Weekly Zeitgeist 229 (6/6/22-6/10/22)

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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're thrilled to be joined
in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, actor
who's written for and appeared on Comedy Central and ABC.
His stand up albums, the Blake album stuff Boy Live
from the Pandemic all debut at number one on iTunes
and Amazon, and his album Twelve Years of Voicemails from

(00:43):
Tug Glass to Blake Wexler charted on Billboard. Ever heard
of it? Please welcome the hilarious that the chaotic Blake
wax Lo. This is Blake Wexler a K. First we're
gonna pod, then we're gonna cast, then we let it

(01:04):
site geist, let it site. Wex gonna give it to you.
He's gonna give it to you. We give it to you.
You're gonna give it to you. That was not from
Palling Arabtta. I wrote it, but Cal's around and I
wish him the best. What's gonna give it to you. Yea,
he did not write that, but yeah, I feel like
no other guests do. I feel more in need of

(01:29):
some like w W E entrance music, where like Miles
and I are just talking and then the music just
like kind of breaks in. There's the sound of shattering
glass and the music breaks in, and then everybody, like
super producer justin comes in and everyone's just shouting about
how they can't believe that this music planned and that
means that Blake Wexler is here. But that is like tragic,

(01:50):
Like I'm being dragged by a horse like into the
ring and I'm barely all, Oh my god, please, somebody
got the horse, the rope that's attached to the horse.
It's you. Guys are like, oh no, you're his music
because you know there's going to be like an insurance
claim on your hands. I don't know, you better be

(02:11):
riding that horse outside the venue. Oh no, it's black wrestler.
This is this is actually really bad for us. This
is this is not good for our financial security as
a company, as an institution. My personal injury attorney has
his own entrance music as well, where like oh god, Bill,

(02:34):
oh no, it's Jacob and Ronnie. Oh yeah, I like
it's like yours started. I like how you had the
girl like DMX, but maybe yours just like like like
oh ship. Oh no, it's the weeper, the grim weeper,

(03:00):
the slim weeper in the building. Blake, how are you?
And all joking aside? And seriously, I don't want to
hear another fucking joke for the rest of this podcast. Problem,
I swear to God together, how are you doing? I'm
gonna have to throw out all the hard copies of
jokes that I had printed out. I don't I don't
read screens. Well doing good. I'm in I'm in Charleston

(03:23):
visiting my parents, and we were talking before. Very bizarre
set up. Uh. In here, I have my computer resting
on piles of tools, and there's a bunk bed in
my dad's office for some reason, but I think it's
it's a chaotic. You kind of see where the chaos
is coming from. It's an inherited chaos. I guess, did
your parents have other roommates or they've been air being

(03:46):
being their home while they live here? Yes, so to
me and my sister, we split the bunk bed. Uh yeah,
we're in our thirties, so they've been No, it was
just a bed that they held onto and like, is
that your childhood bed? It is? And I was I
was going to say the way you just said that,
I was like, that sounds ridiculous, that's not true, But no,
it is. It is true. You were right, And I

(04:09):
think what it is is that we had a twin
bed that can be used as a guest bed, but
there's just another one on top of it, if that
makes sense. So the bed is perfectly functional. It's the
extra one that's on top of it, the double decker
that's weird's luxury. It is an embarrassment of riches, to
be honest, the second bed on top or like, it

(04:35):
was built for that and they just are are put
in the second bed. It was built for that. But
it would look less strange if there was just one
bed in the room. But it's a bunk bed, which
is you know, it really is tricky and complicated over here.
But you know, one day for the grandkids, maybe sleep
in that bed. I don't know, maybe I'm stupid for

(04:56):
keeping it. Blake not subtle in the least bit. The
message that it is sending you your father and I
are real dumb, fucking idiots for thinking that could happen.
I don't know, are we, Honey. There's there's like eight
pillows with different name options as well. It's like, oh, geez,
all right, now you've really crossed the line. I'm not
going to name my kid Ramson. What is that? Even

(05:17):
if you can't really close to saying my kid's name, bro,
that's I was actually thinking of a guy I went
to elementary school with Ramson. Yeah, son of a ram Yeah,
Ramson exactly. So you're starting to make sense. Yeah, Ramson's
good people, hard headed, good guy. Yeah. Named after the

(05:38):
mel Gibson flim mel Gibson flynn Is Howard pronouncing that?
Named after the mel Gibson film and they just miss
missed it? What is something from your search history? Oh? Okay?
So I for my podcast was unfortunately reading the book
Hashtag girl Boss, which is such an incredible piece of work,

(06:03):
and I was just look, there's a quote in her
book that says things come to those who wait, but
only those left by the only things left by those
who don't hustle, and then it's attributed to Abraham Lincoln,
and I was like, what I mean this is like,

(06:24):
you know, it's fully printed in the book. And I saw,
I'm going to look at the other quotes. I'm like,
maybe the whole book has been joke quotes. And I
was like, no, they're not, so all the other quotes
are real. So I went on a pretty intensive search
that apparently the book publishers didn't do. On link three,
the Lincoln Foundation debunked that Abraham Lincoln never said this.
But there's so much art and etsy art with this

(06:47):
quote being sold, and now people are sending me pictures
of this quote that are up in their offices where
everyone believed that Lincoln Abraham Lincoln said things come to
those who wait, but only things left by those who
don't hustle. Hustle, I mean, he was on that rising grind. Lincoln.
He's always said that. He was like, we all have

(07:09):
the same amount of hours in the day as Beyonce,
which was um, which I'm sure was uh, a woman
who was enslaved during the year. He was alive that
he was pretending to fight for right. What a fucking
like hustle? That doesn't that immediately set off alarm bells.

