The Daily Zeitgeist - Chairman Cheesecake, Neglected Foods 3.27.20

Episode Date: March 27, 2020

In episode 596, Jack and Miles are joined by quar-bae Jamie Loftus to discuss how Cheesecake Factory is refusing to pay their rent, a sharp drop in jobs in America, Joe Biden's accuser speaking out, how coronavirus is affecting crime rates, a Gwyneth Paltrow approved doctor pushing coronavirus conspiracies, grocery store foods people don't care to hoard, and more!FOOTNOTES: The Cheesecake Factory Tells Landlords Across the Country It Won’t Be Able to Pay Rent on April 1 Working Age Population: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States U.S. Jobless Claims Skyrocket Amid Coronavirus Outbreak TRANSCRIPT of Joe Biden's accuser Tara Reade finally telling her full story. CW: Sexual Assault How will the coronavirus affect crime rates? It’s complicated, experts say Gwyneth Paltrow Models Contagion Chic and Good Farmers Market Behavior The Gwyneth Paltrow-Approved Doctor Pushing Wacky Coronavirus Conspiracies How We Can Learn to Tolerate Emotional Pain The five most ridiculous ideas from Goop's 'health' conference HIV DOESN'T CAUSE AIDS ACCORDING TO GWYNETH PALTROW GOOP 'TRUSTED EXPERT' DOCTOR KELLY BROGAN Desperate shoppers not desperate enough for odd foods on picked-over grocery shelves WATCH: Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight (LP) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Fuck Fox News. Play while we're at it. It's Friday, March 27th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Zeitgang! Stay into quarantine! Hello? That's supposed to be a play on Warriors come out to play. Yay. And I'm thrilled to be a play on Warriors come out to play Yay And I'm thrilled to be joined As always by my co-host

Mr. Miles Gray I Don't wanna die I don't wanna wanna wanna wanna die Keep your arms up off me baby Keep your arms up off me baby Christy Yamaguchi Maine thank you for that sugar ray inspired aka it's amazing to see the influx of aka's like full-on verses that i'm getting in

my mentions uh i have to take my time to go through all of them but shout out to everybody who's using their time to do some creative good. To compose. Mm-hmm. And we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by our guest and co-host, Jamie Loftus! Some people call me Lil' Zamboni Yeah Some call me the boss who was girl Some call me the hacker who codes

because I'm the coder who hacks I think you get the idea learn the guitar part for that I know I know I need to switch whoop whoop I'll just make Sonny do it

I'm surprised he doesn't know how to play acoustic already. Since he does that every time a woman walks by on the street. Yeah, he fully whoop whoops. Well, guys, let's tell our listeners what we're talking about today and then get into a little bit of over under. out today and then get into a little bit of over under we're gonna talk about our new leader in all things labor and collective action the cheesecake factory uh yeah chairman cheesecake comrade cheesecake comrade cheesecake factory uh i mean it's right there in the name. It's like a factory. You know, it's, I mean, factories. The people who eat their cheesecakes.

Yeah, exactly. We're going to talk about the Biden sexual assault allegation. We are going to talk about U.S. jobless claims going up by 3 million, the previous record for a single week rise in jobless claims was 600,000 in 1982. We're going to talk about Bernie Flaming the GOP on the floor of Congress. We're going to talk about whether crime will actually go up. People seem to be expecting it to with all the guns they're buying. And we're going to talk about some of the items people are not desperately hoarding

and how the paparazzi biz is holding up. But first, guys, let's tell the people what is something from our search history that's revealing about who we are. I got Comrade Brittany. Anyone Google Comrade Brittany yesterday? Well, I mean, yes. Did something else happen aside from her Instagram post?

Well, there's several Instagram posts at this point. Okay, because I know we talked about the one, the first one where she was just like fucking with the idea of a general strike. What's the next, what's the latest from calm, calm breezy. Calm breezy.

She's really becoming a rose emoji and I love to see it. She, she did one of those celeb challenge posts that are all curse. Celebrities are doing like, what are they? They're like doing pushups or something. What curse celebrities are doing like what they're like doing push-ups or something what the fuck are they doing they're putting and then they're washing their hands on camera jennifer garner washed her hands and was like i stay home for victor garber

and i was like that's cool uh but wait who's victor garber oh her dad on alias and thomas andrews and titanic and The Professor and Legally Blonde. He's a character actor legend. Yes. Second only to Molina. Why does she stay home for him? Because he's an elderly gentleman? Because he's old and he played her dad on TV.

He's an old famous. He's an old famous. We stay inside for the old famous. And he officiated the Garner-Aflack wedding. What? Ah, yeah. What a champ. Yes.

So he's, you know, officiated at least one failed marriage. Anyways, Comrade Brittany started a challenge where she said that she was going to cover the expenses of three fans of like what they needed during the crisis. And she was like trying to get it going. And she tagged like Will Smith and Kate Hudson to be like,

Hey, we should all do this for our fans, which is like, okay, three fans, you can afford more, but it's a start. And so she was trying to get this like,

you know, redistribution of wealth thing going. And, uh, none of the celebrities she tagged took her challenge. The end. Wow. But she tried. She was like, I'm going to pay for people's expenses, rose emoji. She's our comrade now.

She's all over the rose emoji. She really is. She's loving it. What if she really didn't get it? She just really loved the rose emoji. And she's like, I'm really loving this rose emoji. Well, if you're familiar with Britney's Instagram, it's pretty high likelihood that she just likes flowers.

Yeah, that's kind of my, I think that might actually be what's going on. Well, people also have theories, because she was taking care of her sick father. Maybe she was interacting with the healthcare industry and may have found some things out. But, you know, but either way, I think she's, you know, I'm glad she's disseminating good info and trying to do the right thing no matter how it comes. And she shared like a communism, like whatever, like a, is that the post we talked about? Was like that long text post? Yeah, the long text post, yeah.

