The Daily Zeitgeist - Holy Zeiter 9/28: Mushroom, Lakers, Julian Assange, Daniel Craig, TikTok, Miracle Whip

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

In this edition of Holy Zeiter, Jack and Miles discuss Donald Trump insisting his penis isn't toadstool-shaped, the Lakers being fully vaxx'd, the CIA's plot to assasinate Julian Assange, Daniel Craig's thoughts on a female 'Bond', TikTok being dangerous AF, Tuna Salad: Miracle Whip or nah? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Holy Diver is the original song, which I totally knew and did not just have to listen to that song. Got Ronnie James Dio over here. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you were saying before we recorded, you could like hear young Jack Black. Just being irreversibly, his brain matter being reformed from listening to Dio. But I mean, you know, there were plenty of singers like that from them. But I was like, damn, Jack Black's killing the deal yeah for sure well i am jack uh o'brien not black uh you are miles not black but gray yeah half black which gets you to gray there it is

and we are here to tell you what is trending. Mushroom is trending. Is there like a soup recipe? What are we dealing with? Are people micro-dosing? Oh, God. Imagine Donald Trump is president and mushroom is trending because that's what's happening. Did he set off a nuclear explosion?

Well, no. You remember Stormy Daniels described the toadstool storm form of the president's oh no nether parts um so stephanie grisham former press secretary has a book out and like it's the kind of book you're like man fuck it you really just were like fuck it you just want to know some dumb shit this is not really consequential like we they averted a nuclear war and shit it's all stuff like you know uh there was a guy who they call the music man like there are one handler of trump's was designated music man and that would be a person who would have to play his favorite

show tunes including memory from cats to pull him from the brink of rage. This is what she's alleging in this book. Are you serious? Yes. Would they kind of stroke his forehead? Like he would lay down on their lap and they would stroke his forehead while they played the song for him? I don't do it. There is so much stuff.

There was like he was like ogling staffers. Apparently he the reason why the mushroom thing happened is that essentially he had like basically like called her from Air Force One to inform her that it wasn't true. That the mushroom allegation from Stormy Danieliels like he called her like it's not true it's not true at all does he know and it's like okay fool like what um then there's like another one where he like got tough with putin like in japan but he said before the like before they went on camera he apparently told putin allegedly said i'm gonna act a little tougher with you for a few minutes but it's for the cameras and after they leave we'll talk you understand when he was like don't meddle in the election if you remember that thing that he said yeah that was for show he hit a colonoscopy appointment

because of his toxic masculinity you can already imagine what he thought would happen if people knew be good for people to see like the half of the country that voted for him that like oh man he he does it like maybe i should do it too like probably would have been the one thing he did during his presidency that helped people the most letting them know that he got a colonoscopy well this was a thing where he took a weird trip to walter reed and everyone's like oh daddy's brain's going or something's happening he was getting a colonoscopy i remember like this was like another one of those stories where they're like what's what's he doing at walter reed he hit he was just hiding it because he didn't want to be the butt of

the joke you are hiding h colonoscopy a an appointment yes this feels like a book that was written after two glasses of wine like that sort of just like messy ass gossip yeah kind of i i do love it the other part is he used to cut his own hair i mean that's like something they say he's cutting his own hair which is a big ass scissors quote trump carries around quote a huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening style yo like he said huge this is a direct quote from the book a huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties i think those are shears at that point yeah and he used it to cut his hair i don't know this is truly uh amazing i this might be the first trump book that i have to

read since since fear by bob woodward all right well shout out to uh stephanie grisham i didn't see the headline yeah bunch of people just grifting off of each other and she's like well fuck it i'm just gonna say all this dumb shit that i saw uh proving that i am a elder millennial i saw the headline about a grisham book and i thought it was john i was like oh he's back with a legal thriller about donald trump's about Donald Trump's mushroom-shaped penis. All right. Lakers are trending because they are not fucking around this season,

at least not when it comes to the vaccine. I have a feeling this has something to do with the leader of their team being the most powerful person in professional sports yeah uh frank vogel uh no sorry uh lebron james and i mean i remember he was a little bit he's been caged he was cagey about the cagey like nicholas uh when it came to the vaccine. Maybe that was just him knowing that if he just left it in a gray area for long enough, Kyrie would eventually be consumed by the darkness. But he

now, the team is 100% vaxxed. Yeah. Which has to feel good as a Laker fan. Yeah, I mean, I think especially when you look at other teams, there are people like, I'm not doing it. Or people are like, I need a religious exemption. They're like, nope.

Yeah. How about now? I know, like, I was also reading a tweet from Arash Markazi. Shout out to him. We went to the same elementary school. Now a great sports journalist at the LA Times. He was pointing out a fact. He's like, despite that, he said the sentiment around the

team is like not many people are really going to go out there full force and like do a psa for this shit either right so there's like this very weird because you'd also hope that they could be like yo what like come on take the league with you be like hey hey come on what the fuck are we doing here just just get the jab here we go um but the only jab they're fucking with is a jab step. Looks like. That's right. It also, I do wonder if the not bringing the entire league along with them serves as somewhat of a competitive advantage. Could you?