(07:30):
It's not like the Gettysburg address was like and I've
got a dream worth more than my sleep. That's why
I'm grinding grid culture in the Civil War. We we
gotta be out here going hard all day. Yeah, it's
truly shocking that anyone let it get published in a
book let alone, sold constantly and framed art. It's everywhere.

(07:54):
And additionally, the word hustle did exist in that year,
but it meant something entirely different and to like big
and do nothing, oh right, like like being a hustler,
like you're hustling people for yeah, yes, exactly and yeah,
so anyway, so that was that was the latest thing
in my search history and trying to figure out why
hashtag girl boss was quoting Abraham Lincoln telling you to hustle.

(08:17):
I'm surprised like that. I just love the idea of
putting toxic hustle culture quotes on historical figures where like
the vernaculars completely Like there's no way they were talking
like that, Like it's not like there's one that says
work until you no longer have to introduce yourself Jesus Christ,
you know what I mean. Yeah, that is I did

(08:42):
find that quote attribute to Abraham Lincoln on Forbes Quotes
thoughts on the business of life. Yeah, Forbes is out
here putting that ship out. Yeah, man, that that's like
I I have something on the talk about how like
future historians when they're trying to like figure out what
the funk went wrong, what the funk was wrong, just

(09:03):
in general with the Western world, will probably look at marketing.
But like the entire canon of business literature is going
to be Yeah, that's gonna take someone out. I mean
I learned because of this. I learned the very sad
fact where several book publishers and um copy editors contact
me to let me know that books are not fact checked.

(09:25):
I said what, And I guess, like, I don't know
what I was thinking that there was like a police
union for books, you know, where they come around like
you can't say that that's not true. It's just I've
always trusted books more than I trust tweets, only to
find out that they both have the same, uh fact
checking system, which is to say none or you know,
your weird cousin coming in to be like, well, actually, yeah,

(09:47):
books aren't fact checked unless you paid have it done.
So girl Boss wrote down that Lincoln quote and that
then just thousands of copies sold. I'm assuming just like
the fact checking process was rejected on the basis of
being not profitable like much of like journalism. But that's

(10:08):
that is so wild but not yeah nonfiction. Yeah, it's
just not I mean, I guess that's how we get
what James Gray a million little pieces where they're like, oh,
actually he like made the whole thing up and he's
like up, see up, see whoop see whatever day um,
Because yeah, I guess you have to pay to fact
check it yourself, and then you also could also you

(10:30):
also still have to agree. So even if someone's like, hey,
by the way, I don't think Abraham Lincoln said that,
you can be like, no, I'm gonna put it in
the book anyway, like just your prerogative, right exactly. Like
I'm pretty sure Sigmund Freud said, turned down your feelings
and turn up your hustle hustle quotes. What is something
you think is overrated? Huh? The TV show Friends, m

(10:56):
m oh, making any with that, making any on this
show with that take, buddy, Now, I'm just joking. Uh No,
I was just thinking, like I used to have a
roommate back in the day that would watch it pretty
much like, you know, you could find it on at
any hour of the day, so it's like always kind

(11:16):
of going on in the background. And I was like,
I don't get it, Like it's just not funny. Mm hmm, yeah,
you guys. I mean I might be getting my like
my white card revoked, you know, but I gotta say,
like's not You're gonna be in trouble man, Like we

(11:36):
heard what you said about Friends, Todd. I was always
a bit of an edge lord, so I was more
of a Seinfeld guy. Oh boy the dark side dark
as dark bad boy, wore a leather jacket, pretended to
smoke cigarettes. But you like ite them and you're like,
oh my god, so so hardcore. I thought you were

(12:00):
gonna go hard with the I didn't like Seinfeld edge lord.
Take no, no, no, I'm just joking. I'm not an
edge lord, but not an edge lord. Yeah, I'm from
Wait do you like Do you like sitcoms in general? Though?
Are you just or friends just because of like how
big of a place it holds in pop culture? Like
I don't fucking no, I don't get like I feel
the same way I didn't in the nineties when it

(12:23):
was like the biggest show. I was just like, I
don't know, not not really into it. Yeah, it's like
I think, yeah, because it's just so big, and watching it,
I sit there and I go, Okay. You know, sometimes
there's things that like you don't dig it, but you
can get why other people dig it, you know. And
then with this show, the only thing it's like, all right,
Jennifer Anderson's kind of cute, Courtney Cox is like really cute,

(12:45):
and then that's about it. Like, I don't think I
don't find anybody interesting. There's no I don't know. I
just sit there. Everybody on the show is like objectively hot,
so that I think that probably yeah, like and then yeah,
the I I feel you though, Like I was, I
was not into it, and I did feel a little

(13:07):
bit crazy just being around people who would make Friends
references and not get Simpsons references. You know, we're reading
from different scrolls. You know, what is something, Jeremiah that
you think is underrated? This is a food that I

