The Daily Zeitgeist - Great White Goat, SWEAR YOU’RE HEALTHY!!! 5.22.20

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

In episode 636, Jack, Miles, and Jamie are joined by Yo Is This Racist's Andrew Ti to discuss Lori Loughlin finally taking a plea deal, a new model showing we should have closed down a week sooner, self-attestation at companies, The Last Dance but white, what shows to watch on Netflix for Monday's episode, and more!FOOTNOTES: LORI LOUGHLIN, MOSSIMO GIANNULLI COP PLEA DEALS ...In College Bribery Scandal New Model Finds Shutting Down U.S. Even One Week Earlier Could Have Cut Death Toll in Half The Dawn of the COVID Self-Attestation ‘Last Dance’ For The Gridiron? ESPN Sets Deal With Tom Brady For 9-Episode Series On QB’s Remarkable Career The Gronkiest Moments from Rob Gronkowski's Party Cruise #thesquad this is gonna happen (Andrew's tweet) WATCH: How to Meet Women in the Grocery Store : How to Approach Women at Grocery Store WATCH: Connan Mockasin - I Want Troll With You - Gentle Dom (Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT) Remix Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

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How do you feel about this, kids? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean?

It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to season 134 episode five of der daily zeitgeist a production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck the coke brothers and coke boys

and fuck Fox News Jamie I'm so glad you backed me on this one I was nervous about what you were going to say it's Friday May 22nd 2020 my name is Jack O'Brien aka Quorum with family members

staying at home while we'rea. Quorum with family members. Staying at home while we're in lockdown. Quorum until November. Hoping to God that the curve goes down. That is courtesy of Podge Moran. Moran. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Ooh, to stay inside in L.A. is the place to be. If I had no trees, I'd lose it during this wild ass quarantine.

Okay, I just came up with that in my yard, front yard, taking a walk today. Beautiful. Because we are staying inside in la for a minute uh just shout out to angelinos who are wearing masks and also uh those kids i keep seeing having parties on my block like what age what age are those kids they're like bro i know i'm old because i'm at that age where someone who's younger than me and wears tie-dye shorts, I say, is on TikTok. I'm like, I don't know. They're probably TikTokers.

Some TikTok kid. These kids are on TikTok. It's probably TikTok house is what I call where they live. That's right. But they're like early 20s. I'm pretty sure that's how they all meet their friends now is on TikTok. But that's when I caught myself because Her Majesty was like, what do you think they do? I'm like, I don't know. They're probably on TikTok. That's when I caught myself because Her Majesty was like, what do you think they do?

I'm like, I don't know. They're probably on TikTok or some shit. Old ass motherfucker. That's amazing. There's another... I've been doing a deep dive on the TikTok kids. I've got to figure out

what's going on with these kids because they have their own... You remember how YouTube had Team 10 and it was like that fucked up so they have they have one of those too but it's like it's even worse it's called the hype house and oh yeah there was a write-up about that are they all anyway who's that together i don't know wait a second who the heck was that? Who the heck? Oh, that's right. We're thrilled to be joined by our third guest, by our third co-host, by our second co-host, third host.

I'm really losing it here, guys. I'm going to take off. We're thrilled to be joined by the hilarious and talented Jamie Lofton today i want to talk teeth scoop teeth they're too human for me please scooby i'm down here on my knees everybody hate everybody hate boob teeth thank you so much to once again official dickhead coming through with the fire aka's I love saying official dickhead once

a week as he continues to turn out the hits I remember when that account used to be unofficial dickhead how far they've come well yeah this is a legitimizing this show will legitimize you in a major way. It's a dickhead. Truly a journey.

I actually, we reached out to him to get his life rights, but Disney's already attached. A dick's life. A dick's life. We had a, strangely enough, a bug's life

conversation prior to hitting record. And that's something you guys will never know about we're thrilled to be joined in our fourth seat by one of the faces on mount more he is the hilarious and

talented andrew t oh shit did you guys i i guess i just need to take advantage of this and just be a.k.a andrew teen very cool Shit. Did you guys? I guess I just need to take advantage of this and just be a.k.a. Andrew Teen. Very cool. Ain't no one else can have that a.k.a.

I'm assuming. I was going to say my actual the a.k.a. had written down was Team China Virus because I've I've turned a corner. You're owning it. I went to the Chinese grocery store in the san gabriel valley and i'm gonna tell you a certain generation of old chinese people pre-quarantine was not good at respecting your personal space and let me tell you this they have not improved um some chinese grandmas i was in i was in the grocery store and it was literally like a fucking game of pac-man i was running down the aisles to

try to get away from people it was and eating everything as you went right like that is true that is true as fuck yeah so um yeah shit shit was wild needless to say so yeah uh i'm i'm china virus now are you doing the thing when you go in the store now i i write my list because i'm i used to love just being high and listening to a podcast and wandering the aisles of a supermarket and doing my like like leisurely grocery shopping now i'm like i have my sugar playlist blasting in my ear i have like a my grocery list is written by like where i enter the store and how i will serpentine out like as efficiently as possible supermarket sweep shit right now yeah like i'm i'm just not even yeah because like i'm a on one level i'm like i'm just trying it

allows me to like nerd out and try and be as efficient as possible and gives me like a task to do. But then on the other hand, like I'm like, I found myself the, the context of going to the store is very different now. Like not as Pac Manny, but I'm just trying to be like as thoughtful and not being in there as long

as I, you know, normally would be. Yeah. So my shit, my shit wasn't even shopping i was picking up a pre-placed internet order and still still these and they were literally like just wait here for a second and it became untenable at one point i was like uh if anyone's ever been to a big chinese

market there's the area where usually it's stacked nearly to the ceiling with bags of rice yeah but because so much rice has been gone it's like you know it there was room to clear outside like i hopped over a wall of rice like i was in fucking 1917 oh shit like hid in where like rice was normally stored in a void in the rice pile. Yeah, it was like real it was real fucked up for many reasons and I'm just trying to protect them. No man's land. Oh my god.

You don't want to get caught there, man. It was wild. Except on Christmas where people come out to that aisle and sing songs together. Play a little soccer ball with a cabbage. You know. Yeah.

Battle of the yarn. All right, Andrew, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. Aunt Becky and Mossimo are going to jail. They've decided that they're going to plead guilty. So they're not going to jail for long enough, but they are going to jail. They've decided that they're going to plead guilty. They're not going to jail for long enough, but they are going to jail.

