Weekly Zeitgeist 445 (Best of 8/24/26-8/28/26)

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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 laughstravaganza.
So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What

(00:25):
is something from your search history that's revealing about who
you are?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Recently, I googled whether or not the restaurant owner in
New York, Keith McNally, has seen teenage sex and death
at Camp Miasma. It's a convoluted story why I looked
this up. In his autobiography, I Regret Everything, he tries.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
To tell a very.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
kind of risque story about hooking up with a TV
star in the 90s. And the pseudonym he used was X.
And everyone figured out it was Gillian Anderson because we're
not stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Because he was just.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Like, it was a very popular science fiction show for
children that I did not watch because I'm, you know, classy, sophisticated.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, it's not for kids. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Though I was a kid and I did watch it.
Of course, I watched it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But I'm like, I watched it because I'm like, this
ain't for kids. Yeah, you're not supposed to smoke cigarettes,
at least. That man is smoking. And so. I was
fascinated by this story.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I have plenty of celebrity encounters, dates and things of
that nature that I like to talk about publicly, but
without using the name.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
You're not a coward. Well, no, I'm not a coward.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, I'm just trying to respect Monica Lewinsky.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And so I was like, I wonder if he saw
that movie because he was so kind of disrespectful to
her in the book.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
And I'm like, did he see this movie? Because.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know, he's got this connection to her. The New
York Post was reporting about, obviously, it's her. We all
figured it out because there are photos of them on
the Internet from this exact time.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right, right, right, right. I don't think he's seen it.
Let's call her X. Nah, let's actually do file instead. XF.
Let's call her Agent Scully. Alien Ganderson. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And, yeah, I keep thinking, maybe I should just, like,
you know, post on his Instagram, like, hey, buddy, have
you seen this movie yet?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right. But I don't want to get blocked. She's really
good at it. He's kind of a dick to people
on Instagram. What's his restaurant? Balthazar. Oh, that guy.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had a tavern. He owned the
Odeon for a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know,
I'm a classy guy, right? I like a martini. I
like a steak. Great fries. I love French fries. It's
so classy. You read autobiographies of people that own classy establishments. Yeah, exactly.
That's classy as fuck. Thank you. I read and everything.
It's crazy. What's that like? It takes a long time. Yeah, yeah.

(02:46):
Especially when you're reading phonetically. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
How loud? Yeah, yeah. On the bus. Hello. He was
disrespectful just in terms of not devising a better alias. No,
he just kind of made her sound crazy.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Like, oh, she came over to my apartment and she
spent the night.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah. To a certain type of man, all women are crazy.
I broke up with her and she got upset. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I thought she was going to take it well. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
With her.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And we're like, you know what? I love someone else. Right.
That's the mentality of a man who goes, well, it's
certainly nothing wrong with me. Yes. So what the fuck
is their problem? Have you seen Camp Miasma? I sure have.
It's great. That's what I'm seeing. Amazing reviews. That's from
the creator of I Saw the TV Glow. And we're
all going to the World's Fair. Jane Schoenbrun. Jane Schoenbrun. Which, yeah,

(03:40):
I'm excited to see this one.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I thought it was great. I don't think it's their
best movie, but every movie.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
TV Love is your favorite? Yeah, I think so. That
one kind of devastated me. I cried a lot.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, because I love TV.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
That'll do it.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's a film about the love story between a person
and their television.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I just watched... Was it.
Fuck, what's the Scorsese movie? Doesn't look good anymore. Oh,
my bad.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
That always reminds me of the Sopranos episode where Christopher
sees Scorsese.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
He's like, coon dude. Hey, coon dude. Yeah, so good.
Which one was it?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Oh, man, that movie's great.
And it has a moment where, like, she has a
son and she's having to, like, you know, be a
single mom and, like, go out and work. And the
son is just, like, sitting at home, like, watching TV, like,
an inch from the TV. And, like, for whatever reason,
I found that, like, so heartbreaking because it just reminded
me of my childhood. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I thought you were going to be like, yeah, it
reminded me of all the poor kids that I used
to hang out with.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
No, it was you. That boy was me. That boy
was me. I love a twist ending.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
What is, Kim, something you think is underrated?

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Underrated. That's what I said.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I feel.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm coming at your ass today. It's going to be
a real confrontational question and answer session.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Cooling blankets.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
All right. Explain this to me. Okay.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
I don't think I'm in perimenopause. I'm a bit young
for that. I'm 35, so it's in the range, but
it's still young. I'm hot as fuck all the time.
And cooling blankets have just been fantastic for me. And
I don't see anyone talking about it because, I don't know,

(05:34):
we all praise AC so much.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
But that's expensive too.

Speaker 7 (05:40):
Is the cooling blanket the one with the fan under
the blanket or no?

Speaker 6 (05:44):
No, it's just the type of fabric that can breathe.
So it's still cozy, but I'm not sweating my ass
off at night anymore.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I have to buy one of these.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Especially SoCal. I know it. It's awful when it gets hot,
especially next month. September is usually the worst.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
September for whatever reason. I don't fucking know. So stupid.
Southern California doesn't. They're like, I don't know. Is September
a good hottest month? No.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
What?

