Weekly Zeitgeist 437 (Best of 6/29/26-7/3/26)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 445 (6/29/26-7/3/26)

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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):
Sha ja Han. What is something from your search history
that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I was recently searching for how to remove a header
from a Squarespace page that I made, and I was
unsuccessful in my attempt to inject this code into the
whatever HTMLCSS portion of the Squarespace.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Page, which makes me pretty.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Much, you know, question my worth as a human being?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
And do you have answers? Do you know? No? I
don't yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Question brought to you by Casper Mattress.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I did exactly what the fucking you do the type
of question in and they tell you in the little
Automatic AI whatever you know?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah yeah yeah in there it didn't work. Don't do that. Yeah.
It turns out doesn't know what it's doing. It turns
out doesn't know what the fuck it's talking about. Hey,
zey gang help shot John out? Are we getting rid
of that ship? Please? Please?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
My planner fascy eyed is shout out to zyk.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah wait did that help?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
They helped? They all sent me emails and dms and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'm like this is you guys are great. Who needs
a doctor?

Speaker 5 (01:32):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Who needs help?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I have crowded community building. I know. I croud so
much from Ziking. I'll be on the discard like hey,
my cat got diarrhea? Man, what am I gonna do?
And then I still think about it, like a few
years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Someone put me on it is like dear God, please help.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. I was just like this is great because I
have two cats and their sisters, but one cat just
completely responds differently to the pet food and then so
my cat needed like raw whatever the something. Anyway, my
cat has healthy ballot moment diet. Yeah yeah what The
answer is different depending on where the listeners were from,
like where the South Asian is like, hey you should

(02:11):
try sillium husk aka. All of them were like vapor
rub and j windex wind wind windex, just wind give,
just spray. Shout out to all my Greek listeners out there, Matt, So,
what's something you think is underrated? Underrated?

Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, first and foremost, podcasting in a studio.

Speaker 7 (02:34):
It's so underrated.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's good to be bad, isn't it nice? It's great
to be bad.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
I love being in a student you know what I love.
I loved leaving my house, leaving my house and then
driving to somewhere, and then that's somewhere being like ooh,
I'm in Hollywood or whatever.

Speaker 8 (02:49):
Yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Grimiest.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
I just want people to know we u. I used
to record here all the time, and it felt so
good to come back to this dirty, grimy block.

Speaker 8 (03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, it's this place when you get out. It's
funny because all the people you see, so many tourists
on Hollywood. Yeah, and like they're looking around, just like
I thought, this is Hollywood. Why is that Spider Man
smoking crad?

Speaker 7 (03:20):
Mommy, can we go over here?

Speaker 8 (03:21):
No?

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Kid, He's like Batman, He's like, wow, why does Batman
have a black eye?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That he was beaming up through the mask. He's not
even pulling it up. He somehow got his lips around
the stem through the mask. Anyway. I just saw Spider
Man's dad shot a web.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
It only went two inches, and.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Then Shrek stepped in.

Speaker 7 (03:52):
So Minnie Mouses mexicanstand.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
She was dancing by chatting so well it doesn't make sense.
What is this place. It's Hollywood in twenty twenty six.
It's a dying guy.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yeah, it'd be funny if the joker was normal like
everyone else jokers.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
This man character, the straight man is just like he's
like going to the family. I'm so sorry we're saying
right yew.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
These people are completely they just I just want to say,
we do live in a society, and I will never
in that society.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
City Walk, Yeah, there's going to be a wonderful Approuvian
pan flute Dan that performed there. Yeah, I remember when
they used to they would allow buskers at CityWalk. That's
right underd. Yeah. In person, it is great, Yeah, it
is great. The energy is just it's it's better. It's better.
I don't want to say that about the show that

(04:44):
like the majority isn't done. No, of course you feel
it when you're in person. I just love it because
it's like, look, I can look you in the eye. Yeah,
I can look you in the eye. You know, I'm
looking at you in the eye. The only in the screen,
You're like, I don't know, Well, that's the thing is
the screen.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
I'm like I'm looking at him and the eye but
you can't tell because I'm not looking at the camera,
so it doesn't look like I'm looking at the eye.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
At the camera, looking at the computer.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, that's where whenever Francesca's on and the discipline to
just go straight down the barrel, I'm like, really good.
She knows how to do that. Ship she's been doing it.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
She she will talk to you while looking in the
camera the whole time, even when she's not like podcasting,
Like sometimes I'll just be like, hey, what are we
having for dinner?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
And she'll find a camera camera. Yeah, I was gonna say,
I are terrible at it.

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Chicken cord on blue, I'm here, I'm here, look at me.
I see you, honey. No, no, I'm going to make
the chicken cord on blue. You go get naked and
I'll bring it to you.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I'm happy to do that, but if you just look
me in the eye, you're not actually doing that. Why
did you set up a tripod there so you could
tell me about the You're not actually doing it, though,
we're not.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
Do you want the chicken or no?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I want to divorce? Shout out, okay, tell me to
my face. You're not being serious. Lord, You're evasive. All right,
just make the core on blue. All right, thank you?
Here it comes, Telsea. What something you think is overrated?

Speaker 9 (06:15):
Skipping your high school reunion? Bay Mine is in two
weeks and I'm.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Going, hell yeah.

Speaker 9 (06:22):
But everyone I tell is like why are you?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Why? Matt?

Speaker 10 (06:25):
Why?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
How people go terrible? I get how many do it?
Do you mind? If I ask how many years?

Speaker 9 (06:31):
No, you can't ask?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay, that's the woman. Yeah, that's a good one to
go to. I know. I went to mine and it
was like I did, yeah because I'm like I went
to my ten year reunion and I went to the
twenty year less people came to the there's a huge
fall off actually between twenty and ten and twenty interesting,
but twenty some of it kind of it was more

(06:53):
because like ten was sort of like everyone's kind of
you know, they're like in their late twenties and ship,
so you're kind of young and you still feel like yeah, yeah,
so much as possible. By the twentieth one, I was like, Okay,
now I see what kind of adults we've all become.

