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Episode Date: January 23, 2018

In episode 68, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Raj Desai to discuss the women's march, Democrats caving in over the government shut down, the Super Bowl, Amazon Go, potential cities for Amazon HQ, bad movies doing well at the box office, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just listen, OK? Or Lacey gets it. Do it. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 15, Episode 1 of Das Daily Zeitgeist. For January 22, 2018, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack Hawk Down. And I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's your boy, Mona Lisa Miles. And with the rare honor,

Amy Mon or Mahan, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name. You hit us with two AKAs that we both use, so shouts to you, Amy. The Double. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedy writer Raj Desai. Hey, thanks for having me.

Hey, man. Thanks for being here. What's something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Yesterday, I did a Google image search of Warren G. Harding because I read this article that was talking about the worst presidents of all time. And it called him darkly handsome. So I was like, well, I got gotta check this guy out was he i didn't i mean i feel like you know jfk number one maybe barack obama number two all time i don't know so wasn't he like an actor or like a model at first or something like that he might have been i mean he was uh yeah hot damn look at that miles just google image searched him.

He looks like an old, what was that, a Muppet that was like an old eagle? Yeah, he doesn't look like. He looks like that Muppet turned into a handsome man. Right. It's like back in the day when just like old white men were the sex symbols of America. His eyebrows are here to fucking, they're not here. This is not a game. Those eyebrows are vivid. Sam Eagle is what Warren G. Those eyebrows are vivid.

Sam Eagle is what Warren G. Harding looks like. Come to life. Anyways, a very attractive man. What's something you think is overrated? Oh, I would say leather jackets, I feel like, are way overrated. Really? Yeah. Go on.

Go on. Tell me more. I just feel like people think leather jackets equal coolness. Oh, right. That's the signal. It's like when you're cool, you got a leather jacket. Yeah. And then they're really heavy, right? I don't think they're that comfortable, but I feel like leather jackets are something that's overrated.

And I feel like wine and margaritas are two of the most overrated. Really? Yeah, I don't know. I feel like wine basically tastes like grape juice to me. I'm not saying I have a good sensitive palate. Or you have a drinking problem. It tastes like grape juice to me. Especially after you've taken five shots of vodka.

Grape juice. Yeah. And then somehow margaritas is just like like i'd rather have a slurpee do you not like tequila is that margaritas oh yeah that's it is yeah yeah look at this man tequila something about it i just feel like people go nuts tequila well yeah the blended ones like especially when you go to like uh like las vegas and everyone's drinking like the obnoxious frozen drink out of a bong-shaped glass. Yeah, because I'm not really a huge fan of Margarita's either. I wish you had said, tequila just always tastes like grape juice to me.

It just tastes like agave nectar to me. Well, it's funny also about the leather jackets. I feel like in the 80s and 90s, was that born out of the idea that every cool character wore a leather jacket? I think it's all Fonzie, right? Well, I feel like it was James Dean, and then they gave it to Fonzie. And Fonzie now is a great actor, Henry Winkler, but he's not cool. No, not at all. He's like 5'4", or something.

Oh, and then maybe Marlon Brando, too. Brando, yeah. Yeah, they all had their moments. And then didn't one of the dudes in Boy Meets World, didn't he have a leather jacket, too? I don't remember. Yeah, probably. The friend, like the cool friend. Sean.

Sean. Yeah, shout out to my friend Nick. His dad played Sean's dad. Oh, really? Yeah. Nice. Also, another thing, other side note, in the movie Milk Money with Melanie Griffin, where the kids save up money to go see a naked woman

so they go to the city to try and hire a prostitute to see a naked woman. Oh, I thought it was like to marry their father. Well, that's the initial reason why they go meet her and then they bring her back. Yeah, exactly. They're like, she rules. Yeah.

Let's have her fuck dad. Yeah. And then like, yeah, at Harris by the Dad, there's like this whole bet of one of the kids getting the other kid's leather jacket and like the second he went to school with the leather jacket it was like oh shit he got the leather jacket so i think that yeah there's a lot of misplaced emphasis on the leather jacket yeah just that it equals awesomeness or something or bad boyitude or whatever bad boy spoken like a real bad boy yeah you mentioned brando uh i feel like the magnetism that brando had

is an unparalleled thing we don't have access to apparently like there are all these trends that i just thought were you know standard trends but they were all like brando like the way mobsters dress are all taken not from brando and godfather, but like some other earlier movie, like the whole like same colored shirt and tie and suit was like that. That was initially pulled off by Brando. And like there's all these different things that people just fucking loved that guy. My mom is obsessed with fucking Marlon Brando. But like it just because of his late career anybody who was born like after the year well even like the one where he was in like yellow face like tea house

of august moon or whatever he's literally playing a japanese dude my mom's like i love it i'm like like you really gone over the deep end when this dude is mocking us and you're like yeah he's handsome i'm like damn mom all right well but you know to each yeah, he's handsome. I'm like, damn, mom. All right, well. But you know, to each their own. What's something you think is underrated, Raj? I would go with pears. Yes. Go on.

I like this. I like you, Raj. Go on. Apples take all the thunder. There's so many types of apples. There's maybe three types of pears available at Ralph's or wherever. I like apples fine. They're okay.

