The Daily Zeitgeist - If Local News Wasn’t Trash, American Foods Outlawed In Other Countries 2.2.22

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

In episode 1076, Jack and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian Brian Simpson to discuss What If The Local News Covered Wage Theft, People Have Lost Faith in the Domino’s Tracker, Iceland Has An Eerily Well Preserved Big Mac On Display as a Historical Artifact and more! What If The Local News Covered Wage Theft In a Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From the Working Class Tax Cheats Are Costing the U.S. $1 Trillion a Year, IRS Estimates People Have Lost Faith in the Domino’s Tracker Lawsuit accuses Domino's Pizza of 'rampant wage violations' Delivery driver wants Domino's to pay up after years of making less than minimum wage Domino's offers new 'tip' for customers who skip delivery amid driver shortage TikToker explains how the Domino’s Pizza tracker works in viral video Iceland Has An Eerily Well Preserved Big Mac On Display as a Historical Artifact Common US foods that are banned in other countries Watch: Watermelon Prank VideoFollow: @jacquisneal @bscomedianLISTEN: Web by The Roots Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 222, episode 3 of Der Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it is Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Nowadays, everybody got a pod like they got something to say, but nothing comes close to the TDZ. Just a bunch of pee-pee heads and motherfuckers act like they forgot about Jack. That is courtesy of Podge, Moran, pee-pee heads, an underrated insult in rap music. I think people should use it more. I'm thrilled to be co-hosting today with an award-winning podcaster, a writer producer actor voice artist and even though i always say it's not one of his written credits one of my favorite singers uh also my word old

twin he posted his stats we are nearly identical it's jakees neil baby and i compare you to a jackies from a rose on the grave. Oh, no more I get a view stranger in New Zealand. And now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grave. There is so much a man can tell you So much he can say You remain my zeitgeist My jack is my pain, baby What up, niggas? What's up, man?

Oh, it is Black History Month So let me just say to all the white people Turn your radios off. This month ain't for you. But keep the listens on. We still need the listens. We still need the downloads. You know what I'm saying?

But turn them off. We're talking to all black people. What's up, Jack? How are you? I know I put a lot of pressure on you up top saying you're one of my favorite singers. I mean, it's okay. It's okay. We making it happen. That's a good idea man we should have like black history music and everything to take over

like christmas uh-huh it's like late january you start seeing kwanzaa decorations there hell yeah i did look i looked up i looked up what's like black history songs like just to see what the Internet would say. And then when they was like the story of O.J. was one of them, I was like, let me turn this shit off. I think Black and I'm Proud is the most famous one. And 100 percent. That was that was like number one on the list. All right. Well, Jaquese, that third voice that you're hearing. I heard of someone we're very excited to be joined by his half hour special on netflix is the stand-ups is just fucking hilarious uh he's got dates coming up

all over california and vancouver go see him if you have the chance it's the brilliant and talented brian simpson what up what up how you doing man i wasn't supposed to have something to sing, was I? No, no, no, man. But if you got something in your heart, you know, feel free. I'm good. I find it helpful for me to humiliate myself up top in front of the guests just for energetic purposes. But no, you were not expected to do anything. And then Jaquese just has to show off.

I just do it, you know. I just do it to do it. The pipes. Yes. What's good, Brian? Where are you coming to us from? I'm in L.A. right now. No good show.

You know, can I just say, you know, I'm 35 years old at this point, so I've watched a lot of comedy in my lifetime, coming from Chicago, Comedy City. One of my favorite openings to a comedy special is when a man comes on stage and be like, y'all white people see us niggas like pennies. Just right out the gate, take the bandaid off, rip them

anew. It was fucking great, man. So dope. Such a great special, man. I know so many people I know in LA. We've never met each other, but you know how the LA comedy scene is. Everybody got mutuals. Everybody loving your shit, man. So kudos. I appreciate that. Man, sometimes, man, I go

years without meeting people. Right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. You meet somebody and be like, yo, how long you been here? Like, since like 2012. God damn, how come I ain't never... Right, right. And people who be working, too. People who be working. Yeah, you know the same show.

But then you know what happens? You see somebody and then you start seeing them everywhere. Yeah, that's what happens. That's what happens. It just takes that one time that you recognize their face. All right. Well, 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.

We're going to talk about local news coverage, specifically the lack of local news coverage around wage theft. Talk specifically about Domino's Pizza's wage theft and why you only get coverage of that from the CBC and like Canadian and Pizza Hut's news service, which we do subscribe to and use as a source frequently on this podcast. So we'll talk about that and also some disparaging shit being said about the Domino's pizza tracker, which I will not abide.

That's the best part of Domino's. It's so good. I like those topics. We also will talk about a Big Mac. One of the last Big Macs that was ever sold in Iceland. They closed down all their McDonald's in like 2010. And they got one of the last Big Macs ever sold there in the Icelandic like National Museum.

Uh-huh. And it's like preserved perfectly and not for like like they didn't have to spray shit on it or anything some dude just found it in his garage like two years after he bought it and it was just perfectly preserved so we'll talk about that we'll talk about some shit that you can buy in america that you can't buy in other countries because it's poisonous apparently and we might even check in on canada's neo-nazi convoy i don't know if you guys are up on that story no i i i keep hearing about it and i keep avoiding it so i have fresh opinions but i have no idea what the fuck they're doing yeah yeah you're going to canada right like

don't you have some tour dates coming up? I mean, theoretically. You might be appearing remotely. We'll see. It was supposed to happen this month, but then they got moved to, like, I think May or June. Oh, damn. I don't know. That shit's going to kind of just backwards as hell, isn't it? Yeah. It's wild times up there. But before we get to any of that shit, Brian, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?

