The Daily Zeitgeist - Mayor Pirates Booty? The Stinkiest Bed In Film History? 03.21.25

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

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It was so weird to realize like, oh my gosh, I've only been in the room with you one other time and you know what I mean? It was like that weird feeling of like, I think I know this person very well. So yeah, it's like love is blind, the comedy version, comedy friends, I know you through the screen. Yeah. Miles and I have never been in the same room before. No, I think it's going to ruin it. It would kill the show. Oh, yeah.

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Use bat use beef tallow for the grease courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi main a little Steve Miller Or seal whichever you prefer. Yeah. Yeah, I like the seal person. I prefer Steve Miller. Oh Some people call him the space cowboy. I'm not sure if you've met my friend Steve Some call him the gangster of love. No, they don't know nobody nobody Steve Steve Could you imagine I'm thrilled to be joined a great work Christy avogucci man as always Really be joined as always and great work RFK. Also. Sorry. I didn't even say who that was about About our favorite, you know health health nut take putting the nut in health nuts And putting it in all caps.

Thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's experimental Black Indian artist. Yo, boy, Kusama. Thank you so much for having me. The Lord of Lakersham is in the closet. And by that, I mean my recording studio. I still can touch both walls like this, but this is where the magic happens as I scream into the void. It's not even that you can touch both walls because, so you reach out and your arms are at 45 degree angles above your head. Yeah. Like you have to-

Elbows are hitting the walls. You have to like kind of fold your arms to not touch both walls. Yeah, it is what it is, man. When you're this broad. Just to give people an idea of what Miles is working under. He's in a closet and giving you this energy. Yeah, and it's hot in here too, but don't worry. I'll power through.

Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian out of Chicago. Her first time on the show, you've already heard about her via Chris Crofton. You might have seen her on Subway Takes, the L, the Chicago L train version, suggesting that we dig up our dead and shoot them into space. You might have seen her on stages across America. It's Kristen Toomey. Kristen.

Hello. Hello. Hi, guys. Welcome. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. We're thrilled to have you. We're so excited because we love Chris.

Our listeners, Zeit Gang, they love Chris. And yeah, we're like, this is, we cannot wait to have Kristen on, because that's like a cosign from, for lack of a better word, God. And he's never done that either. He's been on dozens, dozens of times. Yeah. Gives him a God complex. He was flying on Cold cold brew. Yeah. When he did drink my...

Then he asked if anyone had a hard boiled egg he could eat because he was crashing hard from the caffeine. He's wild. He's a wild man. Yeah, he is. Loving the... Yeah. He was watching the metal detecting videos with you guys.

That was great. Yeah. The whole thing. He's always just bringing us good, good new niche YouTube stuff. Yeah. He'll be back soon. He'll be back soon. Is that what he stopped down?

There was one point where he stopped down. He had had too much cold brew and he had to stop down. Was it to eat a cold, a hard boiled egg? Yeah, yeah. He had to eat a hard boiled egg. Did we ever talk about that in the episode? I think we did because it was so bizarre. Chris was like, I'm sorry. He's you know, Chris, he's becoming very apologetic.

And he's like, guys, I'm sorry. I've had way too much fucking cold brew. I don't know what the fuck I was doing drinking this much before, but I have to eat something. I'm going to fucking melt. Yeah. And that's kind of I feel like that. I don't know if it's the spirit of Chris Crofton But I I had too much coffee before this and so maybe you know Caffeine guts yeah over caffeinated would be a good subtitle for the show. Yeah, I

The cold brew I had to stop. I actually don't drink cold brew as much anymore because I have to pour over. No, it's intense, isn't it? It's not like it's weird. It's more, I think it's just like affecting my stomach more than getting the caffeine hit. Like I'm not as caffeine sensitive, but my stomach will be like, this ain't it. This ain't it. Cold brew? Yeah.

Cold brew. All right, Kristen, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We are going to get to meet the founder of Pirates Booty, the Cheetos, like the lesser Cheetos. Yeah, the lesser Cheetos, poor man's Cheetos. And we're going to, yeah, it's a new wannabe oligarch just dropped. We want to get to know him.

We'll check in with Tesla. How are they doing? Seems like they've had a tough week and we're loving every second of it. Might even check in with Andrew Schultz and what's the CEO Vaughn. We were wondering as we headed into this administration, what's it going to look like for these comedians who got famous during the Biden administration being like, fuck the system, this president sucks. Now they're like, I actually like the president.

I think he's cool. I like everything he does. We got a lot of that. We're for the president. We think the White House is neat. We're going to just get a little clip of Andrew Sch Yeah. We're for the president. We think the white house is neat. So we're going to just get a little clip of Andrew Schultz talking about, talking about how everyone's being too mean to Tesla. Yeah.

Oh, cool. Take that's how you know, you're, you're really cool. Comedy take when you shame everyone into this billionaire. Uh, we'll talk about Netflix's new reality show, a Willy Wonka reality show. That we, as far as we know, won't involve killing greedy children, but has not been confirmed. Will it have like slaves that work in the factory? Yeah, they were happy there, Miles.

They got fed candy. They were thrilled to be there. Yes, yes, oh, yes. They were thrilled to be there. Free the Oompa Loompas. Free them. Yes, yes. Free the Oompa Loompas. All of that, plenty more. But first, Kristen, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search

history? I'm just going with the last thing that was on there. Perfect. So it's a painting. It's called Song of a Lark. And it's this woman, this Bill Murray, okay, who I love, Bill Murray, Chicago guy, told this story.

And I saw this clip about this painting. He wanted to kill himself. He was suicidal after a bad performance. And he went like wandering through the city of Chicago and he found himself at the art Institute and he saw this painting. It's called Song of a Lark and it inspired him to not kill himself and continue to live every day. So we wouldn't have Bill Murray if it wasn't for this painting. Song of a Lark.

