Speaker 1: Hello Internet, and welcome to this afternoon edition of the
Speaker 1: Zeit Wing.
Speaker 2: Is pretty weird. Huh? That is our trending episode title,
Speaker 2: because yeah, this is just so stupid.
Speaker 1: The weird shit, the weirdo stuff is still got them
Speaker 1: and just they don't know what to do. The couch
Speaker 1: fucking shit is still continuing to run amok on the right.
Speaker 2: It's everything we love to see. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm Miles. I'm joined by Brian the Editor. Brian the Editor,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 2: Hi? Hits me, Brian the Editor. I'm here, you're here.
Speaker 1: And we're here to tell you what is trending today.
Speaker 1: On this Tuesday, July thirtieth, twenty twenty four, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is trending because he announced some major Supreme Court reforms
Speaker 1: via Washington Post op ed. He wants to limit justices
Speaker 1: terms to eighteen years, introduce a binding code of ethics,
Speaker 1: and is also proposing a constitutional amendment called the no
Speaker 1: No One is Above the Law Amendment, which basically reverses
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court's recent presidents can just do whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck they want to ruling.
Speaker 2: No. I know this is a podcast, but if you
Speaker 2: hear like a weird noise in the background. That's me
Speaker 2: rolling my fucking eyes. Oh wow wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean look, this is definitely like one of those
Speaker 1: things where you go, that's a I like the sentiment,
Speaker 1: but maybe this is something that could have happened, you know,
Speaker 1: like earlier in the term, because right now there's really
Speaker 1: I don't know where there's the political capital or will
Speaker 1: to actually get this done. But again, we like the
Speaker 1: sentiment because at the very least that is something that
Speaker 1: needs to happen, like we need actual term limits, like
Speaker 1: we need a way to you know, rein in the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. But like the Code of Ethics thing, it's
Speaker 1: hard to know, like it has to truly be binding
Speaker 1: because right now they have a code of Ethics which
Speaker 1: they just roll their eyes at and they're like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: more on that later. I'm taking this RV money, try
Speaker 1: to do something to me, So yeah, this is what
Speaker 1: you know. He even agrees that these are mostly symbolic,
Speaker 1: but again that's that's it's kind of tough to hear
Speaker 1: symbolic change.
Speaker 2: When you Needreame Court literally said presidents can do whatever
Speaker 2: the fuck they want, and he's just not really taking
Speaker 2: the queue, don't I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, I think this is one of
Speaker 1: those things. It's like you need to say something because
Speaker 1: it's bad. But again, you functionally, where how does this happen?
Speaker 1: How do you make this actual law? How do you
Speaker 1: get these constitutional amendments passed?
Speaker 2: How do you make motherfuckers stop running wild? Yeah? How too?
Speaker 1: We just don't know yet, But this is the monster
Speaker 1: that has been created in the Supreme Court. Uh So,
Speaker 1: at least the at least maybe he's trying to normalize presidents,
Speaker 1: saying that we need term limits. Sure, but then we
Speaker 1: need people who will actually turn that into tangible action.
Speaker 1: So then we don't have to worry about the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court taking bribes or you know, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, gift pains and then not recusing themselves from
Speaker 1: relevant cases or just you know, basically doing whatever they want.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that is why Joe Biden is trending. The
Speaker 1: other thing that's trending Disneyland. So we talked about their union,
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand members strong union for the people that work Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Everybody but Gary voted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ninety nine percent voted to authorize a strike if
Speaker 1: they don't ratify a contract or get the contract that they.
Speaker 2: Felt was fair.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what Disney knows that this is like the
Speaker 1: height of the season for people to be coming in
Speaker 1: the summer, you know what I mean, like with kids
Speaker 1: out of school, and to shut down would be a
Speaker 1: disaster financially. And on Monday, it turns out the resorts
Speaker 1: unionized workers ratified a three year deal that includes a
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty four dollars hourly minimum wage this year,
Speaker 1: more for some other jobs, regular wage increases, seniority increases,
Speaker 1: more flexible attendance and sick leave policies, and other benefits.