Speaker 9 (07:06):
People have settled into whatever their bullshit.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah yeah yeah. One kid in mine got so drunk.
It was like alarming. It wasn't like it wasn't like
violent or anything, but we were just like, oh, is
this your first time drinking? Our twentieth and I.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Almost guarantee I feel like there's always one person that
gets blacked out, Like every time my mom will come
back for reunion. Throughout my life, there would be that
one person that like really fucking blew it, or some
awkward happens.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Someone's like, I've always loved you, and you're like, oh shit.

Speaker 9 (07:37):
Yeah, anything can happen.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
We'll see gone to mine. I've never gone to my reunions.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
Oh maybe a.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Well now the only one I have to go to
next is my thirtieth thirty rights, I've missed ten and twenty.

Speaker 9 (07:53):
How many friends are going to be even more fucked up? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
How many of your friends do you still have from
high school?

Speaker 7 (07:58):
From high school?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Man, probably zero, like that. I actually like more from
college than than high school for sure, but high school yeah,
like you know, outside of social media?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah yeah right right, pleasant trees being exchanged. Yeah, what
about you, Chelsea?

Speaker 9 (08:19):
I have a good good number of them.

Speaker 11 (08:22):
I think that it's probably because I live so it's
like easier to Yeah, I've moved away and stuff, but
I've been back here for a while. And I had
like a very close knit group of friends in high
school and we've.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
All yeah, and some of them are they're not going
to go to the reunion.

Speaker 9 (08:40):
Well, no, I am going with two of my school
bes friends from from high school. So that'll be you know,
I have like a little a halo of protection as well.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
You never know, people be like Chelsea, I love the show.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
I'm sure that I probably go.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I heard what you said about the Bible on that
other show.

Speaker 9 (09:00):
There's probably gonna be some of that too.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I mean, yeah, there's always, there's always.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
It's also like a very different political landscape than ten
years ago, obviously, and I don't know who went what direction.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yeah, so I always wanted to see Obama was still
in office.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, yeah for my ten but Obama was there for
the twentieth. That was twenty twenty three, so Biden got
back in. But there was like one guy who was
like almost our valedictorian. He became a full blown like
maga doctor but like was it but wasn't willing to
like stand on like the real fucked up parts about it.
Was just like trying to act as if it was
like other reason. It was just very weird. And I'm like,

(09:37):
I'm like, bro, you're Filipino. Bro, like your parents are immigrants? Like,
what the fuck is this shit?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
You not they not going to protect you anyway. Enough
of that, Let's take a break and when we come back,
we're gonna check in with the fucking minions, okay, because
I need to. We need answers. Were they working for Hitler?
We will find out after this and we're back, Ramsey,

(10:10):
what is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Being normal?

Speaker 8 (10:14):
Being normal and people, Yeah, and trying to get people
in positions of power to like you or to think
you're palatable is disgusting and horrible and soul destroying.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
And I'm so over it.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
And the reason I say this is because today one
of my dear friends sent me a New York Times
op ed written by this guy named Matthew Vines, who's like,
he's the author of this book called God and the
Gay Christian The Biblical case and support of same sex relationships.
He basically wrote this op ed piece where he's like,
I'm gay, not queer.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
There's a difference, and he goes on this huge ramp.

Speaker 8 (10:47):
About how the attempt to turn gayness, the idea of
same sex desire, into this broader notion of queerness, of
being resistant to social norms, like the idea that many
queer people started to say, it's not just that we
like the same sex, or that we're trans or or whatever.
We don't want to conform to the social norms of

(11:10):
a society that is homophobic and transphobic. He says, the
more and more we did that, the more and more
the society hates us, and the more and more we've
lost our case for our civil liberties. We've made the
category way too broad, and we've lost.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
The idea that gayness is not a choice.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Because the more that you argue for queerness for critiquing
social norms, the more you're suggesting that it.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Is a choice. And I'm like, it is a fucking choice.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
It is.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
Every single decision you make every day is a choice
you make about how you want to relate to the world.
You could be born desiring the same sex and still
choose to live as a gay person every day, yeah
or yeah exactly, or to choose to be a straight person,
like you're choosing how you want to articulate your identity

(12:00):
every minute. And I think this is such a disgusting argument.
That's like, it's such an overrated argument. That's like, if
only we could be more normal, those straight people would
like us more and they would keep giving us our
civil liberties. And it's like, no, the culture they come
from is corrupted to its core. Yeah, you know what

(12:20):
what did gay people gain in gay marriage? Many civil liberties, sure,
and also a fifty percent divorce rate, and also all
of the stress and the anxiety of that. Nobody ever
questioned whether or not the rights of marriage should be
given to everyone, regardless of whether you're married or not. Right, Like,
so this idea that's like I'm gay but not queer, girl,

(12:42):
you do you and let queer people do them? Or
like we're LGB not LGBT, like what istically He's like,
the more capacious it became, the less compelling it is.
And I'm like, no, the genius of queerness is it
says none of us actually successfully live up to the norms.
It says you think that gay people are a niche subgroup,

(13:05):
a subculture, but in fact, the way that we struggle
to feel normal. All people experience this, including straight people.
That's the point of queerness. It's to remind you that
gender transitivity is not only a problem of trans people.
It's an experience everyone has, including sis gender people, because
nobody ever feels one hundred percent comfortable in their skin

(13:26):
all the time, right, So, like, it's a big tent
for a reason. It actually makes people feel that they're
included in the queer world.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Why do you get to own gayness just because you
fuck men?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Like chill out?

Speaker 5 (13:39):
It's just so okay, I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Gaily twot technically straight, still gay? Okay?

