Weekly Zeitgeist 264 (Best of 2/27/23-3/3/23)

Alison Rasco. Oh, thank you for having me. I did not know any of that. About the Minions, Yeah, oh my god. Well I haven't seen one. I haven't seen a Despicable of Me. I haven't seen a Minion movie. I don't know about this rich history. Oh oh, there's so much going on and trouble Jack. Have you have you seen them all because of your kids? Or you

just watch? I have, like not in order. It's like I'll walk in for a scene here and there, and but usually like if the kids are watching a movie, it's an opportunity to like go get adult things done. So but I've been sucked in for entire chunks of the Mingu movie. What is adult things? Do you like, go watch Meet Joe Black or something, just constantly paying bill, just bills, stacking up on my desk and then just mailing him out the door with a real haired look

on my face. Yeah, yeah, no, I go watch Meet Joe Black. That's like the adult movie. I guess got adult things to do kids, like the True Love between the Grim Reaper and somebody who met the Grim Reaper's lady. I actually have never seen Meet Joe Black. I just my parents had it and it was two VHS tapes, so I was like, damn, that's were you kind of like walking into the room to make sure that they were occupied and then going to do kids stuff. Was it like a reverse of how I treat you? Were?

Just like I need to make sure I was good to go watch Pinocchio and you can watch That's like you can watch Pinocchio three times. And the runtime of Meet Joe Black. That's true. Meetcho Black is very long. And my dad really loves it, like has has given like he doesn't give me a heartfelt so little queezed about much, but he has been like that Meet Joe Black is a hell of a film. Someone had to say it. He may be the first someone did, Alison, how are you doing? Where are you coming to us from?

I'm in rainy Los Angeles. So no, it's billy going on. I don't know how to function, overwhelmed by the wetness. It's it's been, it's been rough. We're just like not, we're not built for it. And then every time it comes up, for like for people who live in cities that get snow, they're like, oh, shut the fuck up. For You're like, okay, but it's raining, and it's actually really hard for us. We're not built for it. It

just falls apart right away. Like so it starts raining hard Friday night and someone to meet, Like one of the traffic lights in my neighborhood went down. A car immediately like sped through that intersection, knocked over like telephone electric pole, like knocked out power and internet to our entire neighborhood for the whole weekend. It's just like, this

is just just rain, just rain. Yeah, my friends had another one where somebody hit a pole and then she lost power and she had to stay at my house for a night. Yeah, it's funny that it's not just the weather, it's people driving into poles seems to be a main cause of the issue. Yeah, fascinating. I didn't see that part coming. Yeah, yeah, just right away. There's a knocked over telephone pole. The trees are getting knocked over too, which I'm a little confused by. I think

just the wind climate change. I'm not sure that's right. That's my catchphrase, the wind climate change. I'm not sure that in The Pope is your boss. Yeah, I mean the Pope is going to figure it out. What is something from your search history? And I'll start with you, Rachel, what's something from your search history? Something in my search history from today is a recipe for cookie dough stuffed homontoshin oh, which is a type of cookie to celebrate

the holiday of Poorum, which is coming up there. You go, Okay, that sounds fancy, super delicious. Makes you want to text my friend Lere and be like, have you tried it? Would you try it? Is this sacrilegious? Where do you feel on the line of like this is good or or this is my grandmother would kill me if she knew if if you tried homontoshing, if you put cookie dough in hamatoshing. Oh, it's very unorthodox because the bass that I'm also doing is a chocolate chip cookie flavored bass,

and so it's a cookie stuffed cookie, so completely non traditional. Yeah, I think my grandmother would love it, honestly love that we're talking about, like that Pizza Hut would eventually have cheese, like find a way to stuff cheese into the cheese of their pizza yesterday. And you have like created a similar thought experiment that is like breaking my brain right now. How do you so it's like one type of cookie

dough stuffed into another cookie. Yeah, it's chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed into essentially a triangular shaped chocolate chip cookie. It is the greatness of America on display right now. Does the dough get baked or it does? It's unbaked cookie dough, So you like baked the cookies and then stuff the unbaked dough inside. It'll all be baked together, but hypothetically the cookie dough stuffing will stay soft enough. Hmm. It sounds delicious. I want to liquefied and shoot it

into my arteries. Yeah, I can make that happen for you. I just bought a stethoscope. Just called doctor Rachel. Everybody heard that she threatened me with murder. Did you hear that she just seemed accommodating to me? Victor? That's all I heard. What is something from your search history? Victor? I actually checked something in my search I checked something today so I could talk about it on the show in my search history, so it's recent search history. For

ten years straight. I am the number one video result when you search for how to draw a penis. So if you google how to draw a penis, number one video result is me, and then I'm still champion. Yea, there you are? Are you drawing? How did this video come to be? I'll tell you how the video came

to be. So a long time I also like have a production company, and so a long time ago I got a deal to do like a whole bunch of art videos where people were drawing on glass standing and then so I built inside the studio this glass that you could just drawn. And then so one day I was on the set and I put on a fake mustache, and then I I made a character, and then I taught people how to draw penis, and I put it online, and uh, it just kind of stuck around. It's amazing.

