The Daily Zeitgeist - BARKitecture, How To NOT Coronavirus 3.4.20

Episode Date: March 4, 2020

In episode 582, Jack and Miles are joined by MEGA podcast's Holly Laurent to discuss Quibi's upcoming slate, Super Tuesday and how Joe Biden is doing in polls, Chris Matthew's leaving Hardball, the spread of coronavirus, Taco Bell's 'veggie mode,' Ben Affleck's movie ideas, movies releasing in March, and more!FOOTNOTES: Short-form streaming app Quibi now available for pre-order Joe Biden takes aim at front-runner Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday Chris Matthews Out at MSNBC Top US doctor says coronavirus now an ‘outbreak,’ possibly a ‘pandemic’ Did a Noted Pathologist Write This Viral Coronavirus Advice Letter? The WHO sent 25 international experts to China and here are their main findings after 9 days Taco Bell's New 'Veggie Mode' Automatically Makes Everything on the Menu Vegetarian Ben Affleck Still Wants To Make A ‘McMillion$’ Movie Starring Matt Damon Every Movie Releasing In March 2020 WATCH: Cosurmyne - Jungle Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Wednesday, March 4th 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka and i bought a coconut she bought it to the office just to have a little treat with the cold brew you put the zeit in the coconut and drink it all up you put the miles in the coconut he smoke a fat blunt you put the jack in the coconut. He throw his hands up and say, sight gang. That is courtesy of Teddy Ruxpin. Teddy Ruxpin. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Bong Dylan, a.k.a. The Weedles, a.k.a. The Rolling Stoners, a.k.a. Janice Potlin, a.k.a. Jefferson Airblaze, a.k.a. Hyman and Gar Skunkle,

a.k.a. Crossweed L's Hash and Blunts, a.k.a. The Doobie Brothers. Hyman and Gar Skunkle is so violent. a.k.a. Parla Lit Funkachronic with George Splifton and the great 420 reference, Dead Headies. Yeah. Yeah. Did it. Thank you to Hannah Soltis. Shout out to you for providing another

just inspired string of AKs. One of the greats. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Holly Laurent. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Woo, woo. Welcome. Hey, thanks so much.

Am I picking up on you guys like cannabis? I do. Miles is a cannabis guy. Jack had to put it down. Had to put it down, man. He was getting way too into it. Liked it too much. Actually, it gave me panic attacks, but I insisted on smoking it because I thought it

made me cool, and yeah yeah so now i don't do anything oh yeah so you're going to catholic high school smoking weed made you cool right yeah no i know i insisted on doing it because i was like i just like the idea of me smoking pot like me right guy who can smoke pot but i never could i smoked weed because i love new york rap and everything was like okay so i have to smoke l's forever everything forever and i that was a self-fulfilling prophecy yeah every rapper i liked talked about smoking weed i was like i'm going to do this and never never happened for me hey you know some of us are just the chosen yeah guys if you smoke weed and you get a panic attack you don't have to keep doing it you're cool even without the weed see where were you to tell your younger self exactly

holly are you a fan of the cannabis yeah she's a good friend of mine yeah okay great yeah she's lovely yeah love her love her uh did you you grew up i've from you know we spoke a little bit you know i grew up in a fairly religious household. Yeah. Were drugs and alcohol just basically demonized in your household? 100%. Yeah. The whole, like, rule of thumb for living was don't drink, don't smoke, don't have sex.

That's all. That's all you have to do. Do everything else. Murder, steal, arson. So being a teenager, as soon as I was a teenager, I was like, oh, okay, so that's a prescription for exactly what I am going to do. Oh, okay. So it had been front loaded so much, like the stakes that you're like, okay, the second

I have a little bit of autonomy, we're diving right into that. Yeah. Yeah. As soon as it worked like that, I found out. But I don't even think like drugs were necessarily that much on my parents' radar. The church, it was more just like cigarettes, alcohol, sex. Right. You know? Yeah.

The three big ones you got to watch out for. Yeah. Because there's a very real hell that awaits you that is eternal conscious torment if you do any of those three things. Absolutely. Yeah. Unless you have a marriage certificate and only do it with that person you have that license with. You have to get a license from the state. The real gut check I had to really know that I was leaving any kind of notion of Christian guilt or hell behind is when I rolled a joint with the notes paper in the back of the Bible. Miles, don't even say it.

They're blank, baby. And they're the same thin thickness as joint paper. Okay. And I was like, bro, we don't have papers. I'm like, yo, bring that Bible real quick. Is that a sin or an extra? Is it extra sending you to hell because it's blank? You know what I thought in my mind? There's no scripture on it. Right. So it's just paper.

It's not the word of God necessarily. It's just the page that protects the word of God from the cover, which. But the funny part was, even though I was like, yeah, I'll do it. I was very scared at the time. Oh, yeah. I was like, man, this could be fucked up. See, I think it's respectful that you used a back page and not one that actually had scripture on it. Well, I'm not a heathen.

I'm not a Philistine. Yeah, exactly. Every time I check into a hotel room, which is a lot, I always just grab the Book of Mormon and the Bible and I draw a ding dong on the first page. Oh, nice. It's usually squirting. Yeah. Let themirting. Yeah. Let them know. Yeah.

Very cool. Very cool. And it has like a few pubes on the balls. Oh, nice. Are they curly? Jagged? What do you do? Like spider webs?

Curly. Jagged. Who's got jagged hair? Some people crimp the ball hair. Yeah. You know. You never know. Well, thanks to my new kit from Manscaped, I can style my ball hair in all kinds of ways.

Ball hair crimping. Awesome. I like your I Voted sticker. Thank you. Very proud of you. Yeah, I'm still wearing it from three elections ago. Was there an election recently? Yeah.

Oh, I knew that also. Yesterday, Miles. And I was so down for that. All right, let's come clean. We're recording this on Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday. Yeah, which is the only part of the democratic process that is named by morning zoo DJs.

Yeah. Welcome to Super Tuesday. Ow. But yeah, so we don't know the outcome of Super Tuesday yet. My stomach is a knot. I woke up to it. I'm so freaked out about it right now. I don't know why I can Super Tuesday yet. My stomach is a knot. I woke up to it. I'm so freaked out about it right now. I don't know why I can't just relax.

We'll see what happens. Yeah. I think we're already in hell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In terms of eternal conscious torment. Once I read a little bit of philosophy where I think it was Alan Watts or someone who was like, who's to say that this is not hell right now? Yeah.

And I was like, fuck, dude. Yes. Good place. But with the idea of like multiverse and all that, it does seem like whatever reality, knowing that like Einstein says reality is like an illusion and there's, you know, whatever we're stuck in right now really feels like this one has jumped the tracks. Like from like 2016 on for sure. I feel like, yeah, within the next day or so

i'm gonna see a bizarro version of myself like around town i'm like oh they're converging now right right and isn't it when you see your doppelganger you are gonna die or something you either have to fight each other have sex i think it's well when i saw my doppelganger uh i would love to have sex with myself i smoked salvia that's my doppelganger. I would love to have sex with myself. I smoked salvia. That's when my doppelganger appeared. Oh, wow. And then a man in the suit told me to go with him. There was a knock on my apartment door.

I opened the door. It's a man in a suit and my doppelganger. My doppelganger walked into my apartment and sat down with my friends. And my friends didn't realize that it was not me. And then the man in the suit was like, come with me. So wait, are you the person who came into the apartment and replaced yourself? No, I was me. I hit the salvia.

Then, oh, who's that? It's the man in the suit and my doppelganger. Doppelganger walks in, assumes my life, and he basically tagged me out. Okay. And then I went with the man in the suit. Okay. And now when did you tag back in so what happened was i then sort of came out of the the high the salvia high and i

was on my knees in another room with two pillows in my hands over like above my head like fucking nick cage in the rock that's incredible and then my roommate was like hey man your frozen peas are done your frozen yeah i have I had basically started microwaving frozen peas before I hit the salvia. Yeah, you always gotta do that. They say that really packs in the high. It really fucks you up if you start microwaving frozen peas.

