The Daily Zeitgeist - Elizabeth Holmes Voice vs Tarantino Blaccent 3.21.19

Episode Date: March 21, 2019

In episode 353, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and podcast host Teresa Lee to discuss Woodstock 50, the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood trailer, Trump continuing to attack John McCain, the new EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler's first interview, concertina wire being stolen from the border fence, how college admissions are a mess, AirPods getting an upgrade, Elizabeth Holmes' voice, brother of the year Michael Sanchez, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Woodstock 50 lineup revealed: Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, The Black Keys performing2. WATCH: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)3. WATCH: Stranger Things 3 - Official Trailer4. WATCH: Quentin Tarantino Is Bad at Talking to Black People5. 'Bizarre new low': Meghan McCain slams Trump for attacking father John McCain6. Ignoring historic floods, EPA’s Wheeler says climate impacts are ’50 to 75 years out’7. In his first TV interview since being confirmed, @EPA administrator @EPAAWheelersays unsafe water is a bigger environmental crisis than climate change.8. Concertina wire stolen from border fence and used for home security in Tijuana, authorities say9. College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students10. 'Z-List' Students Overwhelmingly White, Often Legacies11. Legacy Admit Rate Five Times That of Non-Legacies, Court Docs Show12. AirPods, the world’s most popular wireless headphones, are getting even better13. WATCH: Elizabeth Holmes' (of Theranos) Real Voice14. Brother Of Bezos GF Admits ‘Deal With The Devil,’ Claims He Tried To Protect Couple14. WATCH: Quasimoto-Seasons Change 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 74, Episode 4 of Dear Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Thursday, March 21st, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack is white but down he's living la vida loca uh courtesy of just T-D-Z-A-K-A's uh

shout out to Ethnically Ambiguous for their white but down t-shirt uh which I'm pretty sure is where he got that from uh and to the year 1999 which is where that song came from. And I'm thrilled to be joined as it was by my co-host, Mr. Miles

Ray! Straight up now, tell me, are you going to rate, review the podcast? Oh, oh, oh. Or are you being a lazy bum? Next one. Straight up now, tell me, is it gonna be Jack and Miles from Emperor?

Oh, oh, oh. Are the hot takes almost done? Whoa. That was like the end of a musical number. Yeah. We're just really angsty podcasters. Yeah. Yeah.

It's the way it is. Who knows? Who can say, really? Yeah. I'll take action on it, though. Yeah. Yeah. Venmo me your money, and we'll see how it turns out.

Based on that Breitbart interview, the bikers for Trump might be coming for us someday soon. We play it cute but tough, and Trump supporters might be coming for us. And stay cute. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. It's been way too long since we've had the hilarious comedian and multi-podcast host teresa lee what's up i asked twitter for an aka but i didn't really get any good ones um i got uh someone suggested aka miles of gray so that's not did not do the assignment someone said teresa lee harvey oswald good. This one just says that mushroom thing.

That mushroom thing. I guess it's just a reference to the time I got high on mushrooms. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The mushroom tea. Oh, here's one. The leader of the pack. Yeah, that's pretty good. Okay, we'll go with that one.

I like that in Lee Harvey Oswald. It's great to have you back, Teresa. How are you? Thanks for having me. I'm doing great. Yeah, I'm excited to be here. You're the parent to an adorable dog. Oh, yes.

Wooshu. Mr. Wooshu on Instagram. Mr. Woosh. Very cute dog. Do you see yourself as the parent of Wooshu? His mom, yeah. Or his human. I'm also his dad.

You're everything. Yeah, I think I'm everything. Yeah, I'm also his dad. You're everything. Yeah, I think I'm everything. I think I'm more of his dad because I feel like I am very happy to let other people take care of him. I don't feel like he's sort of like all of our dogs. Takes a village.

Yeah, exactly. Like us deadbeat dads, right? Just happy to offload the responsibility. I get it, Teresa. I see what you're saying. I'm just saying my attachment style is more dad than mom. Right, right. I didn't breastfeed him, so I don't have that sort of like, he must be attached to me at all times. Got you.

Yeah. Just take him for the weekend maybe here and there. Take him out to Disneyland. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about. There's a lot of pop culture hype going on today, a lot of looking forward to. Woodstock 50 lineup has been announced, and it's pretty wild. It kind of puts most Coachella lineups to shame.

In the past couple days, they've dropped the trailers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Stranger Things Season 3, and they both made my big toe shoot up in my boot. Is that how it's said, Miles? Yeah, that was good. I nailed it, right? We're going to talk about the president continuing to attack John McCain

like he thinks John McCain is arguing with him. It seems like he is just coming back with sick zingers. But the argument's happening only in his head. We're going to check in with the EPA, see what they're having to say about climate control. Or sorry, climate change right now. Climate control is what I call it because I know that it's all being controlled by the Illuminati. We're going to talk about what's going on with the border wall. We're going to talk about Florida House of Representatives and college admissions.

But first, Teresa, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I mean, I've just been searching. This is really boring, but my short film just got on Tribeca, so I've just been Googling myself a lot. Yeah, dust your shoulder off there. No, it's also a slight humble brag. No, but it is true because I've

been trying to, we don't have a, we're a very small team. It's all indie and me and another stand-up, Christine Medrano, did it together. So we don't have publicists or anything. And so we're trying to get the word out. So I've been doing a lot of detective work, Googling people who've reviewed tribeca films in the past and then searching them and then trying to find them on twitter and looking for emails and then trying

to email them so it's been a lot of me uh spamming people got it to try to get some notice to get them to review it at tribeca yeah or just to just to do previews. I don't know. I did a lot of talking to people who've gone to be like, what are you supposed to do? And some people were like, well, you know, if you can get included in preview roundups, that's helpful to get people to come see your short. So then I was like, how do I do that?

They're like, I don't know, try to get someone to write it up. So I was like, that sounds easy. Cool, I'll just call up my friend at New York Times. The face you made as you were giving that advice back made me get a very clear picture of who this person is. Do you know Bob? Yeah, you know Bob New York Times? Yeah, Bob. No, no, Bob De Niro.

I don't know. Oh, right. I'm sorry. Robert De Niro. Yes, Robert. Right, right. Is that what people call him? Okay.

I guess. I don't know. We've been hanging for so long. Bobby. I call him Bobby. Bobby, that's right. Or D-N. Bobby B-D-N is what I call him. B-D-N. Is that Big Dick Energy?

Big Dick Nation. No, that's B-D-E. Big Dick Nation. That's amazing, though. Congratulations on your short film getting in. If I had a project I was trying to publicize, my Google search results would include things like, how much does a Skywriter cost or something like that? Is that what you go for? Your strategy sounds way smarter than mine.

I thought of another one that's more personal. I've been told I snore, so I Googled how to stop snoring. And one of the things that you can do- By Woosh? Yeah, he told me. Woosh woke me up and was like, hey, you're snoring. Hey, can we talk? By Woosh?

