Weekly Zeitgeist 87 (Best of 8/5/19-8/9/19)

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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 last stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well,

(00:25):
what's something that's underrated? Okay, Benny Hanna's because I feel
like the only people who takes I just feel like
not enough people love Benny honest there like they think
it's like corny or whatever. Who does a lot of people? Yeah,
I see, and I think the only people who like
Beniana is enough or me, my friend Dave Rankin, who

(00:45):
you know to chains people who love Benny Hanna's, I
don't know. If I I don't see, you're one of
those people will know. I'm What I'm saying is Benny
Hannah has value, you know. But I'm not saying. I'm
not saying we gotta go to Baty Hunta right now. See.
I would leave right now to be well, look that's

(01:06):
a that's a trip I'm willing to take. But can
we do that next time? I had a place for
people who have horrible children. You're never gonna see a
good child in mini Hunnah's everybody's kids are awful. It's
like where you take bad kids, you have bad never
younger than teenagers. The fire gets like my child's eyebrowserre.

(01:29):
Since I want someone to throw a shrimp in my mouth,
and I want them to make that pac Man joke
when they're making the rice. Well, for me, it's all
about the volcano with the onion rinks, you know, and
then they make a steam out of the little onions.
I do think it's a good place to go with
you don't really want to talk to because then there's
like a whole entertainment happening during dinner and you don't

(01:50):
really have to make any conversation. Had several real nice
families too, because you're always sitting there. Well, I guess
which which where are most of your Benny Hunt experiences?
Is that in Texas? Is that in l A? Is
that New York? I've been to one Benny Hannah and
it was in college in Pittsburgh, And honestly, it's like
if that was It's like if you take the subway,

(02:10):
but you gotta eat what everybody you see on the subway,
Like I don't want to eat with everybody on the subway.
It's like if I was on the train and somebody
was like, it's show time. They start cooking shrimp. Yah,
about the way, we gotta get the grilla here? About
the way sounds amazing. Who doesn't want shrimp cook for
them while they're waiting or in transit? Yeah, I mean,

(02:33):
I'm you know, I guess the I guess we should go. Yeah,
because it's really delicious and fun. But we're all going
what you say, what would you do if someone took
you on the first date to Benny on a lazy
Oh my god, I could already see just the way
you're imagine someone you're like, oh, okay, this person might

(02:53):
be worth going on a day with, and they're like, yeah,
I'm gonna pick you up. You know, we'll go somewhere nice.
And then you pull up baby fucking huh. Well, I
don't think you should pitch it us somewhere nice. You
should be like that. But that's fun night nice. If
you're saying do something, we're gonna do something random, then like, okay,

(03:14):
I understand why we're here. No, I'm saying, what is
your take on someone who looks at Benny. Hannah goes
this is this is the height of refinement. I think
that we truly just have so much that is not
in common that this relationship would never work. Okay, Like
we would pull up to the ben and I'm like,
oh my god, how it a band at the room

(03:37):
and you call it er? Okay, hold on, and then
guess who gets out of the uber behind her. It's like,
what's up? That sounds like a dope time? You're also
shrimps tossed at anyone? You're also eating solo and you
spot heard like ghosted date from my cross and I
just sitting with them. I was like, what's up, bro?

(03:57):
You want to chill? Ever, I just got ghosts basically
just that would not be the first time that happened
at a ben. I'm sure there's lots of solo people
who are supposed to have dates who are now eating alone.
That makes me so sad. I want me and two
chains to rescue everyone eating alone at Benny Hunt. I
know he should get a he should get a deal
from I can't Rocky sponsor him? That's ridiculous. That's Steve

(04:21):
Aoki's so much good. Did you know that who started
that start? Yes, Rocky Aoki I didn't know that Devin
and Steve Aoki their their their house of cars is
coming tumbling down. They didn't do it, off merit, their
dad created fucking Benny Hannah. Okay, that's like all the
actresses and actors that are I say actors for everyone

(04:42):
but that are coming out and other people like this
person is coming out of nowhere, and then you found
out their parents are insanely fair exactly starve you for
you mad appetit? What? What? Oh? That a damn? What's
a myth? Taylor? What's something that people well, you know
that people get wrong that money can't buy happiness. Every

(05:05):
time I've gotten money, I feel so much better than
right before it happened, and uh it literally all the
things I like, it gets for me. I don't understand
what the problem is, does it, um Margarite does in city? Uh?
You know my phone bill and I can't even talk
to my loved ones without money? Right as scarface CD,

(05:26):
you gotta have a scar fade ye what I mean? Yeah?
Money is great? What well? How long does that last?
For money? You said right before it feels better than
right before you got it, and then you get it,
and then how long can you ride that for until
it runs out? M then once more. When money runs
out is bad, it's bad, and then when it comes
back great great. So I honestly, that to me seems

(05:49):
like the that's the key to life is money. Yeah. Yeah,
that's weird because a lot of these people are so
focused on like, you know, don't tie your happiness to
something so external like money and the objects that it brings,
and that's just bullshit. But you'll die without it, yeah, exactly.
So you got were very realist, like my dad's a

(06:09):
preacher and stuff, so they taught me all that, but
the main thing was like they're like, you need money badly,
so Jesus tied to the job and it's gonna be hard,
like right, yeah, so father's son and the holy credit score,
you know what I mean, make sure them things would right?
Oh yeah, credit score? Oh my god, good credit score.
No way, it's good. Oh you haven't even checked. That's

