The Daily Zeitgeist - Brooms Take A Stand, Roger Stone Gets Away With It 2.12.20

Episode Date: February 12, 2020

In episode 568, Jack and special guest host Nick Turner are joined by comedian Joey Clift to discuss the standing broom, Bloomberg's campaign, Trump feeling bad for Roger Stone, the Cats visual effects artists commenting on the Oscars bit, updates with Aunt Becky's admission scandal, the new Star Trek: Picard, and more!FOOTNOTES: Hate to break it to you but you can make a broom stand upright any day of the year Predict It Audio of @MikeBloomberg’s 2015 @AspenInstitute speech where he explains that “you can just Xerox (copy)” the description of male, minorities 16-25 and hand to cops. Reports: DOJ To Make Extraordinary Reversal On Tough Sentence For Roger Stone Hey guys I haven't watched all of the Oscars but I assume these two were really classy and thanked me for working 80 hour weeks right up until I was laid off and the studio closed, right? LORI LOUGHLIN OLIVIA JADE'S FAKE ROWING RESUME ... Good Enough for USC, But Who Wrote It??? Star Trek: Picard's Bleaker Vision of the Future Targets American Isolationism ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ With Its Refugee Crisis and Anti-Trump Messaging, May Be the Most Political Show on TV Star Trek Is Brilliantly Political. Well, at Least It Used to Be Hollywood Flashback: 'Star Trek' Showed TV's First Interracial Kiss in 1968 Racists and Sexists Hate On Star Trek Discovery‘s Diversity Even Though It’s Still Unbalanced in Their Favor WATCH: Jax Anderson - Queen (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I promise you'll be happier and healthier if you do. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 120, Episode 3 of Dear Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Fox News. It's Wednesday, February 12th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka, let's see how this goes, when I find the left to be in trouble from stupid apps and mayor pete new hampshire's choice is less dumb primaries it was a stupid process to add unneeded technology thank god most other places primary primaries primaries jack obese for primaries iowa this was dumb primaries. Jacobese for primaries.

Iowa, this was dumb. Primaries. All right. That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi, man. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, don't stop. Do another verse.

Let's just roll in, man. This is a show. This is a show. Let's roll in, man. Do some, let's throw some Klobuchar rhymes in there. And that's from Christy Yamaguchi. That is incredible. Yamaguchi, Maine.

Oh, I see. It's a portmanteau. I want to see a full Beatles parody album that's just bad. Just really topical election opinions. Yeah, you got to really rush it out. Yeah. What's that guy who's like the conservative, political, fake, weird Al guy? I feel like we're...

I've never heard of this, but of course it's a guy. You know, Super Producer Ana Hosnia knows who I'm talking about. Rainbow? No. All right. We'll figure it out. I'll figure out who I'm talking about. Wait, I want to know a couple of his conservative, weird Al parody song titles.

I know. I need to know a couple of his conservative Weird Al parody song titles. I know. I need to look him up. I feel like I know him mostly from a sketch on a comedy show that was making fun of him. But I will find him. Great, great, great. And I'm thrilled to be joined today by my special guest co-host, Mr. Nick Turner. I hate to brag and I hate to boast, but to say it from coast to coast, I'm very proud to be your new co-host.

Thank you so much for having me. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Everyone, Miles Gray went to jail and he's gone forever. He's in jail, in prison for, we'll see how long. in prison for we'll see how long at first it was supposed to be 7 to 9 years but then the DOJ intervened and said let's double that

yeah they love the zeitgeist I'm just full of topical refs hey Nick, Miles and I are going on the road with our time machine super producer Ana Hosnia and some special guests we're in Brooklyn today at the Bell House on February 12th.

Today. With Daniel O'Brien. Washington, D.C. February 13th at the Miracle Theater with Natalie McGill. We'll be in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Toronto. I've been told is how you pronounce it later on in the month. But Brooklyn, D.C. Come out and get at us.

We've been having a blast so far on this tour for tickets go to daily zeitgeist.com go to the live appearances tab for links to the tickets we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented comedian joey cliff hey everybody hey man i guess we're doing song parodies to introduce ourselves. Let's hear it. Hey, Joey. I'm on your... This is Hey, Jude. I'm on your podcast.

It's called Daily Psych. Guys, let's talk about politics and stuff. Remember to... I don't know the rest of that song. I'm sorry. I do have to interject that mine was an original. Yeah. Oh, shit. I mean, I thought you were going that mine was an original yeah oh shit

I mean I thought you were gonna say you were like hot butter on breakfast toast but you went in a different direction I used some well-worn material to get into it I thought you were doing like the Beastie Boys body moving like I don't mean to brag I don't mean to boast but I'm intercontinental I want to eat french toast yes well I think bragging and boasting is a hip-hop through line oh yeah that's just what rap is and as we all know Sugar Hill Gang Yes, well, I think bragging and boasting is a is a hip-hop through line. Yeah

Yeah, and as we all know Sugar hill again, the people who invented rap were the Beastie Boys First and only rap group all thanks go to my King one of my favorite old-school rap specifics was Before run DMC came out rappers didn't know song structure So they would just rap about how cool they are till they ran out of rhymes right so every every rap song's pre 1983 is like nine minutes long and it's just like sugar hill gang yeah yeah like that's a great beat but on like it's on my son's mix of like favorite songs he's three and when it comes on i like try and switch it before he hears what it is because it's so fucking long it's like oh my god i can't and there's a whole

verse that's like a bad comedy routine about uh chicken tasting bad uh wow good bit yeah you need to get on that kids bop yeah that's where it's at Yeah. That's where it's at. Kidz Bop is where it's at. Do they have a Kidz Bop Sugar Hill gang? Probably not. I feel like Kidz Bop is mostly top 40 radio. They don't do a lot of classics, but I could be wrong. I love when Kidz Bop finds clever ways to censor swear words. Yeah. Even just like Lizzo Truth Hurts.

It's just like, I'm 100%. That kid. It's Just like. Changes the meaning a little bit. Same swagger, same swagger. Yeah. All right. Well, Joey, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

Great, great, great. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. Mostly, we're going to be talking about our success and failures at the broom standing up challenge or whatever the fuck people are calling that. We might also have time to talk about politics, Bloomberg moving into number two on the betting markets. I should be very careful, Nick, because you are taking action on these betting markets. We're going to talk about how Iowa still isn't clear, let alone New Hampshire, which as of this recording, we don't know, let alone New Hampshire, which, you know, as of this recording, we don't know what happened in New Hampshire. You guys, listeners, probably know more than us.

