June 29, 2025 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, So,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Shout out to Zeitgang. You so many tips I've been incorporating.
I've been able to directly respond to everybody because last
week I said, I'm putting out a call for solicited opinions,
solicited facts from how to raise a toddler to a
toddler bed. I will say we had one breakthrough last
night for the first time coming no, sorry, for the
first time. After like crying at the door and like
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go back to bed through the door, he actually gave
up and went back to the bed and laid down
and went to sleep. And I was like, Yo, that
shit happened at twelve thirty at night. But I'm taking it.
I'm taking it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, it's a week take our wins where we so,
ZEI Gang. I appreciate you all being on this ride,
this journey with me. We've been through so much already
this year. I really appreciate all the child rearing things
because I need help and I appreciate that, and so
does her majesty.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
He hasn't done the thing that my seven year old
then three or four year old did where he just
like the rays you through the door for not letting
him in. He did.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He said that to her magic, He'd like, why'd you
leave me? He did that to her and that fucked
her up.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm not gonna lie. Yeah. Yeah. My youngest like went
I think I talked about on the show, but went
full like mean boss on my ass. Oh like why
are you opening it? Do you not hear me? Oh?
I get it. It's because you're stupid. You're too stupid
to come and open the door. He's like four. I
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was like, what the fuck is that right now? Like
where did you learn this stuff? He's just like sleep
drunk or something. Yeah, anyway is Miles. We're thrilled to
be joined in our third seat by Ally's very own,
a very funny comedian artist who has performed on stages
and at festivals across America. Runner up in LA's longest
running comedy competition. You can see her at her sold
(02:09):
out monthly show Salty af at the Hollywood Improv and
doing a fundraising show this Friday, this Friday called One
Night in the Valley. Please welcome back to the show.
It's Holly Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I feel like we've already been through such a valley
journey because you Jack, you talked about your thigh in
your song. But I did also already see Myles thigh
on this, on this I had.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
To brock it. Miles Walks, Yeah, I talked about nobody's
ever seen them. Miles, we will show you his thigh
at the Yeah, because he's got val Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Because look, I'm from the valley too.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have it tatted.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have had the area code tatted on my body.
And Holly, last time you were on, I was out
on parental leave, so we didn't get it, I know.
And so I'm glad now because I'm like another fucking.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Where'd you go up in the valley?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was born in Van Eyes and I actually still
live super close to Van Eyes, mostly like Walton around
Dan Eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, I grew up in North Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, all right, that's me. I love to see it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We love to see it. And look, they said we
couldn't do it. They said we're just weird people, Valley people.
And now we stand at the precipice of podcasting.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I guess bedroom eyes. I prefer van eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wow appropriate, nice wordplay, Holly. We do like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Sure? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So my number one last one was it said Hillary
Duff and Mandy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Moore exclamation point, exclamation point question.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Mark because fellow Valley lover, a friend of mine works
at a new restaurant who says Hillary Duff and Mandy
Moore are regulars. And my brain broke when he told
me this, and I realized, like it was so telling
to be like, oh, those are two people at my
age and as a millennial that I would see in
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public and be stunned into silence. R And yet I
would see someone way more famous or way more well
known and knock it up like not nearly care as.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Much, you know, But my big surprise would be, oh,
those are two people, because I actually in my brain
had lumped them together. I don't, Oh my god, I
didn't realize that they were to hate mail, get it
Go and get.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Dude, Hillary Duff and manymore they like objectively not the
best actors.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Uh, I'm going to need you breaks Gang just pulled up.
Thank you now.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Like I wasn't a fan of Let the Rain Fall Down, but.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Her acting.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Dude, calm clean is such a good karaoke song once
you get to that part, you know, I know. But
it made me think, like, I want to know who
if you saw somebody in public that is not like
mega mega famous but to you matters.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Uh and too much, who would.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Stund you into silence that you're like, oh ship, I
would be you know, i'd actually leave.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Probably.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I saw Jesus Nice in Highland Park.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
From Jason Marrow, Yeah exactly, you should know. Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is he related to Hillary Duff?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Jesus Christ? This Jesus Nice. But that was a moment
when I was Jesus I was. I didn't even tell
I didn't say anything that I that I even.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Clocked them that I was just like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I just kind of played it cool. Yeah, but it's
like an act.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's like to me when I'm drunk and I don't
want someone to think I'm drunk, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Chill, be chill, be chilling? Why are you? I forgot? Sorry? Sorry? Yeah,
over enunciating things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, walking with the top hat, You're like, where did.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
They good day? Walking the way that the T one
thousand Terminator two runs with my hands.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Just like very straight and I need agree at the elbow.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah exactly, this is normal for me. I want a
real Jaws kick right now. But the only person who's
left a lot, I mean, can they be dead? Because
if I saw Roy, I mean I'd be eating freaked
out because he passed away a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Beat him with a spiked bat because he's a zombie.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And fuck, there's definitely like podcast people who are like
a big fan of the blank Check podcast. I got
to see Griffin and producer Ben down at the iHeart
Podcast God Ben, producer Ben. I did call him producer Ben.
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He was like, I could you not do that?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I like how we both basically said podcasters.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, it's it's so cute. I mean, it's it's what
we do. We are, Hollya who we are, Tam, what's
something you think is overrated?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I'm gonna be hated for this by both of you,
but I hate you guys. Garlic I fucking hate garlic.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You hate garlic?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I hate it.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I hate the smell, I hate the taste. I hate
the taste it leaves in my mouth. My husband came
into the bedroom the other day that with the smell
of garlic, and I kicked him right out, And that
night he had farts that smelled like E coli. It's
not right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's not right, it's wrong. Just real quick, a couple
of things. Fuck you do you need to be invited
in to enter a building? This is just a random question.
It has nothing to do with your reason.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, how are you looking in the mirror the
backs of your hands?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Real quick?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I'm the nosperazi.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, you look at him. Fingers seems a little like
insecure the way she brought up pointy fingers. Yeah, just
only pointy fingers.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Wait, but are you like if you taste garlic, if
you taste garga like, I'm off, I can't eat this.
Or you're just saying go go an ode on the garlic.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's not your thing, Yeah, going o D or you
know I can like, I'll just take it out of
my recipes altogether. But it's not that I hate the taste.
It's just what it does to me after it's not
worth it?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is there not a thing you can take to sort
of help.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Then I don't know he's there.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I don't know, Like my.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Dad can't eat raw onions and he and he takes
like something and then he gave raw onions.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I mean, I I'd love to know what it is.
I'd love to be in the club.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Actually I think, oh, yeah, try that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Maybe it's just indigestion and that's all it is.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, all right, who knows? And then I'm like, how
are you going to eat a chimney cherry?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I don't, guys, I don't. I don't, I can't. I
had a barbecue the other day and I left out
a whole ass bowl of chimmy churry and my fucking
dog went on top of the table and ate the
entire bowl. You don't know, You do not know. The
ships he took pure oil, like squirting hot, like so
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embarrassing on my walks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It was just like a trill of Jimmy cherry.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You're like, hey, oh, cute dogs, you're gonna I'd pick
it up, but I don't even know how to with
this bag. I'll just lay a bag on it like
like a aver at a crisis.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Draw jock outlin.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So how am I supposed to like garlic after that?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah? I get it, that's fair. There are times when
the garlic is coming off someone, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I know, I was eating a lot of garlic last
week when we were at that happy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'm just saying, like, there are times, you know, when
someone's had too much to drink and you can smell
them coming, Like there are times when like I've had
too much garlic, and like it's just like you enter
the room and you're like, whoa somebody you know? Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And yeah, I'm so I'm so scared of smells and
of smelling always that I feel like it's just my insecurity,
That's what it is. I'm always aware of my breath.
I'm always aware of the stenches around me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Were you a stinky kid?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I was okay. So you just had that fear just
generally because you didn't want Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, and my sisters the same way. We're both like
we're very aware of when someone has cotton mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Mmmm, y'all looking at each other, you like, yes, you're
like fucking cotton mouth king over here. Do you remember
the cotton Mouth Kings, remember about to go see them tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you hear it, you see it?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You like see I feel it in my bones.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, that's sometimes it happens on a podcast, and it's
it's when you can hear it. It's you can hear
their mouth open. You're like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Guys, there's nothing worse. I just grabbed both my tits
while I said that, because it like I did the
Moth last two weeks ago, and I was like, I'm like,
I get cotton mouth when I'm really nervous. And they
were like, well, you we don't allow water on stage,
and I was like, I have a distal philla because
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you can you can hear the crinkling of the water bottle.
