The Daily Zeitgeist - ElecTrend AnxZeitity 11/5: People's Sexiest Man, Grammy's, 2024 Election, Tucker Carlson, Rudy Giuliani, Election Cannabis

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

In this edition of ElecTrend AnxZeitity, Jack and Miles discuss People's Sexiest Man nominees, the upcoming Grammy noms, Tucker Carlson's appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast, Rudy Giuliani & Melania Trump at the polls, people turning to cannabis to cope with the election, some election news and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello, the Internet. Welcome to this episode of Electrend Anxiety. Anxite Diddy Diddy. Oh, excite excite bike. Excite Diddy. episode of Electrend Anxiety. Anxiety. Did he? Did he? Excite bike. Excite Diddy. Oh, exciting.

Anxiety. Anxiety. That one courtesy of Paul Garaventa and the Anxiety button. The little tag. Courtesy of Miles Gray. Oh, this fucking guy. Drag me into this. Hey, don't drag me into this fun here when I leave you in It's one of my favorite underrated characters is uh

the Neil Diamond yeah, Neil Diamond as Late night talk show hosts by Will Ferrell and just randomly flipping out. Hey, leave me out of this, Neil. I will leave you in. Hey, so this is the episode where we just quote SNL sketches. Yep. Just don't know what's going on. It is election day. We don't know. It is election day. We're asking the question, how do you talk to a world

that's going to be completely different? We're recording this on Tuesday, uh, November 5th, standing at a cliff that could send the world in a bunch of different, completely, uh, unimaginable or, you know, imaginable directions. Uh, I am of course referring to the fact that we don't yet know who people magazine will name as their sexiest man alive on November 12th. One week away. We're one week away. Take your time. Take your time. yet know who people magazine will name as their sexiest man alive on November 12th. One week away. We're one week away.

Take your time. Take your time November 12th. Take your time. So we don't know. There is early information because they did like put it out to the polls for people. So we do know who they think is the sexiest podcast host. It's both Kelsey brothers together. We were robbed.

Fuck. Makes Bratt look sexiest was one of the Jonas brothers. Okay. And they're like, we don't even really know what that means. They got sexiest dog, dad, sexiest first time dad, which I think was Robert Pattinson. I'm sorry, Miles, sexiest talk show hosts. And is that us? No, it's Kelly Ripa's co-host. Oh, man.

Jen Sexiest. I didn't even get a mention. Shamar Moore, the guy from SWAT. So it's going to be, I think it's going to be one of these people, one of the sexiest people from the sub list. And I don't know which way to go. You know, like I've been looking at the poll. I've been looking at historical trends. You've got work a day hunks like Chris Evans and 2022, uh, Michael B Jordan and 20 David Beckham 15. Uh, you even got your Hemsworth and 14. Last year they just like went completely.

Yeah. Patrick. Arp. Yeah. A R P baby. I like to say that to be someone's oil. Yo, our art. Yeah. Patrick, are. Yeah. A.R.P. baby. I like to say that to be someone's. Oh, yo, are. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. So maybe they like that's the question that's on everybody's mind is like. Yeah.

Did they do that because they recognized, OK, the only people who still buy magazines and go grocery shopping and physical grocery store spaces. They want me to be elderly. So people. Hey, hey, a lot of a lot of Grey's Anatomy fans who are not elders. Yeah, that's fair. And that's fair. But he's been off Grey's Anatomy for a while.

For a long time. But that's how you look. It's like that's how you lay the foundations. You know what I mean? Like George Bush, too. He was George Bush one's son. Yeah. You know, it was wild because it was right before that movie Thanksgiving came out which was a Patrick Dempsey joint But very like very much a B movie did not feel like that

It would be like a movie that would be able to like buy a spot at the top of people sexiest, man Anyways, we're trying to figure out what that is. And obviously there's the matter of the election that a lot of people, it's even closer at hand, uh, which is the Grammy noms are being announced on November 8th. Yep. So soon after the election. Oh fuck the election. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I forgot about the election, but, Oh, I got got a oh shit I love that they're dropping them three days like two days after we find out who won the election

Yeah, they're like, yeah No, this seems like the right time to give our Grammy nominations for a show that isn't until February 2nd 2025 they're really good. That's that's what we call great timing, really working the news cycles. So you're just catching it at the crest of the biggest fucking news item of the every four years. Um, then, well, I guess we'll find out if Kendrick Lamar gets nominated for, uh, not like us. Yeah.

