The Daily Zeitgeist - DIE FOR DIVIDENDS, Jeremy Renner: Victim 3.25.20

Episode Date: March 25, 2020

In episode 594, Jack and Miles are back with Jamie Loftus to discuss Greta Thunberg possibly having coronavirus, rent freezes, Trump trying to get America back to business regardless of the warnings, the clear class divide over the stock market, why Trump and Republicans keep referring to covid-19 with racist nicknames, a new Mountain Dew flavor, Jeremy Renner trying to lower his child support payments, fun activities to do while in quarantine, and more!FOOTNOTES: Greta Thunberg Says It’s ‘Extremely Likely’ That She Had Coronavirus How close is NYC to instituting a rent freeze? California landlord group calls on members to freeze rents and evictions I want it over by EASTER! Donald Trump says the U.S. doesn't shut down for deadly flu and defies doctors' advice that millions could die if he pushes ahead with getting America back to business - in just 19 days Texas Lt. Gov. Urges Old People To Sacrifice Themselves To Save Economy Amid Coronavirus Philadelphia 76ers star @JoelEmbiid has decided to pledge $500K to COVID-19 medical relief—to help survival and protection efforts in the community. AND he’s committed to helping Sixers employees who will suffer financial hardship in light of the franchise’s salary reductions. Devils, Sixers cut some staff salaries for three months Why Trump, The Radical Republicans And Fox News Are Calling It The ‘Chinese Virus’ Even a national crisis can’t stop Mountain Dew from innovating Jeremy Renner requests child support reduction due to coronavirus pandemic WATCH: Prefuse 73 - Pentagram Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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represent all right guys three two what a story uh no one's touching uh christy yamaguchi made his crown for now yeah yeah for now we. Oh, and plenty of people got time. We got time in the car. We got so much time. At least a week before we all head back to work with our lunch pails and our American flag t-shirts because we are going to reopen America, baby. Oh, God.

That's my search history. When will America reopen? When will America be open, guys? Some things we're going to talk about today, guys. We're going to talk about alternate hand-washing songs. We're going to check in with or ask you guys what's going on with y'all's rent and where you live. Uh,

we are going to talk about the America back to work because you want to work. We're going to, uh, do a little more, uh, updates on class warfare. Uh, talk about the 76ers pay cut,

the conservative plan behind China virus, uh, all of that, plenty more. Maybe we'll get to televangelists because they actually found a cure. Many different cures for coronavirus. It's called Salvation. Oh, is it those slop buckets?

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Are you brothers and sisters? Brother, let me tell you what. All right. Saved. But first, what is something from your search history guys that's revealing about who we are oh god i searched uh how many tomatoes do you need to make sauce i was trying to make i want to be quarantined with miles i was like yeah are you making a lot of shit you're sure i need vegetables and like there's a produce woman who's like, I'll just go to, has plenty of produce that needs to be sold,

and I thought I bought enough tomatoes. You need like five pounds to make a full-on Pomodoro sauce, but it's actually really easy. You can just cook them. I don't know what that means. Hey, just dice up your Roma tomatoes, cook them down to a boil. Got to be Roma. Throw in some garlic.

Roma tomatoes, are those the little guys? They're like plums, dude. They're the ones that don't look like, yeah, they look a boil. Throw in some garlic. Are those the little guys? They're the ones that don't look like... Yeah, they look all weird. They're taller rather than fatter. I've never had a food before. Ah, yeah. You're always eating tasty wheat. I was just trying to make my own sauce.

I googled the chaotic opposite of that. I googled, when is my guacamole old? And what is it? You go by smell, color, texture? Well, I tried not to get thrown off by the color because I looked at it. I was like, oh, that doesn't look good. Oxidized.

And then I gave it a little taste. I was like, mm, still tastes okay. And then I'm like, I better check in with the experts. And I was like, when is my guacamole old? And Mr. Google, Ms. Google, I don't care to presume, said, it's probably fine. And so I finished it. It's always fine. It's never bad.

Actually, it's like honey. It doesn't expire. It doesn't expire. They find it in the tombs. It's like honey. It's just permanently good. Honey doesn't expire, right? That's the thing. I think that's right. I've never. They find it in the tombs. It's like honey. It's just permanently good. Honey doesn't expire, right? That's the thing?

I think that's right. They find it in tombs. I've never once thrown honey out, and I've found some old-ass honey in the back of a spice can. I always took this thing that a docent told me during a museum tour very long ago through a mummy exhibit, and they're like, and we also found honey in this pharaoh's tomb, and the honey was still good after all these years.

And I was like, okay, so I'm guessing honey never goes bad. I could be totally wrong, and I may have a lot of bad honey-induced injuries. I got that same info on a museum tour. And when you say it that way, it sounds kind of like... Sometimes when people relay history to you, you're like, you're a fucking pervert. Why do you care about that? And the honey was still good.

You're just like, ew. Yum, yum, yum, yum. The corpse water, not quite so good. Quick Google. Honey does not quite so good. Quick Google. Honey does not go bad ever. In fact, recognized as one of the only foods that does not spoil. It will just crystallize over time. I think that there was something about that in the movie slash book, Holes.

But their thing was like peaches. They had peaches that preserved for a really long time. Peach preserves? Yeah. I guess that's where they get the name from. Swish? I should rewatch Holes. LeBron! Now that's a LeBuff. That's a LeBuff.

