The Daily Zeitgeist - Betty Zeit 10/9: 25th Amendment, Madrid, WHO, Mel Gibson, Rush Limbaugh

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

On this edition of Betty Zeit Jack and Miles discuss Nancy Pelosi really pushing the whole 25th Amendment thing, Madrid declares a state of emergency due to COVID spread, WHO releases a statement saying we are peaking globally in COVID cases, there's a new Mel Gibson film in the works, and the President went on Rush Limbaugh to lie and curse. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jack O'Brien. That's Miles Gray. This is What is Trending, the last recording of the week. What a week it's been, eh, Miles? Jesus. Hey, old buddy. I got no hair. It all fell out.

It's all white. I don't even know. I, old buddy. I got no hair. It all fell out. It's all white. I don't even know. I lost 70 pounds. I'm a skeleton. Miles looks exactly like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future right now. I look like Christopher Lloyd in fucking Hooprint with Roger Rabbit. Yeah, combo right in between. All right.

This thing is ending just about where you would expect it to, both the weak and our democracy. 25th Amendment is trending. The 25th Amendment, of course, is the one where the president's cabinet can basically issue a vote of no confidence in him that would remove his power, give it to pence i guess temporarily so uh this is trending because uh nancy pelos as as the new york post called her spelled c-o-u-p c-o-u-p oh hey uh because they they want to forward they want to ramp things up how many of his followers are just going to read that as what the fuck is coop coop

uh-huh most most that's it okay i mean i would probably do it to be honest right but uh the pelos was putting it out there the 25th amendment is uh she i think she's actually putting together a a group to look into this a commission yes a commission i don't know what it's gonna do it's like one of those things i'm like yeah i get it great uh there's basically to draw attention to some of his more erratic behavior yeah and i i understand like what the the point of it is uh it's just like one of those things like i feel it's pretty apparent at this point and like i don't know who well you know like we gotta we gotta try it all we just try it all right you know at a certain point i'm like man people seem to not like nancy pelosi in the in the public and this is like making it a nancy pelosi versus trump thing uh but i've like kind

of left that whole like political calculation thing behind and now i'm just like do whatever do whatever just like this dude is really unraveling before our eyes and has access to the to the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world could end the world at a moment's notice yeah wouldn't that be wild though like we're we're going out about our day-to-day while this dude is just like rage launching nuclear weapons. And like we look up in the sky, we're like, oh, he did it. Oh, right. Oh, shit. I mean, there is a, you know, the Nixon administration.

of his administration where he was just wasted in the White House and talking about how easy it would be for him to just start launching nuclear weapons. And he was obsessed with the idea of dropping a nuclear weapon on Vietnam to end the Vietnam War. And people were just like, man, this guy is not in great shape. But he still had people like Kissinger, who not a great human, but definitely a competent war criminal around him. Whereas Trump has spent his entire administration just weeding out anybody who will push back.

So I feel like we are in a uniquely dangerous situation right now madrid is trending uh because they are issuing a state of emergency or declaring a state of emergency i guess um because it has gotten so bad yeah over there yeah and i mean that kind of ties into the next thing which is the world health organization saying that we're we're peaking um not in a good way uh we're i think peak number of new cases or number of cases of covet 19 uh today it was 350 000 cases you know if only there was a thing that could help guide us through something like this some discipline or study where people have put in thousands of years of collective research to try and guide us like the scientific method or whatever yeah no that's

bullshit is that what it's called i don't know you mean the horse i hated that class anyway we had to write on graph paper like why the science class fuck out of here yeah i don't know what are we gonna do it's i've truly like when i see these things happening like you get those stories like new zealand where you're like yes right they believe and then other places namely the united states where like everyone's just completely at odds with like their greed or like leadership is completely at odds with their greed and trying to reconcile like the cost of human life with profit and like i i don't know and we're we have way too much power to be able to be in this position to even meddle with shit

like this right um also i guess it would be good to have some non-Trump news. There's a Mel Gibson movie coming out where the U.S. military recruits a down on his luck Santa Claus. So that's a thing. I like anything about a down on his luck Santa Claus. Yeah. I mean, using his mystical powers to, for violence, that seems like a very dark, um, very Gibsonian ideal. Uh, so I don't know how to feel about that, but,

uh, definitely makes me feel something will make me feel something when it comes out. Uh, so we'll have to wait. I'm intrigued. Uh, and finally the president did go on rush limbaugh's uh radio show to just kind of ramble for a little while um yeah he was

saying he's cured quite literally said that on a microphone out loud to people who are listening in the country yeah he said i'm telling, we have a cure more than just therapeutic. We have a cure. And he just said, I was not in great shape, but we have a medicine that healed me. That fixed me. It was great medicine. I recovered immediately. And he said, he's not taking anything. He said, I'm off any regimen that they gave me. So that's, that's a new development. But I guess you say what you got to when you need to look as strong as possible,

even though all the evidence seems to suggest you are still unwell. Right. Hell yeah. Well, it's great to hear that he's doing well. Sounds like we've turned a corner in the battle against coronavirus, and we're well on our way. So have a great weekend, everyone. He's I think there's going to be an appearance on Fox News on Tucker Carlson tonight where he gets like a physical in front of the nation on live TV is how it's being billed.

I doubt it will actually be that or probably be like an animatronic Donald Trump or I don't know. But I will be watching that. There's possibly a White House rally happening. So just another super spreader event. Just living on the edge. And yeah, who knows what's going to happen. Hopefully we all will

still be here on Monday. Yeah. Until then, that's going to do it for us. Be kind to yourselves. Be kind to each other. Wear a mask. Wash your hands.

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