Speaker 8 (13:44):
So literally, I mean, I just I want to include
people in the big tent. And I just don't understand
why the only way you can make an argument for
the rights of gay people is to say that we were.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Born this way?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Why right, right?

Speaker 8 (13:58):
If I chose to be day, So fucking what, It's
a free fucking country.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
I can do whatever I want.

Speaker 8 (14:04):
I'm not destroying the social fabric of the society just
because I'm not doing it the way that you want
me to. So I just that those kind of arguments
for a normality. That's like, but let's just make them
hate us less by being normal. And I'm like, they
hate us just as much for trying to be like them.

Speaker 12 (14:19):
They hate themselves, Like that's the problem because like they've
never had to or refuse to or pushed away interrogate
their own like sexuality and queer like correct this straight
cis people have never like had that conversation with themselves,
and that is like a huge problem that they've imposed
on society. It's their reaction to not accepting themselves totally.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
And by the way, what has the idea of queer
culture done? It has granted more and more people in
the society gay straight, by non bind your et cetera,
the opportunity to ask, is this the way why I.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Want to live my life?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Is this joyful? Is following the line of heteronormativity? Joyful?

Speaker 8 (15:02):
Does it bring me everything I want? If it does, girl,
more power to you know. If it doesn't, you don't
have to. But I love like something I thought when
I read that op ed piece, which maybe what I
should say is the New York Times op ed section No, no, yeah,
everything they publish is ridiculous, But it made me think

(15:24):
of what the queer theorist Eve Sedgwick says. She has
this amazing essay that is called how to raise your
kids up gay, and she says the debate over nature
versus nurture is ridiculous because whether you chose to be
gay or whether you were born that way, does it
matter if you're in a fundamentally homophobic society. If the

(15:44):
society hates people that do not conform to heterosexuality, and
you say we were born this way, the conservatives will say, well,
we're going to figure out the gay.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
Gene and then we're going to eliminate elimiting existence, right.

Speaker 8 (15:57):
And if you say, well, I chose this, they will
send you to gay conversion camps. She's like, tell whatever
fucking story you want about being gay. Your fight should
be to make a world where in which the existence
of more gay people is a good thing. The idea
of fundamental sexual diversity would be valued. And she says

(16:17):
in a world like that, if you want to say
that you were born this way over here, more power
to you. If you want to say you chose it,
more power to you. If you want to say that
God gave it to you and it's a gift from
the universe, more power to you.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
She says, we should have more.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
Stories, not less, and when I read this op end
I'm like, this is the fundamental American problem, which is
that we want one story to explain everything. We are
so incapable of dealing with genuine diversity of thought, diversity
of human experience, uncertainty, the idea that everything, every identity,

(16:52):
every term means more than one fucking thing, right, And like, yeah,
just did you like the word gay doesn't mean it's.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
The only one. Yeah, And like justifications for human existence
is a distraction from the inclusion of those people.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Beautiful beautifully said, It's just yeah, it's it's like the
exact same patterns of like white supremacy too, you know
what I mean exactly. It's all of it is so
backwards and it completely ignores like the bigger picture of
like humanity. But hey, if that's what you need to
power your argument to say this makes me better or
these people less than, then that's your fucking problem, because

(17:31):
you know what exactly, people like marginalized people, gay people,
people club we have access to shit that apparently y'all
don't exactly, and that's scholars for them.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Derek Scott would say, we have resources in the form
of the emotional capacity to survive and withstand being made
in human right, Like, part of what we've done is
we've developed superpowers to live with and through and past
being made to feel that we mean nothing. And you know,
to have people who are among our own community saying,

(18:04):
why don't you fucking settle down?

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Why don't you just reduce your identity this one thing?

Speaker 8 (18:08):
And I'm like, why isn't there room for all of
these different ways? If you want to say that your
identity is defined merely by the fact that you like
having sex with other men and that you are in
a loving relationship with.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
A man, bless you girl, love and light, and if
other people want to.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Do it differently, so what why does why does the
struggle for our humanity at a political level need to
need to be a zero sum game between these moves right?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Right? And also like and also like on the terms
of your oppressors too, which is liked liberation, and so
there it is.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
It's a queer people are queer theory is the problem.
I love he talks about queer theory in it, which
is a subfield of interdisciplinary study and the humanities, right,
and I.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
Love the idea that's like, so you're saying, like a
group of a.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
Few hundred academics writing over the last forty years about
sexual diversity are like the reason the culture depoverfl Like
really okay, okay, gactular, I see it's reading villainizing reading.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Get a rip.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
We don't have that much power.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
We really don't like and and it's absurd, Like you
should be so lucky that queer theory came along and
gave people an amazing vocabulary to demand their humanity, right, Like,
that's what we did, is we gave four generations of
young people a language to claim the diversity of their humanity.
And if you don't like the way that it plays out,

(19:39):
come up with some other terms. If there's nothing new
with saying why can't we just be gay? They finally
got got good with gayness.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Right right right?

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, and no looking non binary baristas for you, bitch,
get out of our coffee shops. That's how you feel,
all right?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, the news also out there, But this has been
fantastic conversation, Ramsey always bringing it.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Oh shit, we're on TDZ.