Speaker 1: Most of these employees will be receiving an increase of
Speaker 1: six dollars and ten cents per hour over the next
Speaker 1: three years, and the contract goes into effect immediately upon ratification.
Speaker 2: So look, hey.
Speaker 1: Man, unions, there're it's like it's it's like when you
Speaker 1: get together collectively, things can be achieved, like to see
Speaker 1: Disneyland have to figure out.
Speaker 2: Look, man, yeah, you actually we rely on them to
Speaker 2: make the billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Some people are wondering if this will result in higher
Speaker 1: ticket prices, because that's a lot of things you always
Speaker 1: hear out of C suites to be like.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if we do that, then everything's going
Speaker 2: to be more expensive.
Speaker 1: But as of now it seems that the ticket prices
Speaker 1: are stable. But this is only again after I mean,
Speaker 1: it's only gone up since the pandemic. Yeah, because their whole,
Speaker 1: their whole business strategy was well, let's just only appeal
Speaker 1: to the people that can just.
Speaker 2: Waste tons of money here at a time and other people.
Speaker 2: May I remember with the whole that that's Star Wars Hotel.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: like it didn't work. Prices on that yeah, were so
Speaker 2: wild for like a weekend, and you know that they
Speaker 2: have they still have that kind of pull with certain
Speaker 2: types of people where it's like, yeah, we'll empty our
Speaker 2: bank accounts for this experience.
Speaker 1: Good people take loans out to go do that because
Speaker 1: it's sort of like embedded in American culture of like
Speaker 1: the Disneyland trip or Disney World trip. So yeah, good
Speaker 1: to see them paying. People love to see workers win.
Speaker 1: Bless y'all. And before we take a break, Beyroot is
Speaker 1: trending because Israel has bombed a target in Bairut, Lebanon
Speaker 1: in retaliation for what they said was an attack from
Speaker 1: Hesbola over the weekend, where twelve young people were killed.
Speaker 1: This seems like a pretty big escalation. The Israeli government
Speaker 1: has said that this is the end of it. This
Speaker 1: is their response. They're not looking for a larger salation,
Speaker 1: but it I don't know. Again, I think violence begets violence, uh,
Speaker 1: And I don't see how this will end things. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: there there there's a lot of unrest happening within Israel
Speaker 1: over the arrest of Israeli soldiers who were accused of
Speaker 1: you know, sexually abusing detainees, torturing detainees. Uh. These are
Speaker 1: Palestinian prisoners that they've taken from Goza. Many are just
Speaker 1: people who get caught up in sweeps. And the arrest
Speaker 1: of these Israeli soldiers has kicked off a lot of unrest,
Speaker 1: you know, for people even arguing on Behalf that what
Speaker 1: these soldiers did was heroic. So a lot happening there
Speaker 1: right now. And I we'll see, we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: how diplomatic channels are able to I don't know, quell things.
Speaker 1: But as it stands, I don't seeing the footage of
Speaker 1: of the bombing that happened in Beirut, that's not doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't fill me with feelings of peace. But yes, that's
Speaker 1: the current state of things at the moment. Fun, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. Yeah, because meanwhile, evangelicals are like
Speaker 1: they're they're like raw ring, They're like, please use nuclear
Speaker 1: arms against Gaza so we can defeat.
Speaker 2: Like they're really trying to this whole Christian Zionism. They're
Speaker 2: they're they're trying to they're trying to bring the rapture.
Speaker 2: I know. That's what's so wild, is like they're like,
Speaker 2: it's so hard for the rapture and yeah, and then
Speaker 2: no one will just say it, no one will just
Speaker 2: say out loud. It's like, yeah, we're like, look, we
Speaker 2: need to set certain things in motion so that Jesus
Speaker 2: can come back, so Jesus could come back.
Speaker 1: Or it's like the leftovers, we'll see one of the two,
Speaker 1: just one of the two his wrinkle, piles of clothes everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, let's take a quick break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back with some more stories after this, and we're thank you.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the American Flag Act is trending because just past
Speaker 1: the All American Flag Act Serious business, basically a new
Speaker 1: rule that will ensure that all US flags be completely
Speaker 1: manufactured domestically. Senator Susan Collins claimed that this will quote
Speaker 1: honor the flags significance while also supporting American jobs.
