The Daily Zeitgeist - Flu Shot Ya? America’s Strongest Brands 9.17.18

Episode Date: September 17, 2018

In episode 233, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Natch Beaut Podcast host Jackie Johnson to discuss Drake's new girlfriend, Nike stock booming, Paul Manafort's decision to take a plea deal, Andrew Cuomo beating Cynthia Nixon in the New York primaries, why you should get your flu shot, new theories about how Russia is behind the Cuba 'attacks,' how booze industry heirs are investing in marijuana, the new strongest brands poll, bloidwatch, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Bella Harris, Drake’s New 18-Year Old Girlfriend2. Nike stock closes at all-time high in aftermath of Colin Kaepernick ad campaign3. Judge: Manafort agreed to cooperate 'fully and truthfully' with Mueller4. Andrew Cuomo Won, But He’s Living in Cynthia Nixon’s World5. Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine6. The Case of the Sick Americans in Cuba Gets Stranger7. The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy8. Beer Makers Are Drunk on Marijuana's Potential9. The Harris Poll Announces This Year’s Brands of the Year in the 2018 EquiTrend® Study10. WATCH: The Internet - Dontcha Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you so much to Hannah Soltis at Soltis. Hannah, look at that little Californication. She's working with you now. I thought she was exclusively my AKA. Hey, you know, like she said, if the check is right. That was fire, Hannah. Well done. That was fire. That was good.

That's amazing that you learned the lyrics to Californication because those words were insane i don't even spies from china is that really what what they say that that is the legit lyrics yeah they just gave up on making any sense well that's what the actual lyrics are psychic spies from china try to steal your mind's elation and little rose from sweden dream of silver scream quotation and if you want these kind of dreams it's's Californication. So I guess it's in California. I mean, look, the John Daly version is...

Bing-a-bong-a-bong-a-bong-a-burg-rag. Goo-goo-goo-goo-goo-goo-goo-Glendale. Oh, man. Hit his bit as a Peppermint. Yeah, a fan of the Jets. John Daly, all of his fake songs, especially the Lil Xan clapback track is also... Oh, my God.

It's one of the best. You got teeth like you still suck, yo. And he has that, like, opiate vocal fry. Well, in our third seat, we have the very funny host of the Natch Butte Podcast, Jackie Johnson. I feel so at home already, can I just say? Like, the parody songs. I open every episode of Natch Butte with a parody song. And I'm vibing off of the early

mid-2000s hits, so thanks for having me. I'm very excited to be here. That's my safe space, mentally and emotionally. Same. Californication. I feel like that was a good album, and then they did a couple after that. Stadium Arcadium.

It was almost like they were making fun of Californication. Like how far they went in that direction where it was just like bonga binga ding. I know it's you. Bing dang dong dong ding dang dong dong. That made me uncomfortable. I know. That part made me uncomfortable. You know what's funny?

You know when everyone's doing those Kaepernick memes? Yeah, yeah. They did the Anthony Kiedis one. It said bing dang dong b, dong, bong, bing, bong. But doesn't he look incredible? He looks amazing. What a life he has lived. And on the other side, flourishing, I would say.

He's going to probably have that Iggy Pop physique when he gets that age. They look incredible. They all do. They rock like it's Lollapalooza 96. Hair around will do that to you. Ask Iggy. Does it? It makes you look good? It preserves you? When you have cigarettes for breakfast and lunch and

dinner. Right. I guess, yeah, you just get that. Did I tell you he tried to kill my dad once? Who? Anthony Kiedis? Oh. What? Yeah, they lived together. This is Hollywood Storytime. Yo, so my dad used to live with Iggy Pop and my... Like roommates? Yeah, because so my dad used to live with Iggy Pop. Damn. Like roommates?

Yeah, because my godfather used to manage the doors, and he knew Iggy, and was like, yo, Jim needs a place to crash or whatever, and my dad had another bedroom. And this dude was trying to cook something up on the stove. Who knows? I don't know. Right, right. But left the fucking gas on the stove, and then passed out on the couch. And my dad woke up to take a piss in the middle of right. But left the fucking gas on the stove and then passed out on the couch. Yeah.

And my dad woke up to, like, take a piss in the middle of the night, and the fucking entire apartment was filled with gas. Jesus Christ. Yeah, and, like, he got up and, like, went over the thing. They were, like, on all high. All high, yeah. He had to turn them off, and he's like, yo, what the fuck? He's like, what?

And he's like, I'm maybe going to smoke a cigarette. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so that's Hollywood stories with Miles. And you would not be here if Iggy Pop had lit that cigarette. That's a cool origin story, bro. Or if the weather was worse and Niigata actually became one of the atom bomb targets in World War II. Anyway, we hang by a thread, y'all. Yeah, we really do.

Shout out to those grandpas out there. Shout out to Iggy Pop and bad weather. You know what I mean? And yeah, there's this movie all about what we're talking about called The Butterfly Effect. Everybody should check out. I saw it in theaters. Hell yeah, dude. Oh, wow.

Did you really? Yeah. Good for you. Because I was in college, I think, when that came out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that the one with Ashton Kutcher? Yeah. It'll blow your mind, bro.

We're going to talk a little bit more to you, Jackie. But before we do that, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to talk about Drake's latest relationship. He is dating a girl who graduated from high school a couple weeks ago. So that's weird. Nike stock, all-time high. Manafort about to give it all up. We are going to update you on the New York primary, something we were talking about at the end of last week.

I'm going to admonish you all to get your flu shots. We are going to talk about these vague Cuban attacks on the diplomats, which continues to be a story that seems to be developing in the direction of they're real. Russia was targeting us. So I'm going to talk a little bit more about why I don't believe that. We're going to talk about what the heirs to the booze industry are putting their money in and other things. There's a poll that polled all Americans about what they thought the strongest brands were in various categories. We're going to talk about that. It's a lot of fun, somewhat surprising answers there.

And, of course, we will round things up with Boyd Watch. But first, Jackie, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I am trying desperately to become a plant lady. So I've been Googling a lot of how do I keep this plant from dying. I bought a rubber tree, and it's just really unhappy. It's really, really sad in my house tree and it's just really unhappy it's really really sad in my house and it's devastating me i don't know what to do are y'all plant people no i'm sure somebody in the zeitgang our audiences uh and we can help you out i don't know is it an indoor plant it's

an indoor plant here's what's happening so all the leaves are starting to fall off so i google okay sorry okay so yes so all the all the leaves are brown and my sky is gray because i can't get these leaves they're all falling off so i google rubber tree plant leaves falling off and it says well it could be not enough water too much water too much sun not enough sun you could have a disease i'm like motherfucker what is it this isn't helping me i all i know is the plant is very sad, and it's making me feel like a terrible nurturing person because the plant is unhappy in my home. Whenever I do that, I blame the nursery where I got the plant from. Well, I already went back.

I went back, and I confronted the man. Okay. What'd they say? Well, he said, well, you got to water it. You're not watering it enough. You're not watering it consistently. It needs a quart of water a week. And then they're like, well, you over-water enough. You're not watering it consistently. It needs a quart of water a week. And then they're like, well, you overwatered it.

