The Daily Zeitgeist - A Bill Too Maher, Crystal Clear Class Warfare 09.15.23

Episode Date: September 15, 2023

In episode 1548, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, DeAnne Smith, to discuss… Touchin Base with the Out of Touch Billies, Bill Maher Bringing His Terrible Show Back To TV Despite Strike, Cup Noodles... Now With Caffeine and more! To Fight Inflation, the Fed Is Declaring a War on Workers The Original 'Avocado Toast' Millionaire Is Back, And He Wants 'Pain In the Economy' No, the Federal Reserve Hasn’t Brought Inflation Down Bill Maher Bringing His Terrible Show Back To TV Despite Strike Bill Maher slams screenwriters’ ‘kooky’ strike demands: ‘This is show business’ PART IV: SO WHAT'S THE REAL STORY? NBC Rejects WGA's Investigation Of Jay; SAG Urges Actors To Go On Dave & Craig Elon Musk Weighs in on Bill Maher's Return to Air Without Writers Cup Noodles... Now With Caffeine For the Love of God, Check Your Energy Drink Labels LISTEN: Cannock Chase by Labi SiffreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dirt Daily's iGuys Day, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it is Friday, September 15th Friday 2023 Do we have some national days to celebrate? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah First of all, it's the birthday of two princes

Harry and Miles That's right Also, it's National Double Cheeseburger Day It's National Online Learning Day It's National Neonatal Nurses Day Happy birthday, Harry and miles that's right so it's national double cheeseburger day it's national online learning day it's national neonatal nurses birthday harry exactly exactly thank you and i take that as me too uh national linguine day national tackle kids cancer day there's a lot tradesmen day shout out the tradies uh national cheese toast day national felt hat day pow am i right they're trying to overshadow you with all these i think that's the yeah it's it's a lot it's a lot but you know how

am i supposed to celebrate you and national felt hat day on the same at the same time you know my heart is only so big wear a felt birthday hat that's right how you doing man are you are you doing anything how you doing man eric roberts there for a second how you doing man you uh doing anything special though for your for your birthday i'm i'm notoriously like not i don't like a lot of i don't like attention on myself like in a like in a way that i have to plan it kind of thing yeah so when it's up to me i'm really fine with just like doing nothing but her majesty was like you gotta do fucking something so i was like i'll maybe have dinner or something like that but anyways shout out such an earth sign of you yeah sure i guess are you an earth sign i don't know i don't know what the things are

because uh the guy's child is an aquarius and i'm like oh yeah that's that's gotta be water and then her majesty's like nah it ain't and i'm like but it's got aqua in the fucking name like none of that shit makes sense so that's when like my shit is only limited to knowing like what time of year what season we are on thank you becca aquarius is air that is an airy sound uh well my name enough about you on your birthday enough move on my name is jack o'brien aka nasa has discovered a planet in space now. Let's go, baby. It's got a water ocean. Its air is filled with farts and it's bigger than Earth now.

Let's go, baby. It's got a water ocean. It takes 100 years for its light to get here. But baby, if we make it, we can breathe the fart air. So let's go. Let's go swim the water ocean with me. That is courtesy of Blinky Heck. Talking about that water ocean.

Yeah. NASA discovery of a planet. They can't stop talking about how it's got a water ocean. Yeah. I tell my coworkers one time that I'm going to the Atlantic water ocean on vacation and they accuse me of sounding like a robot, but I guess NASA can get away with it. Must be nice, NASA. When I saw that thing where it's like to the tune of Kylie Menard's Locomotion, I was like, I know the book. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know.

I don't know i'm but i'm guessing the melody matches up so i think we're good i think so yeah and i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host the birthday boy mr miles gray thank you so much it's miles gray aka you gotta stomp them all and kill them all here in the north the east you gotta spray them all here in the north, the east. You gotta spray them all with vinegar until they are deceased. Don't need no prayeration till the nation has got rid of these. Let's get exterminating lanternflies, invasive species. Okay, shout out to No Glue for that Mary J. Blige-inspired family affair. No clue for that Mary J. Blige-inspired family affair, because I didn't know about how New Yorkers are all, like, obligated to stomp the shit out of lanternflies and stuff.

On a mission. Yeah. On a mission of murder. Walking around the city with murder in their hearts. Like, armed with vinegar. Yeah, you got to keep that thing on your hip. So, shout out to the people who are doing their best to keep the invasive species out. Is that why we call them flicks? Because they flicker like light? I don't know. Anyways, their comedy has hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.

Their stand-up has been described as slick, silly brilliance. I watched the specials. Very much so. Their effortless charm lets them get away with murder is another quote. Although their bio firmly states they've not cashed in the getaway with murder chip. Maybe you should try it out. Yeah, I don't know. They have not gone ahead and murdered.

Except with those lantern flies. Yeah. Please welcome to the show, Deanne Smith! Yeah! Guys, hi. Let me tell you what. First of all, I've just met you. I feel like, and I love,

you're bringing kind of old school morning radio DJ energy to this experience. To this podcast. The way you guys are hype. I'm trying to, I got to catch up. I just noticed today my coffee was decaf, which is very disappointing. Do you buy decaf intentionally? I forgot it existed. So I forgot to like read about it. Oh, right. To read the label? Yeah. I was just like coffee.

And then I was like, gah. What's the process of even decaffeinating? Like, isn't it naturally there? Or like, it's not like it's like some synthetic. I don't know why I'm asking people who don't even indulge in it. So how do they decaffeinate coffee? I'm sure it's just some manner of horticulture. Some horticultural magician figured it out.

