The Daily Zeitgeist - Bros Zeiting Bros 1/6: Matt Gaetz, Matt Schlapp, Coachella, 1/6, Unemployment, Avatar 2

Episode Date: January 7, 2023

In this edition of Bros Zeiting Bros, Jack and Miles discuss the whole Speaker of the House mess, Matt Schlapp, famous homophobe, accused of groping male staffer, the impending disaster that is Coachella, the 2 year anniversary of the 1/6 attacks, record low unemployment in the US, and Avatar 2's box office performance!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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stories that miles was telling before we started recording were it was psychological warfare yeah it was psychological warfare it was uh late aughts into the tens and look we i'm sure anybody who maybe it seemed like wild to people who maybe weren't into icing and that were completely like smirnoff brained at the time like me but we would go out of our ways people don't know there's this game where you smirnoff ice you could ice somebody which was basically like if you would it's like a prank game right and you basically if someone presents you with ice you can't refuse it you have to drink it you usually got to get on like a knee um but you could also block a smirnoff ice like so if someone tried to present it to you you could pull out your own smirnoff ice and then block it and

then they have to drink both wow and it didn't matter if it was like right before a job interview or something like no no no no i remember we we were in a restaurant once and they told us we cannot be drinking outside alcohol in their restaurant because we would bring smirnoff ices into the restaurant as like blockers or to set people up and they're like one person like where did you get smirnoff ice we're like oh we brought them they're like you can't do that you fucking idiots have you ever been to a restaurant before no i haven't but the thing we would do stuff for example like you would empty a toilet tank and then you put a smear enough ice in the toilet tank and then put the top back on so when someone uses the toilet they're like shit it's not flushing they open

the toilet tank boom you've been iced maybe you to murder i feel like yeah it's like all these like plot out a murder i feel oh yeah like we were pretty diabolical with it so i put entirely too much thought into it i will say that yeah no it's crazy a new side of you i i hadn't even suspected i contain multitudes like i said i've i've i've i've done it all folks seen it all this came up because we as we were starting to record miles tried to ice me um yeah i was making a joke i was like seven years and you were like yeah too bad man too bad dude because i'll drink 14 i'll drink 14 just off the strength dude yeah all right what's actually trending uh let's talk about what's trending it's not bro pricing bros uh it's mccarthy getting iced out but uh it looks like he's making some progress.

It's a real underdog story. He's made so many concessions, though. We have no idea what this speakership is going to look like because he might be like, yeah, the second you don't like me, I can be vaporized in a vote. So there's that. And you can determine all of the business of the house is that enough for you

i just want to be able to be in that office and i have to let matt gates walk me around on a dog chain uh for the and he said he'll resign he said he will resign if kevin mccarthy is elected speaker which seems like a good out because you probably you know you're probably facing some legal trouble anyway wait but i thought he got away with it didn't he didn't he uh skate like epstein for the first time or at least there's they know that like the his coke that other dude that he was like definitely got in trouble yeah matt gates um i don't think there's anything to say that he's no longer a subject of an investigator i mean i don't know you know he's a white man in congress and has power so who knows what the fuck ends up with the all right well he's no longer a subject of an investigation i mean i don't know you know he's a white man in congress and has power so who knows what the fuck ends up with the all right well speaking of

sexual predators uh allegedly matt schlapp you remember him yeah you heard about him you seen him the guy who created c-pack c-pack yeah c-pack stalwart you know racist coachella that yeah yet another professional homophobe uh has been accused of sustained and unwanted and unsolicited sexual contact with a staffer for herschel walker's senate campaign it's pretty vile like this guy was supposed to be driving schlapp around for the campaign and they said that Schlapp groped and fondled his crotch after buying him drinks at two different bars and then said he wanted to spend the evening discussing the staffer's professional future yeah and then afterwards the staffer like uh texted like someone else like a supervisor in the campaign and said what

happened like oh my god uh don't like like, yeah, you don't have to do that. Apparently he was told to text Schlapp to be like, yeah, you made me very uncomfortable. And then apparently Schlapp just responded with not being like, huh? He was just sort of like, please give me a call. And then, thanks. Please give me a call, sir.

