The Daily Zeitgeist - MAGA Mushroom Measuring Contest, Megan Fox and MGK Are A Living Meme 10.14.21

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

In episode 1008, Jack and Miles are joined by host of the Live To Tape podcast Johnny Pemberton to discuss how Greg Abbot becoming an absurd parody of himself, Mitch McConnell’s power waning? Coachella does 180 on vaccines...but why? That Machine Gun Kelly / Megan Fox Interview and more!FOOTNOTES: Greg Abbot becoming an absurd parody of himself Mitch McConnell’s power waning? Coachella does 180 on vaccines...but why?  That Machine Gun Kelly / Megan Fox Interview LISTEN: Hiatus Kaiyote - Canopic Jar Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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which of course means that it is Miles. It is National Dessert Day. And for all my bald brethren, National Be Bald and Be Free Day. Hell yeah. So if you're lacking in the follicle department, just do you. Just be free today.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. For all my hairless peoples out there. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Vaccination. Hell no.

Spooja, spooja, spooja, spooja's like gold. Vaccination. Hell no. And then it just repeats. That is courtesy of official dickhead at abstrusal you know i had to go back to it we were supposed to retire uh the all the come songs but you know but it was too good not to use it was great right and i'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! And who can say what is overrated?

Only sight, only sight. And who can say what's in your search history? Only sight, Only sight. And shout out to Enya and the interdimensional technician on Discord for that. Just wonderful Enya. Fucking AK. It's been a minute.

That was like a fairy ghost was singing that. Yeah. Sorry, I'm using I'm using Machine Gun Kelly for my inspiration on all descriptors going forward after his GQ interview. It was a good one, huh? I know you subjected yourself to it, so I'm glad we'll get an update.

Yeah, yeah. Well, that was beautiful. There were some vocal effects I think I heard in there. Yeah. effects i think i heard in there yeah which brings us to our third seat where we're thrilled to be joined by a very spooky very funny actor comedian podcast host and streamer you know him from the son of zorn superstore 21 and 22 jumps street and his brilliant podcast live to tape please tape, please welcome the brilliant, the talented Johnny Pemberton! Recording in October. That's all I got.

Hit him with the reverb. Yeah, you gotta have a little verb in there. What are the effects you got over there? Some delays? I got everything. I don't have a delay. I have something here. This is kind of a fun one. Daily Zeitgeist! Come on down. It one daily zeitgeist come on down daily zeitgeist collective consciousness that's one of my favorites oh that's amazing that's are you using a is it a

physical board you're using or like oh yeah i'm i'm always physical effects i can't do the um i always have to do that so i can tweak them that way. Yeah, yeah. You know, because I'm kind of Gen X. What's it called? I'm a geriatric millennial. Yeah, I'm a geriatric millennial, baby. So you have to have that tactile buttons and stuff, you know, so I can. What are you using? Let them know.

It's a VT3. It's a Roland VT3. I've probably logged. I don't know how many hours I've logged in this thing. I've used this thing as a character I play a lot. I used to play back, you know, when we did live shows and stuff. Called Dicker Troy, who was a transpo captain. And he sounds like this.

Hey, everybody, it's me, Dicker Troy. I'm a transpo captain. I know everybody there is to know and no one there isn't. That's what he sounds like, basically. So now we're doing deep fakes over here now. Okay. Exactly. And he did lip sync that perfectly right johnny exactly well uh it's it's great to see you again

it's great yeah likewise have you back jack i want that i want that oh man it's very cool completely to have this show go further off the rails. Yeah, it's the kind of thing where once you start playing with it, it's hard not to. Right. And cut to me just talking into a microphone for like three hours straight high, just laughing at how weird my voice sounds. Yo, get in here.

My voice sounds all high and shit. Yeah, this is going to be like a crossover episode where we get little flavorings of lab to tape, which does all sorts of cool shit sonically we we have a uh a show this is important with the workaholics guys that has a soundboard and the soundboard has like taken over their minds to the point that they now just like every one of them uses the sound like quotes from the soundboard to punctuate statements. And I feel like we would just speak in soundboard quotes by the end of

a single week of having this power at our fingertips. It makes sense. It's like a live meme almost. I guess when you have the soundboard stuff. Alright, Johnny, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Yes, get to know me. Yes, but first we will get

to know a couple of the stories that we're talking good to know me yes but first we will get to know a couple of the stories that we're talking about uh we're gonna talk about greg abbott who's just becoming uh he's being pushed to the right becoming a uh sort of mega cartoon character and you gotta talk mitch mcconnell if you're gonna talk greg abbott just to fully kill your will to live we'll talk about coachella doing a 180 on vaccines. And then we will talk about that Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Fox, GQ piece that is just, it was a revelation to me.

Was that their interview? Or was that like they're dating, like a dating, like you're dating now, do these questions. Yeah, it was very much, it was like a feature. So there are quotes throughout but the person who's writing it is is writing it more in like prose form it's not like question answer question answer so you just get like these amazing quotes that i've gone through and kind of pulled but like they speak to each other in like words that seem like they were taken off of hot

topic t-shirts, just only and only that and repeat some of them sometimes. It's very strange. And we'll talk about a medical condition where you have zero visual imagination, all of that, plenty more. But first, Johnny, we do like to ask ask our guests what is something from your search history oh i mean i was thinking about this a bunch because i feel like now the search histories are everywhere because i feel like i have youtube history i feel like i have tiktok history there's always different histories but if we're talking straight up google chrome history i keep Google Chrome history. I keep looking at these goddamn Skechers. These freaking, these Skechers work shoes. I'm telling you, I'm embarrassed, but also I'm like, I'm glad we're here right now. Cause I feel like I want to show you guys these shoes and I want to know what you actually think.

I mean, I just hear Johnny Cash's voice when he did his cover of Hurt. Just what have I become with these shoes? Because these look like Yeezys if you had to work on an oil rig. Right, but isn't that cool? Yeah, no, I mean, they elicit a response to me that is more than just like, them shits are whack. I'm like, I have ideas when I look at it, for sure. They feel like, what are those?

