Weekly Zeitgeist 395 (8/18/25-8/22/25)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 402 (8/18/25-8/22/25)

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

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
My infant nearly died in a drug fire with the
mass shootings.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
After mass shootings, after the mass shootings cause the drug
We don't know. We don't know what he say?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, is he in proximity of a drug fire.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
With his with inter mass shootings?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Didn't die?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, I don't know what's fine?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Has happened. It's like, yeah, exactly, life has been has
happened in the aftermath mass shootings. So I guess that's
true generally, right, Yeah, I guess you know, everything is
after that shooting. Was out of.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
School, though it sounds like he wasn't ask Miles.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
You're thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth
seats by the very funny hosts of the podcast dead Heads,
which is a true crime look into who murdered their
bank accounts, nay, all of our bank accounts. Please welcome
Jamie Feldman and Rachel Webster. Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
There's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Just want to clarify just in case people think it's
dead heads.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
It's de debt heads did it. But everybody's still he do.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Everybody still thinks it's it's not this year.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah, we're like, we'll meet you in.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Debt.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, I'm a.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Bit of a debt head. That's how I pronounced dead.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Have you made merch that looks like grateful Dead stuff?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Actually it's in progress. It's yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Great, Yeah, I feel like the Grateful Dead left. It
would be like super re litigious, you know, like how
that generation.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
We had the Grateful Dead bears in our first original
like seven hundred page deck that we were sending to
potential sponsors, and then we were like, we need to
have a one page deck and also get rid of
the dancing pairs in our artwork.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
So we came up with our own artwork. But it
wasn't an inspiration early on. Yeah, continues to be Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It feels like kind of like an ironic sentiment like
grateful debt somehow in our something.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hey guys, is that something?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You let me write that down?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
You should be great?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
That is what they say to our generation.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Can I be on your podcast? Can I be your
podcast now?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Absolutely? We need to make a new episode, so this
maybe this is it.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, this is what we're Instead of writing our new episode,
we're on this podcast.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
So thank you guys for giving us some classics.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
How much of your portfolio is invested in avocado toast?
This is my first question, my main problem.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, let's tae get a step back.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, they're they're even worse off than we thought.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, you have to strike while the iron Okay, I'm
gonna just do a fill in the blank. You guys
are gonna tell me you got to strike while the irons.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
On on on the steam setting wish.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, don't work when they're standing bolve.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
What is something from your search history that's revealing about
who you are?

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Well, I'll tell you this one. I may have done something.
Maybe I've done You guys will know if I've done it.
Have I ever done this one where where it's the
woman who runs who lives under the roller coaster in
Coney Island?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, I have never done that.

Speaker 7 (03:57):
Okay, it's a short documentary.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I think you may have referenced it, but I just
started watching it because you sent the Lincoln. Okay, no,
I've never seen this one.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
It's awesome. It's just like I mean, it's just me
fantasizing about you know, old Coney Island or old middle
class you know, where people are eating cheese sandwiches and stuff,
you know, and they call it. That was like like
you know, like you know, there.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Was like, how would you do today?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I had a great cheese sandwich.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
Now I'm going to bed, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
And I used to be able to, you know, afford
a house on a waitress's salary. And that house was
under the Coney Islands. And I saw a woman, right,
I saw a woman that was cool. It was a
great day. Did you talk to her?

Speaker 8 (04:41):
No, I'm gonna wait till I'm gonna wait till I
see her a bunch more times.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Then I might say good evening.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Wow, I can't wait till the move to the city,
like you like I.

Speaker 7 (04:52):
And then if you go on a roller coaster, I mean,
then you're done. Your bucket list is over. The bucket
rish back then was like go to the fair eating
a cheese sandwich, and then you.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Know, you know what when we go to Coney Island,
I'm going to audition a new way of walking, just
to try it out.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I kind of walk like this island. It was a
big hit on the boardwalk. A couple of weeks, you're
doing a second bob and you're sitting in the middle
of the first bob, kind of like you're dancing, but
to a little rhythm in your heart. That's why I
married him.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
I saw him bob and down the boardwalk. He looked
like a jerk, but.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I kind of thought it was a little bit of sparkle.
The just why I watched the beginning of the documentary
and this woman was like, Yeah, I like got a
job waitressing at Coney Island, and then it ends with
her living in a house that's under the roller coaster. Yeah,
and Cony so.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
So like, first of all, my favorite part about it
is that the man who owned the roller coaster was
a respected local businessman and he owned a roller coaster
and lived under it, and that was like and he
was like a pillar of the community because the whole
thing was based on amusement. So it was like, you know,
the guy, I don't know that he had a zoning
issue or something. They had to talk to the guy
who owned the like flume and then they had to

(05:59):
bring and the guy who owned the anyway, so he
owned a roller coaster and lived under the roller coaster
and that was his business.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, when your career, I'm thinking about building a roller
coaster on my house. It wasn't just charging it.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
It was a hotel before. I guess that that house.
And I knew of the house because of two things,
like because the Woody Allen movie Uh any Hall, he
lived in this house, and I figured it was fake
for the movie. I didn't know it was a real house.
And then I went to Coney Island in the nineties
and saw the roller coaster at that point had been abandoned.

(06:34):
Although she may have still been living in that house,
I didn't realize. And like I was there in like
ninety three. I think she may have still been in
the house, but the roller coaster was overgrown and because
her husband had died and so the roller coaster wasn't
operating anymore. But she was still living in the house
and she raised her kids in that house and they
It's just this just an amazing story of just like
I don't know, just back when you could own a

(06:54):
roller coaster and that was like you're living and you know,
obviously that was not for everybody. You couldn't have I
guess there was some privilege involved, probably not just everybody
can have their own roller coaster. But this guy, you know,
he went out every morning and inspected the coaster.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, just like pick up the paper and then just
like kind of take give it a nice look over.
Want kids to make sure.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
The kids got to collect all the stuff that fell
out of the pockets.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
Some guy goes, they we had everything wiggs, you know,
wigs pucket, thirty baseball caps, a day hitler, youth pin.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Everything. There's such a whimsical story that it makes me
disre like, have so much less respect for mother Goose
fairy tales, like an old woman who lives in a shoe,
Who fucking cares that's this woman lives in a fucking
roller coaster.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yeah yeah, And and anyway, I love Coney Island because
Coney Island. So then I'm gonna segue into my over underrated.
I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but
no underrated is Coney Island.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Go there, But I didn't know that's right is going on?