Now that's a spicy LeBuff. That's a good one. Guys, what is something that is underrated um hot take talking talking to some boomers okay dude what you talk to boomers there so i've been uh i was looking for like to see if there was like a spreadsheet of like different like services like this in different areas i haven't been able to find a lot but there's a service in my area where they're basically like looking for volunteers to call um seniors and just check in on them and be like hey do you need do you need like uh groceries

delivered or prescriptions delivered and just like setting them up with services but i've been talking to a lot of la area boomers i've been having a lovely time i've been having such a yeah it's making i've been doing it for like whatever the hour before we start recording uh in the mornings and it's been so nice i've had i've had some some cutie pie conversations had some scary ones too there was like a guy yesterday that was like millennials need to be drafted also will you please deliver prescriptions to my home i was like no and yes um need to be drafted into the military to deliver your prescriptions he well his thing was i don't know there was like a very i like just put on my like auntie uncle goggles um with communicating but it's like his thing was like uh that he was drafted in

nom and so he's like you've been drafted to your couch and you're still fucking it up i was like damn i was like damn that is like not untrue there's i mean look at running in canyon we're out here fucking it up so anyways learning all sorts but it's it's been it's been lovely I was like, damn, that is not untrue. I mean, look at Runyon Canyon. We're out here fucking it up. So anyways, learning all sorts. But it's been lovely. If you can find a local group that's doing a service like that, I feel like more people should be doing it. But this is the only one that I've seen.

What did you have to search to find that information? Like for someone in their area, if they were trying to look for that, what did you look for exactly? like for someone in their area if they were trying to look for that like what did you look for exactly i i follow a bunch of like local coalitions for like the elderly and the homeless so i've just been like checking their instagrams every day and normally they'll post like a post or something in their instagram stories if like an affiliated uh organization is looking for volunteers so i just found it through Homeless Coalition's Instagram. So I kind of looked into it.

You're really plugged into the good person scene, I feel like. The scene of people who are kind. First of all, I'm flexing. Second of all, I don't got shit to do. There's never been a better time to do nice things from your home

because I don't have shit to do to do nice things from your home because i don't have shit to do second of all i was actually phone banking for bernie the whole time second of all i was like listen i know that california already voted bernie but let me just spread the good word again yeah no this is and talking talking to boomers is is great i mean everyone like i i loved phone banking for bernie uh but i but it's you know when you're offering something and not asking for something people are so much nicer to you it's great yeah the it's interesting as a generation boomers were kind of the first generation that was uh able to dodge the draft and uh we've elected three boomer presidents out of the last four

presidents all of whom dodged the draft but yeah kind of everything we were drafted to the couch and we're fucking it up you were drafted to your couch what does that even mean it was the best it was the best old head we were all drafted to our couch jack oh my god and some people are out here runyon canyon draft dodging we've probably talked about this already but i'm everything's a blur now but we we've talked about the fact that like the young people on the beaches are gen z and not millennials right in florida in in florida yeah but i think that i think the Runyon Canyon culprits are millennial heavy. I see. I've seen them all.

Every generation is fucking up in LA. All of them? Oh, yeah. Dude, when I went down PCH, I don't, again, time's a blur, but I saw a full-on biker meetup at Neptune's Net restaurant. Of like 45 motorcycles, and they were all just hanging out together, drinking beers. I'm like, y'all are

fucking up bye-bye vroom vroom this is why we're gonna lose like the good the biker vote that are left this is why we're gonna we're gonna lose all the good stores that are still open come on yeah don't and we're those bikers mostly like young 18 year olds with like they were all like they were all full-on like midlife crisising it up like oh gen x and boomers yeah and it was like definitely it was kind of the thing where like you know people who try and act like they're in like motorcycle clubs and like look like they're patched in or something into a motorcycle gang but like you look at this shit and you're like bro y'all okay this is like your writing club but like they want patched in or something into a motorcycle gang. But like you look at the shit and you're like, bro, y'all, okay, this is like your writing club. But like,

they want to put out the vibes. Like I'll beat you to death with a chain. Uh, it was like that, like the Malibu version of those people. You can tell they got all their gear at the same gift shop. Yeah, exactly.

Uh, what is something we think is overrated? I have an answer to this. Hit it. Happy Birthday is a hand-washing song. First of all, you have to sing it twice, which is annoying. But we don't know. People sing Happy Birthday at all different paces.

We don't know what the definitive pace of Happy Birthday is. That's why it's usually such a mess at birthday parties because some people are singing it slow some people are singing it fast uh i think you have to sing it twice go ahead you just need a song you just need a song that you can sing that you like to sing like one that you like to sing and you realize oh shit i've been singing one minute of a song so i'm just singing aka one of the last shows we had at the office when lacy mosley was through we were joking about like your birthday song isn't long enough and she had the idea we're doing um kia's my neck my back but from the very beginning. So if you started from, all you ladies pop your pussy like this. Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss.

All you ladies pop your pussy like this. Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss. Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now. Lick it good, suck this pussy just like you should. Right now, lick it good, suck this pussy just like you should. My neck, my back back lick my pussy and my crack and then you could keep you could if you want to sing the part going get that extra wash on but there we've killed a good amount of time and you can kind of like you'll wash your hands

harder well and that's and yeah and that's like double duty you could leave your hand washing situation ready to fuck. Exactly. You better be washing your hands up to fuck. I got my heart rate up already. I think people are saying the chorus from I Will Survive is 25 seconds. Staying Alive is 25 seconds. There's more fun ones.

Yeah. Her Majesty by the Beatles is 25 seconds from beginning to end um that's the one i've been singing because i'm sure like what that beginning of like journey don't stop believing should be enough for like other just like scumbags who miss screaming drunk in a bar at night like that that man. Yeah. Living on a prayer. Like just find a 25 second snippet of living on a prayer. Do the first verse of closing time. I do Mr. Brightside, the whole fucking thing.

And you have no fingernails. And I have, my hands are falling off, but I have never been happier. I think that, has anyone ever done crest white strips i think they're overrated as hell oh no i don't think so my mom passive aggressively snail mailed me crest white strips because she doesn't think i look nice and so i was like i i mean that we could talk about that all day but anyways she passive aggressively mailed me some white strips a couple of weeks ago pre-quar.

But I'm like, now I could, I could do the white strips. Like I've got the time. I'll, it'll be harder for me to forget. But I don't like, I've been doing them for a week.