Yeah, he told me. Woosh woke me up and was like, hey, hey, you're snoring. Hey, can we talk? You're supposed to tape a tennis ball to your back so that you don't sleep on your back. Oh, right, right. Yeah, very subtle. Yeah, so I haven't done that yet. I guess next thing I have to do is Google tennis balls.

What's a tennis ball? Oh, man. What is tennis ball? This is just never going to end for you. So sorry. You're on Twitter like, I tried putting that tennis ball. I'm like, that's a cinder block. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, I think the YMCA is underrated as a gym.

I just moved and I just joined it because it's right next to me. And I joined it two days ago. And then yesterday I went to take a dance class because I was like, I'm going to work out. And then I looked at the schedule and it said there was ballet. And I danced many moons ago, but now it's been so long I'm very scared to go back to class. So I was like, this is perfect. It'll be very low pressure, low stakes, and it'll be a good workout. And I went and the teacher was great.

Like, you know, he's obviously in L.A., I'm sure. There's no shortage of good dancers. But he was a great teacher and the class was very low pressure. So people of all levels. But, yeah, it wasn't like boring or anything and it was good. And they didn't talk down to anybody. So I would go again. And it's free. You sign up for the Y and you could take all the classes for free. Yeah, the Y. Yeah, it has different reputations in different towns, but it's usually a pretty good place to have a gym

membership or a membership or something even though it's like the public library of gyms it's so good and it's fun to stay there yeah right right i don't recommend would you recommend the gym you're working out at uh the the why that you're working out as a hotel option probably not but i you know if you really need a place to stay, the Korean spas that are open 24 hours in K-Town, they have nap rooms. Yeah, you could take a little nap there. That's probably a better option. For $24.

Maybe that's what happened to the Ys, is that people started thinking that they could stay there. If the song is any indication, that's what they'd said, and they have everything, no, I know. And they have everything for you men to enjoy. That's right.

You can hang out with all the boys. I once met one of the village people at just a rant. It was like Thanksgiving in the city, and nobody, it was like, you know, all the orphans of Thanksgiving, so you sometimes end up at a random party. Right. And I went with my resident slash friend, and I think it was the cowboy. Oh, nice. And he gave us a card that had him dressed as a cowboy from

many years ago and he said I was in the village people and I said that's pretty cool that's pretty cool he had the handlebar mustache right I don't know if he had the mustache well he might have still had I think he was definitely still playing it up but he didn't really look the same anymore it's like one of those things you could just get away with saying

yeah you could just lie I wouldn't know I was the cowboy once. And like it's been so long, you're like, I guess this could have been you 40 years ago. What is something you think is overrated? I think vacation is overrated because like not in general taking a break, but I think the idea that we have in America about like you have your vacation days and then you're supposed to work, work, work,

and then you go on vacation and that's your time off vacation is so stressful to go on vacation especially if you're not a single person if you're even traveling with anybody else but yourself you've got a plan you've got like booking flights you've got to change your money it's a very stressful thing and then the minute you come back you're catching up and you're behind right so i don't like the idea of it I think we should just be checking in as we go, you know, making sure you're not overloading, check your bandwidth, like take mini breaks. See, this is the millennial burnout generation.

You know what I mean? We can't even take a vacation without work. I mean, you still can, but, like, it just becomes... But I get what it means. Especially when you work somewhere where work is continuing as you're away. Yeah. Like, it's hard to completely be like, I'm going to ignore shit for two weeks or however many days you have. Right.

Unless you, you know, but again, you got to, you got to take some time. You know what I mean? Europeans do it right. They take like four week vacations. Yeah. I've been admonished by Europeans like when I'm on vacation in a place and they're also on vacation. Right. And they're like, you're taking off just a week.

No, it only takes a week to get unwound and then you need two weeks to enjoy where you are and then another week to start moving back towards your life. But I feel like Europeans take three-hour lunch breaks. Yes, they do. They're just a useless people. I think we can all agree on that. They just figured out how to...

Give me those vacation days, please. Give me all of that. Hey, I'm just looking at the map of the happiest countries on the planet. Where do we fall? Wouldn't you know? We continue to plummet and Western European countries

are way up there. What the fuck do they know? Seems like a lot. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Okay, so this is just my opinion. But I read an article about how NBA dancers are complaining because they're underpaid and they get fat shamed and all this stuff.

And that all sounds horrible. But my myth is that I thinkba dancers need to pick a lane like are you an athlete and if you're an athlete then you need to treat it like a sport which uh or but if you're treating it like a job then yes you need to be paid proper living wages you need to not there shouldn't be no discrimination based on your looks but here's why because one of the complaints in this art and first of all i want to say a lot of the complaints in this are, and first of all, I want to say, a lot of the complaints are valid things that shouldn't happen. But in the context, they're spinning

it in a way where I'm like, this seems convoluted. So one of the complaints is the weight thing. They shouldn't be yelled at for gaining weight, but also athletes are required, expected to maintain a certain physical standard. Not NBA athletes. NBA, well see maintain a certain physical standard. Not NBA athletes.

NBA, well, see, I would- Not Raymond Felton. Yeah, tractor trailer. To a certain extent, like for the purpose of getting the thing done, right? For playing a good game. Yeah. So with dancers, it shouldn't be the focus on the looks, but it shouldn't be crazy to expect dancers to work out.

If they're considering themselves athletes, which in this situation they are marketing themselves as like they were saying we're athletes but you know we shouldn't have to um spend money on our uniforms and nails and tanning which they do but i'm like i mean i'm pretty sure abandon that argument yeah because i think pretty sure nba players have to buy shoes that they practice in on their own i mean eventually eventually they get sponsorship deals, but to get to that point, it wasn't like from the very,

like they had to train and train and train to get there. Dancers do too. Yes, and it's not crazy to have costs that come with playing the sport. And also, I'm just curious because I don't know the answer to this, and I know NBA players don't have to pay for a lot of stuff, but when they first join, do they have to buy their uniforms? I'm so curious. No. Do they just get them?

No, once you get into even high school, a lot of times if the booster situation is wild enough, stacked enough, they will just hand you that spirit pack and be like, here's everything you're going to wear. I mean, college for sure, they're not coming out of pocket for this. I just think they need a pick because if they want to go the athlete route,

which is totally fair, it's very athletic and hard, but then you have to just accept that there are certain things that are going to be skill-based. I don't think we should focus on – obviously, fat shaming is horrible, but I also don't think it's just fair if it's a sport to just be like any skill levels acceptable. Well, yeah, I just don't – I mean, all of their complaints are valid, and I think the idea of trying to contextualize it as that they're athletes or whatever is not really useful

because I think for the amount of money that these teams make and these leagues make, they should be paid more than like – I think less than $100 or something for showing that. Or they should just be the entertainers, which is what they are. Because here's the thing. Dancers can be athletes. NBA dancers are not. I mean, this is where I'm going to get a lot of heat, but they're not at the peak of dancing.

Yeah, nobody. You're not even. Oh, well, I wouldn't go that far. I know a lot of people who have gone from, do dance professionally, like on tour, music videos or whatever. I don't know. I guess what are you calling the hype? A lot of my friends from my dance studio ended up dancing for NBA and NFL.