Speaker 10 (20:06):
I forgot no, no, I mean yeah, the day no,
but this is this is everything, I mean, like it's
it's this is like what underpins the news, like even
especially with the Supreme Court rulings, everything like this is
we are constantly finding ourselves at the whims and wills
of the oppressors.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
And you have all these conflicting theories, our strategies, tactics
to how to circumnavigate all that, and it's like and
the respectability shit, no, no, no, no, no, I.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Know it's so cliche.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
I'm just like, Okay, we've done this a thousand times,
let's keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're not going to use their tools to bludgeon ourselves further.
That doesn't make any sense. But uh, GOP Representative Tom Keane,
I just want to talk about him because we've been
checking in on this guy from these the New Jersey congressman.
He's missed one hundred and sixteen days wow, and has

(21:02):
not and just first missed out and said like yeah,
I'm kind of god, I'm sick. And then later on
they're like, bro, it's been like, ok forty days. He said,
I got a medical issue, and when I'm recovered, I
will return and I will explain further. And people were
pointing at they like, but there's like based on like
financial records, like you're you're using ubers like in other
cities outside of your district. You're doing stuff. It doesn't

(21:24):
seem like you're in one place.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
I just feel like you're being ablest right a mile.
You could just let the Congress people like disappear and
not show up.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Sure, sure, of course, of course. And look he returned today.
We almost made it one hundred and seventeen days. He
capped it one hundred and sixteen days.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
In the year.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, and just spoke directly, you're just.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Trying to make Kamala one hundred and twenty seven days.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, he almost did it. He had some explaining to do,
as we say colloquially, and this is uh, he's just
letting people know, Yeah, I missed some time, but I
want people to understand why I did it. And it's
just interesting because keep in mind, this is somebody who
constantly votes to slash healthcare, to take away people's Medicaid, Medicare,

(22:10):
things like that. So this is Tom Keen explaining. This
is why I've been gone.

Speaker 13 (22:16):
Several months ago due to health concerns. I entered the
hospital for some testing. I did not believe that this
would result in a long term stay. I was given
the diagnosis of depression. Now, when people hear the word depression,
many people think simply means feeling sad. But depression is

(22:37):
so much more than that. It is physical, it is emotional,
and until you experience it yourself, is difficult to fully
understand how powerful this illness can be. The doctors recommended
it that I remain in the hospital to address my illness.
They explained to me that this would be the fastest

(22:58):
way to recovery.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
He goes on to sort of explain like sort of
using like and this is affecting a lot of people.
Now when I hear this, part of me is like,
I mean, obviously, anybody, I'm not gonna try and be insensitive,
because depression is a motherfucker and I'm sure most of
us know how serious it can be. But there's something
there's just something something so odd about like his caginess

(23:24):
around explaining himself the movements that he's been doing, like
saying he was where you hospitalized the whole time. And
but really the thing that really gets me is that
this motherfucker got the audacity to cut people's health benefits
by being a rubber stamp for all of Trump's budget cuts.
And austerity measures all over the place, then ask the
public to be understanding of his you know, absence in

(23:48):
office because he said he was hospitalized with depression, which
sounds fucking serious if that's really the case. But it's
like then I'm like, man, it must be nice where
you live in a country where you can take off
fucking almost four months of work with superior health care
to most of us, like in this country, still collect
your salary and still come back for your job and

(24:09):
ask for understanding. It's just like this, It's just another
one of these moments where like, it's the lack of
empathy that I see from the right, and then then
they come out and say, like I've actually been dealing
with some stuff, Like I immediately just be getting.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
Well, exactly, you just nailed it, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
I mean, this is the conservative playbook, which is to
act not human, to say.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
We're above ordinary humanity.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
We are morally righteous, we are angelic, and then to
absorb and borrow and steal the language of humanity right
from the people who have been developing it. To hear
someone so naively talk on the floor of Congress about
what depression.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Is, Mitch, We've been talking about this for.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Forty years, right, right, right.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
It's like people in.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Two thousand and eight who became quan On members later
shocked that the housing market imploded and are like, oh
my god, the housing market is so unfair and it's
a Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
And it's like, yeah, people who've been doing housing.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
SAE, struggling yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:13):
For housing equality have been arguing this for fifty years.
So instead of saying we are joining late to the
conversation and would like to combine forces right with the
people who believe in mental health, they appropriate the language
and say.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
We've discovered it now.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
So that's what you're That's what's what's rubbing you the
wrong way is that you are actually deeply sympathetic with
people who struggle for mental health, and you're like, who
the hell are you guys to claim it for yourselves,
as you know.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
You're or like or or as if it's the one
it's like, as if it's the one valid example of
someone having depression. Really well, of course, I mean if
you need to take one hundred and sixteen days off
of work to sort that out. Even though I'm like,
this feels like this story, there's a lot more going
on than what's actually happening. That's why I'm like, I'm
gonna I won't fully cast dispersions on it right away,

(26:02):
but part of me like I look at and I go, hmm.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
You hospitalized for one hundred and sixteen days for.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Unless yeah, yeah, unless something's furious happened, and then I
don't know if you had to go to some kind
of mental health treatment FISTLE or whatever whatever that path was.
But to me, it's just some because you also do
see people tactically deploy this sort of like oh, this
thing happened to me, to sort of just paint over whatever.
You know, Uh, the dereliction of duty has occurred, But

(26:32):
we'll see, because I have a feeling that this this
story is going to keep developing or the other crisis
will just hit and then everyone will forget and they'll
just be like, yeah, man, you have depression.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
They like, they also will employ these justifications for like
their absence or whatever. But simultaneously, if you were to say, like, oh,
trans kids might kill themselves if you don't include them
in things like sports, then they'll be like, well that's
not a good enough reason.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's the true right.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
So it's like the end result might be they you know,
they are all for you know, health care for depression,
but then they like get cape who gets to play
up depression.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
I mean again, it's the fundamental like, but we don't count.
We're separate from everybody else.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
We're better than we're unique.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
I mean, I kept thinking the other day the Daily,
this story that we're talking about really reminded me The Daily.
The New York Times podcast did a whole episode about
RFK Junior's kind of new mission to d prescribe, to
get people off of SSRRIS, And there's an element like
part of what's weird about him is that there's always
like an element of truth at the core of every

(27:34):
one of his projects.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Sure, Like you're like, we aren't over prescribed, right, he.