(06:31):
the that's the attitude of someone who's not even bothering
to look. There's no way it's good. There's no way.
I checked a couple weeks ago. It was fair. I
want to be so rich, Like I just want to
be so fucking rich. Yeah, yeah, and then what I
don't know, Like my life is good, so like my
life is good, I just want to turbo charge it

(06:52):
with some out being rich. So I can't even imagine
the heights I will sore to. It would be so crazy.
He just what are three first three things? You're a
billionaire overnight? What are your first three things? The really
things I care? I want to sit first class. I

(07:14):
am tired of just like being cramped all the time.
I want to eat any restaurant. The main thing I
care about his restaurants and pasta. And then I'll have
a personal trainers and my body will be so fucking sick,
even though I'm like eating more than I ever have
my Oh my god. And that's about it. Really, that's
a personal trainer. I just like immediately to be a

(07:38):
billionaire's first class. Yeah, I want to say first class.
I read you're asking me the three things I would
do if I buy. I'm simple, I would buy I
would probably buy a Nissan Skyline gtr is that a sponsor?
This is a car I love. I'd buy a Cast
thirty four. It's it's a wrap. I would buy a car.

(08:00):
I would buy an old Chevelle and try and make
an actual pod racer from Star Wars with it using
jet engines. It's from an article I read an electronic
gaming monthly from what else? And then honestly, I would
probably just travel. Yeah, I would always, you know, if
there's probably I mean, if I had that money, the
first thing I would do was just board a jet

(08:22):
and find my way to the hills of Tuscany place
is already like heaven in a way, even without the
billions of dollars. I feel like I am so I
feel a little conflicted. Do I need the money away? Wait? Also,
not to make myself sound like the incredible hero that

(08:43):
I am, but like I would get all my friends
and people like these incredible gifts. They wouldn't even they
would be so psyched about, Like I would just like
buy someone a car and they're like, what the fun?
Yeah I did that. I think I would just do that.
I will spend a little money and then give it
all away. Because billionaires are illegal, so how about that.

(09:06):
I reject the premise of your questions. Yeah, I would
hold up, as I say it, from my castle and
asking to get the funk away because there's only like
two thousand billionaires on Earth. I would hold a big
meeting with a big theater. I'd be like gathering at
the billionaires, and then I burn it to the ground.
Everyone was in it, so you'd be like Calisi basically

(09:27):
how she had all the calls in that tent. It
was like, guess what, It's a fucking fire party. And
I would want to live so I could be the
only billion but you would come out, but you would
invest in your suit so you could emerge from the flames,
similar to Denari. He started this and then it turned
out it was Marcavelli in the whole time. Yeah what
do oh boy? Um, well, you know, before we get

(09:50):
into that, we'll get we'll get to a copy of
the Prince Tupac his name is Tupac actually Shaquille O'Neal.
You know, he's uh, he's been doing some work with
Papa John's ever since the original Papa John was just
ran out on a rail because of his you know,
racist hot takes. Yeah, I mean you don't even call

(10:11):
him hot takes. Just fucking racism. I don't even know.
It's just like stale ass racism, just like too much
sugar racism. Delivered to you in thirty minutes or less
or less. Um, it's called Twitter, and it's actually thirty
seconds or less. But so Shack put out this video
on his Twitter. I'm not even gonna play it because
it's just it's exhausting. Um, it's meant to look like

(10:33):
like Shack Papa John. That sounded so he's all whispering
ship and it's the most obvious ad I've ever seen. Right,
But again, okay, let's pretend Shack, you're the largest black
man ever is in your boarder. And also, I was
just imagining like how big the iPad was he filmed

(10:55):
on it, because his face was like so close to it,
and that's such a big thing. I think he's just
holding a Mac have like a giant screen forty five
and older selfie. Hold, it's so close. I'm like, y'all
just pulled an arm out. I keep telling them the
right or if you ever get an older like rideshare
drive like a lift or uber driver, everybody got the

(11:15):
low angle murderer face shot. Yeah, I gotta give classes
to the elderly if it's elderly but basically dead. Um,
what if it's not, because I'm too close to that.
Let's let's kick that. Let's call that nine. Honestly, it's
like sixty three. Yeah, that's when you still were around

(11:36):
for technology, but you missed you missed the selfie w
I just like being like in my like technically now
are approaching my mid thirties, where now I'm like kicking
the can down the road of like what I think
is old because now I realized too. When I say
we say about like Bloomers or gen Xtras on the show,
they're like, hey, man, we're still cool. I'm like, yeah,
you probably are, but that's me the same way I
hear like like I'll meet some gen Z kid and

(11:58):
they're like, yeah, it was five when you were talking
about this thing you're talking about. When I turned twenty one,
I was like, damn, it's like how to teenage? Are
no more like when I turned and I was like, okay, no.
Now I hang on to youth so deeply. When every
ounce of your drink, like coconut water is regular water,
now wash your face with it, just like bathe in it.