So she, I don't know. I think whether she realizes what it is by name, she's getting into it. She has a good heart. Yeah. She's Comrade Brittany. It would be pretty strange if her, you know, fandom of roses lined up with her starting to kind of uh ideologically bend towards uh the left like that

that does seem like a little bit too well i think i think you just see now in a situation like this there the only ideology you probably have as a human being is to either help somebody or not and if you're more likely to help then i think you know it makes sense to say like yeah i have my i have more i need to give some to people who have less oh that sucks that if you don't have a job you should that you have to pay your rent or your bills that that's not right i mean i think some people are starting to catch up to it as we're seeing day by day especially with the amount of people. AOC Spheres 2024. Let's do it. What is something we think is underrated? Cream of mushroom soup.

Cream of mushroom soup. Oh, hard to disagree. Cream of mushroom soup. Well, the reason I'm saying it is because it is... It's the great ingredient. It's the great ingredient. It can help you make a sauce. You can fucking somehow turn some chicken breasts into a creamy thing

it just allows uh it's just like a it just allows for a lot more flexibility yeah like a creamy thing you want a little creamy yeah um that's why and look it's most people know that if you're midwest casserole gang obviously it's like having you know there's no it's part of the genetic code of a casserole is cream of mushroom soup. But I'm like, when I go to the store, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna get that because I can turn up nearly any dish with a little bit of herbs and cream of mushroom soup. My mom makes a fully cursed but delicious American quesadilla that is just a bunch of, I mean, she doesn't call it American quesadilla, but the ingredients are flour tortillas, cheese, and cream of chicken soup. That's it. Boom.

And then some chilies mixed in there. But it's basically a combination casserole. Oh, like an enchilada. But it's, yeah, just stacks of stacks of cheese And it's fucking great On our next grocery store run I'm going to try to get the ingredients I think I've even talked about this recipe To call it a recipe is a stretch

But my mom's taco salad That was just like a bag of Doritos all mushed up And then you put hamburger meat on it. And then you put shredded cheese on it. And then you put half a bottle of Catalina dressing. And then you heat it up. Half a bottle of Catalina dressing? Yeah, that's a critical ingredient.

What is Catalina dressing? Holy shit. What is Catalina dressing? It's kind of sweet and sour-y. I don't really know how to describe it uh but it it's it's just my i thought for like at least a decade that that's what taco salad was uh because that's what she called it but it's just a bag of doritos and meat but it's good i'm yeah i'm curious to see how many people are like reverting to these like arcane family recipes

that they grew up and they're like i think this is how my mom made it. I've done a few things trying to be like, I think this is how my grandma made it, like shit like that. And I'm like, I don't know who to call because some people are passed away and don't have that information anymore. But I'm sure there's a lot of improvised chefs going on.

Shout out to all of us. My poor kids are getting a lot of, when it's daddy's time to make dinner, they're getting a lot of the cheese flats, which is just a tortilla with cheese. Nice. My dad called them cheese roll-ups so that it sounded like a Taco Bell menu item.

There you go. Yeah, a little bit of ground beef. Cheese rollers? Yeah. Yeah, a little cheese rollers. What else we got that's underrated? Oh, okay. So everyone's been roasting me on the reddit for calling it covid not covid um i don't know what that is is that a boss is no one have you heard

no one else call it kov i've never heard someone from boston say they're gonna park the core Park the Corvid. Park the Corvid. You pork the Corvid in Horvud Yord. I like Corvid. I like masshole pronunciation. Yeah, fucking Corvid. Somebody explained it to me as you should

pronounce it COVID because it's short for Corona Virus something. But then I don't pronounce it coronavirus. I pronounce it ka. So it would be ka-vide. Covington Catholic.

Based on those instructions, it would be ka-vide. Coronavirus. Coronavirus. So I think you're right, Jamie. I'm not going to pronounce it that way, but I think you're right, Jamie. I'm not going to pronounce it that way, but I think you're right. Someone linked me to Mayor Marty Walsh doing a speech about Corona. He's like, even he calls it COVID. What's your fucking excuse?

Matt Walsh is your mayor? No. Your fucking excuse. Matt Walsh is your mayor? No. No, we have, if you can imagine, somehow a mayor that can be even worse. No, Marty Walsh.

Oh, Marty Walsh. Okay. Do you guys know that story about UCB? No, what happened? Anyways, shut up, Matt Walsh. Oh you mean because like how they laid everybody off and they're like oh don't know what to do about that they're like yes and i've got your back you're fired never speak to me again real cool call back well okay that's a call back to the spoils of capitalism so the game here is that we're gonna yeah uh what is something we think is overrated

Instagram live as a platform I like people using it I have no issue with that but it's just I like because it's only vertical it makes it really hard to do most things oh got it got it

so I feel like you can only do kind of very specific shit with it. So I'm glad people are using it. I think it's like the live app that most of us have immediate access to. So it's like the easiest thing to use. But the few times I've had to use it this past week, I think that we as a culture just all have to download Zoom on our phones or Twitch on our phones or something because Instagram Live isn't going to cut it for months.

Yeah. Hit Twitch, dude. Do some IRL streaming. Go live on Twitch, Jamie, with that taco salad fucking process video. Honestly, I need to watch that. I want to watch that. It's just me punching a bag of Doritos. You just got to get started like this. I want to watch that. I want to watch that. It's just me punching a bag of Doritos to be like,

you just got to get started like this. With your plastic samurai sword just beating the fuck out of a bag. I need to be able to do that in landscape. I saw somebody on Twitter say that Doritos have become a food group with them being in quarantine. I have also upped my Dorito consumption. I wonder if that is a kind of uniform thing

because it's a snack that feels hearty, I guess. Yeah. Well, and I think anyone who's been like broken in college, like you've looked at a bag of Doritos and go, yeah, that's a dinner right there. Yeah. I remember being so poor that I would like lick the Dorito as part one of the meal, you know?