It's in black and white. So it's very artistic. It's the artist for sure. I love this. It's on a dead YouTube channel. Like the dead YouTube channel version is the one that has stuck around forever, and so like my current it's on my current YouTube channel, but it doesn't have half as many views as on his dead channel. The voice you did for it is incredible. Thank you. I can't really hear the voice, but you were taking it very seriously with a very silly mustache. I do

break during the video. I think that's part of the fun because my must mustache starts falling off at one point and I started laughing, but you're telling me that's not a real mustache. Sorry to disappoint you. I like think you chose to go for straight hair instead of curly. I feel like everyone that's naveryone's natural instinct, just like I'll do short and curly so but these are just like whispy hairs. Yeah. Yeah, the Penis's hair is like kind of yeah, very straight, like serious for all of

that stuff too. So oh great have you when you hear it with sound, you'll know the truth. Yeah or Penis guys, it's amazing. Yeah, that's got to be like pretty pretty popular right, like, yeah, I just got so many extra views for that dead general. That's great. Yeah, try to find it on the real channel. Give show Victor your support. My goodness. Right now it is at one hundred ninety nine thousand views, so maybe you I feel lucky. You could be the two hundred thousandth view.

That's really a game. What do they win an autographed penis drawing from from me? After I have studied under the tutelage of Victor Fartnato? What? Yeah? So that channel, that channel? Do you remember my damn channel that on YouTube? So yeah, they gave me a deal for this channel, but then they they like, so we started this channel comedy channel, and then they just imploded, and then so and then I never found the lot that I never not found, but I never got all the logging information back,

so I can't. It's dead. It's just broken. If we had a dollar for every day every day video channel or magazine article, yeah, I just had to rescue all my stuff from a V clubs. So it's funny the lie, truly? What is something you think is overrated? Adam? Uh? Did you guys see that? Was it? The New Yorker The end of the English major thing. They saw it and

then I said, I'm not cooking on that. Yeah, it's it's this like so it's like one of those like very you know, typical, Like it's got this scare headline the end of the English major. And it's like Arizona State University is seeing a decline in people studying English and getting their degrees in English. Some colleges are saying like we don't have enough students to necessitate an English program, and it's like we focus so much on stam within the last like five ten years that people are not

motivated to get their degree in English. And also there's like that that's typical like cell phone scare thing of like oh people have cell phones. They don't read books anymore. I mean this one professor's like I just got a self. I just got a smartphone, and I went from reading five novels a month to one novel a month because I'm reading all these websites. And it's like, like, okay, shut up there. I say, like, people don't want to

study English because of this boring attitude. I hate when someone does something boring and then they're like this is news. You're like, it's not shut up, you got a phone,

It's not my problem. Oh my god, exactly, and also like lamenting like I couldn't imagine assigning Middle March to today's English students, and it's like, well, maybe that's fine, Like maybe we do actually need a focus on STEM and we don't eat people like going into massive debt to get an English major, you know what I mean, Like if it's a specialty major or you can't get one at every college, maybe that's not a problem. Well

I didn't even think. I mean, I'm like I saw some conversation going on around that piece that I would just think when I learned about something on Twitter, I'm like, probably safer to not interact with this and never learn what it is. That's sort of my current Twitter policy. But I did see people like say like, oh, well, there's also like it's such a common thing to like bully people who are like history or English majors that like, I would understand why people would be less willing to

do it. And also like you're saying, like less willing to like if it was more accessible to get an English degree and you didn't need to go into six figure debt to do it, I'm sure that more people would want to. But if the price of college is going up, then it makes sense that like it would be more popular to get a degree that you could probably get a like almost certainly get a job in afterwards, which sucks because then it's like, yeah, I don't know.

I think, yeah, it's it's bad. Yeah it's not great. Yeah, like that people are like, I'm on my grind, I got a major and angel investor v venture capital firms or where the fuck. I just hate the idea that they would blame it on phones. It's like, okay, well if phones are like, phones aren't gonna go anywhere, so

a lot of people are. I don't know. It's like even like the rising popularity and like audio books, it's like, yeah, you just need to find a way to consume the same thing that matches people's like consumption habits better right, chill out, Yes, chill out. Professor dork is a T shirt I have to say, coming to get can't that's a great T shirt. I was a philosophy major, so

I don't know anything about useless majors. Yeah, yeah, I have my degree in art, so nice and screenwrit hot dogs, did you tell yeah, yeah, that's actually that's a trade, though philosophy not as not so much. Philosophy majors are all like, they're like, you could be a lawyer, or you could be a philosophy professor and teach other philosophy majors. The two genders. I consider you to be a philosopher, Jack O'Brien, Oh, that means so much to me. That's

much better than lawyer. I consider you to be a lawyer, Jack, a closeted lawyer. You know, I've had boyfriends that have told me that when I argue with them that I would They're like, you know, you would make a great litigator, but it's meant to be insulting of course. Yeah. Yeah. And all men are so bad at arguing with women that they are like, oh my god, yeah, what are you talking to? Their defense is wow, you're really you're winning this argument. Wow, you should be a professional bitch.