But I just feel like there's no pear sauce. There's no like – There should be. You know what's good? Kern's nectar, the pear flavor. And I don't say pear juice because it's 18% juice. But I love pears in general because also – You know Asian pears? Yeah.

They're like apples. Yeah, yeah, yeah know Asian pears? Yeah. Or like apples? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, the crispy ones. Yeah, when those are ripe and sweet, bro, get the apples the fuck out of here. That's how I feel. That's the guy for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Bartlett pears too. I still ride for apples. Really? Yeah. What's your best apple? Honey crisp. Okay, so what you know what you need to do is have a showdown, throwdown. Right.

Honey crisp apple versus like the Japanese nasi. No, so what you know we need to do is have a showdown, throwdown. Right. Honey crisp apple versus the Japanese nasi. I like the Japanese pear. It's good. It's my favorite pear. No, no, no. It's by far the crispiest, crunchiest pear, but that has nothing on the crispiest, crunchiest apple. Okay. Which is the honey crisp apple.

Okay. Okay. And also, I just don't like that country, like that part of the world. I'm just not a fan of it. Here we go. All right. R.I.P. your mention. All right.

We're trying to take a sample of the national shared consciousness, what Americans are thinking about, talking about, spiritually going through right now. And the way we like to open up is by asking our guest, what is a myth? What is something that most people believe to be true that uh you know to be false raj well something i've done a lot taking a lot of personal interest in is uh whether or not shaving results in a more thicker beard the more you shave you guys ever heard that yeah i thought it was true for the longest time but apparently it's completely untrue oh really yeah they say that in Asia a lot, too. Really?

Yeah. Or if you shave your head, your hair will grow back thicker. I've been doing that shit, and it is not growing back thicker. I believe this is a fucking myth. But don't they say that with babies, too? I feel like I heard new parents being like, well, we could shave the baby's head for the hair to come back thicker. Yeah.

I'm like, that might just be the baby getting older and growing more fucking hair. I don't know if that's a function of shaving back thicker. Yeah. That might just be the baby getting older. Yeah. And growing more fucking hair. I don't know if that's a function of shaving the head. Yeah, I bet it comes from just people having puberty mustaches and then shaving them and the hair eventually becoming actual facial hair and then being like, see, it got thicker. It must have been my shaving that caused the thickness. How did you first come across this myth? I thought it was true, so I often would, I have a pretty strong beard or whatever, and

would take breaks from shaving, and then I was like, well, let me just actually see if this is true. Is this something just some dude told me or whatever? I didn't hear it from anybody who knows anything, and it's apparently completely untrue. I mean, I still don't understand the logic behind it, like what the science behind that would be if it were true. Right. So it's hard to believe, like, yeah, cutting your hair makes it grow. Like, okay.

Yeah. But, hey, look, if you guys out there have a reason to make us believe that we are wrong, I would love to know. And then give me that razor so I can reclaim some of my hair. razor so I can reclaim some of my hair. I think the people we need to talk to about this are women who are like hair removal experts and can tell you like how to remove all hair anywhere. Yeah. So but yeah, because I had always heard that women don't want to shave their mustache because then it will grow back thicker and they'll eventually look like

raj and i um and do you have any do you not have any insight to the hair shaving debate like does leg hair grow back thicker what's the what's the consensus among women does shaving make hair grow back thicker uh in my experience my leg hair has grown back thicker i have a little uh mustache that i bleach. I don't shave it because my whole life, my mom says if I shave it, it'll grow back thicker and I won't have an actual mustache. So I've always been- You haven't tempted that one.

You haven't tested that one though. We could try it, but- No, we don't have to. It grows back thick. You all owe me. So I don't know. But you said leg hair did grow back thicker? Yes, leg hair always grows back thicker.

I don't know why. It said leg hair did grow back thicker? Yes. Leg hair always grows back thicker. I don't know why. It's just always in my experience. Could it just be that your body is producing more leg hair as you- It could just be that I have dark Middle Eastern hair genes, so that's what I get. I've always been told to thread, to just- Just thread. Any facial hair, thread. Right. Don't hair, thread.

Don't shave, thread. Have it pulled out from the root. Feel the pain. And for men who don't know what threading is, it is where they like... It's like an old-fashioned technique of using two pieces like a... It's like a torture method. Yeah, it's like you wrap the thread around your hands and you use the friction of the thread hitting or like rubbing against each other to pull hair out of your face it's look beauty is pain it's what my mom always told me that is some real shit well thank you anna uh so let's move on to the stories uh and and what people are talking about in the zeitgeist. So over the weekend, there was a women's march on Saturday that the mainstream media didn't make too much of a dent in the mainstream media.

Apparently, the Sunday shows didn't really cover it, maybe because it wasn't quite as big as last year's. And so they felt like the media always needs to go bigger and there has to be sort of an arc to their story. But it's wild how little they actually spoke about it. Like NBC, I think on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd's show had I think the longest discussion about it and it was 20 seconds. Like other people just had like in the opening monologue about like, and women are marching or like or people just referencing the march but it wasn't like a topic that was actually discussed on those shows and those are kind of those a lot of people get their news from those sunday morning shows so it's a little odd that they did that and then you couple that with like the straight fuckery on fox or they're like trying to spin those marches as being something – anything other

than people pushing back on like what this new administration's agenda has been with women. Yeah. Wait. Did they really try and push that agenda? Yeah. Well, I know Trump tweeted some shit. He's like, oh, yeah.

