The Daily Zeitgeist - Filibusted! Dream Super Bowl HT Shows 1.21.22

Episode Date: January 21, 2022

In episode 1068, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Brian Bahe to discuss FILIBUSTED…now what?, This Is The Most Excited I’ve Been for a Halftime Show, Lay’s Superbowl Promotions are Creepy/Full of Deception and more! This Is The Most Excited I’ve Been for a Halftime Show Lay’s Superbowl Promotions are Creepy/Full of Deception LAY’S SUPER BOWL AD TEASER WITH SETH ROGEN HAS ME SO CONFUSED — AND A LITTLE CREEPED OUT Lay's Grew Potatoes with Dirt from 29 NFL Stadiums and Turned Them into Chips Striking To End 'Suicide Shifts,' Frito-Lay Workers Ask People To Drop The Doritos Follow: @brian_baheListen: This Painted World by Silk Rhodes Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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squirrel appreciation day and national granola Day. The squirrel lobby is strong. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they want to get in. They're everywhere. Yeah. They're everywhere in all our yards watching us. It's actually from Christy Hargrove, a wildlife rehabilitator in North Carolina. That's, um, like, apparently squirrels were very rare a while back,

and people, it was like a real treat to be able to see a squirrel you had to go to the zoo to see squirrels and like pre-20th century and like if you somebody time traveled to the future and like from then and saw our world you'd be like this is so cool look at all these fucking squirrels man for free For free? For free? You just get squirrels in your backyard? Oh, man. Oh, wait. It's fascism still, though? Oh.

Oh, okay. Kind of a trade-off. Also, granola bars feel like they are a thing of the past. Wow. Is that too strong a take? It feels like it was a candy bar that got in under the guise of health food for a little while. Right, right, right. Like, that was something, like, my mom wouldn't be like, you're not buying Snickers.

But I'm like, what about Nature Valley? She's like, yeah, okay, let it rip. I'm just eating the whole box in one sitting. Yeah, maybe. Do your kids eat granola bars? No. Oh, wow, you really said that. I mean, like, as a treat, like a candy bar, maybe.

But, like, I just don't know why anybody would eat a granola bar now. Also, we, like, really sugary granola with their cereal in the morning. So it's not like I'm a good parent or anything. I just have my own takes on these things. Yeah, yeah. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. On the Daily Zeitgeist,

Jack and Miles will let you know all the fucked up shit that happened not that long ago. Overrated, underrated, special guests will show on the Daily Zeitgeist. Jack and Miles, miles baby here we go

all right that is uh flowrida my favorite rapper and a song called whistle by flowrida which i actually hadn't heard before paul it's a great aka paul garav which I actually hadn't heard before. Paul, it's a great AK, Paul Garaventa. I just hadn't heard that song. I had to do the research, get it in my head. Now it will never not be in my head. Also one of the great self-owns when it comes to like sexual innuendo and penis size. I think it's up there with André Day when they brag about how somebody has a gap tooth in their mouth and so their penis has to fit in there. Oh, right, right.

Feels like. Very specific. Yeah, very specific and, you know, great. But I just don't know that it implies what they're intending for it to imply. Right. Or it's about a sex act I'm not familiar with where someone just like blows lightly on a penis. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Now I've heard there was a secret store with sandwiches and chips galore.

But you don't really care for tuna do ya they say it's fish then it's not fish the prices fall i can't resist that delicious thing that they call subway, subway tuna, subway tuna, subway tuna. Shout out to me in the middle of the night, waking up in the middle of the evening because the past guest said, you're very creative when you wake up in the middle of the night, you should try it out. And I just woke up and was like woke up like subway it was so stupid and i had to write that shit in bed and i went back to sleep so anyway shut up that REM cycle yeah yeah and that that was beautiful and also i you were talking about your breakfast this morning i thought you said subway tuna yeah i mean come on the we have the dumbest uh the dumbest weird inspiration going on uh right now also i've gotten wordle two days in a row on the second guess you know you don't get to choose

your powers but i'm killing it somebody was like i don't believe you you said you were cheating and i uh anyways that's that's a lot of energy to be like, I don't believe your wordle score. It was very straightforward. Like, I think you're lying. No jokes. You are hiding a child. Yes. Anyways, and I am cheating.

This is just my really sad grasp to grasp that people are thinking I'm smart. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat for the first time. But this guest has been teased by a previous guest as one of the funniest people on the planet. It's a very funny comedian whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's and whose comedy has been highlighted in NPR, Vulture, LA Times. He was one of Illuminative's 25 Native American comedians to follow and hosts the stand-up show Starfuckers,

astrology but make it comedy, at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Please welcome the hilarious and talented Brian Bahe! Brian! What's up, Brian? And I Will always Love Steak I was trying to figure out What is happening with the songs

And that's what I came up with We like to humiliate ourselves Up top So the guest knows that they're on a second rate podcast that's just like one step above a morning zoo show we're just basically a morning zoo show except it's a podcast and we get to say exactly yeah i mean i knew i it's always my favorite we have first time guests on brian because the second jack screams and i scream someone all the people always have a reaction. And Brian was like, okay.

I see what's going on here. I see what's going on here. And I'm like, yes, welcome, welcome. I was like, yeah, here we go. Thursday. I was screaming it out. Welcome. You are coming to us from Brooklyn.

I'm in Brooklyn right now. It was snowing earlier today. And yeah, having my third cup of coffee. Yeah, there you go. I'm having my second matcha tea right now damn that's how you know you're in la you switch it up i just switched it up last week so miles learned about uh the creativity of the witching hour in the middle of the night from our guests last week and i learned from the same guests that matcha tea is a you know decent alternative to coffee and i made the switch last week and i felt like i had the flu ever since because i'm not getting as much caffeine in the morning but one of these days it's gonna pay off

wait like smokers flu like when people try and kick cigarettes like you're saying you got that kind of like you're like i don't know man my body's like having trouble adjusting caffeine withdrawal like i've done a lot of research into it and yeah caffeine withdrawal just feels like the flu and it can last for like weeks um unfortunately god if you're you know mainline as much caffeine as this guy well hey now hopefully, now hopefully you'll you'll find a new a new home and matcha matcha. Yeah, I do like the ritual. Wait, Brian, you said three cups of coffee. Are you caffeine insensitive or are you like Jack?

