Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seats
Speaker 1: by one of the greats, one of our favorite guests,
Speaker 1: and it's been way too damn long. Hilarious actor, improviser,
Speaker 1: stand up comedian who you've seen on Key and Peel, Workaholics,
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Speaker 1: and Twisted Metal. Well Slee's welcomes noted thought dad, tmm,
Speaker 1: you can't use that's what that's his and you also
Speaker 1: know him from them. Actually it's if you want any.
Speaker 2: Way, Well, ye as was that when if he came
Speaker 2: back on the pod.
Speaker 1: What's good going man? Oh man, we did it, We
Speaker 1: did You're back. Everybody doubted us, They said, no way
Speaker 1: this guy gets back on the podcast, and that in
Speaker 1: your fucking faces.
Speaker 3: Losers looking you know, I remember, like I remember the
Speaker 3: last couple of times, like we were trying to have
Speaker 3: you on. You were in a writer's room and You're
Speaker 3: also like, you had your very busy schedule, and it's funny.
Speaker 3: I would like, this is what I love about our
Speaker 3: fans when people are like, oh man, if he's not
Speaker 3: on the show, or at least you're not on the show,
Speaker 3: like is there is there beef for something to people.
Speaker 3: People do many things they don't have time to do
Speaker 3: our podcast, our second rate podcast, and then we got
Speaker 3: to catch them and here you are back in the flush.
Speaker 1: We actually just sprung this on you. You were at
Speaker 1: walking out of one writer's room into another, and we
Speaker 1: just put a microphone in your face. So we appreciate
Speaker 1: you stopping for the next hour and sitting Oh.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm happy. I always love doing the pod. I
Speaker 2: love to hop on. So yeah, it was truly like, yeah,
Speaker 2: my pleasure and now I'm here with the Fellas.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, our new show WTF with the Fellas.
Speaker 1: And the logo does look identical to the other WTF.
Speaker 1: I grew a beard and had my face in a
Speaker 1: very similar cartoon. It's obviously me though, if you look closely,
Speaker 1: look closely, look at all the sweat, and you know,
Speaker 1: Maren can take all those cease and desists and shove him.
Speaker 4: Up his ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you like that. How do you like that? Maren?
Speaker 1: If we do like to ask our guests, what is
Speaker 1: something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, So for mine, I have the block iPhone offloading apps,
Speaker 2: and Jack Antonov the first one block iPhone. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if you know, you're trying to save space
Speaker 2: on your iPhone and so you go in and and
Speaker 2: you know you you have it offload apps you're not using.
Speaker 2: But there's some apps that you just download to use,
Speaker 2: like like I have the Giffy app so that I
Speaker 2: can use gifts in my text. So we have that
Speaker 2: turned on. Since I never open that app because I
Speaker 2: only use it as a sticker in text, it just
Speaker 2: keeps getting offloaded and I'll have to notice when I'm
Speaker 2: trying to use it and I can't find it, and
Speaker 2: it truly is like bonkers that so I went to
Speaker 2: look to see if there's a way to like block
Speaker 2: specific apps from being offloaded, and they're like, Nope, no,
Speaker 2: we don't have that. And you would think that there's
Speaker 2: so many things that I think the that Apple does
Speaker 2: that I'm like, you would think that eventually you would
Speaker 2: have knocked this out really quick, right, like like but
Speaker 2: like I still you know anyone.
Speaker 3: I can't like I can't type fuck in a text
Speaker 3: message or that I've been like dope, yeah as a contact,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: Or even if you use like any air pods and
Speaker 2: you happen to live with someone else who has air
Speaker 2: pods and they have that new feature that's like this
Speaker 2: airpod's tracking you and you're like, nope, this is someone
Speaker 2: this is this is someone I live with. I know
Speaker 2: it's not, and like there's no way to turn that off.
Speaker 2: There's no way to be like, hey, learn.
Speaker 1: The air tags. You're being hunted like three hundred times
Speaker 1: a week. Oh I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And with the new update, they were basically saying
Speaker 2: you know, oh you you'll be able to like acknowledge
Speaker 2: that you know it, and then like, I it still
Speaker 2: doesn't work, and I was like you would think it'd
Speaker 2: be the simplest one. And you know, that whole feature
Speaker 2: was reactionary because they got called out where people were
Speaker 2: like yo, you people can use your air tag feature
Speaker 2: to stalk people. So now they just it feels like
Speaker 2: they're punishing us, where it's like, well, then you can't
Speaker 2: turn it off you want it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right there you go in your face direction.
Speaker 1: Now our product sucks? So uh yeah yeah. The air
Speaker 1: tags right, the those things are super annoying. What is, Katie,
Speaker 1: something that you think is underrated?
Speaker 5: Okay, so this may run counter to my financial incentives,
Speaker 5: but putting your phone in phone jail. I have been
Speaker 5: doing this recently. I have been deciding that maybe Twitter,
Speaker 5: also known as Eggs, is bad for my mind, my soul,
Speaker 5: and my body. But I lack any kind of self control.
Speaker 5: I have none of that, So I started sort of
Speaker 5: child blocking myself physically putting my phone in a cabinet.
Speaker 5: There's like an app. There's a ton of apps like this,
Speaker 5: so I'm not really necessarily saying this one in particular
Speaker 5: is good. But it's like called one sec or something,
Speaker 5: and it interrupts you if you try, Like it doesn't
Speaker 5: block you from getting into the app, because for me
Speaker 5: that just wouldn't work. I would disable it and keep going.