And they were like, no, we don't allow, but like
we don't encourage water on sug and I was like,
I need water on stage, like I had a traumatic
experience where my lips I don't know, I made some
ship up and they put a water bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
They're like, because I can talk into this my mic
and it's going to sound like someone's trying to peel apart,
like a fruit roll up from the plastic.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, you don't want that. Then it's just like you know,
in your lips right up and you're like, eh, it's
like a turtle in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Anyways, just those white little spittle flecks of the corner
of the mouth.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
In my book, my aunt, my aunt had that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
One of my favorite tiktoks is this is a woman,
this black woman's to be like all the people with
the spittle in the corner of your mouth?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Do you want me to beat the ship out you?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the video and I'm like, yes, he's a disease.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It is like they must it must be a problem,
you know, like I don't. I don't know how they're
not aware of it. I think it makes sense that
your sensitivity to old factory distress is it has kept
you from ever being a smelly person, because I think
that's what It's just an obliviousness, you know. Yeah, so
just like what am what I'm putting out there with
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my mouth?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I did raise my hand in science class in seventh
grade and the guy next to me, I turned around
and he was going pew. But it's because but it's
because I was just starting to smell like armpits and
I didn't know. Yeah, there was like one hair, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oh god, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I was trying to find this video on TikTok when
dance video came up.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How shitty is it when you're in a silent waiting
room and then it's just like oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And like you hear those annoying things like da like
you know that video?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Do you see that trend man? That ship?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That ship was blasting the other day in this like
silent fucking room, And I was like, I'm sorry, the
most obnoxious like TikTok noise just came out of my phone.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Many apologies, Zell, what's something you under raided?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Cerree Castle, I think you're in mind. So I think
Series is LA's best journalist, like working right now. She
was a guest on my podcast The Inner Cities and
we did it on YouTube and it's the first time
we did that and it worked out really well. But
like Cerse has this ability to find local LA stories
that have impact nationally and I think she's prominently known
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for exposing sheriff games back in twenty twenty one with
her piece on La Taco. She has now moved to
a new group called Capital in Maine, and she has
been following the story of Aby Hernandez. Aby Hernandez is
a student athlete who has been targeted by their own
school superintendent for being trans and she has been performing very,
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very well, but she's also being beaten by other young
women who've identified as women since birth, so just proving
that there's really no case here. And she's having adults
who have no children in the school whatsoever, come to
her meets and harass her. And she was also targeted
by President Trump and a true social statement, which I
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think again, Soerese is like, Soerese has been on top
of stories that have such deep resonance and that you
may not even be realizing is happening in your community.
And I just love her death. So check out Serie,
follow her on everything, follow any journalists she suggests to follow,
because I gotta be honest with you. I you know,
also doing a podcast where we talked about the news.
(15:30):
I basically stop looking at American journalism. When it comes
to stories about American I go to The Guardian, I
go to like Lemon because a little French. But when
it comes to yeah, like, when it comes to stories,
I'm looking directly at the intercept. I'm looking like occasionally
wired wired, It's still good, but like it's hard, so
you got to support these Yeah, yeah is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, just like hyper local, like deep reporting on stories.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And so just so devoted to truth and speaking truth
to power and at any I mean like just thinking
of the like the harassment she was getting after the
LASD Gangs thing and just does not stop her.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know if she ever.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Said this publicly. She had to hire a bodyguard during
that year.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, we heard about that yet.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah, Like it's crazy. He's the best, He's amazing, totally.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What is something you think's over it?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Unions that don't support other unions, and this one might
get me in trouble. So this spring, the Writer's Guild
of America, which I've been part of since twenty fourteen,
their staff voted to unionize, and I am very thrilled
for them. I was a Writer's Guild captain during the
strike in twenty twenty three. The entire time. We could
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not have won that without the staff. I don't know
if people realized it. It wasn't just writers out there,
the administrators of the staff, the lawyers of the staff,
the accounts of the staff. They were all there setting
up our pickets and managing them for us and occasionally
like dealing with like emergency response and instances, so they
are amazing. They were the backbone of the strike. When
the staff decided to organize, they were met with what
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I would consider to be a little more resistance than
I would hope for from another union, and it was
really disappointing. The most upsetting thing of this is that
the the WGA fired a labor organizer named Fatima Mareta,
and Fatima was an organizer for La Hotels before she
came to us to help out, and she really did
this groundwork to make it more than just like TV
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writers demanding more money. We were picketing and marching with
hotel workers in this town, and we showed up at
their rallies. It was really, really amazing, and I felt
I felt really for the first time, particularly being like
a working class kid whose mom had a union job,
and that's the only reason I was able to go
to college and become a writer in from Fresno, which
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I feel like people don't understand how far that is
from LA even though it's not really that far from
La yeah, it's very far from la. I felt a
kinship and a community that I have not really felt
all the time, I without being in the actual thing,
in the actual like Writers Skilled Staff Union, which is
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what it's called the Writer's Guild Staff Union. I don't
know what happened. They said they let her go from cause,
but the union itself is asking the Writer's Guild to
reinstate Fatima, and I really support this. I really really
am saddened that this has been the reaction of the
Writer's Guild because I showed up at three am for
pickets because my union asked me to. When I was
harassed by studio lots during this picket, I still showed up.
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When I was sometimes harassed by WGA members who didn't
like me asking them to not get hit by a car,
I still showed up. And I will always have more
solidarity with Fatima, who is an immigrant who worked for
like working class people in this town than I ever
will the like white millionaires who were constantly giving speeches
and telling me what to do that time. I'm really upset.
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If I could give a piece of action to people
to zeit gang like go to their Instagram. The w
GA Staff Union Instagram and just follow them and say congratulations.
That's all you have to do. If you are a
WGA member and this is the first time you're hearing
about this, you need to ask your captain why this
happened and let them know that it upsets you because
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she was an amazing labor organizer and it's really really
sad what the guilds do. They're not even talking about it.
They said she was fired for cause, and I know
enough people in the staff to know that that's not
a good enough answers. All I will say, yeah, yeah, so's.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The staff of the Guilt the.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Newly formed in April. They they they fired her the
day before they announced their formation, which is SUS Writers
Guild Staff Union. Is what you should look for on Instagram.
Just follow them, and if you're in the guild, be nice,
be nice about asking the question.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, all right, great, overanded, underrated. We are going to
take a quick break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna
talk about We're gonna check in on our friends at
the New York Times see how they're dealing with all
this upheaval, all the stunning, shocking changes. We'll be right
back and we're back, We're back, and yeah, so I
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just I just want to read the headline and then
the sort of subhead from the New York Times online
Zorn's mayoral win primary win said Mandannie success in mayoral
primary reverberates beyond New York City. Yeah that makes sense, yeah,
yeah yeah, and then as Zura Mamdani pledges major changes
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after his apparent primary win, national Democrats are looking for
lessons and Republicans see a new political target. So that's
how you know, lying that's the headline that you would
have if the Democrats like that sounds like it's bad
news for the Democrats. Yeah, the Democrats are looking for
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answers or lessons, and I mean the Republicans are licking
their chops.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I mean that their news for them because he's showing
that like if you actually give people what they want,
they will vote for you. And now the Democrats are
going to have to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
For shame.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
What I didn't read the article When they say they're
looking for lessons, did they mean that to say this
is potentially a new path for Democrats, like they can
learn from this, or they're like how did they fuck up?
And not added to Quomo not win lessons a.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Little bit of that. I mean, there's there's a lot
of donors in there who are like, well, we're just
going to have to solidify behind Mayor Eric Adams now.
And then there's one donor who said, I feel like
people misunderstood my two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
Cuomo for real enthusiasm. It was basically, oh, looks like
Cuomo's coming back. We don't want to be shut out.
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Let's try and get on his good side.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I wish I had two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
I could spend unenthusiastically.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, like, oh, don't mix that up for enthusia. That's
just a that's a cool quarter million, just just to
keep my name.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
A little just in the conversation. That's it. Don't take that.
Don't want to be shut out.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But yeah, I mean, I mean it was that or
another another house that I could flip. So I just
decided one less flippable house.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, I already have five of those. Yeah.
But it's just I don't know, it seems like so
much of the democratic establishment is powered by either people
voting for them or donating to them, because that's who
they think always wins, and they're like the lesser of
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two evils. That's really like how where their power comes
from and their brand is currently catastrophic failure to do
the obvious thing they needed to do to win. Yes,
that's what the last big moment they had, well, they
give it.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Let them fail so that in nine months then they
can say look how they fail, and we'll all be dead,
but they can say that, right.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Look how we look, how we killed our base. Whoops.
It's really giving Nico, And like the the Luca trade,
I know, it's just bad because I just like the
what the Democrats did in the twenty twenty four election,
where like they came in had like a little spark
at the start and we're like, we're gonna call them weird,
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we're gonna like talk about price gouging and shit like that,
and then immediately started like tacking right and just ignoring
what everybody in their base like knew they should do.
Is like, yeah, it's it's giving Nico, Like the ninety
eight percent of their fans and supporters would have done
a better job than they just did. And it was
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like a highly public, highly consequential. This series of decisions
they just failed at in a way that we were like,
well that seems wrong, like over and over repeatedly, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yes, And it's the same thing they did in twenty twenty.
I won't I'm still upset about March twenty twenty when
Bernie was doing okay, and then like Amy klover Jar
and Buddha Judge and everybody was just like, oh shit,
let's just jump behind the centrist and it's it's it's
them attacking what their voters actually want like they it's
it's it's We're never going to freaking learn this lesson
(24:30):
of doing slow fascism is what I think the Democrats
are pitching to us, because it's like they keep saying like, oh,
democracy is in danger, we have to do things that
like actually in it, like energize people. And then Zoron
comes out here and is like, I'm a freezer rent.
I'm actually going to do some price controls for food.
I'm not saying you got a shop at the NYC,
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grudge the shop at the grid do it. I don't care.