(12:22):
I'm lucky we all got that that that nice melanie
in our skin. I think we're gonna stay, but I'm
trying to back it up. I'm doing moisturizes on top
and creams and injections. So you got the backup hard
drive and time machine and I Cloud running back everything.
I will start injections soon. But you go to Angela,

(12:42):
I didn't even go, no, she does. She have worked, Honey,
don't tell me that. Dude. Men are so dumb. Okay, literally,
like this guy was talking about this girl and he
was like, her lips are so beautiful, and like those
are their injections? Like no, no, no. I have pushed
back on that because I'm pretty good at spotting obvious. Uh,
plastic surgery everyone. No, No, Angela Bassett though, if you

(13:05):
look at angel she's not sucking around. She's not her
Her lips didn't get it like big or anything. She's
just her face has remained subtle. She probably went to
whoever is doing the Kardashians. She got a very subtle
you know what I mean? Anything, it's like so smooth, okay,
hold on, The Kardashians are like way more obvious. I
was trying to talk about Papa John's. I just forgot that.

(13:27):
I'm like, where the funk are? Okay? Okay, Shaquila the
point being despite that wonderful. Really everyone's lit as blastic
surgery and as convincing Lacey not to get plastic surgery. Um, yeah,
you're beautiful. Yeah yeah, I'm going to be like robotically beautiful.
I'm I'm gonna be like her, like her and just

(13:50):
the voice. Eventually yeah, she's like, no, you don't need
to see my face. The character of the city is
an experience. L dot A dot C dot I dot Okay,
Dan Shaquille O'Neill have worked on or not he has,
I mean a little deep set lines, but I think
you know that comes with age. But he was so
in this video, he's saying he's at this secret board meeting.

(14:11):
He's unveiling like a secret new or like all this
new thing and you don't know what then is going on.
He's just like, remember Papa Dilla. So he's saying he's
pointing to a thing on a table and they're calling
it a papadia and when you look at it, it
looks like the shape of a case of dea, you know,
like but it's basically a folded and a half pizza
cut like a fucking case ofda. But also they spelled

(14:33):
papadilla p A P A D I A instead of Hell.
You know, I think maybe just because of the previous
leadership at the company they didn't want to venture into.
I don't think they're gonna appropriate it without calling it. Yeah,
I think you're doing a white appropriation of it, which
chills me. The racism is still going on because if
you steal the DA and put the E in, put

(14:56):
the put the A in there, you know what I mean,
But don't play with A. The thing is I'm more
upset that it's a motherfucking folded and half pizza just
cut different. But even then, but because we live in
the age of reboots, Okay, we rebooting Cinderella, we rebooting
Little Mermaid, we rebooting Pizza Wanted All doughnut reboot of

(15:21):
the Pizza d I don't even again, could be great,
might not be, will never know. We're probably gonna eat
it one that I will never know, Like, oh, really,
do care about your health? I don't know. I don't,
but I have, Yeah, I love taco about Taco bell
is health. Here's my main issue with the video, though,

(15:44):
certain angles of people like Shaquille O'Neal is in this
video angle of it makes me feel like I know
what it's like to have sex with Shaquille O'Neal, and
I don't like that. The only like a man on
top of you, Like, I don't like that. It's like
like POV from a woman's perspective of what she hates.

(16:05):
It's like the only porn category that's not been third
nightmare POV porn. Know, and then you compared it to
like to like that generation's like selfies and I don't
think about my dad's selfies and yeah, and that's what
it looks, that's what your mom's forever. Welcome to nightmares, smote.

(16:25):
Let's get into something that gives me a boner and
that's sandwich artists. Okay, So recently there apparently there's like
a thing called like the sub Jam or something. Sub
jammers basically like sandwich artists and people like subway employees
from across the globe gather for this like annual event.

(16:46):
And this year it was just wild to see there's
a video basically of uh, sandwich artists from look the US, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore,
South Korea and the U K. They met in Toronto
to basically see who could like put together like a
turkey sandwich, like the quickest and properly, And it was

(17:09):
just I didn't even know this was like a thing
that they did. But as someone who is a how
should I say this, I preached the gospel of subway tuna. Yeah,
that's my ship. I was a little pissed that they
were using turkey, but I get it because like there
were some people I was seeing how they folded the turkey.
It was not not very good. But the winner, just
so you know, America is still on top. Sarah Tigues

(17:30):
from Pullman, Washington claimed that also claimed the title back
in seventeen. Last year was second place. So I think
she's a gulp. I think working at a subway curt
yes for two years, she's crushing it. Making sandwich video
is the ground n She's making sandwich inspired cocktails. I

(17:55):
mean I was a little bit of tune on the side.
I come out with her own brit like, this is
not made from yoga mats. Oh, you're the second person
to bring that up. I think we talked about that
yesterday too, about the yoga mats in the bread. Oh,
why is everybody upset about that? It was anasta look
at the bread fluffy the Yeah. The thing that I

(18:22):
wish they did again. I always bring this up is
the you gouge is how they used to cut them
ships in the nineties, when rather than splitting it down
the side and opening it, they used to just cut
out like a U shaped top that they would just
lay pon top of the sandwich. But again it's I
guess things move on, um, and I'm still stuck in
my old ways. Um. But you know, I just wanted
to bring this up. I don't even know why. You

(18:45):
just like a scam though, because and they're just giving
you mostly bread, right because they just like cut out
a little bit of the bread. What do you mean
what you still got the same You still have the
same amount of bread either way, it wasn't you can't
add bread. What do you mean? I mean she's saying
like it's place wise because then it's like skin. Oh
you're not leaving in a room for the topic. Yeah,
well they I mean, look, depending I don't know who