We're going to talk about Roger Stone, just got the hookup from Trump. And we're going to talk about the Cats visual effects artists. We're going to talk about Olivia Jade, Aunt Becky's youngest daughter. We're going to talk about all of that and plenty more but first Joey we would like to ask our guest what is something from your search history

that's revealing about who you are? Okay so this is going to be a very lame answer the top thing in my Google search history is how to see

Google search history I got the email from Anna and I was like wait how do I do that? Yeah so then I googled it and I was like oh now that's the number one thing

I think I'm just one of those people that like like a lot of comedians constantly riddled with anxiety and I'm always worried about doing things wrong so I think even in this I was just like oh I need to like know the steps to do it oh oh it's just a bar up top oh I've done this before

are you in a relationship uh not currently in a relationship digging right sorry if i yeah but this is important you'll see why in the next 10 minutes i'm in a relationship with podcasting okay well it's not going well i feel like if um there's another person in your room who has easy access to your phone you know how to access your search history and how to delete it uh really i guess i've just never dated anybody that like i as far as i know roots through my stuff is that normal no it's not that um uh anyone's snooping but it's just like oh hey let me look it up here's the nearest phone oh got it got it yeah yeah i'm gonna put in a

couple letters and all of a sudden porn hub pops up and you're like why did you it yeah yeah i'm gonna put in a couple letters and all of a sudden pornhub pops up and you're like why did you do that and i'm not like oh what weird virus caused this just like oh like y2k bug am i right yeah i think you're into stepmoms babe uh what is something you think is overrated uh something i think is overrated uh this is gonna be a very deep nerd specific but I've been holding this hot take inside of me for 23 years. So here goes. Um, I think that the video game Final Fantasy VII is so fucking overrated.

Finally, somebody says. Yeah. People, uh, it came out in 1997. Um, it's a Japanese RPG that people consider to be one of the best stories and one of the best video games of all time. And to that, I say, not true. It is not as good as Final Fantasy VI. That's clearly the best one in the series.

I feel so passionate about this that I will physically fight anybody who disagrees. I weigh 130 pounds and I'm 5'11", so I would lose that fight. But you have a lot of knives on you. I have a lot of knives. Oh man. Yeah. It's a final fantasy six reference. You'd get it if you played it.

But yeah, final fantasy seven. So fucking overrated. Huh? I have a theory. Um, and that's because the movie final fantasy came out like four years later. Yeah.

And I feel like that year or whatever, that year is when they were not focused on their main property because they were too busy trying to make that movie. Yeah, well, I think that this is... Okay, I'm excited to dive into this. So Final Fantasy VI was, I think, the last, I guess, purest Final Fantasy. And then Final Fantasy VII was clearly when they got a ton of marketing budget. They recently signed with Sony to have it be a PlayStation exclusive. So that's clearly when they were trying to do a mainstream push for the series

and because of that like they kind of made all the characters just like just like angsty edgelords and like clearly like they had a focus group of what do teens like and like it's like it's like tell you what they don't like their parents yeah they don't like their parents

no parents in this game so yeah I definitely get what you're saying, where it's like, it definitely feels like that was the like, oh, they were focused less. They blew up. They got to appeal to the United States now. Yeah, this was their push for the top 40 album, as opposed to their cool indie album. Yeah, I was going to say, it's something that happens a lot in music, where somebody will do their major label debut, and people will be like, oh, this is a great album.

And then you have to feel like an asshole. It's not a great album. It's not as good as their old stuff. That's just the first album that you heard. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Sephiroth sucks as an antagonist.

I'm just going to say that. Shut it up! DJ Daniel, our producer, was nodding vociferously. Good, good, good. Yeah, he really, I thought he was going to, if ever he was going to open that window. Good, good, good. Yeah, he really, I thought he was gonna, if ever he was gonna open that window, this was it. Yeah.

Yeah, but hooray, Final Fantasy VI. Exactly. Yes, and the most recent one, I don't know. Yeah, I think it's up to 15. I don't know. I stopped playing at 10.

What is something you think is underrated? Something is underrated. This is very on topic what we're talking about in a second, but the Cats movie. The Cats movie movie is incredible i think it's genuinely one of my favorite movies that i saw last year uh i think everybody that's shit talking it once again i

will physically fight you oh my god i am just ready that's a blanket blanket just i'll fight i will fight you will beat me because i'm very weak and don't know how to fight but i will do it um but yeah the cats movie um i saw it i mean it might just be that i saw it in the best possible way to see it in that i'm a big cat guy i run a facebook group for la comedians to share pictures of their cats it's called the eleanor and cat network it has 11 000 members and i'm very popular so i basically just found a screening of the Cats movie in Burbank on January 1st that had no tickets sold. So I was like,

let's just hijack this and turn it into a sing-along screening. We sold it out in four hours. I bought 50 pairs of cat ears that I passed out to people as they walked in. Oh, that's incredible. And we just like yelled at the screen

and sang and it was like legit the most fun I've ever had watching a movie. And I feel like any critic that badmouthed that movie, if you saw it during like that circumstance, you would agree that this is the most fun thing that you've ever seen in your life.

Right. And I think people are talking about it having that sort of like future, that it'll be the new Rocky Horror picture. Oh, 100%. It's the new room. It's the new Rocky Horror. Like if Universal wants it, like, it will absolutely make its money back

in 10 years in, like, sold-out midnight screenings or whatever. Right, yeah. It's not ideal. Not what they were going for. Yeah, they were like, people are gonna really hate this and watch it as a bit,

so we're gonna get bit money to pay this back. Yeah, it's like, what, if you shoot for the moon and land among the stars? Yeah. But that said, I mean, like there are so many movies that like, you know, even the award winning movies that you forget about two years later, whereas Cats is going to be like on the tip of the public consciousness for like a decade. Right. I wonder if they'll just like be a quick remake.

Just a quick remake. Like they do it again in five years. Maybe. Like the Incredible Hulk. Just to erase it. Yes, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think that the problem with it, and I'm sure we'll get into this more in a second,

but the issue with it is that it's really just they needed to decide if the cats were going to look like they do in the musical, where it's just people wearing leotards, or if they were going to look like fully CG cats. We'll do both. At the end, they were like, well, let's do both. Let's do an Island of Dr. Moreau monstrosity.

And it's like, if they did a remake where they literally just made the cats look less insane, it would probably do well. Or more insane. Yeah. Actually, yeah, more insane. I want it to be like a Cthulhu monster where I literally go crazy while watching it. No, I haven't seen Cats yet, but like what? You're missing out, bro.