I'm gonna make buses fast and free. None of this
is bad. Like the fact that the Democrats, which are
supposed to be the opposition party have like you know,
Hakim Jeffries, I think a couple like right after the
election finally said like I'm going to sit down and
talk to this Zora made really really like a year
(25:13):
into his or two years into him running for this seat,
you finally decided that you're going to You're going to
stand for the guy who is not the sexual predator.
You're going to stand for the guy who was not
killing people's grandmas. And like it's I'm still trying to
understand why Andrew Cuomo thought he could come back, because
it's like that was three years ago. Dog like some
of us have like COVID brain, but not that I
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remember my grandma.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That you did. The established I mean, I think all
these establishment Democrats, whether they're like part of the infrastructure
of the party or the politicians themselves, they just think
it's it's still nineteen ninety eight or some shit like
they're thinking is stuck there and they don't even see
like what the what the consequences are of them constantly
(25:57):
knocking back a perceived leftist or hyper ultra left wing
policy in favor for something that looks more like two
thousand and four Republicans yea, And they're.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Like, they're pitches fascism you can sleep through, and he's
like change that you can believe in, and they're like,
I think we want the fascism you can sleep through.
I think that's what people prefer. They've been doing it
for like a decade now.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's brunch. Fascism is what you can get, and that's
pretty what I mean. You know, some people are insulated
enough that they're fine with a world like that, but
the majority of us that live in this country are
absolutely not. And I think they don't realize that. Every
time they knock one of these policies back, they're saying
fuck you to all the people that stood to benefit
from that policy. They don't realize that. But when they
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say every time they don't take action on police brutality
and shit like that, they lose people. Okay, every time
they've pump faked codifying row, they lose people. Every time
they don't take aggressive action to fight corporate greed, they
lose people. Every time they don't they fucking fail the dreamers,
they lose people. So how the fuck do they think
they're gonna get him back by being like, well, we're
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gonna do some really cheeky rezoning to help some you know,
this luxury condo will have fourteen affordable units within it, like.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
At a time and place of our choosing. That's the
summary of just being like, we're gonna do that at
a time and place of our choosing. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I don't think they realize, you know, because again, so
much of the power in the Democratic Party is either
old or is capitulating to the old I e.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hockey, Jeffrees.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
And it's just like they don't realize the word socialism
is not it's not nineteen fifty eight. Like kids aren't
scared of that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Like most like nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
In this I mean they talk like it's nineteen fifty eight.
I mean, like fucking day after, not even a day
after he wins. It's just like there's gonna be a
nine eleven in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's his fault.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
It's like, yeah, okay, first of all, whatever, I don't
know where to begin with.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That, but like cause, oh, because it was Guliani's fault too,
Is that what I know?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I was just saying, because he's a Muslim that that's
that that equals nine to eleven. Okay, cool, yeah, you're
you're naked. Islamophobia also ain't hidden.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Yeah, but like I don't think I don't think my niece.
I have a five sisters, so I have a billion
nieces and laftews. I don't think these kids under like
they're not even kids anymore, most of young adults. But like,
socialism is not a scary thing to them. Like a
lot of them they grew up in a world where
they could see a kid in a country that had
like socialist leaders and they're fine. They're perfectly fine. I'm
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and I'm a big fan of France. I talk about
it way too much, as my friend tell me. But
like the mayor of France is a socialist, and yeah, anildago,
she's this amazing socialist who has been pushing through like
things like making France even more. Sorry, Mayor, I said,
Mayor France, forget me, don't judge me, French people.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
American right now, I know, Oh God, you have no
idea how deeply you cut me by putting out the
mayor of Paris.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I was confused because I was willing to be like, oh,
maybe that this is just a position I don't know about.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
No, no, no, no, no. I wish mayor, I actually I
don't wish. But like Ann Hildago, the mayor of Paris,
specifically the city of Paris, which is not France, I
know that French people, forgive me, uh is a socialist
and has been making the city bikable and walkable. And
guess what, she's not the left most leftist party in
the country. Like it's it's there are wonderful things that
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can happen if your party makes their core we actually
want to distribute wealth and resources and and younger people
know that. And frankly, I think they I think they
finally understand that we've been conning them this whole time
with this idea that like America just is the best.
It's like, no, we can, I got, I got fucking TikTok.
Like I can see people going to like on vacation
(29:49):
for months.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And America China once. That's why they're undermining us. Yeah,
that's exactly that's how they That's how they win.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
America is like a like a like an ultra sports
are from the eighties, but every year you get further
from the eighties the more it looks like shit, you
know what I mean, And you're like, oh no, bro
pulling up in that it looks fucking weird now and
people are like, hey man, it's a Ferrari or whatever,
it's a Dobitorian.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
These yeah, could really go for like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But like what Zorin is even you know, a lot
his policies aren't necessarily like capital s socialism either, Like
these are things like that you would have seen fder
like get behind. It's like, hey man, we got to
make some food affordable. How about we expand the ability
for people to take care of their kids and you know,
but these again, these are things that are just straight
to the point because he's consistent around the concept of
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shit costs too much and we need to do something
that the people will actually feel like when you say it,
they go, ah, yes, that rather than bureaucratic like wonk
talk and they're like, oh great, a three point the
three percent, Like what like you start talking shit like that.
People don't understand free buses, yes, right, price control, supermarket great.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Yeah, you know, free things for new parents, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah? But that's why I think it's so dangerous so
difficult for the mainstream media to deal with. Is just
the one thing that they had that the Democrats had
was the idea that they were the path, like they
were the practical path, like the you know, socialism is
nice in theory, you can't win elections, it scares people,
(31:30):
and then you know, people wildly vote for it. Yeah,
and then everybody votes for it. And there I think
now they're like, well, it doesn't you can't actually do it.
But I just want to read this other quote from
the article. But with Democrats shut out of power in
Washington and focused on taking back the House next year,
it remains unclear how closely senior lawmakers will embrace mister
(31:51):
mom Donnie as they try to flip battleground districts where
his far left stances might alienate voters. Is of course
no acknowledgment that this very publication where this is being
written was saying this very same thing about his policies
in New York City, right, like they they were like
New York is tacked right and like traditionally, like they've
(32:13):
been open to voting for Democrats and Republicans. Oh, and
also it is the like this is said elsewhere in
the article. It is the fucking capital of capitalism. It
is the capital of capitalism. They just voted for a
socialist and they're like, well, that couldn't work anywhere else,
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so that it couldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Work there as far as I know, those ago, those
people don't eat food or have babies to take care
of in that in those battleground states.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
These policies will fucking appeal, Like, are be for real?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Yeah? Where is this place they're talking about? Because like
I will, okay, granted again, I come from Fresnoe, California.
It's a very conservative air part of California. They may be,
they may still be afraid of like the term socialism,
But if you just talk to people about like, yo,
do you want your house to be like less expensive? Right,
they're down. Would you like eggs to just be a
(33:11):
normal fucking price? Again? Yes, absolutely down for it? Like
do you have a problem giving a new mother some
supplies to get started with?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
What what kind of monster would No? One is against
these policies. They're against the the fear mongering that you
do around it. They're against this idea that somehow raising
the tax on the wealthiest people in your town is
going to impact most people when in actuality, if you
go back to when you keep talking about what America
(33:40):
was great, those people would have been paying like fifty
percent taxes.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I mean, like, and then I think people people
are beginning to realize that like all the fear around
you know, a wealth like progressive taxes on the wealthy,
they're they're ambiently getting all that fear from the media
that they fund what I means, So like at a
certain point it's act of like, do I know somebody
who's actually get fucked over by these progressive wealth taxes?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Actually, I stand a benefit from all these other policies,
So this is a decent thing. There's also like the
amount of just bed pissing from the Democratic consultant class
is so telling that I think that they are I
think they do see that they are losing their grip
a bit, like on the party. And because this is
where it's getting real, Like we've been saying since the election,
(34:28):
like the next fight for the Democrats is who is
going to be at the wheel of this party. Is
it going to be the progressives? Is it going to
be where all this energy is right now or are
they going to do everything they can to just rest
control again and drag this thing to the right. This
one strategist told political quote, it is extremely alarming that
the only candidates who genuinely excite our voters are the
(34:49):
ones making absolutely insane promises on politically toxic positions. That's
their take on what has just happened. That's how they're
trying to spin that, is that like, this is all
fucking stupid quote, leaving us in the spot of trying
to execute on bad policy and losing terribly or failing
to keep our promises and reinforcing the idea that all
(35:10):
politics is bullshit. Yeah, okay, okay, So again, I think
we're saying all of their reflexive habits of just spending
money on studies and going for a superficial deregulation and
like zoning reform is just not working anymore. And I
think this must be This feels kind of like probably
what never trumpers were thinking when Trump stepped on the
scene in twenty fifteen, that were like they did fucking everything.
(35:35):
They're like, bro, get this guy out of here. He's
doesn't know what the fuck time. It is like we
have our own neo con shit that we're on that
we're really we've protected this thing. We have all the money,
we control the media.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Let's see if we.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Can get this guy out the box. But they fucking couldn't.
They could not, they couldn't, And he's still fucking won.
And I think he just again he had an appeal
sadly to the voters that felt like the party wasn't
really following through on their like racial grievances, and Trump
was there for that, and.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
They're like, yeah, you know what, that's kind of what
I'm kind of what I've been missing really, and in this,
in this, in and with Mamdanni, he's appealing to the
voters who are fucking sick and tired of the Democrats
just failing to deliver and just talking around things getting better, and.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They don't realize that that's what's happening. It's like the
ship gets hollowed out and somebody's offering what you want.
