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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop
infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here
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is the Weekly Zeitgeist. We had a quasi crisis over
the weekend in Hawaii and our westernmost state. I guess,
I guess Alaska's our westernmost states. I think so, yeah,
but Hawaii's way out there and uh, far out, far
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out man and uh, you know, just surfing, hanging loose.
And they got an alert at eight around eight am
that said a ballistic missile was incoming and uh oh yeah,
see commediate shelter. This is not a drill, which is whoops.
Uh yeah, it was a mistake. Um, as people probably
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know by now, due to the fact that we're not
in a thermonuclear war, nuclear war, nuclear nuclear Uh but yeah,
it was I don't know. For thirty eight minutes, everybody
was miles You said, you know some people who live
in Hawaii, and they were just my girlfriend's college roommate
is from Hawaii and lives out there, and like she
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was saying, like it was wild, like they were calling
each other being like hey, like if we don't make
it like, I love you, Like like really people were
forced to examine their mortality like in those thirty eight minutes,
and like her friend's sister lives in the mainland and
is the only one that is on the mainland right now,
so she was out there, her parents were calling her like, hey,
the missile might come, and like like someone on her
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sister was like having a meltdown too, because she thought
everybody in her family was just about to be like
who knows what was going to happen. It sounds like
a very traumatic situation for people who were involved, all
because it was a mistake and we have outdated software
to you know, sort of moderate all this kind of stuff.
And I mean, I guess people could have figured out
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that it was a mistake when they weren't dead after
five minutes, which is apparently how long it would take
for the missile too get from North Korea. That's a
five minutes. Yeah, yeah, so you have five minutes. So
I really use that phone call, that first phone call carefully.
Um it's it's a crazy story. Um, this is something
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that we covered a lot back a Cracked How many
times during the Cold War, there were just these near
misses where you know, one like glitch would happen. They'd
leave a tape in sort of the um no Red
like the big defense room that like you've seen in
movies where it's like all these screens and stuff. They
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once left a tape in there that was a drill
for a nuclear attack and they actually like had the
president like up in the air and everybody was freaking out,
like getting ready to launch weapons. Uh. There's this story
about stan as La Petrov, this guy in Russia who
you know, was the guy who was in charge of
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if there was a missile incoming. He was too like
call the command and say launch launch an attack on
the United States. He saw one missile and he was like,
all right, that could be a glitch. And then like
twelve missiles followed like exactly in the form formation that
you would expect coming from the United States. And for
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whatever reason he just decided like, Okay, we're I'm not
going to end the world. I feel like this, this
doesn't feel quite right. And he was right. It was
like a sun glare or something like that. Um but
they what a sunlar looked like twelve missiles. Yeah, it
was like fucked with the satellite radar. Yeah, but he
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basically saved the world by not doing his job. By
failing to do his job. Um, and yeah, could you
imagine if like we reacted to this then the wrong way.
It's like, oh, ship, well, I guess it's going off.
And then because it happened in Japan too, like on
Sunday or I think, yeah, or maybe two more the timeline,
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it's it's kind of weird, but anyway, yeah, I think
it was Sunday or maybe Monday anyway in Japan that
it was another fake warning of like a seek shelter.
