The Daily Zeitgeist - Low Effort Topical Costumes, Why Horror Will Look Insane In 200 Years 10.23.18

Episode Date: October 23, 2018

In episode 258, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Marlena Rodriguez to discuss how the new Halloween film killed the box office over the weekend, the Trump administration trying to eliminate the definition of 'transgender,' Chipotle's 'Boo-rito' discount, UberEats considering delivering food with drones, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. 'Halloween' Slices Up a Monster $77.5 Million Opening2. ‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration3. No exaggeration: Trump wants to erase transgender people4. Chipotle’s Halloween costume discount forces staff to make the tough calls5. Flying food: Uber has set a target date to use drones for meal delivery6. WATCH: Astronauts, etc. - "The Border" (official music video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jack, not just any hot takes. Jack You know, I need some hot takes. Jack. Not just any hot takes. Jack. You know, I need some hot takes. Jack. The Beatles. That is courtesy of Xavier Barton. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

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rockin' everywhere! Woo! Hi everyone. Bang! Let them know, delivered on time. Well, that's the show, guys. There's not much more. So where can people find you? How are you?

I'm great. It's good to have you back. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very honored to be here on this beautiful Tuesday. Okay, it's definitely Tuesday. We'll come back. I remember, yeah, you messaged me on IG like, what's a bitch gotta do to come back?

And I was like, just follow me. We'd love to have you back. I still laugh about our time making fun of Barbara Bush's passing. Oh, we had fun, you know. We did not make fun of her passing. No, no, of course. We made fun of just the queen bee that she was. Yeah, she did not like June.

I liked learning how much of a bad bitch she was. She really was a bad bitch. Aggressive. Just revisit that. Domineering. Yeah, she really was a bad bitch. Yeah. Aggressive. Just revisit that. Domineering. Yeah. She was the HBIC. Yeah.

Head barber in charge. All right, Marlena, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. But first, we're going to take our listeners through what we're talking about today. The goal of this show is we're trying to tell you guys what the nation, nay, the world, is thinking and talking about today. what the nation, nay the world, is thinking and talking about today, taking a dive into the world's shared unconscious using the headlines, box office reports, what's trending on Google and social media. And today we are going to start out talking about the weekend box office because Halloween

crushed it. The horror movie, like the 30th movie in that franchise, I don't know. But I guess they rebooted it, and it did extremely well. It broke all sorts of records. So we're going to talk about that. We are going to try and talk about the president's attempts to disappear trans people. We're going to talk about the latest details that are dripping out of Saudi Arabia with the Khashoggi nightmare, I guess. Murder, yeah. Murder, yeah.

We're going to talk about what the Trump Organization's business is. How do they make their money? Why is that still a business after all these years? Oh, I'm going to learn stuff today. Yeah, we're going to talk about robocalls because they are somewhat out of control. about robocalls because they are somewhat out of control. The caravan of migrants who are currently 1,700 miles away from the U.S.-Mexican border. We're going to talk about Chipotle bringing back the burrito discount.

Burrito. Burrito. Burrito. Boo. I thought it was like a thing where you slept with somebody at Chipotle, made them your boo, and then got a discount. But it is in fact. Nope, that's just called college. It is the discount where they let you basically have a burrito for $4 for wearing a costume.

So we're going to also, on that subject, talk about some topical, easy Halloween costumes that you can use to your advantage this year. And then we're going to talk about Uber Eats and where they see the future. Hint, it is drone-based and delicious. Terrifying, but also mooey convenient. And so I'm good with that. But first, Marlena, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I have been mostly searching places to go for New Year's.

Oh, okay. Places to, places outside of the, like, where's the best place in the world to be on New Year's? I've made it a tradition. Tradition. To Google this? To Google this. Just at 3 a.m. every night. on New Year's. I've made it a tradition for the past to Google this just at 3am every night. Then I look at my bank account and I go,

well, guess not. Goodbye. What's on that list? We've got Berlin. Wait, I'm sorry. I made a joke. When you say it's a tradition, do you travel somewhere annually to go to the most lit New Year's? Yes.

Wow. So last year was Iceland. Damn. Which was amazing. Wow. And then the year before was Cuba. Okay. Damn.

So it's only been two, but I got to do three. So it's like a thing. Yeah. No, absolutely. Those are awesome places to travel at any time, let alone New Year's. Do they recognize New Year's in Cuba? Is it a big celebration? Hell'll be my my my myth that I talk about later the Cuba did we talk about Cuba last I have no idea oh maybe this sounds familiar maybe but hey one huge myth I don't write okay okay wait so

what's on your list now? What is your search rendering? Berlin is number one, but right now that we're considering, we being me. But New Zealand and Rio, London. Yo, Rio looks wild. Obviously New York. I know Rio looks bananas. Yeah. I feel like I got to get in the swing of liking drinking again to do that.

Mm-hmm. Or finding a cocaine hookup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it Brazil? I don't even know where Rio is. For all the cariocas out there. Rio is just a place. And let's see.

And then, you know, where places places you expect like New York and Paris. Right. But also Prague is supposed to be cool. I'm looking for the ones no one knows that are cool yet. Yeah. The good thing about traveling to places just so you can say you've been there is that you don't even have to leave the airport. You just go show up. Be like,

yeah, now I can be like, oh, you have to go to berlin have you ever caught someone trying to act like they've fucking been somewhere and then it turns out they only been to the layover at the airport no oh my god yo oh my god miles who do you hang out with yeah that's where i was going it was someone i met and like just you know randomly and i dated for a couple years yeah um no where No, I brought up that I was Japanese.

I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, I was just in Tokyo. I was like, oh, cool. Where'd you stay? And they're like, oh, it was actually just a layover. And I was like, bruh, don't lead with it. I was at the Narita Airport or whatever. Don't tell me, oh, I love it there.