And I'm like, he told me a quart of water a week. Yeah. A quart. That's a lot to me. That is. So I don't know. I'm just really sad. My other plant I bought is doing really well, but this rubber tree is sad.

And it was not cheap. Yeah, oh, I know. It was several hundred dollars, if I'm being honest. It's really nice. Now, is your plan to eventually manufacture your own rubber and make, like, artisanal tires for your car? Oh, right, right. Not a bad idea.

I am a big Shark Tank fan. Okay, alright. I like where you're coming from. I just wanted better air quality and a nice chic aesthetic for my home. Okay. It was more just a creative vibe. I'm looking at pictures and very chic. I like it.

Well, Google pink rubber tree plant. That's what I have. That's what you got going. Pink rubber tree? You better believe it. It is cute. Wow. Very. I mean.

Very good looking plant. But imagine it really wilted and sad and all the leaves are coming off of it. Right. Why is it unhappy? I've moved it all around. I'm like all the leaves are coming off of it. Why is it unhappy? I've moved it all around. I'm like, maybe it's not getting enough sun. I moved it closer and then it started getting like little crisp. The edges of the plant start to kind of crisp up.

And then they're like, there's too much salt in the water. You got to use filtered water. Nobody told me you got to use filtered water. Why didn't the guys tell me that at the nursery? Wait, you used Evian? Oh, do not use Evian. It's got to be Fiji. It has to be box water. Why didn't the guys tell me that at the nursery? Wait, you used Evian? Oh, do not use Evian. It's gotta be Fiji. It has to be boxed water.

I'm such an amateur. These aren't for the faint of heart. I just wanted to be a plant lady. Can I recommend succulent? Oh, I have a ton of those. They are impossible to kill. We just have some from early our first house. We're living to kill. Oh, yeah. We just have some from early, like our first house.

We're living in our third house right now. And they just keep growing. No, we've just moved between an apartment. They're drifters. We're drifters. It's not bragging, really. They were kicked out of their squat. It's crazy how much they grow.

They're just enormous plants. And you don't have to water them very much. No. You can't kill them. It's almost like a challenge. You're like, yeah, I try and not water them. I see what happens. I'll get fucking stronger.

I've forgotten about mine for a good month or two, and they're fine. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know what's good for air purification, if you're talking about air purification? Snake plants. Snake plants? Yeah, snake plant. Is that real?

That sounds fake. I don't know. This guy sold them to me out of a van. And you noticed a difference in your air quality. But yeah, the actual snake plant, you know, they say is good for indoor air quality. Because for a while, remember last year, I thought I had carbon monoxide poisoning. Oh, yeah. And then Her Majesty, my girlfriend, was like, let's just try and get some better plants in here.

And that helped a little bit. Oh, are they hard to kill, though? Let me see. No, no, no. Snake plants are fucking strong. I know those. I could I have some snake plants. Are they hard to kill, though? Let me see. No, no. No, snake plants are fucking strong. Cute. I know those. I could fuck with one of those.

They almost look like they could be succulents, like a type of succulent, because they have that thick, rigid leaf. Do you know how much sun they need? Barely any. Okay, I might have to get one of those for the bedroom, actually. Awesome. And you just feed them mice? Yeah, and I give it a blood offering every other week.

Nice. Awesome. Does it have to be virgin blood? Virgin masculine. We'll see. Jackie, what is something you think is overrated? I think bacon is overrated. I just really have grown to despise bacon culture. Bacon culture, yeah.

Yeah, bacon culture for sure. You know, like, guys are like, I love, uh, I don't, you know, I like pigs but bacon. Bacon culture, yeah. Yeah, bacon culture, for sure. You know, like, guys are like, I love, uh, I don't, you know, I like pigs, but bacon. Or like, I could be a vegetarian, but bacon. And like, bacon shirts and bacon toothpaste

and bacon. I've had it. You know what you're eating when you're eating bacon? You're eating a damn dog. Pigs are dogs. You're eating a damn dog. Are you vegetarian? I sure am. Yeah, alright. But you know what? you're eating bacon you're eating a damn dog pigs are dogs you're eating a damn dog are you vegetarian i sure am all right but you know what it's specifically bacon if you want to eat what you want to eat do you right i'll do me but i'm sick of the bacon stuff yeah you're eating a damn three-year-old child when you eat pig now you're talking about like intelligence levels or do you believe in a conspiracy theory where pigs are dogs? I think...

Ah. I wish that were the case. That would be an amazing conspiracy theory. I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that. I'm going to research that more. No, man. Pigs are dogs.

Straight up. But they are, though. Pigs are kids, too. That's what I'm saying. No, but they're very intelligent. They're dogs. Oh, yeah. Pigs are very intelligent.

You're eating a dog. Yeah. And that's fine if you're not a dog fan, but if you like dogs, don't eat bacon. Did you have a pet pig ever? I did. Oh. I did have a pet pig. The plot thickens.

Yes. Like a pig's belly. I'm from Dallas, and my mother is like an ex-rodeo queen. Oh, cool. And we had pigs and horses and cows and chickens and all these animals. So that really is a dog, too. This is not a pig. No, it was Pugsley too. This is not a pig.

No, it was Pugsley. My Vietnamese Poverty Pig. He lived in the yard. But they're literally dogs. Like, how many times have you seen a cute pig video come across Twitter, and it's a little pig running around the house, and we all think it's adorable. And then the first comment is some asshole.

Well, that bacon looks good. I'm like, get out of here, man. Get out of here. I'm sick of bacon culture. Get it out of here. We were saying yesterday, because we were talking about this thing at Urban Outfitters, it was like a wine glass holder for your shower. And it was reminding me of when bacon culture just went out of control.

It was like bacon shirts. And then restaurants. There's that one place in Vegas like the like clogged heart attack yeah whatever that was like baking grease everything like come on now

and also I hope you have that septic system in check over there you have all that fucking grease in your food

seriously what is something you think is underrated sunscreen okay so very practical I like this

okay well on Natch Butte we always talk about sunscreen and sun protection. And I feel a lot of us are like, oh, I'm not outside that much. I don't need sunscreen. We all should be wearing it daily. You're getting it everywhere. Right now in this beautiful studio, the sun is hitting our arm.

The sun is the number one public enemy. Oh, wow. Just go outside. You feel it on you. And it stings. I feel like it feels different than it did when I was a kid. The sun is strong. You are a vampire, though.

Is that correct? Yes, I am. Okay. Yes, I am. We are recording at 1 a.m. That's what I'm like. When you said sun, you were referring to a streetlight. Yes.

I requested a late night recording session. Yes, yes, yes. But honestly, everyone out there, you need to be wearing a daily sunscreen. You both look great, but definitely sunscreen. You sunscreen? More sunscreen. I do occasionally. See, we need to up the game.

Yeah. We need to up the game. I just came around. Can you look at me and be like, oh, you don't wear enough sunscreen. But we take our youth for granted. Yeah, we do. If we take it from 10 years from now, we're going to be like, I wish I would have worn See, I take my melanin for granted.

