The Daily Zeitgeist - LAFD vs. LAPD, Girl Scout Cookies Cancelled?! 01.10.25

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

In this episode, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by writer/actor/comedian Blake Wexler to discuss… the L.A. wildfires, that one press conference that perfectly illustrated the juxtaposition between the LAPD and the LAFD (and who should get a bigger budget), New York introduces congestion pricing in Manhattan, Girl Scout cookies getting cancelled?!, and much more! The Future Of Fire Cannot Look Like Its Present | Defector Congestion pricing in New York City starts after years of turmoil and legal challenges - CBS New York New York Post on X: "Man stabbed in NYC subway station as congestion pricing kicks in, forcing more commuters into dangerous system https://t.co/cLj3aBLrXO https://t.co/VkMxdHFGXF" / X Democracy Dies As Awful Man No Longer Able To Freely Drive 18 Blocks In Manhattan | Defector The Girl Scouts are retiring two cookie flavors after this season | CNN Business See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Like just evolution, like built a fucking perfect weapon. And that's the sort of poison that I respect. The Komodo dragon's mouth is just like dirty as fuck. It's just nasty as shit. There's like, which is also kind of true in humans. Like when you talk to emergency physicians, they're like, the last thing you want to be bit by is a human being. Our mouths are fucking nasty.

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You can go check out what we look like as we're saying words like this. It is Friday, January 10th, 2024. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka. If I could fill this bag with beans, do you think I could take a seat? Cause you know I'd feel so darn comfy if I could just sit on some beans. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That is courtesy of Maniche. It was supposed to be a thousand miles

by Vanessa Carlton doing my best, you know? I am no Vanessa Carlton. I am, though, thrilled to be joined in our second seat by one of our favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer You know him from Yo's this racist podcast. It's I'm gonna wing one. I'm looking up the lyrics right now. Okay, it's rain and ash It's raining ash I don't actually know how the rest of this tune goes It's raining ash I

Don't actually know how the rest of this tune goes anyway, I walked outside this morning at Echo Park and I was like things are bow no and Second yeah legitimately snowing ash right now Is it continuously coming down on you I didn't think so, but it does sort of, you know, like a, like for anyone who's from where snow falls, it's like the first snow of the year. Yeah. Yeah. Like a lot of nice little, just a little, yeah, smaller than a flurry, but it's, it's, I mean, it's definitely coming down. There's how do you put this in terms Blake would understand and his sheltered

little world out there that's not on fire. Andrew, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by brilliant comedian, writer, and actor who's no special is Daddy Longlegs. He is the coiner of the disgusting phrase, plumper's to describe his size. Please welcome Blake Wexler. This is Blake Wexler and I am going to do an AKA, but, uh, I just need to say heart thinking about everyone in the fires. Uh, so much love to them. It's horrific. And, uh, now this is Blake Wexler, AKA the shorts are too tight on me cause I'm

one step closer to the trend. And I'm about to Blake. Plumbers need a little room to breathe because I'm one step closer to the trend. And I'm about to Blake. That was from Blinky Heck. Uh, which is it sounds like like a fake name. I give it hotels when I check in so I don't get bothered when you're extremely drunk and when I'm trashed.

Heck. Yeah. They're like, you want another room? I'm like, yes, go join. Yeah, I want the room of the one I went to by accident. Yeah. I forgot my first room. Yeah, the hollering. Dude, I did that once where I lived,

when I was living in LA, this was back in my drinking days and got off on the wrong floor and could not get into my room what I thought was my room Yeah, and I kept like knocking and then like trying to pull the torn up as if that would make it unlock And I just heard someone from the other side just go Yeah, that'll do it that'll that'll either really wake you up or really not wake you up. Yeah, yeah, no, yeah.

That coming to that moment when the light switch switched back on was humbling and I apologize. Accidental wake up call. Yeah. Great. Well. It's all great. It's all great.

Everything is super great right now. Do you want to get to know me in a few minutes? Blake, you know what? I would really like to get to know you a little bit better. But I'm going to hold off for a couple minutes. Yeah, yeah, take your time. There's no rush. Andrew and I are going to tell our listeners

a couple of things we're talking about. You can kind of jump in if you'd like. Thank you. Later in the episode, it's called a tease in the business. And then we're going to come back and get to know you. We like to, it's called a tease in the business. And then we're going to come back and get to know you. We like to, it's called the weave. Nobody's ever heard of it. Okay. I'm sure I'll see what's going on is as it, as the show goes. Yeah.

It'll happen to you. This show breathes you, you know what I mean? Um, all right. So the things we're talking about, uh, LA wildfires, uh, are still raging out of control right now. Um, we, we're recording this yesterday on Thursday. Yeah. Um, but it's, uh, yeah, we're continuing to just see unimaginable tragedy around us. Um, we'll just, you know, talk about firefighters, talk about press conferences with

firefighters and the police, a real nice like compare contrast there and the local news coverage, which is fucking bomb. I don't know. Have you, Andrew, watched any local news? I have not been watching the local news. I just had a real, real wild moment. I'm in a signal group that moves too quickly for human comprehension, but that's been all I can kind of handle. So you're like on top of the latest happening.