It's going to be such a nice jail. I know. Just putting all other jails to shame. I hope we get to see what they're doing. You know why? Because what they're probably going to end up doing is claiming COVID fear and do that shit at home. Watch.

Watch this fucking space. Oh to see oh boy michael cohen just got out too because he was like yeah this federal club bed a little bit scary uh meanwhile again we still have we have prisons in this state still where there is covid and the department of justice is still like, oh, we'll see. People don't give a fuck. Well, how white are they? Have you tried being white? Try that. Oh, okay. Just like that.

Okay. Should have thought of that before you got arrested. Be white. We're going to talk about how one week could have made a difference, or at least the difference that one week could have made, according to a new model we're going to talk about how companies that are making their employees just swear to them that they don't have covid uh we're gonna pick our rewatch movie for the weekend we're gonna talk about espn's plan to uh do the last dance but white. So the last bad dancer.

Bad, I don't know. The last awkward two-step. The last Cotton-Eyed Joe. Dude, but then that song given to us by Australians, right? Really? Yeah, Rednecks is like not even American. They're like, I think from, it's something like really, oh, from

Sweden. Yeah, I was just saying they were like Scandinavian. I like, I listen to Cotton Eye Joe on my walks sometimes. I loved that song. I remember the jock jams it was on, and I bought the jock jams it was on just to get that fucking song. On my quarantine

walk playlist are both Cotton Eye Joe and the Macarena. On loop? Wow. That's actually the whole playlist. Yeah. My son just discovered the Macarena and I rediscovered it. And that song still goes. It's pretty good, actually.

I hate to just sort of derail this, but aren't the lyrics, if it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe, I'd be married a long time ago. Yeah, there's like a whole story behind the story that we just don't know. Cotton Eye Joe stole your girl? I don't know. That's why he keeps asking where he came from and where he went. Because he got some shit to settle. He's going to kill Cotton Eye Joe when he finds him.

got some shit to settle yeah he's gonna kill that night joe when he finds him i mean it's based on hey joe which is a song about killing somebody for infidelity so there you go yeah but it's kind of i sort of love rednecks because somehow like swedes are being racist against rednecks even in their portrayal of their own group because like the video is it's like a mix between a capital one commercials idea of what like a raider barbarian person was and like whatever shit you can pull together like a swedish fucking thrift store to look like like redneck guy right oh man oh do you think it It looks like medieval times for European people who want to know what being in Appalachia is. It feels like you could put in Cotton Eye Joe over that final scene of Midsommar and get a lot of shit. Get on YouTube.

Put that on TikTok, y'all. That's for the TikTok teens. Andrew, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are oh man it is applesauce recipe space no cinnamon i ran out of i ran out of cinnamon and here's what i realized had been happening is the farm boxes well the the the two things that happened was one is I signed up for one farm box and then I was put on a waiting list and promptly forgot

about it. And then I signed up for a different farm box and was getting, you know, fruits and vegetables and such. And then the other one came in. And I guess what you have to do is tell them what you want or don't want and if you don't tell them anything, they give your ass all of the apples no one else wanted.

So I have I had briefly so many apples and I considered eating them. But obviously that's not going to happen. So I made like a fuckload of applesauce. Yeah. And then I realized I didn't have any cinnamon in the house so i used whiskey a five-year-old vanilla bean that was in the back of my spice cabinet hey and and a little bit of honey and guess what that was just oh and and the bourbon i the whiskey i use because i don't i was just, I'll fucking throw some of this in.

Old crow? No, it was like this. I don't even know. It was some whiskey I got that was like very expensive. Anyway, dollar for dollar, this applesauce has to be the most expensive applesauce on the planet. And it tasted exactly the same as a Motz. Indistinguishable. Oh, fuck.

Wow. Yeah. exactly the same as a motz indistinguishable oh fuck wow yeah but and you and you got you got two chains coming over in a few minutes to try that most expensiveest applesauce too but i got a lot of it is the important thing how much whiskey is in motz do you would you get motz is just apples right like that's just that that's their thing got to assume got to assume you know Mats is people no

Mats is people Andrew what is something you think is underrated um underrated is fucking Sudoku uh specifically playing like 300 Sudoku puzzles in an afternoon because you downloaded an app um i somehow i feel like this is this has gotten uh if you follow all of

my appearances on uh on the daily zeitgeist you'll see the pattern of andrew slowly getting sucked into being a youtube person um but uh the the gaming youtubes that have been suggested to me um morphed into youtube suggesting youtubes of just old british men solving sudokus oh wow so i got sucked into a hole of that and then those guys had this app. So I fucking downloaded the app and just played so much Sudoku. That's it. Did it make your brain feel like it was working? Because that's what I'm looking for, activities that makes my brain feel like it's still rattling around in there.

I mean, that's what it's supposed to be doing. I can't tell. All I know is that once you're on it, you just keep going. It's so addictive to just be like, more Sudoku, more Sudoku. But yeah, I killed two and a half days on that before I deleted it. Incredible.

Jamie, I have a Mensa Sudoku book that I recommend for you. Really? Might be too recommend for you. Really? Might be too easy for you though. Yeah, I might just kind of blast right through it, but I'll give it a shot. Might kill 15 minutes.

Solving a Mensa Sudoku out in public. Oh my God. Why don't you just read a book called Your Gigantic Penis and how to deal with all the problems that come along with it.

Fuck off. Honestly, the thing that i've been using to stimulate my brain like i've similar to sudoku's learning i'm trying to learn spanish better because right now i just know loose phrases i can't conjugate verbs at all like i just i just remember things very well and can do an accent that people think i'm proficient in spanish and that has helped me be like yes new things stimulating those parts of my brain I've been using the Duolingo and what I've been doing is and this this probably could work

for you Miles is because they basically have built this economy out of like every time you make a mistake you lose a heart and it gamified this language learning and but you can earn hearts back by doing well but you're just all connected to one pool so basically i've been fucking up spanish real bad and then when i run low on hearts i just switch over to chinese because i'm still at basically like first year white white person chinese so i can rack hearts right back up and then go back to spanish and wow you sound like a time thing uh no it No, it's just like you just have lives. I mean, you could do as slow as you want.

