The Daily Zeitgeist - Biden Wave? Cruise Lines Lying? 3.12.20

Episode Date: March 12, 2020

In episode 585, Miles and special guest host Laci Mosley are joined by comedian Brooks Wheelan to discuss Harvey Weinstein's sentencing, the Biden wave, Trump's economic stimulus plan, Norwegian Cruise Lines being shady, Joel Osteen continuing his services regardless of the coronavirus scare, Disney's Avengers land coming soon, and more!FOOTNOTES: Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison As Biden wave continues on 'mini Tuesday,' here are 5 key points going forward Talks Begin on Stimulus Plan as Trump Plays Down Virus Threat Norwegian Cruise Lines Pushes Staff to Sell Trips by Lying About the Coronavirus JOEL OSTEEN HIS HOLY SHOW'S ROLLING ON ... Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Disney Sets Opening Date For Avengers Campus, Reveals More Details About California Adventure’s Marvel-Themed Attractions WATCH: ZGTO - Whippin’ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is I, the substitute teacher, is hi aka miles gray and welcome to season 124 episode 4 of the daily zeitgeist a production of iheart radio this is the podcast where we open up america's soft little skull look in that brain and go wow what a mess and off the top we tell them every time fuck the coke brothers and fuck coke industries and fuck fox news it's thursday march 12 2020 shout out to the homies chris and mike it's your birthday today always We tell them every time, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Koch Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Thursday, March 12, 2020. Shout out to the homies Chris and Mike. It's your birthday today. Always thinking about y'all.

And yes, I'm Miles Gray, a.k.a. And let's get ready for some good Christian a.k.a.'s. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Joel Blostein, a.k.a. Trilly Graham, a.k.a. Danklin Graham, a.k.a. Jerry Ballwell Jr., a.k.a. Fat Robertson, a.k.a. Bishop E.D. Jakes, a.k.a. Thick Warren, a.k.a. Skrrt Cameron, a.k.a. Creflo Duff, just because that name is pretty

tight. Who's called Creflo? Shout out to Christy Yamaguchi, main at Crispy Meme Donut for those AKAs, and I'm thrilled to be joined by a special guest co-host. You know, the mountain of Zyte More. Howardy has his face chiseled upon it.

Please welcome the great, hilarious, talented, wonderful Lacey Mosley. Hey, it's your girl Lacey Mosley aka Roxanne. Roxanne. All she wanna do is rob me all night. Goddamn. Roxanne. She just take my money, but it's all right. She got all my passcodes.

She think I'm going to pay her. She keep writing cards up saying it's an A-word. Roxanne, Roxanne, all she want to do is scare me all night. That was great. Wow. I'm not qualified for that. I'm out here just Screaming names of

For-profit priests Wow Yeah And you just She goes before I don't have an AK And then I just made something up And then you hit me with that

That's why I get all Arizona stuff That was almost as good as DaBaby Yeah Almost I do love DaBaby Oh everybody loves DaBaby DaBaby and his hit

Oh yeah Slapping Whatever He needs a timeout DaBaby. Oh, everybody loves DaBaby. DaBaby and his hit. Oh, yeah. Slapping. Whatever's going on. He needs a timeout. DaBaby does need a timeout. DaBaby needs his bottle. He needs a sitter. I didn't mean to.

That was really great. That was an amazing A.K.A. Thank you. And also, that voice that you just heard is our wonderful esteemed guest today. Please welcome the hilarious and talented Brooks Whelan. A.K.A. Brooke. Brooke, just one. To people who never figure it out.

Do people call you Brooke a lot? Yeah, but it's all right. Really? But that's the only A.K.A. I know. Old people are just like, that's not a name. Brooks? Really? Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah. It's fine. Wasn't it Brooks and Dunn? Yeah. Oh, but that was last names, right? Well, yeah, also. Brooks Brothers? Oh, that's probably last names, too.

It's all good. I've never corrected anybody. But I was just... I only went with... I felt AKA Envy. You never had a nickname growing up? No. I tried to get everyone to call me Reptile in third grade.

Yeah, because he's my favorite Mortal Kombat 2 character. Oh, shit. And it turns out if you tell your class to be like hey guys I'd like to be called reptile they will only they will not do that that's why I went with Motaro yeah there you go and they called you that they did not I would write reptile like all my

spelling papers and everything and they'd be like alright come on Brooks it's Brooks come on let's try it you're like alright how about Noob Saibot yeah no look man nobody wanted, nobody wanted to indulge. Posty. Yeah. They did not indulge in the reptile lifestyle.

They don't fuck with Midway arcade games, huh? No, it was baloney, man. Fucking trash. Shit, that was Scorpio. Fucking trash. Scorpion, dang it. There was this one dude that we heard about in high school. I heard tell of a man at another high school who could fight like nine dudes at once.

His nickname was Goro. Oh, that's fun. Mortal Kombat lore seeped into a lot of nicknames. But he earned that name by fighting dudes at once. Oh, yeah. It was like people were in disbelief. He lived up to it. Yeah, they're like, it's as if he had four arms.

I'm actually very glad that somebody has actually fought four people at once in real life. Because I always thought in movies that shit was so lame when it was like, fight this one guy and then the other criminal's waiting for his turn. Like, I'll just wait this one. All right. And you've been duffed out. Okay. Now it's my bow.

Thank you. No, Goro took on all comers. No, I just raised my hand and politely asked a bunch of other eight-year-olds. Right, right, right. And they were like, you haven't done anything that a reptile would do. Ah, I see, I see. Okay, so before we get to know you even better, Brooks of Iowa, we will tell people what we're going to be talking about a little bit today.

Harvey Weinstein, he got his 23-year sentence handed down to him recently. We'll look into that. Plus, we'll have to talk about the Biden wave that happened on Tuesday. Oh, I love it. In addition to Trump's, you know, economic stimulus package thing that he said was going to – I don't know who fucking knows what it is now. Norwegian cruise lines are on some bullshit apparently based on what they're having their sales staff tell people. Joel Osteen, he's not scared of Rona, okay?

And he's letting people know by opening the church doors, not to people who are in need and need refuge, but just to people who probably fill the collection plates. And also, there's an Avengers campus at Disneyland opening, and I had no fucking idea. So we will get into that and much more throughout the show. But I guess first, brooks what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are i don't know uh well uh i guess uh

the ncaa wrestling brackets are coming out today i like college wrestling oh iowan so yeah that's a big thing yeah so i guess that's what i was looking at before i came here were you a wrestler yeah i was it wasn't any good. Yeah, yeah. But my brother's team just won the state title in Iowa, Waverly Shell Rock. Oh, okay, Waverly Shell Rock. Yeah, they won back-to-back state champs. Wow. And I was in Iowa last week.

I went and watched my, speaking of not being afraid of the coronavirus, the pre-kindergarten state tournament was packed. Oh, yeah. I saw clips of that on the internet. That, like, even popped up on their internet because they're like, this is how. Well, I tweeted and then Apatow retweeted it

because I was like, South by Southwest is gone. So you're the origin. But pre-K Iowa State Wrestling's here and then Apatow was like, can I premiere my movie there? And I was like, probably.

I hope you have Paw Patrol references because these dudes are wild. Yeah. No like Boomer jokes or Gen Xer jokes. No, yeah, yeah. Probably going to blow their heads completely.

But yeah, I was making, but yeah, they don't care. They're in there, they're wrestling, and I'm watching it. I'm loving it. Iowa had its first ever women's state wrestling tournament. Women only. Women is going to be an NCAA fully funded Division I sport like within the next few years. So it hasn't been this whole time.

No, no, it's brand no. It's not brand new. It's been in the Olympics since 2000. But now it's very accepted and awesome. At the youth level, younger. And crushing it. And it's dope. And America's great. Japan's great at it.

Of course America's great at it. Our women aren't mad. Well, Japan is the best women's wrestling. Really? They're so good. It's wild. Because they have judo backgrounds or something? I think just because maybe they respect everybody. Yeah, yeah. a lot of do it do hey you want to do that from a

young age yeah like a lot of countries just like you know don't respect women that much like like russia's so good at wrestling and on the men's division but not on the women's division and like because well that's why they say the women's national team for our u.s soccer team is so good because in the beginning people looked at soccer as being like i don't know know, let like, I guess we can let little girls play this sport. Oh wow, yeah, I never even thought about that. So it took hold here. That's why like people were like, how is the US team better than Brazil? Yeah.

You know, it's like, oh, because we were, you know, nurturing that very early. What is something that you think is underrated? Young people's votes. Oh man. I think they should be worth two. Yeah. Because they're the one who's going to have to live with it. Especially with climate. How do you say this?

