The Daily Zeitgeist - Disney’s Weird Censorship, Rats Inherit New York 4.16.20

Episode Date: April 16, 2020

In episode 610, Jack, Miles, and Jamie are joined by comedian, Get Rich Nick, and Deckheads podcast host Nick Turner to discuss an ER doctors experience in New York, Kellyanne Conway's lack of facts, Democrats trying to push a bill to give Americans 2k a month, LA coronavirus deaths going upFOOTNOTES: I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same. Kellyanne Attacks WHO’s Command of ‘Facts and Figures’ With Nonsensical ‘COVID-1’ Dig Coronavirus Relief: Proposed Bill Would Give Americans $2,000 A Month During Pandemic L.A. County confirms 40 new coronavirus deaths, the highest toll in a single day Rat Expert Predicts Rat Turf Wars As Some Parts Of NYC Produce Less Trash 5 Reasons Rats Are Way Scarier Than You Think Disney Plus racks up 50m subscribers in five months Disney Plus’ butt cover-up hides a much bigger problem On Disney+, Not All Butts Are Created Equal Disney+ users baffled by Lilo and Stitch alteration: ‘It’s annoying how they’ve changed scenes’ Filtering Your World Is Understandable—But It's Not Helpful WATCH: Cougar - Rhinelander Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 129, episode four of your daily zeitgeist. Yeah. Whoa. Production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers,

fuck Fox News, fuck the Trump administration, fuck COVID-19. Oh, hell yeah, bud. I know. Hell yeah, bud. It's Thursday, April 16th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien,

a.k.a. J. Quar Quar Tolkien, Ed Quar, Alan Poe, Osquar Wilde, Quarman Mailer, Lewis Quarrel, Quarthur Conan Doyle,

and Quarper Lee. Those are all here to see Christy Yamaguchi, man. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Please stay at home!

Stay at home! Stay at home! Stay at home! Stay at home! We got disease going on. Thank you to Christy Yamaguchi-May. Crispy Meme Donut, so far, two for two. For that Mrs. Jones, me, Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul, inspired AK.

The first time I heard that song, I think it was on an infomercial that was publicizing time-life greatest soul hits on an album late at night. And that was the one song that they would always repeat over and over that I remember. Random fact from the choir. Thank you.

We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by our sometimes choir co-host, the hilarious, the talented, the Lil Zam, Jamie Loftus! This is our new normal, normal binging all the Tiger King watching tons of live streams

reading 50 different memes still we're doing this podcast podcast it's the Daily Zeitgeist Reading 50 different memes. Still we're doing this podcast. Podcast. It's the Daily Zeitgeist. Recording on Zoom. On Zoom. On Zoom. On Zoom.

Living life in quarantine. Woo! Thank you to Jeff Baker Draws. He actually wrote like three verses, but I just didn't have it in me so good yeah you'll release

the full track on on my only fans rubbing mayonnaise on my feet singing the full AKAs if you ever want to hear an extended version of my AKAs it's on my only fans and I rub condiments on my feet while I sing them is only fans specific it like specific to

edgy material to adult content or is it uh it's an adult or is it just whatever fans want to subscribe to very specific content it's a very specific i don't even know if that's like in the d i don't know if that was the intent of only fans specifically but that's just kind of where that's kind of just where the culture's gone yeah and it's and it's where a lot of sex workers have have migrated to right right during covid too so pro well we are thrilled to be joined in our fourth seat by the guest on today's episode he is the hilarious and talented stand-up comedian and also the co-host of the hilarious and amazing podcast deckheads with super producer anna hosnier he is mr nick turner

Turner! Somewhere outside my window, COVID flies. And when I go outside, I wear Anna's masks. Yes. Amazing rhyme scheme. Supervisor Anna Hosnier is making... I don't have people write these and send them to me. Yeah, but you got the voice, though.

I sit here and I remember that you do this. I knew Nick was going to be like, Nick's going to come in here. He's going to start singing, I know, because his beautiful voice from on high. Yeah. We all know. We get it. We're out here scraping along with our AKAs

and then the man himself enters. And then a professional enters. Look, I've still never done the Star Spangled Banner and I hope to one day. If anybody out there can make that happen or knows anyone in the industry. It's been a real revelation to have Jamie

consistently on here uh doing a good job singing uh it's really i don't know maybe every day jamie goes jamie goes live with someone on instagram and they sing the national and just the daily national anthem with one person we all dial in to salute and they're like okay everyone to do that thing we're like to get a more sense of normalcy in these trying times I'm going to be going live on Instagram live every day at 9am Pacific Standard Time and singing the National

Anthem Nash Anth content we already have like a catchphrase in our house based on your Star Spangled Banner. It's when we fuck something up, we just say, I did bad. Hey, I made you dinner, babe. I'm sorry. I did bad.

It's so adorable. It's such an adorable way to own up to fucking something up, even though young Jamie Loftus didn't truly fuck it up that bad. That bad. I mean, it was still pretty fucked up.

Nick, how are you doing? How are you hanging in there in this quar? I'm doing incredible. I would have so much free time if it wasn't for your deckheads, of course. It's every day, but we're banking them. So some weeks we do 25 episodes um yeah i get two hours of sleep a night no we do eight but eight is insane that's a lot

yeah 25 i don't know why that really got just man that's what if i'm putting in work. Team mostly. Come here. Could you imagine? Are you thriving? Are you a, what's it called? Introvert? Are you, is this your, where you would be? No, it's, you know, I get plenty of interaction. I do.

I literally do like 25 podcasts a week. Various. Jesus. You know, I started a Patreon too, interaction uh i do i literally do like 25 podcasts a week um various you know i started a patreon too because i just i got free time um and uh so i do i'm doing like a few on that and uh i i talk i talk to people too much actually i i wish a lot of people be like i don't have anything to do and i'm well, it's very easy. Do something. That's what you can do. So I'm keeping busy, and I do not know how my dog feels about it.