(13:28):
I'm on, I'm I've I've eaten it for years and
I'm very curious if either of you have ever tried it.
But it's it's a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. Okay,
have you ever had it? No, I've heard of I've
heard of that combo, but I've never had it. Yeah.
I think it's just like we've been doing this show

(13:50):
long enough, the enough freaks have come on here and
talk about the Yeah. No, I I hear good things. Dude,
it's very underrated. Somebody can say it's disgusting, but I
feel like it's very good. The the the dill mixed
with the the peanut butter, just the contrasting of of

(14:11):
the juice with the very dry peanut butter is very good. Interesting. Wait,
so how do you when you make it? Are you
do you do the bread? Would you put the peanut
butter on first, and then pickles on top? And then okay,
peanut butter on both sides and then pickles laid down
on one side and then smack them together? He did

(14:33):
any specific? Like right now in my in my refrigerator,
I think I have like Tony packles, like hot and
spicy pickles slices. Is there a specific kind of pick
you know what I mean? Like is the brine that's
interacting with the peanut butter. That's a good question. Actually,
I met a guy at the Farmer's Market through pickles.

(14:53):
He has a stand there that I actually became friends
with just because the pickles were so good. We yeah,
it's called Kaylin and Kaylin at the Farmer's Market in
Los Angeles like by third like on Fairfax. Literally game changer.
I can't eat pickles the same way anymore because there's

(15:13):
so much better. And I've even that like Delhi's across
the US, in and out of country all that, but
like there's something about these pickles that are just so good. Wow,
and it's still exclusively is the one you're riding. You
have not tried the sweet pickles. There's a kosher one.
I'm I'm all right, sweet pickles in general, Um, all
right with me. He's got a honey mustard one that

(15:34):
is mind blowing them. There's a blazing sour. He's got
like twelve flavors that literally I didn't even know that
there were combinations of pickles like this, so like it
kind of opened my eye to the pickle worlds, like
I've been missing out of this for all these years.
Is crazy. And you don't have to thin slice the pickles.
You're you're just doing a thick stock just a thick stock. Well,

(15:58):
there's there's spears. Or what I do sometimes is I
cut the holes and halves and put it like that
on you know what I mean, cut it right down
the middle. Yeah, put one whole pickle and the halves. Yeah,
and then and then that's plenty of pickle to peanut
butter pickle disks as opposed to pickle spears. Right, No,

(16:19):
he's going down. Oh wait your I'm I go long ways.
Two strips, yeah, yeah, two strips, okay, yeah. Spreading it open, damn. Yeah,
there it is. We're talking pickles dog Klenalen pickles dog.
You know, spread it open? Right? Wow, that's yeah. I

(16:39):
mean I haven't had it. It doesn't sound good to me,
but peanut butter is a versatile food. Like I the
more things that try with peanut butter, the more like
it's it's almost always good. Have you ever had peanut
butter on a burger before? No, I really really good.

(16:59):
I used to get this peanut butter and jelly burger
at this comedy club and Hunting the Beach that they
no longer have it on the menu, but it was
so good, and it's it's just like kind of random
where you're like, that shouldn't taste good, but it was amazing.
You no longer have it on the menu because you
are the only person who has ever ordered it, and

(17:20):
it might I know, I saw a right up. I
think in the take out a couple of weeks ago,
they were talking about, like we need to talk about
peanut butter on a burger. It's really saying like it's
subtle and it works because it's like savory and it's
like creamy. It's not really doing much to be like
what the fun is this? I mean, yeah, you don't
put like you don't put the mayonnaise and stuff on

(17:42):
top of you know what I mean, Like you trade
them out. You're not putting all of it on there.
So it's it's trading out one condiment for another. Peanut
butter as savory condiment. Yeah, that's interesting something I will
have to explore at a future date when I am
braver and have a stronger stomach. I think, yeah, do
you with like inut butter and sardines and like stuff

(18:02):
like that that. I know that's the thing that some
people mentioned that to me, I've done like peanut butter
and honey and peanut butter and banana. Those are pretty stock.
Oh yeah, those are things to do. I like all
that stuff and even peanut butter with um you know
that marshmallow. Yeah, yeah stuff. I had that once when
I like there was just a kid. I knew it

(18:24):
was from New England and like I had it at
his house and that's when I was like, what the
fund is this? And I had no idea they even
made it's fluff for nutter. You never had it? Like,
whoa New England? I love it, you said, New England. Yeah,
from New England? In it from England? Well that new
new you never had of us. Oh love your babes

(18:48):
down in milk and mass see you like I'll see
you down by the dog. Yeah, New England. Let's meet
at the market. All right, let's take a quick break,
we'll come back. We'll talk about the right wing wave
baby wave, and we're back. And we talked to the

(19:19):
end of last week that like you know that there
is a genre of article that's like, come on, man,
why can't Biden catch a break? That is just everywhere
in the news. And the one Biden problem that mainstream
news outlets seem to agree on is that inflation is bad,
and it was caused by giving giving people money during

(19:41):
the pandemic. Like that seems to be what everybody's just
settled with the decision to send money to Americans during
global pandemic, and now we're all paying the price. Except
that's like not like most most of the people who
are like sending that messaging out our corporations and like
libertarian publications. And then when you look at the actual