You're like, I exist on a steady diet of caffeine. It's really hard to tell. I think I just do it because I it's like habit at this point. Yeah, like I have this point. Yeah. Like I have a big French press. I brew two and a half cups and then I just see how much of it I can drink throughout the day. Okay. That's a challenge.

Do you have something that's keeping the coffee? That was always my issue with French press is that it wouldn't stay hot. You just like zap it. I don't mind that i don't mind a warm coffee okay tepid coffee okay i like that i'm like i'm kind of into it yeah yeah my mom she would always like she always drinks tea and stuff and throughout the day and would like regularly be sipping on like room temp like whatever the room temperature was my partner her majesty she it has to be like

screaming hot or else it's it's like to her it's like disrespect to coffee or something but i'm like i'll drink your room temperature coffee give that here yeah i don't mind room temperature like most things in my life are room temperature so i'm like what why like hold why hold liquids to a different standard you know yeah right most things in everyone's lives are room temperature that's really good point turns out hell yeah yeah the other thing that i i have uh genetically high cholesterol and that uh the french press i didn't realize that like there's a lot of cholesterol in coffee that like gets filtered out with like the paper filters or whatever but if you're really yeah the french press like i was doing french press for a year and then had like a medical checkup and they were like holy shit you're just like eating only egg yolks what the fuck's going on man whoa that's

blowing my mind like why isn't that more common knowledge you know yeah yeah i mean but i am definitely predisposed to it so like that you know right any any little fuck up can alter my so you're saying paper filters i don't know more cholesterol i might have just learned that coffee was bad for cholesterol and i just was like well i'll just use a paper filter. Maybe I made that story up so that I could keep drinking coffee. Filtered coffee is a better choice. They say that even though there's no cholesterol in it, there's like oils within it that can contribute to your cholesterol, I guess. Got it. Interesting.

Anyway, this is not a cardiology or coffee podcast. So take those takes with a few grains of sugar in the raw yeah you don't have to see your doctor just listen to dailies i guess we got you we got you covered just at me at me was good all right brian we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about, we're talking about the filibuster staying filibusted by Cinema Mansion. So apparently the intervention of college football coaches did not move mansion on that one. Was it Nick Saban? Yeah, Nick Saban.

And that was like news in the sports media. Like Saban's in. I mean, everyone listens to Saban. We're going to talk about Florida, what they're doing. They're passing a bill to outlaw white people from getting their feelings hurt, it seems like. We'll talk about the Super Bowl halftime show.

We'll talk about Lays coming back to the Super Bowl. Why do we think Lays, Frito-Lay coming back for the first time in 17 years? Maybe their shitty labor practices? Yeah, I was going to say, trying to offset those bad labor headlines. Like they're just going to pass out bags of chips?

What does that mean, coming back? They're doing an ad campaign at the Super Bowl. Wait, is that because prior years it was always fan-made ads? Oh, is it because prior years it was always like fan made ads? No, Fritos or Lay's, I guess, that specific imprint of the Frito-Lay brand has not had ads in 17 years at the Super Bowl. Oh, OK. Which seems like wrong. I'm going to say that that's incorrect. But according to like all the mainstream media outlets, they haven't had ads in 17 years.

And that's the sort of shit they actually have an inside track on, what corporate media is doing. Welcome back, Frito-Lay. So they got Seth Rogen for their ad campaign, and they released a teaser for the ad campaign, and it seems to involve making light of stalking. There's somebody who stalks seth rogan and like has a weird shrine built to okay yeah very very strange so we'll talk about all that plenty more but first brian we do like to ask our guests what is something from

your search history something from my search history is uh robert durst gay so do you remember he died the guy that bade the jinx oh yeah it's not a fascinating daddy burping yeah and i was trying to like you know tweet a little something about it i was like what's my angle gonna be i ended up not tweeting anything but i just like googled robert durst gay because i was like was he gay in that documentary i don't remember but he did like dress up as like an elderly woman at one point when he was like in texas or louisiana right and yeah that may have just been criminal activity did you what did you find when you when you searched that i think i think and also i actually don't know i forget it wasn't whatever i found was not interesting enough for me to remember right but you know i love finding out

when somebody's gay as a as a gay person and i was like who are who are my peers right right and you were you were praying for Robert. Come on, Bobby. We got Elvira. Make this a memorable couple months right now. It's like we need, yeah, we need, you know, there's more murderers in the. Yeah.

Serial killer representation. Exactly. What is something you think is overrated? I'm going to say soup soup overrated people are coming out it's winter here it's cold it was like 19 degrees last weekend uh a lot of soup content a lot of people really you know tipping their hats to soup and i'm like i mean it goes back to the coffee thing it's like not everything needs to be hot. It's like, give me like a room temp anything.

And I'm like, I'll take that. Brian, you're telling your brand is room temp always. You don't need to do extremes with it. You know what I mean? Room temp is fine. We exist in it. Let's just do, yeah. Room temp is a great brand. Like nobody's locked down the corner on room temp.

Just like that's there. You know, everybody's bragging about being hot or cool, but room temp. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's like, I saw some, a thing that just, I see so many write-ups about soup though. You're right. Like it.

And I'm not a soup hater or like a lover i like you know soup soup has its place but i'm more of a stew person than a soup if i if i'm picking between like liquid spoon eating like because then it's like eating a bunch of gravy i just like a stew better it's like thickness you do love liquid spoon eating liquid spoon eating not enough people are talking about liquid spoon eating. Yeah, 100%. Liquid spoon eating. Not enough people are talking about liquid spoon eating either. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, we've been saying it for years.