It's a Jules Breton piece, the Song of the Lark. It looks like a woman in a field, like a scythe or something. Well, what did he say about the like he was just he just was like, behold, this art piece and like humanity rushing back to him or something. So he said that it looked like a woman that, you know, didn't have much to live for. And she looks like she's like this peasant woman working in a field. But the sun was rising behind her. And something about that sunrise made him go like, oh, she gets another crack at it.

She gets another chance at the day. And yeah, so that inspired him to not kill himself. And he was going to jump in the Chicago River or the lake. And I just thought that was really beautiful like how art can do that to some of us you know. I know I just looked at this and I was like damn this is it it's got a lot going on in this thing like she looks destitute. Yeah she looks unhappy and uh looking toward the night side of the sky. I'm glad he interpreted it as the sun was coming up and not the sun was going down.

She was holding a scythe because she was looking towards the darkness. To murder someone. Yeah, recognizing that the monsters live in the dark and she was going to have to kill or be killed would be how I would look at that. Yes. But. Dude, that's the vibe that I got from it. Fight these fucking monsters.

I thought it was very much like she was going to like go into the house and kill her abusive husband or something like that. I could see that. That was what I got. Yeah. But it's so interesting. Everybody should look at it though. The quality of the light is really something.

Yeah. Really beautiful painting that is definitely about somebody living in the middle of some sort of armed uprising, which cool. Or fighting mutant monsters, yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that beautiful painting that I'd never seen before. More than I can say, for most guests, their search history is some porn stuff or whatever. No, that's not true. What is something is something Kristen that you think is underrated? Aging is underrated. I agree with this.

I think people, you know what, like I was raised, I'm an elder millennial. Okay. But I identify as Gen X, which is the most Gen Z thing I can do. But I grew up hanging out with Gen Xers. And so we were raised by boomers and they don't age. They don't wanna age. Nobody wants to be called grandma anymore. You know, like they're getting new tits and lips

into their seventies. And I feel like, no, who's knitting the baby blankets? No one's knitting. No one's knitting Aging, you know, I feel like we should embrace that our generation should embrace aging Be proud to be a grandparent be proud to you know retire play golf, whatever and These people they don't want to retire. They don't want to stop fucking. They're out with boner pills, like on the loose. It's crazy.

Right. On the loose with boner pills. Yeah. I'm always suspicious of like singular explanations of like what is wrong with this country. But there's, I think, I think somebody wrote a book that was like generation sociopath just about how like boomers were all all like these narcissistic sociopaths and they made it checked a lot of boxes for me. Let's let's put it that way. There I don't think they're all uniformly like that.

And I don't think it's the only problem we've got. But like having one generation that is hoarding all the money and incapable of being concerned about the generations that come after them, that seems weird. It seems like we're currently taking it as like, ah, humanity just wasn't able to deal with the challenge of climate change. What if it was just like a very selfish generation? It was just like, actually, we just don't give a fuck about you.

Once we're gone, it's going to be OK. There's another book that kind of touched on that called The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West. And that was sort of talking about how, like, in the 60s, all of the rock and roll shit kind of like, like the boomers are like, I'm never leaving this like mental state either, where it's about like forever young and all these other things that occur.

I mean, there's your wealth and being uninhibited and like not inhibiting other people's sexuality. Oh, sorry. No, not those parts. Just the irresponsibility part. I young forever. I young forever. I young, I get to not care about other people. The only thing they retained out of Woodstock was rolling around in mud.

Yeah, yeah. And they like to come. That's their only thing. Yeah. No, they did. For the generation that hated their parents so much,'s like, they really rebelled against aging. They invented the term anti-aging. There was no creams or anything that that phrase didn't exist. And I feel like it's embarrassing to watch them just refuse to go off into the night. It's like,

sit down. Why accept the forward movement of time? Why? What I'm supposed to just sit here and let it happen to me? Come on. I'm going to shoot up my grandkids blood right into my veins. I'm going to use my grandkids as a goddamn blood bag. Yeah, good. Right.

How far we've come. It's like we used to have children to help in the fields for agricultural reasons. And now it's like, no, you got to have like 14 blood bags. That's right. What is something, and by the way, we don't know that the woman in the song of song of the lark wasn't using a blood bag. Like she looks pretty good. Like she might've been using a child blood bag.

She was going to get the blood. Yeah, she's micellar water or something. Bathing the blood of the owner of this field. What is something you think is? Fuck this field. I'm going to get a blood bag. That's right. That's right. Uh, what is something you think is overrated?

Getting drunk. Getting drunk is overrated. Yeah. It is overrated. Yeah. It is overrated. What part? I think that it's so, I think being drunk is so embarrassing. It's the most embarrassing thing you can do. It's like every part of your brain that tries to keep you functioning in society

without embarrassing yourself is gone. That's what you're doing. And so you're out here, you're saying and doing things you would never co-sign and you're a mess. You know, if there's people that can drink and you can't tell, but then what, what's the point of that? It's just silence. The inner monologue probably.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, but being like drunk, you're just loud. You repeat yourself. You're falling like you're sloppy. And there's a reason why you wouldn't normally do the things that you're doing right now. And those are good, valid reason to not do it. Yeah. Yeah. And you're just like wiping out your own defense system and spending all this money. And you're ready to see the worst version of me ever.

Yes, it is. It's everyone's worst version of themselves. And it's like, you're paying to do that. And then you have to apologize. And it's just like, it's embarrassing. You're vomiting. I mean, there's nothing, you're sleeping with people you wouldn't sleep with. You're vomiting.