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Pumpkin spice? Fuck you. It's 95.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh, this is rad. Cooling blankets.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Because I need the illusion of a blanket for, like,
psychological purposes.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
But I don't need the physical presence of a blanket. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
See, there you go.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah. So my issue is with this premise of cooling blankets.
When I go visit my parents, they have blankets on
their bed that are like, we stay there for two
weeks of the summer. They have blankets on the bed
that are like, I guess, summer blankets, you know, they're designed,
they're very thin, but like when it's too light, I

(06:51):
don't feel like I have a blanket. And yeah, like
Andrew said, I need psychologically, I feel like I need something.
Are they heavy and cool or are they like very
lightweight blankets? I feel like I just have a sheet
on me when I'm in a thin blanket, under a
thin blanket.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
Mine is that like, I don't know what the fabric is,
but like that really kind of fuzzy, like cozy feeling.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh, yeah, yeah. Like fleece? Yeah, but it's breathable.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
I don't want to say it's fleece because... Because that.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Makes me sound... That's medical advice if you do that. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Talk to your doctor.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I will say, the reason I asked about the fan
one is I went to... I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (07:36):
I was just visiting someone who I didn't know very
well for the first time. And they were like, let's
give you the whole house tour. And one of the
parts of the tour was the master bedroom. Her and
her husband were on very different temperatures. And she had
some shit that was like, It was like a fan
with a hose that went under her side of the bed.

(07:57):
So she was sort of like getting a fan only
under the sheets. That was like a product. I have
no idea what the hell that was. I thought maybe
that's what a cooling blanket was. But it was basically
like a personal fan.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Air conditioner? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
There was an air conditioner with extra steps.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Yeah, it was that. Okay, so this is not that.
This is just like a piece of cloth that has
intrinsic cloth properties.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah, ShamWow, but for cooling.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
What is what's something you think is overrated?

Speaker 8 (08:36):
So speaking of being an adult, I think summer as
an adult especially is incredibly overrated. I might have said
this one before.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't remember.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
But I hate summer so much.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, you're consistent with this. I like this. Okay.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
It is hot. It is humid in most places, including
LA now. It's been a very humid summer and that
is not what this place is all about. You still
have to like work as an adult throughout the summer
because it was great when you were a kid and
you had school off and summer was something to look
forward to. And I understand loving it as a kid,

(09:12):
but as an adult, you just have to continue on
with your normal life, except now you're incredibly sweaty and disgruntled.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
And like there are like in other countries like in
europe particularly people just take off for the sun like
the sun yeah places shut down because they're like no
what yeah no this is a bad like the reason
kids get off in the summer is because not not
because of like some student president student body president who

(09:43):
like fought for the rights of kids is because it
was like wildly uncomfortable and terrible to be in like
sitting somewhere doing work in hot weather. And.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Right.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
Well, isn't it also that the, and to this day,
the current like school, day is modeled after like a
century or more ago when like kids had to. They
were like helping out on the family farm.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
So that's why school starts earlier than the typical work day.
It's why it ends earlier. And then because like kids
had to like get up early and do the harvest
and then go to school. And then summer is off
because like that's harvest season. So I think I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
And that I think we should bring back. Bring back everyone.
Way too easy. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:31):
When I hear about these kids being bored.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
There's a, oh God, the NPR has a story. It
says agrarian roots. Think again, debunking the myth of summer
vacations origins.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Really? Did I? I don't want to hear this NPR.
Not right now.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
Did I fall for the propaganda?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh no. Agrarian propaganda. Damn it, Caitlin. Oh shit. We
worked so hard. We worked so hard.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
But yeah, I mean like, I think the other thing
too is as obviously earth death is becoming more and
more pronounced for people too. And like, we're just in
a run of like, Plus 95 degree weather for I
don't even know how many days at this point. Yeah.
I'm like, can we take a can we take a page.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Out of Spain's book here? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yo, too fucking hot right now. Fucking go to sleep, bro.
We'll do this shit at eight tonight and go to
bed later. But like right now, this shit is too
fucking hot.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
What if they're like in the same way that they
used to call school when there was like too much
snow on the ground? What if there was just a
universal rule that when there was a heat advisory? on
no school no heat advisory doesn't really mean anything unless
you have like kids that you're sending out into it
like it doesn't doesn't affect me as an adult but

(11:48):
what if they were just like there's a heat advisory
on there i was like yeah like running out into
the streets opening fire hydrants no we need that water
for the forest fire this is how we celebrate no
use those regenerative cooling packs please throwing regenerative cooling packs

(12:08):
in the air as we do.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
As we do. All right. Great overrated, underrated, Caitlin. And
search history. Everybody should be going out and making that
their search history as well.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Wait, what other cities are you hitting? You said Northeast,
but let people know so they can wet their beaks.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I don't know. What's that? Their whistles?

Speaker 8 (12:26):
Wet their whistles?

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Their lips?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Get excited for it? Wet their beaks would mean that
you're giving them a cut of the door. Hey, let
me wet my beak on that, huh?

Speaker 8 (12:36):
With their appetite, yes, Catherine. And it's spelled W-H-E-T.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Is that real?

Speaker 8 (12:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
It's not wet as in like water. To sharpen. Wait,
what was your question, Miles?

Speaker 4 (12:51):
What other thoughts? You said you're starting off northeast. Where
else do people expect you?