Maybe maybe you should be You're like, maybe I will. Yeah, what is something you think is underrated? Oh? I mean just like Sandy's she's just not getting to do that she deserves, I think paying it to the just yeah, Sandy's recaps, Sandy's Eagles recaps deserve more than they're getting because they don't have a comment section. And I think people are just only are interested in parts of the Internet with their voices can be heard, and not just

reading and learning. Because here's the thing. At first, at first, like this eagle Jackie was sitting on the nest and she was getting pelted with snow, and I was like, oh God, is she in trouble? And then I googled and I saw that actually eagles have several layers of feathers that keep them extremely warm, and their basic body temperatures one hundred and five degrees and they thrive and snow snow, And I was like, oh, okay, so she's fine as opposed to being like, somebody help her. Just

google a fact once underrated facts. I want somebody do something. It turns out, yeah, they always seem to be in fairly inhospitable territory, like yeah, they're like on mountains and shit, yeah they live in Alaska and stuff. They're fine in Big Bear, right, Yeah, But it's all these it's just all la people being like that looks so cold. It was fifty here the other day, so I can identify. I know she doesn't have a fashion scarf, what will she do? Like, what if the eagle was wearing an

Infinity scarf? Maybe if she had done that, the eggs have hatched a little bit FASTI exactly. I do have to give a shout out to the name Shadow because there was a there's a DJ named Shadow Stevens when I was young who did like he was like adult contemporary casey casum and that that name always stuck with me is like very over the top, but like kind of dope, like just Shadows Stevens. So I'm gonna go ahead and say Shadow is an underrated name to give your eagle or a child. J J. Yeah, I think

it's an overrated name for a dog. Probably there's a lot of dogs named shadowy. But but what about a son? And that that is a powerful I would like to mean more shadows than Brashton's going forward. So people, can you know fix that you really hear the name that? Yeah, yelled at a kid in a subway like four years and I was like Brashton. You couldn't decide between Brandon and Ashton. Just we don't need mash up names, overrated mash up names. Just pick one stick to your decision.

Trust yourself. You're making an indecisive child from that. Rashton is a very strong decision. That's just like you. You are, like, they need to be a snowboarder or a professional surfer or nothing. That's it. There are certain names where are just like, well, their fate is sealed. I guess. I guess Shadow would be one of those as well. So maybe I should shut the funk up on your kids. Shadow. So it's like Merlin, Like, there's a man. You can't just name someone Merlin. They have to be a music

teacher or live in the woods. A baby named Merlin is really wild. I honestly, baby Merlin. I don't hate that idea, but it is a very kind of a scary thing to do to a child. Yeah, but then they just go with Merle to like kind of whatever their parents don't want them to do. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the fifteen minute city and other stuff, and we're back, and we're back. Yea, we're back. So this story made

me scream, oh good a technocratic solution. So it started like last week Biden was in Poland. He lauded the country for taking in more than one point five million Ukrainian refugees and said the American people are united in our resolve as well. And people were pointing out that as he was giving that speech, they were also introducing the toughest policies yet aimed at turning away migrants to the United States. And you know, one of the new rules is meant to replace Title forty two, which is

set to expire soon. But they were posted online last week and our subject to a thirty day public comment period. But one of the big new things is the requirement for migrants to register using the Customs and Border Patrol smartphone app. And it's just a it's a bad it's a bad apps, as frequently happens when you just opened something up to the whole world using it. They launched the app in January to expedite the process for asylum seekers.

It's been a goddamn nightmare because like it, people have recorded countless errors that force users to go through all the steps only to have a crash and restart in

a seemingly endless cycle. For some reason, this reminded me of did you guys see the quarry Doctrom on Twitter talking about like this, like when he googled like a tie restaurant in his neighborhood, you know, googled it, went to the first result, which was the name of the restaurant, ordered food from it, and it like the top result was actually a Google ad that was like a cloned website.

That was the entire existence of the company was just to create cloned websites of the restaurant you're looking for and then charge you fifteen percent more than the like that they'll actually put your order in. But they just like skim fifteen percent, and so they just like insert themselves into this, into this transaction and like find find little ways to to fuck you over get get some

of your money without providing any service whatsoever. They just can see of most Internet companies though, right, like even your Amazons, which are like no we house like a bunch of like these little independent companies and really helping

them get seen and sell product. And it's like sure, but you're taking a large percentage and when returns come they have to Like for example, if you buy a book on Kindle and decide to return it months later, which you can do, the authors then have to pay that money back to Amazon, right, Like they don't take any of the brick and mortar, like you know, consequences off.

It's it's all in the same way that Grubhub if you return in order or something's not right with your order, they don't paint it on the driver or grub Hub the restaurant paste for that. Yeah, it just feels like we are not like the tech is not up to

up to what we think it's up to. In a lot of cases like that, it's just yeah, yeah, I mean, I agree with you, but I think what the biggest problem is is that the hirer you get up in in the just like power or whatever, and the when people think they when people think they know what something is like they the government did not hire the best app developers. That's the real problem because it could have

worked if they just hired the right people. But somewhere in the government somebody's like, my nephew does app development, Fine, we can just do this project. It snap, it's a nap what what how much? What do you have to dope?

You can do it? And that's what happened, and then it blew up right because Canada had a similar thing if you were flying into Canada from outside of the country during COVID, and I think even now, like you have to scan your vaccination cards and then you have to like sign a bunch of stuff and you have to be vaccinated with a x amount of days, and then in order to get on your plane and then pass customs, you have to like show the results of this app that worked pretty well, I guess, which to

me is much more streamlined. It's essentially just do you have the medical requirements to enter our country, as opposed to this app, which demands people stop in every country they pass on their way to America to be like, hey, can I seek asylum here and they're like no, go forward.