(20:05):
like events that are happening, the things that are being
done by the people who have the power in our country,
which is the corporation's, Like I do feel like oil
executives have as much, if not more power than the president,
as the story evidences they are. What they've done is
they've raised the prices because they like money. Seems to

(20:28):
be like that, that seems to be the cause of
at least inflation on gas prices. And you know, we
we've all just bought the story that now, well it's
the war and it's we have too much money. We're sorry, sir,
we have too much money from these stimulus payments. And

(20:49):
so this article caught my eye in the context of
that they say gas gas prices is saying Yahoo, which
is my only source of games. Just go to Yahoo
and I'm like, there got me covered. That's gas prices
of skyrocketed. The record has forcing some families to choose
between filling their tank putting food on the table. But
for the oil execs whose stockholdings have soared, these are

(21:10):
happy days. Some of them are cashing in their shares
at unusually high rates. Among four senior executives that PBF Energy,
they have sold nine million dollars worth of stock. We've
also got Chevron, the e v P. James Johnson has
sold more than fifty six million dollars in stock so

(21:30):
far this year, which the like, so what are they
just like bagging out because you know, everything so bad? Actually,
no things are really good. Chevron's net income more than
quadrupled compared to the same period the prior year. That
is not something that happens in like for four companies

(21:52):
just in general, quadrupling your net income. And this is
when like prices have is in and everybody is blaming
like greedy government or circumstances or us being sent those
checks for two thousand dollars like that. That is essentially
what I feel like the public consciousness has settled on.

(22:15):
Like when you google what's the real cause of inflation,
you should get an endless list of like people being
like government greed caused inflation, for the record, and you
know articles from Reason magazine with Joe Biden like look
looking very stupid, like just the worst picture they could

(22:37):
find on getty. Politicians cause real pain with inflationary policies,
and it's like, well, corporations have just realized they can
raise prices without like that is the one policy that
I think is causing this is that there is no pushback.
There's no regulation on massive corporations. They have all all

(22:58):
the say and what they say is like like you
got I know, you guys like money. I know it's
useful to to you guys, but like we oh man,
we're we really like money, and so we're going to
take yours. This is essentially what is happening. Yeah, the
I think the American idealism of self sufficiency has started

(23:22):
to impact us in such a negative way that it's
we actually have to confront it at this point. This
in the same way that like we saw with the
formula shortage, just breastfeed your baby then, like okay, let
me tell you how things work on this side of reality,
Like not every mom can breastfeed, not every baby has

(23:44):
a mother in their life. Currently, some people are being
raised by two fathers, Like there are a jillion reasons
why people cannot breastfeed, and like babies need food. And
they're like, oh, well, you should have thought of that
ahead of time, as if this is somehow some moral
failing in the same way that you know, if an
unprecedented pandemic hits in our government and decides to try
to help sustain its population through it, suddenly that's become

(24:08):
a negative. And they gave us so little money, so
little and and that very little bit made a huge
difference in a lot of people's lives, right Like that
for some people that was a ton of money that
were they were able to make important shifts and decisions
about their lives. And so the idea that somehow helping
a corporation could ever be better or better use of

(24:31):
finances than giving directly to the people, I st I
just can't wrap my head around it, Like I think
about this a lot, Like I said, my idle time
of like why don't we want to help the individual
people that make up our entire society as opposed to
corporations that show no need you know, as you know,
we're gonna talk about Netflix later, but you know, Netflix
just fired all that it brought in. They were like, sorry,

(24:53):
it got a little scary. So we have to let
all these people that we forced to move across the country,
you know, to help build our brands and speak to
the people were hoping to engage with our content. We
have to fire you now and hopefully you'll enjoy the
like very basic, mundane stuff that we make from now
on because we're gonna stick with what's safe. I don't understand, Um,

(25:15):
I can't can't wrap my mind around it. Yeah, the
broader industry uptick is fueled in part by surging demand,
which I don't know how like surging from what like
we're we're driving at all. It's pretty Yeah, I feel
like demand has been pretty steady, like the fact that
the pandemic is slowing down, so it's surging back to

(25:37):
the previous levels. Inflation, which as we just mentioned, is
them raising prices so that they have record profits at
the level of quadrupling year here, and the war in Ukraine,
like those are the things that are good for their business,
So I don't know. If I didn't know any better,
I'd say we're not all in this together, as the

(25:59):
bp A commercial said during the pandemic. The I'd say,
the executives benefit when they make us pay more, and
they benefit when there is a war on and that's
probably not great because they're the most powerful people in
the country up to and possibly including the president. Like
that's that's why Biden sounds like why we're we're in

(26:21):
a new era where the president comes on and it's like, man, like,
I don't know, would you do something. It's like I
thought you were the president, but it's like, yeah, the
president doesn't really have the ability to do anything anymore
because corporations make like you can't upset the corporation. I
love We're all in this together as a commercial during
the pandemic when no one was driving. Now then it's

(26:44):
like it's like please please, Yeah, it's an abusive relationship.
Do I love you, we want you, you're our heroes,
And then yeah, but like that, even there's a New
York tongue, so I was I was doing this kind
of as an experiment. The search for the real cause
of inflation on Google ten articles down. There is a