Speaker 7 (08:14):
I'm sorry movie.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So we got new listeners coming in they think we're
going to talk about the news right now.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
Oh watch the documentary it's called like the House under
the roller Coaster or.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Just one thing about that. The part that was rage
inducing for me was like the simplicity of life then,
like to your point, Chris, of like just the nostalgia
for like I had a cheese sandwich, like when she
was just like and.

Speaker 7 (08:37):
I knew all the concession is or as soon as
they walked in that guy, the one who is scrambled
eggs with toes, this is roast beef on rye And
I'm like.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
What a fucking what a whimsical time when that was
all you all you really thought about that? Yeah, you know,
you know, keeping black people from owning land in the area.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
Right, I mean, that's the problem is it's not it was,
but there was. It's a big problem. But there was
a living wage was I mean, it was easier to
buy a house. And that just leads to dignity, dignity, privacy,
that's what it turns out. Those are things that losing

(09:18):
your privacy means you lose your dignity. I don't know
how to describe it exactly, but privacy was something is
something we should have or should continue to guard. It's
not just private. It sounds like privacy. Who cares? I mean,
I don't care. I'm open, you know, that's not it.
Privacy is about Privacy is about having a place of

(09:39):
your own. And before the Internet, regardless of what situation
you were in, you could at least have some dignity
because you called the shots in that space, and you know,
maybe not at work. I mean, it's obviously more complicated,
but these people are basically not rich people and they
were getting to, you know, raise kids in a way. No,

(10:02):
there's never a mention in that that that they were
broke and they owned a roller coaster. I mean, you know,
I mean there's and in terms of in terms of
market economy, I like that too. It's like give a
person a ride to get get a nickel or whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, Like the simplicity of that.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Now, it's like give someone all your money in return
for like the world's worst internet service or or whatever
you know, you give you give these tech billionaires everything
and you all you get is a is like a
cardboard box with a six pack of soda as fast
as you want, likes not nearly as much fun as
a roller coaster.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
All the roller coasters have been bought up by private equity,
and they like something, you know what I mean, Like
they've like somehow ruined them.

Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yeah, they close them up and let Justin Bieber go
on them all the time or whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's so wild a roller coaster. For the guts of
the roller coaster are like the two things I know
them for are like being strewn with baseball hats and
like wallets and ship and beheading people. The fact that
she raised children in that environment is.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
Oh, she said, she has this crazy accent that's like
some old old you know who knows. I guess the
Corney Island.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, and uh.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah like her and like, I don't know, Babe Ruth
probably would have said, oh, you talked the same as me.
But uh oh, you own that roller coaster. You're a
small business owner. Yeah, you're an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And it is still privacy even if like hundreds of
people are passing by your windows. But they're doing it
at like sixty miles per hour. They're not going to
see they can't enough. Yeah, they're going to.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Be like I think I saw a naked old dude likes.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
She said, we just got used to it.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
No, we just got used to it.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
And the kids were like, you know, like they enjoyed
growing up in that growing up in that house, and
there's a piano in there.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Anyway, it just looked crazy.

Speaker 7 (11:52):
I would like, let's put it this way, I would
like to own a roller coaster. It's like gang and
I was in the hole the handle, and I want
to be nice and I want to tip my hat,
and I want to smoke rum soaked cigars, and I
want pickup wigs, and I want to do the things
that nowadays you're just going to find, like you know,

(12:16):
vight pens, like maybe a couple of iPhones and probably
another Hitler youth pin or something totally anyway, I just
I just love that this this uh just seeing like
sort of just that. Oh, I don't know, just I
love Coney Island because okay, so then go ahead. Can
you say it's time for.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
My famous it is time for the other one. What's
something best that you think is underrated?

Speaker 9 (12:46):
Vacuuming? I absolutely love to vacuum.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
If you'd like me to vacuum.

Speaker 9 (12:51):
Your house, I'll come over and vacuum the hell out
of it.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh you really like vacuuming like that.

Speaker 9 (12:56):
I love vacuuming.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is, oh good?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Is it just like the process of it of seeing
a thing I think I have, Like when I see
the canister fill up, I'm like, get the fuck in there, you.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Pieces of ship? Nice cry asshole. You could get away,
didn't you?

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 9 (13:18):
The only thing that makes me mad while vacuuming is
if it tells you got to clean the filter something
because they got too much little dust, tiny particles. I'm like, oh,
I don't have dyme for this. I need to suck
up more particles.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, they're all gonna get away.

Speaker 9 (13:30):
Yeah, I really love vacuuming. I invested in many years
ago in a Melley.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, there's so much.

Speaker 9 (13:37):
And then I got a Dyson because I as everybody
was saying, that's what's up. But and it's pretty good.
I don't want to because they can hear me right now.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's a guy behind Diyceon's. It's a huge piece
of ship.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Really.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's like I was like it was one of those
things as a millennial like I aspired to own, like
especially you know, growing becoming of age in the two
thousand and eight financial crisis and being out of college at.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
The time, like, dude, I'll never fucking have that.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
And then you see you read about this guy and
you're like, oh, you're like a anti immigrant piece of shit.

Speaker 9 (14:11):
That sucks.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Really, what's up?