I know. I feel bad about that. It is probably the movie I most want to see in theaters because it seems like it's a thing you have to see with other people. Oh, yeah. You can't just like watch it on your phone. Yeah. phone yeah um how like what percentage of what people are reacting to in terms of like the good badness of it uh is unintentional would you say versus like the director had a vision that was just a very strange vision i mean i think it's tough because like ultimately like what the cat's musical is is this very discordant and weird thing right so like with that in mind i think that the director like

absolutely nailed of like oh i'm gonna make an insane movie right um i don't think that he expected from frame one the audience to just openly heckle the screen uh the first frame that you see is a weird cat in a moon right and it's just like it's like from there it's just like it just ramps up in craziness every minute or so. Yeah. So, you know, I think that going into it, he thought that this was going to be like a prestige movie. Right. Because he directed like Les Miserables and a lot of other really award-winning. King's Speech. Yeah, King's Speech.

Which I was going to bring up as the example of like a movie that was acclaimed at the time and then forgotten immediately like a couple years later. Yeah, like the Cats movie is going to be remembered far longer than the King's Speech ever will. And it's a more historically important story because it's about cats. How could you get a more important story of a guy who stutters learning how to not

stutter? I mean, what an overcoming of the odds. Yeah, you're right. That's true. Andy's king? Come on! Yeah, wait a second. Yeah, you're right. Andy's king? Come on! Yeah, wait a second. Yeah, you're right. Never mind. I'll cut the king some slack. I had a group of friends that went to go see... Lay off the king!

Lay off your majesty! I had a group of friends that went to see cats and they all dressed up like dogs. I thought that was pretty fun. Talk about some edge, Laurie. Watch out. So a story from my Cats screening that I think is really funny. Like, there was one guy that bought a ticket to the screening between when I started promoting it and when it sold out,

who was just, like, legit a Vietnam vet who just wanted to see the cats movie at like 1 PM on like a Wednesday or something. And, um, the, he left five minutes into the previews because everybody in the audience wouldn't stop booing whenever a dog would show up. It's just like, I was passing out cat ears and he walked out and he seemed like a very nice guy, but he was just like, I just can't do it. Everybody's booing whenever they see a dog, I just got to get a refund. So in between you deciding, okay, I'm going to do an all cats, all cat Facebook group screening and when like Showtime, this guy bought a ticket and got mixed in with the whole thing. Yeah, he was just like, yeah, this guy just happened to buy a ticket in the four hours

when I promoted it and when it sold out. It was delightful. The idea of, I think that's very cool that you did that. That's like a thing that I, like a muscle that I don't have that I really admire in other people. Like one of our past guests, Demia Dijouibe, like does these big like event parties

and like they're like always like have clever premises and like that's just something i would never think to do but that's really cool that you put that event together that seems like a magical one-time thing yeah yeah i mean i guess it's just like you know you are always it's it's fun to hang out with people and it's fun to do it's fun to like make memories and do crazy shit with people right yeah yeah i think my problem is it's not fun for me to hang out with people oh got it oh that's a large flaw in your plan so you're doing fine yeah you're we're in a podcast studio with four other people yeah this is the only way i talk to people yeah if you want to do like a theme party you have to kind of be a jerk about everyone has to participate right yeah yeah and like the older i

get it's like i have less less time for people who just want to show up in street clothes right right yeah i'm also i feel like i'm the opposite where like if there's a big theme party like if a friend of mine is planning like a birthday day where it's like there's seven things you go to i'm like well i'm not that good of a friend with that person. I go to zero of the seven. Yeah. It's like, I might go, if there's like a late night,

we're all hanging out in a dark bar in the Valley at like 8 PM. Sure. I'll do that for 45 minutes. Yeah. But like, I'm not going to also like, I don't know, go to a dance recital at noon or something.

Dance recital. My friends are weird. Yeah. What is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? Okay, so this is going to be, once again, very specific,

not about Final Fantasy VII or Cats. So everybody can just tune out. So for me, a myth that I really want to debunk is this idea that people have that just because they took a DNA test that says that they're like 0.005 native american that all of a sudden they feel like they can speak from a position of authority on all native issues which is something that uh like you know i didn't think was really going to be a myth that i was going to need to debunk but uh if after the super bowl was an indication and the sheer amount of people that i saw tweeting like hey i think the washington chief's name is fine my great grandma is a

cherokee princess right it's like like using that to shout down like nate like i'm in roll callots i'm native uh to shout down like just like natives that are like hey but there's research that says that this like hurts people right i don't know that's like a myth i would like to debunk is like don't do that yeah don't just you're not the authority who gets to say things are okay. Yeah. If you didn't know about it outside of 23andMe, you can't have it. Yeah. You can't use it to say like, because I mean, I don't know.

I can't speak for all natives. Like, you know, it's just weird because it's something that people do all the time. And it's so annoying. Yeah. I'm a 5% Lebanese and I'm sorry, but I do think that gives me the right to grade your hummus on a scale of one to 10. Right.

Right. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. That's fair. If you get a 23 and me that says that you're part Lakota, you can grade my mom's dream catcher. She made me.

Yeah. But other than that, shut up everybody all right let's talk about the news that is sweeping America right now sweeping sweeping this is a good nation if you're not going where I think you're going this is a missed opportunity broom yeah can stand up I said that correctly right broom can stand up. I said that correctly, right? Broom can stand up. Yeah, broom can stand up. Yeah, broom can stand up challenge.

We get it. We've all seen the hashtag. Here, bite my wallet while you finish this stroke. No, this was a thing that apparently went viral a couple days ago where people, I think, fell for a myth, like urban legend that NASA was saying that only today because of the fact that gravitational fields were aligning in a certain way,

you could stand a broom up and it would stay upright. Was this a real thing that NASA tweeted? No. Oh, got it. Yeah, it was like a fake NASA tweet that people then started uh blowing their mind with and then it turns out broom broom can stand up always was there even a fake tweet because i just saw people saying just referencing nasa said something i don't know how that started

uh might have just been one a random person with one of those stylish like uh nasa sweatshirts they're like brook could stand up today only yeah exactly that is something that um like uh i went to school for like journalism to be like a television like news anchor reporter guy and it is always insane to me how horrible people are at like checking any sort of sources yeah yeah that it's just like, Oh, somebody just tweets like, Hey,

NASA said this is a thing. And nobody like bothers to look to see if NASA said it. Yeah. Broom can stand up dash NASA. Yeah. That was the original tweet. Um, um,

this is, uh, this, I put on the level of, uh, who we like ghosts and, uh, astrology. Uh, very real and proven. Yeah. I put on the level of a Hui like ghosts And astrology

So all very real and Proven yeah I mean show me that Proven but NASA said it's Kind of an ingenious thing that I feel like Will be copied because It has a weird