Climate change. Climata. I'm fresh off some grumpy Bernie Biden votes. I mean, I think the problem is we just don't have enough people who are

engaged politically to understand what the stakes are. And then you don't have enough people who are engaged politically to understand what the stakes are. And then you get a lot of people who are energized in a different way and they come out and vote. Because the thing that even too, I mean, we'll get into the primaries. Yeah, I'm sorry I came in hot, but it happened like a few hours ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, I think anyone

who was hoping for meaningful work around climate change or like living wages or healthcare, things like that. When you have a candidate now who looks in the running, who goes, Oh yeah,

I don't think I would ever, uh, I don't think we'd do Medicare for all. Yeah. Let's not, let's not mess with what's working. It's not working. People are dying.

But Hey, uh, let's just go back to normal. Yeah. Uh, what do you think is overrated? Old people votes. I think we can see where I was going. They should be worth one quarter. How do you think is overrated? Old people votes.

Oh. I think we can see where I was going. They should be worth one quarter. Did you engage- 65 and older, you're toast. Did you engage your family to see what they would be voting on? Oh, yeah. I gaslight them so hard.

They are- My mom was- I kept telling my mom, because my mom's convinced if he won, he was going to come and personally take her money. Oh, wow.

You know what I mean? Yeah, like knocking her door and take all her knickknacks and her family photos and be like, we need them. She's like, I'm here for your money and belongings. And I'm taking half of these Fabergé eggs, too. Yeah, exactly. The hipsters need your clothes. It really is.

I mean, again, that's what it goes back to, too. I think being politically engaged enough to not just hear a word like socialism, which the media says they'll just use that word rather than really asking the positing the question. Let's actually engage with even what Bernie or Elizabeth Warren is talking about. They're saying wealthy people are siphoning up the wealth, which means there's less money for other people. And that's why things are very hard. So we need to alleviate that by rearranging things. There's nothing to sweat about. We not coming for your Costco card?

We don't even have that. They go to Aldi's, which is a wonderful place. I'm not talking trash, but I'm just saying. Aldi's, I think they do right by their employees. I was talking to people over 60 in Texas, and that very much is the sentiment. And I think it's combined with the class jealousy, like their age gap jealousy. Boomers are very much jealous of the fact that when they were gay, they had to just marry a straight person and be miserable their whole life. And when they were broke, they had to just work until the knuckles bled to feed their families.

Yeah, or you had a creepy boss being misogynistic. Right, then you just had to let the shoulder rubs happen. That's just Jerry! That's the times! Jerry touched your tits when you got to work! Oh, and now it's a problem? And now it's a problem! Now you're all sad because you got to get tit-touched when you go to work!

Like, they're jealous of the progress that we've made, and they're so insistent on halting it because of the jealousy. Because it's that, and they also think that we have, because it's really the entitlement that they think we feel to live better than they have because they're also upset about the fact that they think they didn't have to fight in world war ii they got to live better than their parents exactly right well they did in vietnam that one was okay you know what maybe america hasn't been great this whole time yeah no i think zoom out a bit yeah we know and i think that's why a lot of people are disheartened, especially for progressives or even leftists who are looking at it like, no, you see, we've been, this has been a slow burn of rot. It's been rotting from the inside out.

The veneer of the United States still exists where people know our media and know what we want people to think people's lives are. But the inside is a shit show. They're inside. Did you guys see any of that Ken Burns Vietnam documentary? Like 10 part. I've seen part of it. No, I haven't seen the whole thing. It's like the most devastating.

Right. It depressed me for weeks because I was like, wow, it was worse before. People sinning, people to die for votes. It's like, what? We've been doing this this long? Shit. And also the other thing that when i was talking to 60 people and above was and this is to your notebooks of like them thinking that your

parents thinking that people are going to walk in and steal their money yeah it's like they think that socialism or what we're asking for is us not wanting to be employed they think that if we got free health care i'm genuinely i talked to several people my family's from iowa they think of like they just think of people in big cities, homeless people. They're like, it's going to skid row. I'm like, it's not going to skid row.

It's going to people who work next door to you. Yes. Yes. And kids that are in school. Oh boy. I'm getting all grumpy again. Well, I think that's the problem,

you know, and we'll have plenty of time to dissect this later. Uh, but yeah, a lot of people were holding out for a worldview that was more than just no more Donald Trump. It was more like normal Don just no more Donald Trump. It was more like no more Donald Trump. And also, let's also tackle this other bullshit that we need to handle now because we're leaving people behind. I was really hoping, like when Donald Trump got elected, I go, okay, we're swinging so far this way that the next swing is going to be so far the other way.

And I like the other way. So I'm excited to see how far we swing. Turns out we did not. We're hopefully praying, fingers crossed, we go straight back to the center. Which I'm like, no, let's show them what the fuck they did and go as far left as we can for four years. Hey man, look at Al Gore,

John Kerry. I was about to say, this gives me John Kerry vibes when he went against Bush for a second term, where we were just blue no matter who and it did not work. It doesn't work, man. That was my first election I voted in. Finally, what's a myth, Brooks? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? just blew no matter who, and it did not work. It doesn't work, man. That was my first election I voted in. Brown swell, man. Finally, what's a myth, Brooks?

What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Hope. Oh, wow. Hope, forget about it. Forget about it. Full-on nihilism. Yeah. Packing it up. It's done.

Just put your head down and go through life. Yeah. I mean, look, we'll see what happens. A, there's at least good turnout. That's true. Great turnout. And honestly, the people who I met in line at like in Los Feliz were like, we, that was like, you live in the neighborhood.

Cool. And obviously we're all like by like, I mean, burning people, Jesus. But like, uh, it was so nice. It was like a play. It was exciting. I've never been in that excited to vote for a candidate. And, uh, that was a fun day. The voting day was fun.

Yeah. Well, we'll see what happens come November. Hey, anything can happen, y'all. Anything can happen. Literally anything. Biden might ask DaBaby to be his vice president. Ooh, there I'm in. I mean, then you know somebody's going to be fighting for us, or at least fighting.

Okay, so let's get into the first story. Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday. He's gone full pro wrestler, like with his act outs. Just like those different looks, yeah. Yeah, he's like, oh, what's he doing today? Oh, he's got the cane. He's put the little tennis balls on. Oh, this is a good move for him.

He really escalated. If any of y'all understand improv and heightening, he really gave us a first move, a second move, and then a third move. And then a callback. Right, and a callback. Yeah, because the first move was the cane. I'm warming him up. I'm warming him up with the cane.

Then he came in with the walker. Then he put the tennis balls on that joint. Like, look, I may be poor because I got tennis balls on this joint. Then he went full. He in a wheelchair. He does have health issues though but i think he something happened to him in prison i'm not sure they said he fell yeah he had or did a celly did he have a celly so his heart pains were um legit like people thought it was a pandemic attack but actually he did have to have a stent put in his heart uh which is fairly common for people his age but still you

know very scary moment. You never want to have any kind of heart procedure. Right. And then he fell in Rikers. He fell in Rikers? Yeah, they say he fell somehow. So maybe he does need the wheelchair now. He said at his, I guess during the sentence came down, he said, I feel, I really feel

remorse for this situation. I feel it deeply in my heart. I will spend my time really caring and really trying toorse for this situation. I feel it deeply in my heart. I will spend my time really caring and really trying to be a better person. All right, man. Cool. Well, shut up. Cool.

The stress of this trial got to him. Because didn't Costco blind right when his trial was really picking up? Yeah. Yeah. So it's like that stress. Well, yeah. You go so long perpetrating, violating, being a predator, and then suddenly when the jig is up, that's got to be jarring. Like when you realize you're like, oh, everything I did I knew was bad, but they're going to put me in jail?

They're such sociopaths. They're doing things that they must. They've done it so long they want to get caught. They've got to like. I'm sure there is the high of doing something. It's like a serial killer. There's serial rapists. They're just like, I'm going to do it until I can't do it no more.

And then it happens. They're like, oh, shit, maybe I didn't want to get caught. I should have stopped 20 fucking years ago. But I think we've lived in a world so long that protected this that maybe they just thought this was how society was. Because I mean, if you think about it, back in the day, everybody was marrying 13-year-olds, and they all lived to the death. It's a video game. It's like, in this video game, I can do whatever the fuck I want to women. But the deal is you've got to get to level uh in terms of how important you are to an industry

right and then when you achieve that level it's a new video game you play called get the fuck out of the way because i'm doing whatever the fuck i want and the industry will protect me i hate the blame like blaming other people because like i used to have a i just had a random it was a bad joke i only did it once but the mich the Michael Jackson community got behind me pretty good. I just said, if you weren't in the Michael Jackson documentary, great. Good or bad. You just don't want to be in that. Like, cause nobody in that looks, it's not good.

You were either touched or you're a friend with the guy that's touching. Not good. Anyway, they started attacking me and like, I told you it was bad. And they're like, well, Jimmy Page married a 13 year old. I was like, well then fuck Jimmy Page. Right. I don't, fuck anybody who does this shit. That's weird.

Like that's not a defense that someone else did something bad, too. Yeah. Well, I think what about ism is the great rhetorical deflector in any reply guy. Yeah. In any disingenuous argument about something. Well, this guy raped, too. Well, put him in jail. I'm not talking about that.