You're saying things you wouldn't want to say. You're vomiting. I mean, you're sleeping with people you wouldn't sleep with. You're vomiting. You're saying things you wouldn't want to say. And it's like, I just think it's overrated. I don't know what everyone is hoping to get out of it. Yeah, there are some people who really are uncomfortable. Like when they're drinking and somebody's around them not drinking, they're like very uncomfortable. They're like, come on, let's shots. Let's do, let's just do, you don't have to drink.

Just do like three shots with me. And they are right to be uncomfortable around people who are drinking while they're drinking because we can see, yeah, it's a, it's a bad, it is a bad look. You're, you're right. Like it, it only is okay if everybody is drinking in at the same time. It's funny to be like, to your point, Krista, like when you're around someone really drunk and you're not drunk, it's like, it's like the same look you give

your friend when someone says some like off the wall racist shit and like casually and you look at your friend, you're like, yo, what the fuck is up with this person right now? And he's like, yeah, just sing about you guys, man, you're gonna miss a little white cloud and some of the surf. Yeah. And I guess I have way better flavor. And you're just like, what the fuck is this fool saying? You get the fuck away from me. Like, yeah, and it's like the 10th time they've said that to you in 15 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes it's just like all like, people don't get drunk in a linear fashion.

They get like sometimes they'll like you'll start a conversation and they'll be coherent and by the end you're like, whoa, where did you go? Right. Entertaining though. It's entertaining for me. It is embarrassing for you guys, unfortunately. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Well, these, this was great to, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, this was great to get to know you a little bit better. Those are great searches for underrated, overrated. Thank you so much. We are going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and talk about some news. We'll be right back. Prohibition It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s.

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And we're back! And Pirate's Booty. We all is it. Pirates booty is like I don't I don't think I had it when I was a kid, but it's it's gone national now. It's a big thing. Everybody knows Pirates booty. It's a, you know, Pirates booty. I do, because I have celiac, so I'm gluten free. OK, and that is gluten free snacks.

So I've known about pirate booty for a while. Yep, yep, yep. I mean, I remember the first time I had it, I was like, oh, this is like the health food store version of Cheetos was like my sort of like, it's what I felt like as a kid when it first hit the scene or like, I think I was maybe junior high or something. Yeah.

But it's like the Cheetos they would have had in Soviet Russia, you know? It's like, they don't have have all the like things aren't like fluorescent orange there, you know, like they haven't done too much with rice. It feels like. Yeah. I mean, but look, that was the era like when, you know, that was like, everyone's like, oh, the lesser evil of my favorite junk food is this. Yeah. But the founder of that company, Rob Ehrlich, he calls

himself captain booty head for real. That's like, he's like, I'm coming. Captain booty head. Um, he's always drunk. Yeah. And he looks like he's fucking, I mean, there's no way you could actually tell people I call me captain booty head. And you're not, that wasn't a drunken or at least coke fueled idea, but a bit

of both maybe, yeah, he got rich. He got rich when he sold the company for like almost 200 million. And now he fancies himself a bit of an oligarch. So last Monday, this story is so fucking wild. He pulled up to the town hall of Seacliff, Long Island, like some dollar store, Elon Musk in like spectacular fashion, walked in, literally said, I am now the new mayor. And everyone in here is fired. They again, what did he do? He invoked quote a 2009 state law

that empowers residents to dissolve their town or reformulate it. The first step is to gather signatures from 10% of the town's voters in this case 1800 signatures. Mr. Ehrlich waved an envelope that he claimed held 1800 signatures. He declined to show them to anyone because he said the signers were afraid of retribution. So he came and was like, I got it right here. I'm the mayor. You're all fucking fired. Leave now. And they're like, OK, proof.

He's like, no, no, no. We see those signatures. Miles, can I see the signature? What a piece of shit. Yeah, what a piece of shit. What a piece of shit. And now I'll say, knowing that, I have to say, it tastes like packing foam. It does. Pirates booty.

It's straight packing foam. It's a Venn diagram, like Cheetos and packing foam, and then in the middle is pirate booty. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So unfortunately- He tried to hand in a paper bag stick up like a towel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he was to hand in a paper bag, stick up like a town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he was clutching in his fucking waist. Like, yeah, yeah. Don't go.

Don't make me. Oh, yeah. Let's see it. I got to go. So what happened was they called the fucking cops on him. He left the next day. He announces that he's going to have a right in candidacy for the mayor's office. And then they basically said preemptively, even before the election happened, which happened on this last Tuesday, he said, the election is going to be rigged anyway, but I'm going to be running. And they're like, okay, dickhead. So cut to- Every response from the town, I think,

can be summed up as, okay, dickhead. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's going full pirate right now. Yeah. All pirate. Truly, truly, truly, truly. Um, so what is he running on deregulation, less taxes, and a very oddly specific gripe about regulations on outdoor seating at cafes. Guess which dickhead owns a cafe in town? Yeah, this one.

That's the election. Which dickhead has two thumbs and owns a cafe in town? You got him. Him. Yeah. So the election happened on Tuesday and you'll never guess how the votes broke down. The incumbent mayor received over 1000 votes and Captain Asshat only got 62 votes. 62.

Yeah. Yeah. Pretty big L. Pretty big L. Compared to 1,000 in this election that he made up. You're assuming someone with this much wealth would have had the resources to get his friends out, get people vote in, had a little bit more follow through.

And by the way, I do just want to, because for some reason, when I first read the story this morning, I was like, this is a young man. This is, you know, like young for a hundred billion. They're like, this is like somebody in their like forties is what I was guessing at the latest, just like, I don't know, something about trying to take over your town and calling yourself Captain Bootyhead strikes me as a young man's game. But to our earlier point about what may be the ill that may be troubling America, he's 66. He's right square in the boomer demo. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, he sees all this winning happening and he's like,

I got to get, I got to get, I'm having that too. Yeah. So he lost, he gets smashed, he only gets 62 votes and yet he persisted. This is from the New York Times quote. Of course he did. Mr. Ehrlich. Of course he did.

Mr. Ehrlich was undaunted. I'm still the mayor, he said, adding that he wanted to meet with the governor to enforce his claim as for the current administration. He said he will sue them for $390 million for impeding his business opportunities. Speaking with an authority that only he recognized, he said, I plan on taking their homes. I mean, again, the pirate energy.

Yeah. Yeah, truly, truly, truly. Yeah. Yeah, truly, truly, truly. Yeah, that booty has gone to his head. Yeah, 100%. Hey, we've all been there when the booty goes to your head. Yeah, this is, I could see this being a successful rebrand for Baby Boomers as like, we're actually pirates. Like, what about that? That could be fun. We're not just like, yeah, ruining the world with greenhouse emissions and like hoarding all the wealth. We're doing that stuff because we're dang pirates over here. We don't care, man. Or it goes like back to old internet shit and they splinter off. There's either pirates or ninjas.

Pirates v ninjas. Yeah. Yeah. Which boomerang? I'm a ninja and I'm a pirate. Okay, guys, we're all fucked either way. That's right. Well, hopefully we never hear from this person ever again, but I have a sinking feeling.

A hundred millionaire check. I like that the headline said, Seaside Coup. I feel like that sounds like a band or something like Seaside Coup. Yeah. Seaside Coup sounds pretty dope. I mean, it's kind of poetic, honestly. And also what he would hope it would be called. You know, I'm doing a Seaside Coup.

Yeah. That's his journal entry. Right. Him being a hundred millionaire, him just lobbing massive fake lawsuits at people, those do seem to be the way that people stay in the news and get ahead at this point. Well, it's all mimicry. You know what I mean? They just see how other assholes with similar intentions are manipulating

the system and they're like, oh yeah, but they, but this guy did in the most ineligate night, there's an elegant way to do that, but the most stupid ass way. You mean he didn't have a chainsaw with them? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You should have done a couple of hits of ketamine fool. You know what I mean? Just to take the edge off before you go waving around an empty

Manila envelope saying you have 1800 signatures that make you the new mayor. Um, but it's funny because the incumbent mayor pointed out, it's like, dude, this guy's whole thing is that he's trying to dissolve the village also. But if there's no fucking village, then there's nothing to be fucking mayor of. Right. Like the mayor's like, I don't know, nothing to be fucking mayor of. Right. Like the mayor's like, I don't know, man, this guy's just a fucking, I don't know, booty head, do your fucking worst, get your 62 votes and you're out. Yeah.

Like it fails to have any grounding legally and also as a logic puzzle. It doesn't make sense. It's so sad to see what people do when they get money. It's like, you would think you could be more proactive and creative with it. It's really pathetic what people choose to do when they made that much money. It's like, what a waste. Well, I think it gets to a point where you're like, oh, I get that money and then my money allows me to make more money,

but that's the only thing I'm interested in now. Or in this case, like so many people, they try and enter politics purely for how it's going to benefit their own business directly. It's like, oh, yeah. Like Rick Caruso, like running for mayor of L.A. He's like, I'm just trying to fully get my hands in as like the real estate fucking king of this area. And being mayor helps a lot with my business.

And yeah, it's just a similar model we see all over, all over the country. It's almost like there's a good argument to be made for not allowing people to have over like $10 million and like everything after that just gets taxed at a hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. You know, almost like everything past past that it just breaks your brain almost like that was the 60s We had actual progressive wealth progressive tax. Yeah taxation on wealth on wealth Yep, I'm pretty good at this. Oh, yeah stuff. Mm-hmm politic. Oh, yeah

Let's talk Tesla. Yeah, cuz we're worried over here. I don't know about. Oh, yeah. Let's talk Tesla. Yeah. Because we're worried over here. I don't know about you, Kristen, but we're worried. We're worried that the stock price might go back up. Because it is going down. Yeah. Real, real hard times for fucking Elon right now.

That's the, I think it's the transparent corruption of this current regime. That's like it's it's sadly it's as funny as it is horrifying. And like, you know, the last few weeks have been just a full on Tesla rehabilitation campaign from like right wing media. I think the most I think the biggest defense now is trying to say that anyone who likes to like finger paint on a Tesla or burn it, whatever it is, they're like, do stuff against Tesla. That's domestic terrorism.

Okay. It's a capital offense, and we're going to investigate it as such. And Hannity, like last night or on Wednesday night, it's at the point now where Hannity is trying to beg Bob Iger to fire Jimmy Kimmel for making fun of Tesla like on air. Yes. Oh, let me play this whole clip like this is this is him reacting to Jimmy Kimmel, like just saying something about Elon Musk. And look just how pissed fucking Hannity is and his like how he's like,

I know how to I'm going to cancel this guy. Watch this. He's been making the rounds in the right wingwing media try to appear to be a human being That's supposed to be clever now Owned and run by ABC Disney and Disney's run by a guy by the name of Bob Iger Bob are you okay with this seeming glorification of of violence? are you ok with this seeming glorification of of violence is this the inclusive wall d e i the a b c disney brand now think about it jimmy

you know he sobs he weeps on election doesn't go his way he demands compassion if he's having problems in his personal life a b c disney bob iger allow a host of my opinion to be celebrating what has been happening to Tesla against regular Americans that drive Teslas, making jokes about it all. Bob Iger, you're the CEO of Disney. Are you proud of this?