Absolutely. So there's no soup that like kind of you're wild about, you really love? Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do with like, it's like soup recipes. Now we're in soup season. Here are some, here are eight top soups. And it's like, first of all, I'm never, I think a lot of it has to do with like, it's like soup recipes. Now we're in soup season. Here are some, here are eight top soups. And it's like, first of all, I'm never, I don't cook. So this article isn't for me. But so already like I've tuned out.

I hear a soup, I tune out. But I, you know, I got to go with the classic tomato. Tomato soup. Yeah. Yeah. Classic little grilled cheese on the side you know yeah what can you do what can you i remember i saw the one time like when when the sort of grilled cheese fads begin to erupt like in the late aughts early teens and i remember going somewhere that they're

like and we've got you know like the classy grilled cheese with tomato soup and there was like basil oil on top of the tomato soup. And I almost didn't eat it because at the time my palate wasn't developed enough. It's like there's a green spot in my red sauce that I did the thing in. And they're like, it's basil oil. It tastes really good. And I was like, I knew that. I knew that.

Thank you. Excuse me. Did somebody sneeze on my tomato soup? Right. Someone has a sinus infection based on the color of your ears. I made a split pea soup. We had a leftover ham hock from Christmas dinner. So I boiled that, made it into split pea soup.

And to your point about it being overrated, I haven't stopped bragging about it. I think this is the fifth time I've mentioned it on the show because yeah making a soup is very easy and yeah so people like it's possible like they did something yeah one of those large cauldrons yeah yeah i got a big ass cauldron yeah okay it keeps melting on the bottom though because it's plastic from halloween but it does its job. Oh, well. Do you have a big stock pot? Like, are you equipped to start banging out the stews and soups like that?

Yeah, I have a big stock pot. Oh, shit. Okay. I have a large stock pot. Okay. I guess my invite got lost for this. What is something that you think is underrated brian all right i think a lot of people have been you know talking a lot of shit about house of gucci and i saw it in

theaters you know i was there not opening weekend but the following weekend okay and and I do agree that it was off. It was weird. But also, the people I saw with, we did not stop talking about it for a solid two hours after the movie concluded. And it was around that time stamp that I was like, hold on, maybe this movie is actually really good. What movie had you talking about it for so long after you had seen it? You just like couldn't stop.

Like, you know, I thought Jared Leto's performance was outstanding. Me too. Okay. Cause I'm, this has been like the most consistent thing I've been hearing. I haven't seen it. Jack, you saw it, right? Yeah. I haven't seen it yet.

But the one thing I always hear is people being confused. Their first reaction is confusion to the film, like where they don't want to say it's bad, but they weren't sure it was good. And then when I hear them explain everything, I'm like, it's the same. Everyone. I think everyone has to, like, process it out loud. It seems like so in that sense. What did you did you what was like? What were the things that you saw as being like, oh, this maybe not isn't that great to then evolving into wait a second it's

just like the scenes like they it feels like they jumped around randomly it's like they're in like tuscany or something and then they're in new york and then it's like the next day or something and they're back in like italy or wherever i'm like you're like once and i'm for just like a random scene and then the rest of the time you're just supposed to like piece it together yourself and yeah there was just like zero context and then it's the same director who did like alien right yeah yeah yeah and when i saw his name i was like what the fuck like he clearly knows what he's doing but it's just like i don't know it was fascinating and the accent work did you have any what was your what was your take on the accent work that's another thing i hear people have many different things i'm terrible at accents so for me to judge

another person's accent is unfair sure so did it take you out at all or you were like no it's perfectly fine no and i'm beginning to think that i might be like accents uh you know i just can't hear it sometimes like everything sounds i can tell when something's different but when somebody can like immediately pick up on an accent i'm like yeah i don't know what that it all sounds british right it's all some version of euro yeah yeah i don't i to be honest like i i have gone along with people being like but the accents right i'm like yeah oh man the worst uh but it all sounded fine to me like and jared you're like jared leto's very like hammy but like it again to my dumb american brain like that is not like that familiar with like the intricacies of the italian accent or why they might be speaking english in italian accents even though they're in italy i didn't it didn't

bother me i was just like yep uh-huh right and it looks cool like it looks great it tells a story that i didn't know but yeah like jared leto like that is who jared leto needs to be playing like the kind of i don't know he really nailed a dumb person who's like kind of aware of his own like limits, but also isn't in many remarkable respects. Yeah. Yeah. Just a guy who's down on his luck and cannot get a win to save his life. life yeah it also feels like in the way that normal people may luxuriate in like a night out where you get to look like glamorous and beautiful it seemed like he this was him luxuriating and looking like not one of the most beautiful creatures on earth like he really seemed to be enjoying just

like being a slug like it was like he was like oh right like it's like this is me yeah it's might as well yeah club tourism yeah exactly it was club tourism by jared leto but like he really seemed to be exploring the studio space and enjoying himself right it was just fun to watch like that's you know i i can't give many movies higher praise than that it's just really fun to watch movie there we go underrated right figured it out i mean that's the thing i'm still drawn just because of when andrew t told me he didn't know if it was a comedy or not i was like i have now i have to see this yeah i'm like you're a writer and you watched it and you were having trouble pinpointing the genre and i'm like that that

that's art you know for lack of a better word i think you can you can agree with everybody like i talked to uh not to out her but jamie loftus was like oh my god i just saw it it was so bad right and i was like yeah like that's true like there's a lot of it that's like bad but it's also just wildly entertaining and then she was like yeah i've seen it like twice already so you know like it's there's something about that movie yeah if jamie's going multiple times it's art that's the other that's the other uh litmus test yeah all right well uh let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about the filibuster.

