The Daily Zeitgeist - Corporate Overlord Saviors? COVID Mascots! 3.26.21

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

In episode 845, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Facebook testing an app to help people transition from prison back to society, corporations being boycotted over voting rights, the national guard transferring vaccines being held at gunpoint, the container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, Ja Rule selling a Fire Festival NFT, vaccine mascots, Justin Long moving to PC, and more!FOOTNOTES: Facebook testing app to help people transition from prison back to society Coca-Cola threatened with boycott for not opposing Georgia voting bills The Georgia legislators pushing voter suppression bills are backed by millions in corporate cash Man held 11 National Guard Soldiers at Gunpoint near Idalou, police said Suez Canal Blocked After Giant Container Ship Gets Stuck JA RULE SELLS FYRE FESTIVAL PAINTING FOR $122K ... Thanks to NFT Craze!!! Brazil wonders about whereabouts of vaccine mascot The weird and wacky mascots promoting coronavirus vaccines around the world Japan has a new anti-coronavirus mascot and it’s handing out free masks in Tokyo Cartoon dog pitches COVID vaccines to sceptical Japanese public Joe Camel Advertising Campaign Violates Federal Law, FTC Says Wellbee, the 'health educator's friend' Polling suggests vaccinating kids for COVID isn't very popular Why the "Can you hear me now?" guy sprinted to another brand Justin Long, Once the Face of Mac, Is Now a PC Guy in Intel’s New Ad Campaign WATCH: George Maple - Talk Talk - Ta-ku Remix Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If we're at Taco Bell, will you be there holding my blast? I'll show you blind and white with my pasty human thighs. It's the daily zeit. That is courtesy of the Brew, K-Raj, and Johnny Davis all on the Discord. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! When I first met Jack, didn't realize Could not forget him or his white thighs He introduced me to the zeitgeist.

And so I gave him a contact hive. Oh, yeah! Woo! God damn. Call me the husband of another weird person Ozzy Osbourne

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Although I guess In my new favorite sport, F1 It is driving energy there. Not like driving. Although I guess in my new favorite sport, F1, it is driving energy. Yeah, exactly. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by the agent of chaos himself. He is the hilarious, the talented. It took us 15 minutes to just start recording this podcast. It's too much chaos. Too much,

too much to talk about much to talk about. To bullshit about. He is Mr. Blake Wexler! AKA the Randy Moss of chaos. AKA the lord of discord. AKA Mr. Mess. AKA the hoarder of disorder. AKA the mistress of

lawlessness. Soil me with turmoil, please. It's Blake Wexler. It's good to AKA the mistress of lawlessness. Soil me with turmoil, please. It's Blake Wexler. It's good to see you guys. Thank you. Soil me with turmoil, please. Yes. Yes, daddy. Yes, daddy.

It reads like those old Jake and Amir scrolls. I stole word for word. That was an Amir scroll right there. And may I ask you you will that be a problem for me publishing this podcast that's like drake you know you're honoring the mcs before you by just stealing their entire flow and exactly is that them never getting famous uh no no that's that would have happened by now for me so yeah just like drake i will not be famous. Blake, you were telling us before when I was prepping, I think it was my fifth rendition of the AKA. Everybody should know that I do extensive vocal warmups and then rehearsals before we start recording.

But you were saying that Three Doors Down are shitbag Trump supporters now? Yes. Yes, of course. They played the inauguration. I know that. But Jack was setting me up for a joke and I chose not to do it. I think because he can never meet your heroes. He confused the thing I said they were using.

Hey, man, I can't be expected to remember who in this three person conversation. That was me talking about how these things evolve on discord k raj at the end said and all done without mentioning their shitbag trump supporters three doors down from insanity if you ask me yeah there's that uh-huh there is that let them know only if you ask me cool and we didn't but yet you said it anyway and yet here here we are uh all right blake we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners the things we would have talked about if it was a normal episode. We would have talked about Facebook wanting to help formerly incarcerated people.

We would have talked about whether whether we need better gun control. about uh whether uh whether we need better gun control uh we'll talk about uh the filibuster joe's big big press conference yesterday uh where he was non-committal and just soothingly non-committal uh we'll talk about apparently uh my four-year-old's fan fiction is now my four year old is writing the news because there is a giant ship that has blocked the Suez Canal and they're using like big ships and tugboats

to try and get it loose it is his dream news story would you say there's trouble in the Suez? would you phrase it that way? trouble in the Suez? Would you phrase it that way? Okay. Trouble in the Suez! Suez is actually how I would phrase it.

Now I understand the gravity of the situation. Oh, man. We'll also talk about the, we probably will get to this one, Ja Rule selling the Fyre Fest logo as an NFT. All of that. We might even get to a vaccine mascot or two. Plenty more. But first, Blake, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? But do vitamin D pills work is I've I've I've hit quite the the D deficiency since since I've been on the East Coast.

And I also had it on the West Coast. So it's like, well, if you're going to be vitamin D deficient in Southern California, then I think that's just what the rest of your life is going to look like. But I can't get it right here. But if you can't get it there, man. So maybe I'm getting some some rays from your star glow, the glow of your stars on this podcast right now. So I feel like the levels skyrocketing, but it's mixed. There's no answer on this word. Some doctors say that it does work.

Studies also say that vitamin D pills don't work. Supplements, I think, might be a better way of saying that. So I'm at a loss. I might just take them and see if they work since it's the same thing. What about ingesting them where they're naturally occurring as nutrients? Oh, but that sounds like more than I'm willing to do. Okay, well, as long as we ironed that part out. Where do we get vitamin D?

I have iron. I'm sorry, is that what you're asking? No, no. Which one is? Oh, that's the sun one. Usually getting it from the sun. Yeah, usually getting it from the sun. But you get it from like, I know it's always like dairy and like fatty fish and shit.

You can get it because I remember when I went for a checkup, like in the middle of lockdown, the doctor was like, I'm seeing this with everyone. And you normally aren't vitamin D deficient, but your levels are going down. up like in the middle of lockdown the doctor was like i'm seeing this with everyone and you normally aren't vitamin d deficient but you need your your levels are going down yeah okay i'll just tell my doctor miles that i'm gonna go get a fat fish that sounds like great advice thank you yeah exactly dude come to my new food truck fat fish dude fat fish i'm trying to look on a genius because there there is that uh beyonce lyric he wants to give me the vitamin D. I just want to find out where she's getting that from

and then I can maybe offer a recommendation to you. Thank you. Sean Carter. I will follow up. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just reach out to this guy, Sean Carter, and ask him to give you the vitamin D and it seems like he'll...