(27:07):
New York Times opinion peace from a Democratic leader that
calls for the government to like you know, preemptively by
goods distribute them on a need basis to deal with inflation.
But he has to like specifically say his plan avoids
violating market dynamics. He doesn't once mentioned the idea that
executives using the narrative of inflation to raise prices and

(27:30):
make more money just arbitrarily than ever before. Like that
those are causes, like you you just aren't allowed to
say that, And yeah, I mean Joel, you you said
you've been thinking about this a lot. I feel like
everybody's been thinking about this a lot, and it kind
of makes you feel crazy when you see, like very

(27:51):
clearly what's going on, and like nobody is allowed to
say it's I think that's why you're seeing a surge
in unions, like there's Yeah, I really feel like there
is a strong workers movement launching that is saying, you know,
if our government can't protect us, and if these mega
corporations we work for have no interest in protecting us physically, mentally,

(28:12):
virtually have financially, then we're gonna have to set up
parameters so that these things can happen ourselves. And it's
been interesting to see the amount of money corporations are
will bend to not give what would can probably be
considerably a lot less money just to meet demands over
the long leg I can't remember the dollar amount Amazon
spent trying to crush their union force, but I was like,

(28:33):
you could have just given that to the workers and
they probably would have been thrilled. They would have been like,
that's amazing, thank you, We'll leave you alone now. Um. So,
I don't know, I'm excited as we see more and
more corporations start to have to answer to their employees,
and maybe there's some hope in that direction. But I
do think we also need to see that kind of reform,
deep reform within our government because the system is not working.

(28:57):
And like not to get to having into everything, but
like what these judges are trying to pull right now,
these Supreme Court judges is Oh, it's so scary, it's
really frightening. Yeah, And and like the you know, in
the in the mid term primaries, we are also seeing
that like the very mainstream, like when it's sort of

(29:18):
a choice between kind of equally funded candidates and there
is the mainstream democratic option like Connor Lamb and then
like a somebody who just like has some of the
same opinions as Bernie Sanders, like John Fetterman, like the
people want the they they see what's going on, like

(29:41):
people see it, and like just because you weren't like
the mainstream Democratic Party is not saying it, it doesn't
mean like they're they're going to go elsewhere. It's just
a matter of whether they're going to go with the
fascists or whether like we're going to have a option
the is a less like corporate, corporate and market controlled

(30:05):
just democratic option. I don't I'm not hopeful. Now it's
going to have to get a lot worse for the
Democratic Party before it gets better. But for us as
a people, we live for comfort. I I certainly do.
And you know there's a lot of comfort being brought
by a lot of evil corporations making life day to
day easier until we can dive like what is the

(30:28):
world for divest the invest Yeah, I think there you go, Okay, perfect,
that doesn't correct dictionary folks will correct me, and I
appreciate it in advance. But we can divest from systems
like that I think that we're going to continue to
be stuck in sort of this pushing poll situation and
it's hard to divest. So actually the correct word is

(30:50):
forty three letters along. I feel like we're all little
mini bidens in here, because it's like, yeah, like we're
going a rock in a hard place. We you know,
you have to. We're in a capitalist system and we're
making it work by saying like, oh, Amazon sucks and
then like I'm gonna buy my little snuggy on Amazon

(31:10):
and um. And I feel like he, I mean, we're
just in We're like stalled, right because we can't change
our lives that quickly because we don't know how. And
it's confusing. And so is he you know, like he can't.
He can't. He can't be like I'm not a capitalist anymore,
like you know what I mean, Like he can't just
do that one day. I mean, he just go and

(31:31):
women's right. It's like it's he's like it will slow down.
It's happening very fast. Yeah, I would see that as
a as a people, at least from my point of
view in l A Like, it seems we're in a
transitional period. You know, we're seeing a lot of what
we saw, and I would say fairly seventies and mid
eighties where you're seeing like a lot of white flight
from cities you're seeing but also at the same time,

(31:53):
like a lot of gentrifications at old places and a
lot of places that haven't gotten the same kind of
attention to detail. Our starting to fall further off. I
think we're seeing a rising and workers rights, but we're
also seeing a shift in like how how do we
get more into like mutual aids, mutual funds and supporting
our communities. And so I think I feel like I
say every time I'm on here, but like investing in

(32:14):
mutual aids and into your community and figuring out how
you can get involved on that level. I think it's
a small amount of change because we're all just people
with very busy lives and children and stuff. When we
all don't have time to be here is um or
don't want to be And I don't think everyone should
have to be called upon to be like the biggest
and best person they can be every single day. That's exhausting.