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available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And, you know, no big surprises in Washington this week would be the theme of today's update from Washington, D.C. Not much to see here, folks. I mean, yeah, the filibuster, you know, they stood alongside the GOP to not make any alterations to the filibuster and prevent just some very basic voting rights from being passed. And, you know, there's all kinds of write-ups right now. Mostly, it just seems like people being like, can you believe it? They voted to keep the filibuster and not alter it.

And most people are like, yeah, we did. We can believe it. We just can't believe that this is all you have in terms of trying to remedy this. And I think like some takes are like, you know, it's it's all done now. It's all bad. That's a wrap. Others are like, hey, don't worry, man. There's there's like the fight's still going like we can keep going.

And I think, yeah, I think it's important to point out that, yes, this is not good. man there's there's like the fight's still going like we can keep going and i think yeah i think it's important to point out that yes this is not good it's not a i guess total death blow it's like getting i guess stabbed a bunch of times and you're bleeding very slowly and yes if it goes unaddressed it could be very bad but that means i guess something can be done and a lot of like political scientists and historians have sort of like sort of pointed this fact of like, yes, there are like like a lot of these things like voting voter ID and stuff. It's tremendously it's like a huge obstacle for people. But there are like other dimensions to this that can be addressed and potentially rectified to have, you know, a seemingly fair system of an election. But the big thing that a lot of people were pointing the experts point to is that more so than the rules, it's that you need people who

are going to do their job. And the shiniest example they point to is just how in 2020, many Republicans just didn't go along with the big lie. And we're like, no, I can't, I can't for a second say that this was off or not true, because I know it is in my capacity as someone who's been looking at election boards or elections. But now they're putting a bunch of stooges in those positions. So next time they go for it, you know, the dominoes can fall much quicker and with less friction. So the one thing I seem to see a lot of people talk about is like, hey, now falling on you the citizen due to the total failure of the government or the elected officials to do this maybe it's time to think about you know running a new career yeah i mean which is good i think it's yeah if you want to participate and

you know do something for your community and think locally i think that's fantastic but for there have been a few right of sort of pointing to like and that's the next step it's you and we're left here being like i thought that i kind of voted for people so i don't have to get into this but i don't know i think it seems that the one positive some people seem to look at is like maybe people will be sufficiently pissed off enough about their elected officials not being able to do anything that it'll create more local participation that they'll become the president and like what the fuck you can be joe mansion yeah it just it it does kind of remind me of the you know the the way america deals with like unhappiness is not to address like systemic things that are making people unhappy, but to create the self-help industry where you look within and it's like an individual battle and like a question of like your willpower as opposed to like, well, or we could like fix all this like systemic-wide shit. No, you guys need to use paper straws.

You know what I mean? It's the paper straws of politics now where it's like, all right, folks, that was a big old L. It's on you. I just, that's not very heartening. But I think like everything we talk about, more and more people need to realize that the way this federal government is built, there's not much you can rely on. Like truly to be able to have like mutual aid networks locally and having an understanding of how power is moving locally and understanding who are in position decision making positions locally can be a tremendous benefit.

But it I don't know, like when when I read that, but the good part is it's on you. That feels that that seems a, that seems a little grim. Yeah. Yeah, that's grim. Is there like a grassroots movement like kind of bubbling up? What are we hearing on that front? Because, you know, we are going to see drastically diminished enthusiasm for voting for establishment Democrats in 2022 and 2024. Is there going to be any other option? Because I feel like it's going to be a two-step process.

One, where they see how little support there is for them. step process one where they see how little support there is for them but they're also going to need to see how much support there is for like more progressive like values and either a more progressive party or more more progressive candidates yeah i mean just like had their soul sucked out of them by like the i think yeah like in mainstream corporate media it's like that we're like oh well they're scrambling to figure out what to do now and i think some people point to like they're like these groups like run for something which are you know groups that are made to get people to kind of come out and encourage them to run for like smaller office there's a way of being like and here's a way to come back, like because clearly Trumpists are doing what they can to enter these positions.

So this can be a counterforce to that. But I think probably in the most immediate, the Electoral Count Act is something that can be reformed on a on a level that basically that's like that really oddly worded law from like the 1800s that essentially was like giving the Republicans this idea of like, maybe we can just reject all the the electors and then Mike Pence can come in and do this like like this tie breaking vote to like completely throw the election by actually amending that there is a way to kind of create, you know, sort of stop that kind of subversion. And Angus King does have a

draft of that bill that I think that may be introduced soonish. And it's also something that Mitch McConnell has said he was like open to looking at because it is so poorly worded. Like they, you know, I think if they amended it, they want to do things like it would require supermajority for Congress to like reject electors from a state and things like that. But yeah, those are kind of, I guess, what's down the road for us now. But it's just kind of hard because it felt like the way things were going or the spin was going from the administration was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry about all the infrastructure stuff. Voting rights, though.

Get ready, motherfuckers, because on MLK Day, it's going down. And now it's like like please run for office what the fuck where do you what is this i mean we've had guests before who have done that mariah and yeah you know nithya raman she uh so she ran for and became the city council representative for a big chunk of Los Angeles. And since she won, they just rat fucked it so that she like her district was smaller, like local businesses. And, you know, rich people were basically like, you know, while nobody was looking changed her district too so i i should point out that it's not going to be a matter of them seeing support for progressive ideas and then just like moving in that direction because they will fight progressive candidates until they're dead

and plus they tried to recall nithya too yeah yeah that's been a huge thing and then that fell apart but that's kind of what i mean and i think that's when you really see what the stakes are locally you have people who are out here like advocating for like policies to combat the unhoused population and to support them but then it's met with like you gotta recall this person man they're just throwing it they're just they're making a mess of things trying to help people yeah so that is kind of the thing that we're seeing is that yeah more people and just even as we even see with like students and stuff, people at certain points are just can't help but to become activists as it relates to their own well-being. And that's we've kind of seen that situation pop up a lot.