Yeah. That is also It also happens with people on the right and left when they're like, yeah, Obama was a bad president. Some leftists will be like, yeah, I understand. He's probably a war criminal. Then they're like, oh. Okay, well, that invalidates.

I thought I was just going to... I didn't think people were... Yeah, sure. His defense lawyer, Weinstein's defense lawyer, Donna Rotuno, said that this sentence was obscene, obnoxious, and cowardly. I mean, I think, look, it's over. So I think maybe we can put the act away now.

You don't have to act like you think that it's cowardly to sentence somebody who's going through life. Literally convicted of rape. Sex predator, yeah. Convicted of rape. Not alleged. Convicted, right? Yeah.

Especially because she's a woman and she's already sold out. I mean, I don't expect much from most women. But y'all know who I'm talking about. 53. Just talking about 53. 53 and me. But like- 53 and me?

53%. Oh, okay. I thought that was a new DNA test. I don't expect much from y'all. No, no, yeah. I don... 53 and me? 53%. Oh, okay. I thought that was a new DNA test. I don't expect much from y'all. No, no, yeah. I don't expect much from y'all. New chromosomes. New chromosomes.

But you've already sold out, you know, womanhood. Like, you don't have to put the icing on the cake, girl. Like, you're trash. He's not going to give you a... It's not like an Uber ride where it's like at the end, you're like, oh, would you like to tip your lawyer? Yeah. Because they did that wild shit at the end, even though you got to your destination.

Like, your destination is jail. End of. I wish we could just retaliate against her for even defending him. Just take away all the women stuff that we like. Who else was she defending? That was kind of her bag, right? Defending famous predatory men.

I guess if that's already your... No more Lululemon for you. It's also like how Trump fires and then turns on everybody. Who's applying for that job? Like, I'm going to be different. He's not going to get mad at me. It's like, these people don't care about you.

They're freaking sociopaths. Ugh, well. But I mean, this is still good news because he got 23 years and he's about to be extradited to Los Angeles to get his here and the girls are ready the girls have been waiting uh so you know I think he might even get more time than that what about like a really bad con air but Harvey Weinstein is the Nick Cage in it on his way here oh who else is on that plane just like canceled air is that what it is yeah it's him cancel air it's just him and bill cosby's

flying it but he can't see oh i kind of would be uh johnny 23 well anyway we can cast that later uh before we get we're going down a real roll here yeah we're gonna cancel i come in there like how was how's brooks as a guest he got us canceled yeah one-time guest done what do you know the power of the power of words 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.

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Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from blumhouse television iheart radio and realm listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and yes there were some primaries on Tuesday. Joe Biden ran the fuck away with many of them. I mean, I know Washington, they say, is very close. They still haven't announced a winner there. But it seems like it could possibly be trending bidet, if you will. And I think, you know, if you're looking at the delegate math and you want to feel good and maybe say, oh, maybe Bernie's not out of it. I mean, you can tell yourself there's still we're not even close to getting the anyone getting the requisite number of delegates to put this thing completely to bed. But at the same time, when you look at just how intense the

support has been for Joe Biden, like looking at a lot of these districts, it's going to be a very, very tough challenge for the Sanders campaign. But, you know, they're sticking in it. I think Bernie himself was saying like, yeah, him winning like that definitely ticks the electability box. He's like, it's going to be hard to win that argument. I mean, I'm I want to say it just for the debate, because don't they debate Sunday? Yeah, this was like, dude, stay in, get your points your points across get one let's give us one last nice bernie swing well i think what happens too is they

need i think him staying in it too will hopefully help joe biden look to the left and say okay how am i going to appeal to all of you now yeah i was clearly able to get like because when you look at a lot of the math that was going on you know people are scared i think that's the biggest thing oh there were exit polls that showed their top priority like going into it people like health care climate change the top priority in a lot of exit polls became just beat the shit out of donald trump right in the general that's all we want that's all we want everything else is secondary we want. Everything else is secondary. And I think if you are, people are so terrorized by this administration that it's clear that some

people look at it as like, okay, like, do we go for the big swing on something to try and like fully change something or, and at the risk of like even losing a foothold of like what we have now, or do we just go for the easy thing? And then like,

okay, once that happens, then we can fucking talk about other shit. But right now I'm so freaked out. I just need to make sure that this dude is not the fucking president. Right? Yeah. I'm worried about Trump Biden debates.

I think Bernie could trash Trump in a debate. I think Biden gets gaslit so easy. I don't know what happens with them. He screams at freaking auto workers who say you're going to take away our guns. He's trying to fight a guy in a Detroit plant yesterday. That's bullshit. That's energy. Yeah, right? I mean, it could turn

into them just full on. It's going to turn into Trump being like, you don't got big muscles, and Biden takes his fucking shirt off and be like, look at these muscles. Are you kidding me? And we're like, oh my god. We're like, oh, he saw his nipples. We can't freaking vote for him anymore. They're like, he got a 311 tag. What? He got a little turtle body.

Yeah. Fucking facelift, but still old man body. Weird as hell. I don't know, though, because Donald Trump's base, I think they're unwavering. They're not people who give a shit about anything other than white supremacy. There were some Republicans who voted for him because they just vote Republican, but I don't know how many of those there are I don't know what the debates are going to do

and Donald Trump hasn't hurt Republicans financially even the worst they just like their money man they're selfish so what I'm saying is some are but most the irony is and this is what people always point to it's like people are actually feeling it they're just not connecting the dots that it's because of

well that's what I'm saying but the rich people who vote for him who actually have common People are actually feeling it. They are just not connecting the dots that it's because of other things. Well, that's what I'm saying. But the rich people who vote for him who actually have a functioning brain. You know what I mean? Yeah, they're like, well, it's good for my wallet. It's good for my wallet. And the poor people are like, well, it's good for the preservation of my race. Because even if I'm a poor white, I'm still not black or I'm not Latino.

I'm not gay. And the president says things that he's basically saying like, oh, yeah, they're from shithole countries. Yeah, exactly. Or like, yeah, I don't use a lot of coded language. So those people are firmly locked in. And I think that like Bernie, it would be great to have a candidate who, you know, could speak the facts and go toe to toe with Donald Trump. But at the same time, Donald Trump is not going to, it's not like you can say, we all know he's lying. When Politico fact checks him, they're like, nah.

Well, I think that's where it's like, are they, the debates would maybe be for independence. But that goes to another thing, which is. The debates are for the fucking, for CNN. They're for the television ratings. It's just posturing. Yeah. Because at this point, we know everything. Yeah.

Well, so, you know, looking at some of the numbers, right? Like the turnout was huge. It was, I think, up 50% in Michigan versus the last time that's pretty significant. And it's been the same, uh, even in Virginia and other states across the country. But you're seeing that in Michigan, I think, I don't think Bernie even carried a single County, uh, but he won a significant majority of the under 45 vote. Um, and a lot of people I think are realizing too, even in there, as they like look at the results, they're like, yeah, he cleaned up. He's like, but if you look,

there's a huge divide in how the support goes. Like when it's under 29, it's even more extreme because people are like, yeah, here's the deal. I'm living in the hellscape where I have a job, quote unquote, but like, I can't like the thing that they're saying, what healthcare costs is ridiculous. Uh, the ability, my ability to accumulate wealth. There's no way, uh, how like with my wages, they're not high enough with property taxes and the, like the cost of real estate in certain areas. It's just unattainable. Um, and so for them, those people, and also climate change, let's be real. They're saying we're going to hit a tipping point within our lifetime where it'll be like, okay, we might see some really awful shit and then our

children if we have them or people who do have them will conceive in something worse but the turnout in the suburbs in the south was also really significant which is interesting which shows that there are people who might even be in like really red states who are being like, yeah, I don't know. Like this is bad. Like I don't care enough. But there are a lot of people turning out to vote suddenly in these primaries. So there's energy there, but it's just not in the context I think any person who's a progressive would like to see because we're out here being like, no, we need to handle like women's reproductive rights.

We need like job guarantees. We need job guarantees. We need new minimum wages. We need protections for LGBTQ people. At the beginning of this primary, I was like, no matter what, I'll vote to get Trump out. No matter what. No matter what. No matter what. And now the DNC pissed me off so fucking bad with how they treated

just Trash and Bernie. And I know I'm being like a bitch right now. I'm just like they fuck Bernie I hate him they've done it twice now you know they're gonna call you a Bernie bro that's fine man

I don't even mind I'm being a Bernie bro but I'm just like dude I hate the DNC so much with how they like like fallout fallout

fallout endorse endorse endorse like boom and then he went and then Bernie gets blown the shit up

then I'm like I hope you lose again but I love the earth and I like people so I of course I want Biden to win swallow it yeah but I'm like, I hope you lose again. But I love the earth and I like people. So I, of course, I want Biden to win. Swallow it and vote Biden. But I'm just like, damn it. Like if you told me nine months ago, I would begrudgingly have to vote for Biden.