It doesn't seem like they're working. The gel is nasty and sticks to your teeth. And I almost swallowed one last night and I had to, I forgot they were there and then I like swallowed hard and one got lodged in my throat and I was like oh my god has anyone succumbed to an errant white strip going down

their windpipe has anybody ever died by white strip that's the most I mean it's like yeah uh so i own another thing that can happen is you fall asleep with the white strips on and then you wake up and you're like teeth hurt uh because you've had them on too long well yeah they there's i'm sorry did you do that jack i i have never whitened my teeth which is uh wait i i have the proof in my mouth uh i've never whitened my teeth but it happened to a loved one whose name i will not that's kind of scary too because it's like you

that on the label there's like a warning of like if your teeth hurt power through like you're like i don't know there's power through so you don't need now is not the time to be you know mobilizing your mom's passive aggressive beauty solutions everyone yeah fuck self-improvement at this point other than improving the cleanliness of your hands yeah nasty and fuck like all the all the standards that we used to have for what a good parent is. I'm just like, yo, if y'all need to just watch TV for a couple hours, that's going to happen. Yeah. We're indoor people now.

We're indoor people. And finally, guys, what's a myth? What's something people think is true that we know to be false? My myth is that there can't be good marketing emails during the quarantine i just got an email a lot of people are putting out there that i'm glad you're busting right now yeah this is this is more than your average our covet 19 update this is an email so i've been on every bus company to ever take to the road it's not a brag it's just the truth this is from a bus company called flix bus if anyone's ever hopped on a flix bus flix bus just sent an email it seems like just

because they're like they're not updating us on anything they obviously can't sell bus tickets right now so it's just an email that says we you, but right now staying at home is the right thing to do. Hashtag stop the spread. Hashtag stay at home. Fun facts are a great way to pass the time. Hopefully they can take your mind off things and put a smile on your face. And then it's three facts about buses. It says two babies were born

inside of a Flixbus. They can arrive now for free until they're 18 years old, of course. Of course? What do you mean our generosity only extends to children and they said goal bus that was the name of the first flix bus when the company was founded back then the buses were blue and then my favorite is they link to a mini game on steam where you can just in when because everyone's hurting because they can't ride the Flixbus right now, they have a simulator so that you can drive the Flixbus places. Which I'm assuming is going to occupy all your time going forward.

Well, unfortunately, on Steam, it has mixed reviews. Oh, no. 59% of people seem to think it's fun. But I thought that was like, you could also just not email us. Just trying to shoehorn their way in there. Just want to let you know, even though it's a thing no one should be writing right now, unless you have to, we're still kind of cool. Did you see the marketing email from the FBI?

It was like an FBI fitness app. They were like, download this to your phone, and you can exercise like you're in the FBI. Yeah, fucking right. That's some Miss Congeniality shit. Right. I guess, is Miss Congeniality nationalist propaganda? Probably.

Damn it. It's also... Damn it. Oh, no. I got gotten again. Now I got, damn it. A little bit. Oh no, I got gotten again. Now I got to throw that one in the pile. I got it.

It's just a, it's just a tad. We've, we've covered it on the Bechtel cast, but we didn't consider that it's a nationalist text. Hmm. All right. Uh,

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. Yay. And we wanted to check in with Zeitgang on just how everyone's, what's going on with anyone's rent situation in their local city, what's the policy? Yeah, it's been hard to, I mean, yeah, just on a local level, it's been hard to keep up with everything.

We're obviously, we all live in basically the same area, but I've been trying to keep up with friends who are living in different areas and like waiting to hear like oh is there actually going to be a rent freeze in your area or like i mean some people like the governor of california has said that like if you have things related to covid you can get some relief but then on a local level that's not always true like our city our city council uh very shadily shadily shadily postponed the meeting about rent freeze by two weeks i wonder fucking why so yeah i mean whether it's like a discussion in the discord or the reddit or whatever we're

just curious of like where where's everyone out on that because it seems like every community is in a very i mean in a different place in a number of ways of like are you allowed to go outside are people still like fucking around in your in your like are people still hanging out places and then like yeah what's what's the situation yeah and if you have any suggestions on how people are organizing to help put pressure on their local city council to do a rent freeze. Yeah, just don't pay your rent. The best way to do it is to literally not pay your rent because it's like my strange addiction is calling my city councilor

and then being ignored, ignored, ignored. So, yeah. strange addiction is calling my city counselor and then being ignored ignored ignored so um i mean yeah and i think it all yeah it depends on who if you have a management company that is being uh completely inhumane or maybe you have benevolent landlords that are dax shepherd and kristin bell who have so kindly told tmz that that they're not asking for rent in April. They're landlords? No. Oh, they're landlords and ladies, of course.

I don't know if Hannibal Buress also, if he's freezing. Oh, I knew Hannibal Buress. Damn. But yeah, it all came out there. I don't know if they told people, but it sounds as if they're not asking for rent. But yeah, I mean, at a time like this, it seems again, you see texts going like viral on Twitter of people's back and forwards with like, you know,

I don't know if they're real. They seem pretty real based on how like it's very disconnected landlord talk of like, hey, so I know it's kind of a tough month, but just because the pandemic's going on doesn't mean the bills stop. So we we still need you to pay your rent on april and they're like but i have literally no income and the landlords are like okay well i hope you're not one of those people who's working like check to check because that would be bad and it's like well what are you are you just collecting rent is that your job i hope you're not just collecting rent month to month and have no way to do anything else. That's pretty fucking rich from like, someone that you know is sitting on like Frozen 2 checks. You're like, shh. Yeah.

God damn it. Oh, don't worry. We won't be asking at a time like this. I mean, how could we? At a time like this, Kristen Bell's texting with Josh Gad. Josh Gad's crying, crying, crying. This is just my dystopian fan fiction.