But, yeah, not sure what the plan is now, Joe. Yeah. Brad, do you or do you see any like sort of progressive energy in the Brooklyn area? Or is that something you're kind of into? Yeah, especially it's interesting how many comedians have kind of, like, overlapped into, like, progressive mutual aid organizations and, like, grassroots organizing. Like, especially, like, once the pandemic really started, we were all just kind of like locked in our homes,

I was like, damn, like there's a lot of us like out here or a lot of them like out there like doing the work. And I'm like, Oh shit, this is really inspiring. Kind of.

I'm like, you're like a double threat, you know? Yeah. And I think that's been a very, like, I think an evolution we've seen like across the country. I mean,

like same with LA, like I think an evolution we've seen like across the country i mean like same with la like i think and then i mean there's probably something about comedy where it takes a level of like self-awareness ability to like grapple with the truth and have some sense of like out like moral outrage about things and yeah it's it's we've seen a lot of like people really get get super involved with like whether it's like you're saying mutual aid organizations or even backing candidates or sort of you know shifting into like local politics yeah it is there there is a lot of energy but i guess that's where trying to figure out is how is that really going to be fully leveraged for something that isn't just to get someone like joe biden re-elected because that's exactly that's all the democrats

are going to think of it's like well man look at these people they're fucking on the streets how do we get them to vote against their own self-interest as well right and it's like there were like some like small wins but it kind of like not even like legally but just like like housing eviction stuff or whatever like people would like gather outside somebody's home who was like being wrongfully evicted and kind of like try to stop that but yeah let's like i mean to turn that into like something actually like voting wise feels like a large undertaking and yeah i don't know yeah there are these isolated you know pockets of there there's some like a bunch of young people in massachusetts who like really young people who like while they

were in high school like also you know swung that election away from uh an establishment dem i think it was like one of the kennedys towards somebody who was, at least at the time, espousing more progressive values. And I've seen isolated articles written about them. But it does feel like these are not things that are...

You won't hear about Alexandria Ocasio-cortez until she wins and the media is like shocking you know like everything's so shocking like that the the work that's being done is not going to be covered like it so it really is like you know you you need to find out what's happening in your own community somehow right yeah but i also i as soon as i said that i'm like i wasn't that super tapped in to like like brooklyn like politics like what was going on before any of that happened and and now it's kind of like it i i'm more like a little bit more like attuned to stuff that's happening so maybe there is kind of like a snowball effect even though it has died down a little bit since like 2020 it's still there so i don't know maybe it's it's just like time who knows yeah i mean it it is at least a

like an op there is an optimism to see that gradually more and more people the norm was just to be completely politically disengaged or just be like, I don't know, I just vote for my D or my R candidate every couple of years. And, you know, and I think because of everything becoming so transparent or apparent to people, like how much needs to change. It's like everybody is slowly kind of like turning me like wait a second how does this all happen how does this work now and i think that's where in this phase where a lot of people are like how do you get here how do we end up like this and and and like even that poll we were referencing in yesterday's show showing how like much younger people now i know it was kind of vague when they just use the word populism, but clearly, like younger people are much more engaged with politics now as well.

That, yeah, that has to hopefully will bear fruit. But at the moment. Yeah, they were talking about like younger people getting more involved and turning left. But their evidence of turning left was like voting for Democrats, like Democrats were left to them, which seems misguided at this point. But like that absolutely won't make sense if that's the kind of measure they're using in 2022, because I think a lot of people are just out on these assholes. Yeah. All right. Well, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about stuff that isn't Washington. Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories

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Yes. I think I remember hearing at the time it was going to be like Dre and Snoop and maybe Eminem. But it's also Kendrick and mary j blige yeah and it's it's pretty like this is the first time i've this is the most excited i've been for a super bowl halftime show and maybe the first time i've been excited for a super bowl halftime show you know the the prince thing like pleasantly you know i just wasn't really looking forward to it but that was fucking awesome and there have been very cool super bowl halftime shows that took me by surprise i still ride very hard for the katie perry one i think that was a very particular kind of i mean left shark is iconic insane american art but this

this looks fucking dope i mean if they really they like i i feel like there's gonna be a lot of like classics from the dre snoop eminem era but like if they actually utilize kendrick and like let him like take up a sizable like i'd say probably should be the most sizable portion of the show. Like it could be really dope. Yeah. I, it's, I don't know. They won't because like,

that's not the audience. Right. Uh, yeah. Like what, which songs will he do? It was, when I was watching the thing,

I was like, Oh, I'm surprised that every single song wasn't a Dre produced track because rap God isn't a Dre track, but they start off Eminem section with that. Mary J's Family Affair. That's a Dre track. Was it Next Episode with Snoop?

That's a Dre track. But then Humble. That's I think Mike Will made it. I was just like, oh, I thought, but I don't do Dre and Kendrick have any tracks together. All that to say is that was my first observation of it. tracks together all that to say is i that was my first observation of it and then yeah like to your point is like i've not really cared about the super bowl ever uh or like the halftime show is really that much but this this to me it's almost signaling like oh you're old because now you're in the demo like you're in the demo that when i was 14 being like why the fuck is bruce springsteen

on the halftime show like the chronic just came out that now we're at that place. It's like, I think this is what the adults in the room are fucking with. And that was for me, that was that moment I had. I was like, I have arrived. My tastes are now dictating the Super Bowl halftime show. Yeah, I think that's why the Kendrick part really excites me because that that feels like the most relevant like artist that they've had involved in a super bowl halftime show like since katie perry i don't know but if kendrick hasn't had an album out and like we're all just dying for some new