And this is your YMCA dance studio, right? Yes, yes, yes. In my YMCA dance studio, right? Yes, yes, yes. In my YMCA ballet class. No, so I'm not disrespecting them, but I just mean in general, the appeal of doing it is to be able to perform for the fans and be part of the league. But the opportunities are so slim.

It's almost like, you know, there aren't that many opportunities to work as a dancer and make a lot of money. So you're left with jobs like that, which a lot of people, of course, they're like, I went to fucking Juilliard. Yeah. And I'm out here doing this thing.

But if I want to dance and make money, then this is the thing I have to do. And then on top of that, being exploited by a team for all these weird, just being underpaid, being mistreated or whatever is not helpful. It's bad. The details of the NFL contracts that NFL dancers sign are wild. They're like, don't even look their way.

You can't talk to the dancers. Yeah, they still do, which is okay. Yeah, but I think it's interesting to what you're saying, or what I think you're saying is it's hard to argue certain things if you're trying to sort of myopically say, oh, we are athletes. I think you've got to pick is what I'm saying. I think oftentimes people making arguments convolute it because they're like, this will help my case now and then this will help my case later.

And then you're like, this whole thing is getting muddled. Like, pick one. It's labor. It's labor. It's work. Or just say I want to get paid more because I don't feel like I'm getting paid enough for this thing I do, which I feel is valued this way. And absolutely, when you think of the time it takes for those people to do that, is their time worth only this little stipend they get? Absolutely not.

I don't think so. I think they need to be paid more. And I don't think they need to come up with such compelling arguments to be like, I'm sorry, what I'm doing is not worth more than this little bit of money. So that's what, yeah, sure. I think a lot of labor things come down to

the pay should fucking go up. No matter where it goes. In the capital's interest interest the people who are doing the hiring and firing to like obscure it with okay we will cover your nails but not your hair and it's like it becomes this like thing it's just like no just pay a living wage or like yeah i mean like for instance my dad coached in the nba and like his fingernails were covered for like, if he wanted to get his nails done and his hair blown out, but his toenails, if you want to do that, he had to pay for those.

Well, his feet were a mess. But in the NFL, like Bill Belichick, when he gets his hair blown out and like his nails done. When he cuts the sleeves off his hoodies. Right, exactly. He has somebody to do that for him. Yeah. But yeah, it boils down, just pay everybody more money.

Yes. Nobody's making enough money to even, yeah, because I think it's absurd that they have to ask for more money and on top of having all these expectations. Right. The fact that it's like laughable that the players would have to pay for their uniforms is like, well, then maybe throw a little more money to the dancers who are like, they're entertaining the people in between quarters. Well, it maybe throw a little more money to the dancers who are like, they're entertaining the people in between quarters. Well, it's like anything.

You look at how much CEO pay goes up. Right. And there's still, it's just being vacuumed up at the top. But yet you're being like, yo, Clipper girls. Right. I don't know what those nails were because they weren't acrylics. Yes. I do like to, I know it's not true, but I do like to imagine that these NBA players get paid so much yet. They're like, all right, holiday sweaters. Like who wants in $25? Right.

All right. Let's talk about Woodstock 50. You guys, uh, the lineup was announced. I was ready for it to not be that great. I don't know why, Just because most of Woodstock 1 people are gone and the most recent iteration that we have is Woodstock 99. Something was hell on earth. We were talking earlier. It was like peak Durst, peak Fred Durst, peak Limp Bizkit. Peak DraftKings.

Yeah, peak DraftKings. And it was not great. It was kind of a cultural low light for a generation. It was chaos. There was like sexual assaults happening everywhere. Shit was not great. It was kind of a cultural low light for a generation. It was chaos. There was, like, sexual assaults happening everywhere. Shit was on fire. Yeah.

It looked like fucking Thunderdome. Yeah, I know. It did. And then, yeah, but this lineup, everyone was like, okay, what's it going to be? It's not even at the original spot. They're trying to make it a festival, and it's just on, like, some Coachella shit.

Yeah. I mean, not that that's bad. I mean, there's really great bands, but it's funny to watch something go from Woodstock, what it was 50 years ago, to now being like, The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, Chance the Rapper, Black Keys, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros,

Portugal the Man, Imagine Dragons. You can hear the VMA announcer announcing all of these things in your head as you read through them. But I don't know. It seems like it would be a worthwhile thing to attend. The lineup is, it spans the galaxy of music. So, I mean, it's impressive. No, I mean, it's not even that I have a criticism.

It's just very interesting to watch something start off as a very hippie thing of, like, let's get together, peace and love into now like that full on corporate festival thing yeah that's what Burning Man kind of ended up being though yeah and then Burning Man slowly changed too

but I mean look shout out to the burners who came to the San Francisco show I'm sure they it's still real for the real people you gotta go to a burn to really feel the burn

we've still been invited we gotta go there I know I don't know like they're gonna be like never mind. Jack's a cop. Miles, you're good. You're good on the

playa, homie. What were you gonna ask about Woodstock though? Like the history? I think you answered it. It's not a thing that's been happening every year, right? This is just the 50th celebration. This would have been the fourth one in total. So the original 94, 99, and now I think.

And the original, as we covered back at Cracked, Christy Harrison wrote an article about how the original was actually, like it was a bunch of Madison Avenue dudes kind of putting a thing together. So then it's always been a thing. But they just got really good bands.

Okay. Shout out to them. I mean, Akon is going to be there. They have Akon. Wait, you didn't say Akon was going to be there. Akon, a young Jesus. I mean, yeah, bless him. I think. Unless he's become weird.

David Crosby is going to be there. The Dead. India Ari. Wow, I haven't heard it from India Ari in a minute. She changed the spelling of her name to India. No, it's always been India Ari. She was ahead of her time. Other things that have people looking forward right now in the pop culture landscape,

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood dropped a trailer a couple days ago, and it's the first kind of thing from this movie that I saw where I started to have some sense of what it's going to be. And I still, like, I don't, I can't like put it into words because it's not what I thought it was. I thought it was going to be like a horror movie about the Manson murders by Quentin Tarantino.

And it appears to be a movie about a movie star in 1969 where Brad Pitt once again plays an ugly person for it, because that's his one thing. I thought he looked great. No, he looks amazing, but he likes to take roles where he's like, and then the main thing you notice about him is the huge scar on his neck, or whatever. It's like, no, the main thing you notice about him is he looks like Brad Pitt. He's stunning.

He's stunning. He's stunning. But in this case, Brad Pitt plays Leonardo DiCaprio's stunt double, like a guy who, were it not for his busted face, he would be able to appear on movies. But because he's so ugly, he has to just appear in the stunts. Yeah. Again, I don't know what it is technically about. I just remember even when they were filming around Hollywood, it's like it's some movie that takes place in Hollywood around the time of the Manson murders,

but then you see all this interesting stuff, and then people are crying inexplicably. So it sounds like there's some tension based on what I saw. Some goofy antics. Yeah. You mean within the plot? Within the plot, yes. Oh, shit.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, why would somebody be crying with a gun in their hand? Oh, that's true. You know? Yeah. You mean within the plot? Within the plot, yes. Oh, shit. Really? Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, why would somebody be crying with a gun in their hand? Oh, that's true. You know? Yeah. And Bruce Lee out here? Yeah. So that was the one thing that I was like, ooh, that's interesting.