Hi, I'm looking for a Jigga man and I'm here for the vitamin D and it seems like he'll uh hi I'm looking for a jigger man and I'm here for the vitamin D injection hey I'm the guy with the skin that's getting really pale and it makes me not healthy uh Jay can I call you Jay that's good I can yeah I'll be doctor call me Dr. D Dr. D Dr. D to you my man man. Why do you think is it just not going outside, not ever seeing the sunlight? What's going on? Why are we so D deficient? That would vibe with my general my outgoing, you know, persona that I don't go outside, but I am quite I'm outside quite a lot.

So I don't know. It's it's been happening for a couple of years. Like literally, I'll go hiking every single day for like an hour and a half and it's still not happening for me. So I'm going to try the meals. You are in full chain mail, right? Yes, of course. Yes. And during the summer, it heats up.

Like the sunburn that I get is, I'll say off-putting. I'll say it's very upsetting. I look like a fish. I look like one of those fish that miles recommends to everybody to eat fatty fish dude get it yeah like it can happen from not enough sunlight or maybe you're if your skin if you're like melon you've too much melanin you're not making as much vitamin d it can be a number of things you know maybe your body doesn't absorb it properly so i should figure this out it manifests itself as like you become mr glass from

you just shatter from unbreakable but emotionally only emotionally anything that comes out i'm very emotionally fragile from this yes uh blake what's something you think is overrated overrated i'm gonna go with uh francis scott key and uh i just first of all i'm like because you know the whole story war of 1812 and 1814 he was uh he was an american by the way this is funny to me i looked up a francis scott key and the thing that comes up on google as his job isn't guy who penned the star spangled banneranner. It just says American lawyer, which I thought was very, very funny. Yeah, it's like, all right, I guess SEO for Francis Scott Key.

But he was doing a prisoner exchange aboard a British ship, as lawyers are wont to do. And he figured out, or he saw their plans to bombard this harbor. So they didn't let him off the boat until after

uh the bombardment so he stuck on this boat and just like i just the lyrics don't hold up to me uh for that song and then also i'm more of like an america the beautiful type person you know call me call me nuts and if i was in jail i would do some push-ups you know like not like i would get in shape not do like a side hobby. Does that make sense? So I think the whole Francis Scott's key thing is it's not even. Wow. So you're saying since he was locked down on that ship, he should have been doing burpees in the yard.

Yeah. Shit. Right. Not sitting there writing music and racist ass poems. I agree. Become our national anthem. I'm looking on his wikipedia page there's he has his own coat of arms and it's probably one of the most disappointing looking coat of arms

i've ever seen because it's like a really bland shield with two like horizontal or diagonal black stripes like a white shield two solid diagonal black lines your usual filigree around the side then you have a knight helmet with like a griffin head on top with a key in its mouth it's so fucking get it like key yeah does it is it saying get it key like out of a word balloon well the griffin is kind of pointing to itself with like lifted raised eyebrows yeah it's just like that francis scott what now griffin key no fuck scott key fuck i knew the griffin was a bad idea it kind of looks like a llama too anyway nothing like having a logo for your family a coat of arms is almost always disappointing

right like it's never like you could choose anything like that guy wasn't a knight you know what i mean you could put anything on it and that's what he chose it's like it kind of i just the resurgence of coat of arms is like my favorite thing is like you know be like the sort of western european answer to like ancient calligraphy or foreign languages we're like yeah this is actually my history uh this is the coat of arms from the mcmahon family and it's like very in-depth and i'm like okay that's cool and it always it just yeah it looks like a logo for a boarding school always yes you know and it's never like at least like in japan there's like mung or like kamon which is

your family like crest and there's a lot of cool ones that are like coming out of you know depending on like where your family was at in that period uh and like when i found mine i was like all about that because this is my coat of arms because i was yelling at my scottish friend who was showing me his and i felt disappointed there wasn't one for Japan. But anyway. Mine is the three fans, if you're interested. Mitsuha. Mine is three lions, which perfectly matches up

with my dynamic and tenacious personality. Aggressive. But I am a Leo, so it does kind of work like that. Oh, yeah. It is actually three lions for the O'Brien? The three lines for O'Brien.

Yeah. Just three guys named Brian. Yeah. And they're kind of doing a weird pose. It almost seems like they're doing the Teen Wolf dance. Oh. Yeah. This is how I've always interpreted it.

Mine's a street sign that just says, Rough Road Ahead. They give you that when you're born. Yeah, and little did my family know. Yeah, well, it's been a tough couple of centuries for the Wexlers. It's just an expiration date. It says March 30th, 2021.

Expired. So I don't know what that is. What do you guys think it means? I don't know. We'll see soon. Very soon. Yeah, that's up there with name meaning with a thing that people think is significant that probably was made up in like the 70s by someone who was selling T-shirts. Yeah, that and like any stupid ass gift shop of a meaningless place that shouldn't have a gift shop.

It's always like, look what your name means. Right. It's like I've heard. Jack means follower of Christ, soldier, dedicated. And you're like, what the fuck? But there's so many like contradictory and like just so many different meanings for literally every name but people are like i like this one uh i like this possible name for my child because it means a beautiful princess of the flowers that's like i've also

seen where it means uh island that garlic comes from so uh which is actually the meaning of ramsey which is one of my kids names uh it actually does come from latin of soldier hey and i remember seeing that i was like i ain't no fucking soldier bro right yeah miles is too cool a name i'm a deserter bro right just smoking weed while everybody's like you know fucking doing where i'm like yeah i'm sorry it's way too intense for me right now i'm a deserter through and through deserter i'm eating dessert uh all the time it's it's a great community oh yeah very yeah just you know bad teeth though a lot of sugar a lot of cavities actually when i look up the meaning of my name it just says like jacking off you know

so oh my god that's that's surprising I was I thought it would be less thought it'd be less literal than that yeah that's pretty on the nose that's you know like jacking off uh Blake what is something you think is underrated another I gotta go the Francis route again different spelling Francis McDormand just incredible we watched Nomadland last night and just loved

it just loved it love Francis McDormand it's just anything McDormand is in I just call anything McDormcdormand is in i just call anything mcdorm f.mcdorman is in right uh like olive kitteridge was also they're all like very like kind of emotionally like gut-wrenching movies a little bit but um love francis mcdormand yeah she's so good in it and she she won academy award didn't she oh not enough for for fargo i think yeah i'm just okay i'm you know not to like dive in i'm where do you think she needs to be at you know in terms of her being underrated

like you're saying huh street named after her street yes oh and also after street that's how i speak i'm the worst i speak in one word and like what do you think um road i was asking you whether or not it was useful to debate whether or not we're debating if a hate crime is a hate crime and you just said street i said yeah and i think you uh know what i mean yeah oh do i have to elaborate oh i understand look to the people on the ground who are the ones most affected by to then determine what the effect is on their given community. To the pavement. Yeah, of course. But I don't elaborate as a matter of policy.