Speaker 5: But it like interrupts you while you're trying to score
Speaker 5: through Twitter, and it's like, hey, you really want to
Speaker 5: do this?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 1: Is this what?
Speaker 5: So you're gonna spend your afternoon scrolling through Twitter getting
Speaker 5: mad and it has made it's like it's it's like
Speaker 5: emerging from a fog when the fog is made out
Speaker 5: of neo Nazis, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Very fascist of you first of all, throwing your enemies
Speaker 1: in jail like that.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: I'm like, he's innocent.
Speaker 1: I do admire your willpower and the fact that you're
Speaker 1: doing that. I maybe this will be the thing that
Speaker 1: pushes me over because I do need to do that.
Speaker 1: I was up it.
Speaker 6: I have to.
Speaker 1: Grow last night.
Speaker 5: I have to emphasize I don't have willpower. That's why
Speaker 5: I do it. That's why I download No, That's why
Speaker 5: I downloaded an app that like scolds me because I
Speaker 5: have a lot of guilt. No willpower, but a lot
Speaker 5: of guilt. So if I have an app that scolds me,
Speaker 5: makes me feel guilty, like a real piece of shit,
Speaker 5: then I'll actually do it.
Speaker 1: Is that what it's says? Do you?
Speaker 5: You're a real piece of shit?
Speaker 1: Katie?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I need to I need to go
Speaker 6: call my parents.
Speaker 5: AI is gonna use the voice of my parents to
Speaker 5: be like, Oh, is that is that how you're spending
Speaker 5: your evening? Really? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 6: I like we I like that we don't use it
Speaker 6: to like heal our inner children by using it to
Speaker 6: tell us that it loves us. We're like, recreate the
Speaker 6: toxic environment.
Speaker 5: Weapon is the shame. Get to do what you want
Speaker 5: to do?
Speaker 1: Make me feel bad?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is uh? What's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: Man, I've tried for years to get on board with this,
Speaker 4: but I think I'm done with buying, nurturing and watching
Speaker 4: house plants die. I think I'm just done with plants
Speaker 4: because they just always fucking They just immediately start getting
Speaker 4: sicker and sicker as soon as I take them home.
Speaker 4: They attract they attract bugs. When out of town, I
Speaker 4: have to have a friend over. It's just too much
Speaker 4: work and I suck at raising them. So I think
Speaker 4: might I might be out on the pandemic plant.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's I'm hearing. I'm hearing what you're saying, and
Speaker 6: I'm hearing you go, come on, get out of here
Speaker 6: right anyway that you die.
Speaker 4: It's a situation. But I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 4: much more love and attention can I give these things
Speaker 4: and they just wilt, They immediately will. It's suppressing.
Speaker 1: I mean, even in the canopy jungle of your room.
Speaker 4: I know, if they can't survive here, they can't they
Speaker 4: can't make it anywhere.
Speaker 6: I also feel that it might be the widely vastly
Speaker 6: fluctuating temperature probably killing them and also partially you at
Speaker 6: the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like your room is like the surface of mercury.
Speaker 1: It's like it's freezing. It's zero celsius.
Speaker 4: I'm certainly not blaming the plant. I'm certainly not absolving myself.
Speaker 4: I've not been a good father figure to these guys. Yeah, almighty,
Speaker 4: some of us just aren't cut out for it.
Speaker 6: Maybe you need to be like a step dad to
Speaker 6: a plant first, and then that'll ease you back it.
Speaker 6: You can adopt a plant.
Speaker 4: If I could got another household to raise the plant
Speaker 4: to maturity, then I could come in and take it
Speaker 4: to go to see baseball games. That would be ideal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just fostering. Fostering a plant situation. Maybe you
Speaker 1: could be the friend who's watering other people's plants when
Speaker 1: they're out of town.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I can dig that. Yeah, you're not the
Speaker 6: step plant dad, you're the plant dad that stepped that's right, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plants are temperamental I've had varying levels of success,
Speaker 1: Like California. Southern California is like I went from Missouri
Speaker 1: to New York to Southern California, and I tried Missouri,
Speaker 1: and I tried to have a garden in Missouri, and
Speaker 1: I was very unsuccessful. New York didn't even bother like
Speaker 1: other than like a couple of orchids that lasted a
Speaker 1: week or so, and then oh orchids. I I am
Speaker 1: known in the orchid community. It's like an I am
Speaker 1: legend situation in the orchid community. Spoiler alert for the
Speaker 1: end of that movie. But yeah, they they know about
Speaker 1: me and run when I enter a room. And then
Speaker 1: Southern You come to Southern California and you just like
Speaker 1: drop an apple by accident, and like a tree is
Speaker 1: growing there the next day. It's just like the most
Speaker 1: just a verdant place in the world, fertile, verdant, other vocabulary.
Speaker 6: Words, the verdant crescent.
Speaker 1: So California, that's right. Yeah, So I recommend moving to
Speaker 1: southern California.
Speaker 4: That might be the easiest lot of problems move across
Speaker 4: the country. There you go, window, that's true.
Speaker 1: It does they do love a sorbet out here, because
Speaker 1: everybody's vegan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to say that. Actually, it's a nice
Speaker 6: vegan option for me. When people want to go get
Speaker 6: ice cream and I'm like, but I want to beted
Speaker 6: or like at a at a restaurant they have sorbet often.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has anre.