Speaker 8 (12:55):
Then in, and this hasn't been announced officially, but here's
a little peek behind the curtain. We are aiming to
go up the West Coast in January.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
What?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
The West Coast? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
And then we haven't planned the rest of it yet.
How far are we talking? Up west? Are we crossing borders?
I would love to go to Vancouver. Fuck me too.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
And then whatever's north of that.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Keep going. Keep going. North Pole.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Santa Claus wants to see.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
The Bechdel cast. Huge fan. I mean, that would be
a great location for a Christmas movie.

Speaker 8 (13:37):
Totally.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back
and we'll talk about whiny-ass tech CEOs. We'll be right back.
And we're back. And, guys, this isn't a sports podcast.

(13:58):
So we haven't been talking a ton about the state
of the Los Angeles Dodgers. But they're having a bit
of a tough run. Yeah, the... The owner of both
the Lakers.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
And the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, formerly the Lakers. Formerly the Lakers. Well, it's not
done yet. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Genie's still trying to, but yeah. So he's apparently about
to go down big. Like people, I'm hearing people use
the name Madoff in terms of like, I don't think
it's quite there, but they're saying it's not Madoff, but
that's never what you want to hear. I mean, it's
not quite Madoff. It's not quite Hitler. We're in the neighborhood.

(14:38):
It's more of a Pol Pot situation.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
Damn.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Stalin. It's two days in a row Pol Pot has
come up on the show. Well, I mean, he left
his mark.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, but he basically was doing... I don't understand... But
like he was borrowing against insurance companies in a way
you're not supposed to do that. He's leveraging the insurance companies,
taking money he didn't have and being like, well, look
at how big this insurance company is type thing. And
then you just use a shorthand fraud. Yeah. Fraud is

(15:11):
kind of the word for it. Somehow, Jerry Kushner's brother
like got word that this was really bad and was
was able to swoop in and get the money. Lakers for... Yeah,
right after Mark Walter gave Trump a World Series ring. Yeah.
That's interesting timing. Interesting timing. The Clippers, fine. That scandal

(15:33):
came to an end. We have talked about that one
before on the show, and the NBA was like, nothing
to see here. They're good. But in the murkiest way,
we were like... What do you mean there's nothing to see?
We saw a bunch of stuff that is things to
see here. Last year, Pablo Torre kind of outlined what
Steve Ballmer was doing as the owner of the Clippers.
Steve Ballmer, like, one of the richest people in the world.

(15:56):
Richest sports owner in the world. And not only was
it shady as fuck, but he also was able to
be like, and this is what he's always done. Like,
this is what he did at Microsoft, too.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Right.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Laws are merely speed bumps on the road to success.
So now we get to meet a gentleman by the
name of Jed York, who is one of the owners
of the San Francisco 49ers.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
You familiar with this football team?

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm not a fan. No? But I know that they exist.
So he was caught in... East Palestine, Ohio, which you
may remember from train derailment a few years ago, soliciting
sex from a sex worker for $ 160. And he wasn't

(16:48):
actually soliciting sex from a sex worker. He was soliciting
sex from a undercover cop who just posted a thing
on a website that was like, Cheap sex for a
rich man. And he's like, huh? Was the cop hot?
That's what he's like.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
When he got busted, he's like, wait, so is the
girl real? Just show me. Just show me.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
What? No.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Showed up at the sting with exact change in his hand. Wow.
In his hand. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Clutched to his chest like this with a carnation in
his hair.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
The phone that he had organized the deal in his hand,
like still alight with text messages. Walking up right now.
An alarm going off says meet up for sex.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
I am wholly erect.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hello. Walks right into this trap dick first and is
immediately arrested. So sex work is work. And, you know,
I'm glad that this wasn't a Robert Kraft situation where
there were actually sex workers who were, like, taken down
with the rich person. Because I hadn't realized this, but,

(18:00):
you know, people remember him, Robert Kraft, the owner of
the New England Patriots, getting busted back in 2019.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
He.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're not going to believe this, was able to afford
really good lawyers who got him completely, who got him off.
Someone had to get off. I mean, that's just what
he was looking for the whole time anyways. Prosecutors pressed
ahead against four Chinese women who worked at the massage parlor.
And the women didn't receive the same breaks. Instead, they
received criminal records and about $ 45, 000 in fines.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, because I mean, yeah, it's all just so twisted
because like, yeah, we still live in this world where
like we haven't decriminalized sex work. So everything, just the
existence of it is criminal. And half the time you
don't know What gets somebody into sex work?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
But then this guy, I'm sure, was loving to exploit
that fact to be like, well, cheap sex for a
rich man.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Let me go.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
And has he made any statement that... Has he denied
that he was there for that?

Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, he owned up to it. He was just like,
we're going to put this behind us. You guys Niners fans? No,
we're not. No, you're in Ohio. We're Browns fans. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Other details... Details about the arrest is that he contacted
the fake ad three times. Like, hey, did you see it?
Not sure if you saw my message. What was he
doing in Ohio? He's from Ohio. OK, the owner, like
his whole family. So he got this position and his
200 million dollars by having rich parents. And once again,

(19:32):
proving America is a meritocracy where only. The best and
brightest are able to thrive. How did they amass such
a fortune? I have no idea, Miles. Probably completely ethically
would be my guess. But he amassed his fortune by
being rich people's child and inheriting. His first job was

