The Daily Zeitgeist - Guess Who's Back… Back On Trends 3/24: Package, Trump, March Madness, Beethoven, NFTs, Disney World, Will Robinson Jr.

Episode Date: March 24, 2023

In this edition of Guess Who's Back…, Jack and Miles discuss the suspicious package sent to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, Trump holding a rally in Waco, March Madness, Beethoven's DNA, celebrities handed a Crypto L by the SEC, Disney World employees getting a raise, and Will Robinson Jr. looking for Amanda Huginkiss!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Guess Who's Back and on Trends. That is courtesy of Johnny Davis, Short Show Spice. What's happening, man? Wow. Thank you for that. Yeah, thank you. Guess who's back indeed? Yeah. Miles Gray, baby. Oh, yeah. Miles Gray, man. Thank you for that. Yeah, thank you. Guess who's back indeed? Yeah. Miles Gray, baby.

Oh, yeah. Miles Gray, baby. Back. Back. I still don't know what to say sometimes because baby. But thank you. I'm back. And I try and remind you of it all the time by just saying I've incorporated baby into my.

Baby. He knows how to throw me off. He's doing this to sabotage me. i'm telling you that's right um all right well should we tell people what's trending miles um tell them package is trending because a law enforcement source has confirmed uh that there was a package sent to the district attorney alvin bragg's office with a suspicious white powder in it and a note that didn't beat around the bush uh what it says says alvin i'll kill you oh so okay it's weird that we're seeing this sort of thing with trump can't really come out of nowhere what every 12 hours like yeah saying stuff like you wait till they get me you're not even going to believe what the things i'm gonna have to go through but you gotta save me like do you remember

the movie swat with colin farrell that came out like i remember i didn't see it i only saw like the first half but it starts off with like this like world criminal like telling the camera going like if you get me out of jail I'll give you 10 million dollars putting him in a cop car and then like all these goons show up to break him out of jail so I feel like I think Donald Trump must have seen SWAT

or something and he's thinking he's gonna pull some shit like that he's like get me out of here please I'll give you free NFTs but yeah i'm not sure what what is going to go on there but i mean again this is you can't underscore more that did robert muller have white powder sent to him with stuff saying hey i will kill you robert muller or is this just a black d.a yeah i don't know did he ever call robert muller an animal uh in his tweets right yeah or a soros whatever the fuck yeah uh

but yeah i mean interesting it's it's wild again he's like he's really trying to he's trying to jan 6 it again but in a real slow motion but without the help of the full media apparatus of the right and the entire republican party so it's going to be i think he's going to get a mixed bag of participants. Yeah. We'll see. The grand jury involved in the Trump case has been meeting in the building where the suspicious package was reported. Um, but it does not sit on Fridays.

Uh, so whoops, you goofed, uh, Unabomber want to be Unabomber. You goofed John. What's what's Donald Trump's fake name that he uses. Uh,

I forget. It's, it's fake name that he uses ah i forget it's it's wonderful but he has oh i have so many names yeah was it john baron yes that's right john and then he named his son baron yeah signed john baron i'm gonna get you, sucker. John Rich Bad Guy. Waco is also trending for similar reasons. Donald Trump is apparently having a rally in Waco as he screams about violence and the overreach of the feds. What better place to do it than the site of the Branch Davidian siege that took the lives of people and law enforcement and then inspired the oklahoma city bombing i can't see a pattern here that he's

trying to retread he knows the assignment he's and he's not being subtle he's just no what about a civil war but if what's like yeah i know what's he gonna do next like because if this one's at waco is the next one gonna be like oklahoma city yeah potentially he's like nice federal building you guys have here if something happened to the fuck uh but yeah so many people are like saying yikes um and he's like what i like texas just this very specific part that has a lot of significance given the troubles i'm in with the federal government jesus marquise noel is trending uh this is the best player in the ncaa tournament he plays for kansas state he is a point guard he is five foot six uh people speculate he's listed as five foot eight um but he's awesome it's been a real joy he just beat michigan state uh dynamite

this kid this kid is dynamite i tell you i'm telling you although i did have to watch my bruins go out to gonzaga again oh man fucking ncaa tournament i this is the least i've paid attention i still tune in every once in a while when there's a close game or my sport friends start texting about something got my sport friends the highlight of the NCAA tournament I think so far has been

when Charles Barkley tried to claim that back in his day he used to have to shower in his uniform to save time and money on laundry. While he played for the... I think he was saying NBA. It might have been Auburn.

I have this sound. Okay. Yeah, let's just play this. How the fuck... In what world, even as someone who's in charge of cleaning garments be like yeah shower in them yes that's cutting a corner you'll hear charles and then kenny the jet smith uh be the voice of reason who in this thumbnail his the kenny's expression is already like the fuck are you talking about i mean it's so much stuff that goes into this and Shout out to all the trainers also. The guys who do

all the uniforms. To get these uniforms cleaned up and everything. I'm so old. We used to take a shower in our uniforms. Look at Kenny. There's no error where you did it. You're making this up.

