The Daily Zeitgeist - Do the Zeit Thing 1/6: Meat Loaf v Greta Thunberg, Puerto Rico, George Lopez, Prodigy 7700, Jeffrey Epstein

Episode Date: January 7, 2020

On this edition of Do the Zeit Thing Jack and Miles discuss Meat Loaf going off on Greta Thunberg, the earthquake in Puerto Rico, George Lopez' comments 'threatening' Trump, the Prodigy 7700 toilet, and new autopsy pictures of Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's me, baby. It's Lando Calrissian. And I don't know if y'all saw that new fucking Star Wars one. Oh, my God. You thought he was sundowning? The whole time. I just started doing a bit with my friends after we saw it where I just kept saying stuff. It was me, C-3P, Han Sogo, and Spartacus himself, Charlton Heston. Did you see Sherry O'Terry do Barbara Walters?

No. So because of the whole 2020 thing, she went on the countdown and made Anderson Cooper topple over with laughter. Really? She did these constructions just like that where she was talking about, she's like, I'll be joined by political upstart Bob Dole. Just all these washed ass references that would have been a star studded

line of like 50 years ago. But the best line she killed me was and Spartacus himself. Or no, Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas. Isn't that Spartacus? Oh, Charles. What was his biggest role? Kirk Douglas? Kirk Douglas. Isn't that Charles? Isn't that Charles? Yeah, that is who it is, I think. Oh, Charles. What was his biggest role?

Kirk Douglas? No, Charles. Charles Heston was the Planet of the Apes. That's his biggest one. Damn Dirty Apes. I think so. And then wasn't he in, was he Ben-Hur? Yeah, maybe that's what it is.

Yeah, Ben-Hur. And the Ten Commandments. He's done it all. He's done it all. Let's get into what's trending today. Oh, yeah. Today, mate. Yeah, today, mate.

Greta versus Meatloaf. Yeah. Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg versus the meal Meatloaf. Yeah, the washed singer Meatloaf. Meat fuck. Yeah. I don't know what it is that she is irresistible to old

boomers oh yeah they hate her i mean this one is all about he gave an interview in the daily mail like earlier this year earlier this year a couple days ago um that where he was basically saying like quote she has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't. She hasn't done anything wrong, but she's been forced into thinking that what she is saying is true. So what a boomer take, bro. Right. What? So her belief is on the side of scientific consensus and his take because he's old is the right one i don't know i mean she her

response was it's not about you know what some people call me it's not about left or right it's all about scientific facts and that we're not aware of the situation very easy right very free of ideology but i guess if you already like a old conservative you already have this like disdain for like academics. Right. And anyone younger who thinks that they know something you don't. Right. Right. That drives them mad.

It's just real. Have you ever seen the interview with Buzz Bissinger where they have Will Leach from Deadspin on? No. Oh man, it's great. I'll have to share it with you sometime. But he's just so mad at the internet. Buzz Bissinger.

He's just so upset. He's like, okay, who comes up with this crap? Anytime this shit, something like this happens. Yeah, Meatwad can take a big seat. Yeah. I don't think, it's just, first of all, like Brainwad, you know. Yeah. I didn't realize how much of a hero of the right he was.

Is he? I mean, with this kind of talk. Because he did well on Celebrity Apprentice. Oh, did he do well on there? I know that he was on there and wept. The only thing I do remember, the last thing I remember was in 2011, he did the halftime show for the Aussie Rules football, like AFL, like Aussie Rules football.

And nailed it. It's the greatest fucked up halftime show you'll ever see. Just a complete, utter failure. Oh, my God. Yeah. Everything goes wrong. Right. But mostly with his voice.

Like, he's not in key by any stretch of the imagination. Like, it was actually like an act of violence against the people in the stadium, in my estimation. Yeah. It was Corey Haim level after the... violence against the people in the stadium in my estimation yeah it was uh cory hame level uh after after the you mean cory feldman yes i'm sorry women in like i love that you knew knew what i was talking about i love those are some of my favorite videos are watching celebrities go outside of their wheelhouse and be like, I've been given this like false sense of confidence.

