The Daily Zeitgeist - America Trying To Kill You With Cars, TikTok Parent Pranks 1.5.22

Episode Date: January 5, 2022

In episode 1057, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, actor, and writer Greta Titelman to discuss RIP Betty White, Majorly Tainted Goon gets booted from social media, fights with Dan Crenshaw, TikTok check - parents smearing “shit” on their kids, Car Crash Deaths Are Up With Fewer Cars On The Road, Wheel of Fortune is a Goddamn Trainwreck and more! Majorly Tainted Goon gets booted from social media, fights with Dan Crenshaw TikTok check - parents smearing “shit” on their kids Car Crash Deaths Are Up With Fewer Cars On The Road Wheel of Fortune is a Goddamn Trainwreck ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Fans Outraged After Contestant Loses on Misspelled Puzzle Pat Sajak Faces Backlash for Mocking a Contestant’s Speech Impediment Wheel of Fortune fans slam show rule after contestant loses due to technicality Pat Sajak says his tweet calling climate change believers 'unpatriotic racists' was a 'parody' Follow: @Gertie_BirdSenior Superlative PodcastListen: B Side by Khruangbin and Leon Bridges Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is January 5th, a Wednesday, which of course means that it is National Keto Day, National Screenwriters Day. Shout out to them. Shout out to the writers of screen out there my name is jack o'brien aka cars to good god john what is it good for entertaining toddlers that is courtesy of clayton smith at spunky diabetic when was the last time you met one a spunky Diabetic. I don't know, man.

Well, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Graham. Well, the CDC won't let me be. Let me be me. Just let me see. I won't get the shot or mask up be. Hospitals won't be empty because of me. Okay, shout out to at DJ Uptown STL

for that, you know, that wonderful M&M inspired. AKA, I get it. The rates are rising. People are doubling down on recklessness. It's a lot at the moment, but it's good to start this new year with y'all. Yeah. This is the first time we've spoken in weeks. How have you been?

Well, we did have some little off, unofficial transmissions back and forth to each other. Yeah, a little texting here and there. A little texting that we do. Did you go anywhere for a break? I tried to go up north. I tried to go to Lake Tahoe to see snow. And I was going to go with Her Majesty's family, the nieces, nephews, rather just the nieces. But then Tahoe had like a one in 50 year storm.

Yeah. just the nieces but then tahoe had like a 1 in 50 year storm yeah and so we were like okay so we got to cancel all of our fucking plans we just chilled in the bay for like a couple days yeah and it was wonderful we had a friend of ours who was supposed to come down from tahoe and visit and she was stuck up there for like she she eventually like had to just push through the storm because the locals were getting mad because they were running out of gas and food in tahoe yeah um but it was like dozens of feet of snow it was oh yeah yeah it was like 14 feet in like certain places and like yeah you would see clips of people like just driving their car like out of a block of snow. And you're like, oh, shit. But yeah, the lack of roads. Also, too many people not knowing how to drive through a storm.

Just causing a ton of spin outs on the main arteries that go through there. It was a mess. But yeah, other than that, blessed. Restful. I had East Coast people out visiting us. Thinking. My nephews were like, when are we going to get to swim in the pool? And it rained the entire,

like every day that they were here, it was frigid and raining. And it's good. We like to keep it for ourselves. Yeah. So very selfishly. Like next time, I guess. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined

in our third seat by a brilliantly talented comedian, actor, writer, who you know from Los Espookys on HBO, where she turned in a performance so remarkable and transformative that I googled Ambassador Melody Gibbons actor, trying to figure out who was playing them, even though she'd just been on TDZ when I did that. You've also seen her in shrill on hulu you will see her in season five of search party please welcome back to the show greta title man wait you really didn't know it was me even when i was like yeah with you and well like in real life yes yeah he was like it was like, it was so, when he figured it out,

we were like, that's Greta. Yeah. I know. I was so taken away. Yo, it was, you are so fucking good in that show.

I just have to say. I fly back down to Chile on Sunday to finish shooting season two. That's the best news I've heard. So you will be getting more of my prized Melanie Gibbons. It's an otherworldly performance. Yeah. Thank you. Very, very funny.

Greta, the background you're working with there looks like a Denis Villeneuve, like there's a horizon in the background. Oh, right here? This is my bank hat? Thank you so much. Yes. Okay, that's just a...

Yes, just, you know, your standard kitchen banquette, one might say. But to some, looks like a gorgeous horizon in the background. Yeah, a horizon on like a... What if I was like

I'm in an infinity pool? Right. Or if you were like saying like, I'm on location reporting from the Arctic. Yeah. Oh, wow. A lot of smog there.

I am. I wish that we did this yesterday because i would have been in mexico well no i guess yesterday morning i would have been but you know what can we do here i am now here you are los angeles well we are thrilled to have you with us that's very exciting about season two very exciting about season five of search party yeah one of the best shows out there. I think you're really going to like it. I'm very excited. Yeah.

Well, 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 today. We're just going to say a fond farewell to Betty White. We are going to do the opposite of that with Marjorie Taylor Greene. We are going to look at the latest TikTok trend in parenting. Those are stories that I did not write. Miles, you wrote them, and I don't know what any of them are about. And I'm excited.

I know what the Betty White one is about. So I will not be just like devastated by the news. But I don't know what the other oh we'll get to it one thing at a time oh no what what what news um well we'll get to it have you heard this song jesus is the one by zach box i actually have and i love that song that's all i could think of actually when bet We're going to talk about the I think we mentioned this towards the end of last year that car crash deaths and car crashes are up, even though there are fewer cars on the road during the pandemic. And we might have even made reference to an L.A. Times article that had an explanation that was like, people are just mad and selfish now. I don't know, man. So Super Producer Brian Jeffries,

actually producer of the trending show, the Daily Trending Show, pointed out that we and the LA Times got that totally wrong. So I wanted to dig into that because it's actually very interesting. It has to do with city design and America being a fucked up place. And we might even get to the fact that Wheel of Fortune is a fucking train wreck,

all of that, plenty more. But first, Greta, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Something that I searched recently was, well, okay. I mean, gold price per gram was something that I searched a few days ago. Hell yeah. Obviously very important. Chrishell Stouse or whatever from Selling Sunset.