(19:06):
your sandwich artist was. Uh Mine was Robert Uh. We
called him the Picasso of Studio City. Shout out Robert
from Studio. He's very chill. He's now the manager, but
the you guys in it was plenty of space for
the sandwich to be balanced. But I know what you mean,
like if you just literally did this like little mohawk
strip right yeah, yeah, like oh, only three slices of

(19:32):
turkey fit in there? I mean, look at the bread.
I mean, where am I going to put what I'm
doing here? Okay? Yeah, you look, you can look right
through the glass. You saw what it was when I
was making. I didn't go back there, and you can
also go do down with dog on it. So one
thing that I wish is saratigues from Pullman, Washington. If
you have one, you know twice now and you came

(19:54):
runner up last year? What happened? Why don't you the
fucking manager? But I hope she's a manager. I don't know,
but I like at that point, like if you're already
the top sandwich artists, like there has to be some
kind of why you want opposite ways on that. I
was like, what happened in that year in between that
you didn't take it? But you're like you had the
immigrant mom take on? Yeah, I'm like why then? So
you want so you won in seventeen but you came

(20:16):
running up in and you won this year. I told
you you lost your focus and you weren't taking a
seriously where you just thought because you want one time.
He was about to pull up to the sandwich competition.
It's gonna be all bread. Gotta stay sharp. It's the
subjects sandwich game. Like we don't remember jar Rules, second album,
the sophomore we it was crazy. Is if I won

(20:38):
the sandwich competition, I was working a sub but you
wouldn't be able to tell me ship. I would be
on break constantly. Did you imagine if you worked in subway?
But I guess what if? What if your manager said, Lacy,
I want to enter you in the sub jam this year,
and we're going to go to Toronto to compete, and
then when I come back if I want, I'm flexing
on everybody. I'm like, no, Tracy, you can't have a break.

(20:58):
I'm going out. So I'm the sandwich queen. I'm a franchise,
little individual serving chip, slices of American cheese. Whatever, cleaning Ramicans.
No more? Are you crying? You know you refill the mayo? Yeah?
I don't do that. Nothing out here Robbert here not

(21:21):
cleaning shit. I'm the sucking sand jam bread. I ain't
toasted nothing. They said sandwich artist, not sandwich filling preparer.
That's on you, Robert. Please refill the tomatoes thing. Please
don't confuse my journey with yours. Um, what is something
that's underrated? Eating alone time? Oh? I totally agree. Weirs

(21:45):
me out when people are like I can't, Oh, oh
I couldn't. People will look at me, You're like, where
are you going? Right? I'm gonna get some neat like
you want company? No, no, no, no, I'm not gonna
go eat. Are you okay? And oh I'm great? I
eat alone mostly at home, home, sometimes when I'm cooking
and her majesties at work. Still, but I don't, actually
I can't. The last time I was in a restaurant

(22:06):
by myself is you know in Japan actually a while back.
A lot of people by themselves in Japan. And it's
the day of restaurants that are sort of set up
that way, right for like one person to look at
a wall, you can read your your mango, or your
look on your phone or whatever. Do you look at
your phone, do you read a book, what do you do?
Or you just there? Depends on where I might if
it's like a people watching place. Uh, I'll sit there

(22:27):
and eat for a long time, and just I don't
like to work in public. That's strange. Like my wife
likes to go to like a coffee shop that's busy
and people are coming in out, and she's like, I
like to work there. I'm like, I would get nothing done,
just just too much distraction. I need to watch what
everyone's doing. I mean, there's a reason I'm thinking I'm
I'm I lean to being a comedian is because I've

(22:48):
already watching people right right right, Yeah, but yeah, like
and in some places, yeah, you're just reading. Yeah, Caitlyn,
If they're for listeners out there who might not be
open to having a dinner alone or a meal alone,
sell them on it. Oh, the pleasure, the relaxation. If
you're worried about that feeling that like it's noticeable, it

(23:10):
just isn't. Nobody cares. No server is going to be like,
oh you're eating alone. Does that hurt your heart? You
get whatever you want? Uh, yeah, I think it's just
uh you never have to, especially if you're hungry waiting
for someone. It's just it's it's the worst or like

(23:33):
waiting in between bites to like talk sometimes like let's
just eat this ship? Can we just yes? When it's
like eating is also a physical function that you need,
so enjoy it, relax, don't compromise in any part of it,
and just have it all your little All right, let's
take a quick break and we're gonna be right back.

(23:57):
And we're back. Now, let's talk about it other business
that doesn't have their ship together? Uh the what? What?
What does the New York Times call themselves the paper
of record or a prestige journalism? Anyway, they are having
a real hard time telling people what is happening on
earth in general. The earlier there was an op ed,

(24:19):
like after the shootings that said, you know what, for
white nationalists who agree with the ideology but don't like
the violence, they should talk to their other people like
what they were like, sort of saying that white nationalists
needs to self police cut too. When Trump gave that
really empty gesture of like unity speech, I guess it

(24:40):
was just a teleprompter where he didn't even know the
difference between Dayton and Toledo, Ohio. Um. The first UH
cover or the first front page headline read Trump urges
unity versus racism. It's not a great white a word. Um. Wow,
you mean guy who is whose fieryrhetoric is inspiring this

(25:01):
kind of violence? Um. But you know he's saying, but guys,
it's I don't like I don't like white supremacy. It's bad.
So I guess that's him urging unity or I guess
he used words that technically could be defined as that,
but completely missing the point about what this president means
to many of these white nationalists. Um. And then his base. Yeah.