Should I upgrade from the S21 Ultra to the S22 Ultra? All right. Okay. I don't know what the fuck that means. That's that Samsung life. So let me, right? Am I right? That's that Android? That's that Android life, yeah. right am i right that's that guy that's that android right that's an android life yeah so you know what you know i think it was one of the first quotes when i was when i when my show was on iheart that people related to when i was like iphones are the all life matters of cell phones because people be people be people be shitting on people and i had an android i got an iphone now

because i was given a free iphone and i was, alright, free phone, I'll take it. I need to upgrade. But I was Android life for a while and the segregation that Apple does with the iPhone is ridiculous. Because you know what it is? For me, having an Android is like having

one of those... Remember when the old laptops were huge and they had the big-ass dusty fan on it? Sounded like it was taking off. Yeah, and then having an iPhone that's like, you know those little toy computers where you

would open it up and be like, would you like to play a game? It's like that. You get all the same stuff done, but it's just simpler and easier yeah right with the iphone but but then when i want to do something complex it's like i'm always going running back yeah you can't you can't so you know to answer your question i don't know if you came up with the answer yet but yeah man go ahead keep it alive for the android family i mean

the truth of the matter is anybody that's Googling that question is getting the S22. I mean, what are we even talking about here? Of course I'm going to get it. I know I'm always getting it. You know? Yeah. Really is the answer. Nah, you're good. That's not where you end up, fine. What if the first answer was, nah, man,

go ahead and get that iPhone, bro. Oh, yeah, somebody would listen to that. I'm not anti-iPhone, though, but boy, man. Go ahead and get that iPhone, bro. Oh, yeah. I'm not anti-iPhone, though, but boy, the iPhone fans, they're like Trump supporters. Yeah.

They just rabid any criticism they can't handle. It's funny because the iPhone, like you pointed out, the iPhone is designed for stupid people, people who aren't good at using technology and need it put on a platter for them and made fun and pretty. And then to be a snob about that, to be like, well, I just like the design simplicity of it. It's like, well, you like the fact that it's made for a child so that a child could use

it but that's not a thing to be snobby about that's always made for anybody right but that's a weird thing to like take pride in and look down your nose at somebody else about and the android i made for the smart was now i do have an iphone now so i'm you know i'm not including myself in that but for everybody else that has an iphone i feel like the only difference i've ever noticed is like between the two is like my sister-in-law is always android and her pictures look a lot better than anybody else's pictures like i don't know if she's just good at it or if her phone just has better camera she has man because right because because listen the worst phones in the world are androids right

right yeah but buying the newest iphone doesn't necessarily mean you have the best phone but people that people that are iphone people just think that yeah they think they just i see i'm because i always got the latest i usually have a note that's why i'm thinking about the s22 i usually have the latest note and i have motherfuckers with an iphone 8 like looking at me snobby because they got a they got a different color text from me or something like they they really it's even it's even comedians that's on this that think yeah oh you got oh you got a green bubble or whatever the fuck the color comes on there. I thought you were successful.

You got four megapixels on your camera. Leave me alone. Right out of here. Boy, you got a default background on there, man, because you can't change your wallpaper. Your phone stopped being able to update six years ago.

The reason I could never break into like android is because like from the start what you said your search terms were just like my my mind like kind of turned off because it that sounds complicated to me i just got my oculus man i'm out here i just got one too. All right, Brian. Let me tell you. Hey, hey. All right. Look, have you done Thriller the Fight yet? No, I haven't.

I just, I downloaded, because yesterday I just, I went through the store, because I just got it yesterday. I went through the store. Okay. I bought a bunch of games. I mean, I favorited a bunch of games, and then this morning I went through and actually bought them. Yeah, yeah.

So I got Thriller to Fight. Only one I had a chance to play was Robo Recall. Okay, okay. All right. I'm going to get it, though. Thriller to Fight. Thriller to Fight. Let me tell you, bro.

Beat Saber. Beat Saber is good. Get you some water. You need to prepare for, like, get your workout clothes on. Yeah, man. Because that shit, you will sweat. It's like that, bro. It is.

It's so hard. Thrill of the fight is so... Everybody I put it on, they want one. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody.

Bro, I took it, I did a Bert Kreiser's podcast yesterday, and my Oculus was in my backpack. I was like, you tried this yet? He's like, nah, I put that joint on him.

He was like, yo. Yo, give me four. He ordered one from inside. Yeah. Yeah. My mom even did that shit. I let my mom play Beat Saber, and she was like yo yo give me four ordered one from inside yeah my mom even did that shit i let my mom play beat saber and she was like how much that cost i'm like you don't need no fucking vr you ain't gonna use it and she bought that shit you saw the video there's a there's a it's a viral video i don't know if it's fat or does that even real. But it's a dude. He walked in on his mom.

She had the headset on. She had her knees beside the bed like... Oh, no! Yeah! Mom was watching porn on VR. Yeah, for the listeners, there was a show being panamoned. Because an older woman

ain't going to get caught that easy. You know what I'm saying? I thought it had it in stage. That's good staging though. That's a well planned viral video. You ever caught a woman masturbating? Women don't even have those stories.

Nah, they don't. All you got to do to catch a man masturbating is leave the house for two minutes and walk back in. He waited for your ass to leave so he can jerk off. Why is the towel crispy? What's wrong with your socks, baby? What is something you think is overrated, Brian?

I think Zoom is overrated. I mean, no. Should we just end the call now? Yeah, I think Zoom is overrated. I mean, no arguments. Yeah, I think Zoom's overrated. I think Snapchat's overrated. I will say this, man. Snapchat, I did think

Snapchat was overrated for the longest time until a couple months ago. You subscribed to some premium chats. I, you know, got them private snaps. I was like, oh, Snapchat is pretty damn cool. And then the shit disappeared. And I'm like, well, what the fuck?

You know what really hits me in my spirit, though, is birthdays. I hate them. I don't like how people behave around them. I don't like how people behave around mine. Most of my friends don't even know mine. Right.

For that very purpose. It's because people always try to make you do shit. My favorite thing to do is nothing. Yeah. And then my birthday come and people try to make me do shit they want to do. Right. Right. Right.