That kind of scumbag lifestyle of them, where my dinner was frozen peas. We're all out here. I'm impressed that you were eating something green. You were vegetables. It was sort of the eating something green. Yeah. You were vegetables. It was sort of the only option in the house, but yeah. You were by yourself? I don't think you're supposed to just-

No, I was with like three other people. So what did they say you did for those seconds? Oh, I smoked and then I just calmly got up and went into my room. I wasn't like being like overly vocal or anything or like, ooh, I just got up and I went into my room. But when he went into my room, I was on my knees and I had pillows in my hands. That's really interesting. But so the question is, are you you

or are you the doppelganger who replaced you? You do this to me every time. That's the prestige of it all. I don't know, Jack. All right, sorry. Holly, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners,

we're going to talk about Quibi. We're going to talk about Biden being the now odds-on favorite to be the nominee. We're going to say peace to the God, Chris Matthews. We're going to talk about coronavirus, because that's all I can personally read about

right now. We're going to talk about Taco Bell. We're going to talk about Ben Affleck. We're going to talk about March movie preview, February review, all of that and more. But first, Holly, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? My last Google search was late night delivery near me. Okay.

Where were you? At home? Yep. Okay. You don't use any apps or anything? No. Wow. Okay. Like Grubhub and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause most people just pull up an app and be like, what can I summon now? Oh, maybe I should do that. Yeah. Hey, you know, Hey, I don't know how you get down. Maybe you like the, like the process of really. No, I don't like it. Especially because I was, I think I had, you know, a pre-roll and then I was like, oh, and then I checked for a frozen pizza. Wasn't one.

And then started Googling that. I get I don't do a lot of the apps and stuff. I just don't like putting my information in. I just. Yeah. But it sounds like maybe I should. What's the best one? It all depends on where you live and what kind of food you like.

I don't advocate for one over the other. It all depends on where you live and what kind of food you like. I live in the Hollywood Hills. I don't advocate for one over the other. Is there one that doesn't fuck up the order at least 50 to 75% of the time? No, they all fuck up the order. That's because they're not paying enough. And I get it. That's not their fault.

Yeah, no, of course. That's why I'm just saying. I take it out on their overlords. I'm with Holly on that. Just go with the traditional ones that can afford to deliver food. Right, sure. And because the delivery people are tasting your food. Right.

Especially if there's hot smelling, like good aroma food, like french fries. They're eating your french fries. Well, that's why a lot of restaurants seal their bags now. Yeah. So you'll know. Yeah. Because McDonald's, they have like full on staples plus sticker plus like warranty is void if showing kind of like.

That's why I only order food that smells like shit. Should be delivered to my house. And now I like it. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated. Eating animals. Okay. You're a vegetarian?

No. Just not worth the effort sometimes love it but i i'm starting to not feel good about the fact that i eat animals and i think in our lifetime probably none of us will right because like environmentally we won't even be able to yeah yeah i feel like we'll have to it won't be available quite quickly adapt to different are y'all vegan or veg? No. No, I'm open. I eat. I'll eat it. I eat everything.

Yeah, I do too. Yeah. I might try and start this year adopting the certain days of the week I'll be vegan or veg. Yeah. I'm meat free. So I'm considering part-time vegan or veg work. Hey, get a dip your toe.

The VB6 stuff that New York Times writer did the thing of like just be vegan before 6 p.m. and then have whatever you want for dinner, which is like, oh, that's great. I can definitely do that because dinner is the best one anyway. If you ask me, I'm not a breakfast person. Oh, is that just sort of so proportionately you're cutting down if you just have your rule that your final meal of the day will include? It can be whatever. But if you are vegan for breakfast and lunch, then two-thirds of your diet is now plant-based,

which is really, really good. Yeah. And I don't even eat breakfast, so boom, nailed that one. I don't either. I can't summon the hunger in the morning. Me either.

Vegans don't eat eggs. They don't eat eggs. No. No, those are... See, eggs are very... Those are the children of chickens. I know, but they're... Or honey.

Yeah. Some people will... Half honey, half not. Right. Or honey. Yeah. Some people will half honey, half not. Right. Or the oysters. Eggs are just so nutritious that I feel like,

I don't know. I'll eat a ton of oysters. I love oysters. Yeah. Just eat them whole. Since there's no central nervous system, there are some vegans

who allow them to eat oysters. Oh, really? Little snot. They're little like just, you know, sea filters. Yeah. And I'll eat snot too. What? Little snot. They're little like just, you know, sea filters. Yeah.

And I'll eat snot too. What is something you think is underrated? Clothes lines. Clothes lines. How do you say that word? Clothes lines. Clothes lines. Clothes lines.

But you want to honor the TH in it. Clothes lines. Clothes lines. Clothes lines. Clothes lines. Because when you say, hey, pick up your clothes, you say your clothes. Your clothes. We say it like- Right, you your clothes. You say your clothes. Your clothes. We say it like this.

Right, you say clothing. You get clotheslined. Wait, is that a different? Clothesline. No, that's the whole thing. Because if you ran without looking, you would have got necked up by a clothesline. I love a clothesline. I love when I see clothes and washcloths hanging from a clothesline in the breeze.

I think it's the coolest thing. Yeah, just for our cinematographers, just hang your clothes on clotheslines. It's a beautiful thing to have. It's an establishing... Yeah, it's a great thing. We also have to help people who are on the run and need to change identities.

You usually be like, oh, what's this shit hanging? I don't know, make an outfit out of this. Suddenly they're wearing a different outfit. They help in chase scenes, a little bit of stakes. Exactly. I do like a clothesline.

Do you have one set up in your abode? No. No. But you, so you sort of like long for the days of the clothesline? I love, you know, when you're on a train, I love trains, not trains in a city, but trains like, you know, going across. Traveling between cities. Yeah.

I love that. Like an Amtrak train. Oh yeah. We're just on one. I love Amtrak trains and things like that because usually you're seeing a lot of backyards. You're going through in between towns. I love to look into backyards. Go on.

I just love looking into people's yards. I even love, it's funny, when I walk my dog kind of at dusk at night, I love looking in people's windows. I love when the lights start to come on and the hills get all twinkly and you're like, what are people doing in there? Changing clothes and... Clothes. Clothes. Yeah.

And yeah, and yeah. And when people stand naked in front of windows and I just stand transfixed in the street. Yeah! Hell yeah, man. Have a good night. There's something about trends. I don't know why.

It just seems like they cut across random parts of the landscape, whereas highways are just completely protected. Walled off sound walls. Yeah, walled off sound walls. But trains, you feel like you're seeing a part of the country that you wouldn't see it, just like a straight line that was cut through a random portion. Although going down that Atlantic corridor, I feel like we didn't go through many backyards

no not backyards there's a lot of like old buildings so maybe that's what it is it's just like um but i i i find looking out the window while uh on a train much more interesting than looking out the window well yeah i'm starting to to, I think I'm going to put a clothesline into my backyard. Do it. You have a backyard? Yeah. That's so great. I have concrete outside of the back of my house.

There's not much, it's hard to call that a yard. But I am like actually getting, I like to hang dry my clothes because growing up when my dryer broke, my mom just said, we're not fixing it. So we just always clothes like line dried our clothes because in Japan you do that anyway. Right. And I realized too, like I, dryers can fucking fuck your clothes up. Oh yeah. If you're not careful with that shit.