I can't tell. It's sort of the opposite. It's sort of just like a lot of reactions from fucking, you know, anywhere from progressives to hardcore communists about what's happening. And it's a little hard to figure out what's happening sometimes. But it's just experiencing unimaginable tragedy through the fog of memes. Yeah. Yeah. So I just wait for the evening edition of the LA Times to come out. Perfect. I like reading. I like having a newspaper in my hand. Yeah. Tangible. We're going to talk about, uh, this was just like a story I kind of needed right now. New York putting congestion pricing in place, uh, or at the beginning of this week. Just like a thing that they did with like a long,

long-term benefits that they'd like to achieve and just, I don't know, it feels like miraculous when a government intervenes in a way that is designed to like make people's lives better. So we'll talk about that and why it's incredibly unpopular. We'll talk about which Girl Scout cookies are being canceled. Not in the like, why and what they did and why. Yeah. But they're actually a couple that I like. One that I like and one that I've spent probably an episode's

worth of time on this podcast, just like, uh, railing about the name of, uh, for here's a tease, which Girl Scout cookie, which everyone agrees is the fucking worst is Andrew T's favorite. Find out. Yeah. Anyways, um, all of that, plenty more. We might even talk about Sean Hannity. But before that, Blake, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? I wrote this down before I looked at the show run run of show, whatever the industry term is

that you guys use. And it was congestion pricing. We don't have to get too far into it, but I live right outside, I live in North Jersey in Jersey city. So the Holland Tunnel is to lower Manhattan where a lot of the congestion pricing is, is like three minutes away. And I had a show in Brooklyn last night and I'm like, Oh, maybe I'll drive.

And I've heard a lot about congestion pricing, but I've just never researched any of them. I'm like, well, whatever this is, is going to happen to me at some point. And then I'm like, Oh, I should look into it, into this. And yeah, I would get charged, you know, we'll go more into it. But I'm like, at first I was pissed. Cause I'm like, well, I want to fucking pay $9 to go do this shitty show in Brooklyn. Um, in addition to the tolls that I'm already paying, but then I'm like, oh wait, should pay me to do this shitty show in Brooklyn. Everyone should pay me. I shouldn't have to pay rent. Um,

I should be treated like an ambassador basically where have my lodging provided for me like a diplomat, but I then realized, oh, this, we should just be taking public transit. They should put fucking bike lanes that, where you don't get murdered by a car. Like if you just get on a bicycle, they should have that infrastructure in cities. So, um, yeah, when I was pissed off about it, uh, selfishly, I might go, this is a good thing. So, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's my opinion. And I'm not going to try and end on the segment. You'll just be quick. I'm so curious about the details of it. Cause you are right at

the interface of, I guess I just assumed congested pricing meant it was within when the city was likely to be congested. It's a big, yeah. It's a big range where I believe on weekdays, it goes until 9 p.m. I think. So it's not just- City that never sleeps. Russia. Yeah. No, it won't sleep here.

I am exhausted. I cannot sleep in this fucking city. But yeah, no, you're right. I mean, it's obviously a controversial issue for a reason where I think the big issue people had with it was like, Oh, like a teacher, for instance, who has to drive into the city. Now they're paying more money coming in from North Jersey in the city.

But yeah, in a perfect world, this would make the public transit, you know, better and make better use of public transit or he could take public transit. Yeah. Yeah. It's for sure there'll be people from Jersey into lower Manhattan is the, is the point where like, Oh right. Yeah. I guess that makes sense. Yeah. And if I was in New York, I wouldn't want people from Jersey in there either. So like, I do understand they're the design. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep people from New Jersey out of here, please. Sorry. We got, yeah. We're, we're still in the previews. We're still in the previews. So did you see how they reacted to drones? Are you fucking kidding me? Hey, why don't we fly them in on drones? See, now we're taking two birds with one drone. Yeah.

You can do that. You fix congestion, all the congestion, just by covering the island of Manhattan in drones. And the people of New Jersey be too scared. Yeah, like a drone, like sort of a dome of drone, a drone dome. Yeah, drone dome. Blake, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated, uh, non-alcoholic beers. And, uh, I'm a beer drinker. Love that shit.

But you don't want to, can't get enough of that. Love that shit. but you don't want to get enough of that. Well, that shit, that hot shit, that. And this is a word for word recreation of what Blake says every time he enters a bar. It's fucking crazy. Can I truly hot shits, please hold the rocks? I'm a beer drinker. Just FYI. I'm a beer drinker by trade. Love that shit.

By trade, by birth. Yeah, by lineage, it goes way back of beer drinkers. Um, and, but sometimes you don't want to drink and, uh, it's good to, by the way, everybody's different. Some people don't drink at all. Some people, you know, like have, have a problem, but I like the idea of having a prop. First of all, and that like when you're hanging out, it is almost just a motion that you're doing. Like you want something carbonated and the taste is like

unbelievable in these things now where it does just taste like a beer and then you don't have to deal with the alcohol of all of it. I think Brian put a hop water in here, which is like very good as well. So it's shocking how good hop water is. I love water. Yeah.

Yeah. For a thing that sounds genuinely disgusting, nasty. Yeah. You think it's going to be like cloudy and I don't know, just be like IPA, but like mixed with water. But yeah, hop water is just like if LaCroix made a really good IPA water. Yeah. But yeah, hop water is just like, if LaCroix made a really good IPA flavor, LaCroix is essentially what it is. Yeah, so weird.

Yeah, it's really weird. Do you have a favorite? I recently had a new favorite, teeing you up to tee myself up. No, no, no, I want to hear what yours is. Tee myself up is your new podcast coming out this spring. Correct, correct, correct. Where I just ask leading self-serving questions. Um, tee myself up as your new podcast coming out this spring. Where I just ask leading self-serving questions.

The most miserable person in the world. So you've had a really interesting thing that I'm interested in. What do I think about you talking about that? I, you seem like someone with opinions on Nos up to because I've not seen it. Oh Yeah, I didn't get it at all What was that movie about? I really liked Sam Adams has this like hazy IPA thing that I tried the other night That was really good. But what is if I ask your comfortable? I don't know if you could If I may ask if you're comfortable sharing. I don't know if you could tell. I'm sorry.