Jimmy Kimmel is an unhinged loser. Wait, so the thing he's reacting to is like, Jimmy Kimmel was like, it's funny that Tesla's like stock price is going down and that people are like damaging Tesla's. Yeah, he was doing jokes just around the state of Tesla. And like that lat like, you know, the clip starts with how he sort of like ended it about how he's also trying to walk around pretending like he's a human being. I like how he really went De Niro. And then he's like, that's supposed pretending like he's a human being. That's right. I like how he really went De Niro in the music.

That's supposed to be clever? Yeah. Okay. That is the favorite catchphrase of bullies. What, that's supposed to be clever? You think you're- That's clever? Oh, you're funny how?

Funny like a clue? Right. Yeah. So now he's saying Kimmel is on cancellation watch. So he better watch. That's what Hannah D said? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean- I mean- Totally wouldn't surprise me. Like it feels like all the all the billionaires are like kind of in it together here. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And their skin is thinner than ever. Oh, yeah. But even like more pathetic was the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. He went on Fox and basically begged viewers to buy Tesla stock. The fucking Commerce Secretary, a cabinet member is shilling, telling people to buy stock of fucking Tesla on Fox, like it and doing it fucking seriously. And I think one thing to realize too, because this

sort of feeds into what he says when I play the clip, a huge part of like Tesla's like obscene overvaluation is getting investors to completely ignore that the cars fucking suck and look like shit and stink like shit and will get you thumbs down wherever you go. It's the perceived value in owning Tesla stock is that there are more than their shit cars, that they're actually going to make all this other futuristic shit like robots and taxi. Do you see a robot bartender, dude? Yeah, a robot bartender had a cowboy hat on dogs. So please just ignore, just ignore the shitty cars, will you?

And just focus on the promise of a future that has never come to pass and never fucking will. So this is where Howard Lutnick makes of just a fantastic, fantastic sales pitch for buying Tesla. Again, not an employee of Tesla. And if he were an employee of Tesla, there would be a massive problem because of conflict of interest. Yeah, here's Howard Lutnick

giving the pitch on Jesse Waters' show. I think if you wanna learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again. When people understand the things he's building, the robots he's building, the technology he's building, people are going to be dreaming of today.

We just can't understand it. And Jesse Waters and thinking, gosh, I should have bought Elon Musk's stock. I mean, who wouldn't invest in Elon Musk? You got to be kidding. Wow. By the way, that Chiron says Democrats want to destroy Musk. I feel like this is the very best thing that has happened to Democrats in the past eight years is them being associated with wanting to destroy Elon Musk. Like that's even passively. It's like, yeah, they're not.

These are normal. He party is not actually doing that. But like, I think that is going to become increasingly popular. I mean, this guy's got robots coming out. Oh, cool. What are you talking? What's the fucking appeal in a robot to people who can't even fucking afford food? You think they're like, oh, thank.

It's just the one the fucking when I can buy that Tesla robot, I'll completely solve all of my life's problems. I mean, like unless you get unless they're going to fight alongside us and like the proletarian revolution, bro, miss me with these robots like they're fucking a job. So like the the Teslas around here'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I to go home. I remember that last year, there were all those stories of people like where they're like charging door, like wouldn't open because it would freeze over or just like all the other shit. Yeah. I mean, look, it's a terrible stops working.

And when it's like minus 20 out, you can't even if you're at the thing, it won't charge. Yeah. So people were like leaving their car at the mall and Ubering home. And then it was like, hope waiting for the weather to warm up to go get your car. It's like, I mean, what do you do if you're like a hundred miles away from home? Or like, yeah, some like 19th century, let's century, like yeoman farmer shit. We're like, I need my frozen stock to thaw in the spring and then I will access it. Uh, it'll be fantastic.

Like what the fuck was saying? And the other thing is right after that shit, the stock went down. Like that didn't work. Didn't do shit, man. It's just like you can't stop the fucking bleed. And even like a lot of people have pointed, like some of the people were the biggest, like, you know, evangelists for Tesla stock are now like saying, like, bro, this shit is a crisis and like they're doing it for like.

And you guys know, I've always been saying I've always been a firm believer, but they need to fucking do something about this shit in the boardroom. It is a crisis. So the wobbling continues. And also turns out as of this recording set, the cyber truck is now facing its eighth fucking recall. Another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, too cool, right? No, no, no.

I feel like that's what the it's just, they look too sweet and cool. No, no, no, no. No. What? The vehicle trim just fucking blows off the car because, uh, they're fucking glued on. Oh, right. Right. Right.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Body panels just fly the fuck off. Yep. Yep. Yep. Body panels just fly the fuck off. Yep. Yep. Yep. So, hey. And is that a defense response? Is that like when you see those videos and they're like, that animal's actually doing that because he's uncomfortable and scared.

It's like a cyber truck. Yeah, the cyber trucks get scared and then all the panels fly off. Behead somebody driving by in the opposite direction. Some 007 shit, like it sheds the panels of the car chasing you, it punctures the tires and causes them to get in a fucking wreck. And then like- Yeah, or like when you grab a lizard's tail and it just let go of the lizard. Don't handle it.

You fucked you, you thought I needed that? Somebody gives your cyber truck the finger and it just like, the panels burst off. Oh yeah, you think it looks stupid? Well, now it's a different cause. Watch this, I've shit the panels off. Not in fear, because I'm very confident. I think the most aggressive call to action came

from Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who's like a non-journalist, but pretends to be a journalist. He said there needs to be getting laid at all that I don't understand. I mean, if you saw this man, they they are match made in hell. So God bless them. I mean, they found love in wherever the fuck they're from. But this guy said there needs to be fucking, he said this, Kyle Rittenhouse style security at dealerships. That was his call to action. Was it vigilantes? Did they shot innocent people? Yes, yes, yes.

