Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of We're
Speaker 1: rope Dropping Disney Trend. My name's Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined by my guest.
Speaker 2: Host, andrewd What.
Speaker 1: I'm still here, and I am still here. I am
Speaker 1: back from Disneyland.
Speaker 3: You did it.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 1: We went to Disneyland for my son's birthday. I got
Speaker 1: real into it. I started using the phrase rope drop
Speaker 1: as a verb. I was like, all right, we're going
Speaker 1: to rope drop the Rise of the Resistance. Then we're
Speaker 1: going to head right over to the Millennium Falcon. Then
Speaker 1: we're it all worked out. It was it was like
Speaker 1: a you know, we were undefeated.
Speaker 4: Just did you get Let's see my two Disneyland things
Speaker 4: are corn dogs for some reason, those are my favorite
Speaker 4: corn dogs on Earth.
Speaker 2: Really and doll whip? Did they have a doll whip?
Speaker 3: Doll whip in more places?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: We did the doll whip with the Tiki Room, which
Speaker 1: was a good place to take a nap.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's it's funny.
Speaker 1: There's just like various parts of Disneyland that have not
Speaker 1: been updated in decades, and like seal it and those
Speaker 1: are some of the better parts, like we went on
Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean and that ride feels creaky, like
Speaker 1: you can literally hear the creaking of the animatronics in
Speaker 1: some instances, and uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, little nice gears of the Difference engine turn and
Speaker 4: the Pirates stare at you so much of it. The fudge,
Speaker 4: for some reason always hits the fudge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't do fudge. It did do
Speaker 2: dull whip.
Speaker 3: I never consider fudge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna do it next time.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how close it was. Yeah, how doable.
Speaker 1: Disney Land is from Los Angeles, and now my kids
Speaker 1: know that too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna enjoy the next five to
Speaker 4: ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also a pretty small part, like I was, I felt
Speaker 1: like we had done everything we came to do by
Speaker 1: like two o'clock in the afternoon. May Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know about all the stuff, but.
Speaker 4: That's the uh, that's the dark side of the rope drop.
Speaker 4: You don't realize. The actual experience at Disneyland is waiting
Speaker 4: in line.
Speaker 3: And if you don't wait in line a time, you're
Speaker 3: gonna be out of to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it goes quick.
Speaker 1: Anyways, you know, we talk on tomorrow's episode about Biden's statement,
Speaker 1: but you know, on on the subject of the student protest,
Speaker 1: we have an update on the UCLA encampment, where there
Speaker 1: were over two hundred people students arrested this morning. Overnight
Speaker 1: cops came in and arrested hundreds of peaceful protesters after
Speaker 1: ignoring violent pro Zionist protesters the night before and letting
Speaker 1: them tear the encampment apart and throw old women around
Speaker 1: while screaming you stand no chance, old lady, like the
Speaker 1: like that that's a literal quote, like.
Speaker 3: These people see themselves as the good guys.
Speaker 4: It's like like this is, yeah, assaulting people in the
Speaker 4: middle of the night.
Speaker 2: May stand no chance, old lady is such a fucking
Speaker 2: cobra Kai thing to say. It's so wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Baine would be like two on the nose,
Speaker 4: chill the fuck out.
Speaker 1: But anyways, those people not only were they like not arrested,
Speaker 1: but like I don't think anyone expected them to be,
Speaker 1: Like there wasn't even there was no news story about that.
Speaker 1: There's no like everyone's just like no, yeah, they're on
Speaker 1: the same side as the police, so yeah, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just they're lad.
Speaker 4: I mean, on the off chance anyone listening to this
Speaker 4: is on the fence, like when you're on the same
Speaker 4: side as the cops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on the wrong side.
Speaker 1: Yeah go Google, you stand no chance, old lady. And
Speaker 1: then god, yeah, anyways, let's talk about what have you
Speaker 1: been watching anything?
Speaker 2: Andrew anything, I will.
Speaker 4: Say, I guess I've been on a like, not horror kick,
Speaker 4: but like a weirdo unpleasant movies kick.
Speaker 3: So not not that.
Speaker 4: They're bad, but like just unpleasant, kind of grimy. So
Speaker 4: I watched The People's Joker, Monkey Man, and Abigail in
Speaker 4: like kind of quick, like a two week period. Nice,
Speaker 4: and yeah, all those movies, they really they all have
Speaker 4: a real solid element of like this might be the
Speaker 4: new trilogy of you know, It's smell crazy in there,
Speaker 4: because like just everything and all those movies just looks
Speaker 4: like it fucking stinks, right.
Speaker 2: Civil War also had those the most Recentlyvie. I watched
Speaker 2: it and we talked a lot about that.