Like physical phenomenon attached To it that like people didn't, most people don't realize that you can just stand a broom up and it will balance and look like it's being held up by a string or a ghost, if you will. But yeah, I mean, I spent four hours trying to get my broom to stand up last night and it didn't work. You didn't do it on the right day. I did see some videos. You did it on the wrong wrong day you should have done it a couple days earlier i hear it has

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know. As Trump supporters, as we all are, we are all emboldened by the results of these primaries and caucuses. Two stories that were kind of being passed around in the mainstream media that I thought were noteworthy. One is that they were making a big deal about the fact that Amy Klobuchar had an early lead after these five small towns voted. I think that some of the towns had like three people in them. I think it was just three,

right? Okay. Three small towns. And they all had like, each name was funnier than the last. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Good comedic heightening in these new names. So CNN though had an article that was, uh, that was like Amy Klobuchar takes early lead. And that was being like plastered on the headlines of like on drudge and uh cnn when you actually like went and 29.6 percent yeah they were like uh amy so you got 29.6 percent and she was like yeah that's eight people eight eight eight exactly i mean but that was being covered like almost as if it was,

it was almost like a fun, like quirky little human interest story about like, oh, look at this like tiny example of democracy, but then it got like misinterpreted by the rest of the media or something. Good for her for, I mean, I haven't seen the clip,

but good for her for being honest and not being like, I won! Refreshing, right? Yeah, yeah. A revolution! She had just done her victory speech. Yeah, yeah. Just yeah just like just you know tweet deck 20 tweets they're just like punching above my way yeah yeah yeah just like oh the revolution has started another thing that uh people are covering is that bloomberg has moved into number two on the

betting markets people are you know wondering who is going to be the centrist candidate now that Bernie is kind of a front runner. And they have the different candidates represented by a number. I don't know if it's a percentage, but Bernie is at 48, Bloomberg's at 25, Buttigieg 14, and Biden has fallen to 10%. It does seem like a percentage out of 100. Yeah, okay. And that seems, first of all, it seems like there's a clear bias here towards people with names that start with B, but also to white men. Sorry, Cory Booker, you got out too early. Yeah, yeah, Booker had a shot

if only he had noticed the trend the pattern but it does like this is just you know based on some small market that is taking action on it Nick you immediately signed up oh yeah I put money down immediately because I'm addicted

to gambling I'll become a billionaire off of how much I bet on Bloomberg. So right now, I'm going to get a little of those billions. I love that guy. What a great guy. I spent 12 years in New York under him, so I can hate him the most. I immediately put 25 shares. I immediately put 25 shares.

I bought 25 shares on Bernie Sanders winning New Hampshire and 25 shares of him winning the nomination. And if both of these hit, I stand to gain nearly $9. What? Wow. Do you know what you're going to spend that $9 on? Oh, my gosh. Probably Final Fantasy VII, my favorite. Hey, man, fuck you. That's it. I said we were going to fight. That was on? Oh my gosh, probably Final Fantasy VII, my favorite. Hey man, fuck you.

That's it. I said we were going to fight. That was a challenge to everybody in this room. Oh no, Mr. Burns is punching you. Yeah, you're much larger than me and I'm once again very weak. But like, let's fucking go. Joey is doing a very unconvincing stretching routine

before a fight. Like popping his knuckles. Yeah, I'm basically doing the, the like, I've never been in a fight, but I've seen cartoon fights. So they do a lot of like knuckle cracking. That's what punches are. It's mostly knuckle cracking.

But one of the things that people are saying Bloomberg is benefiting from is that Biden is now no longer seen as a viable candidate because of his poor showing in Iowa. And, you know, people are expecting him not to do well in New Hampshire. And Biden had a lot of support from black voters. And a lot of black voters are now moving over to Bloomberg. So it's interesting because a new sound clip came out from him talking about you know policing under bloomberg was somewhat controversial uh in new york with the stop and frisk like a blatantly racist policy that uh you know he claims he inherited but was still pretty awful and we have a clip now of him talking about about his policing strategy 95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims is one and only. You can just take the description Xeroxed

and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minority, 15, 21. That's true in New York. That's true in virtually every city. And that's where the real crime is. You've got to get the guns out of the hands of the people who get you killed. So you've got to be wondering, spend the money, put a lot of cops in the street, put those cops where the crime is, which means in the minority neighborhoods.

So this is one of the unintended consequences is people say, oh my god, you are arresting kids for marijuana. They're all minorities. Yes, that's true why because we put all the cops in the minority yes that's true why we do it because that's where all the crime is all right so that's that's plenty yeah one yikes yeah uh yikes and also uh very just like poor for a billionaire a poor understanding of how like cause and effect and like statistics would work that he's like yeah we put all the cops there and that's where all

the crime is that the cops are catching so we got to put more cops there because that's where all the crime is it's like yeah you're gonna put the money into the community through cops right yeah that's the ultimate way to yeah the ultimate way to solve any problems put more cops there yes um yeah it is it's insane to me whenever tapes like this get released they're never like this they're always like recorded from like you know like the back of the room it's like the person giving the speech is never proud of what they're saying like he knows what he's saying right very racist right Right. It's like the Romney, like, what did he say? It was like binder full of women or something.

Well, the binder full of women was part of the speech. Oh no, he said that in a debate. He was proud of that. He was like, I'm saying a good thing. Was that when Hillary Clinton did the deplorables? She said that in a speech. I remember listening to that on like NPR being covered live and being like, oh, we're fucked. Yeah, just like, oh, we just gave them a catchphrase and a t-shirt.

Right. Good. No, the Romney thing that I'm thinking of was him saying a certain percentage of Americans don't work and are lazy and take all our tax dollars. And that was a big turning point in that campaign. But yeah, I mean, this seems like he's, yeah. All right, guys, off the record. take all our tax dollars and that was a big turning point in that campaign but yeah i mean i mean this seems like he's yeah all right guys off the record between you and me he seems like the sort of guy who uh off the record let's move that microphone four feet away right yeah so uh he seems like you hear stories about bloomberg where he will say something very questionable.

Like I've told the story about a journalist who wanted to compliment him on his gun reform and walked up to him at like some big official ball. And Bloomberg just wanted to talk to him about the ass on a woman nearby. Like that was like the only the first and only thing he would say to a journalist. And it's like, i feel like this is i feel like he might have trouble with like the on the record off the record thing and like that might come back and bite him i mean i think that on the ass yeah on the air great good good good button um uh yeah the i really want our next president to like know how to be a politician

like yeah like i kind of i don't know it's like i'm really over like i want somebody who's been in politics like i mean even like more than bloomberg i mean i was like mayor but it's like more than bloomberg or something somebody that like we're not we're not gonna have this kind of thing happen where it's just like oh i feel embarrassed as an american right yeah yeah bloom Bloomberg's just a politician, which is why his net worth went from $4 billion when he left his company to run New York, and then when he was done with running New York, somehow his net worth had ballooned six times.