OK, all right. Sam Adams is probably his next answer is going to be a Dunkin Donuts flavored IPA water. I think when I'm done with my bare knuckle boxing. Once the mustache wax is off your fingers. I know I was in fucking Atlanta for Christmas and I went to this Pub called I think the Porter something like that was fucking great

They had created crazy food there. They did Shrimp toast and it was like a real weird Lost in translation, but it was just these huge shrimps on pieces of toast You found in everything. Yeah. Yeah Well, yeah, it must have been but they were like whole like Georgia shrimp, which I guess is a thing, but oh my God, it was so good. Anyway, their non-alcoholic beer was by this company called Untitled Art. And their IPA was the closest to an IPA, I think, of the non-alcoholic beers.

I tend to be like on the watery side is more accurate. Like I think of like an NA Corona tastes exactly like a Corona, but for like the obvious reasons. But I think some of the hoppier ones, I'm like, is it that close? Anyway, fucking Untitled aren't so, so good. I'm pretty sure. I'm gonna give a like a Pop-timist, like mainstream answer.

I actually think the Heineken 0.0 tastes a lot like a Heineken. It's zero, like a lot of non-alcoholic beer like has some at like, it's like 0.5 alcohol or whatever. Like the Heineken is, has no alcohol, tastes like a Heineken. I feel like that one's actually not that. And is readily available. Yeah, and that one's actually not. Yeah. And is readily available.

Yeah. And that's also the most available one. So the Guinness tastes just like a Guinness because apparently just tastes like everything else besides alcohol anyway. Right. But how much how much Guinness can you really drink? Yeah. Fellow, before you move on to the harder stuff. I like my IPA is with viscosity, though. I like it, you know, like glop out a little bit, you know, just like I spill

it. I want like I'm crazy. I like it to be like somewhat watery, not as much a paste. My face gets red when I drink Guinness where like I get like only Only really? Yeah. Oh, that's interesting Guinness yeah, I am you're like you're like the like that just a rosy cheeks knock back a Guinness. Yeah Yeah, some sort of immunocompromised situation Like the look of it. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's me.

It's where all your protein in your diet comes from Guinness. It's just, yeah. What is it? You have enough. Yeah. Yeah. What is something Blake that you think is overrated? So I think overrated as a practice is street cleaning, like residential street cleaning in cities where I've never, first of all, I've never seen street cleaning happen and I go outside and look and like, wow, look how clean this street is.

Like they don't, nothing gets cleaned. And if you don't know what it is, like basically it's alternate street cleaning. So if you're in a city, they like, you're not allowed to park on a side of the street from X time to X time because allegedly a fucking sweeper truck comes by and cleans the street and you get ticketed

if you leave your car there. So I don't have a like a garage or a parking spot. So like I moved my car. And this also happened when I lived in LA too. Oh yeah. But it just seems to me like a shitty way for the city to get revenue with no benefit to people whatsoever in street cleaning so yeah there is an interesting where I saw in

Brooklyn there's this weird community thing that like neighborhoods will do where they'll double stack their cars on one side of the street so say like the right side is being cleaned street cleaning cars from the right side will just park next to the cars and trap them in on the left side of the street. But like, I guess people know each other and have each other's numbers where if they have to leave, it's a pretty elaborate system that I would imagine doesn't work. Yeah. That just stressed me out so much. My heart rate shot through the roof. Just hearing about that arrangement.

I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little bit like velociraptor rules for the non-tickettable side of the street on alternate side parking. Like yeah, fucking double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever the fuck people giving tickets It's like they can only see the side of the street where people were like you're not supposed to be parked And it's lawless on the other side Here yeah, all right. This is this is crazy Brian the editor has come through and

Described a situation that doesn't make any sense to me. Brian, the editor lives in Mexico City, in quotes. If you say so. Where they- Soon to be America City. Just get ready. Thank you. Yeah, whatever. But they employ people who need money, okay, weird, and give them a high vis vest and broom,

and then they just actually clean the streets every day. So like, where do you get the big machine that comes through and blows shit in your face if you happen to be there? I have seen the streets. It just sort of turns it. Yeah, I have seen the streets and just sort of the string thing. Yeah, it does. It just turns it out of the way into a different direction

because it makes it makes it's like, what if you only had a broom and no dust pan? Yeah, exactly. It's exactly what we created. A three hundred thousand dollar machine that was like a broom with no dust pan. And there's some water, I think think mixed in a little bit where like a Trash or tax it down. Yeah Change but not elimination is yes The leaves are moved. Yeah, but they are there right so many things could be fixed with just like we're gonna invent

400 jobs based on like talking to people in the city, like jobs that they think should exist and we're going to pay them well. Yeah. Yeah. One utility for those street cleaning things. I don't know if this is actually as true anymore in the era of 3D printing, but if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles from a street cleaning thing are some of the best in the biz as far as lock picking tools. How the fuck do you know that? And a walrus's mustache as well.

I want to add that in. But only at certain times of the month. You have to get it at certain times of the month, you have to get it at certain times of the month. Right after they molt. Yeah, it's the moment before they molt. So you can't get it unless you can make friends with a walrus right before they

molt off the lockpick thing. Editor Brian has in chat started on a path of proclamations that I'm worried are gonna become legally actionable so I'll just say he's he agrees so well that's amazing all right you guys are much cooler than me also the street cleaning thing I wasn't talking about you Blake the street cleaning thing is tie in with. I think what we're going to talk about with regards to the police, because it's like, how do we have just every what if the only tool you had was a hammer

and you had to make do every job with the blunt end of a hammer, a bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers via concussive force. And that's all you could do with them. They're not really designed for hammering anything. By the way, we don't have people who go out and street clean the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that goes around. And if you get in the fucking way, you have to deal with the cops. So, okay, a weird way to clean. That's our weird way to keep the streets clean. That's our society, I guess.