That's what everyone has. Hey, how's the dog holding up? I don't know. I have no information, no, about what he's feeling. He mentally has been very trying for the dog. Yes. Yeah, I guess. I mean, the guy really keeps rolling.

Spiritually defeating. Sonny keeps showing me his bottom row of teeth. Great. Well, Nick, it's great to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We're going to talk about that diary from the uh physician on the new york front lines that is just fucking harrowing uh those in the

new york times magazine i think over the weekend we're going to talk about the new trump administration strategy no not for combating the coronavirus not for bringing the country back to uh open for business uh rather the strategy for shifting blame away from him in this case blaming the world health organization so we're gonna look at that uh also kellyanne conway uh was on fox and friends two days ago to uh you to weather balloon the strategy and said one of the dumbest things that's been said to date about the coronavirus. I thought it was pretty fucking dope.

Yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, it was tight for sure. It was hilarious. People love to create content during this time. So really, I'm not going to frown at any content, even if it's ruining the world. They're entertainers.

If nothing else, the Trump administration are entertainers. That's what they'll say in their court proceedings. Without the best content. I'm honestly shocked that the Trump administration is not going live at 10 a.m. and doing some fucked up national anthem every morning or the Pledge of Allegiance.

Yeah, with like diamond and silk. Yeah, missed opportunity. Look at his social engagement. anthem every morning or the pledge of allegiance yeah with like diamond and silk yeah missed opportunity his social engagement uh it's truly off the charts especially during this coronavirus he is crushing it on social media and people just need to stop hating uh is kind of where i'm at it's true he's a content creator at heart. Why doesn't he do Instagram Lives? Like, what's he waiting on? Just like, hey, guys. How you been?

I'm having a hard time getting out of bed today, but I still wanted to talk to you. Right. While he has, like, his makeup on already and, like, his hair already, like, three hours in. Well, he gets that lady that Missy Elliott used that comes and puts his makeup on while he's sleeping. Oh, Missy Elliott does that?

What an in there. I don't know. That story's like 10 years old. Yeah, I love that. Man, one of those myths we really need to get into. Is that a true story or something she bragged about in the song? I think so. I mean, it's not been debunked on TDZ, so. Wow. That must be true.

Mr. Elliott rules. A story like that's got to be true. He also, the president recently said that he wanted to launch a radio show, but was waiting because Rush Limbaugh is still the king, and he doesn't want to do it unless he's going to be number one. And again, this is the president of the united states he's like yeah let's see if rush makes it another year and maybe i'll get into the mix deeply i honestly think he probably said some shit like that

like that actually came into his calculus oh like he's sick for sure just imagine whatever the worst possible thing you could say is and uh let's play that by trump house democrats are proposing a bill to give americans two thousand dollars per month during the quarantine la is starting to see uh our own wave and i think that's happening just generally across the country and back in new york they're seeing the rise of the rats. So we are seeing peak rat king. Rattivity. Yeah, this is the peak environment for a rat king to actually happen. Greenlight the Pixar movie now.

Now is the time. It's already been optioned. And people are noticing some awkward censorship on disney plus or more than usual so we're going to talk about that we might talk about some quarantine activities that we can recommend but first nick we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are friend um i've uh been googling almost exclusively what games to play during a pandemic. What are you learning? Well, because for the first few weeks of quarantine, everyone wanted to play Quiplash.

Yes. And that was it. And that was fun. And we had our Quiplash Renaissance. But that got old. So we had to go to more sophisticated means. So now we've downloaded Steam. And I've been playing Catan on that. Okay.

There's like, it's fun. You have to set it up with all your friends. Like, everyone has to buy it. You can't be like playing it on a whim and send it to people. So it's like, we've been playing Catan. I got Ticket to Ride. Lyra's been playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. And yesterday we did a big group Risk game.

It was my first time playing Risk. And I'll tell you what, I did not like it. Not much of a strategist. Which one is Risk? I don't think I've ever played it. Risk is the one where if you've never played before, people will refuse to help you learn. So you can beat the shit out of you?

Yeah. And then your first couple of turns, you won't even know how to attack, so you won't. So then you'll lose your whole army in two turns. And then people are like, this game is three hours more. And I left. I don't have those friends anymore, and I'm are like, this game is three hours more. And I left. I don't have those friends anymore, and I'm going to get some new ones. So I hope you guys are free.

Healthy. Healthy boundaries in the core. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're moving armies around the globe, and it's like a World War simulator game, essentially, which is something that I think is fun, and everybody at this time is

really in the mood for just some simulated death i just bought i bought the the board game pandemic right before the quart also um so it's sitting there and i can't play it i'm really fighting the urge to not dive into civilization six because that because I will take a vow of silence to play it. Like those Sid Meier's games I really love, and I keep seeing people playing it, and I don't want to, but I must. I'm just fighting that urge. I was feeling like I was getting bored with games,

and then I realized how much I love Civilization. The Quark has made me realize how I'm truly never... If I haven't gotten into video games during this time, it's just never going to happen. It's never going to happen for us, Jamie. I don't think it...

Even though I know that you're loyal to the Switch until you die, but I just don't know if it's going to happen. I just told my boyfriend like it's not gonna happen you gotta play solo games so he's been playing the new star wars game which one fallen order jedi fallen yeah do you play too yeah he's smoking blunts every day and playing star wars and then if i walk in the room he's like i'm a padawan with ptsd like he gets really into it i think miles and your boyfriend are gonna become like history's

best friends you just you need to face two live streams like face to face of each other where it's like two furbies i do just want to uh i do just want to mention that uh when i said it's never gonna happen to me i'm of course excluding the switch switch is more of a way of life for me than a game i don't think of it as a game anymore. But the thing is, Jamie, my mom used to, she hates video games, and then she for some reason loved Dance Dance Revolution.

