The Daily Zeitgeist - Electric Zeit Orchestra 5/6: IRS Stimulus Checks, Marsha Blackburn, Donald Trump, Greg Abbott

Episode Date: May 6, 2020

Today on the Electric Zeit Orchestra Jack and Miles discuss the IRS messing up sending out Stimulus Checks, Marsha Blackburn wants you to be able to sue China, Donald Trump is questioning the death toll numbers, and Greg Abbot is suddenly worried about the health of Texans when they start reopening. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Isn't that yellow? I thought you were talking about the showdown song from R. Kelly on the Chocolate Factory. Which is also a great song. We have to put that album down. Yeah, that's an ELO. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got into ELO just because of Kingpin. Because that song

Showdown is in the final bowling scene got it I bet they're one of those bands that I know but I don't know which of the songs I know their music I just don't know that it belongs to them

oh you know that was way too many years. You know ELO, man. You know ELO. I can't believe I'm like, oh, man, you know ELO, man. If it wasn't illegal to play these songs live over the show, this could just turn into an ELO show. Okay.

Do you remember Telephone Line? It's playing when Billy uh billy madison calls steve buscemi and apologizes him he's like hey are you the same danny who went to nib high school he's like sorry for giving you a hard time i don't remember there being a song playing at all during that yeah okay okay because you remember uh buscemi hangs up and then he puts the lipstick on and goes, and sits back. That's that ELO song, Telephone Line. All right. Maybe my brain is incapable of allowing ELO into it.

It's weird how all of my ELO references are from 90s fucking comedy movies. 90s comedies. Yeah, I was like... These are classic songs. I don't like, I didn't pay that much attention. I didn't pay that much attention to the soundtrack

of like Farley Brothers movies, man. Oh, fuck. You know it from the water boy when he's like going through just like nailing people. You know, we were talking about Vicky Valanccore's boobies all right guys let's talk about what is trending and by guys i mean you that's miles gray i'm jack

o'brien uh irs stimulus checks is trending because they fucked up they They messed up. The IRS. They sent out some stimulus checks to some deceased taxpayers and some foreign workers. They just did not get this whole stimulus thing very... No. They did not nail it. Yeah, even people who were incarcerated. It was just like you know this is what happens when there's no i mean i don't again i don't really trust this administration

do anything efficiently so this is what happens uh the thing people thought would happen happened inefficient rollout of stimulus checks uh and that's gotta suck because i remember one time like one of the first times i got unemployment like I got too much. And you get one of those things where it's like, you actually overpaid you. So that money has to come back. And I was like, but no. I thought it was a sweepstakes. I was very young. And I didn't know how this shit worked.

And I ended up having to pay someone. Right. Yeah. Terrible feeling. I feel like that's unfair. I feel like people should get to keep the money. Because it's like... How else is the IRS going to learn?

The government has a lot of money. How else is the IRS going to learn? Seriously. Yeah, well, I think because... I mean, what if you spent that money already? It's not like people who are in prison don't need the money. Well, they want to nickel and dime these other people, so that way they can just let people like Monty Bennett

walk away with truckloads of cash. Right. And then when there's a full-on public outcry and news stories about it's like oh i'm just kidding just kidding here's it back yeah so if you got a paper check you have to void the check and send it to the irs and then if you got a direct deposit, you need to actually actively write them a personal check or money order addressed to the IRS. I can't imagine how angry and annoyed I would be if I had to go to my bank to get a money order to pay the IRS back. I mean, I think there should be a third option, which is street style, where you you say come get your fucking money then right you know and then see what happens marcia blackburn is trending uh because she wants americans to be able to sue china yeah they are spinning the the republicans are spinning the other another story that's trending is that trump uh is questioning the death toll the number uh that's being is that trump uh is questioning the death toll

the number uh that's being put out about the number of people who are dying so they just they're just trying to get rid of reality yeah essentially absolutely just like this is we did bad so we want reality not to be real yeah and they have to set it up it's like well if it isn't us then who that's what they're saying well we got to set it up. It's like, well, if it isn't us, then who? That's what they're saying. Well, we got to give them somebody. Right. It's like anything. Well, you know, who's going to be was it Greg in succession? Like who's going to be that person? Who's how do we deflect this down to one ability to sue china and u.s courts for the damage they've inflicted on our country what the how what does that have to do with your health right absolutely nothing it's just so fucking absurd everyone has to be reminded that all of these people who are on board that have an r next to their name and some people with a d next to their name absolutely have no interest in helping people who are like really being fucked

over right now um and please please remember that going into november but most of y'all do so we're preaching to the choir but fucking please remember that right uh and another thing that is trending greg abbott the texas governor abbott is somebody who's been advocating for the state to open back up, but there is a leaked audio of him basically saying that he's worried about people's health if they do reopen Texas. Yeah, so it's not clear how much this was edited but they say it was recorded during a may 1st call that he had with state legislators and one of the quotes uh from this leaked audio again they don't know fully how if it what's been edited or how complete the recording is but there's a line where uh the governor started saying quote how do we know reopening businesses

won't result in the faster spread in more cases of COVID-19? Listen, the fact of the matter is pretty much every scientific and medical report shows that whenever you have a reopening, whether you want to call it a reopening of business or just a reopening of society in the aftermath of something like this, that it actually will lead to an increase in spread. It's almost ipso facto. The more that you have people out there, the greater the possibility there is for transmission. The goal never has been to get transmission of covet 19 down to zero wow uh yeah and he goes on to say it can never it can never be to keep transmission down to zero because

there's always going to be with rapidly transmittable diseases like this there will always be a level of transmission i don't even know wow what a trumpism right the thing about these nationally televised debates are that they're just national right it's just and that's what shows you how craven these people are when they're they know what the outcome is and they've still weighed all the cost and benefits and they're like that doesn't matter because it's not gonna that there's a perception that it's only gonna affect the community that has nothing to do with them. Right. Not going to hurt them. Yeah. There's a new University of Penn model that predicts 350,000 deaths by the end of June if all states fully reopen.

So that is what we're facing. And good thing we're not doing that. Yeah. And the Trump administration and, you know, politicians, they've seen these models. They just don't care if we die. No. That's basically what it comes down to. All right.

Well, those are some of the things that are trending today. We hope you guys are staying safe out there uh we will be back tomorrow with another episode and we will talk to you guys then bye how do you feel about this kids hi i'm akilah hughes and i'm so excited about my new podcast rebel Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot.

Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding, I'm Amber Revin. What? Okay, everybody, we have Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding. I'm Amber Revin. What?

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One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content

by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts.