October 13, 2019 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. We know, what is something? You think
it's overrated? Oh my gosh, Andrew Johnson in that one town. Yeah.
I like the town, just not the branding. I think
I'm gonna go real quick through a few Uh. Sex
in space overrated? The concept of having sex in space?
Oh no, apparently the practice the concept is dopey sci
(00:45):
fi actually in practice. Yeah, yeah, that's a weird flex.
So you're space fucking recently? Uh you know, not not yet,
but I well, it's looking because there's been this rumor
for a long time that there were secret US and
Russian experiments to see whether people could have sex in space.
(01:06):
I'm just sorry. Yeah, the concept to see if people could.
I don't know, but that's people as if get up
with your blood flow right when you are in zero gravity,
and it's like automatically it's gonna have to be, or
even low gravity is gonna automatically have to be. Kind
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of h b D S M S. Because you gotta
get some velcrow in there. Also, I'm just gonna say it,
I think a lot of Vegas is overrated, and I
think it's gross when people do like performative selfiees with
the suffering, you know, when they're like with the suffering. Yeah,
but um, but that connected to Las Vegas. Uh No, No,
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That's what I'm throwing to. Uh and economically developing countries
and they're like, oh, look at me famously on Instagram,
but mainly sex in space. I'm just I'm pre occupied
with the idea that people put money into this concept
we can get to a layer. But the people were
sitting there and saying, all right, we need to put
people in space. Let's fucking figure it out. How do
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we grow stuff? Like who was that one person in
the room who leaned in and was like, hey, hey, agriculture,
all right? So right? So there was an all right,
so right, And they're like, don't ask Ben. You know
what he's gonna say. Says it every time. I think
we should see if boners are possible in space. That's
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all I'm saying. I've got I've got a power point
ye it's yeah. But it's it's it's strange because it's
also I've been preoccupied with this realization. I don't know
if we mentioned this in previous episodes, but statistically speaking,
someone out there, maybe even listening now, is the world's
worst astronaut. This is just the hazard of the statistics.
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And that's probably the person who who was like, you
know what, we really need to prioritize sex in space.
So are we do we have any kind of more
deeper understanding if the erection is possible in zero gravity?
Is that really the main point? Right? If we're talking
about is sex possible in space? That's because conceivably zero
gravity is preventing someone from having an erection. I forget
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where I read that, but I do know that into
a stall at a buffalo, well, because they say, like
your head starts to grow, because there's like because you're
your body is designed to pump blood up against a
force of gravity, and so it's pumping blood like harder
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than it needs to endo your head and less hard
below the heart. Well, the big question to what's what's
missing the point about anyone who's like, all right, let's
figure this little resilience, but they're not thinking about is
good example, good impression of dorks. By the way, excuse me,
that was my real voice. It's slipped radio voice, but
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it is that they don't need They don't You don't
actually need to have any kind of intercourse in space.
You could just artificially inseminate, because the big question is
how would an embryo develop? But but no, someone's like,
you know what, what can we get away with me?
I just like that when you start searching this, there's
click bait as titles this ship that goes this is
(04:25):
not jokings from vis dot com on what the fun
that website is, but it says you won't believe what
happens to an astronaut's penis in outer space? Hell yeah,
please let me know. There's also some really good footage
of like different things they're testing out and outer space,
and there's I think a pigeon. They released a dove
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I think in outer space and it's like trying to fly,
but it like doesn't know what the fun it's not.
I'm pretty sure the pressure would Okay, it's like in
a zero gravity thing and it's just it looks really hilarious. Yeah,
I know, it's almost like she wants being like, we
have spent so long marveling and flight. Let's take those
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birds down, get some lift out. Idiot like it later
died of a stress induced cardiac arrest. Let's talk about
Sesame Street. This is one of those stories that when
you hear it, it's like wait, what, but but it
actually kind of makes sense. So Sesame Street has a
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new character named Carly. She was introduced last year. She's
Almo's green haired friend. She first a period, Like, the
first thing you kind of learned about her is that
she was in foster care. But now we're finding out
the reason she's in foster care is that she has
a parent struggling with addiction. Yeah. So yeah, a lot
a lot of specifically I think opioids. Yeah, because the
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makers of the show, we're just sort of looking around,
like we really don't have the kind of content that
is touching this specific demograph tick of our audience, because
a lot of the addiction data shows that around five
point seven million children under the age of eleven that
live in households with a parent with substance abuse disorders. Um,
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so you know, in this segment they were working with
like the some child psychologists at the Betty Ford Center. Uh,
to really try and craft like things and language that
would really help like a child sort of navigate whatever
the world they are in. Um. And they said in
this segment, Carly and this other uh, this little girl Salia.
They each hold up hand drawn pictures of flowers with
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multiple pedals representing big feelings like anger, sadness, and happiness.
They offer ways to feel better, including art and breathing exercises.
The segment leans on carefully considered language. Creators prefer addiction
to substance abuse and recovery to sobriety because those terms
are clear to children. And despite the subject, the mood
was light in the room. Uh, and you know people
were just like it. It went off well, but it
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seems it's interesting, you know, like that that's sort of
where we've reached a tipping point, I guess societally, where
were like, you know, the people who make sive sesame
Street also like we really need to also be able
to you know, make these children feel seen or at
least have something they can respond to. Yeah, And I
think Mr Rogers, if you saw that documentary, he had
the same approach um where it was like the point
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of the show in some way or at least part
of the mission should be how to teach kids to
deal with paint yea death difference, And I think this
falls under that. I do think it makes it even
sadder that Testame is going to HBO Max. Yeah it does. Oh?
Is it? Fully? It's no longer be publicly funded? Is it?
(07:38):
Because our public funding has just been gutted constantly? That
I'm sure that's the thing. It's like, I don't think
it's Sesame Streets fault necessarily because the funding model is
so difficult now. But it is a bummer because I
don't Yeah, the new episodes will be on HBO Max.
So you just have to what about the archive with
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like the Cuds? What if I want to put down
the Duck runs? Uh? Yeah, I think those are available
other places. YouTube probably put down the Duck, that's true. Yeah,
I love that one good point. Selia Cruz is in
that who Yeah I remember, and I was like, Yo,
who's that lady with the swag? Celia Cruise Miles, Let's
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get right into the footie drama because I need to
by now. Man. It's okay. So in the UK they
refer to the wives and girlfriends of footballers as wags. Okay,
that's what they call them wags over there and right
now there's where does that stand for? Wives and girlfriends?
(08:45):
Got it? Okay they call them that here too. Oh
do they adopt that now? For a long time they
had a wags show on TLC or BROB or something
like that. Oh really hey, um so right now the
drama is between the wives of two England strikers, will
not anymore for Wayne Rooney, Wayne Rooney who famously played
for Manchester United and for d C United and Jamie
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Vardy who plays for Leicester City. Uh and is a
very interesting character. Just some background on Jamie Varty. He's
still good because he's all right. I mean, he's not
nearly as good as this season when Lester won the
league in um, but around this guy, he like it
was kind of the dude. At certain points he had
to play with an ankle agle monitor on for some city,
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got into a police an think may have been drink
driving or something as they call it in the UK.
And also Wayne Rooney also, uh, he's been he's been
cheating a lot on his wife, a lot of drink
driving over there too. Um but interesting fact by Jamie Varty.
There was a in his book he had like a
dead leg that he couldn't get over, and the physio
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was like, what the fund is going on with you?
We're like, we're rehabbing, arresting, and he find out this
dude has just been drinking a bunch of vodka. Uh.
And so what he would do is he would fill
up like a three leader bottle of vodka with only
red and purple Skittles because he liked the flavor and
that was like his fucking uh. And he also famously
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when he would do that before playing or like I think,
like whenever, like that was just part of a ship.
I mean he would drink a ton of Red Bull
before playing um and famously took a ship while playing
Arsenal in the middle of a match. Wait, what do
you mean like on the field? No? No No, no, he
like left, This isn't a bigger deal ship on the field.