Absolutely. And I sometimes absentmindedly or high will do laundry and then I shrink the fuck out of something and it becomes Her Majesty's new outfit. But then don't you think that sometimes when you hang it dry inside, I don't think outside, but they're a little more stiff. 100. Something about the sun though, the sun also, the UV

is also giving it a little desanitizing. And if it's blowing. Yeah, if it's blowing then maybe it gets less stiff. But to be honest, I feel like I do think in this town, I think like. Yeah, if it's blowing, then maybe it gets less stiff. But to be honest, I feel like I do think in this town, I think like, well, the air's not clean. I'm going to put the clothes on and they're going to be full of pollution. Your white shirt is just gray now. I know.

Man, I just took the train in LA for the first time ever and was really surprised that there were a lot of people on it. There are, yeah. Or the Expo line, which one? I got surprised that there were a lot of people on it. There are, yeah. Like the Metro or the Expo line? Which one? I got on, I went from Vine, Hollywood and Vine to downtown. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was crazy because I was trying, I was standing at the kiosk trying to pay. I did pay. And as I was looking, all these kids were like jumping over the turnstiles and stuff

and just jumping on. Yeah. I was like, oh man, look at these crazy kids jumping the turnstiles. Look at these scamps. Hey, you get back here, scamp. And then when I tried to use my thing

that I did pay for the ride, it wouldn't work. And I ended up jumping the turnstile. Hey, exactly. I felt so cool. I felt so cool. You are cool. Thank you. Finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? Or vice versa? That our menstrual cycles aren't synced up with the moon. They are. I thought that for a really long time. That they are not. That they are, that females are synced up with the moon. Because it's 28 days.

Like females go on 28 days and the moon goes 28 days and the tides and all that stuff. I thought it was all together, but it's not. And I was really sad to learn that. Yeah. That is a myth. There really sad to learn that. Yeah. That is a myth. There's something magical about that. So what's a blood moon? Ooh, it's when the,

I think it's when the rays of the sun are trapped in the Earth's atmosphere and they're bending. And so it's making it a colored light hitting the moon rather than a white light. Okay. So it's not from the book of Revelation. It's not that somebody got their period

all over the moon. I'll tell you that right now. All right, good. I just wanted to clear that up real quick because that's not what the book of Revelation. It's not that somebody got their period all over the moon. I'll tell you that right now. All right, good. I just wanted to clear that up real quick because that's not what I thought at all. I just did learn that, though, the moon and the menstruation. And I was really sad because I kind of thought it was cool that females had some connection to the moon. But Sasha Sagan, Carl Sagan's daughter, was the one who told you that? Was the one who debunked the myth. That's a source of information.

And I was like, Sasha, you're hurting my feelings. And she was like, I know, but- Damn you, Sasha Sagan. And then she told me not to have crystals and all the pseudoscience stuff that people love in Southern California. She was like, pseudoscience is actually like not okay. And I was like, well-

Oh, I was just gonna say that it is crystals that controls your menstrual cycle. Is that not right? That's definitely, the only way you get your period is if you put a crystal right yeah all right thank finally the truth comes out yeah the moon isn't powerful enough to control your menstrual cycle but your roommate is powerful enough right that's true yeah girls do girls do think yeah that's true that's true I think that's the most wild thing I know is the origin

of the moon thing like it must come from just some angry dude right yeah it was like yeah full moon

or whatever like or would or was that an early yeah they think that we're werewolves when we're on our it seems like a thing where a man

would just be like it's probably tied to the moon or some shit you know what I mean and then that catches on cause we're acting like lunatics, it's probably tied to the moon or some shit. You know what I mean? And then that catches on. Because we're acting like lunatics. Lunartics.

Well, let's talk about Quibi while we're on that subject. Not at all. Yeah, so Quibi is coming, y'all. April. I hope everyone's ready. So this is something that probably hasn't been that visible to people outside of Los Angeles,

but has been a constant hum in the background of the entertainment industry for the past couple of years. This new platform called Quibi that is employing all your friends. Yeah. And for many people working in the entertainment industry, you almost be like, did you get a call from Quibi or not? Right. No? All right.

Damn. How did I get that Quibi call? I think we are two of the last people in the entertainment industry who don't have a Quibi project, at least in development. I do not have. Someone approached me for disclosure. Okay. And I said

Yeah, let's talk later To do what to host something? But I just it didn't the project didn't appeal to me at a small quibble. Yeah, I said I'm only talking Taco Bell Okay, if this is not it then we don't have a deal But so the show or the whole platform is launching in April. They've spent, I think, over a billion dollars on content. Yeah. And if you look at the people, they have people like Kevin Hart, Trevor Noah, Eric. People have so many things they're either in or developing. You can burn through a billion dollars pretty quickly.

Yeah. So recently the latest thing that was announced was Usher now has his newest show called The Sauce. Recently, the latest thing that was announced was Usher now has his newest show called The Sauce. It's a new dance series where I guess basically people just go head to head. I think it's like America's Best Dance Crew type show. But it's hosted by Ayo and Tio, who if you remember, they want to rolly, rolly, rolly with a cider ranch. I don't. No?

Remember that one? Oh, man. You don't remember that Instagram dance craze? Anyway, they're very popular Instagram dancers who wear masks and shit. So that'll be that new show. But there's a few other ones that I just wanted to point out, because some are interesting, like rapper Ninja Warrior, which comes from the Eric Andre show, where hip hop stars must navigate an obstacle course while freestyling. Like actual. Oh, so it is hip hop stars. Like Nas will be out there trying to go through a double dare course while freestyling?

In an ideal world, yes, you would see Nas and maybe Wyclef. Right. Okay. But then there's other ones. Any times. Any times. Well, allow me to introduce this next show, Barkitecture, okay, from Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron and interior designer Delia Kenza.

Basically, this show is a design show where they'll help rich dog lovers build extravagant custom dog houses for their beloved canines. I mean, I'm kind of on board for this. I'm back in. I am. I am. And then I'm sort of like, damn you, Quibi. Because on the surface, I'm like, that's not an idea that I'm going to watch it on the toilet.

Like The Sauce, The Usher Show. That could easily be a TV show. I mean, TBS has a game show that is based on Hot Ones, like the wing hotness challenge. So like an Usher dance contest show sounds like it's at least capable of sustaining a season of television. I think the thing that's unique about Quibi is the ability to do things that are very dumb and won't sustain a whole season, but are going to be entertaining for five minutes while you're waiting for your Uber to arrive. And Barkitecture, also Rapper Warrior Ninja, as hosted by Eric Andre. I don't know if he's going to host it Embarkitecture. Also, Rapper Warrior Ninja as hosted by Eric Andre.

I don't know if he's going to host it. But it just came from his show. That just seems like a cruel prank to play on someone. So is it an app or is it going to be like Netflix? It's an app. It's like Netflix. You're going to have to have the app open it to watch content on there.

Probably subscribe. So you would watch it on your phone or on Apple TV? tv yes and it's going to be like five bucks a month or something i think that's probably i don't know what i think i think if you're like verizon you're going to get it for i think it's tiered also they have like ad versions at like ad supported versions premium versions either way they want a little bit of your money and then we're all going to start sharing our passwords with each other. Exactly. And we're going to be Quibi Striminals. One person is going to subscribe and the rest of us will.

There's another one. Okay. Centerpiece from executive producer Rashida Jones. Famous celebrity guests create a floral centerpiece. That's the show. Yeah. Again, I feel like what they've done is they've turned a YouTube clip into a show, quote unquote.

Right. Because I get, I mean, I don't know what the intersection of floral enthusiasts and whoever these celebrity guests are going to be are, but it's something. But I guess the reality unscripted shows

make sense for Quibi because it's like short, like Bar-citecture, like it would be something. Bar-citecture is a surefire because it's like short like barkitecture like it would be something is a surefire winner dude barkitecture is the fucking i don't even know it's a home run it's a fucking slam dunker slam dunk uh but then it's like when you get into the scripted shit that's where i'm like i don't know about that see barkitecture i can just be like yeah okay great what an extravagant dog dog home. But these other ones that are like the Kevin Hart diehard thing where he's trying to get into a diehard film,

it's very high budget. John Travolta makes cameos in it. It's weird. I'm not sure what that content, what the appetite is for that content. That is a whole nother genre slash medium of content that we don't have that they just spent billions of dollars producing without an audience, which seems very, I'll say, ballsy. It seems like they and I don't know if it was a bad idea or not.

