Weekly Zeitgeist 172 (Best of 4/19/21-4/23/21)

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 181 (4/19/21-4/23/21.)

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

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles, we are so excited to
be joined by today's guest. He is the hilarious, the brilliant, brilliant,
all of it. Uh. You know, he works outside of
the bounds of the English language. He is Ryan Singer. Okay,

(00:47):
bad Moon Rising. Hey, thanks for having me on the
Showy Stephen Curry the most piercing beautiful eyes any basketball players.
It is one of those things where it's like, oh,
you just got it all and he can golf and
when he choose on that mouthpiece, I'm like, yeah about

(01:07):
his golf swing is prettier than PGA players golf swings.
Like it's like really, yeah, it's beautiful. Are we talking
Tyler Tiger Woods, Tyler Woods left, Yeah, yeah, definitely Tyler Woods.
Have you heard about this Tyler Woods guy? So we're
saying he's on part with this Tyler Wood guy. Huh.
That feels like an Adam Sandler like spinoff movie, like

(01:29):
you know, like Happy Magagine, like Tyler Wood shows up. Yeah,
I love the adding on or removing an S from
the end of the last name. That doesn't Oh yeah,
that's like the old black grandparent thing tyler Wood. Yeah,
or just changing something to possessive or plural. My dad
calls Brad pitt Red Pitts. Stephan has that arm straight

(01:52):
and is that beautiful? Isn't it? Like he's not as
good a golfer as like a pg A golfer, but
like he makes it look better than them. He respects
the form. Good for him. He respects our wonderful golf course.
Thank you. Yes, important to any community to just have

(02:14):
that dividing line where a big business goes to make
decisions people. Yeah, exactly, Ryan. What what's new with you? Man?
Where where are you you in l A. I'm in Dayton,
Ohio right now? The family with the Flyers, with the Flyers,
oh Man. The Flyers had the national championship wrapped up

(02:37):
a year ago. COVID took away the number one seed
from the ud Flyers and the men's basketball tournament last year.
But hey, yeah, we know in our heart of hearts
that the Flyers would have you know, been cutting down
the nets out of the sixty what is it sixty
eight now or sixty six? Yeah, sixty six, so yeah,
one short of being cool. But anyway, yeah, so the

(02:59):
flyer eight as strong as ever around these parts. So
it's always nice to come back and you know, see
all that. But uh yeah, just uh hanging out here, Jack,
you were giving blood offerings, right, Maybe the karma, maybe
the karma would have been better if you guys hadn't
put for sale signs on my family's front poard front

(03:21):
yard and literally run me out of town around eleven
years old. He beat up. Come on, look what you
did to him? Become a podcaster because of that, you know,
And to be fair, I was not for that decision, right,
Remember I took some of the signs off your yard
right right out. I felt bad when they stated the ground.

(03:43):
I was like, you know what, this doesn't feel right
in the window. Yeah, it's like the one thing this well,
I shouldn't say that. I don't want to, you know,
I don't want to come off as talking badly about
where I grew up. But it is one of the
let's just say, one of the biggest things that people
around here. Uh, you know, really get take pride in
and get fired up. It's like the right brothers. Yeah,

(04:05):
the right brothers. And it's the Flyers. Yea born in
Dayton exactly. And there's there's you know, I think the
knowledge of that, like once people realize it, then the
it kind of clicks in for him. But like there's
a statue downtown somewhere of an ice tray, because like
an ice cube tray, because I think the person who

(04:27):
invented the ice cube trays from here. Uh, there's this
weird ice cube. It's actually there's a guy in North
Carolina who claims that he invented it. And there's just
like the right brothers. Well no, because the right brothers.
There's like, yeah, a controversy over whether it's Dayton or

(04:48):
North Carolina. Not really controversy, it's just they both lay
claim to the legacy. And that argument plays out on
the license plates of each day that's uh, I think
first and fly is North Carolina and birth use of
aviation is Ohio. So it's he's a real Oh he's
got some definite claims to just aviation greatness, like most

(05:08):
of the early astronauts and like a lot of the people,
first people to do anything in the sky, we're all
from Ohio. It's just randomly like a very hotbed for
I think because people just want to get the funk
out of there, so they're just like, please, let me
leave Ohio and rock it into the sky in the

(05:30):
most dramatic fashion possible. Emo Phillips has the best joke
about Dayton, Ohio I've ever heard in my life from someone.
Is he from No, he's not, And that's what makes
it even crazier. I'm not gonna do my Emo Phillips
voice because I would be doing them disservice. But he says,
he opens his set like this was years ago. I
saw him at while He's comedy club downtown Dayton, and

(05:52):
he just opens up. He gets on stage, comes up,
he goes Dayton, Ohio the birthplace of White Flight, just like,
oh my god, and the white audience was just like wait, wait,
what the funk? It was just like okay, too real, um,
even though you know, okay, let's talk about the Pine Club. Huh,

(06:15):
what's up with that steakhouse? Huh? Remember we can do
some local material. Then what's up with burritos? When I
lived in Dayton. The things that we had Clint to
like claim to was, well, the flyers were there. There
was a reason people were putting signs on our front porch.
The flyers sucked when my dad coached there. They were
they were really bad. So we had other things that

(06:37):
we had to defend. Your tormenters, Jack, No, No, they
were right. No, they were right. My family sucked. We
should have moved before, we should have left sooner. We
didn't even came. But that there was a lot of
people claimed that Dayton was the murder capital of America.
Is that a thing that you remember Ryan at that time?