Yeah. Now, here's the thing. I'm not a big reality TV head. My husband loves Selling Sunset. So now I just like, I'm the person that I'm watching something and doing a full Wikipedia deep dive about who they are at the same time. Clearly, you didn't do that while watching Los Espookys, which is good. But then I have a bunch of other shit. I guess probably Rezi is always up. I have a Google search for Michael Stipe up. What's Michael Stipe up to? I don't think I've ever heard him referred to as Michael Stipe up, you know, just kind of classic situations. What's Michael Stipe up to?

What's Mike Stipe? I don't think I've ever heard him referred to as Mike Stipe. Nah. Well, he lives in my friend's building. Oh, that's cool. And I was in my friend's apartment going to visit her, and I thought that I saw him, and it could not have been more opposite than what he actually looks like. So then I was like, do I have no idea as to what Michael Stipe actually looks like?

Turns out I had no fucking clue. Oh, so what did you, what did you expect versus what it was? Because I have this guy that I see at Trader Joe's who I'm convinced is Michael Stipe, but I second guess every now and then when I kind of look closer, I think like in my mind,

I know he's bald. But in the moment, I was like, he's not bald because there's something about him. Like he and Moby could potentially get like smushed together as being like bald white guys that wear glasses, even though Moby has a bunch of like insane tattoos now. So he's very recognizable. I don't know.

Shout out to his restaurant here in LA, Little Pine. It's very funny to me that Moby got a bunch of tattoos. Wait, is Michael Stipe, how is he height wise? That's always something that I... Always top of mind for you. You know, you think that I would know, and I'm going to look it up for you right now. I guess the only other tab that would kind of be like inside into my brain is hippopotamus attacks. That's the other tab that I have open currently you don't have to look it up i was

just curious if he struck you as taller or shorter than you expected when you saw him the the gent that i saw in person was probably like 5 10 and now that i'm looking it up, Michael Stipe is 5'9". So I wasn't far off. Okay. Do you know what kind of car he drives? Sorry to ask. I don't think he drives a car. Fuck. Michael,

you think Michael Stipe has a car, man? He lives in New York. This guy, I'm telling you, next, I'm going to fucking take a picture of this guy who's this doppelganger

that I see around my place. Just flick it up with him and be like. He lives in New York. He's like a, he's like the person that's always there. Oh my God, he lives in New York. Okay. Yeah, he's not even and be like... He lives in New York. He's like the person that's always there. Oh my God,

he lives in New York. Okay. Yeah, he's not even here. He's not even in this state. No way you're seeing Michael Stipe. I'm racist. I'm sorry.

I'm racist. But like, when you are a bald white man of a certain stature, you could be Michael Stipe. You could be Jason Statham. You could be Moby.

You could be, you know, there's a whole, you could be Mr. Clean. There's a whole laundry list. Thank you. Okay, that makes me feel better. And I do suspect that the person that you were mistaking for Michael Stipe, like, chose that lane. Was like, all right, I'm going to be a Michael Stipe bald. Right.

That's going to be my lane that people, you know, because you got to gotta you can't just create your own yeah white guy space his whole vibe was like i'm wearing like an old vaporized t-shirt and i got like this shitty classic car that like works but i'm not trying to front like it's fancy but clearly it's catching your eye because it's older and like just being like like moving like a ghost and he had like a big adam's apple and i'm like this is that's all very stipey except for the car i wouldn't i wouldn't expect him to like i also was it like a authentically burnt out tea or was it something that was bought at like max fields it looked it the the vibe felt authentic to the point i was like this could be

michael stipe because it just felt like this wasn't like this wasn't really overdone because like i remember me one time i saw you know like remembering you greta yeah it's halloween i'm doing an rem costume what's your problem like to michael stipe i don't know but i it's like the same thing. One time I saw Diane Keaton out and I said, look at this Diane Keaton cosplay looking motherfucker. I was like, this person is trying to do Diane Keaton with the hat and the glasses and everything. And then I look closer. I'm like, oh, shit.

That's that's the real deal. And then so I have those moments, too, where I'll be dismissive of the real thing because i'll be like you look at you attempting this other person's style it's jarring when you see someone that has a signature look and you see them out in the wild in the signature look i saw billy porter at the airport and initially i was like wow that guy's dressed exactly like billy porter and then i was like oh no it's actually just Billy Porter. He's the only person wearing completely crystal jeweled sneakers and like a gorgeous hat that is like high and tilted and looked stunning very early in the morning. Right.

As hand motions are suggesting, this hat is taller than any hat I've ever seen. It was insanely tall. Yeah. Like Abe Lincoln, 2X Abe Lincoln. No way it could. I bet, I bet when they sat in the airplane, it was touching where the lights and the AC is. And I don't see him playing that either.

He'd be like, I need a new seat because I'm not taking my hat off and it's touching the air conditioner nozzle. All right. Did we discuss this before when Diane Keaton and her signature look came up? The, the question of like, are there other actors who have just been like, ah,

this is what I look like. Like, this is kind of how I dress and this is how I'm going to dress in all my movies. And that's just like, they come with the wardrobe. Yes. I can say firsthand,

Jeff Goldblum. Yeah. He's on, he's on search party this season and like how he dresses that you you would compliment him on something and he'd be like these are mine like everything ever is mine yes and um oh like to set you're saying you're like oh the like the stylist compliment like his rings i'm like oh i love Like, you know, costumes really hit it out of the park or whatever. That does sound like you're all just like his own his own stuff.

I mean, he's a very jazzy dresser. And yeah, and he just, you know, he has zany style. And I think that he has been another person to like the Jeff Goldblum style is now how you see him on and off the screen. I feel like Andy Garcia also. That's like my vibe with him. Andy Garcia? Just always a suit? Yeah, like or like on vacation.