I just my experience with things like this that are like platforms where people are like, everyone's going to be watching content on milk. Yeah. And then it comes out and nobody watches it. What was that, Samsung? Samsung. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, boy.

Drink your milk. Yeah. I was drinking my milk back in the day, but nobody watched anything that was made for milk. And I don't know. Quibi seems different because they can afford Super Bowl commercials. So we will see. It's funny that in a town that has so many people without homes

that all these dogs are going to have these beautiful paws. Yeah, the irony, right? And then Meg Whitman is one of the people behind it. She used to be the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. She also ran for governor in California as a was like had one of the worst campaigns just like she's teaming up with jeff katzenberg to bring the industry down yeah um but yeah i think uh i'm i want to see this other show with nicole richie called nicki fresh with a dollar sign uh this this description nicole richie will star in this comedy series as her alter ego, Nikki Fresh, a rapper who

brings a new flair to wellness with her brand of educational and socially conscious rap known as Parent Trap. Uh-oh. Wow. I like the description more than I think I'm going to like the show. Right. I just saw her last Wednesday. She's so pretty.

Oh, yeah. I love it. She's so pretty. She was so good on that news. What was the good pretty. Oh, yeah, I love it. She's so pretty. She was so good on that news. What was the good news? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was great on that. Is that good?

Oh, yeah. It's really good. It's really good. It's like 30 Rock light. Oh, cool. 30 Rock-ish. Yeah, if you like the pace, like the furious joke pace of 30 Rock, you'll like Good News. I have to watch that one.

My friend Brad Morris is in it. It's great. Well, don't tell Brad. I know. Sorry, buddy. That's my underrated. You love it, right? You're like, yeah, I love it. That have to watch that one. My friend Brad Morris is in it. It's great. Don't tell Brad. I know. Sorry, buddy. He's like, you love it, right? Yeah, I love it. Totally. Alright, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hey, I'm

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I feel really whole. I feel like the last few years I've really unraveled a lot, which is part of what this book is about. And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And like we said, we are recording this before we know the results of super tuesday uh before they've even started to roll in uh one thing that we can talk about really briefly is that heading into super tuesday uh biden is now the odds-on favorite. Oh, hell yeah. To be the nominee. Oh, hell yeah. He is, according to FiveThirtyEight, three in ten chance of winning enough delegates

to have a majority before the convention. But then the other most likely thing is that no one has a majority. And Mike Bloomberg steals it. well i i think that would they would just go with biden right if he's like even close to first like he's such an acceptable uh middle of the road they need a moderate and someone who can both sides racism yeah uh and then you can be president yeah you know i think that's that's those are sort of the uh qualifications at the moment i mean and bloomberg has come out outright basically saying like, you know, this as he says, quote, you don't have to win states. You have to win delegates. And when he was asked about a contested convention, he says, I don't think that I can win any other way.

Yeah. So we'll see what happens. I mean, he's definitely doing a lot behind the scenes. We'll see what happens. I mean, he's definitely doing a lot behind the scenes. But yeah, I have a feeling if they have Biden with enough votes, they're going to be all in. Yes. And I think he's probably going to have enough votes. It seems like, you know, after Sanders, Nevada win hurt his momentum somehow in the media. And then Biden, South Carolina win just propelled him to new heights. It's not that it hurt him. It's that the media has to coalesce around stopping someone who is

an existential threat to the billionaire class. But I also think his polling immediately took a hit, which you can partially point to the media's reaction. I do feel like more and more I'm starting to feel like there is, you know, something just inherent in Americans' DNA that scares them when they hear the word socialist. And they were waiting to find a candidate who wasn't a socialist who they could kind of coalesce around. they could kind of coalesce around and biden once biden became like a singular name that they felt like could win they they all sort of lined up um i think it's a combination of you know media bias and then americans bias yeah or just lack of sort of understanding or education around it because i think people's knee-jerk reaction is like we all got to wear the same outfits suddenly and live in drab, brutalist architecture housing. Yeah. And a lot of people were saying,

there was a tweet that was like, you know how your parents called every video game system Nintendo? Yeah. It's like, that's what they do with socialism. Yes. If it's outside of whatever the mainstream political ideology is, that's just socialism. Yeah.

And I mean, this happened when Roosevelt tried to pass the New Deal in the first place. I mean, he did pass it because he happened to have enough power to do it. But they called that socialist and claimed everybody was going to have to wear the same outfits and all that shit. But everything in the future, when we see movies and stuff from the future, we're all wearing the same thing. Exactly. So it's inevitable.

Accept your fate, people. Which version of a dystopian future from film would you want to live in? A dystopian future from film? That's like realistic. Don't do Waterworld, you know? Wait, why is Waterworld not realistic? Actually, Waterworld's very realistic.

The most realistic. Now that we think about it. Oh, God. I think the Escape from L.A. one is pretty fun because there's weird things that are- Oh, so the sequel to Escape from New York. You're thinking, okay. Escape from New York is just mean.

They're just like, everybody go there and die. But Escape from LA, there's giant waves that go up rivers and shit. Do you remember? Because also, LA was so sinful that it broke off from California and it became this like just hellscape. I like any dystopian future where I can surf to work, bro. Also, I have to learn how to surf, but I'm going to do it. Important dystopian nightmare skills.

What about you, Holly? Battlestar Galactica. Oh, you want to get the fuck out of Earth. Okay. I like that. I like that one a lot. Like, who's a Cylon? What are they called?

I think that's right. Yeah, I like that one. Hell yeah. Yeah, great. So we figured that out. What's your pick? Waterworld? Yeah, Waterworld.

Love a jet ski. You went from you're not allowed to pick Waterworld to that's my pick? Well, I didn't want you to pick mine. Okay. Because, you know, I like to drink my own pee. Jet ski gangs, one way or another, I want to be involved with them, whether it's just a zeitgang forming one and inviting me to join or some disastrous future.

A proper jet ski gang would be really fun. Dope as fuck. Yeah. And you would have those fit or what are the- The gills. Gills. Yeah. You'd look good with gills.

Thank you so much. You bet. Well, speaking of what we were talking about a couple minutes ago- Oh, yeah. What's happening, Earth? With the mainstream media freaking out, Chris Matthews, the wispy haired screamer on MSNBC. So he had a couple meltdowns during Bernie's surge around Nevada and was saying that he used to be afraid that socialists would take him into Central Park and murder him. Execute him, Jack.

Execute him. Sorry, sorry. And people started being like, wait, why is Chris Matthews on TV anyways? Then he did another Nazi comparison comparison with the imagino line then he would start calling people the wrong name and like just seemed increasingly uh out of it and then things started coming out that he was basically verbally abusive to sexually harassing people like saying like a guest had come on recently and he was like why aren't i in love with you yet and then like telling the makeup artist like put on more makeup yeah oh now why aren't I in love with you yet? And then like telling the makeup artists, like put on more makeup.

Yeah. Oh, now I'm going to fall in love with her saying shit like that. Other people were just sort of like, he was like, he, when he went on his show, he was like, look, we basically, I had a talk with MSNBC. It seems like, uh, might be time for me to retire. Right. Um, and, uh, he's like, I, you know, I was making compliments, uh, that I that I realized were inappropriate then and inappropriate now. I mean, the other thing, too, that we didn't have time to cover was when Elizabeth Warren, after one of the debates, basically put Mike Bloomberg to the sword when bringing up his record on how he talks to women.