Yeah, we're cleaning up the streets. We're taking out the trash. No, we just like literally mean we want the streets to be clean. Oh, no, not literally trash. I'm so sorry. That trash stays, yes. It's called a metaphor, asshole. As Biden said, we can't all be pleased to be our teachers, our psychiatrists, our librarians,

our wives, our children. We don't need to defund the police. We need to fund them more. That was his argument for giving them more funding. Anyways, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the wildfires. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the wildfires. Hey, it's Nikki Glaser. I'm not here to roast you. I'm here to overshare everything that went down at the Golden Globes last Sunday.

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It's called Really No Really and you can find it on the iHeartRadio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And as mentioned up top, Miles is not here because of the wildfires. I'm going to give him space to talk about it when he gets back, but sending a lot of love and good energy to him and his family. But you know, we're our super producer Justin is out because you know,

his area has been without power for 48 hours. Just a lot of people dealing with a lot of shit. I've got somebody who's a good friend of mine who was evacuated who's staying with us right now. Andrew, it sounds like you've got some of that. Yeah. Coming your way. Yeah. And yeah, it just, it's, it's not one of those, like, I know a guy who has a friend who like this have impacted. It's like, every, everybody's like one degree of separation away from people who are losing

homes and you know, one degree of separation away from people who are losing homes. To the extent that there is any kind of silver lining to this, I want, well, I don't know. And I'm also going to say something that I'm not even totally sure is true, but I think this is the first like climate, major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of middle and upper middle class white people. Yeah. I think that's true. I mean, maybe there's some shit in the UK that is, but, or, you know, in the far eastern Australia. Yeah, flooding in like Germany and shit. Yeah. You know, this is certainly like, I don't know what sort of like change in political will this could possibly bring, but it is sort of that where it's

like, you know, you can't hide from this. Like, you know, as much as it's a result of us like, you know, exploiting the global south and people of color and poor people everywhere, it's like, yeah, but it's it's we're changing shit. And it's it's there's no protection from this really. Yeah. Yeah. I I mean I think that's right. Not that that feels good but that's the truth. Right it feels like we're in a you know the scale seems biblical like I feel like it needs to be biblical for like people to get their heads around what is happening and like the the amount of change that needs to happen. heads around what is happening and like the amount of change that needs to happen.

Um, but yeah, hopefully this is cutting across enough borders that there's political will to do something beyond the guy being like, Hey, does anybody know any private firefighters that could come through and save my house? Uh, well, Andrew rained on that parade for for me because I thought there were cool, like, you know, fire fighters coming about this during that. And look, I'm not saying I know for sure that there are not, but it's just a thing where it's like it's not from what I read about, like the private fire services that exist. It's not like a Uber for firefighters.

It's more like a Uber for firefighters. It's more like a service that you have worked with for years. Yeah, it's not a last second. You can't cram it as the fire is closing in on your home. You can't be like, yo. Firefighters. Oh yeah. I guess there's right. There are planes that you can hire,

but the general firefighting, I think is like part of like, you know, a service that you've had. I've heard it described as a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice. It's just like you're maintaining a house that can be saved in the event of a fire rather than just black water, but for firefighters. Right, Yeah.

I, that is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that is going to be made because of this tragedy that that is one outcome that I can foresee is like, uh, person facing down wildfire season. And they're like, we got to call in the Fizz or whatever. Just shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the news, sees fire. And then yeah, he's at Logan airport on a jet blue flight to LA. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week, but Victor, super producer Victor points out that if he was here, it wouldn't have gone down the way it was. Yeah. That's the shame of it. For fucking sure. He would have would have punched that fire right out. Yeah, but yeah, which is not to say that there's not like resources to be marshaled, but like the best way to spend, you know, this money is on things like taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los Angeles Fire Department or whatever

fire department you're in. Like it or not, we're all on some level in this together. Yes. I do just want to like firefighters. I think they come into the national spotlight every once in a while. And when they do, it's not like the cops where we're just like, wait, why the fuck do we have these guys anyway? Like, these guys? I didn't really like that.

These guys are fucking terrible. Like it's you kind of get reminded why everybody wants to fuck them and why. Like if you have to give a movie character a heroic job, you go with firefighter. Like give this guy a calendar. Yeah, yeah. Give me a call. I don't care what he looks like. Turn them into jack off material.

But there was, I don't care what he looks like. Turn them into jack off material. But there was a I don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of, you know, of just this story. But like there was the equivalent of an NBA like highlight. Oh, yeah. A fire helicopter just dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that was like spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was literally like everybody. It's fairly close to where we live and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit, like here comes the one that's going to end this. Yeah, I don't think this single handedly stopped it, but like a helicopter dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire and it just fucking went out.

Yeah, it's just the five. It was like swish from way down downtown. I was like, holy shit. Without getting too dark. I saw, I don't know, blue sky, I guess. The comment right underneath it was like, you know, various things that you could yell when you, when you make a great shot at basketball and someone was like, you know, that a pilot was yelling, Kobe and then people pointing out.

That's not a good thing for a helicopter pilot to be screaming in. I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter pilot. Oh my God, that's Mark Wahlberg. That's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird. Hey, you know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did. He's just kind of like a humble guy. But the helicopter is just a fancy drone.