But I guess I could just cheat by looking it up. But yeah. I mean, I like that it's gamified. But I'm a babble boy myself. So no time for games. But your whole strategy of switching. I probably have no time for juice. but your whole strategy of switching to juice i'm bad at spanish but uh no like your your strategy of switching to chinese is like when i would always pick

japanese if i ever had some kind of language component i had to fulfill for anything and they're like bro why are you in here? I think anybody who speaks a second language, sometimes you need a break and go to a class for a thing you already know better than the teacher most of the times. Yeah, I just needed an extra edge and something to feel good about. So doing kindergarten Chinese exercises.

And here's the other side of it that's real sad. I'm not perfect at it. I'm like good, but like it's literally for like five-year-olds and I'm only okay. I'm like a B plus five-year-old. What is something you think is overrated? This is strictly the quarantine speaking, but I think weed, guys. Weed has crossed over into being overrated for me i'm like my cannabis consumption is through the roof for me it's as big as it's ever been and yeah i'm just

i think i just need to bliss out on sudoku and spanish yeah that's doing it for you more than the weed yeah i think so i've experienced a thing where yeah like the tolerance is high i shout out to people who've sent me all kinds of remedies for that but i think the only way that's gonna happen is if i don't smoke weed for a while uh to then bring my tolerance back but there is it's just funny though too because now i'm seeing people who before had very low tolerances be just straight up stoners now. But shout out to my old man, my dad, who would be normally twisted off of something I would give him. And now he's like, man.

He's like, you're not playing with the big boys anymore? Yeah. I might just, I guess I could switch to just doing mdma every single day but yeah steer into the curve yeah yeah i think that there's yeah all all what how do you identify as a community weed heads all weed heads yeah you got it jamie guys who wear basketball shorts in their 30s my boyfriend who is notorious weed head just came up to me on sunday and he's like weed doesn't work for me anymore i just did lsd and that was just like the day the lsd seemed to work yeah well i think that's the thing people

need to realize don't just make smoke i think for a lot of people just being high was an activity and then if you're just invested in it as like like, I'm high, man, and that's the activity. You got to do stuff like drive. Yeah, you got to be like, I'm teaching these kids how to read or something. Just something worthwhile. Add it to something. Totally. Touch your face.

Andrew, what is a myth? Finally, what is something people think is true, you know, to be false? I'm going to be honest. I fucked up. I was going to do the applesauce thing. Wait, so what did you have? Switch your search history to be the myth. No, no.

I forgot about search history. And so I just called it audible and applesauced it hoping my brain would catch up. What's your search history? No, that's what I'm saying is I forgot that one.

Oh, I could do a search history. My other search history was Jedi Fallen Order best combo. Because I have been getting fucked up in the new Jedi Fallen Order battle arena. Because it turned out I was basically cheating when I played the game through. And I can't beat anyone now. What do you mean? How are you

cheating? The game's pretty hard to do unless you have some skill. It's not a button masher. Not like cheating but well it turns out it can be if all you do is like force powers and like basically hang in there. Cause the Jedi game

released a new arena that's basically a new piece of DLC downloadable content that has just waves of the hardest enemies coming at you and it turned out I was just getting by on like healing

and a lot of force freezes and you can't do that when you have to fight the hardest boss and then the hardest boss plus another dude again like right after um so yeah i'm having to learn like how to use combos and throw my lightsaber um that game to love again yeah so i've been doing a lot of that wait throw a lightsaber yeah doesn't that seem saber throw dude it's like a skill you unlock kind of later down the skill tree uh but does that ever happen in the movie

and why wouldn't it happen in the movie like more they they should never stop yeah that the problem with with saber throw is that once you see it um unless unless like the movies have established that like uh anakin has like a limited force meter and that he's run out of the force um unless that is the case there's no reason why your lightsaber shouldn't just be flying around at all like all over the universe like a little helicopter that's why it's weird to be like just give me the game where i'm not a limited jedi like i've matched i mean they had there were there were games like that but i think the fun of it is just to be like i don't know i'll just take this eastern philosophy and pretend it's star wars stuff and do it like that i sort of disagree i think the

the whole predicate of jedi fallen order is that laser beams move significantly faster than bullets and way, way slower than like your average baseball. Because otherwise you can't do any of the cool Jedi shit. Like a laser beam needs to come at you very, very slowly in a way that you can see. I guess I would clock it. Deflect. On screen space. The laser beams probably go about 60 miles an hour. Like it's not trivial to block it,

but like, you know, anyone a little disappointed at the, the blaster designer for the velocity. Yeah. That's on black. Cause any regular gun would kill the shit out of you. Right. Right.

Like any gun that existed and a musket is better than those blasters. Right. Is there any way that Star Wars, the whole trick of Star Wars is it just tricks you into being very dumb? Because as I was thinking about that idea of being able to throw the lightsaber, I was like, yeah, but then they would need to have a string tied to it without thinking of the fact that they have the Force. Yeah. But the fact that it never occurred to me that they should just throw that

sword and control it and be able to like make it fly around maybe like star wars just they're like it's a long long time ago so you know they hadn't figured yeah it's it's sort of like the it's the same as they're like tvs like the fact that they can only have like a two-color TV or vector art buttons, but then could have space travel and laser swords. You just got to go with it that these people are dumb as fuck. And once you realize that everyone is dumb as fuck, it makes a lot more sense. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and by the way, I know this is all explained in the novels in the extended universe.

I don't care. Yeah, in the extended universe, every character gets dropped on their head as a baby, and then you flash forward to where you were. The extended universe is all about the campaign to get baby products containing lead off the market. And they fail. Is Babu Frick in the game? No. Not worth your time. Not for Frick Hive.

Frick Hive cheated again. Who is Babu Frick? Like, obviously, I'm not a Star Wars fan. Great question, Jack. You're opening a can of worms. We just simply don't have the time. I'm just going Star Wars fan. Great question, Jack. You're opening a can of worms. We just simply don't have the time. I'm just going to stop right now

because I want my Twitter mentions to include something that's not Star Wars fans yelling at me. Who's Bob and Frick? What the fuck do you mean? What the frick are you talking about? All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits.

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and we're back and uh i was awoken by multiple alerts push notifications from multiple outlets this morning or yesterday morning being like aunt becky and masmo pled guilty people need something to feel good about yeah i i don't i i don't know man i don't care but that's probably just my short attention span i should care because they're i think cheating the system the only reason they care I think the only reason it's just been talked about is it was going on for so long, and it was so clear that what they did was pay money to get their kids into USC under false pretenses.