They're all gonna move this way now, so and there.
And again, you look at all the money they spent
trying to smear Mamdani, like all the those fucked up
attack ads trying to paint him as a terrorist and
ship and he's still fucking won. And I think again,
there's I think they're they're starting to be like fuck
(36:37):
man like, but but we don't do stuff that's going
against the status quo. We're they're a fuck We're the
constant gardeners of the status quo.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
And he won by getting people to go out again, Like,
can we just acknowledge that the big factor of last
the last presidential election was a lot of people just
did not want to vote because you gave them the
choice between the crazy guy that they experienced already and
somebody who was doing a fucking whistle stop tour with
Liz Cheney, Like you we.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Need to excite people. Yeah, yeah, they were like, you know,
what would be a good idea is if we ran
against Trump with something that is as close to Jeb
Bush as possible, the person that he'd be in the
very first place to make it clear to everybody.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Yeah please class, Yeah, yeah, I was gonna add, did
you guys see Bill Ackman's like a frantic midnight tweet
I heard about People were saying him and Elon's tweets
were real something that night of the primary. What was
his I so it's it's again, He's not I'm not
saying Bill Ackman is a part of the Democratic Party.
(37:43):
I am saying he's one of these people who would
literally give money to anyone who would stop progressive from
doing anything. But like he literally said, I woke up
in the morning gravely concerned about New York City. I thought,
what has New York City become? That it avouts of
an avowed socialist supported who supported defunding the police, whose
solution to lowing food prices is city owned supermarkets, who
(38:06):
doesn't understand that freezing the rent will only reduce the
supply of housing, who has no experience managing organizations, let
alone a city of one hundred million, one hundred billion
dollar budget and two trillion dollar economy, and who believes
that chance of globalizing the are acceptable. When's the Democratic primary?
And it's just like every time I see something like that.
(38:27):
By the way, that's the first paragraph of I don't
even know how many paragraphs I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
At you this God yea.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
But like he is looking literally for anyone to run
against him, and basically saying, I will fucking destroy democracy
in the city of New York before I allow these
people to have a progressive.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Lead, right and because they see what time it is.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Yeah, absolutely, And I'm my big fear and concern and
I'm sure there are smarter people working with Zoron who
who have thought about this, is that the Democratic, the
mainstream establishment Democratic Party having the chance to get like
Bill Eichman money, will trade the city of New York
for that money. And that is what I think we
(39:07):
all need to be looking out for because if we don't,
if I'm judging the Democratic Party for the for the
next election based on how strongly they support Zorahan going
out because like the man did it, he did it.
He fought, he fought an established democratic machine legacy, NEPO baby,
he fought the billionaires who were giving him money. He
(39:29):
fought the general racism of America, and he got people
to show up. And if you can't get behind that,
I don't even know if this country even has an
opposition party to the rope upblic Republicans anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And that's where I think talk, like serious talk has
to be about, like where where does this energy go?
Because it can't be put but they can't be trusted
with the Democrats at all.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Yeah, I mean it has to right, Like the Democrats
just need to fucking step up because yeah, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
But again, the thing is right, all of these this
donor class, the consultant class, they see that all this
energy is coming from young people, normal people who aren't
wealthy and are starting to realize, bro, this this inequality
is fucked up. And for them, they're like, shit, man,
they're fucking realizing that we're fucking drink. We've been drinking
(40:21):
their fucking milkshake for centuries now, and they're getting behind
policies that are actually going to address that.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I don't want to live in that world. We need
to stop him. Have you guys ever seen Dark Knight Rises?
I'm yes, yesterday and there's a guy who went on
MSNBC and was like, they're talking eat the Rich. Have
you ever seen Dark Knight Rises? The part where they
make the stockbrokers walk on frozen river and then they
fall through. That's I mean, I'm just saying like, that's like,
(40:48):
he's a lot of stammers. Yeah, he was evoking bane,
which is always the sign that they're in a U
in touch with three.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I think people forget how Gotham City got, how Gotham
was people were treated like shit, and eventually a rich
person got got and one rich person was like, maybe
I'll do something.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
About this on my watch. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be right back. Andrew back and Jeff Bezos,
(41:29):
Jeff Bezo himself. Finally some good news. Finally, yeah, some
good news.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Kind of actually what he ranted Florence and got married
pissed off Italian people.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
No, I was gonna say, just good news because I
can believe in love again. Oh oh yes, after things
went south with that last marriage, he found love again. Uh,
you know, and that damn McKenzie, with that damn McKenzie.
This this guy find love again with you know, a
new person. And they say, and this is the person
that he was hot texting, I love you a live girl.
(42:03):
So it's also a sign that, you know, romantic poetry
is not dead. He is that. Now they're getting married
in Venice and they were like renting the city. They
were like, we're gonna shut down, We're gonna shut down
chunks of your city, which like happened like I've been
(42:25):
places where like all of a sudden they're like, yeah, yeah,
I know, you can't come inside this like National Park
or something, because like rich people are here.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Recently, I saw where some people are getting married, like
in front of the pyramids in Giza.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah the fuck okay sure. Anyways, him being the third
richest person in the world, there was some attention and
the people of Venice were not thrilled that their city
was being shut down. They have There's been kind of
a long running since that the city values rich tourists
(43:01):
over the people who actually live there, and so they
start there too. Also there and you believe.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
They've got that issue there whoa hold on event Wait,
you have to go to Venice, Italy to find that clash.
Speaker 9 (43:14):
That's like Nashville when they cut down all the cherry
trees to so the NFL Draft could have their stage, and.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
The whole town was like, what are you doing? Those
are like historic cherry trees. And they're like, well, replant them.
Speaker 9 (43:25):
And then there's some barbarous like weighted and was like
you can't replant them, and they're like, we're still.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Going to do it. We're cutting them down. They're like
we're still going to do it. I was like, no,
we're going to do it. We're gonna replant them. That's
not possible with a cherry tree. Yeah, but that's we're
going to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Well, we're saying it is just what we're going to
do purposes of moving along this conversation.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Right, But yeah, it's a lot like the it's a
lot like the global hypernormalization. It's just like, yeah, but
that's what we're going to say. We don't need experts.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
To weigh in on this.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
We're not plant them and we're not cutting medicaid.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Okay, I don't know where you keep hearing that, just
because you're reading the bill that we're trying to, you know,
to get votes on right now.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
We're not doing that. It's just you're like, wow, full
of full on authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
But yeah, the fucking banner they unfrilled and like the
squar set with Bezos, Slavvy said, if you can rent
Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah, with a picture of Jeff Bezos laughing up roariously,
and they really caught a bad angle. I think normally
he doesn't look like a super villain from Superman, but
they just must have caught him at a bad angle
because yeah, he's like, actually that's what he looks like, sorry,
never mind.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yeah, he's got like human growth hormone. Mister magoo.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
Kind of basic, bitch too, fucking Florence, think about these guys,
Laurence Venice whatever. I mean, it's the same ship, like
a cigar bar.
Speaker 10 (44:48):
Let's learn a cigar bar. You know, I'm kind of crazy.
You know, I'm kind of a guy who thinks outside
the box. You know how I am always about innovation
and everything. How I decided to make packages go faster. Well,
another thing I thought about was I'm gonna rent a
cigar bar for my fucking bachelor.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
You know he's going He's like flying in master cigar
rollers from Cuba to them fresh right, He's gonna roll.
Speaker 10 (45:15):
Them on the casino floor because I think outside the box.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Now, it's gonna be off put by the fact that
they're blindfolded with a bag over their head. They just
can't see where they are while they're doing.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
And I want you guys to experience something wild for
the actual ceremony.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
I'm gonna take you to a city where no one's
ever been before.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
You ever asked your you ever asked your stove on
the beheaded on a decapitated head of a peasant before.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
You gotta try it. Never even heard of this place.
There's the streets are fucking water about it. They've got
these things called gonbolas.
Speaker 10 (45:54):
God bowling gods, and you go in them and it's
like a car and that's where you go on the street.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Some protesters were like, we're gonna fuck up the We're
gonna you know, protest. We're gonna swim in the canals
to block the waterways. And it actually worked. They're moving
the wedding outside of the city center. Protesters are claiming
a victory, which you know, hell shut out to them.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Hell yeah no, because they were like all the all
these people, like two hundred billionaires descend, you know, it's
like fucking Oprah and shit, and he fought the Trump
and free Mick Jagger Evanka Trump.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
At first, when I was like, when they said the
amount of private jets that were about to hit Venice,
I was like.
Speaker 11 (46:36):
Oh, the people of the Baly you could you could
really do something special with all those important people's jets
there in one place. But I'm sure that place is
locked down like fucking who knows what. But the way
they were talking was like all these people are now
booking up the water taxis and all these other modes
of transportation to get to the city center for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
So like their whole plan was like, Okay, well bet
you can do that, but we're literally gonna block the
canal with ship that floats and our bodies, so good
fucking luck.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
And that was enough of a threat. So I really
appreciate that. I really appreciate it the protesters events. All right,
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please
like and review the show if you like, The show
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(47:24):
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Shout out to Zeitgang. You so many tips I've been incorporating.