I had the thought. Wait, Beck is telling us. Oh, wow. Coming through. We're looking at the same Google thing right now. Yep. Warm and soaked in liquid to dissolve and remove the caffeine in one of four ways. Okay.

Wow. There it is. I had the thought this morning, am I secretly drinking decaf? Because I felt very tired even after I drank a little bit of coffee. But it eventually hit. I'm here. I'm up. I'm ready.

I'm up. I'm up, to quote Biggie at the beginning of California Love. There it is. Whoa. Cali? Great acting from christopher paul the best acting we've ever we've ever heard yeah where where are you coming to us from i am coming to you from brooklyn new york city hey all right so you're engaged in the war on the i am and it hurts my heart. They're very beautiful, these lanternflies.

That's what I hear. Yeah. Are you doing your duty as a Northeasterner to... A lot of times I am. I am just squashing them when I see them, but I got to admit, sometimes I just see them and I do let them live. Right.

You're like, you're not invading my space, so I don't know. It's rich of us as human beings to call them an invasive species, don't you think? They're not supposed to be here. Especially starting in Africa, and we're all over the fucking place now. Is anybody saying that we're invasive? I don't know. Maybe a conversation.

On the continent of North America, probably. Yeah, for sure. These fucking invasive species over here. Fuck. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Look, my mom immigrated here. My dad's family got a weird boat ride over here for a work exchange thing that didn't work out. I think it's called slave breed.

Work training. That's how the state of Florida would call it. Yeah. On the job training. All right. Deanne, we're thrilled to have you you we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about we're talking about uh we're going to touch touch base with the out of touch billies

the silly billy billionaires we'll talk about bill maher bringing his terrible tv show back to air despite the strike. A new technology in the realm of caffeination. We've got new caffeination technology. Caffeinated cup of noodles. Or cup noodles. Yeah. Which I've been calling it cup-o-noodles. I did not notice they dropped the O in 1993. It took me 30 years.

I noticed it on this morning's doc. No one says, I mean, it's funny because the original Japanese product has always been called cup noodle. And then they're like, we got to adapt that for American people. It's like, yeah, it's a cup of noodles. But I think from this point forward, people always call it Cup O' Noodles anyway because we don't read things. I thought it was Irish. I thought it was Cup O' Noodles with a parenthesis or apostrophe. We might even talk about the iPhone 12 being too radioactive for France.

Great news for me who's been carrying an iPhone 12 for the past three years. Same. I mean, it's perfect timing to be like, all right, I guess I get the new one since mine is radioactive. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. Anyways, all of that. Plenty more.

But first, DM, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Oh, my gosh. Okay. What is something from my search history oh my gosh okay what is something from my search history the two most recent i'm not sure if this paints me as i would like to be seen but the two most recent are aviation recipe um i was making cocktails at home okay uh and i can tell you more about that in a minute and tattoo infection i-oh. I see you got some ink. I got some ink. This is the freshest.

We got some stuff going on. Do you guys have tattoos? I have one, yes, that I got 17 years ago. It looks so sad now. You probably don't know about second skin, which is a type of bandage you can put on top it's clear and it's sticky on one side it goes right over the tattoo it smooths over your skin oh

you're meant to leave it there for a minute and it you know it helps it heal whatever i think my skin had a reaction to the adhesive of the second skin and it looks gnarly. But my Google search revealed as I suspected, I don't have a fever. It's not really painful. Etc. I think it's going to be fine. It's like irritated lightly. Oh, yeah. I wish I could show you.

Is it to the point where you're worried about the tattoo itself? Weird bumps. Wow, wow, wow. The tattoo itself seems to be fine. It's just. Oh, wow, wow, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, the tattoo itself seems to be fine. It's just kind of flaky. You know how it gets. Yeah.

But, you know, I tend to think every injury, every state is permanent. That's a problem that I have. I was like, I don't like how it looks. This is it forever now. I have that when I'm tired. I'm like, maybe this is it. Is this forever? Maybe I'm dying. Yeah, I guess this is tiny death. I think I'm down forever. Yeah. Miles, I'm very curious I'm like, maybe this is it. Is this forever? Maybe I'm dying. Yeah, I guess this is tiny death.

I think I'm down forever. Yeah. Miles, I'm very curious about your 17-year-old tattoo. What is it? It is of my favorite football club in London, Arsenal. And I got it. Folks, never go get matching or never go get tattoos with a romantic partner because it's it does somehow begin some kind of countdown sequence to oh really i didn't know that i didn't know it was one half of uh oh well like we both

went we both went and i was like this was in anticipation of going to london i was like oh my get it like i always like i've been such a fan for years before that and i got it and the person i was dating at the time got like some other tattoo in a similar location but we both went to the same artist and it was this whole thing most of the time people say don't get matching tattoos that's usually like that can be like superstitious i've seen that from i guess my own friend circle but yeah i got it and it's now just due to sun and just kind of like a lot of motion in my wrist it's just getting a little like blurry i feel like i have glaucoma when i look at it uh so you know might might need a bit of a touch up

you know yeah that happens to all tattoos yeah exactly exactly especially with stuff with like finer lines and things like that yeah you kind of lucked out in that it does not seem like one half of a a love romantic tattoo yeah yeah yeah it's not like this club yeah like half a heart when it's like oh where's the other half i'm like i don't know man but yeah oh the reason when you talked about your tattoo infection thing i thought there were like a bunch of viral tweets over like the last two weeks of people's horribly maintained fresh tattoos oh no someone had like letters like tattooed and they didn't take care of it and like the skin just started like peeling off as if it was like a stencil like of the words and i was like oh no like were you actually putting butter on it and like rubbing so it was anyway so i got worried for a second that it was something on that scale but yeah no i think it's

it's ultimately okay we you know google and just check it out yeah yeah it's not forever and wait what's the aviation so aviation is a gin cocktail and now that i have googled it and made it many times i can tell you exactly how to make it you're looking at two ounces of gin three-fourths ounce of lemon juice, one-half ounce of maraschino liqueur, quarter ounce of creme de violette, which gives it a nice little purple color, and then garnish with a cherry, and there you go. Gorgeous little gin drink.