Speaker 9 (14:13):
I hope me Elie is good because they're the best.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah. I think they're French or something, right, they're from
a different turnament.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Sounds like it.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, Miles Dison also started the Terminator Apocalypse.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's the one Miles Dice and we do recognize, not
Sir James Dyce in the Brexit free Sir James.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
That's, by the way. I couldn't disagree more. I have
a dog's a version of vacuums. I run out of
the room every time a vacuum is too loud, very threatening.
Do you when you're vacuuming, are you like listening to
music or you or you're just like kind of hearing
that that is the music man.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
Honestly, it's like music is this work in its own way?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, especially get on some rug or carpet and you're
fighting that thing.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Devil like or Dyson commercial. At some point where like
Fred Astaire was vacuuming.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
Oh I didn't see that. Yeah, I'm not listening to
anything except the hum of that machine.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Sound of the dirt, and just hearing, just hearing the
little crumbs flicker in the canister.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
Maybe someone gets caught and you gotta be able to
got it. That's why you gotta have an open here.
You can't have that vacuum me battling something without Yeah,
you gotta hear it.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
What is something? So we did? We we already covered the.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Overrated Yeah, I guess so in the cold open. Oh
maybe it was underrated, overrated whatever? This one, this one
might be a miles only kind of jam. It's being
mad that your mom was right about some stupid Asian
ship that when you're a kid you are certain was wrong.
And here's mine. Growing up, my mom would routinely say, no,

(15:57):
on a hot day, what you want to have is
hot soup because that will cool you down. And like,
I think, like many Americans, but many I would say people,
even that sounds fucking crazy and unpleasant.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
And I the other day, when.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
It was very hot in Los Angeles, I was like,
fuck it, I just want some fun. I went and
got fun in like an unair conditioned restaurant in Chinatown,
so sweaty. What I will say is it did not
cool me down particularly, but it made me so hot
that I couldn't think anymore.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
And I didn't.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I wasn't worrying about the heat. So yeah, comparatively, because
you've just scalded the inside of your body, that you
go outside in the ambient temperature, it's like that Heidecker on,
I think you should leave. It's like it's hot if
you're if you're not expecting it to be Yeah, yes, exactly,
it's supposed to be ice cold. It's supposed to be
ice cold, exactly. So I think once a week. I

(17:01):
think we're at the age where that sketch. That sketch
changed my behavior. I started stretching every morning after that sketch.
That sketch is one where it's not even a focus
of the sketch, but every time he shifts on the couch,
she goes oh, And I was like, I need to
do mobility exercises.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I do that as hemorrhoids, but yeah, it could be mobility.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, I just I do it when when
I thankfully, I think I've gotten myself out of the
part of life or not of the of inflexibility where
that becomes a constant, involuntary sound.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
That I may But they're like.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
It was tying my shoes where it got bad.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I was like, oh, I went in the ocean when
I was Becky's and got like rocked by the waves,
and like for the next twenty four hours when I
would either sit down or stand up, I was making
the most old man shit.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I was being like, oh boy, oh you're doing I
was vocalizing. They weren't even like yea, yeah, you got.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
This, okay, yeah, And and that's because I'm young and cool.
Yeah yeah, well, and don't have that that was an injury.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
But I will say I have found I think I've
talked about this on this show before. Just a wee
bit of stretching in the morning. Oh yeah, you got
to so much more than I want to admit. That
was my That was my grandfather's end of life advice
to me.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was like I was on a piece of advice. Yeah,
when it's into the end. I was like, bro, like,
just get info, dump wisdom, dump on me. And he's like, man,
the one thing He's like, you gotta stretch. Make sure
you stretch. He's like, don't let your ship just get
like fucking tight and and just seize up on you
need to like, okay, damn, that's what you're thinking. Now,

(18:53):
I'm like, shit, okay. The time that besides, actually these
are both Netflix properties will listen to. This is simply
the power of media and the magic of the movies.
But this this came up for me when someone reviewed
The Irishman, which is which is has de Neiro with
like a youthful face and kind of yeah, and essentially

(19:17):
that there was like, you know, it's the face is
not as bad as you think, but he still looks
his age because his movements are that of you know,
his age, which is fine. It has a scene hard
where yeah, where they've de aged him and he like
beats somebody else and it is the least. It's just like, guys,
get a body double here, what are we doing? Like

(19:41):
you're just worried the whole time that he's going to
topple over as he's supposed to be like showing off
what a badass he is, and you're just like, oh, buddy,
You're like, yeah, why why is your hand on your
hip as you lean down to.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I honestly thought about that scene when Mike Tyson fought
that racist kid like the which one, oh j and
or Logan Paul, Yeah, whichever of the Paul brothers, because
of like his legs. Roy Jones Junior in the first
round was like kind of like Mike's legs, And I
was immediately like, that is exactly right. That's and I

(20:23):
thought of the scene in The Irishman where like you
could tell that he is not under the age of
sixty because of the way he's like walking without bending
his like there's no lightness, He's not light on his
feet in any way.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, it's really telling. And Tyson used to be as
a fighter like so that was the thing that I
didn't really appreciate until I did a little.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Bit of boxing.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's like he would like literally like drop it low
sometimes during fights. Oh, he was so insanely flexible and
like deft on his feet his heels. So yeah, to
me an underrated part of his game because everyone feared
the power.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
But it's like, no, he can he can duck in.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
A way that I did not realize a human could
do my back out.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Trying to yeah right now, yeah, my nurse, all right,
let's take a quick break to just rest and stretch out,
do our mobility exercises.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Miles. All right, we'll be back to get into this.
We'll be right back. And we're back, and so is
the Democratic Party. They're back from the dead. They have

(21:52):
a new strategy that everyone's like newsome baby, he's he's
listing and they love it. The birthday folks. He should
just start doing an actual Trump impression like what in
his public appearances too, You might as well. I mean, yeah,
in this area.

Speaker 9 (22:09):
Nothing holding anybody back at this point.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Where who I mean, who fucking cares?

