The Daily Zeitgeist - ExisTrendtial Crisis 7/25: The Rock, Divorce, Yellow Mustard Skittles, Trader Joe's, Suodiu, Steven Crowder, Elon Musk

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

In this edition of ExisTrendtial Crisis, Jack and Miles discuss The Rock donating money to striking union members, divorce rates by state, French's Yellow Mustard Skittles, Trader Joe's new chocolate chip-your-teeth cookies, China's hardest street food: Suodiu, working with Steven Crowder, and Elon Musk's "thoughts" on the Bronny situation!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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good with technology uh miles how are you doing oh i'm great i'm great just You just blew me away with a rendition of Cash In, Cash Out, the 21 Savage verse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But only the ad-libs. You got to just do the ad-libs, because when you hear how many times he says 21 in succession, it's impressive. Every time he says 21, I was lolling.

21. 21. It's just, bless him. Bless him. One of our greatest, one of the greatest, uh, British exports. Yeah.

British exports. Remember that? Remember he got deported for a little bit and then everyone had all those 21 Savage being a Brit meme. It was just actually terrible exports. Just actual terrible immigration laws is what that story was about. Yeah. Um,

all right. Should we tell the people some things that are trending today? Yeah. The Rock. It's a Rock-themed episode. The Rock. Dwayne The Rock Johnson just made a historic

donation to help striking actors who aren't Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Seven-figure donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, which provides emergency assistance to union members during strike action. It's a fund that

you can donate to. It's definitely worthwhile to help the cause. At this point, why don't we let the Rocks and the top 2% of actors you know give back a little bit i think i think i think they got a good group right there fertile group to start opening their pocketbooks there but yeah they say like it's going to be like it's

going to benefit tens of thousands of of actors and union members uh when because all that money just went in there so okay the seven figure The Rock. Seven-figure donation. Yeah. I mean, good to see that because that's truly, when you hear the cynicism of the networks and saying shit, although they deny they're saying it in that way

about being like, no, just do it until they literally can't handle it anymore financially, and then we'll be fine. That, yeah, those kinds of funds that support striking union members are very important and also just generally for all the other people who are tangentially connected to to like production like aren't in unions who are also not fucking working like costumers or

makeup artists or crew and things like that um those are the funds i think that also you know could could use some support too but i think just like anything man we're we're dealing with a lot of workers coming you know you know just stepping up to figure out how they're going to get what they're owed uh so yeah good to see the rock be on the right side of that spread that fast x money around by the way fast x which i remember we talked about how it was it didn't live up to the domestic box office, but it's, I think still like all the reports about,

you know, how well Barbie did over the weekend internationally. Fast X like was massive. It was like one of the biggest movies ever worldwide. That is wild to think that it did better than Fast X. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. good for you barbs i feel like speaking of not not to shoehorn everything into barbie but with ryan gosling's

triumphant turn as ken i i feel like you know and and the rock pulling this i i feel like the himbos are having a real moment right now you know finally beef steak you know for the people beef steak for the people um my favorite album we have uh a list of the 10 u.s places with the shortest average marriages and texas is number three i don't know why that that feels fun to throw in the face of Texas wow number one is DC DC's only 10 and a half years wow yeah wait so

wait wait what are the shortest so DC's a 10 and a half year marriage Alaska's 16 Texas is 17 that's a big leap something's going on in DC yeah what the fuck's going on in dc i don't know is it like because part of me was thinking like oh are like sort of short marriages like is it because like sometimes you have people who get married for financial reasons like if there's

like a military base nearby or something like that but no tax something something with taxes i don't know um but yeah texas number three uh california i was expecting california to show up not even in the top 10 it's not in here yeah california is in it for the long haul nevada 17.7 oklahoma at seven utah would not have expected but it's a it's in the top 10 hey divorce is allowed you know it? It happens. It happens. It does. I mean, I wonder how much I feel like, because the divorce rates, they're going down, aren't they?

Yeah, I think they have been, actually. Because people are just less likely to rush into marriage. So, I mean, it makes sense that a place like Texas, or like a, you know, stereotypically conservative place would have it, because it's the place that most people are more likely to rush into marriage than

they are. What's that median age? So in... Whoa. That's fucking wild too. Okay, so median age of first marriage in D.C. is 31.95. Alaska is 28. Texas is 28. Nevada, 30.5. Utah, 25.8.

Colorado, 29.5. 25.8 Colorado 29.5 I don't know I don't know what to make of this folks But I have a feeling that just like myself I put marriage off for a long time Because watching my parents shitty marriage Unfold before my eyes I had a front row seats to the lake show For that one

Wasn't fucking with it So I was like nah not not like this at all did the jack nicholson of divorce you know yeah just there yeah that's my jack nicholson impression yeah um exactly raising your eyebrows every once in a while uh french's mustard skittles uh are a Um, Jack was this on your 2023 bingo card? Mainly. I want to talk about this because the headline for the today show. So the, the today show media intern, uh, congratulations on being the last person to be reached by the, that wasn't on my 2021 bingo card, uh meme and think it's still still cool because that is the

the headline french's mustard skittles are not was not on our 2023 bingo card but here we are so just like a nice throwback you know yeah i mean i love it you know i wonder if i mean i wonder if the intern was trying to say no don't do. That is the most washed fucking saying on the internet right now. Just don't. And then some older head was like, no, I just heard that yesterday. I think it's really funny. It's like, could you imagine if you had bingo cards for the random things you thought would happen in a year? That just gets you thinking.