I'd be like, no way. I'll happily vote for him. Right. But then after this whole primary thing, I'm like, fuck this. Well, I think again, it's, I think it's a lot of people need to be a little realistic, right? For the things that were being presented as ideas from both Bernie and Elizabeth to varying degrees were too much of a threat to the system that is in place that to think that it would just be like, yeah, we'll make it easy for you to do this regularly. I mean, that's where people have to. That's where I think people there's a path to being a little more engaged in politics where you're like, well, this I agreed with everything this candidate says. And I wait, what the fuck happened? And you're like, OK, there's a path to being a little more engaged in politics where you're like, well, I agreed with everything this candidate says. And I'm like, wait, what the fuck happened?

And you're like, okay, there's a moneyed class that really calls the shots, controls the flow of money in politics when they're a threat. It's like being in high school. It's like, yeah, you know what? But I'm the more popular kid. So even though you might have ran a better campaign, I have the ear of more people who can help me create a narrative around it. And also in

one week i'll just it won't be so fresh that i'm so mad and i'll go back to my regular skate like scheduled hating of trump okay no you know i forgot i forgot about the devil the true enemy here i'm wondering if though because that was part of the issue why hillary didn't win is that a lot of people she won the popular vote yeah which if you didn't have a fucking electoral college slavery um but people weren't excited and so people weren't turning out as much and is that a lot of people, she won the popular vote, which if you didn't have a fucking electoral college, slavery. But people weren't excited, and so people weren't turning out as much. And that's what I fear. I'm like, it can't happen again, because at least before Hillary,

we didn't know how bad a Trump presidency would be. Now that we know, I can't fathom you being like, oh, well, I'm just so burned out by politics that I'm just going to let this maniac continue to run the country and parts of the world. It's different. I think there was, again, people thought, that I'm just going to let this maniac continue to run the country and parts of the world. It's different. I think there was, you know, again, people thought, man, Trump ain't fucking winning in 2016.

So they sat back. I would have never, ever thought it was possible. I think it's incredibly possible this time for him to win again. Oh, yeah. So that's why I have to vote. Most people would because people on the right are just as energized to keep this party going. But the turnout, though, I think that's what's really the only thing I can be like, maybe something will happen. But at the end of the day,

I'm not willing to entertain any sort of fantasy ideas where everything goes to nice town. It is positive. My parents are Republicans, but they don't like Donald Trump. And I think honestly, if Bernie ran, they would vote for Trump. And I think since now it's Biden, they're just going to take this one off because I don't think they have a problem with Biden. But they had, you know, Bernie, they think it's going to take all their money. Because he'll take all their pencil sharpeners. That being said, maybe that happens a little less energy from the right.

Hopefully, hopefully. But see, when you add on top of that, a lot of the voter suppression you're already seeing too, even in our, in the primaries, the democratic primaries, it's big. It seemed very difficult for people of color to vote for young people to vote. There are lines in places there shouldn't be there. They're closing polling places. The fuckery is going to be fully on in November. Um, and that's why, you know, if the irony, right, is a system where people are like, I have to wait three hours to vote, but I can't wait in line because my boss will not let me be out for that long. And if I don't go to my job, I will lose my health care,

which I need. Therefore, I cannot even be and participate in this process because they've made it very hard or it's disorganized or whatever it is but that's just sort of the cruel fucking loop that we're finding ourselves stuck in i've voted in last like i've lived in the same place for the last like you know election and the primary for that and the line i like i walked to go vote it was like an hour long line at like eight in the morning and i was like i'll come back later then i went back it was an hour and a half then i went back and it was two hours and i was like fuck i just have to wait was two hours. And I was like, fuck, I just have to wait in this line. This line's not going down. So that's just proof of like in the last three elections, how much.

It was 10 minutes the last two times. Right. Yeah. And I want to say like, just vote by mail. But I'm going to vote by mail. Yeah, I'm voting by mail next time. I'm going in person. And I'll watch her put it wherever she's supposed to put it.

I'm like, let me follow you to the back seat. And where does that go? OK, and then you're going to lift that box up? Okay, then you put it in there? And who's this guy? Who's this guy? He worked here? How long he worked here?

He's just with UPS. He gets it there. How long have you been with UPS? Why are your shorts that short? Y'all mind if I stay here until the polling closes? I just want to see y'all pack up. And what can Brown do for me? Literally.

That's great. I'm a civilian. I'm a citizen. So, yeah, I mean, we'll see. Next Tuesday, it's Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Arizona. Everybody loves Florida. I mean, Florida, I'm pretty sure nothing is going to change there. I mean, yeah, unfortunately, you have, again, a lot of older voters there

and a lot of Cuban-Americans, too, who didn't take kindly to Bernie Sanders trying to say anything good about uh castro so that's just the world we live in and then he also didn't go to apac so there were a lot of older jewish voters too who are like i said on twitter like bernie young people fuck with you you're done with us like you don't even have to say anything else we get it we're listening we're into it go ahead down to the old host homes go to the duck feed and. Okay? Go to the matinee at the movies at 1030 a.m. Yeah. 1030 a.m.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? The 945? Yeah. Denny's. Sure. Grand Slams.

Ooh. That's like, you need to be eating pancakes until November. Rudy Tutti Fresh and Fruities. Yes. Do they still do that? You need to just call random and go old people regularly because they don't get no phone calls. Oh.

They love that. Just spend time. That's true. Well, I mean, while we lament about the prospects of having a decent leader, I think we should also focus our attention back onto the person who's apparently in charge at the moment, which is Donald Trump. He has said he had a whole economic stimulus package because coronavirus has been obviously affecting the

stock market which he looks at as the only marker as to how well people are doing um yeah and then you know he's like don't you know don't worry we're gonna figure this out i've got a whole meeting a whole plan with like gop leadership on what to do the the fucking meeting came and went he didn't show he didn't have any fucking plan he said a bunch of weird bullshit apparently just like He didn't show up. He didn't have any fucking plan. He said a bunch of weird bullshit, apparently. He just assured them.

He's like, our coronavirus plan is fine. Everything's going well. And it was even like some of the GOP members in there were like, I don't even know if I can even swallow this shit anymore. The rest of the world is actually doing shit. You have no plan, except he did pitch this. Coachella's doing better than him. Yeah, at the moment. I'm saying they've done more the music festival is helping more than the president look donnie

got a plan he said be calm be calm and also in addition to yeah carry on yeah okay be calm go to work and carry on going to work yeah even if you feel sick because it's probably not that bad what's wrong with you would you you go get healthcare? You don't have it. Sorry. Joke's on you. So he apparently pitched some Republican senators on a stimulus package to help the travel and hospitality industries because cruise ships are getting hit hard.

Hotel airlines are flying their fucking empty planes burning jet fuel. For what? Yeah. Because they don't want to lose their slots flying those routes. Oh, so I can live that private jet life right now, but like on American. There's like a whole blog post, like thread of posts of people taking photos on planes and you're like, it's about eight people on this plane. Didn't he say that he liked it because Americans would have to stay in America to spend money?

I know he said that. Yeah, probably. It's like, this is good. Americans are going to stay in America to spend money. I'm like, that's not how it fucking works. We don't party when we stay home, man. Yeah, exactly.

We're eating at home. We're not going out to eat if we're scared to go out anywhere. Yeah. That's ridiculous. But I think that's like that sort of like really, just that thinking of like,

yeah, but then the money stays there. Well, you know, they were going to go to Australia, but now they're going to spend their Australia money, you know, in, you know, in Fort Worth.

Don't save it. I was going to have a little going away happy hour before I leave for work, and I decided not to. I was like, I have to go work for three months. I don't want to see 40 people and not know where they've been. Then I got the Rona. Right. Don't keep that Rona away from me.

A lot of people, I think, there's a little bit of hubris about it, which is like, well, I don't know anyone that has it. And I don't think like, I know there's someone in the county that has it, but I'm usually fine. So why would I let that? But the thing is, you want to keep that streak going. Don't then go out there with your chest out because you don't think it's directly in front of you. Well, a very passionate woman from Italy had a Facebook post that went viral where she was talking about the fact that like, if you do live in a country where it's not hit you guys as hard, don't keep living like normal. Because like you're saying, Miles, that's exactly how we

got here. She said everybody kept going out, they kept partying, they kept, you know, congregating. And now their country's on lockdown. And she was saying like, what you don't realize is yeah, okay, it's not fatal for most of you if you're healthy, if you don't have any pre existing conditions, if you're not old or very, very young. But what the issue is is a lot of you will still need to go to the hospital. People as young as 40 or younger than 40 are still needing to be in the ICU. And if all the beds are full, the doctors have to start choosing who lives and who dies like in war times. And that's what she's saying is happening in Italy.

They're triaging like that? Not everywhere, but some places like they're – Yeah, not that they're being like, okay, this person will die, but I'm sure they're being like... But they have the ICU cots, like, in the hallways in some of these facilities. So it's like, they don't have enough space to treat all of these people, and, yeah. When you look at the number of available beds we have

per thousand people... It's like the Titanic. The last thing we need is a lot of us getting sick at once. Well, the problem, the issue also is when you have people who, you know, look at, like, their their bank account saying, okay, do I go to the fucking doctor? But I don't feel that bad. Like I've felt, I've had colds before and I've done it. And then you go to work.

Boom. I used to work in a restaurant. And that was the thing. And one person would come in sick and then everybody would get it and just pass it back. My girlfriend's in the service industry right now. And it's fucking like that's how she makes money that's her job to appear before people serve them interact with them now people aren't going out to eat no literally like affecting how she pays rent like you know like i mean she you know i was going to school and stuff like that

but i'm like what like it's seriously affecting yeah people who like, it's fucking messing with people's livelihood. And then you got Trump being like, don't worry about it. I'm like, fucking worry about it. Yeah. Well, it's funny, too, because I think Republicans are also feeling like they're in a bit of a crisis here where they're like, it's objectively not a good thing. And it can't, it's going to affect things. And he's continuing to just deny, deny, deny. things and he's continuing to just deny deny deny and it's funny to see that for whatever reason we're at a point where there are more people republicans who are sort of expressing their

displeasure or they're uncomfortable or how uncomfortable they are and how the administration is handling things like but not like full-throated like this is a mess or like yeah i would probably do it differently like please like a lot. These are all older men who are at risk for this respiratory and immune, you know, and it attacks your immune system too.

It would be dope if this hit D.C. It's already, they already had to quarantine. They already had to quarantine what's his name? Quarantine Congress. Matt Gaetz did.

Matt Gaetz actually, negative. He had his test. He's negative. Even though he shook hands with the CPAC patient zero. And Donald Trump is sort of like, they asked, there was a question if he got tested. He's like, yeah, there's no need.

All right. Yeah, do you. That's okay. That's the trope I like. Do you, man. And he's taking photos. Like, what he's doing now is ignoring, like, not constituents, but like people who are actually in the government when he lands on a jet.

But then he'll take photos with the public. Shaking hands. Yeah. Yeah. So that take photos with the public. Shaking hands. Yeah. Yeah. So that they lessen the panic. Do you think the Secret Service would eventually at some point see a dude who looks sweaty, feverish, coughing, and he's about to shake the president? He's like, no.

No. I bet that they want him to get it. I bet they're like, let him get it. It won't be our fault. It won't be our fault. They've been speaking about it in some places, I guess like private sources, and they were saying, you know, there's nothing we can do. We can yell about the facts as much as we want we can

tell him he needs to stay away but he's also campaigning for you know a second term so he's doing all these parties and these people's houses and like he's coming in contact with a lot of people all the time there's two like I didn't there's two Trumps there's the one who you know enacts terrible like trial bans

and you know is racist and all that and then there's the one who says I don't need to be tested and I like the the i don't need to be because he's just so dumb he's like that's just a real dumb old guy he has that like funny shitty fun confidence of like the uncle who's like an alcoholic who your parents don't invite around that much because like you know he steals stuff when he comes around but to a kid you're like but he's so fun he's so fun he stared at the he stared at the eclipse yeah there's cameras all over him. He said, fuck that, looked at it. He's making out with the American flag. This is fun.

That guy is wild. Shouldn't be in charge, but we should keep an eye on him. There's a lot of people who just love him for the lulz. But with our luck, he'll be completely healthy the entire time. Because that's how evil people work. They don't ever catch anything. The nastiest ones fucking live forever. It sucks. It sucks how unhealthy he should be so he probably is very healthy very healthy his cruise ship bailout you know that like proposal did not go over well

yeah lindsey graham was just basically like yeah i don't i don't think this is really the best idea and then there was a um idea of a payroll tax being waived for a few months to help the businesses, you know, like, okay, well, if we, if we cut the payroll taxes until November, he was just saying just until the election, because it's not about just look very narrowly at November. We'll just, I'll do it for that to try and get some points. Maybe that'll work. But Republicans, there's like two two there's two sides of this debate republicans are like now if you're gonna do that just give the ceos cash like that's better they will definitely trickle it down as they always have shown that they will business going

you know drying up and then and democrats are just basically like dude the payroll tax is not gonna fucking do shit especially if you are like working gig economy or like you're making less than $25,000 or $25,000 or less. That's going to be like fucking like not even 10 bucks a week or $10 a week. Italy is suspending mortgage payments. Right. And we're about to go and give billions of dollars to people who already have billions of dollars. Expecting them.

Who are they? Look, these are textbook hoarders. They're hoarders of money. If you were to walk into a billionaire's house and it wasn't paper money it would just be like little cuckoo clocks and lots of papers yeah yeah right roach clips and like you know what i mean like that's how they that's how they hoard money yeah so they're not gonna give it to anybody no and then so democrats and even some republicans are like that's not gonna actually help people if you're taking a financial hit it's like give them unemployment like like start giving people some kind of subsidies how about the food stamps that you've

been so you know hell-bent on cutting for people shit like that things that are more direct that would be like yeah don't worry you're gonna be able to feed yourself you're gonna be able to afford like these little basic things don't worry about this other shit right now because obviously we just have to huddle up and figure it out but and what happens tomorrow lago if we start doing hotel bailouts what happens to trump towers what happens to his hotels are they included in the bailout you better believe it the most beautiful scam of all this man just gave himself billions of dollars because everyone is dying yeah i mean and then they still die but he made billions off of it yeah uh but again i think that's what sort of feeds this

underlying anger for a lot of people who wanted change candidates this year. It's like not anger at another person. It's an anger at looking at a system that is so clearly made to benefit a certain class of people at the expense of other people who are just as worthy of a dignified life. And the fact that we don't get that and the fact that we don't have that inbuilt to our rules is what I think is causing a lot of the stress and anger. Because it's like, man, why the fuck do we even have to talk like there are people who can just fucking die so casually of any kind of illness? Because it's unaffordable. And I think that's where a lot of the heat comes from. But I do want to say this maybe is the last point.

A lot of people were shocked at how poorly our government is mishandling this pandemic. But I just want to point out, and everyone was doing this on Twitter as well, but they did this with the HIV AIDS crisis. Yeah, another epidemic. Yeah, they did this with Ebola. Ebola, they did a better job in this country. There wasn't an outbreak of Ebola. Do you know something I don't?

No. Oh, okay. But, like, it's not, when it is, like, hurting marginalized people, they did this with Katrina. Oh, you're talking about outside of, in terms of, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I was going to say, like, sure. Yeah, just in terms of help. Like, people, the 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico because of the U.S. government and, like, their lack of help. So, like, the U.S. government has never cared about our health or safety.

Think of how many veterans die of suicide in a month. And there's even that. But, again, even if you put that for other people, yeah, who you want to put in a hierarchy of, like, these are people who deserve our help. I'll take back Ebola, but the rest of those stand. Yeah, or even starvation. I think a global issue. And it's like, man. And more people are dying of that.

Well, that's the difference, right? Because this epidemic transcends class, geography. It can come to your fucking doorstep. You know, like it's easy to think, well, I'm wealthy and I'm of a certain class, race, where nationality. I know this thing over here. It's not real to me. Therefore, it doesn't exist.

So poof. Vamoose, son of a bitch. Ace to the iso. I feel like that's that mentality. Whereas coronavirus, you see people going into first class wearing fucking throwaway suits and shit. I mean, Naomi Campbell has been on. She's been on that too. She's been saying it for years.

She cleans everything on the plane when she gets on the plane. Wears a mask. Yeah. My brother saw a woman one time. And this is like, this is just like a public service announcement, sat next to her. She pulled the tray down, and then she took a packet of mayonnaise,

poured it onto the tray. No, nothing. Mayonnaise, and then tuna. Put the tuna on there. No plate. No, no, no, no, no, no. Mixed it up on the tray, and then ate it with a cracker.

And he said he was just gagging. And so now he does that. So now he's Naomi Campbell because he's like, I saw what happened. And now he eats tuna like that on air. Now he's like, it's delicious. So yeah, people are fucking wild. This woman treated the airplane fucking tray as a charcuterie board? Yes, with mayonnaise and tuna.

Homegrown with full Emeril Lagasse on the Delta flight. Hell no. So just know that that can happen on your seat. So fucking behave like that happened. I'm getting a fever. I am flummoxed. That was... Yeah, he was just like...

It's so weird. Of all the things that I'd be like, that's disgusting. Right. I never even thought in my mind someone would eat directly off of a tray of like of the fucking full down table and then mix shit on it yeah well why do you even need a mix then like if you're that nasty just pour the mayonnaise in your mouth and put the tuna in because he said the whole flight he kept going no she's not gonna do that oh no she's not gonna do that oh no she's doing it she's doing it and no one ever came out and was like, this is a practical joke.