Like rich person vacation with linen on. I was going to say linen and like a hat. Yeah, yeah. Tommy Bahama? There's like a soccer player this bulgarian soccer player named dimitar burbatov and he was once told he looked like andy garcia and he said he devoted his entire style like his whole wardrobe is now informed by andy garcia because that's very funny offhand like you kind of look like andy garcia who's

20 years older than you i actually feel like like Gabriel Iglesias always looks the same. Okay. Yeah, that's definitely, yeah. He has a style signature look. Yeah. Yeah. But we should circle back to hippo attacks because I'm sure everybody is thinking about those.

I think Super Producer Becca Ramos mentioned that there are, there's a TikTok about hippo attacks going viral. There are? Right now. Yeah. We were looking it up because it was on an episode of like, I survived death or whatever. there's a tick talk about hippo attacks going viral. There are right now. Yeah. I, we were looking it up because it was on an episode of like, I survived death or whatever.

I guess some podcast that my friend listens to. And we were all talking about this guy who survived this insane hippo attack. Yeah. And when I see hippos, I want to just like cuddle with them. They look so cute. Put them in a tutu and call them sassy baskets. Well, I want to just like cuddle with them. Yeah. Because they look so cute. They're cute. Put them in a tutu and call them sassy baskets.

Well, you know that they're like so fucking scary. Yeah. The most deadly creature in Africa, I think. It's wild. And also their mouths. I think they have like a 2,000 pound like jaw crush. Yeah. The eyewitness testimony about hippo attacks involves people being

bitten in half a lot of the time. Which you don't hear that about sharks even though. Right. Well sharks don't mean to eat us. Right. Yeah. Whereas hippos are like I'm coming for you. Sharks are like I thought you were a seal. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah it's on and they'll wave their little butts and their tails just like shoot

shit out in like many directions that's like the one thing i remember seeing in the nature documentary yeah the shit fan they turn their tails into shit fans i wish i could do that metal man yeah i would like that that would be pretty cool that would be a great way to you know you don't you don't need a receptacle to take it away from you because you have one built in that just fires it across the. Yeah. Yeah. What is, what's something you think is overrated? Something that I think is overrated has to be zippers.

Mm. Yeah. Go on. I think zippers are really overrated. I was thinking about this this morning. Buttons, man. Buttons never fail you. Zippers.

Zippers break. If your little zippy thing, if the little pulley thing comes off and you don't have a little safety pin to scooch in there, you're fucked. Also, they can get caught. They can nag things. And I just think, like, I would love to go back to buttons. I think zippers. Yes, they're convenient. Yes, we like them for convenience. But like, you know, let's be a little bit more tactile. Let's get in there with a button. And maybe this is boring to people. And people are like, God, this girl sucks. You should never come back on this podcast. She's railing about something that's not even funny. come back on this podcast she's railing about something that's not even funny but i'm here to let you know that zippers when they fail you you're kind of fucked it's not a laughing matter it's not a laughing matter especially one that's like can fall down on its like with its own weight

oh nothing's more aggravating what is this nothing's more aggravating or when you have a zipper and then part of it part of the zip part comes unzipped. Yeah. And it's like, what's going on? I just closed you. You shouldn't be opening up down there. Yeah. The closure's up top.

Just going up and down without making any effect on the closure. Don't even get me started on the stupid sweatshirts that have the dual zip so that you can zip it up and then unzip the bottom part. I won't get you started on that because I think we'd be here all day. The base zipper, what are we doing? Yeah. Has that ever come in? I'm sure there's like a reason for that, but sweatshirts are not it, right? I don't know what the reason is. I think it's a fashion statement. I mean, do I have a black top with a crystal zipper where I can undo the bottom zipper on the top zipper and have the meat and it can become kind of this gorgeous crop top situation? Yes. Yes, of course.

But am I waiting for that top to completely break and then leave me full tits out on the dance floor one day? Yes. Right. That comes with it. Yeah. I can't trust it. You can't trust a zipper. What is something you think is underrated?

Diarrhea. Boom. And we're done. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. My children have had a 72-hour and very productive stomach bug right now. It's not good.

Look, here's what I'll say. No one wants it, but when you get it, there is no greater feeling of relief once it is passed. And I just think it's efficient. I think that it clears the system quickly. And I just think we literally shit on diarrhea as being like this awful thing. But, you know, I think it's underrated for the cleanse, the immediate cleanse. It's not vomit. And I think for that, we need to be a little bit more grateful for diarrhea.

And I hate to do this to the listeners, but you're picking diarrhea over vomit? What? Absolutely. Are you crazy? I'm just setting the table for a terrible discussion. Hold on. If you have access to a bathroom. Okay, look. Yeah, you want to sit on

it rather than put your face in it. Vomit is more acceptable to do anywhere, right? Like if you need to, you can run to the sidewalk and vomit on the sidewalk. You can't necessarily like rip your pants off and diarrhea all over the sidewalk. So I understand one might say, well, vomit's more convenient. You know, vomit can kind of happen anywhere. It can sort of be impromptu. You don't need to be worried about a bathroom situation. Right. If you have access

to a bathroom, especially if it's your own, honey, I'm going to have diarrhea all day. I'm not going to want to vomit at all. And we will be isolating that and making, honey, I'm going to have diarrhea all day. Honey, I'm going to have diarrhea all day. I'm not going to want to vomit at all. We will be isolating that and making honey, I'm going to have diarrhea all day. Honey, I'm going to have diarrhea all day. Sounds like a lost line from Samantha.

From Samantha, yeah. I'm having diarrhea all day. Let me tell you a little something about this diarrhea. Yeah. Alright gang, the lines are open. Call in, let us know you zippers or buttons, you diarrhea or vomit buttons i say as i bring it up buttons i say i feel like i mean the internet the internet has been

electrified by the debate about which way uh toilet paper rolls are supposed to go so i feel like these could these could be oh everyone's like i will come to your house and make that toilet paper roll go over it's like if you're taking the time to switch my toilet paper roll. Get the fuck out of here. You need to get a life, honey. You need to ask yourself whether you're zippers or buttons. Exactly. Because that's what you should be worried about.