Record unemployment. Which I think was a joke, right? Like he was trolling. Well, he was trolling. Yeah. And I think – I mean I think on Fox they were kind of like walking that tightrope of being like, is that – was that a joke or how are we really talking and blah, blah, blah. It wasn't like that's how they were covering it if they even covered it at all. But that did come up once or twice.

Yeah. the Trump administration's propaganda wing, Fox News, is really tone deaf when you look at it next to that Halsey poem. The artist Halsey unleashed this, you know, it's like a five-minute long poem of just growing up amid sexual assault and sexual abuse and just, you know, I don't know. It's pretty affecting. And then to then go over to Twitter and read Trump, be like, ha ha. Good day, good weather for all these women to get out there.

It's like, come on the fuck. Yeah. Yeah. That Halsey poem was very moving. I was, I mean, she's, I haven't really listened to her music, but. Yeah, me neither. But now I'm going to force myself to because it was pretty dope. Yeah.

And it was big everywhere too because, like, what? I think L.A. probably had the biggest showing of all the cities, right? Right. They said a half million people came out? Yeah. Oh, wow. I think the estimates were 250,000 were going to come and 500,000 people showed up. So I went down there with my wife and her friend and our son.

And it was pretty cool. It was just cool to be there among all that positive energy. There were some Trump supporters standing there with like Trump flags and like don't tread on the flags that they were like three blocks away from where any of the people who are marching were. It was like really weird. And they were like surrounded by police barricades. But it wasn't clear like what they were being protected from or what they're being held back from because nobody was around them. They were just on the street corner that was completely barren and waving their flags. For good reason.

They're like, yeah, go over here. Ain't nobody going to see you. Like literally nobody could see you. Were there any funny signs at the protest? Yeah. Yeah, there were some good ones. Most of the ones that I saw were on Twitter. were on Twitter.

There was the one of notice how few Nazis are at our march was a strong one. The lack of Nazis. Yeah, there was some Harry Potter one that was like Harry would have been dead in the first book without Hermione or something like that.

Another one that was great was just, ugh, where do I even begin? Yeah. Exhausted. Yeah. There was I hate crowds, but I hate Trump more, which is solid. If this march is about accountability, 57% of white women voted for misogyny. Whoa. Heavy.

Heavy. Well, that's wild because I think it was in Vegas, The head of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, she kind of made mention of that in her the Women's March for Power to the Polls, where she was kind of saying like, hey, like white women need to do better, which is, you know, pretty significant considering the sort of. Yeah, I think we have a clip of it. We can just kind of play one part of what she said. All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers. And yes, candidates for office and from Virginia to Alabama and to last week in Wisconsin, women have beaten the odds to elect our own office. That's right. Women of color, transgender women, rural and urban women. Women of color, transgender women, rural and urban women.

And these victories were led and made possible by women of color. So, right? So white women, listen up. We've got to do better. We've got to do better. They should drop the mic. We got the fuck off stage. Yeah it was uh just the amount of coverage it's wild how much if you are on twitter or you have your own way of getting news how much we were hearing about this right but yeah that's what makes the the sort of a mission

of talking about it from these other shows a little odd because i get it last year that was technically i think the largest demonstration in the history of the country and i guess what because there wasn't a superlative this time it wasn't or is this like some kind of weird subtle backlash of like well i guess we're done talking about this like are the producers of these shows saying like we're okay we've got enough like we get it guys sexual assault this shit is fucking millions of people out here you don't want to talk about it come on that was last week's story. What are we talking about this week? Right.

There's also my neck, my back, my pussy will grab back. I like that. There was also this episode of Black Mirror sucks, which is a pretty good one. Yeah. And there were some speeches by Scarlett Johansson who specifically called out – I think it was actually implicitly called out James Franco and then her publicists confirmed. People were like, you were talking about James Franco, right? Her publicists were like, yes, officially, and Viola Davis. So those were some people who gave pretty powerful speeches that the one in Los Angeles,

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The government is back open. Thank God. Fuck, man. I'm holding my breath. Well, the IRS sent me some shit over the weekend, and I was like, oh, hell yeah. The government shut down, so I can lick this slide for a little bit. Right. And I come out, the fucking Democrats make a deal, keep the government going again, well, at least for three weeks.

Right. Up until February 8th. Right. So I don't know. This is kind of depends on how far left you are, because people that are pretty far left, like myself, look at this and are like, I think we just played ourselves. Because they made a deal to get this continuing resolution done because Mitch McConnell said, I intend to have a vote on immigration on February 9th. But I won't commit to any specific legislation. And it was just a very kind of like, yeah, we'll vote on this. We can bring a vote on immigration.

But that doesn't take into consideration like the House or other things like that. immigration but that doesn't take into consideration like the house or other things like that and i know like people like um dick durbin and stuff and their senate speeches are on the floor today which seemed like really optimistic as if you know mitch mcconnell had really like come around and made them some kind of promises that made them comfortable to make this deal but the other weird thing that makes that doesn't sit well with me is like susan collins from maine was like hey you can trust mitch mcconnell meanwhile this dude fucking played her for her vote in the tax bill because she was like i need like obamacare stabilization measures like put into like a spending bill it's like yeah yeah you'll get those just vote on this tax bill and that hasn't happened at all so i don't know this is i think it's just terrible because we're playing with these dreamers and people – like we've already seen stories of people who have lived here.