Yeah. That's weird how that happened. Here's my theory, though, on Bloomberg and his polling numbers. Your polling numbers are going to be great until someone has to vote for you. Right. He's not even on the ballot. Of course, he's like Biden had to have votes.

And so now it's like, who else doesn't have? He does have like a ton of name value, especially with the amount of money that he's put on like just campaign ads and stuff like that. So I get what you're talking about, where it's like he's sort of like, in theory, great in term. But like, yeah, once he once, once he does, you know, the California like primary or something like that and he gets like 2% of the vote or something,

it's just like, oh, nevermind. Nobody cares about this guy. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how well he holds up once people are aiming, you know, attack ads at him. Yeah, although I don't... Once he's actually in the mix.

I don't know how it is to be in a different market where he's running these ads a thousand times a day because we're in California and he's not wasting his money. We're in California and also- He's hitting me quite a bit. I have seen some. Yeah.

I don't watch a ton of local news broadcasts. But that was during the Oscars. It's like, are we the target for where he's advertising? If he's not advertising on Reddit, I'm probably not going to see his ads. That's the thing. I only watch sports, and that's basically it. Yeah, I watch professional wrestling and the Cats movie on repeat. And if Mr. Mistoffelees starts promoting him then

i'm all in baby right but and then i fast forward through most of the ads so it's very rare that i would get hit with an ad by a politician and yet i have seen his like multiple ads from him like on multiple occasions so i think it might be just like super bowl and oscars though they may have been national or something uh-huh i don't know yeah maybe it will be just like Super Bowl and Oscars, though. They may have been national or something. Uh-huh. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. It will be interesting to see.

I mean, I guess it's moments like this where if Bloomberg wins California or whatever, it'll make me realize how much of a bubble I'm in. Right. I'm like, oh, my alt-comedy friends don't do as many bits about Bloomberg. Yeah. So it will be interesting to see if like the fuck ton of money he's putting into ads is having any effect.

Yeah, I do. I think a lot of people I've spoken to are like who aren't in like the entertainment world or like don't spend a lot of their time online are like, he's interesting. He's an interesting candidate. And they're like doing the sort of electoral math that has been a thing like for years in the past where it's like, well, if a Republican runs as a Democrat, they're going to be unbeatable because they'll get both Republicans and Democrats. And I just feel like things have changed since then. And I don't know.

Again, it's like a thing that in theory he seems interesting to a certain group of people. But I feel like that's the like larger conversation of this, like at least primary season for like the left is like, oh, is it better to get somebody who's like a centrist candidate or to get somebody who's just like full progressive? Right. The base would care about. Right. And that's kind, I feel like that's like the both sides of the argument. And like, you know, as far as polling goes, it clearly looks like the progressive candidates are the ones that people want more. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know. It's, it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out in a general election, but it does seem like both Sanders and Biden had a particular appeal to people who aren't necessarily represented by the liberal elite media bubble because they actually talk about workers' rights. Bloomberg has put in a third of a billion dollars of his own money into this campaign. Yeah.

And that is about half of 1% of his money. Yeah. That's like a parking ticket, I guess. It's nothing. I mean, he wouldn't notice it. Right. Yeah. I mean, I guess I just, I don't,

for me, it's a red flag when a candidate entirely self-finances their campaign because it's just like, oh, like voters don't care enough to donate to your campaign. Right. You know, it's just it's the definition of like astroturfing where it's just like, oh, you're like, you know, you having so many campaign ads isn't because like super PACs care about you or voters care about you. It's because you just have so much money. Like you said, this is a parking ticket to you to do this yeah actually yeah he said that oh sorry god damn it i'm sorry oh i was just tired of nick getting all the credit for everything that's just oh guys i really i really messed up today oh boy oh boy yeah it is i mean it's like he's his own special interest group and the special interest that he represents is the richest people in america like the richest 20 people in america when it says a lot that like i mean you guys are probably out on the show but like that nick

sorelli and bradford evans had like a bit that went viral where the premise of the bit was like hey wouldn't it be funny if there were enthusiastic Bloomberg supporters? This was the Moves Like Bloomberg video. Bloomberg. Yeah. It's just like, oh, that shouldn't be. That's a bad sign if that is a successful comedy premise on you as a candidate. Wouldn't it be funny if people cared about you? Right.

Young people. Yeah. Bloomberg now is $61.5 billion.s dollars which is a lot that puts him like in the top five richest people in the yeah i want to say uh like i'm doing a lot of shit talking but if he gave me 500 million dollars uh i'd get bloomberg tattooed on my face actually i would do that for 50 million wow cut him I'd cut him a deal. Damn. You are a principled man. He should have all of his money stolen from him. Right.

Just, I don't think, you know, and then that's it. Wait, you in to plan a heist? Absolutely, I would like to plan a heist. Oh, fuck yeah. Oh, yeah, guys, we're heisting. Okay. Well, I guess Jackie got the show from now on. You just pulled that whiteboard out for a minute.

If you guys want to follow in our Bloomberg money heist, tweet hashtag Bloomberg heist. If you know how to break into a bank vault, send me a DM. Any contortionists? Actually, I'm an amateur contortionist. I can find the boxes and stuff.

Holy shit. We got that covered. No contortionists, but somebody who knows heavy weapons would be good. Yes. Roger Stone just got the hookup from Trump just to kind of flashback to the hell reality we all exist in. Roger Stone was looking at a decent amount of time in the clink for, I'll just use what federal prosecutors said. Roger Stone obstructed Congress's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with a witness. And when his crimes were revealed by the indictment in this case,

he displayed contempt for this court and the rule of law. So they were recommending seven to nine years in prison, which seems, I don't know, light to me, I guess, but I don't know what these sorts of crimes get. And then Trump started tweeting on Monday evening, afternoon about how that wasn't nice because he's old and he should be treated nicely because he's an old man. And the DOJ immediately, a DOJ official told Fox News that the Justice Department was shocked by the memo and the recommendation was not what had been briefed to the department. And the department finds seven to nine years extreme, excessive and grossly disproportionate to Mr. Stone's offenses. So it's just more of the same thing with Trump just being blatantly corrupt. And I think everybody's given up. It seems like the mainstream media is mostly kind of given up. And they're like, another A for Trump. Great week because he got away with more uh crime

so is this like a formal pardon or is it just him being like hey guys lay off lay off um that sucks i mean like seven i mean what you said seven nine years or something yeah that's like the prosecutors i mean people get that for like unpaid parking tickets oh yeah yeah that's like how about that i mean i feel like major international crimes should get a little more time in jail. Bloomberg would consider that a parking ticket. Yeah. Yeah. Bloomberg would consider that a parking ticket.