You don't love DDR? That's cool. You never know. You never know. Spyro is still the only one that's ever hit for me in my lifetime. We'll have to get you some Spyro download codes hell yeah i've got a huge spyro wait if i can show you i got a huge spyro inner tube spyro head oh yeah nick what's your face so you're a board

gamer is that right yeah yeah well that's what i was gonna say to jamie it's like these aren't video games these are board games that you just have to find a way to play virtually. But yeah, no, I like to play board games with my friends. I like to go over to a friend's house, get high and drunk, and play board games. And so now you're just doing that in a closet closed away from the world? Well, I get out of my closet to do the games. I get to hang out with my lady there

in the living room. Oh, nice. This closet's just for work and quick changes. It's my work closet. Yeah. Work closet. Everybody's got their

work closet these days. You know, it's just my area to do personal stuff. We each have work closets, but Lyra's is in the hallway and it's gigantic. And mine is tiny and in the bedroom. Hers is a walk-in and yours is...

Yeah. It's relative to our paychecks, though. I think she deserves it. Right. What is something you think is underrated? I'll tell you what. Chicken wings during the quarantine. Chicken wings during the quarantine. Ooh.

Chicken wings during the quarantine. I have been- I'm going to do that today. I've been reading a lot into this, and apparently the wings, which are the most expensive part of the bird per pound, haven't been this cheap since September 2011. Yep. Really? They sold for close to $2 per pound

the weekend of the Super Bowl, and now they sell for about $1 a pound. And it is because people do not make chicken wings in their house. That is something you go to a bar, that's when you are enjoying a sports game, you will enjoy some chicken wings, but now all that's gone and now they're just sitting there.

Need a deep fryer. Get an air fryer, get an air fryer get a yep get an instant pot get uh instacart to send you all of it and uh you're you're set has that affected the the prices on wing stop uh i mean a lot of places like buffalo wild wings is basically doing two for one oh wow at least the one one by me but i don't I'm not a B-dubs guy so much as a Wingstop guy. I love B-dubs. Just to shout out my favorite brand, Chuck E. Cheese is still open for food, too. That's your favorite brand of wing?

No, favorite brand of all time. They sell wings, but they're not good. They're microwaved. But their kitchen is still open, which is, I saw one of my friends, it sounds like I'm saying it to cover it up for the fact that it was me, but it was my friend, got like three large pizzas from Chuck E. Cheese

for like 15 bucks. Wow. Three larges for 15, okay. I was gonna ask the question of how they're possibly getting anybody to order Chuck E. Cheese food to go. And that makes sense if it's cheaper than any food has ever been.

And you said your friend's name was Lamey Joftis. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was right. She's actually really fun. She's really fun. She's not sick. And the food is not delivered by an animatronic rodent,

nor is it come with a ball pit. It's just the food from Chuck E. Cheese. It's just the food from Chuck E. Cheese, although they will deliver the party paper plates to sweeten the pot. Well, that's fun. They won't even give you some Chinese finger cuffs or something? I'm like, could I have just one prize, please?

A six-year-old birthday party favor? No, my friend Patrick shot it. They delivered it with some paper plates and a couple of rogue tokens. They don't even use tokens anymore. It's pandemonium over there. Rokens. Damn.

Rokus. By the way, those Chinese finger cuffs, which probably have a better name now than that. They are possible to tear out of as an adult. I ripped my kids finger cuffs in half.

I just wanted to brag about that. You're so fucking powerful. Come on, show us those checks, dude. Yeah. Sometimes I don't even know my own strength. It's wild. Fucking powerful, Jack. Come on, show us those checks, dude. Hey, Bruce Banner. Sometimes I don't even know my own strength. It's wild.

I don't know. I remember when I was interviewing for this job, Jack was like, hey, you ever hosted? And I was like, ah, I mean, I've done some stuff. And he threw a fucking phone book at my chest and goes, all right, tear that in half, though. And I couldn't do it and then he did it and he was like anyway so yeah yeah i think you'd be a good number two to my number one clearly and i was like all right you're not gonna be i like how jack had one had one question he's like uh have you hosted before you're like no and no. And he's like, oh, shit. Well, you can have it anyway.

Watch me tear this phone book in half. Also, I'm really good at those little ball maze things that the handheld ball. Never mind. Oh, like the little labyrinth? Like a steel ball labyrinth? That are like, yeah, the ones that cost five cents. Oh, the plastic one with like a bb a little plastic yeah with the bb those are also still very popular in uh children's birthday

party uh favor bags and it's always like a fish or a frog or a cat face yeah Nick, what is something you think is overrated? Finally. Speculation. I was talking to someone yesterday, and they were like, hey, I heard that they're going to reopen the country on May 15th. I'm like, who told you? What are you fucking talking about? Just like that, huh? Right.

There's no authority on everything. Every time I turn on the news, they're like, we were thinking May 1st, but it's probably going to be more like June 12th. Then another one's like, I think it's going to be August 13th. And I don't know why anyone opens their fat mouth

because nobody knows anything about anything. And all you can do right now is fortify your bedroom closet with as much sound deadening equipment as possible so you can thrive on podcasts yeah we're all just trying to thrive on podcasts also just a lot of the i think the speculation is so born out of some people you know like people need a certain degree of predictability in their life so i think you sort of have to cling to like a fucking date to just be like okay i know today

is it fucking april fucking 16th or whatever the fuck but i just know fucking one more month one more month and we can get i don't know for me i just tried to rip the band-aid off the second this shit shut down and be like i need to to prepare myself to never want to leave the house again. I need to begin trying to reshape my brain to try and just be able to deal with it in my own way. But I think it varies from person to person. Right before the quarantine, Lyra and I moved into a giant house in Echo Park with roommates. And then as soon as the quarantine happened, we were just stuck in this giant house with roommates. And so we moved out immediately.