Speaker 1: What pre dinner.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's three globes of ice. Please. I don't want to.
Speaker 4: I don't want to. Let's give me three globes.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and we'll talk about the news and we're back, like,
Speaker 1: how's everybody doing with the election? Like I'm I'm the
Speaker 1: fear is on me, I said, for like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Now the fear is on me. I'm just
Speaker 1: like having flashbacks to twenty sixteen, reading a bunch of
Speaker 1: shit about like how the polling can go as in
Speaker 1: the past, like vastly underestimated Trump. I'm like oscillating between
Speaker 1: that and then being like, if Trump loses, maybe this
Speaker 1: is it because his brain so bad. Maybe the whole
Speaker 1: like open fascism thing will will be gone. But how
Speaker 1: are you guys feeling? Is everybody hanging in there?
Speaker 4: It feels like we really we like Blake and I.
Speaker 4: We went from like six months out to three weeks out.
Speaker 4: It seemed like it was. It just came down the
Speaker 4: pike real quick, and I was like, oh, the rubbers
Speaker 4: being the road here, and yeah, I think I think
Speaker 4: what you're what you're talking about is like kind of
Speaker 4: my anxiety where it's like the more you read, the
Speaker 4: less calm you feel, because you just keep on getting
Speaker 4: all these like contradictory you know, op eds you see
Speaker 4: and like they'll can you know, I'm very malleable in
Speaker 4: my opinions. So like any ear if I was like, yo,
Speaker 4: like oh, Harris is a lot for Michigan, Like great,
Speaker 4: it's in the bag. We're done. And then like it's
Speaker 4: like like, oh, these polls are all nonsense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michigan's over. Yeah, kiss, Michigan can buy assholes Trump Country.
Speaker 4: The best thing I've been doing for myself is just
Speaker 4: trying to remind myself.
Speaker 1: That, uh, nobody knows anything.
Speaker 4: Nobody knows anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And by by saying your opinions are very malleable,
Speaker 1: that's because you're still an undecided Like yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Right, Well I'm still pretty much in the bag for
Speaker 4: Cornell West.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that where did that. What happened?
Speaker 4: God damn, he's still going straw man.
Speaker 7: He can he got a victory and uh what what
Speaker 7: what's the state you can win?
Speaker 4: Alaska?
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's unfortunately. So I think one of the
Speaker 1: big things that we know is going to be an
Speaker 1: issue is the like, what is going to happen at
Speaker 1: the polls on election day. This was a big concern
Speaker 1: heading into the twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Election, handing out comedy flyers at the election day, I will.
Speaker 1: Be barking, bring your friends, I'll.
Speaker 6: Bring a QR code for my Instagram.
Speaker 4: Should leave.
Speaker 6: They're going to be in line.
Speaker 4: Having assault rifle as well as that.
Speaker 1: Yeah show, that's yeah. I mean that you'll fit in
Speaker 1: better if you have an assault rifle. I remember having
Speaker 1: these concerns heading into the twenty twenty election, and that
Speaker 1: was before they staged an insurrection to try and overturn
Speaker 1: the results of that election. So, and by the way,
Speaker 1: Trump has recently gone on record referring to the people
Speaker 1: who were aded on January sixth, says, we like we
Speaker 1: and we were very peaceful. So that's unnerving, And I
Speaker 1: think it's just one of the big questions concerns surrounding
Speaker 1: this election, Like, first of all, how safe will it
Speaker 1: be for them? Second of all, will there actually be
Speaker 1: any read that first question about how safe it's going
Speaker 1: to be? Will anybody actually want to do this job?
Speaker 1: Because there is a massive shortage in poll workers owing
Speaker 1: to a mass exodus in twenty twenty caused by the
Speaker 1: pandemic first of all, and then countless Trump inspired threats
Speaker 1: and intimidate campaigns like that. It was ugly in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Like there I still remember like some of those scenes
Speaker 1: in like Detroit where there was just like massive crowds
Speaker 1: of Trump supporters like chanting stop the count outside of God. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're talking about that. They're talking about the count from
Speaker 1: Sesame Street.
Speaker 6: He's an immigrant, Get him out of here.
Speaker 1: What's he doing in this election?
Speaker 6: I'm going to the job.
Speaker 4: I want to stop the count.
Speaker 1: The shortage is pretty understandable since more than half of
Speaker 1: election officials have reported being concerned about the safety of
Speaker 1: their colleagues or staff already this year. Because yeah, there
Speaker 1: it's just there's constant like threats. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: like right wing training happening. So yeah, it's it's not
Speaker 1: just that like concerns that voting sites will be understaffed.
Speaker 1: There's also like right wing conspiracy theorists. Theorists are actively
Speaker 1: trying to use the shortage to install their own pole watchers,
Speaker 1: as you know, workers in swing.
Speaker 6: States who will watch the watchers.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, so they will watch the watchers.
Speaker 6: They're going to watch.
Speaker 4: I gotta say, all these factoids you're dropping here are
Speaker 4: not making me feel any better.
Speaker 1: But I know it's not well, yeah, feeling good.
Speaker 6: Well, let me just wreck that for you, right hey,
Speaker 6: let me check.
Speaker 4: My local high school gymnasium is not at.