Speaker 1: I have Civil War has not sat great, Like the
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons scene still continues to I'm like for most
Speaker 1: of that scene, I'm like, that's some of the best
Speaker 1: moments of movie that I saw. This year, but it's
Speaker 1: very brief, and the journalism aspect of it just I
Speaker 1: don't know. It is not sat well. The more I've
Speaker 1: thought about it, the more I've been like, wait, what what?
Speaker 1: Why are I following them around?
Speaker 4: I know people love this movie, and the leg that
Speaker 4: people have to stand on with me is that I
Speaker 4: have not seen it yet. But from what I've heard
Speaker 4: and from what I saw in the marketing, I think
Speaker 4: the movie is not for me. And I'm doubly convinced
Speaker 4: of this because when I tweeted that like no movie,
Speaker 4: some version of like no movie that is called Civil
Speaker 4: War that has fewer primary black cast members as captain
Speaker 4: American Civil War is really going to do it for me,
Speaker 4: people got mad at me, but exclusively white guys got
Speaker 4: mad at me.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I still feel like I'm on
Speaker 3: the right track.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: Mind being on the opposite side of the white film guys.
Speaker 1: It is, Yeah, I mean it's an abstraction like that.
Speaker 1: There is the central point of like we want you
Speaker 1: to see war in other countries the way like with
Speaker 1: fresh eyes, by showing you what a war like that
Speaker 1: would look like in America. But like they've gone through
Speaker 1: so many levels of abstraction to do that in a
Speaker 1: way that like feels like politically centrict.
Speaker 4: It's like, like, take a stand on that and live
Speaker 4: in the real world because we're still living in the
Speaker 4: Civil War.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, yeah, and we're still living in the original
Speaker 1: American Civil War.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alex Garland the brit If you just want to
Speaker 4: show the horrors of modern warfare in what it would
Speaker 4: look like to Americans to make an emotional point, I'm
Speaker 4: just saying war of eighteen twelve, baby, just have the
Speaker 4: sas bomb Washington.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: Whatever, I don't know jackshit about Britain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's close enough.
Speaker 1: Anything else you I think you were mentioning off Mike
Speaker 1: that you're experimenting with your like mic redosing parenthood.
Speaker 3: Well I was.
Speaker 4: I was with my nephew in Atlanta for the last
Speaker 4: week and I watched Listen. It's just a saying where
Speaker 4: like where you are in charge of a kids media
Speaker 4: or like you have to be party to it. Like
Speaker 4: he loves Elmo, but he also loves this guy called Blippy,
Speaker 4: which I genuinely would have assumed was like speaking of
Speaker 4: people's joker. It also looks like a timon Eric sketch
Speaker 4: like where I'm just like, this.
Speaker 3: Is this is a bit right, this.
Speaker 2: Is changed, yeah, unhinged, like.
Speaker 4: It's it is like one of those things that like
Speaker 4: if Blippy was around your kids. So Blippy is a
Speaker 4: guy who wears like what orange overalls, giant puffy like yeah,
Speaker 4: but has like cocaine energy but talking to kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like make glasses.
Speaker 4: You can see his teeth gritting as he's explaining in
Speaker 4: the one I watched like trains.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're just like, you would.
Speaker 3: Not let this guy near actual children.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's too too here it comes to the
Speaker 1: train to too, because that's still on my kids playlist.
Speaker 2: It still comes along every once in a while. I
Speaker 2: kind of change it fast enough.
Speaker 1: But he also, yeah, Blippy was a constant battle that
Speaker 1: I won.
Speaker 2: I ultimately won. Like we didn't.
Speaker 1: I spent very little time watching Blippy. Uh, and my
Speaker 1: kids never really got to the stage where they were
Speaker 1: like Blippy was a fixture in their life.
Speaker 2: It was a battle. It was a battle, I will say.
Speaker 4: And this is something my sister said that I chose
Speaker 4: in the moment not to interrogate, and I'll just repeat
Speaker 4: it here because it made no sense to me. But
Speaker 4: she was like, we don't let him watch Thomas the
Speaker 4: Tank Engine.
Speaker 3: Because it's like fashion.
Speaker 4: She said, yeah, she was like it's fascist, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm not gonna interrogate this at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's all about usefulness.
Speaker 1: It's like fascist in a way that like when you
Speaker 1: think about it and like write an essay on it,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, this is fascist.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like if you're very thoughtful, you recognize that it's fascist,
Speaker 1: because yeah, they they will, like the characters get depressed
Speaker 1: when they can't be useful anymore, and it's.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's it's a little weird.