We found a place and just a one-bedroom apartment. And when I was looking at this place, I was like, I am going to be in this house for a year. And that is what I want a house that has everything i need for one year because that is how long i think that we are going to be quarantined um and so far i think i'm right i'm speculating you're speculating while you're at just a rough date yeah there i don't know i i've been like getting really focused on trying to make our house look like a

place that we would want to be you know like I was like okay we gotta this is all we've got there's nowhere outside of room I didn't see that movie but I feel like it's like that I'm Jacob Tremblay he's Brie Larson and we're in room I feel like there's some nuance to that movie you're missing I'm Jacob Tremblay. He's Brie Larson, and we're in Room.

I feel like there's some nuance to that movie you're missing. It's about making your place as livable as possible, right? It's about sprucing the place up. Look, make the most out of it. Isn't Room when they spruce up the room, and then they're like, Room isn't so bad? The Danish have a word for it called hygge, which is about coziness.

And I believe that's what it was trying to communicate. I mean, well, isn't it when they leave the room, Jacob Tremblay is like, I miss room. Yeah. Yep. That's what I'll be. And then he looks at the camera when he says that line. I miss room. Directed by Richard Donner.

He says right to the camera. He didn't even direct that movie. Yeah. No, I do think, though, Room is the next craze in Homecats. Like, after Marie Kondo, we're going to go in the direction of Room. I like Room! The Room plan. Yeah. going to go in in the direction of room uh the room plan yeah uh and finally nick uh what is a myth what's something people think is true that you know to be false yes um uh there's a myth

out there going around that thing that people say you can't find a new boyfriend during quarantine. Well, I have a friend of a friend just got a boyfriend during quarantine. New relationship happened this week. I don't have all the details, but I am obsessed over it. I think they knew each other before quarantine, but how did things ramp up? What are they doing?

What's different now that they're boyfriends? Why did they make it official? What were they worried about? could it just be the sheer loneliness and desperation to be with someone that could catalyze a relationship we don't know yeah yeah i just it's dangerous and it should be a secret yeah uh congratulations to your to your friend, Tick Narner, on their new boyfriend. There's going to be so many relationships that just fall apart or come back together at the end of this. Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. I think there's even a rumor that Nicki Minaj broke up with Mr. Petty during this. Oh, wow. Yeah. I hate to see it. during this. Oh, wow. Yeah.

I hate to see it. The only thing that's going to outnumber the number of relationships that come together and fall apart is the number of romantic comedy scripts that are going to be written with quarantine as the premise. Oh, absolutely. I've said it before.

It's going to be the worst Duplass joint yet is the fucking Mumblecore quarantine movie. That's right. Horrible. Yeah, I know somebody who just was very early, like first, second date with somebody, and the quarantine hit, and they decided to start quarantining together

just to have somebody to quarantine with. And they're like, yeah, it's great. I'm glad to have. And it's made me suspect that they are a sociopath uh that they're able to do that but they probably are just a different type of human than i am i would not be able to do that i hate other types of people from me too all right you Me too. All right. You really are an American. All right, guys, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast.

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about lack of resources having to wear uh what are supposed to be single use single patient masks across multiple days or until they get visibly soiled that was their actual like the direction they were given was like unless there's like a visible like blood stain on the outside of your mask just keep using the same one because we don't have any masks so many of the people that they are caring for just come in and die there there's like there will be these people who you know they talk about people coming in and being in good spirits and like telling stories and you know joking around and teasing the doctors and then you know within 24 hours they're dead never tease a doctor yeah that's that it it doesn't read as a threat but the way i just described it uh does

make it sound like the doctors killed them for being a lot of people come in think they can tease us it's actually that's just me being bad at describing they describe the teasing more as a as a sign of vitality and like they're like these lovable, optimistic people who are just like, yeah, well, we'll be out of here soon enough. And I don't know. By the end, you're just so far beyond questioning how bad the crisis is and how badly needed the social distancing is, how worth it it's been to paralyze the economy. Like it's just, it's literally they're describing hell on earth

yeah if you haven't if you haven't read the piece yet like i mean make yourself read it because it just like it puts everything into focus it's i think because yeah it's we have done a good job i think just for our own you know mental safety of just keeping this virus into facts and figures and data we just look at and go, oh, it's a curve we're looking at rather than where the fucking shit is hitting the fan is in these hospitals where these essential workers and healthcare workers are going through some of probably the most traumatic shit they'll ever go through as healthcare practitioners where they are completely unable to do the thing they want to do, which is to help someone live. And I think that's got to be such a fucked up feeling. And when you read these things about literally just seeing people keeled over dead that they were talking to minutes ago and just blew in the face because they just can't get to people in time. Yeah, it really just connects everything for people. I think that's the power new like number like numerical values on a screen rather than trump is connected to this fucking just dark dark awful shit that's happening in

these hospitals to creating these conditions i mean it's also like something i wish that media would focus a little more on is you know the communities that covid affects, or sorry, COVID. There you go. The communities that COVID affects first, too. Like, I've seen very little written on, like, I mean, it's obvious, but it's not really discussed that much how, you know, it's like low-income and majority non-white communities

that this is hitting first and worse. A great, like, local piece that i read just about my hometown about like uh my hometown is hit like the third hardest in the state because it's a poor city and like it's majority non-white and that is true across the board and yeah it's like not it's not being talked about really that much and i get that you need to like protect your brain and from the like existential horror of it all but like there reaches a point where you're like you have to you know under have a base understanding of you have to confront the truth of it all or there's no way to actually