(06:58):
Remember capital? We we actually have the highest murder rate.
Like that was like a cool thing to claim. It's like, yeah,
it's Ebdon flowed to. Like Dayton still has a little
bit of I mean, the opioid crisis here is like
the heroin problems is pretty substantial, and there's like this
weird sense of pride like yeah we do are we?

(07:18):
You know? Um? But like I remember the murder capital thing.
I remember also the drug capital of the country because
Interstate seventy and they intersect, so it's like that's world.
It's the second sentence after yeah, I'm from Dayton. Oh yeah,
we're murder capital of the world. But you know it's

(07:39):
because the two interstates cross right there. And yeah, all
the drifters and serial killers and drug traffickers, they all
come through Dayton, you know, they all they all have
their picture on the wall at the Marion's Pizza and
uh yeah Marion's. Yeah. I remember a lot of that,
like like that weird downtrodden pride, almost like you can

(07:59):
step on us, but we're not dying. It's that kind
of like that Midwestern pride of that. Yeah. Yeah, like
people from Youngstown. I got the same energy too. Yeah.
I think there's a lot of town man ain't a game.
I'm like, whoa, Okay. I've talked to other people who
have who said that their town like laid claim to

(08:20):
something similar like murder capital of like the region or
something like that. So yeah, there is like a sort
of fucked up pride that I think when you're from
a town that I don't know, most people haven't heard of,
that's like you just anything to put you on the map. Yeah.
And I've always had this theory that the less I

(08:43):
don't this, I'm gonna come off like an asshole, I think.
But the less you accomplish as a person, the further
away your pride gets. Right, Like like if I've never
accomplished anything, oh, I got an uncle. You know, I
got an uncle who was famous for blah blah blah
blah blah. But if you don't have an uncle, you know,
you got like, oh, there's a guy from my hometown
who invented the ice cube trade. But if there's nobody

(09:04):
from your hometown, it's like, well, Ohio is the birthplace
of flight. And then if you don't have anything, you're like,
America is the best country, you know what I'm saying,
And now there's nothing in America to be proud about.
So it's like, well, you know, the Western hemisphere is
is really killing it out Western Europe. Yeah, so it's
like the further away you get from like your I

(09:26):
guess it's like Kevin Bacon accomplishments, Like how many degrees
of separation are you away from? Pride is what you
take Kevin dat right, pad air Force space that's the
big thing in Dayton and we'll probably talk about later
like boom, I mean we all know what happens down there. Yeah,
most people who are born and raising daton or at

(09:47):
least like extraterrestrial because of right pet you know, Oh yeah,
we we know it's in the water. We know what
they do to us when when we're being delivered in
the Miami Valley hospitals being beamed up to that research vessel. Yeah,

(10:08):
you don't think that they're putting a little alien DNA
in there. You're crazy, man. What is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're
up to? Yeah? I I was looking up see pair
because Anna and I we do a show called deck
Head's Chief Stews on Tuesday Night Santa Hasnia fellows like

(10:30):
gang Affiliate, and we're talking about like par soda and
because we drink weird things on the show because it's
on Twitch, we like to drink weird things out of
Martini glasses. And uh, I bought a para soda at
a Armenian market. But I sent her a picture of
something else that was like a sea buckthorn drink and

(10:53):
she was like, is that hair? What are those words?
A sea buckthorn? Yeah? Yeah, So then I was like,
sea buckthorne is a plant. It's like underwater berries and
people drink it. People make a juice out of it
and drink it. So yeah, sometimes I was I was
looking up a lot of like weird juice. Why can't

(11:15):
I imagine anything being like sweet that comes from the ocean,
I think, I guess because everything's just so salty. I
don't know that it is sweet. I think it's like
weird and tangy. And it's more about the supposed health benefits.
I had never heard of it as a plant, but
apparently it's like the number one health drink in like

(11:38):
Russia and Ukraine. Oh awesome. I feel like we gotta
there's gotta be like some piece of good news where
they like discover, oh ship, this is this thing that
lives in the Mariana Trench is the like most healthy plant.
It's supposed to be good for heart health allegedly, but
it's one of those things where it's like there's no
real proof, you know, yeah, but maybe yeah, you know,

(12:04):
I feel good, so yeah, am I just gonna draw
that connection? It is? No. I do feel like it's
like whenever they find a plant in the rainforest and
it's like it cures some very specific disease, you know,
and you're like Why would that be true. Why would
there be a plant that just has something in it
that's like good for that disease? Nature is amazing. Yeah, Tori,

(12:26):
what is something you think is overrated? Something that I
think is overrated? Right now? Um, I'm really I'm really
struggling with this because I'm just I'm in such a
like bad, like dark spot with all of the policing.
So I'm gonna say policing, No, that's overrated. It's like, okay,
so I'm sure you talked about this, but like the

(12:46):
Capital Police requested like a bazillion more dollars because their tech,
hey again, is not up to part and that's the
reason why the insurrection happened and all of their like
miney bullshit excuses and I'm just not here for any
of that, and like who else gets to say I
suck at my job objectively? Like please look at my data.