Cross state lines to shoot Black Lives Matter posters, protesters. And his defense was not like, I should have done that. Yeah. More like, I didn't know I could do that. He then kind of tried to clean that up where he was like, he's like, like, as I think they're like, he's like higher armed security companies. But then he said the stupid things like, if I owned a dealership, I would probably be hiring these people.

Also, shit head, Tesla doesn't have like fucking franchise dealerships, like Chevy or Ford, they're all direct to consumers. So like, tell that to Elon. Like, it's not like some guys like, come on all direct to consumers. So like tell that to Elon. Like it's not like some guys like, come on down to Worthington Tesla. It's like, no, that isn't a fucking thing. I think the government, I think our tax dollars should pay for an army that defends Tesla dealerships.

Kristen, you saw that shit in Chicago when all those cops were outside the Tesla dealership last week. I mean, they practically are at this point. So you don't need calories. I mean, that info, the infomercial on the, at the white house for Tesla, I mean, it's just so, so bizarre. I feel like the more they push, the more

people will rebel against it. I think there's going to be his core cult following that won't ever admit any wrongdoing. But then the moderates and people that are just half stupid will finally get it. I think the more ridiculous, I hope. But then I've said that for 10 years now, so I don't know. I mean, I think the only real radicalizing force in all of this is when people's well-beings are truly threatened by all of this is when people's well-beings are truly threatened

by all of these things. If you're insulated and you're not really experiencing like the chaos of what this administration is doing, it's one thing, but like when you count on things like social safety nets and things like that, or SNAP programs, I don't know. But again, that's what I was gonna say, but I don't fucking know.

They'll probably just pivot to blaming fucking brown people again, and then just do this shit over and over and over again until everyone's fucking living in a cyber truck instead of a home. I think it's a combination of being self-interested and seeing all those people getting fired. And for some reason, and again, we haven't, we're trying to like do find some deeper research on this, but for some reason, people seem to have a negative response to, uh, somebody doing an aggressive Nazi salute in front of the country twice. It's that, because that's a lot of cultural momentum. You're trying to blunt like the biggest high of this country.

And after the forties was we beat the Nazis. Yeah, that was the Russians. But you know what I mean? Like that whole sort of feeling of like, that's what I'm fucking the Nazis up. And now they're trying to be like, no, Nazis are great. We fucking love that. That shit is cool. That's America. I don't know. That was his like John Lennon being like, in many ways, we're bigger than Jesus. You know, like that was him just being like, he I got the president elected.

I'm about to be the CEO of the country. I can do this. I can let him know how I actually feel. And it was like, not all the way. Yeah, not all the way. You can't go full Nazi. That's the one thing I feel like that isn't like that. I'm not even if it's a benefit, but it's like blunting the the

just crazy forward momentum is that they don't know how to read the room at all because they are so disconnected, like they're around other people who agree with them. And then like, who wouldn't think Elon Musk is the coolest? Who wouldn't think Kanye West is the coolest? Like the I remember like the Republican judiciary, like maybe maybe two years ago, they're, they were posting Trump, Kanye, Elon, that's it, like, as if these are the coolest people. And they have no idea that everyone's like, sick of the disgusted by these fucking people. Yeah, it's so

Elon's never been cool a day in his life. And it's so pathetic, that you could be that quote successful money wise and be such a fucking failure at life. It's like, now he's failed so hard at life that he's, he's bringing us all down with him into failure. Yeah. That's what is, that is what's wild. Royal fuck up.

Yeah. His life. His pursuit of trying to stay on top of like the wealth chain, like the wealth ladder has brought this entire country in a fucking just irredeemable direction. Yeah. Yeah. And it's also like ruined his life. Like his life sucks. You know, like he could be like on a yacht doing whatever he wants. And this is what he chose to do with his life is like, get the world to hate him, ruin the country, you up Nazi... I mean, what a royal fuck up he is. And it's just,

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And we're back oh we're back and we're back maybe a day back let's let's talk about some that's not politics Let's talk about but i'm netflix has another good idea Yeah. Oh god Wow, so they they already took Let's talk about Netflix has another good idea. Yeah. Oh God. Wow. So they, they already took squid game, like hit show, like great, you know, paid very little for it to be made. It's a, a tale about the evils of capitalism. And we're like, well, if we turn that into like a meat grinder reality show where

like people do horrifying shit for, to, to win the money. And we just like treated the contestants like shit. And apparently they are doubling down on that idea of like very precarious fictional stories that are basically like morality tales and, and being like, yeah, we're going to just, we're going to do this scary weird shit as part of this reality show. Yeah.

It's just such an escalation on the IP addiction that Hollywood has. Yeah. Like they can't come up with a single, they are not, they can't come up. They don't empower the people who have so many fucking original ideas because they're just so, they're only interested in this formulaic way of making shit for the platform that now they're just like, okay, we have IP. Now the next way to exploit that is to make that a game show. What the fuck, man? No one needs that shit. But I guess some of their data must show that they think that's going to work. Did you watch the squid game one?

I didn't watch the thing. I just, you know, we covered the fact that contestants were like, we were mistreated. This was a terrible experience. Yeah. It was fucking not good at all. Yeah. Well, so they're like, what if we took that and applied it to children? I don't know.

I don't know if they'll actually have children. I don't know if they're going to keep it real like that, but no, they must be 18. They are. They do have to be. They're turning Charlie and the chocolate factory into a reality show called the golden ticket and Netflix competition series. What do you do? You sleep in a cramped bedroom with your elder.