That is. Yeah. We're asking the wrong questions here. Thank you. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Thank you. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and so betty white passed on new year's eve just capping off a really shitty year but what what a legend what a career yeah I just I didn't I like put this in the doc and I was like I don't know why because we don't necessarily always like sort of reference people's passings and stuff on the show but that's like it's a trending up but there was something I think that like Betty White's obviously her career aside which is legendary and like longer than anyone's on earth as it relates to television, she just also had this huge place, I think, in culture that was sort of interesting to see in that moment, multiple sort of, not reckonings, but just these realizations

occur where some people were like, oh, it's such a loss. I saw some people who were really upset. Other people, there was always these jokes about protect Betty White at all costs kind of things that you would always see on Twitter and Instagram, whatever. And it was like, yeah, it was a sad day. And then I don't know, part of me, I wasn't like a necessarily like the biggest, like singular Betty White fan, but I really liked her as a performer. Every time she did a cameo, I was like, she's fucking got it. Like that's called mastery. When even in your nineties, you're going toe to toe with like other comedic talents that might be, you know, generations between you and still just like holding your own. So I always really appreciated that. But there was something about, I think like her getting to almost a hundred that I feel like was maybe working on people were like, that's,

that was the goal, right? It was like, let's get Betty White to 100. They had a whole special plan for later this month for because I think January 17 would have been her 100th birthday. But I don't know, I was like, I sat back, I was kind of like, Hmm, I was just processed. I don't know. I only bring this up to process this out loud with everyone else. I'm like, I, I'm glad she was here. And I'm glad she she passed away in a very natural way. Like getting to 99 years old. I feel it's a, it's a,

maybe Betty White's lucky number was 99. You know, maybe she was like 99 is the, is the age. Yeah. Oh, right. Who knows?

I mean, I was, I'm a huge, am still am golden girls, just like huge. And then to think about the cultural impact that had and how she's just you know she worked i'm pretty sure she was consistently shooting wasn't she on hot in cleveland for like a million years yeah and didn't stop working regularly uh maybe

like four years ago or something but she never even announced that she was like quote unquote stopping working she just kind of was like that's how i want to do it i kind of just want to slowly back away not like opportunities can come and go but you never formally announce that you're like leaving the business or retiring. Yeah. And also she was supposed to be like the nicest, sweetest, most lovely person ever. Right. Could have fooled me.

She seemed like a real asshole. Yeah. I feel like this is one of those things that like the people who ruined the toilet paper debate about like, who like no it's got to be over under and like i feel like i associate people being like betty white is like i hope betty white doesn't die with that sort of like meme or that like level of like internet sort of thing but i think they're right about this one. Betty White's last dying breath is the toilet paper. Yeah.

She saw it under, she saw the toilet paper. I do think that what I did love about Betty White, then we can move on. I feel like it's really hard as an actor to, I would imagine because like, I'm terrified of getting old, but when like a young act,

a young male actor, like makes out with an older woman. And the joke is like, oh my god, he's making out with a grandmother. And I feel like Betty White just took that in stride all the time. Because I think she did a lot of making out with young, hot celebrities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that did almost become a thing. Where it's like, and then they'll kiss Betty White.

Yeah, and then you'll make out with Betty White. Yeah, and then we'll cue the laugh track and that's it. Meanwhile, anti-vaxxers said that she was killed by the booster shot. Obviously. There's that too. Isn't that just implied? Come on. Yeah. What's her name? Marjorie Taylor

Green. Yeah. Great transition, Miles. You know, some people thought we were going to be a little rusty, come back from break, but you fucking nailed it with that transition. Nope, didn't. Just mumbled my way right through it. Because MTG got booted from social media. Yeah.

And is fighting with Dan Crenshaw. I'm just reading the headline that you wrote. Sir, take it away. I'm just, you know, the long-time COVID denier, anti-vaxxer slash CrossFit doctor, majorly tainted growth, went a little too far on Twitter with the social media lies again with the misinformation. And Twitter permanently disabled her personal account because she was talking about, I don't know about all these vaccination deaths you've heard about. Just bringing up this thing about the vaccine killing people. And they're like, you know what? Welcome to Twitter. Strike five, you're out. So it's her fifth strike. Don't know why they settled on that number. But yeah,

she has had that personal account pretty much, not pretty much, it's permanently deactivated. So now all she has is her official congressional account to spew nonsense from but i have a feeling that's probably more for official business rather than her scathing takes on you know what what covet actually is do you think she cares i feel like she's not gonna care she's like what fuck whatever i don't care that this is official i'm just gonna do it anyway she is does not care yeah i she does. And then she doesn't. Right. Because then she'll go on like Getter, which is this really stupid other like Twitter sort of clone site that, you know, the Trumper made. It's called Getter. Yeah. Getter.

G-E-T-T-R. Getter. G-E-T-T-R. Getter. Yeah. And she's just like, you know, she went on there to be like, oh, I can't believe they're like booting me off to free speed. I'm someone who represents 700,000. It's like, okay, sure. But the rules are pretty clear on Twitter. Don't don't spread misinformation that could potentially hurt someone's well being because they're believing you as a somehow member of Congress. you know what after she was booted from twitter this all kind of this all happened after she was fighting with dan crenshaw again the texas congress member the guy was the eyepatch who

always says he's like i'm not all for the histrionics but made like a like a janky avengers film about like stopping the steal so they were going on back and forth because again if you remember this all started like a month or two ago when Dan Crenshaw was like, dude, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, they're hucksters. They're just trying to ride this mag away. Like, they're not really about this conservative shit. And so they always started they started bickering constantly. Then Dan Crenshaw basically had said this thing on Twitter. twitter he's like hey man uh biden should you know like increase fema's presence in areas that need expanded testing and support you know because you know trump actually even did that you know he

had to add the caveat that he wasn't just saying like i'm trying to tell biden what to do that's good he was saying trump did this so from there maybe he's i can't call her marjorie majorly tainted growth then tweeted at him she's, this guy shouldn't call himself a conservative. He's like riding for Biden or something. I don't even know. Then her account got deactivated and she posted. She apparently was trying to suggest that maybe her and Dan Crenshaw's spat got her account deactivated. He said, all I said was, no, we don't want FEMA doing any of that.

