The Daily Zeitgeist - I Just Zeit In Your Arms Tozeit 5/7: COVID, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Winslet, Jen Psaki, Elon Musk

Episode Date: May 7, 2021

On this edition of I Just Zeit In Your Arms Tozeit, It Must've Been Something You Trend Jack and Miles discuss the COVID death toll being much higher than reported, Aubrey Plaza being married (!!?!), Kate Winslet being awestruck by 'mythical' Wawa, Jen Psaki shutting down Newsmax, and Elon Musk, at long last, finally, hosting SNL this weekend. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wow. The things we come up with in our vaccine stupors. Yeah. That shows you how good we are, baby. Yeah. Can't be stopped. Can't be stopped can't be stopped it's like the flu game up here oh hell yeah it's definitely flu game and i'm and i'm outperforming jordan too and also it's overrated how much i have the flu and underrated how much

i'm just shitting everywhere uh people don't know people don't remember that one i don't know the diarrhea game more like um but all to save your your idol huh just be human i wonder what that would have done for the culture if we were just out there diarrhea game if it was the diarrhea game and we're like i mean if the internet existed that's what it would have been because yeah it wouldn't be like bob costas's take on the situation right because we only got like the five sports writers who were able to figure it out to report on like oh that's all yeah he was sick versus like he was straight shitting himself and still got it done anyways that's still a while the the last dance revealed that like he wouldn't let anyone else have a bite of the pizza. And then like the implication that like the guy was trying to poison him.

Yeah. And then the dude comes out the next day. He's like, yo, I, what? What? No.

Do you think Michael Jordan is getting the vaccine? Yeah. Right. I hope. I don't know. It's just always funny. I hope for his sake. Cause he doesn't look like he's,

his immune system is killing he seems like someone with that kind of like nobody's biting my pizza like right scientific logic provide for that's you know present in that take but you know what i hope he is i'm sure yeah i feel like his not letting people eat is less germ phobia and more just gotta like own everybody let them know who's right who's the boss oh he's like oh i got the vaccine in fucking 2019 right we're like oh okay uh all right let's tell the people what's trending here at the tail end of this week of ours 900 000 is trending because that is apparently according to a new uh university of washington study uh is the number of americans who've actually died of covid which is over double

the you know official count uh they did this based on looking at excess mortality from march 2020 through may 3rd of this year and that's how many more people died than you would have expected based on just population and every other year when we didn't have a pandemic that was being ignored by the presidential administration yeah yeah um other countries it's being under undercounted by less but you know i i do probably like we had a sense as it was happening that they were like covering shit up as much as oh yeah just everything from even like new york when cuomo and the nursing homes and things like that there there was a lot of bizarro underreporting and shit or like in certain states how certain states were trying to use like the like just weird logic of like no actually that would that person probably would have died already of this other thing even though they came in with covet and died during that time

we're gonna say it's some other thing so yeah it's just it's uh god i mean i wonder when that when we will have the reckoning with that. I mean, it's, yeah, I don't know if like people are, have moved on in their mind. Like,

okay, well, huh. That sucked. Yeah. Like, no damn near a million people dead and countless people who have, my God.

I mean like the trauma, it's just, just, you know, set off as a ripple effect. Like to think that we're just gonna kind of be like oh yeah right that was a flub like you'd hope we're having we're gonna have some serious introspection yeah the the biggest I think it's like top three biggest

flubs of 2020 was uh Trump's response yeah oh yeah handle tiger king number one yeah carol baskin carol baskin oh not a good look not a good look babe she was sloppy with that murder huh everyone's all eyes on you number two flub all right aubrey plaza is trending uh i have no idea why you tell me she revealed that she was just married to her like longtime partner um this other screenwriter like as she was just married to her long time partner this other screenwriter as she was praising his new movie and people were like what you're married to that what

it's like it's her long time partner it's just like you know it's just a Hollywood type gossip take where people are like oh she was I guess she was secretly married but she didn't tell us I feel like we're not really friends yeah i don't like yeah this is again when people feel betrayed and it and i think so many people stuff on the internet is people just lamenting like you know posting memes of like people

screaming or crying it's like are you telling me aubrey plaza just got married and it wasn't with me well shout out to the happy couple uh who's who's the scream writer jeff jeff baina yeah uh shout out to them shout out to yeah and great people out here still getting married you know people out here still pretending they have their own lives and control over privacy like what the yeah great well she's gonna pay for that i wonder how many like gossip books are like oh yeah you think you can cut us out of the equation oh he co-wrote i heart huckabees with david what classic underrated the get him in there get him in i think about that movie all the time man the uh the jude law character that i just know so many people business people who have three anecdotes that they recycle and who you could just like make wilt uh if you were just like we're like

hey he's about to tell these three anecdotes uh okay here he comes he's gonna order the barbecued chicken and i think uh mark walberg's best role to date oh he's like what does he say is that your hummer out there what's the suv he has you're the destroyer man that's like one of my favorite mark walberg lines just looking because he has you're the destroyer it man. That's like one of my favorite Mark Wahlberg lines. Just look at, cause he has an ass. You're the destroyer. It's just like such a perfect use of his like, kind of, uh, just shittiness. Like, yeah. Shittiness and stupidity.