material from him but yeah it's also it also seems like a strange i didn't i don't always picture kendrick like when i saw him in a commercial that was like that flashy part of me felt like that feels very unkendrick yeah yeah but for sure they also only got three seconds of him like writing a thing and then just looped that over and over again yeah like everybody else they had like going through a bunch of different like sets and doing different things and they apparently got him to sit at a desk and write something and throw a piece of paper and they looped that seven times yeah i feel like a big part of i don't know i is this right are there usually like dancers right or like people with like the flags that like do flag stuff

there's always a huge element yeah i'm like okay that'll be cool to like you know here paired with a you know a gray song traditional like fanfare with like the next episode it's like when that uh when that crip walking line came out it was beautiful like the way they were sea walking on them it was my god i thought they were i was in neighborhood six oh i mean it should yeah they should have people crib walking right like that would it's supposed to be like an la themed draft show no that's violence see that's and that's where you know it could it could go fucking weird where they're like hey you know it'd be cool we dress all these white kids up like cripsps. Oh, yeah, yeah. And, like, for when Snoop comes out and they're like, ah!

Then it's like, mm. And it feels possible because anything is possible in this country. But, yeah, it will be. I'm really curious to see how it all comes together and, like, how much Mary J., like, how much runway she's going to get, how much Mary J dancing we're going to get, because we all know she's one of the greatest dancers of our time. Although in her own right. Really? Mary J has a very interesting way. She's unique.

She's unique. I'm not going to say Mary J is bad. I would never say she's a bad dancer. But that's kind of what you're saying. But Mary J, she moves. She moves how she wants to when i respect you know i mean i don't expect like mariah or you know whitney houston to like be able to dance like she's you know she's just a belt no i'm just saying not even like that's an expectation

i'm just saying when she catches like when you watch if you've seen a mary j live show and she like just starts feeling it she's feeling it and i'm like saying like that's that's what i like because it sometimes people like man she sucks and i'm like no dude that's like actually dope just because it feels it feels very authentic it doesn't seem like she's trying to do moves she can't do. She's doing her. This is why I never feel it. That's smart. I refuse to feel it fully. Just stay out of the feeling.

Stay in the room temp. I'm not trying to feel it. No. No, thank you. I will acknowledge it. Fully feeling it? That comes with risk. It comes with risk. I start to feel it feel i leave the room these

things just take over my body and i think that's why and i think that's why mary j is a lesson to us all like that's why it's your remind you know dance like everybody's watching but you don't give a fuck right also just i always enjoy seeing dre on camera because mary j like gave a performance that was like okay you have five minutes in this in this uh trailer and dre is you know very awkward on camera a lot of the time and then snoop is just a fucking such a professional just killing it just so comfortable yeah and eminem was a little too into the like minority report lyric computer he was manipulating yeah he was like oh shit let me think about where this word goes okay sure eminem was given energy like he's like you know i acted an eight mile maybe i should like pursue my acting

career a little bit i think yeah i think i'm good at this but yeah it was definitely uneven but i you know i was i was more excited until you put the image in my head of like the white teenagers like running onto the field that's how like the shows always start is they're like they start close on the white teenager and then they're like come on come with me and then like you like pan as they like sprint onto the field yeah but they're like oh they're doing american sign language they're like they're stacking oh god they're throwing sets right now uh but yeah i don't it's it's it's a very it'll it'll be an interesting thing and i think like he's there are a lot of articles that are like he's on the hook for the whole bill for the halftime show or something like that.

Who? Dre. So if anything were to go wrong, he's going to take the biggest hit more than the NFL would, I guess. The fuck? That was just something I read. What does that mean? I think more that he may be financing the whole thing, maybe as a way to get the show how he wants it. I don't know.

There was just something that he has a stake in it that he could stand to lose money if that doesn't happen i remember reading something to that effect with the weekend and like that it's not that lucrative gig it's more like this is the best advertisement that you could possibly get for your career but right with like artists like this it's like you're borrowing legends. I feel like that's... Yeah. If you could make your own Super Bowl halftime show, if the Super Bowl halftime show was just made for you, give a fuck about the ratings, who's the band you want to see have a Super Bowl halftime show?

Just you. Don't worry about mass appeal. But personally, Brian, who's a band that you want to see my chemical romance yeah okay i feel like that's like not out of i mean they don't do anything anymore but right they could reunion reunion why not wait aren't they aren't are they not doing some kind of they announced a show in a show in Las Vegas as a part of a festival yesterday. But before that, I think, I don't know. Somebody's saying it's a scam.

Now, I don't know if it's real. Oh, no. I'm talking about the When We Were Young thing. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying mostly because that's Live Nation. I think they're there. I think they're trying to recoup some astral world money. Cause those ticket prices are expensive for when we were young.

And actually that's a tweet I liked too. Uh, but okay. My chemical, they would do a good, they do a great show. I feel like it would be good. That's yeah.

That's what I would want. I, I also feel like they're into like the theatrics of whatever and they could turn out some like black parade shit that would look really cool i think because is it does is that guy gerard like involved with comics or something too he writes a comic yeah oh umbrella didn't you do umbrella academy yeah which got turned into like the netflix show yeah someone i feel like i feel like that you're gonna come with a good halftime show if you have the vision for umbrella academy like you're not

gonna be like hey man we're playing on a big star in the middle of the field he's coming in on a parachute right parachute right exactly or like or like real theatrics like superhuman feats of strength like someone just like head bangs through like a brick wall and you're like, oh, okay. I like this wire work. Jack, what about you? I mean, this isn't that far off from like what at least one of like a top three that I would pick. Like if you just add my favorite rapper Flo Rida to this, I think I think we'd be in business. Okay.

Get people whistling or Radiohead. I think we'd be in business. Okay. Get people whistling or Radiohead. But that feels like Radiohead is really good live, but I don't know how much they'd be good live. They're just not the demographic for the Super Bowl. Yeah.