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think it would be cool if we saw more
elected Democrats do something more legislative to fight back. But
I guess we can take ship posts and jokes for now.
You know that that we'll we'll take that. It's a
little swhere.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because he has such an anti don't give a fuck
energy like he he seems like someone who is in
a cold plunge right now. Oh, he's in a cold punch, right,
He's in a cold plunge right Nowine smokes cigar right
like do it, chasing every single trend for prolonging his life.
You know, I mean, he's a big Joe Rogan fan

(22:48):
man heard, and I totally that I love Joe Rogan, Sure, dickhead.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
But anyway, he's really taking social media by storm as
he really he's really presenting himself as the anti Trump
Democrat fighter.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
But on a rhetorical level period, not on a policy level.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean there is I mean obviously he is trying
to do like for like jerry mandering. He's like, look,
if you want to add a bunch of seats, we
can do that. I'm like, okay, that's that's fair. Like, look,
you got to fucking fight fire with fire in that case.
I don't disagree with that if that's what Texas is doing.
But his recent posts are just basically We've talked about it,
but it's him or one of his staffers just mimicking
Trump's egocentric, incoherent style of using all caps and giving

(23:33):
his ops stupid nicknames. The most popular response from the
right has been some version of like, oh grow up,
or this is actually cringe, and I'm like, this is okay,
please tell us more. It's kind of genius, like because
to effectively sort of take down Newsom's parody tweet style,
you'd have to own that Trump himself is a dumbfuck

(23:55):
who tweets like a four Chan ai bot with like
questionable grammar skills. So they're just like they're trying to
dance around it. Case in point, Dana Prino, who used
to work in the Bush administration. She's on Fox. She
gave this sort of take of She's like, I.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Mean, can get can we read like one of them?
Just so people for anybody who like me, had not
tried to like, what's what's one of the because they
are doing like I feel like he has a writer
who's doing a pretty good job of like approximating the whole.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I mean, I think any of us could easily do this,
but I'm sure, but hey, bless whoever is getting paid
to do that, I.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Don't think he could, is what I'm saying. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
That's where the liberal implosion is coming in, because they're like,
just so everybody knows he's not really writing this. He
has a writer, which is so funny. It's like, yeah,
I mean, okay, that's what you need to say.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
He's I mean yes.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
Also, it reminds me of at least my little liberal
threads corner is like, I'm allowed to not like stuff
that Gavin did before, but like what he's doing now,
it's like an announcement and it's like sure whatever, sure, yeah,
I mean I like him, so you like when he
did this, It's like.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
A like, America, why are you going out to dinner?
Are we not?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Guys?

Speaker 9 (25:24):
Remember when freaking John Kerry lost an entire election for
being a flip fhopper, which technically just means changing over time?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I mean, how could you not?

Speaker 9 (25:34):
How could you not looking back? I'm like, all you
had to do in that moment in my opinion and
we can't go back, is just like, yes, I've changed
upon receiving new information.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Right right? He did not do that, I don't think no,
so yes.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
To give you an example of something that he tweeted
August fourteenth, all caps, Donald is finished. He's no longer
quote hot first to the hands, parenthetical so tiny and
now me I haven't seen newsome have taken away his
quote step. Many are saying he can't even do the
quote big stairs on Air Force one anymore, uses the
little baby stairs now sad tomorrow He's got this quote

(26:11):
meeting with Putin in quote Russia, nobody cares. All the
television cameras are on me, America's favorite governor, even low ratings.
Laura Ingram parenthetical edits the tapes can't stop talking about
my beautiful maps. You're welcome for Liberation Day America. Donnie
Ja missed the quote deadline whoops, and now I run
the show. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

(26:34):
GCN that kind of shit, and then he'll post like
ai slop of like a Time magazine cover with him
like with a fucking crown on it.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Like long one I had seen was him being prayed
over by like hul Cogan with angel wings.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
And get kid Rock and Tipper Carlson.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Then there's like another one where there's like this you
know legislator in California, this guy Carl de Mayo. He's
been like sort of just aiding Gavin Newsom, and Gavin
like the office has been clapping back where it's like
he's like this vulgar behavior from Newsom can't stand and
he put you know a lot about vulgar behavior, wouldn't you, Carl?
With like a screencap of The New York Post that
says potential successor for San Diego's disgraced mayor his alleged

(27:15):
history of openly masturbating in bathrooms. And then that's actually
pretty good, No, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Like this is how they should be interacting with everything.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
There. Yeah, yeah, the window I mean like there is
this is where people who kind of take like are
witty with words, they have the edge on, just like
the racist slop that comes out of the right where
you're just like, oh, I don't know, Johnny Jerkoff, like,
oh my god, how do you So this is Dana

(27:49):
Perino giving her take, and she's just sort of like,
this is like embarrassing, sad.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Here's here she is huge Trump supporter. This person The.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
Thing is or at the debate.

Speaker 10 (28:01):
The other thing for me is that for the last week,
Gavin Newsom and why am I giving him advice?

Speaker 9 (28:07):
You had to stop it with the twitter thing. I
don't know where his wife is.

Speaker 10 (28:12):
If I want his wife, I would say, what you
are making a fool of yourself, stop it, do not
do not let your staff tweet. And if you're doing
it yourself, put the phone away and start over. And
if you want, he's got a big job as governor
of California, but if he wants an even bigger job,
he has to be a little bit more serious.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
Okay, I'm sorry, be a little more serious like the
President of the United States that he is truly mimicking.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
She's doing the exact same thing as the President of
the United States, but she's speaking to.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Dumb people, right, And then so Newsom clapped back, he
like screencapped that, or he like quote tweeted that clip
and was like, dude, I've been doing this for a
week and they still don't get it. And then he
then posted, Dana ding Dong Pirino never heard of her
until today, melting down because of me, Gavin C. Newsome,

(29:02):
Fox hates that I am America's most favorite governor parenthetical
ratings king saving America, while Trump can't even conquer the
quote big stares on Air Force one anymore. Trump has
quote lost his step, and Fox is losing it because
when I type America now wins, thank you, thank you
for your attention to this matter.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Gcn ha.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
So yeah, Dana Prino then immediately went on Fox again
to Fox explain that actually I do get what's going on,
and let me does this version. Let me just play
this clip because She's so defensive and just trying to
find a way to sort of like explain how she
does get it, but then starts digging up Zorn Mumdani

(29:42):
kind of in the process. It's really strange. Here she
is on the five, Jesse Waters tease her up.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
For this, the Martha's Vineyard comfab and a second Dana.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
But what was Gabyn doing there?