And we're like, why is this taking so fucking long? And then it went like, oh, we're not guilty. We saw the Felicity Huffmans of the world like they even and every and then like it went like oh we're not guilty we saw you know the felicity huffman's of the world and other parents like just sort of you know take their guilty pleas felicity huffman was in prison for 14 days and looked hot the entire time like i don't know what laurie's problem was like just go like you're not gonna she hates forest green it's those jumpsuits yeah yeah so like you know they were They were, like, just resolute every time. We're going to fight the case.

We're going to fight this case. This is unbelievable what happened. This guy lied to us. We gave him a half a million dollars because we thought he could just get us, our kids, in some other whatever. So, every time they did that, you know, the feds are pretty good at legal brinkmanship. So every time they did that, you know, the feds are pretty good at legal brinkmanship. So every time they did that, they're like, all right, we're going to add more charges every time you don't plea. To the point where they were looking down a pretend potential 40-year sentence that was obviously never going to happen if found guilty.

But I think that eventually just led them to cave because they're like, we're actually not coming up with anything that makes us look less guilty. Right. Yeah. I was mainly excited because when I got that push notification, I'm like, oh, it's going to be a good episode of Who Weekly this week. Like that was that's mainly Laurie's going to prison. It's going to be a great Who Weekly. I was honestly shocked that the justice system has been continuing i i was like oh this is right those those motherfuckers aren't i guess they are essential but like are they did they do like zoom court like how does all this shit work i have no idea i think it's just something that

maybe their lawyer maybe in the the choir they came to their senses or something and had their lawyer be like all right we'll take the plea but i mean i just look just i mean hearing these sentences makes you believe in the criminal justice system again laurie has agreed she's agreed agreed i know what the fuck does that mean so much privilege in one yeah what are you fucking pablo escobar the fuck're like, okay, that seems fair. I've agreed to two months in prison and $150,000 fine and two years probation and also has to perform 250 hours of community service.

Massimo will serve five months in prison with a quarter million dollar fine and 250 hours of community service. But a lot of people are like, they might be able to use the quargument to get the fuck out of there so if this whole if this whole story i mean it's funny that they're going to prison but like if the whole story makes you feel like icky and like oh god these fucking like rich people are getting away with shit again and they're just going to go

to fashion prison you should kick a couple bucks to the national bail fund which is actually doing like good work in getting vulnerable people released from prison first of all because they shouldn't be there and second of all because covid has been spreading so brutally and quickly in prison so just turn your Lori anger inward and yeah and by Stussy I was like laughing my ass off at Lori and like okay the time has come to give more

money to the National Bail Fund yeah yeah every time every time you have like a defeated chuckle at a rich person's antics give money to something. It's the swear jar. It's a contemporary swear jar.

So right now, as of yesterday, we're in the 90s, 90,000 of people who have died from COVID-19 officially and probably more. And a report came out that we could have saved like a third of those lives if the Trump administration had just started with shutdown stuff a week earlier.

If they had just had their shit together like 10% more, they could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Yeah, it's really alarming. This modeling shows that they were doing things from, hypothetically, if the shutdown had been a week earlier, so around the beginning of March, March 7th-ish up to May 3rd, where they were, you know, that was a timeframe for the study, 36,000 people, which was more than half of the fatalities to that date of May 3rd could have been prevented. They said if they did it on March 1st, 54,000 lives would have been spared, an 83% reduction. That's just from them ignoring the fucking phone calls they were getting from the you know resort conglomerate owners and bankers and waltons of the world uh and just said oh shit yeah this

what's the science saying we should do something now that's what would have happened but unfortunately the shit dragged on so long because the priorities are on the business owning class and what their needs were before what was actually going to happen to the people. And that's what's frustrating. And now Trump is out here saying, look, it's a political hit piece. But you know what? It's this is data. Hypothetical or not, I think it just shows. Yeah.

If you take it seriously a little bit longer, it looks like only positive things could have happened because there's nothing that says for all these places that are aggressively reopening that the economy has just returned miraculously because it hasn't. I don't know, Miles. It feels like that that was two weeks of pretty good GDP. We got to keep cranking along. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, the silver silver line did fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it was a silver lining to every 10,000 deaths. Basically, if you think about it right, they fought off that crash, basically. They put that crash off by 14 days.

Right. Hell yeah. Worth it. That's all it was. They said, look, you know what it's going to do? Let everybody fucking jump ship first. The Kelly Lefflers of the world and her husband, who recently just gave a

million dollars to a trump pack uh even though and like richard burr and all these other senators who caught wind of how bad this was but they knew hey it's bad enough that i'm gonna dump my stock uh and then we'll deal with like the human aspects of it later it's so mask off like the the way that the government and economy are functioning at this point we uh are gonna look at like what the netflix top 10 is later on and what one of the movies that's up there is uh public enemies which is about john dillinger and there was a capone movie i'm wondering if there's going to be a similar, like how the first Great Depression or the 1930s Great Depression

saw this wave of Robin Hood, heroic criminals, bank robbers. I wonder if we're going to see something similar. There seems to be a small resurgence of interest and that sort of thing in pop culture. I just wonder if we'll start, you know, rooting for actual criminals because the people who are supposedly

on the right side of the law are just so blatantly killing people. Right. Yeah. I mean, the same factors are there where people are like what what is happening with the local economy around me and the answers seem to be above you so like the energetically i think those things are there and i think you know it's like the same thing like those images you see about like those farm auctions during the depression where other farmers would come and intimidate the fuck out of somebody

trying to buy a foreclosed on farm that like a friend of theirs owned. And that sort of like, I feel like that sort of energy to have rallying around each other at some level is going I don't know, it's just there's this, a of people are i think feeling more and more of this stress financial stress and a lot of the the spin that has been around is usually not like satisfying like in terms of like an answer as to like what who is responsible because damn sure not me because i was playing by the rules i feel like i feel like the lessons from those types of populist uprisings have been learned by our current ruling class. And they have realized that the best way to do that is to channel all that anger into racism. Because the thing is, since, I don't know, 50s, 60s on, they realize that for the majority of the people that have these

feelings, they can just start blaming black people. And that has worked like a fucking charm. So not to be wildly pessimistic, but it feels like it feels like they have taken that energy and just put it somewhere. Well, it may be easier for white people but i think for black and brown people or minorities or anyone who might not fit the sort of cis het white male sort of uh profile yeah that that feeling is still very much present because i think at on some level yeah like that rhetoric works very well for a very specific

mindset and ideology but i don't know that people people seem more angry and savvier as the years go on but again we also have all these creature comforts too where it's like you know the end of the roman empire where it's like bread and circuses and like people are fed enough ish and we have enough shit to look with our jaws agape at a screen to distract us but i don't distract us. There's so many simultaneous threads of history that I feel like are coming together at once that I'm like, which one am I going to pick?