And you're about to see a play out hilariously. Yeah. The amazing thing about that performance was that he he wasn't even in like on the field at the at the minor league game. He was in the concourse. Yeah. And it was, I believe, after the game, after a minor league game uh yeah and even then most people were there for the lulz yeah they weren't there to oh yeah to be like there i love his or a lot of ironic whoos going on especially when he started breaking it down like michael

jackson yes now he's not copying michael jackson he's influenced by michael james under the influence like michael jackson Jackson and him share similar influences, so I guess you could say that he has some things to it. If the dipper of life was dipped into the same amniotic waters from which they grew. Fuck. Puerto Rico earthquake, also trending. Pretty bad one, 5.8. Happened at 5.32 a.m. Eastern time.

Yeah, the damage, I mean, it's not like super horrific, catastrophic, but it's a lot of damage. Luckily, there was no like tsunami warning or anything like that. But it seems like the potential for like aftershocks and continued rumblings is very high. So, yeah, let's keep them on our minds because we've yet to even fully address the devastation from the hurricanes yeah that happened how many weeks ago oh like years years ago yeah over two years over two years uh george lopez is trending he had sort of the inverse of meatloaf, sort of the... Yeah, he commented on a post that said the Iranian government put an $80 billion bounty on the president.

And he commented, we'll do it for half. Right. And cue the conservative outrage machine. They didn't like that? No, man. They didn't. No, man. They didn't.

A lot of like, it was weird how they had to admit that people would, you know, like take veiled, make veiled assassination jokes. Or in the case of Ted Nugent, not even veiled. Right. Like just being like, yeah. About Obama. Yeah. Yeah. Where they're like, oh, I like imagine if, you know, when this is said about President

Obama, it's not a joke. But when it's George Lopez, it's a joke. Right. So it's like, but hold on. Y'all aren't there when they're saying this. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that's the best thing. Or I mean, look, I wouldn't do that because I don't want to explain a joke to people.

Yeah. But that's well within George Lopez's right to do it. And I think he knew the smoke that comes along with those kinds of jokes Diamond and Silk were obviously great protectors of our comedic traditions in this country they said

I think it's time for the FBI or the CIA to pay him a visit the CIA wouldn't I mean the Secret Service if you make a joke about the president you just get a knock on your door. Yeah. Yeah.

They are the ones who knock. There are people I know who have made that mistake. Well, it's not even a mistake. It's like a very, very clear comedy joke book about presidents. Yes. And it's like, wait, how would you fight Theodore Roosevelt? Yeah. This is a sentiment that I'm seeing kind of elsewhere. I saw one tweet where it was a translation. I don't even know if it was an accurate translation where the, I think it was the leader of Iran was talking about how, like when he says death to America, we just mean Trump and Pence and Pompeo and somebody was like oh we're cool then but whatever you got to

do to sleep at night right hard to sleep at night these days yes prodigy 7700 that it was a mob deep spin I know right not no and didn't Prodigy pass away? He did. Damn. What happened? What happened to Prodigy? What happened to all of us? Oh, yeah, that was in 2017.

Damn. That was years ago. But, yeah, this was, it's a toilet. Right. And I was like, why the fuck is this trending? And it basically is, it looks like just an american ripoff of a japanese toilet right so it has like the same sort of wall remote remote it has you know dual flush technology it's not technology you basically did did you pee or did you poo right and we'll put the requisite

amount of water through the toilet so you don't waste it we've had that for a while yeah but but again i like that it's called dual flush technology. Okay, fine. Sounds cool. Remote control spray settings and air dryer. So, okay. So you can figure, because it has a bidet built in. That is pretty dope. I have been to an Airbnb where they had that.

Yeah. And that is a game changer. Did it have a blow dryer for your butthole too? Yeah, it did. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I guess you can- Which I need.