Yeah. A Quentin Tarantino movie where Bruce Lee is a character in the movie? Maybe it's just a way for Tarantino to work with all the people he wished he could have. Because he's such a film freak. He's like, like oh it would be great to work with Bruce Lee and then he's just making him hang out with him after the uh after shooting in character exactly that's right right he's like hey now drive this uh stunt car and crash yourself and hurt yourself I'll make you do the take over and over again we've seen how he talks when he appears on BET. How do you think he would talk when dealing with Bruce Lee? Oh, no.

Wait, how does Tarantino talk on BET? You haven't seen that clip? No. Oh, no. He tries to code switch or something. He puts on the dirtiest black scent you've ever heard. What? But really condescending and awkward, really weird.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This actor, though, I looked him up. The Bruce Lee actor. I haven't seen him in a lot of stuff. So he's like a pretty break. Is it like a breakout role for him? Yeah, I think so. I mean, he looks the part.

He looks the part. Yeah, he looks like Bruce Lee. And finally, the trailer for Stranger Things Season 3 came out. It looks pretty dope. It is cut to Baba O'Reilly, the Who song, otherwise known as Teenage Wasteland. But when I called it that, somebody was like,

it's called Baba O'Reilly. It's like when you call the Beatles' White Album the White Album. They're like, did you know that's actually called the Beatles? Same person. Anyways. I mean, the kids are all growns up. Yeah. They person. Anyways. I mean, the kids are all growns up. Yeah. I mean, sort of.

They're like teenagers. Yeah, but when you look at, because they were just like kids. And then the last season, they're like, oh, they're getting a little awkward. Yeah. Like puberty's creeping, and now they're like, y'all are teenagers. Well, and it's cut to, yeah, Teenage Wasteland. And at the part where the song says, out here in the field, they actually are walking in a field. Yes.

I was like finally somebody has made a trailer to this song somebody listened to the words but then it I don't know there's a lot of cool nostalgia crammed in and it just looks cool and makes you feel pleasant yeah another one with a lot of chaos

and I'm like it kind of feels like maybe it's like the next generation Harry Potter in a way where they grow up with these actors. I don't know if it's quite there yet, but I could see it if they wanted to keep their franchise up, making it something like that. Although there's so many more characters,

it's not just Ron, Harry, and Hermione. Right. And instead of the whimsical world of magic and wizarding, it's just the 80s. They're like this wonderful, It's just the 80s. They're like this wonderful mythical land of the 80s. And like 11 is like trying to break up the 92 riots and shit.

Oh yeah. How are they going to handle September 11? Right. And Reginald Denny is like saved from being attacked, pulled out that truck. Well, how did Hogwarts handle 9-11? Yeah. Exactly. I think they just sat on their hands. Yeah. I think they just sat there. How did Hogwarts handle 9-11? Yeah. Exactly. I think they just sat on their hands. Yeah. I think they just sat there. On their wands.

How did they handle the Holocaust? J.K. Rowling isn't coming with that information. Does it take place that far? She is talking about the intense sex at Dumbledore. Yeah, just all the fucking. She talks about the fucking so we won't ask questions like, where were they during the rise of Hitler and Nazism? Where did they stand on the Cold War?

Right. Actually, I'm sure she has addressed that. I'm sure it's... Right. She's like, actually, what you don't know is this person was actually a victim of... Caught up in the McCarthy witch hunts. Right.

This is something for me to be saying if I were a Harry Potter expert, which I'm not. So I will shut up and wait for the people on Twitter to explain Harry Potter to me. All right, guys, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered.

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it was in the run-up to the release of Django Unchained. It is Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson. Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx. Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx. Bow Wow. Bow Wow, of course. Drop the little. And he's on BET. And yeah, we actually did a video on this back at Cracked.

But it is like we were listening to it during the break, and I honestly was breaking out into literal sweats which isn't saying much just rip it off just rip it off okay let's listen pleasing your fans or pleasing the critics for you oh interesting question actually uh um this is tarentine well i want to i want to please my fans don't want to please the critics that are my fans the critics ain't my fans. I don't give a damn Now I'm not that computer savvy, so if he had sent me something that I plug into my computer I don't know if I would ever hurt it. All right. Hey download this. I don't know how to do that All right, you know, so he put it on a cassette tape

then Jamie My man. Yeah. Yeah this i don't know how to do that all right you know so uh he put it on a cassette tape then jamie my man yeah yeah oh just stop i'm done all right thank you that was enough this man is the worst sam jackson is scratching his ear like doing up here yeah everyone is so uncomfortable the the wow okay so yeah i'm sure he is a joy for all non-white people to be around that's a cadillac margarita though yeah yeah yeah all right let's talk about another person who's a joy for all non-white people to be around and that is the president of these united States, Donald Trump, because he is still attacking John McCain. He's had a good week-long run, it seems like, where he has just—

Been fighting ghosts. Yeah, like literally shadowboxing with the legacy of John McCain. So the most recent statement was he was giving a speech and he said, I gave him the funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don't care about this, but I didn't get a thank you. That's okay. We sent him on the way, but I wasn't a fan of John McCain. So clearly he doesn't care about this at all.

This is like the fourth statement he's made just shitting on John McCain. He also talked about how he's made just shitting on john mccain uh he also talked about how he graduated last in his class on twitter and you know just non-stop shit talking making up stuff about how john mccain was trying to undermine him for how much you know however any anyone might feel about john mccain to other senators they really like like him you know what i mean right and it was funny to see how, you know, a lot of people just didn't say anything. Like Lindsey Graham, who was always like,

oh, he's my best friend, didn't really have anything to say. Like at least directly critical of the president's comments. But Johnny Isakson, who is from Georgia, who has like been a staunch supporter. Like he was one of the few who like, he didn't join the other GOP senators to block the emergency declaration. Like he's been pretty much on the president's side.

He actually came out. I was like, yo, it's deplorable what he said. And he's like, and it will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again. And had very, very, very like hard words for him. And it was interesting to see like someone on the right actually be like, yo, leave alone like what the fuck is the problem here yeah he's dead it's like he that's such classic trump thing to just come out trying to like uh criticize people as soon as he knows there's nothing like he doesn't really want to be in an argument he just wants to look good and he thinks if i just shit on everybody around me if everyone looks bad then i look good meanwhile he's just making himself look even worse yeah right he just can't let go

of that right that vote on obamacare he is the king of kicking somebody when they're down or not even there or kicking people when they're six feet under the ground yeah but like there there is no honor in his whole vibe. It's just all about like whatever he can do to get a win. He does not give a shit. And it does not stop when he's president. He's just like, I won the argument. He didn't say shit.

He's like, I'm not hearing anything back. Right. What was that? Nothing. Exactly. Roasted. Yeah. And McCain was allegedly a pretty vindictive, messy bitch.