And then my nurse friend was like, you think you can't get burnt because you have melanin or you think you can't get sun damage because you have the color of your skin. And I was like, well, that's what my mom always told me as a kid because my mom is very fair skinned, Japanese, but my dad is black. So, you know, I'm like, oh, okay. I'm rocking a little tan. I don't really get sunburned too often. But when she was like sort of schooling me on science, because I am not a scientist, I was

like, oh, right, that's just me thinking that's what it is. Yo, the sun damage is real. It doesn't matter what shade you are. You can get skin cancer? Yeah. No matter how dark you are. You gotta lube up with that screen every day. Yeah, you gotta, at the very least,

to go out there, for anything, just to maintain your youthful exuberance. Yes. You know what I mean? No, absolutely. Love the skin you're in. I walk around with an umbrella. Well, no, I walk around with an umbrella.

Over me. Right. Yes. Thank you. Call me Farnsworth. That's physical sun protection, and that's probably the best option, honestly. You should see my mom when she drives. She fucking, she driving like,

she's like driving into the center of the earth. Really? Respect. Arms, gloves all the way, all the way up. Respect. Fucking face shield, visor. Nice. Because she's, you know,

she's out here trying to make sure she's getting every inch of mileage out of her skin. That's goals. That's goals right there, yeah. I got to get me some driving gloves. Oh yeah, go to Koreatown or go to Daiso, you know, wherever the Asian stuff is sold. mileage out of her skin. That's goals. That's goals right there. Yeah. I got to get me some driving gloves. Oh, yeah. Go to Koreatown or go to Daiso, you know, wherever the Asian stuff is sold. And finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true? Okay. To be false. So I think, what do we do when we get a jury duty notice? We get upset. We try to get out of it. Yeah. Because we all are told jury duty sucks.

Everybody out there, go to jury duty. Yes. Do your civic duty. Go told jury duty sucks everybody out there go to jury duty yes do your go to jury duty yeah i did mine after of course postponing it as many times as i could right and i went of course and i went and i learned more about our justice system the human condition how everything works i mean i walked out walked out of there a changed person. Yeah. And I'm so glad I went. Yeah. I know it can suck to miss work and all, you know, it can cause some inconvenience,

but consider it a tax to be in this great nation, baby. Go to jury duty, Daniel. And also, do it so you can also be actually a jury of someone's peers. That's what I'm saying. Because you never know the kind of juries people face. Do not be looking like the defendant sometimes. And sometimes there's homogenous thinking

in a jury room. Sometimes you need somebody to bring people to the light. And wouldn't you want that if you were on trial? Oh, hell yeah. You would want people who were invested

and wanted to do it. Just think about that. Put yourself in their shoes and go to jury duty. Jury duty, we all say it sucks. Jackie J says, it's great.

Even though you only get like 13 cents a day, but just do it, damn it. I like how you said that and froze afterwards. Like you were in a PSA that actually froze. Or we had a photographer. I use a lot of hands. Yeah, yeah. It's great. I consider myself a Mariah kind of.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Spirit fingers. Go to jury duty, you guys. It's also like it's a little excused break from work where you are experiencing life at a different pace. For sure. I have always been dismissed or I've been in the waiting room the whole day

and never get put on a track. Yeah, I mean, that also happens. But you still went. Get to work on a book. I'll go. Yeah, read a book. I used to, before iPads and smartphones, I would just bring scripts, screenplays, because they were easy to just fucking fly through, and then you're like, burn through it.

Yeah, yeah. And now you got the iPad or whatever, your phone, whatever. Do what you got to do. Yeah. Contribute. Do your civic duty. All right. Guys, let's talk about Drake.

He is dating a young woman, Jimmy Jam's daughter, who just graduated from high school, which seems too young. Drake is 32. She's 18? Yeah, I guess she's 18. Come on, Drake. How old are you mentally, bro? So, this is a thing that I've been thinking about because he has that line in

God's Plan where he says, I only love my mom and my bed girl. I'm sorry, which is like, that's like a sentiment for a nine year old. Yeah. Essentially. Or someone going through puberty. Or like a teenager. Puberty because you got to sleep.

That's why you love the bread. Right. Right. And you love your mama. But yeah. And it's like a key moment. It's like the dopest moment in the song. It's like, he's like, and now I'm going to drop how I really feel.

And it's, I like to sleep in and I love my mommy. I only love my Blinky and my Baba. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, you know, I don't know. I, you know, there's nothing illegal about it, but it's just odd for me to think at my age in my thirties to be with someone who is a technical teenager would be like, I remember dating someone who had not seen the first Batman with Michael Keaton,

and they only knew George Clooney as Batman. And I was like, what the fuck? Well, they also have bad taste in movies. Yeah, yeah. But I guess those are the kinds of things I'm just sort of like, there's no real cultural touchstones we agree upon. But I don't know. It's probably a combination of her being probably very mature.

She's probably about 24, the mind of a 24-year-old, and he's the mind of a 24-year-old. We're giving him the benefit of the doubt. But she is the child of a celebrity who is also a model. And we were saying that models have to grow up really fast whereas child stars like Drake are stunted as fuck oh yeah

so they might even out yeah like it's reversed at least people I know who are in modeling seem to have aged much quicker like in a bad way yeah

it's like the industry is not you've already been to rehab like twice by the time you hit like 22 right and with child actors you're kind of in a perpetual state of childhood, essentially.

Everything's being done for you. You don't really know. Whatever age you were when you like hit is how you are forever is what I've heard before. Right. So that could make sense. Why do, I mean, y'all are men. Why do men do that? Like, look at Scott Disick.

Yeah. You know, she's a teenager too. And he has three children. I think you're a scumbag kind of. Yeah. You know, she's a teenager, too, and he has three children. I think you're a scumbag, kind of. It's a scummy move. And I think it's a— But, hey, look, age ain't nothing but a number. Well, that's what I'm saying.

I hate to judge. I don't want to judge, but at the same time— But there is a thing about an older guy and a younger woman. She's very impressionable. Yeah, right. They seek out that personality. They seek out a person in that stage of their life to be with. And I don't like it. I'm uncomfortable with it as somebody who's been

there. I mean, I remember being 21 and like 35 year old guys would hit on me and I was like, I don't know that that feels weird to me. Like you're also like, what's wrong with you? But that's what I'm saying. They seek out for some reason, you know, someone very young and impressionable for whatever reason. So I don't know, Drake. Are you okay, man? Yeah, what's going on? I don't know, man. Is he still recovering from that story of Adidon? That push-a-tee flaming? That heartbreak?

I don't know. I don't know if he's ready to be a dad. Who else was that? There's a lot of people. Friggin' Leonardo DiCaprio. His girlfriends get younger and younger. And yes, does he look good? Yes. Hi, Leo. But his girlfriends are like, I and yes does he look good yes hi Leo but his girlfriends are like I think the last one was 19

and he's in his late 40s and they're like what's Titanic for sure I think it's like dudes who are threatened by like maybe strong women like women being their equals 100% and I wonder also how much,

because a big part of celebrity is just being able to never have anybody say bad shit to you ever and just being able to have everybody worship you. So she'll never call you out on your shit. She's like, I'm Drake and you're 18. But also I wonder if there's some overlap between dudes who work really hard

to get to that celebrity who are also like, that's the type of person they're comfortable being around is yes men and people who are just going to submit to their will a little bit. The only reason I would think this relationship would work or the version I would like to think it is, is where she just bosses him around. Right. Shut up, Aubrey.