Oh, yeah, exactly. He's like a gif somewhere being like, whoa, no. But yeah, I think one other thing that I do want to touch on is the cruise industry. Because they are taking one of the biggest L's in the history of their industry at the moment. Because everyone's like, every time a cruise ship comes up in the news it's because yeah uh this boat i don't know maybe a human fucking petri dish uh floating petri dish and we're keeping it off the coast because we don't want this anywhere near anywhere um so naturally sales have been down well i would hope so yeah i would i wouldn't want to know anyone if you're currently being like well let's take a cruise yes what are you doing I mean, normally I look prior to I was not making fun.

I'm not making fun of people. I have to be real. I've been on a cruise. I like a cruise. But I'm saying we're doing it now. But a cruise. But over the years, I had to abandon it because cruises are straight trash. They're terrible for the environment.

They're fucking off like now with this shit. And the working conditions aren't great. I had to sort of put aside my like, well, it's fun to be on one. Versus like, they're dumping shit into the sea while it's moving. My parents have probably taken like 40 cruises. No lie. Cruises are. I've done maybe half that.

I don't enjoy them. And I forced them this year. We were all in Mexico at the same time. Because I was like, I'm not going on any more fucking cruises. We're done with this family. I forced them all. I was like, I'm not going on any more fucking cruises. We're done with this family. I forced them all. I was like, land vacations only. But when you're on those boats, you're just in such close proximity.

You're exposed to so many people constantly. Everyone's constantly touching everything. Everything's pretty much buffet style. So everybody's breathing on shit and scooping the shit and ladles with their mouths. So it is like a petri dish of germs. But the other thing I was going to say about cruises is I always hear when a cruise goes wrong, for some reason, people have nowhere to shit at a certain point. Right. It always becomes a thing.

Oh, yeah. You don't want that. Yeah. So I'm like, are they like in the ocean with the corona? I'll eat tuna off a fucking tray before I'm like in a situation where they're like, mmm. Pooping in bags? Because that's what always seems to happen. So right now, their sales managers are telling people at Norwegian Cruise Lines,

apparently this is coming out in, I forget, one of the Florida newspapers, that they had gotten a hold of some internal emails and people saying like some of the sales managers are being like, yeah, we're being told to like keep selling harder now. Quote, these discussions take place every day and even during our department meetings. Managers tell us that it isn't a big deal that more people die from other things. They're constantly underestimating it. The leadership is.

So it's like, yeah, that's not the worst thing that could happen is like what the word is coming from the head office. Then there's an, they got a hold of another email that was saying the kinds of bullshit they want the salespeople to tell prospective sailors, clients, passengers. Quote, the coronavirus can only survive in cold temperatures, so the Caribbean is a fantastic choice for your next cruise. No, no, no. That's something they're asking people to say.

Second, scientists and medical professionals have confirmed that the warm weather of the spring will be the end of the coronavirus. The CDC said if you get your hair braided by a Jamaican lady on the dot. If you're a white with problematic braids, you will be immune to the coronavirus. The coronavirus will be like, I don't want to be a part of that. Yeah, they're like, no, no, no. That seems a little racist. I'm already in some heat, man.

People don't like me enough. I don't want to be that. I mean, coronavirus is a little vague. It should be COVID-19. I'm not really trying to take that heat i'm i'm the bigger version anyway another one is instructs that coronavirus cannot live in the amazingly warm and tropical temperatures that your crews will be sailing to that's wild just complete utter disinformation uh out of them it's well if you believe it fucking hop on there baby and then stay out the port. But again, just shows you too

how these kinds of businesses work and the capitalist system works. It's like, okay, here's the deal. This thing has to make money at all costs. That means at all costs. That means risking people's lives. It also, it does really, it sucks for not the execs,

but it does suck for the fucking employees of these cruises. Right, right. Because it does fucking suck because people do depend on these cruises. But don't tell people you can't get Corona in the Caribbean. Just to be like, eh, ugh. Not on Carnival, you can't get Corona. We're going to be called Coronaville in a second. We're drinking Corona beer on Carnival.

That get rid of it. Oh, shit. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Quick question. Corona sales have to be dipping. Can we look that up in the break? Is it or isn't it? A lot of sales were going down, but they were doing fine.

And there was a study that came out. We had to debunk that. Okay, I wasn't sure. It was a competing PR company that works with other brands that very narrowly put this language out. Okay. Corona's doing fine. They're about to put out a seltzer, baby. Get in.

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Where is Joel? Where's his headquarters? Or does he have a bunch of them? Yeah, Houston. Houston, right? But his main one? Yeah. Because I remember during the hurricanes, people were like, would you mind opening your church to people who need shelter?

And he's like, I don't know. He said, absolutely not in his name. Yeah. In his happiness. God came to me in a dream last night and said, keep it locked up. And he said, no. He said, reverse Noah. Yeah. Woo, boy. Yeah, get the

motherfuckers out the ship. Two of each, please. So his mega church services, apparently they will continue over the weekend, even though there is a pandemic, meaning that around nearly 50,000 people total

will have come through that facility through the weekend. So right now his Lakewood church in Houston has three scheduled services, Saturday, Saturday night and two on Sunday. And they usually get around 16,000 people at each service. Great. Great. We can make the two on Sunday funerals.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, Hey, you know the, but here's, I mean, I don't like Joel Osteen at all. But are we telling all churches to stop? Like, I mean, because like other churches aren't closing their doors. Well, he has a mega church. 16,000. That's a huge sample size. I'm with you. Look, man, this guy sucks.

But I'm just like, my parents are going to go to their like 100-person church or whatever. No, I get it. I think a lot of people have – but even in other countries, they've had to make that call to be like, yeah, we have to close gyms. We have to like – we can't really open the churches. Look, this guy sucks. He's trash. But I'm like, people do love church. Oh, absolutely.

I have no problem people going to church. I mean, my grandfather still will go to his church. But Joel also has a telecast. So theoretically, he could like The View has, like The Price is Right has, who have smaller audiences than Joel. Empty Cedars. Wait, The Price is Right went to Empty Cedars? Yes. What? The Price is Right is doing better

than Joel Olsen? On The Price is Right, how do they pick a contestant? Oh, they're in bubbles. Wait, it's Jeopardy that went to Two Cedars. The View. And The View did, and there's another game show that went to Two Cedars. It can't be The Price is Right. Jeopardy, Jeopardy, Jeopardy. It's the Wheel of Fortune. It's Wheel of Fortune, I know for sure. I was about to be like,

all right, so our lucky audience. And the cameras just pan and there's no one. It's people in their cars and it takes 20 minutes for them to get inside. It's me, AJ. Okay, first we need to do

a laser thermal reading to make sure you don't have a... Because that's what they're doing in a lot of places too. They're going to start thermal scanning people and we'll see how well that works. But again, they're saying the precautions they're taking at Lakewood, they're going

to say we're going to sanitize surfaces, like bathrooms, and leave the doors propped open so they don't have to touch anything. And that should be fine. And we're doing holy water for everybody. Yeah. Okay? We're doing communion for the kids. Yeah, we're still sharing that cup.

But just best believe when the offering plate comes around, that shit will not be sanitized. No. Okay? Because those can't take a break. Oh, and believe the offering plate comes around, that shit will not be sanitized. No. Okay, because those can't take a break. Oh, and money is very dirty. Oh, my. Oh, my goodness. But you got to give in his name if you don't want that Rona. Yeah.

Can you imagine some of the bullshit people are probably saying? I know Jim Baker was out here telling people that he had, like, capsules that will fucking save you. And a lot of grifters are on the come up right now. Ooh. Plenty of scam goddess shit going. I saw, what's the InfoWars guy? Yeah, Alex Jones. He's got a DWI actually too.

Yeah, he's got, well, he combated that. He's going to fight that court cost with his new like lip balm. Oh, the lip balm that fights Corona? Yeah, I just saw it right before we went on. They're like, I was like, oh.

Are you wearing that lip balm? I got it on. Oh yeah. I mean, that's why I don't have it. You're pretty confident. I do have a lip balm that fights Corona. Oh, okay.

What is your lip balm called, madame? My lip balm. It's called Corona Don't. Yeah. Give me a moment. It'll come to me. But yeah,

it's mostly bleach. Oh shit. Oh, that's a whole other thing. People were supposed to drink bleach or something? There's like that mix people do with fucking, it's all grifter shit that makes people sick and has absolutely no scientific evidence that it works.

But this is the environment, right? Especially when people are scared though too. That's the thing that can happen too. Like a lot of people, especially when you have a pastor or someone who's shysty, you will trust them and they will get you investing

in their fucking businesses and shit. Oh yeah, that happens. Dude, there were times I had to tell my grandparents like no the pastor is not right at least you talk to them enough yeah i'm like do not buy you don't need to buy this and they're like well see if i buy this then i sell it to people and then i can make money and i said who are you kicking your money up to right now well that will go to the pastor multi-level jesus okay come on folks Okay? Come on, folks. Our roommate in college sat us down one time and then had a box. And when he was like, okay, what would I tell you?