And like, but like, yeah. Uh, that movie, uh, overall, not like a, I wouldn't say a successful movie necessarily, but like has, has some great moments for sure those behind the scenes clips of david o russell surely don't help either yeah well i i think a lot of the stuff that i love about it the screenplay so uh shout out to aubrey plaza for uh hooking a hooking a real talent the other thing uh this guy he also wrote the the little hours that movie that they were in with like kate mccoochie and allison brie well i don't think i saw that yeah i started watching the beginning it was kind of

trippy because it's just like this medieval like comedy but like they're they're not their writing is very much like i don't know they talk like now but they're in medieval times and they're really yeah it's like very flippant i mean i do feel like that's probably true right like that's probably not everybody spoke with a british accent and was like super formal yeah but they're like smoking cigs and shit like it's like yeah they're they're taking liberties but in the best way like they're making this like funny i only truth be told i only got halfway through and then i'd do something but i feel like people have like we've yet to see the period piece that totally is just like here's what it would have actually been like people used to like get swept away in rivers of shit like back in the day right we don't you don't see that and oh like it's like the realist history flick you've ever seen yeah just like actually like they there was no place for shit to go

without plumbing so there was just shit everywhere exactly it's a mark walberg film like the fucking deep water horizon oil rig thing but it's about a old man fighting a shit river I'm down hey I got something to say to you king yeah your highness this river shit took my boy away and now you got an answer for it what do you think about that Wawa is trending because Kate Winslet

is now a newly transplanted she basically she's the first actor to ever nail the Philly accent is now a newly transplanted. Basically, she's the first actor to ever nail the Philly accent. Or attempt with gusto. Right. I saw some Philly people pick him in a part that it's a good attempt. But either way, to attempt it, I think, is commendable.

Sure. Honestly, it would be impossible to please 10% of people from Philadelphia, even if you win a championship. You're playing on a sports team in that town. Yeah. You win a championship, you're good until the... The next season. Yeah. Until the digestion of the horse shit that they just ate

kind of starts hitting them, and then they'll turn on you. Anyways, shout out to the Sixers. But she... So on a podcast, some lesser podcast that gets real guests, well, I shouldn't say gets real guests, that gets Kate Winslet on. She was talking about what it was like

to go to a Wawa for the first time. Yeah, because the mayor of East Town, you know, Wawa culture is in there. Oh, yeah. And she said she was awestruck by its mythical quality and said quote to finally walk through the door of a wawa i felt like oh yes i'm here i belong this is where it's at her line about wawa so she got into character heavy yeah that's uh has she never been to a 7-eleven because if you want to know what a wawa so she got into character heavy yeah that's uh has she never been to a 7-eleven

because if you want to know what a wawa is just picture a 7-eleven but clean and with a subway attached but a better it's like a better subway right i don't know i mean all the people i know i'm just trying to troll people from philadelphia right now yeah right people i know from philly were always like no man it's like the breakfast sandwich you gotta there's nothing better than that and i was like or the hero i don't know whatever you like you like hoagies i'm like i haggies do you like haggies but i get it from the energy people have i'm like sure yeah i because i love regional shit like that i just you know unfortunately i'm ignorant to the power of the wawa there's like certain, the thing about the Philly accent

is like it goes in so many different directions. Like my dad says, he doesn't really have the thick like hagy, yeah, but then he says sassages instead of sausages, which doesn't really make sense with the rest of the accent. He might just be putting his own swag on it.

He might be, but no, I've heard that. I've like looked it up and other people are like yeah philly accents those sassages for no real reason there's a very interesting like video that's like does the philly accent vary across the city south philly is a different vibe water ice uh gen saki is trending uh that is jen p s a k i but uh it's like psyched uh it's uh the p is silent yeah let them know let them know i don't know man i didn't know i'm just helping people out in case they're dumb like me so she first of all she's trending because she uh

is announced that she's probably not going to be in this job in a year next year. So she's probably stepping down. And weird big D Democrats are like, no, we've turned you into an idol. of rhetorical uh might or ability yeah and will look just miles ahead of kaylee mcainany huckabee and spicer and that whole fucking group of clowns um but she's trending right now because she had to shut down this newsmax journalist if you want to even call her that um who was just like trying to get her with like a gotcha question, like a loaded question. And a lot of people were like, I like the energy of Jen Psaki in regards to this kind of question. Thanks, Jen.

I have questions on a couple of different topics. First, given the number of former Obama administration officials that are now in this Biden administration and the president's relatively light schedule, there's a growing perception that this is really just the third term of President Obama. What do you say to people who say that? First, I'm sorry. This guy actually, he said no to big pharma.