Okay, I'm sorry. No, I mean- We don't know anything about this person. We're my fucking Birkin bag collection motherfucker. Oh, it's over here, babe. No, I mean, we don't know anything about this person. We're my fucking Birkin bag collection motherfucker. Oh, it's over here, babe. Yeah, I mean, she might be just a really strong personality. Yeah, she's like, your last album sucked, bro. I didn't even get the first 10 tracks on Scorpion.

What the fuck was that about? I really hope that's how it works. I would love that. Then I'm like, hmm, interesting. And then I'm also kind of like, okay, Drake, either way. It's an interesting, it causes, it's a discussion starter when y'all were 18 were you like a good were you a good person like were you i feel like i didn't know anything when i was 18 and i was a nightmare i didn't know shit but i thought i knew everything same yeah i was a complete nightmare oh i which makes you a danger

i hate my 18 year old so yeah same i just worse i like, I don't know. I'm sure she's great, but honey, all I'm going to say is when you're 30, you're going to go, Oh my God. I was, I, you know,

I didn't know anything. What I thought the greatest achievement I could have was getting head while playing video games and smoking weed at the same time. I'm not joking. I'll be like, yeah, that's the fucking way. You're like fucking 18.

You really sweet to pull up at 18 yeah hey at 18 it was like yeah that'd be cool and it was like a big ass like like recliner and i'm like yeah and it's like a flat screen like no it's a projector i'm playing fifa oh four on that shit i don't know yes 18 18 year old dreams are not good yeah so there's an issue there's an issue for me yeah um n Nike stock is at an all-time high. We're just going to keep keeping an eye on how Nike is performing since the Colin Kaepernick campaign because the president and his acolytes wanted to point out that people were protesting and nobody was going to buy Nike.

Turns out that's not true, and Nike stock is at an all-time high. The highest ever. Some schools are trying to sever ties with them. I think the University of Georgia, they were trying to be like, we don't want to do that, and the ACLU was like, you can't do that. Yeah, go fuck yourself. It's just from what their political thing is. Anyway.

The only schools I've heard actually doing it are really small Christian schools in rural places. Wow. It's cool. Because that'll learn them. That'll learn them. I guarantee you Jesus would be rocking Nikes right now. Oh, hell yeah.

He would go buy a pair right now. Yeah. The Air Christs. Oh, yeah. Air Jesuses. We call those Air Jordans, Jack. Right. That's exactly.

And I'm wearing them. Our Lord. Manafort. So he has his second trial coming up, and he just didn't want the smoke. Friday, Bob Mueller put some documents out that basically laid out the case of his conspiracy to defraud America Charger, basically, which that's not something you want on your record. But anyway, people finding out about. Yeah, we were talking last week about him possibly taking a plea. And then it looks like Friday it happened, took the plea. And part of that agreement involves, quote,

fully and truthfully cooperating with Robert Mueller. And so and I think also another thing is like there's like a 10 year cap on like whatever sentence or prison sentence he would serve and possibly dropping the remaining charges. I don't know if that means the charges he was already convicted of in Virginia or the ones that he was about to face in D.C. But either way, he's about to flip. And here we go. Yeah, that's all I got to say, because he's got I'm sure he has a lot to say, even though the White House was like, this has nothing to do with the president. I'm like, sure, maybe this charge does it. But the cooperation part, I'm sure will have plenty to do with it. Yeah. The Republicans were kind of with some wishful thinking reporting that he might be pleading guilty because he didn't want to do a big trial around the midterms and he was going to take one for the team, for the GOP. Take a plea deal and cooperate for the team?

Yeah. And they forgot that this dude is willing to sell anyone out to temporarily better his situation. And yeah, a lot of people are going to see this. This is going to be bad. This reminds me of an episode of Homeland, but it's real. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, this is crazy.

This is wild. And all the stuff he's been through already, like, they froze all his accounts. They went through his apartment or his house. Members of his family. They changed their last names and shit. I'm telling you, this is nuts but it's our real life. I just wish Mandy Patinkin was actually involved in this. Oh, me too.

I miss Saul. That was his character, right? It was. Did you watch it all the way? I stopped after a while but then I heard it got really good again. Season 2 got weird. Season 2 I got all the way and then 3 I was while. But then I heard it got really good again. Season two got weird. Season two I got all the way. And then three, I was like, two episodes in, I was like, eh. That's exactly where I stopped. Yeah.

I will tell you where that show, where I was like, oh, this show is going to start to suck now, was when they brought that dude back from the dead in the seventh episode of the first season. I was just like, oh, this doesn't make sense anymore. You guys are just making this up as you go along. They just brought someone back from the dead like it was a fucking Truman Show. But I heard it ended well, right? I don't know.

I don't know. I fell off, but I'm interested. I'll probably revisit it once I'm sick or something for an extended period of time. And Jackie, your hand gestures are great. I just want to convey them to the audience when there's a really good one. When you said Manafort has his whole family, you made like little cockroach skittering motion with your hands for the entire Manafort family. All the families scattering away. Yeah, yeah.

The gesticulation in here is amazing. So just wanted to make sure everyone knew that. Thank you. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Defne 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 my name is Manuel Delia I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

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This is really strange. But yeah, so Cynthia Nixon and Cardi B lost to... Cuomo and Nicki Minaj. Cuomo and Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people definitely came out for Cuomo, and I think were responding to the idea that Cynthia Nixon didn't have the experience or whatever even though she had the ideas uh but i think one thing to take away from the whole primary is that like by her running she

pushed cuomo to the left like in ways that i didn't think i would hear you wouldn't think that he would be talking about like marijuana legalization or restoring voting rights for felons right and things like that. That's always the benefit of people on, you know, super progressive candidates running because it has an effect on the opponent and even down ballot where a lot of, there were plenty of progressive victories down ballot, like where Julia Salazar won a state Senate race, which is like, I don't think there was a more covered state Senate race. But yeah, she's 27 years old, DSA candidate. Yeah.

There was all sorts of scandals about who she had an affair with or all this shit. Or no, she was like an assault from the David Keys, like the foreign affairs spokesperson for Israel or something. There was also like a Keith Hernandez thing, the former baseball player, like where she was some person of interest in his divorce. But it's all just stupid shit that I feel like if she was more mainstream, might not have gotten so called out. Or if she wasn't running so far from the left,

people wouldn't have given a shit about a state senate race. But, you know. It's a threat to the establishment. Yeah. And so they'll pull out all the fucking stops. Yeah. Yeah. The guy, David, he's the spokesperson to foreign media for the prime minister of Israel.