And then my other roommate goes, you got fucked, Steve. And then he just got up and leave. There were these boxes being sold around campus that you could kick down and stuff. Oh, right. He's like, dude, you got tricked. You're dumb. And he's like, don't pitch this to us. It's like Tahitian Noni.

I remember that was the one. Everybody was drinking Goji berries there's always a way it was like a berry thing yeah probably Goji you know that had a big moment

yeah okay so one last thing I'm not really savvy about things when it comes to Disneyland world Disney Sea

Disneyland Tokyo I think also an overrated thing I think is Disneyland as an adult without kids I got a lot of friends who go without kids sure

land or world both of them take your kids they're for kids I've been to world not land but did you go as a kid or were there kids involved

I was like 13 and we sang there I'll go now that's perfect pardon me though Brooks I need to regress sometimes I went recently I'm not one of these

like annual pass holder people who are like Disney's my whole personality. But like here's the thing. I hadn't been in maybe 15 years up until a year and a half ago and I loved it. Maybe that's you just need to give it maybe 10 years. I've never been in my whole life. I went this summer because I had a thing because I worked for Disney and I still think. And I had the best time ever. But I was like I wish there was a kid here so I didn't feel

like I was I don't know were you with other adults though? yeah it was for a show I do this show Big Hero 6 so they took us there and it was awesome but I was like why didn't we bring children they would have loved this so much more than we did oh like plus little ones you mean like plus ones

well we did have plus ones but we all just brought our idiot like girlfriends or boyfriends right right and they they're like yeah well we're all it was great i just wish we wait wait but why was the kid part so fundamental to you enjoying it like you're like this is the children the magic should be for the children not us you have the children they gotta pee a lot they get on your nerves they're not gonna want to wait in that fucking line i think i was just jealous i never got to go and I'm like, I'm taking some little kid spot and that's not how it works. Oh, wow.

Maybe I should go see a psychologist or a therapist about this and be like, why can't I have fun at Disney? Yeah. They're like,

there's a child inside of you that wasn't taken care of enough and I think you're trying to honor them in a very indirect way. I really derailed us. Let's hear about this. No, I think it's good to know.

I always like hearing people's Disneyland takes because there's a whole spectrum. Because we have friends who go like once a month and you're like, what are you? It doesn't change. It's not changing. Well, some people just like the thrill of being somewhere that felt so good to them as children. Yeah, I love doing childhood shit. I played kickball the last time I was here and it was so fun. That's super fun.

But I think I would be the other way around if I went to Disneyland. Why are there so many children here? Get these kids out of here. In a way, yeah. You're like, man, fuck these kids. I want to get on the teacup. Timmy, back on this. Where's Disney Man?

We also had the person in plaid who lets you cut in line of everybody. Oh, the magic person? Yeah, and that's where I felt bad. I'm like, we're all like... You ain't laugh at the children? You felt like a one percenter, huh? Yes, we were the one percent. And we were just cut in front of kids,

just a bunch of 30-year-olds, just being like, ooh. And I'm like, this is wrong. See, this is what happens. Bernie Sanders, he becomes president. They're going to take my fast pass. They're going to take your fast pass. Hey, I'm here to get your fast pass.

Give it to me. I would have loved it. Take my fast pass. We all deserve to wait in line. We all deserve to wait in line. I'm the most vulnerable first. I'm here to get your fast pass. Give it to me. I would have loved it. Take my fast pass. We all deserve to wait in line. We all deserve to wait in line. Let the children go first. The most vulnerable first. I'm giving it to Skid Row.

Just go into the street and leave it there. But I know sometimes people, the employees there do moments of magic where they'll just randomly be like, hey, would you like to go to the front of the line? Who could just be someone in a service role? I want that job. That's a great job. That's a great flex. And a great way to hit on people if I was single.

Oh, boy. Miles, we need you to come to the office. Yeah. We've noticed that you've only been doing your magic moments with hot women. Well, I mean, hot is objective. I just thought these were single mothers who look like they could use some help. There was a child with a walking stick next to that last, that single woman that you took with no children?

Well, you know, I just felt like, how's a kid going to really enjoy Indiana Jones? Especially when the snake comes up. I mean, there's no braille for that ride. I felt like it could have been a waste. Great improv. I enjoyed it. To the part where you get to the thing where it's like, you invite a woman like, oh, would you like to cut to the line? She goes, yeah, I just need to wait for my husband and

my son. Okay, get to the line. You put them back in the line? Yeah, you're like, I need to put them back in the line. I ain't got time for this. I'm looking for single women. So the Avengers Campus. Actually, we just found out best job to have in the world. Yeah. Avengers Campus is opening at Disneyland in July.

I had no idea there was an Avengers attraction being built there. I didn't either. Look, I have Avengers blindness. I'm more into the Star Wars end of things. But okay, so be it. But I'm reading about it and it doesn't even seem that exciting.

What, I don't get to ride Thanos? I've been dreaming about that. That's a whole other California adventure. It's going to be, I believe, a California adventure. So that's where the Guardians of the Galaxy ride is currently in L.A. But the things that they have, right? There's an interactive web slinger Spider-Man adventure.

I don't know what that means, but okay. I think that's like some kind of ride. There will be a ragtag group of misfits. No, I know what it is. Time out. I know what it is. Time out. I know what it is because I rode this ride. It was Toy Story 3 when I was there, and you flung stuff at animals. I bet they just flipped it, and now it's Spider-Man where you're flinging a web.

Oh, wow. It's a fun ride, but it's interactive. But I'm saying they're just doing a little flip. They're doing a lot of stuff. They're doing a little flip. There's another thing that I don't think will be problematic. They're doing a lot of stuff. They're doing a little flip.

There's another thing that I don't think will be problematic. An opportunity to train with the elite Wakanda warriors of the Dora Milaje of Black Panther. Okay. Now, I can see a lot of interesting photos being taken there. I don't want to foresee any problematic shit happening. But, okay. But, I mean, shit, I would like to meet them. Look, those black people are going to get a check.

Yeah. So, I'm going to let it ride. Are you going to shave your head, those black people are going to get a check. Yeah. So I'm going to let it ride. Are you going to shave your head, get that Dora Milaje gig? Never. Yeah. Oh, didn't we talk about that when Black Panther came out? Yeah, I have a lumpy head. There's no way to heal.

Can't expose it. Okay. Let us know in the comments. But they're coming back to America, so now I can have him. There you go. Black Panther 2 is coming out, right? It has to be. It made so much money. It hasn't started filming yet.

Yeah, I know. They're making one. They're working on it. Yeah, yeah. Working on it. So there's also an opportunity to save the ragtag group. This is from the article. You can save the ragtag group of misfits from the Guardians of the Galaxy

and find provisions at the Pym Test Kitchen. So that just sounds like you're going to some weird wacky food service place and people are cosplaying around you. That does not sound like a ride to me. But it's provocative. And then yeah, there's even more. I went to that Star Wars cantina. Did you go there? No, I'm waiting

because I was waiting for Rise of the Resistance to open up but now you have to open up you have to get there when it opens to even ride it by 5 at night. So I might let it cook a little bit. Star Wars Cantina sounds like I'm going to be getting served Mexican food from people wearing 10. No, I went. Is it a restaurant?

Well, it's more of like a bar. They're like, get you in, get you out. But they have like, no, no, no, no, bar and chips. It's like, go in, try a fun drink. And it was fun as shit wait are you talking about at disneyland at disneyland there's like a place you can go it's alcohol milk too yeah they got but they have like alcohol and there's like this one drink it's like a rum drink and then they put like uh rock like pop rocks like you know those things or whatever on the top so when

you drink it it makes your lips go fuzzy okay it's freaking it was rad as heck but they uh bounce you after two drinks, which I was like, well, then don't have eight drinks. I want to try all eight. Yeah. And they're all alcohol?

Yeah. All right. That's what you have to start putting disguises on. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Put my stormtrooper helmet on like backwards.

I was just saying, that was very fun. It sounded similar maybe to that. Right. I guess, but what I'm saying is like the attractions,

like there's a millennium Falcon in galaxies. There's a ride of the resistance that many, rise of the resistance that many people are like, this could be one of the greatest theme park attractions of all time. So in a way, I'm almost being upset on behalf of my Avenger fan families who are probably getting stoked on this, but just hearing like,

okay, I can take a group photo with the Dora Milaje. We can eat something at this test kitchen. There's a vague Spider-Man ride. There's also another interesting moment where you can train with Dr. Strange in the ways of the mystic arts. Oh, how fun. So I can't take Cumberbatch.

Everyone's favorite Avenger. But what's that ride? Disney is now they've caught onto the pop-up like exactly. Exactly. I'm going with that. Yes. Right. Because the other thing too,

is you can encounter Iron Man in his new armor, the Mark 80, and meet Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Widow, Black Panther, Thor, the Guardians, Captain America, Captain Marvel. And you'll also be able to see never-before, never-seen-before high-flying stunts courtesy of Spider-Man. Hopefully that doesn't go wrong. And then on top of all that, the villainous Taskmaster, the new character from the new Black Widow movie.