(13:09):
This is the results that I'm giving you, and uh,
hundred million more dollars you know what? You know what
to fix this hundred million more money? Well, the thing was,
I don't know if you saw it. I know that
that the auditor or that audit of what happened said
we haven't even been trained on equipment we bought three
years ago. The manufacturers told us we needed training on

(13:30):
and that's why we became white supremacist that sympathized with
the insurrection on January six and then let everybody in
your honor, okay, like it's truly some ship where you're like, yo,
you you couldn't have fucked that up more. You know,
you need more money, need more money. We're not supposed
to take selfies with the people who are armed and

(13:52):
trying to overturn you know, my camp. My phone was broken,
so I had I did not have that specific training. Um.
You know what I was just thinking about was, you know,
as the police are like, oh, who's gonna respond to
like these armed conflicts are like armed criminals who are
intent on pulling off a crime. I was thinking of

(14:12):
the North Hollywood shootout and you know that is the
basis for heat and just like kind of reading back
over news stories from the time, and it's what, like,
I I think I have underestimated the media's role in
like this whole police and police military industrial state because

(14:36):
that shootout was like fun for the local news that
was big, huge ratings, and the stories covering it at
the time, are go from You know, there were two
thousand rounds fired in a public place, eight civilians were harmed,
and the responses, well, the police just need bigger guns

(14:58):
like these. Let me tell you something. My displaying name
on Twitter Hideo NoHo. Okay, because I'm from North Hollywood.
I was I was in school. The fucking bank they
robbed up the street from my school and we had
to fucking lay down because you could hear all the
gunfire from the shootout. And the story was the cops

(15:20):
don't have enough assault rifles, so they had to go
to being B and B guns and van eyes and
by all their assault rifles so they could fight fire
with fire. And yeah, it was like the way the
news was treating it was like it was almost that
point where car chases were big. Baby. We love a
car chase, you know, we love more seeing somebody a

(15:41):
body armor squeezing off a fucking chopper at a bunch
of cops and then showing like when the student you
I remember on the news, we had to shoot on
like the rolling cart TV because we're like, is this
shootout gonna get in near our school? And we saw
the guy get killed when he was walking down the
street from the helicopter. We're like, yo, teachers, like okay,

(16:03):
we gotta turn this off. Like you just saw that
dude get domed from a helicopter. Maybe this isn't good TV,
but yeah, that's it's just one of those things to
where it's like what the what was that for? It
was like it's like suddenly everyone became those money Yeah right,
everyone became John McClane and ship and they're like, oh no,
you're not getting away with a sixty will having much

(16:24):
money they had with money, Like why why WiFi are
the first shot at them? Why? Right, it's just money,
you can that money? Just uh? I mean that this
was so yeah, I think either on this show or
the Crack podcast. So we talked about like the sort

(16:47):
of see change that people are trying to get to
happen around car chases like you mentioned, and just like
just let them go, just fucking let them go, like
you'll you'll, you'll figure it out a later time. And
it all comes back to that fucking broken windows policing
where it's like if they if we don't catch them now,

(17:08):
and and it's just complete junk science. It's complete bullshit. Yeah,
it has no basis in reality, because all the data
that we have shows that over policing for small crimes
leads to an uptick in bigger crimes, right because people
are desperate and they're trying to escape whatever situation they're
in that they don't have resources for. Yeah, it doesn't work.

(17:30):
It's it actually makes us less safe. But you know whatever,
the cops are the good guys, I guess yeah. I
mean that's I think the only thing we can just
keep hammering away on for people who don't understand is
like we have to redefine what crime is or people
need to begin to rethink what crime is rather than
like there's nasty motherfucker's out there that are trying to

(17:51):
get you and we need the boys in blue, rather
than like we have failed and entire segments of the population.
And it's incredible because crime has been going down, right,
like crimes from going down since since the nineties early nineties,
and it has nothing to do with policing, Like crime

(18:12):
would have gone down regardless. So I think that, like,
but they keep advocating for like this whole we need
this infusion of cash because we need to put all
of these people in prison for you know, however long.
And it's but there's this nerve I don't know, the
Fox News nertive of Black Lives Matter is going to
come to your house and knock down your door and
shoot you in your bed because we care about like

(18:34):
random or Antifa, whoever it is, Because that's what we
do to civil rights leaders exactly. That's the internalized white
supremacy and knowing the evil of it, knowing that there's
an evil there, and like not being able to reconcile
that and knowing, Okay, this is what we do. So

(18:56):
if we accrease them of doing that, then it'll I
think that they can't see us as anything but the
inverse of themselves. Yeah. Absolutely, That's why everything to do
with any kind of liberation of black people or any
press group is about this inversion of power that they

(19:16):
black supremacy. Right, if they're not on top, then we're
on top. There are two movies that are nominated for
Oscars that talk about the assassination of Fred Hampton, and
sure enough the one by Aaron Sorkin. Like they say
it's an assassination, but they also say that he was
like shot in the shoulder and therefore like couldn't have

(19:39):
shot back at the police. He was knocked out by
a drug cocktail like that. It's just wild that that
isn't like front, front and center, Like they drugged him
and he was passed out in his bed when they
shot him in the back of the head. Yeah, like
Sorkin Sorkin the boot. Yeah right. What's something you think

(20:04):
is underrated? Mm hmm do I do I want to
say therapy? Or do I want to say bike riding? Oh?
You know, it's underrated. Calling my fuckers you ain't talked
to in a long time, Like that's one fine every week,

(20:28):
fine fifteen minutes for someone you haven't talked to in
a year. That's I'm sorry to get deep like that, seriously,
Like that's that's where I am. And it's probably been
the coolest thing to just talk and just reconnect with

(20:50):
people and you know, just trying to be some degree
of human if you will. I know it's a hassle.
I know it's to paint in the air, So do
it while you do other things, Like that's my thing
while I'm playing something brainless, you know, doing PlayStation or whatever,
or if I'm at the park watching my boy. He's
out there with his friends, so all I have to