(19:53):
with the Guggenheim Foundation, which was a Mark Norman joint.
So that's... He only worked there for a year.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Walter.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Mark Walter. Yeah. Mark Walter. I was like the comedian.
It just ran. Mark Norman.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Who?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
It's a Mark with a first name. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Mark Walter joint. So I don't know. Just for further
good press for the extremely wealthy oligarchs of this nation.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I wonder what the cops felt. When they found out
that their clever sting operation led not to arresting a
regular person.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Or they would get a bunch of rewards and praise.
But a really rich sports owner.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Right. Everyone's going to be like, you should have just
let him go.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
What are you doing? Because he's not going to get
in any real trouble. Oh, he also is co-owner of
Leeds United.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
No wonder they stink.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
And a lot of Americans play on that team. Yeah,
I know. Good for him. Good for him. Well, speaking
of undercover cop smiles. Here's my badge. You guys are
all arrested for being unfunny. I'm kidding. Let's talk about
Hakeem Jeffries. My God. He's been.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Hearing it from everyone ever since they found out he
was just chilling with Jared Kushner.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Who a lot of people were trying to speculate who
the go-between was.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
They said it was due to a mutual friend.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
I was on Vituation Room with Francesca Fiorentini yesterday and
she was like, I'm pretty sure it's Van Jones. She's like,
I feel like that is the person who knows both
of them and would be like, Hey, this might be
a good thing for you guys to just like cozy
up together.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
I think most people build. Yeah. I won't look fam.
I'm trying to link. I'm trying to build. Okay.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Uh, most people looked at his meeting with Jared Kushner. Like, okay, yeah,
this dude is compromised. Uh, and he isn't about to
do shit to this administration. If he gets the gavel,
which I think most people were like, yeah, this isn't,
this doesn't bode well for people who are looking for
any kind of, um, accountability, uh, So he just posted
a video looking like this. I would say that he

(22:05):
posted this on Tuesday, looking like the most obvious undercover
cop outside of the next game, assuring people that he
is not going to go easy on the Trump cartel.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right. So this is Hakeem Jeffries. I've got some
explaining to do. Upload version one.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
What's up, y'all? Just finished up an event here in
the community in Brooklyn. I want to give you a
little real talk on this Jared Kushner situation.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
OK, OK.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
He asked for a meeting and I took it. To
discuss the affordability crisis that exists, that is not a hoax.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
What?

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh, how much time do you? I had to meet.
It's like he was lying on the spot. Yeah, we
had a meeting and I took it.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
At no boo to discuss the uh affordability crisis yeah
yeah i can't afford a yacht there it is uh
go on okay so you're that is not a hoax
thank you for for reassuring the people that you are.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Aware by the way that anybody who's just listening to
this should just be picturing he is oozing charisma yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
He looks like russell simmons doing a cameo video Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Actually, this is exactly how Russell Simmons used to dress.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yo, yo, Jim, I just want to say happy anniversary
to you and your girl.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Hey, man, I'm loving it here in Bali.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Would love to be there in the U.S., but, you know,
kind of having some misunderstandings with the police over there,
my guy.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
So I will stay here in Bali. OK, go on, Hakeem.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
At the same period of time, I shouldn't have to
say it, but I am. No one is going to
get a pass.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
We're going to hold every single member of the Trump
cartel accountable.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Including my new friend. Beginning on day one. Name names.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
If you're stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Is he going to give a specific?

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Or screwing over the American people.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
A specific consequence?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
You're going to be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Held accountable. There it is. Which is his phrase. He's
used that before, right? Where he's like, they need to
be held accountable.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
He was saying this even at the height of ICE
raids and brutalizing people and killing people.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
It was just vague words. They need to be held accountable.
Boilerplate talk. In what way?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Accountability-wise. Trust me, guys. I'm not compromised, okay? I'm just
saying we will stop them. Also, do you have weed
you want to sell to me?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm not a cop.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
I swear to God. or else I wouldn't be wearing
this Yankee fitted. That's three sizes too big for my head.
Looking like Cassidy in 2005.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
I mean, it's interesting, like how he evoked that because
when we were saying, like when we first heard about it,
we're like, what could they possibly have common ground on?

Speaker 7 (24:59):
Right.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Because a Fort, Jared Kushner is concerned with affordability. No,
because that's not what his that's not what his lane
is in the administration. It'd be good to talk to
about the affordability crisis. A billionaire who just caused a
mini French revolution in Albania. Yeah, that's my guy.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
He knows. He knows.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Because I'm thinking like what what does Kushner actually do
with the administration?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Gaza, Israel, Iran, Ukraine.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Right. So then I'm like, OK, that's that's the one
thing he is sort of transparently involved with in the administration.
And then now that some time has passed, a lot
of things have happened. Like suddenly a lot of establishment
Democrats launched like identical bad faith attacks against on Hassan
Piker for being anti-Semitic. And they use like an out
of context clip where he was saying that people continuing

(25:50):
to insist that Judaism and Zionism are the same thing
will lead to more anti-Semitism and violence.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Because that's you.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
You can't you can't use this defense that you're saying
all Jewish people want this to happen because now you're
painting every single person with that.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
And for people as part of the horrible things that
the Israeli military is doing.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah. And he said something like, if you keep doing this,
somebody is going to do something.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
And then they're like, you see what he said? He's
co-signing anti-Semitic violence without even talking about the buildup to
what that point was. And now the other piece of
news is Hakeem Jeffries has appointed staunch supporters of Israel
to the Middle East and North African subcommittee, which is
a powerful subcommittee.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Immediately after.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
This just happened like, yeah, like within like within a
day of him posting that video, we just found out
about these new assignments. And this is a very powerful
subcommittee that shapes foreign policy in that region. And this
is how the Guardian described a quote in an apparent
effort to stem the anti-Israeli tide. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a
representative from Florida and Missouri representative Wesley Bell, who just

(26:52):
beat Cori Bush said, will join the committee while Jared
Moskowitz becomes the Democrats' ranking member on the subcommittee for
the Middle East and North Africa. Moskowitz predicted his position
would become vital if the Democrats retake the House in
November's midterm elections, as many polls indicate. Quote, if Democrats
take control of the House, I'll be in a position
to help steer U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East.