address it because if we compartmentalize and things and you know i think this is just part of american media though like there is only so much of the 24-hour cycle they can commit to the pain of people of color in this country. It's about that headline of there's an inordinate, disproportionate amount of black and brown people passing away from COVID-19 due to redlining, systemic racism, lack of proper health care, lack of resources to have nutritious food and things like that. They could only give that headline maybe a day and a half worth of attention. And even then it was buried under the other things. And I think that's the other part that gets inevitably lost, especially when we have these tragedies again, too, is like, let's not get too immersed in the pain of it all. Because I think I only want people to engage with a story like this to get them to really

redouble their commitment to what we do after this because that's really where the stakes are is what the fuck we're gonna do after this because fucking normal 2019 shit was a fucking disaster right so what do we do after this and i think we need to we need to stay keep the humanity of it all within our sight to be able to move in the proper direction after all of this absolutely one of the other things you kind of get is just how like chaotic it is uh you know at one point she has this breakthrough and she realizes that the patients uh who she's seeing like one of one of the key indicators is that that they test for is the percentage of oxygen in their blood uh like if somebody comes in and their percentage of oxygen

is like in the 70s then like they're guaranteed not gonna make it basically it seems like um but she learns through like literally from a text from an italian doctor like they they tried flipping the patients over so they're like laying on their uh stomachs while they're intubated i think or while they're breathing in oxygen and like they find that that makes the oxygen levels in the blood shoot up and it's just like so they start doing that because they just it's just so kind of haphazard because it's all coming so, you know, it's like a tsunami. They're just, the healthcare workers are being buried underneath. I mean, this is not a good example, but it's like playing Guitar Hero

on Expert the first time. This shit's flying at you so fast, you don't know how to fucking play you're not literate in what's coming at you and i think that's the thing we don't we have not had the time uh in this awful guitar hero uh metaphor to like we've not been able to you know wrap our heads around it because we're constantly learning new things every day and i think that's where when people want to insist on going back to normal or getting the economy started up is like we don't we're not able to do that yet because to do that we have to fully understand what how this virus is functioning and yeah that's there's just like a lot of the world that's not looking that that's refusing to look at that stuff including the

fucking president it's so hard to like separate how you feel about the president from everything because there's these uh you know recent reports of the chloroquine um being bad for people with heart conditions which is like most old people who are get it you do need it and then you read that article and you're like aha chloroquine's bad i knew it yeah the president's stupid like Like, Oh wait, no, I wanted it to work. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, right. It's not about, yeah, it's not about him, even though he, he did make that about him. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Miles, uh, brings up a good point. Like Alma, like the article from, the doctor's name is Dr.

Helen Ouyang. Uh, so shout out to her for writing just an incredible, very, very important piece of journalism. It is shot through with guitar hero references. So be prepared for that. It's mostly guitar hero metaphors. She used to work for Harmonix before.

It might be a branded piece of content. I'm not sure. Very strange decision. They're supposed to mark those branded article but i have branded content trying to bring back guitar hero there's just weird details that like i didn't realize about the disease like that the people who have it there your lungs become like harder Like they have less give to the point that like one of the Italian doctors who she's in touch with is like talking about how wonderful it is after a month of just nonstop COVID-19 patients to intubate somebody who doesn't have COVID-19 who's in there for something different.

And they're like, ah, so nice to like have the those soft lungs it's like such a weird thing but it's also like you know they're just it's it's something that I wasn't aware of when it comes to the thing and also just oxygen level level in the blood so um well uh one person who clearly has not read anything about the disease is uh uh kellyanne conway uh the president's you know the the donald trump whisperer whose husband is a critical of trump so you gotta figure she's cool right anyways she went on fox and friends and as sort of like to to weather balloon this new strategy they're trying which is basically saying everything

that's true about their failure to deal with this crisis but say it about the world health organization so it's like well they didn't do enough and they didn't show leadership and yeah, just blaming everything on the World Health Organization. But one thing she says at one point, and I think we can play a clip of it, but she's ranting about how this disease shouldn't have been surprising to the World Health Organization. So we have every right to know and every right to know because of what's happened here in this global pandemic. But there's another reason. Some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other strains later on. This can come back in the fall in a limited way.

This is COVID-19, not COVID-1, folks. And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that. This is just a pause right now. So there's an investigation examination to what happened. But people should know the facts. We paid over $830 million over the last two years. China paid 10 percent of that. Right. And we all should know the facts that china fundamentally lied and we still

don't have the truth and the who didn't stop it but china is the problem yeah so it goes she goes on that rant ends with her saying people need to know their facts but she says that immediately after suggesting that covid 19 is the 18th sequel to COVID-1. She makes it sound like a film franchise. That's why you said she hadn't read anything, Jack. She read the first 18 COVIDs, bruh. Right. Or even worse, it's like an episode of Scooby-Doo.

It's like, while we've seen 18 episodes, we know it's always the carnival owner at the end. So why haven't they talked always the carnival owner at the end so why haven't they talked to the carnival owner but it's such a fundamental misunderstanding like the entire problem with this specific

strain like the reason that they've been wrong from the start when they were comparing it to influenza and being like influenza is more deadly it kills more people. It's like, well, but this is so deadly because we don't know anything about it because it is the novel coronavirus.

It is the first one of these. And so we don't know how to deal with it. We don't know anything about how to fight it. And that is why it's deadly. And instead, she has managed to remain so ignorant that she uh thinks it's just another sequel to uh kovitz the the first kovitz the kovitz franchise they just deal in talking points and rationalizations for their just complete you know obfuscate you know they're just there to obscure the truth and to give someone some kind of logic path to follow

to not, you know, keep their brain in a loop that they don't have to blame the president. It's like, oh yeah, that makes sense. I mean, look, they had 18 swings at this thing. We're at 19 and they say there's going to be another one in the fall, COVID-20, you know? I'm not sticking around for that. Fuck, man.