Speaker 1: Is Yeah, and I feel like that's I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels like a tangible thing at least, but it's
Speaker 1: like a very scary one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They keep in these like places where they're recruiting and
Speaker 1: training right wing pole watchers. They're talking about acting as
Speaker 1: a spy or a trojan horse. That's literally how like
Speaker 1: a Christian right influencer described his plan.
Speaker 4: So dress yeah, yeah, this is.
Speaker 1: Specifically what happened. There was there was a usc like there.
Speaker 1: Their football team is called the Trojans. There's like all
Speaker 1: their sports teams are called the Trojans. And they had
Speaker 1: like a warm up video this year where they were
Speaker 1: like pretending to be in the trophy, Like they showed
Speaker 1: a Trojan horse and then like showed themselves and it's like, wait, no,
Speaker 1: you guys are the Trojans, Like you're the Trojan horse.
Speaker 1: Foled you it was a gift to the Trojans.
Speaker 4: Well, these football players aren't much on book learning.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not history majors. But anyways, that's what
Speaker 1: the Christian Rights planning to do. There are safeguards that
Speaker 1: would prevent these workers from interfering in the electoral process,
Speaker 1: but their presence will probably lead to, at the very
Speaker 1: least a lot of misinformation, which you know is what
Speaker 1: we're seeing happen, a lot of like just with her
Speaker 1: things that straightforward as hurricane relief, you know, just sure
Speaker 1: Trump and JD vance seating hurricane as information.
Speaker 6: What does training entail, like, like what does it mean?
Speaker 6: Are they are they getting trained in martial arts?
Speaker 1: Like what they do? Yeah, you've seen those videos of.
Speaker 6: It's going to like train them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a desert they're doing the the monkey bars
Speaker 1: and then firing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all these elderly polls are at kicking kicking some
Speaker 4: serious ass come.
Speaker 1: To I'm guessing it has very little like physical training
Speaker 1: and more just like here's where to apply, and here's
Speaker 1: how to make your presence felt even though you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Here's how to use a voting machine that's made in
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Right, So people the states have been death brick to
Speaker 1: hire new poll workers because of this, and they're so desperate,
Speaker 1: in fact, that in Kentucky they've been putting QR codes
Speaker 1: on beer cans and wine bottles, allowing people to easily
Speaker 1: sign up to be poll workers and then presumably it's
Speaker 1: too late to back out of it once.
Speaker 4: That really is something you wake up like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: I'm doing I'm doing what this week? Why do I
Speaker 4: ever agree to make plans?
Speaker 6: That is crazy that they're trying to get drunk people
Speaker 6: to sign up, because they're like, only drunk people would
Speaker 6: be would be willing to put their bodies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know who loves waking up early on a weekday,
Speaker 4: alcoholics top of the crack of dawn. They'll be out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure we'll have the best. Just election day
Speaker 1: won't happen because nobody shows up. Yeah, Nebraska is allowing
Speaker 1: counties to draft workers to fill election vacancies, sort of.
Speaker 1: How we do jury duty? Yeah? Paid though, right, yes
Speaker 1: they do. How well they get paid is another question.
Speaker 4: That seems to be the solution right there. Just give
Speaker 4: them more money.
Speaker 6: Okay, but we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, okay no.
Speaker 6: And also we're going to take away whatever healthcare you have, so.
Speaker 1: They're apparently turning to child labor in this worker shortage.
Speaker 6: Children yearn for the pools.
Speaker 1: They do, so all the young Ruffians with their tiktoks
Speaker 1: and Sony Discman's is that right?
Speaker 6: I walk into the tar pits right now.
Speaker 1: You know, the ones that the very people who are
Speaker 1: fueling the rise of Trump, like the boomers et cetera, like,
Speaker 1: already hate so much, just NonStop, like it's their favorite
Speaker 1: thing is to complain about them. Those people are going
Speaker 1: to be like a sea of those of these children
Speaker 1: are going to be awaiting the boomers at the polls
Speaker 1: according to this plan, which I feel like would would
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of like a bunch of people with ars,
Speaker 1: Like they would be there to make the boomers feel safe,
Speaker 1: but then the children would just they wouldn't know what
Speaker 1: to do. They'd be pretty furious.
Speaker 7: It's a bad situation where you have like some stone
Speaker 7: seventeen year old like like counting ballots or being entrusted
Speaker 7: in carrying a box of ballots to someone's car.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, did you ever like have to do
Speaker 1: like high school like fundraising work for I think I
Speaker 1: did it for my basketball team where we like worked
Speaker 1: at parking lots of like a fish show or like.
Speaker 1: It was just like they were just having just grab
Speaker 1: high school students and be like, yeah, you're doing child labor,
Speaker 1: but you're doing it for this program that needs money
Speaker 1: to like pay for gas to go to like the
Speaker 1: next away game.
Speaker 4: So you just went up to people with like nitrous
Speaker 4: balloons there.
Speaker 1: Exactly like worked a bingo hall where you couldn't like
Speaker 1: see three feet in front of your face from the
Speaker 1: cigarette smoke. Just like you know, just stuff like jobs
Speaker 1: that could have been staffed by people and paid for.
Speaker 1: They were just like, no, we'll just throw these children
Speaker 1: at it. And it feels like that is the level,
Speaker 1: like the lowest level of like employment that you could
Speaker 1: possibly have, is like we'll just make high school kids
Speaker 1: do it because they will think it's like good for
Speaker 1: their resume. That's like how it's being pitched to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I worked on the last day of American democracy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But it's actually had like all over the
Speaker 1: country officials they're actively recruiting high school students to become
Speaker 1: pole workers. And while my aren't allowed to become poll
Speaker 1: workers in every in every state, a loophole allows for
Speaker 1: it as long as they're pre registered to vote.