They'll probably like their, their ability to get things wrong is always astounding. So I bet they give it to Drake somehow. You know? They give it for Drake, yeah, family matters. And you're like, we thought family matters was really a good record. We thought pushups, pushups was solid. Okay.

We've got, all right. So the election, as we record this, the election is happening. Miles wearing his I voted sticker. I've got two I voted stickers on because I voted twice. I ended up. I'll get them out, bro. Yeah. I ended up voting for both of them because I just like, couldn't, couldn't, I stayed undecided to the end and just gave them both my vote.

Yeah. So, you know, fake, I, hey, if that's illegal, then then yeah, put me in jail. Okay. But what is there to talk about? We've got cool., put me in jail. Okay. But what is there to talk about? We've got cool. I voted stickers in Michigan. Yeah, those are cool.

I mean, like the actual news around the election is apparently there were some bomb threats called in Georgia was going wild. Yeah. Yeah. And some are attributing that to foreign powers. Apparently there's a bomb threat called in and they said that they were already able to say it came from Russia. Again, this is the election official who's a Republican. Yeah, it was like it was Russia.

So Casey were like, the Democrats and their Russia conspiracy theories. And then there was another one where it was like a poll worker in Georgia who like did a whole thing where he was like posing as a voter who was intimidated by him and was like, he held me back from voting and so I'm going to. So just like all sorts of fuckery kicking off, but it does seem to be fairly isolated right now. We had that Philadelphia, the Philadelphia,

was it the mayor or the A G? Well, he has Larry Krasner. Hey, if you're going to, if you're going to do it, F around and find out. Yeah. He said, if you think it's time for some militia nonsense, yeah, around and find out. All right. Yeah.

Uh, but yeah, we will see. Uh, and a lot of people are pointing to huge turnout, especially in college campuses, but that makes sense because the pandemic had most people voting from home. Yeah. But I don't know, I mean, the turnout looks explosive. Which used to be definite good thing for Democrats and now of late could be a good thing for Trump. We don't know.

And that's what's fun about this. And that's where we like to be, is just in this moment of anxiety and not knowing and perpetually refreshing a Twitter feed that's never gonna tell us anything new. This is a time capsule from a moment where time passes extremely slowly. I don't know if you can hear it, but it's.

No, you can hear it ticking. The tick of the clock is very slow right now. Let's talk about Tucker Carlson again. We talked yesterday about. Oh shit, dude, the Home Depot guy died? Ticket the clock is very slow right now. Yep. Let's talk about Tucker Carlson again. We talked yesterday about shit. Do the Home Depot guy died? Damn, bro. The billionaire Home Depot co-founder fucking died.

Not his ninety five. Langone, the other one. No, Bernie Marcus. Yeah, I was familiar with him. I knew Kenneth Langone. But yeah, he's on speed, though. Yeah. Kenny's my guy. Tucker Carlson.

So obviously we talked on yesterday's episode about his testimony in a Christian documentary that he was physically attacked by a demon in bed while sleeping next to his wife and four dogs. But it definitely was some weird shit. I saw, I saw a video of a guy who snuck out to murder someone while his wife was sleeping, then got back in bed, like as if he just went to go get something at the store. So I do think that it's possible that he went out

into the woods and did some weird shit and came back. Yeah, Brian the editor makes a good point that it's probably actually a demon, because as we know, there's no condition that affects people while sleeping that has them confusing things with demons. No sleep paralysis demon. Those are three words that have never been put together. Sleep paralysis dream.

Anyways, he, Tucker Carlson, in addition, you know, I, I remember there being a moment where people like, he's going to be the secular version of Trump and put some things together that Trump wasn't able to, economic populism. He also hopped on the newly released Steve Bannon podcast the day before the election yesterday and claimed that we're currently getting more hurricanes, not because of climate change, but because of abortion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure I'll be attacked for saying this, but I really believe it.

You can't participate in human sacrifice without consequences. Yeah, ask the Mayans. I guess hear it from his terrible weird face. You're making the case that, you know, sometimes we need to have an abortion. Okay. If you're making the case that abortion is an affirmative good, you are evil. You're practicing child sacrifice. All right. I can't even hear anymore that You also claim nuclear weapons are created by demons. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, you're evil, that's been sacrificed. And that's a great closing argument to turn out the evangelicals for Donald Trump. It should be like, we're going to stop the hurricanes.

The second we stop the effing human sacrifices. And by that we got to get trunk in there. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, but they, they aren't weird. In a, in an election where like a very effective piece of messaging was like calling them weird, they really closed on a very weird note. I don't know why the Harris campaign didn't stick with that, but anyways, maybe because they were like, they're absolutely nailing that messaging for us.