Yeah. And I think they've realized how whack that was and then they just got really awkward it's really passive aggressive when you talk about me and the third person like this I was trying to save your face Marlena what is something that you think is overrated

besides Berlin apparently the comedy cellar comedy cellar fuck a comedy cellar and soon all other The Comedy Cellar. Comedy Cellar. Oh, wow. Fuck a Comedy Cellar. Yeah. And soon all other comedy clubs in New York, apparently. But yeah, The Comedy Cellar. Is that because of that article?

The owner was like, Louis C.K. is never banned from here, ever. Yeah, I just listen to The Daily a lot, and they did an interview with the owner of the comedy cellar and um my favorite is when michael barbaro gets people to realize they're wrong in real time yeah and uh and he definitely did that my favorite was listen the interview i almost didn't because i was like really upset that i had to listen that that was that, that Louis C.K. is in my universe at all. Right, yeah. But essentially he got him to be like,

this is what I believe, but this is also what I believe, and therefore, oh shit. Yeah, right. Oh shit. You done it, you done it. I realized, because he was trying to be like, this is the line and I, you know, we don't know where the line is.

Someone has to draw the line, and then essentially realizing this is the line and i you know we don't know where the line is someone has to draw the line and then essentially realizing he drew the line and therefore everyone in new york is now booking but but the comedy seller is such a big fucking deal to absolutely every comedian and i just wish those things would go away. Same thing with the store here. Now, I do want to work at both these places. So please, you know, do hire me. Please disregard the negative things I'm about to say. Disregard everything I'm about to say and care deeply about. And definitely stand by but would like to be a paid regular.

Please pass me. No, it's not fun to hang out at these places and be a woman because you know that the things that you care about and the things that you want to talk about and the things that you need to say just are not and on the same planet as the people no they're they're they're not they're not and and you know that also cultivates a certain type of audience. And when you have a place where your solution to the Louis C.K. problem is, oh, I'm just going to put up a sign that says, swim at your own risk or whatever. Sorry, your delicate brain isn't ready for a guy to do waiter material

who also happens to be a sexual predator. I just think it's ultimately very sad how much people have to get raped to understand how difficult it is to live with being raped. Not to talk about

rape, but here we are. Wait, are we talking about rape? Rape is super overrated oh okay and what is something you think is underrated that was a j-o-k-e for y'all fight me on twitter underrated yeah that's gonna be skiplag.com guys okay so this is your new job right apparently i am gonna have to reach out to them after this. What is skiplagged? Have you ever heard of it?

Okay, so. Skiplagged.com, skip lag? Skiplagged. L-A-G-G-E-D. Because I just went to skiplagged.com, and that is just one of those pages where it's like. They're parked on it. You sucker.

Yeah, a parked page. pages where it's like they're parked on it you sucker yeah a parked page skip lagged.com however is looks i don't know what it is why don't you tell me so it's just so it's a plague listen a big thing about me is i'm mostly thinking about travel all the time i hate it oh yeah i do hate traveling wait what but i love travel i love searching and researching and booking travel so is oh but it's the going in en route is what you hate the most? Fucking loathing. You just love being either in point A or being in point B, not the distance between them. Yeah, in general in life, yeah.

Okay. Getting here was horrible. Right. Being here, wonderful. I know. You came in, you're like, I love it here. Yeah. And I was like, thank you so much.

But I was like, I hated it outside. So what does skip lag do? Skip lag, what you can do is you can search flights. There you go, Chad. Someone's barbaroing over there. You can search flights. And what they'll do is, so I just used it. I admit it.

And what it does is you'll be like, okay, I need to go from L.A. to New York. And that flight's $500, right? And that flight's $500, right? But Skiplagged will show you a flight that's going from L.A. to Buffalo. Stopping in New York that's cheaper that you can just get off at the stop. Oh, shit. And then surrender your ticket. Like, you'd be like, I'm not feeling the Buffalo like this. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I just did it. Wait, so there's that. Like, so the pricing is that wacky that half the time you're like, yo, honestly, I have a direct flight, but it was actually just a connection to another place and it was cheaper. Exactly. I called Alaska and was like, listen, this flight's cheaper. I'm going to buy it and I'm not going to get on the connecting.

I need you to know that. Just sell me it for less. Right. And no one gets hurt. And you can make more money on that ticket on that seat that i'm not gonna sit in and they were like sorry ma'am i mean do what you need to do oh shit but uh that's you know it's a whole pricing it's bureaucracy yeah so it's interesting they also have a los angeles to anywhere option oh just just for oh yeah, just for. Oh, yeah.

I love, I love searching for shit like that. For your old, I'm not going to make my court date today. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was out of the country. That's amazing. Well, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool, man.

Hey, that's pretty cool. It's legal too. They got super sued by a bunch of airlines. Really? Yeah. But at the end of the day, the airlines, I guess, benefit because you're still purchasing It's legal, too. They got super sued by a bunch of airlines. Really? Yeah. But at the end of the day, the airlines, I guess, benefit because you're still purchasing that ticket. But I guess then they're mad that they're like, but then we have all these seats we could have then resold.

Hell yeah. Maybe just make your pricing a little more reasonable then. Oh, God. Let them know. Get a grip. What is a myth? What's something most people think is true you know to be false? Well, can I give you choices? Yeah

We got either cute dogs are nice or pooping takes a long time Let's do cute dogs are nice because pooping does take a long time Definitely not It definitely doesn't Use a squatty potty Thank you, Miles

Or hug your knees to your chest and blow your butthole out Or put your feet on the trash can. Okay? There's a lot of options. Phone books. There's so many options to make your own squatty potty. I just groveled on Twitter to them.

Just build the toilet into the ground. Oh. There you go. Yeah. Or just dig a hole. And then the floor will be, you know what? This whole thing. Hold on.

Look. Let's record this. Wait a second. Wait, what about cute dogs are nice? So my dog is so cute. She's so cute. What kind of dog? A Yorkie Terrier with about a violent percentage of Chihuahua.

We don't know what percentage, but it is just violent. Really? Yeah. So her eyes say, me right you know her eyes say i feel soft um i won't bite you um or attack your dog um that is not the case her fangs say otherwise right yes um so was she just if you if you go for that little bit of petting or whatever. Don't go for the fucking pet. Oh wow.