Oh. So you'd have a flavor course? A flavor course and then you have your grains. Fantastic. Hopefully we won't have to go back to those times anytime soon. People are all impressed by those

fancy restaurants where they give you the impression, the memory of a flavor. It's just a light suggestion of a cooler. This air puff will suggest cauliflower. Well, just lick a Dorito

and you get the same shit. Our greatest scientists have been working on that shit. By the way, I think I've said this before, but people salsa with Doritos, you don't need to have just a plain corn chip to

dip it in salsa. And in fact, Doritos work really well as a salsa delivery method. Salsa and cream cheese. So it sounds like, Jamie, what you're saying, Instagram Live, good tent, bad app. That's where we're standing. I mean, you can reach the most people the fastest,

but you can only do it in portrait. Okay, guys. I don't like it. We as a nation need to step it up and all choose a live streaming app we'll all use. I think most people have picked Twitch, though, for the most part, I think, for the most robust part. I found myself being like, what the fuck's going on? I'm like, that's right.

There's been a thriving world of video streaming before this, and it's all on Twitch. It's all on Twitch? Yeah. Are you using Twitch on a regular basis no but dj daniel hooked me up with a camera for my playstation uh that he doesn't use so i may have to just start doing some oddball underwear live streams of me playing fifa or something you should jamie sorry i kept interrupting you what were you gonna say no i I was just thinking about standing in line for 20 minutes later to get a bag of Doritos to punch. To beat the shit out of with a plastic katana.

Yeah. That picture of you with a katana, truly terrifying. Thank you. It warranted a call from my mom. Really? She was like, is everything all right? She was like, is that Isaac's? Because she's just afraid of people killing me.

She was like, I don't know if Isaac should have a sword in there. Not with that Sonny around. Yeah, I know. Sonny's going to learn how to wield the blade. Whispering in his ear. While we were in the quarantine, Sonny was studying the blade. Finally, guys, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true that we know to be false? I've got Wall Street Journal articles are behind a paywall, as J.R.R. Troll King pointed out. You can usually search the headline on MSN News and you can read the whole article there because Wall Street Journal generally syndicates a bunch of their articles to MSN News. just search the first put the first sentence of the story in quotes and you'll find that it's

been you know lifted a bunch of other places so fuck Rupert Murdoch there's a story that I've been trying to read that's about it's two Stanford medicine

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And we're back. And it's not just people who are dealing with a crisis when it comes to being able to pay their rent. It's also the Cheesecake Factory. It's also H&M. It's also Subway. It's also your mattress firms. All the greats are dealing with- I think this is a very nice level of cursed on this list. Yeah, exactly.

The sort of place that it's good first date locations, I think, all of the above. Yeah. But these are all companies that generally do not, like as part of their business model, they don't own the building that they are located in. They all have rent checks coming up due on April 1st. Cheesecake Factory has put out a letter to all landlords being like,

hey, we're not going to pay you this month, basically. We just can't do it. Sorry. I think I'm planning on just copy and pasting the Cheesecake Factory letter and emailing it to my landlord. Yeah, you might as well. Like, hey, listen, as you know, the cost of the gaudy decor in here has really drained our savings coffers and it it's not gonna happen i mean

you just gotta know just hit them with the hey man uh the economy's frozen stuck i'm not i can't pay it okay what are you gonna do you gonna this is the thing that's been interesting there's been a lot of stories too where you read again i think every day there's always new interactions between people tenants and landlords that are going like viral whether it's like letters from like this place in allentown pennsylvania where like this guy was through his management company sent a letter to all the tenants being like well look this is the deal april 1st your rent's due april 2nd your rent's due with a check if it's not in by the 5th we disconnect your cable by the 6th we evict you it's that easy you know and like we know it's tough but you know that's but tough shit and then but when it went when the whole post like went viral the person who owns the

property or management company or the you know namesake of the company was like texting people like you know that was the uh one of the managers sent that out that's not how we feel obviously like we'll try and work with everybody to make sure it works out. But there are also like interviews you read with people who, you know, are like traditional, they predict like maybe about half of the landlords are just sort of like private citizens who have like a duplex they live in and rent out the other part or have a small business,

like a building that they inherited from, you know, another family member. And they were saying like, it's kind of even tough for them to, to like kick people out because then they got to like paint it and redo all this shit and spend money and then put an ad out and then like try and find no one wants to fucking move right now yes nobody's mind is gonna pack up like yeah so i think even landlords a bit are like like i mean like it's

also a pain in my ass to evict somebody. Plus, they're not like not everywhere is able like the courts aren't able to process evictions. So, you know, clearly renters, you know, are in a like a position of leverage at the moment because the entire renting population and mortgage paying population is like, the fuck you going to do? Right. Right. And I think that's what we'll see what happens in terms of what the response is from the government to figure out how they properly freeze all these payments and just stop the financial drain of these bills.

Yeah. Yeah. I've been, I mean, I've been at least happy to see people like call. I mean, calling out your landlord publicly I mean sometimes people will only respond to bad press to actually do something so I'm glad that that has actually achieved some results and also I've it's been nice to see I mean I don't I don't live in I live in a duplex that we've just been trying to like stay in contact with our neighbor to be like hey what are you doing let's like have solidarity with each other moving forward withplex and we've just been trying to like stay in contact with our neighbor to be like, hey, what are you doing?