There's no way that you were supposed to wash your uniform with it. You're making this up. I'm not making this up there's no way that you you were supposed to wash your uniform with your all right it's too much and also hearing charles barkley talk too long i was starting to hear herschel walker and it was fucking me up. Cause all this stuff going on, you know, we had to shout in our uniform. I'm like this year. And I love how Kenny and me is like,

shut this shit down. Right. There is no way that I'm sick of this shit. Sick. You say some made up shit about how it used to be. It's amazing because it's not the normal NBA on TNT crew. So it's just them too. then there's no ernie yeah no ernie or shack greg gumbel was gobsmacked yeah gumbel's just like what do i do what do i do what do i do greg gumbel right uh yeah is that greg or brian yeah that's

great yeah brian yeah greg got the like his like helmet fro. Yeah. Yeah. Still. Yeah. What a do, man. What a, what a look from him. Is that a wig? It's like,

it's a piece, man. Just take that off, takes his headphones off and takes the headphones come off with it. One piece. But yeah, I mean, truly the,

the best thing on TV is Charles Barkley and that crew. Yeah. Yeah. Hard press to find a better crew. But yeah, shout out to the Bruins. Sad to see them go. Sad to see you go. Oh man, those seniors too, man.

I was like, oh, come on. I was hoping you could go a little bit further. But anyway, shout out to the Zags. Good for you. Good on you. Yeah. Yeah. Let's take a quick break.

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and we're back and there's been just a flurry of headlines uh about beethoven's pre like that they sequenced they found some of his hair samples and did some genetic inquiries into his health, his overall like DNA sequencing. Right. Um, this seems to be just like a genre of news story that never feels like it just feels like they know that this gets clicks.

But I saw this headline advance from like the family secret unlocked by beethoven's hair and then it's like slowly evolved into beethoven was predisposed to liver disease oh it's like oh shit all right no oh no is he okay i don't know he died but i guess poor ludwig van you'll never guess what aristotle looked like according to those things i love when people fucking do the memes though yeah the memes are the best like when i saw one to like a 3d rendering of vin diesel and they're like this is what adam looked like. There's some shit like that. Yeah. It's not even like an ad for like fucking Ancestry.com or anything like that.

It's just someone's just like, hey, I guess we can run some samples on it. And he's also Portuguese. I wouldn't be shocked if there was some funding by Ancestry.com like into this scientific project at some point. ancestry.com like into this scientific project at some point because you know the whole scientific apparatus is run like that you know it's like gotta gotta get your funding somewhere right but i like for like all the documented ailments that he has like this genetic sequencing couldn't like answer the like his ibs problem uh from the hair samples, the researchers didn't find any genetic evidence explaining Beethoven's hearing loss or gastrointestinal problems. They could not explain the severe abdominal pain

he suffered as an adult or his prolonged bouts of diarrhea, per the paper. Wow. Way to dunk on a dead man at the end of it. Just like... This guy. To have him blow out non-stop.out non-stop diarrhea that was so gross

yeah people actually didn't want to even be around him why he was such a smelly piece of shit to be around in person and again as brian says this this sketch is coming back around one more time from the i think you should leave focus group stinky that's right oh my god he admitted i think he did admit it he asked for when he was dying he was like save my save my dna and uh study was study why my shits were so like on some junior seo shit yeah yeah wow like but with altruism bouts of diarrhea yeah i hope they were using his real hair and not the not the powdered wig hair the person that might have been here there's your problem yeah right they're like he was actually like scandinavian like from norway like no it's just a wig man uh we're seeing some nft consequences oh jake paul linda lohan

linda lohan linda lohan according to this pitchfork subhead i'm not here to dunk on any journalists i'm here to dunk on the just slowly evidently devolving state of of media and i get it it's going away hard like like this whole week people are like i used to have a job in journalism yeah uh and like countless like like twitter threads i was reading of people being like yeah it's kind of hard to do your work when you when you know you're about to lose it all i don't like uh anyway but yeah we're referencing a typo in the sub headline where it says lil yadi soldier boy neoon, and more charged by SEC for illegal cryptocurrency promotions. Subheading, Jake Paul, Linday Lohan, and other public figures were found to have promoted securities without disclosing their compensation.