I hadn't quite put together the human toll of this crisis until I saw that video of Josh Gad crying. And that woke Dax and I up. Yeah. The Josh Gad crying video. He was crying for Kristen Bell because he knew

the personal sacrifice her and Dax were making. Was Gad crying for the landlords, do you think? But that does seem to be a, like that text exchange, whether it's real or not, seems to sort of dramatize a thing that's happening where, you know, where the companies clearly have not been financially responsible enough to make it work across six to eight weeks of going dark, but they're expecting people to be able to have been financially responsible enough to make it work. It just seems like, yeah. I mean, I'm glad that some landlords are doing the right thing but it's like yeah we gotta we gotta uh force them to or you know just not parent yeah what do you i

mean again that we're looking at it every day is bringing some version of do i pick like doing the right thing or do i do the thing that's best for money? And I understand though too, like some people are unable to work and owning a property to have some kind of passive income is a way to have some kind of income as well. But yeah, that when you look at companies, like there's also a lot of people who, whether it's a private company or private person that you rent from, or one of these gigantic management companies, when you see these management companies or these you know these companies that own multiple rental structures be so fucking unaccommodating that's when you're like yeah i wonder what happens if everyone in your building is like yeah we're not going to pay rent yeah it definitely can't we fucking can't now but like

i so a super producer of fellow iheart shows sophie Sophie Lichterman, sent me a screenshot of maybe the most terrifying email I've ever read, which was just something she sent to her landlord. It was so scary. It was badass. She was just like, the gross incompetence of this management company boggles the

mind. You're like, holy shit. The mind boggles. I was boggled i was i i felt fully bodied by that email to not me it was great but let's talk about how i i think this overall kind of logic applies to just generally uh what the president and you know fortune 500 ceos are kind of the the frame of mind they're trying to get the country into because uh trump has gone full blown uh you know we're gonna send you back to work because you should want to work oh yeah because uh it's what makes america great is is that we all work uh but then it just it seems like it's totally motivated by i don't know their desperation to not have a bad quarter like it just seems like they are

refusing to change their priorities to a you know survival mentality like we all need to be in a survival mentality not a well this looks bad on the spreadsheets mentality it has to be a fucking like we're we need to like just go dark survive this and then come out and figure out a way out of it but it can't be we can't be like asking people to die for for i mean i don't know jack at a certain point we got to ask if the cure is worse than the disease itself you know what i mean man and uh you know if the cure is this bad where you know i gotta go on an earnings call and tell the investors why um you know our outputs down and why profits are down uh that means no bonus for me okay what the fuck am

i supposed to do so yeah i'm not actually super fucking sick yeah uh i mean yeah it's it's getting to the point where it's like literally there and people like know it which makes it better and worse but like the that they're just like bartering human lives for like for businesses and it is i don't know it's really scary it's uh you know it's this is what's been the underlying sickness of this country for decades um and it was easy to just sort of overlook a lot of it because it was coming it was playing out in ways that aren't all sort of for some people like a situation like this makes all of these problems come out at a certain level and makes it all very clear to people like what's going on and where the priorities lie and when you have

people like you know the lieutenant governor of texas trying to make like sacrificing your life for the capitalist machine sound like super metal and heroic, it makes you kind of like, oh, wow, that's the point we're at. Because it's like, hey, we're feeling the crunch up here up top, and we're not willing to feel any discomfort over the economy shutting down. So now we are demanding that the masses shoulder that burden, so the elite do not have to that's why you need to go back to work and i can continue to be boss they need to be the first ones on the line and just kill themselves off if that if they're if that's their plan they need to be

the first ones to go back and they need to do the fucking job with their own goddamn hands right there was there was a tweet from uh jamel buoy who's uh i think uh a writer that has done some stuff with the times and stuff but had like a really terrifying but good tweet yesterday that said uh hold on i'm pulling it up in my faves a faction of american elites are openly arguing that we should sacrifice at least a million of our citizens to keep the economy going by which they mean the stock market blood for shareholder value and that like basically summarizes what these people are arguing for yeah it's it's come to the point where it's like okay now we're gonna try and put a dollar amount on a human life we were doing they were doing that before with things like medical care and things like that but now it it's really like, okay, well, let's look.

How many people could die? Okay, and that's this much in losses. Okay, so one person dying. Okay, okay, I think we can live with that. Yeah, I think that's an important point. I mean, yeah, the quote from the lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, is wild. I don't know if we want to insert that here. I'll play it right now.

I'll play it right now. Okay, let's so he the lieutenant governor went on tucker carlson's show and essentially said old people fucking lay your lives on the line so we can keep this sweet sweet stock market going and this the way he says it it's it it really is like some Black Mirror type shit. And we're going to be in a total collapse, recession, depression, collapse in our society. If this goes on another several months, there won't be any jobs to come back to for many people. So I'm going to be smart. I think all of my fellow grandparents out there are going to be smart.

We all want to live. We want to live with our grandchildren as long as we can. But the point is, our biggest gift we give to our country and our children and our grandchildren is the legacy of our country. And right now that is at risk. And I feel like, as the president said, the mortality rate is so low. Do we have to shut down the whole country for this? I think we can get back to work and and i think we should wait out his time and if he says we need another week i trust his judgment but we have to have a time certain we can't say in three months or six months or 12 months right these businesses can't wait that

long so um tucker i intend to be around a long time on your show but but um it's it's worth whatever it takes to save the country oh j Christ. Hey, grandmas and grandpas, can you just fuck off and die? Unless you're like a one percenter. So that we can open the stock market again. Like, it's just... That's what they're saying. There's no other way to actually

distill that into some other sentiment. It's just simply, hey, poor people, die, so rich people can continue to earn money off the stock market. Yeah. I wonder, he's like, yeah, I'm going to be careful. I'm sure my other grandparents... You're talking about people who are like you, wealthy enough to protect themselves and not go into work and who have retirement funds and who like aren't going to be in the situation to die yeah that's yeah that that's and like that's who he's talking to also like that's

that's how something this asinine gets started is because all the rich guys start talking to each other and they're like well this is bad for us and people are going to want to make a sacrifice and they don't really think about like they think that they're making a sacrifice but they're like, well, this is bad for us and people are going to want to make a sacrifice and they don't really think about, like they think that they're making a sacrifice, but they're not really because they know that they're going to be fine and the people that they know are going to be fine and their family's going to be fine.