Yeah. Hey, man, let's go dancing. I don't like going dancing. Bitch, it's your birthday. I know. Right. I got to go. Right. Yeah. Hey, Brad, let's go dancing. I don't like going dancing, bitch. It's your birthday. I know. Right. I got to go. Right.

Yeah. Performative celebration and shit. Yeah. You already know, man. Don't need to come talking to my true brother. When's your birthday? None of your motherfucking business. I feel you, though, man.

I feel you. Especially because, you know, I feel that same way about certain holidays like Cinco de Mayo or St. Patrick's Day. And for a lot of people- Groundhog's Day? Well you know it's today Groundhog's Day? Yeah today's Groundhog's Day. Let's see what we'll see what the what what the beaver talking about. It's a groundhog right? Yeah yeah groundhog is comes out and whether it sees its shadow which I don't think any animal has ever noticed its shadow one way or another. But yeah, no, man, my German Americans to get drunk.

Yeah, but that's what it is. It's just an excuse for people to party and get drunk and get crazy. And I'm just like, this shit is whack. Like I can go get a hangover the other 364 days of the year. That's yeah. I feel what about,

what about drinking games? See, I think that's, what about drinking games? See, I think that's, that's an exclusively white activity. It is. I've only done that with my white friends. I'm safe. No black function has ever turned into like,

Hey guys, let's play beer pong or something like that. Because it's like, wait a minute. We, cause I used to ask a lot of women, why don't we just drink? Cause they like to go, oh!

When they're drinking. I never heard of Ring of Fire, or everybody has a different name for it, but where you just put a whole bunch of cards, and you pick one, and you just drink. I never heard of that shit until I started going to school with white people. Yeah, yeah. But it was fun times. Yeah, it was great. If I wasn't here, I would have still just got drunk.

What's something you think is underrated, Brian? Massages. Oh, speak my language. Yeah, I think massages, like it's a, cause it just ain't no amount of stretching. I mean, I guess you could do yoga or something like that, but man, it ain't nothing like a real, like a real professional massage. Yeah. And the people who don't get that make me mad, man. I used to work for a company called RastaBuzz here in LA.

And then I managed that company. And for the end of summer, summer is the biggest tourism season. It's a big tourism season. Everybody busts their ass off. I asked my owner, the owner of the company yo can i get everybody a 50 gift card to massage envy right uh just to be like yo nice thank you for your service go get a little massage get relaxed everything not something people do for themselves very often yeah and then my owner was like why don't you just like take that money and take them all out

to like dinner and drinks i'm like nigga, nigga, cause I can do that anytime. Like, can I do this? And then people was mad. Like, what's this? Just give me the money. I'm like,

man, I hate y'all. They're like, Oh, this is kind of intimate. Yeah. Like I've never had some, I've never had a real massage.

I'm supposed to get, take my clothes off. Like, man, it's the, the, the consciousness around. It's like trying to talk dudes and they're using them a? Like, man, it's the consciousness around. Yeah, man.

It's like trying to talk dudes into using a bidet. You know, it's like, it's better, bro. Also underrated. Use it. I got bidets on both of my toilets. Yeah. Yo, just think of it as like a toilet paper part three or whatever. It's like, it's the sequel.

Yeah. Yeah. And your ass clean your ass is clean it's like yo we know what i'm gonna start just doing the sniff challenge i'm gonna wait for me like 10 hours into the day like ladies ladies sniff out sniff out sounds not great for them but I think it would be revealing. I'm telling you now, if anybody out there listening and you only wipe your ass with toilet paper and that's it, not even a baby

wipe, your ass is dirty. I'm sorry, Zyke gang, your ass is dirty. We got to stop shaming them. Shaming them. Naming and shaming. Yeah, because it's like it's an illusion. Because when you're just using toilet paper, you might get it nice and dry. And then it seems like it's not dirty.

But then once you sweat a little bit, this might be too detailed. And people might not want me to talk about swamp ass. But it is a reality that you need the bidet. You really do. I just walk up to the girl you're talking to and go, hey, boo, he a paper boy. You know what I'm saying? He a paper boy. There you go.

Don't waste your time, girl. I love it. I love it. I'm going to try that shit. It ain't going to work, but I'm going to try that shit. No, it ain't going to work. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back.

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who's just, you know, retweeting a thread he did about how, like the the sort of bias in the news in the united states when it comes to you know they they love to cover some property crime they don't like to cover wage theft which i don't i don't think i even really fully knew what wage theft was but like there's this chart that we'll link off to it It's the natural progression of capitalism. Right. Exactly. Yeah. It's been happening. Like there's this chart that a lot of people have probably seen where it's productivity on one line and compensation for American workers on another line.

And they're like neck and neck going up through the 60s, up through the 70s. And then like 78, it just compensation just flattens the fuck out. And productivity just keeps going up in the same direction. I wonder what happened in 78. Huh? Yeah. Was it Ronald Reagan? Yeah.

Oh, that was it. Or who was the president right before him was it nixon carter carter yeah okay but that's where reaganism really started to hit like when people knew he was about to run and like oh the actor or the governor he was the governor of california at the time yeah yeah i mean they the the u.s government or the u.s economy hit a bit of a slump during carter and then Reagan's answer was, fuck poor people, basically. Like, fuck laborers and fire all the union workers,

and, you know, it'll look good on TV, which turns out has been a successful, you know, a successful strategy for a long time, but I think it's just, it's come to a breaking point as we've been talking, talking about a lot on this show. Yeah. Like just talking about the local news. I was put trying to put a six or a game on last night and I turned the TV on and left the room. Cause I, my three-year-old needed me came back in and it was on the local news and my five-year-old was just watching it. And it like all this just awful shit and he was into it he was like yo what is this like explain explain

what the local news is because there's fires and there's you know all this bad shit like speeding cars car accidents like damn you missed a chance to save some money man that's for all your toys you're all your toys Damn, you missed a chance to save some money, man. That's for all your toys. All your toys. In that convoy. You had your chance to not pay for Sling or Cable or Netflix no more. Yeah, just leave it on.

