The Daily Zeitgeist - Miss Zeitgon 3/1: Merrick Garland, #FirstNovel, Seth Rogen, Golden Globes

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

On this edition of Miss Zeitgon Jack and Miles discuss Merrick Garland's confirmation moving forward, people online are talking about the first novel they read, Seth Rogen releasing his weed line, and the Golden Globes were on this weekend. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Miss Zeitgarn, courtesy of Roy the Scrivener. I am Jack. Smiles. This is what's trending this Monday afternoon. Merrick Garland is trending. Yeah.

Who is Merrick Garland? Let me Google that really quick because I was a little bit curious about that myself. It looks like that because Ben Sasse voted to advance. Okay, so he's going to be the Attorney General. Yes, his nomination will go to the full Senate now.

So good for them. So he made it out of committee? Yeah, and I mean, like, I don't know. I wonder what Merrick Garland is going to go into this job. What kind of energy? Because you know Mitch McConnell took his Supreme Court seat from him like that was you know uh Gorsuch was Gorsuch's seat was supposed to be Merrick Garland but he did this whole thing about in an election year you

can't seat and we remember we went this whole thing in 2020 but I wonder part of me hopes Merrick Garland it's like a movie where he just perverts the law and goes for all out revenge. I don't care because nothing matters in this country like that. This isn't trending currently, but Neera Tanden is one of Biden's picks who is having a tougher time. Do you know the story there? I mean, I think right now they're trying to figure out if they swap her out with someone else right um because it looks like a lot of people are like the things that she said about politicians like they were really unbecoming of someone to be in a cabinet

it's like are y'all for real over anyway it's just a lot of like nonsense so there's definitely like the there's there's a lot of uh opposition right now to neartain this nomination so we'll see what happens yeah for anybody who was like well this must disqualify them from ever trying to take the moral high ground again uh every time trump did something absurd uh and just against all norms uh during his administration uh you can can rest assured that they that that is incorrect they will yeah exactly because it's also like you know she has some shit to say about bernie other people in office and then like there was this moment last week where john kennedy was like yeah but i mean you call senator sanders everything but an ignorant slut and i'm like whoa okay all right damn cool yeah no i this is by no means uh defending neera tanden uh no i mean like but

but it's just it's absurd no matter what like yeah the fact that you you can't the selective outrage that comes into play is just so transparent and inconsistent it's just like yeah get the fuck out of here like you you had fucking nazis running amok in here um hashtag first novel is trending um for people are tweeting out their first novels uh first novel that they read i actually i don't remember i've read so many bro uh it might have been i was real into um hardy boys books which turns out are bad books i realized that like the hundredth one that i was reading um uh and also like mariel of redwall which were good i think uh in my recollection what was your first novel i mean what what are we calling a novel because i remember as a kid i was like the books i'm reading are novels and

there was like a a point when i was like i will now go to this i will now venture out of the children's section at this library right and get something from the where the stinky dudes hang out uh in the library uh which are like these weird conspiracies and it was the illuminati's trilogy was the first book that i picked up outside of a kid's thing because i heard older people talking about the illuminati wait what that? I don't even know that. Dude, it's this whole fucking trilogy of books that, you know, at the time was like this novel series that had you being like, this is the this is the key to understanding like the secret societies and shit. And it's it's just it's it's like a a you know sci-fi kind of all kinds of stuff but

like for teenagers who are talking about or being like this is like you gotta know this like you understand like you know this is when you have like ignorant teenagers telling someone who's like 11 what to read right way over their head they don't they don't know fucking the only thing i remember is that they were called the illuminated because they were getting high right and they were like levels of illumination i was like oh i held on to that part um but yeah i but so that's why i say like novel or book because i very quickly was like no it's too much for me but i one of the big uh adult first adult books was a comedy book by al franken called rush limbaugh's a big fat idiot oh yeah i remember reading al franken's uh lying liars and the lies they tell or whatever like in a single day on christmas i

think my dad got it for christmas and i just blew all that to say i was an insufferable fucking kid when it came to books like i wasn't accepting that i was a child and right swinging for the fences with an intellectual bat i was not in possession of yeah mine is definitely a combination of that and then the hardy boys which just yeah i mean shout out to peewee scouts you know what i mean i fucked with the peewee scouts heavy and like the janky 70s choose your own adventure books that were in my school library too those are fun as fuck did you guys have like those reading days where everybody would just like read the whole day like it was like you brought a a blanket to school and just everybody sat there and read as many i remember we had like i think there were yes there were when i wasn't day but we had moments where like it was called ssr i think

it was called sustained silent reading yes this is all just going back to me. So it was some shit. You brought a book and you had to read it in class. And it was just like, I think it was really just a break for the teacher to go grab Diet Coke or some shit. But you stay there and we'd read. And this reminds me, this is when I started flexing with the books that I brought for Sustained Silent Reading. And my teacher was like oh you're reading a fucking technical journal on how to put together like a diode crystal ray tube tv i'm like i don't

know you're like have you ever read infinite jest yeah right oh so this is kind of a dope thread because i'm just scrolling through and i've already seen like somebody putting a huge line of uh hardy boys books which i had like one through 83 in my room uh and they also have mariel of redwall although somebody's also putting jaws by peter benchley and i'm realizing that i read the novelization of jaws too when i was like in kindergarten um so i might that might actually be my first novel. That would explain a lot about me also. First, but yeah, for me, first real... It's hard to say novel because then goosebumps, obviously.