Wow. They were accused of accepting money to tout the crypto asset securities. Yeah, exactly. Wait till you hear about all of capitalism. Yeah, wait till you hear about all of capitalism yeah wait to hear about political donations right oh man it's gonna blow your guys's mind this is wild uh so somebody felt that they were really gonna go to the moon with it huh yeah they thought they were going to the moon they really took a took a bath on that lil yadi nft recommendation and i do wonder if there's like

a senator's dumb teenage son at the center of this who's like you did what with your trust fund you did what i what did i say the second you get access to it you're gonna do something dumb with it and you just bought all these little yakti nfts fucking hell yeah uh crypto man watch out what it'll do to you what a time what a time it was disney world has raised their minimum wage uh with like fingernail claw marks down the side of the old minimum wage but they have reached a tentative deal with the Union for Disney World service workers to raise the minimum wage to $18 up from $15, which it would cover 45,000 workers at the Disney Resort in Florida, including bus drivers, hotel housekeepers. They're loving that, huh? Yeah. Oh, even the Mickey Mouse characters?

This part, I had no idea. They share underwear? Yes. The Disney characters? This part, I had no idea. They share underwear? Yes. The Disney characters? This is my takeaway. JM wrote this up for us and was like, in case you don't feel like this is earned, which obviously we do.

A living wage doesn't have to be earned. It should be fucking right. Yes. But they have to wear communal underwear because they think that the underwear it's too much of a risk for these

cast members, as they're called at Disney, to show up in their own underwear because it might create lines that ruin the illusion that Mickey the illusion that Mickey, the mouse is standing in front of you. Oh,

hell no. I know Mickey ain't got no visible panty lines. Mickey wears a fucking G string. This ain't Mickey. Like anyway, I guess that's, it's those little details that, that allow it to be a magical place to visit and a horrible place to wear

communal underwear. That's right. Also, so producer Brian pointed out there's additional reporting here that they shower in the communal underwear. So it's fine. Yeah. To save time.

Yeah. Okay. Save money, save time. So just last month, Disney's workers rejected the company's quote, best and final offer of $16 per hour. And they staged a massive rally earlier this month and also universal orlando

had recently raised the minimum wage to $17 an hour and so they were able to leverage that into getting paid a slightly more livable wage could you imagine like it's it was just the ego of disney yeah they're like fuck because universal's the bullshit fucking theme park out here. And they're even paying. Nah, fuck. Fine. 18.

And while we're down in Florida, we just wanted to give a shout out to, uh, Florida state representative, Will Robinson, Jr. Um, who went viral after reading a list of opponents and supporters of a bill uh that

included some names that you might recognize yeah if you love the simpsons waves in opposition anita dick is an opponent looked up made eye contact waves in opposition holden hiscock is also an opponent. The best was his legislative assistant next to him. The second he said, Anita Dick, she just went, oop. She really popped her head in like, oh. Like did an actual hand over her mouth.

Yeah. She said, oop. The fuck did you just say? Anita Dick? No, okay, what about Holden Hiscock? What the fuck is going on? Just full obliviousness to what is happening. He says it

and looks around the room to make serious eye contact with everybody. Yeah, I like that he tried to clean it up after by tweeting about it and he was like, the committee doesn't meet until next week, but Anita and Holden, please stop by.

Yeah. Embarrassed emoji. Come on, man. And like, I need a dick. How, how do you read that?

And your brain doesn't immediately go to Moses. Let. Yeah. You know, I mean, it wasn't even, and that was like Amanda hug and kiss. Right. You know, that was one of the, Oh geez, I need was like amanda hug and kiss right you know that was one of the ogs i need a man as amanda hug and kiss here but well maybe those are the old ones

these are like the new the new age ones he's like ah i didn't know about these ones holden his cock is really like a that one just feels very much because holden is not a pot like super popular name these days i don't think i don't know maybe a lot of a lot of catcher in the rye fans out there naming their kids making it popular but his cock is he didn't even say it as his cock he said his cock um so it's real like he's just reading man i'm just reading the words that's right his real real anchorman shit there um yeah anyways impressive work by him and whoever submitted those names and shout out to the great live acting that was happening from his legislative assistant yeah a blast uh we love the viral

videos don't we folks we love them. Did you talk about the woke lady? The woke lady? The lady who couldn't define woke last night? Oh, no, we didn't. Yes. Oh, fuck, Jack. Hey, man, you got a lot of work to do while I'm out. Yeah.

My God. The whole evolution of that fucking story with her op-ed she wrote. Yeah. Where she's like, my kids had never seen me in such distress yeah and you're like oh wow so you might be you're advocating for a more sensitive world maybe to prevent these no no that's well i forget it forget it forget it yeah yeah uh as i say stinky you do say that all right i am out uh for the next couple weeks uh miles you got the keys to the car thanks don't check for dents when you get back i never do and also like i think one of my friends was like smoking near the window when i had he was outside the car someone came up to the car who

was smoking that's why the car smells like that that's right it wasn't me all right well back on monday i am on monday's episode with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves yeah get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to y'all on monday bye I'm sorry. history repeating itself. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions.

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