As your entire extended family for the whole show couple of years to qualify. Your mother has to do hand laundry for laundry by hand for like 10 years. And imagine how that bed smelled. I mean, really, Jesus, Jesus, Chris. And I never go good. Oh yeah. We were saying bad. We were saying bad. That's like one of, I mean, really. Jesus. Jesus, Chris. And I never know. Good. Oh yeah, we're saying bad. We're saying bad. That's like one of the, I can't even, I never even fucking thought to even. Me neither. So right now, and I'm horrified myself, but. That's actually a really good cracked article. Like that we should have written is like fictional

scenes that probably smelled the worst. That would be the article or bit or something. Yeah, really. Yeah, like the box and seven. The box and seven. You know what's in the box. It smells like fucking shit. Brad Pitt. Come on. Yeah. Yeah, the box and seven, you know, the Box and Seven, the Charlie Willy Wonka bed, Grandpa Joe's bed.

You have four elderly people in that bed. Yeah. Yeah. Two like, gee, oh, man. All right. Well, Charlie, I'm sure you had a I mean, maybe that's the problem. They were all having sex as well. Damn, you think? You know, they're smashing in that bed. Yeah, they're smashing in that bed. They don't know when it's dark. They don't care who it is. It's wild. That's they were the first poly. Yeah, like cube or whatever.

Polycule. Yeah. That's why Charlie's out of the house all the time. He's like, I don't know if I can be around this shit, man. Life is pretty fucked up. He's eating chocolate to get the memories out of what he's heard and seen. Oh, no. Anyway, I'm trying to think of other scenes that would have smelled bad. I feel like Rocky's apartment in the first Rocky movie.

Like he has a lot of pets, you know? Mm hmm. Yeah. Ace Ventura's apartment. He had all the damn stuff like shit. The movie seven in general probably had like five different locations and qualify for the slot. Remember the slot scene because he had all them air fresheners dangling from the fucking ceiling. No, that was gluttony.

That was gluttony. Yeah, yeah. Because he was eating. He's so is. But I think he lost and gluttony both were locations. Yeah, yeah. Because he was eating and he's so... I think sloth and gluttony both were pretty smelly locations. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, anyways.

I'm just like, damn, dude. Damn, man. All right. The Golden Ticket will reportedly combine elements of strategy adventure, sleeping with your grandparents and social dynamics as contestants seek to gain entry to a retro futuristic chocolate factory via golden ticket and then they have to go inside the factory which as we all know is You know, it's essentially a prequel to the saw movies like the Willy Wonka and the chocolate or Charlie and the chocolate factory But do you watch did you watch Charlie Charlie factory me like this This is like fucking, you know, what's that game?

What's that movie we're talking about? Saw like it was some kind of thriller because it feels like they're trying to kind of say that, like, at its core, Willy Wonka is so fucking tumultuous who wouldn't want to get in on that version of the story. And I'm like, is that is, is that actually what the appeal is versus just like the wacky shit that you see? I don't know, maybe that's, I completely missed the point of Willy Wonka.

I'm just trying to eat the hit. Now as an adult, I think the take on it is like, oh, looking back, that's so fucked up. All those kids died and got hurt. But I think when I was watching it as a kid, it was like lighthearted and like, I assumed all the kids lived and were fine. Right. Yeah. And you're kind of like, Willy Wonka is kind of a dickhead. Yeah.

What the fuck this dude's problem is. Yeah, like who wants that big weird building anyways? Like, fuck off. Right. lot of international crimes are coming down on your head once you take over. The Hague is going to come calling about what he did with the Oompa Loompas. The chocolate industry is not great. No. Yeah. But yeah, this is the first rolled doll project that Netflix has made after spending over

$500 million for the rights to his books in 2021. And yeah, is this the wait? This is the first thing to come out of that half billion dollar half a billion dollars and all they have to show for it is the concept of a reality show. That's horrible. What happened? I wonder I wonder if they are using like scams to be like, okay, well, this clearly is expressing a unrequited like love from from the consumer. Because we talked about how last year, like one of our favorite stories was this fake Willy Wonka experience, where like they promised that people would get to visit like an amazing Willy Wonka experience where they promised that people would get to visit an amazing Willy Wonka wonderland of chocolate.

And then they went and it just looked like a drug den. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. I wonder if that's- That was like in Germany or something, right? Scotland. Yeah. Glasgow.

Glasgow. Glasgow. I pronounced it correctly this time. There you go. There you go. You won't have Scottish zeitgeist coming for you. That's right. So we're not sure if the unknown will be a character in the new show. But you know, the unknown was the evil mirror masked. Yeah, antagonist of the of the scam Willy Wonka experience like if they announced it now,

right? It's like they could have been like, Oh oh yeah, y'all were fucking with that Chalamet thing that nobody was fucking with that version of Willy Wonka. Nobody's really checking. Here's our show. But it almost does feel like this is in response to the scam version to be like, maybe that's kind of maybe that's what we should be doing. Maybe that's the hook. Yeah. I totally assumed that Wonka Chalamet version was part of that Netflix deal. The fact that it's not is just, I don't know how they're spending their money over there. Yeah. How is that possible though? Because wasn't that since 2021? Yeah. Yeah, it was. I don't know what they, maybe it was like they had it carved out because it was

already in production at that time. Oh yeah. Yeah. That is really just so funny. I don't know how, whatever, man, credit to the roll doll family. Keep, keep fucking stacking those chips. I guess. They're rolling in cash. Yeah, you're welcome. Uh, well, Kristen, it's been such a pleasure having you on the Daily

Zeit guys will have to have you back to just to just do an episode solely focused on the worst smelling fictional locations. Yep. Until then, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Well, you can find me on Instagram at Kristen Toomey. And I post my dates on my link tree because I don't have a website in my bio and I've got a don't tell comedy special coming out soon that I just recorded in New York So that should be coming out to look for that and thank you guys so much. This is so fun

I'm gonna have to thank Chris for having Recommended me and yeah, thank you so much You know, it was mainly us. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Like Chris mentioned you, but it was mainly us. It took us to recognize the genius. Yeah.