And if you see it in your heart, he asked him to look within his heart to immediately like, oh my god, And if you see it in your heart, he asked him to look within his heart. To call me at the end of the day. I would appreciate it. Oh my God, please don't ruin me. Look within your heart. Again, he's gooned up in the power machine of the right. But yeah, who knows?

But yeah, turns out people like that with hateful agendas might be not on the up. Yeah. Coachella is trending with a bunch of headlines. If you Google it, the headlines all have question marks at the end. I know it's just, it's bullshit. It's something that I feel like is a,

a trending story we see frequently where it's like, I heard these are the headliners for coachella so rumors have it that bad bunny black pink and frank ocean will headline coachella stop stop trying to make that do we do we've been doing this since fucking when was channel orange channel orange nostalgia ultra yeah like oh frank ocean's gonna be at coachella he's gonna he's not gonna be it's like when the like the media is like ben or jennifer aniston and brad pitt are getting back together yeah no music fan equivalent of that yeah yeah is frank ocean at coachella this year but i I feel like Bad Bunny makes sense. Blackpink makes sense.

Not that Frank Ocean does it, but he's pretty famous at this point for not wanting to do it. Yeah, and then booking and then backing out or being rumored and backing out. Who knows? Maybe he will. I have a prediction. I will not be there.

Yes, and as I predicted, it's going to be a mess. I don't know how, but it's going to be a mess. I'm not be there yes and as I predicted it's going to be a mess I don't know how but it's going to be a mess oh yeah that was your prediction for 2023 it's very specific this Coachella this one's going to be one you're going to go I don't know why it's just a feeling I got

when are people going to start like I don't know that feels like a good place for a nice climate action direct action type I don't know that that feels like a good place for a nice climate action direct action type i don't know something yeah that'd be wild if like some wealthy like activist is like okay i'll buy about 10 000 passes to coachella yeah and 10 000 people in there that are on or just are like that are on the same agenda that like at will can just change like the entire environment of a concert because there's 10 000 people being like stop the music or whatever i don't know yeah but yeah who knows uh what'll happen i'm sure it'll just be sponsored by

american express and you can smoke legal weed in our wall street room yeah a bunch of really cool things they're doing to show off how by partnering with the energy industry, not the oil and gas industry, the energy industry, they've come up with some really cool, neato ideas. Blackpink has their own secrets on how they keep their energy up on stage. And so does British Petroleum. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And it's January 6th baby never heard of it what's that you never heard of january 6th the day nah nah it's like the sixth day of the year it's pretty famous yeah yeah yeah so january is the month you've heard of that right uh definitely definitely definitely okay so there's a sixth day okay so and on the seventh he rested that's right aha aha brought it back yeah it's been two years since we saw that shit and there's still fucking nothing uh so aside from like the people who were intelligent enough to record themselves in 4k uh being at the capitol we're looking for some of the bigger fish here because i know jenny thomas there was no recommendation for her to be you know getting got by the doj i'm sure maybe they didn't find enough but i mean it's just so if the whole shit stinks uh and all these people are

laughing their ass off like we're behind it uh stinks to high heavens yeah to hog heaven even yeah you know i hate to use that phrase but it stinks to hog you do hate to use that but i know you do it all the time because hogs don't go to heaven we know that unemployment numbers came out record low 50 years yeah 50 year low for unemployment um now we just gotta look at those wages how they yeah they're i mean i guess here's the question do you want to use inflation to then see if how wages are no because if we're countering if we count in you know inflationary movement then we're still kind of weting out at a loss there. So there is that.