Oh, my God. Just a weird. Look, we want a bubble title. And then the next one was like, well, you know, like half the players like just didn't get on board with vaccines and you're playing very depleted squads. I mean, I don't know. Uh, NBA heads,

tell us what you think. Um, I like that. Uh, this is the third story, uh, and in trending after mushroom and Lakers, we have Julian Assange because it has been revealed that the CIA was plotting

to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange. Mm. Hmm. Yeah. That's rendition. Do it all. Spy on him. The lawyers.

I mean, yeah, whatever you think of Julian Assange, it just shows like, this is what happens when you blow whistles and shit. The things that happen and uh you know it's it's a it's a very similar pattern um but i mean like with this one this is a very this is a big i think thorn i think trump was like also very heavily featured in the

discussions with the cia as it related to this um so yeah just a just a quick thing oh yeah the cia was just plotting to do that just so you know that's what's happening anyways shout out to the cia i guess really uh just doing the doing the thing that most people don't realize it's like yeah that's part of uh you know i mean again i think people have many different opinions on julian assange but just looking very narrowly at the act of whistleblowing and then your life being in jeopardy or being put in jail or, you know, having your life ruined like many countless others who have, you know, exposed things that the U.S. government was doing. I mean, just that's a that that pattern that we have, I think, is something that I think Americans aren't fully grasping all the time. Yep. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the

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fucking make a new story up i think that's like the one thing these development people in the studios refuse to do is go, what about a new idea? What about a new set of ideas? Rather than relying on things that were like, well, if we just rinse this thing out and reuse it, then it will make X amount of dollars. Right. Let's see. Misinformation on TikTok has gotten so bad that unpaid influencers are taking it upon themselves to fight back against it. that unpaid influencers are taking it upon themselves to fight back against it.

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So a report came out last month from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue suggesting that TikTok, which is now neck and neck with YouTube for watch time and absolutely destroying platforms like Instagram, is not doing enough to remove troubling content from the platform. No, and it seems like when they do remove stuff,

it's like things that have some kind like social justice bend or other things too like well don't show like uh like police brutality stuff like on here too like this is this is to sort of keep people in a milky bath of not giving a fuck about anything except for what's happening on tiktok but yeah i can we constantly see i mean i always see like random tiktoks being pulled like in articles talking about you know extremism and like they're just there they're not like captured you know for posterity clips like no that's still cooking on tiktok right now yeah yeah the study uh actually identified 312 videos promoting white supremacy which was 30 of the sample of videos that they looked through um so wow yeah it's not great uh in fact it's terrifying and very bad and

what yeah i do you think we'll ever i mean this is just like a stupid question but i feel like is is it possible we'll ever really arrive at that point where you go all right that's it we got to unplug this shit i don't know but it's just it's hard because it's not up to just one old cranky stepdad to do it right you know there's just there are many banks involved and money being made right because it's just wild that at the end of the day everything's just about how long can we get this motherfucker to stare at this by any means necessary and if that means we trigger some kind of societal collapse then so be it but we're gonna damn sure get them with that watch time yeah miracle whip yeah is trending because yvette nicole brown's recipe for tuna salad is drawing some criticism. Yeah, she was talking about potato salad, and then someone asked her about tuna salad,

and then she said her recipe is solid albacore tuna, relish, miracle whip, hard-boiled egg, salt, lots of pepper. And I said, egg? I said, miracle whip? I said, fucking relish? Relish? Yeah. No. no no let's just keep it simple you know i and i understand there are a lot of people who had other really interesting like recipes but when it for me personally because that shit is going on the sandwich or like a

you know tuna melt what have you yeah i can't have all that other shit in there i just can't you're just straight mayo and tuna? I'll do Kewpie mayo, Japanese mayonnaise. I'll do white pepper, a little bit of salt. The mayonnaise brings enough salt quality to it. I don't typically over-salt it. And then very finely, if I want to, very finely cut green onion. I'll kind of sprinkle that in there just to kick it up a notch.

But other than that, I just keep it real simple. I like a little mustard thrown in. You ever fuck with tuna with a little mustard? I do that with my egg salad. I actually think this sounds great. I'm a fan of Miracle Whip. I don't mind. You like Miracle Whip?

I do, yeah. It's so sweet. Yeah, it's... My grandma used to make turkey sandwiches that had like big old hunks of red onion turkey and then miracle whip and i don't like red onion and i don't like miracle whip and i don't particularly like turkey delivery vehicle it's the best it was it was the best and it's almost definitely just because it was my grandma making it for me i was like five years old it was the best and it's almost definitely just because it was my grandma making it for me i was like five years old it was like i only got it at her like house by uh the shore so like it was just

a sense memory but i will still fuck with miracle whip it's funny i my because my grandmother also uh made a turkey sandwich that i love but it she would make it on like that fucking like 900 like 15 grain bread right then i'm like it's all fucking weird and crunchy and shit but like to your point with the with the grandmother's love i was like it's my favorite sandwich yeah and i remember anytime i would always i would never eat 12 grain bread or wheat bread as a kid on and only in that very narrow context. But she would use best foods mayonnaise on that shit. Okay.

Yeah. Shout out to grandmas. All right. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine.

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