Let's like have solidarity with each other moving forward with this. And I've seen that with some friends that live in apartment complexes as well. I mean, it's fucking especially hard to do right now. But, you know, like talking to your neighbors and trying to communicate with them and like, let's get all on the same page so that, you know. Yeah, get organized. Exactly, because it's like if you're like, well, I can pay my rent, so maybe I should, but it's like there might be someone in your complex who, you know, if the landlord is using you as a yardstick, then that could be used to treat someone else poorly.

So, you know, keep in touch with your neighbors, show solidarity, all that good shit. And we shouldn't have to pay our fucking rent this month. Yeah. It's just odd, though. It's funny to see these companies being like, well, actually, I'm going to act like I can't pay my rent either. And I get that, obviously, because everything's at a standstill and then there are employers. But how now we're seeing even corporations mimic the behavior of vulnerable people like yeah right

it's out of the it's it's i did not think i would see a headline like that where it's like cheesecake factory is saying um no to rent i do think it's funny yeah i mean i am curious i'm trying to get like more information it's hard i don't think that there's been like a ton written about like well what is the standard of what we should do like what is the best way to show solidarity right now and like how case to case is it i mean i don't know i i want to know more i don't i don't want to like because in some ways it feels like oh if you're like just down to pay rent as normal it could almost be seen as crossing a picket line. I don't know. I want more information and welcome any.

I mean, honestly, that's the only way. That's another form of just having a rent strike, I think, is one way to communicate to the banks and lenders where the gridlock is within the system and how the money moves is like, that's the thing. That's why I wish a lot of the coverage on the media was talking about what, how are we going to cure our financial system? So, because this has essentially laid bare all of the ills of our society and of our culture in America. And we're not, we, we aren't discussing like what the, what the light is at the end of the tunnel to be like, this is a future we need to work towards because you see how we've been doing it. Look what happened just with that, just with like a new kind of illness going around completely through everything the fuck off.

And it's interesting to see. Curious how many of those presidential candidates who are like, you're going to love your employee provided insurance. There's no need. We need to guarantee health insurance for everybody. Where are y'all at now? And tell me how that still holds water in this debate now. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like if you're in an apartment building, like a smart thing, if you can pay rent, building like a smart thing if you can pay rent would be to kind of try and reach out to other people in your building to find out who can and can't pay rent and then you know have some sort

of collective communication to the landlord about how yeah how you're paying but yeah i would do research even if you can pay rent yeah yeah exactly because i it's just i don't know i get i get confused of like you know if even if you are able to whatever play the game as normal as it were does that mean that you should you know like just to there's better because it's like i would rather give money i was using for my rent to like people who you know like to donate shit then you know so no and i think that's where you know there isn't a lot of visible i don't know like there isn't a lot of strategizing going on that's going to make it into the mainstream media you know because they're not going to be like all right y'all this is how you're going to fucking give it to the banks that

have been giving it to you for decades like it's just not gonna happen and i think yeah you know those are things that uh we have to figure out because to go back to like how things have been going is it's we're seeing just all the weaknesses right now and it's just not sustainable i really feel like that this election and and now this crisis is really laying bare the need for an organized kind of left-leaning media because people want it and there's just not really, there's like a bunch of podcasts and that's basically it. Right. And The Intercept.

The Intercept rules. Yeah, I mean it does like, because right now it just does seem like people are, and I'm so glad they are, but, like, just donating, or not donating, like, organizing online and communicating online, which is important and, like, necessary, but it's easy to get, like, lost in the shuffle there and to get, like, your information jumbled and be like, oh, well, if it applies to this city, does it apply to me as well? and be like, oh, well, if it applies to this city, does it apply to me as well? Even what New York is going through is very different to what we are going through, and then there's a bajillion cities in between us. And so, yeah, I don't know.

There seems like a need for more organized leftist reporting and just local organizing. And a lot of that is happening. It's just, you know, if you haven't been involved in it before, it's just like figuring out, well, where do I find it and how do I, you know, get involved in a meaningful way? Yeah. So with regards to kind of what we were just talking about, the people who were relying on employer-provided health care or health insurance, U.S. jobless claims for the week, like the weekly report just came in, and they've gone up by 3 million. If you look at the chart of jobless is from the 60s, the mid 60s up through today, everything is hovering around 200,000 the entire time. During the financial crisis, it spiked up to a little bit over 0.5 million, so like half a million. at over 0.5 million, so like half a million.

And now it's up at 3.2 million. It's just, it's shot through the top of the chart, essentially. And it's all happening at once. So it's really like kind of puts the crisis into perspective. Yeah, and it's, I mean, even when you look, like kind of puts the crisis into perspective. Yeah. And it's, I mean, even when you look,

Steve Mnuchin was on Fox business or seeing one of those, you know, fucking wall street jerk off channels. And like, he was saying like, Oh, you know that, that 3.3 million, that's really not relevant right now because you know,

obviously longterm, short term, we don't really know what we're dealing with. So I really would, I really wouldn't worry about that. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? And this, this is people who are able to apply for unemployment. That doesn't count people who have work in the gig economy.

You can't apply for unemployment in those occupations. So that number is far greater than even this one. And I think that's where, you know, this like disconnected nature of, you know, the treasury secretary. I mean, we mean we knew he was a fucking disney villain from that one photo where him and his wife were holding up like uncut money but yeah this is like you know to hear that him say something like that it's irrelevant that three and three probably well over three and a half million people probably even more are out of the job is irrelevant it's just like that's just cause it's abstract to him. He's like, well,

I don't know anybody who was out of the job, but I mean like, I get there's that part of the economy where people are struggling, but that's not me. And that's irrelevant. Cause who knows what's going to happen. And then, you know,

I think also with the, with the bailout, the, you know, the stock market kind of went up slightly. So, you know, most people who use that as their measure,

like, okay, I think we might be getting stuff under control with while ignoring the real serious issues. Yeah. I mean, well, I like into for people who think that that like number isn't going to continue to increase. I mean, just like even thinking of how many people that I like, I know, and I'm sure everybody knows that like whose job is just there. The hours they have are on complete life support, depending on how long the business can afford to keep someone on part time. Like, it's just it's going to get worse. Right.