Speaker 8 (27:38):
Doesn't care about medicine and he doesn't actually care about
expertise or any of that. And all I could think was, like,
why is nobody talking about the idea that maybe people
like RFK Junior and people like him in the government
have made life such a living hell for people that
they don't feel that they can get off of our eyes.
Like wouldn't you if you've had one hundred and thirteen

(28:00):
days of depression. Did it ever occur to you that
the conditions that people like you have helped create in
this country are making people depressed?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, because that would make me feel more depressed than
my doctor said, don't do that kind of thing. So
I'm just hiding into my own ignorance. Yeah, it's I mean,
and it goes again like this is sort of fundamental
to conservatism. Is this they've completely excised, like the idea
from their minds that they are vulnerable in any way, correct,
because all of it is based on invulnerability of vincibility.

(28:28):
So the moment they they do intersect with some vulnerability,
it's like, hold on, man, I had it. I hadn't
my kids were premature. I have to disagree on this
one time, mister Trump were like people suddenly they're able
to sort of access the idea that they are vulnerable.
But all of the policy, Yeah, all of the policy
is sort of underpinned by the idea of like, well,

(28:50):
we don't give a fuck because we're not vulnerable exactly,
and that's got to be a terrifying place to be.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Were you horrible? I wonder that's so depressing?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, cause the second any thing fucking touches you the
wrong way you are, You're gonna be fucked up exactly.
Just we all have to admit we're vulnerable, we need help,
and that's why we need to extend that to other people.
It's just like a basic you know, part of human
decency or human right anyway, moving on, Also because it
the American the Great American State Fair is well underway,

(29:20):
and a Monday was our first Maha Monday. Because this
thing is happening for like multiple weeks, so on Mondays
the theme is Maha Monday. Still not sure what that means,
although I think I may have an idea from some
of the clips, the clips that we've seen so far.
We were talking about it on yesterday's show. Pretty not

(29:40):
pretty poorly attended, and it seems like, if anything, I
feel like based on the clips I'm seeing, there's more
people there out of morbid curiosity rather than like patriotic fervor.
They're just like, dude, is it as fucked up as
I think it is? It is? It is? There's I
just want to play a couple of the clips. One
is of Dean Kine and doctor Oz for tending like
they're like man it's a great, great event we're talking

(30:03):
about here. Shout out to the just shady TMZ camera person,
camera operator here for like while they're talking about the event,
just doing a quick pan around the empty field. So
here's doctor Yes, the one who was trying out for ICE,
the one that the one that couldn't get into ICE
him and did not know this. Oh yeah, yeah you guys.

(30:26):
And Kevin Sorbo is a shitty improviser to that's what
I've heard. Yeah, I'm so naive. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Dean Kane was like, I'm going to sign up for
ICE and they like they showed a clip of him
in the training he couldn't do.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
She was having a hard time.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
He was so passed. And I'm like, well, you know,
your Superman is.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
The Presidential Fitness Test, Like you.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Would have done a lot better based on I think that.
I honestly believe. I think that in his mind. He's like, well,
I did play Superman, therefore I have Yeah, I have
been viewed with the powers of Superman. But here's Doctor
Oz and Dean Kane just talking on a casual Moham
Monday fucking nightmare. Blunt rotation packed great American State Fair

(31:07):
take it away.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
And it's because there's tons of people here.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's a people get more.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
What do you go?

Speaker 4 (31:17):
You can't know really how few people there are.

Speaker 8 (31:23):
It's it's like in the world's laophobic.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, I'll let them keep play because they're like, oh yeah,
it's a really great turnout. I have a lot of
people here.

Speaker 14 (31:33):
We have a lot of people want to have like
Station Garrity that will be the next governor of Pennsylvania
literally know.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Already. And it's because there are tons of people here.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
It's a huge way they keep There's like twenty people there,
yeah there, and like most of them. I like saw
this like clip of this woman. They have like this
weird like wallpaper that makes like some of the columns
look like three D but.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
They're yeah, it's not, it's all flat. It might be
Amanda Moore who's she's posted a lot from Affair, but
like all of this.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
I know they don't like us touching things, but let
me because of the reflecting pool. Oh ye like but
he touches it and it's like an acme like Wiley coyote.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Backdrop, just like yeah, yeah, they've just been printing out
stuff and then like nailing it on staple, iting onto
like like plywood, like for the Trump's arch, Like there's
columns and stuff. There's like sculpting and stuff and really
interesting intricate sort of designs. All of that is just
flat one like just one dimension just wow anyway, or
two dimensional anyway. So then we have also had some

(32:36):
really some interesting powerhouse conversations. Michael Knowles from I believe
the Daily Wire he had a really really fantastic conversation
on stage. You know, he likes to debate, as these
conservatives have to do. He was he was there and
he debated a ten year old girl.

Speaker 14 (32:57):
Oh my wow, okay, or maybe it's like not a
I don't know, maybe it's a discussion, but anyway, he's
on stage with a child, and this is what they
were talking about on Mohammed Day at the Great American Affair.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
But the one area where the Salem witch trials went
a little far is I would say they.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Weren't organized enough. She had these like random judges kind
of burning.

Speaker 13 (33:25):
I don't know if they were guilty or not, but
I think more if it were more formalized.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
To build up a little bit more, maybe with like
a grand inquisitor or something that would have been a
better way to do it.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
I am so impressed. I couldn't but the one area.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
So it's a child, he's a literal child.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
About the Salem witch turning of women, of all those women, and.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
That he doesn't know if that, if they were guilty
of being witches.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It could have been more organized. What's your take, ten
year old child?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
There's another clip, what ten year old future witch?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
He's like, false, Jackie Robinson never said that, you're an idiot.
It's literally is that's what's so perverse?

Speaker 8 (34:11):
Yeah, this is so perverse that this is what people
think is normal. Now, this is that we've arrived.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
I don't I don't have the words.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
You think the attendance, it doesn't. It seems like most
people don't think this is normal or worth your attention.
But yeah, clearly to the operators organizers of it, they're like, yeah,
this is good and also just I think a testament
to how poorly organized everything is, like when it comes
to the right. Like it's like with these sort of
cultural events, because they no one is really subscribing to

(34:38):
their version of mainstream culture that they want.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
To genuinely worry for those children, Like that is insane.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I know who else wants to come up here and
get fucking rinsed by Michael Knowles, You know what I mean,
Like Jubilee surrounded by ten year olds.