I've been able to directly respond to everybody because last
week I said, I'm putting out a call for solicited opinions,
solicited facts from how to raise a toddler to a
toddler bed. I will say we had one breakthrough last
night for the first time coming no, sorry, for the
first time. After like crying at the door and like
(00:47):
go back to bed through the door, he actually gave
up and went back to the bed and laid down
and went to sleep. And I was like, Yo, that
shit happened at twelve thirty at night. But I'm taking it.
I'm taking it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, it's a week take our wins where we so,
ZEI Gang. I appreciate you all being on this ride,
this journey with me. We've been through so much already
this year. I really appreciate all the child rearing things
because I need help and I appreciate that, and so
does her majesty.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
He hasn't done the thing that my seven year old
then three or four year old did where he just
like the rays you through the door for not letting
him in. He did.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He said that to her magic, He'd like, why'd you
leave me? He did that to her and that fucked
her up.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm not gonna lie. Yeah. Yeah. My youngest like went
I think I talked about on the show, but went
full like mean boss on my ass. Oh like why
are you opening it? Do you not hear me? Oh?
I get it. It's because you're stupid. You're too stupid
to come and open the door. He's like four. I
(01:45):
was like, what the fuck is that right now? Like
where did you learn this stuff? He's just like sleep
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It's Holly Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I feel like we've already been through such a valley
journey because you Jack, you talked about your thigh in
your song. But I did also already see Myles thigh
on this, on this I had.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
To brock it. Miles Walks, Yeah, I talked about nobody's
ever seen them. Miles, we will show you his thigh
at the Yeah, because he's got val Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Because look, I'm from the valley too.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have it tatted.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have had the area code tatted on my body.
And Holly, last time you were on, I was out
on parental leave, so we didn't get it, I know.
And so I'm glad now because I'm like another fucking.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Where'd you go up in the valley?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was born in Van Eyes and I actually still
live super close to Van Eyes, mostly like Walton around
Dan Eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, I grew up in North Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, all right, that's me. I love to see it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We love to see it. And look, they said we
couldn't do it. They said we're just weird people, Valley people.
And now we stand at the precipice of podcasting.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I guess bedroom eyes. I prefer van eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wow appropriate, nice wordplay, Holly. We do like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Sure? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So my number one last one was it said Hillary
Duff and Mandy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Moore exclamation point, exclamation point question.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Mark because fellow Valley lover, a friend of mine works
at a new restaurant who says Hillary Duff and Mandy
Moore are regulars. And my brain broke when he told
me this, and I realized, like it was so telling
to be like, oh, those are two people at my
age and as a millennial that I would see in
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public and be stunned into silence. R And yet I
would see someone way more famous or way more well
known and knock it up like not nearly care as.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Much, you know, But my big surprise would be, oh,
those are two people, because I actually in my brain
had lumped them together. I don't, Oh my god, I
didn't realize that they were to hate mail, get it
Go and get.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Dude, Hillary Duff and manymore they like objectively not the
best actors.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Uh, I'm going to need you breaks Gang just pulled up.
Thank you now.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Like I wasn't a fan of Let the Rain Fall Down, but.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Her acting.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Dude, calm clean is such a good karaoke song once
you get to that part, you know, I know. But
it made me think, like, I want to know who
if you saw somebody in public that is not like
mega mega famous but to you matters.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Uh and too much, who would.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Stund you into silence that you're like, oh ship, I
would be you know, i'd actually leave.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Probably.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I saw Jesus Nice in Highland Park.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
From Jason Marrow, Yeah exactly, you should know. Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is he related to Hillary Duff?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Jesus Christ? This Jesus Nice. But that was a moment
when I was Jesus I was. I didn't even tell
I didn't say anything that I that I even.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Clocked them that I was just like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I just kind of played it cool. Yeah, but it's
like an act.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's like to me when I'm drunk and I don't
want someone to think I'm drunk, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Chill, be chill, be chilling? Why are you? I forgot? Sorry? Sorry? Yeah,
over enunciating things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, walking with the top hat, You're like, where did.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
They good day? Walking the way that the T one
thousand Terminator two runs with my hands.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Just like very straight and I need agree at the elbow.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah exactly, this is normal for me. I want a
real Jaws kick right now. But the only person who's
left a lot, I mean, can they be dead? Because
if I saw Roy, I mean I'd be eating freaked
out because he passed away a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Beat him with a spiked bat because he's a zombie.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And fuck, there's definitely like podcast people who are like
a big fan of the blank Check podcast. I got
to see Griffin and producer Ben down at the iHeart
Podcast God Ben, producer Ben. I did call him producer Ben.
(07:05):
He was like, I could you not do that?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I like how we both basically said podcasters.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, it's it's so cute. I mean, it's it's what
we do. We are, Hollya who we are, Tam, what's
something you think is overrated?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
I'm gonna be hated for this by both of you,
but I hate you guys. Garlic I fucking hate garlic.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You hate garlic?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I hate it.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I hate the smell, I hate the taste. I hate
the taste it leaves in my mouth. My husband came
into the bedroom the other day that with the smell
of garlic, and I kicked him right out, And that
night he had farts that smelled like E coli. It's
not right.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's not right, it's wrong. Just real quick, a couple
of things. Fuck you do you need to be invited
in to enter a building? This is just a random question.
It has nothing to do with your reason.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, how are you looking in the mirror the
backs of your hands?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Real quick?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I'm the nosperazi.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, you look at him. Fingers seems a little like
insecure the way she brought up pointy fingers. Yeah, just
only pointy fingers.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Wait, but are you like if you taste garlic, if
you taste garga like, I'm off, I can't eat this.
Or you're just saying go go an ode on the garlic.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's not your thing, Yeah, going o D or you
know I can like, I'll just take it out of
my recipes altogether. But it's not that I hate the taste.
It's just what it does to me after it's not
worth it?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is there not a thing you can take to sort
of help.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Then I don't know he's there.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I don't know, Like my.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Dad can't eat raw onions and he and he takes
like something and then he gave raw onions.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I mean, I I'd love to know what it is.
I'd love to be in the club.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Actually I think, oh, yeah, try that.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Maybe it's just indigestion and that's all it is.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, all right, who knows? And then I'm like, how
are you going to eat a chimney cherry?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I don't, guys, I don't. I don't, I can't. I
had a barbecue the other day and I left out
a whole ass bowl of chimmy churry and my fucking
dog went on top of the table and ate the
entire bowl. You don't know, You do not know. The
ships he took pure oil, like squirting hot, like so
(09:36):
embarrassing on my walks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It was just like a trill of Jimmy cherry.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You're like, hey, oh, cute dogs, you're gonna I'd pick
it up, but I don't even know how to with
this bag. I'll just lay a bag on it like
like a aver at a crisis.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Draw jock outlin.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So how am I supposed to like garlic after that?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah? I get it, that's fair. There are times when
the garlic is coming off someone, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I know, I was eating a lot of garlic last
week when we were at that happy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'm just saying, like, there are times, you know, when
someone's had too much to drink and you can smell
them coming, Like there are times when like I've had
too much garlic, and like it's just like you enter
the room and you're like, whoa somebody you know? Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
And yeah, I'm so I'm so scared of smells and
of smelling always that I feel like it's just my insecurity,
That's what it is. I'm always aware of my breath.
I'm always aware of the stenches around me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Were you a stinky kid?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I was okay. So you just had that fear just
generally because you didn't want Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, and my sisters the same way. We're both like
we're very aware of when someone has cotton mouth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Mmmm, y'all looking at each other, you like, yes, you're
like fucking cotton mouth king over here. Do you remember
the cotton Mouth Kings, remember about to go see them tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you hear it, you see it?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
You like see I feel it in my bones.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, that's sometimes it happens on a podcast, and it's
it's when you can hear it. It's you can hear
their mouth open. You're like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Guys, there's nothing worse. I just grabbed both my tits
while I said that, because it like I did the
Moth last two weeks ago, and I was like, I'm like,
I get cotton mouth when I'm really nervous. And they
were like, well, you we don't allow water on stage,
and I was like, I have a distal philla because
(11:48):
you can you can hear the crinkling of the water bottle.