I think she should be up there or I think McDormand should be up there with Meryl Streep. That's just and I only know everything about acting. So go ahead and disagree with me if you'd like. I do. The fact that most of the people in that movie are not actors is they say people who actually do know stuff about acting who is not me say that, you know, like that is you're you're only as good as your scene partner or whatever.

And like she just raises the level of every like there's not a single point in the movie where like that is clearly a person trying to be in a movie who doesn't act like they're yeah it was really cool yeah I love that

yeah it's because to the point where I'm like are these people actors right but it was the author it wasn't that they were not good I love that yeah it's because to the point where I'm like are these people actors right like there was but it was the author it wasn't that they were not good at acting it was just that like there was an authenticity to it that you just don't see that often yeah except in my act right

except in your stand-up comedy that's actually the New York Times review of Nomadland said it was the performances were Wexler esqueesque. Of course. Reminiscent of a young comedian whose name escapes me who used to open for Todd Glass. You know, you know. But doesn't anymore

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fantasy football podcast on the iheart radio app on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and also a thing about nomadland do you know her name in the movie is fern that's apparently her real life nickname so they were really that's cute yeah hey fern fern hey do you think that's who uh not i mean furnace was really talking to yeah could be missed been mishearing and he's actually been addressing Francis McDormand. The whole time. That checks out. There's just layers upon layers of complexity in the McDormand universe.

Well, I think the theme of today's episode is I think we just let corporations fix our country. Yes. And it not being a good thing. Let's just sit back. let's see where they're going with this one miles yeah facebook wants to help formerly incarcerated people adjust to life on the outside yeah and it feels like some fucked up black mirror type shit but like it started off because a few people on instagram got a notification saying like they had early access to a beta of something called the reentry app.

It also this according to this notification, I said the app's goal is to help with, quote, preparing for life after prison with community support. Then a spokesperson at Facebook said, quote, We've been exploring different ways to help close gaps faced by those in marginalized communities across our apps. closed gaps faced by those in marginalized communities across our apps. Okay. And this isn't new for Facebook because like there's always like weird things they're testing that we hear about and then ultimately just get shelved. But it just feels like very on the nose, like metaphorically as like the idea as like Facebook of the warden of the prison of social media and then extending that to like the real world to help

people is like who are now emerging from incarceration there's just like layers of it that were kind of just like the headline was fucking doing my head in they flirt with like black being a living black mirror episode more than most massive corporations like i think maybe it's because mark zuckerberg has not entered into the like traveling to another planet and starting his own space colony game that he has to like get that out in his like everyday actions because there was also that time when they were like bragging that they can alter people's alter people like how people felt like make people happier or sadder just like via like adding a few clicks or subtracting a couple clicks yeah it's i do think that is the only thing

jack you were alluding to that's preventing mark zuckerberg from like altering people like full time is that he's just distracted with other projects you know he could be doing this already but for some reason there's other things higher on his priority list yeah it's just one of those things where you read a head like most people would just read the headline and be like oh that's nice facebook wants to help you know right anyone if you have even half of a thought after that it's like but why are they like why are they doing that like they they're they're setting off like massive misinformation chaos campaigns just by like letting it rock on the platform and their algorithms exacerbate. Well, and I mean, not to say that this is actually like this is a great thing there.

There are people need to help support transitioning out of being, you know, in prison to the real world. And like recidivism is a huge thing so yeah like whatever you know things that you're we're trying to do as a society to help i think is a good thing it's just weird because it's facebook and most of the time they're always just kind of being like oh i don't know are we responsible for all this fucked up shit and now they're saying like we're gonna help with this very specific thing because in june you know when all the companies were like we get it racism bad mark zuckerberg put sent a note company-wide saying that the company would quote play a positive role in helping to heal the divisions in our society and the company has

quote started a work stream for building products to advance racial justice building products to advance racial justice sounds like the inciting incident of some kind of techpocalypse fucked up movie right um where like you know like literally like woke bots are like you are being problematic vaporize right and it's like oh my god what the fuck did they set this shit to yeah it's but hey we shall see yeah i mean you it's interesting that it's like still a beta program and like not uh fully something that they're putting their name on and like putting out in in the media because when you read reports from inside the tech industry there will there will be an initiative like a stated initiative for leadership

that like okay we want to make facebook less focused on uh harming people's lives and more focused on not harming people's lives and they hire one person for that job and then they are effectively like put in the basement to mutter about a stapler like for really guys. I'm going to for the next two years. And my swing line. Yeah. And also they're hiring people who are like brilliant and could be out like doing great things with like nonprofits. And they're like, no, you go you go over there and we'll meet with you once a week and ask for status updates.

And then, hey, Milton, how's that using our technologies to advance racial justice project going? Yeah, yeah, I'm just I don't I don't know. All right. Well, sounds like you fucked that one up later. Fired Milton, go to the basement. I'm going to burn this place down. Please, please do. And that's a best case scenario. Right. Exactly. It truly is.

And, you know, they've been patting themselves on the back where they're like, we removed over a billion posts from fake accounts. OK, you saw what happened. Do you forget what happened in 2016 or what's happening in other parts of the world where you're just letting this misinformation manifest into real world violence. But look, this is the complexity of this corporatocracy we're in. Yep. Speaking of corporatocracy. So while we wait on the filibuster, you know, Joe Biden yesterday had his first press conference of his presidency in front of many media, like official press conference question answer session where he kind of loosely said that he was going to make some adjustments to the filibuster. And man, if they're still using it bad, man why watch what happens that it was like a lot of that like they were like uh so we found two uh children who had been detained at the border uh their mom is in town or like lives in the united states and like she didn't even know they were in the united states

because your border uh police have like not let them make a phone call. He was like, man, we're all right. So it's not great right now, but if things don't change, you're going to see a lot of people leaving, man. And it's like, well, what does that mean? What? Where are they going? Sir? Which people?

What? We're going to meet with them and hundreds or thousands. It's just, it's walk watching somebody do like a tightrope walk and they're only like three feet above the ground but it's just right someone slacklining for the first time you're like whoa this looked

easier because it's so low to the ground it's all very shaky but and also he doesn't need to be doing a tightrope walk as well you know like there's no reason there's no reason to be there's no down like why are you doing this tightrope walk as well. You know, like there's no reason. There's no reason. There's no downside. Like, why are you doing this tightrope walk? You can just walk on the ground.

People who are tightrope walking is for people that are full of shit. That's why the tightrope is there because you're like, oh, I'm full of shit. I hope they don't hear this out. If you're speaking directly from the heart, you're not tightrope walking, good or bad. You're just like, nah, fuck that. Yeah. Or yes, I will do that. That's not a tightrope walking, good or bad. You're just like, nah, fuck that. Yeah. Or, yes, I will do that. That's not a tightrope walk.

That's just a tight five. That's so funny you say that, Miles, because when I was watching Man on Wire, the whole time I was screaming, bullshit artist, bullshit artist. Just the whole time. You're full of it, mister. I couldn't handle that guy. He faked his resume, this asshole. Liar. Liar on wire.