Well, another scare tactic, just as it relates to the stock market and like the kind of bullshit arguments to just like let's get the stock market back going uh kind of shit is um some scaremongering for people whose uh retirements are attached to the stock market um where like i don't know like right my my all my dad's uh retirement which is not a lot uh is is tied the stock market. And so he has been like, and I'm sure that a lot of people like retirement-ish age has been, I mean, not arguing that like not reopened America, but is like, I don't know how I'm going to fucking retire now.

Like if the stock market crashes this bad, when the time comes for me to take my money out in a couple of years then like i'm not gonna have enough to last for as long as retirement needs to last and so it's just and and so he's been getting like messages to that effect from you know from his his place of work that is like yeah this is really bad seems like we should all get back to work what do you think like shit like yeah like it's yeah and it sucks too to have to have you know something like your long-term financial stability like your retirement or pension tied to something as volatile as a stock market and then weaponize that against some someone rather than also like really they should be looking at okay well who's going to be made whole that is going to help the economy or help the stock market bounce back?

And how are they going to use that money responsibly? And then how are we also going to make this recovery package part of observing people who, unfortunately, may have been completely fucked over by the market crash? Yeah. And how do we take that into consideration rather than like, well, what about like spirit air? yeah and how do we take that into consideration rather than like well what about like spirit air how do we make sure they they they stay online and then they can fire as many people as they want right we're in it and it just like brings another like glaring hole in the way things work like brought to the forefront of like yeah if if the stock market is this volatile and the people who are you know like uh have a vested interest in it are such chaotic evil people then is it i mean it's not necessarily humane to have someone's

entire retirement like attached to that like that just doesn't make any human sense that needs to be a public service so right yeah There's other stories that are, again, this split between capital and labor, like the, in the sports world, the 76ers ownership was asking every employee of, uh, the 76ers and the Philadelphia Flyers, uh, from $50,000 up to take a 20% pay cut rather than, you know, them have a unprofitable quarter. And they eventually like got kind of reprimanded for that from the public because it's a public company that like people pay attention to, but shit like that is going on everywhere. And like right after they did that, Joelle Embiid,

who's the 76ers best player was like, okay, I will donate like $500,000 to those people. So they don't have to take a pay cut. Like that reminds me of Zion Williamson, who's like a 18 year old rookie in the NBA was like, I'm going to donate a bunch of my money so that people who work at our arena are able to feed their family. And it just reminds me of there was this study of who scored the highest on the narcissism test in Hollywood. And it was all the reality stars because they got famous not because they had a

talent that made them famous. They got famous because they have a sucking hole where their self-worth is and they just needed to fill it with fame. And I think that we're seeing a similar thing with capitalism, that the people who are richest are not necessarily the most skilled or the smartest. They are the most unbalanced, greedy, and predatory, and they're not going to do the right thing if they can possibly help it. And meanwhile, people who got rich by having a talent or a skill don't have that disposition. having a talent or a skill don't have that disposition they're otherwise like mostly normal people and so they have to donate money because they have empathy so that yeah you know well that's really kind of i mean that's that's good to hear yeah but i mean it's fucked that that like that i think the entire country and system is run by people who are like the owners, who are uniquely constructed to not have empathy and be predatory.

That's how you get hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Well, yeah, that's how you make the capital making the profit generating move to just shift my shit somewhere else in the name of profits and yeah you know again that's that's just sort of the game where all of this is the wealthy are asking the less fortunate to take, to actually be the ones to sacrifice. So it doesn't have to be them. And man, if I was doing some crisis PR for,

let's say the concept of capitalism, I'd be like, look, this is what y'all need to do right now. All you billionaires come to the fucking just, or come to the fucking rescue and be like, yo, here's fucking,

here's $3 billion for me. Here's $5 billion for me. Here's $10 billion for me. I get it. I made a lot of money, but I realize now I have the resources to make this right. Let me do that. And maybe people might shut the fuck up about taking all your shit when the dust settles after this. But right

now, everybody's sitting on their hands acting like, well, actually, I need poor people to actually tighten their belts up. Oh, that's the no, no, no, no. See? Yeah. That's how you build the sentiment against. People who are worried about feeding their family are the ones. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. It's wild. And, I mean, I do think this raises the, you know, the idea of a general strike because i mean clearly the the fortune 500 ceos and the uh the government like every all the people who have the power clearly need uh you know labor to uh to exist like they they can't deal without labor. And just after a week of people being quarantined,

they are on their knees begging people to go back to work. Right. I've seen a bunch of tweets from people just being like, it's almost like the thing that was driving all the value was our labor. Shockingly. Well, I think, again, too, this shows you why the media is so fucked up, too. The emphasis of all the stories we're looking at come from the perspective of the moneyed class.

It comes from what do we do about the economy? It's not about more stories about how can we circle around communities that are at risk right now, about the unhoused people, about people who are not able or disabled, who are not able to work even who can work even less now, who have needs for children who can't eat because they were depending on things at school. They pepper those stories in here and there is like, you know, little puff pieces, but then bring it back to like, oh, my God. But the economy, you know, like when you really look at that, it's like, I don't, that's not what actually stresses me out. I mean, I know there are people who are stressed out about the, like the stock market aspect, but I'm like, how are we, why aren't we talking about how we can actually relieve the suction

of capital from people who right now, the thing they're feeling is like, well, I have bills, I have rent. That means that's money coming up out my head, going up in a direction to somebody else who has more money than me how can we relieve that pressure and like responsibly to say everybody hold the fuck up nobody's moving any money around right now until we figure this shit out unless you're buying gas or groceries that's the only shit money maybe can be exchanged on. But fuck a phone bill. Fuck your rent. Fuck utilities.

