The Daily Zeitgeist - Halloween Candy Mt Rushmore, Most Expensive Thanksgiving Ever! 10.27.21

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

In episode 1017, Jack and Miles are joined by AJ Daulerio to discuss how the VA Governor race is a dead heat, how Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive ever, The Official Top 10 Most Popular Halloween Candies and more!FOOTNOTES: VA Governor race is a dead heat … maybe this ad will tip the scales for Youngkin Prepare for GOP outrage- Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive ever The Official Top 10 Most Popular Halloween Candies LISTEN: Sir Was - I Wanna Feel Like That  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. Four days away from Halloween. But, you know, we don't need to be counting down to any particular day because today is, of course, Navy Day. Wow. And Black Cat Day. Wow. And most importantly of all, National American Beer Day. Oh. Yeah. You know, it's about time we celebrate the great american beer will beers yeah just beer that doesn't taste like beer although shout out the micros you know oh you know i had have you there's this lagunitas non-alcoholic thing they make called a hop fresher or something have you had that no i've had i've had hop water and it tasted too much like an IPA for me.

And it just like made me. Yeah, I was just like, I don't know. I put a little grenadine in it and it turned into the greatest soda I've ever made in my life. Wow. Grenadine with IPA? I'm fucking so spooky. Yeah, you're out here. Yeah.

All right. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. So I Soak. Yeah. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. So I Soak. Yeah, just leave it laying inside holes and letting friends move us around. That is courtesy of Kale Satan at J Music Chicago. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. I got the toaster, mom said, miss me, so I'll try. Got that strawberry pop, drop thatimp is fire Got my toaster drop that pastry feeling's right

Got that strawberry pop tart and it's fire And look, if you know Blueberry Yum Yum, you know what that was. And Christy Yamaguchi main or Christy Yamaguchi slain in this spooky era of ours came through with that wonderful aka because you heard about the struggle of my pop-tart struggle with my mother so yeah thanks for that one what is blueberry yum yum that's just a song you don't know blueberry yum yum hold on you you had to have heard blueberry yum yum because you like you like the dungeon family you like enough elena stuff yeah that was ludicrous and

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behind the great newsletter, The Small Bow, and hosts the Recovery Podcast. Really good shares. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented, AJ Delario. AJ. What's up? AJ Delario What's up? Love it, thank you Nothing, I wish, I don't have to do Any of the bubble gum yum yum

Songs, right, or anything like that No, I mean, unless you got one No, I don't, no, I was so impressed Just like how you guys do this, this is amazing I have notes So I'm coming here Knowing that you guys are pros at this So I don't want to

screw up your show you uh not at all how was that joke that's my first note actually yeah it sounds like you might have over prepared for our show but that's great we love it yeah it might might get us to first rate at some point yeah comfortably a second rate show at the moment yes we we feel good about it where are you coming to us from aj i'm calling you to you live from larchmont hey the whitest town in los angeles as they call it right as it's known yeah yeah the best right aid in los angeles is it's out there yeah oh yeah i'm gonna be there a little later on buying Halloween candy. Got it all. Got a pan quotidian.

I mean, there was that sneaker store. Is Kix still on Larchmont? No. Nope. Gone. Long gone, unfortunately. No. Oh, boy.

Yeah. And then they had a, so Kix shut down and then they had this like pop-up shop that was like a faux Kix. It didn't even have walls. It just had a curtain that went around it oh and like pipe and drape kind of thing yeah and then they were the people who worked there would like kind of disappear behind the curtain and come out with the shoes and i bought two pairs of shoes there and i'm pretty sure they were both fakes like they they basically didn't work as

shoes they like squeaked and made weird noises. It was the Silver Bullets, the Air Max Silver Bullets. And when I pulled on, they had that little tag. It just popped open. Oh. So not great, but yeah. Oh, so it was a pop-up maybe trading on the good name of Kix to peddle their third rate.

I kind of admired it. Yeah. Yeah. That was smart. That's smart. Nice. All right, AJ,

we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. Uh, we're going to talk about the Virginia governor's race. We're going to talk about the coming GOP outrage over Thanksgiving prices. Uh, it might be our most expensive ever.

We're going to talk about the official top 10 most popular Halloween candies and where they rank. Oh, we have another ranking? So the takeout just put together like the according to, I think, sales, like what are the 10 most popular, and then they rank them according to, I think, sales, like what are the 10 most popular, and then they rank them according to deliciousness. And I wanted to kind of get you guys' thoughts on Halloween candy.

We're going to talk about a bunch of Facebook bullshit, plenty more, but first, AJ, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Yeah, and this was a little tough for me because my four-year-old son calls my phone every time, so it's all about dinosaurs, actually. And this was a little tough for me because my four-year-old son calls my phone every time. So it's all about dinosaurs, actually. So he keeps asking Google to scan Albertosaurus, Carnotaurus, Dilapidacus.

And then the only thing that was actually from me was, will Shiba Uno reach one cent? Oh, yeah. Where is it at right now? I know. I went down. I became a crypto person because i don't do drugs anymore wow you know so that's what you're doing gotta get that exactly yeah yeah i just i saw that thing where like they were like yo

elon how much shiba coin you hold and it's like none and and it's like none. And then it's like. Oh, man. Only a little bit. That's when you jump in. You ride the dip. Buy the dip, baby. Yeah. You out over your skis on this Shiba Uno stuff or what? Tell me what's going on on the markets, man.