(25:22):
Well then then they once enough people were like, what
the funk is this headline? Like, how could you even
act as if this this president is leading the country
in any direction but South? Um, then there's like a
sailing hate but not guns. I don't okay. I feel like,
you know, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt

(25:43):
here a little bit, because I feel like the way
the newspapers and media works now is you have to
they don't know how to engage interaction. So a lot
of it's this disingenuous thing where it's like the guy
being like, here's how you save money, not tipping, and
no one knowing that the most of the world would

(26:07):
be like let's burn the whole thing down, right because
of that? So I think they are they put these
op eds in there to fire people up because they
know when they do that, they look at these these stats,
these analytics that say, hey, when we the when we
say this crazy shit, the money thing goes up. Right.
I mean that aside. I think the front page isn't

(26:29):
an OpEd And my biggest criticism with the New York
Times right now is based on this headline, which obscures
the actual reality of what the country is in right now.
To say that the Trump that the president was urging
unity is not true. I think he disingenuously uh tried
to come off as an empathetic leader and failed terribly.

(26:50):
And I think this for anyone who isn't quite you know,
as engaged with the news, I'll read that and be like, oh,
I guess the president okay, so I guess he's urging
unity versus racism, rather than Trump is encouraging racism versus unity.
It's also just framing the language whichevery good tyrant does,
which uh, when Trump says he opposes white supremacy, that's

(27:11):
because he's already given you a whole language that means
that that isn't those words because his base knows that
those words are the bad words that you're not supposed
to be or say. But you can say immigration, you
can say infestation, you can say go back home, you
can say lock him up. You can say all of
that stuff to mean the same thing. So he's just
parroting back like no, no, no, kids were still not

(27:32):
ha ha, We're still not Nazis. But yes we can
have detention centers, and yes we can have you know,
it's it's those assholes that and it's okay. Here's an
example of where I learned it a long time ago
that the terminology getting rid of words will never make
it go away. Because I was I went to see

(27:53):
this guy went to high school with. He worked on
a farm, and we're him and these guys lived together
we were young, and I went to drink them my weekend.
They kept talking about seeing these Canadians or a bunch
of Canadians there, blah blah and it. At first, I
was like, that's weird that they hate these Canadians the
way they're saying it. Come to find out they were
talking about black people and they were saying Canadians instead

(28:14):
of the N word, because they knew that they couldn't
say that anymore. And once I I mean, it took
me a day and a half to figure it out. Uh.
Also because we were in Missouri, so it was like
there might have been like four black people that they
saw in this fucking farm town. So it made me
like that's when I realized, like, oh, they're just gonna

(28:36):
they could say concrete or whatever word. It's just the
hate that comes with it, and that's what he's doing.
He can like he can just say like like like
you said, like it's just immigration or you know, it's
like that whistle saying in the word I have a
bit about this in my act is like me my
wife is Jewish. Me saying that with my accent. Some

(28:57):
people cringe because it sounds hateful because of the people
that have said you with my accident, have said it
in a hateful way for years. So it's just a
it's and they don't know how to frame it either.
I think that, oh, I think they do. I think
that's my problem with the New York Times. They think
they've always been um for a paper record. They are

(29:20):
a white ass record. I mean, I was poking around
on my phone trying to find some of their historic
headlines that make this headline no surprise, And because this
one's making so much noise, it's a little harder to find.
But let's not forget hits like negro cocaine fiends are
a new Southern menace, murdering insanity increasing among lower class
blacks because they have taken to sniffing since deprived of

(29:41):
whiskey by prohibition. Yeah, but it reads like, I mean,
go to the eighties and you're looking at the same headlines,
like exactly the same headlines. They've been politicizing issue. This
paper in particular politicizes uh, social and racial issues in
the worst frames possible, and they have for a long time.

(30:05):
And it's a very weird white tradition where like, we're
not racists, so nothing can be racists. So we're going
to figure out how this isn't about race or racism.
And the New York Times during this time frame of
a turn of the century less century. Uh, during this
negro Cocaine Fiends article, Craze was running articles about how

(30:25):
war veterans are um the like suffering because of their
post war injuries. Uh, what they were taking for those
post war injuries was cocaine and they were losing their
fucking minds. It was prescribed, It was in this year's
Robot catalog. It was just ugly. Yes, of course it does.
It most certainly does. But it comes with this other

(30:46):
host of problems that we couldn't blame on veterans. So
we only looked at the problems when they happened to
people who weren't white veterans, and then we made them
criminals and we like, it's, um, it's wealthy liberals. We're talking.
It is exactly wealthy liberals and doing uh, we're doing
the same thing by letting Trump take the language of uh,

(31:08):
you know, he can say he's not white supremacis because
the New York Times will print his his opinions about
immigration as if it's news that isn't racist, he said,
rather than this president has unacceptable views. It's an old
trick to sell papers. Is constant conflict, and even when
there's not conflict, they created to sell papers. This is