He said shit like, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. And you're like, oh, boy. That's funny. Andrew T, he tweeted that video. He was like, I don't like John McCain, and I don't think I ever will. And he's like, wow, funny. I think I agree with him. Not a big fan.

What's going on with the EPA, Miles? Have they solved climate change? Yeah, they solved climate change, baby. You know going on with the EPA, Miles? Have they solved climate change? Yeah, they solved climate change, baby. You know, this is the thing, right? We had Scott Pruitt, who was just an absolute joker clown. Didn't care about the environment. He was just out. He wanted his treats and his perks.

And he was a stooge for the energy industry. So he was actively trying to take the EPA down from the inside. And so when he was out, he was out we're like okay good time to put someone in who takes the environment seriously and who better than one of the coal industry's top lobbyists oh good because that's what andrew wheeler is he is mr climate change denier but he's like a pro he's not like scott pruitt who's like just kind of like just winging it. This is like his shit. So he goes in stone face and will just say the most obnoxious, you know, anti science shit you've ever heard. So he was interviewed recently, I think on 60 minutes, and was asked, you know, like, you're the head of the EPA, like, what are sort of the environmental issues that you really

feel are a threat to the United States? And his answer was not surprising. The drinking water today worldwide is probably the biggest environmental threat we have. If I hear you correctly, you're saying all of this tension, energy, politics over on climate change is essentially misguided. We have 1,000 children die every day worldwide because they don't have safe drinking water. That's a crisis that I think we can solve. Most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out. What we need to do is make sure that the people who are dying today from lack of having drinking water in third world countries, that problem is addressed. Oh, wow. So it's not, you know, it's not the climate.

Look, he's out here saying it's only 50 to 75 years till people are going to really be feeling it. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure people were dying in Nebraska due to historic flooding they've never seen. There was a cyclone that absolutely tore through Mozambique and Malawi, Zimbabwe. And a lot of people, it's very clear that the rising temperatures, you know, that it's not just about the heat, right? That means more moisture will go into the atmosphere, means comes down into rain form that can cause these other things. And we're looking at people who are very much living in places that are underwater due to these kinds of drastic changes. and to then just sort of be dismissive of that, to just say like, oh, let me just throw a smoke bomb down and be like, well, potable drinking water,

you know, safe drinking water is actually the biggest threat, as if that is not one piece of the puzzle of your sort of holistic strategy to address the threats to our environment or to the threats that people face because of the changing environment. He sounds like he's in a pageant answering an onstage question. When people get asked those, like, what do you think is the biggest problem facing America today? And the beauty queens say, it's not like their answers are always bad, but they're not trying to be – I mean, at the time, they're not politicians. Some of them do end up becoming politicians.

But the whole point is just to see how well you speak. And most of the time, their answers are like, if you poke any hole in it you're like okay that's clearly wrong that's what it sounds like it's like at first you're like okay he's talking about a problem and then you're like what what are you talking about why for also even the numbers don't sound right 1 000 he's a 1 000 children die a day that sounds low for how many children probably die each day i couldn't imagine i mean the other thing mean, it's bad that they're dying. Yes, of course. But like just any, everything sounds wrong that he's saying.

And then there's so many other bigger problems. Well, the other thing too is, you know, even the idea of drinking water, he's looking at it from an EPA thing and more like Flint. And it's like, there's chemicals because you could also introduce a climate change argument to actual drinking water as well. Sure, yeah. Like with droughts and things like that. But he's more being like, no, I'm looking at like chemical stuff that's going around.

I'm not really interested in like anything that would hinder the sort of fossil fuel industry. But again, it's good to know that this is the sort of leadership we have right now. Because while we're all out here screaming at the top of our lungs of like look at all of the evidence around us i guess some people just you know it's 50 to 75 years and i think for people who are past 50 years old it's easy to be like what the fuck do i care like really deep down yeah it's really you can just sort of see the nihilism and i'm like i mean i don't care i don't care that's also crazy to say 50 to 75 years because like you said that's still like within a lot of people who are alive's lifetime yeah and uh so that's kind of in a way like they've come around from denying it to kind of acknowledge and be like yeah but it's not gonna happen while i'm alive and then so it's like

a number that's still pretty believable and a number where you're like okay so if we knew the world was going to end 50 years and we could do something now to make that not happen. Isn't now the time to do it? I guess I wonder if it's because the devastation has been it's not hitting in enough places that is waking people up. Because even in North Carolina, when the storm hit last year, I think there are a few Republicans who actually kind of were like, oh, maybe this is something we kind of need to really think about because we were ignoring it. Yeah, I mean, it is a difficult situation because you can't directly tie it. Like even scientists say that you can't directly tie any given storm to climate change, right? So they have that out. And there is also like the thing that he was saying about, you know, a thousand children die every day.

he was saying about you know a thousand children die every day like that unicef says that uh the leading cause of death for children under five is waterborne illnesses which nearly a thousand children die from every day so that is like i can see what he's saying in the sense that it is a thing that we might be able to take more immediate action against or something, or it's a more solvable problem. But the way he presented it was that there's nothing that you can do about climate change or that we can put climate change off. And it's just like that's a very misguided way of presenting this stuff. Well, and also he's in charge of the EPA.

Right. It's not like he's in charge of some global water initiative. The Gates Foundation right so to like cite some figure about like worldwide 1,000 children are dying to sort of bolster your point about well that's why I'm not really giving a fuck about what we're doing in the US

is again yeah cause it should be a national like his job is to deal with national issues right but again it's easier to just be like oh look over there. A thousand people are dying. Oh, also Flint, bad water. Oh, so this is something that he doesn't really have control over?

I mean, I don't know what- He's like, the biggest problem we have is actually not our problem. So focus on that. Well, yeah. I mean, their mandate is to just be looking at how pollutants are working in our environment in the United States. I mean, I'm sure they have some kind of opinion they can give on things that are more in a global sense, but really it's, you know, it's part of looking at what is going on in the United States. Yeah. And it's also worth noting that nothing that has anything to do with clean drinking water can

be separated from climate change like as you guys were saying at the start but like you know water evaporates and hotter air and hotter water evaporates quicker and there's all sorts of ways that these things are completely interconnected and so presenting them as either or options is insanely misguided but it does have that ring of this is probably working on somebody to me like this is like it's not scott pruitt shit it's not like you know that that's what's scary to me is that i feel like we killed off all the weak ones like the scott pruitts who are just like openly like out here mattress shopping like in front of the fucking New York Times reporters who are tailing them around and then now we're left with

just more competent people doing the most evil shit in the history of our country and I don't know he seems like he's slightly more competent well yeah in the sense that he's a professional he's he's has a PhD in fuckery yeah a professional liar yeah and meanwhile Scott Pru sense that he's a professional. He has a PhD in fuckery. Yeah, a professional liar. Yeah, and meanwhile, Scott Pruitt, he's an aspiring fuckery expert. Right, everybody you spoke to, nobody was like, Scott Pruitt, guy can get the job done. He's a bad person, but he gets the job done. Everyone was like, yeah, no, Scott's a fucking kiss-ass idiot.