So I'm already like, I don't think Obama would have done that. But anyway, that's the conspiracy theory. Their chosen president's schedule was eight hours of watching TV a day. Are they counting that as part of the job? Come on, Jack. Is he not watching enough TV? Don't ask them to acknowledge anything that's happened. Okay, my bad.

They're only in a goldfish phase of immediate reactionary stuff. So yeah, she's like, yeah, a lot of people have been saying that. Enter Jen Psaki. Who say that? Who a lot of people have been saying that enter jensaki who say that who were saying that who's saying that you hear that a lot in the media different people like different questions uh about when you had japanese prime minister minister suga here see she's she's already wobbly and jen saki is looking at her like she had basically did the diarrhea game right in front of her just like really uh-huh you came in here looking like that and you're asking this and you have no receipts this isn't this ain't kaylee baby the only receipt she had was like that he didn't he wasn't the first person to greet the japanese prime minister uh but he like then went on to meet with him so like that was and kamala harris is already like independently meeting with

like allies like i don't what's wrong with that you know how many times mike pence had to fucking play to pretend to be the president because trump couldn't do anything yeah anyway so that was just a moment then at the very end she kept going with it and she just sort of hits was like i'm sorry emerald i think you've had plenty of time today. And just like cut her off. So, you know what? We love that energy. We love it.

Nailed it. That was your time today. You really, you know, it was a good effort. Let me just see if I can pull up that one. Spoken with President Xi about the origins of the coronavirus. Yeah, he said just a few weeks ago he hadn't yet. I think we have given a readout of his call and also that the president believes there should be an independent investigation led by health experts and one where their data is provided, that's provided transparently to our medical and science experts here in the United States. And

we look forward to reviewing that. We're going to have to go on. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Emerald. I think you've had plenty of time today. I think you've had plenty of time today. Woo! I think you've had plenty of time today. Anyway, so. And the filibuster. Yeah, please. And the fucking filibuster.

All right. The FEC dropped the Stormy Daniels charges against Trump, which sounds like, oh, OK, maybe maybe those were over. Except it was just specifically the Republicans on the FEC refused to like take them seriously. And so it was basically like tie game. We can't we can't move forward with it that's another thing i'm waiting to see is when is the biden administration gonna you know hold this other one to account because we're doing the thing that we said we shouldn't be doing right which is letting people off the hook yeah um and i'm sure like who knows maybe the the other like uh other investigations will or you

know like legal uh troubles he's in will come to fruition but i'm still very much like y'all are okay i think they're probably just very strategically trying to be like i can't say anything so i don't arm them with any fucking sound bites to do whatever the fuck they're gonna do but at the end of the day jo, they don't believe in anything that's real. We believe in nothing. Yes, we believe in nothing, Lebowski. And finally, I feel like I've been fooled multiple times

on this one, but they're telling me the Elon Musk SNL thing has not happened yet and is happening this weekend. So I guess look out for that but i felt i thought when they announced it like people made such a big deal about it i was like oh that's this weekend all right like i'm sure i'll hear about it if something happens uh didn't happen next weekend the snl talent is like yeah we're not fucking with this right so that became a news cycle so now

it's actually happening and i don't have very high hopes because um they had trump in the midst of his you know full trumpiness yeah hosting snl and like it was it didn't produce like any iconic moments or like anything like nobody just normalized him it was just like and yeah it wasn't even like it was just a full zero like in every direction so like i'm sure this is just gonna suck like i'm sure it's not even gonna be it's not like snl does really well when they have like bad guests but it's like still interesting you know it's just like no they they're too professional to even like let someone flail horribly this will be i'm just i really want to see because i want to see what and the material that he ends up having to do and like i'm sure there'll be a lot of stories

next week meaning we'll get a fucking like four full weeks of elon musk snl talking stuff and dogecoin obviously because that's the other thing that goes along with that yeah it's your meme crypto going it'll it'll be our first chance to see a fully uh colin jost penned show uh right because i'm sure most of the writers are not fucking actually scarlet helped me out with a couple of these shout out to you i like elon grimes colin scarlet like if you told me they were spotted like on a yacht somewhere that wouldn't surprise me in the least yeah doing naz balloons yeah allegedly totally i'm sure elon musk does nose balloons i'm sure he elon musk is like the type i i can smell the impressionableness on him you know i mean like my like peer pressure kid energy is like oh yeah i get this kid to do some shit i turn this

bitch out get him to fucking steal his mom's emeralds and bring them to me. Yeah, Elon, I mean, if you want to say the N-word, bro, bring some of them emeralds through. Oh, cool, man. Really? We got this guy. And then when he says it, we're going to fucking duff him out. Okay, ready?

Oh, shit. Alright, well, we'll be looking out for that. That's it for this week. We're back on Monday with the whole last episode of the show. Till then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Yes.

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