Speaker 2: Versions of this hill Susan, what is the flag significance?
Speaker 1: Okay, America, and we love America, don't we.
Speaker 2: I just want to kiss the flag, don't you. That's
Speaker 2: I think that's what it means. It's not the American
Speaker 2: people sjuggling, but hey, where do we get the cheap flag?
Speaker 1: So this is something that has been happening since like
Speaker 1: two thousand and three where people are like that it's
Speaker 1: an outrage that our flags are not being made in
Speaker 1: the United States, and like, there have been proposals going
Speaker 1: back to the eighties. There was the American Flag Fidelity
Speaker 1: Act that was banning the imports of foreign made American flags.
Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, it was reported that ninety four percent
Speaker 1: of flags imported into the United States came from China.
Speaker 1: Oh and the jingoistic paranoia around China made flags, I think,
Speaker 1: as people expect, is stupid because while the vast majority
Speaker 1: of flags imported into the US are from China, there's
Speaker 1: still a small fraction of the flags that are actually
Speaker 1: sold overall. And the you know, quote unquote typical American
Speaker 1: flag that is coming from China or like the little
Speaker 1: plastic ones that people wave at like parades and shit
Speaker 1: like that, not the ones that they use for are
Speaker 1: very important ceremonies and football games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are made in Bangladesh.
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, it's not really I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: a problem aside from you know, saying like this, this
Speaker 1: is about America and patriotism, so the flags should be
Speaker 1: made in America. It's like Republicans are really passionate about this,
Speaker 1: but it's also the Republicans who are responsible for this
Speaker 1: issue in the first place.
Speaker 2: So, like one of the things that led to this.
Speaker 1: So you know, when Trump had all these tariffs on
Speaker 1: Chinese goods, for some reason, he didn't include American flags
Speaker 1: on the list of Chinese imports that would be affected.
Speaker 2: Especially Yeah, yeah, he's just like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like, uh, you know, maybe stuff with
Speaker 1: anchovy products, stuff with zinc in it. What about the
Speaker 1: American fan, I don't worry about that. Don'try about that.
Speaker 1: Don'try about that. And back in the eighties, the House
Speaker 1: and Senate passed a bill to protect the domestic textile industry,
Speaker 1: with foreign made flags being like a big talking point
Speaker 1: at the time. But Reagan vet told it because he
Speaker 1: said it was you know, he's I'm acting in the
Speaker 1: best interest of consumers and workers. So that is why
Speaker 1: the boy nixed that bill.
Speaker 2: And here we are. It's about free trade, baby.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's always funny to me when like people
Speaker 1: talk about like it's made in America, like in wearing
Speaker 1: like these maidens. Like this is something that was pointed out,
Speaker 1: like of especially like Maga hats too, that it's all
Speaker 1: about making America great again. But they're seldom made in America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all those political slogan t shirts that you see
Speaker 2: in uh, let's be real, most parts of America. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're all they're all made in China. They're all drop chipped. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, most of those people who like do
Speaker 2: those things, it's like they're playing both sides. They make
Speaker 2: anti Trump and anti Biden shirts. Right, so everybody, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they know how to sell baby, they know how to
Speaker 2: sell those phrase t shirts. But yeah, I've seen a lot.
Speaker 2: It's weird that it's like, it's a funny issue to
Speaker 2: me because one of the things that you could take
Speaker 2: pride in in your country is like your industries. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but all of ours have been yeah, bounced on out,
Speaker 2: sent away, right, And yeah, it's just like that that's
Speaker 2: like a huge potential point of actual pride, because pride
Speaker 2: is it's it's a sense of you know, accomplishment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: something to be proud of. Yeah, yeah, merely being born
Speaker 2: somewhere is not something to be proud of, right, you
Speaker 2: had no choice in the matter, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you know this is I guess the boomerang of capitalism.
Speaker 1: You know, it's cheaper to have stuff made elsewhere, so
Speaker 1: we'll do that. Oops, now, were mad the flags aren't
Speaker 1: made here? And but hey, but you know, the people
Speaker 1: who owned the businesses have made a lot of money,
Speaker 1: so maybe it doesn't matter to them.