Like they're in their 40s who were brought here as kids and they're getting deported, like ripped from their families because we haven't fucking sorted this out. And it just – it felt like a real moment where the Democrats had a chance to stand up for these people. I think it I think the optics kind of got to them because it seemed like the polling was starting to show that people were like, you know, they weren't as on message as Republicans kind of to your point on Friday. The Republicans kind of won the messaging war in that it caused this group them were going to run for president in 2020 and they were trying to appeal to their base. It might not have been her. It might have been Claire McCaskill from Missouri. That's who it was. Claire McCaskill said that. And, yeah, the messaging was just kind of all over the place from the Democratic side.

I think because Democrats don't have their own fox news all they have is you know the daily zeitgeist they have crooked media which like probably most you know democratic politicians are too old to actually listen to or well some understand about yeah some do uh but every time a politician comes on, they're like, my daughter said that you guys are so cool. It's like, come on, man. It's funny you notice that. Well, yeah, Democrats need to wake up because we're the fucking people that if you want to vote, you've got to kind of come with it. Yeah.

I mean, Republicans can – like all they do is watch Fox News, internalize what Fox News is saying, and it's like this feedback loop where everybody's on message. So, yeah, we talked about this on Friday. I'm just reiterating how right I was. I will say it's a good time to be the word stopgap. Definitely. It is all over the place. Yeah. So they got McConnell to say, it is my intention.

That is fucked up. As producer Nick Stumpf pointed out, they couldn't even get an unequivocal meaningless promise. They just got like equivocating meaningless promise. Yeah, that's how like when you make promises to people and you don't hold your end up, you're like, well, I said that was my intention. Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Look back at what I said. I didn't say I promised.

Mitch McConnell also promised to totally hang out sometime. It is my intention to stop cheating on you. It is my intention to, yes, call you. Right. After this. I intend to do that. Yes. And also the thing that the Democrats are holding out for for the dreamers

um i don't think they should be in our cut no uh i it's basically just giving them a path to citizenship uh which is pretty i don't know it seems kind of weak uh and it wasn't what they were asking for in the first place it's's just because the Republicans are better at messaging. They've slowly moved everything towards, you know, everything moves right because. Yeah. And also because the Republicans control when they are pretty consistent with like, well, these Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens before actual Americans kind of thing, which is like absurd. Because, again, anyway, we can I think most people already get that the republicans control all the branches of government and started this whole mess in the first place right so hey what are we going to do well and also they're willing to uh chuck schumer was saying i think on friday that he was willing to

fund trump's wall yeah he was and trump was like nah still not good enough motherfucker right um well he left in thinking that he was he did have something right that like it felt good and then suddenly he was like actually not a fam yeah no so uh he met with trump was like i'll fund the wall you let dreamers have the possibility of staying in the country. Great deal. Good negotiating Democrats. And Trump was like, yes, great. That's what I wanted all along.

And then, of course, you know, John Kelly and Stephen Miller get involved and they're like, no, ask for more, ask for more. Because John Kelly, we talked about a couple months ago, when asked what the acceptable number of illegal immigrants coming across the border was, they were trying to decide. You know, Obama administration had lowered it to, you know, 200,000 or 150,000. They were like, you know, is it acceptable for us to get back up to 200 000 he was like my acceptable number is zero yeah so it's the same dude who was like slavery was a dope time for america right uh we're not surprised john kelly people kind of view him as the you know responsible parent but he's actually a incredible racist immigrant like anti-immigration hardliner.

Yeah. And you couple that with Stephen Miller in Trump's ear. It's wild because Trump is so impressionable that he'll be in a meeting with one group of people and be like, yeah, OK, that works. That works. And then somebody just starts whispering something to this other and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean like talk about utter lack of leadership. Like he has no judgment of his own. Also, the Democrats are bad at metaphors.

Chuck Schumer was saying negotiating with Trump is like trying to negotiate with Jell-O. It's like trying to nail Jell-O down is what you're trying to say. But instead you've said that it's like negotiating with Jell-O, which is an insane metaphor that doesn't make any fucking sense. You just show him talking to a plate of Jell-O. This is what I want. Right. What do you say? As we all know from our experiences.

Let's move on to better news, guys. The Super Bowl is set, or the big game. Oh, yeah, don't say that. Don't say that shit. Has anybody ever been sued for saying the Super Bowl on a podcast? Oh, yeah. I don't know, but let's try it out. Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl is set. Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Super Bowl. And Philadelphia made it. Yeah. The stands were rowdy. The after party was rowdier. There's a great video of a guy running after a train that he just missed and just face-planting into a sign. It's literally out of like a Farrelly Brothers trailer for a film where it's like, wait for me.