I mean, unless the billionaires tell us to go back to work sooner. Right. Oh, well, in which case, well, I'll just die. Well, I don't know. know i mean we'll see i mean i'm you know i've been talking to my family so yeah i guess i'm i'm down to die for the cap yeah i mean it's it's it's fucked up like there i i was talking to my brother yesterday and he he works at a bakery that closed um temporarily but who knows and we were talking he, he was like, well, I don't know. Should I, like, I don't know if I should try to get a job

at a grocery store because they're the only people who are hiring right now. But it's like, I was like, well, you know, that sounds like that could be a dangerous job to take right now. I don't know. It's all so fucked. Yeah.

And, you know, there's people waiting on unemployment benefits, very unclear what the timeline is for when you actually receive those um and and all that yeah we are seeing uh more detail on the biden sexual assault allegation uh not to do such a hard pivot but uh from one type of bad news to another there's's full text in this Reddit thread, and it's way worse than anything we had heard up to this point with the old Hansy Grandpa Joe stuff. It's full-on sexual assault.

It's rape, yeah. Yeah, it's rape. And there's these details,, like, quotes from him that she says kind of still ring in her head. There's also people who have pointed out that she's written a bunch of really pro-Russia things in the past, but I don't know if that really relates to the seriousness of her claims. I don't think that it does.

But that has been the knee-jerk reaction to... I mean, we've seen the same things happen with Trump before. Like, well, her story cannot be believed or trusted because of this other thing. So she gave the full interview to Katie Halper on Wednesday. You listen to it if you want. It's pretty triggering. It's a lot. Yeah. I mean, as we were talking about yesterday, this woman reached out to Time's Up for assistance, wasn't able to get it because of something, something. We can't give legal assistance to someone accusing a political

candidate who's running for office right now and there's other people who are kind of coming at her saying well she has supported russia in the past so she's making it up which obviously we don't fuck with here um but it's just i mean it's a it's a really uh horrifying story well yeah and you also see a lot of people being like oh here comes you know whatever they want to call it like russian trolling or whatever if that's how you want to completely disregard someone's credible allegation but like if they think you know like people uh who don't support biden or whatever are like making a big deal out of this do you think the president is gonna not bring this up in some way when he's camp and then it's just gonna be a gross ass battle of finger pointing between people with a credible sexual assault allegations you're

like what the fuck is this circus I'm looking at well it's like and it's just like victims will be dragged out of the woodwork again and then every debate will just be like well who's the worst rapist i guess don't vote for him it's just well yeah and i think you know just like anything right and we've we talk about this on the show all the time if you have to treat allegations seriously you can't or else there's no way that you can actually properly effectively confront rape culture if you're always going to have asterisks or weird ways to be like well who's it and what's the timing i don't know do you need to do that now it's like okay if this person has an allegation you saw how people came out for christine blasey ford when when she had her

allegations against brett kavanaugh but i don't those. I don't see a lot of those senators now saying we need an investigation and things like that, because, again, sadly, it may be that a lot of those people on even the left were only interested in scoring points against Brett Kavanaugh very narrowly rather than saying, like, I am actually upholding this standard of if there is a credible allegation brought forward, we must investigate must investigate it well i think that's a lot of the problems that we see with like democrats in general like or the traditional democratic system is that you know it's like solidarity to a point it's like solidarity as far as it advances what my party wants um um, as opposed to like, you know, we don't fuck with rapists period,

which, you know, like should obviously be the standard. But yeah, I hadn't even thought about it like in, in regards to Christine Blasey Ford and, and, and Kavanaugh.

Um, but you don't see a lot of people coming out. And, and I honestly haven't seen this story talked about, uh, that much yet. And obviously there's a ton going on, but it's a very relevant story that people should be paying attention to.

It's worth discussing. I think some people are just like, oh, people just say that because they want Trump to win or they want some other candidate in there. The bottom line is, if this is a truly someone who's as a presidential, like we're treating like a presidential candidate, then at some point, something like this could come up, especially if you've done something and there is some kind of anything in your past to bring up and weaponize against you in the context of a political race,

then he has to be able to answer for that too. So if that's the case, then answer for it. Like what's going on is, and, and get, let's hear your piece, but does not say anything is just really odd. And, you know, when, again, when you look at sort of the dynamics around it, the same people who like worked with Harvey Weinstein or whatever, uh, it's all i get it like there's just there's a game in which we will protect people depending on what kind of you know what the trade-off is what they're going to give us whether that's like a you know trump out of office or maybe to uphold like the status quo in terms of

like a corporatocracy what have you it's there's just yeah and it's awful to see it really not breach any kind of mainstream news outlet like i've not seen anything outside of like the intercept or maybe like a couple things here or there that are sort of like i don't know someone someone's claiming that i don't know but we'll bury that at the bottom of our page yeah and yeah and for anybody who's like oh what would you do if if uh if you support bernie and there was a thing about bernie like that i would throw his ass on the fucking pile too seriously it doesn't fucking matter that's the difference i think that's the problem is some people have that fucked up calculus and they they think everybody's applying it and

that's not the way it works yeah and it's, I mean, it's that fucking thing where it's like, you know, it's like, I love Bernie, but it's more you have to attach yourself to what they stand for and not to a specific person

or you're 100% of the time going to get fucked over. How many times do we need to learn that lesson? That you can't deify a person. You have to, you know, deify their values

and live by them even if they don't. Like, duh, bitch. Quote me that is the title of today's episode um yeah i mean i just personally don't want something like this to be true because i i do think that like biden is now the nominee that we're going to have to run against Trump. Like, that's very bad for the country that something like this is coming out. But you can't just ignore it. All his campaign staff and his advisors need to figure out how they're going to.