(32:35):
But I do think that a lot of folks are
trying to make small incremental changes to make a larger change,
and I'm I have hope in that, even though it's
incredibly slow. I have hope that if if we can
do that, then maybe things look get a little better. Yeah,
capitalism never sleeps. What a beast monster. Yeah, I do

(32:58):
like have have some hope that once people were recognized
that like, there needs to be some other way that
we're not all just gonna tuck into a nice like,
you know, two decades of fascism like we did in
the eighties. But it depends on how good the top

(33:19):
gun movies are. Oh god, did you see it, by
the way, Joel? Of course I did. And it's fun, right,
Oh god, it's so much fun. It's terrible how much
fun it is. For like six different reasons. I really
wanted to be able to walk out and be like, no, awful,
but do you really feel like you're flying in a jet?
And man, it's we saw it on I Max with

(33:40):
the surround sound. My seat was round blood and I
was like yes. And then they make the very smart
move of not making the villain anyone. They're like, nondescript location.
Everyone in mass there's some ocean in some mountains. Where
could we be? We don't know, but they're evil and
we gotta win. And I was like, yeah, I see it,
and I'm enjoying it and I can really get out
of the headspace of like, who are they helping us

(34:00):
equal because technically no one maybe everyone. It's so much fun.
It is a really well constructed movie that I just
hope people remember. Is uh not an accurate depiction of
war or what that system of military is like, talk
to some real navy people. Don't let it recruit you, guys.
It's just a movie. It's what I say to the

(34:22):
young people or what women in their fifties should look like. Okay,
she's so pretty though, I know, really she really kept
it together. Yeah, it is a good movie, though sad
to say. Don't talk to the guy in the navy
uniform next to the popcorn. Just that they're legit doing that.

(34:46):
They're not gonna miss an opportunity. All right, let's take
you a quick break. We'll come back and talk about bullshit.
And we're back. And so, I mean, I I am
curious to know like a couple a couple of weeks ago,

(35:07):
one week ago at time doesn't really My brain doesn't
work like that anymore. Where I can understand how much
time has passed and a given since a given thing
has happened. But between one year and one week ago,
all of the Trump lackeys who were just generally like
making a jerk offhand motion in the direction of the

(35:28):
January six Committee, we we're subpoena and that it seemed
like it was like all right, alright, asshole, we're at
no more. Mr Knice guy, here we go. We got
you right where we want you. Like, So is that
what this is? Are we going to like now hear
from them at this prime time event? We're what what
are they up to? So? You know, I don't know

(35:51):
who's gonna have I haven't seen fully who is going
to speak and who's testimony that they're gonna air. But
they should issue like one of those things like the
cut you like set list where it has like all
the names and lower yeah, right, like a Trump Trump's
headlining and it's like Kanye's like, but he wanted us,

(36:12):
He wanted them to apologize to Travis Scott or he
wouldn't perform Ronald Reagan's hologram comes in, Yeah, exactly, so
Peter Navarro right, who he was, you know, Trump Economic
advisor slash Lackey and like a friend of the coup
who has played his cards, like like all the other
Republicans who have been subpoena and which is like just

(36:34):
deny everything, keep your head low and just like you know,
fucking ignore it. And like you're saying, we were all
looking at this, like what is the fucking point of
subpoena power if they just like look at it, fart
on it, and then carry on with their day. And
it's just like, I thought this was as serious as
you're telling us it is. So things have taken a
turn now. I don't know what it all means, but

(36:55):
the appearance is certainly different. Because Peter Navarro actually wasn't
diet it and arrested by the FBI and put in
a fucking cell over the weekend as he tried to
fly from d C to Tennessee because he was again
ignoring subpoena. And if you recalled, this guy had the
most intense like I'm a white guy, I can get

(37:16):
away with anything energy that we've seen in a while,
Like he talked about his plan to rat funk the election.
In his book, there's like a whole section called like
the Green Bay sweep that he's talking about and then sweep. Yes, yes,
he's he's that confident about talking about like how he
could get sham electors in Wisconsin, etcetera to try and

(37:39):
swing the swing the votes. Wow, that's in his book
that he was selling. Then he would also go on
MSNBC and just like literally describe the coup. I'm pretty
sure we covered this when he first said it because
it was so unbelievable. He was talking to Ari Melbourg
basically said like, yeah, and then we get that we
use the power of like the votes that we have

(38:00):
in Congress to overturn the ruling and then we can
declare President Trump the president. I'm just gonna play you
this part where Ari Melbourne's like, hold on what and
just you can see Peter Navarro being like what, like
right after he describes him saying, you're talking about a coup, sir.
Let's go this back and forth, sir. Then you will
use the incumbent losing parties power that was the Republican

(38:23):
Party that was losing power to overtake and reverse that outcome.
Do you realize you are describing a coup? No? I
totally reject many of your premises there. First of all,
the election was still in doubt and would be until
it was certified. Second, the idea that that secretaries of state,

(38:44):
particularly in Michigan and and and Pennsylvania, were like innocent parties,
I mean Joscelyn Benson, and so he just goes on
and you can tell from his body language he's like
selling you bullshit, standing, which is like I'm irving for
some reason. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

(39:04):
Right now at using his whole body. That was his
energy when he was like this is the plan to
to overthrow the government. So then I just want to
check on his energy. Let me see what it was
like after the FEDS pulled up and locked you up?
How are you talking now? Are you still you still?