I'll take Portishead. I'd fuck with a Portishead halftime show. Just bring the fucking arena down emotionally. Yeah. Because that would be dope too. That's why i'm being selfish i'm more just like you know what i want to i want to see uh you know that some of some of those those bands from the mid-90s come back with the emo-ness for sure yeah well since we're in a block that is clearly sponsored by the nfl we might as well talk about Super Bowl commercials as well, because for the first time in 17 years, Lay's Lay's potato chips will be featured in a Super Bowl commercial.

And the first ad in the series just dropped online. They did get Seth Rogen for the commercial. So I think people were expecting to see Seth Rogen in this first like teaser ad but instead it includes uh one one live actor a creepy bearded guy chanting in a basement in front of a Seth Rogen shrine yeah with like lays at the altar yeah so yeah I don't know. It's very, very strange. I don't know. Maybe they'll maybe they'll pull it off. Rogan, you did it again. You son of a bitch.

What could it possibly be? I don't know. Like they're going to I mean, you're already setting up the dynamic that this is like an obsessed stalker who's like the visuals are meant to evoke like some kind of dangerous person. And then what? Like the visuals are meant to evoke like some kind of dangerous person. And then what? It's like the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial where it's like, hey, man, let's have some lays. Don't don't kill me. And then it's like, hey, we did it.

Like, it seems like the joke is that Seth Rogen is not the type of person that you stalk. But we've been on the Internet. We know that like everybody is the type like there's every celebrity has like wild ass there's fans out there yeah yeah but i'll just say like the vibe of this ad steven wilbur did it better and his instagram picture for his guesting on that like the shrine kind of sucks they just have like a fake magazine with seth rogan on it and then like the stalker has photoshopped himself into a framed picture and then lays potato chips for some reason right that will be heavy-handed and not totally make sense or feel earned in the ad i'm assuming what's this 17 year like hiatus about yeah like why is that like what happened that like people

and like need i didn't need to know that right i need to issue a press release for that yeah that is like it seems like that is the thing they're pitching right this around like finally you've been waiting every i know how at every Super Bowl party you're like, but where are the Lays ads? Well, we're back, baby. And we got Rogan. Not the one that you want, maybe. Fans of Lays might be looking for another Rogan. Not that one.

Spelled slightly differently. I was just looking. I'm like, what? Okay, 17 years ago. Okay, well, I'm looking. I know this because since I don't know time. The 2004 Lay's commercial was the one. It was like an old couple where an old man is like tripping this other old lady.

They're trying to get chips, and it was called Fight to the Death. 2005, I guess, which would stand to reason that was the last one they did, was the one with MC Hammer. What did he do? After hitting a baseball over the neighbor's fence A group of children throw over a bag of Lay's potato chips In exchange for returning their ball They got back more than they expected

When their lost dog is tossed over as well as MC Hammer In gold parachute pants And then they're like, we can't do this anymore We can't do this anymore That broke their spirit Yeah, they're like, we gotta stop This is, let's say a hiatus Yeah, they clearly, they think they learned their lesson They're like we gotta stop this is let's say hiatus yeah they clearly they think they learned their lesson they're like we took 17 years off we've been in

the writer's room for these commercials we think we got something good with seth rogan and i don't know i hope they actually pull through but if not maybe they'll go away for another 17 years yeah it's like it's's the equivalent of those bugs that only come out every 17 years. Oh, like the cicadas. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

and, and I guess like, I know you were kind of maybe joking, but like, I'd imagine all the labor dispute stuff, maybe they're like, Hey, the only stuff about us out there right now is that we work people to death.

Yeah. I, I, I had assumed they had just like when they stopped advertising much like i assumed they had just like literally given up and been like well people know like the internet exists now people know that our chips like are not that great like they're not the best potato chips out there or even like top three in their category, I feel like just in terms of quality. But yeah, it seems like something has spurred them to action. Maybe the fact that they

are making people work 84 hour work weeks and quote what was called within the factory suicide shifts with only an eight hour break between shifts. And, you know, the workers went on strike and that got a lot of a lot of attention from younger people. And so maybe this is their attempt to be like, all right, what's young and hip and very progressive? Ah, the NFL. The NFL. Head injuries. We love it. Isn't that that new tim ferris book the 84 hour work week yeah that's right uh no that's that's a book by the people that tim ferris makes work for him so he can do a five hour work week and then uh travel travel around hey i've got a ferrari and i live in dubai how do I do it? Getting other people to sell nutrient supplements.

sprinkle that dirt over their potato farms and like then you are you can buy a potato chip bag for that is like grown in the soil of your team's home field and that is very cool feels very like what what are they mimicking here when they're like and we take the land from these places and then we will commodify that in a fucking aluminum bag back to the consumer like is that when i eat those chips am i supposed to feel like an athlete or something like right yeah like okay oh i don't know i don't think so i don't know i actually have no idea what you're supposed to feel other than it is. It's just fun. Like I actually, this idea of taking the dirt from the field, sewing it into the potato fields where you grow the chips, growing potatoes in your home field dirt,

and then selling those chips to like super fans that like a huge, like, I think they're like limited edition chips like this is their attempt to right you know to create the off whites of of potato chips like that are gonna sell on stock x or whatever i'm i'm even having trouble thinking of a field that isn't turf yeah so there's a bunch of uh there's a bunch of fields in the nfl that are turf and for those they're like they were grown in the glory of their team's grounds so they keep it it's a scam yeah well yeah i'm sorry jack you had me you really had me until

then i was on board for this weird, appropriative ritual of moving the land to grow your cowboy potatoes. Even in the video that they have, so first of all, they have the mascot digging up the dirt, which I'm not buying, frankly. I don't think the mascots for each team do their, like, groundwork. I don't think the mascots for each team do their groundwork. But then they just put it in a little bag of... Or not in a bag, in a little Tupperware container and ship that off. But this idea, this whole concept that they have going on here, just more than anything reminds me of all of the brainpower that we have working on selling like the

dumbest shit in this country like this probably took you know 14 ivy league grads to like come up with a like working around the clock for like six months came up with this concept and or you know in a different strand of reality in a different alternate timeline, those Ivy League grads are working on, like, fixing the infrastructure. Right. Not this one, baby. Yeah, but the sad thing is I feel like if they did something like that for Arsenal, I'd probably buy it. Yeah. I don't know if I have room to talk. Like that's what I'm saying. I'm not, I'm not making fun of the idea as much as the fact of the society that

creates a reality where this idea is invented, where, where people have enough time and incentive to come up with this idea. Right. But yeah, I'm going to, this has me hungry for, for some potato chips,

New York giants chips. Yeah. Uh, well, Brian, it's been such a pleasure having you on, uh, the daily zeitgeist.