Again, you might be able to bury that shit on the CNN you know the cnn's and msnbc's of the world but at a certain point you don't think fox is going to do everything they can to run this all over the place to ensure some kind of win for trump or i don't know are they sort of like well don't do this because then then we're going to also have to talk about trump i don't know is it like gonna are they somehow like at a weird like having a peace agreement armisticeice, because they're like, okay, if you don't make it hot about your candidate's sexual assault claims, then we won't make it vice versa. Let's just truce.

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And we're back. And one question that seems to be on a lot of people's minds because of just the activity at gun stores is, is crime going to go up? Yeah. Based on the number of people just draining gun stores of ammo and firearms, you'd think that the world was returning to like some sort of Mad Max, suburban Mad Max thing. Yeah. Where no one is safe. Everyone is a threat. Shield yourself. And I mean, I think that's a natural instinct, I think, in general. Things become chaotic or unpredictable, your first thing is safety.

You know, some people, you can tell by the things people hoard what they fear. If it's not wiping your asshole with paper that's one thing if it's you want to you know protect yourself from a violent intruder then maybe you go hoard your guns and ammo or what have you um and you know they were asking a few criminologists sort of um it's in this mcclatchy article um just kind of like what their take is on you know given the economy and things like that how how that would affect crime. And they've noticed that like right now, initially, a lot of the crime has begun to decrease in a lot of cities. And that because a lot of this depends on three things these criminologists say.

It has to be an intersection of opportunity, motivation and the absence of a capable guardian. And right now, with people being like in their houses and like off the streets, the opportunities are gone because you can't really break into a house because chances are someone is in is behind a door that you might want to open. A lot of the businesses are like shuttered and they have their alarms on. So those kinds of burglaries are going to be a little bit more difficult to do. And there aren't less as many like, quote unquote, easy targets when everyone's sort of sheltered. And so despite all that, though, they're saying, you know, obviously, like probably auto theft

or larceny or street crimes may go down. There may be an increase, obviously, in crimes against unhoused people, because again, they're if they're if they're not being they have no protection and they're vulnerable um and they have something that someone else might want that's very possible in that aspect and the other one is the elderly because scammers the the new crime wave will be more about deceptive crime than sort of violent one-to-one street crime but again even this criminologist is like that's my prediction prediction. You just can't, yeah. Yeah, I can't say that like sort of wholeheartedly, but just based on how we look at things, and there's not really a clear indication, like connection between recession and crime. Some

people think recessions can create more criminal, like career criminals. But they also say that like in the 2008 recession, there wasn't necessarily an uptick in crimes because of that either. But they're just saying like at the very least, the vulnerable are really going to be the unhoused and elderly or anyone who's desperate enough to fall for some kind of like fraudulent scam. Right. I mean, and it's been like pretty, I mean, as is usual, there's been a lot of promises to unhoused communities that um by most cities i've read about i mean the promises are just not they're delayed they're not being followed through on they say oh don't worry it's gonna happen and then they suspend city council meetings in any any you know any other way to give people resources there's been um yeah and it's like of course i don't know it's it's so frustrating i've seen like groups that have nothing to do with the city

organizing to try to protect um unhoused citizens because that's like the only people who will do anything like the the systems is not doing anything and And the same for elderly, too. Like, I've been calling my boomers in the mornings, and a lot of people, I mean, it's like, a lot of the elderly population is, like, very rightfully on their guard and being like, you know, because, I mean, I'm sure all the scammers are coming out. Right.

So when an actual public service calls, they are like, wait, what's the catch? And you're like, no, I understand. Like, right. I swear there's not a catch, but that is also what a scammer would say. Right, right, right. Exactly. So, yeah, I think that's the other thing. If you have like elderly family members, like warn them like there are going to be people who are going to try and offer them some kind of weird fucking service or relief

pro i don't know just some shit because all across the board even if you're not elderly like being in this unpredictable financial situation can make you very vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation and i think that's the important thing to look out for yeah can't wait to see what MLMs take off during this time. Right. Oh, God. Well, one thing in that vein is that Goop may get us killed after all. Oh. Yeah. So, I mean, Gwyneth herself has not been doing anything that's overtly irresponsible.

She posted a photo on Instagram of herself wearing a face mask and gloves coming back from a farmer's market. If you look at the picture, she looks like she's in a very chill Mortal Kombat game. It's like a full face black mask um yeah yeah she's also reassuring people that now is a time for nesting reading cleaning out closets doing something you've always wanted to do uh which is tough if you're working from home you know uh in a in a job that has gotten more stressful, more stretched, or taking care of kids, or scrambling for money,

or doing all of those things at once, or infected with the virus and doing all those things at once. Or you can nest and read and clean out your closets. Yeah, it's a time for fun downtime activities. But one thing that Goop has done that's kind of overtly irresponsible is over the past couple of years, they've been platforming this psychiatrist named Kelly Brogan, who has recently been out there on social media claiming that the coronavirus might not even exist. media claiming that the coronavirus might not even exist. In a video, she claims that the reason people are dying isn't actually the coronavirus, but rather the fear of the virus.

Right, right, right. She's suggested that the media is secretly controlled by a pro-vaccination group. Holy shit. is secretly controlled by a pro-vaccination group and suggested the government is actually doing this to gain totalitarian government control, not unlike the divide-and-conquer dehumanization agendas that preceded the Holocaust. So just, she's ticking all the boxes. Shout out Goop. Yeah.

Who won't they platform? They're like, if you have a million dollars and a bad idea you are on that website yeah but that's on her that's on her social media right so they're not posting that on goop this was on her social media but she appeared on goop's website last fall in october 2019 and on the Goop podcast in December 2018. And the subject of that podcast at that time was, can you heal the mind through the body? So it was basically her theory.