Speaker 8 (34:53):
He's going to run the formalized witch hunt.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
I mean, are we not.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
Basically seeing the long term outcome of sailing upward?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (35:06):
This is right. Like if you are.

Speaker 8 (35:08):
Able to fail upward in this society, in it in
a runaway train version where it never ends. What you
get is these very monumental decisions like three Supreme Court
justices and the running of the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary celebrations by these kinds of people, by people who

(35:29):
have no idea what they're doing, who have run purely
on unearned confidence and arrogance. And this is what we're seeing,
this tattered unraveling kind of like mush Well.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
But also apparently there was like another committee that they
like laywaiged waywadaid waylaid Tube that was supposed to originally
be like it was a non partisan committee that was
supposed to run this and then Trump was like now
and then just like let me just do it. This
horrific way.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
That's why we have Queen Latifa at the coliseum from
that same fund partisan group. Yeah, that's that's our official
two fifty that we get in LA. Here's another clip.
This is Maha mondays of this just some guy who's
like ranting about all kinds of stuff up there. I
think this when he's talking about breast implants.

Speaker 15 (36:19):
They're all able to connect about bread and pinolas only
in the last call in five to ten years. And
so fortunately these women are now learning about BII. They
never knew it strong previously. When they got the rest
in plant place, it wasn't wow that the track is
placed on the breast plant black.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Hawk's morning and even so this so yeah, this is
this dude is up there talking about breast implant illness,
uh to a packed crowd of threes. M So yeah,
just just some really next level stuff happening there at
the Great American Fair. I will say this though, the
one thing that I have been reading about is this
fucking firework show, because there's footage of how they right now,

(37:02):
obviously the reflecting pool is closed, is fenced off, but
typically they do launch fireworks from the reflecting pool on
Fourth of July. So it's like, so it would be
faced off, but now they're putting all the fireworks in.
And this is what we've heard, right, Trump said this
is going to be the largest fireworks show in history.
You're like, yeah, right, that's what you say that all
the time about everything. But if you're talking just about

(37:23):
the sheer numbers of shells that are going to be
like launched, so bad, so a typical for the July
show in DC, they say roughly between seventeen th and
twenty thousand shells for a seventeen minute show. This year
they are going to have a forty minute display that
will use more than eight hundred and sixty thousand explosives

(37:46):
and they will be set off along the Reflecting Pool
as well as in the West Potomac par as in
the West Potomac Park and eight barges on the Potomac River.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Deport the dogs and cats. Please please support the dogs
and cats.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
If you're in the DMV area, get your dogs out now,
leave now. The previous record, held by Manila in the
Philippines was the Guinness World Record of Fireworks Display Show
in twenty seven and twenty sixteen. Eight hundred and nine
thousand fireworks during a New Year's event. This is like
feels it's just so like typical wealthy absentee father, like, yeah, sorry,

(38:21):
I fucked up your party to compensate. How about one
million fireworks done? Yeah? Yeah, just like what the fuck?
No one even asked for that shit. I used to
do shit like that when I was like a tar,
like in my twenties and just like didn't know, like
it was a terrible boyfriend to be, like, I completely
fucked that up. Here's like way too big a bouquet
of flowers. Yeah, And they're like, no, I just need

(38:43):
to like fucking listen.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Over compensated, ya, exactly.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
No, here's material over compensation for you. I know, I
completely No one's fucking the here's eight hundred and sixty
thousand explosives to be launched.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
I'm sorry for the way You're right, babell. The distraction
of destroying your eyes and yours help.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, It's what's also crazy is like it's like a
the security level is like the same as the like
state of the Union or an inauguration. So for the
people that go, you can't like you can't bring shit
there if you're trying to see it. They're like, you
can't bring a lawn chair, you can't bring the cooler.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, gun, somebody's gonna like peeer poop themselves for sure.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure people will probably expire from
trying to endure a forty one minute explosive show directly overhead.
But who knows, who knows, But yeah, he's looking out
for everybody with this fucking crazy fireworks.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
Well, and with the way things go with this administration,
this is the that is what is projected, and then
there will they will end up releasing yeah yeah, yeah,
with like a lighter six of which will not work.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, you know, Lord of the fireworks display doesn't start
until ten thirty at night because this dude wants to
talk before of course. So it's just like it's gonna
be great, guys, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
It's gonna be scares himself.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
He gets really scare of the fireworks. No, this is
what it would have been like if I went to Vietnam,
but luckily I got out because I'm a draft dodger. Yeah,
we'll see, we'll see what happens. But that'll be the
fourth of July. Big question marks there. All right, let's
take a quick break when we come back. Just got
a touch in with a beloved book and maybe Ramsey
you were saying something about sacrificing your individuality to police

(40:32):
others work. That might be some book. All right, we'll
be rappy to come back to it. And we're back. So,
as we were talking about on yesterday's trends, the Northeast

(40:53):
is going through a fucked up heat wave. President Trump
was like, it's gonna be one hundred and seven on
the fourth of July, and I'm gonna do the longest
speech ever to He literally said, to show everybody that
I can do it, which you love to see. However,
unfortunately he won't be trying to do that in one
hundred and seven degree heat. It's only going to be

(41:13):
maybe AD's ish by the time he's starting at nine
to forty five at night, which again so stupid, because yeah,
everyone's everyone can't wait for the ten thirty PM fireworks show.

Speaker 9 (41:25):
Isn't it eleven? Is it ten thirty or eleven?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I mean it's I think ten thirty's the earliest it
could be, given how long Trump's speech goes, how late
he is right.