Fuck these car payments. Fuck all this other stuff that's mostly owned by banks and shit like that. Absolutely, yeah. Why aren't we having meaningful discussion like that on the news? But I think because they don't want to put out there what the game is like, and that needs to be dealt with behind closed doors. Yeah. fucking what the game is like and that needs to be dealt with behind closed doors yeah so think about all the think about all the important economic news there is like all the different like factors that influence the economy and to your point about the media think about that there's

an entire cable channel msnbc that is nothing but dedicated to the US economy. And the only thing they pay attention to is the stock market. It's like that's all you need to know about how the media is just fully, fully focused on the thing that influences the people who live around them. It's all just like a mid culture where it's like the the media saying like the thing they care about amid thing that is absolutely devastating the rest of the world like it's just yeah and and i don't know it's like we were talking about uh last week it's hard to find like sources that feel reliable like now kind of more than ever because you just have to kind of check yourself and be like well but wait what is like you know on the

surface i'm like but well a lot of boomers are like oh msnbc it's the lesser of two evils but it's like no they have a vested interest in stuff that's fucking you over it's just i don't know yeah yeah upper um and in the meantime it's like to see like places like um new zealand um go into isolation with just a hundred cases of of covet in their country and it's just kind of i don't know like they're well yeah places that have figured out like proper social safety nets to be like, yeah, okay, even if you're not working, there's a way to make this all work. That's not how this country works. And I think just when you look at the news coverage and who dictates that,

like the money class people who probably have a ton of their wealth tied up in the stock market, which is why they're shitting themselves because they could lose tens of millions of dollars. It shows you that their biggest fear is to be working class that is the biggest fear of wealthy people is to be working class because when you are working class nobody gives a fuck about you and they don't want they know that because they set the game up like that so now they're on their hands and knees being like oh well i just we we got to figure out how to we need to figure out how y'all gonna get back to work because i can't be like y'all right yeah so fuck that i have no sympathy for half these fucking companies man yeah we need to shut everything the fuck down and just focus on

people not starving to death and then come out whenever the doctors tell us to come out and yeah first tell trump and his people to shut the fuck up and then rethink how whenever the doctors tell us to come out. Yeah. First things fucking first. Tell Trump and his people to shut the fuck up. And then rethink how these real estate markets work and then rethink how this health industry works and then rethink how these investments work and then rethink how our manufacturing works. Yeah.

Yeah, but the first priority is protecting people and saving fucking lives. Yeah. Yeah. And not using just the disturbing calculus of what is a human life cost a millionaire's portfolio jesus yeah um one one story that uh i wanted to bring up real quick is uh just about like the media spin, the, the way the conservative media and the Trump administration started referring to the viruses,

the China virus. Kurt Eichenwald had a article where he basically reported out that they had consulted, like as the infection rate and the death toll rose, Republicans and administration officials realized they couldn't keep just saying, you know, COVID-19 is a fictional thing being used to hurt Trump. So they, rather than just like going with what scientists were saying, their decision was to reach out to a political consultant to find a spin that would allow them to attack Democrats and the media and distract everybody from Trump's abject failure to protect the country. And the consultant came up with the idea of them calling, the China virus or the Chinese virus.

Uh, and like, so the, this, uh, never Trump Republican had reached out to him and told him this story before they even started using it. And he was like, well,

that wouldn't work, but okay. And then sure enough, like he, like a day later, he heard Tucker Carlson call it, uh, the China virus.

And then trump started bringing it up and then i mean it worked on virus uh in a few different places as well just like all those fucking racist deflective variants on yeah and it definitely worked in the sense that they then created the narrative and started a narrative around the idea that well democrats are mad that we're just like referencing the fact that it came from china and that's a like they you know they figure they know their audience extremely well and uh i mean well enough that that that fucking man died trying to make his own fucking malaria medicine with like fucking aquarium chemicals yep so um yeah but anyways i mean it's incredibly harmful like the media like i'm i'm

definitely not saying the media and democrats are wrong to criticize uh the use of that phrase because it's incredibly racist and uh contributing to what is already a dangerous situation for asian americans yeah i think i think part of the sort of strategy around that is like you you can you acknowledge that it's racist and then also acknowledge that they are doing that intentionally to try and distract you from that they might as well call it the honestly, dude, like we can't pin this on Trump flu is probably what is really what it's called for. Uh, all right guys,

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Holy shit. They are like the air guitaring league of the United States. Dude, MTN Dew is a fuck. They told COVID-19, fuck you, pussy. The Dew ain't gonna stop doing what it do. They are set to release a new

flavor that literally, I can't believe, this looks like the Venn diagram of where Jack O'Brien is the middle. It's Mountain Dew with a fucking great white shark on it called mountain dew frostbite it looks like jaws coming out of the fucking ice like some fucked up sequel um yeah and jack this is the flavor for you only uh but you can only get it at walmart so you've got to get to walmart if you want this blue dew you gotta get covered if you

want to get the do there there's uh i feel like the way that this product got on the market was just that someone was like talking to a mountain dew representative and they have their fucking goatees or whatever and then they're like and the the mountain dew okay here's my here's how i picture it mountain dew guy is like yeah so like we're not not going to introduce any new products during the COVID-19 outbreak. And then someone was just like, what, are you fucking scared?

And then that's why they're releasing this. Right. Oh, wow. They just got pumped into it. I think I'm a fucking pussy. I'll put a fucking shark on the bottle, dog. And then this comes out. Yeah.