Everyone. So you look and be like I may look like this but I'm the wrong fucking one. Yeah get the fuck out of here. Wow. Yeah. That's interesting.

Yeah I wonder how much. She's the Louis C.K. He looks like shit though to be honest. That's true. But he looks harmless. He does. He's all rounded. His whole true. But he looks harmless. He does. He's all rounded.

His whole thing is that he's harmless. He's harmless. Anyways, my whole prerogative is just getting back to talking about Louis C.K. Anyway. But the small dogs made it all the way down to us through evolution somehow. They didn't make it by being nice. A lot of inbreeding did you know a lot of dogs a lot of really cute dogs just have down syndrome no oh do yourself a favor well it's

actually a disservice and do yourself a disservice and google um does my dog have down syndrome no there's there's a diagram out there somewhere that has what a dog should look like and what inbred dogs look like. It's actually, don't do it. It's not. Well, that's usually, they inbreed a lot, especially if they're specialty breeds, right? Exactly. Because that's the only way they can be like, all right, look, I got to make sure this thing's got Dalmatian spots. Right.

So I can't just bring a random pit bull into the mix. Yeah. I got to make sure this thing's got Dalmatian spots so I can't just bring a random pit bull into the mix. Yeah, they let the market determine what the dog looks like rather than the health of the dogs and lifespan and stuff like that. And that's where you get into trouble. Has your dog ever gotten you into legal problems? Or done something where you're like,

oh shit, I'm so sorry I bit your baby's face off. Yes, I mean, she lashes out at anyone and everyone um she bit the fuck out of my mom wow because my mom was like i'm gonna get this out of her and my mom's puerto rican and puerto rican people are like you know let me disgruntle this out of her um so she just tried to make her so rabid that i guess she would just snap out of it. I don't really, that is what she was trying to do. She was trying.

And so she bit the fuck out of her. And then I was like, it's my mom going to sue me. I was really just like, she won't stop talking about it. And, you know, cause your dog did bite me And these medical expenses

Yeah, and she does have to pay for my sister's gymnastics So I guess That's a way to do it Remember, your dog did bite me Right, yeah, she always has that Did she immediately get a self-satisfied smile on her face When your dog bit her Like, oh, I'll use this

She was somehow shocked. She just screamed checkmate. Checkmate. Yeah, I will say on the way out of my house, I do have one of those things that they have at the airport that you just kind of hit the button of what your satisfaction was. And hers was red and sad face. Those things are rigged anyway.

I would ignore that. That's what I think. That would be amazing to have one of those in your house. As a bit? Yeah. Or someone really that insecure.

I'd have to know if they had fun just now. What would your user rating be of just your experience thus far? I honestly think my house would be like a 4.3. Okay. Out of five?

Out of five. I think I'd lose a lot of points in paying attention to the person. What about the dog biting? And the fucking dog biting. You got to offset that. I hope you have like a tray of drugs or something. Like, I know the dog bit you, but here's a self-medication corner. Well, yeah, I kind of do.

The one time I got attacked by the pilot's dog on a United flight, I did not give them a very good- Wait, what? No, I don't want to. Oh, man. Damn it. I loved that for a second. God, that was going to be such a, what? No, I don't want to. Oh, man. Damn it. I loved that for a second. God, that was going to be such a good story.

Yeah, I know. All right. Think of all the people you just let down. Yeah. I apologize. I'm... His fucking lies, man. ...bad at this.

All right. Let's talk about the weekend box office. Dogs in the cockpit. Yeah. It was a seeing eye dog, so... Yeah. Oh, my goodness. All right.

Just imagine that they're coming around for a food service, and someone's like, get back here. Ace, get him here. And he's just like, oh. That's a dog loose. And the pilot can't get his dog in control. Don't worry. It's our pilot service dog. Right.

My dog once got loose in the cabin and ran directly up to first class and took a shit in first class. And they almost had to land the plane. Did the shit smell? Yeah, it was bad. It was bad. Dude, wait. Was that with Finn? No, that was a dog named Emma who did not last long.

Not because of that. Wait, hold on. Because we threw it out the plane. Can you tell me how this dog died? Yeah, so she- Because it feels like she had it coming. Oh my God. Sounds like she had it coming.

For embarrassing you. So we traveled a lot back then. We lived in the middle of the country and our family's on the East Coast. And so we knew we were going to have to travel a lot. So we specifically got the smallest dog in the litter so that we could, like, keep her in the, you know, cabin with us. And she was the smallest dog in the litter

because she had a kidney, a deformed kidney or something. So she didn't even make it to one. So, yeah. Yeah, how does that feel, Marlena? How do you like that? How does that one fit So yeah. Yeah. How does that feel, Marlena? How do you like that? How does that one fit? I feel bad. Any other deaths, tragic deaths you want to hear about?

You got any canine renal comedy you want to do? I mean, technically she had it coming. It was on its way. Yeah. It was predetermined. She was super cute, but everyone was like, after she died, they were like, yeah, we knew she was going to die. She smelled terrible because she was dying.

She smelled like a fish market because when you're in renal failure. You had her on a plane? Yeah. What was she doing? Oh, no. She was adorable, though. And you gave it your best shot. We did.

We did. She was my little girl. Look what you did. We could have moved on to talk about the box office, and now we had to learn about the stinky dead dog. I'm going to bring salads on the plane. I know. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And it is time to move off of my dearly departed puppy and on to the weekend box office, guys. Halloween crushed it at the box office. I asked everybody when they came into work today if they're horror fans. Marlene, I haven't asked you yet, I don't think. Oh, no. We don't have a single horror fan in the office.

but we don't have a single horror fan in the office. And I think it's interesting because I think it's the most social society bound of our movies. Like in 200 years, when people look back at our movies, horror movies are gonna seem the weirdest. It's like, okay, that person's wearing a mask and walking around and stabbing young women to death.