Kevin Feige announced we should treat we should treat her like uh like a like a shooter you know like we're always supposed to be like don't don't print their name don't print like the reason they do it do not do not engage yeah just like when kellyanne conway says something don don't listen. Don't put it on the news. That would be a good idea if she wasn't on a team that was in charge of our country during one of the biggest crises in the history of our country. Hey, I think it could still work. And I stand by it.

That's why we need it now more than ever. Amid coronavirus. and i stand by it and i that's why we need it now more than ever amid coronavirus all right well enough of her by the way fox and friends does it sounds like they're about to like hold her to it because the really dumb guy what is that steve ducey the real the real dumb guy uh or is steve ducey the the guy with glasses? Doocy is the one with glasses. The guy with glasses can't be dumb. Yeah, so he's the smart one. And then there's the real, real dumb guy. And he's like, well, now we should say. Yeah, Brian Kilmeade. He's like, and we should say.

And the fact is that. And you think he's about to correct. And then he's just like that China lied. So it's kind of amazing. Just a real off-speed pitch from them. Jesus. I mean, that's why they're currently trying to fight a designation as being declared a public health hazard,

like the network. Like there are people on Fox News trying to be like, yeah, this is actually the definition of a public health hazard, what they're doing on TV. just kind of overall public health and uh social catastrophe you know the the fact that democrats are doing anything wouldn't normally make an impact i feel like because uh the mainstream media is so scared of seeming like they're biased towards democrats but uh drudge uh made it the his top headline the fact that Democrats were trying to do this. So maybe it will get a little bit more attention. But I do think we're starting to see,

just anecdotally, I'm hearing that ICUs in Los Angeles are starting to fill up, and LA County had its highest death rate two days ago. So I'm worried about uh this city and you know i'm sure other cities around the country are probably going to eventually see something similar yeah and also a looming housing crisis an extreme losing like looming housing crisis and and it's uh i know like this is but the like in in our city specifically, there are still like promised services that are being withheld that I feel, I feel like are, you know, they're

taking advantage of the fact that no one can really go out and check safely. But there's, there has still been talk in California of like, oh, we're going to make all these hotel rooms available for unhoused people. And it's not happening. It hasn't. So there have been drive-up protests to the mayor's house. It's just fucking pandemonium. No one's doing what they're,

on a city level, no one's doing what they're supposed to. Yeah, why'd everybody get so aroused about Gavin Newsom the other day? They were just like, he should be our president. We should never be horny for a governor ever. When has that gone well? aroused about gavin newsom the other day they were just like he should be our president we should never be horny for a governor ever when has that gone well come on that he's sexy enough that he's

a little more than a governor he's he's a late night dream he's a yeah he's a talk show politician like he's doing fine oh for sure first guy to allow would be marriages i mean this guy's got it all baby massachusetts was the first state to legalize no the city of san francisco and he was oh okay fair fair fair he would definitely be if there was a movie about a corrupt politician like he would be perfect because he would be like the golden boy who it turns out uh was holding steven seagal's wife hostage or something he does have that energy yeah yeah if patrick bateman's if patrick bateman's life went in a slightly different direction right uh but not all that different he did uh similar swag. He spent his 30s blacked out and having an affair with his best friend's wife.

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Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So, New York, it's going to be a bit of a New York-focused episode because we already talked about just the horror that is happening

inside the hospitals. Outside the hospitals, though, uh, there are some reports of, uh, a different type of terror happening. Uh,

the Gothamist is, is reporting that, um, or they, they interviewed, is this, is this the right word? New York's top rodentologist.

That's what the dudes, his Twitter handle, his Twitter handle is at rodentologist that's what the dudes his twitter handle his twitter handle is at rodentologist but he's like uh he's regarded as a rat expert in new york okay like he's he's the he's the rat god he's the most city for most cities you don't have to brag about being like the most rodentologist but in new york there is a lot of competition you got to yeah that's and it's and a kind of similar thing is also playing out in New Orleans, too. Another famous rat city. But in New York, though, especially, because rats need the human garbage to live off of

and things like that, the shutdown of places like the theater district, Times Square, places that are huge commercial areas. The rodentologist district yeah yeah exactly they feed on all those trash bags on the street every night and just like any waste that's coming out of rest because everything's just sort of tightening up some areas of the city are like experience like the rat world is in utter chaos right now because like the the food supply is just not really there anymore and when the this dude starts breaking down just sort of like like i know rats are fucking freaky

but he's breaking down kind of like what's going on he's like a when they the food starts running low they're get they will get very hungry and quote they start killing and eating each other right inside the nest when things just aren't available and they get hungry, it's the nearest rat that's smaller and weaker. That will be the protein. So that kind of mentality of hungry rats also leads to them wandering, looking for new sources of food, going into buildings or whatever,

and potentially encroaching on a fucking other rat turf, like rat turf wars. So at this point, he's saying that if a rat colony uh were to basically infringe on another turf they said there would be quote they will not give up that territory without a big battle it's like something out of Ben-Hur. Jesus. This is fun news. This is just straight rat wars all over the streets. Miles, I think you just pitched a movie. Yeah. Fine.

I'm in. I'm in. Okay. I have to give also the dark side of this, though, too, is unfortunately a lot of the movement of better people, a lot of people are seeing a lot more rodent movement is in a lot of lower income areas because our cities are planned in the most cruel way possible uh and we're that's just how things ended up but the thing that i'm also curious about is with all these like rats you know there's a lot of movement and things like that is this like going to set off a process of evolution or like a culling of weaker rats like right if the longer this goes

on well there'll be like a you'll i mean i don't know it takes generations of things like that to like traits to evolve but i'm like do the strong rats inherit manhattan rats live like two to three years on on like that's average uh they two rats have up to 6,000 babies in that time. So you're not talking about generations being like centuries. You're talking about generations being a couple years. I was going to say a couple years, right? Yeah. I think good supplemental viewing and reading

for this rat conflict is, did any of you see the episode of Joe Pera that's about the rat wars of Alberta? No He did a whole episode There's been rat-human conflicts before too There was this big thing in Canada, in Alberta in the 1950s Where Alberta was able to eradicate, like they killed every rat in the city. It was really aggressive and intense.