And then on Thursday, last Thursday, he was like, I'm taking a leave of absence. To full time protect myself. Is that what he said? Yeah. Or to fight these charges or something. Okay. Yeah. It's always something, isn't it? It seems to be. Is that what he said? Yeah, or to fight these charges or something. Okay. Well, yeah. It's always something, isn't it?

It seems to be. Why? I don't know much about the New York political scene, I'll be honest, as a Californian, but what's the deal with Cuomo? Like, is he a bad dude? Yeah, he's a shitty politician. That's so sad, because Cynthia Nixon being that would have been really dope.

As a huge Sex and the City fan also a woman LGBT. I mean she reps all the cool stuff. It's sad. I don't like that. And T.I. finally learned who she was. I know. That was important. I just wonder about Steve. Where is Steve? Is Steve alright?

Hey Miranda. What happened to that guy? I see him at commercial auditions all the time. The guy who plays Steve? Oh, is he all right? Yeah, I mean, he books commercials. If you watch him, you'll see. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I just have to be, you know, you see, that's the thing. It's like that thing with the gorilla where if you're not looking for it, you don't see it. Right, right. The blind spot. I need to be looking for Steve. Yeah, I see a lot of celebrities from like the late 90s, early 2000s at my commercial auditions. And a lot of America's Next Top Model finalists.

Oh, really? How about that? Like who? Eva Pickford? No, she's a Real Housewives now. She is? Yeah, Real Housewives of Atlanta. She's about to be the new addition.

Really? I'm telling you, she made a name for herself. Since they spread all that mess about Candy being a lesbian. Who said that? Who said that? Who said that? I remember it was one of my favorite interactions on Real Housewives of Atlanta. Alright. Do y'all remember that?

I don't remember that. Are you a lesbian? Who said that? I wish y'all could have seen his face. That was so good. It's like a gif, I'm pretty sure now. It was such a funny moment. Whoever edited that sequence is genius.

The people who edit those shows are such assholes because they manipulate the shit out of that footage just for the best value. It's so entertaining, though. But it's so entertaining. Yeah. Our most talented editors are working in the Real Housewives of Atlanta

and other reality shows. Well, yeah, to sit through all that footage of nonsense and try and make... Well, there's transcribers. A lot of my weird actor friends that need side money would transcribe. With the foot pedal?

Yep. Gotta get the foot pedal going? Gotta get that foot pedal. Well, and also you have story producers on the show, too, who are like, just map it out for them. They're like,

okay, here's a little thread we can mine, blah, blah, blah. Anyway. It's really an art. Yeah, it is an art to make bullshit look like reality. Story editors on reality shows make good cash, yeah.

So a story I wanted to just bring up because we're coming up on flu season and we talked about it last flu season, but I think one of our guests said like flu shots are a myth. Yo, I said I don't get them. Well, maybe someone may have said that, but I said I never got the flu,

so why don't you get the flu shot? And then I was shamed and I got the flu shot because they're like, hey, you fucking idiot. Have you heard of herd immunity? Yeah. And I had to be sort of in touch with my own privilege of my own health. Yeah. Because I think just because I don't have it doesn't mean I can't carry it and infect others. Right.

So we and a lot of our listeners are young people in the prime of our health and so we you know on yourself that we might get the flu but it'll just like knock us down for a couple days or whatever young people and the elderly though will young young young young young like very young children and old the the holds can die from the flu right it's one of the biggest killers of people in that demographic. And also you can be a carrier of the flu virus without showing any symptoms. And so you might be, if you don't get your flu shots, you will be more likely to be carrying that disease and passing it around. And yeah, you can be killing people and never realize you're

doing it because you didn't get the flu shot you could be killing people seriously though no no it's true i i i'm telling you i have to it's it's a tough thing to like let go of like your own ego because i had health ego right right i'm like that shit is for weak ass motherfuckers get the flu i never got the fucking right so i don't need that shit and I was thoroughly dragged yes deservedly by the Zeitgang and my health care

professional friends of mine who I said that shit to and I realized too I am like I said again scientifically illiterate and if you are not a fucking expert

on any of this shit you shouldn't have hot takes on shit like this because you don't know what the fuck is going on but yes please do care about other people

well I will say that this past year this year because you don't know what the fuck is going on. But yes, please do care about other people. Well, I will say that this past year, this year was a record cold and flu season. Yeah. It was really, really, really rough. We had several deaths. Right. And it got real gnarly. Yeah.

I'm a huge hand washer. Yes. I noticed that. Yes. You've been washing. You have a wash basin next to you. I bring a sink with me. I recommend everyone out there to Google how to wash your hands because most of us aren't doing it correctly.

You're supposed to wash for a good amount of time. Don't forget your thumbs. Don't forget under your rings. And your fingertips too. Fingertips, in between your fingers. Take a moment and really wash. Clean them shits. Clean them because that's a lot of the way it's transferred also

train yourself to not touch your face I didn't get sick this cold and flu I haven't been sick once this whole year not to brag and you haven't touched your face all year I haven't touched my face once you put gloves on at night I do I do a full hazmat suit when I do my eye cream at night

or like when they put babies you know when you put the little things on babies yeah uh yeah i swaddle you know what's funny about the hand washing thing i remember when i was a kid my orthodontist when he would wash his hands before like an exam i was like look at this fucking fool crazy hand washing style because he was like doing the finger thing where i thought he was doing like hey give me some money you know rubbing your fingertips that kind of thing. And then I was like, is that the way you're supposed to wash your hands? He's like, well, I'm putting my hands in your mouth.

So I'd imagine my fingertips. He was very patronizing. But I was like, that's true. Thank you for that. And then I always kind of do this thing now and really get in my. Did he keep the hands up when he came over to you? No, he wasn't scrubbing into the OR. Wait, he went raw dog or he didn't put gloves on?

You were supposed to wear gloves? Yes. I would imagine. Oh, shit. Was he like your neighborhood? No, it was like out behind the Target. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. By my mom's house.

Whatever, the braces worked. Yeah, yeah. I think. And I think, you know, some people I think think that flu shots are one of those things. I think there's some anti-vaxxers who will tell you that flu shots like create super flus and shit like that. And so the way that that actually works is there are like we do take too many antibiotics and bacterial infections do create like superbugs. So you shouldn't be taking antibiotics unless your doctor actually prescribes them to you. That is like something that they're working on

because there is an arms race between antibiotics and germs basically. But the flu is a virus and it's not one of those things where by getting a flu shot, you are hurting or you're creating some super flu, which is another common misconception. And look, unless you're a motherfucking scientist doing this research, who are you to then argue with the people that have been doing it? Right.

So I want to talk about one of my favorite stories that we've been following from the early days of the zeitgeist here. from the early days of the zeitgeist here. So there is more and more news coming out or more and more stories being written about these attacks on diplomats in Cuba. Now the latest version of the story is that Russia is behind the attacks. That was actually a headline. Russia is behind the attacks and then cia fears so so

what a masterful headline right so cia thinks they're hoping you don't see that last little part on there yeah cia maybe yeah and you won't believe what the cia thinks and that they're saying this is based on communications that were intercepted by them between Russia and Cuba. And they're not significant or concrete enough for them to report anything. Because what they're trying to say, like, it may have been an unforeseen side effect to, like, new surveillance equipment they had. That's one of the theories. It's just all big theories. Right.