It's just, I don't know. Yeah, in this case, a giant mentally ill person in a blank mask walks around murdering people and stabbing young women to death. It's just, I don't know. In this case, a giant mentally ill person in a blank mask walks around murdering people in the most inefficient way as possible and booby traps the house with their bodies. That just seems like a weird dream. But it's very popular. It's also weird because,

so I always follow the box office and this was a huge success. And Box Office Mojo talks about exit tracking and what audiences thought. And it got a B+, which is usually not that good for a huge hit movie like this. But they were saying it's actually really good for a horror movie.

That it got a B+. That it got a B+, which is not usually very good. If a normal blockbuster got a B plus that I got a B plus, which is not usually very good. Like if a normal blockbuster got a B plus, they'd be like, ah, it's not tracking very well for like word of mouth. And the other big horror hit from earlier this year was hereditary, which did really well based on word of mouth.

And that had a D audience rating. Oh, so it's, it's this kind of riddle about what is it that we love about horror movies because it's a negative experience. It's like the more negative the experience, the better it is. Sure. But, yeah, I don't know. It's also more like it's tied to our anxieties.

I was really into slasher movies when i was like eight and nine years old i asked my dad to take me to see friday the 13th eight jason takes manhattan on my ninth birthday no that's not what it's called yes it is uh oh was that before or after muppets take manhattan uh it was after it was like hey look at this fun play that's very on purpose oh Oh, wait. They were taking shots at Muppets take Manhattan? I think so, yeah. Wow, I like that. They're like, you don't fuck these Muppets. Jason's up in Manhattan.

And by the way, so my dad eventually saw Friday the 13th 7 on TV and was like, oh, I can't take you to this. This is so fucked up. What's wrong with you? And then I think he became very concerned about me but uh i i think it was because then like at a certain point like two

years later i just wasn't interested in those movies anymore and i think it was like a like something to do with like psychosexual developmental thing because like i was really into watching like giant hulking maniacs stab women to death like i don't know what the fuck that was and then i was like over it yeah and then you started collecting sickly animals found your new we can't go back i won't be only forward Only forward. Dang it. Wait, Muppets Take Manhattan, five years before Jason. Yeah, so the Jason thing was supposed to be like a cheeky- Was that construction always there? Like someone takes Manhattan? I don't know.

Was Muppets the first? I don't know. I was pretty sure it's just Muppets. Sure. Good for you, Jason. Yeah, way to go. Also, most of that movie takes place on a cruise ship. Jason. Yeah way to go.

Also most of that movie takes place on a cruise ship. I just hate being I'm so laid back that if a movie starts trying to fuck with me I'm like yo you're trying to take me out of my zone. I like thrillers and shit. I like tense movies. Love me a thriller. I don't like like ahhh type shit. No sir. I mean but usually

when I watch it it's always because a bunch of people are like hey let's check this out. And I will but I'm never seeking a horror film. Yeah. Unless it's always because a bunch of people are like, hey, let's check this out. And I will, but I'm never seeking a horror film. Yeah. Unless it's... It's more experience than film. Yeah, and I think that's what it is. It's more just sitting there kind of losing my shit. Right. Not eating popcorn.

And I guess... The whole point. Yeah. As someone with just terrible anxiety, I'm like, the last thing I want is a 90-minute just hit of fucking straight anxiety and fear. But, you know,

I guess I can't, I just can't change my perception of the films a little bit. Well, there's this kind of loose study done about horror movies that come out during Republican versus Democratic administrations. And they found that more vampire movies came out during Democratic administrations and more zombie movies came out during Republican administrations. And the theory is that when you're scared of Republicans, you're scared of zombies.

And when you're scared of Democrats, you're scared of vampires because they sort of like the groaning masses represents what Democrats think about Republican voters and vampires being like weird sexual deviant Europeans is what Republicans fear about Democrats. And I just feel like it's the most direct tie between like entertainment and what our like society is thinking about and worrying about. Right. Well, yeah, because you can definitely map all kinds of social things to so many of these movies that were coming out. Yeah. I guess that can make sense.

I don't know. Well, but are you talking, are they talking, and you may not have the answer, but are they talking all vampire movies or like all the scary movies were vampire movies? Because I feel like in Obama, Twilight was happening and it wasn't scary. It was vampires, but it wasn't scary. It was vampires, but it wasn't scary. Yeah. I mean, at the same time, it was like young people going to see the hip new vampire, and their parents were probably like, don't see that hip vampire.

It kind of maps to Obama. Young people are into this vampire. Well, they're Republican parents. So they would take into account all vampiric content. Yeah, they did. And it was just like a slight statistical upward trend. I just think it's more interesting to think about how horror movies map to our social issues

and social anxieties. I mean, I think Michael Myers is interesting because I was reading about the design of his mask and they were just talking about the importance of it being blank, just like a blank expression because like the blank mask in drama theory is like the thing that allows you to project your own like inner thoughts and feelings onto something.

So I'd imagine that Michael Myers would be more popular at times when we're particularly anxious and the fact that he's you know unprecedentedly popular the halloween movie broke all sorts of records this weekend might just have to do with the fact that there's more anxiety just general anxiety in our culture right now. Super producer Nick Stumpf just pointed out that it's Danny McBride who co-wrote it along with his directing partner. I did not know that. Now I kind of want to go.

Was it funny? Do you know if it's funny? I don't think it's supposed to be funny. That makes sense. But they're just big Halloween fans. And I mean, this is the second huge success in two years with Get Out coming out from Jordan Peele. And I think that humor is often based on anxiety as it's like horror movies.

So, you know, there are two different ways of getting at the same sort of cultural stuff. Well, we're craftsmen at tension. Right, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And one, you puncture the tension with a punch line, and the other, you puncture it with an actual cutting tool in a horror movie.

Oh, wow. I see what you did there. I see. With a punch, with a knife in your hand. All right. Let's move on. Let's move on to. All right. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on to... No, this is... Let's stay here.

To a new listicle came out, Stinkiest Puppies. I'm back. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. The idea is going to haunt me. I'm sorry, Jack. I just... It's haunting.