But they got they got like the just kidding alert
out like within a couple of minutes, so it wasn't
a full blown, like forty minutes of like existential dread
like the poor people in Hawaii did. But yeah, the
guy who did it burned me Agi shout out to
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Mr Miagi. He felt terrible about the mistake, which I'm
sure he would because after here, like you could see
there's like a photo, he looked like really like I
fucked up so bad. I'm so sorry. But yeah, when
you look at the interface that he was using, it's
just like literally clicking a to send one out. That's
like they're not like properly organized. I can see how
you if you weren't on your ship, you might accidentally
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hit that we I mean, yeah, the technology is just
crazy out of date, like surrounding all nuclear weapons and
uh yeah, it's just the hardware and software. Uh sixty
minutes to a story about it, and you look at it,
it's like out of an eighties movie. It looks like
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an eighties movie. A lot of the technology that they
have both guarding and controlling nuclear weapons. Was he trying
to send anything he was supposed to do? I think
a test? A test you're supposed to it says like
drill right, you know, oh my god. That's like when
you accidentally screenshot a conversation and then send it to
the person you're talking to, Right, You're like, damn, yeah,
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I'm like it was a glitch, It was a mus
dark yeah, photoshop. That happens probably hundreds of thousands of
times every day, like and yeah, so we shouldn't have
technology that makes it possible for people to do that
with uh nuclear weapon. I mean, how many people you
think involved in that? Like took stock of like their
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relationships to like, how many breakups do you think happened
after this? Like missile warning? It was like, y'all, honestly,
like in that thirty eight minutes, I thought like if
somebody I was really trying to be dating or like
the fact that we're kind of done and I still
haven't done anything yet. Sorry, this is I took stock
of my life in those curtain minutes and this isn't
gonna work out. I feel like there has to be
something people just come clean with, like death confessions. Someone
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needs to option this story already. I mean, it's a
it's a rom com for yeah, for sure. Um yeah,
and Trump was apparently golfing, so right, and just thank
god he's like they knew within minutes, right that it
was a fake thing. They told him, and he was
kind of all right, you could have tweeted something. A
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lot of people follow your Twitter, so I'm sure you
could have probably put some people at ease, but didn't
send out a correction. Right for thirty minutes. It took
him to be like, oh, false alarm, my bad. So yeah,
they're there now saying that people will know when it's
a real one because they'll send a follow up being
like and seriously, we didn't funk up this time, that
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this is an actual then you have to enter a
capture code. Yeah right, you're not a bot. Like what
you're warning me, Miles. Things aren't going so well for
the GOP. Uh the you know liberal strongholds of Iowa, Wisconsin,
Western Iowa. Yeah, so Chuck grass Lee and Joni Earns,
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who are the senators for Iowa, they did their like
annual tour where they go to like the ninety nine
counties of Iowa and like, so the naturally they stop
off in like rural Iowa because it's probably gonna be
some you know, town halls, won't be very charged. But yo,
did they get a surprise because at Chuck Grassleys they
were like the people were sincerely asking this is he
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was in the county that had the Republican registration the
outnumber Democrats two to one, and Trump wanted by thirty
five points, so he's in like Trump country, and these
older white voters were there to take basically Grassley to
task and be like what do you think, like do
you think he's mentally stated when he's like, well, it's
not my job to know, and they're like, well, you know,
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like what's going on. We feel like you're obstructing the
Russia investigation. Like he was getting questions that were like
you thought indivisible was there being like hey, okay, this
is I can ask him And this was seemingly completely disorganized,
an organic sort of pushed back from voters. Then Joni Ernst,
she doesn't do a good job either. She's at a
town hall meeting and they are pressing her like it's
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and these are not these are Trump voters. This one
woman asks her like, yo, his xenophobia and racism is
like basically making our country look bad and like I
feel like other countries we have really bad relationships and
he's not sticking up for like other jess are American values.
And so this is what Joni Earnest reply is when
saying our our standing is tarnished and we're not sticking
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up for little countries and he is standing up for
a lot of the countries that where we have seen, um,
you got Norway. Oh boy, just like laugh they laughed
at her. I mean for real though really he was saying.
She was saying, he's standing up for a lot of
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countries around the world right, and that her answer was norway,
you can just hear the like nervous breakdown creeping up. Yeah,
and she knew, like, oh i am this is an
indefense the bad answer. Her brain is like hold on,
hold on, hold on, I'll take it from here. Right.
So that is not a good sign, especially with Democrats
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trying to take back the House, uh in this year
mid terms, Like when you have people in these like
really solidly rural areas being like talking like this, or
for example, in Wisconsin, a Democrat won a state Senate
seat from a really well known Republican, which is another
big shock. Like even Scott Walker, the governor was like whoa, whoa,
what's going on? Like it's definitely causing a panic. So
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off of that, right, there's all these like like weird
unexpected democratic pickups. There's some momentum going. There's a Washington
Post article talking about sort of Trump like looking at
eighteen and in discussions about like, you know, are they
nervous about the mid terms, he basically like brought up
like he's in this in this article, they say quote
in private conversations, Trump has told advisors that he doesn't
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think the election has to be as bad as others
are predicting. He has referenced to two thousand two mid terms,
when George W. Bush and Republicans fared better after the
September eleventh terrorist attacks. These people said, so it's almost
as if he's predicting a September eleventh like event will
happen between now and those elections. Yeah. So, I mean
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he's because I don't know that, but the way it's
being told, it's like, well, I don't think it's gonna
be that bad. I mean, September eleven helped out the
Republicans two thousand two. Right, Is he predicting or is
he hedging his bets and like hoping for a nine?