I didn't even know there were such things as rat humans. Holy shit. It's the rat v. human conflict. Oh, rat v. human, okay. Rat v. human. But they're all dead. I lived in New York for 16 years, so I've had my share of run-ins with rats and mice.

At one point, I lived in a bro house where one of them had a little pellet gun, and we would, from the couch, shoot mice as they scurried across the hallway. Yeah, because there was just so many. But have you ever had a rat die on your walls? Yes. And the smell is unbearable. And I just envision a rat war that goes on inside your walls. Oh, God.

And there's like 18 dead rats all at once. And that smell could cause an explosion. Yeah. I mean, rats are a threat. If you just take your foot off the gas a little bit, like if exterminators can't do their job, the rat population will explode. Rats are a constant threat to the food chain.

They're impossible to keep out from where food is being stored. They can squeeze through holes the size of a quarter because their bones are designed to be able to squish together. They can swim up through your pipes into your toilet, a thing that does happen they're unbelievable like they will inherit the earth for sure whatever kills us off rats will be

the next species because they're they're gonna live inside our skeletons yeah you can water ski too i mean i know that that squirrel is famous, but I've seen rats do it. Yeah. They're amazing swimmers. That's something I can tell you. And they're even able to train a group of turtles they found in the sewer to become great ninja warriors to fight against his dreaded arch nemesis,

Oroku Saki, otherwise known as Shredder. Oh my God, this is a movie. This is another movie idea. Yeah, few people know that they have their own small parliament under the actual House of Parliament. That's actually a myth that no one's been able to bust on this show yet. People need to tell the truth about these rats. They're terrifying, very smart.

They can chew through walls. These are all real facts. They're truly very smart. I can chew through a wall. They can chew through walls. Give me some time. I can chew through a wall. No, you can't because you could,

but then your teeth would wear down to the gums. Whereas rats, just like rabbits, their teeth are constantly growing. I can do anything. Rats can do better. You won't believe how soft my bones are. All right. Let's talk about Disney Plus

because they are keeping me alive during this quarantine. Having every Pixar movie available has been actually a lot of fun with my four-year-old. We're getting through all the Pixar movies. We just watched WALL-E. Are you going chronologically? No, no. Just whatever catches his attention. You're going to confuse the boy.

I know. You're going to confuse the boy. I know. You're going to tell him the story of John Lasseter. I was so happy. And then somewhere around 2017, you're like, well, here's where things went very well. All right. So I guess it's time to have the talk, boy. See, there's some themes in this movie in Brave. Jesus.

WALL-E is such a great movie. But anyways. What's his favorite one so far? He really liked WALL-E and he really liked Monsters, Inc. But those are the most recent ones. Monsters, Inc. is the best one. Monsters, Inc. is so good.

Just the amount of laughter that those movies are giving him. I will forgive Disney for everything, all the awful shit they've done. How is Onward? For his racism and misogyny? We haven't watched Onward. Jack's like, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally. I mean, if you see the smile on my kid's face. Yeah, you're just like, come on, man. So Disney Plus has almost doubled their numbers uh in the past two months numbers of subscribers probably for the same reason like parents are using it as a moment of respite do you think there was a moment where like there were parents who were fucking not they're like ah we don't need that crap honestly it's just another fucking and they're like fucking get it now yeah that was uh that that moment was day three i think for a lot of parents right but anyways with more eyes on uh the disney plus catalog people are noticing just weird

examples of censorship apparently the entire disney plus archive is like their promises the whole thing is family friendly so like they have the movie splash which contains a scene of daryl hannah running into the ocean and since she is a mermaid uh she is naked, and her butt is visible. And they have added a bunch of CGI hair, so now her hair is just absurdly long. Now what am I going to masturbate

to? Great, now I've got to find a wig this long. Why did I even get Disney Plus? It's so horny. Jesus, what a... this long why did i even get disney plus it's so horny jesus what uh odd i really want to see this in real time like how that how that weird cgi hair moves or yeah that you do you sick fuck um yeah it's kind of weird it looks like they just used the clone tool from her hair and just moved it down,

where it looks like they used that toupee in a can stuff and just sprayed it on her butt. That's so much more like, oh, God, that fucks you up so much more than just simply seeing a butt, whatever would. Yeah, you're like, now I expect hair can just grow that long, and it can't you know there's already all these unrealistic expectations uh for women's bodies and now i'm

supposed to have hair on my ass that's really long it's not fair when i when i was when i was in high school we read romeo and juliet and then um after we were done the teacher teacher played Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet for the class. But there's a scene in that movie where there's like a long lingering look at Juliet's breasts. And so they edited it. And when it comes to that scene in the movie, there's this like long just blue screen that you don't you can't see what's happening and then it comes back and it is um like five seconds of juliet's breasts like you missed how did you not notice after you were done you're like i got some of it so then of course i rented the movie uh and then watched it at home to see what I missed.

And what I missed was Romeo's butt. They only edited out Romeo's butt. Whoa. That makes no sense. It makes no sense. That makes no sense. And it has screwed me up sexually well so some people have some people have uh pointed out that uh you do have bart's penis in the simpsons movie uh brendan frazier's ass in georgia the jungle

uh and at the end of fantasia there's a bunch of um like demonic ghouls whose bare breasts are visible um and disney plus or uh the the assumption is that it's uh you aren't allowed to show nudity in a sexual context um and the splash butt wouldn't be uh wouldn't run afoul of that but there is a reverse shot of Tom Hanks being like, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that butt. Look at that can on that one. Look at that can on that nude woman who is this inexplicably nude woman. Yeah.