So I just want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw a helicopter and I wanted to shoot it. The fuck is that thing doing up there? I started spinning at it. I was spinning at the sky. New Jersey people would be freaked out by LA, man. Just the Lord. The hell with all the fucking aliens.

So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage. You know, our kids are out of school. So we're just, you know, I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is awesome. Really? God. Yeah. But you know, glued to the fire but I see fire maps when I close my eyes now Yeah, the varying colors which Andrew you were pointing out before I have I do have a note for that

Listen, I understand fire watch app wonderful service people have been really enjoying it Watch duty watch I will say their UI Bright red, makes sense. Dark magenta-ish or dark pink, let's say. Fire warning. Yellow, fire, whatever the equivalent of tornado watches. It's like, be ready to be evacuated. Yeah.

But then they just have a, you're in a dry fire prone area and that's like a different shade of pink Yeah, which is very alarming and you know, i'll look at the map Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other one's orange. The point is the gradations of danger go from red dark pink Yellow and then least dangerous is light pink, which I think is bad ui on a personal level least dangerous is light pink, which I think is bad UI on a personal level. We all agree that it should be like yellow, orange, red and some like gradient in there. Right? Like that's my pitch.

That's where they're doing a great inherent. Yeah. They are doing a great job. Also like my eight year old is like addicted to that app now. Like he, oh, we're just, we were like, he's like scrolling it and like obsessed. Yeah. Yeah. One of the, it's different where in LA we had like an earthquake kit in our place. Cause I, I love for the listeners, I live in LA for 10 years and it's one of the only, it's the only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency kit basically. Yeah. Yeah. Like a go bag. Yeah, like a go bag, which isn't necessarily, you know, like there are obviously situations in other places where you could need that,

but I remember having like earthquake water, like we would always have like a case of water somewhere, and then we would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water, so we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah. It was replenishing. Is this something that you, like do you guys have earthquake kits?

Like I know like some of you have packed up. I was talking to you before. Yeah. Mine's not freshened up since the last time. I probably put in the big work to do it in 2020. Like I think my cube of water cannot possibly be good. I will say before that I did have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of water and being hung over in my late 20s early 30s. The fact that

I like drank my earthquake water really says something about America I think. But yeah I got the cube that's allegedly non non toxic, but there's just no way the cube's been there for like four years. It can't be good. Earthquake diet coke. 12 pack of diet coke for what lukewarm diet coke from the early 90s. Um, what is the cube is like a separate it's not just like a two gallon thing of arrow. Oh, I I mean it's it's separate. It's not just like a two gallon thing of arrow. Oh, I mean, it's it's shit. It's like a water container that someone recommended. That's like, you know, BPA.

Jack, it's like a square thick. You know what it is? Yeah, it's a square. Right. You can see a square. Everyone can see a square. OK, now what if you're a few squares came at you? Can't can't. Now you've lost. I'm going to tell you about spheres afterwards and you're going to flip out. Wait. So you're talking about like a third dimension. That's, I'm not, you know

what? That doesn't make sense. A lot of people would say that. Yeah. So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it just really drove home the thing we were talking about, uh, about the police, like the police are coming into this in a couple of ways. One, because people noticed that the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year. Like people who are defensive or hate the Republicans or like the Republicans are making this seem like they slashed the entire budget. It was a 2% budget cut, fine.

They also like massively increased the police budget as crime is going down and the fire, the danger of fire is going up. Um, and it's not specific politicians fault. It's the entire American apparatus that does this, but I was watching this press conference yesterday. It was like the Pasadena fire chief and then police chief. And just the rhythm of this press conference was so wild. Like they first half, it's the fire chief is just this weird little guy just answering

difficult questions. Like here's why it's spread here. The challenges we faced here are where it like we could have done better here. Here's what's still going on. Like ending his answers with like, did that answer your question? And like, seemed genuinely curious about whether it had like not a genius, nothing particularly noteworthy, just a person doing the job that they have at a difficult time when people like that job, not a public speaker in any

way. Then they give the next part of the press conference to the police chief and he like opens up like bragging about individual people that they had evacuated from their homes. Like just having to like just flex on everybody. And then started talking about, and he's like, and now we're moving into the problem solving situation where we're gonna deal with anybody who's looting and like starts seeding this like looting story.

By the way, could a better funded fire department have done the evacuations? Yeah. Who's to say? There's no way to know. The thing with like, we're watching the argument for defund the police. Literally, even if you're the most conservative, non-maniac possible who thinks we need some kind of police, most of the money that goes to the police is the least efficient way to

do those job descriptions. The non-fucking law enforcement allegedly side of things. We're like, what the fuck are you talking about? You got in, like the cops having five times more budget or more than the fire department, but talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus people trying to help communities. Exactly. There's several orders of magnitude in both the wrong direction. Like, so this is just a bad investment, you fucking business dickheads.

Like, explain that. Exactly. Well, the police, there are teachers, there are doctors, and there are firemen. Police are our firemen. Yes, exactly. There are doctors, there are wives. There are firemen. It's just expensive, least effective version of all those things. Yeah. Why would you want that? And then the second half of the police part was just the most you fired his gun in

the air. Essentially the verbal equivalent of firing his gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak about the possibility of looters where they're just like and we just got one message for you don't even try it we're now shifting into the safety operation where we will be on the lookout for looters make no mistake we will act decisively and with definitive kinetic means in the eventuality that we, you know, just like throwing all those fucking bullshit police words, any individual perpetrating such criminal activity. The fullest extent of the law. Yeah, exactly. Shit.