(21:10):
do is look at him and make sure he's not
snatched or hurt. So that's the perfect time to call
an old classmate from somewhere. And so you know, that's
that's the type of stuff that I like to do.
And I'm finally realizing, oh, this is meaningful in life
is precious, especially like being locked down and stuff and
not really having the same sort of social connections. It's

(21:33):
funny too, because there are times I would get a
call from somebody who was doing that to me. They're like, oh,
I'm gonna I'm gonna hit Miles up and I'll see
a name calling like funk. I don't talk this person
a year, And I was like sweating almost because you're like, funk,
what am I gonna say? Like what? We don't have
this awkward conversation they want to And then you pick
up and it's like we it's like we left off

(21:55):
for exactly where we were, however long ago it was,
and we we spoke from the forty minutes straight because
it was so effortless and you and that's that was
one of those moments. She was like funk, man, I'm
not here creating stress about this when it's actually such
a like rejuvenating thing to even begin talking your friends
again or even people like you're saying that you haven't
spoken to in a while. Yeah, definitely want money. So

(22:20):
luckily this person had more money than me, so I
was like, I'll ask them for money. Yeah, I was
gonna say, I'm gonna try and just listening to you talk,
I'm gonna the next time I'm thinking of interacting with
a bunch of people I don't know, like on Twitter,
like posting something on Twitter, reading a bunch of tweets,
I'm gonna call somebody I do know. Are you used
to know? Because yeah, it's it definitely gives you life,

(22:42):
as opposed to slowly sapping your will to live Twitter.
But sometimes alright, let's take a quick break and we're
gonna be right back to talk some news. And we're

(23:03):
back and let's talk about Netflix real quick. There was
an interview with the guy who was calling the shots
at the time. When is it Is it still the
same dude? I think so? Yeah, Ted Srandas, Yeah, yeah,
so he someone's interviewed and was like, how did you

(23:23):
come up with this brilliant idea of binge listening, Like,
how did you predict that that was the direction people
wanted to go in with our viewing habits, what like
what was the stroke of Jack into the matrix and
then predict this? And his answer is his answer is
so fucking like why we just think like these people

(23:45):
are so next level geniuses and they're just like idiots
who just fell upon a solution. Yeah, he said, I
never even thought about it. So the reason they're talking
was because of House of Cards that before this they
were sort of lauding how House of Cards really changed
the paradigm by dumping it all book. If we're going
to really speak fact, it's Lily Hammer. Okay, Lily Hammer

(24:06):
did it first with Steve and z DVDs did it first?
Uh TV Marathons of road Rules over the weekend? Where
there are are are the four fathers of this bi
in this sense he said talking about the House of Cards,
says it was the happy accident of happy accidents. When
we finished the season the House of Cards, we were

(24:28):
about to launch, somebody asked how we're gonna put it out.
We had a meeting and they asked, how are you
going to release it. I said, how do you mean?
And they said one week? When a week for a month?
I said, well everything on Netflix. We got it a
season after it was on TV, and we put up
the whole season. And I said, well, we can't have
one show that comes out one a week and everything

(24:49):
else all at once, so let's just release it all
at once. And that's how we That's how we did it, casual.
The answer was like, how that happened? As a writer,
I want to take a pencil and push it directly
through my eye. Creators, how the audience is going to
receive the media house the Cards happen to be an

(25:11):
exceptional dingeble show, basically a movie made by a movie maker.
It's like Lucky House of Cards. But can American TV
writers never know how long it's gonna go. They don't
know really how things are gonna air on streamers, So
like it is very difficult to deliver to the audience
and product when you're guessing at how they're going to
get it, even more than like writing for another director's

(25:33):
for a director's mission, there's like that, but then how
does it even get to folk? That's just so frustrating
that like executives don't consider how people watch, how we
get Breaking Bad the whole season. Okay, do same for
House Cards A little bit that that wasn't a plan

(25:56):
in like the creation of the show is crazy that
they didn't already necklace. It's still a mailing series. You
were gonna be sending DVDs out. Wasn't up one you
had physical media to make to make this decision an order.
I think the one thing that was probably good on
his end was like in earlier in this interview he's
talking about like how they arrived at making Originals is

(26:18):
because they're like ship, this is picking up steam and
it's good for now. But when they realize how much
money we're making, all of the other studios are gonna
start making their own ships. So we gotta we gotta
get aggressive with originals, Like fucking now that you know
a pile of cash hit the laundry mat, it's that's
like a nice backstory, but that's like this isn't a mystery.

(26:41):
When he sniffed like it's all had to get clean
and David Fincher's phone number was on auto days, they're like,
hey man, can you can you can you turn this
around pretty quick. You're like, uh, yeah, what's Robin right doing?
Get her on the Crown Prince with a gold DVD
on the wall somewhere. Oh yeah, wow, I'm sorry. I'm

(27:05):
in l A right now. So I feel just very free.
It's it's that's fine. I mean I wish we could
turnally integrated business. I can say whatever I want, can
do anything you want. I did a reality show for you.
I never would get right, where is my Saudi funding?
Where is it? Bring it forth, Mohammed bin Salman, please?
But yeah, I mean I think the one thing though,

(27:28):
I mean, aside from the origins of it though, is
truly like it's wild to think was like the start
point of it sort of formally becoming this thing where
it's like, yeah, this is how we're just gonna do
ship now just dump it on people. But it has
given me just the ability because of I think to
your point, getting like DVDs before, like when you'd be like,
I don't really watch that show, and then you had

(27:49):
the fan friend who's like, here, take nine hundred of
these DVDs now so we can talk about this, and
I'm like, fuck, all right, fine, It's like now with
binge watching like that was I was able to like
get into a show much quicker because before, when you
were sort of beholden to, like the the flow of
the broadcast schedule, I would quickly become cynical, like, man,

(28:11):
funk that show? I don't care, But it's most like
I haven't seen anything and I don't have the time
to be able to watch at all. HBO still does,
still does the weekly thing every once in a while. Right, Yeah,
they do still care about ratings, which is so bizarre
to me because I mean, I guess as an elder
millennial again forty, I am the spear type of the
millennials into everything. Um, we don't care about when something's on.