It was a very traumatic thing. I know, and that's why I feel bad, because that's how we're sort of releasing our just overall it's haunting. It was a very traumatic thing. I know, and that's why I feel bad, because that's how we're sort of releasing our just overall tension around it. Yeah, you seem like you feel terrible. What was the dog's name? I just want to remember. Emma. Emma.

Emma. All right. Too human. Too human. Yeah, we definitely used names on our dogs that we were then like, shit, we should have used that for our kids. Oh, well. Really?

Yeah. You want to name one of your kids Finn? Emma's a great kid name, dude. Yeah, I know. Emma's very popular right now. Yeah. We were way ahead of the curve on all of these. Let's talk about the president.

Oh, my God. And his stance towards trans people. Yeah. and his stance towards trans people. Yeah. Well, like the New York Times, they had an article where they basically saw like a draft memo of a rule change that they were thinking about proposing

in regards for protections for transgender people. And what it shows is that the White House basically has a plan to just change the definition of sex across agencies as being very rigid and just as either male or female, unchangeable and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, subject to genetic testing. That's fucking crazy.

Like, so essentially just trying to be like, there's no such thing as a transgender person. There isn't. And that's what it's kind of doing is that it's just going to, and like there was an article in Think Progress that kind of walks through all of the multidimensional attacks on our trans brothers and sisters that they're just trying to codify this transphobia across the entire federal government now. So it's not just going to be about education or bathrooms. It could affect things based on like your healthcare coverage and other things like that. And we already know that they're like already have no interest in hearing any kind of discrimination cases for students who have brought up these issues. So, I mean, this isn't anything that is, you know, in law or that they're attempting yet.

But this is just showing these are the things that they are tossing around as ideas. Because we already saw how he was trying to say that the generals were telling him that transgender people shouldn't be in the military, which none of them were supporting that. So this is just part of the new horrors that this administration is trying to perpetuate. And we talk about them codifying it across the federal government. That doesn't mean just like government positions. That means basically everything, everything that the government oversees. Yeah, that they'll use this rigid definition. Right.

Potentially. Now, I mean, obviously, you know, groups like the ACLU and all kinds of, you know, civil liberties groups are just like, we'll sue the shit out of the administration. But we'll see how far this goes. But then you also think about how they've just been packing the courts with people who are just from the Federalist Society who are probably going if they're trying to sue might not have a favorable view of their case so uh it's just something to keep our eyes on but yeah it's just absolutely maddening that we're living in a time where he gets very uncomfortable by being cornered by the media and by actual facts and by the rest of the world and he goes down while he's taking a shit, goes down like this list that he just has next to his toilet that's just like, okay, what are the things that people kind of wanted

me to do? And I can just bring up in a major way to just change the news cycle. Well, they're starting to find a way to just basically terrorize these communities of whether they're minorities or immigrants or LGBTQ people or whoever. That in these departments, they're finding ways to change the rules in little bits that have huge ramifications for those groups specifically without people realizing like, well, they didn't change the laws or whatever. Like, no, they're doing it. Everything's being done piecemeal. And, yeah, it's just really disheartening to see this happen. But, you know, I think that's why it's good to have all this reporting come out now to understand like what they're trying to do.

And I think also just with the midterms approaching, this is just another little fire that Trump can light in the culture wars arena to try and remember like, yep, this is what all you hateful people are fighting against or for or whatever. They have found a way to weaponize all of our anger, like the left, the right, like just everybody's anger. Yeah. Whether it's to get, yeah, to get work on people's anger towards a group on the right to get them to unify their base on that level or then in terms of the left whatever the moral outrage is on the left then they weaponize that to create the narrative of like well this is what we're up against people who like give a shit

but then painting uh progressives or people who are outraged by this as like some kind of mob or just outright like creating fundamental like just just being outright lying about uh the positions that people on the left are taking or what their activities are around it so yeah i think it's going to happen anytime you have inequality at the level that we have inequality in uh the united states there's going to be a danger of this sort of you know authoritarian like playing on the misery of part of the population and you know that misery is not always going to be directed at the rational people it can be manipulated it can be uh turned into racism and yeah i i just say in general anytime your policy requires genetic testing that you're probably doing the wrong thing no what a soundbite hey thank you i appreciate it no there's something

like so unarguable about about that like dude well i think it's arguable on their side because they seem to, you know, Trump got Elizabeth Warren to take a genetic test. And, you know, that is problematic for its own reasons. And now they want to make genetic testing a part of. Well, yeah. And then what would they do with like intersex people? Because they're not going to basically be like you wouldn't definitively say oh this person falls into this category by their very rigid definition either right but again this is just sort of part of their game plan to inflict as much you know chaos and pain upon people you know it's nice though i tour a lot i'm on the road a lot and i see a lot of havens for um for trans people where it is just not a i don't think that that necessarily

fixes the bigger problem but what is nice is that i see on a smaller scale there are places that that trans people can exist without yeah without anyone even wondering without anyone even think i think that's like what's been so cool in seeing these places. One specifically is Portland. I mean, obviously, that's the stereotype of Portland, is that it's safe for everyone. But it's nice to see that, oh, no one's even looking twice. Yeah, but I think there are just as many places where it's very difficult, too. And I think when you have shit like this, though, oh, no one's even looking twice. Yeah, but I think there are just as many places where it's very difficult, too.

And I think when you have shit like this, though, too, it's one reason why I think even if, you know, I think most people do have someone in their life that belongs to the LGBTQ community in some way that us as just reasonable human beings have to understand what is at stake for them and what, you know, essentially our tax dollars are going to also to like if they're really trying to make this move against these people because that it's it's just fucking it's violent. Can I ask you guys a question? Yeah. Do you think it would be like plausible at all to sue Trump for um like emotional medical issues i don't like mental health hurting i don't know we would have to it would be such a specific i don't know i don't know i'm not a lawyer but uh you guys lawyers for the purpose of this speculation yes i am uh and i would take the case.