I need more. Another thing is he would say in
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the season that his team won fifteen and sixteen, he
would drink basically a bottle of like half Gatorade half
Ports every night. That was his pre match me drink
or the night before and then the day of he
would drink a double espresso and three cans of Red
Bull anyway, so he's on his own vibe. So back
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to the lecture Red Hand for you. So Rebeccas so
his wife, Rebecca Vardy, and Colleen Rooney, wife of Wayne Rooney,
are into some ship right now because uh, Colleen Rooney
was noticing a lot of ship from her personal life
was ending up in the sun the tabloid over there
and couldn't understand because she had her own like private
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Instagram account that was only for people she knew personally.
So she was like, how the fuck is sho I'm
talking about here ending up there? So she concocted a
little fucking experiment to see how where the leak would go. Yeah,
so she started on her stories. She blocked everyone she
followed or that was following her except for one woman,
Rebecca Vardy, Okay, and was like and for five months
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started putting in bullshit stories to see if any of
them would end up in the sun. Like, so she's like,
oh my basement flooded or this other thing. Like, she
went to Mexico to for some kind of experimental thing
where she would be able to select the gender of
her child when she was pregnant, and these things made
it into the sun. So then I think yesterday she
came out with it and was like, so let me
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gather around kids. I've been doing this experiment because a
lot I've noticed a lot of disturbing things have been
shown up in the tabloids. And for five months I've
been doing this thing and it's Rebecca Vardy and her
excuse M. Now I will read the defense that Rebecca
I've already tweeted out for this kind of you know, underhandedness.
She says, as I have just said to you on
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the phone, I wish you had called me if you
thought this. I never speak to anyone about you, as
various journalists who have asked me to over the years
can vouch for. If you thought this was happening, you
could have told me, and I could have changed my
passwords to see if it stopped. Over the years, various
people have had access to my insta, and just this
week I found I was following people I didn't know
and I never followed in my life. I'm not being funny,
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but I don't need the money. What would I gain
from selling stories on you? I liked you a lot, Colleen,
and I'm so upset that you have chosen to do this,
especially when I'm heavily pregnant. I'm disgusted that I'm even
having to deny this. You should have called me the
first time this happened. Heartbreak emoji. Do we think bullshit?
I think when you start doing the I mean, I'm
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starting to follow accounts I've never seen. Come on, fam,
it's just uh, you love to see it, though, I
really do come out like that. Her story is that
somebody broke into her account, found out about this other
woman's Instagram posts, maybe by following her. So someone broke
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into her account to follow someone else, I guess, and
get secrets about their private life, and then sold those
secrets to the sun. Maybe if if we're living in
her world. Huh, it's a it's a tough sell. It's
a hard bargain, that is. Yeah, I'm not buying it.
Come up with a better lie, Colleen. Well the no,
Colleen is the victim here, Colleen, But you know a victim,
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don't play the victim, Colleen Rooney, Wayne has been doing
her dirty for a long time. Pregny. He was like
sleeping around on her having like three sims and ship it.
So she's been she's been through it. His name is
Wayne Rooney. This is on her. Yeah, he had terrible
hair plugs. Do not marry a guy named that. I
thought he was in his fifties. You did just legimate
based on like I had seen him like many, like
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a decade ago, and I think it was during one
of the World Cups when he was like the best
player on England's team, and I was like, oh, well,
that guy must be very old at that time, and
now he must be like playing on the seniors Tour
or whatever. This he'll be thirty I think four this year. Yeah,
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he's dominant. He's scored some pretty wild goals in the MLS,
which people tend to do when they come over from Europe.
But um, so this is like if the Shack Damian
Lillard beef were their wives. Yeah, kind of maybe, I mean,
and a little bit messier. I don't know what their
beef is to begin with, really, um but I do
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know that there was an interesting stat for the amount
of minutes Wayne Rooney and Jamie' already played together on
the pitch. They never created a goal scoring chance for
the other player. Yeah, so that's true, not a lot
of harmony. And that's that three Lion squad. Yeah, that's
how you know, exactly right, Uh, And any thoughts on
this Sophia just too many almost. Yeah, it's just a mess.
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It's a mess, and it's I don't I really don't
know if Rebecca already was like trying to make money
or she's just really hated you know, there's got to
be something else, right, Like if Rebecca I've already really
was and I believe she probably was the one obviously
the least her friend over was it her friend or
was it one of those things where she's like it's
all because you didn't come to my baby shower type
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of ship, or like you fucking shaded me at this restaurant. Right,
they're competitively fucking the best soccer player in England. Well,
I wouldn't go that far. You wouldn't know. They're not
their peaks weren't at the same time, So it was
hard like Jamie's already had his time few years ago,
and Wayne when he had his like seven years ago.
(16:02):
So right, But I'm just wondering if she was like
feeling But I guess historically right, like Wayne Rooney was
the man, and then when Jamie you've already had his
huge season, then he became the man. So maybe since
there were two man on the block, Okay, all right,
we'll shout out to the out to them. While we're
on the subject of the People's Republic of China, Did
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anybody see the seventy year anniversary parade last good a man?
One of my favorite parades. How were they dressed? What
was the red carpet like like parade? Unfortunately not enormous
like globe destroying missiles. Uh, I could have used fewer
of those and more snoopy. It was just a big
(16:48):
dick measuring parade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and how big is it? Huge? Huge?
There were also some weapons that I had never seen
outside of a G I. Joe toy by box. Like
there there was like a little like uh motorcycle helicopter thing.
It was like a two seater little helicopter that didn't
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like you weren't inside of anything. Yeah, you were just
like in an open helicopter thing. It was kind of dope.
That sounds awesome. I think the amazing things Giving Day
could use them. Yeah, absolutely, like a little I mean
I could use those just like a little like golf
cart helicopter that you could just be like, we would
take off that. It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen,
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but I'm here for it. Coming out with one right
next week. Yeah, exactly. Flamethrowers and personal helicopters, uh, powered
by weed. You know. There's also a slingshot hypersonic unmanned
aircraft that looks like a stealth bomber but like in
a in hang glider size, and it's designed to help
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am weapons at USA aircraft carriers. So wait, what do
you mean, Like, it's just that's like people looked at it.
We're like, oh, so we understand what this does. And
it's specifically designed to fight a war with US with
the with the United States considering our naval technologies. And
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the other thing they said is that all the missile
names are all written on the side of the weapons
in English. Uh. And the Gelapnic editor who was kind
of summarizing this was pointing out that that's because the
real audience for the parade is US the Daily Fantastic. Yeah, well,
thank you so much, thank you. All right, we're gonna
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take a quick break we'll be right back and we're back. Uh.
And finally, what is a myth? That's something people think
it's true. You gotta plots whist for you were bad? Yeah? No,
(18:57):
Uh so I did the I set up sex in
space be cause it turns out it is a hoax.
At least officially, there have been multiple sources confirming that
no one actually had sex in space. That's just the
myth because, like you said, Miles, it's it's good click bait, right,
and so people propagated it. And Jack, you are correct
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that everything we know about physics shows us the circulatory
system will be just a in a very poor state
if there's not gravity, because it's designed to work with gravity.
But as far as we know, uh, there has not
been an experiment in actual space. Maybe some low gravity banging,
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but no up in the Shuttle. Yeah. I mean space
is tight, you're basically and I think there were some
unsanctioned experiments, but I think experiments. Right, I've been up
in this space station too long. And if you're if
you're listening and you're you're that person, Uh, then right
(19:59):
to Jack Miles, Yeah, somebody must have Like there's been
astronauts up there for a year by themselves. I'm sure
they jerked off at some point. I mean, according to
this vix article, they talk about how microgravity affects the
penis and look, shout out to anybody who has any
eat problems or you can't like just say you were
in space a long time, because what it says is
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the penis is not as large as it can well
on Earth, and a direction in outer space doesn't last
as long as it can well on Earth. But they
say there's an exception every well. Astronaut Mike Mullane spoke
about his peculiar reaction to being in the International Space Station.
He claims that several times while in the space station,
he woke up with impressive erections that for him has
(20:40):
the ability to quote drill through cryptonite. Who said that
surely not, I will look they hyper linked off. Let's
see is this to an actual men's health article with him?
And let's see where let's do a quick find a
couple of times I would wake up from sleep piers
and I had a boner that I could have drilled
through kryptonite. Somehow that's better than him. The image of
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somebody waking up and seeing their erection going impressive, right,
Like Kryptonite is such a strange because it seems it
suggested he's competitive with Superman when it comes to the
strength of their erection. Ye, Like he's like he couldn't
touch kryptonite though, he's like, my direction is the best
direction in the world. Superman's couldn't even get through the thing.