But it's like people with like minor weed allegations will get like 20 years or whatever. And it's just like, oh, why, why is that in the eyes of the law worse than just like, than like major international, like conspiring in elections and stuff. And like flaunting your ability to be above the law,

being like, I'm going to take you out, man. And like dressing like a Batman villain while doing it with like those glasses and the weird cigarette and stuff. Yeah. Uh, pretty incredible.

That was one of my favorite things that Bernie did. when, when the criticism of Warren was like, all of her policies are Bernie's policies. And then Bernie was like, all right, let me take it one step further. And then he announced as president he would make marijuana legal across all 50 states and also release everyone from prison on a marijuana-related charge and then also ban the tobacco industry from profiting on a marijuana-related charge, and then also ban the tobacco industry from profiting on the marijuana industry. So I think it's pretty fucking cool. That's too far, man. Leave the tobacco industry out of this.

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And so there was a joke during the Academy Awards. Did you guys watch the Academy Awards? Of course, big winner. Yeah, big winner. I watched clips. I didn't watch the whole thing, Of course, big winner. Yeah. I watched clips. I didn't watch the whole thing, but yeah, I saw some stuff. Yeah.

Did you see the joke on your movie, Kat? I saw it. I just saw the thumbnail, and I was like, that's not for me. That's a very mentally healthy way. That's just like, that's not preaching to a choir

that I care to be a part of how dare they i will physically fight them oh my gosh you are a violent man yeah look only only around these three subjects final fantasy 7 the cats movie and then i forget what the other thing it is was but i'll i will fight you for it okay um but so there was a joke where James Corden and Rebel Wilson came out in their cats costumes and stood at the microphone and were introduced the word for best visual effects. And we're like, you know, we above we more than anyone know that you need good visual effects in your movie. Our movie is visual effects sucked. And I thought it worked fine yeah i thought it was funny yeah i did too um and i think that you're both wrong uh here's uh what i gotta say about

this guy getting all up in arms about this wait did we get to that part yet no no so well i'll explain wait you're talking about me about this guy whatever is stupid that's a very passive aggressive way to call me out yeah yeah stop talking to me you just started talking directly across the table uh eves mccray uh tweeted hey guys i haven't watched all the oscars but i assume these two were really classy and thanked me for working 80 hour weeks right up until i was laid off and the studio closed right so he was one of the people who worked on the visual effects for cats and was laid off and you know the the special effects were a sorted process on that movie and so I don't know but but it's it's been widely reported that people in the special effects and visual effects, computer animation world, don't work under the best conditions.

It's similar to when a video game needs to get out and video game companies are just leaning on their employees to just work around the clock. Well, aren't they not union? They don't have any protections. That's right. Yeah. They oftentimes don't get paid work around the clock. Well, aren't they like not union? Like they don't have any protections. That's right. Yeah. They oftentimes like don't get paid extra for the insane. I mean, a lot of these people are on like week rates as opposed to day rates or whatever. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess that like that's, this is like real talk guys about the Cats movie. That is something that kind of burns me about it is like the visual effects are like treated as such an easy like dunk for people. But like so many people, I don't know, worked so hard on this. And it's not the visual effects people's fault that the movie looks bad. It's the exact directors that approved, you know. Yeah.

It was an overall vision that the director had that they were executing on. It wasn't like they misplaced the hairs and otherwise it would have looked awesome. Right. Yeah. It's like it was a major like from a concept art stage that people approved. And like, yeah, I mean, like you said, there are so many of these people work like long hours, 80 hours a week, like in like really insane conditions to do to make this. And like, I don't know, it's just it's a down punch in terms of like comedy terms, you know? Yeah, it is one of the non-union parts of the entertainment and film industry.

And just in general, that has made it incredibly brutal. The Life of Pi won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and were out of business as a company like pretty soon thereafter. The people who made that Tupac hologram were like went under like a couple weeks after so it's just like even if you are having success making really cool visual effects that are like being you know talked about and creating a lot of positive buzz you you are just as likely to go out of business because you don't have

the protections that other parts of the film industry have. It's almost like unions are a good thing. But it's like the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is a really great example

of like, everybody blamed, nobody blamed the director for Sonic looking insane. They blamed the visual effects. Did they really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like everybody was like,

oh, these visual effects artists put weird teeth on Sonic i'm sure i blame jim carrey right jim carrey it's all his fault um i think this guy uh needs to shut up it's the visual effects no here's my here's my take uh i bet he wasn't offended by anything else in that show. That show is just filled with jokes. One joke was about him, so he got offended. Right. Guess what? It's hard. You know, you are in the movie business.

Yeah. The most, there's no more business that is more critiqued than the movie business. People are very critical. And that's what happens when you get into the movie business sorry it sucked it's not you can't get offended by that that was a bad uh bad movie and you can make fun of it you're allowed to make fun of it oh this is i'm cracking my knuckles i don't know if you guys can hear the knuckle yeah yeah my knuckles are very weak so you can't i do it close to the microphone you can't even hear it.

Also, nobody gets credit for working hard. You worked a bunch of hours. Guess what? An Uber driver drives 80 hours. Yeah, but those are all horrible abuses of employees. That's terrible. Anybody working 80 hours a week, that's not good, especially if they're not making overtime.

I mean, I get what you're talking about. I just feel like it's such a... At this point, it's hack to make fun of the Cats movie. It's like, if New York Times reviewers have already made the jokes that you're making, it's not edgy comedy. Well, it's people from the movie,

which is the only reason it's a little more clever, because they made it i thought it was a well executed joke within the the awards show um like i haven't seen the joke so i can't necessarily speak directly on it but i still think the movie's delightful and everybody who makes fun of it is bad also the best part the best part of the bit was um when they were just batting the microphone back and forth. Oh, that's just a bit.

Never mind. I take it back. It's a good bit. Yeah, that was just good physical comedy. They're doing cat stuff. They're doing cat stuff. Yeah, never mind. I'm all in.

If they're doing cat stuff, I'm down. I mean, as somebody who, I'm a fan of comedy mostly in the awards show comedy setting. Like, that's mostly where I take in my comedy. Yeah. So, I thought it was a a minus i bet you this guy didn't tweet any um any tweets about how outraged he was about the lack of diversity in the nominees but the one thing that he was mad about was something that we all agree was not good right the visual effects is something we all agree was not good right right? I think, yeah, I'll agree.

Visual effects are fucking insane. I mean, it's like, it's not good, but it's not good at a level that it becomes incredible that it got made. Well, it's not even our opinion. They redid it and then put a different movie in the theaters. Yeah. I still think that to me is this generation's Han shot first. It's the greatest travesty in movies that they changed this perfect movie where there were guys just wearing full mocap suits in the background that they didn't have time to add fur to. No. Wait, really?