You upside down? What's going on here? No, no, man. I just dumped another $20 in there. So now I own 7 million Shiba Unus for a grand total of $327. So there you go. But if that thing reaches a cent, then I will have $71,000. So come on, Shiba. There you go.

What are we at? Four millionths of a cent at the moment? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Cool, cool, cool, there you go. What are we at? One four millionths of a cent at the moment? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Cool. Cool. So is our dinosaurs kind of a singular obsession for your four-year-old? Yeah. Yeah. It was trains for about a few months and then dinosaurs are now dominating right now. We are in the midst of a sort of tail end of a almost two year long train obsession with our five year old that I wish would turn into dinosaurs because at least those are a little bit more interesting to me. I mean, dinosaurs are so fascinating because every time he talks about them, I'm like,

why did I ever stop getting into dinosaurs, right? I mean, it seems like it's weird that it doesn't carry over to adulthood. Yeah. Because they're kind of incredible, right? Oh, of course. Much better than trains. Much better than trains. Yeah.

I mean, I was not big on thomas the train yeah thomas sucks thomas did y'all have dinosaur phases as kids i was uh i was singularly into sharks because it's just yours yeah and just like wanting to be eaten by a shark wanting to see a shark eat someone i was a fucked up you wait you wanted to be eaten by a shark yeah that was my that was my life that's fucking deep dude yeah i was also into like slasher movies i just liked watching things be killed in movies i do that now actually when yeah you know when i feel when i feel a little squirmy you know like i mean you're are you out on this show in terms of as a recovering person or am i like you know yeah yeah yeah yeah no you can you are

yeah okay yeah you're you're in the secret club that's right but yeah no when i when i get when i get those kind of urges now i usually either buy crypto or watch the little boy in jaws get eaten in the rest. Just that fountain of blood. Because it's been on Netflix for about six months. Yeah. That's where I put all that drug energy that I used to have. See, I'm a sick fuck. I like to watch Brady get smacked

in the face by his mourning mother. That's what I'm into. The real heartache of it all. So I have the I've noticed that a it all so i have the like i've noticed that a lot of the i have a three-year-old too and like i've noticed that a lot of the shit that like kids get obsessed with overlaps with the things that like blockbuster movies tend to be about like you know space dinosaurs uh sharks superheroes, but trains never really made the right, I guess

Under Siege 2. Taking a Pelham 1-2-3? Money Train? What else we got here? We watch that every day, just like Frozen. Oh yeah. Money Train every day. Taking a Pelham 1-2-3. I guess it's more an ingredient

in a lot of movies rather than like the whole concept of the movie but i do under siege yeah i mean there's no shortage of movies i'm just wondering like why spielberg hasn't like made the train movie to end all train movies that like you know just saturated the the world's train needs and i think i think the explanation is it's the worst of the children's obsessions it's just like the least interesting and yeah it's yeah it's about george stevenson the creator of the locomotive and how people were like dude you'll never do it and it's just called loco there you go oh hey we're spitballing we'll edit that out so that we can get. So we can pitch that to Amblin later. Yeah, yeah.

Trash trucks also. Trucks and trash trucks are probably due for a big blockbuster treatment. He's into some hard graft, man. Yeah. Like, just like, yeah, man. It's heavy machinery. Yeah. Because I remember when we were over at that place and I showed him that, like, Dutch trash truck video. He was just, he was like, what the?

He hasn't stopped talking about it. Yeah. He was just, he was like, what the, he hasn't stopped talking about it. Yeah. It's he's like, where's the Netherlands? It's a beautiful place. I, it could be worse.

I saw a kid and his parents like run up to a police officer and like the kid was obsessed with police officers and like thought they were really cool. Yeah. Don't do that. Yeah. I'm glad that's not mine. Would you have that talk right now do you have that talk that the a-cap talk that all cops are kind of like like sort of you know like as much as you can without getting into into details but you know just talking about like how you know because like they they were into paw patrol for a brutal couple of months and you know the the cop there is you know a hero and i it's i i don't

remember exactly how i put it but i i've definitely tried to like shade things a little bit so they're not like all cops are are uh the heroes who save us all. Right. Like the police act as agents of the state who have a monopoly on physical violence. Exactly. Because sometimes my son will say something along the lines of just like, oh, will he go to jail? And I'll like correct him. Yeah. We're a prison reform family. And then, you know, that's something really, yeah.

Goes over his head at at this point but yeah right and you're like we'll incrementally roll that up yeah you start early i mean that is one of the things that paddington to another uh it has a great train scene and also a big like prison chunk and that blew my kids mind the like the they were asking me about prison for like a week after that and it's like yeah no it's fucked up i don't know man i don't know what to tell you it's not good they they do that like if you if you break a rule you have to just go there and it's not as fun as it looked in paddington either show them oz i haven't watched oz right yeah yeah that's nice like no let me let's let's let's change the tempo up a little bit. This is out of AC.

What's something you think is overrated, AJ? Oh, man. You know, I don't know the tenor of your show exactly just yet, but this is what I had, and I thought long and hard about this. Kologuard. Are you familiar with Kologuard? I see the commercials. Yeah, yeah. No, well, because for those of you who don't know, I see the box, right? And thinking that the box was going to be kind of exciting,

like it's a skill game. You crap in a box and then someone comes and grabs it and then they let you know whether or not you have colon cancer or not. And it's just a lot more complicated than that. Right. I mean, I, I was expecting in my head, like, you know, I, I, I'll poop in the box and then it'll be just like in seven with Gwyneth Paltrow's head being transported by some like, you know, faceless delivery man into the desert. But it's not, it's a lot. There's a lot of directions that I haven't really fully read at this point. But also, since the doctor basically puts in the request, all the color guard people kind of harass you. Like, where is your sample? I get calls all the time from the color guard people basically begging me to send in my box of poop. And I haven't done it yet. Come on, man. Just give us your shit. But at this point, yeah. I mean, color guard is not all it's cracked up to be. I mean, I thought there would be like a week of me kind of climbing all ladders, trying to drop it in the box from different heights.