Thank you for having me. Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff. Uh, they can find me on social media at Brian spelled with an I underscore B-A-H-E. And yeah, that's where they can find me. All right. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?

I'm currently tweeting as Che Diaz. That's you? As Che Diaz. That's you. The comedian. And just like that. Having a lot of fun with it. Yeah, you're doing a great job.

So, damn, I wish there was a way to change my handle, but it's still the same thing. But I'm just at Che Diaz. So, you know, look out for those hot JDS people coming at you. Avatar and everything. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I should say Flo Rida is my favorite rapper. JDS is my favorite comedian.

So, Miles, where can people find you? And what is the tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And also the other show, 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexander. We talk about 90 Day Fiance. Let's see. A couple of tweets that I like. First one, since we were talking about the When We Were Young Fest, from at space underscore mom, underscore tweeted when we were young fest looked pretty cool until you

notice it's $225 non-refundable for one day. And it's run by the same company who was responsible for Astro world. And do you realize they're actually just preying on the pop punk scene to pay back their litigation fees? Hmm. That's, you know, that sounds about right.

Next one is from, uh, at Reynolds, G at Reynolds Gareth. Gareth Reynolds, a friend of the show who might be on here pretty soon, tweeted, I wish we got the Joe Biden that the right keeps pretending we have. And that's true. And finally, Che Diaz tweeted, at Brian underscore, bye, tweeted, Your God is an awesome God?

Okay, my God is weed. And I felt that as somebody who can sing that whole song and smokes a lot of weed. So appreciate that one, Che. You've really nailed the voice of my favorite comedian. There was the other one. Someone tweeted earlier. Oh, Jesse Conweller at Jesse Conweller tweeted, my boyfriend just called it. And then there was that. And then, yeah, that would maybe be a better title. I don't know. And then there was they hung dork in the last episode. There was just a dude with a big, this big dick out but like it didn't play into the

episode like it didn't have a part in the episode it was just like here's a dick and then she doesn't really react and then nobody talks about it well like they're just trying to make you miss samantha like this has been the greatest uh the greatest work of propaganda in making uh samantha seem like the greatest television character of all time is this season i feel like i don't know brian are you a fan of and then there was that yeah i can't look away it's so it's really just like every word is like how is this even happening right like this is so strange it's just yeah it's insane i am and yeah i'm a huge fan yeah do you miss samantha though how do you feel with samantha not because i watch it and every time i watch i go this this show could

really use a bit of samantha it's so funny how like when it was like released that like she wasn't going to be a part of it oh it's like how what is she's not doing anything or you know it's like what is why isn't she coming back and now it's like, how, what is, she's not doing anything or, you know, it's like, what is, why isn't she coming back? And now it's like, oh, we are fully on board with Samantha not being in this. Like she made the right decision. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Daisy Alioto tweeted, JPEG is French for I'm pegging. Rajat Suresh tweeted, make fun of my friends all you want,

but I draw the line when it comes to me that's also my policy yeah and then jason concepcion just tweeted the truth everything jokic does looks like absolute trash then the past lands pillow soft in a teammate's hands like that yeah it's just never been a less graceful best player in the NBA than Jokic. But here we are. Oh, wait. I actually do have tweets aside from Trey Diaz. Yeah.

Okay. All right. So Allison Leiby, she posted a pic like a year ago of this like oval she made with Pringles. And it's like impressive that she did that. and it's like impressive that she did that uh it's just like she stacked the Pringles in a way where it just makes like a this like a circle oh wow that is very cool I like sculpture I love sculpture some guy named Adam J Moussa posted a picture of just like there's a gay crew there's an Atlantis gay cruise that's happening that's like a huge like why would anyone ever go on a massive gay cruise right now but there was like a picture from a party that uh like a huge dance party that he posted

apparently it was a military themed dance party and there's in guys carrying inflatable military military assault rifles which is insane and then the last one is uh alicia brown tweeted a picture of like busta from like the 90s and she just said busta looks like almost every blackstead in brooklyn i do have to say and i i don't know why i didn't bring it up at the time, but right during the first act of this episode, after we had declared you the room temp, the owner of the room temp corner, I took a sip of my tea, which I had just poured, and it is room temp somehow. It doesn't make any sense,

but this might be a very strange superpower that you possess. So just look into it. Nothing will be above 80 degrees in my presence. In my presence? But now I'm writing it down so I never forget. There you go. You can find me on Twitter at

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Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy beyond Whistle by Flo Rida? So we're going to go out on a track called This Painted World by Silk Roads, R-H-O-D-E-S. Whistle by Flo Rida. in these bands that like to play their instruments sometimes i get in mood for electronic stuff sometimes i just like to hear people shred instruments and this is just a great track to start your week off relax kick back or do whatever you're gonna do so this is this painted world by silk roads r-h-o-d-e-s like the piano you just sounded like the grandfather of like somebody who's just like trying rock and roll in the 1940s. And he's joined up with these bands that like to play their instruments. They're ripping on their instruments. It's something else.

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