And just remember, this was another moment too where chris matthews absolutely shat the bed to show people that he's like i don't know with the times this is an exchange where he's basically pressing elizabeth warren on why she would believe a woman do you believe that the former mayor of new york said that to a pregnant employee well pregnant employee sure said that he did why shouldn't i believe her know, I'm just really tired of this world. This one is personal for me. It really is. But you believe that kind of person who did that? Look, pregnancy discrimination is real. And these we have gone on and on and on where people say, oh, I can't really believe the woman. Really? Why not? Mayor Bloomberg has non-disclosure agreements for who knows how many women and it's not just the one

the whole point is how can you actually trust someone who will not just say look I'm going to wave on non-disclosure on sexual harassment and discrimination. Anybody who has a story to tell can come tell their story. Sure I agree with everybody deserves incredible

response when they make a charge like that. My question about him, you believe he's lying. I believe the woman. You believe he's lying. Which means he's not telling the truth. And why would he lie? Because just to protect himself. What?

Yeah. And why would she lie? I mean, that's the question, Chris. Why do you assume that he's the guy? I just want to make sure you're clear about this. You're confident of your accusation. What? All I know is what she said and what he said.

Wow. And I've been on her end of it in the sense of discrimination based on pregnancy. And I've been on his edge. All right, so let me get this straight. You think he's going to lie to what? Like protect himself? Yeah, exactly. Exactly that, Chris Matthews. That's the definition of lying for every single lie.

No one lies to make their situation worse. That was wild. Yeah, so again, there have been consistent people like, especially after that, people like, what is going on? We're moving in the direction of – we're not being like, whoa, that's a heavy accusation, lady. What are you talking about here? And again, he has been – he's been a little bit slow to move in that – in the direction where the rest of society is moving. And I think it was a, I, you know, I, a lot of people, uh,

at the network were sort of screaming like a cancel culture, kind of things like that. Like on morning Joe, one of the contributors there was like, it's a disturbing decision because some people like, and then Twitter gets noisy that someone like this has to step down. Oh, they were saying that it's disturbing that he decided to retire to

retire because cancel culture uh-huh um and look however however they handled it like that's on them but i mean it's clear to me that his voice was one that was not keeping up with the times anymore was he always that way or was did like the success of a socialist candidate in one state jar something loose? No, he's just been... He's been. Yeah, he's just like that. And I think it took a combination of things to change around him to sort of underline sort of how fixed he was. And then even Meghan McCain was like, you know, she said, he's like 75.

I like that their quote is, he's like 75. He's like that. Their quote is he's like 75. He's a line of cable news. She's like, I grew up watching him. And then I love him. And then she said, and to reduce his entire career to this segment yesterday made me really sad because I thought he deserved a better sendoff than that. And then there are other people like, you know, like Joey Behar was like, yeah, dude, this is the this is what we're talking about. Like, you know, as many people I think Whoopi Goldberg, you know, was sort of caping for him and saying like, you know, is a different time or whatever. And then Joey Behar was saying, yeah, but there are plenty of men who weren't doing this even back then in the times of Mad Men. Right. You know, so there's not like that doesn't excuse these kinds of things, especially when we're trying to tell people there's a forward direction to move in.

It sounds like he could be president. Every single quality you're describing are current presidential qualities. Yeah. Suspicious of women. Socialists. Not making sense. Yeah, absolutely. But it does seem like a lot of times on the left, like the left tries to maintain standards.

And those are the exact qualities that are just like 100 percent protected on the right. Yeah, exactly. And even on the left, too, because, you know, Meghan McCain did make a point. She's like, you know, what about the other people at NBC, though, too? Like the people who are like killing stories about you know like ronan farrow's investigations and things like that yeah that actually has to that should be there needs to be a reckoning with that shit too yes um which is a valid point but i guess yeah like sometimes it's easier to be selective than sort of apply a standard or at least saying like okay are you

ready to grow if not then you can sit on the sidelines for a second. Man, Rodan Farrow. Yeah. Going to college at age 11. Did he really do that? Yeah. That's wild. Went to Bard, I think, at age 11.

And then he graduated from Yale Law School before he was like 20 or something. What a dick. What a dick. All right, what are you trying to prove, bro? All right, yeah. Maybe I left with my doppelganger in college. That's what I'm blaming mine. So I forgot my peas in the microwave.

Oh, I'm the frigging bad guy now. All right. So let's check in with coronavirus. It seems like the consensus right now is that it's about to pop, it's about to like there's i mean it's mostly because we haven't been verifying whether or not people have the illness right so now with these test kits rolling out i mean they think they're going to get to a million test kits this week a lot of people are like i don't think there's going to be that many but testing has been very hard to come by like there are even people who are health professionals themselves who are like, I'm having trouble getting a proper diagnosis.

That, yeah, once, you know, you even begin to test people, inevitably the sort of infection rate is going to start going up. But not to say that it's suddenly going up in this time. It's just that now they're able to just identify people and have the data that's necessary to figure out all this. There was an inflection point in China, I think a few weeks back, where it had more to do with like getting more tests and how they were diagnosed. Which either way, it's terrifying anyway, because then you're like, oh, OK, so a thousand people didn't know they were sick and were walking around. Yeah. I think that's kind of the situation we're in right now is it's out there already in like pretty much most American populations. Or it's going to be very soon. that is one of the rare email forwards that was fact-checked and actually true from a pathologist who did his training at the University of California, San Diego, and was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronavirus in the 70s. And he basically said,

by mid to late March and April, he thinks it's going to be widespread in the U.S. It's important to understand that it is in a lot of places. It's just we're testing populations more and finding out where it actually is as opposed to, I don't know. It seems like people are a little confused about how widespread it is. And how it spreads. I mean, the thing that I think is really alarming is that most, if you just went off of kind of passively looking at headlines or the news, there isn't a lot of education if you're not seeking it out around transmission, around what is risky, what you should do or should not do. The most I feel like the take from the media is, yeah, man, coronavirus is around.

Right. And it's over here and it's over there. Wash your hands. So this guy's email for, for lack of a better way of putting it, kind of described how the virus gets from inside of a sick person's body to the outside of their body and then to the inside of your body. And it's all about touching things that have the virus on it and then touching your mouth or nose. That is how you get it. It's not from someone coughing or sneezing near you unless they cough directly into your mouth or nose. Or you get those droplets on you. Right. But then you then

put them in your nose or mouth. Like it has to go into your nose or mouth some way. That's the only way to get infected. But this is a misconception that we've talked about with air travel on this show before that I always assumed that I was getting sick every time I flew because the air was bad or other sick people were in the plane. And it's because of all the germs on the seat and the seat back in front of you. Touchscreen. Yeah, touchscreen. Everything you're touching hasn't been cleaned and has been touched by a lot of other people. Just imagine if you want to be cautious about the coronavirus, just imagine that everything around you is lava or is an airplane seat. Right.

Yeah. The stuff he's suggesting is the sort of thing that two weeks ago I would have been like, that's pretty extreme. But it fully drives home how much it's exclusively about touching things and touching your face. Like he points out that the mask isn't there to protect you from inhaling other people's sneezes, unless that's what you're into. It's there because it keeps you from touching your own mouth and nose. You have to move it aside to itch your mouth or nose. Right. It's, you have to like, move it aside to, yeah, to itch your mouth or nose.

It's almost like it, yeah, I don't know. Which humans on average touch their eyes, touch their face like two dozen times an hour.

Yeah. 40, 90 times a day. Yeah. I think I should put broken glass all over my hands because I get,

if I can't, because masks are, you don't know where the fuck you get them anymore. That's one of the things he recommends is blood sport. Yeah, dip your hands in glass. Dip your hands in glass.