It's all in your mind, guys. Just don't feel fear and everything's interconnected. And at that time, obviously, we didn't have her very interesting views on the coronavirus to refer to, but we did have her have an indication of where she stood on these sorts of things because she had been publicly denying that AIDS is caused by HIV for many years

and, in fact, said that drug toxicity associated with AIDS treatment may very well be what accounts for the majority of AIDS deaths. So it's all just people being too worried about diseases and drugs. It's all about your lives too. Those diseases are killing people as opposed to saving their lives. Yeah, cancer is actually just a really bad cluster of bad vibes you haven't untangled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you have cancer, honestly, why are you being so negative?

Right, it's your negativity. I'm getting big, big, big orb energy from Dr. Brogan from the Marianne Williamson books early on that she was writing that was getting her in trouble. She was like, yeah, just think your illness is away. I mean, speaking of Marianne, she is... Our queen. Our queen. I was somewhere yesterday where a quote from her

was not hanging on the wall, but painted onto the wall. It's a good quote, but it's just shocking. In every community, there is work to be done. In every heart, there is power to do it. You're like, oh, I can hear her saying it. Yeah. In every heart. Yes, girl, and I just want to tell you.

And in a way that is printed. It's not like somebody just wrote that on the wall. It's not. Stenciled. Yeah, someone stenciled it in and it took a long time. Marianne is also reading A Return to Love, her famous book, on

YouTube for free. So people will hashtag stay home. Ah, yes, girl, girl's doing her part. Yeah. What can I do besides pray it away? Guys, let's talk about a,

this list from a klatchy of items that people are not desperate enough to hoard. This is also, this list kind of is also indicating sort of another thing i was talking about is like we're running out of content to talk about like with everything slowing down there's also there's we're like such a content focused culture that you know the paparazzi business is tanking right now because there are no people, there are no famous people who are living outside of the walls

to take photos of where we can pretend that that's the world we want to be in. So now it's just basically celebrities have been reduced to the same lifestyle as every person, which is, I guess, just with a nicer house or background. But on McClatchy, I had seen articles here and there or tweets of people saying, oh, look at this shit in my grocery store. No one's touching this or this or background. But like on McClatchy, I had seen like articles here and there or like tweets of people like saying like, oh, look at this shit in my grocery store.

No one's touching this or this or this. Like McClatchy, who does like really great journalism, sort of had to venture into like, let's scrape some stuff together to get an article out there. What aren't they doing? Yeah. But again, fantastic article

because some of the things I'm like, I saw this on a list from last week, but then there's some new ones. And the region-specific ones are great. So, for example, across the board, it seems like even from Canada to Scotland to parts of the United States, vegan hot dogs are pretty much readily available for anyone seeking them. If you are in San Francisco in in particular the cauliflower based mac and cheese fully stocked there was a photo of that like no one even touched one box of cauliflower mac and cheese and i had some cauliflower based rice risotto last night out of our freezer and it was pretty good so don't don't sleep on the cauliflower stuff, guys. No, I like cauliflower rice.

But I think just when they start making things that we're used to being full on, like Kraft mac and cheese. It was Kraft mac and cheese, but with cauliflower. It wasn't just like a cauliflower. It was just the Kraft. So most people, they want respect for as full-blown gluten as possible. Add to culture, yeah. for as full-blown gluten as possible.

Add to culture, yeah. The other one, in Boston, cans and cans of Manhattan clam chowder left on the shelves. Well, what do you fucking think? Oh, you think Manhattan clam chowder is gonna solve COVID? COVID? COVID-19?

I don't fucking think so. I don't fuck, yeah, get the fuck out of here, bro. That's just on the grocery stores for bringing Manhattan clam chowder into Boston. Yeah, you should know better. Yeah, Dasani water is just sitting in certain Costco's because I think people know it's just trash sink water that's in a bottle.

I would beg to differ. Dasani is my favorite water. You like that purified bullshit? Yeah, that's my favorite, man. Of the bottled waters, which are all bullshit. And also, yeah, we're quickly learning fuck bottled water forever, too. Yeah, fuck bottled water.

And it wasn't even like, obviously the environmental impacts and things like that but when i fully started looking people load all this heavy ass water i'm like bro no that should come out the sink for free and it's fine here's the water water tastes nasty oh my god take from the from the uh squeeze it high sea lobby over there everyone says that it tastes like nothing it tastes like something and it tastes bad so you don't drink water is that your new thing you've come out you've arrived no i i do it now but i really make a big deal of it all right i gotta down a cup of shit juice again yeah i fucking choke every time um other things that people saw brussels sprouts

may have been not everywhere but in certain places the regional things that people saw brussels sprouts may have been not everywhere but in certain places the regional things that were really interesting was in south carolina there were a few shots of people not taking the jugs of unsweet tea like all this sweet tea was gone but the gallon jugs of unsweet they're like nah fuck that like i don't even have the time to turn it up with sugar myself not touching it and also in north carolina now north carolina zeitgang i think that's you a few of you and i won't say your names but duke's mayonnaise was gone and i guess that's your thing over there to the point where every other mayonnaise was left on the shelf they're like i don't touch helmets it's only dukes so dukes mayonnaise helmet it's interesting to see those things come out. Yeah. Wow.

Well, that is content. That counts. That does count. Also, wait, what the fuck is chocolate hummus? Dude, it's just some shit they have at Trader Joe's. I've seen it, but I've never even bothered to touch it because the combination of words is an abomination itself. Yeah.