But we're not working with those countries to like bring in that information into the app, And if it's glitchy, then I just I can only imagine it causing a lot of headaches for people who are literally fighting for their lives, as opposed to me, I was just trying to get to Toronto for a film festival. It seems like maybe something that a half assed app is not required here. Yeah, and then you're fleeing like a government that is trying to persecute and potentially like arrest or

kill you. You might not have access to a charged smart phone. Then yeah, the internet. Say you're trying to send messages or help and you can't get rid of the pop up ads, and you're like, well that's what we can imagine. Yeah. We talked to a security expert on at the end of last week and we were talking about chat, GPT and like AI and they were like, Yeah, the thing that it's actually going to do is just make spam and pop ups like better at tricking you.

Like that's what it's going to be. Alike with all technology, it's all just going to be used to create the lowest denominator ads and make them better at trigging you and stealing your information. Every new technology is usually adopted

by the adult film industry first. Yeah, like and so I wonder what's going I don't know, but I wonder what's happening right now, because something's happening right con sites, Yeah, let us know what's going on, but they and there's just like they're not up to the task when it comes to this feels just true almost across the board over any considerable period of time, Like almost every company has a like information leak, like one of the CBPS

subcontractors was hacked in twenty nineteen, exposing private information pertaining to thousands of random people. I was just like going back through like now that I can't have two factor authentication like through the Twitter app, I have to like

have it through my iPhone. And like, as I was going back through that, I was like seeing all of the you know, old passwords that I no longer use, but still like they've all been exposed like leaked and you know hacked, like within the last like fifteen years. Like every company is exposing your private information like the because there's just like not an overarching incentive structure for them.

They're just like, yeah, there's so many of these leaks and these hacks that like we, like the consumer can't keep track of all that shit, so we just kind of keep it moving. Now. It's just a notification that I get when I log into T Mobile, Like they don't even send out emails anymore, but when you log into your account, there'll just be a notification at the top like some of your information was leaked, And I was like, oh, oh cool, T Mobile, thanks, just know

that your information is in a perpetual state of being leaked. Thanks, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, at and t same shit, like yeah there, that's why I suggest to everybody that you don't put anything online that you're not comfortable just you know, telling everybody in the world. Yeah. Yeahbody's making lots of money off of me, and I want to cut what like they're taking my information and they're making money on it from from the from the data leaks. You want your data slice, Yeah,

I want my data slice. And it's like what I feel like, Yeah, but we're all worth fractions of opinion. It's just that, like we're one of three billion people who's like information they've they've leaked. Companies can pay me a lump some upfront like I do to use their apps, or they can pay me monthly based off of a percentage. I'll take money either way, totally fine to collect. Is there any technology that hasn't been completely like taken over

by like spam or scams or like it. I guess like TV hasn't totally been it's just I mean it's been ruined by advertising. But yeah, just the scam this and so it's a gateway scam. Yeah, they're all the communication like the two way and for like phones, email, text is all just slowly being taken over by just made unusable at this point. You know what we still have in terms of unbothered two way communication is picto Chat on the original Nintendo DS. Nice. Yeah, nice still work.

That's where we met. Yeah. Yeah, if your system works, it still works. There you go. Yeah, go to your brick and mortar stories, meet the people you buy things from. It feels good, it's better. So wait, what is picto Chat on the Nintendo DS? I missed that. I haven't

played video games since and sixty four. Picto Chat was an app built into all of the original Nintendo DSS and DS lights where it's a two way communication system but it's local, so you have to be within like twenty feet or so of the other user in order for it to work. But you could like text to each other, draw little pictures. But there were no ads on it, so it's for talking shit about teachers essentially exactly. It was perfect for you in the backseat of a

car even right, right, Okay, that makes sense. Pio chat. Yeah, now that we've said it, the advertisers are gonna see is on it? Have you guys seen Snow Piercer. Yeah, yeah, so like in that movie that just like in the prologue, like the news clip montage prologue, they're like, somebody put

it to combat climate change. Somebody put a chemical into the atmosphere to like reflect the Sun's rays away from the Earth, and they like overdid it, and now the planet is ice planet and the only people who are alive are on this train. And that definitely scared me off of this idea. I'm like, no, but now the

un is kind of floating it out there again. And there's there's a really good book, The Ministry for the Future, that is like somebody who really understands climate change in international geopolitical systems writing about how the future of climate change could most likely play out. And they also like bring this up quite a bit. I think the author's name is Kim Stanley Roberts. Yeah, the author's name is Kim Stanley Robinson. And there, Yeah, it's a it's a

good book. It's worth reading. And one of the like things that happens in the book is there's like a massive heatwave in India that kills like millions of people and motivates that country to like go rogue and do their own like high atmosphere gas release that actually works

to like cool the climate. But that is now like a thing that people are writing about in news article because news article in news articles, because like that where nobody is doing the things that we would need to do to stop polluting the planet enough to have catastrophic

climate change. And so the solution is to put something in the atmosphere that would act similar to like what a volcanic eruption does, which is like, you know, the global temperature after a really significant volcanic eruption, the global temperature will drop by like a degree or two because of all the ash and the atmosphere and like the sun not reaching us as as much as it does

