identical twins at birth
who even like once they meet, they still do have
many similar things about them. I don't know. I could
be making this up based on a movie and I'm
just sort of an agreeable person. Yes, it's true. I
read that all. Thank you. This is a new podcast

(46:07):
called Dangerous Misinformation to Live. But yeah, I mean, guys, look,
if you have that kind of money, maybe fucking do
something better for humanity than that. And uh, you know,
just to go out on something a little bit lighter,
we want to talk about The Bachelor, which is a
show I don't really watch, um but Anna super producer

(46:28):
Ana Hosnie does And it was the only reason I
bring this up because there's a new book by an
l a Times by your name, Amy Kaufman called Bachelor
Nation inside the world of America's favorite guilty pleasure. Uh.
And one of the thing that everyone's talking about today
is that how basically so many people in the Bachelor
have herpes. Uh and not that so many people have herpies.
But when you go on the Bachelor, you have to
get your STD screenings correct. And the most common thing

(46:51):
that disqualifies a person from getting on the show is
that to have STDs and particularly herpes. Is that correct?
Thank you for having me to talk about her, Thank
you so much. Uh So. Yeah. According to the book
Miami Kaufman, when you are going through the audition process
to get onto the Bachelor, you have to submit all
this stuff. You have to submit like fifteen photos of yourself.
You have to submit a well lit video of yourself

(47:12):
talking about all this stuff. Yeah, that's it's one of
the things says, has to be well lit, submit a
well lit video. You submit up to fifteen photos of
yourself from different angles. They want to like see what
you yeah, exactly, so it's not just your photoshop looking better.
And then they ask you a hundred fifty personality questions
that are crazy, like do you have out of body experiences.

(47:33):
Do you think you can control things with your mind?
Then they ask them in different ways so they can
kind of funk with you, Um, this is look, this
is this is life, this is right. And then once
you get through all of that, you come to l A.
They make you take a medical exam, which includes testing
you for STDs, and if you have an STD, you're

(47:56):
clearly not going to get on this show because they
don't want you spreading it. But in this book it
reveals that most of these people don't even realize they
have The STV producer will call you like, hey, yeah,
you didn't make it, but call a doctor and they're
like what. And then it's like weird because this whole
production crew like knows you have herpes or whatever STD

(48:17):
you have, and they're just kind of like okay, So
they don't really tell them. They're just like, Hi, unfortunately
gonna pass, but you should call your doctor. Yes. I
don't think that's scarier than naming the thing. Yeah, like
they should just name what you should call? What is wrong?
What's wrong with me? I don't think they want to
embarrass them to be like, I know you have herpes.

(48:37):
I think it's just more like, Hey, you know, just
f y I it's that may Lesson. Yeah, that's I mean,
that's what people don't. Cryptic medical test results are terrible
because I would go on web MD on the daily
and convinced myself I have some exotic form of I
was like, hey, Miles, you're gonna take an exam and

(48:57):
then I'm like, oh, you really can't be on the
daily Psychists anymore because your dick has bumps on it. Dude.
You'd be like Anna, first of all, well, I'm just saying,
can you not call me dude? My bro? Bro? They

(49:18):
have to. They always have the SEU test because they
what is It's always like in the later rounds when
they're like, oh, we're gonna take you're gonna spend the night.
Well that's I'm glad you asked myles. Thank you so much.
Last night was the Fantasy Sweets episode. What does that mean? Yes,
so three contestants make it to this round, which means
it's right after hometown, so we take some home meats
the hometown. They go and meet the women's or the

(49:40):
men's the contestants families. Oh got you because it's getting
serious now and the dads are all all aggro and
then all that their moms are all a little too attached.
It's always it's always a very interesting I would never
like most family on such a show. It's just like
way to like just I wouldn't love to see the
best there within the meet the Family episode the hometown

(50:02):
of anyway. So they did that. Now it's fantasy, which
means that the woman or the guy the contestant gets
to choose if they will spend a night with the
bachelor bachelorette. So last night that happened, which means a
bachelor Ari Lion Dyke Jr. Um Here for the for
the listeners, there's a series of blanks and that you

(50:23):
were triggered by his own name by name, I have
my feelings towards him. Um. He got to sleep with
basically three different women in three consecutive nights, basically, and
and luckily at this point, the women don't actually have
to see each other for the most part. They all
like room up until it's about like hometown, So now

(50:46):
they're not dicks. They don't make them all have to
hang out like right right, so they're all just like
corded off by them. Yes, because at this point, you're
so deep in that you don't want to hang out
with your boyfriend's other girlfriends, like it would just be
absurd and mentally and come back, I was just like,
oh we fuck exact same yeah, so um yeah, and
so you don't want someone who has STDs to just

(51:10):
be giving it out to your bachelor and bachelor and in
in this show, um, compared to like there are other
kinds of shows that they have in this series, like
Bachelor in Paradise, they really protect the producers protect their
main person, their bachelor bachelorette. So you don't want them
to look like a fool. You know, you don't want
them to get you know, as you don't get hurt
pies from a contestant. So yeah, it's guys. Your sexual

(51:35):
health is very important, so please get tested because you
don't want to have a producer calling you saying, oh
you should call you. That's the worst nightmare, uh speaking
of Okay, sounds good? Uh okay, all right, that's gonna
do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and

(51:56):
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