I mean, I cannot not go out and then this comes out yeah uh i mean i cannot not uh go out and buy this so uh yeah catch me at oh at the walmart in the i i don't know what the nearest walmart is probably the one in the valley uh no there's one sure yeah yeah there's one uh yeah there's one over by you. But the flavor is what kind of is a little weird. It's a, quote, a burst of icy refreshment. Fucking duh. But with a cool melon flavor. Ew. What kind of melon?

I don't like that. I don't know. That's a miss for me. Shark melon? Although. Shark melon? Shark melon, yeah. Great white piss.

It's like a great white piss in your mouth. Great white piss. But you want to know what shark piss tastes like, but you're probably like, wait, how could you know? Because they swim in water already. Well, crack open a bottle of Mountain Dew Frostbite Shark Piss. I mean, Mountain Dew should never try to

approximate anything, right? Like, Code Red is not like, it's not like they're like a berry flavor. It's just Code Red, bro. It's Code Red, bro. It's Code Red. You know it when you taste it.

Their greatest flavor, Sierra Mist. Or not Sierra Mist. What is it? Baja Blast? Baja Blast, yeah. Oh, I could go for a Baja Blast right now. I could too. Yeah, well, Code Red is, I think, theirs except with what they say has a kick of cherry.

That's how they do it. Kind of do a little cherry. Then there's Voltage. All right. It's due charged with raspberry, citrus, and ginseng. Okay. Charged. Did you guys ever drink Surge?

I miss Surge. Hell yeah. I drank Surge. Oh, man. I remember when Surge came out in LA, there used to be this thing called Clipper Night where local like elementary schools could play on the sports arena basketball court before a Clippers NBA game. And around the time I think Keith Kloss was playing right before he got jumped outside of a nightclub for any NBA fans out there. They were they were promoting Serge and handing it out by the case to like teenage kids leaving a fucking Clipper game. We're getting

on a bus and our teachers were like only take one bottle of surge only take one can of surge and we're like fuck you miss harrison i'm blowing up my motherfucking bag oh it was it was glorious whenever they make the tv show about mad men for our era that's one of the scenes the surge guys uh there is i remember there was like a my one of my cousins told us and i think that he thought it was true like i was getting surge from like whatever like a burger king like soda machine and he's like you know that surge is just all the other sodas mixed together and dyed green and like he that was he was like you can just make surge at your house by mixing together all the other sodas.

That's definitely not true. And I had heard that about Dr. Pepper. Oh, really? Oh, that makes more sense because it's at least supposed to have multiple flavors. No, my cousin thought it was like green piss on top of all the other sodas. Shrek piss. The commercials equated it to like having a substance abuse problem like the first commercial i remember because it was so out of this fucking world i

remember all of our friends you'd be like search screaming it because in the i don't know if you remember this commercial it's vivid this dude has a bottle of surge and he puts it like on the back of a couch and then there's like a group of like 10 horny like 20 year old dudes who are like frothing at the mouth for this bottle of surge but like there's an obstacle course of like bombed out couches that they have to like steeple chase over to get to the bottle and once the guy places the bottle he screams out at the top of his fucking lungs and then the guys fucking run to try and get the bottle and the one dude who gets it he's not even drinking he's like throwing it in the air like he's like i got the fucking surge

just holding it it's like a combination of meth and the ring from Lord of the Rings. Hold it and feel its power. Mad Men for the early aughts would be so funny. We want to check in with the guys who made the Gusher campaign where kids' heads turned into full-ass strawberries. Yeah. What's that guy's story? Is he cheating

on his wife? For sure he is. Oh, yeah. The guy on his wife like for sure he is yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah um the guys who the guy who came up with the idea of the red bull women who like go around and give out red bull on college campuses oh right like one of this one of the characters is a red bull woman who then like becomes an ad copywriter because she's really great really smart smart. Oh my god. Jesus. Keep these ideas inside. We got a little writer's room we can go

into. Well, that's just Peggy's storyline updated. If we gave Peggy ombre hair and a graphic tee that said 99% angel, 1% devil, we're in business. And it's played by Elizabeth Moss again.

It's still Elizabeth Moss. Elizabeth Moss is wilding out on some weirdo parts right now. She'd do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's such a good actor. She's great. Yeah. By the way, guys, I have some bad news for me.

Baja Blast is not just baja blast flavored it is actually a tropical lime flavor uh which is bullshit idiot so all all mountain dew flavors are bullshit yeah that's funny i appreciate them like keeping the scam up though and being like no it definitely you taste it You taste the cherry in there? Oh, yeah. Tropical lime isn't even a fruit. Oh, I'm down in Baja, California, man. You know the tropical lime

down here, it's the same color as the water at many golf courses. Oh, it's so sweet. Let's talk real quick. We always have to get an update from a celebrity who has had the quarantine affect their life. Don't believe the stories that Jared Leto has started a cult during the quarantine.

He started a cult before the quarantine and is currently doing social distancing like he should. That's an old story that again is just getting regurgitated because it's slow news. He didn't know about coronavirus because he was with his cult. Okay?

Now he knows and he's keeping social distance from his cult that he's had for a while now. Okay? But Jeremy Renner on the other hand oh it's really the uh jared leto of the marvel universe uh jeremy renner uh what's going on with jeremy renner guys you got tell the people dude all right so apparently he knew 2020 was about to be a fucking lean year for him because he's done with the avengers shit well his hawkeyes series was almost canceled because of some allegations but then i think it was uncanceled but now it's recanceled i don't know so he's basically saying between look dude i wasn't

gonna be working much this year even though i was in some of the biggest films ever on paper uh i just this goddamn alimony and child support is too damn much for me judge you gotta ease up on me yeah apparently i think he's paying around 30 000 a month um for his child that goes to his ex-wife but he's just saying like you know now that these other productions are holding up i think 11 000 is probably a better amount uh for my little child so i don't know i don't know judge you tell me but i think that's such a weird discussion to begin with because you're just like 11 that for what but then you're just like no jeremy take jeremy renner's money

away from him i something i think is interesting is that uh jeremy renner's ex-wife's name is sunny which can't be a coincidence i think my dog is scamming jeremy renner out of 19 000 a month just was wearing lipstick and a wig for their guy he's like you're gonna need 30 000 sorry the needs have changed uh no i don't know what do you think is you know that jeep didn't re-up his music contract is that the situation how much do you think he got paid for this thing that's why i'm like so much money if i'm sonacheco, his ex's lawyer, I'm going to the judge. I go, your honor, this motherfucker had an app last year. This dude was popping last year.