He's not going to last very long in the job. Well, Miles, everybody who listens to this show knows that we are pro-wall here on the Daily Zeitgeist. Yeah, the Pink Floyd album? Yes, that, and, of course, the Southern Border wall. Yeah. Yet more evidence that we need a stronger presence down at the border. Yes. That's what this story is about.

Am I misreading this? Well, here, let me just tell you. So there's reports from San Diego, Tijuana, that one of the ways Trump was just trying to do a Band-Aid fix on the wall is be like, just put a bunch of razor wire and make it look just so freaky with the wire that they don't want to jump over. No more climbers. Cut yourself really bad. And so that's what they were doing the national guard and other contractors were just adding this concertina wire to the fence um but the thing is concertina sounds like a children's like recital yeah or like a little instrument like a tiny piano those little cookies, the Milano cookies. Yeah. Concertina by Petridge Farms.

Petridge Farms. Petridge Farms concertinas. Yeah. So apparently there are reports that they're just thieves straight up stealing the concertina wire and then using it to protect their homes in Tijuana. They're like, wait, a lot of stuff is missing from the U.S. side, like stretches of the wire is gone. They're like, wait, a lot of stuff is missing from the U.S. side, like stretches of the wire is gone. And then in this article, they say, quote, some homes in the same area had identical wire installed in front of their homes as an added layer of protection to their property lines and fences. But residents declined to comment about how they obtained the material. Wait, the U.S. side people, Americans were stealing it?

No, on the Mexico side. But the wires on the U.S. side, they're just coming around like, all right, free concertina wire. That'll help me keep my home safe because, you know, it's actually kind of I think it's helping. But Tijuana was the most violent city in the world in 2018. So and homicides were like just through the roof. And so in a way, this is helping some local residents feel a little more secure. It's still really odd karmic story where it's like put the wire

up and they're like thanks for this stuff I'm gonna help protect myself right you know I mean he just wanted to keep Mexico safe this whole time it's all backfiring like his fans like god now they're safe well I mean if things got better and safer

probably I mean all around it's like people probably wouldn't be trying to jump over anyway. So, you know, maybe he's just smarter than we all think. Maybe he's trying to make the conditions better. Just dropping off materials for everyone to feel safer. But, yeah, there are comments in this article. People are like, they should put more guards there to guard the wall so they don't steal the wire. And it's like, they should put more guards there to guard the wall so they don't steal the wire. And it's like, what? Okay.

Add more. But I thought, whatever. Just do what y'all got to do. So you're saying you don't want the wall there, keeping these people out? No, we don't need no wall. We don't need a wall. You know what I mean? We just need more equitable situations for everyone on the planet.

But first, we have to recognize the inequality. Well, speaking of inequality, we want to take another look at the college admission scandal. The scandal has, in addition to just being hilarious, a source of hilarious details about rich people's dumb children, it has shown a light on just how fucked up the admission system is, which is something that I was kind of aware of from a very young age, like how the admissions process worked. And so I don't know, I hadn't really taken a step back and been like, oh, this doesn't make sense as a part of an egalitarian like or like meritocratic society like this shouldn't be how things work uh but this story has helped i think bring people's attention to just what

bullshit the actual admissions process is as well as the um some of the details of the affirmative action case that was being brought against Harvard already because it's being alleged that Harvard weights admissions against Asian students. But the one big takeaway I have is white conservatives have complained that minority students have an advantage, but the more you look holistically at the overall way that the admissions process works, it's more accurately described as like an extremely inadequate attempt to try and compensate for all of the extremely unfair advantages that rich white kids have. Because that's like there's been articles in The Atlantic that talks about how college

athletes is basically affirmative action for rich white kids. Because when you picture college athletes, you're picturing, you know, like UK's basketball team or, you know, like really popular, widely viewed college athletics. But most college athletes are like playing lacrosse and crew and sailing and squash. Right. It's just these sports that only rich white families have access to and it's just a way to get kids into school like harvard i think you're like a thousand times more likely to get in uh with equivalent qualifications if the squash team

says they want you or something like or any athletics. Oh, just to have that little sign off. It's like, oh, there you go, exponential rise. Yeah. It seemed like it was a clear formula like back in the turn of the century when we were applying to colleges of sort of the idea of like, we need good grades,

you need extracurriculars and these other things. And it still was seemingly seemed like you had a fair shot right and i think it was starting to not that it was equally fair but it wasn't as in our face how completely fucked the system was because i think there were enough people still like college was somewhat affordable or it was just in the beginnings of it going off a cliff but like it was able to still create this like myth of of it being fair in a sense and then as the years go on you see the prices come up and you see how like these kinds of things are weighted

and like what the makeups are of the different classes and the admissions you're like oh like it's not even like education anymore it's just merely can you get into this next phase of your life that will help ensure that you're part of a certain class yeah it's like they're like shopping for the name brand colleges almost and it and it is that way with rich people because it just used to be more indirect you pay for the really good admissions count like you know tutoring and all that and but now they're just literally buying their themselves in and the funny thing to me is that a lot of the schools that people were paying like hundreds of thousands to get into were like i I mean, there's also obviously the IVs and stuff.

But then there are just a bunch of schools that are like, they're not bad, but they're not like what I would think. Watch it. Watch it. A lot of them were. You're going to shit on Miles and I's alma mater here in a second. No, no, no. None of them were bad. So I have to say they're all great schools.

But like I went to high school in Palo Alto where they were also very overly in a negative way. And there's an emphasis on getting into college. And so not from my perspective, but as a general zeitgeist at my high school, some of these schools were considered safety schools that people were paying to get into. And I won't name them because I'm going to get so much hate, but I'm not saying me. I mean, I went to a safety school. Yeah, you went to safety school. I went to safety school, yeah. It was very safe.

It's right in New York City. Safest city in the world. No, but it's just funny because it's like already on that level, the rich people are like paying to just try to get into like a, not mediocre, but like an okay school. Yeah, fine school, not the most elite, but yeah. But instead of just working because it's pretty attainable, instead of just doing the work, and with all the resources they have they could have just done their work and probably got in right and they refuse to do that right and that's so funny but

then it shows you that there's even levels to that sort of wealth because if you're super wealthy then you just pay for the to make the multi-million dollar donation to the school and you go in through the front you buy a wing of the hospital for the medical school program. Right, exactly. Boom. Now your kid's in or whatever. And now it's like, well, we don't have like 90 million expendable income, like tens of millions, but we got a little couple hundred K to pay some grimy coach to say they're a flip-flopper. It's funny that they think they're at a disadvantage compared to minorities. And it's like, you know why? I was kind of a nerd in high school because all the cool kids were hanging out

you know so like if you're a rich white kid not that you have to be white but a lot of these people are if you're a rich white kid having all the parties and you're not inviting the minorities and you're being exclusive well guess what they're doing when they can't party with you they're studying because they have no other choice getting stronger all i'm saying is i would have partied i would have thrown my grades away if you guys just gave me a chance. Okay. And you could have taken my spot in my mediocre safety school. You could be here on the daily zeitgeist. You could have just invited me to your cool party. But you didn't.