Like a proto, what are those? Right. Sort of like an alternate timeline future. What are those being worn by? Maybe the opposite of a cop. I don't know what that would be exactly, but maybe like a ballerina or something. Something about these just screamed to me industrial wasteland, like post-apocalyptic fashion hungary like you're in hungary hanging out with uh what's his name the fashion guy rick what's his name he's like oh rick

owens is rick owens the goth fashion guy yeah yeah it feels like sort of like a like a cheaper version of a rick owens shoe you know and his wife and his wife is feeding you grapes la la mish mish you follow her on instagram i do not i should though because she's like she is a true she's a international freak right she's like a vampire yeah she's a character and the two of them together you're like and this is fashion i guess but yeah these shoes i just like in the description on the zap post thing you just said it said step on the work site in confidence in the lightweight and durable sketchers work cicadas reddle composite toe like i like that they're using the same sort of marketing strategy on like more like women-centered designs for now like the construction worker i'm picturing a construction worker like looking at this and

like envisioning himself walking onto the like a construction site and everyone being like whoa check out the shoes on brad those are fucking awesome man are those memory foam holy shit pal yeah sketchers work cicades with the reddle composite toe reddle composite toe i feel like the old school work boot gang would just, you'd be bullied off the work site if you pulled up in these. I kind of think these are actually more of a kitchen shoe or maybe something. I don't know if it's like a construction as much as they are probably. You probably need steel toe. I think these have some type of, it's not steel, it's composite.

Yeah. The real thing, I think I just have to get these yeah and find out yeah how do you see yourself like when you put these on are you going to come up with a character bit do you think they'll just naturally just inspire you to walk differently i mean what do you see happening to you if you acquire these shoes that's tough one man i think it's going to be something where it's like i'm uh i don't know. I think I have to change my entire lifestyle and become more goth. I like health goth. I don't know.

Yeah, health goth, definitely. I just have to own them because I have to. See where it takes you. I think you can't wear them with pants. That's for sure. Oh, okay. With some shorts and some socks. Shorts.

Maybe like a giant t-shirt that's got like a rip in it and a stain. Okay. With some shorts and some socks. Shorts. Maybe like a giant t-shirt that's got like a rip in it and a stain. Okay. And like maybe like carrying around like a large stick. Something like that. Like when I first see them, they're not Skechers, right? Like they have Skecher DNA in them. So like you have to overcome that yeah and also the sort of euro-ness of like the all-black sneaker but then i when you talked about like an industrial

wasteland like if you just wear these at like an industrial art park type thing in eastern europe it's it's definitely working for you. Yeah. Yeah. Right. They're definitely cheaper than Balenciagas. I'll say that much. Yeah,

that's true. I feel like they're actually more fashionable than Balenciaga. Cause Balenciaga is like, you say that everywhere. That's like a thing. We know that when you show up in these and they're like, what's that? Right. Right.

What is that? Fuck with me. The drip is fucking somebody called a plumberumber because a drip can't be stopped. And the plumber might show up in these. Yeah. Oh, man. Spider-Man meme. I'm all about the crossover.

Yeah. The crossover between the blue collar and the super high fashion. Yeah. Yeah. It's a shoe that you see like, you you know like when you run into like an old high school teacher like at the supermarket and like yeah oh shit i'm seeing them out of their element and it's the weekend and they got these shoes on that's kind of what the vibe is for me and they're buying a four pack of sutter home mini wines oh four packs of minis with some hot deli

things this is a very specific memory and i'm not going to say my teacher's name, but you know who you are. I would say mine. Jerry Robbie. He was in the Peace Corps. Rode his bike. He went in the winter in Minnesota. Cool guy. Intense guy.

Wow. Damn. I could see him wearing these. Was he biking in that mall that everybody uses to get around to Minneapolis? Or he didn't probably live in downtown Minneapolis. This was in Rochester, Minnesota. So there's no, we had a mall there, but it wasn't like, not the big ass mall.

Right. It's boring and shitty. What is something you think is overrated? Oh man, I got so many things here. I know, look at that. But you know what? The most recent one I added, and this is like a very real thing, I think.

And maybe you guys are doing this right now but something i discovered about five months ago is turning off self-view on zoom i think it's like super overrated being able to see yourself oh it's exhausting it's compulsive it's exhausting it's hard not to do you have it on right now oh all the time i can never turn it off. Why don't you turn it off? I can't see you guys. I just have myself in the window.

Just one big... Okay, so that's super overrated then. Oh, chill. Okay. Yeah, no, I don't know why I don't turn it off. I think because I'm afraid that I will show up to a meeting and have some shit on my face or something. Have a Jeffrey Toobin problem? Yeah.

I mean, we're all... Come on, we're all secretly Toobin. I think we can all agree on that, right? Right, fellas? Am I right? Where are my fellas at? That's the guy's name, right? The guy who was... Yeah, Jeffrey Toobin. The guy who was on a work meeting. Well, I think it's overrated. I think selfies are overrated. Once you

turn it off, it's like, wow, you're in a new world because you're just i'm just yeah it is i just did it right now it's great i i just i usually just i'm i go between camera on or camera off basically okay but when right now i have it off and it feels a little bit like i've just taken off my training wheels and i can't believe i'm still biking and I actually am starting to feel the wind in my face and it feels great it almost feels like this is it's I don't know there there there was there's a moment of liberation here I'm gonna say what Bradley Cooper said to Lady Gaga when she was trying out for the role and a star is born and say Miles there you are wow Wow. Thanks so much. Now I see you. Yeah, you can tell I'm more uninhibited, right? Mm-hmm.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Overrated. That and fridge drawers. Fridge drawers suck. I swear to God. Go on. What do you mean?

Not the doors, the drawers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like for the crisping section? All they do is just, I put stuff in there. I forget about it because I can't see it. And I went to the drawer just now. I was like, oh, wait, I have several meals ready to go in here, but I just don't see them. So I forget it's there. So I think, oh, all we have is some ramen and Diet Coke and a grapefruit soda.