I don't know either way. That's fucking scary as shit,
it really is, because I mean his favorite person is
Putin or the Pultin. Uh. He speaks very uh, you know,
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admiringly of Putin, and Putin you know, swept to power
and really consolidated a lot of his power by doing
a false flag thing where he you know, bombed a
bunch of apartment buildings, killed a bunch of Russians and
then blamed it on Czecheny and terrorists even though uh
it's it was obviously like journalists have you know, basically
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proven that it is. It is done by the FSB,
which is their CIA essentially. Uh So, yeah, that's always
been a big worry of mine, is either what happens
if a nine eleven organically happens or uh if he
makes one of those things happen, because he seems like
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the worst person one of those things that happen. Yeah,
he's think about even on the campaign, how he was like, oh, Russia,
I'd love your help, or like wiki leaks, please show
those things, like where you kind of suspect that he
knew as he said that stuff, and then when he
sort of juxtaposed that with him sort of privately being like, well,
you know, nine eleven helped out the Republicans. Like no,
people are saying, so it's it's that's a weird. That's
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a weird, very weird quote. The thing that a lot
of people are talking about right now is that the
president aced his cognitive exam and uh aced his physical exam.
He is the same height and body weight as uh
NFL quarterback Jay Cutler. Tall, live athletic Jay Cutler, same
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same frame. Apparently when you look at them next to
one another, that that would seem to be physically impossible. Um. Well,
I was worried. But then I saw on the internet
that the president is big and strong and smart, so
I could just check out, Yeah, there's no problem there. Um.
But so uh, the president allegedly requested a cognitive exam
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so he could, you know, show all those people outing him,
the haters, that he is in top notch condition and
is in fact very stable genius. Uh. And he got
a thirty for thirty. Um, not an ESPN documentary. He
got a score of thirty out of thirty. And uh, yeah,
I mean he's smart that I was impressed until I
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saw the exam. It's like got a drawing of a
lion and is like, what is this animal? Then he
has to name that correctly. There there's one hard question.
There's a hard Yeah, there's one hard question where uh
you have to remember like a series of five words
a couple of minutes after they're said to you. Uh,
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so you know if it could do that. It's weird
because we were saying, like his the weight that he
came in for his height, which is like so they're
saying he's with six three for a bm I score
technically puts you just what one pound below obies, one
pound below OBEs What a lucky stroke of damn interesting?
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So yeah, that was my friend Chris sent me that
this morning. He was Liken't that lucky? It isn't not amazing? Wait,
but it is even six three. Uh, it still says
six ft two, Like that's still what the Internet has
decided he is. Google google President Trump's height, it'll say
six too. There are lots of pictures of him next
to people who are six ft one, and he looks
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either shorter or exactly the same height as them. Uh.
There is a picture of him next to uh Jeb
Bush during the debates, and Jeb Bush seems to be
at least two inches taller than him. Jet Jeb Bush
is six three. So yeah, six three is one of
those reach heights like Charles Barkley was six eight was
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actually like six ft three knock come on. Uh yeah,
so um that's why I think there may be a
little foolery going on sadly with that doctor. Yeah, it's
interesting because the doctor, like we looked into him, he
was appointed by President Obama. Um, so it's not like
he's Trump's crazy like hack partisan Hall even though his
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name is what doctor Dr Dr Ronnie Hey Dr Ronny
called Dr Ronnie. Uh yeah, that does sound like a
Jersey Shore nickname rann And went to high school with
her with sam Sammy. No, that's crazy. That was the
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thing that was like super embarrassing when that show came
out and everyone's like, oh is this what? What? Well
Sammy Snooky is my friend's cousin. Yeah, yeah what Super
producer Ane Hoosie has a look of shock. What happened? Oh?
She just didcause I thought that President Trump had resigned
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or something like that. But based on the look on
super ducer Anna Hosnie's face, and it was actually her
response to Daniel knowing members of the Jersey shortcast. Uh,
there's also Eric Trump was on Fox News talking about
his dad. How's dad is color blind? Because he can't
be racist? Oh that's not racist. That was not a
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cognitive thing, got it. Yeah? He said his dad only
sees one color and it's green. I don't know, we
have a quick would be troubling physically. Yeah, this is
on Fox and Friends. I think this morning people in
the meeting says some things about race, and that people
are calling him a racist for the last five or
six days. Um, I know you don't agree with that,
but is there anything you could bring to this conversation
you think is important? That my father's one color green,
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that's all he cares about. He cares about the economy, right,
he does not see ray. He's the least racist person
I've ever met in my entire life. It's totally nonsense.