And it goes right to the steel beam. Yep. It's comedic. I mean, these Eagles fans have been nuts for years. trailer for a film where it's like wait for me like it goes right to the steel beam yep if you guys i mean these eagles fans have been nuts for years i've heard the story than the 70s they booed santa claus yeah yep that's well philly is like notorious right for having like the most in like aggressive fans like yeah there's nothing worse than them hating their own players yeah right yeah they booed donovan mcnabb when he was drafted he ended up being their best quarterback ever um there was a funny speaking of funny signs somebody in the eagles stand because they were playing minnesota had a funny sign just said prince sucks

god damn there were signs up around the uh coliseum or around where uh where the game was being played telling vikings fans that after the game take off they should take off their jersey when leaving so they don't get like attacked and beat up oh they were like public service yeah and apparently they were like throwing stuff at vik Vikings fans as they walked into the game. And then they just beat them mercilessly. So yeah, were they merciful? And they're like, hey, look, you obviously took L, so we're not going to rob you now. Yeah, I think they just took it out on light poles.

Apparently light poles are a big concern because the police took precautions as the game started getting out of control. And the Eagles were up by a couple touchdowns. The police started greasing up street poles with cans of Crisco. Oh, it was apparently at least four hours before the game. And knowing that if the Eagles won, everybody would be trying to climb. I love that. I love that they're so prepared. They're like, do we have our 70 gallons of Crisco on deck in case we win? Yeah, we've got a moron proof of the city.

Yeah, exactly. Man, well, you know, good for the Eagles. I'm not, look, as most people know, I'm not a huge NFL fan. Because last time I checked on the Eagles, Deuce Staley was playing. So that shows you what year I'm operating from. But good to them. Shout out to the homie Chris, too, because I know that's his team. So, you know, we're rooting for y'all.

And the Patriots also made it, which do we even have to say that anymore? The only good thing. It was actually a really good game, and they almost lost. And I am a ashamed Patriots fan. You are? Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck?

Since back before when they were like the underdogs going up against like the unbeatable st louis rams offense and uh rookie tom brady came out of nowhere to to beat them yeah i've been a fan since i was in high school i used to go to patriots games and watch fucking drew bledsoe when they saw me so fucking vinnie testaverti and shit yeah yeah so uh yeah i didn't realize yo that's so funny because you fucking you act like you're a neutral and then suddenly you're like i'm an ashamed patriot man wow look at you it's it's dark it's it's yeah and also robert kraft yeah exactly but my favorite story about him is how putin fucking straight up stole his super bowl right he putin asked like to see

his super bowl ring like a bully in like third grade and let me see that and just walked out and craft was like wait where is he going right and then apparently the kgb guys straight up like created a like put a block up for him like all right get out of here um here are some things that you could have heard if you were listening in on the Philadelphia police scanner last night. This is Sports Illustrated. Wait, they were using,

they were listening to the police scanner? Yeah, they listened in on the police scanner. Quote, we've got a guy climbing a light pole so the Crisco did not work. They immediately were like, I'm going to climb that shit i don't give a right away

uh there's a guy running nude he's carrying a green t-shirt and a pair of jeans uh black male and cowboy hat throwing fireworks into the crowd uh police officers made a call for a strike force team uh we're going to get people off the statue next he's standing on top of the bus stand we lost the intersection like it's like a fucking military battle through yeah lost territory uh there was a bus with nfl personnel that was stuck in traffic like they couldn't get out of the game because of just the citywide riot happening. And the police said, we have a crowd breaking out their windows. Jesus.

Nobody got hurt though, right? No, I don't think so. Other than that guy who faceplanted into the – Yeah, that was – yeah, RIP. That's worth checking out. Well, that's good. Yeah. I'm glad – these things can be so cathartic for people. So despite the Crisco, keep ascending that pole, y'all.

Right. And all right. We're going to move on to Amazon Go. The store of the future has opened in Seattle. New York Times sent a reporter and they said that it's sort of a game changer. So what this is, is it is a store that has cameras all over the place. And you walk through the gates. They identify you by your Amazon account.

And then you just put stuff in your bag off the shelves uh and walk out like you're shoplifting and uh because of the cameras and presumably facial recognition technology uh they know everything you got you just walk out and then five minutes later you get a bill for everything you just walked out with um and the new york times reporter even tried to shoplift he like put his bag over a thing and then like kind of surreptitiously put it like away and then walked out with it in the bag and uh they still they still charge now let me get in there i'll fucking boost some shit i bet that's the you know calling all people who have a habit of boosting shit right go try that's like the know calling all people who have a habit of boosting shit right

go try that's like the fucking boss level right of trying to push it from a store if you can fucking walk out of there with like a bottle of coke or something down your pant leg or however whatever method you use uh always pant leg right yeah is there ever a better method than pant leg or like i had the homie fucking walk out with a london broil once like a full-on piece of fucking meat like a roast in his fucking in his pants like in the crie fucking walk out with a London broil once, like a full-on piece of fucking meat, like a roast in his pants, like in the crotch. Wow. He's a legend, and we still ate the food. Wow.

You ate a London broil? That was crotch stored. That's amazing. Hey, the heat cooks off any of that. And plus it's a shrink wrap. Look, why am I on trial? Okay? I like that the first Amazon Go store opens in Los Angeles and miles.