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But that's not fair to Superman because kryptonite saying it
should have been like titanium, because then you have a
fair one with Superman. That's where then that's where you
have to I'm suggesting that he is. That's where he
looks very shape. He's cloud chasing and insecure. Yeah, of
course he did the Superman camp get anywhere near kryptonite, sir,
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that's not a fair comparison. So, but it is. It
is apparently a myth, but there's still there's still people
claiming that it happens. Uh, there was a Superman with
your Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Well, the sex thing. There's
a French writer in a book, The Final Mission mur
The Human Adventure. He says that it did happen. His
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name is Pierre Kohler, and everybody in Russian and US
space agencies denies it. But of course why would you,
especially when funding is getting cut left and right, why
would you confirm that? Like, yeah, it's like hedonism in
space up there, it's basically Vegas. They're like, hey man,
they're ripping in the terran in the terror and that's
what I'm here for. One guy in Moline in this interview,
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they asked it like they ask men's health, the question,
has anyone ever had sex? He says, in the Space
Shuttle program where we had males and females, I can
tell you that nobody was doing that because there's absolutely
no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the airlock.
But everybody would know what you were doing. You're not
going you're not going. You're not going out there to
do a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.
(22:56):
So I wonder if there have been people been like, yo,
let's sucking the airlock real quick. And it's like to
have the thing where it's like everyone knows what you're
doing in the air lock, Like is that is he
alluding to something? Tell him that we're fixing the suits.
We have a maintenance bay for that. Um, I don't
want to derail but that's weird. That's this whole show
(23:18):
is derailing. Yeah, it's derailment. What is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay? Um,
I recently google do shrooms have an expiration day? Because
I I guess this is fine to admit my mom. Yeah,
(23:39):
not my freezer, my fridge. Okay. I got them in
May for Edgar's birthday, their chocolate mushrooms. I forgot that
he's allergic to chocolate so he couldn't eat them. So
I was like, maybe I'll just like have them and
do them at some point. But instead of putting in
the freezer, I put in the fridge because I was like,
(24:00):
maybe if they freeze they're wrapped in tinfoil, but they
were not in a plastic bag. Fast forward to two
weeks ago when I rented an Airbnb airstream trailer and
Joshua Tree by myself. Yeah, and I had been watching
(24:23):
that show Explained I think it is about like Explained
the Brain, Yeah, on Netflix, and they have an episode
on tripping and I was like, man, tripping is like
that that makes you get it, that makes you really
get it. And I had, you know, in college, messed
with that, but it's been many years since then, and
(24:46):
I was like, I should just do them. I should
just drive out and do them. And um, I didn't
get to Joshua Tree until maybe six pm because of
all the traffic on a Friday afternoon. It took like
four hours to San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, truly. I finally
got there just before the sun was about to set,
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and I was like, should I do them? Should I
do them? And I was sitting on my little air
strewp trailer bed like trying to decide should I do it?
And then all of a sudden something came over me
because I had brought them just in case, and I
was afraid I would die I don't know, because they
were all and I was like, fuck it, I'm just
gonna do it. And I went and I ate it
(25:29):
and at first I didn't feel anything, and I was like,
oh uh this they expired. They I don't feel it.
I'll have a little more because I had to hell more.
And all of a sudden, the sun went down and
they went wild, and I was I had like brought
(25:52):
things to do, some watercolor paints. I know ukulele, but
didn't realize that when it's dark and you're in the
middle of the desert alone. You don't really want to
paint or play ukulele. You're just like kind of like
you're like, what's out there exactly? And I was like,
oh my god, my Airbnb host, because there was a
guy in a house, you know, a bit away. It's
(26:13):
like he's gonna come and kill me. Oh my god.
I just say, old mushrooms. They're gonna find me dead.
They're gonna find me dead. Oh my god. You were
like the snowball scene in Willow what started with two
people just kind of falling down a mountain turned into
near a near avalanche near the bottom. It was so stressful,
and I kept looking at my phone, like sure I
text someone. No, No, I can't text them because like
(26:35):
what would I even say? What do I say in
a text message? I can't even plane this. You're like
in airstream. Ukulele's useless because I was just walking around,
just walking around the airstream and they had a beer
and then I drank the beer and I was like, oh,
now I feel woozy. And then I went into the
(26:55):
bathroom and I was convinced I was in a painting yeah,
this all sounds right, because you feel like the strokes
on your face are paint strokes. The strokes on your
face your mushrooms. Now, I just like I couldn't even
walk really, I was like stumbling around and I find like,
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finally at eleven pm, you yeah, I'll start wearing off.
By that point, I was watching Disenchanted on Netflix, like
gripping to reality, like this is fine, this is fine. See,
this is why you gotta you gotta you gotta start
off a little bit light, you know what I mean,
Take a little nibble and just like a chill, because
(27:38):
you never know your body's on the process it. This
is the same thing people do with edible weed. They
take a bite and they're like, that was fine. It
was plus just one little chocolate and anything cut to
you like peeling somebody off the floor exactly. And yeah,
that's why I also, I prefer I don't like to
have full blown trips really on psychedelics these days. I
like to like micro dose. Yeah, you know, that's what
(27:59):
I want to do it out. But if anyone is curious, yeah,
you can leave in the fridge. They will go bad
if you don't leave them in the fridge. Then I
had some that I took them out and like was
looking through them and there were bugs in there, and
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they're like, hey, man, for a second, So let's talk
about something that somebody's doing that seems like a good
idea using kindness constructively. Well, you know, we talked a
few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago about
that New York Times piece that was a profile on
(28:41):
cb CBP not CBD Customs and Border Patrol Agents to
sort of get a general take on like what it's
like there where many people like, it's fucking terrible. It's
a terrible place to work as a woman. There are
many people who are just fucking like terrible people. There
are also people who are there who hate the fact
that this is their job. But have they tried CBD oil.
(29:03):
I don't know. If I feel like that would maybe
help some I think it's worth worth noting um. And
also just the idea that there are people where the
morality is so low because like they go to work
and they have to interact with children who are just
crying for their parents and things like that, and the
psychologically that's taking a toll um. And then you know
a lot of it. We were also talking about most
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of us sort of the ideas like man, these people
are sucking, they suck or whatever, why can't they just
do something else? And then you know, we talked about
how you can't not many people just have the ability
to quit a job because the philosophically opposed to it,
because the way this system is set up, you must
work to live, and if you're not working, then you
could perish quite quickly or you're life, you're living situation
could turn very dark, very quickly. So the Never Again
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Action group, their immigrant rights group that's spearheaded by a
lot of Jewish activists, about this idea of like not
separating families, you know, akin to the Holocaust. Um. They
were really trying to figure out because they do a
lot of activities outside of ice facilities and things like that.
A lot of the people around were thinking, like, it's
not a lot of the times they chant quit your job,
(30:08):
quit your job, And then we're kind of realizing like
that's just kind of not enough either. So on Monday
to the people themselves, yeah yeah, So on Monday they
were thinking like, okay, what can we actually do? So
they launched a website that would match ice agents with
confidential career advisors like you would in college, to try
and find a way for you to get another job
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so you can fucking quit this disastrous, evil organization. Um.
And they said from that launch, like two people immediately
like hit them up from outside the like Atlanta area
where they were first trying to like get people to
like sort of notice this project. But they said, yeah,
those people who came out, uh, we're just immediately Yeah,
I don't want to be I do absolutely do not
(30:52):
want to work here anymore. And they the comment that
one of the people left who was interacting with the
website confidentially said something like, I'm drowning in this place.
So you know, I think there is this idea that
we think that every person that works there is just
automaton who's hell bent on doing harm. And I think
there are some people who are, but there are very
much also people who, you know, like we were saying
(31:13):
to like border patrol in certain areas is a very
quick ticket to the middle to a middle class lifestyle,
like with very like you could just have a high
school education and start making you know, decent money. So
you know, shout out to them for using you know
sensible tactics, because again, I think one thing we've learned
throughout this whole week is that money fucking makes everything move.
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People don't it doesn't values are they don't matter. They
don't matter because at the end of the day, it's
nothing works without money. I also just want to say
that I think the way that like becoming complicit and
evil works because it happens kind of in a certain
way slowly, but then you're like, what the fuck, and
I think you know it just it does. You're mentioning
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the Holocaust like totally makes you think about the Germans
that lived Nazi Germany that weren't like gung hoo Nazis.