Speaker 9 (41:34):
You know what I mean, it's just gonna keep pushing it.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
It could be fucking one a you'd have no fucking clue,
which again would be disasters, like half the fucking DMV
area was asleep by the time the actual fire, or
they'll probably be awoken by them because it'll be a
massive explosion. Yeah, but anyway, they're going through a heat wave,
and Mayor Mom Donnie in New York, he said he
advised his constituents in the city of New York said
stay safe and hold on to your bucks. Here he said,

(41:59):
quote set your air conditioning to seventy eight degrees to
prevent overstrain on the power grid. What the fuck? Okay,
So a number of right wingers on social media probably
freaked the fuck out against this, just like, hey, man,
you don't want the fucking power to go out in
a heat wave because that would be disastrous for all

(42:20):
we have. Vivek Ramaswami, who said, quote, this is what
socialism looks like, folks. The right answer is it restrictions
or mandates. It's drilling, fracking, coal and nuclear. Nikki Haley,
former governor of South Carolina, also made a similar point,
writing quote welcome to socialism. M hmm, okay, thank you.
Spencer Pratt disgraced loser fuck boy who tried to run

(42:43):
for mayor of Los Angeles and failed. I think you
think you're supposed to get the fuck out, Spencer. He posted,
show us your thermostat. Kami Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports
seventy eight degrees. Welcome to communists, people, hope you enjoy again.
No one knows a fucking thing about any system of government.

(43:06):
It's all reflexive. This person said it. I'm just gonna
call it socialism because he's saying to not strain the
power grid.

Speaker 9 (43:15):
And he didn't make a law.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
He just was like, hey, this is hey.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
He's not like the law is this, I'm taking over
the power. It's like, no, just there's a gentle suggestion.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Hey, you sure you don't want to make the power
grid to fucking go out. Let's just try if we can.
Let's let's not go lower than seventy eight degrees. If
we can, that will help, if we just all have
that in our minds.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
They say every year to yeah, even if you go
to like gas companies websites, they say, seventy eight degrees
is what they say, like every year, Texas has said
it every year, say it is.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
What's funny is Eric Adams said the exact same shit
last year. You know what I mean? This is it
looking new at all? And again to your point about
Texas noted power grid failure expert Senator Ted Kruz, who
loves to go out, he loves a fuck off out
of his state when the power grid is strained, he said,
quote in a first world country, you could you could

(44:14):
turn on the AC. Wow, that's cool, they said, But
as a community No quickly pointed out the state of
Texas has repeatedly made the exact same recommendation as mom,
Donnie because their grid is super fragile out there, super fragile,
calibristic expiaalo doocius. Okay, yeah, but anyway, so this isn't
anything new, and you're like, put seventy eight degrees is

(44:37):
like kind of a specific number. It turns out it
seemingly originates with Jimmy Carter's response to the energy crisis
in the nineteen seventies. In nineteen seventy nine, he asked
all federal buildings be set to seventy eight degrees in
the summer and fifty five degrees in the winter to
offset the quote incredible, incredible strain on resources. And even
though like Carter, wasn't really popular at the time, idea

(45:00):
of keeping this the ac at seventy degrees was supported
by around seventy seven percent of Americans. We're like, yeah,
that's a that's that's a fine temperature if outside is yeah, yeah,
you could do that.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
I mean, here, the unfortunate, I mean, I'm aware of
the times we live in right, good, good, But you
know this is so disingenuous. They know, they know Tad
Cruz knows, Dave Port No, no, all these bitches know.
They fucking know, like this is. They know this isn't new.

(45:34):
They know this happens every year. They know this is
what people say. They know people say it to me,
that people have been saying it for years. I turn
my shit lower to seventy eight. If I'm cold, if
I'm hot, and.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
If I'm cold, if you're fine, yeah sure, and.

Speaker 7 (45:46):
If I'm fine, I'm fine keep it up. But like
we this is so disingenuous. And that's not the surprising part.
The unfortunate part is that we have to give this
time we have to like talk about this, we like
this becomes a part of the new cycle, which.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
They also know.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
And it's just the entire thing is just fueled by
disingenuineous Yeah, disingenuousness. Yeah right, and it's like it is laughable,
is funny?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Well yeah, and I think everything is so reflexively just
like whatever they do is socialism. It will be funny
when it'll be like, oh, like like if in a
fantasy world America actually has like universal health care, they'll
be like, welcome to socialism, folks, and like, yeah, yeah,
thank god, what are you talking about. You have free
healthcare now great, Oh, welcome to social folks. Here's your

(46:42):
free daycare for your kids. There's your free day care. Welcome,
don and created new buses and they are three seats
instead of two, socialists, welcome to So welcome your free bus. Dickhead. Well,
the stupid air conditioning culture war is kind of you
can kind of draw a line back to Ronald Reagan
because he pushed back against AC limits during his first

(47:02):
presidential campaign and denouncing quote conservation measures that hinder an
individual's lifestyle, which isn't that surprising. This dude was literally
an air conditioner salesman for General Electric. Like there's clips
of him where he's like, well, Nancy, here we are.
We've blown out the fuse from using electricity. Like this

(47:23):
guy is like he has been big AC for since
the beginning. And also makes sense too that like this
second he came in office, he took down the solar
panels that Carter had installed on the White House, like
anything that was remotely close to being like this is
good for the environment. He's like, I have to absolutely
vaporize any trace of that sort of mentality. And also

(47:43):
interesting fact has people have argued that air conditioning was
a huge factor in Reagan being elected because air conditioning
allowed for like the mass migration of people to the
Sun Belt, like so creating a huge demographic shift, and
like air Arizona, Florida, all these places now because AC
made those places like Nevada, because it made like air conditioning,

(48:07):
those places now were habitable, and people were like are habitable,
and we're like this is great, this is perfect. This
is just from a PBS article about like air conditioning
and Reagan's elections quote and that Sun Belt coalition is
crucial to Ronald Reagan's election in nineteen eighty. Now it's
possible that Reagan could have gotten elected without air conditioning,
but he would have had to have built a completely