Speaker 10 (29:53):
He was reading tweets that were written for him by
people that he is heavily investing in to try to
help him look more like Trump. I guess, I mean,
I thought they hated Trump, but they're trying to be
more like him, and they have to pay people to
do it. The thing is what I was saying yesterday
is that I believe that everybody needs to find their
own way. You don't see Governor Andy Basheer doing things

(30:15):
like this. He's running his state. Governor Josh Shapiro running
his state Governor, Gretchen Whitmer running her state, and they
all You've got these problems. They all have things that
they want to accomplish. They all might want to run
in twenty twenty eight, and they are actually involved in
being able to show what they show their work right,
they'll be able to say these are the things that

(30:35):
we did. California's got a huge amount of problems. And
if you think about mom Donnie, his authenticity is what
rocketed him to the top. And now you have Cuomo
trying to copy him and it's just cringe. And that
was my point, is that if you're doing this and
it's not authentic and you're trying to do somebody else,
so you say it's Hitler and you think that we don't.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Get the joke.

Speaker 9 (30:56):
Oh no, we get the joke. It's just not funny.
You don't get is it funny?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh boy?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
So now she's basically doing like the junior high attack
of like oh my god, like just not even original style,
Like you're just biting his styles because I don't even have.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Your own styles with him. When you're a.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Bier, your pants is the cools really should be like
look at my cankles I've got I've been cultivating my
ankle strength and this diaper. I mean, yeah, this is
just very funny to see her try to be like, look,
if you want to win, you got to act like
these other governors who are doing it, Like I don't

(31:36):
I really don't understand.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
It's like a very stupid way of handling it. I
don't even know if she knew what she was saying.
It seems like, yes, it's a terrible but valid sort
of response to it's to me, it's just still playing
dumb though, because it's like, guys, you know, we're not
copying his style to win, we're mocking. Yeah, it's called satire.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well no, and we get it. It's just not funny. Yeah, okay,
that's fine. It sounds like it's struck. I mean, this
feels like we're it's sort of we're back in the
like weird sort of phase again when they were calling
everyone weird and it was there it was fucking them
up so bad.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
They're like, yeah, well fucking weird, God is weird?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, like these motherfuckers are weird. And they're like uh oh,
and now truly, I mean, it's like, it's just it's
interesting to see that because they are such thin skinned
bullies themselves that to just bully back in this way
completely sort of is disruptive for them at least, yeah,
like in their punditry. But again, unfortunately that's not dissuading

(32:39):
them from abandoning the policies, which is what we are
kind of left with in our lived reality. And I think, look,
it's fine because I like to laugh at this shit
and what like laugh at conservatives, but this this maybe
with let's add a few more weapons here, if you're
trying to fully fight back here rather than be like, dude,
you see that, Dude, I got Trump so pissed. I'm
going to be the nominee in twenty eight if there's
an election, and I don't know, should I even work, Kevin,

(33:02):
do some if you even want to run in twenty
twenty eight. There's a lot of other shit that maybe needs.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
To get solved very quickly. Their instincts are so bad,
like the mainstream Democratic Party's instincts are so bad like that. Yeah,
that's funny. The last time I've seen them the other side,
the Republican and conservative side, short circuiting like this is
the weird thing, and they just like went away with
that up from that for no reason, like they were
just like, I don't know, it seems means let's quit it,

(33:30):
let's cut it out. I hope they go with this,
And yeah, I mean, if there was a lesson to
learn from things that have succeeded from the Democratic Party
in the past six months. I would prefer that they
learned the lesson from Zorin Mamdani and be like, wait,

(33:51):
these policies are actually popular, but they don't seem to
be doing that. Right. If you combined those two things,
wow wow wow wow.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah right exactly, or at least articulate a bunch of
policies that are so antithetical to what's going on that
people be like, oh, yeah, that's a way better way
of doing things than whatever the fuck this is. But
you have so many of the establishment Democrats are just
in this sort of state of paralysis too, because they're like,
I think it's just easier to be like Trump's lost

(34:21):
it and he's distracting the country rather than really sort
of sounding the alarm because this every day, like the
existential threat to what we even thought was fucking normalcy
is just fuck, it's going up in smoke.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, all right, Should we talk about the Smithsonian real quick,
because this is something that seems to be breaking through. Specifically,
Trump literally said that the Smithsonian is too focused on
quote how bad slavery was mm hmmmm, yeah, Like, oh
my god, we get it, you get.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, it's actually a lot worse than I was even
taught in school.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, the vastly under reported. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but okay, okay,
But the museums are like the one place that it
is mentioned, and so they've got to get rid of
those two on the margins, you know. So in March
he signed an executive order directing the Board of Regents,

(35:21):
the Board of Regents to eliminate quote improper, divisive or
anti American ideology from their museums, and that has had
a number of dramatic consequences, including the fact that weird
Al has decided he will no longer be donating his
Hawaiian shirt for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
Was that avery exhibitor?