(28:34):
I don't know anybody who isn't a parent of someone
my age that is still concerned about when something will
come on. Right, what's a watch on demand world? Yeah,
being tethered to some day unless like maybe like some
of the trash reality shows that like I love to
watch the second it comes out. But other than that, yeah,
it's it's completely irrelevant. Um Man, just subscribe. Ma. Well,

(29:05):
speaking of parents, you can probably hear a car start
outside the garage, which you know, I could be like
except they gave me the garage to their car slip outside.
So sound of a super a roaring in the background. Uh,
note that my family is going to gather some food
since I haven't grown anything yet. You failed him. You
failed on skate I have I failed as a provider.

(29:26):
Skateland needs to get on the board and start shredding
for legs so she can monetize. Monetize this still shred
Oh yeah, I'm so importing. Come on, come on, come on,
no idea. I certainly not during a pandemic. I can't

(29:46):
be falling on my coxys and needing the services tied paramedics.
Oh yeah, I don't do that. Let's talk really quickly
about junk food vaccination promotions because the world is dealing
with a shocking and balance in vaccine distribution. As many
as sixty countries, including some of the world's poorest, are

(30:09):
probably going to be stalled at the first shots of
the COVID nineteen vaccination vaccinations until as late as June
because the whole delivery process and just capitalists like global
market ethos is bullshit, is going to come back and
give us all polio for this. I feel like it's deserved.

(30:32):
But meanwhile, in the US, there have been several promotions
to encourage vaccination. Most famously, Crispy Cream is offering a
free donut a day to get the vaccination, which prompted
a backlash since eating a donor a day would yeah,
and also be more likely to kill you. Then COVID

(30:55):
and then okay, first of all, don't it's a cops
are together because don't ut shops are open twenty four hours.
That the service to all of us, not just police officers.
Anyone can go get a donut any time. It is
a great equalizer and donut shall not be maligned on
my watch, no way anything. And if a doughnut a
day is what somebody, If somebody gets a vaccination to

(31:15):
get a doughnut today and eat that, that person is hungry,
and there are bigger problems to solve. If we're rybou
hungry people getting food, we don't get to care about
what food it is. If Krispy Cream is going to
do more for hungry people that are vaccinated, and then
the government is then fucking send him a wheel of cheese,
then who's cool is that? Was like some fitness person

(31:36):
who was like being like, oh, a donut a day.
I don't know. Yeah, sam Adams jumped in. Sam Adams
is giving people a free point or free beer for
getting back for their vaccine cards. Right, It's like we
literally have to. It's like truly a carrot on a stick.
People say, hey, vaccine, vaccine, what do you want beer?

(31:58):
What do you want a donut? Defense they're giving pre
rolls with proof vaccination in Michigan. I love it. And
in China they're doing I I won't get one free
ice cream cones and they're doing that in Russia too.
You get an ice cream for you got a little treat.
It's just the most this story like made me view

(32:21):
America like we're like view the world like we're just
in a giant skinner box where people are just like
where do we move the treats for now? To get
the people to move rre we want them to vaccine.

(32:41):
Put the Venn diagram of people who get vaccinated for
a doughnut is very small. There's a certain vaccinated people,
and there's donuts. And when those that little circle meets,
like everybody wants a donut. I just love this thing
that like a donut a year is a funny idea.
I don't know who's going to take advantage of it,
like you go once, like you go get your one

(33:04):
treat presumably. Yeah, I think this is weird. It's very capitalist,
just trying to get a little like I can see it,
you know, maybe on my site, show me your vax
card ten percent off. I do it. It's like I
can see it as a desperate company ploy to like
be of this moment in this thing we're all sharing. Yeah,

(33:24):
it's to generate stories like we're doing right now. It's
just fine. Yeah, I would love to go to a
dispensary that gives me a joint because I'm vaccinated. That
feels good. Yeah, cream, thank you. It's been a long
year Israel. Meanwhile, there's you know, many of the people

(33:47):
are already vaccinated. They're trying to get some of the
younger people to get vaccinated with with some pop up
vaccine centers that have free pizza, that have DJs that
they've hired to create a festival atmosphere. They set up
one clinic in a literal bar with the promise of
free drinks to those who got vaccinated, but apparently they're

(34:08):
non alcoholic drinks. But I feel like that comes with
a heavy Why don't you come by the bar you
can get vaccinated and then you're gonna vote for BB
All right, that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna have
the DJs come by. It's gonna be it's gonna be
lit everybody. You gotta come down, all the kids to
tell Aviv. Meanwhile, you know they're so they're contriving gimmicks
to get people vaccinated, but Palestinians have only received enough

(34:32):
vaccines for just over four percent of the population, So
that's yeah. I Meanwhile, the people in Congress will continue
to debate what isn't apartheid state? Really though? Yeah? I
don't even spell that. All right, let's move on to
something else that want I don't know there's a thh
in there. It's too much. What else can we get? Wait,
it's not thighe. Oh no, let let's let's push that.

