The Daily Zeitgeist - Introducing The Daily Zeitgeist

Episode Date: October 2, 2017

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Hello, the internet. It's Jack O'Brien, the founder and former editor-in-chief of crack.com and the host of this new comedic news podcast, The Daily Zeitgeist. This is episode zero and episode one drops on October 9th. And I'm joined by my co-host, Miles Gray, who is a UCB trained comedian, a former lobbyist. Yes, I'm black and knees. My favorite sports team is the Golden State Social Justice Warriors. And I once lied about my religion to go on the birthright trip for free.

And every weekday, five days a week, Miles, a guest, and I are going to be coming to you with some of the hottest of takes. The dailyest of zeitgeist. That doesn't really make sense. Miles, why does this show need to exist? I mean, let's be real. You're probably getting your news one of three ways right you're getting it off your phone from

cable news or that really smart friend where you pretend to know what they're talking about so take all the best parts of those things and you have our show the daily zeitgeist so now you'll be able to flex your big ass brain and stunt on your ignorant friends right basically we're going to take a bunch of smart funny people we've got writers from shows like Adam Ruins Everything. We're booking experts on subjects we don't know about and some of the funniest up and coming comedy talent. And we're going to all sit in a room together and spend the day trying to think through what's going on that day. where two cucks and a comedian are going to bark about social justice at you. You know, we're trying to take a broad, overarching survey of where culture is at any given moment. And, you know, mostly looking at present day events in the context of history, which we don't usually get these days with breaking news. And we're going to tell you the truth, or at least, you know, try to.

For instance, did you know that terrorists bombed the United States 2,500 times in a span of 18 months between 1971 and 72? I did, yes. You keep talking about that. Right. Well, that's a cool fact that we've all forgotten about because 24-hour news networks weren't around to flip out. And because those terrorists were... Hey, Miles, can you guess what those terrorists were to make people forgive and forget that they bombed the shit out of America?

Could it be, uh,igger warning, white people. You got it, Miles. They were white people. And America's strangely forgiving of them. Say, speaking of those, we've actually been in the lab trying to perfect this show since back in August, and we're going to play some clips of us wrestling with some of the bigger news stories that have happened in the past three months. And we're going to start with a clip from the show we recorded the day after Charlottesville, one of the saddest weekends of the past year. Welcome to our comedy podcast, guys.

You're going to hear from Miles and I with Nick, one of our producers. We start in the middle of describing the participants in the Friday night Tiki Torch March. I feel like there's not a conscious awareness, but an unconscious awareness that they, as Participants in the Friday night Tiki Torch March. But what you have is the result of like an inbuilt systemic advantage over people who aren't white males who were born into similar situations. That's probably terrifying and probably at the heart of why these guys looked like Al Qaeda or ISIS or, you know, it's sort of that's how Hitler did it. You know, you just find a population that somehow feels disenfranchised and you identify the boogeyman and say, go get him. Yeah. I will say that when compared to Germany following World War I, the people who typically join Al-Qaeda and ISIS,

these guys do not have a fucking complaint. No. They've had such easy lives. But they don't know that. Right. They don't realize that. That's the thing. They don't know it.

They think that the fact that video games are being made that aren't exclusively starring white males and with women with gigantic double D-sized boobs like fawning all over them, that that is like an invasion of their of their god-given rights um but i just wonder whether it's you know as opposed to being born thinking you're on top of the world and then seeing it taken away from you it's more like you were born with eight cup tits and a little nerdy and unable to get a girl or whatever it is right and then somebody put in front of you like here's something to be pissed no i think that's exactly right here's something to channel you know here's

a way to channel it yeah i don't think any of these guys like came up being like big man on campus or anything like that yeah definitely not nobody in transitions lenses is the big yeah that is the the transition lenses is the, you know, when in the future people, like, dress up like these dipshits for Halloween, like, instead of Nazis. Transition lenses and sticking little. Yeah, I feel bad because I used to fucking clown on kids that wore transition lenses because they looked fucking whack. Yeah. You know, like. Oh, super.