(31:32):
a bizarre what an era to think that there's that
you have to manufacture conflict in That's what I'm saying
in this time and saying you've got to make something
they're not. We're not talking about actual journalists when we're
talking about there are real journalists. I mean there are,
to their credit, there are some good journalists at the
New York Yes, but that's not who we're talking about.
Frustrating part, We're going to have a longer discussion about

(31:54):
this headline than we did about the story The New
York Times wrote about Donald Trump's financial history, feeling that
any tricks, He's been up to it with his family
since he was literally three years old and was given
a trumph. There's no conflict there because it's just fat.
That's a rich guy story. It's well and it's fact.
It's just a fact that we all go, yep, But
how do we stop it? They've got to stop talking

(32:16):
like this so dumb people don't understand. We need to
start communicating and that that's part of what you're saying
with The New York Times is like my thing with
them is like any It's the same as wealthy liberals.
It's like when I moved to Seattle, I thought I'm
going to this bastion of progressiveness, and I've come from
this little town in East Tennessee and then I get

(32:38):
there and I'm like, where the funk is all the
black people? Yes, you know, and you're like part of town.
You're like, oh, and then you hear like people that
are liberal or whatever called the black part of town
the ghetto, and you're like, that's not a ghet up,
that's where black people live, that's a neighborhood. But that
I can show you a ghet up. Well yeah, because again,
even like you're saying, there's an we haven't had a

(33:01):
reckoning with the racism of this country, America. Like you know,
I was saying this atterday gold medal and deluding ourselves
that we never did anything wrong ever, and we're incredible
and we're amazing. So santam Us, it's Santa Monica, right, Yeah, no, exactly,
And it's one of the most liberal cities in the world,
and it's also a hotbed for young fascists. Yes, what's

(33:23):
a myth, Josey, what's something that people just get wrong?
You know? Yeah, So I grew up my whole life
thinking that birds were the lamest animals. Yeah, like especially
like pet birds, Like I didn't understand the other of parakeets,
all birds, like rats of the sky. You know, yeah, yeah,
truly I And I also thought people who liked birds

(33:47):
were lame. Like if you're a bird person, I'm guilty
of you're a bird person, right, Like if you're like
cat or dog and someone's like, can I say bird,
You're like really want something? That's going to really us
watching TV for every eight minutes. But I recently went
two hours out of Los Angeles to a place called

(34:07):
ostrich Land, USA. What and it is this massive like
open plane area with a fence where you and it
just has dories upon hundreds of ostriches, which I learned
are the only bird that has three toes. And when
they say to a t when they say to here

(34:30):
is the thing. All birds are dinosaurs, and all dinosaurs
are birds. I've seen Jurassic Park and under. Yeah, when
you feed an ostrich it is terrifying because that's what
you do. You pay. First of all, it's like only
five dollars to get in to get your hand bitten off?
Do you go? And one dollar to buy a little
plate of food that's literally in like a dustpan, Like

(34:53):
it's like a broom room dustpan. Yeah, here's a dustpan
shut out a circle where like pellets or like a
bowl of pellets are and they're like, okay, you have
to grasp it by two hands, extend your entire arms.
And then like the ostriches, first of all, their necks
are hoses of muscle, and they like they can go

(35:16):
under things. They can like wiggle under the fence and
poke their and it's like four ft long neck. These
things are terrifying and also like amazing, like in awe. Yeah,
and then they like peck with the speed and the
sound of a staple gun. That's how they eat. They
just like they just like pierce an attack and bite

(35:40):
and that's how they eat. You know, not as bad
as you think. In my mind, a bird just smells
like a huge bird like smells like absolute shit. I
don't know how those feathers like they just feel like, yeah,
I would not touch any of these birds, and then
so why would not touch I respect them now, but
I will never one end. They have ostyges, which are

(36:02):
also have long beautiful eyelashes like cartoons cats or something
like truly like beautiful eyes. And then on the other
side they have EMUs, which just are raptors. Like EMUs
are our height, if not taller. They have these crazy
predator eyes and like, so what do we need to

(36:23):
do to address this threat? So what I'm saying is
that birds have will long outlive us and have already
like lived way earlier than us. So I think we
need to respect the birds a little more. What do
you think now of a bird person? Because before you're
like a bird person now in your well, is it

(36:43):
bad if I still don't like bird people? Well, what
is it about a bird person you think? Is they're
not that someone's not sitting right, I think, like, you know,
bird it's just bird people are a little kinky. I
think I think you're a little too of an Yeah,
I think I'm too vanilla to be a bird person.
And so like it's not even that they are bad,

(37:05):
it's just that, like I haven't challenged myself. I'm intimidated
by someone who knows when they're a child that they're
a bird person. When you have these options of like
furry cat, soft dog, scary bird, like I'm all about
these feathers. Yeah, So I think it's like a thing
where it's like in twenty nineteen, I've learned this valuable
lesson and maybe I can like I can like grow inwardly.