Yeah, man. If you want your gifts, you got to go to school. It's wild, though, man. I mean, to that point, the news is i mean to that point the news is tight i mean the news is tight like that you know like think about like the uh i remember we were talking about we had kenny smith on and we talked about the oj chase because it was during like his finals or the finals that him and uh rockets and the knicks ran and he was like yo even we knew what was going on in the news and we was on the motherfucking sideline like they're getting updates yeah they get updates like yo man what cbs talking about like they on the sideline in the nba finals

and he was like we was talking about that shit on the sidelines i mean it's a good product it's entertaining and it's a product, but that's not what it needs to be, right? Like that's for a functioning society. It can't just be like whatever is flashy and entertaining, or at least that can't be all that it is. And then it, I mean, it's not just that like they go after whatever grabs ratings. I think it's also, there's just such a thorough, down to the cellular level, corporate bias in this country. So, I mean,

Alex's point in his thread is wage theft equals or outweighs the amount of money lost by property theft each year. But wage theft is being done by massive corporations to people who can't absorb it without turning to

property theft themselves and people don't understand too but like there's a there's an extra little fuck you that comes with making minimum wage you know or low or very low wages and it's because the the customers you're dealing with know that you are so desperate for a job that you took this low wage shitty job. So they treat you with a little extra, you know, fuck you going to do about it type of attitude. Right. Right. Yeah. You know, nobody going to sit in their accountant's face and start yelling at their accountant.

Well, maybe some people do, but like not to the same degree that you'll go to best buy and be like you ain't got this dvd no nigga we ain't got like i'm not making them right working here and that's the thing they be they be upset at the wildest shit it's just like you want me to lose my job to make you happy yeah yeah exactly i always ask you how they doing like yeah yeah even if they got an attitude with me i'm like that shit ain't about me yeah yeah that's fair man i i used to work uh retail like most people best buy best buy for life and then uh i can't tell you how many people would just treat you like shit just because you're selling them a tv you know it's like you ain't got to buy the tv bruh and also i will sell you the worst tv in this

motherfucking store now one fell down and in the back yeah you should have did your research before you came here how you gonna walk into the store talking about which TV is the best? Right. What you looking for? I don't know. I love you. Yeah, I mean, just, you know, we've seen it recently with the, like, quote-unquote rash of, like, smash-and-grab robberies, like, where, like, CVS or one of the

pharmacies was, like, talking about how, like, they were losing so much money to people, like, robbing them or, you know, shoplifting and like claiming it was a coordinated thing. And then there was another thing about like train robberies. And, you know, that is that's the shit that the media chooses to cover on the local and national news. And, you know, that that's like a rounding error to them. That shit doesn't matter to them but it's like about like drilling that sort of ethos into our heads that like that

is what matters that's what is a violation of like the rules i mean the real the real reason that is is because i mean i'm not about to say anything groundbreaking, but nobody wants to admit that most of us don't make what we deserve in any capacity. Like, you know, some of us make way too motherfucking much. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and the ones that make too much are the ones that make decisions. And the ones that don't make enough are the ones that have to follow decisions so you know like even even the people who decide what to put on the news that day i'm sure a ways death comes across the table but the bosses ain't gonna let them talk about that because they probably get a ways deft it from them too you know you know what really pissed me off

about our country sometimes and it's not even it's not even the corruption itself but it's the astonishingly low amount of money it takes to purchase a senator or a congressman yeah yeah it's like when you look at like the contributions and they add up it's like a hundred thousand dollars that's it that's it right this billion dollar corporation giving you a hundred thousand dollars and that's it. That's it? Right. This billion-dollar corporation giving you $100,000, and that's all it takes for you to be like, I think the minimum

wage is fine. Yeah. Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York, I think, senator, she was protecting this judge who worked for a law firm. So the law firm put this guy in jail for proving a case against ExxonMobil in South America and making them pay billions. And so they've gone after this lawyer for all this bullshit stuff.

And Kirsten Gillibrand is protecting this woman because she made a $170,000 donation to her campaign. Like that's, that shouldn't be enough to like, have you completely ruined the society that you're supposed to be like in charge of. And also the people giving the money. See that, that's, that's the myth that we bought. We want to realize some, this, this generation think they the best generation because they know all the answers. Right? But this may turn out to be the worst generation because they ain't going to do nothing

about it. You know? Right. Yeah. We're going to suffer from the problems even with all the solutions at our fingertips. Like, we know what the solution is. Right. Instead of being angry, we'll just be depressed. You know? And we're just not going to do anything about it. I don't know. I mean, maybe it's going to be rebellion. Maybe it's going to be, you know, uprising. Yeah, that's a good point, man. I mean, for the longest time, the the prevailing thought was, you know, we just need to know the answers. We just need to know, you know, these people are doing X because they don't know why. Right. And we found out why you started seeing well shit we still doing x like so like what is it what is it just

goes down i don't know man i think they should be scared of it like bro you know what a lot of people talk about like the january 6th thing in a negative light but i think that's mostly because it was the people you don't agree with running up in the capital but but you know i'm saying but like if they tried to if they tried to ban abortion and 5 000 women rushed to capital a lot of people wouldn't have had a problem with it you know no but i i just i don't like i don't agree with their politics but i do like the fact that the congress people got a little scared for a day they got a little taste a little taste because that's what like over in france and shit they scared of the people the government is afraid

of them because they're these motherfuckers are burning everything down you know right over the slide remember when they tried to uh they tried to raise their retirement age over there by two years or they was in the streets yeah every car was on fire over here they just they just count on the fact like you see how easy it was for them to do that it was very easy with no organ because they so they so lax up there they so used to there being no consequences come to their doorstep so that shit made me a little happy to be honest with you that's a good point i mean we yeah it's not because and here's the thing too we both both sides get it both sides like when everybody was like when all the white folks and the racist folks was like i can't believe they're looting that

store and burning down target and auto zone it was like you get it motherfucker you get it you just don't agree with the reason. Exactly. Yeah. Because you went around January 6th and did the same thing. And then us being like, I can't believe they stormed the Capitol. Like, nigga, you get it. Go through any protest like photography and replace the Black Lives Matter signs with stop the steal signs.