Well, thanks a lot, Miles. Now we get to show what's good. Yeah, I know. Exactly. All right. We're going to skip forward to where lot, Miles. Now we get to Charlotte's show. Yeah, I know. Exactly. All right. We're going to skip forward to where we discuss the Saturday terrorist attack that killed Heather Heyer. I tend not to watch the, like, ISIS beheading videos, but I, for some reason, I watched all of these car driving into the crowd videos. And they're just fucking horrifying.

I mean, it's the sort of thing that if you saw it in a movie, you would think it was too unrealistic looking because of the way like the bodies go flying through the air. But, yeah, if it had been the counter protesters doing that, I feel like the cops would have reacted differently. Oh, they would have shot imagine a group of heavily armed non-white people congregating anywhere without it being just a bloodbath and arrests and just in seconds. from one of the white supremacists where he is bragging about how well the day went. And he says white people are pretty good at getting organized, not realizing that it's like, no, you're just like allowed to get organized like that. Nobody else is allowed to organize like that. All right. And this was so long ago that Miles actually had to go back to his old job that we stole him from. Yep. I was working at Arby's, but my manager only let me take a 30. So I had to go back to work. stole them from.

Yep. I was working at Arby's, but my manager only let me take a 30. So I had to go back to work. So we brought in Jamie Loftus, the hilarious standup comedian, uh, and Anna Hosnier, our hilarious and brilliant producer who is both a genius and sitting right next to me. We're going to talk about an all points fashion memo that went around among the Nazis before the rally. went around among the Nazis before the rally. I wanted to have a little fun after our depressing morning conversation about Virginia by talking more about that Virginia story. In particular, this memo that went out apparently ahead of this weekend's event.

It was about becoming a Chad, you guys, it was it was from, I guess, the editor in chief of the Daily Stormer. And it contained a, quote, sort of guideline for millennial Nazis. And priority number one was, quote, we have to be sexy. And he also said that they needed to seem hip. They should in order to seem hip, they should all lose some weight. And that continued obesity should not be tolerated. And, yeah, that informs a lot of kind of what I saw out there on the playing field from the Nazis this weekend. They did seem to be paying a lot of attention to like how their hair was combed and they all had polo shirts on instead of like weird, I don't know, racist

novelty t-shirts. I assumed that the polos, that was just like a coincidence. Just how white guys dress. Right. That's just white guys in repose. But apparently it was a plan, which is weird because they looked, I mean, they didn't look good. No, that's certainly one way of putting it. Yeah, they didn't. And they're not being too hard on themselves about having to lose weight. They're like, we shouldn't, we should try not to be obese. But, you know, it's right. It's going to happen.

Right. But it's going to happen. They actually like lay out what they're like, the end goal of their plan. And it is to make girls want to be our groupies and make up. And this is an actual quote, quote, make us look like bad boys and heroes. So it's like the NSYNC approach to fascism to just like dress like they're straight out of Satan's old Navy catalog and girls would just come flocking to them. I didn't see that many girls at the. Were girls invited and didn't come

like everything else that these men have participated in or were they just not invited or did they know better I don't know good question what is the female role of that whole movement are there women in that are there chadettes

right we should explain what chads are well you would know. You have transition lenses, Anna. Yeah. Anna is infiltrating the chat. Look, to them, it means that they're a classically good-looking man who hates everyone who's not white, but also someone who, the way they describe it is someone who's a bully, but in their eyes, it's not bullying. It's just like making people who aren't agreeing with you bend to your will.

They like to use the concept of people bending. Yeah, bending people over. It's all very homoerotic. Yeah, it's all kind of like you make that man bend to your will. Yeah, make his dick arch towards you. Exactly. You know, like a man. And you have to be funny and not autistic.