Not to invoke, you know, previous week's biggest story, but the biggest theft that will be occurring in Southern California will be on behalf of insurance companies who have already stolen tons of money and will not be paying out on things that they owe. That is my prediction. My prediction is that that they are going to be going bankrupt and it's gonna be up to the government to yeah Yeah, which I Don't know people will simply not be made whole on the things. They are absolutely owed which yes I feel like is likely anyway, and if you're thinking about theft Californians and the globe just remember the theft already happened. That's right And it's a bunch of guys in boardrooms. Two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting, I think. And by the way, they give themselves

a very wide latitude when determining something is looting. So someone picked a quarter up off the ground. And so they were looting the ground. Yes, we saw they're looting our city. The very foundation of our city is our grounds. It's our ground. That's true. Yeah. And that is true. And you can't, you can't deny that.

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Hey, smart voice. Hey, fucking smart over here. I went to SUNY Yonkers for one and a half years. A lot of great people out of the streaming system, man. I couldn't agree more. I'm just jealous, okay? New York has introduced a policy that seems to be aimed at overall improving

their infrastructure and quality of life while making business interests angry and making people less likely to drive cars. Anything that has anything to do with people's right to drive a car seems to be such a fucking just hot button issue. So the fact that this is happening seems like a minor miracle. The fact that it seems like a minor miracle is devastating. That that means that we're in a very bad place. I keep my guns in my car. So these are, this is a hot button.

Oh, you take away my car. You take away my. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you could, I mean, you could, you could get your, like, if you've replaced the water bottle rack on your bike, you could fit at least one get in there yeah and then maybe maybe turn the other bar into a shotgun yeah I'm thinking about it just thinking about it I keep a grenade in my tail which I know it's not a gun but it's still fun that's true and if it backs Yeah. That's true. All right. It's not secured in there. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Just rattling. I mean the pins in fine. Yeah.

So people taking cars into Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will now have to pay a toll up to nine dollars, uh, up to nine dollars. So that's, that's where we're maxing out. Um, this is the new congestion relief zone plan. It went into effect because a federal judge ruled against New Jersey's lawsuit to stop it and this makes New York the first city in the US to implement a congestion relief plan like this. There've been other plans in London that we've talked about before with admiration and like

couldn't happen here, especially during the pandemic when the cities like were nicer because they weren't just like choked with traffic and people were like, yeah, we're going to like actually close the street and just let it be like a pedestrian walkway where people can like walk around and you know have their blood pressure lower a little bit because they don't feel like they're about to get run down by a taxi and yeah they've gone back to that not being a thing and you know we've talked about like parking spots like getting rid of parking spots can be a good thing but But yeah, people will freak the fuck out and seem to be freaking the fuck out when it comes to this. There's the New York Post has just been keeping up a steady stream, just like the pressure

is unrelenting on this law. And like they blamed somebody like doing something violent on the subway on this I think They're just like this guy snapped probably because of congestion pricing. Mm-hmm Why I did that? Yeah. Oh shit Blake again It's listen. I come on Oh, by the way, I love Brian just, I love how people pay for a car insurance, gas parking, maintenance, and not $9. It's my approach to that is like, oh, like I order like a burger, fries, wings,

and then like a diet Coke with dinner. You know, I can't have the extra, I've already pushed myself to such a limit. I can't have this extra 150 calories or whatever. My one, so I agree, this is a good thing. The, you know how I'm Mr. Both Sides? Yeah. Oh yeah.

I love, and it's a term that I've really fell in love with in the past couple of years, but my Jersey complaint, my Jersey complaint is that public transit, and by the way, the goal of this is to make public transit better, obviously, and more like make that the default way of getting around obviously yeah and the issue currently I think why why why people are complaining there's some legitimacy to it is that the Holland Tunnel is like one of the main tunnels that go from North Jersey into New York and it shuts down at 11 PM during the week because of damage that

it sustained during like a hurricane from God knows how many years like maybe like six years ago or something. Maybe it was Sandy. I don't know which one. So that shuts down and then the it's called the path, which is the port of thought, like authority transit, whatever is the Jersey subway that takes you into New York and then that runs I believe every 40 minutes I think like after 11, so the problem is that or a problem So this is a good thing and then also separately a additional problem here. Yes that the Jersey public transit system is such a disaster that it's kind of fucked people where like this good thing that's happened has like started

to get negative feedback because of how bad the transit system is here so I don't have a solution to that and Hoboken's train station is also shutting down soon. Yeah I was gonna ask what is it it's like the the ferry the path trains and that's it, right? Yes, and then you could so when the Holland Tunnel shuts down at 11 sharp You would have to drive up from lower Manhattan to what is called the Lincoln Tunnel, which the whole rest of yeah The world is doing simultaneously. So That I think is a complaint. It's not a argument against congestion pricing I'm just adding like whatever the hell else is going on. Yeah Yeah, but can't I mean surely they can just up the frequency of the path trains also should do that

Yeah, yeah has midnight public transit just takes an hour. Yeah. That's life in New York, baby. It's life anywhere. Yeah. Like, like Boston anywhere. So I think that's the problem is that Jersey, I think has fucked itself. And then that's the problem. They're getting mad at congestion pricing. I think the issue is actually that New Jersey completely screwed itself over now. Has bad public transport. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, Jersey fucked itself is kind of the state model. It is on my life. We fucked ourselves. Hey, go fuck ourselves. Hey, tone. Do we fuck ourselves on this one? I think we've so it got damaged in such a way that it's okay to operate during daylight hours. They're repairing it at night. Oh, they're repairing it at night. Yes. Okay. That makes more sense. It's a good question. The question is still there where how bad, how badly does it need to be repaired? That you're shutting down one of the two major arteries into New York. And again, the city doesn't sleep. Yeah. I feel like the most American answer to this is

just, you know, we've all seen the Sylvester Stallone movie where the tunnel gets damaged daylight. Just, you know, the man up, there's going to be some heroes on when that thing eventually goes down and we'll all be fine. Yeah. My pitch we have city bikes. Why not have a city motorcycle, have a whole line of them in a ramp. Evil Knievel over the Hudson. We need a ramp and several ramps. We can't just have one ramp because then that'll bottleneck. So yeah, I think evil Knieveling over the

Hudson is the solution here. Yes. Into a tarp. 100%. Do they get parachutes on the way back or? You don't get charged going back into Jersey. That's free. percent. Do they get parachutes on the way back or you don't get charged going back into Jersey? All right. It is Girl Scout cookie season. Um, do you guys partake?