without that stuff. So so bleak that like that, we're at this point where it's like it's so clear that there's not going to be any large scale action too. Yeah that it's like people are trying to think two steps ahead of like, well, there's no chance there's ever going to be any regulations that are significant enough to save the planet. So what if it's just I understand the logic behind it, but it's just like, oh, Jesus Christ,

we're just never gonna get good climate change with legislation. Cool, just like fiddling with the thermostat is essentially what we've come up with, right, Yeah, you're like blowing the fucking Nintendo cartridge and hoping for the best and just put

across the entire globe. Yeah, and that's what It's going to be really tricky to like get everybody on board with this, and like especially you know where it like right now, like the super wealthy are going to be the least affected by climate change and like probably in the near future. And so they're all going to the Denver Airport and they're gonna, you know, weigh it out. Yeah, what's it? What's the Denver Airport conspiracy theories that like

there's a bunch of there's a tunnel city underneath it. Yeah, yeah, now, yeah, there's a kid, there's a bunch of there's a bunch of tunnels. There's some girl Scouts in the nineties that claim that they saw the rich people tunnel holes and they're like, oh, but no one ever brought up the tunnels. Why did the girl Scouts get the tour of the rich people tunnels? I couldn't tell you all I know is there's Asian girl scouts that have been at the tunnel,

and yeah, they're they're gonna go down there. They're gonna they're gonna live well while the rest of us burned to a crisp I think is the plane or you know, freeze you, depending on where things go. But that's why the Denver Airport is allegedly scary. I believe it. There's like a really freaky mosaic there too, of like people in gas masks and stuff like out of nowhere. A lot of Holocaust imagery. Yeah, there's gargoyles at baggage claim.

There's that big scary horse, yeah that with the glowing red eyes whose like leg fell off and killed the sculptor that was creating it. There's a lot of stuff going on at the Denver Airport. I love getting stuck there. It makes me feel like I'm in uh B movie. It's exciting. It is. It's got a it's got a super villain layer feel. Anyway. Yeah, big big minions, big grew energy to the Denver Airport crew energy minions work there. That's how you know shit's going down. But okay, so

they're gonna so the back to this study we're talking about. Yeah, so, I mean it's just the the un EP, which is the uns like Environmental something or other wrote that like, with the world not responding to the climate change urgently enough, a speculative group of technologies to reflect sunlight back away from the Earth has been getting more attention recently, and they're like, it doesn't it isn't ready for prime time yet, but this view may change if climate action remains insufficient,

the report says, signaling that it's time for rigorous study of both the technologies and the potential international governance, which seems like the tricky part. Do they have the chemical? Like do they know what it would be? It's just a matter of or is it just like we'd have to put in a lot of research to find the chemical that would you know, mimic volcanic ash. I think they have some theories, but it's also like one of

those things that you do. It's not really a thing that you want to like go with the guess and check like method on changing the global temperature. It's the one and done. Yeah, yeah, see how it goes there. I guess my my question here and this is has to do with the fact that I don't know how the UN works really, but if like as like if this is a suggestion being brought by their kind of

environmental team, what why why would the world agree? Like why would all of the nations in the UN be able to agree on this proposition if they already cannot

agree on other climate change action? Like right, that's yeah, I think the climate change action requires them to make sacrifices and do things that aren't that are like not profitable, whereas like our entire you know, programming, all our coding as a civilization has like built itself up to the point that it's like that is impossible to do something that is not not like operating in the most efficient way for shareholder value, it seems like right, and so

they're just like does not compute, Like there's just like spark They're the wiring behind their eyes or is like sparking every time that you try and get them to do some sort of climate change action or you know, like one of the big thought systems is like what about not gearing everything towards growth and that are like what like just blinking thirty times, like because it's not sustainable and we'll blow up Um, so, so this would be like an opportunity to circumvent like or try to

have it both ways. Yeah, creating the technology. Yeah, so it's like probably just more more jobs created. We're going to create some jobs sending people into the stratosphere to spray volcanic ash or Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's like I don't think they're necessarily trying to exactly

mimic volcanic ash. I think just volcanic eruptions are the thing that has like given them this idea essentially, But it does seem like something we want to be really careful with and also something that's going to be incredibly

hard to get everybody to agree on. And yeah, I'm sure there's a way that the wealthy people who actually control like what decisions get made are going to fuck this up for the rest of us, right unless there's like some valuable contract to be gotten from from having done it, Like I think part of them, like they've bought all that all that property in New Zealand, like they're they I'm sure there's like at least a good portion of the population who like meet up in Davos

every year who are just like we kind of want this. It seems like it would be fun and we would get to like repopulate the earth because we're they floating mansions. Yeah like that. So they're like, why I don't. I don't want to have wasted that money. So I could I could see even if this does turn out to be a good idea, I could see this being sort of hitting some headwinds. Yea, as they say, it sounds too much like the plot of a Michael Bay movie

for someone to not completely fuck it up. Yeah, yeah, the Michael's Bay and Creighton come together to write a science fiction film that is our future. Sure it turns out, yeah, well, as long as there's a weird little Graham Cracker inspired