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I don't think it was.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
He wanted it, though, He's like, I think it would
be great in the African American.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
He's like, Weird, Hey, what the fuck we do sel?
You know, maybe you never know that's true. So his
recent post was the Smithsonians out of Control, where everything
discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
and how unaccompanied, how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Anyways,

(36:08):
people looked into like, where where this is coming from?
Because I can't imagine that Trump is spending a lot
of time at the Smithsonian. They did take him on
a tour of the Smithsonian, and the person who took
them on that tour was like, he was not happy.
Anytime anything vaguely negative was mentioned, he would get really upset,

(36:31):
like like again, like like you're taking a fucking four
year old on a you know, through a museum. At
one point, he paused in front of the exhibit that
discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade,
and the guy was like, oh, is he some of
us getting through? And then Trump remarked, you know, they
love me in the Netherlands.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
So he was like, oh, never mind, this is about
the Atlantic slave trade.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Okay, yeah, they love me there. So the only name
that is mentioned in this executive order that he filed
back in March is Lindsay Halligan. Halligan, who is an
ex Miss Colorado contestant from back when Trump owned the
Miss Universe pageant, so like this was she was a

(37:18):
pageant winner under his pageant ceo ship. She is a
lawyer and she just met Trump at an event at
his golf course, and he hired her right away. Was
just like, I like the way you look. You seem smart,
because she at the time she was volunteering for the

(37:40):
Inner or interning for the Innocence Project, which is shocking.
And but then she said that Trump reminded her of
clients from the Innocence Project. Wait, what is that? Because
I'm blind because he's being railroaded so much, you know,
wow wow, oh wait, she said. She said Trump reminded

(38:02):
her of people from people from the Innocent Project.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Okay, master manipulator, I love that. I love that great.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Basically he has his own like this Karen, who will
just roam DC and find things to be upset about
and then report back to Trump.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Right yeah. Like it's truly like the doge kid who
got beat up by teenagers like big balls. It's just
like people he knows just to determine the fucking entire agenda
like of the US government. She moved to d C
to work with Trump, and just before the inauguration went

(38:38):
to the Smithsonian and that's where she made all of
these discoveries that he is now rizly discoveries. Discoveries I
mean to her, I think they were. I think they
were truly discoveries. She was horrified that some exhibits mentioned
racism and that others shockingly focused on quote, another country's
history entirely had nothing to do with America. What the fuck?

(39:04):
How do you even how would you do a museum
that wasn't allowed to talk about other countries.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
We don't need content. I didn't come to a museum
for context or historical accuracy. This is just I mean,
you know, this is the playbook that the white nationalists
have to run, is to try and sanitize any evidence
of where this country or like the origins of this
country and the ills that we've still not reckoned with.

(39:31):
So it has to be just like I don't. It's
like you know, it's it's like when you're like around
a dysfunctional couple and like the dude is cheating all
the time, and they bring it up, like why you
got to talk about old shit? Yeah, it's like because it's.

Speaker 9 (39:44):
It's why I am the way I am to do.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's setting the table for everything we're experiencing now.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Was bringing up a little shit.

Speaker 9 (39:51):
He's treating everything like a beauty pageant. He's like, it
looks it's it's yucky to talk about that. We should
only talk about positives. I don't want to see your
cellulite America.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Right, right, or then we ever had cellulite, or that
even it existed, it never did. Everyone had barbie legs
from the beginning.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
So gross.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, everything is like being made for that level of
like vanity and vanity and like even the like concentration
camps are like being named fun, Like.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Saturday deportation Depot is, like they all have alliterative names.
There's the other one that they're.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
Open gator Alcatraz.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, there's one in uh I think Iowa or Nebraska.
They're gonna call corn the corn Clink.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, we talked about yesterday.

Speaker 9 (40:40):
Trump toilet is what they should all be called.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Right, But again, like this is all also this helps
to to put us like a fun name on it.
Then people will be like, oh, it's just the corn
Husker Clink rather than the site of untold atrocities being
perpetrated against innocent human beings.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Right, it's also too long of a name. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk
about cassette tapes. Those are the thing I gain. And
we're back. Huh, we're just talking phronsia talking space bags,

(41:18):
talking phronsia space I.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Used to call it hitting a volcano vaporizer courage.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
You would put the box one just in a box.
You wouldn't have that space bag in there, you know,
what do you mean, a saggy s box?

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, talk about I don't think you can of recycle
the space bag now, just that's all.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
That's going to be left.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
They were an interesting people.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
They worshiped these spacebags. All right, finally some good news.
DC is actually safe now.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
It has been declared even though we are fully into
these second week of the Feds just absolutely taking over
the capitol, not like even.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
A full week. We're in the second week, but like
it hasn't been a full week since he declared, right,
like that was happening at the beginning of last week.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're like entering. Yes, I mean, but
this is what this is.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Just record breaking time that I've got I've got to say.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Look, so yeah, dude, you know, so, I guess you know,
once big balls got jumped by some kids and what
was the saddest version of like what people are calling
the Reichstag fire. Trump declared all out fed war on DC,
and we've just seen countless clips and images of you know,
just masked goons looking bored as hell on the streets

(42:42):
of DC, like with their slouched posture and like stupid
punisher masks, and people are like, dude, get the fuck
out of my way. First of all, I've been reading
something there's it's fucking up local businesses in DC because
people are like, Bro, no one's coming to bars or
restaurants because you have fucking goons everywhere. And the vibes

(43:02):
are completely fucked up because it's a quote unquote war zone.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
But no matter, you don't like safety, come on, like
this is not safe, bro Trumps from Jaws, You're like,
get out there, Come on, guys, it's fun. The water's
creating something.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Although I did see a clip of some a bunch
of goofed up loser mask cops try to violently arrest
a guy and one of the goons thought he was
like Ken Shamrock and the ww F or some shit
and smashed his own head trying to suplex the guy
like he was like wrestling and like fell back and
then the cops just hit his own head, and then
all the other cops like, dude, are you okay, and

(43:40):
he's like no, He's like the dumbest shit, and then
they're fucking violently arresting some innocent, fucking resident. But again,
it's nonsense. Anyway, mister Donald has solved it. He declared
victory on Kirkland signature Twitter. He said, quote DC gave
fake crime numbers in order to create a fellas I
lose and of safety. This is a very bad and