Speaker 6: There's gonna be a whole group of like weird in
Speaker 6: cell dudes who haven't memorized, like the ages that they're
Speaker 6: allowed to be poll workers state by state.
Speaker 1: In some cases they're paid just like regular poll workers,
Speaker 1: which I don't think as much because in other cases
Speaker 1: they're simply asked to work for free pizza because the
Speaker 1: gig is such a quote resume booster. So surely the
Speaker 1: solution to this national emergency is not to treat election
Speaker 1: workers even worse. But that does seem to be the
Speaker 1: direction that we're going with it.
Speaker 6: I think it actually might be a good thing, because
Speaker 6: imagine you go with your like ar whatever to the polls,
Speaker 6: you're this angry Republican and then a fucking teager just
Speaker 6: roast the ship out of your shoes, Like, what are
Speaker 6: you going to do? You know what I mean, you're armed,
Speaker 6: but disarmed, you know, like, there's nothing crueler than a
Speaker 6: teenager who has something to prove.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a person with a gun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of hard to make fun of the
Speaker 1: shoes of people who are carrying ars.
Speaker 4: But nice gun loser.
Speaker 6: What are you gonna shoot me, you bitch?
Speaker 4: Yeah, mug getting shot shot out in exchange for two
Speaker 4: slices of Domino's pizza.
Speaker 1: Right, But it's I mean, it seems like a bad
Speaker 1: idea in terms of just like accomplishing the thing you're
Speaker 1: looking for. It also seems cruel when you keep in
Speaker 1: mind that, like, the reason there's a shortage of poll
Speaker 1: workers the first place is due to widespread harassment, and
Speaker 1: we're like, we'll just throw some miners.
Speaker 4: You know, throw some miners with the problem and.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're actually like that, they're even selling
Speaker 1: it as this is valuable life experience if you engage
Speaker 1: with like a disaffected voter who's mad at you, like
Speaker 1: this is a quote for Caswell students. Dealing with the
Speaker 1: occasional frustrated voter can be a valuable job skill experience.
Speaker 1: She said. One of the people, Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was speaking in favor of this plan. It's not the
Speaker 1: same talking about it in a classroom as it is
Speaker 1: with a stranger who's coming in yelling at them. She said,
Speaker 1: they have to learn this is a real this is
Speaker 1: real life. This happens. If I work at McDonald's, somebody
Speaker 1: might get mad, whether they're right or wrong. It's a
Speaker 1: valuable on the job training to learn.
Speaker 6: About suffering and danger because later I will also experience
Speaker 6: suffering and danger.
Speaker 4: Right, those scam life experiences, right, every bad thing that
Speaker 4: happens to you, that's valuable life experience.
Speaker 6: It's exposure.
Speaker 4: Exposure and life experience are the same boat here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I exposed to a mad man with a gun.
Speaker 6: I one hundred percent would have done this to be
Speaker 6: in like the Honor Society or something like. I would
Speaker 6: have been one of the kids they duped. I would
Speaker 6: have been like, yeah, I'll go, I don't care, I'll
Speaker 6: it's good to add to my resume.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to add to my resume. Just covers
Speaker 1: so much bullshit. It's I know, they can get you
Speaker 1: to do anything, and nobody knows. There's like no way
Speaker 1: to fact check that. Yeah, So I mean django as
Speaker 1: you said earlier, the easiest thing to do would be
Speaker 1: to pay poll workers like the essential workers they are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll you'll have to pay them once a year. Two.
Speaker 4: For the record, this is a yeah.
Speaker 1: Some poll workers make less than ten dollars an hour,
Speaker 1: which seems like it's too low. I'm not illegal, but
Speaker 1: maybe not in some state, right, but yeah, well you
Speaker 1: convert that to pizza, and so now we're doing conversions
Speaker 1: of dollars into pizzas, which is good math experience.
Speaker 6: You know, if you spend a fraction of your life
Speaker 6: working at the polls, yeah, how much?
Speaker 1: Well you have left a number of states have enacted
Speaker 1: new election worker protections, but the federal response has just been,
Speaker 1: I don't know, not great. They put together a special
Speaker 1: Federal Election Threats task Force, which has resulted in seventeen
Speaker 1: total charges. There's been over two thousand reports of threats
Speaker 1: and harassment to election workers and since the task force
Speaker 1: was created in twenty twenty one, but only one hundred
Speaker 1: of those were even investigated because, like a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, government enforcement agencies, they are drastically understaffed and underfunded.
Speaker 1: And then they're like, well, the government sucks at their job,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, you put like three people
Speaker 1: on a thing that requires a full company is worth
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 4: It sounds like they need to hire some teenagers for
Speaker 4: the investigation.
Speaker 1: I know exactly, kid detected. I mean, if movies have
Speaker 1: taught me anything.
Speaker 4: Encyclopedia Brown would get to the bottom.
Speaker 1: Thank you, exactly. All right. Anyways, so don't be worried
Speaker 1: about the intangible things that you can't control. Be worried
Speaker 1: about all the tangible things that you can't really can't
Speaker 1: control unless you want to volunteer to be a poll worker, you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, ask you ask your children if they want to.