And motherfuckers will act a whole different way. Yeah. Right. The police will act a different way way yeah right the the police will act a different way well yeah i mean yeah the police will act a different way too but also they had police on the capitol steps and shit it was just too many selfies with them yeah well yeah you had some corrupt police officers who was like i wish i could be there with your brother uh here take my gun but like there's other ones which is like it's too many of these motherfuckers but i thought you know like i thought i thought the government was on top

of that game like well i was like yo i thought like when congress is in session it's like you get too many people in front like i feel like there should be some damn invisible rays motherfuckers just freeze at step six like why the fuck can't i move you know but it was it was just it was just 10 guys yeah it was just 10 guys want one person had to like do a lead them away yeah it really fucks with any like conspiracy theory it's like wow they really don't have their shit no no just the people that showed up at my thanksgiving could have could have ran up in the capital that should that should alarm a lot of people yeah but yeah i mean i i think like to your point we we've talked before like so this shit is coming undone in some way because the information is getting out there people are like losing the buy-in that

they have for so long and sort of the neo-capitalist like neoliberal order of things where like corporations are right and are not going to do any harm like i think people are losing that buy-in but it does feel like the right-wing the fascists like have a head start on a lot of shit just in terms of well at least they like ran into the fucking government and did something. The next revolution is going to be in the metaverse. Oh, no. It's going to be virtual riots.

Yeah, that, I mean, that is what they're hoping for. Got my Oculus, I'm ready. To your point earlier, Jaquese, the idea that like the news is good and they're good at telling stories that like keep us engaged like if if you sit back and like just think of it objectively because this is what i was doing trying to explain like

the local news to my kid is like the thing that's supposed like there's no stories where we try and get people outraged about the little guy harming like the fucking empire and like all of our stories are about like the underdog overcoming the odds but like local news is all about like they just they don't give a fuck about like wage theft or like things like that, where it is the powers that be robbing from the little people. And it's just, I don't know. It is work being done on their part. And it's not the natural state of things. It's like they have to tell a worse story to keep these values in place.

Well, I mean, look, it's ratings. We said that. But I went to Columbia College. I went to Columbia College acting, directing acting directing theater all that good shit but you know one of the buildings was for journalism one of the and in that building was how to be a newscaster what the fuck i gotta go to college to read news for right you know like what like seriously what no do i have to go to college to just read news it's because it's it's it's it's entertainment yeah it's entertainment and that's what it is you know like what i need to look good for why i need to have all makeup why i gotta have my hair done why why we need lights

they can put a sheet of paper and put me in front of a camera and i can read the news because that's what it's supposed to be right but no it's entertainment so that you know it's all entertainment it's all money it's all capitalism and it's hard to have the faith in it in the system but you know i'm just hoping like people can get outrage like see it again with fresh eyes like because it is wild shit that we've just like kind of come to accept and be like yeah it's that's how capitalism works you know but it's like yeah but it's it's really bad it's and it's like making making like really awful shit yeah happen and this is coming from somebody who likes to buy shit i love shit i love shit love buying shit love having jordans but i hate this but i hate the system that

makes me like it right well yeah i mean that that in that in turn because that that's really what it comes down to right it's like are we anti-capitalist or are we just anti-capitalism that doesn't work for us. Right. I think that's what it is, to be honest with you. Because we do gleefully, because how you spend your money is the number one way of displaying your real morality. You could say whatever, but you still buy the Jordans. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. You could say whatever, but you still buy the iPhone. It's like you know where it's coming from you know why it's so affordable yeah you can say whatever but you're still in chick-fil-a's drive-thru but i feel like yeah i feel like they've turned up tricked us into thinking like it's on us like to make personal decisions to like fix the problem and it but it's like systemic shit you know like we just because like all the you know we're about to talk about dominoes that's one of my favorite restaurants and yes i do call it a restaurant but like they do fucked up shit and but that's the best way to

order pizza like when your kids are hungry and they want a Hawaiian pizza or whatever. Hawaiian pizza, man. Stop doing that to your kids. I love pepperoni and fucking pineapple, man. It's so weird. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about Dominos.

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back to Trishann. They're unionizing in the chat, y'all. Sorry, Jack. I derailed us after you. No, no. All good. I mean, very, very... That's me. Alright, so, dominoes.

In the news, the way it's being processed and sent back to us is dominoes earnings were down because they couldn't find enough drivers. Like that's how it's told in like Bloomberg and shit like that. They don't dig into the question of why might there be a shortage of drivers? And that actually has a very clear answer. They pay unfair wages. In 2016, the New York State's attorney general sued Domino's over rampant wage violations and franchises that were based on payroll reports generated by Domino's computer system. So it's not like external reports from people who are getting fucked over it's like their own computer system is telling people that and like the same month as the story broke the driver shortages were tagging the company a georgia dominoes franchise was forced to pay a settlement with a driver who was paid just one dollar and fifty cents per delivery. Damn. So those details, though, are in Canadian news sources.