But then we're also caught there. And I don't think
anybody came and was like, hey, this is your ticket
out of the Nazi Party or whatever, which is one
less it was like be a defector or something and
a conspirator conspirator and be executed. Yeah. So, and I
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feel like giving these people a way to leave something
that is like so, I mean, someone making you complicit
and evil is fucked up. So giving someone a way out,
I think is like actually a real way to work
at the problem. As opposed to just be like this
is fucked up. Well, I mean, it definitely helps weaken
that agency, but I think, yeah, the real solutions have
(32:39):
to come from further up. But I think that's where
we're at least giving acknowledging the humanity of people who
are in a situation they probably also don't want to
be in, and that there are people like that again,
and they're also evil. Course we're out here getting off
on watching children cry? Yeah, or who are when journalists
come in and be like, oh, so you write fake news?
Oh right, right, the fake news. Why don't you propaganda? Propaganda? Yeah,
(33:03):
you have to admit that that's what you do, and
you won't and you'll get your passport back. Yeah, that's
like I'm sorry to having a journalist named Ben Watson.
I think at L A X or maybe jfk um.
So here's some propaganda. Suck my ship. Yeah, that is
some propaganda for sure. Let's get into the real important
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news of the day. What is trending on porn? Uh? Yeah,
why you're trying to watch the Joker smash? That is
the question. Uh, so to be or not to be?
Why I'll trying to watch the Joker Apparently this happens
every time a comic book movie comes out. People see
a movie and then immediately want to watch that character
somebody else. I guess, Uh, this movie in particular seems
(33:47):
like the most disturbing. I don't know, like that it
is the least sexy movie I think I've ever seen.
There's a part where he there's like a love interest
ish part that it was like distracting Lee out of place.
To me, I was just like, what the funk is happening?
Why would he's like not regarding him in any sexual capacity.
(34:08):
Just doesn't even seem to play into like the themes
of the movie. But apparently I think this ties into
an overall uh sort of fetish of clowns and like
Harley Quinn Well, I mean there's also that cycle of
violence and sexual release that you used to radicalize people too,
Like I mean not to read into it like that,
(34:29):
but you get so fucking worked up and then there's
like you're like, oh, I get my violence and I
get my sexual release. Or there are people who are
just like I really want to see the Joker smash
because either's something about this character that is so hot
to me, like porn Hub says they track like what
people are searching for, like they track your fantasies. Does
(34:50):
that mean they like put out a call for like
content that fits this ship or like, how is there,
all of a sudden so much joker porn? Well though,
it's just that people were looking for it on porn Hubb.
It doesn't necessarily just yet. They're just like, yeah, so
on uh no, the thing you have to understand all
all possible porn exists. Yeah, but they say over seven
(35:11):
thou searches involving the word joker in the first four
days following the film's release. Yeah, and then the first
the biggest day was Sunday when they saw six D
twenty eight searches for a clown getting down. So is
this like presumably before or after people have seen the movie?
I don't know. See that's hard to know too. Are
some people like, man, before I see this, I got
a joke off to the porn version, and then I'll
(35:33):
see the movie. I acted by how much I want
to fuck the joker. And after they see this very
like bummery kind of non sexy movie, then they're like, okay,
this is my this is like all right, I'm into this. Yeah,
let me see if there's a porn. Did you like it?
I was. I still don't know how I feel about
it from nightmares. It gave me nightmares for like the
(35:53):
like literal like political nightmares. Um so I guess it
was effective of I think it tapped into something that
didn't make you honey baby nice. Best Austin Powers quote
in uh in years you loved it? Michael Moore like
loved it, praising He says it's a masterpiece and that
(36:16):
it's like dangerous if you don't see it. That's what
he said. I do think it's worth seeing, just like
as a cultural moment. Like I read this comic Felix
Bitterman from Choppout trap House like rote a review of
it for one of the blogs and was just like,
it's a mediocre shit nothing movie that people are reacting
(36:37):
to because they just their brains are broken. But I
I didn't find maybe my brain is broken, but I
didn't find it to be like pointless or like a
mediocre movie. I found it to be like I I
get what the significance is. I don't know if it's
I don't know how Like there's there's huge political questions
tied up and like how I feel about it overall?
(36:59):
But yeah, well, let's not distract from the fact that
Harley Quinn is actually the most searched character video game,
comic or otherwise of all time video game, movie, or
comic ever, searched higher than like Jessica Rabbit, higher than
other rabbit. Uh bunny, you know that's let's I mean,
(37:22):
some things are pure. But yeah, I think, yeah, cartoons
are not gonna work. I feel like Lara Croft. I
wonder who's the number two? Yeah, Harley Quinn, Laura Croft, Batwoman, Catwoman,
rat Woman, or like, yeah, keep going that woman that
fan yeah, from last comic standing probably all right, let's
(37:43):
talk about China. China. We love China, moving, we love China.
Thank you so much. All Right, We're gonna take a
quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. What
(38:05):
is something you think is overrated? CBD oil? What everybody
says to use it for everything? Literally I want to
believe in it because I love the idea of it,
But every time I give it to anyone or tried
for anything, that ship does not work. Like my mom
was having pains and I bought all this fucking fancy
(38:27):
CBD EMU cream. They're like, it's made with EMU fat,
it penetrates deeper. They're like, here's it's a million dollars.
I was like, all right, it's for my mom. I'm
like did it do anything? She's like no. And anytime
I'm like oh, people are like yeah, it helps with anxiety.
I'm like you should try it, and they're like no, Like,
I don't really know what the funking does do well.
(38:48):
I think the most effective case for it was with
anti seizure applications, because I remember that was like one
of the big things where there were children who I
saw that video too. Well, not even the video, I mean,
it was like it's a it was like a whole thing.
But there's like a bunch of videos that have gone
viral showing of people putting CBD oil on like the feet,
the bottoms of the feet of people are having seizures
(39:09):
and it helping and stuff on the bottoms of their feet. Yeah,
and I've heard that it helps in like Parkinson's in
my husband's dad has Parkinson's, so we've been I've been
giving them all the CBD and that ship does not
do anything for your point being that cbdo. Like people
are constantly like, oh have you tried CBD oil just
in conversation, And that's rarely a illness or like a
(39:32):
malady that people are bringing up conversationally, Like, man, I
keep having these seizures. I don't know what to do
to add. And I'm not saying that it doesn't work
for anything. I'm just saying I don't think it works
for first of the things we're trying to use it
for casually being like, oh, yeah, try for any of
the ten things with you. Yeah, well, people love it,
(39:54):
you know, because there's so many CBD drinks everywhere too,
And is this really how many of these have to
drink to like catch the spirit? Yeah? Is that what
you take medicine for? To catch the catch the spirit? Yeah?
Everybody knows that. Everybody knows from my praise band, I
was in Catch the Spirit. Yeah. You love to wear
(40:15):
white linen when you perform. It's like, people, what's about purity?
And it's about talking about coming to Jesus is in?
You know? You know what you're telling me. I've only
ever seen you as a God's virgin. Has that white
linen church ever been buttoned? Up. No, it didn't seem
like it. Well, you know, it depends on how I'm feeling.
But that's how he gets new additions to the church. Yeah,
(40:36):
and that's how to bring him in. But only those
who are pure of heart, and he will find a
gust or a fan or something. Just so that a
little bit if they just want to say, who's the
king of the jungle, who's the king of the see
bubble bubble bubble, who's the king of the universe? And
who's the king of me? His name is j S.
(40:56):
You asked, what Wow, catch the spirit? That's the kind
of jams we're rocking out to. Yeah, yeah, jam. All right,
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeiteguys, please
like and review the show. If you like the show,
(41:19):
uh means the world to Miles. He he needs your validation, folks.
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to him Monday. By step
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. We know, what is something? You think
it's overrated? Oh my gosh, Andrew Johnson in that one town. Yeah.
I like the town, just not the branding. I think
I'm gonna go real quick through a few Uh. Sex
in space overrated? The concept of having sex in space?
Oh no, apparently the practice the concept is dopey sci
(00:45):
fi actually in practice. Yeah, yeah, that's a weird flex.