When actually the drawers, there's a bounty of things, but they're just wasting away. Right. Yeah. It's often where where my lettuce and celery goes to die and just be discovered at a later date. Like, oh, shit. I'm going to rip them out. I'm going to rip them out. Yeah, I think I might. I think I might rip them out.

I'm not kidding. And what is going to be a really like tall section to stack stuff in? Basically, if you if you gut it with the drawers? Yes. Okay, I like that. Yeah, because I'm the same way. I'll go and I'm like, oh, I don't remember buying a bag of green mush. And I'm like, oh, that was lettuce.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's been too much. It smells like old person breath. Rotting vegetables is such a specific breath. It smells like old person breath when I like rotting vegetables is such a specific breath. I think they're in league with they're in league with some other company to try to make you waste stuff. It's like Frigidaire signed like a 10 year lease with the Del Monte vegetables to get you to put stuff in there. So it goes to waste.

So you buy more. Right. And like, what is a fucking crisping drawer even do? It's like if you don't have a real one, like I know it's supposed to be like low humidity, but like I don't is a fucking crisping drawer even do like if you don't have a real one like i know it's supposed to be like low humidity but like i don't have a fucking refrigerator i'm like set that part to low it's all just it's just popping off at one temperature in my refrigerator so i'm like this feels different i'm just trying to picture like what an open open floor plan design refrigerator would look like.

It was just like everything stacked on each other. Or what you can have is a bunch of hooks and bags. Oh, nice. That would be great. Industrial. All along the sides. Yeah, you're wearing those shoes in your kitchen while you're using your industrial-ass open design fridge.

If you're hyper-wealthy you have like a transitional fridge so when you come back from the store you can open it and just hang your shopping bags in the transitional fridge to keep everything cold and then you're like fucking johnny then you're like okay i'm ready to d bag and everything stays fresh cold yeah we're. Debagging, sir. Where now? Debagging. Stand back. Debagging fridge now. Transitional refrigerator sequence engaged. Bunch of halon gas

shoots down like a fucking Diplo concert. Like, just freezes it out in your special Teflon bags. Have I been

mispronouncing Diplo? No. No, I've been, I say it wrong on purpose. No, but he's, he's been accused of assault or something recently. Oh, cool. Yeah. No, I've been I say it wrong on purpose. No, but he's been accused of assault or something recently. Oh, cool. Yeah. Well,

welcome to the world. Johnny, what is something you think is underrated? I think definitely you know that song by Madonna Material Girl? Yeah. Have you listened to it in the last however often amount of time?

Like critically? I mean, I feel like passively, and I'm always going... And that's how I listen to it. Yeah. It's the... I listen to it... I go back to it all the time because, like, the instruments on that song, they're just ridiculous. It's like before there was any

type of like midi it's all real instruments all being played by real musicians live in the studio but it sounds oh man just the sound of it it's like right i didn't realize that's all live it's definitely live it's like real studs in there with their fucking sense just going nuts like that sound like that there's also all these weird artifacts in there it sounds fucking synths just going nuts. That sound like that. There's also all these weird artifacts in there. It sounds like an Arthur Russell song or something. It's weird little like sprinklings of kind of like spacey echo stuff and you don't hear it.

You kind of hear it, but like if you just listen to the song, you're enjoying it. But then it's like, I don't know. It's something about that song. It's just so to me, I just love it. I love listening to it. I'll slow it down just I don't know. It's something about that song. It's just so To me. I just love I love listening to it well, I'll like slow it down is even even the drum fills some of the drum fills are kind of They're syncopated in a weird way almost like they're off time a bit. It's like a kind of concom You got weird

Transitional drum fill in there. I listen to over and over again. It's so it's a weird thing He's got this huge pop song, but also it's underpinned by this really heavy, cool instrumental track that I think gets lost because it's a pop song and because the vocals are there. It doesn't make it bad.

It just means like, wow, it's just like an actual, everything's there. I mean, drama just came through with the facts factual update Nile Rodgers production what else did Nile Rodgers do do he chic you know he's done fucking like so many

just look at his discography coming out by Diana Ross which served as the backbone for the song that we were talking about earlier is that the Mason for a song that we were talking about earlier. Is that the Mason Puffy song? Yeah. Tell me who's hot. Who's not?

That song? Yeah. H-A-W-A-I-N. I'm coming out. Who copped the blue drop? Who just got rocked? I mean, who knows? I mean, yeah, things like La Freak. Freak out! La Freak. That shit is tight. All that Sheik stuff is just incredible yeah that stuff chic is also

underrated as hell as a band their stuff is just ridiculous there's this one carly simon track that now why this track why shout out to nick stump og producer yeah because we were we were just going off about now rogers he does this Carly Simon's track called why. And it's so like funky. If you like a little bit of syncopation, watch, listen to the eight minute trade. There's an eight minute version of it.

That is so fucking too much, but I love it. I love the extended versions of stuff. Yeah. We were just talking to it. Cause, uh, the same DJ dramas was rocking a, a no Way Out T-shirt this morning. So we we had a prolonged Puffy conversation about that. where he i just remember that when i lived in new york city there were a lot of print ads like all

over like the subways and stuff of him uh riding a jet ski in a tuxedo and and then and then there like the tv ads of that also had him doing that but they showed the part where he was like wading through the ocean which was like the part that i was like you don, you don't want to show that because that's the reason. But I guess he just didn't give a fuck. Did he get onto a helicopter or off of a helicopter in that commercial? I think he caught a helicopter, right? Okay. Did a rope ladder come down or something?

It's that little copter, the kind that's like, it sounds like the... Yeah, yeah. The kind that you launch from your yacht. Yeah. Right. A Robinson. Right, right, right.

I mean, if you also think about it, just to get back to Puff Daddy, right? Because also Let's Dance by David Bowie, another Nile Rodgers production. Wow. Another track used by Puff Daddy. You know what I mean? I didn't know all this stuff. I'm just coming in. Coming in blind.

Just into the song. But see, you heard something. You heard something, Johnny. You know? Yeah. I'm just coming in coming in blind. Just into the song. You heard something, Johnny. I'm into production. I like production a lot. The older I get, the more I'm just like, I'm here for the production alone. Right. As Brody Stevens once said, what does he say?