Wait, is that because of, isn't Ryan Reynolds' gin company called Aviation? Yeah, and you know, I got to admit, it's subpar gin in an aviation. There are better gins to have in your aviation. Oh, so it's just like a term that's used around gin so it made sense to brand it as aviation. It's not like it comes from this specific company or something. No, no. I think it's a cocktail that exists and then he must have just named his gin company that.

I don't know. I don't know a lot about his moves. Yeah. Not many people do. Not many people do. But we buy the stuff anyway. I got a couple unofficial biographies I can recommend for you guys. On YouTube.

These are really grainy, man. There's something just like so classy feeling about the early days of commercial like that. It reminds me of like all the pictures in the like TWA lounge or, you know, like just old 1950s celebrities flying around on like giant prop jets. Oh, yeah. Like that's that's what I'm feeling with the aviation gin recipe yeah when they didn't have seat belts or anything either nah why are you smoking just smoking in the sky yeah there's like that restaurant in la that does that or like they reek they have like one of those old airliners that they like rehabbed yeah you can do like the twa experience it was originally called

aviation because that was the customary thing to make for your pilot after takeoff you wanted to make it get him a couple wait really i'd believe that i am i'm believing it as well you really you really had like the narration your face just went no You have the narration voice of just reading straight off Wikipedia. I absolutely believe that. He flies better when he's a little bit drunk. Yeah. I mean, the 50s, anything. I would believe anything.

It's like, give him that drink. Let him goose a couple of stewardesses. That's right. What's wrong with a little goosing? Please use the technical term because that's a little too euphemistic mr pilot i don't even know that i knew that term until just right now goose yeah what uh what's something you think is overrated overrated capitalism we know it everybody knows it not on this podcast of living in this system

okay we're huge fans but okay tell us what's wrong with capitalism i guess i don't know just the way i guess it exploits human beings animals nature is destroying the planet is is grinding us all crushing us all Yeah. Completely anti-democratic, unequal. Now listen, do I have a solution? Not quite. Not exactly. I'm halfway there. I will tell you what's overrated.

Any move away from it is, I think, a solution. Yeah, what are we doing? Is it capitalism? Yes. Then don't do that. Giving me hip skin cancer, presumably, for my iPhone 12. Absolutely. You got to do what I did. You got to skip from the 10 straight to the 14. You got to get on your ex's family plan and ingratiate yourself to her parents and just stay there. Wow, what a move.

10 to 14. I mean, I'm about to go 12 to 15, but maybe I should wait. That's it's three years. Feels like a long time to wait. And I was kind of taking pride in the fact that I've waited so long to upgrade. And it turns out the only thing that that has got me is like excess radiation. Okay. Counterpoint. Stay with the longer, more radiation.

What powers might you accrue? Exactly cool things might happen yeah just a lot of unwanted body hair like on your hip like from where your pocket is probably a real tuft of hair here this won't go away or in my case just like a perfect rectangle of no hair because oh right like everything else is hairy but just uh yeah weird what's wrong with you that's where you'll get your matching tattoo a little bit i know i am what i am wondering on the tattoo thing is 43 too old to get your first no no not at all that's a perfect time actually you've lived so much life you know what you like your body's in the second half quite frankly like you're you're committing but not for so long yeah yeah exactly less it'll look good in like 20 years still you know right like versus like a lot of tattoos you get when you're young and then you start being

like i gotta kind of maintain some of these or they just end up looking like old sailor energy yeah exactly what's i think what's exciting about that is you could go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I mean, I started at 18. I was getting little tiny stuff, piecing it together, you know, little stickery type of stuff. You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting the chest tattooed. Whatever. Yeah.

Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck, Phoenix back tat. Phoenix back tat. Have you seen that, Deanne? I don't think I have. Ben Affleck has the wildest phoenix back tattoo. I'll bring it up.

Have you ever seen the movie poster for the film Red Dragon? Oh my goodness. I couldn't imagine that it would be good. And it isn't. It's terrible. I mean, it's not great. Absolutely. But it is

better than I thought it might be. It looks like it's cracking a little bit in places for some reason. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I think they could be like part of the design. I think there must be some. Yeah, because it seems like consistently going through. But hey, look, he's a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Listen, I'm I'm body positive and i will say there's something about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top yeah yeah it's a beautiful thing also does making fun of people's tattoos count as being not body positive listen i think now that it's i think at the end of the day, all tattoos, and I have a bunch, actually look kind of stupid. Like, they're all kind of bad. There's really no such thing as like a great tattoo. They're still fun to get, I think. And it's like a fun way to decorate your body.

But I think, yeah, I think we got to make fun of tattoos. We got to make fun of our own tattoos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not to say that they're bad, but let's have fun. Look, we put a bunch of needles in. This is going to be flaky. Yeah, I'm going to show you my most recent tattoo. tattoos yeah yeah yeah not to say that they're bad but let's have fun we look this is gonna be flaky yeah i'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo i got this in my 40s you guys it looks like it came it looks like i'm a huge fan of jam bands and i got it in the 90s when i was like 19 i i just let the artist do what he wanted and then i was like i don don't love it. It's brand new. It's brand new.