It took us to recognize a good recommendation. So you're welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Awesome. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Well, this is kind of a perennial, um, favorite of mine, but I feel like it's always worth revisiting if especially if you're having a bad day.

So like in 1992, Bernie Mac did the Deaf Comedy Jam. And it's like a five minute clip. And it's probably the best five minutes of stand up ever recorded in my opinion. They took he was it was like a very rowdy crowd, okay? There was this during like, there was a lot of gang issues happening in the audience was at, like, they were ready to riot in the room. And historically, this is the story. And they were very rowdy, they weren't, you know, giving it up for for the comedians and he came out and this is his famous I ain't scared of you motherfuckers, but I don't know if you've seen it, but he completely flips the room and to the in five minutes

they're ready to Give him a standing ovation. I think they did and it's just such a mastery of The art form of just not giving a fuck. It's so Chicago to be able to do that. It's just, you know, like Bernie Mac used to do standup on the L on the red line where people are afraid to go on the L and that's where he would practice.

He would just get on there and just start doing standup. And so of course, if you start off doing that, then you can walk into like any room and he really wasn't scared of you motherfuckers, you know, because he had trained like running underwater on the L and it's just beautiful to see him just not only survive that but just turn it into, I mean it's still funny to this day when I watch it. I've seen it and it's still so funny. And yeah, so that would be my recommendation.

If you've not seen that, you should watch it and just watch, have that confidence transferred to you. There we go. And his outfit, that's when he had like his like fucking airbrushed jeans and shit. Yeah, he's like his like fucking Airbrush. Cross colored shit. Yeah, he's like wearing cross colored. Yeah, his own face is on his jeans. It's like the best part. That's amazing because like that crowd control is,

it's like some wizardry shit. Yeah. Because I've definitely seen like things where Bill Bellamy was talking about that set. And yeah, the way he comes out and everyone's like, oh shit, it's definitely like one of those must see moments for sure. Yeah, beautiful.

That's beautiful every time. So great recommendation, Miles, is there a work of media you've been enjoying and where can people find you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Find Jack and I on the basketball podcast miles and Jack got mad Find me talking about 90 day fiance on for 20 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra

I'm a Mesquite I like is from at Lauren dot rotating sandwiches calm on B sky Says when an American electronic appliance chirps at me. I did not invite you to speak. I despise you I wish to destroy you when a Japanese appliance chirps at me. You are my little friend companion in the journey of life Which is so funny because like I was doing this exact shit happened to me yesterday my rice cooker went Like it is twinkle twinkle little star and then like the refrigerator door open like the open door chirp was like

and I was like this mother just shut the fuck up but yeah felt that thank you Lauren for that wonderful submission on blue sky not even a submission thank you for putting that on blue sky all right you can find me on twitter at jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack Obey, the number one, um, work media I've been enjoying was from, uh, Diana at RLY calm, really calm tweeted, just seeing what QAnon is up to. And then it's a series of, uh, screen caps of people, uh, reveal hashtag Macaulay Culkin is hashtag Kid Rock is alive. Macaulay Culkin is Kid Rock. When he hung out with Michael Jackson, he got taught how to sing and dance.

Michael still helps him to this day. It's always been hashtag Kid Rock. And then just the responses to this thread, same nose. That's for sure. Blue eyes is another person. And then someone's like, I am like, huh? What? Wow. Never ever considered this one.

So many surprises. Thanks for the valuable Intel gives me hope. Why does that give you so bad? I remember when they were saying that Herschel Walker was Mike Vick. Oh, they're like, it was the most racist, weird shit like racist slash ignorant of football shit I'd ever read. I was like, what the fuck are these people? Hey, sometimes their ignorance isn't racist. They can be ignorant about McCauley, about blonde haired blue eyed people as well. There it is, the blue eyes.

Somebody came through and said, how old and tall is Macaulay Culkin and Kid Rock? Macaulay Culkin is 44 years old and is five foot seven. Kid Rock is 54 years old and six feet. The original poster came back and said, don't believe everything you ask these sites. They are programmed what to say about people and things. Nothing is real. It passes me off that we all have been lied to our whole lives.

Actors and music artists play several roles I know it's hard to believe but it's true Then who was that the Oscars was that is that it was McCauley Culkin at the Oscars for his brother Well, I maybe maybe that yeah, maybe that's their confusion. They don't know what anyone you know, how these Colkins are. They all look the same. Somebody responded then who was at the Oscars and fuzzy at fuzzy but 2591 all dead in quotes actors with masks on 100% emoji. So guys, just just come out to LA LA you'll realize it's it's it's even sadder than you think and it's not a bunch of ghosts with masks on All I'm saying is real eyes realize real realize. Yep. You know what I mean?

That is true, but you got a shout out to Q Anon still out here doing doing the Lord's work You can find us on Twitter and blue sky at daily zeitgeist. We're at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode, wherever you listen to it. And you can find, uh, links to all of the information that we talked about in today's episodes. Uh, you can find a link to that Bernie Mac standup set. Uh, you can find a link to the tweets that we recommended, and you can find a link to the

song that we think you might enjoy in the footnotes. Footnotes? Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yes, yes, yes. This is a track from Night Tapes, and it's called Humans. Just a great, you know, like psych pop, like dream pop kind of band. Just really nice Friday night, like vibes, you know, as you wind down from a week or just get your week started.

I don't know how you get down, but this is a great one. Humans by Night Tapes. I'm a big fan of all of the words you used to describe that and also humans. I think we're pretty neat. Yeah, yeah. All right, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio.

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