Agree with me on cadence alone. That's pretty good. All right. Well, anything else to talk about with Puffy? With Puff? No, I was just thinking of, that just made me think of Michael Jordan cologne. This is when I used to buy celebrity colognes.

Did you ever have Michael Jordan cologne? By B-Shane? I didn't. I was always trying to have the complete collection of polo scents polo sport polo regular there's also like one called like polo crest i think or some crap it was limited so you were young polo huh well my friend jonathan was into polo so i was de facto also by osmosis yeah yeah you you had the same. Yeah, right. And you're like, secretly, I'm so allergic, mom, when I spray it on.

There was also one called Cigar Aficionado. Cigar Aficionado came out with a fragrance that we all wanted to get for some reason because it's like, ooh, cigars! Cigars! Wait, what? The magazine smell like you've been smoking cigars? It had a fragrance, and you know what? I'm going to say it. I think it was probably actually

really good. Yeah. I mean, there's a thing that you want cigars to taste like based on the smell. And maybe that's what they captured with that, as opposed to what it's actually like to smoke a cigar, which tastes like ash and then you smell like ash. Right. And then you're like, oh, I'm not supposed to inhale it? Oh, God, that's so rough. Yeah.

When I was going through middle school, I got deep into cool water and I never recovered. Are you kidding me? Me too, man. I remember when my friend Steve, somehow his mom got the hookup for the samples. He brought a ton of them to school. It was a big deal. It was like all there early, crowding around Steve. He brought a ton of them to school. It was a big deal. It was all there early, crowding

around Steve. He's got them. He handed everyone a cool water sample. In that middle school, it smelled like cool water for the next week. I only ever had the samples, but I was able to ride samples all

the way through because my friend lived right next to a JC Penney. Or a JCPenney. Or a Macy's maybe. That's a pretty hot sample spot. Mine was by a May Company. Or Robinson's May. Later on it would become. But I'm just snagging Nautica competition samples.

That was my thing. Ooh, that was a big one too. I mean, it's basically cool water, right? A little bit classier, you know, classier. Oh, it's classier, huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, meet me with your Tommy Hilfiger jacket. That's a quad.

We'll battle. See, that would actually be a good pairing for those shoes. A nice, big, blocky, oversized, retro Tommy Hilfiger jacket with those giant black Skechers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good combo. giant black sketchers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good combo.

And just fucked up jeans that are fucked at the hems by your feet because they're dragging so much. Yes. But they're baggy, baby. And I know you said no pants with those shoes, but that's what I'm thinking.

I could do that. Or maybe like some very tight, way too long hemmed jean shorts. Look like little tubes. Yeah.

Jean Capri pants. Straight leg Jean Capri pants. Straight leg. Jean Capri pants. Yeah. With that Tommy jacket drenched in cool water. Yes. Done.

All right. All right. We've figured out your new look. That's a vibe right there. Mr. 2098. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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abortion bans, COVID policies that are just like, you know, you're like, what is, who is this for actually at this point? But his latest now is that he has essentially banned all entities from having any kind of vaccine mandate. This is so the order states, quote, that no entity in Texas can enforce vaccination against anyone in the state who objects, quote, for any reason of personal conscience based on a religious belief or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19. And you're like, wait, huh? No, sir. I'm not an entity. I'm a bar.

Yeah. I don't know what an entity is, but we're a bar and we have a vaccine mandate. No, no, but you are an entity. That's the thing by doing that. So you would be considered an entity. Listen, Greg, I don't know what this antity is. I don't know what that is,

but we are not an antity, okay? Yes, we're Antifa breastfeeds. Antifa? No Antifa, please. So this whole thing was like, before Abbott and most conservatives are, you know, they're on this thing like, you know, we're not trying to fucking meddle in people's private lives. You know, that's not what the government's role is. But this man is fully going there saying like, even you private businesses, there's nothing you can do to escape my will. In the beginning, he was saying shit like, yo, uh, quote, private businesses don't need government running their business. That's what, that's a, that was a statement that came

out of his office, like over the summer when they asked, would you consider vaccine mandates for private businesses? And that was his quote. So I guess so much for that tenant of like your entire party of like what government overreaches, because now they're using it to be like, well, no one can do anything. And that's right. According to us. So everyone is a little I think people like what the fuck is this for? It doesn't quite make sense but the thing is the reason he's turning up his the maga meter from a three up to a january 6 is because he is getting primaried from the right okay by this guy greg huffins and this man is just like trolling him constantly from the so greg abbott is having to

play keep up one of the last things don huffins tweeted about greg abbott was greg abbott is having to play keep up. One of the last things Don Huffins tweeted about Greg Abbott was, Greg Abbott is a political windsock and today proves it. He knows which way the wind is blowing. He knows conservative Republican voters are tired of the vaccine mandates and tired of him being a failed leader. Damn. Remember when Texas was like, oh, you do whatever you want. That's what we're all about.

Yeah, you can do what you want here. I mean, if you want to do something. It's like, it's so anti-Texas to me. Well, I think that's why a lot of these bills, even a majority of Texans, regardless of party, are like, this abortion bill is fucking absolute garbage. This isn't the way to do it. Yeah, it's not Texas. absolute garbage like this isn't this isn't the way to do it yeah although many people would be like you know give them eight weeks then ban the abortions or something like that but for whatever reason this version even seemed like a bridge too far and then fucking huffines or huffines or you

know texans let me know how how to further mispronounce that he had something to say about a department of family services website that had like a suicide hotline resource on it for teens and can't have that this guy come on dude this is what this guy said don huffington said he accused the the texas child welfare agency of quote promoting transgender sexual policies to texas. And like under a section of its website titled quote, gender identity and sexual orientation. This is resources that the state has said, look, we get that people's outcomes are much better if they feel accepted,

especially with LGBTQ youth, because the suicide rates are really high. But in this instance, they're like, get this crap out of here. And guess what this spineless fuck did after huffings made that statement he fucking took the website down oh just vanished it yeah because this guy's like this guy's a liberal he's here for the liberal agenda and you're talking about a legitimate resource that you should have out there but i mean this is uh this whole thing is just turning into a magma mushroom measuring contest so we'll see like what the pot like