I haven't in a minute, but I did tease my favorite because I guess I've just been an old man since forever and I think they're no longer available but my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the fucking nearly flavorless shortbread one apparently I was wondering truffles the name is you dip it in anything or you just like so much milk it's basically what I do is I take any number of truffles and turn it into sort of like a paste with milk. I don't know why it's objectively gross. I understand that, but they are my actual factual favorite Girl Scout cookies.

I like like every time I have them in concept, I'm like, no, I don't fuck with those. Like, why would I get that instead of something with like chocolate on it? And yeah, yeah, some. Yeah, something. The formal delights are, I think, my favorite. But the trefoils really do hit like I only eat that one or two.

And I always enjoy the hell out of them. I think it is because we fought a war against those fucking tea drinking Brits to not have short bread in our in our life Yeah, they're fucking they're my favorite thin mints in the freezer. He had us going off on truffles Can I just yeah, yeah the producer? producer Victor is seconding

Completely lost it. And is saying, trefoil's got that savory butteriness. Why is that so funny to me? That's right. But also really surprisingly sweet. Like just a big, a big sugar punch, which is something that I'm always looking for in my, I don't want any sort of sweet. Like just a big sugar punch, which is something that I'm always looking for. I don't want any sort of sweet treat that is not going to make my teeth hurt a little bit. Jesus Christ. I'm sorry. I just saw that they were retiring their s'more cookies that were

so good. Yeah. So that's exactly where I want to go with this. They're retiring their s'more cookies that were so good. Yeah. So that's exactly where, where I want to go with this. They're retiring the smorgas with you. I I'm so bummed about this. The s'mores are of all the cookies. They don't seem like, like they seem, you know, they're just sandwich cookies. They don't seem like they would be that sweet, but they are so packed with sweetness and sugar. Like they're, oh, I love, I love those s'mores, so much cookies.

Um, and they're on their way out as well as the toast. Yay. That is crazy. The fuck is a toast? Yeah. I think it was introduced fairly recently or maybe I just found out about it. Like, wow, this show was the thing is the name of the toast. Yay has baffled me.

What is it? Like, it seems to be made by somebody who thinks that there is like, is it supposed to be toasty? But like it's toast. Yeah, it looks like a squid game cracker. Toast day. Yeah, it does look like a squid. Is it supposed to be a call and response like toast?

Yeah, yeah, but it's got a dash in between. So almost like it's a single word. That's an M dash. So it's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in delicious icing. God damn, that looks good. It's good. It's not bad.

I actually think the most overrated cookies, the ones that I wouldn't have been sad to see, the peanut butter patties I don't fuck with. They're like the chocolate covered ones with the peanut butter on the inside. I just think there's something off with the balance. I don't think it works. I think they were trying to dodge the Reese's pieces or the Reese's peanut

butter cup allegations. And they, they just, you know, Reese's Reese's is just holding down like a market ratio segment that is going to fuck anyone else's trying for chocolate and peanut butter. I think like the caramel delights, the thin mints, the trefoils, I think are all like goaded should just not touched as well as the s'mores. And the toastier is good. I just can't get my mind. I think they just need to take it away

and then reintroduce it with a name that doesn't like, on some unconscious level make me furious. I feel like other people might be that way too. Like what the fuck are you talking about? No, I'm not getting whatever that what are lemon ups? Lemon, lemonade, lemonade and lemon. No, no, excuse you. Lemon cookies.

There's two lemon. All right. This is what this is. I don't want to start this. I don't want to do that. I don't want to do this today. Jeez. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Back now. Get it out. There are two regional Girl Scout cookie makers that make different cookies. So thin mints in some places you'll get them and they are definitely like have a thick coating of chocolate around them. Others, they're just very thin like chocolate wafers with like, I think they have like some.

So much better. Yeah. Oh, there there is like a definitely a superior than it. Fuck. So East Coast, West Coast beef over West Coast beef over Girl Scout. Jesus. I'm scrolling down on this article. They're willing. And it does say the Girl Scouts of America said they were, quote, disappointed

about the, quote, unauthorized resales of a statement about cookies. There's fucking Girl Scout cookie scalpers, which is the fucking lowest possible thing you could be. Yeah. Crazy. Do you go, do they trail the Girl Scouts and like, Hey, you know, I know you just like made it, but just cancel your order. I got, I got that for like a better,, hey, you know, I know you just like made it, but just cancel your order. I got that for like a better price. You know, they're higher. I think it's more stock X.

It's like, oh, shit, they're sold out of sold out of. Oh, damn. Yo, you know what? What she just come through with. She just came through with the trefoils. That's all she's got left. That's crazy. She just come through with, she just came through with a truff oils. Uh, that's all she's got left. That's crazy.