Like, you have to go to CTV News or the CBC to find that information. Wait a minute, this happened in the Canadian dominoes? No, New York and Georgia. The Canadian news reported it. Right, the Canadian news reports the details of wage theft. Right. But like so in Bloomberg and like the American news sources, it's all about like Domino's pizza shares fell because of they basically said that it was like not enough labor and supercharged demand for delivery and takeout. And so the other way it's getting picked up is that Domino's new promotion is to overcome staffing shortages by paying everyone who picks up their pizza

instead of having it delivered, get ready, $3. So you can get a $3 credit instead of doing the delivery. But therefore, making it unnecessary for a driver to have that job essentially but if i wanted to pick up my pizza then i wouldn't be ordering my pizza like right yeah i'm not going out to dominoes right you know how long it's been since I've been in a Domino's? Since I've sat in a Domino's?

That shit is wild. No. I mean, then just give me fucking, I don't get it. This is the shit that pisses me. Just give me $3 off then. Don't tell me you give, I mean, I guess it's a sad thing. They only spend at Domino's. Or just pay people.

Pay people. Just pay people. You know what's so funny is these companies, how they go're they're doing everything except the thing that was solved the problem yeah yeah yeah yeah they talk about oh nobody wants to work no nobody nobody wants to work for bullshit money yeah that's what it is my hours are worth more than a dollar fifty son especially because you know i'm reading this in the doc. They they got to pay for it. They own gas and shit.

I don't know where the rest of y'all live, but here in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, gas is almost five dollars a motherfucking gallon. Yeah. They have to pay for their own gas, which is a medium piece. Yeah. So if you make it a dollar fifty for that delivery, somebody got to tip you $10 for you to start making money. Yeah. And ain't nobody doing that. And again, they're putting that that goes on to us. with $250 in cash, that that's actually less money than

if they just paid her like $22 an hour. You know what I'm saying? Because when you're walking out with bobs of cash every day, you get to decide whether you pay taxes on it or not. It's real easy to convince yourself that you're making more money. But you really aren't. I feel like in a lot of other countries, not in a lot, but some other countries that work better, they probably have like labor unions that are in charge of making sure that like they don't have to like do that work for themselves to like, you know, make that argument.

or because yeah i mean that's that's definitely manipulative to be like look at all this money that people are handing you you're let me tell you something i used to i used to work for tips and like i said i worked ross bus tourism industry and and and it's it's and i figured out a long time ago that if you're good at what you do you can ask for whatever the fuck you want right and and even if you're not good at what you do if they want to keep you you can ask for whatever the fuck you want. Right. And even if you're not good at what you do, if they want to keep you, you can ask whatever you want. And the problem is, you know, some of these companies don't care about their employees and that's a whole nother conversation. But I made my tour company cause I was driving from Burbank to Englewood to go pick up that bus. I was like, yo, y'all can pay for me to get on a 110 and take that toll. They was like, okay, you good. So, all right, yo, y'all can raise my wages because this gas is getting higher. Okay. Yeah, you good.

And then when I became a manager to make up, I was making like $350 a day in tips. And when I became a manager, I was like, all right, you want me to manage your company? This is what we're going to do. This is how much I can make in a day of tips plus my hourly wage. And you're going to pay me extra. And it was like, OK, it's not even that hard sometimes because they got the money. It's just they don't fucking want to give it to you. Right. Right.

They don't want to give it to you. They want to make you jump through all these hoops to ask for what you deserve. It goes back to what you fucking deserve. Right. And the same thing with these drivers, man. Like they want to blame it on the drivers because they know that there are some drivers who will say well it's not our fault we got xxx but there's other drivers who will still do it right who will still drive

and still like take this bullshit because they need the money anyway they can get it don't forget about the uncle tom driver that's like well what are you expecting to do they need the money anyway they can get it. And don't forget about the Uncle Tom driver that's like, well, what are you expecting to do? They running the business. Yeah. I'll take my $1.50 and I'm happy about it. Yes. And I pay taxes on it too. Right. I used to get mad

at tour guys and be like, so we're supposed to pay taxes? Like, man, stop. What? Stop. Stop. Don't the rest of us. Stop. Don't bring no light to this. Yeah. But you know what? That shit backfires, though.

You have to file for disability or something. Oh, yeah. Because they go off your reported wages and not your actual wages. So a lot of people get fucked that way. Yeah. That's true. I don't know, man. Domino's, listen, I'm a kid from that's true i don't know man dominoes listen i'm a kid from chicago so i didn't start eating dominoes until i moved out to la but and dominoes

is good i'm not shitting on dominoes can we say something positive about dominoes yeah yeah that garlic crust is good yeah tracker the pizza tracker yeah tracker so the pizza tracker is also in the news because so somebody went viral as nobody says anymore but you know someone went viral on tiktok because they said they used to work at a domino's and the tracker is just a timer basically like it's not reflective of what's actually happening what's giving you so so wait you're telling me you're telling me that when the tracker tells me that somebody just took my pizza out the oven that there's not a literally a person handling my pizza at that moment person named brian pulling the pizza out of the oven or whatever

that's not accurate yeah that is apparently so that's according to one person a recent tiktok post went viral they said it's just a highly efficient timer. Another TikToker. So one thing you should know about the Daily Zeitgeist, all of our information comes from TikTok. We use TikTok as our fact checking. tracker and reported that it does actually track things to a certain point and reduces the amount of people calling Domino's to ask where their pizza is. So like they do have like some accuracy built in. The place where the tracker can be inaccurate is when the delivery actually goes out because the timer is set to correspond with a driver having only two or three deliveries at a time. But the driver can game the system by taking more deliveries like basically there's like they create a ghost driver account and then just like take all the deliveries for themselves because again they're not being paid enough to do the job they're not being paid what they deserve

and yeah i always got like a like a 10 to 20 tip so my local my local dominoes they hit me first they'd be at my house immediately. That's how you do it. That's how our grandparents and parents used to do it. You get to know the delivery drivers. They get to know your name. We used to get the mailman, like lemonade and shit, because then they take care of you.