And hospitals need to hire back unvaccinated health care workers. Then, poof, I'm kicked off Twitter. I mean, yeah, big crenshaw definitely came for her. You saw the production value on that short film that he made. Like he's got backing from the highest levels of, you know, finance. This guy is fucking untouchable. Yeah. So, you know, I'm glad to see them fighting. But also, this is a moment where Omicron is, you know, well and truly is in the process of taking over the country and the infection rates are so high. So I guess the only positive to take away at the moment, despite all this, is that, you know, hospitalizations are not as high as Delta. But, yeah, this is all all of this information, misinformation is coming at a time when we we've never needed it and a lot of the studies we've talked about where it's like 80 percent of people who are you know anti-vax have encountered one of these like facebook myths

that kind of sets people down this road at some point so it also underlines you know the responsibility of places like twitter and Facebook to get their shit together. Because she also got banned for 24 hours from Facebook. You mean Meta. Yeah. Whatever. I don't respect their new name. It's like, you know, somebody tries to change their name, like from junior high to high school. It's actually called Meta now, babe.

Yeah, I know. I just don't respect. Sometimes those name changes are trying to avoid a dark side. And Greta, you are part of Meta's outreach campaign, letting us know. Yeah, and I'm here representing Meta today. She's here to let us know that it's Meta Titlement. She will be changing her name. I'm having a career pivot. For a great check, though.

Can you imagine? They come up to you, they're like, hey, Greta. Hot, hot, hot piece of ass. Mark Zuckerberg sunk his little talents in me. They're like, can we get some of those like Instagram character bits you do, but like really talking up Mark Zuckerberg. No, I have beef with Meta. I'm pretty sure I'm shadow banned on Instagram.

Really? Oh, wow. Why would you do? What kind of truths did you tell? You know, me just talking in a British accent about my snatch. And I think people just like report that I use foul language and now no one sees any of my content. Now I spiral and it makes me feel bad.

Oh, no. Well, now we all have to go to at Gertie Birdie, right? Isn't that true? Gertie Bird. Go look at my account. Like all my stuff. Shout out your handle on Getter. Could you let them know?

Yeah, and then find me on Getter as Meta Zuckerberg. Meta Zuckerberg Titleman. Does this signal... Wait, is Trump permabanned on Twitter? Or is that just like... Yeah. Oh, it's permanent. Okay.

Yeah. But Facebook, they like... Meta only did 24 hours for her? They're checking back. No. I think it's just that she has to screw up enough times. There was just like a suspension. I also think they're like, we need

people to stay active on this. And like the only people left are people that are like following Marjorie Taylor Greene. Right. Yeah. Alright. Finally we do have a TikTok trend to check in with. It is, you know,

we tend to get a little scatological every once in a while here on the Daily Zeitgeist. We haven't been talking to y'all for a couple weeks now. So we had it all stored up. So we had to do it to them. So there we do have to tell you about a TikTok trend about parents smearing shit on their kids. Yeah.

Oh, on their hands, right? Yeah, yeah. Like or on their arm. Like this Oh, on their hands, right? Yeah, yeah. Like, or on their arm. Like, this is a thing we've seen on the internet before, like, sort of in isolated moments. But now, because TikTok's ability to affect culture is just so powerful, we are seeing this new, a reemergence of it,

but called the hashtag poop challenge. And like, you know, if you've not seen a video like this, like, a parent will usually be in the bathroom, pretend to be on the toilet and asking for help from someone outside, typically a kid being like, Hey, I need more like toilet paper. Can you help me with something? They come in and they smear some shit looking food like Nutella or pudding or peanut butter, like on the kid's hand or arm. And then be like and now i'm recording you let's see if my violation of our trust will get the likes the clicks and you know you see it all you see some kids just scream and cry because they can't believe that their parent just smeared shit on them

then you see other kids who are like there's one kid who's like crying but also playing with it more as like they're trying to figure out they're like they're like no but i'm kind of interested in what this may or may not be and then you have some true og kids who just look their parents in the eye and they're like yo this doesn't smell like shit nice try we're like young and you're like i think i saw one that was actually really sweet when a kid like kind of realized what it was and looked at his parent. I was like, it's okay. It's okay. And I'm just like, this is so much more fucked. Like now you're putting the child like to comfort you for shitting on them. I don't know.

I'm just the whole, the culture behind that. I can't get behind. Yeah. That's what I think is interesting. Cause I'm, you know, I get pranking your kids. I was a victim of this kind of shit. No pun intended. Constantly like having uncles or cousins who always be like, oh, let's kind of fuck with them. So I know that like, you know, having fun and doing that kind of stuff is, you know, par for the course. now it's like but in my day we weren't uploading these videos where i was crying of because i was so afraid of the dark or the lights going out to like the internet uploading to the internet for people to feast their eyes upon so yeah i'm just it is interesting to watch how quickly like

consciously or subconsciously parents are like i don't know maybe your maybe your tears will get me some followers jack are you gonna do the poop challenge to your kids? I mean, have I done the poop challenge with my kids? Is that where, did I misunderstand it? And is that where their stomach bug came from? Are all questions that I'm not going to answer this time. You're like, oh, it was Nutella? Oh, damn. Okay, okay, okay.

Got it. Makes a lot more sense. Now I know. Would you prank your kids though? Definitely not on social media. Just in the privacy of your own home, like a civil more sense. Now I know. Would you prank your kids, though? Definitely not on social media. Just in the privacy of your own home, like a civilized adult. I tell them we're getting divorced. They got to pick a parent to leave with right now.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't tape it. Yeah. My wife is much more prone to, I don't know, mess with the bounds of like truth to see how they react. And I'm just too tired to do that. Yeah. As of right now.