(34:56):
Let's push that bill for another minute. Let's yeah, I
can't deal with that right well. Speaking of things that
remain legal and things that will be made illegal, Florida
is moving forward with its Combating Violence, Disorder and Looting
and Law Enforcement Protection Act mm hmm yep, they're they're

(35:18):
you know, makes making it illegal to exercise your First
Amendment rights by essentially saying like, um, let's protect the police.
So that way anyone else that doesn't like it when
poor people and allies get together to voice their displeasure,
they can just do whatever the funk they want and
make it mad illegal. Uh and yeah, this, this will

(35:41):
just be great. This is how we combat any kind
of progress. So the things that it's doing is essentially
just makes it makes it a third degree felony when
seven or more persons are involved in an assembly and
cause damage to property or injury to other persons. That's
just how the funk are you supposed to know anything
about how a demonstration can go or bad faith people

(36:03):
who are just doing on their own ship whatever it is.
There's no way to know and to say, Okay, now
we're gonna put give all these all these people with felonies.
On top of that, I think one of the things
that's been pointed out for the most is about that
essentially makes it legal to drive through people or a
crowd if you feel like you're fleeing for your own
safety from a mob, making the driver not liable for

(36:26):
any injury or death. Like it's the end on. And
also you can hit people with rico charges if you
organize or fund an assembly that goes disorderly or whatever.
Their essentially saying, hey, we're here to completely dead this ship.
So no matter what you have, the threat of a
felony will take your fucking benefits from you and your

(36:48):
kids because you went to a protest. Those are the
threats now hanging over people. Kind of seems like we
live in a failed state. Yeah, because now yeah, because well,
I mean I think the second you're saying, uh, pointing
out that things are bad is illegal. Oh oh that's
what this ship they said. If you want to come

(37:08):
out and say we don't like this ship, it's on.
I mean. Also, like, given how demonstrations go, when they
say if it gets virulent or disorderly, it's usually the
police actually always the police that instigate kettle and do
whatever the funk they gotta do to start turning shipped
up to justify whatever their own escalation is. So this

(37:30):
is like it's a they've just created a feedback loop
to be like, yeah, man, this is if they're out
there and y'all are out there, it's sucking on and
they're all getting felonies, and it's just whatever happens, fucking
happens because we've completely changed the law, and to take
it to this point too, because it is a failed state,
it is also it's just like the last step in
trying to preserve this myth that is central to policing,

(37:53):
which is that investment in armed protectors is going to
create the kind of safety that people desire or need,
rather than giving everyone the peace of mind of being
materially supported and taking away the chaos of lack of
needing of not being supported. That that is how you're
going to create safety. Not we need more fucking goons. Man,

(38:15):
that's the problem. Ship's gone out of control. It's gone.
It's not gone out of control. Y'all have fucked up
so bad. You've failed all these people, and you act
why everybody is so upset because they don't have anything.
So again, solving problems in America by just creating new
ones and becoming a never ending revenue stream that gets

(38:37):
just menial results. So is this like what, so is
this gonna be enacted into law like immediately or how
how does that work? I mean, I'm assuming it will
eventually succeed. But yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure he
it's gonna be sent to his desk to be signed,

(38:58):
so it will be signed into law. I mean, it's
people are like there's gonna be a lot of lawsuits
and ship. But yeah, it's that you know, they control
the Republicans control the Florida Senate and House, so boom
boom one after the other. So I mean it's again
there there seems to be this overall structure where the

(39:18):
police are so petty and so fragile and if like
somebody says something mean to them, they get to like
start shooting at them with shooting projectiles at them that
can crack their skull and ship. And like when you
look at the number of police that uh shot and

(39:40):
killed people, it was like close to a thousand. We
look at the number of police that were shot and killed.
There was like I found this on like a police
news site and it was like forty five. Unacceptable. This
is like ridiculous, like they and it's just there's this
imbalance of like how they want things to be viewed

(40:02):
that like all racists, they have a victim complex where
they're like I'm the real victim in this situation. People
calling me a racist is worse than me being one.
And also the Democrats aren't doing shipped to stand up
to the police either. That's the problem. Also there's no

(40:23):
opposition party. The ones that are even like to the
left of Democrats, they just get shushed out and they're
just like, no, don't say that, Yeah we can't. We
don't like that. Yeah, because policing is also just intertwined
with the history of slavery in America. So talking about

(40:43):
police is just it unearths a lot of stuff that
you know, the propaganda machine prefer were not discussed being
integral to the financial success of America, much like the
Olympic Torch marathon. Pretty much, they're like, don't look too
far back, why that started, Look at the Look at
the coordinated ceremony of everybody marching in lockstap Yeah. So yeah,

(41:10):
I mean again, this is just it's all we just
run into the same fucking problems because capitalism won't allow
for stability, because there's no money in that. And because
of that, we have to come up with these ridiculous
fake solutions that just cause more problems or just look
different enough, they're like, oh, that's new, but you're just

(41:30):
spending money on fucking robot dogs and what the funk
you're doing? Just like with climate change, like rather than
properly investing in the ship that we needed to reduce admissions,
were more like, how what kind of technologies can we
use to fucking fight the earth? What are we doing? Yeah?
Just so backwards at every step, and and you know,

(41:53):
you'd hope more and more people begin to see the
absurdity of it, because on its face, it's so absurd,
like there's nothing you can he that you're like, oh, yeah,
this is a line to the solution. So everything is
so absurd. But it feels like descent just keeps being criminalized.
So it's like, right, what are you supposed to do? Right?
I mean, hope, I don't know. Do you know goddamn