This mushroom here. Oh, wow. There you go. Mushrooms are definitely having a moment. Mushrooms are having a moment for sure. Mushrooms are all right. But there's so many more, let's say, beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age. Whatever is going on.

Yeah. Blacklight poster. Thank you. And it's like, is this my personality? Not really, but people are going to think so now and whatever. You have to adopt a mushroomy kind of vibe. Yeah. You got that psilocybin on you. I mean, to be fair, I have weaned myself off antidepressants. That is my mental health care plan is to just do mushrooms like every three months in the woods. There you go.

Yeah. Yeah. There are benefits. There are proven benefits. So you're not you're not far off. You're not far off. You guys micro dosing you macro dosing. I do it all.

Yeah, I do it all. Micro to macro, but mostly micro because that's been the I've I've I. Yeah, it it it's been like wonderful. But even like for like socially on the weekends, like where I used to maybe like want to drink a ton or like do shit like that. I've, I've found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibing. Oh, I like that idea. I've never, I have never experienced it in that way. Yeah. Yeah.

Like knock her before beer. Never fear. Little psilocybin gets Yeah. Yeah. Like knock her before beer. Never fear. Little psilocybin gets you vibing. You know that. There you go. But you don't go quite, you go a little bit over, you know, like what a micro dose would be and, but not enough to go like, you know, asking like, is this forever? Yeah.

Yeah. I did not get to it for this is, is this forever place. But last time that I did mushrooms, like a month or so ago, I definitely found myself wrapped in my hammock in the woods, weeping, but in a cleansing way, like an inside shower. reborn yeah into the world which is great that's one of the one of the things that capitalism doesn't afford us is like that that we're probably missing most as people is just like a good cry wrapped in the woods i feel like yeah probably before everyone was keeping track of your time and stuff like that people were spending you know 20 of their time just weeping yeah just get it get it so what are you saying should i start a wellness retreat in the woods i think i'm doing it i'm charging 999 yeah exactly

just capitalism just immediately eats everything right right right and they're like i trust the and they got the mushroom tattoo oh no i am committed to the lifestyle now. Yeah, look, you could easily grift with that tattoo for sure over someone who's a little overly trusting. Oh, man, I don't even remember. Have we done underrated yet? No. Oh, we have not.

That's how good this overrated and underrated and search history has been. I forget where we are. What is, Deanne, something you think is underrated? Okay. This is something I firmly believe. I'm very interested in your take on it. Aging is underrated. I think. Yes. Okay. Great. Great. It's actually secretly the best. Yeah. Yeah. I've done this thing where as I approach 40, I just turned 39. As I approach 40, I'm like always questioning, I'm like, do I feel too young for my measurable age? Like I've had this thing in my mind where I was like, I thought like, I'm going to be all fucking dead and shit,

but it's more like not feel like I'm still very like exuberant and have like that sort of same like, like appetite for life that I did 10 years ago. And then along with that, the calm that comes with life experience and being able to be honest about your feelings and doing that kind of self-work and becoming more self-aware gives me such a greater appreciation for how I live than I ever could when I was completely carefree in my 20s so yeah I've I've only loved the progression of time at least from my corporal experience yeah this is this is absolutely it uh where do you weigh in on this Jack I yeah I talk about this a lot that like

physically you kind of know how to do stuff more like weirdly so like I actually feel like I'm getting better like there are definitely the aches and actually feel like i'm getting better like there are definitely the aches and pains but like i'm getting better at like tennis even though i don't like play much tennis like i just like know how to do stuff with my hands better mentally you know how to you know what you like get to read books like they i mean they've done studies like measurably happiness goes up as you as you age but they're i think i think capitalism likes to likes the myth that you're you know you need something you gotta like you need to like live it up as a youth because this is as good as it gets and likes to keep us frenzied and stupid in our youth yeah that's what yeah yeah that's why i have like

this sort of perceptual thing i have to get over where i'm like oh i'm x age like i should wear more long pants or something rather than shorts or like sandals and i'm like i'm just gonna continue like living in my happiness no matter what what, however old I am on paper. But it is weird that like all the time I'm like, do I am I like acting right for my age? But I'm like, what the fuck concept am I even trying to subscribe to here? Like in terms rather than just being like it's some life is something you experience. And the thing that you have to center is like your own like happiness and well-being and don't be a piece of shit to other people and as long as you're doing that wear your fucking basketball shorts and sandals to trader joe's

the gen z's the youngers i don't know what that next level younger is they might make fun of they might make fun of the middle-aged man in his shorts at the trader joe's they do and they do that's their right exactly and i and to me i'm like it's like part of nature and i'm like thank you young ones for chirping at me like this motherfucker washed his shit and i'm like thank you i'm comfortable i was just talking about i i think this that there's an interesting possibility that like you you know there's a thing called the Flynn effect that says that each subsequent generation is smarter than the one that comes before it. They're a little bit faster. Old people seem slow because they are a little bit slower because they're from a slower generation where everything was slower.