Speaker 6: Do you know where your kids are getting the ship
Speaker 6: getting out of them at the pole?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: God, what a time man when they used to just
Speaker 1: have an ad at night at like ten o'clock being like, hey,
Speaker 1: you you have kids. Do you remember that?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 1: Wait all right, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. And we're back. And there was a
Speaker 1: moment in the nineties that it seems like neither of
Speaker 1: you remember.
Speaker 6: We're both too young and beautiful. We can't remember.
Speaker 1: And that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Moisturized in our lane, I don't remember moodang practices.
Speaker 1: So John F. Kennedy Junior. This is this is kind
Speaker 1: of a thing that has been I feel like a
Speaker 1: bit memory hold. But he was just unless you watch Steinfeld,
Speaker 1: he was just so famous for being hot and like
Speaker 1: everybody just wanted to fink him.
Speaker 6: So I remember him because my mom has huge crushes
Speaker 6: on like attractive presidential like men. She was obsessed with
Speaker 6: Bill Clinton, she was obsessed with jfk Junior. I'm like,
Speaker 6: I remember my mom being like horny for him in
Speaker 6: the nineties.
Speaker 1: There's this profile of him back in the day that
Speaker 1: where they're like it's about the launch of George, and
Speaker 1: the person writing the profile is just so actively hostile
Speaker 1: towards everyone who is not John Like they're like when
Speaker 1: he enters the room, like it becomes John F. Kennedy
Speaker 1: Junior in like bright colors and then a couple of
Speaker 1: gray blurs behind him, and like the gray blers are
Speaker 1: actual people who like run the magazine. He's just the
Speaker 1: writers just like, yeah, they're they sucked comparatively. That's just
Speaker 1: how much you want to fuck this guy when you're
Speaker 1: in the same room with him. They don't I love him,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at a picture of him. I see it
Speaker 5: I see it. There's one of them with his shirt
Speaker 5: off and he's just got like sort of a solid
Speaker 5: like tee of hair, like from his belly button up
Speaker 5: like under his nips. It's just like sort of a
Speaker 5: pretty He.
Speaker 6: Could have been a movie star. I could see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently wasn't act.
Speaker 5: Do they do they let them have that kind of
Speaker 5: body here anymore though, because I feel like it's all marble.
Speaker 1: Smooth now, and that that's one of the problems with America.
Speaker 6: If you have why they kill him.
Speaker 5: That's why they killed him. A Marvel Maandscape.
Speaker 1: So JFK. Junior passed away in the nineties. The magazine
Speaker 1: was just basically a match a match of the two
Speaker 1: things he was like kind of known for, and it
Speaker 1: didn't really make sense other than that he had like
Speaker 1: this like sexy media image, capital to spend, and so
Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, I'll do a politics magazine that's sexy.
Speaker 1: And so they would have like Sandy Crawford addressed as
Speaker 1: George Washington on the cover.
Speaker 6: And this the image of that is insane, Like I
Speaker 6: cannot get over because we joke about like Halloween costumes,
Speaker 6: like sexy Abraham Lincoln and this bitch was doing that
Speaker 6: in the nineties.
Speaker 5: It's it's pretty good. It does make me down bad
Speaker 5: for George Washington, which isn't expected.
Speaker 1: It is the hottest George Washington has ever been.
Speaker 5: It is the hottest George Washing has ever been. And yeah,
Speaker 5: that's uh. You know, our founding, our founding fathers could
Speaker 5: could be in a pornography. And that is exciting to me.
Speaker 5: Our founding, our founding batties, our founding batties.
Speaker 1: So The New York The New York Times recently reported
Speaker 1: that the rights to the magazine were scooped up a
Speaker 1: few years ago by a little known conservative lawyer named
Speaker 1: Thomas D. Foster, and now it has become an extreme
Speaker 1: right wing publication with a QAnon devotee as editor in chief,
Speaker 1: and in fact QAnon is kind of the only reason
Speaker 1: the magazine was able to come back because of the
Speaker 1: belief among QAnon that JFK. Juner is still alive. I
Speaker 1: mean we all believe this, right, I don't have to
Speaker 1: fil Yeah, yeah, he's still alive, secretly working with Trump,
Speaker 1: and he's going to come back and reveal the storm
Speaker 1: or whatever the fuck you Andon believes, and reveal the detapes.
Speaker 5: No one with that amount of chest hair could actually
Speaker 5: physically die. I don't believe that, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: It's I am disappointed in this magazine because like the
Speaker 5: cover is so boring. It just looks like sort of
Speaker 5: a discount version of Oprah's. Oh it's just like George
Speaker 5: and sort of this plain font and then like a
Speaker 5: giant Q. Like I feel like there's just gonna be
Speaker 5: a book recommendation for you know, kind of like the.
Speaker 1: New The new cover is just a big George, just
Speaker 1: a big G or a big George with a giant
Speaker 1: Q on it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: They could have made Cindy Crawford dress as like sexy
Speaker 6: Hitler if they're gonna go right wing, But why they
Speaker 6: get boring like this. It reminds me of those like
Speaker 6: tweets about how like graphic design has ruined the aesthetic
Speaker 6: of everything and like minimized everything and taken away its personality.