there's not even policies anymore it's just like how much can you take away right don't they have something else to do right there's so many other things you can do down there besides like check a website. You're checking a government website. Who cares? Right, right. And to think like, too, especially for like foster care, right, which essentially the state is in charge of things like that. They they are actually they're responsible to make sure that the kids who are navigating a foster system, too, are well supported and if you have someone like here who's being like nah man lgbtq don't give them any kind of support that's just that that's only going to translate to worse outcomes for a lot of younger people and like at this point like it really doesn't it has nothing to do with

policy like it's going to be like the first guy who's like i surgically fused a magGA hat to my skull is going to be like, yeah. In response to the like mandate ban, the bandaid American and Southwest are both headquartered in Texas. And both said they aren't going to listen to him on this and kept their vaccination mandate in place. Southwest is having like a, or their passengers are having a really bad week because they're like fucking stranded scattered around the country because they just cancel a bunch of flights and there's no like straight explanation of like why that happened but the mega people are

tried to start the rumor that the pilots were striking because of the mandates and that wasn't ted cruz real quick to hop on that one yeah and it turns out like yeah the pilot just understaffing it's like just the classic yeah it's just what america does is it doesn't pay people enough and it treats their workers like shit and then acts shocked when things fall apart because we have like that inbuilt exceptionalism. But it does like foreshadow this looming battle as like Republican attorneys general will probably sue once the Biden federal mandate goes into effect. And, you know, precedent is pretty clear on the side of vaccine mandates. We've had them in place for over 100 years, and they've allowed us to eradicate all sorts of deadly diseases. But now they're pointing out there are so many conservative

judges on benches, thanks to the Trump administration, that it's a possibility that they could be struck down. Interesting times. Yeah. Our country is pretty broken. We've backslid as an entity. America, we need to just... Wait, what's an entity? Yeah, what is that? We're a bar over here. Right.

America is a bar. We sell beer and wine. Right. We have a beer and wine cabaret license. That's all. We're not an entity. We don't do that. You wouldn't want to go to the cabaret license that's all we're not an entity we don't do that you won't want to go to the east side for that we don't have any to hear go to the theater district we're a bikini bar uh let's talk about mitch mcconnell real quick there's

some rumblings that he might be losing his power because he was the head of the Republican Party basically for a long time. You know, now he was in a fight with Trump over not raising the debt ceiling, not because they have a counterproposal. Trump just wants to tank the economy so he can create a good scenario for midterms and his eventual run. midterms and his eventual run and insiders are saying mcconnell won't have the political capital to basically go against trump's wishes again yeah they're like people like cruz and mitt romney who have been vocal and wanted to just basically shut the government down yeah great they just hold it hostage. That's how they'll make themselves look better, by setting fire to everything. And yeah, I think because McConnell suddenly was like,

yeah, fuck it, like here's some votes to pass this debt ceiling hike for at least two months. Because Trump was just like telling everyone, don't you dare vote for it, don't you dare vote for it, that now people are like having like takes like, oh man, Schumer was so close to blinking, man. And then McConnell just went and just completely gave in. It just makes us look so flipping weak, guys. But the thing is, you know, a lot of people on McConnell's side is like, look, dude this turtle-faced fucking demon is never gonna go

anywhere like he's weathered many storms and their whole i think their philosophy is like there's gonna be another political battle in like fucking three minutes and we'll have completely moved on because trump has a hard time of staying focused although his grudge with mitch mcconnell will always stay consistent but now i think when when you look at, well, what happens when we have to address this debt hike debate again in December or late November? You know, are they really going to be are they really going to throw the economy into total chaos? Or are they going to force Democrats to do something like have, you know, a fucking filibuster carve out where they're like, fuck it. We're not fucking with this. Like, we'll blow the filibuster up just in this specific moment for the economy, but not for the other important things we're trying to do.

So a filibuster carve out is that when they have like they get like a thousand pumpkins on the floor and they just have to they just carve until you can't carve no more. It's the carve out. It's a carve off. That's the filibuster. It's the carve-off. The Bill Buster carve-out. The James Carville. That's when you got to have the younger Congress people. They're going to do well

because they have that, still have that good hand strength that I think Mitch McConnell probably doesn't have. Oh, yeah. Chuck Grassley, he's going to get all pissed. He's like,

this is just terrible. Cut my steak for me, please. No, Senator, it's a pumpkin. We're doing designs pumpkins liberals these liberals in there one of my friends was at a bar a few i don't know a few weeks ago a month ago and somewhere in a smaller town in california and you know how everywhere you go to especially with resort towns they have they have no no one's work they have no staff so this bar was super understaffed and he walks up inside

because they're waiting outside for a long time. Goes inside the bar and the guy working at the bar just goes, he looks at him, shrugs his shoulders and is like, Biden. That's all he said. Was like, yeah, we wish we could have more people here, but you know,

Biden. No, I don't. Can you go on can you go can you elaborate please what do you mean i just love that shit though yeah one word biden what else is that bartender using to explain away like using that convenient one word answer for i think everything toilets clogged gas again b Biden. Biden. Biden. Yeah. I guess the new Obama. Yeah, it's both four, five letters.

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I can see the sorts of people who go to Coachella being sort of generally the type of people who would be against a vaccine mandate. Well, I'll tell you what it is. This this it's I'm just I'm just still doing research right right honestly i think it's great but i'm just i'm just uh i'm still doing research yeah also like have you ever snorted moon rocks before i'm sorry you're doing you you're doing okay but you're snorting mdma straight to the dome yeah yeah yeah okay well thank you so much. Here's your flower crown. And I'll just try and get by here.