(39:25):
Do you still? Big time? Instead of coming to my
door where I live, which by the way, is right
next to the FBI, instead of calling me and say hey,
we need you down at court, we've got a warrant
for you, would have gladly calm. What did they do?
They intercepted me getting on the plane and then they

(39:47):
put me in handcuffs, They bring me here, they put
me in leg irons, they stick me in a self
by the way, just historical mode. I was in John
Hinckley's cell. They seemed to think that that was like
an important historical note. Okay, that's punitive that what they
did to me today violated the Constitution. My man, what

(40:10):
the fund did you want? They'd be like, hey, it's
the FBI, Like you want to come? Can we invite
you over for jail real quick? Also, isn't that what
the subpoena is that he was ignoring? Isn't that the
one where I think they're in them? Well, that's just
that's my right to refuse it. No, it's well, no,
this this is the whole point. You're moving into the

(40:32):
You were in the fun around stage and now you're
in the find out stage and you're doing this thing
like I can't believe what they're doing. You know, he
you could tell, how should you can tell? His hair
is like not done, he's grazzled, and you This clearly
has sent a lot of shock waves through like the
GOP because a lot of people were like, I thought

(40:53):
we could do that, but even yeah, it was truly
on some I'm sorry, so I didn't. I couldn't do that.
Um and Trump for example, after this happened, he came
out with a freaking quote up just like a a
quotable for people to just to know where he was,
where he stood on all of it. He goes on

(41:13):
to say, quote our great trade genius, professor Peter Navarro,
professor shut up full was just handcuffed, shackled and put
in jail, while the low life of Antifa and BLM
are allowed to rip off the public room, free on
the streets, killed people, and destroy our once great city
is all run by democrats. In a in a parenthetical, okay,

(41:33):
not only that, you had fucking Louie Gomert, the the
the least smart person in d C until maybe Herschel.
Louie Gomert, it's just out here saying the best ship
this is. This is Louie Gomert again, another person who

(41:54):
has got a little mixed up in a little cool behavior.
This is him talking about Oh, this is unbelievable. What's happening.
Peter Nofarro got arrested for defying a subpoena. This is
what he has to say. It actually puts an exclamation
point on the fact that we have a two tier
justice system. Uh, if you're a Republican you can't even

(42:18):
lie to Congress, are lie to an FBI agent? Are
they're coming after you? They're gonna bury you if they're
gonna put you in the d C jail and terrorize
and torture you and not live up to the Constitution.
There However, this comes on the heels of Suserland being
a quick okay anyway, go on to say you can't

(42:42):
even lie to ca an FBI hates it, or they're
coming after you. That's a John Hinkley's ghost tickled that
poor man in that sale with his irons. What that's amazing.
Care's a two tiered justice system? True? Yeah, no, ship

(43:03):
and his his example is when you're a GOP. I mean,
that is a great illustration that a Republican politician believes
that it's unjust that they can't even lie to Congress.
That's a great illustration of just how two tiered the
justice system is. That they hadn't don't even like have
a concept of what a justice system does to Wow, Yeah,

(43:27):
I guess there is I mean more than two tiers,
but I mean not what you thought, man, Yeah, it's
probably it probably tends at the Gomert dinner table when
he's he's out here saying things like, you can't even
lie to that beIN anymore without ship happening to you.
I can't even cheat on my goddamn wife anymore without

(43:48):
that sack of bricks open. And it's although actually Louie
Gomert has never cheated on his wife or gotten a
speeding ticket or smoke disigarette or smoke dis cigarette in
his life, according to the fucking oh wait, no, that
was Moe Brooks Brooks man proudly cheats on his wife. Yeah,
Louie gomer congressman side piece as he's known. All Right,

(44:12):
we should talk about the Queen's Platinum jubes finally, because
happened over the weekend. Seventy years of excellence by her majesty,
just you know, going out there doing doing queen queens.
Yeah quick, thank you queen. Shit. Yeah. So last last

(44:36):
week she canceled one of the appearances of the service
due to some discomfort, presumably a side effect of being
roughly a thousand years old, and so for that part
of the jubilee, they replaced her with a digital image
inside of an antique golden carriage. It's not the highest

(45:00):
of quality digital images. It does look like a time
they've just stuck a tiny TV in there. I don't
know if like seeing it live made it look more
three dimensional. But people, I mean that this created a
whole a whole bunch of maybe our dumbest conspiracy theories

(45:23):
of the weekend. We we we haven't you know, done
the official count, but possibly the dumbest ones from the
past like five days. Because people, people were like they
were trying to fool us. What more do you need
to see to understand that she's dead? First of all,

(45:43):
that they're trying to control us with holograms, that they're
trying to get us ready for a future where we
are not allowed to die and instead our consciousness is
uploaded into a universe where we are hologram work slaves.
Like do I mean, do I even need to like
spell this out for you? Like how actually you lost

(46:06):
me with the first bit, but you got me with
the second. You hung around and you're glad you did
never ending uh mental laborers for the Digital economy. Okay, wait,
so they're trying to but did they did the did
the Palace say like you know, you know, we're just
going to be projecting She's not in there, but it
was there. It was a projection from her coronation in Elizabeth.