So you're space fucking recently? Uh you know, not not yet,
but I well, it's looking because there's been this rumor
for a long time that there were secret US and
Russian experiments to see whether people could have sex in space.
(01:06):
I'm just sorry. Yeah, the concept to see if people could.
I don't know, but that's people as if get up
with your blood flow right when you are in zero gravity,
and it's like automatically it's gonna have to be, or
even low gravity is gonna automatically have to be. Kind
(01:27):
of h b D S M S. Because you gotta
get some velcrow in there. Also, I'm just gonna say it,
I think a lot of Vegas is overrated, and I
think it's gross when people do like performative selfiees with
the suffering, you know, when they're like with the suffering. Yeah,
but um, but that connected to Las Vegas. Uh No, No,
(01:48):
That's what I'm throwing to. Uh and economically developing countries
and they're like, oh, look at me famously on Instagram,
but mainly sex in space. I'm just I'm pre occupied
with the idea that people put money into this concept
we can get to a layer. But the people were
sitting there and saying, all right, we need to put
people in space. Let's fucking figure it out. How do
(02:11):
we grow stuff? Like who was that one person in
the room who leaned in and was like, hey, hey, agriculture,
all right? So right? So there was an all right,
so right, And they're like, don't ask Ben. You know
what he's gonna say. Says it every time. I think
we should see if boners are possible in space. That's
(02:33):
all I'm saying. I've got I've got a power point
ye it's yeah. But it's it's it's strange because it's
also I've been preoccupied with this realization. I don't know
if we mentioned this in previous episodes, but statistically speaking,
someone out there, maybe even listening now, is the world's
worst astronaut. This is just the hazard of the statistics.
(02:57):
And that's probably the person who who was like, you
know what, we really need to prioritize sex in space.
So are we do we have any kind of more
deeper understanding if the erection is possible in zero gravity?
Is that really the main point? Right? If we're talking
about is sex possible in space? That's because conceivably zero
gravity is preventing someone from having an erection. I forget
(03:20):
where I read that, but I do know that into
a stall at a buffalo, well, because they say, like
your head starts to grow, because there's like because you're
your body is designed to pump blood up against a
force of gravity, and so it's pumping blood like harder
(03:42):
than it needs to endo your head and less hard
below the heart. Well, the big question to what's what's
missing the point about anyone who's like, all right, let's
figure this little resilience, but they're not thinking about is
good example, good impression of dorks. By the way, excuse me,
that was my real voice. It's slipped radio voice, but
(04:04):
it is that they don't need They don't You don't
actually need to have any kind of intercourse in space.
You could just artificially inseminate, because the big question is
how would an embryo develop? But but no, someone's like,
you know what, what can we get away with me?
I just like that when you start searching this, there's
click bait as titles this ship that goes this is
(04:25):
not jokings from vis dot com on what the fun
that website is, but it says you won't believe what
happens to an astronaut's penis in outer space? Hell yeah,
please let me know. There's also some really good footage
of like different things they're testing out and outer space,
and there's I think a pigeon. They released a dove
(04:46):
I think in outer space and it's like trying to fly,
but it like doesn't know what the fun it's not.
I'm pretty sure the pressure would Okay, it's like in
a zero gravity thing and it's just it looks really hilarious. Yeah,
I know, it's almost like she wants being like, we
have spent so long marveling and flight. Let's take those
(05:08):
birds down, get some lift out. Idiot like it later
died of a stress induced cardiac arrest. Let's talk about
Sesame Street. This is one of those stories that when
you hear it, it's like wait, what, but but it
actually kind of makes sense. So Sesame Street has a
(05:29):
new character named Carly. She was introduced last year. She's
Almo's green haired friend. She first a period, Like, the
first thing you kind of learned about her is that
she was in foster care. But now we're finding out
the reason she's in foster care is that she has
a parent struggling with addiction. Yeah. So yeah, a lot
a lot of specifically I think opioids. Yeah, because the
(05:51):
makers of the show, we're just sort of looking around,
like we really don't have the kind of content that
is touching this specific demograph tick of our audience, because
a lot of the addiction data shows that around five
point seven million children under the age of eleven that
live in households with a parent with substance abuse disorders. Um,
(06:11):
so you know, in this segment they were working with
like the some child psychologists at the Betty Ford Center. Uh,
to really try and craft like things and language that
would really help like a child sort of navigate whatever
the world they are in. Um. And they said in
this segment, Carly and this other uh, this little girl Salia.
They each hold up hand drawn pictures of flowers with
(06:32):
multiple pedals representing big feelings like anger, sadness, and happiness.
They offer ways to feel better, including art and breathing exercises.
The segment leans on carefully considered language. Creators prefer addiction
to substance abuse and recovery to sobriety because those terms
are clear to children. And despite the subject, the mood
was light in the room. Uh, and you know people
were just like it. It went off well, but it
(06:53):
seems it's interesting, you know, like that that's sort of
where we've reached a tipping point, I guess societally, where
were like, you know, the people who make sive sesame
Street also like we really need to also be able
to you know, make these children feel seen or at
least have something they can respond to. Yeah, And I
think Mr Rogers, if you saw that documentary, he had
the same approach um where it was like the point
(07:18):
of the show in some way or at least part
of the mission should be how to teach kids to
deal with paint yea death difference, And I think this
falls under that. I do think it makes it even
sadder that Testame is going to HBO Max. Yeah it does. Oh?
Is it? Fully? It's no longer be publicly funded? Is it?
(07:38):
Because our public funding has just been gutted constantly? That
I'm sure that's the thing. It's like, I don't think
it's Sesame Streets fault necessarily because the funding model is
so difficult now. But it is a bummer because I
don't Yeah, the new episodes will be on HBO Max.
So you just have to what about the archive with
(07:59):
like the Cuds? What if I want to put down
the Duck runs? Uh? Yeah, I think those are available
other places. YouTube probably put down the Duck, that's true. Yeah,
I love that one good point. Selia Cruz is in
that who Yeah I remember, and I was like, Yo,
who's that lady with the swag? Celia Cruise Miles, Let's
(08:24):
get right into the footie drama because I need to
by now. Man. It's okay. So in the UK they
refer to the wives and girlfriends of footballers as wags. Okay,
that's what they call them wags over there and right
now there's where does that stand for? Wives and girlfriends?
(08:45):
Got it? Okay they call them that here too. Oh
do they adopt that now? For a long time they
had a wags show on TLC or BROB or something
like that. Oh really hey, um so right now the
drama is between the wives of two England strikers, will
not anymore for Wayne Rooney, Wayne Rooney who famously played
for Manchester United and for d C United and Jamie
(09:06):
Vardy who plays for Leicester City. Uh and is a
very interesting character. Just some background on Jamie Varty. He's
still good because he's all right. I mean, he's not
nearly as good as this season when Lester won the
league in um, but around this guy, he like it
was kind of the dude. At certain points he had
to play with an ankle agle monitor on for some city,
(09:28):
got into a police an think may have been drink
driving or something as they call it in the UK.
And also Wayne Rooney also, uh, he's been he's been
cheating a lot on his wife, a lot of drink
driving over there too. Um but interesting fact by Jamie Varty.
There was a in his book he had like a
dead leg that he couldn't get over, and the physio
(09:50):
was like, what the fund is going on with you?
We're like, we're rehabbing, arresting, and he find out this
dude has just been drinking a bunch of vodka. Uh.
And so what he would do is he would fill
up like a three leader bottle of vodka with only
red and purple Skittles because he liked the flavor and
that was like his fucking uh. And he also famously
(10:11):
when he would do that before playing or like I think,
like whenever, like that was just part of a ship.
I mean he would drink a ton of Red Bull
before playing um and famously took a ship while playing
Arsenal in the middle of a match. Wait, what do
you mean like on the field? No? No No, no, he
like left, This isn't a bigger deal ship on the field.
I need more. Another thing is he would say in
(10:32):
the season that his team won fifteen and sixteen, he
would drink basically a bottle of like half Gatorade half
Ports every night. That was his pre match me drink
or the night before and then the day of he
would drink a double espresso and three cans of Red
Bull anyway, so he's on his own vibe. So back
(10:52):
to the lecture Red Hand for you. So Rebeccas so
his wife, Rebecca Vardy, and Colleen Rooney, wife of Wayne Rooney,
are into some ship right now because uh, Colleen Rooney
was noticing a lot of ship from her personal life
was ending up in the sun the tabloid over there
and couldn't understand because she had her own like private
(11:13):
Instagram account that was only for people she knew personally.