But the thing was, the show sold out. Like, when they announced that the 2022 installment was coming, it was like, this is going to be a vaccinated show. They still sold out. They fucking sold out instantly. Whether people were like, fuck it, I'll figure it out then or whatever. Or people were like, yeah, fuck yeah. Like, that's's what i gotta do to do my annual pilgrimage to indio then so be it so there wasn't like a way to say like oh man the sales numbers were hurting or like people weren't like fucking picketing outside of like the promoters offices to be like this is fucking

horse shit so you know and like so i think it's really confusing because what happened was they posted, the Coachella account just posted to their IG stories that they don't need people to get vaxxed anymore. Right. So just like a very temporary thing, like they're not even posting on grid, okay, to let people know the rules have changed. So it seems like they were just trying

to very subtly be like, you know, as the statement worded, quote, after seeing firsthand the low transmission data and successful implementation of safety protocols at our other festivals this past month, we feel confident we can update our health policy to allow for negative COVID tests taken within 72 hours or proof of vaccination. Right. What if maybe they're just like so scared of having to actually check vaccines? Like, oh, we don't I don't know uh how to do it seems too much logistically how do we do it we we just have to be we can't do it because yeah what if they what if they don't have it and they show up like maybe it's like a thing where they're worried if people show up are like oh i thought you didn't have to you know people, people are just dumb. And they're like, well, we can't let you in now. Right.

And how many thousands of people, tens of thousands of people are going to be that way probably equates a total clusterfuck. I wonder if it's just something as dumb as that, as dumb as just like implementation. Like, so it seems like so many American problems right now are just like, we'd rather not pay people to do the job because then we make more money. So we'll just have the place being incredibly short-staffed and blame it on the workers for not wanting to work for a bit.

Because if anyone's been to Coachella, I mean, you don't need shit. You don't even need a fucking ticket if you really want to get in that fucking thing. Really? I mean, people are sneaky. And I can only imagine, based on the security check, the bag check. I mean, I've walked into that motherfucker like a human felony with so much shit on me. Where I was just like, wow, that was convenient. Because I took advantage of the male security guard's toxic masculinity.

Because I knew he wouldn't really want to touch me too much. Oh, yeah. convenient because i took advantage of the male security guard's toxic masculinity because i knew he wouldn't really want to touch me too much oh yeah and then that's how i just would stroll on in i would look for like the dude who looked like the most fragile sense of masculinity and then be like yeah come on homie touch me down there no okay we're good see you bye-bye but i honestly i suspect that it's a headliner doing this really Really? I think this is part of the negotiation. Because they haven't discussed the lineup yet. And this seems like the only reason they would do it. The tickets are fucking sold.

The money has been made. Wait, the lineup has not been announced? No, not yet. Oh, so I'm looking at an old one right now? From 2020 that had like Travis Scott and Rage Against the Machine. Oh, yeah. Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott, Frank Ocean. Frank.

Frank Ocean. La Diguega. Uh-huh. I bet it's Bill Ingvall is going to be headlining. Oh, my God. Bill Ingvall. The Bill Ingvall big blue tent. So, yeah.

I don't know. I think that seems like the most compelling thing that there is a huge artist that they want to book for this and that that you know saturday or friday night headliner is being like i dude i'm not getting vaccinated and i'm not comfortable being at a show where you're going to do that. Eric Clapton? Remember when they used to lie about stuff? Just lie. Maybe it's DaBaby. Oh, boy. Could be. The rehab tour. You need to

not only not fuck with the vaccine, but feel like... Oh, it's Nicki Minaj. Oh, of course. Maybe that's who it is. I'm just like, not that I found the answer. I thought you just found the answer. That's who it is. C'm just like, not that I found the answer. I'm like, that's who it is. Cousin Big Balls. Yeah.

Nick Minaj featuring Tucker Carlson. Yeah. God, that's an unlikely pair, isn't it? I feel like they're buddies now, aren't they? Yeah. She retweeted a video of his with a bullseye emoji. She did? Yeah.

Oh, so she doesn't like him. No, I think she was saying he was right on target, not that she wanted to shoot him right on the arrow. I'm just so used to that meaning the opposite. Like the old school, Osama bin Laden will come to get you, Billboard. You know, with the crosshairs. Right, right. I guess a crosshair is different than a target.

I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a target with an arrow right in the bullseye, not a bullseye over a picture of Tucker Carlson, which would have been more appropriate. All right. Well, let's talk about, if you guys will indulge me, this Machine Gun Kelly Megan Fox interview.

I'm just going to, like, pull some of the best quotes from them. Wait, so what is this? They just did an interview? They did an interview they did an interview the author is framing them as like the new kurt and courtney like specifically like this is the these are the new badasses the badass love affair and also i think i think he put it in the tradition of kurt and courtney was like but, but they're trying not to let it explode. But I just like they're like so steeped in this idea of themselves that I really love.

And any Machine Gun Kelly, anything I have to always say is for me colored by that video of him like rocking out on the boardroom table oh yeah scope oh yeah which like is just you know he is the anr executive idea of dangerous playing like a part to the t of like what the i i think the tweet that was sent out with that video was like 10 a.m boardroom meetings are boring yeah right oh boy and so anyways in the building so it starts out with they're they're doing tattoos on each other and the tattoos say the darkest fairy tale and she kind of fucks up his and rather than you know acknowledge that it was fucked up he says it's the best tattoo he's ever gotten and he says it looks like a fairy ghost did it right it's all haunted and like she laughs at that and they kiss like that description she

laughs and they kiss movies are one of the things that brought them together the lost boy so there's another quote from the article the lost boys was our first movie we watched together he reminisces and then true romance and point break oh point break is the best he had never seen it fox ads true romance was his choice and then he says i love a dark fairy tale what so so like he's already quoting the tattoo that they got together which itself is a quote from like their early courtship so it's just like kind of a catchphrase i guess that he's that he's doing what is there how is there any fairy tale whimsical aspect of this you're both in fucking hollywood and you just decided to start having sex right they just they just say stuff i think they just say it no one's like no one's scared

to say hey um that doesn't make any sense right exactly they they seem like like if that you know sort of thing where nobody like everybody is just yes-anding each other's vibe to a degree that it's just like they've spun off the planet and then they are also feeding off of one another. It's kind of just interesting to behold. They also have the same nose, which is always a bad sign. It's just not a good thing. This means you guys' gene pools are a little bit too

close together you have the exact same nose she's probably his aunt he doesn't know it that's probably why they have such a connection because it's like she i know you so well it's like hey right it's like this i've had that weird thing where it's like boss-employee illicit relationship. She's like the boss at DQ, and he's the badass employee. She wants to fire, but she also wants to sleep with him. Yeah, she's the franchise owner who's been coming in a lot recently. She's like, dude, she never comes in. So the story that they tell of their meeting she says i just remember this tall blonde

ghostly creature and i looked up and i was like you smell like weed he looked down at me and he was like i am weed i am weed this motherfucker said, I am the weed. I am weed, Megan. Then, I swear to God, he disappeared like a ninja in a smoke bomb. I bet he really did that. Yeah, because he blew a big old hit in her face and pushed her out of the way.