So maybe that's why it looks to be not as fun because things are being written. The thinking and a lot of the communication is being done by young people. But as long as you're okay with that and you're not going, kicking, and screaming and being like, fuck fuck you you're dumber than me you're wrong it is the kids that are wrong then like in terms of your actual happiness

like as long as long as you're willing to admit like kids are smart and like they'll they'll be fine without you yeah they'll do better without you, then you're going to be all right. And it actually does, living your life actually does get easier and more fun. It really does. And I'm realizing I want to tell you a very quick antidote about my grandma who has now passed. She passed at the age of 97. But when she was about 95, she was an incredible role model for aging and staying vital and young young she had so many friends she had more social plans than i do and she lived in tennessee she lived alone and i was visiting her after a gig one time i came back to her house pretty late it was like i don't know maybe midnight i think it was after midnight and i walked in the front door and she she greeted me at the door she's like so

tiny and her little long white nightgown and i was like oh I'm sorry Graham did I wake you up and she was like no I was just watching Breaking Bad and then she shuffled back and we stayed up till like 2 in the morning just watching Breaking Bad like she loved that shit and that was like when she was 95 years old cause you can cause you don't have a bedtime

you can watch Breaking Bad all fucking night yeah who's gonna tell me who's gonna check me I think she was both scandalized and probably had a little crush on Walter White. Oh, okay. No, I get that. I get that. But yeah, and I think to your point, Jack, of looking at older generations, my concept

of an older person would be like my grandparents who lived a very difficult life being born in the late 20s 30s and you're like damn like you can you can just tell what that life did to them and you can see how technology sort of lightens that physical burden because people look like are looking younger and younger as they age just because of our all of our technological advancements but yeah to that end like i would always be like oh man like I going to have to just wear like leather woven sandals and walk real slow rather than just, you know,

figuring out what your own thing is and not having that sort of, not having to be sort of live comparatively and trying to make sense of that through comparison. I think that's the big thing. And we are going to have to wear leather woven sandals and walk real slow, But you just have to. Sounds great.

Yeah. Please. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some elderly folks who aren't doing so well with being out of touch. We'll be right back. of touch. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture.

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guy just went into hiding but he's back with a with an even shittier take um uh he basically i'm just gonna play this guy's clip. He's at a business conference and he's basically saying out loud the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking. I think the problem that we've had is that we've, you know, we have people decided they didn't really want to work so much anymore through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity. You know, they have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change. We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the

economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer not the other way around i mean there is a there's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them um as opposed to the other way around so it's a dynamic that has to change we've got so he goes on to say we gotta kill that we gotta kill that attitude like i'm sorry wow what i was wondering earlier you said something about tradies and i was like what does that trade so now it trades people yeah yeah yeah he seems cool and like uh he's in touch and just looking out for the common man yeah what a monster holy shit i mean but this is the kind of thing we've seen this way of thinking play out in our own economy, like with the Federal Reserve, as they try to, quote, tackle inflation, which is really diluting worker power. And Fed chair and private equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation.

Tom Powell gave this very euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation. When he said basically over the past few weeks, he said fixing inflation will, quote, require a sustained period of below trend growth and some softening of labor market conditions. And as he put it, quote, by reducing hiring demand, that would give us a chance to get inflation down, get wages down, and then get inflation down. So he means people need to get kicked in the teeth in the labor market so they'll take lower wages. Because the thinking here is that higher interest rates mean companies can borrow less and to still make profits, they have to lay people off, as we've seen this happen over the course of the year.

And if more people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and then presumably lower the cost of their goods, allegedly. That's the concept that they point to. But all of the research shows that the wages are not driving inflation, despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep this narrative going. It's like, we got to pay these people so much now

that I don't know what to do except price gouge the customer it's everybody knows it's supply chain issues it's a rising energy costs a fucking housing crisis and profit hoarding by corporations that's what it is yeah so we're just sort of caught in this like very like they're really trying to like say these things out loud he's now that guy who just spoke tim gurner he's like oh sorry about that didn't mean to kind of a hot take from me it's just oh really he apologized for saying wow it's it's a very it's like kind of yeah i don't know and also the thing about him he's also a millennial the the avocado toast guy so he was just trying to be like as a millennial that's figured it out to my fellow millennials, lay off the avocado toast, will you?

Yeah. I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most laid back, chill people. And I've been there a bunch. Their avocado toast is super expensive.

But that's because in part, they are actually paying, like cafe workers make like $25 an hour. You don't tip over there. It's just not part of the system. Because for the most part, people are making a living wage. This guy, he's the antithesis

of everything I know about Australians. That's all. Yeah, he's the least chill Aussie I know. I don't know why he can't just be vibing with some psilocybin. Yeah, vibe with psilocybe, bro. Let everybody have enough. I wonder what kind of revelation he would have on a mushroom trip, though. I feel like he is.

I know a lot. There's like a lot of Silicon Valley people and people like that who do take psychedelics. And I think that they do show the limitation of that because it can be just like bent to whatever is of interest in your interests. Yeah. I don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's going on with that guy. Yeah. Whatever the fuck. Just abject greed.

Yeah. yeah whatever the fuck just abject greed yeah the the story and ones like it always frustrate me because i will be like it really seems like the reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices and that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages to go with the prices and then when they have to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices on the things we have to buy, but not paying us anymore, when they talk about that, they say that it's actually, we have it too good. And when I say that, like every once in a while, like somebody will be come in, like in the discord or something, they'll be like, actually, I'm an economist and your understanding of this is ass backwards.