sex scene. It's like the the Denver Airport thing. Like, really, I do believe that even if it's not at the Denver Airport, like they we've already like uncovered historical documents that these exist, Like there's a West Virginia resort that secretly had like a massive underground habitat for the president and like the leaders of the United States in the event of nuclear armageddon that was like there throughout the Cold War in case they needed it. And now you

can like go and take tours of it. But because it was like far enough into history, we just are like, oh, that's quaint. But there's there's no way that, like Bezos doesn't have at least like five of these already like under construction. Like, yeah, I true, Like I'm not a very conspirat. I'm not a conspiratory I mean whatever, Zeke Gang, We've we've been together for a long time. I'm not

a conspiratorially minded person. But this one, I fully like, if you've got evidence that it's not true, I'd love to see it, because why would you build an airport like that. It's the worst airport in the world. It's so weird, it's so far away from Denver, it's so like just sprawling and strange. They're just counting on that. But then also I'm like, maybe it's not true. Every going to Denver makes me lightheaded and gives me a nosebleed. Maybe my brain cells are not operating as they were

intended while I'm at this airport. But I do I believe in the theory. Look up The Girl Scouts. That sounds also like a Michael Bay movie, The Girl Scouts. No, you gotta find the Girl Scouts. Cut to Christina Hendrix, a Girl Scout ner forty's being like I saw it. I saw it. Yeah, like the like in a post apocalyptic setting, like with people like wandering the earth. They just like put a bunch of like scary art up around to be like, don't come here, this isn't. This

isn't where you wanna be, wandering band of cannibals. That's my loose theory. We'll sick the demon horse on you. Yeah, I've seen, I've I've seen it might have been TikTok's, but I don't remember at this point. Like, employees of the Denver Airport seem to be conditioned to kind of like lightly engaged with this if it's brought up to them,

where they're like, oh, I don't know. Yeah, if you have any information on this, that's not just like the standard Wikipedia article, but like, yeah, hit us up if if you work there, if you know somebody works there, let us know. Yeah, don't don't bother me with anything before results page like seventeen, because I've seen it. All right,

let's take you a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk elon Musk and we're back and Rhonda Santis has a book dropping competition and there's a whole chapter you were in touch with his people about trying to like get his moved back a little bit. But yes, I did. I did, uh speak to the enemy, and he assured me that he was going to be well out of my release thing. Yeah, you know whatever, fine, it seems.

So there's also like he he had a press conference where I think he is officially, you know, signing a bill allowing the state to take control of Disney World's tax district away from them or like to yeah, basically like not letting them have the same powers as a religion. And he did. The corporate kingdom finally comes to an end with which feels, I don't know, like he's doing

this because they criticized his don't say gay law. So but but it is frustrating to me that like battling corporations have gotten away with too much for way too long, Like is like that's a winner, Like politically, that's going to be a winner like from now on, because people I think are like waking up to the fact that

like that is the real enemy. And it's just frustrating that the only side that is able to do anything about it or willing to do anything about it, or the fascists like because the center is yeah, but yeah, real broken clock behavior going on. Yeah yeah, but they'll see that this is popular and I'm assuming maybe catch on, maybe not. I don't know, but people are speculating the timeling. The timing of his big move to fuck with Disney isn't Quinn sidental because he has a new book coming

out on Tuesday, The Courage to Be Free. Oh Jesus, there has to be five hundred books by fascist titled that already, Like I feel like you've got to really, that's not gonna that's not even gonna stand out on the fascist shelf from this year if you call like, if your book has the word free in it, maybe it should be free. And it's like pretty standard, Like what like I feel like if you just asked me to write this book on like in an afternoon, it

sounds like it's what I would come up with. Like it's just he's railing against elites who taught him at Yale and Harvard Law schools. It's like he's a student at Yale and Harvard Law school and he's like these elites you know, he uses the word elite twenty pages, twenty times in twelve pages. But I think the thing that a lot of people are surprised by is that he devotes an entire chapter to excusing the fact that

he got married in Disney World. I think that could be a whole that could be a whole other book of explain why the hell he did that? Why the hell he did that? Right? Has he offered any explanations? Yeah, you will be shocked to learn that he blames it all on his wife. And that's so out of character for such a such a person as his dream month run. I'm struggling to believe it. Struggling, I really can't. Yeah, I mean he is truly, uh, pure evil, and I'm

very afraid of him. And also, um, I can totally imagine him being like, well, you know, my wife, my little princess had to get married at the castle like each he did. Uh. This is the direct quote. Casey's family was what one might call a family of Disney enthusiasts. They loved going to Disney work. Like saying someone is what one might call like that's never hurt, that's never

not condescending, or like dismissive. That sentence is wearing. That's like it is nowhere near the only thing one might call Those people. Yeah, those one could sort any things. And I'm glad you did explain for his the people that are going to be buying the book who won't know what enthusiast means. They explain that he said they love going where the big three circle make a mouse.