But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'd imagine then it would be a class action lawsuit with about 56% of the country. I just feel like it would be, yeah. But what are you suing for? You ain't got nothing. I think that you could tangibly draw a line between stress stress anxiety medical issues stemming from like trauma okay I think there's well this is why we need in-house

counsel as we record the show to run this by them sounds like the sort of thing that might go all the way up to the Supreme Court and we know they'd have our back so yeah well now that they've really they pulled off the great switcheroo I'm sad. The Supreme Court takes Manhattan.

But yeah, again, guys, that's why. Be voting out there. Be voting every time. Be aware of everything. Don't let this shit sneak up on you because it starts with small groups like this, and it works your way on up to you're like, oh, shit, I'm in the crosshairs now too. It's so weird that he's against trans people when he's trans demon oh wow that's right that's my hot take let him know it's a hot take all right we're gonna take another quick break we'll be right back

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we're moving past we're just very hurtful i'm sorry i it's we're going through a lot right now chipotle is bringing back thank god burrito i'm having a hell of a time with burrito. You did say burrita earlier, which I think is just a great name for a gal. Hey, burrita. Hi, burrita. Well, if you wear a costume to a Chipotle, you can grab a burrito for $4 on Halloween over on. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah.

So, Miles, you were asking the question. What's the least you could do to get this motherfucking discount? What's the least? Now, do you go in and just wear one wacky thing? You're like, I got cowboy boots on. I'm a cowboy. Right. Or do you do something more like philosophical where you're like, I am the id or some shit like that or whatever and be

like oh this is actually a costume right uh and then we're that's so this this has got me thinking because on the take out they're writing about it and they like they felt they had guidelines if you were a person working at a chipotle on like what would constitute a costume and what doesn't what were their guidelines uh it was like it made. Like if you have like a baseball jersey on and a glove, you got a mitt too. Right. Okay. That could be a costume. But that's just what I rock to work in.

Yeah, I know. But that's your arrested development though. Yeah. And then, or a bed sheet ghost, but maybe a wig. But then they say what's not a costume, a college t-shirt. Okay, obviously. A flannel shirt. I guess you could just be like, I'm a lumberjack. So I have a couple

flannel shirt questions for you. They're still in. Don't worry. Is it still cool if I wear these? How does it look tied around my waist? You look like Beyonce in the Flawless video. Some of the ideas that people are putting out there for costumes

involve flannel shirts. For instance, one that I've talked about in the past is just going as Marty from Back to the Future, which is just a flannel shirt with an orange vest over it. So you do need the orange vest. If you have the orange vest, I think that makes sense. I would be like, oh, that's the McFly. Yeah, and then you just need jeans and a chunk of tennis shoes.

So let's give people some easy costume ideas that they can rock to Chipotle. Just using shit they have in their closet. Just wear all black and say you're Antifa. There you go. Boom. Done. Distracted boyfriend meme. Just a blue plaid shirt and short hair.

And then just be looking behind you. Be like, yo. But that would be so funny. They're like, I'm sorry, what's your costume? And you've got to hold the picture up. So you're like, I'm this guy. Right. You do the pose so funny. They're like, I'm sorry, what's your costume? And you've got to hold the picture up. So you're like, I'm this guy. Right. Do the pose.

What? Yeah. I'm like, oh, I'm breaking my neck to look at this other person. It's a good couple's costume as well. I think just put on some gloves. Okay. And ask them if they would like a burrito or a bowl. That's good.

Just wear like the poly. Yeah, the poly vinyl yeah yeah just black t-shirt ah yeah yeah um you could dress as me and just say you're

Miles from the Daily Psychics mmhmm that's a good idea that would be so weird it would be fun though if they were like oh okay oh cool yeah

I love it I'm Psygang too you know what that's free you know what this guac is free yeah let me take care of that other four dollars yeah yeah right that guac is free. Let me take care of that other $4.

Yeah, right? That guac? Morty from Rick and Morty is just a yellow t-shirt and blue shorts, I think. Lara Croft tank top bow and arrow, maybe. And be hot. And be fucking smoking. Are you going to be anything for Halloween, Marlena? I am still considering it.

Do you dress up usually? Every year I do the thing where I'm like, I don't care. And then the day before I'm like, I care so much. And then I really fucking stress out and spend the whole time. My greatest last minute panic costume in the past few years was absolutely poison Ivy or no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nobody's saying you're not right. That's not what it was. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Thank you. My bad. It was actually a power plant. Oh, and it was a white power suit, which looked amazing on me, and I don't know where it went, with Ivy pinned all over it. Oh.

There you go. Power plant. Yeah. So that's an important lesson is my best costume ever was that I dressed up like Magnum P.I., grew a mustache, and then- When people were like, you look amazing. No, they were like, you look like the pervert from something about mary and i was like yeah that's what i am and then and it was a really good costume and i do look like wait you look like pat healy i look like pat healy with a mustache

matt dylan's greatest performance yeah so go with what you have yeah just like or can you improvise right because i'd imagine if i was you wait, I don't have to imagine. I'm a scummy stoner, dude. If I would be like, oh, shit, it's Halloween. I would just look around my car. What could I fucking grab right now? I would put a LaCroix can on my head. And I'd be like, I'd just walk up, balancing, and I'm like, I'm LaCroix head.

There you go. Is that a costume? Adam Sandler style. Okay, this is a good time to'm crazy LaCroix To mention Maybe you use the This some bullshit scale Okay Now if you're Imagine you're working at Chipotle

Yeah yeah Okay Now imagine some Idiot Comes up And Red eyed Just imagine

What would make you say This some bullshit Okay Now if some idiot Comes up with a LaCroix can On his head And he's clearly high Or not But looks high still Looks high yeah And he's like up with a LaCroix can on his head and he's clearly high or not, but looks high. Looks high, yeah.

And he's like, I'm a LaCroix. That's some bullshit. Yeah. You know, don't make them. I feel like that is some bullshit. This is going to be their Black Friday. Right. Because they got to figure it out.

Treat them. Okay. Oh, shit. Flip it on them. Help them out. You know, get in there and delight them with your creativity. Yeah. And your physical pun. What if it's so bullshit, though?