You know, I mean, but it's not like that at all. There's just, there's some, there's Q-tips and just samples. Yeah. Yeah. That little shit basket that you have to set up in the toilet. Yeah. I feel like I'd just, the cup would runneth over. Like, I don't know if I could regulate, like, when to be like,

okay, that's enough sample, that's enough sample. Sure. Not take that thing out, but that's a very maybe unique problem to me. Like, the challenge, I was picturing, like, having to thread the camera up your asshole, but they're able to just use a sample to figure it out. Huh? Exactly.

Yeah. It's like, you know, 23 and me. Right, right, right. Don't get those boxes mixed up.

23 and me is going to be pissed. Yeah. What is, what's something you think is underrated? And this was, this was kind of sad because this was the first thing that came into my mind that I was excited about. Hard-boiled eggs. But then, then I, then I moved off of that because I'm like, you know, it doesn't seem like a show that everybody's going to be like, oh, hard-boiled eggs. I love them.

Right. Finally. So then I went to, I went to chocolate malt ovaltine right you know which uh which my my my son is drinking a lot of and you know i it's one of those things that actually is a lot better than i always remember it i mean it's kind of like the tang of chocolate milks a little bit right but it's actually quite good i mean if you shake it vigorously it gets all bubbly and it it's full with 12 vitamins and minerals and actually very good for you. Yeah. And they are. You told us that they were a personal like you have a unique arrangement with them. They're a personal sponsor and you come on other people's podcasts and kind of, you know.

No, we're sponsored by Kologuard actually. Kologuard. I think that was pretty clear. It's a themed episode now ovaltine is meant to be mixed with milk and not water correct because i feel like i've had i do both wow the water version really i think i the few times i've had the water version kind of fucked it for me, but the milk version does tend to be pretty delicious. No, the way you do it is they, they, they call for two scoops. You do four. Then you do a splash of water just to kind of, just to kind of get it wet.

And then you hit it with milk. And then you just like, you know, you, you do kind of like bar shaking, like you're making a martini basically, but it's Ovaltine. And then it comes right, right, right. And,

uh, it's very, very good. And also not as heavy and thick as chocolate milk. Do you do the shake over the shoulder? Like you're, what I do is I dump, I have two,

I have two cups and then I just kind of dump them back and forth. Yeah. Everything's all mixed together. yeah yeah i was always on uh nesquik as a kid i don't think and i would do the same thing is like it didn't i don't know i don't know what the recommended serving amount is i just did it till the shit was like super thick super like now this tastes good to me yeah and then sometimes i'll eat the powder raw my mom will catch me she's like what the fuck is wrong with you and i'm like coughing it's just like all drying up my mouth i was an idiot but i love that shit yeah like the cinnamon challenge basically

yeah yeah before it was that it was me trying to eat just tablespoons of nesquik powder and realizing it was not even close to what i thought it was going to be. No vitamins and minerals in that though, Miles, unlike rich, chocolatey Ovaltine. Well, then I'd do a line of Flintstones vitamins. Those are still out there. Just to level off. The Flintstones vitamins have outlasted the cultural relevance of the Flintstones. I know. By quite a bit.

Do some kids just know it as a vitamin at this point my kids somehow know yabba dabba do but they don't know what the fuck the flintstones is and they do take the flintstones vitamins you're like where'd you hear that boy tell me now who told you this do you recognize this man no what's happening we don't show them the flintstones we do show them the old winston cigarette commercials with starring the old Winston cigarette commercials starring the Flintstones about how healthy and smooth the Winston cigarettes are. Right, right, right. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back.

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caring or following it but it seems like maybe i have to i feel like the the guys at crooked media would really want me to uh give a shit about this race. They're going to tell you why it's going to predict everything that's going to happen for the next two years politically, which a lot of people are going all in on that take. But, yeah, I mean, it's an interesting state. It's purple. And also, you know, the governor there has been trying to do the best by the people while you also have a challenger who comes in and is trying to do the walking the fine line of like being MAGA. But because it's not a full blown red state, like you got to kind of be like, I mean, I don't agree with Steve Bannon. I just like some of his ideas type shit.

Yeah. And, you know, messaging can like make or break a campaign. You know, messaging can like make or break a campaign. And Youngkin, who is running against Terry McAuliffe, he may have found a winning message, you know, as I said, to win over especially the even keeled independents in the suburbs. As we noticed, that's something the GOP is very concerned about. We don't want to turn off independents in the suburbs because, you know, they're concerned parents who are deeply invested in their children's futures and they're not always into just full blown racism and dog whistling. parents who are deeply invested in their children's futures and they're not always into just full-blown

racism and dog whistling. So when they hear about this mother's story and how she was just absolutely just destroyed by the policies of Terry McAuliffe, I have a feeling that people are going to be voting Youngkin. So I just want to play this clip just so you can understand. And just when you're listening to this woman speak, imagine someone who claims to have had an immaculate conception with the ghost of Stonewall Jackson. That's kind of her vibe. As a parent, it's tough to catch everything. So when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. It was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. I met with lawmakers. They couldn't believe what I was showing them. Their faces turned bright red with embarrassment. They passed bills requiring schools to notify parents when explicit content was assigned. It was

bipartisan. It gave parents a say, The option to choose an alternative for my children. I was so grateful. But then Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed it twice. He doesn't think parents should have a say. He said that. He shut us out. Glenn Youngkin, he listens. He understands. he listens he understands parents matter join me in voting for glenn yunkin okay so you heard it right oh my god my child brought home a book and the things contained within first i want to say any guesses on how old the child was? Six. Eleven. Eleven? Okay. The kid was in a high school senior AP English lit class. Wow. And the book, any guesses here?