(27:15):
So you're like, maybe Jared's like... Link and build, link
and build. Yeah, link, build, let's do it. Just putting,
putting places, putting pieces together just to sort of make
sure that the status quo is maintained, which I think
a lot of people are pointing out. They're like, you've
constantly seen all these new candidates get talk about our
need to decouple our government from Israel's and actually have

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foreign policy.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's humane. That's sane.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
And also domestic policy that is also considering the people
here without just sending boatloads of money out. Um, So
it's just, again, another moment, too, where you're just seeing
the establishment be like, oh, you thought you guys got
a win?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Watch this.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
I'm going to make it even harder so that the
committees that are actually doing the business on Middle East
policy is stacked with the people that wouldn't dare rock
the world.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Absolutely insulated from any public opinion or any wins on
the left or from people who are critical or view
the Israeli military.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Because, I mean, on some level, we're saying the one
thing that I could see them having common ground on
is being like, man, what's up with these like, he's
like progressive DSA, like leftist.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah. They're starting to like, they're starting to get some
attention from like even independence or former MAGA people. Cause
of the way they're talking, like we need to, we
need to figure this out.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
And when you look at Jared Kushner's history, I mean
like this guy had like literally had net and Yahoo
sleeping at his house as a kid. It's not like,
It's not, this isn't a far off thing.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Like it's a very close relationship. Wait, he had Netanyahu.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Like in the nineties. Like, like babysitting him.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Like they're like, they're like, Hey, Benjamin's coming over. You
need to sleep in the basement. Cause he's going to
sleep in your room.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
I guess the kids room. Do you have any idea
how nice his room was? Like he must've had that.
Who's the race car.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Bed with his feet hanging off the bottom.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's like, he must've had a bedroom. Like the bully
from a Peewee's big adventure. Francis? Yeah. He must have
had a Francis-ass bedroom, like a giant bed. Like, if
you're going to kick him out and put the head of, like,
Benjamin Netanyahu in there, like, what kind of room did this.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Kick you up with?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Was he the prime minister at the time, or was
he just in the Knesset?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Let's see. At the time, this was 1995? So, no,
not the prime minister yet. No, not yet. Not yet. Okay,
so they just gave him a bunk bed.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, I sleep in a bed shaped like a car.
I sleep in a bed with my wife. He's like, Charles,
you're going to have to do something about this bed, man.
Way too small for me, man.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's like rocks. I can't believe it, man. Yeah, Jared,
I'll be out of here one day, guy. Give me
a second. He sleeps with his eyes open, probably. He's like,
it's fine. I'll do it standing. That's what I do anyway.
Just in the dark. Like Mitch McConnell. Yeah, exactly. Just
powers down.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Something about these guys. They don't need real sleep like
the rest of us. Probably because you close your eyes,
then you have to go into your subconscious.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, they need to think about all the horrible things
you've perpetrated on the world.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Purity of heart. I think that's what it is. Yeah,
it's like this approaching midterm. So on the Democratic side,
they're like... We're seeing a lot of energy from the left.
We need to start criticizing Hasan Piker more. And using
it as a litmus test, too.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Because a lot of people are like, do you disavow
Hasan Piker or whatever?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
And it's like, dude, what? I don't know. They're trying
to make.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
I think because most people don't understand, at least the
audience for these Hasan Piker attacks, they don't know about
Twitch streaming.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
They don't know what that audience is like, what... What
younger people are thinking.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
So it's much easier to just be like, this guy's
a freak to older people who will never look.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Online and be like, yeah, that guy's bad.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Whoever that person is, I don't like them. It's all
games that get played on cable news.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
And it's like gladiatory games.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Games.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
You know, it's like going to the Coliseum and seeing
a Christian fighting a lion.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
We're all watching this for fun, but it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Right.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
The things that they say on these on these shows
don't do anything to the real world.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
If they did.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Polling would be very different right now for the midterms
like i think people are just upset and most people
aren't on twitch like you said most people aren't streaming
hassan piker videos they're doing normal stuff yeah they're trying
to pay their bills.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
But there is a power structure in play like the
everybody who's running the campaigns and running the official democratic
strategy is like in the bubble of only like hearing
what is on what is being said on those shows.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah they should they should watch anything else yeah well
yeah turn turn MS now off turn CNN off watch
lanterns on HBO Max or.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Something I don't know just like have yourself a night
anything yeah well I think it's like yeah that it's
like every sort of move we see from elites or
from politicians or whatever, again, always reveals a complete disconnect
from the reality that normal people like working people are.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Involved in because I, for them, it's like the same
way they tried to take down like Zoran or whatever,
like just evoke the five stereotypes.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
And that's what surely he's a socialist Muslim nine 11.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's not working because what he's saying is speaking to
actual people's lived experience. And for this, I'm sure their
shorthand is like, okay, tie them all to Hassan Piker,
get this spicy clip, make that the thing. But most
people are going to be like, I don't know, man.
What about gas? Like, are you doing something about that?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't know. I really don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Like, it was easier to get caught up on that
shit when, again, things weren't as existential. But they're completely
misreading the situation and how people are going day to
day right now.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
But then on the Republican side, it's like it's like
a race to see who can fuck this up the worst,
because Trump is demanding that the entire midterm strategy be
tied to him and about him. Yeah. Like their biggest liability.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Everyone would say, what's the biggest liability in the Republican Party?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oh, it's got to be Trump's terrible approval ratings. They're
in the gutter.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
If anything, you'd hope that you could make every race
just about the candidates and maybe hat tip to Trump
out of respect, but we don't need to get into
the MAGA of it all. Like, let's just kind of
be like, let's see if we can get an office.
So there was a meeting recently because Trump is like
sitting on like over $ 400 million in campaign cash to use.