I think that's right. For my sake, that Blake Wexler guy got into another showing of man on wire. We banned him. You guys supposed to know when you take the ticket who's banned from me. I'm sorry. We're a mask. Disguise sucks. He wore a Guy Fawkes mask.

Fine. He promised it wasn't Blake. The other thing about that press conference was a the conservative media was like this is the longest a president's ever gone without right because it was like i guess based on when they took office but honey yeah please find please find a new angle because no one gives a shit um and the other part was in that press conference he was asked if he agreed with obama's assessment because he said at john lewis's funeral like talking about what you know just saying that the filibuster was a relic from the jim crow era and they're like do

you agree with that assessment he said yes and they're like so uh so do you want to get rid of it he's like nah well what the fuck if you can if you can acknowledge it's a relic of jim crow and you don't want to get rid of i'm sorry how do you square any of that like just rhetorically uh ideologically what do you mean because then he's just saying oh well successful quote successful electoral politics is the art of the possible let's figure out how we can get this done and move in the direction of significantly changing the abuse of the filibuster rule. Oh, God, Grandpa, don't you get it? The kids are making their own drugs at home now.

They don't have to fucking buy it in the streets. The game has changed, sir. But that's where we're at with that specific element. He also said he wants to be the next FDR. So, you know, so it's all about intentions. Judge me by my intentions. Yeah, but here's a question

because I often buy. This is not. This sounds like a bit that I'm about to do, but I'm not. I do regret not asking these questions sometimes with you guys. What is the benefit currently of having a filibuster?

There is not like, OK, cool. It's it's it's a protection for yeah it's basically so that people can't uh like the the argument that republicans are trying to make is like well when we get back into power we're just gonna ram through all this stuff that and yeah and you all were in power and we saw what you did it was just tax cuts and a bunch of eos that you know cause a bunch of chaos but they they don't care because the shit that they try and pass anyway isn't is always through like a reconciliation process process which only needs a simple majority so they don't even use like it's only for them to deploy against the agenda of democrats it's not even the only ones who are right

racist yeah and there's nothing like you know for all the like hand-wringing about like oh well you know do we get rid of it it's like yeah because the second you do you need simple majorities to pass things like minimum wage hikes uh you know better voting access fucking you know potentially health insurance or medicare for all you know but we have no that's not gonna happen with this president or administration but yeah that's the benefit is that you no longer need to court 10 demons to the side of good to make anything happen and that's what the problem is right now um so on top of that we've talked about how like all the voting legislation that's coming out of georgia and states over, you know, 40 some 43 states now indicates that the GOP is doing

everything they can to limit the ability of non-white people to vote, whether it's voter ID laws or preventing early voting. They've made it clear they don't give a fuck at all. They saw what happened. Georgia went blue and they said okay time to fucking close up the shop and that's what they're in the process of right now so this is kind of it's also putting a lot of pressure on companies that operate in georgia um like coca-cola uh ups home depot and the like they're saying the past you know like when georgia has run afoul of human decency like in 2016 they tried to pass these anti-gay religious liberties laws. Coca-Cola and other companies were threatened to leave the state.

They're like, we're not about this. And we highly, you know, we recommend you don't go through with this. And they relented. But in the face of all these voter suppression bills, they're kind of silent and they're not really saying much aside from like we support voting rights which is interesting because what happened to all that black lives matter noise y'all are making from all your company from the sprite campaigns i saw uh which is a coca-cola company what happened to all that we can't support politicians that voted to overturn the election energy i don't know where that is and you, you know, they are these they're massive players

in the state Home Depot, Delta, like I said, Coca-Cola, but they're really being silent. And what's even more fucked up is that we're looking at things like this is from, you know, Judd Legum's popular information newsletter, which I suggest you sign up. It's a very passive. It will show up in your email and you can read a lot about what's going on especially with finance and money and politics saying this is from uh his report quote coca-cola has donated to 29 co-sponsors of the two bills to restrict voting wow in response to an inquiry from popular information coca-cola said that it had paused all political giving after the january 6th attack on the capitol and that pause continues the company did not rule out supporting beach who was one of the state senators or other co-sponsors of legislation to restrict voting in Georgia in the future.

Right. It just underscores how this country is deeply entrenched in this relationship of corporatocracy. Like our elected officials are sitting on their hands on one side of the aisle like they can't do anything when they can as they just want to see where the wind blows meanwhile you have people who are being funded by the companies who are saying they stand in opposition to this thing saying like oh well you know we vaguely support rights we haven't decided what we're going to do yet so yeah like i guess now it's left people to try and organize boycotts against coca-cola which totally sense. But we're all still like there's still people basically be like, I guess we have to lean on the corporate overlords than the loss of capital to make these things happen. We might actually see what happens when somebody goes to a restaurant and orders a Pepsi and the waiter says, is Coke OK?

Which I don't think has ever happened in written history um yeah i mean it's always the other way you'll i mean they should know that i don't know like fuck it at the end of the day these companies aren't fucking people even though they have the rights of people somehow but yeah it's all just fucking it's just so yeah just you can't wish i had the rights of a corporation man they fuck this is this is what happens when you have a business run by white bears so right yeah yeah exactly well they're getting theirs with climate change so oh they're they're on their way out yeah yeah it's very emblematic actually the sea the c-suite glacier is in utter chaos right now at Coca-Cola. Yeah, but I mean,

they can get away with murder and they do get away with murder. Because it's like, well, we didn't do, I mean, I don't know, like maybe the policies precipitated all this violence, but like, can you point a finger to a person? I don't know.

We are Coca-Cola. Right. We are Coca-Cola. It does work to where, I mean, this is an odd example, but you know, the nba was supposed to have its all-star game in charlotte during i think it was the transgender bathroom law that they were trying to pass there and pulled out that changed you know like uh how like or i'm

sorry legislators were voting there so right it is yeah it feels dirty as hell, you know, just at all making a deal with the devil to stop something. But yeah. Yeah. Well, that's, you know, this is just it's a string of deals with the devil here. Right. American history. We've mastered the art of the deal with the devil. And we still get screwed every time.

I know. I know. Just a in our ongoing kind of keeping our eye on guns in this country and whether or not we we should see maybe some gun control in terms of gun control being passed. I haven't seen anything specific. Nothing. Nothing's changed. Oh, yeah. The Senate goes on a bit of a break. Taking a couple of days off. We'll get back. Hey, we're going to come back to that. Probably gun stuff. Probably voting stuff.

I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I don't know. We could get rid of the. I don't know. A couple more wild stories that might be indicative one way or another on that. arrested at a atlanta grocery store who had like six guns and just uh like ready for a three-day gun battle uh worth of ammunition uh at a public's i think wait like entered it or what was i believe so yeah wow was in the produce section uh yeah right like Oh, like open carry or like maliciously.