It's just all theories. They're all vague theories. Right. So for people who don't know the story or what we're talking about, a couple diplomats who, it turns out, are basically CIA agents who are just down there under diplomatic cover, started hearing weird sounds and started experiencing symptoms. Now the symptoms are a cloud of vague symptoms like hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, headaches, and fatigue which is a pattern that they say is consistent with mild traumatic brain injury but other people have pointed out it's also consistent

with aging. Or getting really fucked up at a corn show. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hearing loss, disoriented, fucking off balance, got the headache. Too much for loco. Yeah, too much for loco. So ProPublica did a deeply reported deep dive into the origins of this story. Like when it was first reported, who reported it, what the actual cases were that happened.

And so at first there were like a bunch of people who started saying they were having the same symptoms and they were experiencing weird sounds. And 80 different families like came forward and were like, I think I'm having the thing. And only 22 were diagnosed as having the symptoms. So already you have a bunch of people who thought like the symptoms are vague enough that 80 people were like, I think I have it. Right. And then only 20. That would be me, though. Right, me too. I always think I have whatever.

Yeah. Yeah. And there's also the Cuban government has been cooperating completely with the investigation. They're like, look, we thought things were going well between us. Right. And so they've cooperated with everything. They haven't been able to find any evidence that even this technology exists. And the fact that the reports of the attacks don't even really resemble each other always.

Like one person thought it was coming from his garden area and that it sounded like cicadas. And then another reported a high-pitched mechanical sound that hit him in the middle of the night in his bed. And yeah, so it's this really blurry thing that, I don't know. It does seem, though, like there's this podcast I listen to called Rational Security, where it's all these national security experts. And they seem to even be buying into this. They were talking about it like, well, clearly this is happening. Okay. I understand you don't believe the CIA's reasoning here,

but what is your belief, their motivation to blame this on the Russians? I think they're basically experiencing a mass psychogenic thing, like a mass, a case of mass hysteria, which is not as uncommon or strange as people think it is um and then i think they're trying to come to terms with the fact that they are experiencing that and that's a very like vulnerable thing to have happen to you is where you're like having

you know socially communicable event happen right and. And I think the national security apparatus, the experts on these things are probably wanting to take each other seriously. They don't want to believe that. They don't want to be like, yo, shut the fuck up, Eric. He's always, oh, he's ringing. Yeah, right.

Yeah, so I did want to- You're hearing those cicadas again. Yeah, oh boy. We are sick of hearing it. Oh, wait, what happened to that bottle of four roses that emptied itself last night? And you got a big corn, the new corn album. So there are a few things that are kind of unrelated that kind of inform my understanding of this. So first, just all the different stories of mass hysteria that i wrote about back at cracked

or edited articles on back at cracked and the placebo effect having like way more dramatic physical effects than should be possible based on like reason alone like a red pill will work worse than a blue pill is a sleeping pill even though they're pharmacologically identical because the placebo effect, basically. But it's not like you're thinking about the pill as you go to sleep. It's just like some weird thing in the back of your mind. So there's all sorts of shit like that that doesn't make sense. I'm sure these people who are experiencing these symptoms fully believe they've been attacked. And I'm not saying that they're just reporting it because

they're trying to get attention or something they all feel like they're having some shit happen to them there's also this really interesting article from John Le Carre the spy novelist who was himself a spy and he wrote in the New Yorker about his time as a spy in Europe and how like all the different people in like who are working with him would like lose their mind basically because like they were doing like this guy brought him along on a information drop where they like went to this bar and they were like supposed to meet up with someone and they like said a weird like uh like the eagle has landed and dropped the briefcase and then walked out and he like later found out the guy was just making it up and that guy was just some random dude playing pool.

And it was just basically people would create these stories and make these high-stakes situations for themselves because everything's so shady and the reality around you is so shifting. So unstable. Yeah, they just created these realities. So a lot of the James Bond shit that you hear spies talk about might be them putting those implications on those things.

And then there's also this thing that I've looked into before of loud sounds that come out of nowhere, because I was doing this video on YouTube about like these weird situations where people would suddenly like hear what sounded like a thousand trumpets coming out of the sky. And like, everybody would like stop and like try and figure out where it was coming from.

And like, you really couldn't like, sometimes they would figure out it was coming from a, a construction site, but it coming from a construction site. But it would be a construction site like two towns over. So basically it's just like sound travels in really weird ways. And like you can get hit with like a random sound. Right.

It's not clear like where it's coming from, you know. Right. Those are like videos in Canada, right? Where like people are looking out the window. Right. Can you hear that? It's like. Yeah.

And you're just like, is this an alien? I remember it was like, it's aliens. Well, there's, yeah, there's a very specific case where there's a town in Canada that's across the river from a factory on the U S side of the river.

That is like the people feel like they're being like assaulted with this sound, but like you can't hear it sometimes and you can only hear it in like a specific house on the block it'll just be like this random beam of sound that seems to like be hitting them and it's i think it's infrasound which is like only barely audible to the naked ear to to most people so it's just uh those three factors mass hysteria and placebo effects being like way more having actual dramatic physical effects throughout history. The fact that I think spies specifically and the fact that these are mostly CIA agents who are experiencing this, like they live this high stakes, weird, shadowy existence where like they care.

Their life isn't even real. Right. It's easy to lose your grasp on reality. And then finally, like just the weirdness of like how sounds travel make me those are the three things that i think when i sit back i'm like why do i still think this isn't true when all these smart people are starting to believe it's a russian attack like those are the three details that i think are informing that all right this is like some yanni and laurel shit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It is a little, I think the mind is very malleable, you know?

Good vocab word. Did anybody do a cover song about like, Havana, ooh na na. They should. Russia is attacking Havana, ooh na na. I make a cover song out of everything. Wow. That was really good.

Thank you. We need to make a video. We got that on. I think we have that on wax. Good, okay. Wow. That was really good. Thank you. We need to make a video. We got that on. I think we have that on wax. Good. Okay. Excellent. Throw that in on the next update.

Yeah. We own that. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. 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 16, 2017, was murdered.

There are 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 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.

Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. 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 Saner. 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 percent 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. 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. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And how is the booze industry dealing with legal marijuana? The booze industry. Legal marijuana. I mean, look, they know what the fuck they're doing.

You know what I mean? Everybody's trying to get a piece of the pie. They see the writing on the wall. Beer sales have been in a steady decline for the most part. I think in 2015, there was a consulting report that was basically saying, it was titled, A Perfect Storm Brewing in the Global Beer Business. Brewing. Cute.

You headline writers, you. Yep, yep. So weed is definitely in the ascendancy. Beer consumption is slightly just going down bit by bit. So that's got people looking around and seeing what's going on. So Adolphus Bush V, okay? Oh, God. The great, great grandson of Anheuser-Busch.

I bet he's a super chill dude to hang out with. Oh, man. Very normal. Can you imagine? I got such a visual instantly. Going to college with that dude? The collar is popped. Oh, yeah.