(46:33):
If it was intended as a deception, like being seventy
years off, it seems like a pretty major funk up.
But that's how like the conspiracy brained people think. They go,
oh my god, they think they could get that one
past me. That's her as a fucking kid. That's what's happened,

(46:53):
all right. The hologram was so bad. It looked like
one of those old baseball cards you would get when
if you like turned it slightly, it was at the
bats swung. It has the bats swung, it has that.
It was like one of those things he's yeah that
like where it was also like that like prism mick
like it was cut like lines. Yeah exactly. I remember
I would always scratch him as a kid. I was

(47:13):
about to say the same thing, but I don't want
to come off is weird. No, I wasn't on the
same thing, and I was gonna say that. Looking at
that carriage window, I'm like, it's one of those scratchy
hologram cards. I would have been scratching on the window,
like let me feel these ridges in here. Yeah, I
remember you said, annoy the funk out of my parents.
Do you guys remember the one where Jordan's was Sportsman

(47:33):
of the Year and they did a hologram of just
him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Oh man, that
was That was my my first real encounter with hologram technology,
that technology, and that's when I knew the New World
Order was coming for me. Good to know. Sorry, but
we were saying about the Queen, the real New World Order. Sorry, so,

(47:53):
but first of all, these aren't holograms, These are fucking videos.
It's just a stage illusion called what is it like
Pepper's Ghosts or something, Yeah, named Pepper John Pepper, a
British pepper pepper pig is how some people pronounce it,
but salt and Pepper's ghosts. It's the same thing they

(48:15):
used for Tupac. It's like a stage thing that just is.
I don't know exactly how they do it, but it's
been around since the sixteenth century. What yeah, really? Yeah?
Oh ship, so about as old as that gold cart.
She wrote in on the thing is so, I'm sorry
that I've never seen something more opulent And why would

(48:37):
I because it's like the carriage that would you know,
carry the monarch of the United Kingdom, the British Empire
in it. But that much gold? Family, what gold? Like
whenever you see them at like any kind of official
thing and they sit in their chairs and ship and
they're like, that's all gold. I'm like, dollars, real, real,
but we need something the size of an suv that's

(48:59):
all so all gold courses that are also all gold.
It resembles one of those old trees that you know,
like they're seven years old and their roots are like
above ground and like you know, kind of snaking through
but dipped in gold. Yeah. It's also just I mean,
this is maybe the most predictable thing about humanity is

(49:23):
that we don't deal well with death. That we we
like just cannot because you know, the thing that is
hard to wrap your mind around, the human brain is
not capable. Really Western culture. Yeah, Western culture for sure.
And so I mean, you know, the Beatles, like everybody
was they picked the one guy who was going to

(49:44):
survive into his nineties and they were like that that
dude's actually dead. He died when he was twenty six
in a car accident. They've been trying to pull you
like Elvis was dead. They couldn't believe he was dead. Tupac,
same thing, like we just can't, we can't deal with
like it's gonna keep happening. I think there's some stuff
in the Bible that's the one that was supposedly dead.
And then but yeah it's that, but that, But that

(50:10):
sneaky guy can't manage to pull up in a cave
a couple of days later. Huh. I think Lazarus was
faking it though for sure he wasn't dead. He was sleeping.
Have you met Lazarus. Yeah, Lazarus always like I'm dead.
It's like, no, you're not, Lazarus. You didn't somebody to
resurrect you. And then I canna talk about is that
Jesus resurrected? You had a notable laz When you were

(50:31):
we were playing dead as a kid, did you ever
go I'm dead? Like that was how you signal to
your friends that you were dead? Why how are we
playing dead? Or is this like a like a Cops
and Robbers kind of thing, like shooting fingers at each
other and you're like, I'm dead, I'm dead. Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I mean because that was like an official shorthand with
me and my friends and my little sister, or like
if it was tagged two or something like, No, I'm dead.

(50:53):
I'm dead. I'm dead, Like stop working with me, Like
I'm not a participant. I'm dead in the game. Yeah,
I'd start digging my own grave, which bumped everybody out
in the middle of Guys, I'm dead in ten minutes. Actually,
see you get a garden hose. I feel like we
could loosen the soil up. It's real dry. I think
would be easier to dig if I just kind of
got a little bit better. Yeah, you might as well

(51:15):
bury me because I'm dead. So actually, are you are
you certified to use that back hole I saw in
your yard or is that just your dad who use that?
Because that would Actually we could do two scoops and
I'm out. It's not funny playing this game with you anymore.
We're not enjoying this heavy machinery operators. They're like, I'm certified,
I could use it. I don't know if your dad's

(51:35):
cool with it. I can show them my paperwork, but
you know, I get it, you know any job side accidents? Yeah,
have you guys ever like being convinced by that, like
felt the like the temptation to be like, I think
that person take their own death. Like I feel like
I was kind of like the Tupac thing kind of
got me there for Yeah. And then also that beginning

(51:59):
part in the Macavelli was a strict Tupac and you're like, wait,
what the fun? What the remember that? Yeah? That was
like that was like O G like l a conspiracy
theory ship where they're like, man, if you listen to
the maciw mcavelli albums, right whip yeah, to your point,

(52:19):
it is always this is the first one where it
was an old person, where it's always someone who died
prematurely or died young. You know, we're here. If she
could just be like, that's price gets she's old. You know,
it's a very strange thing to pick up on. But
here I think any famous person, it's that's what your
thought is because, like you said, it's hard to accept

(52:41):
that and wrap your mind around it. So why not
have an easy explanation that makes everybody happier. I think
everyone faked there on death. I think everyone's still alive,
everyone in the whole world. Yeah, just hold your breath
where you're going by cemeteries and the truth will appear
to you, and your whole life is just passing out,
waking up and holding your breath next to us, amity,
waking up. I gotta get past the cemetery from time.

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