Speaker 1: Thomas the Tank Engine. It just has a strange vibe
Speaker 1: to it. I did not successfully win that battle because
Speaker 1: my son was obsessed with trains at that at that
Speaker 1: developmental stage.
Speaker 2: But we're through it. He turned out fine for now.
Speaker 3: For now, just wait on gets his first job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, all right, we should talk about Boeing.
Speaker 1: Joshua Dean was fired by Boeing supplier Spirit Aerosystems in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three after flagging safety concerns. He then filed
Speaker 1: a complaint with the FAA and now Dean is the
Speaker 1: second Boeing linked whistleblower to have died in the last
Speaker 1: two months, which is a concerning number of dead Boeing
Speaker 1: linked whistleblowers, Like the first one was concerning kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of when like Kevin Spacey's accusers kept mysteriously
Speaker 1: dying and.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was in good health until two weeks ago when
Speaker 1: he went to the hospital complaining of trouble breathing, and
Speaker 1: he died of a difficult to treat bacterial infection.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, I don't know the specifics of this. It's just
Speaker 1: like a young, healthy person the first person allegedly committed suicide.
Speaker 3: It's so fucking dark too.
Speaker 4: That like the thing reading this and thinking about this
Speaker 4: most recent stuff and having just flown in a plane
Speaker 4: actually is like I'm starting to realize that Boeing's passenger
Speaker 4: jet business is just whitewashing the rest of their actual business.
Speaker 4: Like right, seven thirty seven's exist to make you think
Speaker 4: Boeing just makes passenger planes and that's like everyone's like
Speaker 4: primary like primary interaction with the Boeing brand. So because
Speaker 4: initially you're like, oh, that seems a little wild that
Speaker 4: like whistleblowers would get like could even consider to be like,
Speaker 4: you know whatever, conspiracy, conspiracy or whatever because of Boeing.
Speaker 3: What is Boeing do? Boeing just makes those things that
Speaker 3: lot like dolphins and this stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like they're like, oh no, no, there they're an
Speaker 4: arms manufacturer.
Speaker 3: And those people probably do murder people allegedly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know, I feel like Boeing should
Speaker 1: be watching out for the safety of every whistleblower who
Speaker 1: has ever said a bad word about them, like their
Speaker 1: parents of a toddler at this point, like I'm blaming
Speaker 1: them for any.
Speaker 2: Whistleblower deaths going forward regardless.
Speaker 4: I don't, you know, I don't Yeah, they're I just
Speaker 4: I think the world today has now led me to
Speaker 4: believe that high end evil is working under a no
Speaker 4: press as bad press policy because they just don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talk on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 1: Miles talked yesterday about the bike lock thing, the NYPD
Speaker 1: being like this bike lock is clearly the work of
Speaker 1: high level terrorists because look how thick the chain is.
Speaker 1: It's just not even trying anymore. Would be the like
Speaker 1: phrase that like they're not trying, and I haven't been
Speaker 1: for a while, Like I mean, they it's just I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: The Boeing thing is scary.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you America steers out of this
Speaker 1: one where like the most powerful actors and the most
Speaker 1: like legally protected entities are the.
Speaker 2: Same thing, and like corporations, you know.
Speaker 4: So I mean not knowing how America gets out of
Speaker 4: this one is I feel like you're gonna be saying.
Speaker 3: That a lot. Bro Yeah, a couple of them.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it so exciting to now that we're
Speaker 1: like coming to the end of this season to see
Speaker 1: how the writers get it out of this one. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be see how America gets out of this pickle. Anyways,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: hit another couple of stories. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back and Christineoam has what a week. I mean
Speaker 1: we started off week talking about I mean, we started
Speaker 1: the week like on Sunday, the last I had heard
Speaker 1: is Christine nom presumptive vice presidential running mate for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Then comes word of her upcoming memoir having a story
Speaker 1: about her killing her dog, and then the backlash murdering
Speaker 1: a puppy, I should I should say, like straight up
Speaker 1: murdering a puppy. So now you know, she is officially
Speaker 1: considered like off limits, not going to be the vice
Speaker 1: presidential candidate, and now we're on the like too little,
Speaker 1: too late apology tour.
Speaker 4: That's so Honestly, though, one of the more shocking bits
Speaker 4: of this is how this would be disqualifying for a
Speaker 4: Republican candidate of any kind.
Speaker 3: This is the line is here? People?
Speaker 1: Yeah Jesus, yeah, I mean listen to country songs that's
Speaker 1: you know, or watch watch movies and recognize that dogs
Speaker 1: are the only thing that can't be killed for the
Speaker 1: most part. But she came through to explain we were
Speaker 1: her second chance. Uh. The day she was put down
Speaker 1: was a day that she massacred livestock that were part
Speaker 1: of our neighbors. She attacked me and it was a
Speaker 1: hard decision. So like kind of has the tone of
Speaker 1: like somebody talking to you after like atbr addressing the
Speaker 1: nation after.