The least racist person. Yeah, that, come on, was the
least racist person you've ever met. We were saying that,
how can you even give anyone that title? It's ridiculous.
I think the only person it makes sense You's be like, well,
Martin Luther King Jr. Was the least racist person to live.
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I know plenty of people that I don't think are racist,
but even like, like to give someone that title just
seems impossible. Well, Trump loves superlatives, you know what I mean.
So you know, I was voted at least racist person
in my high school. So, like, I think it's something
he would lie about. Also, that that would normally be
like a president's child, being like he only sees green
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would be like an angsty thing that like the way
they would criticize that, but and like when you didn't um, yeah.
But other other things that he needed to now for
the cognitive exam include drawing a clock at eleven? Uh?
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Was it tenast eleven? H? So that's something uh really
like the just looking at this quiz, it really goes
downhill quickly. Like the very first category is visuospatial slash executive.
It sounds pretty advanced. And then question number two, draw
a clock, question three naming what these animal? Al right, right,
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And what's funny is the guy who created that test,
he's like a Lebanese Canadian immigrant and he was like
finding it ironic. He's like that he's depending on somebody
with all his like Muslim bands and anti immigrant ship
that oh, like, I my test bailed you out, or
you're trying to act like this test made you seem
that you are the most sane and stable person. But
he also points out that that test has its flaws,
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and it's also like it just sort of it's bentman
to do a basic just be like, okay, your brain
is sort of working, but it doesn't test like anything
psychological or judgment or anything like that. That guy who
made the quiz uh is maybe the most sweetly naive
person I've ever heard in my life, because he was
interviewed and he was like, maybe the President will learn
from this and soften on his immigration. Oh buddy, you
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think he's gonna know you made cutbacks to the studio
and they're just all like wiping tears from their eyes,
laughing so hard. Yeah, yeah, I know that's probably gonna happen. Uh. So,
apparently Miles he were saying that Dr Sanjay Gupta also
spoke with Dr Ronnie about the President's heart health. Yeah,
because apparently, like in two thousand nine, Groupta had heard
that Trump had basically started having these quote tests that
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are actually looking for the presence of calcium and the
blood vessels that lead to the heart, and steadily up
until this past week when he had to performed again,
those numbers have gone up and when they get to
a certain age that means you have heart disease. So
grouped to followed up with Dr Ronnie uh and was
like asking him about these tests and this is what
he had to say. Quote. It was interesting when I
spoke to Dr Jackson. At first he said he had
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passed all the tests with flying colors. Groupeda said when
I asked him specifically about that test about the calcium,
he did then concede that in fact, the president does
have heart disease. They're going to be increasing medications including
cluster all lower medications, etcetera, etcetera. So basically what they're saying,
I mean, one way to look at is that he
he's technically within the threshold, a measurable threshold that will
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put you say technically that you do have heart disease.
But the doctor is saying like it's it's manageable or whatever. Yeah,
and so I mean, I want to trust this guy
because he's a doctor who was appointed by Obama. He's
also a military guy, and the people who most benefit
from having Trump and power are also the military guys
who are actually running our country. Um, but yeah, like
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that he was specifically asked. People were like, wait, so
how is he so healthy if based on the diet
that he eats, and Doc Doc Ronnie was like, Oh,
he's just got the best genes I've ever seen. He's
the perfect genes genetically, He's he's the best. It makes
me feel like a crazy person though, because like I
also as soon as I hear about this. It makes
me start to question is this doctor on the level?
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And that makes me feel like a conspiracy theorist, because
because if he had given me the information that I
believe in my heart to be true, I wouldn't be
questioning anything, right this doctor who Obama pointed like, no,
he's he's he's healthy. Like, I don't know. It's freaking
weird to me too, man, Uh yeah, exactly, So I
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don't know. Let's just keep our eye on it. You know.
Obviously we're not hoping for him to uh have bad
things happen to him. No, not at all. But I
just feel like, you know, is this like, is this
is this doctor is really measuring him at six three?
I would love to get my stats because then it
would probably finally put their bed. Then I am six
ft two yeah this morning, only six. I can't believe it. Anyways,
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all right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back after these messages and we're back. Um, so
we wanted to check in with the world of Trump supporters.