Oh, I just saw it now. They look like they put a decent amount of money into making that it seemed like it was part of this shot. Oh, really? Yeah. put a decent amount of money into making that it seemed like it was part of this shot oh really yeah my cynical take is that disney did this and then promoted it themselves to hope people would start talking about how disney is just censoring stuff it doesn't even need to be censored so then other parents were worried about access their children's access they'll be like oh well we got to get disney they're, they're censoring everything. This is incredible.

Right. Guys, actually check out, look on my screen right now. I'm going to, I'm about to pull it up. Okay. Uh,

I was like, I can only see your track pad. Okay. You, can you see this now? Yeah. They're making out. Yeah.

It almost, here we go. Ah, that does not look good it does it looks attached to her butt it doesn't look attached to her hair there was an earlier wide shot

there was an earlier wide shot that did it well but when she dives in you're like hair shorts is a great idea yeah it's a good band name hair shorts is a great idea okay well at least we took something away from this they also uh just to kind of complete the circle here they also edited the word fuck

out of adventures and babysitting uh even though that movie is just super racist uh they they chose to let leave that stuff in and just get the fuck on out of there and they also there's a part in Lilo and Stitch where she hides in a in a dryer and they made it look like

she's hiding in a cupboard and like the dryer door is a pizza box now uh because they didn't want kids to think it's okay to hide in the dryer but it really looks like she's hiding in the oven now yeah which is uh not not better in any way um no but yeah i guess it just raises like all sorts of issues about you know ownership of any art that you create and you know it used to be that you created something and got final cut and then it was out in the world uh but now that we live in this streaming world you can just kind of

keep fucking with people people's creations uh It's really up to the companies to do whatever the fuck they want. So shout out to Disney. Wow, undefeated. They just added that part in after, in post to the podcast. Undefeated. Well, guys, Nick,

it's been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist today. It's been a pleasure being on this. Where can people find you and follow you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying okay um you can follow me on uh on deckheads the podcast um it's i think it's everything everyone needs um i think most listeners don't listen to below decking and in fact hate it um but uh they come to us uh just for the walls anyway deckheads with anna

hosnier it's the only thing that's important now tweets um carl hess is always my favorite tweeter um he had a tweet um that i loved recently the 40 a day that i like um but he says bidet people what do you use to dry your soaking wet ass? TP? Special ass towel? Hair dryer? Very funny. I'm against bidets, and my girlfriend tried to install one this week and broke our plumbing, and water shot out. It was like a legit sitcom moment.

Wow. It happened for hours, yeah. And then the guy came, and he's like, i'm not actually a plumber i don't know i don't have anything so he went to home depot and then he called us and he was like yeah the line at home depot is really long so i'm gonna like do it later and then two days later he finally just showed up didn't tell us he was coming he just knocked on my door during quarantine like a real psychopath and then uh 20 minutes later he declared it was fixed he left um and it's uh not fixed wait why are you anti bidet um because it's you still need to wipe if it solved an actual i wipe and i'm clean

oh bidet it's that's more steps and I don't have time for that. I'm wet everywhere. It's more steps? You flip it on, then you dry your asshole. Yeah, well, before it was just drying your asshole. I don't know. I guess the difference is it's like smearing. Smearing a stain off the driveway versus hosing it off.

Yeah, well, you can hose it off, but then you don't have to go sit down and dry it with a sponge afterwards. We're going full old-timey outhouse, and then I just have either my boyfriend or my neighbor just shoot a hose at my ass. And that's how we've been getting stuff done. Every time I take a shit,

I just have to hang out outside until it rains. I gotta get hosed down. Yeah, if everyone's asleep, I gotta hope it rains. I got to get hosed down. Yeah. And if, yeah, if everyone's asleep, I got to hope it rains. Um, Jamie, how about you? Where can people find you?

And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on twitter.com at Jamie Loftus help or on Instagram at Jamie Christ superstar. Uh, and the tweet I've been enjoying is a Katie Delaney tweet. Um, it's, uh, quote. So that happened. The tweet I've been enjoying is a Katie Delaney tweet. It's, quote, so that happened, me stepping out of my home in 2022. Okay, at Katie Delaney, C-A-I-T-I-E.

Miles, where can people find you, and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation Network, Miles of Grey, my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, talking 90 Day Fiance. We're all about the reality on this show. Tweet I like is from Auntie Donahue, at Auntie Donahue. It's just a screen grab from something that looks like from maybe Us Weekly's website, where it just says, it's a headline that reads, Prince Harry is, quote, finding life a bit challenging and she just writes is he now oh that's great i my favorite thing he um that prince william said was uh

that britain is uh is is the best version of itself during a crisis. For the guy in the castle. Incredible. What a thing to say. Because that's when everybody shuts the fuck up and lets me live in my castle. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Matt Rogers, co-host

of the Las Culturistas podcast, which is now on our network, the network we started with Will Ferrell, Big Money Players. He tweeted how Lindsay Lohan pronounces quarantine. Quarantine.

Quarantine. Brutal. And Dana Donnelly tweeted, crazy to think that I'd be on my way to Coachella weekend two right now if we weren't quarantined and if I was a completely different person. 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.

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what song are we riding into this afternoon on? Okay, this is a track from a group I just kind of started getting into. I don't know if they've had an album for like maybe 10 years or so, but they're called Cougar, and they're like an instrumental band, but they do a lot of looping live, and they kind of take all their live instruments that they're playing and use them as samples, so you get something a little bit different.

I just dug this track because of the, just the high hat keeping time. And then this guitar, this guitar picking comes in. So this track is called Rhinelander, R-H-I-N-E-L-A-N-D-E-R. And it's by Cougar. Also.

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