Then I really hope, I hope this turns into a very low grade embarrassing thing for him where they're like, someone has five thousand pictures of Ronda Santis enthusiastically hugging Goofy at the past and they're like, weird, you said you weren't really into that wild Yes, like you know some Disney like like a crew member definitely snaps some

picks in the tunnels. He does claim that he had one stipulation that was that like, there couldn't be any Disney characters at the wedding ceremony, but there's no word about like his friend Scoofy would be so pissed if his bedroom. Yeah yeah, the bedroom, the wedding bedroom didn't say anything about the bachelor party. Yeah yeah, oh my god, involved to get interested of course getting he definitely got goofy,

got goofy with his with his wife. I do feel like if you are working at Disney World, you and Ron de Santis gets on Expedition Everest. If you work there, you're allowed to make the roller coaster crash. Yeah, You're allowed to fall asleep at the control. You're allowed to remove a section of dress. Oh yeah, you can take it off. You can do a little detour. Just let it go, let it, let it go straight off the off the deep end for sure. Sort Of suddenly he's

like riding haunted mansion. He sort of doesn't come out than comes part of it. And if you so much more profitable, not only will your taxation problems go away, Disney, but you'll have like a legit haunted mansion. Yeah, and ghost law is so much more lenient. So like that's huge, huge, that's true. Yeah. So he was just, according to him, just being a dutiful groom to be until now when he just threw his wife and her family under under under the tram in print forever. So like it's so

for him to be kind of playing coy about. Like I guess getting married at Disney is a thing that people do. It's like, if you are a Floridian human being, you know at least one million people who have gotten married at Disney. If you've been to Disney, you've seen people getting married on Yeah, Goofy's Goofy's barn Storm roller coaster, and and it's like, people talk all day long about

wanting to get me married to Disney. So many people we grew up with were like, I'm gonna go ahead and be doing that, and being a Disney adult, it's a Florida staple. I feel like growing up, I we had friends who went all like every month to Disney, and then I was like, that's so. I was talking to my mom with day and I was like, it's so crazy because it's like we like never went to Disney and all our friends were wearing all the time, and she was like, we literally went once a year.

I was like, period for sure. And I remembered that, and I remember that and I remembered it for real. But yeah, no, it's like, if you're in Florida, you're gonna go ahead and know that people are chomping at the bit to get married in Mickey's lap. So I mean, it's like the concept of like Disney adults. I feel like it's like that like term has been coined, I guess sort of recently, but it's like been a thing for as long as the person I had an aunt. Oh I I she's still alive, but her house like

it's I was. I was seven and it frightened me the amount of items and things that were there. And I I mean, look, I like going to Disney World. When I go, I'm smiling, yeah, happy, yeah, literally, dreams come true. I'm gonna good hot dogs, the turkey turkey legs, the fut turkey legs. I'm the grinning when this is happening. I'll get married at the turkey leg stand. Yeah, as

far as I'll go, I'll marry a turkey leg. I can eat a hole one of those when I was three years and that's normal for a person to do. And yeah, no, me, it's healthy that in an eight foot gators how you know. Yeah, of course, Disney adult is as old as time, and it's seeming to DeSantis seems to be a Disney adult himself and kind of being fry about undercover Disney adults. You know, you know, you know, he's got some ears hidden away somewhere for sure.

Oh yeah, well we can't in good faith hand it to Ron de Santis ever under any but I am I am that. I like that that precedent is being set. I hate that it's being set by a fascist. That makes my head hurt, absolutely yeah, And clearly it has like to do with very complicated feelings he has and like spurned like they didn't. They wouldn't do the thing

that he wanted. They wouldn't let him. Like where the Prince the actual like screen accurate Prince Eric costume to sing a Whole New World at his that's the wrong movie. I think he didn't get to select a princess as his bride. That's true, that's true. Damn all right, I mean Havanna syndrome. We it's there's not much new to report other than like that an intelligence intelligence report is drawing the same conclusion that we've drawn on this show.

That is that like this weird thing where they were like we're being attacked by sound weapons. Our CI agents in Cuba are being attacked by invisible sound weapons and now they all have vertigo and have like can't function. That it was actually like a psychogenic like type mass hysteria is like one way that people describe it. But like there they study this. It's called a function disorder, a functional disorder. It's like there is an entire medical

field to it. There was a New York Times article in twenty nineteen that was like, this is what it is, like we we've talked to experts. It's definitely this a functional disorder, where like the same thing that has caused outbreaks of sickness from the beginning of time. Where it's like confusing, but it seemed like one person is experiencing symptoms and then everybody suddenly starts experiencing them. It can

make you sick. They're not consciously making it up. It's just a thing that is not being caused by invisible science fiction weapons. But they like all the coverage of it just leaves the functional disorder part out, and they're just like, we don't know what happened, guys, and so they just keep bringing it up and then not explaining

what actually happened. So I think it's very confusing to Yeah, it in my in my googling tons of it, I was like every single piece, it's like, yeah, there's all this research that kind of explains this phenomenon of mass hysteria kind of caused by this, like you know, everybody believing something so hard that it makes them physically sick. But it also could be kind of a bit of a laser or kind of something. But yeah, they're literally

like the use of the word beam, lots of beams. Yeah, Like, yeah, a few dudes had a headache in Cuba and now we're being attacked by aliens. It's kind of well, it's everyone know, it's like kind of their like Russia's got their beam on us, and so now my tummy hurts, right, Yeah, so it also and also is this is this it may be a radical oversimplification and an inspiring stupidification of this of what we're actually talking abou about. Is it sort of akin to what we've been seeing? Hate to