Matt Lauer is a former producer who got busted down to just controlling the website yeah exactly yeah but i mean what do you smack is so fresh are you i'm not put off by this actually i'm oh this is like one of the first times i'm like go on because i like mustard i'm kind of weird I fuck with mustard I was a little concerned I'm a little twisted okay I was a little concerned because the bag does have a rainbow on it

so I thought it was going to be mustard skittles mixed in with the all the flavors of the rainbow but it does appear that it's just mustard skittles mixed in with all the flavors of the rainbow, but it does appear that it's just mustard skittles in there. So you're safe to dump them on top of your hot dog, which is the other thing

that they released in their promotional photos. Have a little tang to it. I don't like it. It's just weird. Normally, when I hear candy be like savory food flavor type things, I'm like immediately no, but pardon me. I think

yesterday I accidentally put a ton of mustard on a bite of food I was eating. And I was like, oh, this is going to be ruined. And I just ate it. And I was like, you know what? That wasn't too bad. So I have an open mind with the Skittles now. I've been known to put an extra dollop of mustard

on a half-eaten hot dog, you know? On the bite part, just to get it a little spiced up. Okay, Miles, yeah, I am a little fucked up. Okay? I'm a little sick in the head. Go ahead, listeners.

Call CPS on me, but I'm not going to stop eating mustard like this um anyways let's take a quick break and we're gonna come back and talk about another rock story we'll be right back hell yeah fantasy football fans the nfl season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues. The best way to crush your opponents this season is to listen to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Come hang out with me, Marcus Grant, and my pal Michael F. Florio as we give you all the info you need to absolutely steamroll your fantasy league and bring home a championship.

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people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse television iheart radio and realm listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and trader joe's has issued a recall on cookies that may contain rocks.

And this is one of those recalls that just ruins all cookies for me. I won't be eating cookies. How are we getting rocks in the cookies? I mean, rocks. So in the past year, in doing some homemade split pea soup, I was made aware of the problem of rocks and split peas, little pebbles and split peas, like during the sorting process. Sure.

Uh, they're just incapable of like, they're just like, yeah, we're, we've given up on this. There's probably some rocks in your split peas. So when you're washing them,

just like look for any of them that wiggle differently or look like rocks um because they probably are they're there yeah i did that with lentils recently yeah lentils similar problem um apparently uh super producer brian has experienced rocks and potatoes um and yeah like bit into a potato and uh had a chipped molar because of it and that's and that's not him just lying again i know so i fact checked it because i was like oh here he goes again we have to have the conversation again with brian about lying about all the ways we think you're cool we think you're cool even if you didn't chip your tooth on a potato do we still think you're cool but yeah there there's actually a uh Wisconsin University, wisconsin.edu paper by, you guessed it, Jeb B. Qualquahom and Larry K. Binning about embedded stones being found sporadically in the flesh of chipping potatoes and not being effectively removed.

And the whole paper is like, how the fuck did those get there right growers and processors have suggested maybe the potatoes grew around them um maybe the stones were pressed into the potatoes while being harvested loaded unloaded or even by the pressure placed on the tubers while being transported or maybe they're being put there by joe biden yes thank you i like option c but yeah i guess the things that are almond windmill cookies and dark chocolate chunk almond cookies how the fuck again you get fucking rocks in there that would really upset me like a cookie you you feel like you're safe from rocks when eating a cookie. You know what I mean? I'm fine with other vegetables, but fucking cookies, motherfucker?

Sometimes there will be a nut in there that's a little too hard. I don't really fuck with nuts and cookies. No, I don't like this. Oh, see, okay, Brian just said in the chat, this is where we agree. Cookies are my safe. I feel safe. When you eat a cookie that should be drama drama free indulging you know i don't need to think about if my if i'm eating a fucking geode or some shit i'm

just trying to eat a nice chocolate chip cookie or some shit come on do you like nuts do you like a walnut in your cookie uh for me that's some shit i don't like for me that's some shit i don't like no the hip-hop 50th anniversary episode was yesterday hey man you know it's still it's still uh you know the one type so i'll i'm usually not because i i think back to like childhood where my grandmother only made like fucking like cookies with nuts and shit and it felt like too adult for me love a macadamia nut like a white chocolate macadamia cookie i'll eat that shit all day uh but and i like walnut it's not that i dislike them i just i guess in cookies i like to go back to child mode and i just want it to be simple sugar sweet that's it i'm baby i don't i don't

like any any sort of nuts even like peanut butter, I don't like it to be the crunchy peanut butter. I want them to be soft and smooth and melt in my mouth. Yeah, I just want the cookie flavor to be peanut with those nondescript manila envelope colored chips that are in them that I'm presuming are peanut butter. Peanut chips? Yeah.