(42:14):
podcast here on independent media where we can say exactly
the police, Yeah, at least say that here. I was
just thinking of what you mentioned, the Olympic torch in
the context of like profitability. I was just thinking back,
like the one memorable moment from that was Muhammad Ali,

(42:36):
like at the Atlanta Olympics, like running the final right
stretch running the torch up to whoever like lit the
arrow and fired it at the thing, or maybe he
actually ran right up to the torch, but it's just
funny to think about, Like that was when he entered
his It's been long enough that his radicalism is like now,

(42:58):
you see that. They do that with the Olympics a
lot to or they bring in people that, you know,
the athletes who did the black Power salute at the
Mexico Olympics. You know, obviously the Olympics hated that at
the time, and also there police murdered a bunch of
students during that one. But yeah, it's like, if it's

(43:18):
been long enough, then they try to co opt it
into the commercialism. I feel like we also saw this
in real time last year with the Black Lives Matter
movement being like co opted by corporations but like with
no material and vet none, with nothing, with just like
a statement but no, you know, nothing, nothing behind it,

(43:41):
and and trying to corporatize it in order to sort
of neutralize it as an actual radical threat. That was
wild to see happen so so fast, and also people
being pissed at it and being like funk this, you know, Yeah, alright,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

(44:13):
And we're back, and speaking of things that bite I
don't know, quick bites, quick quick bites. Quimby is back.
I'm just bringing this up because it's really about what
Quimby cost and then what they just sold everything for.
Because Roku, who makes like TV, you know Roku and

(44:33):
all those little adapters makes and all that ship they
bought all of the Quimby content and they're like sort
of repurposing it as Roku originals and they're making their
own like streaming content or whatever. But the reason I
was like reading about it because this was this is
announced batch back in January that wrote who might come
through with it? Quimby cost one point seven five billion dollars.

(44:54):
That's how much they put into production. That's that's what
that's how much they raised. Quimby completed, launched, off the
ground market and everything one point seven five billion dollars. Okay,
and a couple of months the Wall Street Journal there's
any things saying they sold it to Roku quote for

(45:16):
significantly less than one hundred million dollars. So let's assume
that's what sixty million trying to flip that hundu right,
and now that's a loss for Quippy. I just loved that.
I just love that ship. One point seven five? Man,

(45:38):
will you pay fifty fruit? I don't know, man, please uh.
I think that Quimby has an opportunity to come back
because it was an app that was for the commuter
and for people in the office sneaking and streaming at
their desk. Commute and went away in office work went away,

(46:01):
so you're dead. Then they had that stupid tech thing
where you couldn't watch the ship on a laptop or
a TV perfect and by the time they lifted that embargo,
it was too late. My fuckers was on life support,
so you know it was done. Deal vaccines flowing. What

(46:23):
did Joe Biden say this week? Two hundred million got
the shot or two d million shots? I don't you
know what. Let me take that back. Maybe they might
be padding the stats over there, because two hundred shots,
it's technically a hundred because you get two shots. Are
you got in both shots? Joe Biden? Anyway, my fucker's

(46:44):
are going back outside again. So if people are going
back outside again, then I think that there's a chance
that quil be could come back. Also. The other thing
that's happened in the same time, pretty much every streamer
has raised their price or is planning to raise their price,

(47:07):
and Quimby has enough star power. I don't only watch
The only thing I watched on Quimby was Chrissy t
Gets Courtroom Show, because you know, I kind of like her.
She's cool. And then there was a movie they had,
like a movie that was split up into like seven
minute parts, and I was like, like I made it

(47:31):
through thirty minutes of that and like that was it.
Like I didn't really watch anything else over there. So
I think they come back cheap, and they come back
with the names, they have a chance. But I think
that's the problem is they wasted all that money and
they've sold all the I P so they I don't
know what happens. Katz and Berg is gonna have to

(47:51):
I don't know they can do another round of fundraising
to try and get all that money going. But yeah,
it was interesting cause I think the one thing that
they did have was like the aspect ratio of and
from vertical to horizontal and stuff, and that would give
you new things. I think that was legitimately an interesting thing.
But yeah, to your point, like, people also want to
watch it on a computer or a TV or whatever,
and when you have stars, you're used to seeing on

(48:12):
that format. Alright, I rotate my phone. I can see
more of the room that the actors are talking in.
That to me was like, Okay, that's cool, but it
still boils down to what's the story on the screen.
But it rotates good. Yeah, I can see you around
the corner. Now. Oh, it's a bigger conference room than

(48:33):
I thought. That part was cool. But I root for
it to do well because the board places there are
for content, stories to be told about opportunities I have
to get a check exactly. I've always been rooting for it.
There's so many talented people who are getting paid. Who
are you know, drinking up that one point seven billion?

(48:56):
I just it is also such a perfect example of
like executive overreach and just putting one idea and executive
had before any of the many many things that you
have to do to make something work. They're like, well,
people people like short stuff, and then you know, meanwhile,

(49:16):
YouTube is trending longer and longer, and Netflix like the
thing people are addicted to is like streaming shows that
like keep you glued to your TV until five in
the morning. Like it was just I remember that. Like
when the web, like when putting content online first started,
people were like, it's got to be thirty seconds or

(49:38):
less or else nobody's gonna watch it, and like they
just stopped thinking about it at that point. They were like,
all right, we gotta we gotta make it bite sized
content for anybody to consume it in this fast paced world.
And people are like, no, we want relief from this
fast paced world. About Quimby and Netflix for that matter,

(50:01):
a lot of the shows are written to deliberately cliffhang,
so it's never supposed. Even the comedies like that are
kind of serialized. They deliberately want you to hit the
next episode, so you just fucking rat pushing the cocaine
button in that cage. So it's like that's that's what
they want. But Quimby is gonna need a flagship hit,