Have you heard his single Nomad? It slaps. Just play the Jeep commercials and you will be unable to. Oh, yeah. Especially the one where he leaves a black tie event and drives his Jeep out to a concert that has spontaneously formed for him. They just kind of had a feeling he was going to not think that that black tie party was lame. But Jeremy Renner, I think, is a a talented actor but i would put him also in the

category of i don't know the town he was pretty good i thought i i've always the town you didn't think he was good in the town went to the premiere of the fucking town at fenway park uh shit the cathedral the cathedral oh yeah we call fucking church okay mr renner i just want to tell you despite what's happening in the world in the economy you still do have an obligation to pay your child support alma yeah i understand i understand your honor but i'm just telling you right now my my income is just so unpredictable, I gotta tell you. Ooh, that was worth it. Very worth it. Past Zeitgeist, Johnny Pemberton and I did some Renner bits a while back,

and we were going through, we focused on his single Nomad, which is underrated, I think. Yeah. Because everybody knows Heaven ain't Got No Name or something. Heaven don't have a name, even though they say the name in the title. The lyrics to Nomad, it literally sounds like it was generated by a PG-rated machine, where it's just like, if this world's a circle, ooh, I got no time for them squares. Two plus two must equal, I don't care.

Wow. Yeah, I'll jump off the edge to get me there. It's just the most bullshit. It's about nothing. Hell yeah, King. I'm a nomad. Oh, man. Renner.

Good to have him back. Let's get some Renner AKs back in the mix. I need some Renner AKs. Any quarantine activities you want to share with the Zeitgeist? I've been using this new app. Or not new app, new to me. Just as other people were quick to point out that Uncooked 2 is an older game. new app or not new app new to me just as other people were quick to point out that uh yeah

uncooked too is an older game but um there's this app called portal and it's basically like these soundscapes that are recorded with like professional sound engineers are going into like nepal or the fucking rainforest or like a field in england and just capturing like this atmospheric nature sound and it's mixed in a way that it feels almost like surround sound so if you got really good headphones on i put them on i get high i will like listen to an audiobook or a podcast and if i close my eyes bruh i can go places i'm telling you it's but so But so in the free version, you get like four sounds. And I've just been messing with those. But like there are other ones you can unlock that are like, you know, there's one that's just like a roaring like wood fire.

It says it's Switzerland, but it's just the sound of this like wood crackling. Look, Portal is just cool. You can mix it with your podcast, audio books. And like it's mixed in a way where like you're like it's sort of on the periphery sort of of where it's taking up the sonic it with your podcast, audiobooks, and it's mixed in a way where it's sort of on the periphery of where it's taking up the sonic space with your hearing. It's carved out enough that you can listen to whatever else you want and still kind of vibe

to it. I love it. Love it. All right, guys. Well, it's been a pleasure talking to you guys as always. Jamie, where can people find you and follow you? You can follow me on twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help, Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar.

I'm doing a live stream on, well, yeah, tonight, Wednesday night at 8 p.m. Pacific Standard on the Lyric Hyperion Instagram page to help raise money for their employees, and it'll be fun. I shot a couple sketches with Isaac. They're not very good. You should tune in.

They are, oh boy, they are bad. So yeah, hopefully, and then donate a little bit of money to the Lyric if you can. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying uh yeah i've been in well not maybe enjoying isn't the word but uh there has uh i mean in in part um super producer anahosnia anahosnia brought this to my attention in addition to mitra juhari they're um doing a twitter storm slash making a lot of calls to end covid sanctions on iran and encouraging um there's a movement encouraging people to uh tweet at their representatives and just encourage people to loosen sanctions on iran so that we can you know actually fucking help someone for once and not

um you know make sanctions worse and make things harder and be inhumane and evil so uh there's a mitra juhari uh her whole account right now is just um full of um things regarding this it's the hashtag is end covid sanctions and uh her handle is awesome Miles where can people find you and is there a tweet you've been enjoying Twitter, Instagram, Playstation Network, Miles of Grey

other show 420 Day Fiance new episode out today with Sophia Alexandra and I talking about 90 Day Fiance and a tweet I like okay look it's a little if you got kids around, turn them away. Turn the volume down. Put headphones in.

Because it's just, it's a little, it's a little, it's a little R rated. But it made me laugh so hard. This is from at Lex the Stampede. It said, if her pussy smell like fruits and flowers, she spray some shit on it. Because real pussy smell like that heat coming from the back of the PS4. Oh, my God. Wow. These are things that pop up on me feed and give me a little bit of a laugh.

Heat coming out the back of the PS4. laugh. He's coming out the back of the PS4. Pretty helpful. Jenny Lewis tweeted I am tweeting Quarantino. She's a good musician. You can find me on

Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on miles. What is it going to be?

This is from Prefuse73 or Pre-fuse 73 i always say prepuse but uh this is from an album that came out 17 years ago one word extinguisher is one of the first albums i ever heard from this artist and got me really interested in like more forward thinking production and things like that uh and making my own music as well and this song is called pentagram and it's just great because it's got a great vocal sample you know they change it goes in a different meter at times it's a little bit of something for everybody depending on what kind of music you like but check out the entire album one word extinguisher it's really really cool the daily zeitgeist is a

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