Let's live through all the history at once. Exactly. All history, same time. It sounds like a TikTok challenge. I was going to say, I'm just putting a pitch out there. I can't be held responsible.

Legal disclaimer, but TikTok bank robbers. I mean, come on, guys. It writes itself. Oh, my God. The next viral trend. The TikTok robbers is inevitable. The TikTok pillagers. Yes.

Wow. Oh, man. Can I just say, sequel to Queen and Slim, where two white people just steal the Queen and Slim M. Wow. Oh, man. Can I just say, sequel to Queen and Slim, where two white people just steal the Queen and Slim MO but get away with it. And it becomes like a monster hit, like American Sniper. I've never seen a story like this before. Wow.

What a breath of fresh air. Right. Clint Eastwood. He plays the young character. Clint Eastwood's playing a 25-year-old. With Victoria Jackson. With Victoria Jackson. One of the ways that the economy is trying to come back is through making people say they swear they don't have COVID, basically.

Lyft drivers have to do a health safety commitment every morning where they're like, I promise I don't have any of these symptoms. Let me have enough money to eat food now. So I can't see how that could ever go wrong this is so ridiculous it's like some because the government and there's like absolutely no way for people to survive without going back to work because there's just not the systems in place to help people go back to work people will lie like it's and it's not you can't even like you can't blame it on a worker to like be like yeah i'm pretty sure like i probably don't have covid also i'm gonna get fucking evicted if i don't get back to work so i'm gonna say i don't

have covid this is just like a recipe for disaster the agreement should just be do you need money yes or no that's all gives all that other shit is fucking irrelevant because if i have bills i'll fucking i will be working um but i think on one level though like i think some people say i get like the very sort of opt overly optimistic argument which is sort of like okay having things like this like there's like a farmer's market in seattle that's asking people like just take an oath online that like it's basically just creating some mindfulness around what is what's decent behavior like wear a fucking mask like can think about your other shoppers think about the people who are working there that if you're sick you could harm them you should like if you're coughing

cover it with a tissue dispose of it like sure if it's gonna have people second guess bad behavior that's one thing but like really this just smacks of a way to for these companies to protect themselves legally down the road but what they took they've swore they swore they didn't have it you gotta sue the driver he he was the one who lied on this oath yeah i mean that's that's been the lyft model or the sorry all these lyft postmates uber all that shit it's like like every time like silicon valley is like oh we disrupted the system it's like no we just shifted risk um and you know capital and asset ownership to the most vulnerable parts like our contract employees rather than owning anything or taking on risk like a normal business would have to do and they're just doing

that more i mean the thing is it will have some effect right like some person who isn't feeling well but also it doesn't it will have a smaller effect than is necessary to a functioning workforce and economy that is right, you know, going to perpetuate this virus. They have like things like, you know, at universities like similar things or they're asking like faculty to do that. Like and it's one thing if these policies are in places like at employers or institutions that have humane sick leave policies. or institutions that have humane sick leave policies but it just it's just smacks of like this predatory like indemnification agreement for the fucking like gig economy companies yeah especially when it's like you have a gig economy worker who is guaranteed not being taken care of and guaranteed like is not getting the coverage pay time off, any of the basic rights that workers should have. It's inevitable.

It's so ridiculous that we're going on the Girl Scout honor system because, yeah, it's like people have to at least attempt to survive. But do you swear you don't have COVID? Hold attempt to survive and clearly like swear you don't have covid like hold your hand up and be like oh my god i literally don't have covid that wouldn't even make me feel if someone said like entering a business like we make everybody swear they don't have covid before they come in i'm like what the fuck is that gonna do that's like being like at a when you go into a concert it's, this is a drug-free environment. Yeah, okay.

All right, bruh. The only way that that honor system would even remotely get any sort of traction is if all workers were treated with dignity and had basic rights, which we know is just not true. Not even close. The honor system might work in like the highest like for very high paid employees but just yeah they there's no way there's just no way this is so infuriating especially when you're tying that to someone's

livelihood like there's just you've completely lost the plot at that point there's no it's not gonna and not gonna satisfy what you're trying to get it and then on the other side of this story it's like workers will once again be blamed if they do go back to work and they're like not 100 sure and there is an outbreak and they'll be like well you you lied maybe this wouldn't have happened if you and it's like no it's on the company to provide the care like it's just yeah so i feel like it's not even about like it's not even about lies necessarily the thing is it's like if you're at all borderline and this is your livelihood you and you're not a physician and you didn't have a test like right you are subconsciously incentivized to just be like, I'm probably fine.

You know, and some of those people will probably be fine. Like it's just like a set of perverse incentives. Also, just also it's very easy to if you have a certain mindset to genuinely believe you are not sick and maybe have a symptom and be like, oh, that's from something else. Like because I probably don't. And you might not even have necessarily the same mindset of like i have to work and if i don't like this is gonna be bad for me it could you might just have a warrior spirit mentality like when you when you fucking work like you're what you're like you just that's what you do and you still are gonna wander in there because you didn't know you know what the limits of your own body was. Our ability to lie to ourselves

is probably the greatest human. That's what I learned from the last dance and also just looking at my own life. We've all been doing it for years. I feel like what it comes down to is if you're Lyft, a fucking bajillion dollar company, and you're telling your employees, just promise you're healthy,

it's like, no, you have to have a system in place where you're like okay we'll allow you to get back to work uh once and we'll provide you with a test like how is it not on the company to secure the test to make sure that their employees and their customers will be safe instead of just yeah this is just the irony of and the sort of contradictory nature of all of these businesses and industries demanding people go back to work because in their minds like well if people go back to work the spending is back and the revenues are back and i can i can rest easy but no one is trying to solve like the consumer confidence aspect of this where people I'm not I don't give a fuck if Wingstop is open or whatever. I'm not going to go in there and do my usual shit unless I feel safe like that. Everyone's safe and that like I might not be an asymptomatic carrier that could harm somebody that works in there or another customer like those questions aren't solved yet so it's so odd that like when they insist on all this shit that they there's just this expectation that