So she was like, how the fuck is sho I'm
talking about here ending up there? So she concocted a
little fucking experiment to see how where the leak would go. Yeah,
so she started on her stories. She blocked everyone she
followed or that was following her except for one woman,
Rebecca Vardy, Okay, and was like and for five months
(11:35):
started putting in bullshit stories to see if any of
them would end up in the sun. Like, so she's like,
oh my basement flooded or this other thing. Like, she
went to Mexico to for some kind of experimental thing
where she would be able to select the gender of
her child when she was pregnant, and these things made
it into the sun. So then I think yesterday she
came out with it and was like, so let me
(11:57):
gather around kids. I've been doing this experiment because a
lot I've noticed a lot of disturbing things have been
shown up in the tabloids. And for five months I've
been doing this thing and it's Rebecca Vardy and her
excuse M. Now I will read the defense that Rebecca
I've already tweeted out for this kind of you know, underhandedness.
She says, as I have just said to you on
(12:19):
the phone, I wish you had called me if you
thought this. I never speak to anyone about you, as
various journalists who have asked me to over the years
can vouch for. If you thought this was happening, you
could have told me, and I could have changed my
passwords to see if it stopped. Over the years, various
people have had access to my insta, and just this
week I found I was following people I didn't know
and I never followed in my life. I'm not being funny,
(12:42):
but I don't need the money. What would I gain
from selling stories on you? I liked you a lot, Colleen,
and I'm so upset that you have chosen to do this,
especially when I'm heavily pregnant. I'm disgusted that I'm even
having to deny this. You should have called me the
first time this happened. Heartbreak emoji. Do we think bullshit?
I think when you start doing the I mean, I'm
(13:04):
starting to follow accounts I've never seen. Come on, fam,
it's just uh, you love to see it, though, I
really do come out like that. Her story is that
somebody broke into her account, found out about this other
woman's Instagram posts, maybe by following her. So someone broke
(13:27):
into her account to follow someone else, I guess, and
get secrets about their private life, and then sold those
secrets to the sun. Maybe if if we're living in
her world. Huh, it's a it's a tough sell. It's
a hard bargain, that is. Yeah, I'm not buying it.
Come up with a better lie, Colleen. Well the no,
Colleen is the victim here, Colleen, But you know a victim,
(13:52):
don't play the victim, Colleen Rooney, Wayne has been doing
her dirty for a long time. Pregny. He was like
sleeping around on her having like three sims and ship it.
So she's been she's been through it. His name is
Wayne Rooney. This is on her. Yeah, he had terrible
hair plugs. Do not marry a guy named that. I
thought he was in his fifties. You did just legimate
based on like I had seen him like many, like
(14:15):
a decade ago, and I think it was during one
of the World Cups when he was like the best
player on England's team, and I was like, oh, well,
that guy must be very old at that time, and
now he must be like playing on the seniors Tour
or whatever. This he'll be thirty I think four this year. Yeah,
(14:36):
he's dominant. He's scored some pretty wild goals in the MLS,
which people tend to do when they come over from Europe.
But um, so this is like if the Shack Damian
Lillard beef were their wives. Yeah, kind of maybe, I mean,
and a little bit messier. I don't know what their
beef is to begin with, really, um but I do
(14:58):
know that there was an interesting stat for the amount
of minutes Wayne Rooney and Jamie' already played together on
the pitch. They never created a goal scoring chance for
the other player. Yeah, so that's true, not a lot
of harmony. And that's that three Lion squad. Yeah, that's
how you know, exactly right, Uh, And any thoughts on
this Sophia just too many almost. Yeah, it's just a mess.
(15:20):
It's a mess, and it's I don't I really don't
know if Rebecca already was like trying to make money
or she's just really hated you know, there's got to
be something else, right, Like if Rebecca I've already really
was and I believe she probably was the one obviously
the least her friend over was it her friend or
was it one of those things where she's like it's
all because you didn't come to my baby shower type
(15:42):
of ship, or like you fucking shaded me at this restaurant. Right,
they're competitively fucking the best soccer player in England. Well,
I wouldn't go that far. You wouldn't know. They're not
their peaks weren't at the same time, So it was
hard like Jamie's already had his time few years ago,
and Wayne when he had his like seven years ago.
(16:02):
So right, But I'm just wondering if she was like
feeling But I guess historically right, like Wayne Rooney was
the man, and then when Jamie you've already had his
huge season, then he became the man. So maybe since
there were two man on the block, Okay, all right,
we'll shout out to the out to them. While we're
on the subject of the People's Republic of China, Did
(16:26):
anybody see the seventy year anniversary parade last good a man?
One of my favorite parades. How were they dressed? What
was the red carpet like like parade? Unfortunately not enormous
like globe destroying missiles. Uh, I could have used fewer
of those and more snoopy. It was just a big
(16:48):
dick measuring parade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and how big is it? Huge? Huge?
There were also some weapons that I had never seen
outside of a G I. Joe toy by box. Like
there there was like a little like uh motorcycle helicopter thing.
It was like a two seater little helicopter that didn't
(17:08):
like you weren't inside of anything. Yeah, you were just
like in an open helicopter thing. It was kind of dope.
That sounds awesome. I think the amazing things Giving Day
could use them. Yeah, absolutely, like a little I mean
I could use those just like a little like golf
cart helicopter that you could just be like, we would
take off that. It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen,
(17:28):
but I'm here for it. Coming out with one right
next week. Yeah, exactly. Flamethrowers and personal helicopters, uh, powered
by weed. You know. There's also a slingshot hypersonic unmanned
aircraft that looks like a stealth bomber but like in
a in hang glider size, and it's designed to help
(17:52):
am weapons at USA aircraft carriers. So wait, what do
you mean, Like, it's just that's like people looked at it.
We're like, oh, so we understand what this does. And
it's specifically designed to fight a war with US with
the with the United States considering our naval technologies. And
(18:13):
the other thing they said is that all the missile
names are all written on the side of the weapons
in English. Uh. And the Gelapnic editor who was kind
of summarizing this was pointing out that that's because the
real audience for the parade is US the Daily Fantastic. Yeah, well,
thank you so much, thank you. All right, we're gonna
(18:33):
take a quick break we'll be right back and we're back. Uh.
And finally, what is a myth? That's something people think
it's true. You gotta plots whist for you were bad? Yeah? No,
(18:57):
Uh so I did the I set up sex in
space be cause it turns out it is a hoax.
At least officially, there have been multiple sources confirming that
no one actually had sex in space. That's just the
myth because, like you said, Miles, it's it's good click bait, right,
and so people propagated it. And Jack, you are correct
(19:18):
that everything we know about physics shows us the circulatory
system will be just a in a very poor state
if there's not gravity, because it's designed to work with gravity.
But as far as we know, uh, there has not
been an experiment in actual space. Maybe some low gravity banging,
(19:39):
but no up in the Shuttle. Yeah. I mean space
is tight, you're basically and I think there were some
unsanctioned experiments, but I think experiments. Right, I've been up
in this space station too long. And if you're if
you're listening and you're you're that person, Uh, then right
(19:59):
to Jack Miles, Yeah, somebody must have Like there's been
astronauts up there for a year by themselves. I'm sure
they jerked off at some point. I mean, according to
this vix article, they talk about how microgravity affects the
penis and look, shout out to anybody who has any
eat problems or you can't like just say you were
in space a long time, because what it says is
(20:20):
the penis is not as large as it can well
on Earth, and a direction in outer space doesn't last
as long as it can well on Earth. But they
say there's an exception every well. Astronaut Mike Mullane spoke
about his peculiar reaction to being in the International Space Station.
He claims that several times while in the space station,
he woke up with impressive erections that for him has
(20:40):
the ability to quote drill through cryptonite. Who said that
surely not, I will look they hyper linked off. Let's
see is this to an actual men's health article with him?