Had to be in AP English. English lit. Okay. Canterbury Tales. Okay, that's one. Okay, interesting. Moby Dick? I don't know. It was Toni Morrison's Beloved.

Are you fucking kidding me? Yes. That's what she was so OMG gasp, my jaws on the floor, because we're hearing about this story that's based on, you know, a terrible tale about this woman who had escaped slavery and was being brought back to bondage and was like trying to do anything she could to avoid that. That's the fucking book that this lady's talking about. They were talking about

Toni Morrison's Beloved. She has been now. This didn't happen recently. She had began this campaign against the book in 2013, being like, I don't know, like my child. And she would say, my child has nightmares because of this book. I read it. It's a pretty powerful book. And again, you're in a class that's meant to be college level when you're in an AP class. So yeah, you're gonna start reading things that aren't just fucking, you know, Indian in the cupboard, or something. And so yes, this is the the outrage that Glenn Youngkin is trying to be like, Okay, let me keep it super vague. And just keep it that like, this spooky haunted Confederate ghost lady was just just shocked that her child had to hear about the brutality of chattel slavery that's that's unbelievable that's yeah and you it does suggest because it is like notably vague you i guess i guess it does right a picture in your mind because you're like oh it must be just you know hardcore fucking like whatever right right what is you know what what exactly is is happening here that's and it's a pulitzer

prize-winning like universally acknowledged work of genius yeah hell yeah but i mean i think it speaks to sort of like just in general what conservatives are all on about right because it's all critical race theory and these things of just being like we can't keep like making people aware of our past that's just too much so we need to do everything we can to try and just put a sheet over it and then just keep moving and say that did that's just some other thing that happened eyes ahead eyes ahead yeah you're gonna want to cut some eye holes in the sheet too just to yeah yeah of course and so you know where you're right head all pointy at the top yeah you don't want your torch to like catch other stuff on fire no no no no no no no no no i think that's a vague thing that i think if most

people learned what the this woman was speaking about they're like what the fuck like okay most people if they took that class, they're about to read that book. And people don't have nightmares. It's funny because people checked up on her son. He's fine. He had a wedding announcement in the New York Times a couple of years ago.

So I think he's gotten over his Toni Morrison-induced nightmares. That's a very specific type of person who has a wedding announcement in the New York Times, too. So he's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. That is amazing. And what why is this such an important race? Like, just catch me up on why I should have been paying attention to this. I think a lot of people look at it, you know, as a somewhat bellwether kind of state. But more than that, like a serious sort of gauge

of what people think of the parties given Biden's approval ratings and things that are happening to see if people are going to back a Democrat or if they start to see some support slip towards Republicans. It's just it's just the thing to just for people for wonks to try and sweat over. You know, some people argue it's like not as important, but this is this is like the horse racification of politics. So like every single like, no, this one, man, you got to pay attention. Because I was saying before the the recall with Gavin Newsom isn't really a accurate depiction of what's happening in the state or like in the national politics like that was a group of republicans trying to sort of game the system of like recalling a governor to try and get someone else in more so than like what do the people think of democrats and republicans at this moment right yeah i mean just like from a narrative standpoint in the mainstream media it seems like

the two major narratives are like biden's approval is like in the shitter and but like the republicans are still fucked so it's like almost like so this gives them an opportunity to be like one is less fucked than the other one i guess yeah or maybe it's like oh do people care that there's nothing on the agenda actually being accomplished. Does that still warrant support? I don't know. I mean, it's just a very strange moment as like most people who are like living in the harsh reality of America are like, things need to happen. And then on the Hill, it's like, I don't know. Should we tax billionaires?

Is that popular? I mean, it's certainly not popular with my donors but from that perspective like would it be better if a republican one so that the democrats like got scared enough to actually i don't know everything's so reactionary i i don't yeah either way like i'm like i don't have much confidence in this just general political system we have in this country to begin with so it's like i i don't know sure maybe yeah but i could also see them being like see this is why we went too far left right general political system we have in this country to begin with. So it's like, I don't know. Sure. Maybe. Yeah. But I could also see them being like,

see, this is why we went too far left. Right. You know, there's always that. There's always that logic too. Well, I will withhold my donation to Youngkin for now.

All right. Let's talk about Thanksgiving coming up. Thanksgiving 2021. And it's going to be more expensive than past ones thanks a lot biden there's a number of factors making this year's dinner a bit pricier you know there's supply chain shit there's the labor shit labor stuff going down uh what what's going on miles inflation weather everything it's like an Omni crisis. I mean, quick, quick question.