Yeah. I could have been at that party and I would have pierced my belly button too at that party. So I just studied instead. Okay. And that's why I got smarter. But one of the details that kind of put this into perspective for me is that Harvard has more legacy students. Legacy students make up around 14% of the undergraduate population than black students who make up 6% of the Harvard population. and building out what it's building out people who are willing to help them achieve their goal of going from like a three billion dollar endowment to like a four billion dollar i don't

even know it's like their endowments of these schools are absolutely absurd and that's the only way that i can think that they are justifying the addition of legacy students? What do you need to be considered a legacy? Just one parent, two parents, three parents? I think family member. Just anybody? Then boom. I think it has to be parents, though. Right, right.

It can't be like an uncle. Yeah, and that's not counting like all these, you know, people who just have an uncle or a friend or like a friend of a friend who like pulls some strings. Right, right, right, right, right. The provost or whatever the fuck. Yeah, because it just shows you. I mean, like it's like anything. It's like wealth that like they're even trying to put up safeguards against other people getting into it.

Right. Where it's like, oh, you can access this generationally. If you're trying to do it the other way, it's going to be much harder for you. Yeah. We tend to just like pick everybody who's already been around here. Right.

But I mean, that's the thing is like the educational theory and like all of these, like, you know, really advanced like academics have known for a long time that the best thing for a person's education is like diversity and like being people with a diversity of backgrounds, economically,

racially, like all of these things. But they're saying like the thing that makes these schools so stubbornly rich and white is legacy like it's just legacy but that just never gets brought up as like uh well yeah you know why do we why is this even a thing why is that a thing at all like i that feels like one of those things that hopefully in a generation everyone's gonna be like holy shit you guys did that that's how things were back in your day it should be that like there's one argument was like legacy shouldn't count against you but it shouldn't count for you so like if you're born into a family

that has you know a good work ethic and your parents studied to get into harvard and and you were taught with the same values then it should be like indirectly easier for you to get in because you've learned from them and learned from their experience. Totally. But you shouldn't get weighted extra because you're a legacy. If anything, you should be blind. Yeah, it shouldn't be a box you tick or anything. And most likely, a lot of the genes will pass on to at least half those students.

So some of those kids will be legacy anyways. But they should never feel guilty not giving you a spot. I didn't get into Stanford. My parents both went there. And they sent a a spot like i i didn't get into stanford my parents both went there and they sent a letter oh my god to apologize because i didn't surprise you said that out loud no and i'm stanford's on a letter yeah because i was a legacy but i but i didn't uh and i didn't expect to get and i didn't have the grades but i um uh it still was interesting to get that because i was like oh that's right i guess i'm a legacy and i i'm you know they don't really donate to it so they wouldn't have weighted me any differently.

But think about all the kids who do. And these letters they send out as a way to keep people in the family and keep them donating. To just be like, you're special. Don't worry. We couldn't give you a spot. But we still want your parents to donate. Legacy students are – so we have all this information about Harvard's admissions because they are specifically who is getting sued. And, you know, they were able to do a statistical analysis of like who gets in based on what grades and legacy students are five times likelier to get into Harvard.

But they said that Stanford, that's not true at all. So don't worry about it. Oh, I know. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. Crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pardenti.

And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions, like how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes.

Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Santer. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it? like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And we're back. And Apple has a bunch of big things coming up. I think they're announcing whatever's going on with their streaming platform. And they also announced an upgrade to what I think is their best product of the past 10 years. The Newton? Yeah, the Newton. The iPod Nano? The AirPods, guys.

Come on. Oh, well, look at you, Mr. AirPods. But the AirPods 2.0 is not, I don't know. It has wireless charging, which, do you guys use the wireless charging on your smartphone? No. Because that's like another thing I have to buy. Right. That's the thing with Apple.

It's like, yo, they fuck you with all these add-ons. Right. I don't want to get the weird wireless pad. I already have a lightning cable, so just let it rock. But then it's like, oh, but now I can't use headphones and charge at the same time unless I get the pad. But I don't know. I'm just kind of salty because I don't have AirPods

and everybody else doesn't. You don't have AirPods? Yeah, neighborhood kids make fun of me when they see me with my wired shit. I don't have AirPods and everybody else doesn't. You don't have AirPods? Yeah, neighborhood kids make fun of me when they see me with my wired shit. I don't really use them. I got them as a gift, and I keep using the regular ones because they run out of charge, and I forget to charge them because I'm not in the habit of it.

Oh, right, right. It's not like headphones where you don't have to charge them. You just plug them in. So if you use AirPods a lot, you have to charge them. I'm not used to charging my headphones. You just got to go one at a time. That's the secret. So you're charging one in your pocket. you have the other one in your one you still have to charge

the whole kit the case right the whole thing runs out which is weird because what if i'm on like a a week-long road trip or like desert walking through the desert i don't know what i was walking sojourn yeah yeah walking through the desert and i want to just sounds like you do that all the time yeah just playing Toto Africa on loop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of people say it's actually the best thing they've made, really, though. They really do think, because it works.

Yeah, it does work. And having a battery pack that you can take with you, granted it's not useful on your year-long sojourns through the desert, but if you have regular access to a charging cable it's actually pretty useful uh it's definitely not the best thing they've ever made is the iphone but uh i still think it's the newton uh look it up y'all can fight me that thing

was ahead of its time and then one thing that just has broken through into the zeitgeist that i don't know a whole lot about but i want to i want to get a listen to it is uh elizabeth holmes's voice uh so this is the young woman who dropped out of stanford in order to found her company theranos yep and it turned out to be like a scam essentially she was basing it on science that didn't actually work and you know she just used all of the like founder biographies and ted talks she could get in her brain to scam people into like buying into her shit yeah she had a whole persona and everything yeah so that's the thing is that like she was able to to scam people with all these little tricks. And one of the tricks, allegedly, is that she deepened her voice to sound more authoritative.

And I think we have some audio of what her voice sounded like. And this does not seem that sophisticated to me. Let's listen to it. We define diagnosis today as the determination. No, it hasn't. Well, if I use traditional words to describe what we're doing, it's hard because people then associate it with conventional processes for analyzing drugs and development. She sounds like she's about to burn methods onto a single platform for the first time. We know there's a lot of. Yes, we've already done it. We've already done it. Absolutely.

And it's actually even published in our FDA decision summary from this summer from a 900 patient study where we got FDA clearance of the exact system that the journal is questioning and demonstrated venous versus finger stick across a huge number of patients. It was 889, I think, for that test. So yeah, it's like every, like maybe once every couple minutes she remembers to try and make her voice sound deep. I wouldn't have trusted her. I'm like, are you a stoner? Right. Because she's like, she kind of has like a surfer bro vibe.

Yeah, she would just be like, and then we go like this. And then we come back up here. It's like almost condescending. It's like when you're like in a class doing a project. You're like, yeah, well, here's what we did. This is the thing. It's very posturing. I'm getting ready to tell a lie.