And it's actually market forces that are like forcing this shit. Like and I just I don't know, like maybe maybe I'm missing some large piece of the puzzle, but it really feels like the whole idea of economics and all of this shit is just like noise that has been utilized to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of like a very few and we have this thing where like now all of the economic indicators are telling us like things are good guys we we should be happy but nobody's happy because things aren't actually good for anyone except them right so it's it's just very frustrating it feels like it's like an attack on like the very like i don't know they've done this thing like what like capitalism is overrated in the sense that it's like not a good way to run the world but i think it's underrated in how just like

persistent and all-encompassing and brilliant it is and like this is just an one of those ways that it like invades language it attacks meaning you know it attacks our ability to create meaning and even fucking like talk about what is happening around us right in a way that is really frustrating and deflating and i think is the real reason that it's like so hard to get any sort of revolution like going is because my god it's just so fucking complicated and capitalism you know we can work hard capitalism works harder but yeah you know i am so glad you brought up revolution i didn't want to have to say it uh don't want to i don't want to have to say it needs to be violent but i will say it's all these people seem to respond to in terms of i don't know that it has to be so complicated

what freaks me out and i'm taking this conversation completely sideways but what freaks me out is how capitalism has kind of eaten our modes of communication or how i don't even this is these are new ideas and i'm saying them out loud for the first time i'm just feeling empowered on this podcast um where you know we're all we're all hooked into the internet and we're not in control of that that can that can be censored and taken away from us at any time i really think yeah we got to get out there we got to be we got to get in the communities we got to be talking to each other coming up with alternate modes of communication and we do actually have to get this revolution going and we need to scare the fuck out of these people but they're just going to be like then i'll just go deeper into the core of the earth

in my bunker and hide absolutely no they all have bunkers in new zealand yeah exactly uh but like this is just like this perspective of the ruling class like like market forces are not right. Like this idea that like workers should be grateful that they're paid sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck off to a tropical Island. No, that doesn't fucking square with me. And not a single one of these mutant fuck jobs would ever dare say that maybe they are the ones should take a hit to their fucking wages. Never. Do you think you're a million times better and like smarter than us because you have a million times more money than

right any any of us have you have oh i'm sorry you million times you know how to assemble this fucking automobile right go ahead asshole get on the fucking line yeah you're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself because you know what the fuck you're doing because you, you know, laughed your way up to the top because of the class that you come from or the place you were able to climb to. And I think that's what's really like, I think that's what's really fucked up is that there's this continuation. If you're just watching like CNN or some shit where they're never going to be like, I mean, maybe one, maybe one like side commentator might be like, well, why don't CEOs make less? Like,

why, why are we not asking someone who makes $25 million a year? Can they, they'll say that, but they'll treat it like it's a childish complaint. Yeah, no, exactly.

And because the whole, because what they're saying is the whole game is that you should aspire to get to that point. You don't want to stay at this low point because that's for that's like that's the worst. And we're not interested in making the lives better for people who have to work like wage jobs or whatever. And it's just the yeah. And I think that's the part that a lot of people, they just feel that inherent unfairness of it all. And then you get people like Larry Sum summers who just like second that from like a tropical island and he's like yeah yeah it's like the workers need to like pipe down like this

is wild yeah all right uh let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about what what a great comedian bill maher is and how much we're looking forward to seeing him just without the writers, without those writers getting in the way of his hilarious hot takes. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine

that is guaranteed to light up your day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with dancer, actor, host of Dancing with the Stars, and now novelist, Julianne Hough. I feel really whole. I feel like the last few years, I've really unraveled a lot, which is part of what this book is about. And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back we're back and all right so bill maher is feeling empowered by how

drew barrymore brought her show back and everyone was just like, all right, it's cool. We're good. Oh, wait, no, that didn't happen. It went really badly. He's like said some horrible shit about the writer's strike and like how writer's demands are kooky.

And I think, you know, received a bunch of criticism that he should have listened to. But instead, i think he got his feelings hurt for being criticized and is now um was just like well fuck it i'll do i'll do this show right without the writers because he said that he well he's defending his decision by stating writers are not the only people with issues problems and concerns yeah i like that i think is he doing the same thing about just trying to swap out writers to

be like i'm concerned about the people who are like working on the stage and things like that because you see there is a i mean like you know i know people that are niazi who are in solidarity with sag and the wga and i know like that's how labor action works yeah this is how but this is also like the very convenient like rationale they use like well i do care about people these other people and and i'm not trying to undermine what's happening with these other labor unions but we did we see it bill we see we see what you're doing yeah i just i asked zeitgang like some brave zeitgang member watch watch this what watch what it looks like like i can't do it i can't watch his show when he comes back can't even watch it with writers i'm sorry i didn't even know he had a show anymore to be honest it's so bad it's so fucking bad but the only time you like get an unguarded moment from him is like suddenly he'll like get defensive and be like oh come on why are

you guys laughing i mean really like that's like his whole energy so like i'm just what the fuck is that show going to be i mean it's gonna probably be like scab writers but like also he's just so aggressively unfunny and shitty he's he's been just smarming and mugging and smirking at the camera for years so he can keep doing that without writers for sure yeah he could probably just yeah i feel like the whole show could just be him scoffing at like just little noises coming out of him. Really? Wages? Kooky. It's kooky. Healthcare? The WGA called the move disappointing because they

apparently had higher expectations for Bill Maher than the rest of the world but said that Maher is a WGA member and therefore cannot perform any writing services himself. So he's not even going to be able to write his own jokes we're going to have to watch him try and act like he's making the stuff up off the off the cuff right i like how he's like i won't do a monologue okay

to honor the spirit of the strike because i couldn't improvise one if i fucking tried but i wonder i wonder do you think he's like secretly like fuck man get some scabs in here or do you think his ego is big enough he's like i don't fucking need writers to do my shit watch this like what version do you think we're getting that he's truly i'm going ego i just i just feel that from ego yeah then rather than going the scab route. Yeah, I think he's probably been shielded for long enough by his career, his wealth, and the people around him that he thinks he's actually funny enough to pull this off. What is the structure of the show?