Are y'all having Thanksgiving meals? Are you doing something this year? I know 2020 made it a lot harder for people, but this year, are you guys planning on doing something? AJ, are you? Oh, me? You want me to go? Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. And feel free to feel free to speak whenever. Yeah, that's fine fine i didn't know which order you go in fine poor yeah absolutely palm springs is where we go and thanksgiving with our family we're those people nice yeah i don't eat meat so it's basically just yams and cream spinach and other things for me right no toad got it no i don't like i don't do terfurky i don't do like non-alcoholic beer i don't do any of that stuff yeah i mean i just you know you're not

looking for like replacements yeah no not at all what about you jack we're still figuring it out because my in-laws might be coming coming out from the east coast so but see but different probably than like last year did you i don't think you did you do anything no we didn't do shit yeah super local yeah i was the same way i have to just i i honestly think i just like made a salmon or something at thanksgiving that i got at the store but now i think they they say a lot of things are happening too they feel that consumers are going to be more like spending more money this year to kind of make Thanksgiving a more premium experience because last year so many people were like not doing anything. So it's like, fuck it, let's go big. Let's maybe buy a

nicer turkey this year than like the typical frozen one. But like, for example, turkeys, they're going to be more expensive, mostly because the cost of corn has basically doubled. Like the corn feed that commercially raised turkeys eat, that should have just gone through the roof. So again, costs are being passed on to the consumer. And again, because of like this desire to make Thanksgiving more premium, there's also just like creating more interest in these sort of like other kinds of organic or humanely raised turkeys that people are tending to opt for. other kinds of organic or humanely raised turkeys that people are tending to opt for.

Then you look at stuff like packaged dinner rolls. They'll be higher because basically all of the ingredients that commercial bakers use has gone up because of supply chain issues. Canned sauces and things like that will cost a little bit more because domestic steel plants aren't putting up the same output. And then China is limiting steel production to like reduce carbon emissions. And there's just a ton of these like little things that are adding up to just sort of make the cost higher. Sweet potatoes, for example, their biggest thing is they don't have truckers to get the product off the farms and to market. So they're now paying because of the shortage in truckers. They're they're like moving costs are double, too. And as everyone says, that's just something the consumer

is going to have to literally eat. And extreme weather is another thing, affecting the coffee in Brazil to sugar cane refineries in the South. There's just a ton of things that are all coming together to just bring the price up a tad bit. And already you see shortages wreaking havoc.

People say there's barely any wooden pallets to ship stuff with or or like cardboard containers because everything's just become more expensive or super scarce right it just goes right to the consumer basically right like that's yeah how well because that's how that's the only way they can make it work so i'm like fine i'll eat this cost so then they can still get that it's like no then everything's the cost goes up now because that's just sort of what thing make it work. It's going to be like, fine, I'll eat this cost. So then they can still get it for that. It's like, no, then everything's, the cost goes up now because that's just sort of the thing we're in. I just have one question. The corn thing that you said, the corn price has doubled and the corn is used to feed the turkeys?

Yeah, so a lot of commercial. Yeah, so their feed has gone up in cost to even raise the turkeys. So because of that, it's just like well shit their food costs more so then this meat's gonna cost more because it's you know everything sort of fatten the turkeys is it is it is it like a foie gras thing they're like a corn mix that they shove down the turkey's throat and then make it that is definitely what i'm picturing in my mind when i picture like like how they feed because those those things are massive in a in a way that seems unnatural no i mean i don't think i i'd imagine there's some hormone

stuff going on because even as you've seen with chickens like there's chickens who's the breast meat is so intense that like they can like they're just like they can't walk right but yeah that's again for most commercially raised factory turkeys that's why i think you know if you're people are being like i'm trying to go organic then the feed might be different and just sort of the praising practices are different and then those costs go up but i don't know if you've noticed like there there's a lot of just small things like in day-to-day life that i am seeing become more scarce like when i went to the store the other day normally like the produce bags like at the one supermarket i go to they're

out of produce bags completely and like they've moved on to like using like really generic like thank you printed shopping bags for produce oh wow yeah and i was like what's going on i was like i was like i'm guessing it's like a supply thing he's like yeah we haven't they're like we it's this is the best we got and i was like wow you asked to speak to a manager you said that let me talk to a manager this is unacceptable i absolutely did and i slammed my low quads on the ground and discussed yeah i like don't have a like fully formed take on this or most things, but I do wonder why a lot of these costs are being passed on to the consumers and inflation

and the top story on Reddit for the past 24 hours is how much Disneyland tickets have gone up since the year 2000. It's like from $41 to $164. And I feel like that's always something that's like being brought up by the like right more than the left as like you know the right's just like well you know it's all these prices that like these higher wages that we're paying the the working class and i just feel like that's almost like we just seed that to the right because

we're, they, they're the ones who like got economics degrees or whatever. Like, I don't know. It feels like they're like the people who are paying are this, are the people who like the, the left is supposed to be,

you know, working on, on behalf of, but like they there's not like a an aggressive argument about like around inflation and its effects and like how that kind of fucks people just as much as a lot of the other shit that we like actually call out sure i mean i think there's us also too like there's an element of you know like you look at disneyland or other places they're doing everything they can to offset losses from 2020 now.