bring it back to TikTok? Love to bring it back to TikTok? Is it akin to what we've been seeing where sort of anti vax creators will be posting videos of their feet shaking and be like thanks Spiser, like, is it kind of is it? Like? And then some way, because I think that some of those people are like I feel like a lot of them are just doing a little fancy footwork and saying thanks Spiser. And I'm not denying. I'm not denying that these people in Cuba

had headaches. I would never I would never deny that I would I would never want to say that I have a headache and then a whole nation saying no, you don't actually have a headache, and say it is a horrible position that they're in, Like that's what sucks about this is like nobody who has ever had functional disorder is like glad to hear that diagnosis. No, no way,

by the way, you're making it all up. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm sure a lot of the people who are suffering the vaccines and you know side effects that we see on TikTok believe what they're feeling, you know, like believe that what they're having is from vaccines and they're doing they're they definitely think that they they're a lot of them. There are definitely people that are just put putting on a show, doing the doing the vaccine shuffle,

but then there's definitely doing the stinky like. But there there's definitely people who yeah, just like get so worked up. They're just trembling there. Yeah, I'm sure it's like they worked themselves into these people who are like, you know, probably not super over familiar with the intercacies of their

own mental illness and how to handle it. They're like, they probably work themselves into a panic attack and then they're like, yeah, we're covering you know class, which is like makes the Internet the worst possible place to even

address any of this. There's just no way to to like with any sort of nuance or care addressed, like because it's just a bunch of people that are like, you're you're losing it, like you're yeah, Yeah, It's it's like a bit of a rock and a hard place, because it's like everything about this it's like either you have a mental disorder so strong it's making you physically sick and it's coming from within, or you're being attacked

by a beam. It's like either either you are batshit cuckoo bananas and can't change, or there are lasers pointed directly at you. It's like one and you're like turning to TikTok for assistance. Like it's just very bleak. It's very good. Yeah, it's also it's so clearly it's so clearly the opposite of like what the I guess like people who are on the right at large are like TikTok is manufacturing mental illnesses and selling them to our teens, and like dotally due like there's like a section a

faction of like you know, creators on the right. Dare I say alts that are like saying that there is like a from studies that don't exist. There's like direct is up eighty thousand percent because it's there's like they're they're blaming TikTok creators with turetts for inspiring other people to pretend that they have it. And then thus Lee had like created this whole narrative around like maybe it's

not even real. Maybe it's like you know, they're they're giving each other mental illness through the Internet, and it's like that's also the functional disorder like specified that it's neurological. It's not like a mental illness person. It's like a neurological like condition that like gets locked into the pathways and like neurologically and but but they also like the New York Times article that came out four years ago that the New York Times has proceeded to ignore like

has the smoking gun. Yeah, yeah, so many viral viral hits they do. It's but they have the smoking gun that the people like if they had like gotten hit by like a physical weapon like at the time that they said they discovered it, like their brain would have

healed from the physical injury by now. And like the thing that is always, like you can tell by a function functional disorder, is that they last for a really long time because like there's no way to really heal it because it is like locked into your brain pathways, like the way an addiction. So it's like the fact that it's not healing itself the way an injury would is the thing that like lets you know, okay, this

is what it is. But again they just don't give that very kind of clear and and really like interesting, much more interesting than the story of like you know, space lasers that we don't know about, which I guess that's pretty interesting. But it also like tells you about like how immensely powerful the unconscious mind is and like how much like medicine is like just tapping into this vast like you know, universe of information about how much

like the mind body connection. But it's just it's also the least profitable part of medicine, and it is profitable to create panic that we need to invest in the Pentagon's ability to invent invisible space. La. Yeah, like a brain shield. I'm like, I'm sure I'm going to see someone on internet being like everyone in twenty years we'll have to wear a helmet keeping Russia out of our heads. Like yeah, there's like jofie doo. Yeah, it's like it's

of course, it's a little yeah, like in theory. Sure, if if there was any information at all, like that was concretely like pointing to what I believe one of the articles may have referred to as a worldwide ultrasonic weapon, then sure to read all about it. But they just

keep combining different sci fi phrases. I'm like, that's creative, but yeah, but but the other stuff is like actually for real, it's also like goof goofily vintage, like it's giving like sure seventeen hundreds, like be afraid of the sky, like yes, yeah, And these studies are coming. The studies where they're like, yeah, sorry, we didn't find anything, are coming from the people who have the most interest in this being true. Yeah, and we screamed at the sky

for hours. They did not respond many times. Was must we as a nation learn to like not listen to the studies that the CIA releases. It's like they're just there. I thought you were gonna say, how why haven't we learned not to listen to the sky. I'm like, this guy is trying to tell us something. No every time, I mean like this. Honestly, this story did confuse me. And ultimately I was like, if someone offered to put a Wi Fi rider in my leg, I would let them. Yeah,

is like challenging, Yes, yeah, yeah. It's like the back and forth of it all. It's like, yeah, there were sources saying that they can't not not not disprove that it isn't a laser beam from space. But it's like, come on, I'm this They like, yeah, this has given me an a syndrome, this loop de loop of logic. And then they'll just end it with like, yeah, they're not not not doing this. Ps Russia like the thing

that people remember. So goof, goof, goof. All right, that's gonna do it for the this week's Weekly Zeit Geys, please like and review the show if you like the show means the world demiles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. I that w for the