everyone feels great and is willing to be like yeah dude i'm the second it's open i'm hopping back in the movie theater dude i'm hopping back in the gym like there's they just know that they can get away with it and they will and that there's like not any really anything in place that would make it legally impossible for them to put this bizarro on. They just know they can get away with it. I guess just what I'm saying is, but what happens when they're inevitably surprised

when people aren't consuming at the same rate that they were because they don't feel safe enough to go out? It doesn't matter if the things are open. It's just that your customer is not willing to come into your store and they are in a mindset of like oh i don't know man like there's no vaccine i don't know if i'm gonna lose my job i might not buy this other thing even though it's open like yeah it's they're not even like following their own like rules that they know to be the thing like you need your customers to feel confident to buy your product they've just gone all in on ignoring it and yeah

just pretend that it doesn't exist and that it's not a problem and that i mean this is also why like sort of like right-wing economics and most economics doesn't work because it's like yeah this is not actually how people you know it's the same thing it's like like you know unchecked capitalism it's like yeah guess what a lot of dead bodies is good for gdp as you can see but that doesn't mean it's quote good and so like you know that's it it's just like this is good for a measure of the economy but you know i mean if it and it's like again like if, because it's like with this system in place, I wouldn't be super comfortable calling a Lyft. Like that's just a bad business model. They're going to lose customers anyways.

And again, that'll end up affecting the worker. So it's just like they're going to lose money. Their employees are going to lose money. And this is just like an absolutely stupid way to go about reopening. It's so bad faith and dumb. Yeah. All right, guys, let's take a quick break. And when we come back, we'll talk about movies and other dumb bullshit.

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enemies public enemies being the old michael man uh action movie about john dillinger that must have just been released or maybe it's just trending because people uh want a bank robber. I'm torn between Riverdale and Flash. I feel like those are two types of... Jack, I would love to hear your Riverdale takes. Riverdale. I really want to hear your Riverdale takes. Alright. I couldn't believe it was... I'm going to watch Riverdale.

Her Majesty was watching it early. I think she still does, but the few things I've seen, I was like... We talked about this really early on in the show, show jack when we were talking about the trope of like hot teachers where it's okay they fuck students like that yeah yeah episode that was like my first yeah like when i was watching riverdale i was like wow it's it's still it's still alive and well baby oh only on. Only on the CW, honey. This is only sort of a spoiler,

but the cold open of the pilot of Riverdale is a statutory rape, if I'm remembering. Oh, I haven't even seen it. Oh, really? That sounds okay. I watched the first season, and then I fell off. It's the first second of the show. The very first second of the show.

But it's totally framed second of the show. The very first second of the show. But it's totally framed like Bound Chick. It's like, oh, this is so hot. This is hot. We don't have any issue with what's going on here. It's fucking wild. Are you ready for how edgy this shit is? And when your parents find out they're not going to call the cops, they're going to be like,

you better leave town and go work at another school, just a different one. Right. I'm going to throw this out there. I think it's gonna be like you better leave town and go work at another school just a different one right yeah i'm gonna throw this out there i think it's it's nothing i didn't watch the whole season but i believe it's not even very important the statutory rape or the show in general no the statutory rape it just it's just like to set it it's it's tone so it's been a couple years yeah they're just like this is the kind of show you're about to watch. We don't have a problem with this.

Kind of like we were like, fuck Coke Brothers and fuck Fox News. Still in? All right, great. Okay, let's proceed. Is there logic to this top 10? Because it feels like, I mean, clearly it's just like people digging shit up

and things just arriving on Netflix. But the mix of old and kind of bad shit it's just like people digging shit up and things just arriving on netflix but like yeah the the mix of like old and kind of bad shit with brand new like promoted by netflix shit is fascinating yeah right what is soul surfers is that like just a like b movie that i feel like that's like an old movie that's like, what if Christianity, but... I mean, Netflix is good because you know, this is not that smart

or unique to say this, but it is gotten to the point where it's just like green lighting fake movies from other shows. Right. They're just making shit that's just like wait, oh, this was a joke yeah netflix is no longer netflix is no longer prestige there's no quality guarantee there hasn't been for for a minute they're gonna give us that like talking golden retriever show that

was like a segue in billy madison into the news broadcast speak for for yourself, you moron. And you're like, what if that was a show? Let's play that out. I mean, the sad thing is for all the jokes that we make about how it's going to be algorithms writing our scripts in the future. Guess what? It's basically true, yeah. Yeah, human people were perfectly happy to write

those algorithmically generated shows. Don't worry. Scoob was written by an algorithm. It's not like any person who had ever attempted to write a pilot go, alright, what's popping right now? But what if I combine that with this thing and then from the past and that's how I'm going to get out of my mother's

house. Yeah, we're all hacks. We're all hacks. Never did though. What can you do? Some other options is that Yeah, we're all hacks. We're all hacks. Never did, though. Never got out of my mom's. What can you do? Some other options is that there's a new Capone movie. I'm watching that. Right.

So it's Tom Hardy as Al Capone. The one piece of feedback I've read is that Tom Hardy's going for both an Oscar and a Razzie in the same performance. I feel like that's a lot of his performances yeah he's i mean what yeah yeah talk about actually walking that tightrope that's like really there you could be like what the fuck this is fucked up good and bad i've never seen i've never seen avatar i totally missed the Avatar wave that's everyone on Twitter yeah people oh I also but I did start to watch the movie Avatar last night and then I remembered the protagonist name is Jake Sully and then I turned it off Jake Sully Jake Sully you're like what the did they know that both Jake and Sully are short for longer names?

No. On all his medical papers, it says Jake Sully. You're just like, this is fucked up. Wait, what is Jake short for? Jacob. That's right. Oh, I thought that was it. Here we go.

I'm an idiot. I'll watch a couple episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender awesome yeah I'm very curious about that that is number one with a bullet people love it yes has it been pointed out in a rap song yet

that Capone is just Capone Al Capone yeah I feel like Capone and Noriega of Capone of Capone and Noriega, I feel like maybe spelled it, he had an album like that. Okay. Got to have.

I couldn't. Got my cape on. But I don't know, actually. It could have just been a thing I always thought to myself, too, whenever I would see a Capone and Noriega album cover. I'm like, Capone and Noriega? Mm-hmm. Capone sounds like a financial product or something. Oh, absolutely.

