The Daily Zeitgeist - Monday Morning Recap 7/17: Election Updates, RFK Jr., US Heat Waves, Aspartame & Mickey Mouse Scabbing

Episode Date: July 17, 2023

In this edition of Trends, Jack and Miles discuss their Overrated/Underrated takes from the weekend, 2024 Election updates (RFK goes full Anti-Semite, DeSantis panic, Joe Manchin to enter?), the heat waves that rocked the US last week and how the media chooses to cover them, Aspartame continuing to divide the health community & Mickey Mouse scabbing at the Haunted Mansion premiere amid the SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special Monday Week Trends edition for Monday, July 17th of... Today's Week Trends! Yeah! Yeah! I'm Jack. That is Miles. Yeah. And hey, Miles, how are you doing? These are some of the things that were trending over the weekend. Oh, wow. First, I want to find

out what was trending on your weekend, buddy. Oh, wow. My weekend, action-packed, I must say. I hung out with Francesca Fiorentini and Matt Lieb and their baby, you know, doing like baby friend time type stuff, which is nice. Shout out Matt and Francesca. And then, dude, on fucking Saturday, I went to the Hollywood Bowl to see. I found like found these cheap seats like out of nowhere, like on like one of those apps or whatever. So I don't know. Like her magic. I'm like, you know, what if we hit this like concert?

Because my mom was down to babysit we saw cool in the gang in the village people and i'm changed forever i don't know what i don't know i don't know what happened to me but i will get into that as we discuss over and underrated i don't know even where it is francesca's babies how in age uh that baby's like three months just like about three months different three to four months difference that's so great that totally determines like yeah we we have a neighbor whose kids are like kind of the same age as ours and we're just like well we're friends for the next six to seven years it's wild too because like i you know i fuck with matt and francesca and like i do their podcasts and stuff but you know like podcasting like yeah you're stuck with the mind no no not

even like that it's just like the evolution no but more i think more for like the listeners sake because a lot of times like we record with people but that doesn't necessarily mean like these are the people i hang out like i fuck with all these people but like i have my own like group of friends who like aren't aren't notable by any stretch of the imagination. But I don't hang out with a lot of the people that we talk to all the time. So it was just kind of like a nice progression to be like, you have babies same age. I have babies same age. Let's aim them at each other like Furbies and see what happens.

And they get along great. Amazing. And I hang out with no one. So for the listener. In case that wasn't clear i think that's pretty clear cut to anna and i banging on jack's doors we're like let us in like that eric andre meme at the white house yeah um all right should we get in a little overrated underrated yeah yeah yeah what do you want to start with you want to go overrated first what do we usually do over i don't know i feel like let's start with underrated. It gives us a little,

a little, a little nice kind of soft way, soft landing. I'll go first. Okay. Underrated white denim jeans on grown men. Wildly underrated. And I've been saying this.

I've been seeing. So again, there's a lot of my shit has to do with the shit I saw at the Hollywood Bowl. Because look, it was a lot of smooth, older players coming out for the cool and the gang show. And let me tell you, oh yeah, older black men love

a white pant. Especially with some bejewels on. Everybody on stage had white bejeweled pants on. There were some dudes of all kinds of uh you know ethnicities and backgrounds there was like this weird thing where i was really trying to determine is there a is there an age where when you're wearing white denim pants it just looks like you're fucking around like you can't be taken seriously right i don't know why there are some

people i'm like i don't know sir it feels. It feels like a bridge too far for your look right now, just throwing the white pants on with it. Like, skinny white jeans. Skinny white jeans. It reminds me of that fucking, I think you should leave sketch, where the guy was talking about, like, itty-bitty jeans. Like, white denim.

Yeah, white denim, itty-bitty jeans. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That slicked back real nice. I saw that piece of shit. Yeah, white denim, itty bitty jeans. The dad, the grandfather. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That slicked back real nice. I saw that kind of vibe. The bottom half of his body and saying, oh, man. Oh, yeah. Those would fit into some nice itty bitty white jeans.

I'm sure you got some white jeans, right? I got white jeans. Yeah. I haven't worn them in a while, but they're definitely not like skinny jeans. Right. But do you think they'll come a time where you go, you know what? It's time to hang the white jeans up. I don't worn them in a while, but they're definitely not like skinny jeans. Right. But do you think they'll come a time where you go, you know what? It's time to hang the white jeans up.