Try like menacingly pulled. I don't think they pulled it, pulled the gun on any anyone, but it they were arrested. There is it is funny because like open carry is not a thing that I ever really see, you know, like just being like on like in the northeast california etc etc but i was in dallas and by the way people in open carry states might laugh at what i'm about to say but i had never seen just someone carrying a gun in public before you know like a citizen and just seeing a guy walk down the street in dallas with an assault rifle is i i like almost i ran and hid in the bathroom and everyone's like, Oh no, this is just what this is.

Just people can just do this. It was the scary. That's potentially a good guy or a evil doer. It's hard to know when you have such a device in your position, you're going to wait to find out then. Cause I'm going to, I'm going to hide in a drop ceiling. Right?

Yeah. It seems like the guy from this article I'm reading, like he, he walked in open carrying and went into the bathroom and then a customer alerted the store management and then the police showed up and he was okay uh five guns two long guns three pistols and body armor on him when he walked into a grocery store uh like within days of a mass shooting at a at a grocery store and it was in atlanta which uh you know within a week of a mass shooting in atlanta so just trying to connect all those dots read the goddamn room right yeah well and then so this other story as if we need more fucking

examples as to why we can't just allow people to walk around with these bang bangs that in their mind make them the hero of some fucked up narrative. Let me just start this story off and you tell me where you think you know this is headed. 11 Texas National Guard members were traveling through the state to deliver vaccines to like a remote town in three unmarked white vans. Oh, and everyone got vaccinated. It was all fine. Well, this is what happened. deliver vaccines to like a remote town in three unmarked white vans. Oh, and everyone got vaccinated. It was all fine. Well, this is what happened. A 66 year old man saw this,

these three unmarked vans with these national guards members in them and was convinced that they were abducting a woman and a child and decided to fucking intervene, trying to run the vans off the roads, eventually went into oncoming traffic to like fully try and stop these cars and when they did this man quote pointed a gun at a national gun soldier identified himself as a detective and demanded to search the vehicles he also ordered the guardsmen out of their vehicles at gunpoint he held the 11 soldiers there until the police arrived at which point this asshole with a gun. That was convinced he was right.

And it's his heroic duty. Was swiftly fucking arrested. For all kinds of unlawful restraint. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Unlawful carrying of a weapon. Impersonated in public. But what the fuck. Police noted that he was.

Like they said quote mentally disturbed. And found additional guns and ammo in his car. Like, we're not even doing the basics. To go from zero to abducted. There's no other thing that could have been happening in those three white vans than a woman and child being abducted. Like, there's no other, just zero to that. Right. And it wasn't sure if this is, like, tied some QAnon like ideology or whatever. And that's why he was sort of like in this narrative of like someone being kidnapped. But again, like the guns give people this fucked up complex where they really believe like now they have the power and the duty to fuck shit up because gun because second amendment because good guy cowboy whatever the fuck you think and this kind of shit is so fucking dangerous and

disturbing uh because i can only imagine if this is if this guy saw three vans with uniformed national guardsmen in the car uh what an interracial family looks like to someone like that driving on the road. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Cause that I've, I remember growing up,

people fucking constantly questioned if my parents were my parents, just because I didn't, I looked more Asian than my black dad, or I have darker skin than my Japanese mom. Yep. Are you okay? On the regular. Are you okay? I'm like,

motherfucker, this is my dad. Yeah. Fuck you. Are you okay? I'm like, this is my dad yeah fuck you are you okay i'm like this knock this motherfucker out real quick fuck out my face so this is like like it's not the the amount of guns that are on the streets are a lack of care and support for anyone who has any kind of need or support uh and just all of the cascading trauma, misinformation that's going on. There's no way this gets better. And it's only going to add to people's perception

that something untoward is going on. Like it really it's. But again, you know, even for something like universal background checks that have 90% support from the public, the Senate is fucking sitting on their fucking hands. What exactly is the mechanism that because it's so there's the popularity of legislation that would you know increase gun control like just

doing a radical like gun control law i think would be popular at this point but it's the it's the nra that is stopping it is it still because the nRA seems like it's like dropped off in popularity. But it doesn't, no, but, but it's like, you know, it's like the fucking,

like the DeLorean, you know, they don't make DeLoreans anymore, but that shit is embedded in the culture. Right. You know, like the, the talking points,

the ideology of the NRA is embedded in conservative politics. It doesn't matter if people aren't getting newsletters anymore, like, because they've been fed a steady diet of they're gonna take your guns and then what right and dot dot dot and then we'll tell you because watch damn bongino come up here and tell you like as a new york cop i've seen everything brown people are scary strap up like the fuck so yeah bankrupt or not they have intellectually bankrupted us right well let's get uh let's move on to the story uh that by the way you might be hearing children in the background

my kids are on spring break so they're back in the house screaming y'all going to miami they leave tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. So this story, I immediately ran down. This is the first story that made me run down and tell my kids about it because it's just so directly in their wheelhouse. It also feels like an Ocean Eleven stunt that they're using to make one thread of their casino robbery possible. So the entire Suez Canal is currently, as of yesterday when we recorded this, blocked both ways. There is a one-quarter mile long container ship that was basically blown aground by strong winds. And when you look at the picture,

it's just, it's like the boat is so long that it doesn't even need to be like perpendicular to the canal. It's like just kind of went sideways a little bit and blocked the entire fucking canal. To understand why this is a big deal, one 10th of a day's total oil consumption uh for for the entire globe is currently being held up by this ship uh being wow like because

when they build a man-made canal like it's a trillion trillion dollar uh you know undertaking dollar undertaking, but they do it because there's so much money and property going through that specific location. And now it is blocked and they're using tugboats to try and jerk it back into the middle of the canal. That's not working.'re like trying to dig it out with all these big big uh construction trucks uh so me and my uh four-year-old are gonna be keeping our eye on this story did it and did it impress the kid or no yeah no they're they're pumped oh because there's like good video too that yeah you could really watch the like big ass boat and all that yeah it's also really bad for the company that uh owns the boat is called evergreen and it like just like when you look at it it's just written enormously on the side of the thing like every from every direction you look it's like evergreen and it's causing a massive fuck up

my my worst nightmare is to like be driving in rush hour traffic and then have my car break down and block like one of the lanes and just causing everybody like just sitting there i would rather just like jump over to the other side and dive in front of a car and on the inconvenience that many people because i didn't like get my car checked out or i did some shit like if i was the captain of this boat i would be nowhere to be found ever again i would just like run sprint into into panama the most apt meme was the the fucking scene from austin powers where he gets that little go-kart stuck in the hallway it's like dude i don't i can't 90 point turn this fucker out of here they say that that

is so what's happened is as like we've become more of a shipping economy uh both in the pandemic but like even before and you know as just global economy has grown they have started creating these ships that are way bigger than the ones when the canal was built like when the french and english were fighting over trade supremacy in the 1800s they just like used rowboats to right it's not like their biggest thing like their brits hated the suez canal because they're like but we have the cape and everyone's supposed to go around there and it's gonna fuck up our naval supremacy. Yeah. It's the supremacy in the Brits. They got to love it.