Right, right. Like all bad boys and heroes. Right. Those are direct quotes of what they expect people, how they expect people to behave. Jamie, as you pointed out, there wasn't like any subheading to that. They were just like, be funny, not autistic. Moving on. just like be funny not autistic moving on moving on ben to my will all right let's skip forward because not only did they send out an email there's an entire website of nazi fashion advice oh you're not on that pinterest board um them talking about what makes it chad And it's like, it's a handsome bro who's like a white supremacist and bends people to their will.

And then they have pictures of like what a Chad is. And it's all like 80s bodybuilding shit. Like really like homoerotic stuff like Schwarzenegger like posing and Brian Bosworth on stuff. So it's just all very ideal white man, strong, competitive and successful at finding on stuff. So it's just all very, I don't know. It's the ideal white man, strong, competitive, and successful at finding a mate. Yeah. It all comes down to that.

It clearly all comes down to that. I feel like that's also like a definition of like a gorilla. You know what I mean? Right, yeah. Strong. It's like a zoo blurb. Successful at finding a mate. Right.

We'll stop at nothing. Yeah. Yeah, Wasn't there something about them wanting to have better looking kids? Yeah, it's like lamenting the loss of the time when you used to have the right to have a decent looking wife and decent looking kids. Yeah.

We're trying to get back there. We used to have rights in this country. The chads are like, I have a right to have a very fuckable kid. Not even. The bar's even lower than that. It's like passable. I wish my kids weren't so repulsive.

Okay, so moving on. The big story that's been in the news the last three months has obviously been hurricane season. For this one, Jack wasn't around, but I sat down with Anna, Nick, and guest comedian Edgar Montplaisir to talk about the history of hurricanes so until 1979 hurricanes were all named after women and like the fucking way the the news report on these storms are like real kind of

like a lot of innuendo like oh this storm is teasing the coast or it's like blurting it's taking so long to get ready there he is exactly and i you know the thing the argument there is like it's sort of like this old maritime tradition of like fishermen hating their wives or whatever the fuck you want to say about that now that we finally included men finally we're getting we're getting representation with hurricane i mean that's fine rights men's rights groups finally yeah victory victory on that one. They finally, you know what I mean? And this is the work they do. They're doing the Lord's work.

And Anna, you can shake your head all you want and not say anything, but Anna is shaking her damn SMDH over here in the flesh. But there was a study in 2014 that found that hurricanes with female names actually tend to be more deadly because people think they sound less threatening. So, and therefore they don't prepare as well. This sounds like some alt-right propaganda. What does this show? I mean, if we're trying to get like these like Republicans that live in like Texas and

Florida to leave, just name them ethnic names. They'll probably run pretty far. They're like Javier, the hurricane Javier is here to pick up your daughter. Yeah. And then also they say one of the other things is when a storm is really huge and devastating, they retire that name. So you'll never see another Katrina, another Sandy, probably not another Harvey or Irma.

So as climate change gets worse, we're going to run out of fucking names. Yep. A lot of jerseys on the ceiling. Hang that one up in the Staples Center. Retire that one. Damn, could you imagine? I don't know why that's so funny to me. Every hurricane gets a jersey. They're slowly

raising the banner. You got that Katrina throwback on. Before we get to our pop culture bullshit section, just one last thing I want to talk about. Anna found a really great article about Rush Limbaugh with these hurricanes, right? Yeah. Just the headline is enough. The headline is Rush Limbaugh says Hurricane Irma is conspiracy. Evacuates anyway.

He went on his show and he's just talking about how it's just like a liberal agenda to make money and climate change. Wait, who makes money? Oh, because the store shelves? Because all the stores sell out and shit. Oh, please. Get out of here. Oh, we gotta go now? We gotta go now? Okay. And then he's like, due to unknown circumstances, we will not be recording next

week. That's like how he ended his show. It's just like forces that I can't control not about that life yeah just go if he was tough i mean that would be the best way for rush limbaugh to die was to be like no you know what we're gonna we're gonna stick here and we're gonna keep recording it doesn't matter because it's all conspiracy these crisis actors and then go yeah just fucking recording these i want to hear that episode. Just hear if he's packing in the back. This is all bullshit.