You're saying I finally smoked enough weed to catch up to 14-year-old Miles. Yeah, that's where you are. I'm like, bro, I was having those thoughts in 97 when the war report came out. Hell yeah. They've got Back to the Future on Netflix now. And The Shining, it's the 40-year anniversary of The Shining.

So those are also options. But I think we have three solid ones. Yeah, I'm particularly excited actually to see the Capone film. Just shout out to Birthday Twin, Tom Hardy. But also just to see a movie like what this new era of movie watching is. You got to see Scooby, Jamie.

So you've seen like a new film and Jackie saw Trolls. I'm sorry, what? Oh, Scoob. I'm, Jesus, I'll fuck that up.

Get that Y right out of there. I will see myself right the fuck out of here. But yeah, I think I'm more stoked just to be like, shit, man, this is a fucking new movie I'm watching. I will see myself right the fuck out of here but yeah I think I'm more stoked just to be like shit man this is a fucking new movie I'm watching and it's gonna be bad but fuck it speaking of this is gonna be bad but fuck it

ESPN has announced plans to do the last dance but white basically hell yeah so the argument for the last dance Last Dance, but white, basically. Hell yeah. Yeah, so the argument for The Last Dance didn't really need

an argument, but Michael Jordan is the GOAT, and people, this newer generation, really hasn't fully experienced his career. So ESPN was like, well, where else have we heard the word goat? Let's do Tom Brady.

Tom Brady, bro. Brady, bro. He's the goat pally. I want a full series on the Rob Gronkowski cruise. That's what I want a whole ESPN documentary on is the Rob Gronkowski cruise. Forget Tom Brady. Forget his entire career and life. on is the Rob Gronkowski cruise. Forget Tom Brady. Forget his entire career and life.

Forget most of Rob Gronkowski's life. I want to know about the Rob Gronkowski cruise. What is the Rob Gronkowski cruise? While I was still working as a reporter in Boston, the Rob Gronkowski cruise was very talked about. It was just a really expensive, like it was a normal cruise, but Rob Gronkowski cruise was very talked about. It was just a really expensive, like it was a normal cruise, but Rob Gronkowski was there.

Like there's some really good stories from the Rob Gronkowski cruise that I feel like it's a story that needs to be told. I'm very curious. When he's not playing football, he's like a professional frat boy. Yeah, like he was a career frat boy. And this was like peak Gronkowski where they had his cardboard cutout

at every Dunkin' Donuts. He was very powerful at this time. I mean, this documentary, like I get because, yeah, Tom Brady is a – I can't take away that he's a fantastic quarterback. Like I've seen it with my own eyes. I'm not really that into football, but I get just on paper why there's a reason to discuss him but i don't see any any other things aside from like like uh trophies one that is like a comparison to jordan you know what i mean like right and so like even when i was reading his like wikipedia like, it reads as a series of small victories for a white man.

There was no... I'm like, okay. So he grew up going regularly to 49ers games and even was witnessed in person the catch by Dwight Clark. I'm like, fuck. Okay, cool. It's like he was an intern at Merrill Lynch in 97 and 98. Oh, okay.

And then, I mean, aside from- Tom Brady is the bootlickiest bootlicker in all of sports history. Aside from knowing, and the other things, I'm like, great. I know he's a quarterback and Trump supporting both sides-er, to the point where this man was a dual Lakers and Celtics fan in the fucking 80s and 90s. I don't know what where the fuck this person's from hell i'm like where's like the meat of it gonna come from outside of like

the field and i guess maybe that's where you know that's why i'm asking you the the the learned people of the nfl or jack specifically the the patriots fan like what is there potential for this to have that kind of same hook that Jordan does definitely not uh I like yeah like you said it makes sense in theory because he was like underrated at first people think he might be the best ever he's allegedly like very mean to his teammates behind the scenes so like you'll get some footage of him being demanding. He's a great kisser as we saw in the video

with his son. I mean just like nine hours of Giselle talking shit would be pretty great. Giselle's shit talking is very interesting. I bet she'll be like whereas the Jordan documentary just completely

disappeared. What need to Jordan like and just showed his kids for like five seconds in the 10th episode. Yeah, this one I'm sure will have a lot of his family, which I'm sure will have some unintentional weirdness in there. But he's just not cool and never has been like michael jordan was a singular cultural phenomenon the jordan sneaker could be the uh the subject of a 10-part series right uh brady sells like what watches dude no you know what he's selling right now is fucking immune system boosters. Oh, so he's gone full like that. Fully gooped. He can't hear any tone. He is tone deaf, my man. He's out here being

like, dude, hope you get your protect. It's called I don't even know. Fuck it. Daily support for a healthy immune system. Really? Contains hydroxychloroquine. He's not that fun to watch either because he wasn't he wasn't like particularly athletic he just like threw the ball to the right places whereas like

jordan was probably the peak of the human form moving athletically like it's the best thing to watch like yeah i could cut a video of me like doing a three-step drop and just throwing the football and you could cut in like a Super Bowl thing and be like, hey, maybe this guy can play. I can't fake jumping from the fucking free throw line to slam dunk a basketball. You know what I mean? I think that's where I'm curious. Like I get, I feel like it'll be for a very specific group who are going to really love it. But I just don't, I feel like there's got to be, you know, like I feel like Bo Jackson, even his like,

he had a 30 for 30, didn't he? Yeah. Like his 30 for 30. I was like, yo, stretch that shit out for 10 episodes. Oh yeah.

No, that was great. Guys, I have some updates on just some anecdotes from the Rob Gronkowski cruise. Oh, this just in. Okay. Breaking news.

I was kind of, I was kind of tuned out for the last couple minutes because I was reading about the Rob Gronkowski cruise again. Here's some things that happened on the Rob Gronkowski cruise. He offered someone $10,000 cash if you have sex in front of everybody on the cruise. That's one thing that happened on the cruise. What?

Another thing was Flo Rida was there and Rob Gronkowski was a backup dancer during the Flo Rida concert. Rob Gronkowski's dad was there and fucked up the whole time. And Rob Gronkowski did a whole episode of Celebrity Family Feud on the cruise. Wow.