100%. It was surgically put onto his skin, a popped collar. Like a vampire, like high. I'm sure he's a nice guy. And if you know Adolphus Bush V, the fifth, hit us up and let me know if he's a good guy. Anyway, so they began putting their money behind legal weed, like a new vape company, like a vape pen type thing that heir to the Jim Beam fortune. I think he made his company public in Canada. And a lot of people are just starting to look, you know, sort of north to the north since

weed has been legalized in Canada. So like Molson coors they also said they're like forming a part partnership with a weed company to make like sort of non-alco weed drinks for canadians uh so it looks like you know they kind of see you know this is the wave uh that where it's all going uh and so they're going to be investing in it more and more which makes sense because i think they found that even in Oregon, when recreational weed was legalized, a lot of their craft beer sales went down. Now, it's not that it was necessarily that was the cause of that, but that was just something they noticed sort of happening at the same time. But we'll see what happens. But it's kind of funny

because the US Border Patrol also, or the CBP, just made this weird announcement in Politico or how they're going to hassle Canadians who smoke weed trying to cross the border because it's illegal here. The U.S. Border Patrol? Yeah. It's such a stupid fucking law where it's like, hey, have you smoked weed ever? And if you have, you have to tell us because if you lie, that's fraud. And then you can be barred from entering the U.S. for life. And it puts people in a very weird position.

So in Politico, they're saying, this is a statement from someone from CBP. They're like, oh, our officers are not going to be asking everyone whether they have used marijuana, but if other questions lead there or if there's a smell coming from the car, they might ask. Because they're saying, like, marijuana, wet residue can linger. They said, if asked about past drug use, travelers should not lie. He said, if you lie about it,, travelers should not lie. He said, if you lie about it, that's fraud and misrepresentation,

which carries a lifetime ban. Which is odd because there are a lot of people too, like they're saying, if you are even in the legal weed business in Canada, and they're like, oh, what do you do for work?

And you're like, oh, I work in like the legal weed business. They're like, oh, we don't want people who are like, you know, profiting off the proliferation of drugs and like smuggling narcotics or whatever the fuck.

It's a fucking weird. Because it's a federal institution. Yeah, but it's just such an odd thing to be like taking this stance and like letting people know. It's like, but half the fucking borders, so many border states with Canada have legalized recreational weed, even though it's a state thing. But it's still just this like really dumb butting up of federal and state law and just, yeah. Anyway, I just wanted to bring that up because it's funny that you also have these American companies who are like looking to Canada to invest in that business, but then Canadians who are trying to enter this way, they're going to hassle them for, it's just.

I just don't understand why people would want to stop drinking a drug that gets you no more fucked up than weed and that kills you. Like, what's their problem? Yeah, you tell me how many violent crimes are committed on weed. Yes. You know what I mean? Crunch those numbers. These feds need to sit back and smoke a fatty and chill out.

There you go. Am I right, sister? Hell yeah. Willie Nelson, tell it. Have y'all ever been to Portland or Oregon? I mean, I had a can of booch, a cannabis kombucha there that was very strong. Yes. And you were kind of fucked up.

Oh, it was beautiful. Yeah. What was the canned beverage that we- Oh, Sprig soda? Sprig soda. Yo, holler back. I drank all that Sprig, man. I'm trying to get right this week.

Yeah, but it's- Yeah, Sprig is- Have you had a Sprig soda? No. Is that a cannabis infused? Yeah, but it's... Sprig is what we'll get you. Have you had a Sprig soda? No. Is that a cannabis infused? Yeah, it's a soda. They gave us a case, right? No HFCA. No high fructose corn syrup in that shit. You know what I mean? Well, they have a low-cal version

if you want the sugar-free version. But a lot of THC. Yo, a lot of THC. 45 mils. You gotta be careful. I overdosed on can of quench once at Disneyland. Can of quench? It was like a lemonade. And it was a crazy experience. You were in a wheelchair?

I had to be wheeled out of Tortilla Joe's in downtown Disney. I'm not lying. I'm not lying. Be careful. It was really, really bad. Be careful with your dosage. Be careful with your dosage. Yeah, well, Edibles is it. Be careful with your dosage, everybody.

And you will be lights out. Gorilla Radio. All right, guys. Let's talk about the strongest brands. The brand is strong with these companies. So a company, the Harris Poll, reached out to I think 77,000 Americans. A lot of Americans. Nobody asked me.

I'm a little offended, honestly. I love being on the pulse of what's hot. Are you an American over the age of 15 and speak English? Yes. Then you could have taken this survey. It was like an online thing they filled out where, first let's get into the methodology to understand how this

worked. There was each respondent, they were asked a rate of, I think, around 40 randomly selected brands, and each brand got like 1,000 ratings roughly. And you were just sort of polled on whether or not, like what your thoughts were and feelings on each brand, and that's how they started ranking things, like based on all this data, you know,

who the best nonprofit is or car audio. And it's a very, yeah. It's interesting. It's an interesting list. Or it gives you a very good idea of what brands are the most recognizable for a lot of Americans too. The one headline that came out of this poll that I saw last week was like, how the fuck is Taco Bell the top Mexican restaurant brand in the US?

I don't disagree with that. I mean, if you're going off like a chain, well, here's the thing. Taco Bell isn't Mexican food. You know what I mean? It's Mexican adjacent food. Inspired. Inspired. Paste creations.

But if you actually put Chipotle and Taco Bell head to head for me, I would pick Taco Bell. I don't know why because I'm a scumbag. Well, also if you're looking at value, I mean, I enjoy both equally. And Taco Bell's way cheaper. Yeah. Oh, man. You get that Mexi-Melt. Anyway.

I had Taco Bell last night. Oh, look at you. I'm a fan. I'll be honest. Yeah. Do you like Chipotle? I do. Yeah.

They're different kind of things. You know what I mean? And I think maybe that's why people, when you go to Chipotle, you spend, I mean, because they do have like actual ingredients. So you're going gonna actually pay for that i always get that guac upgrade obviously i get a chip i fuck with the chip side you know guac upgrade of course guac this way grilled stuffed burritos with extra grill you ever have the quesarito no where they take the burrito tortilla and then make that a quesadilla and

then wrap your burrito in that shit is that that's chipotle that's chipotle oh okay i thought we were talking about taco oh my bad my bad all right so what what were some that jump out at you guys full-line automotive honda which didn't surprise me because honda seems like they always got that well those cars you can run into the fucking ground exactly like those are the cars that are still around 20 years later 100 and like that is the thing that i feel like if you've got a car that just won't quit on you like you love that motherfucker like you will yeah so honda honda doesn't surprise me uh best chicken car that can't quit you like heath ledger couldn't quit fucking jake gyllenhaal and broke back mountain yes exactly like that get that honda i wish i could quit you honda accord 1997 i had a

honda prelude my god i drove that shit for fucking 15 years into the fucking ground. Yeah. And someone still bought that shit off me for like over like two grand. Yeah. Because people like that car. Yeah. Did it smell bad by the end? No, no.