It's like the last scene of Thomas Crown Affair. You go in with five dudes in identical hats. Drop a briefcase that emits smoke. I have people with that mathematical distance between their eyes so I can kind of get a jump on the face scanning software while wearing sunglasses. Anyway, yeah, look for that. But yeah, this store is interesting to me because, A, I feel like it's smart in that you will walk in there and not really have an idea what you're buying or what you're going to pay for it. And I feel like a lot of people, their first trip to the Amazon Ghost Store, they're going to walk out and that notice comes on their phone like,

well, I just spent $98 on a bunch of shit. Because that happens very often. It's like the first time you get the Whole Foods salad bar and you're like, fuck. $18? It's like, damn. They're like, I shouldn't have put all that fucking beans in there. Those shits are heavy. More lettuce. Yeah, that is classic rookie mistakes.

Loading up on those beans. Never anything bean-based. Keep it leafy. A little bit of protein, but yeah. Keep it leafy. That's a good way. Good idea. But it is, because it's Amazon, it will have certain whole foods.

Oh, right. Oh, yeah. Foods, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amenities. And there is a chef who's off on the side making pre-made foods for people. Oh, really? So, yeah. It is going to be that where you get, like, some rice and, like, an entree,

and it's, like, $24. Holy shit. Get a couple scoops less of that. Right. And then realize how much that costs. Yeah. And I've always been too ashamed to, like, you were talking about how this will be a game changer because people will only find out once they've left.

But I've always been too ashamed to put the stuff back. Oh, fuck no. So I've just been like, yeah, no, that was the plan. I meant to spend $180 on this. Man, I'm shameless. One fruit. Man, when the funds are light, whoo! Yeah, yeah.

I used to be like, oh, I've got to take this stuff back. I'd be like, you know what? Put my arm down. Everything past here, I don't want it. Now let me leave with my Kern's Nectar. Kern's Nectar is really getting a lot of shout outs on this podcast that and dominoes also shout out to people on twitter who are really trying to get us that dominoes uh endorsement deal because we were really fucking praising the the pizza gods yeah anyway but the other thing i was interesting is like

you know a lot of people were kind of critical too because clearly like this is the kind of store that humans don't want because it requires like maybe four people to work the entire thing so that's like a precursor of like the the robots took her jobs right uh and also like how about the people who are on food stamps you know why can't you use that shit at amazon go right you know and i think they're they are i know they are like participating in some kind of pilot program with the USDA to accept food stamps. But there's something kind of very sort of classist about like, hey, do you have a smartphone with the ability to have this app to walk through?

And do you have an Amazon account and blah, blah, blah? It's not like anybody can just go in. Yeah, no. Amazon is evil. They're going to just slowly take over the world. I was just at a mall where an amazon bookstore just opened up and it's all it is is barnes and noble but connected to like your amazon account essentially wait where is there an amazon bookstore like a physical one here yeah in the

century city mall of course and uh i i went in i was like oh man i missed these bookstores that amazon put out of business amazon's opening their own but you pay it's not like an amazon go model where you just walk the fuck out with no no you have to pay somebody a human yeah okay well good uh we're gonna have to start asking that now about new businesses like and do they employ humans and it's all it's all just a way to get you to become an Amazon Prime member because they give you 20% off in the store if you become a Prime member. Oh, if you become. No, I think it's actually if you are. If you have Prime membership.

Yeah, we got to. When they just raised the price on that shit too. Yeah, what did it go from like? $10.99 to $12.99 or something. I think it got up to, it's $12.99 a month now. It's $13 a month now. But they didn't change the annual one. So that's how they get you.

Yeah. And, I mean, this is part of a broader trend of corporations sort of – these big main corporations like Google, Amazon, Apple sort of taking over. There's been a slight adjustment towards people realizing that these companies are not your friends and anything corporate siblings, is trying to plan a futuristic metropolis that is just straight out of the movie Robocop. Like it's... Oh, really? Yeah. So it's called Quayside, and it's like a real derelict rundown part of Toronto.

And it'll be laden with sensors and cameras tracking everyone who lives, works or merely passes through the area. And Sidewalk is the Google affiliate, calls it the marriage of technology and urbanism. But yeah, I mean, we've talked before about how crazy the world is going to be once there's facial recognition scanners everywhere, like crime will be over, which seems like a good thing, but companies will always know where you are. So you know what we should do now is invest in masks that you could wear that obscure your face from facial scanning. So you could do dirt out there. You could buy – do whatever you got to do in the dark part of town.

Right. With no shame. I don't know. I think that's like, I think that's the secondary pirate market to like protect people from all this facial recognition software is like facial obscuring like devices or whatever. It's worth kind of checking out how countries like Germany and Italy are reacting to some of these bigger tech companies. They're kind of giving them a much harder time over there because they're

more suspicious of these things. They have a longer memory of like how, companies, they're kind of giving them a much harder time over there because they're more suspicious of these things. They have a longer memory of like how absolute power works. Yeah. Because, yeah, Italy is like suing Apple for their like sort of planned obsolescence scheme with iPhones. And wait, what's going on with Germany? Are they doing the same thing?