Do I call those novels? I just call that a biblical material. Seth Rogen is trending. He had... Over the weekend, he had a tweet about like i thought he had like some you know new show that he was dropping on us new movie he was like i have you ever like worked on something for 10 years and it's the night before it's released that's me right now i was like oh shit what is seth rogan like this dude who releases

three movies a year and like writes so many movies and like what is he uh what does he got dropping on us yeah and we have an answer yeah he's it's weed baby he's he's done the thing that we didn't think he would do he has a uh cannabis company called house plant uh that is now will be available in california not to do ads for him but seth rogan come on the show coward you know what i mean yeah um but yeah i've and i've actually had the house i've had house plant cannabis when i was in canada shout out to canada back when they were still let me in and i remember when i was going to a dispensary i was like the only i i felt the thing was like i trust seth rogan to not make shitty because i know he smokes enough that he wouldn't come

with some low percentage nonsense or like the terpenes are off or some shit and he had the big defuego for canada so i wasn't i was impressed so yeah now he also has like ashtrays and lighters and all kinds of things but all this says to me is like it's that thing where like when there's any person who has like a real passion before they get wealthy when they get wealthy they are going to go to extremes with that passion yeah unfortunately for mike vick his thing was dog fighting you know what i mean and for seth rogan it's weed because this man is going he's doing the most this there's fucking there are vinyl records that are set to the each strain that he has so like if it's an indica say here's a vinyl lp with tracks we mix to go with it i mean like that's

some shit a rich stoner thinks up when you're like it's like a coked out idea we're like yeah and then the weed there'll be an album that you can get with the weed and then play it when you oh my god that shit'll be so dope and i think it's cool but like that's a cool idea i actually i'm not buying it i'm not buying uh i'm sorry seth i'll i'll stick to the plants yeah i he shouldn't sell it but maybe like have a spotify playlist that people can listen to for like yeah the way we do for like trends obviously you know you got to listen to the exactly more relaxed uh vibey stuff exactly there's tdz you got to listen to the more upbeat you know vibey stuff exactly uh so yeah i mean he's uh yeah do your thing uh and i hope you are doing something

towards restorative justice and helping uh incarcerated people of color with cannabis offenses because i think that's imperative for any company that's starting to who's going to begin making money off of it is to actually do something that gives back and there are many ways to do that seth check that out too i hope to see something about that as well because you don't just want to be one of these white people profiting off of an industry that has put many people behind bars Golden Globes was

last night and I don't know many people who watched it super producer Anna Hosnier did watch it and uh she said that jamie lee curtis came out and looked really good in a dress and she uh commented to her partner uh more like actidia uh instead of activia um Thank you for clarifying that one. And Activia,

because in her estimation, she was looking right in her yellow ensemble. Yeah. I think the thing, people didn't watch it, because to me, I'm like, a Zoom call on TV?

No, I had, I'd done enough of that. Also, like, in my mind, this, there was no year in which to process things at the bot. Like what happened at the box office?

Right? Yeah. It was weird. Very strange year. Uh, Nomadland is winning, uh, or won the best picture,

uh, best director. That's a movie we talked about last week, but it's, it's very much like a movie that I feel like would not be uh like in a normal year because it probably it's not the type of movie that would have like made a lot of money at the box office uh might not have been succeeding as much um but glad to see it because it is a very good movie was shocked to see uh rosind Pike won for I

Care A Lot for Best Comedy Performance or Best Performance in a Comedy or Musical. Yeah, otherwise just saw something. Apparently glitchy as fuck. A lot of people old people doing a Zoom show.

Yeah, I mean, obviously these are like DCP, dick clark productions puts it together but come on y'all this the awards we don't need award shows right now they look weird they don't feel good i've met some tv directors like directors of like news shows and live shows in my life and they tend not to be the youngest people in my experience. No. Right. You know, when you're in that control room, baby, just doing the headset,

queuing it up. I mean, that's all. It's a fucking hard ass job. Oh, yeah. Brutal. The amount of like fucking 4D chess you play in your mind to get ahead of stuff and one to cut. That's why we stick behind the mics. And then the other kind of thing that people were commenting on was

some people looked like they were at an award show and then some people just looked like they were on a Zoom meet up with their friends. Jason Sudeikis was wearing a hoodie. Jeff Daniels looked like he'd like ducked into his guest room uh and jody foster was wearing pjs uh so kind of an interesting mixture um i guess uh but yeah the other kind of noteworthy thing is that the ratings were super duper low. Again, nobody knew. Right. And nobody cares. Like, it's a weird time.

All right. That is what is trending today. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Stay inside. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school

to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding. I'm Amber Revin.

What? Okay, everybody. We have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more. The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre.

And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of lucha libre and a WWE superstar. Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before. Tried to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus

only on Apple Podcasts.