You know what else also kind of reminds me of? Remember that thing that happened about, I don't know, probably 10 years ago where someone who looked like Megan Fox would say, oh, I'm such a nerd. I'm such a nerd. I like watching this TV show about cops. I'm such a nerd.

You're not a nerd. Right. Yeah, yeah. It's both of them saying that to each other. You're such a nerd. No, you're such a nerd. you're such a nerd i'm such a nerd yeah legitimately they're like i'm like a very weird person and he's like a very weird person uh i think there's actually a direct quote that is that in here i can't believe that i can't find it though but it's so good and then there so there's this thing where he

thinks he's like discovering ideas that are like cliches so he's like hell yes this is great he thinks he's discovering ideas right it's such a specific thought so after the i am weed thing i'm just gonna keep reading from the article he sent her a couple text messages one that said i am weed and another that repeated his filthy first line of dialogue because they were in a movie together as if he couldn't believe he'd said those things to megan fox fox was charmed i just responded like how every fairy tale begins to which he ended the conversation all the good ones at least oh hell yeah and then he says and try and get your mind around this concept it felt like five minutes so it didn't even feel like three hours oh what what are you talking

about i think like i think he's suggesting that time sometimes seems different than it actually is. Wow, so it's not dilating for him. Yeah. No, no, no. This reminds me of that whole Terrence Howard math, one plus one equals one thing. Teriology. Right. Yeah.

Teriology, which we actually subscribed to on this podcast. Oh, okay. I'm big into teriology. Yeah. Things haven't changed since those early days. I'm big into teriology. Yeah. Things haven't changed since those early days when we first brought up. I call it bathrobe physics.

Yeah. Dude, I am weed. Yeah. This all makes sense now. I've been seeing so many memes like that. What if I am weed? Yeah.

Wow. Wow. Even our first kiss, she wouldn't kiss me. We just put our lips right in front of each other and breathed each other's breath. Oh my. And then she left. What?

So you're acting like you're here like a ninja. Right. Were they like having to restrain themselves that the best they could do is like just like edging with kissing, like just. Lips so close and then we'll just breathe. And then what, she just leaves without a word? Like, it sounds like they're, like, writing a script to some movie no one wants to see right now. That's right. It sounds like they are trying to speak in movie dialogue.

And, like, not doing a great job. But, like, that they won't say anything until they have the, like, sort of you know bantery thing to say i do i am surprised that he didn't say she just left disappeared and spoke while i'm like a ninja because he does seem to like have the uh like the big lebowski style like he just recycles like a handful of things that he's heard or said before. But here's the part that I was looking for earlier, Johnny, is she says famously, like, I'm an unusual person. And I had buried a lot of things that, because it didn't have a place to live.

That's something that meeting him, it's like meeting your own soul's reflection. Oh. Yeah. Because they're blood related. My genetic reflection. When I met Machine Gun Kelly, I was like,

I remember when he was growing up because my sister is his mom. Oh, I forgot that. I sort of remember that my sister is like his mom sort of and that we have a connection and he's weed and he's weed what if i smoked you what would happen we get higher than we've ever gotten you should smoke me babe it would be like i'd be part of you you should smoke me this is again like feels like she thinks she's discovering like the meeting your own soul's reflection but that's actually like a i think it's in a speech in

wedding crashers that rachel mcadams gives like that is but and it's supposed to be like kind of a cliched speech i think but i just want to and I'm just going to say that I feel like we start to see the seeds of the demise of this relationship towards the end. Because it starts talking about his recording career and how his last album was all about her and his love. And I don't think his last album was like well received and then he's like i he there's like some suggestion that he like feels insecure about like the fact that she hadn't seen him perform live because of the pandemic oh that's a real thing though that's very real oh i'm sure i can say that from experience yeah i'm i'm sure it is but then like i i don't know it's the the element that seems to be missing from all those uh examples of like court and curtain courtney courtney

courtney my favorite couple uh is like that i don't know is it seems like he's not talented just based on not having listened to a lot of it um that might just be me being old i i it's his genius is not apparent to me as well until he said he was weed and now i'm like yo you know honestly this this motherfucker might be a genius so her description of finally seeing him perform, I'm not above the intoxicating element of watching and having heart eyes. I was confused by that at first, but then I think it's like the emoji heart eyes and not like, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what I, like heart eyes. I was like, what the fuck does that, what the fuck are those? Her cataracts are forming. She's got hardening of the arteries. She's getting older. It's becoming harder to see because Megan Fox is actually in her late 60s. Yeah.

She's just been drinking enough. Her and Nancy Pelosi have been hitting the blood bar. And then the last paragraph. Megan Fox's love may be transforming Colson Baker, his real name. It's kind of a cool name. Into his highest self, but it hasn't changed Machine Gun Kelly. I'm still a motherfucking outlaw, quote,

together they're the perfect partners in crime. Always a good sign when you have to reassert your motherfucking outlawness. I know. Hey, just so you guys know, I'm an outlaw. What? Hey, that's that guy who dates coming across is on fool get out of here right so i know i know i've uh i'm i'm reinstituting the mask mandate but just so you guys know i am a

motherfucking outlaw okay so you're gonna put your mask on to get into this discovery zone yeah i will but just can you please tell everyone here that uh you know i am a fucking outlaw yeah i'm gonna get your mask on i'm asking up but i want to i want to play in the discovery zone here but just i want everyone to know i'm mother could you go on the pa and please tell everyone that yep yep attention everyone this guy entering the ball pit not just a weird old guy but also a motherfucking outlaw okay could you imagine waylon jennings saying that or like merle haggard like i say, no, just make sure this is clear. I am an outlaw.