Is it over iPhones? Facebook and hate speech on Facebook. Oh, right, right, right. Are they doing the same thing? Is it over iPhones or – Facebook and hate speech on Facebook. Oh, right, right, right. They're basically making it so that it's illegal for Facebook to keep something up on Facebook for very long if it's a lie that is in some way promoting hate. Right. And Apple – so this is more of a personal thing. uh apple so this is more of a personal thing uh but apple has continued to you know we talked about i think a couple months ago about how we were all doing the latest uh ios update to 11 and our phones had started running slow um you know we had sixes or fives or, you know, a seven. And since that time, it's not like Apple fixed

that incompatibility. You know, since that time, there's been a big news story about how Apple was slowing down older phones in order to, people suspected, encourage people to, you know, upgrade their phones. Apple said it was to, it was to protect people's batteries on older phones. But also, have you guys ever heard Tim Cook speak? I think I have. I mean, it's not memorable. I heard an interview with him. He's just like – he sounds like kind of a southern – he doesn't sound like a powerful CEO.

A based god. Yeah. He sounds – he doesn't even sound like a nerd. Yeah, he just sounds like an unassuming dummy. But anyways, he was just completely... And we were so

shocked that people were upset by this. Were you? Yeah. Just an update on the whole forced obsolescence thing here at the Daily Zeitgeist. I had to upgrade my phone because it broke because of the iOS update. Miles. Had to upgrade my shit.

It was – my phone was virtually, like, unusable. Yeah. Sophie, same deal. Our project manager, just over the weekend, her phone just stopped working, and she went to the Verizon store. And the person at verizon was like oh yeah no apple knows they're doing this and like basically came clean about like the stuff that apple probably doesn't want them to say uh so yeah that's still happening um and you know these are the companies that uh we we've put a lot of trust in yeah they have my goddamn

face information. Right. I mean, I know they say they don't store that or whatever, but can't trust it. Um, yeah, that, you know, there, there's that, uh, Google app that matches your face to a, uh, painting. Yes. Uh, I, you did it, right? Oh yes. I was Martin Luther, the King.

Uh, really? Yeah. That's awesome. Uh, I was a, uh, random 1800s woman and, and also a dude who like really looked like an unflattering version of me,

but like his eyes were like the same. Yeah. It just looked very similar. But, um, that, those, that specific app is illegal in like

texas and one other country oh yeah one other state yeah or one other state because uh because of facial recognition yeah it can't be for like they said it was unspecific reasons or whatever because they didn't clearly define what they were doing with that information so yeah so uh shout out to Texas. At the very least we're headed for the future of minority report where like ads are just beamed directly into our faces, um, based on our purchase that like, that was the thing that minority report got wrong is that it was beaming the same ad to everybody. That's not going to be happening.

They're going to be talking specifically. It won't be automated like Miles, buy Mercedes-Benz. No, it'll be Miles. These are the new Nike shoes, Kearns Nectar flavors, and blunt wraps. Exactly. Those are all the things I want. I'm on my way to the store now.

Exactly. And finally, and a bit of good news for the little guy, Amazon has announced its list of the finalists for its HQ2. Yes, this was great because all the small cities were – it gave them opportunities like maybe we can have Amazon here. Frisco, Texas put together one of the more impressive recruiting videos that they put on YouTube like, hey, Amazon, come to Frisco, Texas. It's an up-and-coming city. And so their list of 20 of the finalists is basically a list of the 20 biggest cities in America for the most part.

It's like New York. Have you heard of this place, you guys? It might be a cool place to have a business. New York City. Washington, D.C., Chicago. It had like all the big ones. And then the smallest ones I think were Raleigh and Columbus, Ohio. And besides that, it was all the biggest places that you would expect a huge company to put their business.

They also threw Toronto in there, which is one of the biggest cities in America. It just happens to be Canadian. Six, six, six. Other cities you might have heard of like Los Angeles. Ah, yes. Miami. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is that the one in Florida?

Yeah. Yes, it is. Actually, no, Ohio. No, yes, Miami, yeah. Is that the one in Florida? Yeah. Yes, it is. Actually, no, Ohio. No, yes, Miami, Florida. Right. Austin, Dallas, Denver, Nashville. The only, I guess, big omission is like, San Francisco isn't on there. Right.

But we obviously know why. So, yeah. Yeah. And if you do end up getting this headquarters in your town, you can look forward to basically paying Amazon tax money with your tax dollars because that's basically all these cities are competing to give Amazon enormous tax breaks. And also like not to mention like the housing problems that come with having like these like giant companies there. Like I know Seattle, like property, like there's not much access to affordable housing because of like the injection of all these tech companies and stuff.

Right. But I mean this is kind of what we can hope for in this landscape where it's like these companies and Walmart are basically dropping into small communities across America and just like vacuuming out all the resources to wherever their corporate headquarters is, we can at least hope that we get to be near one of those corporate headquarters at some point. And let it trickle down on us. Right. Well, that's always worked, right, in the past? From what I understand, yes. On the other hand, Amazon Prime now has anger management on its video service. Oh, nice.

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about P.T. Barnum. Got bad reviews. But when you look on top searches on Google or top searches in iTunes, a lot of the searches are for songs from this musical. So apparently it has catchy tunes. I know. There are even like screenings, sing-along screenings. I heard on the radio they were doing ads for.

And I was like, that seems a little bit – a little overenthusiastic. Like you're already doing the sing-along screenings. But I guess there must be some kind of market for it. I can't imagine that they're just like, you know what? Just do it. We'll see who shows up. Yeah. It is kind of crazy that in this current atmosphere, a movie about P.T. Barnum who is like the most exploitative person of all time to animals and other races of people that like it would be hitting hard.