This reminds me of when I was in college. I went to Fenway Park for the first time where the seats down below are built for people in the early 1900s. And I went with two larger guys and they're spilling over into mine. My knees are up to my chin. And it's like, oh, these have not been updated.

Let's maybe update this canal. This is before Americans were eating beef. beef yes this is pre-beef but they in the new york times uh article they talk about like how taxing and like how high pressure it is to captain one of these ships through the canal like it's a brutally difficult thing to do i mean it's in what sense because the ships are i mean it's a straight shot bigger than it would be like trying to like do a course like a a navigation course that was like meant for a you know mini cooper with a school bus like you're trying to like get through and and there's billions and billions of dollars it's right there's i know in philadelphia one of the major rivers here

they when ships go through it the ship stops and they have a just like an expert like on how to navigate the river hop on and he drives the boat so So the captain of the boat is not a bit like it sounds crazy, but like literally they switch out the captain. Oh, they need a local to finesse the river? Yeah, like a local I'm not using the right words obviously but rarely am, but they do bring in like a specialist

to navigate like and if that's happening in a big open river, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to get on the suez whatever i don't have any sympathy it looks like a straight shot i can nail this thing with my eyes closed come on yeah have i ever i've ever been uh at the helm of a seaworthy ship no no but i've played video games that are very hard they were hard.

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I mean, it's not, I mean, it's one thing that was so, I just sighed when I read the headline, which is Ja Rule sells Fyre Fest logo as NFT for $122,000. Yeah, he did. So he basically sold an image of the physical painting of the Fyre Fest logo that I guess like sat in the offices of the fucked up festival scam fest. He originally wanted 600,000 for the oil painting, the physical painting. And then I was like,

huh? He's like, but I can get like other people. They'll pay one 22 for the picture for the JPEG. Yeah. Let's do that. Let's do that one. Um,

and that's where we're at. And it's the dumbest fucking thing. And the ship sets keeps going on. The one thing I have read about NFTs, though, is that a lot of international like the like international finance watchdog that is like in charge of like sort of alerting people to any kind of like monetary policy or just untoward shit has NFTs like like firmly in their sights right now um because it's like the lack of regulation and things like that they're like yeah i mean it's it could work in the way that original people wanted it to but also it's allowing a lot of bad faith actors in either way um i think allowing jaw rule to sell it for 122k is a bad faith actor move but what do i uh as ben rosen wrote on twitter the only nft i care about is the n nanny f from t the nanny um thank you love it oh man thank you fran. All right. Let's talk about vaccine mascots, which is a thing that exists in Brazil where they have Joe Droplet.

Oh, yeah. Zegotinia. Yeah. He. So in in his most. Yikes. Sort of central. The central like official version of him that they they have like at uh in i don't know

whatever the wherever spooky malls yeah it's like this haunted mall the lights are off in the mall it looks like a cross between uh the baba duke and the ghostbusters logo it looks like yeah or the state puff marshmallow man is coming coming and has been up on crystal meth for like three days yeah yeah it is state puff marshmallow man coming while on a three-day meth bender if the marshmallow man survived that movie that's what he would have right because also it the pain. Because also, it has no teeth. So yeah, it could be drug-induced tooth loss as well. Yeah. And just a lot of blue around the eyes and lips.

It's the spookiest shit. That would be concerning for any... Any mascot. Any mascot. Anything. And even an image of something that would be around children. Like this is just not doing anything right. I have a great US mascot.

Can I pitch one? Yes, please. Jack, you'll probably know about this. There was a mascot for the Philadelphia 76ers whose name was Big Shot. Already the name, Big Shot.

He's like a blue blob with like sunglasses on and like kind of like a pre gritty like gritty if he was like like you know an absentee father I guess you know but he is big shot it's perfect it's perfect lovable it's

gritty's boomer stepdad you know and it's like his 80s yuppie shit made gritty kind of like go into more leftist politics yes um but yeah i like his vibe they gave him a sixers uniform that doesn't really fit him and it looks like he's in a diaper which is a weird uh weird look for him it looks like definitely like a rejected like sesame street guy yeah yes totally mix and match of various sesame street things because now what y'all got like that like buff like dog i like that's like tell me more about this buff dog tell me more about this buff dog

if you just look at sixers mascot there's some it's like a rabbit or something but it's got muscles oh yeah I do think. Yeah, there we go. Rabbit. You want to see a muscly mascot, a sentence that probably took a few years off my life just now. You want to see a muscly mascot?

Look at the rabbit. Like the actual rabbit was, what was his name? Hip hop. Hip hop was the name. It was like the Sixers mascot during Allen Iverson era. It looks, it is a jacked up

weird looking mascot. It really was called hip-hop. Strong as hell. Say what you will. Strong as hell, that rabbit. Also, this costume, Joe Droplets, less official versions that

they give out to people who are like visiting the schools in the uh rural areas uh is just a kkk costume like yeah it's fucking clan hood it's a clan hood yeah that's bad but he's like apparently he's become like this really worked. He's like become such an important figure that the fact that he so he was out there educating kids about like how not to get sick and how to, you know, cover their sneezes and do all that stuff. But the fact that he's not out there during the vaccine phase is people are like, what the fuck is Bolsonaro doing? Bring back Joe Droplet. vaccine phase is people are like what the fuck is bolsonaro doing uh bring back joe droplet people are like speculating well maybe it's because the kids aren't being vaccinated yet so i'll bring it out later but people are uh asking questions because joe droplet's not there in japan uh where mascot culture is uh obviously huge uh The government sprang into action early in the pandemic and created

Coronon. A giant pink anti-coronavirus cat who handed out free face masks. So I didn't realize that there was a lot of vaccine skepticism in Japan right now. So they have an app that is a uh doggy doctor mascot who answers questions uh about the vaccine that people can go ask questions to but so our writer jam was basically pointing out where where's america's? Like these seem to be fairly effective and like Joe, like the way that we use mascots in our country is that,

you know, to sell cigarettes to children, basically like Joe camel was, uh, by the end of his run in the nineties, uh, as recognizable to kids as Mickey mouse. Oh,

hell yeah. So like, maybe if we, again, took some of that corporate ingenuity and applied it to good, that would be a good idea. You know what? Actually, I think what might make... I know I pitched that Sixers mascot one.

What could appeal to anti-vaxxers actually is just the Klan guy. I think they might just trust that more. I don't know what it is about this fellow, but I like what he's saying. I like where he's coming from. He seems grounded. And he's like, hey, come on, everyone. Take the vaccine.