Were you pranked a lot as a kid? Either of you? My uncles. Yeah. Not my dad. I wasn't pranked a lot because I think I was like, I think I was like an annoyingly precocious kid where whenever anyone would try to do something, I would be like, that's not true. And they would be like,

how do you know? And I would be like, because I just do. Like I'm actually smarter than you. Yeah. I think, I don't know. I was like one of those kids.

I never thought the tooth fairy was real. Like, I don't know. I was kind of just like, no way. Some bitch is flying into my window grabbing my teeth and putting money under my pillow for a dollar yeah i was like okay first of all these teeth are worth way more right yeah and second of all no but i mean i did believe in

santa santa claus and i also i guess until very recently? Until actually this year. When I was really little, my mom used to, my mom was not a crafty person. Like she was not like a PTA mom or anything like that. But she did do this thing, which I guess was a prank, where on St. Patrick's Day, she would mess up our room, me and my sister's rooms, like pull our clothes out of the drawer undo our beds and like then she would put little green footprints to like a little pot of candy like a pot of gold and she made us believe that leprechauns like came into our room and and that prank was cool for like a few years and then i just realized it was her doing it. And then I was left to clean up my room. Right.

Was it with paint? What were the footprints made of? They were like paper. They were like little like, you know, cut out little footprints from paper. That's really cute. I mean, it's cute to do to your kids. Maybe you should do that. But I didn't, I never, I wish she was.

Things you wish your parents were alive for to ask them why. Why did she pretend to be a leprechaun? I wonder if it's like a thing too where on the most cynical level, parents can do that to cover up the fact that they flipped the room looking for drugs. I don't know, damn, leprechaun came through here. But at least there's a pot of gold and I'm glad to know you don't have drugs. Yeah. All right. Well, let's take another quick break and we'll come back and talk about car crashes and Wheel of Fortune. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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And it's great analysis. Yeah. And so we we talked about that. We didn't say that's definitively why. But Super Producer Brian pointed out that there's actually a much better explanation that the L.A. Times completely missed. But I just want to quote from the LA Times article. They said, I fear we, or they quoted somebody saying, I fear we've adopted some

really unsafe driving habits and they're going to persist. Our roads are less safe than they were pre-pandemic. And then I think they, anecdotally, we hear from governor's offices around the country that it's a symptom and a sign of the overall lack of consideration we're showing for other citizens. So it's basically they're like blaming it on individual like character defects, which I feel like it goes along with the I think this is the overall like sort of shape that America tends to take with any problem is find a way to isolate it, to like put it in terms of individuals and psychology. Like you're struggling right now. You probably suffer from depression. You should exercise more and take these pills.

And, you know, instead of looking at like the broad structural problems that we have in our community. What if it's just that people were out of practice right yeah yeah that was one of the psychic predictions of uh super producer like the beginning of 2021 she's like more car crashes people don't know what they're doing no one's driving and it happened and we're like can you predict me becoming a like just a very happy person with many pets that are healthy? Yeah. I don't know.

So I think there's definitely some of that for sure. But I also think so that a thing that I hadn't really taken into account is something called stroads, which they're like these city planners who are talking about how America is full of these like combination street roads, which I didn't, you know, being an American. What's the difference between a street and a road? My exact question. So I think roads are supposed to be like thoroughfares where like lots of cars, they're wider. Streets are supposed to be single, like one lane each way. One lane. Yeah.

streets are supposed to be single, like one lane, one lane. Yeah. That people can like walk along. And America has just kind of broken down that distinction to the point that now everything is basically just this like combination street road. There's like strip malls all over the place. There's, you know, these massive like two lane, three lane roads that have like pedestrian crosswalks, which is where people are seeing a lot of the deaths happening. And basically what happens in normal times is that traffic like slows our driving down. Like when there's a lot of cars on the road, especially if they're all on the road at the same time, like during rush hour, then people can't drive fast. But when there's little traffic in the way, as has been the case during most of the pandemic, the overly wide design of strodes encourages people to drive very fast, regardless of the

speed limit. And they're hitting pedestrians, they're crashing. Yeah. Because there are parts like when you drive around around like anytime you drive through la or different parts of the county and stuff you i find myself being like damn it's like a fucking three lane street with nobody on it and i'm like let's open this shit up like in your mind it feels like a freeway or something that i get like this i i definitely suffer from or not suffer but i get that impulse in a wide open road that's open. You're like, dude, the speed limit has to be like 55 on here, right? A wide open road that's open?

Yeah, exactly. You know, just nobody on there. But like, you know, in like certain streets, they just you'll see like, you're like, oh, shit, you can go faster on this like very wide road or whatever. And that definitely affects my subconscious sometimes when I'm driving. Yeah, I live by the wilshire country club yeah and you know that like stretch of beverly that's like between highland and rossmoor that's just like straight right right i see sometimes you know you can be flying, flying down that little road. Yeah. And some people truly go like 150 miles an hour down that road.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I see these people that are like jogging on the side of it. I'm like, what is wrong with you? It's a fucking death trap. Yeah. But to me, I'm like, that's on the pedestrian because that's just not safe right but there's also it's at a place where there's no and this is actually brings up

another point which is that there's a massive private golf course that you can't go through any other way but this one road that doesn't have any fucking sidewalks yeah so they literally make it like impossible to walk from one side like to walk like three blocks across the city it's you see people like traversing the little like ledge by the fence of the golf course yeah yeah yeah so anyways the like the reason that america has been designed this way is because it delivers people faster to stores and stuff. And they just are putting stores and other profit-making centers all over the place instead of at very tightly planned places that have a bunch of traffic planning in place to make sure that it's safe. How shocking. I know.

It doesn't sound like us. No, that doesn't sound American at all. Yeah. So there are strategies for reducing them, like, you know, putting roundabouts instead of traffic signals and intersections. Like, they all sounded, when I first read them like, yeah, okay. But like, it's what other other countries do constantly. And the city Fortaleza, Brazil cut its traffic deaths nearly in half between 2014 and 2019 by just lowering speeds,

narrowing lanes and adding complexity to the roads. And, you know, other cities have basically eliminated traffic deaths by just like doing these. So like we know what the answer is. Like the L.A. Times doesn't mention it. The L.A. bike paths and, you know, creating very slow or car-free zones that actually, Oslo virtually eliminated traffic deaths in 2019 by doing that. So we know how to do this. It's just like this Vox article points out that like city planners don't think about it as like a thing that they're trying to eliminate. They think of it as a like baked in like it's like a right. All right. Well, that's the cost of doing business. You know, it's humiliating when you get to a crosswalk and they want you to pick up that little flag.