And they were like, no, we don't allow, but like
we don't encourage water on sug and I was like,
I need water on stage, like I had a traumatic
experience where my lips I don't know, I made some
ship up and they put a water bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
They're like, because I can talk into this my mic
and it's going to sound like someone's trying to peel apart,
like a fruit roll up from the plastic.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, you don't want that. Then it's just like you know,
in your lips right up and you're like, eh, it's
like a turtle in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Anyways, just those white little spittle flecks of the corner
of the mouth.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
In my book, my aunt, my aunt had that.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
One of my favorite tiktoks is this is a woman,
this black woman's to be like all the people with
the spittle in the corner of your mouth?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Do you want me to beat the ship out you?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the video and I'm like, yes, he's a disease.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It is like they must it must be a problem,
you know, like I don't. I don't know how they're
not aware of it. I think it makes sense that
your sensitivity to old factory distress is it has kept
you from ever being a smelly person, because I think
that's what It's just an obliviousness, you know. Yeah, so
just like what am what I'm putting out there with
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my mouth?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I did raise my hand in science class in seventh
grade and the guy next to me, I turned around
and he was going pew. But it's because but it's
because I was just starting to smell like armpits and
I didn't know. Yeah, there was like one hair, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oh god, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I was trying to find this video on TikTok when
dance video came up.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How shitty is it when you're in a silent waiting
room and then it's just like oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And like you hear those annoying things like da like
you know that video?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Do you see that trend man? That ship?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That ship was blasting the other day in this like
silent fucking room, And I was like, I'm sorry, the
most obnoxious like TikTok noise just came out of my phone.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Many apologies, Zell, what's something you under raided?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Cerree Castle, I think you're in mind. So I think
Series is LA's best journalist, like working right now. She
was a guest on my podcast The Inner Cities and
we did it on YouTube and it's the first time
we did that and it worked out really well. But
like Cerse has this ability to find local LA stories
that have impact nationally and I think she's prominently known
(14:24):
for exposing sheriff games back in twenty twenty one with
her piece on La Taco. She has now moved to
a new group called Capital in Maine, and she has
been following the story of Aby Hernandez. Aby Hernandez is
a student athlete who has been targeted by their own
school superintendent for being trans and she has been performing very,
(14:47):
very well, but she's also being beaten by other young
women who've identified as women since birth, so just proving
that there's really no case here. And she's having adults
who have no children in the school whatsoever, come to
her meets and harass her. And she was also targeted
by President Trump and a true social statement, which I
(15:09):
think again, Soerese is like, Soerese has been on top
of stories that have such deep resonance and that you
may not even be realizing is happening in your community.
And I just love her death. So check out Serie,
follow her on everything, follow any journalists she suggests to follow,
because I gotta be honest with you. I you know,
also doing a podcast where we talked about the news.
(15:30):
I basically stop looking at American journalism. When it comes
to stories about American I go to The Guardian, I
go to like Lemon because a little French. But when
it comes to yeah, like, when it comes to stories,
I'm looking directly at the intercept. I'm looking like occasionally
wired wired, It's still good, but like it's hard, so
you got to support these Yeah, yeah is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, just like hyper local, like deep reporting on stories.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And so just so devoted to truth and speaking truth
to power and at any I mean like just thinking
of the like the harassment she was getting after the
LASD Gangs thing and just does not stop her.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know if she ever.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Said this publicly. She had to hire a bodyguard during
that year.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, we heard about that yet.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah, Like it's crazy. He's the best, He's amazing, totally.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What is something you think's over it?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Unions that don't support other unions, and this one might
get me in trouble. So this spring, the Writer's Guild
of America, which I've been part of since twenty fourteen,
their staff voted to unionize, and I am very thrilled
for them. I was a Writer's Guild captain during the
strike in twenty twenty three. The entire time. We could
(16:46):
not have won that without the staff. I don't know
if people realized it. It wasn't just writers out there,
the administrators of the staff, the lawyers of the staff,
the accounts of the staff. They were all there setting
up our pickets and managing them for us and occasionally
like dealing with like emergency response and instances, so they
are amazing. They were the backbone of the strike. When
the staff decided to organize, they were met with what
(17:08):
I would consider to be a little more resistance than
I would hope for from another union, and it was
really disappointing. The most upsetting thing of this is that
the the WGA fired a labor organizer named Fatima Mareta,
and Fatima was an organizer for La Hotels before she
came to us to help out, and she really did
this groundwork to make it more than just like TV
(17:31):
writers demanding more money. We were picketing and marching with
hotel workers in this town, and we showed up at
their rallies. It was really, really amazing, and I felt
I felt really for the first time, particularly being like
a working class kid whose mom had a union job,
and that's the only reason I was able to go
to college and become a writer in from Fresno, which
(17:52):
I feel like people don't understand how far that is
from LA even though it's not really that far from
La yeah, it's very far from la. I felt a
kinship and a community that I have not really felt
all the time, I without being in the actual thing,
in the actual like Writers Skilled Staff Union, which is
(18:12):
what it's called the Writer's Guild Staff Union. I don't
know what happened. They said they let her go from cause,
but the union itself is asking the Writer's Guild to
reinstate Fatima, and I really support this. I really really
am saddened that this has been the reaction of the
Writer's Guild because I showed up at three am for
pickets because my union asked me to. When I was
harassed by studio lots during this picket, I still showed up.
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When I was sometimes harassed by WGA members who didn't
like me asking them to not get hit by a car,
I still showed up. And I will always have more
solidarity with Fatima, who is an immigrant who worked for
like working class people in this town than I ever
will the like white millionaires who were constantly giving speeches
and telling me what to do that time. I'm really upset.
(18:57):
If I could give a piece of action to people
to zeit gang like go to their Instagram. The w
GA Staff Union Instagram and just follow them and say congratulations.
That's all you have to do. If you are a
WGA member and this is the first time you're hearing
about this, you need to ask your captain why this
happened and let them know that it upsets you because
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she was an amazing labor organizer and it's really really
sad what the guilds do. They're not even talking about it.
They said she was fired for cause, and I know
enough people in the staff to know that that's not
a good enough answers. All I will say, yeah, yeah, so's.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The staff of the Guilt the.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Newly formed in April. They they they fired her the
day before they announced their formation, which is SUS Writers
Guild Staff Union. Is what you should look for on Instagram.
Just follow them, and if you're in the guild, be nice,
be nice about asking the question.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, all right, great, overanded, underrated. We are going to
take a quick break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna
talk about We're gonna check in on our friends at
the New York Times see how they're dealing with all
this upheaval, all the stunning, shocking changes. We'll be right
back and we're back, We're back, and yeah, so I
(20:26):
just I just want to read the headline and then
the sort of subhead from the New York Times online
Zorn's mayoral win primary win said Mandannie success in mayoral
primary reverberates beyond New York City. Yeah that makes sense, yeah,
yeah yeah, and then as Zura Mamdani pledges major changes
(20:48):
after his apparent primary win, national Democrats are looking for
lessons and Republicans see a new political target. So that's
how you know, lying that's the headline that you would
have if the Democrats like that sounds like it's bad
news for the Democrats. Yeah, the Democrats are looking for
(21:09):
answers or lessons, and I mean the Republicans are licking
their chops.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I mean that their news for them because he's showing
that like if you actually give people what they want,
they will vote for you. And now the Democrats are
going to have to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
For shame.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
What I didn't read the article When they say they're
looking for lessons, did they mean that to say this
is potentially a new path for Democrats, like they can
learn from this, or they're like how did they fuck up?
And not added to Quomo not win lessons a.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Little bit of that. I mean, there's there's a lot
of donors in there who are like, well, we're just
going to have to solidify behind Mayor Eric Adams now.
And then there's one donor who said, I feel like
people misunderstood my two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
Cuomo for real enthusiasm. It was basically, oh, looks like
Cuomo's coming back. We don't want to be shut out.
(22:00):
Let's try and get on his good side.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I wish I had two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
I could spend unenthusiastically.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, like, oh, don't mix that up for enthusia. That's
just a that's a cool quarter million, just just to
keep my name.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
A little just in the conversation. That's it. Don't take that.
Don't want to be shut out.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But yeah, I mean, I mean it was that or
another another house that I could flip. So I just
decided one less flippable house.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, I already have five of those. Yeah.
But it's just I don't know, it seems like so
much of the democratic establishment is powered by either people
voting for them or donating to them, because that's who
they think always wins, and they're like the lesser of
(22:45):
two evils. That's really like how where their power comes
from and their brand is currently catastrophic failure to do
the obvious thing they needed to do to win. Yes,
that's what the last big moment they had, well, they
give it.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Let them fail so that in nine months then they
can say look how they fail, and we'll all be dead,
but they can say that, right.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Look how we look, how we killed our base. Whoops.
It's really giving Nico, And like the the Luca trade,
I know, it's just bad because I just like the
what the Democrats did in the twenty twenty four election,
where like they came in had like a little spark
at the start and we're like, we're gonna call them weird,
(23:33):
we're gonna like talk about price gouging and shit like that,
and then immediately started like tacking right and just ignoring
what everybody in their base like knew they should do.
Is like, yeah, it's it's giving Nico, Like the ninety
eight percent of their fans and supporters would have done
a better job than they just did. And it was
(23:54):
like a highly public, highly consequential. This series of decisions
they just failed at in a way that we were like,
well that seems wrong, like over and over repeatedly, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yes, And it's the same thing they did in twenty twenty.
I won't I'm still upset about March twenty twenty when
Bernie was doing okay, and then like Amy klover Jar
and Buddha Judge and everybody was just like, oh shit,
let's just jump behind the centrist and it's it's it's
them attacking what their voters actually want like they it's
it's it's We're never going to freaking learn this lesson
(24:30):
of doing slow fascism is what I think the Democrats
are pitching to us, because it's like they keep saying like, oh,
democracy is in danger, we have to do things that
like actually in it, like energize people. And then Zoron
comes out here and is like, I'm a freezer rent.
I'm actually going to do some price controls for food.
I'm not saying you got a shop at the NYC,
(24:50):
grudge the shop at the grid do it. I don't care.
I'm gonna make buses fast and free. None of this
is bad. Like the fact that the Democrats, which are
supposed to be the opposition party have like you know,
Hakim Jeffries, I think a couple like right after the
election finally said like I'm going to sit down and
talk to this Zora made really really like a year
(25:13):
into his or two years into him running for this seat,
you finally decided that you're going to You're going to
stand for the guy who is not the sexual predator.