(44:01):
dangerous thing to do, and they're under serious investigation for
doing so. Until four days ago, Washing DC, Washington, d
C was the most unsafe quote city.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
I don't know what the city he loves. I love it.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
I love a quote unsafe city in the United States
and perhaps the world. Now, in just a short period
of time, it is perhaps the safest and getting better
every single hour. People are flocking to d C again,
and soon the beautification will begin.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
So anyway, I wish that he.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Wasn't the president because he's such a funny, stupid bitch.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
That is that is like most mortage speed that he's
that he's claiming. This happened four days the most stand
up and now people are literally were flocking flocking.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
I also just want to say one thing, like, I
feel like Kirkland signature is too nice of a term.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
We actually Kirkland.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
We're at costco heads.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
In this true value.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I mean, I don't want to malign any of the
storm because they give us an affordable alternative. But like anyway,
the other lever that Trump does like to pull as
a distraction aside from anti black racism is crime wave,
the crime wave lever, because that is one of the
few things that still people have crime in this like

(45:25):
nebulous part of their brain where even though they have
first hand experience with crime rates, dropping pundits on TV
can just be like crime wave, like a common Michael
Scott and it's somehow there lived experience and they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's it's a crime wave right now.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
It's so unsafe.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I've never seen crime where I live at all, but
everything else is.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
But it's there, it's out there.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah yeah, I heard about this one guy who yeah big,
he got swept up in a crime wave. Guys, there's
a fucking drug fire. There's a drug fire. He's walking
his baby. Drug fire after the mass shooting.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
And the crime wave actually put it out. Because it
was like a wave.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
First of all, my baby was trying to surf the
crime wave on to a drug fire, and he bailed
so hard into a mass shooting. One more time for
everyone in the back. My infant nearly died in a
drunk fire after mass shootings.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
Uh huh uh huh okay, merely died, nearly died.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
In a drug fire.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
I would love if he didn't even have a kid.
They're like, Benny Johnson has no children. He's just straight
up fucking lying to you.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
But yeah, I would like that better. I think that
he realized he sounds like funnier.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah. It is boom times for white collar crime, though.
But I will say this has been true since back
in uh May, but now now it's getting even I
mean it's been true since forever that white color crime,
private equity anyone as defined as crime committed by wealthy
financial institutions. But you know, white collar crime of all sorts.

(46:59):
It's just like all the investigations, all the really bad
ones that the FBI was like looking into, have been
replaced with you know, going out and like sending a
bunch of fucking bureaucrats out to just like mill about
and be like glorified beat cups. They've been apparently reassigning

(47:19):
white collar crime task forces to like do immigration enforcement now,
which they're not pleased with as people who were got
into the job of investigating white color crime. But you know,
I'm sure it's I'm sure it's working and doing doing
wonders for people are flocking.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
I hear people are flocking to white collar crimes.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
It's harder than TikTok.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
The only thing you have to make sure you don't
do it when you do a white collar crime is
then become a reality television star, because you can do
one or the other, but you can't do both if
you don't.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Look who got out though, Look who got out though?
You know what I mean, they got.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Out when the white color criminal who was also a
reality stars in the White House.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
They think it's okay, it's any other Yeah, yeah, like
I mean more like the Real Housewives, Like they can't
do those.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Or Todd Chris, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh my god, yeah, right, I forgot about.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
It and they got out.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Because again, the rules are, if you're white and do
white collar crime, then you have a shot at getting
a pardon.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Isn't that what the white and crimes I feel it is?

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, white color crime.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah. Anyways, that I mean, it is truly the crime
that is causing that. You know, it's causing a lot
of the problems that we're talking about, right, and of
course it is the one that is must be avoided
and ignored.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
What's what's like been a perpetrator in terms of as
you guys try to find out who murdered your bank accounts,
what's the name name, what's a suspect that you've identified?

Speaker 3 (48:56):
No, I think Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
I think that that's that you can really a lot
comes back to that, but it goes you know, I
think it starts at the beginning of this American experience,
which is that it's all entirely based around an economy
that is not really designed to make everybody happy and free.
But specifically, when we're talking about millennials and we're talking

(49:19):
about the last one hundred years, we are talking about
what we spoke of before, which is, like, the difference
is that millennials are experiencing based on policy.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Decisions I started in the eighties.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
But you know, this goes back to like things that
were were built up around the First World Wars, which
is like, we need to buy stuff to make this
economy work, and everybody is in the business of buying
or selling stuff for us to buy or sell, right, yeah,
I think, and like so everything is pushing us into

(49:51):
that and simultaneously making it impossible for us to make
a living at it, because like all the things we
said before, people aren't really running small businesses anymore. So
it's just like, I mean, I think really what we're
what we're looking at is just how how do we
imagine a different way of living around outside of this
economy that we've been brought up to believe is like
truly and the only option.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
Yeah, and also just not getting the information that like
we have learned so much about just like the we
were We've been shocked by.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
So many things that we've learned in researching this podcast.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Like we interviewed this woman, Elena Botea, who worked at
Capital one for years and then she became a journalist,
and she said something Rachel Hurd on a zoom that
was like there was no household consumer debt consumer debt
before before in nineteen eighty three, And we were like.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Credit cards and the banks are obviously how can that
be right?

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Like you just imagine that this is something that always existed,
and in reality it's not.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
It's not that old. It's it's our age. And so
if it's our age, why does it have to be
like the rule of the of the land. Why can't
you like think of.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Something else that's like because we're eating too much, Yeah,
that's why that's right, and not buying wedding rings.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
When was avocado toast invented? I'm just saying nineteen eighty four,
twenty four. Yeah, I do like they're mad at us
for eating avocado toast, but also mad at us for
not buying diamond wedding rings, which are way more expensive
and financially responsible.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Decisions weddings, Like they're bad about it.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Everything about like the modern wedding experience that we're told
is like the thing that we're supposed to do. I mean,
it is one of the reasons why I got into
debt when I looked back on it, because I went
to so many bachelotte parties, I bought so many bridesmaids dresses,
I bought so many gifts for people to go to
their weddings, and like that is something I was led
to believe was what I needed to do in order

(51:42):
to stay in the group socially, right, But in reality
it was just like draining my all of my bank
bank account.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
And meanwhile, like the people who are making money are
doing it investing in debt, right, investing in pretend money.
But that doesn't that doesn't transfer down to those of
us who are actually being like you're saying, lended in
a predatory manner, and then it becomes something that you
can never get out of.