Speaker 2: It's such a prevalent things like I don't want any
Speaker 2: I remember I was looking up a slide whistle because
Speaker 2: I think I think they're funny. I've always just wanted
Speaker 2: to carry a slide whistle, but I don't have that
Speaker 2: kind of rihiz. That's and that's that's next level. That's
Speaker 2: like final boss level. People people were straight up like
Speaker 2: where was this made? I don't want anything made in China?
Speaker 2: In my mouth? Like I'm just like, holy shit, wow,
Speaker 2: that's very specific. It's very specific, Like what, yeah, what
Speaker 2: is do you think? I'm sorry, sir, you're probably typing.
Speaker 2: There's on a fucking iPhone, right, Yeah, nothing made here? Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was nothing to take pride in.
Speaker 1: That's the irony of our education and most people's awareness
Speaker 1: of what is happening here. That yeah, that you could
Speaker 1: be like everything, everything's probably made here. Wait no it isn't.
Speaker 1: Oh huh huh. Didn't think of that. And then just
Speaker 1: to I've gotta circle back on the gift that keeps
Speaker 1: on giving.
Speaker 2: Does J d Vance have sex with couches? And what
Speaker 2: kind of couch?
Speaker 1: And is he weird? This is currently taking up so
Speaker 1: much of the oxygen on the right. It's baffling how
Speaker 1: the defense is against being weird or jd Vance does
Speaker 1: in fact not do sex. Stuff with upholstered items is
Speaker 1: a huge talking point. Jesse Waters yesterday had a real
Speaker 1: hard time dealing with this. It's just wild to hear
Speaker 1: like these pundits like dignify what was just a joke
Speaker 1: tweet that's not real but has captured the minds of
Speaker 1: people on the internet, and how they have to push
Speaker 1: back against it. So this is Jesse Waters. Just here's
Speaker 1: Jesse Waters having to talk about it on his show.
Speaker 1: They're accusing jd Vance of having sex with a couch.
Speaker 2: Yo. You know, like tangentially reminds me of of Like
Speaker 2: it kind of reminds me of I guess the philosophy
Speaker 2: of a rap beef since we just had such such
Speaker 2: a big rap beef. Like it's like the Drake situation.
Speaker 2: All it has to be is believable. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be true true, but all people have to
Speaker 2: do is like believe that you're weird or something's off
Speaker 2: and it will just stick. Yeah, the brand Isa, you
Speaker 2: can't get it off of you. Yeah, true, it's there's
Speaker 2: no there's no way to rebut someone calling you a weirdo,
Speaker 2: what do you think There's nothing you can say? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just going.
Speaker 1: No like they are. It's again, it's it's so true.
Speaker 1: The economy of language there is is is mind blowing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll let Jesse Waters continue is is upset monologue.
Speaker 2: Not on account with the count. It's a weird thing
Speaker 2: to do. That's a weird thing. They're calling him weird.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kamala Harris is going to pick anyone
Speaker 1: as weird and creepy as Jade Vance.
Speaker 2: Frankly, jd Vance just dumb Vance is pretty weird. It's
Speaker 2: not just a weird style that he brings. It's that
Speaker 2: this leads to weird policies. They're just weird. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: and is Weirdo running made We're extreme, more weird, more erradical.
Speaker 2: The agenda, the way they talk to people, the way
Speaker 2: they address people, it is bizarre. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It is weird.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just plain weird.
Speaker 1: Democrats made up a story about jd Vance having sex
Speaker 1: with a cow and called them weird one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Times this weekend. Wow, they got the weird counter.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is called and well did you inherit
Speaker 1: this apartment because you are living rent free?