So, yeah, exactly. It looks like just come here, take a bunch of real slick photos. It's just promotional tools for you to watch their shit. That's why, that's the problem with Galaxy's Edge is there's no original Star Wars stuff. It's only the new Disney Star Wars stuff. There's no Luke. There's no Darth Vader. There's none of that shit because they don't fucking, they can't make any money off that.

So it's all about, you know, stuff that they can plug and play. Oh yeah. Plug and play for the new movies. Promotions for the new movies. Yeah. It sucks. I think that's the thing. There'll never be anything as pure for the fans, and I also have to realize, yeah, they're probably like, how do we get people to come to California Adventure? Because most people think of it as the place you can drink

at Disneyland. That's what I was like. That's how you get me in there. That's how I knew it. I was like, I'd never gone until someone was like, oh, yeah, you can drink there. And I'm like, okay, can we get me in. That's how I do it. I was like, I'd never gone. And so someone was like, oh, yeah, you can drink there. And I'm like, okay, can we get the park hopper pass there? Yes. Yeah, where now it's just like, okay, we can blow this out and make it a pop-up IG attraction. But that's also the perfect combo for IG people is like, we're going to get two drinks, and

then we're going to put on our disguises and go get another two. And then we're going to take photos with Wakanda forever. Oof. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine how many you're going to see white people Wakanda-ing it up? It's called the Harriet Tubman now. We'll see what happens. But I think that's also when I realize I'm old too.

To me, I'm like, this just looks like one of those Instagram things. Realizing for a certain group of people, there's value. I'm in that group of people. But I get stunting at a Britney Spears experience. It's the same shit, though. Like, it was like we were trapped in little rooms and then like we took photos everywhere. And my homegirl.

Wait, you went to the Britney Spears experience? I did. Sounds great. I love Britney. Is she okay? No. No. Absolutely not.

That's another hour. She brought outfits. So she would change like she wore a base underneath like a little tank and boy shorts and then she would just change in the corner

and then get the next fit off at the next photo wait what the fuck yeah so real Britney Spears was there no no no

oh I was like save her yeah right they're like break her out yeah no me and my homegirl

that's a throwback for you know Bella Noches for me and my homegirl. Oh, yeah. That's a throwback for, you know, Bella Noches. Yes. For me and my homegirl. Bella Noches. Ooh. But yeah, so they'll probably just go and do the same thing there. I will say that kind of experience isn't as fun.

But you know, you know, if you're doing it for the gram. Shameless plug for my podcast real quick. My friend was Eeyore at Disney World when 9-11 happened. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Yeah. So he was like, oh no. And they're like, and Disney

World stays open no matter what. So they were like the only thing open. They waited till way late to close the park. And he had to be hugging people and shit. It's wild. Oh, that's gotta be tough. Everybody probably wanted to be around him too because he was the only one who could feel the pain.

I was like, he's the only person who could actually tell kids, like, do not be happy today. Right. What can you do? The world's getting younger. We're getting older, folks. Exactly. What can you do?

And if you can't go to Bella Noche's, then where the hell can you go? All right. Well, thank you so much, Brooks, for joining us today. Thanks for having me. This was really nice. It actually made me happier. I was a little grumpy when we started.

Hey, that's what the show's about. You know, just de-grumpify yourself because the fight continues. The marathon continues. It's not over even if whatever the president is. Plus, I got to get out of here. Because we still got to fight for working people. I do got to go. I got to hop on a cruise to Italy.

Leaves in 10. 10 minutes. So I got to get going. Bargain barrel of prices. I mean, it's going to be so many photos of an empty ship and me being like, see ya. Yeah.

Brooks, where can people find you and follow you? You can just, I have a podcast called Entry Level where I interview people, famous comedians

about all the jobs they had before they got to quit and do comedy. Awesome. Yeah, that's where that one story came from.

It's really good and then I'm shooting a special, I mean, allegedly possibly April 7th in Los Feliz at Best Fish Taco. Nice. Yeah, that's where that one story came from. It's really good. And then I'm shooting a special, I mean, allegedly possibly April 7th in Los Feliz at Best Fish Taco. Nice. Yeah. I love Best Fish Taco. Outdoors. Yeah. I was told by a lot of people, don't do this.

Yeah. So we'll see if it works. We'll see what happens. The city could be, well, yeah. No, I think it's going to be really cool. Revolutionary. Yeah, yeah. But like, it's great.

But yeah, just do that. And thanks for having me, man. This is a fun way to learn the news it's always great to have a true son of Iowa in the building yeah I mean all the time

there's six of us yeah hold it down is there any tweets that you're liking a tweet you'd like to call out that you've been enjoying it's not even a

it's a video that this comic Mike Racine made that where he goes it's a video but he's a man it's just a video where he goes this message's a video, but he's a man. It's just a video where he goes,

this message is for my grandma. Listen, bitch, keep Bernie out your mouth. Oh, shit. And he just attacks his grandma. And it made me laugh so hard. Oh, my goodness. It was very, very funny.

Because you think he's like, this message is for my grandma. How exciting. He's like, listen, bitch, keep Bernie out your mouth. Primary season has people all kinds of it was very funny and i felt very very on brand oh man uh lacy how about you where can people find

you follow you listen to you guys as always you can find me at scam goddess podcast on airwolf um if you love scams if you love robbery like wow you girl it's very funny um also d-i-v-a-l-a-c-i-d but lacy on all platforms watch florida girls I know a lot of you guys were tweeting me that Hollywood Reporter article. I can't talk much about it, but Florida Girls Season 2, I leave to shoot it next week. Oh. So it is happening. Oh. Don't know where it will air.

But it's happening. Like, yeah. Yeah. That's great. There you go. Is there a tweet that you like? I have two tweets that I like. Here's one.

Yes, honey. The roaring 20s are back. The stock market, crashing. Global pandemic, sporading. My speakeasy, thriving.

My ass cheeks, flapping. I loved that. That's great. A flapper. Yeah. And then this other one is a news article

that said a woman took care of a succulent for two years then realized it was fake. And Nicole Byer retweeted and said, me with all men. There you go. Yeah, it was like the perfect succulent, they were calling it.

It's a dead. Oh, and Matt Belassi tweeted the Roaring 21s. There we go. Very fun. Okay, so there are a few tweets I like. First one is from J Smooth, at J Smooth 995, it says, this feels like we all went out for a fancy dinner, poured over the specials for like half an hour, and then finally said,

you know what? Nevermind. I'll just have this bread. Bread 2020. That's great. Very good job. Emily Perez at Lou16EM. It says, my professor just told me that if we get a whiff of smoke, it's because another professor put the papers he was grading in the microwave to rid them of any chance of coronavirus. And then the papers caught fire. I can't make this stuff up, people. Very believable. Another one.

This one was from Udoye Travis. It says, at Professor Doye. He's quote tweeting a tweet from at NJ governor, like the New Jersey governor. It says it's like, as Asterix taps, Mike coronavirus is no excuse for racism. And, uh, he tweeted, if you had to wait for the state of New Jersey to tell you not to be racist, just be racist. We don't need you. Look, I was racist, but the most racist.

And then finally, this is fantastic for Office fans who are dragging me because I forgot about the love in this Chili's was from the Dundies episode. You're right. One of my favorite episodes, mostly for the racist ass character Michael Scott does. It's so racist. It kills me to my core when he says, oh, he's doing ping. So this was a thread says the office coronavirus. And people are just basically beating out what the stories would be if the office took place this year.

Michael ignores the, quote, work from home memo because he thinks that everyone should be together at a time like this. Dwight acts completely normal and claims genetic immunity. Angela wears a hazmat suit. Kevin says that he's had it for weeks and feels fine. Creed is somehow patient zero. Stanley is on a beach with a margarita as a video conference begins. Andy looked at WebMD and is now losing his mind. The episode ends with Michael shopping alone at Costco on a Saturday.

He's excited because he usually, quote, can't even get in the door, end quote. And there's like a whole thread on Reddit. If you go to r slash Dunder Mifflin, the thread is going off. And that was actually tweeted by the real B-Nell. That's very funny. Yeah, you can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist, on Instagram at TheDailyZeitgeist. We have a Facebook fan page. We also have a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Footnotes! Thank you. And just so you know, The Daily Zeitgeist, it's a production of iHeartRadio, and if you want more podcasts from iHeart, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to them. Now, what shall we write out on? Okay, well, I want to do a track by, I believe this is like a collaboration between Shigeto and Zero Loopers, who are two beatmakers who I really enjoy.

I think the group is just called ZGTO unless I'm completely erasing another artist, but I feel like it's a combo and it's called Whippin'. Look, the beats are great. It's just got a good... You know I like this kind of music. So put that in your speaker and just put that in your whip. It also sounds like

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