Uh-huh. All right. What about Medicare for all? Yeah, I trust this messenger. Whatever. I like this this and we should expand voting rights go on that's all it took was this someone to wear a clan hood and say all this progressive shit yeah it was just the people were hoping trump would be is like guy who uses racism

but is actually like has economic populist uh ideas but oh well did not joe camel though that's so true i remember like tearing joe camel ads out of like sports illustrated yeah you know i mean or like absolute vodka ones i remember i used to have that in my binder like i had a transparent binder you know you're back in the day where you put a magazine clipping or if you're super old those old nike sneaker as i had the phone number that you would call to learn more about the penny phone posit one um or the jordan 11 okay or the nike shake and destruct the dennis rodman shoe that laced up on the side um had all that shit and i wonder if like even if they did an absolute vodka thing where it's like the syringe but it's like absolute spring break right it's like dressed up with a lay or some shit and people are like yeah fuck you you fucking with that spring break

that's a good idea actually i'm telling you it's fucking i mean it truly is we're so fucked up on consumer culture in this country to not use that to try and get people to fucking get on board with shit is this like i mean i think it just speaks to really have the people who are in charge and how they think and you know people that like need to sell shit they know how to do that but everyone else like what do we i don't know i don't know you're sneezy yeah Yeah. I guess to the people we're having trouble with is not the kids necessarily as much as it's their. Yeah, right. Yeah. So then it should be like absolute dick growth.

Oh, yeah. And it's the vaccine. Absolute like absolute 10x your sperm count. And then all I have to do is shoot this into my arm. Yes. Someone else does it, bro. It's sick. And then you have to wait is shoot this into my arm yes someone else does it bro it's sick and dude and then you have to wait a few months after your second shot and then if if you have trouble

then come tell us and then that nausea you feel is the blood rushing down there you're fine bro it's doing its job that tingle in your arm is your junk growing bro that's right it always is that's what i found whenever i get on out ofle in my arm. It's not a heart attack. It's my penis. It's my weird jaw pain. It's my junk growing. That's right. And finally, there's big news in the

world of the world. Justin Long, the dude from those Mac commercials that probably half our audience is too young to remember right he has he's switching he's gonna he's gonna be pc guy like much much like the uh can you hear me now guy went to sprint from verizon uh after his contract expired uh justin long make an old switcheroo jack i thought you meant he was i on my life i swear to god that

he was going to be doing politically correct psas like he was going to be the pc guy like i literally thought that's what you see now yeah it's like i feel like he was pretty comedic stylings of justin long uh unfortunately do you ever do either of you have any justin long stories other than uh enjoying him more than most people in uh live free and die hard he would be hanging around comedy shows oh yeah like in 20 i want to say 14 15 and i remember going to like a ucb show and i took off early and my the buddy that i came with hit me up the next day goes dude justin long would not stop talking to me for 40 minutes outside after you left and kept talking about weed and shit and this is when i worked at playboy and he's like and when i told him we worked atboy, he like started pitching us all this stuff and he was like texting my friend and shit.

Wow. And we're like, all right, Justin Long. And I thought he was joking himself out there. You know, it was just a weird, but it's, it's like one of those things that seems like a lie when you're like, dude, Justin Long appeared. And then when I'm like, okay, sure. Like that's such a bizarre thing to say. And then he like showed me these texts and like a voicemail. I was like, okay, Justin. Wow that's such a bizarre thing to say. And then he like showed me these texts

and like a voicemail. I was like, okay, Justin. Wow. Just a wheeler dealer out here. My favorite thing is the idea of a celebrity becoming an inconvenience to someone where they're so annoying that it stops being cool.

You know, where like if a celebrity like that, like texting me like, oh my God, can you believe this? But once it starts becoming an imposition, that hysterical it's like how does this person have so much you guys like david schwimmer is obsessed with me yeah i can't it's like getting it's becoming a problem uh he won't stop texting me and he will not use a capital letter i nearly had that with andrew wk when i worked at Playboy because we made this fake ad campaign where in the run up to the 2016 election, we said he was starting his own political party called the Party Party. And it was like this idea.

I pitched him and he was like, I love it. I love it. And we made this whole ad and like a bunch of people thought he was serious and he was supposed to tell people that it was a co-production with playboy but he left that out so he just kind of used us to like do this thing and like court all these like subscribers and was like selling merch with a logo they were like yo yo hold on bro like you're getting flagrant with it but then would constantly like hey man i'm gonna be talking to fox news and blah blah blah and he's like oh i forgot to mention playboy i'm sorry we will do it and all my bosses were like he's not fucking saying anything about Playboy.

And I'm like, hey, Andrew, can you make sure when you go on Hannity, you mention this shit or something? He's like, yeah, yeah, got you. And then he'll be like, yeah, totally said it. We look at the clip, he didn't say it. But he's actually a really nice guy, so I don't want to cast his person.

But his frequency of community, I was impressed uh but also like you kind of fucked us andrew by the way that story doesn't make andrew wk sound bad to anyone everybody's like yeah playboy i i don't i never feel sorry for playboy and no no not at all and i think myself either and i was like yeah i don't know like it got views bro and you can sell ads against those impressions so can we can i go now to my next corporate gig back to heff's mansion to chill in the grotto as i'm back to me realizing i work with jamie loftus hey that's so funny that era like

yeah anyway that's what i had my eye on you guys back then i was like i knew something's going on over here sick recruiting class coming out of playboy i got uh there's that dude and the humor editor was this guy matt who now like whenever you see those fake maps about like the most popular fast food thing by state he makes those oh hell yeah man yeah just a bunch of rabble rousers over those does he make up? Have you asked him if he just makes the information up? He's made some up, and others will say, like, he's... I haven't asked him, but I just know just from working with him, like, his very kind of, like, style that he's interested in

to, like, make stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. But I think some of it will also be, like, the loosest poll that will literally have, like, 60 answers, and then he'll just extrapolate that to the entire nation and be like the loosest poll that will literally have like 60 answers and then extrapolate that to the entire nation like right here we go it could not matter less whether or not those are accurate either

you know like there's just no victim in that crime but I so I'm wondering if we can take a couple minutes to predict who who would be the next person to switch brands. That would actually be effective. Like Jake from State Farm, a.k.a. Kevin Miles is the actor's name.

Okay. John Hodgman, I feel like if Mac was just like, bring him over. I feel like Mac users are closer to wanting to be like John Hodgman than Justin Long these days. Justin Long feels very like an outdated image of what a cool tech guy is. Let me propose this. This could take an hour and a half to unpack. Just insurance alone, a lot of really good spokespeople what would you give up for flow like in her prime like in in her like pitching prime stephanie sportney my old improv teacher yes yes what would you would you ask would you take that

class again um because like would you? How many Geico commercials? We could even throw that. How many Geico commercials for a flow? How many Jake from State Farms? Chris Paul. I mean, she's got it locked up. Yeah. I don't know.