You're going to stand for the guy who was not
killing people's grandmas. And like it's I'm still trying to
understand why Andrew Cuomo thought he could come back, because
it's like that was three years ago. Dog like some
of us have like COVID brain, but not that I
(25:34):
remember my grandma.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That you did. The established I mean, I think all
these establishment Democrats, whether they're like part of the infrastructure
of the party or the politicians themselves, they just think
it's it's still nineteen ninety eight or some shit like
they're thinking is stuck there and they don't even see
like what the what the consequences are of them constantly
(25:57):
knocking back a perceived leftist or hyper ultra left wing
policy in favor for something that looks more like two
thousand and four Republicans yea, And they're.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Like, they're pitches fascism you can sleep through, and he's
like change that you can believe in, and they're like,
I think we want the fascism you can sleep through.
I think that's what people prefer. They've been doing it
for like a decade now.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's brunch. Fascism is what you can get, and that's
pretty what I mean. You know, some people are insulated
enough that they're fine with a world like that, but
the majority of us that live in this country are
absolutely not. And I think they don't realize that. Every
time they knock one of these policies back, they're saying
fuck you to all the people that stood to benefit
from that policy. They don't realize that. But when they
(26:42):
say every time they don't take action on police brutality
and shit like that, they lose people. Okay, every time
they've pump faked codifying row, they lose people. Every time
they don't take aggressive action to fight corporate greed, they
lose people. Every time they don't they fucking fail the dreamers,
they lose people. So how the fuck do they think
they're gonna get him back by being like, well, we're
(27:03):
gonna do some really cheeky rezoning to help some you know,
this luxury condo will have fourteen affordable units within it, like.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
At a time and place of our choosing. That's the
summary of just being like, we're gonna do that at
a time and place of our choosing. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I don't think they realize, you know, because again, so
much of the power in the Democratic Party is either
old or is capitulating to the old I e.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hockey, Jeffrees.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
And it's just like they don't realize the word socialism
is not it's not nineteen fifty eight. Like kids aren't
scared of that.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Like most like nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
In this I mean they talk like it's nineteen fifty eight.
I mean, like fucking day after, not even a day
after he wins. It's just like there's gonna be a
nine eleven in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's his fault.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
It's like, yeah, okay, first of all, whatever, I don't
know where to begin with.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That, but like cause, oh, because it was Guliani's fault too,
Is that what I know?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I was just saying, because he's a Muslim that that's
that that equals nine to eleven. Okay, cool, yeah, you're
you're naked. Islamophobia also ain't hidden.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Yeah, but like I don't think I don't think my niece.
I have a five sisters, so I have a billion
nieces and laftews. I don't think these kids under like
they're not even kids anymore, most of young adults. But like,
socialism is not a scary thing to them. Like a
lot of them they grew up in a world where
they could see a kid in a country that had
like socialist leaders and they're fine. They're perfectly fine. I'm
(28:30):
and I'm a big fan of France. I talk about
it way too much, as my friend tell me. But
like the mayor of France is a socialist, and yeah, anildago,
she's this amazing socialist who has been pushing through like
things like making France even more. Sorry, Mayor, I said,
Mayor France, forget me, don't judge me, French people.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
American right now, I know, Oh God, you have no
idea how deeply you cut me by putting out the
mayor of Paris.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I was confused because I was willing to be like, oh,
maybe that this is just a position I don't know about.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
No, no, no, no, no. I wish mayor, I actually I
don't wish. But like Ann Hildago, the mayor of Paris,
specifically the city of Paris, which is not France, I
know that French people, forgive me, uh is a socialist
and has been making the city bikable and walkable. And
guess what, she's not the left most leftist party in
the country. Like it's it's there are wonderful things that
(29:27):
can happen if your party makes their core we actually
want to distribute wealth and resources and and younger people
know that. And frankly, I think they I think they
finally understand that we've been conning them this whole time
with this idea that like America just is the best.
It's like, no, we can, I got, I got fucking TikTok.
Like I can see people going to like on vacation
(29:49):
for months.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And America China once. That's why they're undermining us. Yeah,
that's exactly that's how they That's how they win.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
America is like a like a like an ultra sports
are from the eighties, but every year you get further
from the eighties the more it looks like shit, you
know what I mean, And you're like, oh no, bro
pulling up in that it looks fucking weird now and
people are like, hey man, it's a Ferrari or whatever,
it's a Dobitorian.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
These yeah, could really go for like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But like what Zorin is even you know, a lot
his policies aren't necessarily like capital s socialism either, Like
these are things like that you would have seen fder
like get behind. It's like, hey man, we got to
make some food affordable. How about we expand the ability
for people to take care of their kids and you know,
but these again, these are things that are just straight
to the point because he's consistent around the concept of
(30:39):
shit costs too much and we need to do something
that the people will actually feel like when you say it,
they go, ah, yes, that rather than bureaucratic like wonk
talk and they're like, oh great, a three point the
three percent, Like what like you start talking shit like that.
People don't understand free buses, yes, right, price control, supermarket great.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Yeah, you know, free things for new parents, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah? But that's why I think it's so dangerous so
difficult for the mainstream media to deal with. Is just
the one thing that they had that the Democrats had
was the idea that they were the path, like they
were the practical path, like the you know, socialism is
nice in theory, you can't win elections, it scares people,
(31:30):
and then you know, people wildly vote for it. Yeah,
and then everybody votes for it. And there I think
now they're like, well, it doesn't you can't actually do it.
But I just want to read this other quote from
the article. But with Democrats shut out of power in
Washington and focused on taking back the House next year,
it remains unclear how closely senior lawmakers will embrace mister
(31:51):
mom Donnie as they try to flip battleground districts where
his far left stances might alienate voters. Is of course
no acknowledgment that this very publication where this is being
written was saying this very same thing about his policies
in New York City, right, like they they were like
New York is tacked right and like traditionally, like they've
(32:13):
been open to voting for Democrats and Republicans. Oh, and
also it is the like this is said elsewhere in
the article. It is the fucking capital of capitalism. It
is the capital of capitalism. They just voted for a
socialist and they're like, well, that couldn't work anywhere else,
(32:35):
so that it couldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Work there as far as I know, those ago, those
people don't eat food or have babies to take care
of in that in those battleground states.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
These policies will fucking appeal, Like, are be for real?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Yeah? Where is this place they're talking about? Because like
I will, okay, granted again, I come from Fresnoe, California.
It's a very conservative air part of California. They may be,
they may still be afraid of like the term socialism,
But if you just talk to people about like, yo,
do you want your house to be like less expensive? Right,
they're down. Would you like eggs to just be a
(33:11):
normal fucking price? Again? Yes, absolutely down for it? Like
do you have a problem giving a new mother some
supplies to get started with?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
What what kind of monster would No? One is against
these policies. They're against the the fear mongering that you
do around it. They're against this idea that somehow raising
the tax on the wealthiest people in your town is
going to impact most people when in actuality, if you
go back to when you keep talking about what America
(33:40):
was great, those people would have been paying like fifty
percent taxes.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I mean, like, and then I think people people
are beginning to realize that like all the fear around
you know, a wealth like progressive taxes on the wealthy,
they're they're ambiently getting all that fear from the media
that they fund what I means, So like at a
certain point it's act of like, do I know somebody
who's actually get fucked over by these progressive wealth taxes?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Actually, I stand a benefit from all these other policies,
So this is a decent thing. There's also like the
amount of just bed pissing from the Democratic consultant class
is so telling that I think that they are I
think they do see that they are losing their grip
a bit, like on the party. And because this is
where it's getting real, Like we've been saying since the election,
(34:28):
like the next fight for the Democrats is who is
going to be at the wheel of this party. Is
it going to be the progressives? Is it going to
be where all this energy is right now or are
they going to do everything they can to just rest
control again and drag this thing to the right. This
one strategist told political quote, it is extremely alarming that
the only candidates who genuinely excite our voters are the
(34:49):
ones making absolutely insane promises on politically toxic positions. That's
their take on what has just happened. That's how they're
trying to spin that, is that like, this is all
fucking stupid quote, leaving us in the spot of trying
to execute on bad policy and losing terribly or failing
to keep our promises and reinforcing the idea that all
(35:10):
politics is bullshit. Yeah, okay, okay, So again, I think
we're saying all of their reflexive habits of just spending
money on studies and going for a superficial deregulation and
like zoning reform is just not working anymore. And I
think this must be This feels kind of like probably
what never trumpers were thinking when Trump stepped on the
scene in twenty fifteen, that were like they did fucking everything.
(35:35):
They're like, bro, get this guy out of here. He's
doesn't know what the fuck time. It is like we
have our own neo con shit that we're on that
we're really we've protected this thing. We have all the money,
we control the media.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Let's see if we.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Can get this guy out the box. But they fucking couldn't.
They could not, they couldn't, And he's still fucking won.
And I think he just again he had an appeal
sadly to the voters that felt like the party wasn't
really following through on their like racial grievances, and Trump
was there for that, and.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
They're like, yeah, you know what, that's kind of what
I'm kind of what I've been missing really, and in this,
in this, in and with Mamdanni, he's appealing to the
voters who are fucking sick and tired of the Democrats
just failing to deliver and just talking around things getting better, and.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They don't realize that that's what's happening. It's like the
ship gets hollowed out and somebody's offering what you want.