Although it is kind of cool to see Larry Summers talk from a fucking hidden tropical island. Where he's like, man, we're going to need more unemployment if we're going to contain this inflation. And you're like, holy shit, dude. Are you fucking serious? It's pretty revealing about how these billionaires are actually thinking and they're like nah nah man fuck people's like well larry summers former harvard president uh epstein flight log uh star guest yeah guest guest star of the epstein flight log multiple times but yeah he's literally on a tropical beach somewhere just telling people that we need to put these motherfuckers out of

work to control inflation so um he seems like he's doing all right to be honest yeah yeah yeah one 100 he knows he knows the deal he's like i need y'all to be broke yes because then y'all ask for less too yeah and then you stop asking for wages and shit like that but yeah it's it's also interesting too like how there's also you know a lot of people like oh thank you joe biden for this record unemployment and things like that which i get it's 50 years i like as a statistic that seems remarkable but it's like really supplement like i'd also i would love to see something that was a survey of like working people that was like yeah man a record high number of working people said they're satisfied with their wages because i

think that's the real juxtaposition of information how we feel folks yeah hey is it that i'm not kidding yeah right hey exactly rather than having people like you know jen saki or other people who have been in the white house like this is actually fantastic news for the biden administration wow while this is happening the republicans are in disarray okay vote blue no matter who that's right um and hey speaking of vote blue no matter who, people are voting blue at the box office with their wallet to Avatar 2. God, I'm good at this. It's just moved up to number nine on the historic worldwide box office.

Ninth biggest movie ever already a couple weeks in. And he's done it. So I was just looking at the top lifetime gross movies avatar is number one and that movie's old so this is like not adjusted for inflation that movie is 13 years old a titanic is number three and that's not adjusted for inflation that was 97 titanic is by kind of a lot the oldest movie on the list. And then everything's like Marvel? Yeah.

Or Star Wars? Yeah, there's a lot of Marvel. Avengers Endgame, Star Wars Episode VII, The Force Awakens, Avengers, Spider-Man, Jurassic World,

made it. The live-action Lion King is the one that I did not realize was that successful. I remember it being a big deal at the time and going to see it and being like, wow, I can't believe this movie exists. Yeah.

And I mean, I was pissed because when they said Jonathan Taylor Thomas was not coming back to voice Simba. Yeah. I'm out. Yeah. And that was your reaction to avatar too, as well.

But no, no. Yeah. And Taylor Thomas. I also asked you, you i said how many white people with dreadlocks are in it because that's another thing that will determine whether or not i go and i said quite a few my friend oh and i said thank you very i love to see it i will be there no avatar 2 is of all the james cameron movies it reminds me of terminator 2 the most in that it's like another amazing watch i get there's there's the larded on like the neo-colonizer vibes are real both with obviously james cameron's quotes and then the plot of the movie continues to be that the leader of the navi is a white guy's brain in a Navi body. The main thing that it's incredibly compulsively

watchable and again, my eyes are dry because I keep forgetting to blink. I don't remember this about Terminator 2 until I watch it again and then you see James Cameron's writing for teenagers, his writing for

Edward Furlong's character is just so, so brutal. He's like, that's when you got to say cheese off dick weed or, you know, get buzzed flapjack. And you're just like, well,

that's not how anybody calls him flapjack. Cause, uh, avatar too. Like two of the main characters are Jake Sully's sons. And they're always like, bro, bro, come on, bro. It's a lot to handle. That shit is wild.

Because this one quote, Terminator 2, no, you got to listen to the way people talk. You don't say affirmative or some shit like that. You say, no problemo. And if someone comes to you with an attitude, you say, eat me. And if you want to shine them on it's shine them on shine them on is not afraid it's like yo get the fuck out of here shine them on if you want to you know how teenagers are always saying if you want to shine them on you say and also he just thought it was like speaking spanish was like the way that

people because bart simpson did that shit you know what i mean like no problemo feels like very bart simpson and then he's like right the youth them they talk why would i need a dialogue consultant i have watched upwards of five episodes that are bart episodes of the simpsons i get that yeah yeah i figured them out yeah oh shit anyway well they've i guess made all your money making all your monies yeah anyways uh that's gonna do it for us for this week we are back on monday with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to y'all on Monday. Bye. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

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