We ain't doing it out of kindness of our heart. I mean, we are, but we doing it so they know, oh yeah, Brian, that dude who gave a good tip. Yeah, let's go drop his pizza off while it's hot. Yeah. Common sense. Also, I ain't gonna lie,

I love the pizza tracker. I love the pizza tracker. I love the personalization. I love when it be like, yo, Jennifer just took your pizza out the oven. I'll be like, hell yeah, Jennifer. Thank you, Jennifer. Yeah, so fuck this hater dog trying to steal people's joy with incorrect information. Yeah, exactly. My family, when we order a pizza, we just all huddle around the pizza tracker together and watch it go from step to step. You know, you can share it.

go from step to step you know you could you know you can share it it used to be like you could you it used now they've kind of simplified it now where it's just like the little green dots going forward but it used to be like a dude who you you could see like hey here's where your pizza was like back in the day day anyone who remembers this yeah i don't remember that they had like a max head run of the it was like it was like a little mascot guy. It was a white dude with glasses. A little white guy with glasses and he would like be next to the piece of tracker and be smiling and shit. You talking about the Zoid? No, that was before

the piece of track. I don't know. I don't know. The Noid, although they're trying to bring the Noid back. Yeah, they're trying to bring the Noid back even though the last time they did the Noid, it ended very badly. Yeah, people died. Yeah.

We'll just leave it at that. I was watching something the other day. People would be lying when they'd be saying it. I was watching something over the holiday season, which was like a fucking month ago. And by something, I was watching Home Alone. And remembering the movie where the dude is like uh the piece of guy is like 30 minutes or less or your pizza is free that shit was crazy i don't know why this is making me think of that but that shit was great 30 minutes or less i want my pizza

in 30 minutes less i want a piece of hot and done and fresh yeah yeah because that's a that's a lot to put on people that's a lot crashing yeah on people. That's a lot. Crashing, yeah. Yeah, because you got to cook that pizza. You got to make that pizza. Then that person got to get in their car. And home alone, it was snow on the ground. I know how it is to drive in snow. Man, I want that pizza in 30 minutes. Just give me the pizza in one condition, hot.

That's all I ask for. And the pizza tracker makes that possible because I can track my shit now. And then did he rob the pizza? Like he made the pizza delivery man think that he was being shot at and ran away? Oh yeah. Kevin McAllister was at G. He was that guy.

Who are you talking about? Home Alone. Home Alone the movie. Not real life. What commercial was that? What commercial was that? That's that real life commercial. but anyways even even the tracker issues go back to just you know them paying not paying drivers enough all right let's talk real quick about foods that you can't buy in other countries so first off there's a story in the takeout about a Big Mac meal. So somebody

like Iceland got McDonald's in the 90s and everybody was like, you know, it's celebrating as a sign of like entering the global economy. And then in 2010, due to a combination of like economic issues and supply chain problems, they, the last three locations closed down. So they had a run of about like 15 years. The day before they closed down, this guy went to McDonald's, bought a Big Mac meal. And, you know, probably as a sign of a relationship that wasn't working, he didn't even remember to eat his Big Mac meal, which I can't even like imagine that, but I'm an American. So, and then a few years later he found it in his garage when he was moving out and it was like surrounded by shit that had been like chewed up by mice, like roller blades and clothes. But the Big Mac was untouched. Like the mice chose not to touch the big mac or or the fries and he was like yeah

and it looked exactly like it did when i bought it like it hadn't it hadn't like gotten rotten it nothing about it had changed so that is in the museum of iceland the big mac the big mac like that big mac they were just like yeah we don't even have to make a model. We just have this actual Big Mac. Well, let me say, man, you know, because, you know, I'm about to be in a McDonald's commercial that's about to air. So I'm going to, you know, remove myself from this conversation. You know what I'm saying? Big Mac, McDonald's for life, y'all. I will not be slandering, you know, will be slandering my my next employer so you know what

i'm saying but y'all go ahead and have this conversation i actually like this story is surprisingly so one thing is they they're like we it's not preservatives it's just that there's a lack of moisture in our food that makes it so that it like holds up that much. And at least they're not out of Iceland because they have like illegal shit in their food, which can't be said of like a bunch of my other favorite, like grocery store foods. They're just out because like, first it was like that there were supply chain issues.

And then it became like a thing, a claim to authenticity. They started using it to like promote tourism, that they were a country with no McDonald's. They're one of the only countries with no McDonald's. Yeah, that's because y'all ain't got no cows, motherfuckers.

All the beef is from somewhere. Iceland doesn't grow anything, right? Yeah, because it's too cold there, right? It's just like volcano water. They need to be bragging about moving the fuck out of Iceland. Because that's the thing, man. It's like, I draw the line when other countries be

trying to make fun of us. Like, y'all motherfuckers ain't better than us. And also, they replaced it with a worse McDonald's. They just like like the old mcdonald's now has a place in it called like metro burger that's just a mcdonald's like mcdowell's but like how you say how you say that in iceland it's like yeah you speak icelandish i didn't realize that yeah i've been playing a lot of god of war you know hell yeah bro hell yeah i ain't listening to nobody i ain't listening to no country

where i can't get a mcgriddle man the mcgriddle's been hidden uh burger heim or whatever also are these big macs really preserved like look don't get me wrong like yeah i don't want the big mac to look the same as it did 10 years ago but unless you eat that shit you don't get me wrong. Like, yeah, I don't want the Big Mac to look the same as it did 10 years ago. But unless you eat that shit, you don't know if it's preserved. If you eat that shit and then you go about your day for the rest of the week, then there's something wrong with that. But if you eat that shit, you're probably either going to die or you're going to be on the toilet for about two weeks. And then you shit out a Big Mac that is fully intact and looks exactly the same as it did going down. Why would the last sandwich you buy be a Big Mac?

I don't know. I like Big Macs. I don't eat any of the beef at McDonald's. It's all the real chicken. That's probably smart. Well, let me tell you what you should be eating. You know what I'm saying? As a, you know, somebody about to be in that McDonald's commercial, you should try their whole menu.