(50:23):
you know, you know, and that, and that's difficult, especially
at a time now where a lot of the sites
are like they're just basically remixing existing I p like
pretty much every streaming side, it's like, what do we
have that we already own fuck it, you want to
know what? Build on that for cheap and then start

(50:44):
doing new ideas. So you know, I don't know, but
if they're gonna come back, they're gonna need content. So
if you're listening from Quimby, get at whoever, I would
I would love to see real cool like just take
off as like suddenly a really successful streaming platform that
like is up there with Netflix and uh Quimby, like
all the big gas executives who put stake their career

(51:08):
on Quimby or just you know, yeah, somebody has to
get fun. Yes, you get roy a check call it
you know, branded as roy Coop. You know there you
go right there. Let's go from really bad ideas to
really bad ideas. Uh, this is called these are some

(51:31):
frat sickles that Natty Light is creating. I don't know.
I mean, you guys, tell me what you think. So
natural Light has been like when I was in college,
that was the beer of choice because it was like
four dollars for a thirty pack and they were just
like trying to give it away basically, and it tasted bad,

(51:52):
but like not so bad that it didn't get you drunk.
And since then they have apparently, uh had some meetings
where they're like, what if we did like a fruity beer,
the like taste of culture culture, your uncle's beer, it's
your nanny, it's your nanny's beer. Now. I've also been
on some r fps from the Light where they're like

(52:14):
trying to like brand themselves in an ironic way. It's right,
it's really weird. And they had some weird like PR
campaigns like internships and things like that, but they're this
all their Their first thing was like this natter Day's ship.
There's like their fruity beer strawberry lemonade or pineapple Lemonade's like, okay, fine,
whatever is. I guess it's popular enough. I've never had it.

(52:35):
It definitely sounds like a better idea than those like
sweet Tea truly seltzers, which I've had one of and
immediately thought I was being poisoned. Um. And now they
have turned this into an eight percent a v V popsicle,
which sounds like, oh, dangerous development. I mean, I guess yeah.
And anytime you make alcohol easy to consume, and anytime

(52:58):
you make alcohol fun to consume, like stupid bendy straws
or those long New Orleans hurricane cups that look like
a fucking long as water air traffic control tower. The
long necks. You're you're gonna get into some trouble. Like
you're gonna you're gonna get into some trouble yum. Like

(53:21):
I mean like there was for Local before, and for
Local got everybody off the crazy colors. But you know,
like I came up with like mad Dog and all
of that ship and all of that like this, Yeah,
it's just like, oh, it's just fruity or it's sane

(53:42):
eyes the little fruity cooler cocktail joints or whatever if
naughty light like PBRs more refined cousin that like finished
community college and it's like, you know, well respected beer
but also a beer that exudes shot shot shot shot
shots right, Yes, yeah, yeah, I would, I would. I

(54:05):
don't know that it finished community college necessarily, but it definitely. Yeah,
it definitely told their parents that they went they were
going to and I didn't tell their parents. They were
just sleeping in the car of a grocery store near
the campus during class and then we'll drive back and
say class was good. Yeah, yeah, And PBR told him
so and said you should have never lied just what

(54:30):
these are made like that they might have had a
like excess packaging at the uh at the popsicle factory,
Like these look exactly like things that my three year
old and four year old would be so hyped to
get their hands on. Oh yeah, this is right. If
the candy cigarettes exactly how cigarettes still gave you cancer?

(54:54):
What's the over under on stories where a bunch of
kids have found their kids Saturday, their parents Saturday's popsicles,
and God just bent out of shape off of them,
Like I don't. I feel like it's very quick because
I when looking at it, I had to look very
closely to be like, where does it say this is alcohol,
like when you look at the red the packaging. But yeah,
like you said, really making it easier to consume. I

(55:16):
think it's like this because now we're going back to
childhood where the popsicle is like, yes, I got a popsicle.
Now we're adding alcohol to that experience. I don't know
if there's another level that will inspire more childlike excitement
than the popsicle. They look like the squeezable yogurt tubes
I give yeah, right, yeah, yeah, this ship looks like gogurt.

(55:39):
I don't want him having some natty light sending him
out the door to four year old pre K's Like,
would we found some of your child's lunch box? Uh?
Just filled to the brim with natter day's Wait what
let's go? Yeah? Also like people aren't gonna actually freezy

(56:04):
I mean, like responsible people will freez these, but this
just gives you a faster way to drink Naturday's I'm assuming,
and get drunk off Saturday's. Yeah, I mean I don't
really you know how cool you look pulling one of
these out of the cool meat on the drilling meat.

(56:29):
Who wants a popsicle? But crap brothers sucking on popsicles
is a funny image to me. Just replace all these
party scenes, which is frap boys eat these popsicles and
ship popsicle doing the linking arms thing, but just sucking
on a popsicle for like, sit on them and put

(56:49):
them up. There would be some sort of ash shot
remix with the pot like whatever the beer funnel? What
was that when people were dying a couple of years
go from chugging, yeah, but chugging, this will be the chugging, right,
It's just make a frozen but plug like by like
melting together like fifty of them things and like can

(57:10):
you handle the mega plug of natur days? Like, oh
my god in a freezing that's the point, bro, Maybe
this will being bring back bros Ice and bros. Though,
which is you know, just giving someone You should add
a disclaimer right there, because I feel like we just
gave someone an idea and they're gonna take that to

(57:32):
the all right, that's gonna do it for this week's
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