I keep bumping into the fact that I live in
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a different bubble than a entire portion of the US population. Um,
there's been the fake news awards that Trump released I
think last night as a recording this and uh, people
were so eager to see the fake news awards that
they crashed the website where they released them. Um. So yeah,
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it's like their equivalent of Obamacare going live and being like,
now you couldn't have healthcare. Uh. It was underwhelming a
little bit. I'm surprised because it's just sort of like
stories that just had been retracted or edited for like inaccuracies.
I thought it was gonna be like and this motherfucker
is the worst and blah blah blah. It was kind
of like, Okay, well, yeah, it was just a handful
of stories that media outlets got wrong and admitted they
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got wrong about the Trump administration. I've reached a delirium
about Trump to where it's so horrible that I actually
love it now, Like I like, I can't. It's like
my body is rejected. It was rejecting more and turning
you into laughs. Like I literally I was. I was
sitting at jitlot of the other day, which is a
nice restaurant time to kill, and I started reading an
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article about him in North Korea and the leaders calling
each other like fat and stupid, and I started crying
from laughter that this is our reality and the inevitability
of it in America, that it would reach this point.
And I can't take it seriously because the thing is
every generation is narcissistic and thinks that their generation will
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be the one that ends the world. And I don't
think that's going to happen with us. We are definitely close,
and we definitely could. I just don't think it's gonna happen.
But it is hilarious the things we talk about every
day and the way this super insane narcissist has taken
over all of our lives. He's really good at what
he does, and we can't do anything about it. There's
nothing to do because become so bipartisan and nobody cares
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about people. Everyone wants to get rich, and um, it's
it's it's so horrible that it's the funniest joke of
all time. Truly, I cannot get to a real place.
So you think your existential dread has just sort of
like morphed into just like like like I'm just gonna
laugh myself crazy. What else is there to do? I mean,
this is the worst person ever made is in charge
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of the world. How is that not funny? Yeah, I
mean I think because we have to like read about
it every day. I don't I've I've noticed that I'm
in the beginning, I just sucking bawl my fists something
and now I'm just like, well, look, I have to
just observe what is happening in the world. I'm trying
to be removed from it, and also optimistic that like,
really the only thing that can try and curb this
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is like the midterm elections and like, you know, begin
to shift Congress. But you know, I think the system
is broken, and that's a whole other show that we
can get into. It is broken. And what's funny. It's
weird because you know, I wanted Hillary to win, but
even if a Hillary one still would have been a
broken system, no no question about it. So it's sort
of like maybe it's good that we're all getting aware
how broken it is, but it's also like, oh man,
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we're just fucked really fun go follow your dreams, you
know you might as well. Yeah, and I don't know that.
I mean, I think narcissism and the fact that we
elected our biggest narcissists at a point where I think
our culture is maybe the most narcissistic it's ever been
with you know that social media was like built to
sort of echo chamber our narcissism and like make narcissism
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the main value of like a culture, and then we
elected our biggest narcissists. But I don't feel like that's
a self correcting thing where we're gonna be like, oh,
so it's kind of our fault for valuing the stuff
that he's good at. I think it's just we're going
to look at the institutions and be like, they're they're
the ones that broke, not not us. Yeah. Yeah, it's
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like x Mochia, we built the robot that will destroy us. Spoiler.
Let's move on to a happier story. Uh, some California
parents were holding thirteen children hostage and a house that
looks pretty smile. I was just the story is depressing,
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but you must have a good take. Uh, I really don't.
It is. Yeah, it's horrifying. I spent yesterday afternoon like
touring the town because I had just never heard of it.
It's uh when you went up to the town. No, no, sorry,
I should have finished that sense touring the town on
Google Maps I'm just kind of getting a feel for
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what what the town looks like from a sky view. Yeah,
from a sky view, and you know you can do
the thing where you like go up and down the
streets and uh, it's just a weird, weird town. Um.
I obviously you just know the headlines because I was
too bummed out by the headlines to know much more.
They had thirteen kids just chained up for for years. Yeah.
The kids, they're ages two to twenty nine. The kids
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who are adults actually look like children because they've been
so malnourished. Um. And yeah, it was apparently part of
some religious thing there. Parents were homeschooling them obviously. Uh.
And apparently you can get a license to home school
without getting a visit at the house. But yeah, it's
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a it's a really dark story. The the town is.
It's weird. Like I, so I did kind of a
deep dive on the town there. Their biggest job creator
is like raw stress for Lesser or something like that.
But their second biggest is a company called Starcrest of
California Industries. And when you go to Starcrest of California
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or starcrest dot com, the stuff they sell is so weird.