Speaker 6: I'm like, this is so like sterile of an image,
Speaker 6: you know, yeah, it looks like shit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want the maximalism of a Ben Garrison cartoon
Speaker 5: where everything is labeled, the pectorals and butts everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that used to be how the
Speaker 1: right communicated was just with the most convoluted political cartoons,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 5: Fortunately, it seems like the Kid's version is going for
Speaker 5: the maximalism though, because there's the George Junior ones that
Speaker 5: is just littered with various themes and things like what
Speaker 5: are the Northern Lights, which I assume like, who was
Speaker 5: Thomas Jefferson, What does he accomplish? How to be grateful?
Speaker 5: What are the Northern right? What are the Northern Lights?
Speaker 5: I'm assuming the last one is about how like Jews
Speaker 5: have created giant magnets that are to suck the coins
Speaker 5: right out of your pockets, and those cause the Northern lights. Yeah,
Speaker 5: plus make your own rock candy?
Speaker 1: Right, make your own rock candy is in there. The
Speaker 1: editor in chief is somebody who has suggested that old
Speaker 1: issues of George contained messages from JFK. Junior, blowing the
Speaker 1: lid off corruption, both from the past and to the future.
Speaker 1: He's also previously promoted the adrenochrome theory, which states that
Speaker 1: all the popular celebrities are killing children and drinking their adrenochrome.
Speaker 5: But yeah, is adrenochrome.
Speaker 1: It's like a chemical as far as I know, and
Speaker 1: this could be incorrect. I don't know. I never fact
Speaker 1: checked my favorite que writers. But it's like a chemical
Speaker 1: your body releases when it's about to die and then
Speaker 1: like they just like drink it.
Speaker 5: Oh, is it like good for your skin?
Speaker 6: It says on Wikipedia it's the oxidation of adrenaline and
Speaker 6: it was a subject of limited research from the nineteen
Speaker 6: fifties to the nineteen seventies as a potential cause of schizophrenia.
Speaker 6: While it has no medical application, there is a derivative
Speaker 6: that is a hemostatic medication.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, just changes your blood pressure.
Speaker 1: They also have lessons and teamwork from Daniel Boone, noted
Speaker 1: slave owner Daniel Boone, or fashion advice from the Apostle.
Speaker 1: All that's that's in George Jr.
Speaker 5: What would Apostle Paul like just ropes the sandals and
Speaker 5: like row Apostle Paul.
Speaker 6: Mark loincloth all all the way into middle parts? Okay, yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Did have great hair. If you look at some of
Speaker 1: the paintings.
Speaker 6: From back then, his bag that was attached to a
Speaker 6: stick was a Louis baton.
Speaker 5: The Zoomers did bully me into adopting a middle part again.
Speaker 6: I've tried it and it is fun. Yeah, I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's looking good kid. By the way, middle part, thank
Speaker 1: you well, thank you, good job zoomers, your.
Speaker 6: Mission accomplished, fixed one of us.
Speaker 1: And then over the weekend we we've got a bo
Speaker 1: report box office report. Things continue to still be not
Speaker 1: baffo for Joker, Folly Adieu and.
Speaker 6: I watch It's Gonna be French for a Friend of
Speaker 6: your Anus or something. I watched the trailer for it,
Speaker 6: and I'm so fucking bored. I'm like, how did you
Speaker 6: make Lady Gaga boring? I don't understand how they managed
Speaker 6: to do this. I'm like, what is the point of watching?
Speaker 6: I don't understand from the trailer what the point of
Speaker 6: the movie is. It's a musical, right, but what is.
Speaker 1: The director seems to think that he's inventing a musical
Speaker 1: as he's doing it, because he was like, it's not
Speaker 1: a musical. It's a movie where the characters break into
Speaker 1: song when they have something emotional that they can't express Otherwise.
Speaker 5: It's all about the songs they don't break into.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard of Bollywood at all, my guy, come.
Speaker 1: On, right, No, he absolutely has not.
Speaker 6: But I don't understand the plot because it's just like
Speaker 6: them singing and then putting on makeup and walking down
Speaker 6: the steps. Okay, we get it. The Joker is gay.
Speaker 6: We all understood that before we all understood this was
Speaker 6: musical theater.
Speaker 1: What is the point he's like twisted? Actually, when you think, oh,
Speaker 1: a little bit twisted?
Speaker 5: Now, hang on, hang on, hang on, Are you saying
Speaker 5: he's a little messed up?
Speaker 1: Because that might be a little bit messed up?
Speaker 6: Is he all messed up?
Speaker 5: Because I'm a little interested in this movie?
Speaker 6: Do we live in a society?
Speaker 5: Is he see a little bit of a anti social
Speaker 5: kind of guy? Because I'm into that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And there's a way in which one could argue that
Speaker 1: we live in a society where one could say, anyways.
Speaker 5: You exist in the contents, in the content, all of
Speaker 5: which in which you are coconut, and a society.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember we were so charmed that movie Joker. So it's
Speaker 1: been out two weeks. The first one made like literally
Speaker 1: a billion dollars. Uh, they were expecting big things. It
Speaker 1: is now in fourth place after two weeks. It's it
Speaker 1: did really badly its first week. It was like one
Speaker 1: of the lowest performing Conic Book movies of all time,
Speaker 1: and it's second week, it fell harder. It is the
Speaker 1: worst decline in history for a comic book movie. So
Speaker 1: from a like worst ever start to the worst decline
Speaker 1: ever in the history of conic book movie.
Speaker 6: I just love that this makes me feel like vindicated
Speaker 6: for everyone who's like a fan of Andrew Tait. Somehow,
Speaker 6: I'm just like, somehow this made me win over them,
Speaker 6: Like this failing.