You'll be real quick to scratch your eye then, won't you? Yeah. In which case, rubber gloves, I think, would be. He does recommend rubber gloves, disposable surgical masks, if you can get them. If you can get them, jeez. But hand sanitizer that has an alcohol basis greater than 60 percent alcohol and zinc lozenges which was the one thing that was kind of news to me he says the zinc

lozenges are actually if you have them like if you dissolve them a couple times a day in the back of your throat it prevents the reproduction of the virus. But even then, it wasn't like, this is where I think the fact checking on this part of the letter was a little bit contested. Right. Because this guy wrote it like just for his family and close friends. And then people took this to be like, this doctor is telling you all the things you need. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

right. He's like, even the reason I even say zinc lozenges was just about blocking the virus from multiplying in your throat. I'm not saying that's how you're going to stop it. It's just a thing you might want. If you have the ability to do, try it out. I was so glad to learn that, at least that that's a thing. Because again, it's like one of those things that I thought was more people who were being overly paranoid or thought they knew something that doctors didn't.

And the fact that I just didn't know that zinc prevented the reproduction of viruses in your throat. It's funny, though. I mean, you mentioned like two weeks ago I would have felt this way last week. I think we've all been like watching it. Like, what is this going to be? Is this going to be one of those things? It's going to be like SARS. It'll be, it'll stay small.

It'll be, you know, oh, wow. It's not going to be contained. Oh, it's going to grow. It's going to, well, okay, let's watch and wait and all that. But like already, like when I came in here today, none of us touched each other. Like it's already happening that we kind of joked and touched elbow to elbow. But like last night I was at largo and um came up to the woman working the door and was like hi and gave her a hug and a woman came over to us this is

first time it's ever happened to me a woman came over and was like don't hug don't hug wow and like now that strangers are already saying like we we have to stop touching we have to stop touching and that's going to be a that that's going to be a thing. Yeah. Yeah, like he recommends fist bumps or just as something that's cool to do. No, he says fist bumps or elbow bumps or a Kurt bow. I've always liked the Japanese kind of like – Yeah, the bow. It's so much more sanitary. Yeah.

I haven't hugged my mom in ages. We just bow. But, yeah, essentially another thing that is debunking a myth that the president is actually spreading. He says there's unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomic structure and virulence of this virus. No, no, this is from the doctor. Of this virus has already been achieved, but there will be no drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us only symptomic support is available so trump keeps feeling like oh it's not going to spread because we're going to get a vaccine a vaccine quickly and it's not but yeah like not

going to stop it because then you have to do a secondary testing to find the people who may have antibodies right and then you have to even know what's going on with the illness to then begin to identify people with antibody like that it's just too far down the road in the process i think the hope is that they can get one by fall because it's going to it's going to fall away for the summertime and then it's going to come back like oh my god in the fall i just thought about fucking Coachella. Wow, that really bummed you out, man. Fuck, bro! Oh, damn it. Yeah, because you go to Coachella every year. Dude, both weekends, you know what time it is. You greet everybody you see there with an open mouth kiss.

With an open mouth kiss. I do free CPR classes, no dummies. It's all good. But yeah, there's also a Reddit thread that I found some interesting things in. One is just like the different symptoms of coronavirus, this version of coronavirus. Fever, 88%. Dry cough, 68%. Exhaustion, 38%.

And then it gets down to like coughing, 33%. But then running nose is not a symptom of COVID-19 which right I didn't realize that good to know also it really it's basically the older you are the more susceptible you are like usually babies and infants are more susceptible but kids are not getting this for, they don't know why they're just like based on their studies of who has gotten it and who's been sick. Um, the cynical version on Fox, you'd be like, look, the, the libs are trying to kill all the boomers with this, with the Corona virus.

Right. I mean, there was a, there was a, but it's like 30 years old and up really is all the cases. Right. Right. Right. There's a YA novel that I read in, I think it was elementary school, fifth grade, that was all about a virus that comes through and wipes out everyone over a certain age. I think it was age 18.

So it was only children left on Earth. But maybe that's where we're headed. I don't know. We'll see. Probably not. They also said that they're looking at like the number of hospital beds per thousand people in different developed countries. And so Japan is number one with 13 hospital beds per thousand people. South Korea is two with 12. Russia, three with eight hospital beds per 1,000 person. And then the United States is 32nd. We're at 32. With two hospital beds.

Wow. Per 1,000 people. Per 1,000 people. Wow. Hey, take care of your own. This is going to expose some infrastructure problems like that. It already is. Yeah.

Just even with the lack of public health support that we have,'re like everyone's like guys we were telling you when these budgets were getting slashed two years ago that this was going to be a fucking problem cut to right now where we are like right and everyone being like i want to keep my employer health care fuck people who don't have it or whatever now it's like oh wait yeah that's like a 27 million person like virus bomb waiting to go off too like and also again we said this even the beginning how many people we've been talking like first there were articles about uber drivers and how they were being like mad racist not picking up asian people being like i don't know but then also like if you're working like some people who have a job

who is like purely based on when you clock in and clock out, you have to take two weeks off, three weeks off, however many weeks off to quarantine yourself. Then your expenses immediately pile up. Right. And there's no – it's going to lay bare a lot of things. I hope it doesn't. But the way it seems, I honestly can only just hope for the best. My brother-in-law is a physical scientist at Notre Dame, and he sent a Scientific American article to me yesterday that I read. And I was like, Scientific American, that's a good source. And it was a very measured article.

But basically, it was saying our social responsibility, civil responsibility, is to prepare. And it was talking about like very seriously saying, get your two to three weeks ready for quarantine. Like have the, you know, shelf items, the canned vegetables, the right bags of rice and the beans and, and, and even potable water. And I was like, man, this is starting to feel weird. And then when I started picturing, like, what if we really do have two to three weeks or four weeks of all of us are quarantined to our homes, like nobody goes out? Will that be will that be policed? Will that be how will that be? You know, like in China,

there you walk your dog? Yeah. Do you? You know, if we're China, government officials are interviewing people who have had it to try and like trace everything about like how they got it, where they got it from to just quarantine people. It's pretty, I don't think they'd, I don't think a government officials in the United States would be able to get that.

Especially now when Coachella is going on, bro. But when I try to picture it, another thing that Scientific American was saying is like, um, have a lot of books and things for you to do. Like in your home, it's not just the food and water. Like have books and stuff.

And when you really picture it, like this will be unlike, if this happens, this will be unlike anything we've ever experienced in our life. Well, I think unless you like maybe live in a region of the country where like the weather keeps you indoors for a long time, like you might be mentally slightly more prepared but i think for other people who used to be an out and about and doing shit yeah it'll be a very like but those places like we don't have nightly orgies like we were up in minneapolis we met those people yeah we know how they are oh yeah no uh slytherin house is what they're called yeah And another thing is just the Korean people I know are scared of wearing masks at work. They should be because they're like, yeah, but our white colleagues can

wear masks at work because nobody suspects them. But if we wear masks at work, then we get in trouble or people assume that you have the disease. Yeah. A lot of Asian friends of mine who, you know, this is sort of part of Asian culture is to consider other people before yourself. And it's weird to see that manifest in the form of playing into people's racism of saying like, well, I don't want to go because I don't want people to think that like, maybe I have it and then they're going to get, treat me weird. I'm, this is one of my friends who volunteers like at a hospital. Right. I'm like, you are healthy.

You know, you are not sick. So you are not a risk. And like at that point, you are you are actually taking your time to help other people. So like, don't you don't you don't need to have your life dictated by others, someone else's ignorance or perception of you. Right. But it was like a frustrating thing to think about, too, where it's like, damn, like there's also a cultural element to being like, well,

I don't want to like bug people out because you know, ignorance. Right. But that's how, but yeah, that's like the, the ignorance is real. And like,

yeah, absolutely. It's just something that, that they have to deal with in a very real way. I mean, people aren't buying Corona beer. Speaking of ignorance. Well,

we had to blow that theory up yesterday. Yeah, that's actually a myth. It came out from a PR company that was like repping other brands. Oh, that's a myth? Yeah. But it's in the headlines. Yeah.

All these lies. These fuckers. It was very misleading, this whole study that they did. But people aren't going to Chinese restaurants and stuff, right? Or is that a myth too? I don't know.