No. Yeah, there's multiple. I mean, I'm sure you guys have heard. There are a couple of times in the movie where you can see Dame Judi Dench's just real ass human hand wearing a wedding ring where they just didn't have time to fix it. There's a point where James Corden dives through a doorway and it's clear they didn't finish the effect because once he crosses the plane of the doorway,

he just disappears and you only see half of his body. Oh, it's like take on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I haven't seen this to confirm it, but I've heard from friends there are multiple times in the movie where you can just see a dude in a mocap standing in the background.

And this is your favorite movie? This is my favorite movie of all time. All of those choices are perfect. That's incredible. Very intentional. All symbolic of cats, I guess. Let's move on to Aunt Becky, whose name is escaping me right now it's not Lori Loughlin Connecticut Loughlin's are you are you betrothed trying to marry these yeah

dynasties so Lori Loughlin's daughter's resume, what was submitted to the rowing team at USC has been made public. And it's pretty impressive. Like she is an Olympic caliber rower, according to this resume, which is all totally made up. And just the ballsiest thing I've ever seen. Somebody, they're just like, hey like hey yeah she's the best gold San Diego crew classic gold medal 2016 silver medal 2015 gold medal 2014 like they just gave her the resume of a prodigy and look I just gotta say who here hasn't lied on their resume it's just a new level of lying. Right, right, right.

Look, you guys don't have an Olympic combat athlete on your resume? A gold medal in pro wrestling 2008? Yeah. I don't know why she just didn't lie on her resume that she went to USC. There you go. Skip all this. That's super funny. The cheapest fucking...

Yeah. That's super funny. That would have saved them five hundred thousand dollars as well as jail time yeah that would yeah nobody checks you can just say that you went to harvard i barely look at resumes let alone follow them up i did quit uh college to just move to new york to to make it you know yeah i made it i heard if you make it there you to make it, you know? Yeah. Made it. I heard if you make it there, you can make it. Yeah. Well, actually, that's-

Wait, where'd you hear that from? Just like any source. Oh, yeah, yeah. Was it from NASA? Was it from NASA? I believe it was NASA said that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Oh, good. On a vernal equinox.

Oh, good. I saw the tweet. Don't need to look into it. I trust it. Done. So I quit college, and I moved to New York, and I was trying to get temp jobs. And they're like, oh, you have to have graduated college. And I was like, oh, great.

Well, then I did. They go, okay, cool. Then you can work. And I said, well, this is very easy. Well, what a coincidence because I did and just forgot to put it on the road. Oh, I did. I have so much cool job stuff. I just didn't have room for it on my resume because you've got to keep it to one page, right?

I had a bunch of temp agencies and one of them actually did check once for one job like they asked to check and then i got a call and they were like hey there's some discrepancy on your you know status graduating status at george mason and i said oh yes i did not graduate you got me very good what are you a detective she said you shouldn't lie on your resume. And I said, oh, you couldn't be more wrong about that. That's like in my adult life. I think that my college has only ever been looked into for one job. And when they they want they wanted my like transcripts and stuff and that they asked.

I was like, this is insane. Yeah, right. This is insane. I mean, like you just get outraged that they're checking. Well, it's just like, Oh, I guess I got to call my college.

I'm send a transcript to this like a random comedy website. Yeah. Also the temp jobs were just sitting in a receptionist chair for a day. You don't need to graduate. Yeah. Finally, let's talk about Star Trek. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. So there's a new Star Trek show about Picard that is being hidden on a streaming network I think it's on the CBS all access which is where they hide their

shows that they put a lot of money into sneaky yeah there's a sneaky move on their part but this is being criticized for cramming woke politics down our throats oh enough star trek i remember when star trek was just about men being men and now that never happened what's like funny to me about that is that like the original Star Trek was 100% Gene Roddenberry just like pushing like you know

like at the time woke politics of like racial equality yeah like Star Trek had the first ever interracial kiss on TV I believe so like to me whenever I see stuff like that or hear stuff like that it's just like what did you think Star Trek was yeah this Star Trek's just for nerds yeah yeah it's just like what did you think star trek was yeah this star trek's just for nerds yeah yeah

yeah it's just like what why did you why are you upset about this and why were you not upset 50 years ago or whatever yeah apparently there are very racist nerds oh sorry i thought y'all said star wars oh there we go yeah the bastion of racism that is Star Wars. Yeah. Actually, yeah, that's not incorrect. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've seen some of those alien designs.

They look real. Wait a second. But yeah, like you said, the original series was just openly politically progressive. They aired, like you said, the first interracial kiss in the studio wanted to shoot it like multiple times so they could edit it out for the southern affiliates but william shatner deliberately messed those takes up and at one point even crossed his eyes during the take which i makes me respect that's so funny i know and it's so baked into the show that like straight up like um uh i forget the actress's name but

Uhura was thinking about quitting the show Nichelle Nichols she was thinking about quitting the show after the first season and the reason that she stayed on is the legit Martin Luther King was like it's very important that you stay on the show so like Martin Luther King literally like this is Star Trek is political he's one of Hollywood's best agents

yeah I always forget about that yeah he was great yeah not enough awards Star Trek is political. He's one of Hollywood's best agents. Yeah. I always forget about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Not enough awards. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it's like,

it is insane that somebody would be like, how dare Picard be woke? Yeah. I mean, so the, it's kind of, uh, over like the politics.

Uh, there's a space refugee crisis with Romulans needing to be evacuated due to an impending supernova and then there's an unrelated terrorist attack on mars involving robots but for some reason everybody goes racist against the romulans uh which all sounds very relevant yeah i'm a mars truther yeah yeah but it seems very relevant. Yeah, I'm a Mars truther. Yeah, yeah. But it seems very relevant to our current and future century, probably. Wait, wait, wait. Explain to me what a Mars truther is.

Sure. Well, I believe that the Earth orchestrated this attack on Mars to distract from the refugee situation for the Romulans. That's good. That tracks for me. I'm on board, brother. It was an inside job, is what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was an inside planet? Mars was an inside job. Yeah. Well, Joey, it's been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist, man. Yeah, this was super fun.

Despite all the ass kickings that you've promised us after we stopped recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once this airs, I'm going to have to fight so many people tomorrow, and guys, I am not ready. It says on your resume here, though, that you are ready. Oh, jeez, lying on my resume.