It just smelled like weed and probably had, you know, there was a lot of shit hitting the door panel. So don't cross the board in that car. But one interesting thing was like best coffee shop, Krispy Kreme. This is crazy what? that's crazy no Starbucks?

I mean it could be like if people were put off by their political shit that like people were like I don't like Starbucks I didn't even know Krispy Kreme sold coffee

well yeah I mean they have to it makes sense but I there's only the Burbank one the one would be closest to us you know I haven't been in there in a long time

but yeah I think it's probably the fact that Starbucks doesn't sell literal, actual warm crack at their store, whereas Krispy Kreme does. I don't know what they put in that. Good God. Car audio, Bose in-vehicle audio. I trust that. Yeah. What are you, a Bang & Olufsen guy, a Harman Kardon?

Yeah. I don't know enough about that. So casual dining restaurant, chain restaurants. We've got a tie, folks, between, first one does not surprise me at all, the Cheesecake Factory. Yes. Yes, indeed. And Texas

Roadhouse. Interesting. Do we have that here? They're like in the outer regions of the county. I used to work at Cheesecake Factory. Did you? Okay. The one at the Grove.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, when I first moved here. Hell yeah. What are your impressions? It's a very, very corporate environment. Yes. Right. You know, you have to have a crease on the sides of your shirt, down the front of your

apron. If you have a stain on your apron, they make you buy a new one there because they want you to look like a big, fat piece of cheesecake so that everybody will buy cheesecake from you. That's my theory. And you put graham cracker in your hair. Exactly. You kind of do a little strawberry moment in the hair. These are all the same rules we have here at the Daily Zeitgeist.

Yeah. Yeah. Y'all are wearing head to toe white. And I'm wearing, I have tuxedo pants on. And a festive tie. Yes. That you use as a conversation piece. Oh, is that?

Yes. Oh, that's your flair move? We're encouraged to have a good time with a tie. How many people were rocking like the Star Wars tie?

Star Wars, Foghorn, Leghorn, like Looney Tunes. I say, I say. Yeah, I mean, you know, you made a statement with the tie

and you had to do a double Windsor. Oh, shit. And if you didn't do it right, somebody would have to do it for you when you got there. I mean, very, very strict. Wow.

If anything, they're training you for the corporate world. Oh, you know, their training is six weeks long and you have to do it for you when you got there. I mean, very, very strict. If anything, they're training you for the corporate world. Oh, you know, their training is six weeks long. And you have to sit in a classroom and try every item. You have to memorize everything in every item. Okay, so what's the best thing on that enormous, enormous menu? You know, it's hard to say because, you know, I don't eat any of that stuff anymore.

Oh, right. There's not that many options. Can you tell me about the avocado egg rolls? I mean, I used to. It was 12 years ago. I get a veggie burger there now. I always get chicken littles. Those are the chicken fingers, right?

I believe so. That sounds familiar. Also, I haven't been to a cheesecake factory in seven years. Yeah, it's been a decade. So we don't go, but why did it win? Well, because I think if you think about it, we're in a city, too, that has so much variety. Where other places that are just sort of mostly rely on chain restaurants or chain stores for their business to consume at,

then, yeah, this probably is the best fucking place. When I was in Dallas, I would rock that Cheesecake Factory. P.F. Chang's was like a fancy night out. What is Texas Roadhouse? I'm sorry, forgive my ignorance. It's like a steakhouse, right? But just go, sorry, is it from Texas? Yeah, it's a steak ignorance. It's like a steakhouse, right? It's a steakhouse. It's like a cheesecake factory of steakhouses, basically. You can get all

the different cuts. I thought this was the one that you could throw peanuts on the floor, but I might be wrong. I might be confusing that with another. Only Texas restaurant I like is Papa Doe. I think Cheesecake Factory will be, when they look back on our culture after we've all died years and years from now when aliens are visiting.

I think Cheesecake Factory will be seen as like the extension, the ultimate end point of American culture because it's like appropriating every different type of food. It's got all of them in one menu. The menu is a novel. The menu is a novel. It's a phone book with ads for other businesses in the fucking thing. And you can throw peanuts on the floor at Texas Roadhouse. That is the one thing the Cheesecake Factory is lacking. Work on your game, Cheesecake Factory, or aliens will view you negatively.

I'm done. What other things on here? Oh, Ben & Jerry's is the top ice cream and froyo shop. That makes sense. Nothing surprising there. Pandora is the top internet radio. Isn't that interesting? What, Pandora?

Does that not count Sirius? I guess it doesn't. Because that would have been my guess. Well, I guess because Pandora, you can just stream off a browser, whereas Sirius, you have to pay for it. You know what I mean? Pandora used to just be like

broke boy music for the internet. Does anyone still use Pandora? Not, I don't. I don't either. I curate my own shit now. I do sometimes if like we need to put on like jazz classics for like if people are like. Coming over? Coming over.

That's what you do? Is that your dinner vibe? Not like for like a dinner vibe. We're actually selling our house right now and people are coming through. Oh, and you like to play the jazz? You're like, this is a refined home. It is like exactly like what I've heard in every other open house. Oh, and you like to play the jazz and be like, this is a refined home. It is exactly like what I've heard in every other open house.

Right, right. It's like the jazz. Shake it up. Blast some corn. Got the life. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Because you can have the fucking life

in this house. I would buy that house. The top news service is BBC News. I know. That's where we're at, you guys. Hey, but you know what? Shout out to everybody in the survey who was like, you know what? All these bullshit things, I trust the That's where we're at. Hey, but you know what? Shout out to everybody in the survey who was like,

you know what? All these bullshit things. I trust the BBC. Fuck y'all. BBC. It reminds me of that Austin Powers song. BBC One.

Oh, BBC Two. Yeah. Shout out to that. Top off-price retailer, TJ Maxx. Oh, yeah. The Maxinistas will be pleased.

Yeah. I don't know another like store that has so much pride from people who go to that store. Ross. Max. Oh yeah. The Maxinistas will be pleased. Yeah, I don't know another store that has so much pride from people who go to that store. Ross. Who are just like, hell yeah, I'm a Maxinista. Yeah, I'm a cheap ass bitch. Yeah, like a deal. Oh man, at Ross. People take so much pride.

I used to, when junior high, I'd go to Ross. I got the fucking oversized Wu-Tang hockey jersey that was so big with the 36 on the back. Wu-Tang hockey jersey? Yeah. I had that and remember Shaq's brand, Twism? Yeah. The world is mine. I used to have this shimmer sheen fucking nasty poly,

like fake synthetic shiny ass shirt, Shaq's shirt. From Ross? Oh, yeah. You got a good price on that? No, because that's the thing with TJ Maxx and Ross. You go in there and you might dig up some real fucking shit out of nowhere. So, you know, think about that. I dig up some real fucking shit out of nowhere. So, you know, think about that.

The number one wireless carrier is Verizon over AT&T. Guess the ads are right. Yeah. Thomas Miljich, we see you. Oh my God. Every time I see him in a commercial, I'm like, get that fucking check, Thomas. Seriously, man.

He's rolling in the money. He is. Him and Milana Vayntrub doing fucking AT&T as the AT&T lady.