It's like seems like it's a shell company for some
like weird religious cult. Uh. There's a family fund page
and uh the products that they sell our jacks, the
game with the golden metal things metal Grandpa, damn it.
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This website is ten thoucent and haunted by a baby ghost.
It's so it's crazy. Uh, a puzzle and one C. D. K.
Smith Kate Smith, the Bell of the South or something,
Songbird of the Songbird of the South. Yeah. So it's
just I don't know, I'm really interested in this town.
Now that's a guilty pleasure. I I'm definitely not saying
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the town is uh a haunted you know, shell for
religious cult. Uh that is like Children of the Corn style,
you know, just people hiding inside their houses waiting for
you to ring their doorbell so they can like cut
your throat. But uh, the yeah, it's just interesting. Give
it a look on Google Maps. There's like no nobody's
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in the streets. There are no cars on the streets,
which might just be how Google Maps works, but I
feel like I always when I look at my street,
there's always cars. Yeah. Sure you can usually catch cars. Yeah,
but it's just it just looks like an abandoned town,
like beautiful, there's like lots of beautiful nature and is
exactly definitely buying this puzzle though. Yeah, yeah, that puzzle
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looks great. And I'm looking on the garden and tool
section and this handy jack extra hold tape for eight
dollars looks like quite as steel. They sell battery testers,
like those old battery testers from like the mid nineties.
It looks like backs, like old dead stock stuff from
the eighties that they couldn't sell. I'm I'm obsessed with
this now because this puzzle that I'm buying free of UH,
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it's called back in the Good Old Days puzzle and
it's designed to remind you of a simpler time. And
it's a person whose face you can't see. They're at
a grocery store where there's no cashier and just like
animals running around on the floor, you know, you know.
Um yeah. And this so this company that we're looking
at that like sells a bunch of products that nobody
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has bought in forty years. UH is the number two
employered employees a thousand people in this town, Star Crest
of California. What's going on? Starcrest? Uh? Let's get to
the bottom of this. I don't know who's buying their
insane products like the Owl Stretch ring watch or the
Crystal Expansion watch. It's very odd. Yeah, I would do
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some investigating elsewhere in Washington. Uh, there might be a
government shutdown and this is all tied up in this
is sort of how people interact with Trump. Uh so
what one of the big details is immigration that uh,
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nobody can quite agree on in DACA and John Kelly,
Trump's chief of staff, just said that he basically evolved
Trump's thinking on the border wall and he probably did
and he probably did uh and also talked about how
it was his idea to give DOCCA like the six
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months to allow Congress to fix it, rather than just
like saying DOCCA is over like Ice is coming for you.
Motherfucker's uh and sadly right. So he's taken credit for that,
And this is like textbook how not to deal with Trump.
Like for whatever reason, the people who work for Trump
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have not learned that you don't ever ever take credit for,
you know, telling him what to do because then he
immediately reacts badly and are engineer and producer Nick Stump
kind of put together an outline or just how this
has worked with regards to DACA. So in September, Trump
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has this dinner with Chuck and Nancy that's supposedly very cordial,
and they outline a deal on DOCCA. Uh, no border
walls included. Everybody's happy. They take like photo ops and
there's just mutual love everywhere. And then you know, Chuck
and Nancy, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi sort of crip
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walk out of the office and are just like celebrating
for the cameras, and uh, Trump is like fun that
the deals off. I didn't agree to anything. Uh. Then
more recently, uh, Diane Feinstein like owns Trump in this
January nine meeting in front of the press, gets him
to agree to a clean DOCCA bill. Uh. January the
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media sort of crowded and made fun of him. Uh.