Your hands are registered as deadly weapons. Why did I write that for a comedy writing job? Is there, or where can people find you follow you hear you experience you alright cool you can follow me

on twitter at joeytainment you can follow me on instagram at joeyclift with like five eyes the reason for that is that a 12 year old

took joeyclift with one eye so I was just like I'm just gonna add some more eyes to this that kid is hilarious yeah that kid that kid

a lot of good bits you should hire him for all your comedy writing jobs try to pick a fight with that kid is hilarious though yeah that kid that kid a lot of good bits you should hire him for all your comedy writing jobs uh try to pick a fight with that kid yeah um and then uh let's see uh things to promote um i got a short film that uh you guys can check out on my twitter account it's in my bio called telling people you're a native american when you're not native is a lot like telling a bear you're a bear when you're not a bear. The name is 24 words long. And it's about that myth that I talked about earlier. All right. So yeah, I think that's kind of my deal.

And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Okay, so I wrote this down so I can get it right. Speaking of the Iowa caucus, I really loved a tweet from at underscore Eric Blanc that just showed a video of a spokesman for the Iowa primary talking about all the issues with the primary and how they're going to get fixed. And then during the 15 second video, the Iowa primary sign falls off of his podium. It's just the most perfect timing that perfectly describes what's happening.

The universe is in on this. Yeah. The universe gets that this is a bit. So that, and then I just want to give a shout out to Taika Waititi. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit. And in his speech, a lot of videos of this

floating around on Twitter, he shouted out indigenous kids and how indigenous kids are the original storytellers. And then he did a land acknowledgement in his speech. So just like, I gotta give a big ups to taika waititi twitter videos of his speech can i say um boy is one of the best movies um and i think it's on amazon it's taika waititi's first yeah um big one um and uh that is phenomenal hard recommend where does it compare to the cats movie um i think it just edges it out in terms of visual effects in this movie made for 19 000 okay they make the boy look like an actual boy i would

agree that i've not yet seen boy i need to watch it but the visual effects and boy are probably better than that in the cats movie nick yes what a pleasure having you as guest co-host. This has been a very big treat. Thank you. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you? I'm on the internet. I also have a... I love the internet. Yes.

You should check it out, especially my stuff. I have a podcast called Get Rich Nick, where me and my co-host Nick Fadarat try a new way to make money every week. We've recently been drug mules in Tijuana. We were Instagram influencers. We charged e-bikes last week. And next week, we go to The Price is Right. Oh, shit.

And we love suggestions for new episodes, but we only accept suggestions in five-star reviews on Apple iTunes. So if you want to suggest a future app, hit me up, five-star reviews on Apple iTunes. So if you want to suggest a future app, hit me up, five-star review, and we'll do it. Tweets will be ignored. I will not respond to anyone. Email, tweets, Facebook does not exist. Right.

How do you guys do on Praises of the Right? Are you allowed to say? I am not allowed to say. Okay. Well, you'll learn on the podcast. For the record, Nick is sitting on a. What you'll learn on the podcast. For the record, Nick is sitting on a brand new Harley Davidson motorcycle in the studio. A new office chair. But it's not nothing.

You guys, it's not an episode where you guys are like, we went and then nothing happened and we came back. Well, no, there's always a story. Yeah. Okay, cool. Whatever happens. But you know what podcast I'm even more excited about is another show that you co-host with our very own super producer, Ana Hosnia.

Oh, yeah. This is as big of a secret. I'm very excited. Me and Ana host a new show, a binge-style podcast about Below Deck, Bravo's Below Deck. But Nick, what if I haven't been watching Below Deck from the start? Oh my God, that's actually better. Oh, wow.

You can watch it from the start along with us. I hadn't seen it before. I think we've recorded halfway through the second season. Okay. And I'm falling in love with it along with our listeners. So you can binge the podcast as you're binging the show. Yeah, we're going to come out every day. Which I have been fully intrigued by listening to you guys talk about it.

It is just like the hottest of hot garbage human beings. And you guys are very fun to experience it with. So people should absolutely check that out. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes. I retweeted this today or yesterday, and it is from Danny DeVito. Yes.

I'm on board. And he tweeted out, Bernie's what's happening. That's the whole tweet. And then it's a smiley face. What does that mean? He loves Bernie. Is it Bernie's what's happening? Did he say that mean? He loves Bernie. Is it Bernie Sanders

or is it just some guy named Bernie? Nope, it's Bernie apostrophe S what apostrophe S happening exclamation point. I hope this is just completely unrelated to politics. Right, he just saw the Jack Black movie. Yeah, and he was like,

that's my guy. Five stars. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Max Wittert tweeted, I feel like cars should be allowed to hit each other

a little bit and not have it be a thing. Yeah, I agree with that take. I fully agree with that. Like, that's... Like, a little love tap should be fine. Yeah, it shouldn't be like

everybody has to, like, stop and pull out all their shit. Yeah, sometimes you want to just, like, nudge somebody with your car as a bit. Yeah. I will say that I have had a lot of that where there's a bump. Maybe we even get out, but then it's like, what are we going to do? Right.

Yeah. Bye. Bye. Yeah. Like I drive an old car. So it's like, for me, it's like, I don't know. Like I have shit to do. I don't, it's fine.

I got rear ended at a red light and then, you know, it's like i don't know like i have shit to do i don't i don't it's fine i got rear-ended at a red light and then you know it's like very shocking obviously yeah and then i get out and there's the guy behind me um who hit me and he's like oh come on man really and i'm like look i'm not gonna do anything i just need to take a picture of your life of your license and uh you'll never hear from me i just need to have it. But that is a good reflex to get into. Yeah, if you go to New Smogston,

get the information, even if you're going to be like, it's fine, just to have it. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes,

where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Super producer Anna Hosnier. Brooklyn, you can meet her if you come to the show tonight. But no, you can't meet her in person. She's giving a very strong head shake and no face. her if you come to the show tonight. No, you can't meet her in person. You can see her in person. She gave a very strong head shake and no face. You can see her

introduce the show at tonight's live show if you come. Wait, I have one question. Anna? How's Nia? Alright. Explain yourself. Nick, please don't speak to me unless we're on our podcast. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Okay. So I am going to recommend a song that I heard on my favorite TV show. Excuse me. My second favorite TV show, Cheer. Is anyone else watching, ladies? Okay. I'm in a room full of it. So this song is called Queen, and it's by this artist, Jax Anderson.

And it's very poppy. It's very uplifting. It just makes me want to do like a, you know, like a full out. Hey, that's my cheer heads out there. Just kidding. I would break my neck. But yeah, so check it out. It's Queen by Jax Anderson, and I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you go do a bunch of

backflips to this if you can. And yeah, and listen to Deckheads. We drop February 20th, baby. I am watching Cheer, by the way. I just said that on my mic. I'm doing backflips as we speak. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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