Speaker 9 (52:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Yeah, but that is like just one piece of the
bigger picture, which I think is that just like we
are watching the transfer of wealth from the middle class
to whatever is left of the middle class middle and
lower class working class too.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
You know, a few people basically.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yea, yeah, yeah. Claudia Scheinbaum, the you know, president of Mexico,
talks about She just openly says like neoliberalism is a
mechanism for redistributing wealth from the middle class upward, Like
that's that's all it is, and just like that's an
openly agreed to a like definition of it in other countries.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Down there, but here in California, that's the way. That's
the way we do business.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
It's the way we do it.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
You got to get that twenty dollars air Air one's movie.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Yes, I did want to talk about the uh just
a little bit about me. Anytime I read a New
York or article, I have to talk about it on
the podcast because I'm so proud about it. But I
do think that that's actually I think it ties into
the conversation we're having because there's a new article about
the ultra wealthyes, trend of trying to live forever and

(53:21):
like just like God for everything, and it's that just
mostly boomer age people like that. They they talk to
this one woman who works in the industry and she's like, no, no,
the industry of forever, the longevity industry. They interview one

(53:44):
woman who like works in this longevity industry of like,
you know, just these people are like tested every week,
like they're like, okay, inhale into this bag, give us
your poop, Like we need to like make sure that
you are just like perfectly monitored. And she was saying
that these are all people who spent their health getting rich,
so like for the first half of their life, they

(54:04):
were just like working around the clock trying to get rich,
and now they're rich, and they're trying to like get
their health back through these means because they're like scared
of death and they don't want to admit that they
fucked up. But what all right, So two of the
details that jumped out to me. One is the richest
people already lived twelve years longer than the poorest in

(54:26):
this country. Like that just in addition to being proof
that our world is a disaster, that capitalism's already broken.
Like it's just wild that these people who are driving
this entire industry are already like maxed out, which is
what they find Like afterwards, they're just like, yeah, it
turns out like all these things that people are doing

(54:47):
can help somebody if they were not already doing these things.
But they are right, so like it doesn't help them.
It's just this like soulless end of life, denial of death,
like addiction to the idea of like self and like
perpetuating yourself is essentially like a religion. It's like what
these people have instead of religion at this point.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Yeah, and it kind of boils down, like what the
problem is?

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Just generally right, it's like I'm so afraid, like you
can't take your money with you, right, and you're like
so afraid of.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Like with.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Exactly, So if I don't die, then I, you know,
never have to worry about it, and then I don't
have to question like what the fuck was all of
this for and what was I doing with like hoarding
my wealth to make sure that like I'm healthy. Like again,
it like goes back to not giving a shit about
the collective and being like I need to make sure
that like I'm okay.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
It crystallizes the irony we've been talking about, which is
that like everybody's dollar is made on burning this planet
up more and more and more, and so what's worse than.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
The lack of survival of planet Earth?

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Like the most miraculous thing we've ever like conceived of.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
This, Like I'm just going to build a bomb shelter
to survive exactly.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
It's like don't look at It's like exactly like don't look.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
At you know, did you guys see Mountainhead, the movie
by the guy who, yeah, the succession guy. It's it's
worth while Steve Carrell's character is the is just exactly
this guy, like he knows. He finds out that he
has a like terminal diagnosis, and he keeps just being like, wow,
you're not very smart, are you to his doctors, like

(56:29):
just being like I am, I have a genius level,
I Q actually, and I'm going to beat this thing.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
My god, Yeah, that's how you do it.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
It is kind of funny that they the two things
that everybody says are like inevitabilities of the human condition
are death and taxes, and like that's all these people
spend their entire lives just trying to avoid Yeah, yea
for these guys kids or like yeah, right.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Will show you my life's purpose us to prove this
wrong and in the meantime lose it all.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Anyway, the one good idea I will say this is
a little investment tip. One of the technologies they're looking
at that I guarantee these like very rich people are
going to spend a lot of money on is a
smart toilet that basically like reads your shit for like
signs of disease. And like they're like really investing hard

(57:25):
in this, and I feel like I feel like that
is inevitably that that's the next aura ring.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Which is funny because that would help just like if
everyone had access to that, if everyone had sly on
for sure, But no, it's going to be like this
thing they parade around Silicon Valley and it's probably going
to start off as like some dude underneath the house
like just running like fucking tests on it. The technology
isn't there yet a mechanical turd if you will.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
Sure, like printers in the in the nineties, like they're
going to be just like a bajillion dollars and then
one day one absolutely Yeah, but again it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Like it's to your point, if.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Everybody had access to these things, yeah, that would be fabulous. Yeah,
to privatize them, make them an entity that you need
to spend like, you know, bajillion dollars on, it's like.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, like flying cars are a thing. They're just a
thing for like the ultra ultra wealthy. You know, essentially,
it's just like helicopters and private private jets. Yeah, and
then you know we like all the sci fi ship
from the future exists, like it just exists for only
the ultra wealthy.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Yeah, like living well, which I think is pretty cool, yeah, exactly,
eternally eternal life.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
And I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
I mean I think for us, that's like should be
a motivator to get our ship together so we can
be one of these people.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
And also on your grind set.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
When someone starts talking about progressive tax systems, like, I'll
hold the fuck up because when I'm one of these billies, Okay,
I don't want to deal with that, So I'm going
to protect my investment.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
We're just gonna keep walking around eating dumplings from Chinatown
and helping for the best.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
That's our point.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
I think that sounds like a good plan. Sound also
like I have invested a lot of time and looking
at walking around looking for a bag of money. If so,
if anybody's always looking.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
For that, or like loose drugs that fell off a truck, that.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Sounds like yeah, in a fire.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
In a fire, after a mass after.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
After a mass support try yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
All right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist,
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