And then January eleven, Trump is just fully dug in
on this like hardline garbage position where you know, he
starts talking about ship hole countries. Uh. And now we
have John Kelly sort of taking a victory lap about
how he influenced Trump on immigration issues and says the
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six month DOCTA extension was something he ordered and you know,
on on the Wall he says, quote, certain things are
said during the campaign that are uninformed. Uh yeah, so
that ship is like he's not going to be happy
about that. And that's and we're already seeing that Trump
has like is basically shit canning this bill that was
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going to sort of extend things and uh, you know,
avoid a government shutdown, right, Like there wasn't there some
sort of bill to extend it seems like, uh, Dick
Durban and Lindsey Graham had come to like a bipartisan
solution of things. And that's when like ship just started
falling apart and the two like it's become a moving
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target to even know what Trump wants anymore, Like how
to how to solve this, Like do we avoid the
shutdown with uh, just like a limited spending bill but
also add CHIP funding to get Democrats on board. The
problem is for the a child health insurance program. So yeah,
basically the I think in October the Republicans just like
we just let CHIP funding laps. So there are a
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lot of kids who rely on the government for health insurance,
Like these funds are drying up rapidly and now they'll
be very vulnerable children who don't have access to healthcare
that they need um and this seems like a very
easy thing to agree on. It's like, we want, you know,
poor kids to be able to have insurance or access
to healthcare. But it's become like this bargaining tool and
now like it's become this same game of chicken between
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the Republicans and Democrats of like who's gonna blink and
let the government shut down or not pass it, you know,
avoid a government shutdown, and it it's ultimately looks like
the Democrats are digging in. They're like, look, you have
the Senate, you have the House, and you have the
White House, so don't tell us we're obstructing it because
you know this is clearly you have a ton of
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infighting on your side of things that you haven't sorted out.
And we're here trying to say like we want you know,
we want CHIP, we want CHIP funding UH paid in full,
and we also want to clean Dream Act, so we
don't want kids to die, and we want people who
have lived most of their life in America to not
be deported to countries and people who are contributing to
the country too. And I think it's crazy too, because
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now you know they're trying to act like these kids
aren't you know, worthwhile people contributing to American society, and
that's completely false, right, But because Trump feels like people
are not giving him a proper respect, he's kind of
stopped stopped that bill from going through is basically gumming
up the works. But also it's no surprise that after
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John Kelly is like I evolved, the President's like peace
there his position on it that this morning he's like,
oh no, my vision of the board of wall has
never changed or evolved, So you should have. Nobody would
love to live with that kind of blind self confidence.
I mean, that's all all these stories come back to
the same thing. For me. It's like he can just
say something and then later say that I didn't say
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that thing. I always said this thing, and enough people
believe him, and it's like, it's just that's what I'm
You have to take the positives out of horrible situations.
And all I'm doing is learning how to be And uh,
I wish I won't hope I maintained being a good person,
but it's nice to know that if I'm a bad
person who consistently lies, it doesn't matter. It's a good
take away. It's really good. I mean it would be fun,
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like the evil part of me. Just think of like
if you if the stakes weren't so high, like the
kind of mind games you'd play with Trump to get
him to stuff you wanted, and just like funk with
other people, like dude, watch, I'm gonna get this ship
done and just go in there and be like, dude,
that was such a good idea, man, and then get
him too, like very basic stuff like how you deal
with the difficult bosses. You get them to think that
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a good idea was there, and you compliment the ship
out of them about having come up with that idea.
This is kind of a great insight into how the
people around Trump are sort of learning about how to
deal with him. Uh. Lindsay Graham was asked if Trump
was racist, and his response was pretty telling. I think
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I think we have the clip of that. Why don't
you ask me is he a racist? That was my
next question. Okay, why don't you ask me? Do you think?
Absolutely not? Let me tell you what you could be
and dark as charcoal and lily white. It doesn't matter
as long as you're nice to it. You could be
the pope and criticize him. It doesn't matter. He'll go
after the pope. You could be putin and say nice
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things and he will like you. Here's what I found.
He's a street fighter. It's not the color of your
skin that matters. It's not the content of your character.
Is whether or not you show him respect and like him.
And if he feels like we were all script you
don't like him, he punches back, and as president the
United States, the only advice I can give you is
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it the street fights over he mentioned, he goes he's
such a bad person. Lindsay Graham's a bad person because
he's like pretending to be kind of liberal but deeply
conservatives when he says woke Shi, Yeah you're talking. Also,
why are they asking a white person if he's racist?