(33:37):
And they're like, Guy, the midterms are coming up, man.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
We need to fucking start spending some money here.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
No, we got an affordability crisis. I can't afford that.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
I'm sorry. Let's hold on to that just in case.
Maybe I'm going to put this in the bank, man.
The interest on this might be good. It might be
good for me. All the consultants and strategists are telling
Trump the same thing. Best way to spend this money,
focus on individual candidates, local issues that are going to
actually resonate with people who are struggling, right? And also
to decouple them from your... I'm sure they're not saying

(34:07):
this explicitly, but like also just to like make be
able to give them no have a distraction free campaign,
which is being like with not you fucking around. But
this is what happened. This is from, I think, Politico.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Quote, but Trump himself has rejected that approach.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
House and Senate Democrats, the president noted during the meeting,
will make their fall campaigns a referendum on him. His
advisors told him that the poor polling reflects the fact
that the voting public still does not know about many
of his accomplishments. The dozens of new stock market highs,
a decline in fentanyl deaths, the sealed southern border, the

(34:43):
increase in domestic manufacturing production. The solution Trump settled on,
according to three people familiar with the meeting, was to
lean into the Democratic strategy and focus on himself. The
president ordered a series of television advertisements about his own
record that will serve as a backdrop to the hundreds
of individual House and Senate contests. That decision has resulted
in a Trump midterm election ad blitz that is set

(35:04):
to be rolled out soon from MAGA Inc.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
which is the main organization that is holding all that money.
It's bad. It does seem better than the Democratic strategy
of attacking the actual candidates who are winning.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
But this one, he's just saying, oh, what are they doing?
They're saying, I'm bad. The defense say, I'm good. What
if we tried that?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah. Have we thought about that? It has historically worked.
I'll just say that. It's a strategy. We make fun
of it. But... I'm pretty good.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
He's done okay for himself so far.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
And I think that's the thing where, like, just messaging-wise,
it's going to... If people are offered a thing where.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's like, hey, this guy.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
the declining fentanyl deaths and the sealed southern border. I mean,
the border thing appeals to people.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
And fentanyl, like, I mean, it's devastated lots of communities
around this country.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
The increase in domestic manufacturing production, I think pretty narrow
because again, I think most people are trying to hear,
like the thing that I'm sure they've observed from successful candidates,
especially progressives, are like telling people about shit they know
will make their life better in a way they can understand.
Most people are like, Increased domestic manufacturing products? What?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Again, groceries?

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Can I eat this beef that you're about to sell
that's coming at a cut rate from Argentina?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
It will be cheaper. You should not eat it. Don't
eat it. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. But it's
very affordable. Yeah, it's very affordable.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
But you cannot afford to eat it because of how
sick you will get. You said there is an affordability crisis.
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I'm addressing that. Meek's so affordable, you're in a crisis.
How about that? Roadkill everywhere, guys. Enjoy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
So, again, like, just the self-patting on the back stuff,
we'll see. Because I think at the end of the day,
the people who are going to vote Republican aren't swayed
by really much anyway.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
They're going to do it because they're still bought in on, like,
the MAGA project.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Right.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
It's the independents that are clearly becoming more and more
not the kinds of people who are, like, conflicted Republicans,
but people who seem more of, like, a get for,
you know, the left, if anything.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk
about the cat in the hat, of course. And we're back.
And it's time to talk about the fart corner. A
second grade teacher in Georgia went viral after showing off

(37:34):
her classroom's gas station on TikTok. And by gas station, we,
of course, mean a corner of the room where students
can go to fart. There's a yellow warning sign reading
gusty winds area and an assortment of Febreze products to
cover up the smell. I feel like you need a
fan in there personally. Yeah. Like blowing it towards a
window or something like that.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
You said teacher. I feel it should be innovator. Everyone
should have this.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Hero.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah, hero. Kids fucking stink. I fucking stink. I would
like a little area where that's just it. We're just
not going to pretend. Everyone does this. Go to the corner.
And shart.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
My personal opinion. Don't shart. There's a separate corner for sharting.
But yeah, to your point about how smelly kids are,
when asked about this, she said, I have a very
weak stomach, so I cannot take it. Which is like,
oh my God. How bad do these children smell? I mean,