So, okay, he doesn't do a monologue. What is it? New rule. New rule. what is it and how can you rule okay i mean it'll probably just be having guests on and then but then he'll probably not have a single get like because you know he'll he'll have like all kinds of i'm new rule babes should let me hug them i mean i have a feeling he's just gonna have you know like he'll have his round table of talking heads but probably not a single person who would point out how absurd it is for him to

bring the show back and go completely against the strike so i'm sure he'll have like you know james carville on or something and like some other stand-up comedian who had recently been canceled so they can be like i don't understand why they want all these new wages and that'll just be the show and they can just agree with each other that they're not bad yeah the hack comedians are eating right now man they're david spade and snake oil like that show i don't know maybe he's not a hack i haven't been up on his i haven't been watching his stand-up lately but he's like the inside of a bill maher babushka doll really like i didn't realize how much these people had in common until just right now but yeah there are these kind of yeah diminishing versions of the same guy.

Right, right, right. Yeah, because Snake Oil comes out, yeah, it's like in the middle of the strike and won't need writers, I guess, because it's all going to be the genius of David. Is it cake, but for everything else? Is it business? Is it business? I didn't realize Jay Leno came back during the strike in 2007, 2008, and performed monologues that he claimed to have written himself. Again, even though he was himself a guild member. But there were, of course, rumors that he had help and the WGA considered investigating his authorship. But then, ultimately, he got out of it.

he got got out of it elon musk chimed in and suggested that mar should share some share more clips of his strike breaking show on x so he's got all the good guys yeah it's it is really like interesting that they're all just lining up with one another so yeah all the worst pieces of shit they're trying so hard i mean i don't know i wonder what the next because you know someone else is going to feel emboldened now right yeah bill maher is doing it i wonder who the next person is and i just i don't know if it's gonna everyone's gonna be like oh well i see that one i get that i think most people or at least from people that have any sort of interest in the strike, I think most people are just going to be like, this is fucking nonsense. Like, go ahead. seen her show but i would have to assume that it's like her out there just like giving off drew barrymore vibes like and that's kind of what a lot of the show is but bill maher is like

he he shed all every last piece of talent and you know relevance from his body like in the early 90s i feel like there's there's no way this isn't going to be a complete disaster yeah i mean i i bet without writers it's probably just going to be like just unrestrained islamophobia which is one of his other loves when he gets to talking like i mean that's basically what it is out there yeah right so yeah prepare for an even more unadulterated version of that that sounds like it could be a title of his new show as well. Like, it just has that feeling. Unrestrained Islamophobia.

Yeah. I'm curious now, unfortunately. I feel like I didn't even know he still had a show, and I want to take a peek at this absolute disaster. Yeah, I am intrigued. It's going to be interesting. But you just said you couldn't do it, Jack. Save yourself yeah you know i want to hurt myself you know oh all right well you know clips will be on uh like pleasure spiked with pain it'll be on x formerly known as twitter

those clips uh this fucking newsweek article about this was like you Elon Musk told his more than 10 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, that, well, I just like, I don't know. I'm still not allowing that. I will not allow it. Like, just say Twitter. You don't need to call it X just because he's calling it X. Like, it's confusing. It's wasted energy. It's wasted words. Are they worried that they'll get sued by Elon Musk? Or do they think that like, is that part of their style guide? It,

it, it seems like it was like a, just across the board decision to call it like now start saying X formerly known as Twitter. And it's so dumb. It's so dumb. He gets mad, dude.

I forget what I wish I could remember half the tweets I read. But someone was like, yeah, it's really rich that the guy who's always into dead naming is suddenly being like, don't call it Twitter anymore. Right. It's X. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We don't need to buy into this guy's delusion collectively.

We can just call it Twitter. Is that something you can be sued over? I can't imagine. I don't know. It doesn't seem like it feels like the corporate media has at least all been like okay so this is actually what we have to do because we're serious people yeah and elon musk told us we have to even though yeah you can still go to twitter.com so yes which one is it? Is it Uchi Wally or is it one mic? It's X.com. Yeah, it's X.com. Did they say X?

They just called it X. So fucking weird. Followers on X. What? It's like a placeholder. 10 million followers are on X, man. Yeah. And they can't stop grinding their teeth. That's right.

All right. It feels like a particularly dark dating app. Sorry. Right. The logo, right. Well, in a little bit, particularly dark dating app. Sorry. Just had this. Right. The logo, everything about it. X.

Yeah. Find your next X on X. It's very, yeah, it looks unprofessional. It looks like shit. Yeah. But he's been trying to,

he's been trying to name something X for so long. In addition to his child. You're right. You're right. Right. But like he wanted to name PayPal X, I think, back in the day. And they were like, what? No.

And then he's just gotten so rich that now all the people who could say what no to him are like, well, all right, I guess I'm fired. There's space X. There's a Model X Tesla. Everything's just X'd out. We get it, man. It's 98. I think it's quite a cool letter, actually. I'm sorry. Did someone say 98?

Hey! You're vibing with the psilocybin, though. I had to show that mushroom tattoo. That's right. Alright. And finally, in a bit of good news, Cup Noodles, now with caffeine i think we don't need to say anything beyond that yeah only in japan though only in japan yeah where you know

dehydrated noodles are the fuel source of many people who like to play video games non-stop it's a it's a kind of like a trope, like single guys, like their apartment is just filled with like empty cup noodle containers. It's like the easiest way to feed yourself. So just as a Japanese person, it makes sense to be like, dude, throw some fucking caffeine in that shit now. And now we can get them to do it. It just does it all now for people who just want to not have to move too far. If you don't, if you're sick of energy drinks that don't taste like curry and pork, you know, this product is for you. Yeah, yeah.