Hey, for you to have to miss out on these caramel delights. Oh man. Anyway, all these looks so good. Blake, do you have a favorite? It's thin mints for sure in the freezer and it has to be for some reason it has to be in the freezer and cause it doesn't like get too hard to eat. It's just nice and chilled. It's great. Um, we'll get them from my niece, but she, she takes a while to get them to like,

I'll order them from her so she gets like the bump, you know, the financial. Yeah. Sure. And then I'll walk outside a store down around the corner and just get them so I can get the ones that you can actually have on when you want them. Yeah. When I want them, which is right now. Yeah. You should like send a, send a note to her Girl Scout leader about how she's, she's failing. In person. There's going to be no note. I'm going to kick the door. It's gotta be sort of like a Glen Gary,

Glen Ross situation where you're just fucking like school and these girls about actual sales, about being hungry, about closing deals. Yeah. It's fucking unacceptable. Exactly. You should fire them. My nephew just got a cop badge.

That's for a Boy Scouts. They give away Sergeant badges. They might actually, is that a thing? Boy Scouts? I mean, I went way too far in the Boy Scouts for someone with that is who I am. And I will just tell you that it is, I mean, it is for nerds, obviously,

even when I was coming up, but it is shockingly paramilitary in like, if you really get into it. Or you're like, ugh, fucking gross. Yeah, yeah. My kids are in Boy Scouts If you're really good at it, you're like, oh, fucking gross. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, my kids are in Boy Scouts and I am the leader of my six year old's troop. Yeah.

You're a man scout brother. That's what I like about you. Ours was like a fucking cop and then it's like super religious guy and then both. It's like horrible. Yeah. I was just like wanted to- Chris Coxson was my scout leader growing up. Chris Coxson?

No. Shout out to him. That age know, shut up. Damn. That age gap doesn't work. Amazing. Well, thank you guys for joining Blake. Wonderful having you as always. Thank you. Thank you for being so vulnerable about your Girl Scout cookie.

It's not a problem. Where can people find you follow you? All that good stuff. People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media, Blake Wexler.com. I have some stand updates coming up March 13th, Fort Collins, the comedy for it. And also, I mean, March 15th, I'm in Pasadena who gives a shit at this point, you know? And then April 4th to 5th, Sisyphus in Minneapolis.

Amazing. That's where I'm going to be. Yeah. Sounds like you're going to be a busy boy. That's where I'm gonna be. Yeah. Sounds like you're gonna be a busy boy. No, I'm gonna be a busy boy. I don't know why I said it like, I was Santa Claus. Sisyphus is such a great name for, I assume, a comedy club. Busy boy comedy, oh, Sisyphus.

Sisyphus, yeah. Busy boy comedy. And busy boy. It's not that bad, yeah. I mean, all the lines are sort of like male anyway. So, but yeah, Sisyphus, it's this cool brewery and that has a comedy club attached to it. It's a really cool spot in Minneapolis.

You got to roll up the hill. Yeah. They named it after our careers. Blake, is there work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah. Do you mind if I share it? Oh, I would love, I would love for that actually. Well, here it is.

That's crazy. I was just about to ask you that. That's see, we've finally synced up. Um, at we finally, after all these years, understand what another, uh, social posts, uh, at smiling, nodding on blue sky. Um, every new restaurant in a major city is either called thistle and thorn and things adding turmeric to Brussels sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called burger bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says, I'm going to fuck a hamburger. That's smiling, nodding.

Yeah, that's a good one. Uh, that really got me. Andrew, where can people find you? Is there work media you've been enjoying? I mean, yo, is this racist? Is my podcast? I will just say the only media I've consumed is this unbelievably hectic signal group called LA Fires Mutual Aid. I guess what I will say is please send resources to California. However, like many times of natural disaster, I think a lot of people's first instinct is like the big name brand things, the places like Red Cross or, you know, Planned Parenthood. And almost always, those are the least helpful places. They're already well funded, they are often politically compromised. And, you know, since it's possible to do your own research, truly do, like, look around,

figure out what you actually believe in, and you can send money directly to people easier than ever before. Do I have a specific one? I know Ktown for All's been doing a ton, but, you know, that's my own personal bias. Because this is only going to be happening more and more. The name brand

in national and international aid organizations tend to not be the best place to send your money. Yeah. So do your research. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack OB the number one tweet I've been enjoying. Mr. Mitch at 1-800-Ghostman. Tweeted, Bill Sarsgaard as Nosferatu voice. What is your wife's Instagram? And Zach Dunn tweeted, water isn't for putting out wildfires.

It's for powering a machine that lets me hear what it would sound like if Cartman read my grandpa's will Oh My god gotta cool those AI engines, baby What is that? Every time I see them draw a helicopter drop a bunch of water. Oh, that's so much server Yeah, so much server cooling that could have been done with that water. RIP to the real victims. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com. You can go to the episode, wherever you're listening to it right now, and check out the description of the episode and There you will find the footnote footnote, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode We also link off to a song. We think you might enjoy Brian the editor is there a song that you think people might enjoy?

Yeah, I think I got something. Okay. So, uh, this is a track from Slauson Malone one called King Sisyphus of the Atlantic from his album, A Quiet Farewell. And it's got this sort of psychedelic, lo-fi, almost like a po- what I would call like a post hip hop kind of sound that flips a classic soul sample and the song called Nothing I can do about it. I can't remember the band's name, but

he flips he flips the the soul sample in a really interesting way in six four time and Yeah Slauson Malone is just like a really exciting artist that makes very interesting music he just released his first album on warp records last year called Excelsior and Yeah, check it out King Sisyphus of the Atlantic by Slauson Malone one damn King Sisyphus of the Atlantic by Slauson Mal. We will link off to that in the footnotes. Footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcaster. Wherever you listen to your favorite shows,

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