I think that's probably, if it's actually racist, it's more believable. Right. Yeah, no shit. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. In 1982,

Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist.

I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Matt Bomer. Thank you for that introduction.

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Shout out to everybody who was exchanging Taco Bell hacks on Twitter. You know, please come to my Twitter. It's an idea exchange for ways to order things at Taco Bell. But from March 12th, shout out to Mike and Chris, that's their birthday, customers ordering from like a kiosk can now filter vegetarian items with a feature called Veggie Mode. Okay, so once you hit this button on the menu, it will now be like, here are 50 items that are certified by the American Vegetarian Association.

Oh, that's dope. That are just immediately available. So if you're feeling a little healthier, you don't want to eat that quote-unquote meat that they have there, hit up the veggies. I just like that we're getting there. Yeah. To the point where people used to have to know the little secrets.

Now it's like, yeah, man, you want veggie mode? Go on veggie mode. I will still eat the Mexi-Mouth. But it's not on the menu all the time, but you can still order it. There's a hack. You get a cheesy roll-up, add beef, add pico, and you now have a Mexi-Melt.

Straight up! Thank you. Let's talk about Ben Affleck. He's got a movie coming out all the way back or the way back or some shit. That's a basketball movie that I predict will not do that well. It seems like every advertisement I've seen for it just doesn't seem like it.

Understands basketball or anything. Basketball understands why people go see movies. It just feels like they're going in hard on a movie that. Wait, what's the movie about? hard on a movie that... Wait, what's the movie about? It's like he has a vaguely troubled past, and it's just him being like, we gotta come back. We've been through adversity. It's like Hoosiers, but less specific, more vague Hoosiers. And who, oh, a widowed former basketball all-star lost family foundation in a struggle with addiction and attempts to come back by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater yeah cool

we've seen it before you've seen it a hundred times you know what i mean and just like his other movie he's trying to make i think we've also seen it a hundred times right so like two in the summer back in the summer of 18 that daily beast article came out that we covered on the show about the whole scheme to cheat the McDonald's Monopoly game. Right. And now we have launched a bidding war over that IP. People are like, I want the rights to that story. I want the rights to that story.

Ben Affleck ended up top of that pile and ended up being like, okay, I have the rights to this. Now I can make the feature film. However, HBO had been working on their documentary and McMillions has been coming out now and everyone's talking about it now so a lot of people are curious like man this this documentary is actually taking a lot of the thunder out of the like expectation for this

story being told do you still want to make it Ben Affleck apparently it was it's called Mick Scam right now at Ben Affleck's production company it's a working title. He says, we've gotten a new draft that's really good. Hollywood's a weird place because the person who was running the studio when they bought that script just left that job. And the studio that was going to make it just got bought by another studio.

So there's these moments where things sort themselves out and you sort of see it as, is this still a priority? Are they really interested in different kinds of movies? And I'm not sure whether or not McScam, what kind of priority is, but we really like it and we're still developing the script. Not very confident based on that bit of a quote. And especially, have you watched any of it, McMillions? I have not, but it seems like the Netflix one, people are like really jizzing over. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's HBO? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's on HBO. People are going crazy. They're jizzing over special agent Doug, who's like sort of the lead agent in it, because he's like really funny. Right. To the point where I'm like, I don't know who's going to play this guy. Like, I don't know if the dramatized version of this, like I need to see right away because this is definitely giving me the nourishment.

When like this is Man on a Wire became The Walk. Nobody saw The Walk because Man on a Wire was a great documentary. And like you're watching somebody, Man on Wire. Yeah. Or like Fyre Fest had those too. Yeah, Fyre Fest is probably gonna have a feature. The Mr. Rogers thing, I think, was kind of an example of that

where everyone went wild over a documentary, and then they were like, well, if you like that, then you're surely going to like Tom Hanks. Right, but it's like, no, but I already know this one. Right. So either wait like 10 years or I think you got beat to the punch. Right. Yeah.

But so it seems like they're just going to keep pushing. They're keep, according to him, I mean, you know, if Matt Damon,

I think he wants Matt Damon to be in it too, but at the end of the day, I'm like, this documentary is so good. There's something compelling about the documentary because it's real life

and we're talking to the real life participants. Yeah. But, you know, I don't know. I just can't picture Ben Affleck the documentary because it's real life and we're talking to the real life participants. But, you know, I don't know. I just can't picture Ben Affleck as having been a pro basketball player. Is that what it is? Yeah, in that movie, yeah, former all-star.

That's where I fell off. Do you think there's a scene where the kids on his team are like, coach, man, you got no jumper. And he's like, oh, come on. Because he's always smoking cigarettes or something. And then what? He just starts, it gets wetty. Starts falling.

Yeah. I feel like with celebrities like that, too, once you know, their persona becomes more distracting that you can't believe the character. Right. You just look like you just got out of rehab. Right. When he signed on, they were like, okay, we need to give this guy an addiction background too.

Right. You just have that. Right. Or maybe he likes, like. When he signed on, they were like, okay, we need to give this guy an addiction background too. Right. You just have that. Right. Or maybe he likes, maybe he loves Jack in the Box. Anyways, real quick, March movie preview, February review. Some movies that are coming out that seem like they will probably hit A Quiet Place 2. Mulan, both seem like they will probably hit A Quiet Place 2. Mulan both seem like they'll probably be hits.

The Hunt might be like an unexpected sleeper. That's the one that's about rich people hunting mega people. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. The movie that was so absurd they shelved. It's actually not that bad, guys. Just give me a chance. And it's also not like a straightforward thing where uh it's just about the rich hunting right it's not like the rich are the protagonists it's more uh no because that's our reality where the rich are hunting the poor right not a movie um brett like i said the way back is coming out i

don't think that's probably gonna hit uh onwardward is a Pixar movie that is coming out, I think, this weekend. And it's like the least I've ever heard people excited about a Pixar movie. It's like a world where magic exists, where a troll goes on a journey in a van. And I don't know. It just seems. Caesar Sayoc? Yeah. That's the Magavan guy.

And then oh right. I said a troll goes on a bird train. Sorry. It's odd to me that for Pixar like I know when a Disney film or a Pixar film is coming out. I mean I heard the words Onward

but I never connected that to being a Pixar film or something. Yeah. I feel like this, when it was first announced, there was also the movie about somebody dying and the afterlife and a soul. It seemed ghostish. Oh, yeah.

What the fuck was that? Did that come out yet? No, that hasn't come out yet. But I confused them or I saw the trailers on the same week and just was like, well, that one looks better, so I'll worry about that one. And then just in terms of big hits in the past month that probably entered the zeitgeist in some way or another, The Invisible Man was a hit last weekend. Sonic was a big hit.

It seems like it kind of, yet again, another movie that's breaking the video game movie curse. And Birds of Prey, people are covering it as like a somewhat disappointing when compared to other comic book movies. But it's still like close to $100 million. Did you see Invisible Man? man no i haven't seen it we talked about it uh on monday's episode because one of our writers went and saw it and said it was really good and very lacy saw it too and said it was she

it was unbelievable really it's really good she says she's the biggest uh elizabeth moss stan now yeah and then the other thing to just keep an eye on in terms of movies coming out is that they're thinking about how to alter the release schedule because of coronavirus. They say that coronavirus has already cut earnings in China by an estimated $215 million just already because nobody's going out. $215 million we were never going to get anyway. Right. Exactly. I just had my first like event got refunded yesterday. I was supposed to I had tickets for something on like March 9th and just yesterday I got the email of like the event. The event has been canceled. The person is not going to flying from england like you're getting a full refund i was like oh okay so it's starting like yeah you know like i mean this is a thing that was real in history and you know like i remember uh reading about sir isaac newton when

he was like nine years old they had like two straight years where nobody went to school because of the plague they were just yeah, so everybody's quarantined. Just stay the fuck home. And he just like sat on his back and like figured out physics in his spare time. So the next Sir Isaac Newton is on his way. Right. Or her way or their way. Yeah.