They want you to cross the street with a little flag. Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you seen this anywhere? No, no. It's like there are some in brentwood i think there's some they were there are some in random parts of dc where i grew up you'd like push the pedestrian crossing thing there wasn't a light but then like little flares would go or like little lights would flare on the road and then they'd want you to like take a a little pedestrian crossing flag and walk across the street holding this flag. Again, putting all the impetus on the pedestrian instead of the driver. Because the driver is getting to where they're going to spend money faster.

And so that is who America and the city planners take into account. So you were struck by a car in the crosswalk. Were you doing anything like a ribbon dance or something to get the attention of the drivers? She wasn't holding the flag. Yeah, that's the problem. To me, it's like, it doesn't matter what I'm holding. I could be carrying a huge huge jackson pollock across the street and if you're going to kill me with your car i feel like that would happen yeah it's yeah and it's funny too

when you like you think about like other places have speed cameras like the uk and stuff where it's just like we don't need to put fucking law enforcement on the roads there's a fucking camera that will clock your ass the second you blow by that shit going too fast and that's like already you can tell how much compliance that creates with people because they're like well there's no way i can avoid the fucking automated speed ticket distributing machine and that will already get me to be like oh maybe not right now yeah they have a quote from somebody who's like i just came from you know i lived in brazil for a number of years and came back to the united states and was shocked

that like this wasn't this hadn't been adopted here like it's been adopted and no like it's impossible you just if you break the speed limit you know that you're gonna get a ticket it's just like how it is and the speed limits are there to keep people safe. Right. It's funny too. Cause I feel like in America, you'd be like, I don't know, where's like that robot company. That's like getting a congressional contract to like put these all over the country where they're like, yeah, man, these speed cameras, like, and you're going to generate more revenue through like violation tickets and things like that. But I wonder if it's at odds with like our culture of being like no man like the open road like you got to just trust that you're going to drive the right

speed or some shit i don't know if there's like something philosophical at like at odds with each other there well it kind of just goes back to it we were talking about five minutes ago where it's like the consumer capitalist part where it's like nope let's not have those and let's just have people get where they need to get going to go and spend money. Yeah. And also those businesses that have been built into the actual infrastructure of the city and that we're dying in order to make more profitable. Those are more entrenched than some tech company that is probably also making a bunch of money doing this overseas so they're like you know hopefully that but that's like how we have to think about it is like well hopefully they get better at lobbying because

that's the only way we're gonna fucking survive right so yeah that part of like the Wilshire Country Club on Beverly I actually live right by there too Greta and like that somebody needs to just fucking write a whole story about that that is like absurd and the fact that there's not like

sidewalks or any pedestrian like option for that whole area is pretty shocking i mean i i personally think we need to as a city just tear down the like fences of the wilshire country club and like claim it for the public because yeah and have it be like a public green space because it's crazy like a central park it would blow your mind when you i remember i there was a kid who i played hockey with like wealthy his his backyard was the wilshire country club and at night they'd be like let's go out there and like smoke. I'm like, what the fuck? I remember not knowing there was a golf course behind this house. Yeah, it's just a big black fence that's going up and nobody's allowed inside.

Fuck, dude, how do y'all live over here? You know that they have a lot of coyotes in there. Yeah. Keep you and your small pets away? I don't know. Yeah. Don't walk your chihuahua on that little green yeah nope don't puff green on the green well yeah yeah all right let's check in with wheel of fortune real

quick you know we've all been so focused on controversy surrounding jeopardy miles i know it's kind of taken over your life completely but no it like that was a big story in 2021 but it seems like we've all let a lot of wheel of fortune's fuckery slip by because i i don't know anyone who watches it but at the end of last year there were multiple instances of wheel of fortune like being just a really like just bad at being a game show they like so one time a contestant made it to the final round of the game got the answer right but she left too long of a pause between words and so they're like ah sorry you didn't like it's almost like it's what pat sajax like own personal like money in his wallet that he's like nope ah sorry like sorry. Like they're like cheating their contestants out, even though it like definitely makes it a worse show.

And then there's another example. So we're going to play a clip from that example here. All right. What are you doing is the category. You have 10 seconds to try to talk it out. Good luck. Cho choosing the right card choosing the right word you know this one's tough because you said all the right words including the word word but as you know it's got to be more or less continuous. We'll allow for a little pause, but not four or five seconds.

I'm sorry. You did a good job in getting it, but we can't give you the prize. And it was the Audi. Pat Sajak was like, and it is my Audi, actually, that you are going to get. My Audi Q3 parked in the lot. That is so fucked up. Did she end up getting the car?

No, no, no, no, no. It was just like that was the L right there. Boom. Sorry. Yeah. I would have lost my mind. I would have gone completely off. Yeah.

So back in April, a similar thing happened where a contestant, like they just do one thing. So it's like, it's not, it should be like the New York Times puts out a crossword puzzle every day. That's like, you know, good. And they also have easy ones on Monday. So like, you know, there are people who are good at doing easy crossword puzzles. That would be great for this. Back in April, a contestant solved a crossword category, which is literally just figuring out what four words are on the board. They don't form

a sentence, but in listing the words, a guy added the word and, like in between, such as you would in a list of words, and was disqualified. And everyone was like, what? Then there was another example where it was like, I forget what the answer was, but it wasn't a thing. I think that it was like young jock. Yeah. The answer, they were like a type of person and it was young jock. Or no, just person. It was person.