Speaker 2: After D Day.
Speaker 3: I had to do it. She was put down.
Speaker 2: Now was a day but yeah, she you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the sociopathic dog murdering allegations are not going
Speaker 4: away with this one.
Speaker 2: No, It turns out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like to imagine, like what it's like
Speaker 1: what her assistant is putting up with right now, Like
Speaker 1: I don't like to imagine. But that's I guess anybody
Speaker 1: who is Christy Nomes's assistant them.
Speaker 3: But gets what they deserve. But it is a little like,
Speaker 3: you know, no one, no editor was like a A,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: That who they're the editor of this book should be
Speaker 1: getting a promotion because they fucking like that was It's
Speaker 1: about the notes you don't play, Andrew, it's about the
Speaker 1: edits you don't make, and they've fucking nailed this one
Speaker 1: by not editing that out. They're just like, uh huh
Speaker 1: oh wow, we should go into that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: What else do you remember about that day? All the
Speaker 1: construction crew saw you? Huh wow, And what an interesting
Speaker 1: thing to remember, almost like you considered killing every one
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 4: Also, yeah, I mean I guess the triangulation is this
Speaker 4: makes her tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a political she makes the hard decisions.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to put the fucking puppy down. Uh
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I think that was it. The fact that
Speaker 1: she did it and then killed a goat like bloodlust, just.
Speaker 3: Like it wasnated. What else could I kill? What else
Speaker 3: could I kill?
Speaker 2: Let's go fucking bleak, fucking bleak world.
Speaker 1: All right, we have some good news at long last,
Speaker 1: Arizona has repealed This is like good news in a
Speaker 1: very narrow, narrow scope, like don't look too many months
Speaker 1: back when just the fact that this had to be
Speaker 1: done is bad news. The good news is Arizona is
Speaker 1: repealing it's Civil War era abortion ban. The bill was
Speaker 1: passed by the Senate and we'll be signed by Governor
Speaker 1: Katie Hobbs on Thursday. The not so good news the
Speaker 1: repeal only narrowly passed six team to fourteen because two
Speaker 1: Republicans sided with Democrats, and it doesn't actually take effect
Speaker 1: until ninety days after the end of the legislative session,
Speaker 1: which could mean June or July, or if the Republicans
Speaker 1: try to extend the session into the fall.
Speaker 2: So you know, and just yea wild wild that this
Speaker 2: was even a thing that happened.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's like.
Speaker 4: We're in such a terrible place with all the political parties, obviously,
Speaker 4: but it is probably worth noting that if they got
Speaker 4: their choice, Republicans would restore all laws.
Speaker 3: To the Civil War era, right, So yeah, that is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: Also, Yeah, not in alex Garlands Civil war. All right,
Speaker 1: everyone's cool, We're just We're just there's a.
Speaker 4: Lot of a lot of great points on both sides.
Speaker 1: They're also maybe competing ballot measures for both pro choice
Speaker 1: and anti choice groups in the fall.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's not over, but at least
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It also feels like this is because Donald Trump had
Speaker 1: like the day before this passed, He's like, why don't
Speaker 1: we leave it up to the states. States can decide,
Speaker 1: and then like a state comes through with the wildest,
Speaker 1: most unpopular law passage that you could possibly imagine. So
Speaker 1: I think they got some nasty emails from the Trump campaign.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 4: I don't envy you having to think about this every
Speaker 4: day through the election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what ely here occasionally.
Speaker 1: That is why we invented here on the Daily Zeitgeist,
Speaker 1: the hard reset, which is when you take a thera
Speaker 1: gun and put it to.
Speaker 2: Your temple and uh oblivion. We do not recommend you
Speaker 2: do that at home.
Speaker 1: That's only for people who host the show. Yeah, all right, Andrew,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Where can people find you? Follow you? All the good stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, is this racist? You know what? I also
Speaker 3: wanted to say.
Speaker 4: This is not directly involved, but Solidarity and Snacks is
Speaker 4: a mutual aid group that I work with out here,
Speaker 4: and I actually was just looking at our chat. We
Speaker 4: are running low on funds, as are many, many, many
Speaker 4: mutual aid groups. And I know money's side for everyone,
Speaker 4: but Solidarity and Snacks there's venmo links on the Instagram
Speaker 4: and stuff, and I don't know every penny you give
Speaker 4: gets on on the streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll link off for that in the footnote. All right,
Speaker 1: that is going to do it for us this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you tomorrow by
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