But that was a thing that happened in history. And now we're probably going to have to invent some new board games because we're all going to be spending a lot of time with each other. Oh, my God. It's not a weed. I have to suck a pile of weed. Yeah, you do. Yeah, man.

Medication. What do you think? Rice, beans, cannabis. Rice, beans, and weed, baby. It's an epidemiologist yesterday on the Daily was talking about comparing it to, did you hear that? The Spanish flu. It's projected to be 2% of the Earth's population. So that means if you know 300 people, six of them will.

Will die or get it? Get it? I think. I'm not sure. Because I read like 40% of Americans this year are going to get it. Yikes. But that's, again, like all of these are based on assumption, based on assumption, stacked on an assumption.

And then we still don't have enough data really to understand fully what's going on or how long these incubation periods are. Right. Woo! And the Scientific American thing I was reading, I feel like I'm referencing that like crazy, but it was talking about how we flatten the curve of it and that the RO of any virus is the number of infections that one person does.

So right now, the RO of, what's it called? COVID-19? COVID-19, yeah. It really sounds like a horror film. Yeah. COVID-18 was way better, though. So if it's an RO of two, then that means that one infected person will infect two people.

And based on the science of the way it's infecting right now, it looks like what they're projecting is 2% of Earth's population. Right. Yeah. So just keep your hands to yourself. Hey, don't touch your face challenge. Can we do that on TikTok? Can we get that going?

Rather than like the skull breaker challenge I read about today. What's the skull breaker? Fucking two idiot kids. Like, I don't know what happened, but these two kids got like charged like third degree assault because like they were fucking, I don't know what happened. Essentially, some kid got a like a bad head injury based off some shit

called hashtag skull breaker challenge and apparently this shit was on some it wasn't the challenge was accepted oh Jesus Christ

anyway don't touch your face challenge don't touch your like maybe for the first time we should really be promoting masturbation of like if you want

to touch yourself yeah that's no seriously like because touching your eyes it doesn't go in through the eyes touching like other promoting masturbation of like if you want to touch yourself yeah that's no seriously like because uh touching your eyes it doesn't go in through the eyes touching like other work it's just nose and mouth so touch just rub the shit out of your eyes i thought it was eyes no yeah eyes eyes i think you can get other viruses through the eyes but this one specifically goes in through the nose and mouth, according to that coronavirus expert.

And that all of us will know someone with it. Right. And that, have you heard this thing about how it's about to, it'll die off for summer and then it'll come back like a monster bomb in the fall? Right. Have you heard that too? Yeah, I feel like Southern California is a little bit, for once, maybe advantageous to us. Because of the heat. Yeah.

It hangs in cold air way better. And so maybe the heat helps us have less. I think probably. Even though it really is mostly touching surfaces. Imagine how we'll have to make this show if we can't go anywhere. Right. You're going to have to call in from home. We'll have to call in.

Yeah. And we'll still make the show somehow. We'll do it have to call in from home. We'll have to call in. Yeah. And we'll still make the show somehow. We'll do it. Somehow. Some way. For you, Zeitgang. If you're alive. If you're out there, Zeitgang, let us know.

Yeah, we'll just be casting into a, it'll be like The Mist, that Stephen King novel, where we don't know if anybody's still alive out there. Let us know. Draw a tulip on your door so we know. Well, Holly, it's been a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist. Hey, thanks so much, fellas.

It was lovely to talk to you. Where can people find you, follow you, experience you? My Instagram is hollylorend. And my podcast is Mega. It's a fully improvised satire of characters who work at a fictional megachurch. Very, very fun. If you like kind of things in the flavor of like a Christopher Guest kind of vibe, it's sort of like that. Very, very funny. We have a comedian on every single episode weekly, and they play a different character from the community of the megachurch, and

it's very, very fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's really fun. So Mega the Podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts. Yeah, and I know there are people who listen to the show where I start going down threads of old Christianity, like hymns, songs, whatever. So if you like that humor, I definitely recommend Mega. It's hilarious. You nail a very specific voice. Especially if you know anything about that world.

If you grew up in a church. Yeah, because, again, your propensity and your memory to just summon Bible verses like a teacher, it chilled my spine. And I'm like, Holly's either the greatest researcher of all time or she lived it. Oh, I lived it. I speak the language that's what makes me dangerous. Oh my God, her eyes just are glowing red. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media, Instagram posts that you've been enjoying? The last one I read about, I'm not on Twitter.

I have a Twitter account, but it's mostly my husband uses it to promote our podcast. I don't get on there because it's such a scary wasteland. It's, you know, for females or for any vulnerable people. It's just, it's like ruined so many lives. And like, you know, the Twitter troll that runs our country, it was like, I can't, I just can't even go into that. But the last one I read about

in the news that I really liked, speaking of the Twitter troll that is in the White House, is how the president hated that Parasite won the Academy Awards because, and the tweet that I read about that I really liked was that the parent company who made Parasite won the Academy Awards because, um, and the tweet that I read about that I really liked was that the, um, parent company who made Parasite,

they tweeted, um, we totally understand, you know, why he wouldn't like the movie because he can't read. Right. Which is, I believe to be true.

Which, which a lot of our friends who work at SNL said that like in, before he was elected, when he was on there, that like when he came to table read and stuff, he could not read. Yeah. He couldn't read.

Yeah. I think he can't even read. Yeah. What's he doing on prompter then? Does he have an earwig in or something? I don't know. A contact? I don't know.

Does he use prompters? Clearly, because there's times where he's not doing his jazz solos of just obscenities and bullshit. Oh, yeah, State of the Union. I just can't listen to it. He has a great memory. He's given two speeches where he read off prompter. It's easy to State of the Union.

He's the president. But they all were, every single, like his speech writers have to have every single word has to be four letters or less. It's quite a challenge to come up with a whole statement. I wonder if they're all spelled phonetically or something. A hundred percent. Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also my other podcast for 20 Day Fiance. We talk about 90 Day Fiance.

High off that shit with me and Sophie Alexander. Check the show out. You don't have to watch 90 Day Fiance to like this show. Trust us. You might just like listening to Miles High. Yeah. And actually, a lot of people do. Very elevated.

I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people call right in and say, I actually don't watch the show, but it's so thorough. I don't need to. And it's just hilarious because you just like to talk that talk. Okay. Some tweets that I like. Actually, they're both from reductress first one is urgent cat covering eyes with paul while sleeping if you like cats like i do it's

my favorite thing to see and also uh recently her majesty uh i we took a detour along the way to get something to eat she needed to get some kind of makeups and eyeliners. And this tweet reminded me of this, also from Reductress. I tried 30 different eyeliners and they were all Sharpies. I don't even know what that means, but I like the construction. I like that song Tilted where she talks about doing her face up with magic marker. There you go.

Or doing her makeup. I forget what it is. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Sophia Benoit tweeted, sure. Me saying no to something I don't want to do. Hannah Rose Woods said, wow, it's crazy how diseases can also go viral. And Justin Rowan tweeted, there's an article. Someone tweeted, Steph Curry has been determined and preparing to play on March 1st, but sides determined Friday that he will not return Sunday versus Wizards.

And Justin Rowan tweeted, blew a 3-1 return date. Because he blew the 3-1. Seriously. Little mean. Okay, and then this one I very much identified with. Stay free. Tweeted, work ever kick your ass so bad you drive the speed limit home with no music playing? You can find me on Twitter, 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 we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on miles uh this is from jungle the band from england uh this is off the album Forever. It's called Cuz You're Mine, but it's one word, C-O-S-U-R-M-Y-N-E. Yeah, they did that there. It's a little bit different than their traditional sort of funk band setup. There's a really interesting sort of piano loop sample in there, along with their nice falsetto vocals.

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