Overall, I would rather die than have been on this cruise. Wow. Overall, I would rather die than have been on this cruise. But, but, but I think we can all agree worthy of a 10-part

documentary series. Oh my God. Or at least a Jamie Loftus Mensah styled podcast series. Yeah. I mean, I cut that,

Dan cut that. That's gonna be a show. That needs to be a show. Honestly, Jamie, if I will, I will help you find people the first hand interview what went on on the cruise we got rob's dad even on this oh yeah i was fucked up the whole time you're from boston right i don't remember a fucking second

you're a good kid jamie you're a good kid, Jamie. You're a good kid. You seem like a good girl. You're from Brockton? Oh, that's great. Oh, yeah. Well, Andrew, it's been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Again, where can people find you and follow you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Man, Andrew T.

Last name is spelled T-I. My podcast is called Yo, Is This Racist? Some of you will like it a lot. Some of you will think I'm talking about you and I wasn't talking about you until you thought I was talking about you in which case you are racist. So, okay.

And a tweet that I like is not a tweet. This is, I sort of tried to clear this beforehand, but it is the funniest thing I've ever seen. It is a tick tock from Chav tick tock. Shut up, Chav tick tock, man. It is by a user named Brandon Foster 74, and it fully is the best. 74 and it fully is the best it's called me going back to the pub after this is all over

and it's him and playing all the parts of the characters in the pub singing along to Savage Gardens truly madly deeply it is fucking great I guess there's going to be a little audio of it now I'll be your dream I'll be your wish

I'll be your fantasy I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need. I love you more with every breath, truly, madly, deeply do. I will be strong, I will be faithful, cause I'm counting on a new beginning. A reasonable ending, a deeper meaning. I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want a day like this forever until the sky falls down on me. That was beautiful.

People need to go watch the performances to fully understand how great this is. It is the funniest thing I've ever seen, legitimately. Yeah. Because it's from like a, it's like an old Puma ad. Like where, like the audio is from like all these blokes just belting that Savage Garden song out together. Oh, is that?

Oh, okay. Yeah, I didn't know any of the references. It's just hilarious to me. Yeah. An old Puma advert. Puma. I'm sorry. Puma. Puma. Is that really what I'm sorry. Puma.

Puma. Is that really what they call it? Puma. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's Puma, Nike, and Adidas. Nike? Puma sounds like pubes.

I don't like that at all. Hell yeah. Way to pwn the Brits again, bro. Yeah. Sounds like pubes, bruh. This is why Jamie's people tossed all that tea in the harbor fuck you threw it in the harbor man

Jamie where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying you can find me on twitter at Jamie Loftus Hill you can find me on Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar oh a new episode of Bechtelcast is on this week

about Birds of Prey with Emily Yoshida. It's really fun. The show that I wrote on, it just got a release date for, I think, September on SyFy, but it's a Quinta Brunson, Anna Akana-led anime show that I wrote on, so you can watch that. And then I wanted to recommend an old series of YouTube videos that I can't tell how recently they re-went viral, but I just encountered them for the first time. And it's these old videos from 2006 called How to Meet Women at the Grocery Store. Have you guys seen this?

No, I don't think so. Nope. Sounds amazing. It's really powerful stuff. It's from this guy named Alan, and it's step-by-step how to harass a woman at the grocery store. But it's dead serious. There's nine different videos.

The first one is called How to Approach Women at the Grocery Store, How to Respect a Woman at the grocery store how to respect a woman at the grocery store how to make eye contact what to talk about man and it leads i can't believe i haven't seen these there's an incredible climax where he's just harassing this woman in front of a like wall of ace bandages it's just like really incredible stuff you gotta watch it oh man and to be fair he's not harassing a random person it is a volunteer that has

agreed to this and immediately regrets it Miles where can people find you what's a tweet you've been enjoying Twitter, Instagram, Playstation Network Miles of Grey hopping the zeitgang on Red Dead. We're out here. Sometimes successfully battling other posses online.

A couple tweets I like. This is a huge tweet everywhere, but it was very poignant based on all of the Americans who are out of their homes asking us to reopen. It said, white people were forced to eat their own food for two months and started rioting. Gotta, I mean, get those spices,

man. The onion has a, just a great, great one. It has like a, like an alien with like bone, like a bone necklace and the, the golden record that we sent into space that had like all of our like

greatest achievements and information that we hope another planetary or extraterrestrial society would find and it says confused primitive extraterrestrial shrugs takes bite of huge golden record um and then finally this one tweet was going around because uh on thursday trump was talking about how he his covet tests and how frequently he gets them and how safe he is. And essentially, this is what he said. This is a quote. He said, I tested very positively in another sense. I tested positively toward negative. I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. That was that's from the president's mouth. this journalist, Quinta Juricic, thoughtfully got that Michael Scott screen grab of when he's skating in the hockey pads

and they're waiting for the cancer prognosis. And he says, well, apparently in the medicine community, negative means good. I want to tear my face off. Wow. What a treat. I want to recommend the video. I guess it's also a tiktok of jojo siwa like talking about her her birthday oh my god she can have a jojo siwa themed birthday party and just like marveling at all the jojo siwa themed merchandise around her

kitchen she's just stomping around like the queen of capitalism. You're like, what is going on? I just can't believe it. And then super producer Anna Hosnier forwarded us this tweet from Gibby. French accent. It has a certain, how you say, Jojo Siwa? Which is one of my favorite tweets of all time. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link to the information that we talked about. Oh, God, I get emotional at this part every time. Getting verklempt.

Here we go. As well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what are we going to ride out on today? Oh, I mean, I'm just feeling so much Kiwi love. You know, Jack, when we were both talking about why doesn't the NBA just play their season out in New Zealand? We had a tight gang reach out in tears. Please. That would be an honor.

And I still stand by that. Play the rest of the season out in New Zealand because they clearly gave a fuck enough about their own people to shut shit down. I get things are different, but still, it's a nice example of how things could work. Guy Montgomery recorded a podcast in person yesterday. I was like, wow. Guy was recording podcasts in person? In person. He was with Tim.

What a fucking flex. I know. So this is from a really great Kiwi artist named Conan Moccasin. He played one of his songs way, way back. But there's a new track that's actually remixed by Gentle Dom. And it's called I Want Troll With You. Not I Want To Troll With You, I Want To Troll With You, the Gentle Dom remix, and check it out.

It's really fantastic. It's got, like, summer vibes, and that's all we need right now. That is all we need. Yeah. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio visit the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your

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