Yeah. Like, oh, cool. Thanks for finishing that lob. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check in with some other Election Day shenanigans. We'll be right back. My name is Brandon Kyle Goodman. I'm a black, gay, non-binary author, TV writer, actor, and I'm messy, but not in the way you think. Messy as in I'm human and flawed. I'm a binary author, TV writer, actor, and I'm messy. But not in the way you think. Messy as in I'm human and flawed.

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And Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Shenanigans himself, showed up to a poll in a car he's supposed to be turning over to poll workers. He showed up to vote. Yeah. But, uh, in a car that he's like, Oh, this one I'm supposed to give y'all to, you know, make amends for the kind of a nice car. It's like one of those old Mercedes Benz, like, yeah, but it's like kind of one of those ones where it's not like white classic enough where you're like, Oh shit. Yeah. it's like classic.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of looks like, yo, I was doing great in 83. Yeah, that's what that car says to me. And look, no shade. But I don't fucking I don't fuck all about vintage cars. So sure, sure. His outfit was great. Got an American flag.

I was on American American flag. T. He did say just the other day that he may run for mayor of New York City again, which I don't know. Yeah. Good luck. And also like maybe he'd win the fuck knows. But yeah, the car is part of a long list of property that he's supposed to turn over to pay the settlement, which he's been accused of hiding. Right, right.

Because they said, I think he also, I don't know if he gave up. I think he's supposed to give like a world series ring or two up also and an apartment and he's like, man, I don't, but then I don't have anything. And I just stopped fucking lying. You fucking fuck face. How am I supposed to live without my world series ring? I needed people won't know I was the mayor of New York. It's all I say all the fucking time. The other thing though, with people pulling up at the polls, Donald Trump and again, the internet is doing its thing. They say, is that Melania?

She's wearing sunglasses the whole time. I would love nothing more than for that to be the case, but I don't think this is, she definitely, we know if there was a double by this point. Yeah, at this point we would know. She definitely looked. We know if there was a double by this point. Yeah, at this point we would know. She definitely just has, I think it's because she wears such a varying size, like wild variation on the size of sunglasses that she wears indoors.

So a lot of her face, like different parts of her face and different percentages of her face are covered up and so it becomes unclear. We're getting a different look every time. And also, she only shows up like once a month. So she might just be looking a little different. The people why she works such big glasses, if that's not fucking well on, it's like, bro, she could be hung over as fuck.

Who knows? Yeah. She's like, you know, I'm like sharing my eyes with all y'all. I'm like Alia. You know what I mean? I have a secret of a mystery. I'm married to a piece of shit that I won't leave I will say this is the one time that I've been like she does look very different It's maybe I just need something. I need your freaky lib flat flags fly today, you know as you go Oh, it's fake. It's a fake Melania. Look at that. He can't afford to got Brooklyn dad on speed dial Oh my god, Brooklyn dad. So defiant. Hey, you know what else?

Speaking of possible reasons she might be going poles with sunglasses on miles. Uh, we You heard about this man. This is fucking smoking that loud. I think she's smoking that candy buff about this, man. This is fucking smoking out loud. I think she's smoking that candy both. So the Washington Post always cool. Can I bust?

Uh huh. Washington Post reported that cannabis workers are finding that a lot of customers are buying weed to help them cope with the election. Yo, I went to the shop on Sunday and I have I thought something was happening. You're like, are they voting here? Yeah, no, it was a bowling station. And I said, you know, what's up?

Like I usually go in, in like the mornings and I went like in the later afternoon. And the dude was like, he's like, I don't know what the fuck is going on. And I'm like, oh, this and it looks like a lot of people who aren't normally like dabbling like, you know what? Gross, Ira Glass. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just being like, um, and is a is a is a 50 milligram edible good to just completely erase half of a day. OK, yeah, I'll take seven of those.

Yeah. Good luck to everybody who is coping. However, they're coping. This would be, uh, the one way to make time pass even slower for myself today would be getting like a little bit too high. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like fuck. The TV's looking at me. Steve Karnacki hates me. Huh? So one dispensary created a, uh, like fake website to promote election themed pre-rolls dubbed Potliteco.

Potliteco. And then another dispensary created a strain called Potus instead of POTUS. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. POT-US, specifically to boost your mood and ease election anxiety. Hey, man, I hope they don't smoke too much of that wacky tobacco and vote Trump into the White House again. The way that, you know, because that's that's what you got to be doing, man. That's what happens on the weed.