Right. Person. Yeah. And this was just the day before the controversy we were just talking about the categories person and the answer, which the contestant didn't get was young jock, which is not. A type of person. I thought that was the rapper. It's going down. Meet me at the mall is going down. Well, we all did that dance like i guarantee you to go down yeah verse number two exactly yeah that's not like a jock we know pat but that's like that's not how

crossword puzzles were like they're they are supposed to be famous expressions or you know phrases that people have said before in public spaces. And they were just like, yeah, okay. I was just going to ask if young jock was a thing that I didn't know about. Yeah. Right. Like, oh, there's a young jock. That is so crazy. No one has ever, no one refers to any, I mean, like a jock, yes.

But a young jock to me, you're just referring to like a young little athlete yeah right no i think that's what it what they meant but it's just i think they've probably had the same writers for too long and they've just run out of shit and they're just like i don't know like just recombining words that they know popular jock maybe i don't know like that seems like closer to something i would have heard. Yeah. Like, than young jock. But, well, look, I'm not.

They didn't hire me to write this shit. But there's also the fact that Pat Sajak is just a complete fucking asshole. He, back in February, was called out for making fun of a contestant's speech impediment. How is the show still on? It must make a shitload of money or something. I mean, I don't know why I'm asking that question. That's a completely stupid question. People are addicted to watching Wheel of Fortune.

And also for people that like... Wheel of Fortune is perfect for people that get insanely frustrated watching Jeopardy because they don't get any of the answers right watching Jeopardy. Yeah. Because when you're just guessing letters with Wheel of Fortune, it makes you feel way smarter than not knowing like facts. Yeah. Like when you watch Jeopardy. He also went on Twitter and like complained about cancel culture.

That was like a week before he made fun of someone's speech impediment. And then one time he yelled at a contestant who rightfully pointed out again that a puzzle like didn't make any sense. They were supposed to answer like things that are in a kitchen. And they said cabinet, towels, oven, sink. And then the contestant was like, kitchen, oven, what is that?

Because it was supposed to be like complete this phrase. So kitchen, cabinet, kitchen, towels towels, kitchen sink, and then oven. And he was like, kitchen oven? Like, that doesn't really make sense. Right. And Sajak. It should have been table. Right.

There you go. And Sajak was like, you won. Don't argue. Darren, you got the puzzle. Ungrateful players. I've had it. No, I'm just teasing. And then laughing and saying i finally snapped

it's like it's just such a such a very specific way producers have to intervene can you imagine i'm sure in their late 70s outside power there too absolutely i mean no one they're gonna be like well are you gonna have the conversation with pat today and they're like no no let's let's let's not they're like, no, no, let's not. They're like, because in his Twitter, I always like laugh at how like just maggot out it is. One of his most recent retweets is, friends, happy new year. If you've been censoring yourself or worse, affirming woke or other dogmas you know aren't true. Make 2022 the year you break free.

Don't let groupthink, fear, ambition, or anything else enslave you. Think for yourself. Seek the truth. Speak your mind. He tweeted that or he retweeted somebody else saying that? He retweeted that, yeah. Yeah, that seems to be his. And he will, so he'll rant things like that himself, but then he'll delete them.

At one point, he tweeted, I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic, racist, knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night. And then had to delete it when the producer was hey man we might have to like fire you if you don't delete that and then he was like that was a parody right which is just a true king finally someone out there speaking the truth thank. Anyways, it still is my favorite show on TV. Do you watch Wheel of Fortune? Every day. No.

Really? No, no, no. I haven't watched it since I was like six. Since you were a young jock? A young jock. Back in the day, just waiting for them to call me out. And here I am. I fucking missed it.

Sorry, the answer we were looking for was young Jack. Yes. There it is. Well, Greta, as always, such a pleasure having you. Oh, thanks for having me. I will recognize you when you appear on season five of Search Party.

I'm going to get an email from you after you finish a season and you're like, hey, sorry, this is so embarrassing, but what episodes were you in? Yeah, you got cut out, I guess. In any of those. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can follow me at Gertie Bird on Instagram.

And you can follow my Twitter where I very occasionally tweet. An occasional tweet. Also at Gertie Bird. And you can listen to my podcast, Senior Superlatives, all about high school. Oh, wow. Amazing. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes. You know, I like to observe, you know, my friends on Twitter and my dear friend, Io Debrey tweeted something yesterday that made me laugh. And the tweet is, it's crazy that monk wore his shoes in the house.

And I really, really liked that for all of my monk heads out there. You'll laugh because it is really crazy. That just made me check though. Right. Cause he, he's like a very, does he have like OCD?

Yeah. He has like extreme ocd right and you're right because i feel like the only things i can remember is tony shalhoub being very careful about germs but then wow and he wears his shoes in the house there you go there you go he lying i know it's crazy that oh now a whole other series about people investigating monk whether that shit was just performative because they're like I don't know he wears his shoes in the house I know

they're like maybe he's not actually an OCD riddled genius right they're like have you seen I saw him pack for a trip he put the suitcase

on his bed on his bed and packed on the bed sat in his daytime clothes on his nighttime bed yeah mm-mm mm-mm

Miles where can people find you and what is a tweet you've been enjoying find me on Twitter and Instagram at at Miles of Grey, and also the other pod, 420 Day Fiancé with Sophia Alexandra, where we talk about 90 Day Fiancé, the worst best show ever. Some tweets that I like. First one is from at Wembley Sewell, tweeted, no more circling back.

Square up. Prepare to fight. Another Zach Fox reference, one might say. Right? Then, let's see. This one is from Cameron at Cameron Bradford tweeted, imagine being the first American soldier in Vietnam to put on Fortunate Son. Everyone would be like, dude, you're a genius.

This is the exact vibe. Stupid. And finally, at Baby Scallop Tudor, stop asking if the wine is dry. It's literally a liquid. Like, are you dumb? I mean, true. True facts.

Let's see. Katie Rich tweeted, a friend of mine did social media for Allstate and her job mostly consisted of deleting hundreds of women's vile, horny comments about the mayhem guy. What? And then Kat Algarista

tweeted, Goldilocks was so stupid for not wanting to sleep in a bed too big for her. Oh no, I'm too comfy. Shut up. Never thought about that. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. 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 on

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