Right. So there's just, like, this thing and like and like hotel cartels and groups that do massive buys of certain items and they essentially can dictate to the suppliers like what the cost of something is because they're buying so much like they are the market essentially so then that creates a bottleneck too or just pressure on suppliers to even say like well now we got to move our shit to china because if we we're gonna do business with Walmart, we need to make better margins on like these massive, like sort of buys that they're making on certain goods. It happens with drugs to like pharmaceutical drugs and things like that. But I mean, a lot of it too, is like we have, you know,

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And so the takeout has been basically ranking and re-ranking the list of the 10 most popular Halloween candies just ranked by sheer volume of sales, I guess. And so here is their list of like the

top 10 in the order that they rank them in terms of deliciousness coming in at the bottom tootsie pop which i think the big surprise there is that it's in the top 10 of candies i think that's like probably like fox news's ratings like it's more of a thing that is just a remnant of an older generation that's still hanging around they're still alive they're still alive folks number nine is m&ms which is the original m&ms it's not they're like the regular original brown bag m&ms are in the top 10 on their own i feel like they should have just let m&ms live as an entire category but you know that really yeah i okay let's skip through the list i have to wrap my head around the totality

before i can start getting upset eight jolly ranchers seven hershey's mini bars so this just going back to the m&ms thing they're letting hershey's mini bars. So this, just going back to that M&M's thing, they're letting Hershey's mini bars exist as the little chocolate bars, but also the Mr. Good bars, the Crackle. Yeah. So they get the whole spectrum. Six Sour Patch Kids, five Snickers, four Starbursts, three Skittles, two Twix, number one, of course reese's cup which i think they nailed most of it like i think in the like reese's is definitely the first thing i count up after i

steal a kid's halloween bag and you know yeah yeah that's always yeah i get excited for those i love reese's pieces re Reese's Pieces, wow. It's weird. I have like a weird, I'm more chocolate above everything. Because in my mind, that's the good shit on Halloween is chocolate. The fruit candies like Starburst and Skittles and things like that. I hate Jolly Ranchers. Just put that out there.

I think the apple, green apple one, tastes like absolute shit. The watermelon one tastes like melted plastic. And I don't know. I guess this makes sense. Reese's at one and Twix at two feels right for me, personally. Okay. Yeah. AJ, how about you?

AJ, what about you? The only one I disagree with right now is I think the 10, which is the Tootsie Pop. I don't know. Because it's not Tootsie Roll, right? You said Tootsie Pop? Yeah, the owl one. Yeah, the owl one, right. Yeah, I don't see that.

Someone had to pay someone to get Tootsie Pop in the top 10. Massive lobby. There's a payola happening. I think it really is, though. Like, for instance, they rank these in a number of different ways and one of the rankings was uh nostalgia and tootsie pop came in at number one which makes sense to me because like that is one that has been it's one of the first candies i ever remember eating uh also one of the first candies i ever remember being disappointed by right yeah and uh but it like does have the owl that you know it's just kind

of kind of iconic even even if it doesn't deserve to be i don't think it's even iconic though right i mean it's iconic 20 years ago it feels right right i feel like more than 40 or more iconic yeah yeah m&ms too i don't like i don't think think, you know what makes it, and we have a lot of M&M's right now in our house, and I don't know why this never occurred to me, but they're all different colors, but in the same flavor. Right. But the candy colored shell tastes exactly the same across the board. It's just nothing for me.

Right. I mean, it's just, why even have colors if they're not going to taste any different? Skittles taste different. Starbursts taste different. AJ, they have different personalities, though. The green is really horny. The green is sexy, I think, I guess.

Green is sexy. Yellow is stupid. Right. Yeah, stupid, but well-meaning, I think. Right. Which one is the teacher from Whiplash he does he play yellow or does he play the one that's all doofy because like the red one's like and the yellow one's like and then the green one's like i'm sexy yeah so i don't know who the or jk simmons jk simmons

that's what i was talking about yeah jk simmons is the voice of the yellow eminem wow i would say he's more good natured miles than than stupid but that's but see that's how i look and see everyone projects their own traits onto the eminems i think that's why it's a very powerful marketing tool yeah but with tootsie pop too i do you ever do that thing like when you're a kid you'd eat it you got to a certain point where like you were done being patient to get to the tootsie Pop. You're just like, fuck it, I'm chewing the fuck out of this thing. Yeah, same thing with Blow Pops too. Right. I really like Blow Pops.

I would replace Blow Pops on there. Blow Pops, absolutely. Blow Pops just kick the shit out of Tootsie Pops. I would do a fucking backflip if someone gave me a Blow Pop right now. That would truly be like, oh my God, I haven't seen you in years.

That would really do it for me. I think there's like big Tootsie pop is holding them down because of, uh, also because of like the, you know, just gum, like gum is gross. It gets all over the place. It's probably like,

you swallow it if you're a kid. Yeah. But I'd tell you to blow pop. You chew on it. I'm thirsty and then you swallow it. I used to swallow so much gum as a kid. I was out of problem. I did like a Ocean's Eleven style heist of

a bunch of blow pops that our third grade teacher kept on his desk like after or actually I guess it was on the weekend we went in and were able to steal a bunch of those. You broke into school on the weekend to steal some blow pops? Did you really?

Yeah. I mean, it didn't break in. The door was open because they were doing a cleaning. Oh, doing the little cap of the January 6th. You say Ocean's Eleven, I'm picturing you doing the French guy thing underneath all the laser lights and basically just like... Right. Yeah. There was some dancing. There was some acrobatics, but it was fully for show.