Speaker 1: Right in your face Tait fans, although I think they
Speaker 1: didn't even go to see it because they're are no
Speaker 1: woman what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're very Yeah, it's like they want they want
Speaker 5: all the Joker with none of the bubas. But it's
Speaker 5: like the whole Harley Quinn thing I think is there's
Speaker 5: been it's been come out of a little lot of ingles.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: There's the there's the cartoon version of where it's supposed
Speaker 5: to kind of be an update. There's the older cartoon
Speaker 5: version of her in the old animated series. There's always
Speaker 5: this dynamic of she's like kind of an abusive ish
Speaker 5: relationship with the Joker. And then there's also like the
Speaker 5: the movies, I guess the one with Jared Leto and
Speaker 5: you know, like it's it's always about the sort of like, hey,
Speaker 5: like they're both kind of messed up, but it's sort
Speaker 5: of an abusive relationship or code dependent or relationship.
Speaker 6: The tape fans are back yet they're like, now, wait
Speaker 6: a minute, is.
Speaker 5: He a little twisted? Is he a little abusive? We
Speaker 5: got some we got some red flags over here. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just I don't really know. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I kind of agree with you. Polovia seems kind of
Speaker 5: boring to me. It's like, oh, he's like kind of crazy,
Speaker 5: but she's like into that. It's okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: One trail already. Yeah, I was a teenager. I remember
Speaker 5: that being like, oh wow, you know, like, oh he's
Speaker 5: kind of bad moody, that makesho much.
Speaker 6: I remember feeling that about it. JFK Junior, I remember
Speaker 6: those emotions.
Speaker 1: That's so in case you want to blame it on clowns,
Speaker 1: do not, because the number one movie this weekend was
Speaker 1: Terrifier three, which is a horror movie that was released
Speaker 1: without a rating. It's so fucked up this, Oh.
Speaker 5: Wow, but I thought, wait, wait, wait, wait wait clowns
Speaker 5: are funny, though. Yeah, they're funny, and you have them
Speaker 5: at parties. They're sweet and fun. They are makeup puppies. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: they wear big shoes, they make balloon animals. I don't
Speaker 5: understand how they could be scary.
Speaker 1: They are. So I have a loose theory that, like,
Speaker 1: you can tell how good the box office for a
Speaker 1: movie is going to be based on how many people
Speaker 1: dress up as like that thing for Halloween, and like
Speaker 1: mice six year old only knows clowns as horror movie
Speaker 1: like scary things based on just like how many people
Speaker 1: come to our house for Halloween for trigger treating dressed
Speaker 1: as like the scariest fucking clown you've ever seen.
Speaker 5: So I think good clown representation.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's like Patch Adams and people are like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, yeah, we haven't had a good clown in
Speaker 1: a while. Even like Ronald McDonald is just grimacest friend
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 6: Ronald McDonald is a participant in the US imperialistic cause.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not wrong, and that's.
Speaker 6: The scariest clown of all. Okay. I think horror is
Speaker 6: having such a fun moment right now, and I love it.
Speaker 6: I'm like so happy that there's like all these horror
Speaker 6: movies that are throughout the year too.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at Terrifire three on Google Images, it appears
Speaker 5: to be a clown Santa who is covered in a
Speaker 5: sort of red substance that is either menstruation or blood
Speaker 5: of another kind.
Speaker 1: M he's fun, it's just horny. He's just a freak.
Speaker 1: It's menseration. He's just hey.
Speaker 5: You know what it's like if you look. Fellas, don't
Speaker 5: be squeamish day everyone, ladies, fells.
Speaker 1: This is our pivot to the joke to take over
Speaker 1: the Joe Rogan audience. Fellas, Fell'll be squeamish.
Speaker 5: A very much about menstruation, especially if you're a scary
Speaker 5: Santa clown. Yeah, your suit's already read, so get right
Speaker 5: in there.
Speaker 1: Because the movie is set at Christmas and features scenes
Speaker 1: of art, the clown dressed as Santa Claus. A Christian
Speaker 1: group in Kansas City protested the Satanic Santa, which obviously,
Speaker 1: like never a bad look for horror movies, to the
Speaker 1: point that I have to assume like the makers of
Speaker 1: this movie were just like sending chain emails to people
Speaker 1: at this church, and like, man, somebody should do something
Speaker 1: about this movie.
Speaker 6: I know I would start holding precedents at these churches.
Speaker 5: Has anyone ever done like an evil Jesus movie, Like Jesus,
Speaker 5: but he's an evil clown.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're actually going to cut that out of
Speaker 1: the episode so that we can go right that together.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, he throws his crown of thorns like a
Speaker 5: boomerang and stabs people's eyes out.
Speaker 1: It's always it's always just like right off of that,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like the all the Exorcist movies and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It has all the iconography, but it's
Speaker 1: much more subtle.
Speaker 5: No one's ever no one's ever had the balls to
Speaker 5: do any Jesus.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jesus bad question mark question Mark at eleven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, who would Jesus kill?
Speaker 6: Jesus is like so twisted and dark. I could fix him.
Speaker 1: Totally. When he's in the desert, he is having thoughts.
Speaker 6: I hope we get protested. I hope this episode gets protested.
Speaker 1: We should only be so lucky. All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and
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Speaker 1: to him Monday. Bye.