They're all gonna move this way now, so and there.
And again, you look at all the money they spent
trying to smear Mamdani, like all the those fucked up
attack ads trying to paint him as a terrorist and
ship and he's still fucking won. And I think again,
there's I think they're they're starting to be like fuck
(36:37):
man like, but but we don't do stuff that's going
against the status quo. We're they're a fuck We're the
constant gardeners of the status quo.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
And he won by getting people to go out again, Like,
can we just acknowledge that the big factor of last
the last presidential election was a lot of people just
did not want to vote because you gave them the
choice between the crazy guy that they experienced already and
somebody who was doing a fucking whistle stop tour with
Liz Cheney, Like you we.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Need to excite people. Yeah, yeah, they were like, you know,
what would be a good idea is if we ran
against Trump with something that is as close to Jeb
Bush as possible, the person that he'd be in the
very first place to make it clear to everybody.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Yeah please class, Yeah, yeah, I was gonna add, did
you guys see Bill Ackman's like a frantic midnight tweet
I heard about People were saying him and Elon's tweets
were real something that night of the primary. What was
his I so it's it's again, He's not I'm not
saying Bill Ackman is a part of the Democratic Party.
(37:43):
I am saying he's one of these people who would
literally give money to anyone who would stop progressive from
doing anything. But like he literally said, I woke up
in the morning gravely concerned about New York City. I thought,
what has New York City become? That it avouts of
an avowed socialist supported who supported defunding the police, whose
solution to lowing food prices is city owned supermarkets, who
(38:06):
doesn't understand that freezing the rent will only reduce the
supply of housing, who has no experience managing organizations, let
alone a city of one hundred million, one hundred billion
dollar budget and two trillion dollar economy, and who believes
that chance of globalizing the are acceptable. When's the Democratic primary?
And it's just like every time I see something like that.
(38:27):
By the way, that's the first paragraph of I don't
even know how many paragraphs I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
At you this God yea.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
But like he is looking literally for anyone to run
against him, and basically saying, I will fucking destroy democracy
in the city of New York before I allow these
people to have a progressive.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Lead, right and because they see what time it is.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Yeah, absolutely, And I'm my big fear and concern and
I'm sure there are smarter people working with Zoron who
who have thought about this, is that the Democratic, the
mainstream establishment Democratic Party having the chance to get like
Bill Eichman money, will trade the city of New York
for that money. And that is what I think we
(39:07):
all need to be looking out for because if we don't,
if I'm judging the Democratic Party for the for the
next election based on how strongly they support Zorahan going
out because like the man did it, he did it.
He fought, he fought an established democratic machine legacy, NEPO baby,
he fought the billionaires who were giving him money. He
(39:29):
fought the general racism of America, and he got people
to show up. And if you can't get behind that,
I don't even know if this country even has an
opposition party to the rope upblic Republicans anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And that's where I think talk, like serious talk has
to be about, like where where does this energy go?
Because it can't be put but they can't be trusted
with the Democrats at all.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Yeah, I mean it has to right, Like the Democrats
just need to fucking step up because yeah, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
But again, the thing is right, all of these this
donor class, the consultant class, they see that all this
energy is coming from young people, normal people who aren't
wealthy and are starting to realize, bro, this this inequality
is fucked up. And for them, they're like, shit, man,
they're fucking realizing that we're fucking drink. We've been drinking
(40:21):
their fucking milkshake for centuries now, and they're getting behind
policies that are actually going to address that.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I don't want to live in that world. We need
to stop him. Have you guys ever seen Dark Knight Rises?
I'm yes, yesterday and there's a guy who went on
MSNBC and was like, they're talking eat the Rich. Have
you ever seen Dark Knight Rises? The part where they
make the stockbrokers walk on frozen river and then they
fall through. That's I mean, I'm just saying like, that's like,
(40:48):
he's a lot of stammers. Yeah, he was evoking bane,
which is always the sign that they're in a U
in touch with three.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I think people forget how Gotham City got, how Gotham
was people were treated like shit, and eventually a rich
person got got and one rich person was like, maybe
I'll do something.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
About this on my watch. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be right back. Andrew back and Jeff Bezos,
(41:29):
Jeff Bezo himself. Finally some good news. Finally, yeah, some
good news.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Kind of actually what he ranted Florence and got married
pissed off Italian people.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
No, I was gonna say, just good news because I
can believe in love again. Oh oh yes, after things
went south with that last marriage, he found love again. Uh,
you know, and that damn McKenzie, with that damn McKenzie.
This this guy find love again with you know, a
new person. And they say, and this is the person
that he was hot texting, I love you a live girl.
(42:03):
So it's also a sign that, you know, romantic poetry
is not dead. He is that. Now they're getting married
in Venice and they were like renting the city. They
were like, we're gonna shut down, We're gonna shut down
chunks of your city, which like happened like I've been
(42:25):
places where like all of a sudden they're like, yeah, yeah,
I know, you can't come inside this like National Park
or something, because like rich people are here.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Recently, I saw where some people are getting married, like
in front of the pyramids in Giza.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah the fuck okay sure. Anyways, him being the third
richest person in the world, there was some attention and
the people of Venice were not thrilled that their city
was being shut down. They have There's been kind of
a long running since that the city values rich tourists
(43:01):
over the people who actually live there, and so they
start there too. Also there and you believe.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
They've got that issue there whoa hold on event Wait,
you have to go to Venice, Italy to find that clash.
Speaker 9 (43:14):
That's like Nashville when they cut down all the cherry
trees to so the NFL Draft could have their stage, and.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
The whole town was like, what are you doing? Those
are like historic cherry trees. And they're like, well, replant them.
Speaker 9 (43:25):
And then there's some barbarous like weighted and was like
you can't replant them, and they're like, we're still.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Going to do it. We're cutting them down. They're like
we're still going to do it. I was like, no,
we're going to do it. We're gonna replant them. That's
not possible with a cherry tree. Yeah, but that's we're
going to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Well, we're saying it is just what we're going to
do purposes of moving along this conversation.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Right, But yeah, it's a lot like the it's a
lot like the global hypernormalization. It's just like, yeah, but
that's what we're going to say. We don't need experts.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
To weigh in on this.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
We're not plant them and we're not cutting medicaid.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Okay, I don't know where you keep hearing that, just
because you're reading the bill that we're trying to, you know,
to get votes on right now.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
We're not doing that. It's just you're like, wow, full
of full on authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
But yeah, the fucking banner they unfrilled and like the
squar set with Bezos, Slavvy said, if you can rent
Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah, with a picture of Jeff Bezos laughing up roariously,
and they really caught a bad angle. I think normally
he doesn't look like a super villain from Superman, but
they just must have caught him at a bad angle
because yeah, he's like, actually that's what he looks like, sorry,
never mind.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yeah, he's got like human growth hormone. Mister magoo.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
Kind of basic, bitch too, fucking Florence, think about these guys,
Laurence Venice whatever. I mean, it's the same ship, like
a cigar bar.
Speaker 10 (44:48):
Let's learn a cigar bar. You know, I'm kind of crazy.
You know, I'm kind of a guy who thinks outside
the box. You know how I am always about innovation
and everything. How I decided to make packages go faster. Well,
another thing I thought about was I'm gonna rent a
cigar bar for my fucking bachelor.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
You know he's going He's like flying in master cigar
rollers from Cuba to them fresh right, He's gonna roll.
Speaker 10 (45:15):
Them on the casino floor because I think outside the box.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Now, it's gonna be off put by the fact that
they're blindfolded with a bag over their head. They just
can't see where they are while they're doing.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
And I want you guys to experience something wild for
the actual ceremony.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
I'm gonna take you to a city where no one's
ever been before.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
You ever asked your you ever asked your stove on
the beheaded on a decapitated head of a peasant before.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
You gotta try it. Never even heard of this place.
There's the streets are fucking water about it. They've got
these things called gonbolas.
Speaker 10 (45:54):
God bowling gods, and you go in them and it's
like a car and that's where you go on the street.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Some protesters were like, we're gonna fuck up the We're
gonna you know, protest. We're gonna swim in the canals
to block the waterways. And it actually worked. They're moving
the wedding outside of the city center. Protesters are claiming
a victory, which you know, hell shut out to them.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Hell yeah no, because they were like all the all
these people, like two hundred billionaires descend, you know, it's
like fucking Oprah and shit, and he fought the Trump
and free Mick Jagger Evanka Trump.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
At first, when I was like, when they said the
amount of private jets that were about to hit Venice,
I was like.
Speaker 11 (46:36):
Oh, the people of the Baly you could you could
really do something special with all those important people's jets
there in one place. But I'm sure that place is
locked down like fucking who knows what. But the way
they were talking was like all these people are now
booking up the water taxis and all these other modes
of transportation to get to the city center for the wedding.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
So like their whole plan was like, Okay, well bet
you can do that, but we're literally gonna block the
canal with ship that floats and our bodies, so good
fucking luck.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
And that was enough of a threat. So I really
appreciate that. I really appreciate it the protesters events. All right,
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please
like and review the show if you like, The show
means the world to Miles. He needs your validation. Folks.
(47:24):
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to you Monday. Bye.
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