And let's see where let's do a quick find a
couple of times I would wake up from sleep piers
and I had a boner that I could have drilled
through kryptonite. Somehow that's better than him. The image of
(21:05):
somebody waking up and seeing their erection going impressive, right,
Like Kryptonite is such a strange because it seems it
suggested he's competitive with Superman when it comes to the
strength of their erection. Ye, Like he's like he couldn't
touch kryptonite though, he's like, my direction is the best
direction in the world. Superman's couldn't even get through the thing.
(21:27):
But that's not fair to Superman because kryptonite saying it
should have been like titanium, because then you have a
fair one with Superman. That's where then that's where you
have to I'm suggesting that he is. That's where he
looks very shape. He's cloud chasing and insecure. Yeah, of
course he did the Superman camp get anywhere near kryptonite, sir,
(21:49):
that's not a fair comparison. So, but it is. It
is apparently a myth, but there's still there's still people
claiming that it happens. Uh, there was a Superman with
your Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Well, the sex thing. There's
a French writer in a book, The Final Mission mur
The Human Adventure. He says that it did happen. His
(22:12):
name is Pierre Kohler, and everybody in Russian and US
space agencies denies it. But of course why would you,
especially when funding is getting cut left and right, why
would you confirm that? Like, yeah, it's like hedonism in
space up there, it's basically Vegas. They're like, hey man,
they're ripping in the terran in the terror and that's
what I'm here for. One guy in Moline in this interview,
(22:35):
they asked it like they ask men's health, the question,
has anyone ever had sex? He says, in the Space
Shuttle program where we had males and females, I can
tell you that nobody was doing that because there's absolutely
no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the airlock.
But everybody would know what you were doing. You're not
going you're not going. You're not going out there to
do a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.
(22:56):
So I wonder if there have been people been like, yo,
let's sucking the airlock real quick. And it's like to
have the thing where it's like everyone knows what you're
doing in the air lock, Like is that is he
alluding to something? Tell him that we're fixing the suits.
We have a maintenance bay for that. Um, I don't
want to derail but that's weird. That's this whole show
(23:18):
is derailing. Yeah, it's derailment. What is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay? Um,
I recently google do shrooms have an expiration day? Because
I I guess this is fine to admit my mom. Yeah,
(23:39):
not my freezer, my fridge. Okay. I got them in
May for Edgar's birthday, their chocolate mushrooms. I forgot that
he's allergic to chocolate so he couldn't eat them. So
I was like, maybe I'll just like have them and
do them at some point. But instead of putting in
the freezer, I put in the fridge because I was like,
(24:00):
maybe if they freeze they're wrapped in tinfoil, but they
were not in a plastic bag. Fast forward to two
weeks ago when I rented an Airbnb airstream trailer and
Joshua Tree by myself. Yeah, and I had been watching
(24:23):
that show Explained I think it is about like Explained
the Brain, Yeah, on Netflix, and they have an episode
on tripping and I was like, man, tripping is like
that that makes you get it, that makes you really
get it. And I had, you know, in college, messed
with that, but it's been many years since then, and
(24:46):
I was like, I should just do them. I should
just drive out and do them. And um, I didn't
get to Joshua Tree until maybe six pm because of
all the traffic on a Friday afternoon. It took like
four hours to San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, truly. I finally
got there just before the sun was about to set,
(25:06):
and I was like, should I do them? Should I
do them? And I was sitting on my little air
strewp trailer bed like trying to decide should I do it?
And then all of a sudden something came over me
because I had brought them just in case, and I
was afraid I would die I don't know, because they
were all and I was like, fuck it, I'm just
gonna do it. And I went and I ate it
(25:29):
and at first I didn't feel anything, and I was like,
oh uh this they expired. They I don't feel it.
I'll have a little more because I had to hell more.
And all of a sudden, the sun went down and
they went wild, and I was I had like brought
(25:52):
things to do, some watercolor paints. I know ukulele, but
didn't realize that when it's dark and you're in the
middle of the desert alone. You don't really want to
paint or play ukulele. You're just like kind of like
you're like, what's out there exactly? And I was like,
oh my god, my Airbnb host, because there was a
guy in a house, you know, a bit away. It's
(26:13):
like he's gonna come and kill me. Oh my god.
I just say, old mushrooms. They're gonna find me dead.
They're gonna find me dead. Oh my god. You were
like the snowball scene in Willow what started with two
people just kind of falling down a mountain turned into
near a near avalanche near the bottom. It was so stressful,
and I kept looking at my phone, like sure I
text someone. No, No, I can't text them because like
(26:35):
what would I even say? What do I say in
a text message? I can't even plane this. You're like
in airstream. Ukulele's useless because I was just walking around,
just walking around the airstream and they had a beer
and then I drank the beer and I was like, oh,
now I feel woozy. And then I went into the
(26:55):
bathroom and I was convinced I was in a painting yeah,
this all sounds right, because you feel like the strokes
on your face are paint strokes. The strokes on your
face your mushrooms. Now, I just like I couldn't even
walk really, I was like stumbling around and I find like,
(27:17):
finally at eleven pm, you yeah, I'll start wearing off.
By that point, I was watching Disenchanted on Netflix, like
gripping to reality, like this is fine, this is fine. See,
this is why you gotta you gotta you gotta start
off a little bit light, you know what I mean,
Take a little nibble and just like a chill, because
(27:38):
you never know your body's on the process it. This
is the same thing people do with edible weed. They
take a bite and they're like, that was fine. It
was plus just one little chocolate and anything cut to
you like peeling somebody off the floor exactly. And yeah,
that's why I also, I prefer I don't like to
have full blown trips really on psychedelics these days. I
like to like micro dose. Yeah, you know, that's what
(27:59):
I want to do it out. But if anyone is curious, yeah,
you can leave in the fridge. They will go bad
if you don't leave them in the fridge. Then I
had some that I took them out and like was
looking through them and there were bugs in there, and
(28:20):
they're like, hey, man, for a second, So let's talk
about something that somebody's doing that seems like a good
idea using kindness constructively. Well, you know, we talked a
few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago about
that New York Times piece that was a profile on
(28:41):
cb CBP not CBD Customs and Border Patrol Agents to
sort of get a general take on like what it's
like there where many people like, it's fucking terrible. It's
a terrible place to work as a woman. There are
many people who are just fucking like terrible people. There
are also people who are there who hate the fact
that this is their job. But have they tried CBD oil.
(29:03):
I don't know. If I feel like that would maybe
help some I think it's worth worth noting um. And
also just the idea that there are people where the
morality is so low because like they go to work
and they have to interact with children who are just
crying for their parents and things like that, and the
psychologically that's taking a toll um. And then you know
a lot of it. We were also talking about most
(29:23):
of us sort of the ideas like man, these people
are sucking, they suck or whatever, why can't they just
do something else? And then you know, we talked about
how you can't not many people just have the ability
to quit a job because the philosophically opposed to it,
because the way this system is set up, you must
work to live, and if you're not working, then you
could perish quite quickly or you're life, you're living situation
could turn very dark, very quickly. So the Never Again
(29:47):
Action group, their immigrant rights group that's spearheaded by a
lot of Jewish activists, about this idea of like not
separating families, you know, akin to the Holocaust. Um. They
were really trying to figure out because they do a
lot of activities outside of ice facilities and things like that.
A lot of the people around were thinking, like, it's
not a lot of the times they chant quit your job,
(30:08):
quit your job, And then we're kind of realizing like
that's just kind of not enough either. So on Monday
to the people themselves, yeah yeah, So on Monday they
were thinking like, okay, what can we actually do? So
they launched a website that would match ice agents with
confidential career advisors like you would in college, to try
and find a way for you to get another job
(30:31):
so you can fucking quit this disastrous, evil organization. Um.
And they said from that launch, like two people immediately
like hit them up from outside the like Atlanta area
where they were first trying to like get people to
like sort of notice this project. But they said, yeah,
those people who came out, uh, we're just immediately Yeah,
I don't want to be I do absolutely do not
(30:52):
want to work here anymore. And they the comment that
one of the people left who was interacting with the
website confidentially said something like, I'm drowning in this place.
So you know, I think there is this idea that
we think that every person that works there is just
automaton who's hell bent on doing harm. And I think
there are some people who are, but there are very
much also people who, you know, like we were saying
(31:13):
to like border patrol in certain areas is a very
quick ticket to the middle to a middle class lifestyle,
like with very like you could just have a high
school education and start making you know, decent money. So
you know, shout out to them for using you know
sensible tactics, because again, I think one thing we've learned
throughout this whole week is that money fucking makes everything move.