Yeah. For that extra body. Oh, yeah. On my butt hair. Yeah, exactly. It gets. Oh, yeah. On my butt hair. Yeah, exactly. It gets more volume in it. And it comes with a curling brush, too. Style your butt, your ass hairs.

Oh, no. Automatic open and close lid, nightlight, so you don't piss all over the seat in the darkness. Yeah. And, you know, pretty much the same thing. Again, to me me this is basically called goes to japan once the toilet right um and they're saying like it's it's i think it's only being sold at um costco and like home depot but they're like yeah and it's a very affordable

price it's 2400 jesus and i mean like granted look the og the og japanese god toilet as we all know is the toto washlet and and like they have new attachments you can get attachments that are like 500 up to 3 000 up to full-blown toilets that are around the same price oh but they will attach to your existing toilet they have ones where you just change the seat and you put their seat on. And then it's sort of like how that other like a startup bidet company works. You just attach like a separate water line to it so you can actually power the booty spray. Now, one question I have, one of the features they offer, warm seat, totally understandable and heated water. Yeah. Is that like in case of a splash?

No, I think because you don't want to like blast your butthole with like frigid ice water Oh heated water for the I was thinking of just the water that sits in you just want your things that you're dropping off down there to be imagine the backsplash I wish that was warm. Like a big stew. Like I'm taking a dump in a stew pot. What the fuck? That is so stupid that I thought that. Because the other thing, too, is with the seat warmer, especially if you live in a place with cold weather, the ambient temperature, if you don't have your heat blasting in your house, you could just be sitting butthole down on an ice surface.

Right. And the thing, i don't know this is a thing my mom and older japanese people would tell me to explain why the seats were heated is because older people like the the temperature change would cause like a reflex that could possibly like be dangerous to their health like oh right trigger some kind of cardiovascular event people from uh other countries that aren't America do not like temperature changes. That is of any sort. Wait, what do you mean?

Americans do? Yeah, like cold beverages and shit like that, like on a hot day. That's a big thing in America that other countries, like if you go to Europe or anybody I know who's from another country, they think that's going to kill you. Oh, I've not heard that.

You've never had that? I've been more like where you had the beer that's not cold. And I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. It's room temperature. Yeah. No, that's like you can't get icing or coke over there. Well, I guess it's also like an old person thing too

because like my mom's generation of Japanese people, bro, ice water, you think you're trying, like actually they're like, are you doing some kind of like magic, like sacrifice of your spirit by drinking this? My host family, when I was over in Spain, I was, I had really bad allergies back then. And the mom was convinced that it was because I was drinking too cold of beverages and like, would only let me drink hot water. I was like, fuck, man, this is terrible. I know it's not that.

I know I have allergies. You're putting all this cold into your body. Right, exactly. At a certain point, my body temperature will overpower that. Yes. And then real briefly, Jeffrey Epstein. So there was a 60 Minutes report last night that I did not watch yet. But Jeffrey Epstein's family pathologist claims that so they in addition to the 60 Minutes report, there are new autopsy pictures. is claiming that the noose doesn't match the wound on the neck. And if you look at it, I am not capable of making that.

Good. I'm glad you're able to be honest about that. I have no idea what he's talking about. So to the naked eye, I'm not clear. How the fuck do these autopsy pics come out in public so quickly? I know. It's pretty horrifying, to be totally honest. It's really,, to be totally honest. Yeah, like, it's really, uh, wow. Yeah.

So they're saying that the ligature marks do not match what the supposed noose, makeshift noose was. Yes. I mean, here's the deal, man. Those photos are not, I think everyone knew the stakes were too high for Jeffrey Epstein to testify in a court out loud against very powerful people. Yeah. I mean, we were all kind of expecting something like this to happen. And Jesus Christ, there's some dark shit. Wow.

Yeah. They're really all right. Yeah. I mean, hey, get the story out there. All right, guys. Well, that is our first trending zeitgeist back in the saddle.

Hope you enjoyed it. And yeah, Miles back on tomorrow's episode. It's a corker. And we'll be back tomorrow. Bob Corker. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye.

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