It's so stupid. Yeah, he's a street fighter. Man, which
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one do you think he is? I think he's Blanca
or maybe Guile. Actually guile makes more sense at all. Yeah,
but did he think that was like defense? I don't
know what it was likely to defend someone who he
fights against. Anyone calling him out is not racist because
he fights against anyone calling him out. Even though most
people calling him out are not white, right, what are
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we talking about? That's the funny thing about, Like you
don't get to say you're not racist. Like if people
are calling you racist, you're racist. That's like it has
nothing to do with what you think you are. But
I mean, like the better version of that answer would
have been like, look, yes he's racist. But also here's
the thing, even if you're black, he will like you
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if you just kiss his ass, So like there's a
way to bypass his racism if you're just a sicker
fan like, which I think is what he was trying
to say, without like you know, sort of repul like
having a repulsive effect on his his base of like
Republican people who don't want to hear anyone in the
GOP call him racist. So he's like, no, he's not,
but let me say this other ship that is kind
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of fucked up about his ego but not full you know,
not a full throat of being like yo, he thinks
what he was saying is basically yes, but I want
to keep getting the kickbacks I get as a senator,
So no, yeah, like he's a piece of ship. And
then there is an implicit threat against the media there
at the end, like you're working with the president who
will destroy you and like wants to destroy you, so
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stop saying things he doesn't like. Was essentially I think,
like what when he was like, the street fight is
over and he's the president. I thought he was saying
that he doesn't have to that street fight mentality is
no longer needed. Look only speaking outdated nineties video. And
that's how I was also pretty impressed. Yeah, thank you.
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All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back. Yes, we're back. And you
know me, I'm all about a big proponent of cannabis,
adult use, medical use, and otherwise. UH and Prop sixty
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four in California did a great thing, right, It created
uh a legal adult use marijuana recreational we basically made
recreational wead legal here. But another great part of Prop.
Sixty four is that it also allows anyone basically to
have their past marijuana related offenses crimes reduced or exponged completely,
which is wild because they're saying, like, look, weed is legal,
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and I guess now that we know that you shouldn't
have to be completely punished for any kind of crimes
that you committed in regards to possession, especially because a
lot of people got like felony possession for weed and
can't get jobs, can't get loans and things like that.
So this is like a very great opportunity for for
you know, society sort of change these kinds of things
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and allow people to kind of start over a new
especially because like African Americans California were five times is
likely to get arrested for a marijuana felony the white offenders,
So these constraints disproportionately affected them, and now we're showing like, hey,
this is part of the new the new era. We
also believe that you should ruin your life because of
some you're you're whole in some wheat. And how many
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people are eligible for this, I think nearly like a
million people or something. It's pretty it's pretty. Uh, it's
I think it's roughly one million Californians are are eligible.
According to the Drug Policy Alliance, there is nothing more
stupid than the fact that weed was illegal, like alcohol
is legal, Like, are you fucking kidding me? I think
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we should ban alcohol. I don't like anyone who drinks
a lot. Obviously, you shouldn't ban anything. You should let
people do whatever the funk they want and funk up
their lives and do whatever deal with anxiety the way
they want. But what are we talking about here, like
if anything, like we just increases the economy of like
Amazon downloads and like like food delivery, Like it's just
like it's just good for the economy and who cares? Like?
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But also I feel like just the idea that drugs
are illegal is just part of this puritanical myth that
life has to be this utopia um or people are
always like struggling to um they're struggling to accept that
life is not the utopia they wanted to be, whether
it's like socialist or religious like Christian or something like that.
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It's just so offensive and horrible that people won't talk
about what adulthood actually is, which is very painful. And
we need drugs, let's be real, right, So yeah, I
mean it's good to know that you know that people
are thinking about this too, because it could have just
as easily been like hey, weed as legal and not
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thought about like, well, hey, if weed is legal, what
about these people that are in jail or like have
completely had their lives fucked over because they can't. They
have to be like, hey, were you ever convicted of
a felony and a job ere? Like yeah, it's so stupid.
It's like in Germany, like if people had felonies for
being Jewish, you know what I mean. It's like, what
are we talking about here? Like, of course you should
expunge it. This should never have been a crime. We
made a mistake because we're scared of the truth. So
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this is us. Yeah, it's it's the government or at
least the state of California making good on that. And
are there law firms that are going to or you know,
funds or charities that people can look into. I don't.
I don't know if we we don't have that information,
I guess right now. But yeah, I'm I'm hoping somebody
is like dedicating themselves to just helping people get uh
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their marijuana related offenses reduced or expunged, because yeah, well
I think that's sort of the next step is making
sure that you know, public defenders offices and legal a
providers can like actually talk tell people that's like hey,
just so you know, like I'm looking through the records.
I heard, Yes, I got a felony like possession thing.
You can actually petition to get this changed. Yeah, like
an innocence project for people who got arrested for bullshit
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weed related offenses. I think it's funny because when you
go get your weed card, all the doctors are like
doctor for twenty and all that stuff, and now there's
gonna be a lawyer four twenty esquire. Just everything is
a chance for branding the Well Network offices of Green
Bud and some other fucking damn real stone over here. Seriously, guys,
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all right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
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