People should go listen to The Dollop, the podcast by Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. It's like a history podcast and they have a great episode about PT Barnum. And just what a, what a monster he is. Hey, but if you just spin it with like singalongs and shit. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

You don't. Yeah. It's like, it's easy to show like the fun part of PT Barnum. Yeah. Ignore what maybe these other people who are like working for him were experiencing. In 120 years,

there's going to be a Trump musical about like, right. Our great. Because the economy was so good. Well, we're experiencing. In 120 years, there's going to be a Trump musical about our great American. Because the economy was so good. Well, the economy seems like they got through it. It was a fun time for everyone. Right. And, of course, I would be remiss if I were not to mention that Jumanji has just been dominating ever since it came out.

It has been number one. There's three came out. It has been number one. There's three consecutive weekends. It has been number one. It has now made $317 million, which surprises anybody who didn't realize that The Rock and Kevin Hart were in it. And everything they do is just amazing. were in it and everything they do is just amazing i know people who i was talking to somebody last or i think this weekend who was like whenever they're in a movie i will always just go see it really yeah huh like there are people who it's funny like their their movie going habits are are purely based on the cast and like i will see every rock movie i will see every rock and kevin

hart movie i will say every kevin hart movie yeah I don't know. Did it have good ratings, reviews, Jumanji? No. Really? It's like in the 50s on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm not sure Metacritic was. I guess I'll wait for that one for an airplane ride. Yeah. Or 12 Strong.

That was the second place movie, right? Mm-hmm. That's just like horses in Iraq or something? Horse Soldiers of Afghanistan, Ighanistan it was based on a book called horse soldiers i believe so well i'll be yeah um but yeah it was about a mission in afghanistan immediately after 9-11 where it was like americans have to stop the Taliban in order to prevent – I think one of the quotes from the trailer is like if we don't win this battle, like every Tuesday will be another 9-11.

You'll be begging for more 9-11s. That's how bad things will be. I think I'm over-exaggerating that a little bit. But basically the idea is like this is the battle to stop 9-11 from – But why do you have to be on horses? I don't know. That's like a very important detail to me. I'm like I feel like we're spending a lot of money on our military hardware just for these dudes to be riding on horses. Like do these horses have fucking robot legs or shoot lasers out their head?

They're just regular fucking horses? Maybe Chris Hemsworth is going undercover as a villager in, like, an Afghan village. Right. And it's like, this is the only way we'll be able to move without drawing suspicion. Our Humvees will be obvious targets. Right. But anyways, that's doing well because people want to know the story of how America won the war in Afghanistan. On horses.

I think all of them have animals, right? I guess all three of these, right? Oh, yeah. Animal movies. And Paddington 2. Paddington 2. Do you love 2? Paddington 2.

Dang, yeah. Yeah. Paddington 2 is getting critical acclaim like it's the frontrunner for the best picture of the year. Well, maybe it should be. Yeah. More talking animals, you guys. All right. That's going to do it for us for today.

Raj, it's been a blast having you, man. Thank you for having me. Where can people find you? Probably the best place is just Twitter. Okay. Yeah. At underscore Raj Desai. R-A-J-E-S-A-I. Underscore first just Twitter. Okay. At underscore Raj Desai. R-A-J-E-S-A-I.

Underscore first. Yeah. Awesome. Someone took the original one? Yeah. Yeah. Now I've got the scarlet underscore. So who's the guy sitting on your handle?

I don't know. I think I looked it up years ago. Scarlet underscore. Right. I can't remember. So it's – It's always funny. Like typically people who should have the handle, like the, you know, unsullied handle,

it's always someone who doesn't use it at all. Like, it's mind-blowing. I never see anyone who's like, yeah, you know what? They actually have a pretty big following. I'm pretty sure this guy had like 34 followers or something. Right, and like no tweets. Yeah. It's a struggle, man.

It's a struggle. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me not at Miles Gray because some other motherfucker has that handle. So if you really want to find me on Twitter and Instagram, you can find me at Miles of Gray. Miles of Gray. I thought it felt like a knight's name or like a nobleman. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien because Jack O'Brien has tweeted twice, both on September 2nd, 2008. And it was, is this thing on?

First was follow AP bio. Second was, second tweet was homework. Follow AP bio? Like that's an account? Like, hey, you should follow AP bio. I don't know. There's also no spacing. So hey you should follow ap bio i don't know it's a it's there's also no spacing so it's just follow that bio like as if it's one word and then the second tweet is

homework so uh but he has five followers so somebody was waiting to see what he was a high school student who was like i'm gonna try this twitter thing out man i guess people just talk about like whatever's happening in 2008 um and he is following one person let's see who he's following ap bio oh great at ap bio are we surprised mr anthus washburn uh who presumably is the teacher of ap bio uh so yeah follow follow jack o'brien and jack underscore o'brien get throw this dude a follow it'd be great suddenly he was like I've got like 300 followers

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and it's truly beautiful. Really? Okay. I thought you were looking at me straight in my eye because I'm from California and I'm Japanese. It felt right. I recommended this specifically for you. Thank you so much. You don't eat breakfast, and we're trying to get you to start doing this.

Yeah. Your energy levels are getting really bad. Your low sugar, blood sugar has really changed you. Okay. You said you wouldn't do this online. All right. That's going to do it. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.

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