Speaker 2: What is going on here? What is going on? They? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And it's also interesting to see how like they're also
Speaker 1: saying that it's from that is the reason, like it's
Speaker 1: the couch thing that makes it weird. And rather than
Speaker 1: summing up all of their like hateful rhetoric, all of
Speaker 1: their regressive worldviews, their hateful world views and merely just
Speaker 1: branding that as weird, to say, like that is actually
Speaker 1: not the norm for people, that is not the normal
Speaker 1: way to view a person who's in the LGBTQ community,
Speaker 1: or an immigrant or a woman of color or women
Speaker 1: is just weird. And that has been a huge thing
Speaker 1: because a lot of it for the longest time, you know,
Speaker 1: Republicans wanted to say, like we're the ones who are
Speaker 1: upholding what is normal. This other shit that's going on,
Speaker 1: that's the weird stuff. That's We're not weird, they're weird,
Speaker 1: and to be painted with this brush is wow uh
Speaker 1: completely causing much cock nittive discomfort for them.
Speaker 2: So Jesse, Meanwhile, the rest of the world is like
Speaker 2: America is fucking weird. I know, they're like, yo, what
Speaker 2: the whole country all of y'all are weird?
Speaker 1: They could stop wars over there, and they're talking about
Speaker 1: a dude having sex with.
Speaker 2: A couch, Like, are these people for fucking real.
Speaker 1: Sorry on serious country. Sorry, this is an unseerious place.
Speaker 1: And for everybody who I mean so much is resting
Speaker 1: on this election, then this is where the discourse is.
Speaker 2: That's just where we're at.
Speaker 1: This is America, and these are the vibrations or the vibes.
Speaker 2: I do have to say, I attempted watching somebody that
Speaker 2: work was talking about Veep recently and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I never watched that show. Let me check it out.
Speaker 2: And man, political satire does not hold a fucking candle
Speaker 2: to real life. Real life is so much funnier, right,
Speaker 2: It's so much funnier. And it's just like I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is this is well written, this is it's a
Speaker 2: good show. But watching Trump try and give a speech
Speaker 2: is ten times funnier. Yeah, And that's truly, it's disturbing
Speaker 2: and hilarious. Truly.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, they continue to struggle with it, maybe
Speaker 1: because like you're painful, rhetoric and stuff like that is
Speaker 1: off putting to a lot of people. You don't want
Speaker 1: to These are not the people that you want to
Speaker 1: lead the country. And again, Democrats have found a way
Speaker 1: to just do the thing where they label the right
Speaker 1: and it's like not, it's still really not about I mean,
Speaker 1: it partially is about policy, but rather than being like, damn,
Speaker 1: they're weird, huh, like the their the favorite movies, like
Speaker 1: well what about over there? They're right used to be
Speaker 1: like they're scary, they're fascists, now like pretty weird huh.
Speaker 2: And Ite's like, yep.
Speaker 1: It's wild how much this is taking up our discussion
Speaker 1: about the election. And I don't think it's it's going
Speaker 1: to end because there are like on Twitter, dude, there's
Speaker 1: so many people trying to like figure out like what
Speaker 1: someone said. It's some dude tweeted weird is the n
Speaker 1: word for independent thinkers.
Speaker 2: And you're like, yoh, why do white folks have such
Speaker 2: a like an oppression boner, Like I mean, because he's
Speaker 2: literally vying for at least like damn it, we need
Speaker 2: it slur.
Speaker 1: No, truly, because I think if you're contending with the
Speaker 1: history of the United States, that has always been the
Speaker 1: oppressive group, uh, the oppressors, and what's embrace.
Speaker 2: That that there's never been like a like a slur
Speaker 2: for white people that really hits. Yeah, there's never been one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's hard, but they still pretend that like oh, this
Speaker 2: or that. It's like yeah, they're like, really, that's all
Speaker 2: we got. Yeah, I mean I think that's why they point. Well,
Speaker 2: it's uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wish there were I think just merely calling Republicans
Speaker 1: weird at the moment is I think the closest I've
Speaker 1: seen to something like that. But anyway, that's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four America, and here we are November. Take your time,
Speaker 1: even though we're on the doorstep of August. Yikes, man, Brian,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me. We're going to
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. So till then,
Speaker 1: take care of yourselves, take care of each other, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get your flu shots, wear a mask, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and don't.
Speaker 2: Do nothing about these weirdos. You feel me, weird ass motherfucker.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,