I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that doesn't sound right. I mean, it just seems like it's emphasizing making some decisions for these companies, right? Don't. You got to get rid of this chocolate hummus, guys. What the fuck are you doing? Yeah, I mean, and also, Zeitgang, if you're eating chocolate hummus,

please let me know why you think it's worth eating. It sounds like a joke on everyone. Right. I mean, is it chickpeas mashed up with like nutella bars with nutella or herchie bars i don't know when i see chocolate hummus i'm just like in my mind it is yeah i have no idea and i and i don't care to know uh no yeah they are it is with uh chickpeas hell Hell yeah. Jesus Christ. Chocolate hummus does taste really good.

And they basically present it on a platter of fruits and things like that. And then just saying, yeah, made from a standard base of cooked chickpeas, tahini, and expeller pressed canola oil. A little bit of cocoa. But it goes with fruit. Pour a big glass of water with that. That's so nasty. I like that they're like, it tastes good. They know that you're going to be shocked by that fact.

They're trying to gaslight you at the top. They'll be like, no, no, no. Look, we get it. This sounds fucking gross. I mean, the way that even the post on it when like the the product hit the shelves i guess in august of last year on the trader joe's page it says our customers love chocolate and our customers love hummus but chocolate hummus admittedly we were skeptical the idea of dessert hummus being anything more than interesting seemed unlikely. And while we're all for interesting, our products have to actually taste good too.

Like, really good. And to our great surprise, chocolate hummus does in fact taste really good. To our surprise, this doesn't fucking suck. To our surprise, this shit paste tastes like chocolate hummus. are surprised this shit paste tastes like chocolate hummus this is like the that show the ranch on Netflix where it was like just blindly

using data to create something right well people like westerns and uh two and a half men let's make a show that's the combination of those two things did y'all watch The Ranch?

No. No. It was bad. I saw maybe the first episode. I watched a couple episodes. It was so distracting to me of how clear it was that they were not on a ranch.

That's what took me out of it. Right. It was just like they put a couple horseshoes up on the set of Two and a Half Men. They were in an empty Forever 21 in Burbank and they just hung up a horseshoe

and they're like, alright Ashton Kutcher, try a southern accent. And he's like, oh. It was just brutal. I was totally on board for this show until I realized actually does not take place on a real life ranch. It should at least look like they might be on a ranch, but they just like parked a truck outside of a Forever 21.

And they're like, here it is. It's the ranch. Give us any other examples of chocolate hummus and the ranch. Things that are just like clearly based on data, blindly based on data, and terrible godless abominations. Well, all right, guys. This was a fun ending for a depressing show. We got through another week, y'all.

Another week, baby. Jamie, where can people find you and follow you? Hey, you can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus Help. You can find me on Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. Oh, there's a new episode of the Bechdel cast out this week about Mulan, which was supposed to come out, and now it didn't. But hey, we made an episode anyways, so it's out. Hey.

Hell yeah. Yeah. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes. Sure. This is a tweet from Alex uh that just made me think it says every one of the thomas trains has a mostly silent human driver and it gives me endless questions about the nature of free will on the island of sodor oh my god that is a question that my four-year-old or three-year-old is actually constantly asking me is about the driver.

Because when he was reading the books, they never include the driver. But then he watched the show and the drivers are there. And suddenly he's like, wait, there are drivers? What the fuck is happening? There's drivers. Not in those words. My theory is that the show also doesn't know what the situation with the drivers is. Yeah, because there's a human, Sir Topham Hatt, who kind of runs the whole operation.

Yeah, an icon, clearly. So he communicates to the trains. Are the trains just fictional projections of the personalities of their drivers and if so why does thomas like why would thomas's driver be like have some of the personality quirks really think it was hard to get up a hill sometimes. There's so, yeah, there's so many. I don't know. I wonder if there is some deep lore with the drivers. I feel like someone has probably taken it upon themselves.

And if they haven't, now's the time, I guess. Yeah. Anyways, Miles, where can people find you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? That was riveting. You can find me, follow me on Twitter, miles, where can people find you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? No, that was, that was riveting. Um, you can find me,

follow me on Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation network, miles of gray. Uh, and also my other show for 20 day fiance with Sophia, Alexandra, uh,

a couple of tweets. I like, uh, first one is from Brandy Posey at brand dazzle. If I was a millionaire slash billionaire right now, I'd pretty publicly be paying a bunch of rent GoFundMes and posting them out just selfishly to safeguard myself as one of the good ones for when this is all over. Another one is from Jared Goldstein. Hey, Jared. Hey,

it says LGBT equals let gays buy tigers. Yes. All right. so starting tomorrow we will be discussing tiger king uh monday starting monday uh we will be discussing the tiger king uh jamie will be ready uh and so you guys take the weekend get caught up um one of my tweets is actually uh about the Tiger King. It's just true. From Billy Wayne Davis, he said, Tiger King is the perfect explanation of the success of Jody Hill, Danny McBride, and Ben Best. They understand the very real characters in rural America and what fuels them at their cores. Foot Fist Way is the Tiger King without myth.

I love it. Foot Fist Way rules. Yeah, and it's true. without myth. I love it. Foot with this way rules. Yeah. It's true. There's something very unique about the stories that they tell that is specific to I've heard it described

as the Protestant South. It's just like the ethos and the values that their shows kind of embody uh another tweet that I've been enjoying uh from Mitten Damore tweeted a neighbor is blowing bubbles from their garden great whimsical little flying blisters of plague you can find me on twitter jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily

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what's that gonna be I'm just gonna keep moving with the afro beat uh style uh we did mano do bongo yesterday let's do a fella coochie track today uh man who played with before uh and that one is rofo rofo fight by fella coochie uh it's one of my probably the first uh fella coochie song i'd ever heard And then fully got me into Afrobeat and the music of Fela and his son, Femi and Sayun and the whole gang out there. Shout out to Nigeria. And yeah, this is a classic song, Fela Kuti, Africa 70, Rofo Rofo Fight. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio

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