(38:37):
yes and no.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
But I also like, to your point of kids stink, like,
I just think maybe second.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Grade teacher is not for you. Right.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
That's a hard age.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
The actual actualization. Oh, my God, I can't talk. But
they're coming into, you know, who they are and they're
testing everything out.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah. So some people this this became a big debate quickly.
A lot of people were quick to support this idea,
suggesting every classroom should have one. Some are in the
Kim camp, as some would say, the Kim Winder camp.
Very popular camp. And then other people were like, wouldn't

(39:26):
that draw more attention to the farter and make the
whole thing funnier to the room full of literal second graders. Yeah.
Like my first instinct, having a son who's just, entered
third grade and like just thinking of his, his, a
comprehensive look at his work over the last year leads

(39:47):
me to believe that he would find a way to
turn this into a comedy gold mine for the entertainment
of his, his classmates. But maybe so like, but I,
I am perfectly willing to be like the old school
baseball scouts from money ball where they're like, what are

(40:09):
you talking about? Money? Like these stats don't matter at all.
He's got to have a good jaw. That's what makes
a good ball player. Like I, if, if this is
actually possible to like de-stigmatize, like catch children this young
and de-stigmatize the human fart, because she claims that she's like,
has a really promising early results. Like the kids are

(40:31):
just like going there and like, farting and then coming
back and no one's like bah that person just farted.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
Well isn't it kind of like the whole six seven
thing as soon as adults hopped on it yeah it's
like backed off so you know we have a fart
corner the fart corner is no longer funny because now
the adults are in on.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
It yeah i do think you could try ruining jokes
just try it.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
If you're, if you're sick of the kids saying like
all this, like, all right, everyone's settled down. Like that's
the opposite. That's part of the fun.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
This feels also like an Adam Sandler bit. This feels
like him being like, oh, we're going to go far.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
And it's just like, Billy Madison.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
You can go to my fart closet. Actually, somebody commented
and was like, I'm a teacher and we have a
fart closet, which seems I don't like that one as
much because that feels shameful. Yeah. First of all, like
just in terms of the physics of it, it's bad. Yeah.
Because you're trapped in the closet.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
You should be ashamed.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm yes, I'm out of view, but
I'm also trapped in here with the unholy hell that
my lunch has just wrought. So, yeah, seems I do
like it as a as a little thought experiment. The
other thought experiments are, you know, little social experiments that

(42:01):
teachers try are usually like we turned half of our
class into fascists so i like this one.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Better gas chamber yeah yeah recalled the wave they take
you know this is this is bad this seems a
little bit more benign.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
Also yeah take note mr beast all your fucking social
experiments this is where you don't have the you don't
have the vision of the fart corner bro to build.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Fart dome Like, if you told me that, like, a
Scandinavian country, this was just, like, very common there, I
would be like, yeah, that's, like, progressive and the sort
of enlightened thing that I would expect of them. They're like,
we don't have prisons. We just have knitting groups that

(42:47):
people join, and, like, they come out fully rehabilitated. And, yeah,
you know, like, this feels like something to aspire to.
The fart yurt.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Just leaving your kid outside to sleep in the snow
and fart it just that tickles.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Me in a way yeah all right let's get to
the news that's been dominating this week is the passing
of celebrities like Dolly Parton Tim Curry obviously we had
Hayden Panettiere last week and then you know Yui Kusama
the great artist from Japan we found out about her passing.

(43:28):
She had passed 10 days ago, but I've seen a
lot of comments being like, 2026 has been like, well,
what the fuck, 2026? Which is something that people have
been saying basically every year for the past 10 years.
Our writer, Jahem, compiled a list. 2025 has been the
craziest year for celebrity deaths in a long time. Is
it me or has there been an extra amount of

(43:49):
famous people dying within the last couple of days from 2024?
2023 has been one of the worst years for celebrity deaths. 2016,
worst celebrity death year ever? Now that's the one that
I remember. That was a major talking point back in
2016 because that was when Prince, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher,
Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman, and George Michael all passed away.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
That one was a big one.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
That's a big one.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Yeah, last year outside of Diane Keaton, I don't really...
Diane Keaton, Jane Goodall.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
There were a lot, I feel like. Jane Goodall. Dick Cheney.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner. Okay, fine. I take it back.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Couple Kings.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Chaney.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
But 2016 was.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Fuck Kirk. A GoFundMe campaign back in 2016 was launched
to help protect Betty White from 2016. What a time, guys.
You remember that? Joke-ass GoFundMes. Joke-ass GoFundMes because we didn't
have enough disasters to be funded.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
Harambe.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Why isn't Harambe on this fucking list?

Speaker 1 (44:59):
But the BBC claimed back in 2026 that twice as
many notable people died in 2016 compared to 2015. I mean, we're,
but like, it's, it's just such a vague thing. Yeah.
So I've always been like, what? No, first of all,
these things don't come in threes because like, if you

(45:20):
just look at this week, people were like, and you
had Hayden Panettiere, uh, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, uh, it's over.
And then like, you know, you can really thin slice
it however you want and be selective. But experts are

(45:40):
saying that this is not an anomaly. 2016 was actually
the start of a looming celebrity death apocalypse, which is like,
sounds crazy, but there has been a major spike in
celebrity culture beginning in the 1960s, thanks to TV and
new Hollywood. And, you know, there's just like, we create more,

(46:04):
we've created more and more celebrities since the 1960s. And
like there, you try and think of like celebrities prior
to that, there's like a handful. And then starting in
the sixties, you know, there's just like more and more
famous people. And those famous people are getting, um, older,