Can we make sure that be known, please? I'm an outlaw. Yes, sir. No. Here's your sponge bath. It reminds me, like his performance in this profile reminds me of the, I think you should leave season two sketch where Santa Claus keeps using the words cosmic gumbo. Cosmic gumbo cosmic gumbo right because like he said he like came out into it like thinks it's fucking dope because machine gun kelly uses

the phrase the dark fit like a dark fairy tale and very fairy ghost and haunted like that it's just let like he thought he discovered the goth aesthetic right and maybe he wants to be ghosty main oh wow his new uh his new identity that i i have a hot take i i actually doubt they even have had sex

and megan yeah it's all an act they don't know what the fuck you're talking about this is all bad also it's just hard for me to imagine that this is a real couple and not just a meme that's alive. Yeah, it does feel like that. It is like a meme that came to life or like some movie dialogue that came to life

but misremembered and badly rebooted. Right, but at its core, it's just such a dark fairy tale. And I think that's the thing that I think has drawn a lot of people in. There's a certain darkness to it. It's almost like someone in this equation is weed.

Haunted weed. Sir, we can't let you in. Why? Well, because you are literally weed. That's the first issue. It's illegal here. Johnny, as always, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist, man. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find me on the cloud of smoke I've just created because I am a weed ninja.

You can just Google Johnny Pemberton. I am a weed ninja. You can just Google Johnny Pemberton. I'll be in Austin, Texas doing comedy soon, next week on Creek and Caves, October 21st, 22nd, 23rd. I'll be in Houston on that Sunday. And you can find me. Just go to johnnypemberton.dog. I know it sounds like it's a fake web address,

but it's my actual web address because someone stole my johnnypemberton.com and is holding it ransom. Motherfucker. I know. They also see me on Twitch. I'm on twitch.tv slash johnnypermerton at least once a week. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media

you've been enjoying? Yeah, you know what? There's this great art collective called Friends With You and everything they do is wonderful, but they always say stuff. It's like, you know, so much stuff is so dark and like sad and everything, but they always say stuff that's sort of like above it. And I think they said something here. I think I put it in this document here, but they said, basically, people are bitching a lot about the timeline,

like the simulation right now, but they said, feel so lucky to live in this timeline with y'all. I feel like that's like a, I just love thinking about that as opposed to being the opposite. They're like super positive. They're so positive. I just love everything they do because of that. Right. In a way that's also really creative, which is, I think it's a hard thing to manage, but they managed to do it. That is heartwarming. I don't know but they managed to do it. That is

heartwarming. I don't know how anyone manages to do it. Yeah. How are we alive? We are. Who do you think you are? I am. Oh, I'm weed. I am weed. Who do you think you are? I am. And I am weed.

In the hall of fame of great dumb shit. Ingenious dumb shit awesome uh miles where can people find you uh what is the tweet you've been enjoying find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray and also the other show 420 day fiance with sophie alexandra go to twitch.tv slash 420 day fiance to watch us do you know just just talk that 90 day shit um some tweets that i liked first one is from jess dweck at the dweck tweeted how will i explain by superman to my children i'm about to orphan because of covid summing up the fucking outrage on the right because it's by superman and then also this other one is from it's funny like, what the, I just thought this meme is so fucking just ridiculous.

So this is from Thought Chalk at Sharia Basu 003. And their tweet is this thing of, it's Mulder and Scully. And Dana Scully is like, you smell like weed. And then Mulder says, motherfucker drops the bomb. I am weed. I am weed. So I just love. I didn't know what it was until we started talking about this.

And I'm like. And you still liked it. Yeah, because I was like, this is just so stupid. I just love the X-Files thing. I was like, whatever. We're just we're doing that. But now it all makes sense. And I'm part of the discourse.

So discourse. So thank you. Scully, I am weed. I am weed. I want to be weed. Oh, my God. I want to be weed. I want to be weed.

I want to be weed. All right. That's that's it. We're never going to do better than that on this podcast. That's that's the end of the podcast. All right. Good night. Thanks. Bye. That's it. We're never going to do better than that on this podcast. That's the end of the podcast. All right. Good night. Thanks.

Bye. That's how we started. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. I like Chris Crofton's tweet. Okay, I'll bite. What's Hamilton? Which is just the right time for that.

And also true. I do believe he might not really know what Hamilton is. And Blaine Kepatch has had a couple good, like kind of long shaggy dog Twitter threads. And his latest was, okay, okay, here are all 50 ways to leave your lover. And it starts with the ones from the Paul Simon song, slip out the back jack, make a new plan stand,

hop on the bus gust, drop off the Keely. Number five, shit in the bed fred and then it just keeps going point to a squirrel merle spell your name geoff jeff fuck the maid of honor connor use one of your wishes aloe vicious make yourself scarce pierce it just goes on it's very funny 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,

where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy i mean it's october it's spooky and then who'd have thought one of my favorite bands hiatus coyote would just drop a spooky single out of thin air on me and this is called canopic jar and that was gonna be the monster mash yeah no i thought it was gonna be too but this shit is it's just great it's more hiatus coyote i'll never say no to it too but this shit is it's just great it's more hiatus coyote i'll never say no to it and i love the way it's produced and just big old rock drums and shit

feels yeah it's good for this october day so check out canopic jar by hiatus coyote speaking of rock and drums uh the rock apparently raps on a new tech nine album so i saw that headline and i'm afraid to... I just want you to check it out so that will presumably be one of the songs you recommend going forward. Check out his flow. I think he raps about working out

seems to be the thing. Work out! I love to! I love working out. It's great. I pull the sled. I do the snake ropes. It's great. I pull the sled. I do the snake ropes. It's great. I'm the rock.

That's how he talks, right? Yeah. You got it. He does finish every sentence with I'm the rock. The Daily Zyka is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. We'll be back this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we will talk to you all then.

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