(37:28):
This is a rom com. Your destiny is to be
with a bird? Yeah yeah, so I'm I don't know
which one is that one of those yeah, ostriches, Like
I want to see like Godzilla, King of Monster style
movies but with birds. Like when you go to this
Ostrich farm, does like Sam Neil come out with like
ostrich cloth and he's like, this is going to slice

(37:50):
you across your belly, spilling your intestines and everyone. You
have to be that loudmouth. Yeah yeah, just like a
big turkey like, oh yeah, motherfucker, it's close. I heard
in the original script. Um, he actually just slashes his
belly open with the raptor clause. It just eviscerates him.
And it was like, oh my god, and yeah, gold

(38:12):
Blumenter just taking over the anyway. It's just one of
the many eviscerating scenes left on Spielberg's cutting room. Actually,
like he cuts a lot of body horrors. Yeah, it's weird.
He loves boys, journeys and body horrorceration by a thousand clause. Um,
I don't know if y'all ever have to deal with

(38:35):
seagulls eating your ship or tagging your food at the
beach or just in general. Um, but there's been a
new study and I don't know how the fucking scientifically
rooted this is. Maybe the PhD candidate can tell us, um,
just about how to successfully fucking intimidate a seagull from
not eating your food? And I like this. Now, this

(38:56):
is a study from It was recently published in the
Biology Letters from the UK. Do you know this journal? Okay,
maybe it's fake, No, it's probably um. But basically they
wanted to test like if human intimidation through eye contact
has any effect on seagulls, like sort of willingness to
attack your food. Now, the way they did this was

(39:18):
they had uh, like a bag of food out, like
a chips or something, and then they would have an
experiment or like some experimenters just looked like had their
eyes turned away from the seagulls, and then other people
would stare the seagulls down, like if they got near
the bags of chips, and after five minutes, if the
seagull didn't approach, or if the seagulls snatched the food up,

(39:40):
that experiment or that trial, they would categorize that as complete.
So they found that the seagulls took significantly longer to
approach the food source when the experiment or looked them
directly at them versus away. Now, some were bolder than others,
but the overall findings, they just means that straight up

(40:01):
eye contact, even head turning, being like I see you,
I see you, was able to slow down or deter
the seagulls. For people who didn't look, they were much
more willing to approach. I didn't even think this was
a thing because usually I would just throw ship or
like the out of here. Right, I'm gonna have to
get into the research scam game because somebody funded this,

(40:24):
somebody funded big star down going down to figure out
if staring at seagulls was worthwhile, or yeah, you just
had like you gotta, you had grant money, or like,
let's just kick it at the beach. We'll do this thing, right,
We'll just we'll just starah seagulls. And then we're like
nobody who's gonna go out and debunk this? But like
me me Harvard, Harvard, hit your girl up, okay, because
I'm gonna go out and I'm a staring seagulls. And

(40:46):
what's your degree background? What are your bona fiance. I
have a I have a marketing degree and had a
performance degree. But let's listen. But listen, though I took
biology in high school. Biology, you're being science. Um, and
I need to go out there. Give me three dollars
to go out here. Yeah, because I'm gonna go. We're

(41:08):
you gonna go to the beach and turks and cakes
and see from my sweet I gotta go to Balia
because that's where the seagulls be the most trie like
monkey effect on seagull eye contact. Yeah, it's um, okay,
this is like this thing is something that like the
public will see like a headline like this and be

(41:29):
like what the why do I need to why do
need to know this? Or whatever? But like then thirty
years down the line, it's like a new invention of
Belcrow or something. What I mean, like all of it's
like fucking tied together. So you know, people will see
that everything is very like niche and specific, so they're like,
why do I need to know this? Oh? I love that?
See that that's even further prolifering my my own exploits
that I'll be doing. I would love to see you

(41:51):
somehow scam your way into doing scientific research. I think
that that's honestly probably She's like, I make no bit
you're studying. I don't know whatever it is. It's like
somehow you're like you're like, oh, I'm work at NASA
right now, I'm working on a new movie, like at Mars.
Right on the first like this is really good at it.

(42:15):
I try to put a monorail on Mars. We're like
we have Chief scam Jineer Captain mostly and the freeze
dry food. And the next thing I knew I was
almost Also, now you don't like your new Virgil Ablow
designed off white space suits. Okay, well, like do these
shoes have red bottoms? Space boots? Nikes? All right, we're

(42:40):
gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back. Um. Also, another thing I didn't realize.
There's a apparently the rising prices of avocados is causing
some restaurants to thin out there guawk with a secret ingredient. Now,

(43:03):
I don't know if this is how you know prevalent
this is, but due to these like huge spikes and avocados,
people are this is okay, look this might be surprising
to you, but there are restaurants in California that have
been essentially adding the calabasita the summer squash, and they
basically they can get the the taste and texture right,

(43:26):
although it's just a little bit looser. And this is
apparently a guak scam. I know that this quack scam
has been happening because she's behind it, and I've watched
Oh yeah, you have a calabasita farm. Yeah, we'll listen.
You gotta get in early, okay. And the biggest way
that I know this has been happening is because I've
been seeing way too many advertisements about some guawk that's

(43:49):
got raisiness in it. Palm a grant is sees coconut like.
They're putting all types of wild ship in guacamole and
is to distract us from the fact that it tastes
like squash. Wow, oh yeah, if you got to tacomadera
out here, they put shots fired, they put pomegranate seeds,
and they're guacamole. Pepite does all types of stuff to

(44:12):
to throw me off the scent right of the squash.
I wonder if Chipotle is working around or their their
guack price state that ship is thick. I mean, but
their glock price stays up. I think that because other
places like that will give you guacamole it's not necessarily
like market price or it comes with the meal. But
at Chipotle they keep that price sie. So I think