Did you get a sunscreen? So you guys know that they're just trying to clear the shelves. No, honey, pack the other one. My fucking toothbrush! My fucking toothbrush! No, I hate that. What is that? Anyway, guys, we're sticking right here because it's all bullshit.

What do you mean? There's no gas in the... Fuck. Okay, maybe we are staying here. All right, so the last thing we're going to take you through is one of our recurring segments. This one's called Underrated Zeitgeist Influencer, patent pending. We're going to look at some cultural touchstones that you, our listeners, might be underrating or the mainstream media might underestimate. These are all things that have a sort of gravitational pull and determine what words and ideas are floating around out there in the zeitgeist.

And this conversation started because I've been surprised by how popular Titanic is with people who were babies when it came out. I think everybody knows Titanic was a hit movie, but it's huge with the youngsters, which, interesting twist, a bunch of young people who love the movie didn't know it was based on a true story. But Jamie is one of these young people, so we talked to her, Jamie Lawson.

Via your podcast, Jamie, the Bechdel cast, I learned that your favorite movie is Titanic, even though you were probably not old enough to see it when it came out in theaters. No, I didn't. I didn't get to see it in theaters. Right. You first saw it on VHS. And like, that's a fairly common thing for people your age that like Titanic is a a huge movie yeah yeah part of life what is the nature of the affection for the movie titanic for you and for people that you know is it ironic in any way or is it just full full stop no i mean like i ironically appreciate plenty of movies but titanic i genuinely like there's there's very few parts of it that i don't like i really it's just it's a great it's a great i love like i used to have a huge crush on billy zane when i first saw me

i thought you were gonna say leonardo no obviously well like i mean yes but also billy zane was the like one that really uh she's into chads you could have fixed exactly. I'm a chad. Yeah. Exactly. I don't know that I can't explain it. I think it was partially because I had to work really hard to see it and convince my mom that I should be allowed to see it. And then she wouldn't show me the second half for a while. So I wasn't aware that it sunk the first viewing. I just saw the end of the first VHS where the captain's like, we'll get your headlines. And I thought that was how it ended. So they hit the iceberg and then somebody like talked shit to the captain.

And then you thought that was like lights up. I guess we just don't find out what happens with Jack and Rose. I thought it ended where they like she lost her virginity. And I was like, well, she lost her virginity in a car. In a boat. In a boat. Right. And it seems like it seems like something bad might be happening, but I'm assuming it ends up fine because the movie's over.

Right. And it's weird because I've seen I don't think besides like Avatar, I don't think I've seen any other James Cameron movies. But this is such a weird, like it's such a weird story. He's such a horny guy. He really is. If you read, I've read the script to Titanic multiple times and it's like so needlessly detailed about like the shape of people and like the description of the sex scene it's like that scene it takes two minutes in the movie but it's like 45 the reason he wrote the movie jack softly pants rose responds with her body and you're just like uh so it's really gross but um you know he just he's he's he's got a

massive erection right he did um um it's his it's his hand drawing kate winslet's is that true yeah he's the one they cut up to like leonardo decaf like look at the eyes and then they cut back to james cameron's like if you're like oh that is kind of like a withered old hand but yeah he's like scant and those are that's like his drawing weird that's so weird he's creepy i like him a lot oh and bill paxton in that movie there's nothing wrong with paxton every every line read he does in that movie it's so stupid paxton he's still alive right no died no paxton done pullman's thriving pullman is like on top of the world yeah he's like oh my god the other bill p is dead

the confusion stops here i think that or he's always... I for sure thought he was dead. He's just going to keep hearing about how people are sad to hear he's passed. Also, 97, what a year for Paxton. He's also in Stars and Twister that year. Oh, really? That's the year of Paxton. Arguably the only one.

We have fun. Anyways, that's going to do it for this episode zero. Episode one is a week from today, October 9th. 10-9. 10-9, as the military says. So go to Apple Podcasts to listen and subscribe to The Daily Zeitgeist. The Daily Zeitgeist. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated.

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