Whatever we call them. Not peanut butter. Chip your tooth. Thank you. You know what I'm saying? Thank you. Thank you. Um, hold that L trader Joe's. And then, uh, in China, we,

we also learned of a dish, a rock based dish, literally the world's hardest dish. Yo, this is the world. That all my 2020 right here, homie. This is the hardest dish you could eat,

homie. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, it's, I saw this on, I saw, I saw this on Tik TOK with the kids.

Okay. Yeah. The stir fried stones, a traditional stir fry featuring stones yeah yeah i it just reminds me of like when you're a kid and there's like a little bit of flavor left on something that isn't edible and you just put that shit in your mouth to get the last bit of the flavor off and i always bring this up like the little paper on the on the Suck it off. Yeah. The cupcake paper? Chewing that. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Scrape that shit. The scrapings of a cupcake paper. Do your kids do that? Some of the most delicious. Oh, yeah. You taught them? Or they just don't? Just scrape it off your teeth?

Yeah. That? Yeah. Scrape it off with your teeth, not off your teeth. Exactly. Or you get the little bit of cheese from a cheeseburger on the paper where you unwrap the cheeseburger and you're like i'm having that i'm having that i'm not leaving that that's money on the table so trust me you're coming with me yeah we got a more reports from people who have worked for steven crowder who say he's uh not that cool say he exposed himself to them and swapped drugs regularly

in the office yeah the drug swapping sounds like it's he's like yo he was taking edibles percocets other prescription pills that he would get from the staffers and they would like trade but then also had a quote hab quote had a habit of passing out prescription drugs fairly freely cool so he's just trying to be cool man as he makes him you know tries to make sense of the chaos of his soul as he can hear it rot in real time from inside his own skull so yeah i get that um and then the other thing was the exposing like they said one time he did it like he had his balls out or some shit for a quote unquote comedy sketch. Hilarious, dude.

Then would also send fucking weird text messages with crude either memes or pictures of his dick, I guess. No, he sounds cool. Like a fun time. There's a quote they said two other staff members said crowder exposed himself to male staffers as a quote regular occurrence quote it usually happened when he was in a really good sort of manic mood so while we were all disgusted by it it was never welcomed it was preferable to him being in a bad mood and how he treated people in that state holy shit god i hope i hope steven's in one of the moods where he exposes himself to us today like that's that's the best scenario please be in manic scrote show mode yeah then aggro scream at me mode but yeah uh well i

mean just from that one clip we saw him talking to his pregnant wife jesus christ is there do you need to know anything more about this person that would be surprising yeah and then uh also in in the category of abusive people who don't seem that fun to work with uh elon musk just you know so it was reported this morning that lebron james son brownie james suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice at the university of Southern California. Uh, he's now out of the ICU and in stable condition,

but truly, you know, just the horrifying, so scary for him and his family. Um, and for some reason, this prompted Elon Musk's brain to conclude that he should weigh in on this issue as a doctor

obviously yes as as the foremost doctor uh xing i guess are we calling it that tweeting i don't know to his millions of followers um that this was probably because he's like how could i turn this moment of like you know tragedy for a family into a moment of just like you know genuinely damaging misinformation yeah for the populace um so he he tweeted that uh it was probably because of the covid vaccine because myocarditis is a known side effect um uh okay do you know about covid though because that's the real like it's like 11 times greater for adults yeah risk of myocarditis in young men was seven times higher after a covid infection than after vaccination uh-huh but again this is all because the suddenly died crowd yes uh needs to have this guy because it also you know wild? I didn't even mention this.

That game I went to on Sunday at the Rose Bowl, this guy Shaka Hizlop, who is one of the sort of touchline reporters, he was doing a pregame sort of intro to the game. He fucking passed out in the broadcast. Jesus. It was hot as shit and humid. I don't know if he was wearing a wool suit.

Part of me could see he just was heat exhaustion. But whatever happened, dude, the fucking anti-vax crowd hopped on that shit almost immediately. Immediately. Yeah, they're ready. The vaccine. Like, yeah, people passing out on camera. It's always the vaccine.

And even before the vaccine, it was the vaccine. Yeah. Also, cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in young athletes like this is a thing that unfortunately isn't isn't that uncommon but of course yeah they're they're just ready to politicize it as soon as something happens um yeah and their dear leader is you know he's like i got you guys i mean i remember reggie lewis died on the court. Yeah. In 93. That was definitely the vaccine though, that one. Yeah. Reggie Lewis. Jesus Christ.

Alright. Well, unfortunately, those are some things that are trending on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing

about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? 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. and its history. Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba, and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, 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.