They're like, this is bullshit, but it's so bullshit, I respect the hustle. You got to go hard on the bullshit, then. Yeah. I do feel like they're going to be seeing a lot of bullshit. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. The level of bullshit is going to have to be so high and just adorable that they can't resist. You better dress up as a big brown box that smells bad because there's a bunch of emas in it. Oh my god.

Bringing it back. But you're also wearing a cow head and that's some bullshit, you know? Right. Why are you wearing a cow head? Because it's some bull shit. Oh. Okay. Got it.

Cows are bulls. Yep. Cows are bulls. Yep. Cows are bulls with titties. Uh-huh. What if... Okay. I'm trying to think of what else I could just grab. If I just had a stack of magazines like this, just like all the bullies we have in the office, and I just say, I'm a dude who works at a newsstand, but I got

70 magazines. But I think you could take one extra step, tape them to your body, and call yourself a newsstand. I think that's fun. It's some bullshit, but it's fun. There you go. It just takes a little bit of like, oh, that's something. Those magazines are expensive.

They did something. They wouldn't be wearing those magazines on themselves if it wasn't Halloween. Right. Because I'm thinking, what's the point? How Jim in the office used to phone it in every Halloween episode. And like one time he just wore a name tag that was like Dave. And he's like, what's your costume? He's like, I'm Dave.

Right. No, that's some bullshit. That's some bullshit? That's official bullshit. Okay. A good use of a name tag that I saw on, what was it? Pinterest, I think, is a- I'm sorry.

Hold on. I like that sentence. Pinterest is good for just half-assed, clever ideas for Halloween costumes. Was a little kid in a red polo and very light chinos with a name tag that said Jake from State Farm. Okay. Because that's what the State Farm agents

wear in those commercials. Yeah. Or a Best Buy employee if you've got the royal blue polo on. commercials. Yeah. Or a Best Buy employee if you got the royal blue hoodie or polo on. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there you go. My boyfriend really wants to dress up my dog as the Best Buy employee.

Really? Oh, really? That's like really what he's into right now. Yeah. How is he going to get- She would not be very helpful. I know. Would she just rip his hands off?

Well, actually, that is how Best Buy employees are. They're not very helpful, so. I was at a Best Buy and I was just looking for a tiny battery for a garage door opener, like one of those flat watch batteries. Oh, that's hopeless. Three motherfuckers did not know where the batteries were. No way. They weren't there. Yeah, I went in. I'm like,

where are your batteries at? And he's like, go to the GoPros. And I go and I'm like, yo, there's not even a fucking GoPro battery over here, man. So then I ask the person in the camera department, I go, where are the batteries at? And again, they're like, I think, I always see them like on the way to the register. But when you go, it's just like the impulse buy section

where it's just like a nine volt or a triple A battery. And then I had to be like, I had to get to some like the oldest person who just had some sense in them. I said, where? Who's sitting in a throne. Yeah. He's like, I am Sir by of bestly.

What, how may I help you? And I said, where, where are the fucking batteries at my man? He's like, and then he actually showed me, they act.

I was surprised. No, he pointed very clearly. There's like, you see that yellow thing is underneath there. And he's like, but I'm just gonna let you know, we don't have as many batteries as you think a Best Buy would have.

And I was like, wow, you're honest. Right. Then I had to go to a target and they had it. Was the yellow thing that the battery is under a sign that said batteries on it? It was. Okay.

Yeah. Well. Fun fact Radio Shack doesn't have DVD players. Fun fact how many Radio Shacks are even still open? One. But they're sold out. And I'm late for my shift. I gotta go.

Uber Eats has set the year 2021. The year of our Lord. As their target for drone delivery. Gotta go. Uber Eats has set the year 2021. The year of our Lord. As their target for drone delivery. Yeah, they fucked up. There was like a job listing that was basically saying like, hey, we're looking for somebody to get like our drone delivery service up and running by 2021. And then when they asked for a comment, they like pulled the post and they're like, we don't know what you're talking about. But I guess I feel like Uber Eats delivery would be one of the last things. But I guess with all these kinds of technologies, it takes things like Uber Eats to get like full scale automated delivery shit to happen for the masses.

But part of me, it excites me because I'm like, wow, that's like future shit I thought of as a kid or whatever is happening. And part of me is also like, yo, wow, we're really about to have drones just dropping shit off at your house now right yeah i'm old the only thing that i like about that is that it's the carbon footprint is way lower like i think it's super fucked up how much we're all ordering all the time right and how much gas is going into that. But besides that, it's absolutely horrible for jobs. What are we doing? What are we doing? Drones sound like lawnmowers. No, they don't.

Oh, they're loud, yeah. Have you heard a drone? Yeah, but like the cute little ones. Oh. Well, usually they're far enough away. Yeah, they're just buzzing. They're like, ooh. Yeah.

We are killing it. But I also. A nervous drone. Nervous drone who's at a salad bar where you think the dressing's gone bad. God, that smells like ammo. Oh, my goodness. Oh, he's crying. He's crying.

Here, I'll hurt myself. Uber eats. Ow! You see, Jack? I hurt my arm. Jesus. Are you okay? You're bleeding.

It's broken. Oh, yeah. But drones, yeah, they're going to take jobs. They're going to take our jobs. Like, is the world going to, is every apartment in an apartment building going to have to have, like, a drone landing place? Right. In the future?

Like, where the fuck do you land? Is everything going to be different fuck do you think so be different safety feel well wait till one of these fucking drones really has some shitty thing happen and like knocks down power lines cause a fire or some shit well all it needs to do is fall on you from a high height and that'll right like injure the shit out of somebody they're pretty heavy i don't think that's great for the food staying warm. A lot of food already doesn't travel well. I don't need it entering

the atmosphere. It just goes into the upper atmosphere and then comes down. That's how they do it, right? Oh yeah, yeah. It'll be launched. To a balloon. And just hope the wind takes it to the right place. It hits space, pops. At least at the very least, the people will not eat your shit.