(48:28):
different political coalition to do it. So AC is absolutely
part of that story. And again, even before the Mamdani thing,
I don't know if you saw, there's like been a
ton of like Europe's haded obviously terrible heat wave. There's
like a thousand excess deaths the French were reporting because
of a heat wave there, and on social media they're
like complaints for Americans, We're like I'm in France right

(48:50):
now and there's no AC and I'm fucking dying, like
it's so cool, but it's true, like it was really hot,
and for Americans are used to AC, they couldn't handle it.
But now there's like all these like op it's coming out,
like the Wall Street Journal has when that says Europe
is hot as hell? Why doesn't it want air conditioning?
Why doesn't it want air conditioning? I think that the

(49:10):
mayor of Paris encouraged locals to hold back on air
conditioning units, calling them a scourge. Yeah, because he said
it will make the city even hotter. And in response
to that article, the Deputy mayor of Paris posted a
sideshow on Instagram basically saying, quote, as the second largest
emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, you very significant
responsibility for global warming and the consequences we in France

(49:33):
are experiencing. Your cities are ninety percent air conditioning. This
is not unrelated to this, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:42):
You know, something that I feel like is a bigger
picture thing with this is like the need for the
right to continuously push this like hyper individualism, which relates
to socialism, because it's like if it's all about you
and your air conditioning and your comfort, and it's not
about community based like goodness for all, then they can

(50:03):
continue to make sure that we don't have any kind
of unification to know collectivism. They like about this small
like every way we can have this personal freedom at
whatever cost it takes.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Which is crazy because when the chips are down and
people are actually faced with a disaster, the human impulse
is to work collectively. When the grid goes down in Texas,
those Texans are looking out for each other, like any
scenario you see where a natural disaster hits and the
normal sort of infrastructure that people are used to goes out.

(50:35):
People are fucking helping each other. So it's interesting that
like so much of their plan is like we gotta
chip away at empathy as a concept. They're always talking
about empathy and how like empathy is fucking gross and disgusting,
or like collectivism doesn't work. Yet those are the app
Those are the apps. Those are like the engines that
keep humanity alive. And it's hard to rewire that just

(50:56):
because you think your dumb fucking barstools sports God is
like welcome to communism.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Unism.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Yeah, like you think someone like at that point, like
their ac goes out, the grid goes down, and they're
gonna be like, do you need help? He's like, no,
I'm fine, dude, I'm not a communist. You're gonna be.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
Like help me, Yes, absolutely, I'm going to push this
thing right now that I think is really cool.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
I did it.

Speaker 9 (51:21):
It was an eight week course. It's called SERT in
its Community Emergency Response Training, and it helps you figure
out how to like help during a natural disaster. And
it's totally free. You learn like basic medical, basic firefighting,
search and rescue. It's a very fucking pole and it's
everywhere and I just feel like more people should know
that it exists, because if everybody just took that course

(51:42):
and we had a natural disaster, it would just be
like it would save just countless life. Yeah yeah, just
people had that skill and knew how to.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I know in LA they have them online. I think
they offer them like just so you have those skills,
which we got to.

Speaker 9 (51:57):
Do one of those things where teenagers from drama class
in their high school like got blood all you know,
put blood all over, We're screaming and like we had
to like carry them out and figure out how to
like fix their wounds and wow, it was wild.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah that's crazy.

Speaker 9 (52:11):
Yeah, I mean but just one, I like a lot
of people don't know that exists. And I think it's
really cool.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Yeah right, that resource. I mean, especially like in a
place that is susceptible to any kind of natural disaster,
which at this point, let's be real as anywhere.

Speaker 9 (52:24):
And we got the big one or earthquake, you know that,
like both of our and you.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Got that was like the Cascadia abductions. Yeah, what is
that called?

Speaker 9 (52:33):
I think it's yeah. I think you guys have one
and Andreas.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
San Andreas who got two fault lines, that's they're like
ready to pop. But the Cascadia subduction zone, that's the
that's a big baller subduction zone.

Speaker 9 (52:46):
It's a big it's a big time. Yeah, and I'll
just be out there. Yeah, all that I got from
CIRT class.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yeah, everybody get trained up because at the end of
the day, like, and I think most people have realized
this too, Like especially with like ice raids and all
the you know, a new American fascism that's emerging, is
that like truly communities, like we're the ones that are
going to keep each other safe because trying to rely
on the state to do that is not going to

(53:14):
be a guaranteed victory. When at the end of the day,
like merely knowing your neighbors is such a like just
knowing your neighbors will exponentially increase your chances of survival
because I feel like so many people, especially in l A,
they don't fucking they don't know most of their neighbors,
Like they don't know. You don't know, No, you better know.

Speaker 7 (53:36):
Something, Yeah, don't worry if if something go down, I'm
a knock on the doors.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
I am.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
I don't know you, bro, but I need help.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Who's there? Who's there?

Speaker 7 (53:45):
It's me. I'm one fourteen brother.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
You you'd be seeing me?

Speaker 4 (53:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know each other.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Well speak to uniform. That's bay.

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Yeah, bro, you know let me okay, let me in. Man,
you got water some struggle. I'm dying.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I need something.

Speaker 7 (54:08):
Do the same thing like yeah, man, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
It makes things less scary, you know what I mean
when you know you can face things like collectively rather
than individually, which again, like to your point, Chelsea, if
people feel more inclined to think about their own rugged individualism,
that also makes you more scared of everything, more frightened
of everything, because you don't have that sort of the
benefit of thinking of like, oh I'm part of a community.

(54:33):
I'm part of a collective anyway. But that said, go
meet your neighbors, you know what I mean. You don't
got to like them, but know who they are because
you never know, you never know, you never know.

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