(44:33):
even if avocados dipped, Chipotle has never changed their price
until like ten years later, there's no avocados. They're just
offering squash. It's ten dollars if you want to add
it to your berre. Like you know, back in my day,
glacombe avocado. Okay, Grandpa, I think he's having one of
his episodes. You know. I'm gonna go into my drawer
and take a version of the house. Everyone knows glackamole,

(44:57):
squash and watermelon seeds. They're like, go play your PS eighteen, Grandpa,
and leave us the funk alone. Keep playing FIFA to
make us listen to amigos. Grandpa, I'm going to teleport
right now if you if you don't stop embarrassing. Honestly,
if you say rain drop drop top, We're gonna put
you in a home. I don't give a funk. What
does that even it doesn't make sense, but why would

(45:20):
you speak words in music that's disgusting. It's like, I
remember when music was audible, and now we just put
these vibrating chips on our jaw bones and that's how
we enjoy music, right in the privacy of our own skulls,
I says, and they're like, she's having a stroke, having stroke,
Please call the doctor. It's happening again. Yes it is, No,
it's not. That was the one she used to do

(45:43):
and now it's the other one that's handy. What does
that mean. I think it's like my hand or so.
I don't even I just remember that part from Get
Your Frequent I thought I saw that part and I
was like, oh, ship, we made it. There's a lot
of Indians because it's like I got up. So I'll
go hip paper no no no no no no no
no no no no no by miss Elliott and Timberland. Wow,

(46:09):
shout out to Virginia. You know, Virginia is for lovers
and hustlers too, if you like the clips. I really
actually need to pivot to this very important story because
I don't understand why this is a thing. Um Oscar
Meyer has a hot dog ice cream sandwich. It's called
an ice dog sandwich. Do you guys hear about this? Yeah,

(46:30):
this is pretty gnarly and and I'm like, such a
hot dog person, but this is like when a six
year old woman gets like her boobs redone. You know what,
I'm sixty old woman. Yeah, it just gets like a huge,
like fake rack. And you're like, all right, have you
a lot? We're trying to change things up. You're from
Warenge County. Oh, it's like fake rack. That's how you

(46:54):
know someone. They're like, I don't think she has a
new rack yet, So I think, yeah, my my first
special is going to be called huge Cans. No, but
I feel like I'm like, why would you got ice
cream and hot dog which? And I'm like I love
hot dogs like more than anything, and for me, I

(47:14):
can't even consume. But I also hate when people try
to take two good things, like when people are like
chocolate and bacon together, I'm like, no, they're masterpieces by themselves.
You're doing too much. Well, listen, just listen to the
description really quick of how this is even made. So
the ice dog sandwich contains candied hot dog bits, whatever
the funk that is. I've already got dude, hot dog

(47:39):
hot dogs sweet cream a picture of hot dogs sweet cream?
Is that to say they take the hot dog water
and make that ice cream, then spicy dijon gelato and
a cookie bun? No? Fuck you know? No, no, no,

(48:00):
wait a minute, now I don't know. Apparently, I mean
they must have done this. Look like a hot dog.
It's an ice cream sandwich. But this is there. They
want to evoke all these flavors. This is like when
you go to look at that right now, it's gonna
be I think going to other places of the country dog.
Oh my god, that's morally wrong. Oh it's horrible. If

(48:23):
you're in New York City August twelve that week, look
for the wienermobile. They are serving it up. If you're
in l a cool house, I think we'll also be
serving it. Maybe we should go. I don't think mis
let's just go eat regular hot dogs. I'll do that. Okay, God,
but you wouldn't even you wouldn't even entertain trying it.

(48:45):
What if it's somehow they pulled it off. No, they
can't pull it off. How come in you're why are
you so adamant that they can't pull it? Because are
you so resistant to change? Yeah? I've never felt in them.
I can't be moved by any geographical change. I changed
my mind about all that. I love everything like I

(49:06):
love a hat the second day, where oh my God,
you need God, You need God. God's great ice cream
is not okay. So this is what a hot dog
is like summer, and ice creams like summer. But this
is the only different thing this. It's hot, it's spicy.
It's like it shouldn't be an ice cream favor. No,

(49:27):
it's wrong. I have a feeling this is like, this
is the kind of energy that is like what rom
coms are built off of, because then you're gonna have
your first bite and then you're gonna be team ice dogs. Say,
oh my god. Every time I say I hate someone,
I end up sucking them. So somehow the hot dog
that made me matter than Trump, that made me matter

(49:49):
than like poverty and healthcare. It is different than what
I thought it was going to be though, that's the
first feeling of it. I just thought it was going
to be. This thought, it's gonna be a hot dog
with ice cream on up, which would be better than
what Yeah, I would rather have a hot dog with
ice cream on it. Look, it's not ideal, but at
least we're not getting fucking wild space engineering in a lab.

(50:13):
You know, there's a lot of thought that went into
that hot dog cream already. To me, sounds like the
pink goo that they make the Franks out of anyway,
you know what I mean. Just think about it if
you ever saw hot dog get made, whatever it is
it is. I know. That's my biggest thing is when
people bring that up to me when I meet a
hot dog. I've clearly chosen to enjoy this. Okay, you

(50:35):
sound like big hot Dog is funding this podcast and
you're just a corporate show like the Washington Post editorial board. Look,
I told you that I would kill for money. All Right,
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please

(50:55):
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