There was no real need for it. Right. Or the me getting dressed up as an ambulance driver and my friend faking a heart attack. You're like, I'm Lyman Zerga and I'm here for my blow pops. This is one thing I'm curious about. What about savory snacks on Halloween? Because I've looked at, I remember there was like one time

someone blew up the paradigm at this neighborhood I was trick-or-treating at as a kid and gave like really good like chips I had never seen. And maybe they just had a chip company that like maybe they're trying to get rid of some dead inventory but i remember being like hey that was cool yeah like because i like chips and i know maybe candy just sort of seen as more of a luxury

good because apparently like don't eat too much candy rather than like fine eat as much sodium as you want yeah but like i'm always part of me is like when can i you know i'd like a little savory treat too this has to be sweet supremacy just a nice ladle of oatmeal to go right in the bag just right in my mouth i think pringles pringles should actually be part of the halloween yeah like mini yeah little cans of pringles nobody nobody's saying no to that. Right. No. Yeah, and that would, you'd lose your shit. Yeah. As a kid. Like getting those little mini tubes, or now they got them in those little plastic sleeve type things.

But I don't know. Just saying, folks. Think about it. Yeah. So you guys don't fuck with M&Ms? You're not, like the peanut M&Ms are not a fixture on your candy Mount Rushmore? Nope. No.

Wow. Reese's Piemore? Nope. No. No. Wow. Reese's piece is great. Yeah. I think Reese's piece is basically just like those, those are the proper use of the M&M shape and candy coating stuff. What about the colors though? Are you mad about the colors?

Orange and yellow? What is it? It's just two colors. Orange, yellow, brown. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. There's brown. Okay. Well, that's fine. Acceptable. Okay. Just because,

just because, you know they they're and that feels like it's a uniform for like reeses right i mean that's right so right yeah that's a good point m&ms just added another color what i mean they threw in blue what like 15 years ago and everybody like that was a big deal but blue tastes exactly the same as every other m&M. Yeah. But I think that's a genius of it, too, because I was like, fuck, dude, there's blue ones? I got to buy them now. And then I was like, fuck, I'm just eating a bunch of M&Ms.

They're all stale. Yeah. It would be a great magic trick where someone can be blindfolded and then kind of distinguish between the colors of M&M. Right? Oh. That is like, that would be a great like completely useless superpower that somebody has like you could taste a commercial food america's got talent oh yeah that's yellow five wow uh-oh you sure about this folks this is yellow five i don't know what i'm eating but i I like it. Do you guys remember when this was, I think, like 30 years ago when they brought back the red?

And like, I don't know if it was urban legend or if this was like actually true, but like the red was gone because it was giving people cancer. No. You don't remember? What? Maybe that might have just been something I made up. Yeah. I thought the red always existed though, right? No, red was gone for a while red disappeared

in the 80s after a study linked a certain red food dye to cancer despite mars not actually using that dye so huh lancaster online never lied to me before because i've never heard of it but so mars owns the m&ms yeah mars bars still exist mars bars i think should crack the top 10 actually i mean very good candy bar what is mars bar i actually am not familiar mars bar is kind of like snickers but almost like a little more of a sophisticated snickers i feel like wow i don't know imported caramel i'm not sure'm not sure. I think there's nougat involved. Yeah, there's nougat. And almonds, I think, is the thing that makes it different than the Snickers. What's the nut in Snickers? Peanuts?

Peanuts, yeah. Is it? Well, then there's also almond Snickers. But those have a weird off-color wrapper that makes me uncomfortable. What do you think of white chocolate Reese's? I don't like it as much as regular Reese's, but I will allow it for sure. I'll allow it. I can abide. But again, I'll reach for the original too. And now those other ones that they got with the potato chips inside.

Have you had those? I've had the pretzels in there. I really enjoyed those. The chip one is... That one fucking bangs too. Do the chips stay crunchy? Oh, yeah. side have you had those i've had the pretzels in there i really enjoy the chip one is that one fucking bangs too does the chip stay crunchy oh yeah like almost criminally so yeah no that's what like i'm very suspicious i'm like either the chip's gonna be soggy as fuck in which case i'm not gonna enjoy it or it's gonna be crispy in which case like they've used some chemical on

this that should not be like is is definitely not permitted in the EU. Like, yeah, it's made of like desiccant jail gel that they used to like take the moisture out of stuff. Cause I mean, it, it is,

it's wild. Like how much you're like, Oh shit, that's fucking crunchy. Okay. Fucking knocked a couple of fillings loose, but I love the sweet and savory. So the Mars looks like it is a Snickers bar,

except it's got like a layer of just kind of sort of soft chocolate instead of the peanuts and caramel up top. Is that what I'm picking up here? I guess. I don't know. There's something more special about Mars. It's not just soft chocolate, whatever that means. Yeah.

It looks like, I think you're seeing just the caramel. Yeah, I'm seeing the caramel. Yeah, with the nougat. that means yeah it looks like i think you're seeing the caramel yeah i'm seeing the caramel yeah it was the new got the wikipedia photograph on the mars page just sliced it with like a very sharp knife so the caramel is not like stretchy at all they've just yeah yeah it just looks like they have surgically bisected it for some reason yeah all right so jolly ranchers was one that i was really into as a kid they are a real pain in the ass though if i if i'm being honest with myself like having to have something in your mouth for that long yeah that's great yeah yeah no time for that anymore because then there's like the little wrapped up rectangular prism ones. Then they have the ones that just used to be like straight up like flat strips. Sticks.

Yeah. Like this. Yeah. And those are those are like heavily traded in my elementary school. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I mean, kids would go to like Rice's Flea Market, which is like outside of like Jersey and buy huge bags of the jolly rancher sticks right and come in and yeah it was like you know trading cigarettes in prison basically with the sticks i mean yeah i mean that's

yeah jolly ranchers or jrs as they were called in dayton ohio and uh blow pops were absolutely like fucking currency on the on the schooly Yeah. And especially if you've got like the watermelon Jolly Ranchers and the fire sticks, right? Yeah. The Jolly Ranchers, cinnamon fire. Yeah.