(46:25):
which makes sense. But I also think that we are
in a period like there's also like a first mover
thing where these are the people who are like in
their 70s and 80s right now. We're celebrities in a monoculture. Yeah.
So they're like bigger celebrities. Like, yeah, I remember when

(46:45):
I was a kid, like everyone was talking about how
the only people who were like able to go on
tours for like arena tours were like people in their 60s,
like Springsteen and the Rolling Stones and like people who
are like of that age. And I think it was
the theory was that like these were people who came
along when there was just like a real monoculture and

(47:08):
like becoming a rock star was like the biggest you
could possibly be. And then they're able to like continue
to build fame and even beyond that, even as like
more people are famous. And so... Yeah, you just have
these giants out there looming who are now aging into

(47:28):
a time when they are more likely to pass away.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
I wonder if in 40 years, because modern culture is
gone now, will we still have this kind of mourning
for people? Because it's always a shame when someone passes,
regardless if it's old age or untimely and very tragic.
It's just, it feels like No one's going to care.

(47:53):
And I'm kind of sad for that.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
I mean, we'll we'll see in like 2070 when it's
all the tick tock.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Right. All the influencers like, oh, every again today. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
The tick tocker that went viral in 2019 died. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (48:13):
No.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
So many of them.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Beloved youtuber yeah but there there's actually been this is
actually a historic trend or a historical trend like a
there's been a steady rise in deaths of notable people
and also like the existence of notice notable people since
the 1700s like before the 1700s it was like well
the only notable people are like the king and Jesus. Yeah. Like,

(48:41):
you know what I mean? And then, like, it really, like,
started to climb. And that guy came back. Yeah. Then
it started to climb in the mid to late 20th
century into the 2000s. And then, like, now you just see, like,
the number of, they have it charted as, like, births
of and deaths of notable figures. You know, like, what

(49:02):
would be. Yeah, exactly. I guess that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:07):
Europe is just Europe's next top Viscount.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
This is the chart of the births of notable people
and deaths of notable people.

Speaker 7 (49:20):
I'm gonna say this i don't think i appreciated how
big the baby boom was until i was looking at
this chart.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yeah well it's the baby boom and also just oh
no that's free yeah never mind yeah that's like all
the vaudeville people dying.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Charlie chaplin lived until what the 90s 80s yeah yeah
there's only one death i want i don't need to.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Say it right no you don't need to.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
Yeah i have a bottle of fucking champagne that i
really want to open when.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Paul mccartney Yeah, but it's so it does. Before, I
was just like, oh, people are just like trying to
make something go viral and they'll like find a way to.
But it does make sense that there's just there are
more famous people because there is money to be made

(50:13):
off of famous people. But also, that's not to take
anything away from the passing of massive celebrities who were famous. Indeed,
I guess that that's one thing that we can say
now that I think is an improvement is that if
there is a Dolly Parton out there, we're going to

(50:34):
find her. You know, the media is going to, you know,
like she's in a previous age when we weren't when
there wasn't a celebrity generating factory out there. it would have,
she might have just been the most entertaining person in
her holler.

Speaker 7 (50:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
But now it's easier to find the people. But it
still might be, because.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
To get famous now, you also have to have this, like,
gene for attention grabbing.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (51:07):
That is, like, maybe counterintuitive to, or, like, the amount
of time you have to spend on that is maybe
counterproductive to, like, the number of nine to fives that
you end up being able to write because you're too
busy studying metrics on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Yeah, yeah. You mean, like, would Dolly Parton, if she
were 14 today, would she still be, like, blowing up?

Speaker 6 (51:33):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I hope so.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
Yeah, there's so many unboxing videos you can fucking watch,
but how many people wrote, I will always love you,
you know?

Speaker 7 (51:43):
That's what I'm saying is, I feel like some of the,
some of the, I will always love you brain power
had to go to like, Oh, what's the next unboxing trend.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
That's maybe the tragedy.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
People not trusting their talent and going with that. I've
fallen into that plenty of times.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Miles highlighted this kid. Who's like a songwriter who was
going viral a couple of weeks ago on here. Like
as one of the songs we wrote out on, who's
just like this young kid from, I think the UK
and like, it it's just like uh here's a song
that i wrote last night mike plays it and like
it's incredible and everybody in in the like all these

(52:25):
like famous songwriters are in the comments being like holy
shit like you're you're amazing so like maybe there is
a way for like just authentically gifted people to just
be like hey uh i this is my first video
i'm not like hey uh so just quick update after
yesterday's unboxing video i will always love you hey guys

(52:45):
yeah Yeah. That's the hope. That is the hope.

Speaker 6 (52:48):
It could be the sign of the times too, because
the influencer trend is dying. People are getting pretty fucking
sick of seeing rich people flaunt themselves for views.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
So I saw a video yesterday or even this morning,
I think a lady bought a house, nothing crazy, but
there was a little pond with a fish in it.
She built a bigger pond for the fish. And it
was the most delightful video I've seen in a long
fucking time. And yeah, I think a lot of people
are going back to that. Just something enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
I thought you were going to say there was like a,
the mob went after her or something.

Speaker 6 (53:26):
Well, that was towards the end. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
I've actually, I know those fish and that's actually a
sign that those fish are uncomfortable and frightened. They're sending.

Speaker 6 (53:36):
Those fish were absolutely, absolutely in the stamp files, but
you know.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
All right, that's going to do it for this week's
weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you
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