(31:35):
People don't it doesn't values are they don't matter. They
don't matter because at the end of the day, it's
nothing works without money. I also just want to say
that I think the way that like becoming complicit and
evil works because it happens kind of in a certain
way slowly, but then you're like, what the fuck, and
I think you know it just it does. You're mentioning
(31:56):
the Holocaust like totally makes you think about the Germans
that lived Nazi Germany that weren't like gung hoo Nazis.
But then we're also caught there. And I don't think
anybody came and was like, hey, this is your ticket
out of the Nazi Party or whatever, which is one
less it was like be a defector or something and
a conspirator conspirator and be executed. Yeah. So, and I
(32:17):
feel like giving these people a way to leave something
that is like so, I mean, someone making you complicit
and evil is fucked up. So giving someone a way out,
I think is like actually a real way to work
at the problem. As opposed to just be like this
is fucked up. Well, I mean, it definitely helps weaken
that agency, but I think, yeah, the real solutions have
(32:39):
to come from further up. But I think that's where
we're at least giving acknowledging the humanity of people who
are in a situation they probably also don't want to
be in, and that there are people like that again,
and they're also evil. Course we're out here getting off
on watching children cry? Yeah, or who are when journalists
come in and be like, oh, so you write fake news?
Oh right, right, the fake news. Why don't you propaganda? Propaganda? Yeah,
(33:03):
you have to admit that that's what you do, and
you won't and you'll get your passport back. Yeah, that's
like I'm sorry to having a journalist named Ben Watson.
I think at L A X or maybe jfk um.
So here's some propaganda. Suck my ship. Yeah, that is
some propaganda for sure. Let's get into the real important
(33:24):
news of the day. What is trending on porn? Uh? Yeah,
why you're trying to watch the Joker smash? That is
the question. Uh, so to be or not to be?
Why I'll trying to watch the Joker Apparently this happens
every time a comic book movie comes out. People see
a movie and then immediately want to watch that character
somebody else. I guess, Uh, this movie in particular seems
(33:47):
like the most disturbing. I don't know, like that it
is the least sexy movie I think I've ever seen.
There's a part where he there's like a love interest
ish part that it was like distracting Lee out of place.
To me, I was just like, what the funk is happening?
Why would he's like not regarding him in any sexual capacity.
(34:08):
Just doesn't even seem to play into like the themes
of the movie. But apparently I think this ties into
an overall uh sort of fetish of clowns and like
Harley Quinn Well, I mean there's also that cycle of
violence and sexual release that you used to radicalize people too,
Like I mean not to read into it like that,
(34:29):
but you get so fucking worked up and then there's
like you're like, oh, I get my violence and I
get my sexual release. Or there are people who are
just like I really want to see the Joker smash
because either's something about this character that is so hot
to me, like porn Hub says they track like what
people are searching for, like they track your fantasies. Does
(34:50):
that mean they like put out a call for like
content that fits this ship or like, how is there,
all of a sudden so much joker porn? Well though,
it's just that people were looking for it on porn Hubb.
It doesn't necessarily just yet. They're just like, yeah, so
on uh no, the thing you have to understand all
all possible porn exists. Yeah, but they say over seven
(35:11):
thou searches involving the word joker in the first four
days following the film's release. Yeah, and then the first
the biggest day was Sunday when they saw six D
twenty eight searches for a clown getting down. So is
this like presumably before or after people have seen the movie?
I don't know. See that's hard to know too. Are
some people like, man, before I see this, I got
a joke off to the porn version, and then I'll
(35:33):
see the movie. I acted by how much I want
to fuck the joker. And after they see this very
like bummery kind of non sexy movie, then they're like, okay,
this is my this is like all right, I'm into this. Yeah,
let me see if there's a porn. Did you like it?
I was. I still don't know how I feel about
it from nightmares. It gave me nightmares for like the
(35:53):
like literal like political nightmares. Um so I guess it
was effective of I think it tapped into something that
didn't make you honey baby nice. Best Austin Powers quote
in uh in years you loved it? Michael Moore like
loved it, praising He says it's a masterpiece and that
(36:16):
it's like dangerous if you don't see it. That's what
he said. I do think it's worth seeing, just like
as a cultural moment. Like I read this comic Felix
Bitterman from Choppout trap House like rote a review of
it for one of the blogs and was just like,
it's a mediocre shit nothing movie that people are reacting
(36:37):
to because they just their brains are broken. But I
I didn't find maybe my brain is broken, but I
didn't find it to be like pointless or like a
mediocre movie. I found it to be like I I
get what the significance is. I don't know if it's
I don't know how Like there's there's huge political questions
tied up and like how I feel about it overall?
(36:59):
But yeah, well, let's not distract from the fact that
Harley Quinn is actually the most searched character video game,
comic or otherwise of all time video game, movie, or
comic ever, searched higher than like Jessica Rabbit, higher than
other rabbit. Uh bunny, you know that's let's I mean,
(37:22):
some things are pure. But yeah, I think, yeah, cartoons
are not gonna work. I feel like Lara Croft. I
wonder who's the number two? Yeah, Harley Quinn, Laura Croft, Batwoman, Catwoman,
rat Woman, or like, yeah, keep going that woman that
fan yeah, from last comic standing probably all right, let's
(37:43):
talk about China. China. We love China, moving, we love China.
Thank you so much. All Right, We're gonna take a
quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. What
(38:05):
is something you think is overrated? CBD oil? What everybody
says to use it for everything? Literally I want to
believe in it because I love the idea of it,
But every time I give it to anyone or tried
for anything, that ship does not work. Like my mom
was having pains and I bought all this fucking fancy
(38:27):
CBD EMU cream. They're like, it's made with EMU fat,
it penetrates deeper. They're like, here's it's a million dollars.
I was like, all right, it's for my mom. I'm
like did it do anything? She's like no. And anytime
I'm like oh, people are like yeah, it helps with anxiety.
I'm like you should try it, and they're like no, Like,
I don't really know what the funking does do well.
(38:48):
I think the most effective case for it was with
anti seizure applications, because I remember that was like one
of the big things where there were children who I
saw that video too. Well, not even the video, I mean,
it was like it's a it was like a whole thing.
But there's like a bunch of videos that have gone
viral showing of people putting CBD oil on like the feet,
the bottoms of the feet of people are having seizures
(39:09):
and it helping and stuff on the bottoms of their feet. Yeah,
and I've heard that it helps in like Parkinson's in
my husband's dad has Parkinson's, so we've been I've been
giving them all the CBD and that ship does not
do anything for your point being that cbdo. Like people
are constantly like, oh have you tried CBD oil just
in conversation, And that's rarely a illness or like a
(39:32):
malady that people are bringing up conversationally, Like, man, I
keep having these seizures. I don't know what to do
to add. And I'm not saying that it doesn't work
for anything. I'm just saying I don't think it works
for first of the things we're trying to use it
for casually being like, oh, yeah, try for any of
the ten things with you. Yeah, well, people love it,
(39:54):
you know, because there's so many CBD drinks everywhere too,
And is this really how many of these have to
drink to like catch the spirit? Yeah? Is that what
you take medicine for? To catch the catch the spirit? Yeah?
Everybody knows that. Everybody knows from my praise band, I
was in Catch the Spirit. Yeah. You love to wear
(40:15):
white linen when you perform. It's like, people, what's about purity?
And it's about talking about coming to Jesus is in?
You know? You know what you're telling me. I've only
ever seen you as a God's virgin. Has that white
linen church ever been buttoned? Up. No, it didn't seem
like it. Well, you know, it depends on how I'm feeling.
But that's how he gets new additions to the church. Yeah,
(40:36):
and that's how to bring him in. But only those
who are pure of heart, and he will find a
gust or a fan or something. Just so that a
little bit if they just want to say, who's the
king of the jungle, who's the king of the see
bubble bubble bubble, who's the king of the universe? And
who's the king of me? His name is j S.
(40:56):
You asked, what Wow, catch the spirit? That's the kind
of jams we're rocking out to. Yeah, yeah, jam. All right,
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeiteguys, please
like and review the show. If you like the show,
(41:19):
uh means the world to Miles. He he needs your validation, folks.
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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