Incredible. Yeah. I always like, remember like, that's what like the cool kids, they will have the sticks, but leave the wrapper on. Like they were eating a burrito,

just peeling it back as you like worked your way down. Like I have a very specific image in my mind of like it's it's 1994 and the eighth graders are all like yeah dude keep the rapper i think that's gonna come back now that you mentioned i think i can just picture like machine gun kelly with like the unwrapped halfway wrapped jolly rancher stick on the red carpet people like oh like, oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Believe me. I mean, that would, like, skyrocket.

Like, Jolly Rancher sticks would then crack the top five independently easily. Do you think the long, flat ones are permitted in prison? Because I feel like you just inadvertently turn them into shifts, like, immediately. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You could file that down and get a good edge on that probably 100 yeah use a lighter to just kind of harden it i mean look so miles your your ranking would have all chocolate up top including hershey's mini bars

yeah yeah yeah and even m&ms wow like i'm not like, because I didn't, I remember like Starbursts are fine. I like Starbursts. But again, I will always pick the chocolate candy over the fruit candy. That's how it is. I really like their Skittle Starbursts and Sour Patch Kids. I've gotten a new appreciation for them as my palate has become more refined. You know, as I've'm aged not my juvenile palate yeah only did your wife eat the sour patch kids when she was pregnant did you get the 10 pound bag

of sour patch kids that no work with the nausea yeah i i invested in that and yeah yeah no and having that many sour patch kids around oh that, it's kind of fun, right? It's just like they're always there. Like make a little Sour Patch Army. But I mean, think about when you get some Sour Patch Kids and you're basically done with the bag. And this you're never done. You're just like, oh, if I'm in the mood for Sour Patch Kids, I have a good seven seven eight pounds of them yeah my disposal at any time i could use a ladle to procure some just for the fun of it like here's another scoop and when you're

done with it is there like two pounds of sugar at the bottom yeah yeah it really is yeah it looks pretty nasty yeah but yeah not as bad as like old m&ms bags i mean if you just like have like this the mini bags of m&ms they get like real saggy-esque very quickly and i think that's part of the reason i don't like the m&ms because i just feel like they're discarded very easily yeah especially the brown bags and the yeah with the the classic m&ms i feel like there is a point that you you are correct that like those are the ones that i'll find like in a drawer somewhere like two halloweens later and they they have like that built-in you know best buy date in the sense that if you open them and they're like white that's usually a bad sign but it's weird

how quickly they can go from kind of fresh to looking like they were left out in a thunderstorm right i mean it's just like yeah yeah and i don't know that no other candy does that yeah i don't even do eminem mcflurry's you know what i mean yeah no the eminems are not good in ice cream because they get too hard and then it takes too long to... Break your teeth. Yeah. Sorry.

You know, I'm trying, M&M. I'm trying to work with you. I think it's out of the top 10 by the end of this. Do they have like a hazelnut, like Nutella type M&M? I'm sure they've tried it. Apparently, there's a new M&M popcorn, chocolate covered popcorn that is... I don't even know what that would look like other than just chocolate covered popcorn that is i don't even know what that would look like other than just chocolate covered popcorn and they're calling it eminem but they they really fumbled the eminem

pretzel that could have been could have been great oh i remember dude i remember that came out because i think i saw like in one of the seasons of hard knocks like rex ryan kept eating him and i was like oh shit dude rex r Ryan is living that fucking life. He's like, I think there was like a moment. He's like, dude, they got pretzel M&Ms.

The best commercial I'd ever seen. Even though I'm not even like a Jets fan or anything. I was like, right. I just, I'm like Rex Ryan was just kind of like a living meme and like my friend group. And we were just always like, dude,

look at this dude. He's living. He's living. Yeah. All right. Well, AJ, it's been such a pleasure having you on the day. He's like, guys, man, where like, dude, look at this dude. He's living. He's living. All right. Well, AJ, it's been such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist, man.

Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Yeah, you can go to thesmallbow.com, and that's B-O-W, you know, with small and bow, thesmallbow.com. Nailed it. But it's spelled like the small bow sometimes, so I don't want to confuse people. And then obviously, I mean, really good shares. We're part of the iHeart Podcast family, and you can find that wherever you listen to podcasts.

Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? I think we're at Instagram as TheSmallBowNewsletter and then at Twitter at TheSmallBow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Check it out. Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, uh, at miles of gray.

And if you like 90 day fiance, come by and check out for 20 day fiance where I get high and talk about 90 day fiance. Um, now if we're going to talk some tweets that I like, this one is from Langston Kerman at Langston Kerman. He says, sometimes I want to, I want to judge self-help Twitter. And then I remember how inspired I used to feel from the trash talk on and one t-shirts. And if you remember the and one basketball brand with like the faceless avatar logo, the first one that he posted was a shirt

that says go to church pray you don't guard me and then another one is like with the and one character like dribbling it says my game and your breath the two strongest things on the court wow this is that's a little complicated but i yeah i like it two more that i like this is from at sarah winifred tweeted. I saw a girl. I saw a six year old girl at the playground who caught a sparrow in her hand. And her mom was like, oh, yeah, she does that. I wish she'd stop.

The most logical explanation is that I'm a supporting character in a middle grade novel. That fucking rules. And then last one at JL Barrow in reference to Dave Cipeda said, I thought, quote, Twitter wasn't a real place. Now outcry is costing you opportunities. Is it Uchiwale or one mic? I'm tired. Yeah. All right.

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