Yes. And there are times when I know the dude has eaten something. Yes, fries, I can tell. I don't know if I'm just always paranoid about my fries, but sometimes I felt like I could tell it was like a wild handful of light. And that's just me. I feel like the meal delivery services are, like, they're not good enough to be sustainable at this point. Like, they're a cool idea,

but I just don't think that they, like, they don't work, really, a lot of the time. Wait, why do you say that? We're just like, you get the wrong stuff a lot, they fuck up a lot, and then they're just like, sorry, we can't do anything about that. Well, I'm also, yeah,

how does the pricing work? Like, is it even sustainable as a delivery person? Like, how many deliveries do you have to do realistically to make that a viable thing? No one's making real money. Right. Yeah, right. Everyone is just sort of, yeah, just sort of making ends meet.

It's not, right, the gig economy, which just means the economy where we don't have to pay people a living wage. You can't be serious. You're not going to do this forever, right? Economy. Right. Sorry, we're going to limit your options, so you only have these couple options anyway. So, uh-oh.

It's a trap. But back to how the landscape will be different when everything's being delivered by drones. So the Empire State Building's design was based on the idea that it would be a blimp airport, basically. What? It would be like a blimp dock. But it looks like a blimp popper. Right.

It does look like a blimp popper. Wait, that you would just tether this shit to the- To the top of the Empire State Building. Yeah. What a dumb fucking idea. I know. They thought everybody was going to be traveling on blimps. Like that we would, well, I took the blimp to work today and the traffic was terrible.

Is the Hindenburg that just KO'd the industry? Yeah, I think that really hurt. I'm just curious. They really didn't see that coming at all? I know, right? I would watch like a period comedy about the two guys who were like hustling the Zeppelin game in Europe back then. Like, I'm telling you, it's a wave of the future. The Empire State Building is going to be a blimp port.

And then like the Hindenburg happens, and they're like, oh, fuck. Were there people in the Hindenburg? Yeah. You can actually see them like jumping out. Okay. Anything else? No, you're not into that?

Just morbid dog stuff? I just really wanted to know. Just like to make fun of my beloved. Wanted to know if there was an Emma joke in there. All right. Well, Marlena, I wish I could say it's been a pleasure having you. It has not. You have hurt my feelings.

I feel closer to you, though. Oh, good. Hey, now we know how to make him cry. Marlena, where can people find you and follow you i'm sorry we have crossed lines um i am on twitter at marlena rodriguez i'm also on instagram marlena got a life uh listen to my podcast it's called what would my friends do it's essentially a comedy podcast with comedy advice for if you're already in comedy. So that doesn't really exist.

And I have an epic special coming out sometime soon this fall. So please look out for that. And also, my name is Marlena. And backwards, that's Anal Ram. So please remember my name. Because that's how careers happen so yeah wow I never thought about that so much I was looking at you but I met

everyone oh yeah is that how you spell anal no but because I pronounce it Marlena oh right there you go oh so if you put it backwards to a sound thing like anal ram I mean it still does it anal ram yeah I mean, it still does it. Anal ram. Yeah, sure.

Like it's... Cool. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Second rate, baby. Oh, like one of my own tweets? Or anyone else's. Just a tweet you've liked, go through your likes.

No, I'm going to do one of mine. Okay. Do it. If you don't have anything nice to say, then feel free to run for president. Yes. Yes. So to do one of mine. Okay. Do it. If you don't have anything nice to say, then feel free to run for president. Yes. Yes. So what's one of yours?

So what's one of your tweets that you've been enjoying? Oh, that was it. That was one of them? That was it. You said it so casually. Wow. Drop the bomb on us. If you don't have anything nice to say.

Then feel free to run for president. There you go. There it is. Alright. Miles, where can people find you? Cool, cool, cool. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And a tweet that I like is from Solomon Giorgio.

And it said, you haven't lived until you look someone in the eye right before the chorus of Four Non Blondes' What's Up and ask them, what do gay horses eat? Wait, what? What? Wow, am I the only

Linda Perry fan in here? No. Not at all. Check out her songwriting credits. Alright, y'all. Prepare your wig. We'll fly off. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A tweet that I've been enjoying is Iris at Iris underscore KS tweeted,

When I feel bad about my social skills, I remind myself how one time Rachmaninoff decided he was going to be pals with Stravinsky, who'd casually mentioned he liked honey. So he showed up at his house in the middle of the night with an enormous jar of honey and no explanation. That's just a story that I really enjoy. And another tweet I enjoy is from Andrew Chamings,

at Andrew, and it says, the day after I meet a genie. Boss, hey team, you can all leave five minutes early today. Me, loudly, oh, so weird. All right. Can I say one more thing? Yes. Even if you're in a blue state

and you feel like it doesn't matter if you vote, please do, because we have to show how you feel like it doesn't matter if you vote, please do, because we have to show how much the electoral college doesn't represent the population. Thank you. That's all I wanted to say. I thought you had some genie bit you were going to do. Ooh. There you go.

I like that that person's there. That's the joke, though, is that they just want to get out five minutes early. Wow. Think big. Dream big, y'all. So we will, other things that are happening today that we didn't have time to get to, Trump Organization's business being fraud, robocalls are out of control,

and the caravan of migrants, we will get to those in future episodes. So stick around, keep listening for that. You can follow us on Twitter 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on.

You can also find that information and those links in the show notes. Show notes. Show notes. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on. You can also find that information and those links in the show notes. Show notes. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on today? This is a track from Astronauts, etc. It's called The Border. It's just got some good little sweet

picked bass playing in there. I love hearing somebody pick that bass. It just feels like a throwback track and it's just got a good energy. What's an example of a song with picked bass that I might recognize? The Seinfeld. That's slap.

That's like slap and pop. This is more like most rock. I mean, a lot of funk is all finger, so when you hear more like boom, boom, boom, boom, that's more finger style, finger picking. Oh, I didn't know I was a lot of funk is all finger, so when you hear more like boom, boom, boom, boom, that's more finger style, finger picking. Oh, I didn't know I was a lot of funk. And then, you know, just listen to this, my man, and you will get that you can hear the pick hitting the string. And, I mean, there are many songs with pick bass that it's so pervasive that I can't be like, yeah, that one.

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