Are there other foods that are caffeinated? There's a type of chocolate called Wake with a little owl on it. Right, right, right. But I guess not like, they're like coming to fucking jimmy johns for our caffeinated footlongs or something like that yeah i mean this wide awake hamburger who doesn't want to chew an energy drink i mean it's honestly the perfect thing yeah get your jaw working while your heart starts pumping yeah yeah yeah i don't know the the this story will just go down for me as the moment that i realized they dropped the o that's the first time i noticed it i don't know why i

finally noticed it we've done stories about their pumpkin spice cup noodles we've done stories about their offbeat breakfast cup noodles maybe i have realized it before but it didn't stick ah so no yeah i was i ate a lot of maruchan instant lunch more than a cup of noodles oh yeah you know that chicken one that was that was like for a while i remember i just told my mom i was like that's all i need to eat like that's all i need to get at the store like i'll just eat that because it's i just have to pour hot water on and i'm good there's nothing like a flavor pack i could use more flavor packs in my life now that i'm yeah right do they just sell loose flavor packets of like instant ramen crunched up incredible yeah just give me that i'll just put that on fucking everything my popcorn and shit

oh yeah new business side, new rules. Cigarettes and ramen flavor packets for a nice way to pep up your movie popcorn, folks. This is the kind of shit you're going to get without writers. That's right. Well, Deanne, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Yeah, thank you. Just Google Deanne Smith. You'll find something listen my online

presence is chaotic uh i have a new album out on 800 pound gorilla it's called chawini in a tank top which is also my gender identity and you must respect it and uh i prepared for this like i've never prepared for anything so hard hard in my life so I'm going to tell you cities you can find me at soon. Toronto, September 21st to 23rd. Toronto, Portland, September 30th. Seattle, October 6th and 7th. And those are the most recent ones coming up. All right. Amazing.

Chiweenie is a chihuahua and a wiener dog? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure the visual was was clear to everybody we need to take that it's part of a larger riff about yeah you know i don't know being a they that whatever who cares none of the words are right call me anything you want amazing and is there a work of media that you've been enjoying oh my gosh yes um so i'm about a chapter away from finishing the book hysterical the last The last name is Basist. I don't know how to pronounce the first name. E-L-I-S-S-A. Eliza? Alyssa? Alyssa Basist? It's a memoir called Hysterical, and it's just so freaking good. It's really about her personal struggles with health and silencing her own voice. And then it's just really smart and goes into just all sorts of things like women's literature and history and health care.

And it made me feel smart reading it. And it does not make me feel smart trying to summarize it. Those are the best ones. Hysterical by basis. It's really good. Yeah. Amazing. And miles,

where can people find you? What's the work media you've been enjoying? Oh yeah. Yeah. Find me, uh, Twitter, uh,

the, all the places, basically miles of gray at miles of gray. Uh, if you like basketball, check Jack and I out on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad. If you like 90 day fiance,

check me out on my 90 day fiance podcast called 420 day fiance you know what the fuck's going on right there when i say that uh and also check out the good thief uh which is a true crime show where we are pursuing the real life greek robin hood uh and it's all of eight episodes are out now and when i say true crime it has no murder or like fucked up violence or anything like that it's just good old-fashioned robbing millionaires and giving money away to people that need it uh so it's a very good show some tweets i like oh man there's okay so there's like when bill maher tweeted that he was bringing the show back he like did this whole long thing he's like real time is coming back unfortunately sans writers are writing it has been five months and it has to is it is time to bring people back to work the writers have important issues that i

simplifies with blah blah blah at harry m wood took that whole statement and just said i know we're not supposed to be working during the strike but i couldn't resist giving this a quick edit pass and just blacked out selected words and this statement and it reads like this real time is coming back unfortunately we all were hopeful this would come to an end but i love to see people suffer and i'll say it up front to the audience the show will not be good full stop the heart of the show is disappoint that's incredible that's great well done all right uh you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien yeah i was really enjoying the bill maher stuff so somebody just tweeted a gabe delay delahaye tweeted a rare misstep for Bill Maher. Molly Mary O'Brien tweeted, my job?

NFL team graphic designer. My mission? To make a bird look as mean as possible. Alright, 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, where we post our episodes and our footnotes,

where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles? Yes? What song do you think people might be enjoying? Yeah. We're blessed today that my internet has not empowered to not go down simultaneously when I had a song lined up to put everybody on to in yesterday's episode.

But now I can't say. We're going to go out on. Yeah, I can't. It's called Cannock Chase. And I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but it's C-A-N-N-O-C-K. And then the second word is C-H-A-S-E. I'm pronouncing that right, but it's C-A-N-N-O-C-K. And then the second word is C-H-A-S-E.

And it's by Lobby Sifre, who is like an iconic artist who I did not know of. But I knew that this man's work was sampled so many times. And he was this, he is still alive. But in the 70s, this openly gay musician who talked all, like, just the lyrics were hitting real topics that people were feeling back then. And it's like this funkier Black James Taylor from the UK kind of vibe. The guitar picking is really good. So check this album out. If you liked any of those words I said, you must check this song out.

It's by Labi, L-A-B-I, Sifre, S-I-F-F-R-E. And it's called Cannock Chase. But yeah, check this one out. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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