And I'm really going at my voice. How deep can you go right now, Teresa? I was at alto. All right. But let's hear it. If you had to become somebody who, in their mind, they go, I need to sound, I'd imagine, because of patriarchy, like a man to be taken seriously.

I'm sure it's part of that strategy. So let me hear you, Elizabeth Theranos. Hey, guys. I'm the new podcast host now here, and you guys are my guests. Oh, shit. I would just be like are you okay like i would be like not to be rude are you do you need water no i'm fine please trust everything i say i'm very trustworthy you sound like uh uh my wife trying to do a boy's voice

does she do that a lot like she calling the police? And then you're all, oh, hey, what's up? Like me. It always sounds very dumb. But yeah, that's, I mean, you actually sound like, she sounded like to me, which is somebody doing a voice. Yeah. So anybody, I think that's just a good lesson for everybody to take with them at the end of this podcast throughout your life is just if somebody is asking you to give them your money and they're doing a voice don't do it like stay

run the other way they're trying to trick you in some way man i don't know what you're talking about hey can i tell you something i think you really want to get invested i think you want to get in the ground for my company yeah i mean look the look, the days are just going to go flying by. You're going to wonder what happened to me, man. A second ago, I thought I was on the top of the world. Now I'm $600,000 in debt and I don't even have a sandwich to my name. Right. So can I get you in at the gold level?

I'm in. See? You're supposed to say no. I just threw my wallet across the room at Miles. Oh, no. Well, that'd be like a callback to Quentin Tarantino doing a weird voice. I feel like you really can tell. I mean, it seems silly at first, but that's a good way to know someone's character.

If someone's lying to you in any way, even if it's little, like the way they talk, then they're probably lying to you about other stuff. Right. If their voice changes after a couple drinks. Hey, I'm on the computer, man. And I was like, I don't play with that. I'm like, yo, he said that. Get out my face, Quentin.

Yeah, this is the episode of funny voices, of people doing Muppet voices. Best comedy, highest form of comedy. Funny voices. Funny voices. Hers is a commentary on patriarchy and how we treat women's voices, and his is just about offensive racist BS.

Right. Well, finally, we just want to end this week's episode by giving out an award we are rewarding the brother of the year early because nobody is going to beat this gentleman Mr. Michael Sanchez

brother of the year brother of the year remember how we found out that there were that the National Enquirer was threatening Jeff Bezos with nudie pics? And there were leaked text messages. We knew about the leaked text because he's like, I love you, alive girl. Right. Those texts. And everyone was like, how the fuck did they get that?

And Bezos was like, could have been the government. I'm not sure what's going on. Yeah. Turns out, and a lot of people did believe this at the time, it was in in fact, the brother of Lauren Sanchez, the woman who was involved with Jeff Bezos. Her brother, Michael, is the one who sold them shits for $200,000 to the Enquirer. All these texts. Now, before you go, what kind of a sick brother sells nudes of his sister? What kind of a sick brother gets nudes from his sister?

How the fuck did he know about that? He probably was like, she was looking away and just like airdropped the shit or something. And then he had it on his phone. Boom. Do what you got to do. Okay. Then, but anyway, he's out here. He gave an interview and he was like, no, I'm actually a hero.

Like what I was trying to do was actually really heroic. He said, my goal was and is always to protect Jeff, Lauren, my parents, my niece, and my nephews. Anyone who doesn't get that by now is an idiot. What? Plus $200,000. Wow. And then he goes on saying that he told this person in the interview

that the reason that he would go along with this investigation with the inquirers is because he wanted to buy time for Jeff and Lauren to, quote, firm up their relationship because they hadn't separated from their spouses. And the brother was like, acknowledged that he could have just told them that the story was coming out if you really wanted to pretend like, yo, they're really trying it with you.

You should brace for yourselves. But, you know, he just felt like if they found out it would be a breakup. It was just very convoluted. He did not feel like that, by the way. That's what he said. He claimed that he was worried. He acknowledged that he could have just told them to brace for the story,

but acted surreptitiously because he felt the ensuing scandal would lead to an immediate breakup. Because if I told them, then they'd be broken up, and then I would feel responsible for their act. Did he say that in a funny voice? Yes. There you go. So here's the thing you have to understand about Laura. Hey, man. So I gave you these cool pictures of my sister naked.

Oh, what the fuck? What the fuck? If you want pictures of your sister. That's pretty good, Kermit. You know what's up? Well, Teresa, as always, it's been wonderful having you here.

Where can people find you? I have a podcast that's called You Can Tell Me Anything. Yeah. And so that's on iTunes and all that. And I'm on Twitter, at Larissa T. Yeah. And you also have another podcast, right? Oh, yes.

Me and Eli Oldsberg, who is just on the podcast here. Yeah, for the second time. Yeah, we're a big Ariana Grande stans, and it's called Pod is a Woman. So if that's your thing, if you want to hear two adult grown people talk about Ariana Grande, go check it out. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, yes, there is.

Comedian Julio Torres, who I'm a fan of and a friend of, tweeted this and made me smile, so I thought I'd read it to y'all. Okay, I'm not going to do his voice, but you've got to see him live if you haven't before. As a kid I was devastated to find out that Daisy Duck's door in Disney World wouldn't open as the house was just a facade. When I went back to school the subject was touchy but I lied through my teeth saying, yes

she was there. She welcomed me in and we had a lovely time. If you guys don't know Julio, check him out. Very funny. Follow him on Twitter. He is a writer on SNL. I just like his whole voice. You can just picture it. Alright.

Miles, where can people find you? Find me, follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. There are a couple reductress ones I like. Actually, there's this one. It's a woman in a hospital bed with an IV bag in the photo. Instead of calling my ex, I made him my emergency contact and got hit by a car. So sad. And then someone said, breaking, we're doing shots. Because whenever that

comes up, oh, buckle up or run away. We're doing shots! Oh, also, another one, because we're talking about Elizabeth Holmes, Bridget Todd tweeted a photo of Elizabeth Holmes Because, you know, I'm not one to comment on women's hair But her hair, it seemed to be the talk of Twitter About how it was just a little bit of what they call a mess And she has two photos of some interesting Elizabeth Holmes hairdos She said, having hair like this and still successfully scamming

Is white privilege A black woman could never Yeah, you couldn't be out here looking like Felicia from Friday Asking for investor money and is still successfully scamming is white privilege. A black woman could never. Yeah, you couldn't be out here looking like Felicia from Friday asking for investor money. On the subject of Elizabeth Holmes, that'll be my tweet too. Emma at Merman Melville tweeted, Men hate vocal fry so much they gave Elizabeth Holmes $400 million. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out on miles oh today's song this is from quasimasimodo, Madlib, Collab called Seasons Change. Because, again, I just wanted to keep it in theme. Quasimodo doing a little bit of voice modulation. So just keep that in mind. Actually, it's Madlib.

Okay, cat's out of the bag. Madlib raps Quasimodo with a voice. But that's sort of the vibe. So listen to this one. Good beats and good voices. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because this is a daily podcast.

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