You completely lose track of everything. You're you're now you're. Yeah, man. You know how? Look, my dad told me all about this stuff. It's dangerous, man. My dad's a cop. Don't believe me? Ask my mom. I was, I was listening to, I think it was KCRW today.

One of the like local NPR stations in Los Angeles. And they were interviewing people at the poll and it was just, I haven't listened to NPR in maybe a year, but I do every time there's like some late breaking updating news and they were interviewing people going to the poll coming out and they interviewed like multiple people who are like, I'm voting for Trump because illegal immigrants are destroying the economy.

And then they like just, they don't say, they don't correct it They don't even they don't even comment on it But if I do that, then I look like i'm against trump, right? Or you're just being objective about a state whatever Yeah, fuck it. You're afraid to push back on someone just being horribly xenophobic and weird But yeah, if you guys are listening to this, looking back at America's slide into fascism over the past six hours, I feel like that's going to be one of the issues that looks the weirdest is just the fact that the media felt the need to always

legitimize. Yeah, right. I'm not doing it because you know, the Haitians are using, Haitians are using lasers on the hurricanes on the, and then that that's causing the pet storms. And you're like, and that's a very good point, sir. Thank you so much. Great, great point. And thank you. And the fact that you're undecided, we, God, we respect it so much. I know, man. I'm going to do it right at the line of scrimmage. We don't know if I'm gonna scramble on this one, but hey, that's what I like to do.

Keep it to the last minute. Yeah, the New York Times did eventually release their, did I talk about this on the regular episode? They released their seven undecided voters who they eventually voted for. And there were, I was surprised. I thought my theory of the case was like, these are all Trump voters who are just ashamed

to say they're Trump voters, but like three of them broke for Harris. One of them went third party. One of the ones who broke for Harris though, I was like, God damn it, New York Times. He actually made me think this was worth it because this person was just like, so I wasn't looking into the election at all

this whole time. I finally looked into it this weekend and he apparently like tried to steal the last election. Like you like participated in fraud and like ask people to find vote. So it's like that idea of undecided voters just somebody who refuses to look into it. It was like I have exactly one day a year for politics every four years.

Right. Yeah. And that's what you're going to get from me. I mean, that's, I think that's par for the course. Most people are just like, I don't know, man, it's, it's always some version of the same hell, no matter who's the president, but, oh, wow. I didn't even realize. I mean, there's, you know, I'm, I'm sure there are people even wondering if Joe Biden is still on the ticket. Yeah.

So, I'm hoping a lot of people are like checking in for the first time in four years and I'm like, whoa. Whoa, whoa, what's this? This guy's fucking lost his mind. What happened to Biden? Where's Biden on here? Yeah. Oh, he dropped out.

I will say, you know, we've talked about how we feel like even if Harris wins, we're headed for some shit and there's a episode of It Could Happen Here over on Cool Zone where they talk about the constitutional sheriffs people, like the MAGA sheriffs who are claiming that they can, you know, they're basically on that sovereign citizens shit.

And they're like, I can report to whatever president I want to. And they're also claiming that they can like deputize as many people as they want. So basically like cowboy days claim, they'll claim the election is stolen. If Harris wins, they deputize like an entire town worth of Trump voters. And suddenly those people can like use guns to legally enforce their will. Is a nightmare. So now I don't know.

I've had a bad feeling of like where Trump, you know, election denialism could be headed this time. And that was like, oh, that's a version of how it could look. I recommend checking out that episode. It's really it's going to be like one of those things where if the energy is there, the requisite energy is there and anger. It feels like as I don't know, like just seeing Trump get less and less interested and seeing people leave the rallies to I don't know, man, maybe this fucker wins.

If not, like, I don't know. I'm fucking I'm fucking tired of this shit. But there's also there's definitely many dedicated people that are going to do whatever Trump says. So let's just, let's just put a pin in that one. Let's put a pin in it. I think the, yeah. So we have an evergreen episode going up tomorrow morning. And we're going to try and jump on either tonight or tomorrow morning with the trending episode when we have a result to talk about.

Or something close to a result. So we will talk to y'all in the not too distant future in a completely different world. Yeah, stay safe. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself, get the vaccine, get your flu shot, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.

Bye. Later. My name is Brandon Kyle Goodman. I'm a black gay non-binary author, TV writer, actor, and I'm messy. But not in the way you think. Messy as in I'm human and flawed. I'm on a mission to destroy shame around sex. And the only way to do that is to talk about sex. So that's what we'll do on my brand new podcast, Tell Me Something Messy. Join me on Tell Me Something Messy with brand new episodes every Thursday on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.