It's like a five for one, at least, I feel like. Yeah. I don't want to touch that. Maybe this won't take that long. Maybe I just killed the conversation like this is gonna take an hour and a half to unpack it it's like this is fun to talk about miles is talking about his improv days again i could definitely see a future where corporations trade mascots and trade like various pitch people pitch persons yeah dennis

hazebert just going can we get the mic can we get mike lindell the my pillow guy now that's what i'm talking about you know i mean that's like a new my pillow the new my pillow guy yeah i mean it's just i think the only ones are is uh what's his face the the bald-headed dude um mr clean farm uh no the actor who animated oh yeah yeah yeah uh the dude who won the academy for whiplash the oscar for whiplash yeah what's uh initials and then last name uh td jakes i believe bishop jw still water that's what it is that's what it was um j i think it is a jk simmons jk simmons jk jk a aka jk simmons yeah i mean he's he's uh i feel like he's got good good energy but i think for like in terms of like shocking switches i think yeah flow going somewhere would probably if flow went to state farm, that will really fuck shit up. Yeah.

More than anything. I think flow is the only character who can move that is going to cause the waves that, you know, that when, uh, the, can you hear me now?

Guy went to sprint. Yeah. Flow would be huge. Blue to red. Yeah. JK Simmons is, uh, is also the voice of the yellow M and M.

So that would be a real like mind fuck the M&Ms went for a different brand. Or if Milana Vayntrub from the AT&T girl. I feel like she's the answer, isn't she? And the Limu Emu switched it up. That would be wild, too. Limu Emu. And Doug, or whatever that commercial is that's the only thing i know the at&t girl i feel like sports bros are like oh i fucking love the at&t dude she's had the

worst fucking time milana from having like she went from being on this thing to then like the internet figuring out like they're like we lust after her and just like getting all kinds of fucking weird tweets and i hear that emo gets has a similar issue people just want to have sex yeah flightless bird yeah and they just then they just pull up to the like the pen where he's kept and it's utter chaos i hear yeah it's a weird thing to compliment but i think she is like the Meryl Streep of commercial. Like she gives the best fucking performances I've ever seen in a commercial. And it's literally like the generations of comedic schools where Stephanie Courtney,

who is flow is a groundling through and through big character shit, wigs, you know, early SNL. And now we're moving into the UCB post UC ucb world where it's like we don't do characters we don't do wigs we play everything real it's just odd looks book us in every mockumentary and yeah like for her lily character she's always got like the natural like awkward shit nailed which is like the new language of commercials her and then chris paul i think one

of the one of our great actors yes one of one of the great ones. He's actually gotten better to the point that it's no longer, I think, people know that I'm joking when I say that. I prefer Cliff. When he started out, it was so wild. He just looked like he did not want to be on camera.

Isn't LeBron going to start pitching Pepsi as well? Oh, Shaq pitches everything everything though. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Including terrible NBA takes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Out of date. Just like, Oh my God, get, take him home. Someone,

uh, well, Blake, it has been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist as always, uh, where can people find you and follow you? At Blake Wexler on all social media and

the Blake's Takes for God's Sakes podcast where I just free associate improvise for 45 minutes each week. Actually, all the people who listen, listen to this podcast as well. I don't know what that says about what you're doing over here, but it's been

fun so i appreciate all the uh the cross the cross support and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying yes and this is uh not even a tweet but the whole catalog of chris crofton's cold brew in the news is my favorite thing in the entire world. What he does is he has a video or a crazy story, and then he writes, he retweets it and writes Cold Brew in the News, where I think the most recent one was some weird convention where there's a guy playing the violin with a lightsaber. There's a nine-foot woman walking around in the background. Some people are dancing. It's one of the funniest things.

It's just always one of those comedic devices where you hear Cold Brew in the background some people are dancing it's one of the funniest things it's just always one of those comedic devices where you hear cold brew in the news and then in your head you picture what it's going to be and it's exactly what you're picturing you laugh hysterically or it's the complete total opposite of what you were thinking and then that's really

funny so it's a great it's a great fit so yeah Chris Chris Croft what is his I should look up his Twitter account but he's been on here a thousand times oh yeah you know who he is miles where can people find you it's a great it's a great fit so yeah chris uh chris croft what is his i should look up his twitter account but he's been on here a thousand times oh yeah yeah you know who he is miles where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying uh twitter instagram miles of gray also the other podcast 420 day fiance uh tuesdays and fridays check us out on twitch dot tv slash 420 day fiance or the podcast however you want to get it. Some tweets that I like. First one's from Taylor Guerin, one of my favorite writers,

but she tweeted this, like quote tweeted a video of this recipe of someone making macaroni and cheese where they just laid a block of cheddar or Velveeta or something in the middle of the casserole dish with dry noodles and then they pour milk and water and shredded cheese

and then bake it and then mix it up, which is like, that's not how you do that shit. Anyway, and then Taylor tweets, the lengths people will go to avoid making a roux. Grow up. And just, you know, for my cooking fans out there, it's true. It's not that hard to make a roux. I think if you have a whisk, just get into it, baby.

You're good. That's when you have a whisk just get into it baby you're good that's when you have to like slowly whisk in the flour jack yeah did you hear his question miles it's okay it's okay let's just move on and act like we didn't hear that and to my next tweet a suzy underscore meister uh tweeted the opposite of imposter syndrome is called megan mccain Meister tweeted, the opposite of imposter syndrome is called Meghan McCain. And finally, Kendra Fortmeyer at Kendraff, R-A-F-F-E,

tweeted, we thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to select each image containing a boat. Let's see, a tweet I enjoyed. First of all, the Rue thing was a joke. I know what Rue is, obviously.

Yeah, we know. Same, same, same, same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, same, same. Yeah, you keep saying how your favorite song is Bulletproof by LaRue. Uh-huh. No Pants Papel. I don't like that name, but I did like this tweet. Our dog died four years ago, but her memory lives on in the Hulu password.

Find me on Twitter, 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. Footnotes?

I got us. Footnotes. Footnotes? I'm sorry, I got us. Footnotes where we link off to the information we talked about. No, it's literally that's enough to throw me off because it's so autopilot at this point. I said episodes. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song we recommend that you check out miles what is today's recommendation

uh one producer i really like from australia taku t hyphen ku um and this is again on soundcloud but it's a remix of a ge Maple track called Talk Talk, but it's by Taku, the Taku remix. And it's just got a great like, you know, if you like James Blake sort of vocals, very much like that. And the production is a little more like complex, beat driven.

So it's got a good mix of like sexiness and just a little bit of toe tapping, you know, good blend yeah uh all right go check that out we will link off to it in the footnotes uh the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that is gonna do it for this morning we're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending and we'll talk to y'all then.

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