You know what I'm saying? You can get two for six. McDonald's for life, baby. McDonald's for life baby mcdonald's for life speaking of like why i make bad food decisions there so this remind me of just the fact that there's a bunch of american foods that you like can't buy in other countries because of shit that's in them mountain dew like you can't buy that in japan or the european union because it contains bromine the element found in brominated flame retardant which can build up in

the body and potentially lead to memory loss oh cool just like all this shit that i like grew up just like pouring into my body little debbie swiss rolls i never fucked with but frosted flakes that's illegal in other countries coffee made illegal yeah can't sell it whoa shit i'm looking at some of the names on this list yo i couldn't move to do some lucky charms lucky charms skittles against against the law yeah yeah these these are things that are like can't be sold in those countries because of the chemicals that are in them it's wild because two of them so coffee mate which i still fuck with and like i i recognize that like when you pour it in your coffee and you see that it like immediately mixes by itself like it's like a fucking magic trick like that i i recognize like there's some weird chemicals in

that shit but like that actually has something in it that is banned in the u.s as well but they still just are just like ah we'll look the other way on this one i don't blame the companies for putting their shit in their in their food i blame whoever made our bodies for making this shit taste good. Like if yellow dye number five and six tastes good, that's not the company's fault. That's God's fault. God did this to my taste buds. And so let's blame him,

but I'm going to still eat these motherfucking Skittles because they delicious. Every time. They delicious. Now that I got weed in them. For what? Yeah, yeah. Skittles edibles. Man, I got candy.

I got all minor candies and shit that's got weed in it. See? See? That's when we need to move. Where's the McDonald's with weed in it? Right.

I'm so shocked McDonald's haven't got in the weed, man. They get into everything. McDonald's might get in the weed. You know somebody get into everything. McDonald's might get into weed. You know somebody up there talking about, yo, let's cut into this Monopoly. Chick-fil-A started blowing up, then McDonald's started serving real chicken. Right?

Then Starbucks started blowing up, and McDonald's now is McCafe. Right. They coming with the weed. They coming with the weed. They going to replace all those ball pits across America that are completely useless now. That's going to be smoke bars or whatever. McDonald's dispensary. That's how you spend.

I see the abandoned ball pits everywhere. Yeah. Don't nobody be in those things no more. Hell no. I have recently seen people's kids playing in one. I was like, what the fuck are you doing, sir? That should be

out of there. Science should be investigating the balls at the bottom of that. That motherfucker about to wake up a germ from the late 70s. The CDC, make your kids wear masks

in schools and keep them out of that motherfucking ball pit keep them out of the ball pit Brian such a pleasure having you on TDZ man where can people find you follow you all that good stuff you can follow me at BS Comedian on all the socials except Snapchat

because that's trash and click on my link tree my tour dates are coming up i'm being ontario improv irvine i'm gonna be in wisconsin i'm gonna be in philly it's i'm gonna be i'm coming everywhere at some point this year yeah and is there a tweet or some other work of social media that you've been enjoying oh yeah man the thing that made me laugh the hardest in the last few days should i send y'all a link okay yeah uh you want to just put it in the uh chat so it's uh it's basically a dude is he he has this

girl blindfolded she's sitting down blindfolded and he has her reach her hand out and she's reaching through a watermelon but it's it's filled with like chocolate or some kind of like mud kind of substance. And then he, and then he tells her to take her arm out and he sets the watermelon down and she opens her eyes and there's a, there's a pony standing in front of her like ass end. So, so she thinks she's just reaching to this pony's ass.

So it's, it just, you can't watch that without laughing. It's like, it's hard to know what stage and what isn't nowadays, but it's it and you just you can't watch that without laughing like it's hard to know what stage and what isn't nowadays but it's like why does everything gotta be real yeah not mad some shit is just for entertainment i don't care if it's staged or not if it make me laugh that serves its purpose well the thing is it took the same amount of work to stage it as it would have been yeah it's kind of actually impressive yeah yeah this is amazing this is what the internet was made for and they don't even explain like

how did you get the pony there like what yeah there it is all right we will link off to that in the footnotes footnotes jakees where can people find you what is the tweet you've been enjoying ah well you know you can always find me in these streets as per usual at jockeys neil hey psych guys follow your man just you know next time i'll come on here as a guest and i have to give an underrated thing i'm gonna say myself that's what i'm gonna say because i have extreme confidence and i'm an egomaniac uh at jockeys neil and everything this isn't a tweet that I necessarily liked. It's just where Twitter is right now. And the fact that a dude sat down on his computer

to form these sentences made me laugh because people are weird. But as we all know, the lovely, beautiful, radiant, exquisite goddess Rihanna announced she was pregnant yesterday, breaking the hearts or rejuvenating the souls of many people around America and the world but this one dude whose Twitter name is booty noodle so that should tell you everything you need to know right there

was like worst part is Rocky ain't even meet it up like that. We seen the tape. She really like this nigga for who he is. I'm sick. What? What? First of all, what tape? Apparently ASAP got a sex tape that I just found

out about when I read that tweet. Oh, wow. Also, who says meet it up? The shit. That's not even a thing. That's not a thing. He ain't even meet it up. I'm going to catch on.

And hurt for liking him for who he is. This is the worst tweet that I saw all day. But also the funniest fucking tweet that I saw all day. So there it funniest fucking tweet that I saw all day. So there it is, everybody. Hey, Jack, for the rest of the month, you're going to be Jack Black since this Black History Month.

What happened to Miles Gray? Miles Gray is out right now. So Jaquese is Miles' replacement. Miles' replacement. Yeah, yeah. Miles owe you money? He's on the run yeah exactly miles oh everybody money man we need to get this dude uh you can find me on twitter at

jack underscore o'brien a tweet i've been enjoying is at america's comic tweeted billy joel this next song is called piano man and it's about how everybody in this bar is a fucking loser. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footy notes. Where we link off the information that we talked about in today's episode,

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