I don't think so. I don't know. Like, I don't think of them as particularly like young clothing. I think, I think of like white. Yeah. I don't know what it was.

My grandma was wearing it. Like the, when I think of old people and white pants, like my grandma was wearing flowy white pants. Oh yeah. Into her. I think of like those like pleated polyester white pants that like grandparent grandmothers everywhere would wear.

Right. But like, cause I remember like my grandfather had like white jeans, but they were like dirt. Like they weren't like pristine, but I don't know. I think it was something about seeing, I think there was a moment where some of these people, like it was their white jeans along with their very like like it almost looked like

some of these dudes in their 70s were like affliction remember affliction yeah yeah there i see a lot of like 50 to 60 something year old yeah wearing like who never let go of the affliction i know i think maybe somebody's like yo this shit was popping 20 years ago when i you know when my ex-wife bought me some young people clothes i was still wearing them now yeah but anyway rock what you want to uh but i was just like the thing was the power of them i could not be underrated i'm like yeah like it was doing something to me and it was clearly doing some of the people that were wearing them because they were they were energized there you go um let's see my underrated i gotta cut so i think i'm like gonna start living my life you remember that seinfeld episode where like costanza just like

does the opposite of whatever yeah his instincts say like i think i need to start doing that because oh when there's like it's particularly with like with regards to like going out and doing stuff i guess because like my instinct is always to not do anything right and this weekend we my my entire family we hopped in the wagon went to a boxing match in simi valley because we like knew a couple of people who were involved and it was amazing. It wasn't amazing. I recommend everybody do this, but it was a great experience.

It was a match set up outdoors in a mall parking lot. It was this weird surreal carnival atmosphere. I don't know. It was just a cool thing I never would have like you know experienced if i was 100 calling the shots right right right and good good fight

yeah you know it was i don't know something was happening where all of the fights ended in draws which i don't know if that's totally on the up and up. Like draws seem to be pretty rare on the regular. So I don't know if like there it was like unsanctioned. So they had to like pretend that they were all draws. So nobody like took it. Oh, it was a smoker. It was it wasn't a sanctioned fight.

I don't I don't know. I feel like whenever people at gyms invite you to watch them fight, it's a smoker or an unsanctioned fight. It felt a little bit more sanctioned, a little bit more on the up and up, but they did. Every one of them was a draw, so I don't know. Everybody got a participation trophy. It feels like, yeah, that almost feels like an improv show

when you do an improv class, but for boxing. It's like, hey, you come. Even if you take a l the judges aren't gonna say you took a l unless you get knocked the fuck out in which case we can't really help you yeah but like on the other side of like things i took my kid on a like we do these little twilight walks and we did a bird watching which i i think i've always like instinctively um rejected because i i don't want to feel 90 years old. But we were just like, we were just like, let's find five different birds.

Let's see if we can see five different birds. I'm not going to like, we're not going to look up what the birds are. We're going to make up the names for the different birds. You know, like a thing that I would have been too embarrassed to tell you that I did typically. But I don't know, man, going birdwatching, there's a reason the elderly are so into it because you just like start to like, first of all, you have to like listen to them to find the different birds. You have to like listen for them. And then you're just like paying attention to different parts of your like surroundings like different you're you're looking up into trees

you're looking up like you're just seeing different parts of like your neighborhood that you've walked through a hundred times but you're like seeing it through new eyes when you do that so i recommend a find five birds bird watching walk with a kid. But were you just being like, oh, there's a pigeon. And you're like, and that is a sparrow. We saw two hummingbirds. I was pretty excited about that. We saw one that was just yellow.

We're going birding, man. There's some pretty good places. But yeah, it was a blast. And then we saw that same bird later in the week so it gave us something to talk about oh okay i see birds a lot yeah just big dad energy there's a there's a you should there's a spot like you'd go to like when you're like a cub scout i remember in la where like you see so many birds and shit yeah like up and up near pasadena anyway there's a house a hummingbird feeder in our neighborhood that is just swarming.

It's just right with those suckers. Those things are really cool. I mean, my real underrated for all time is hummingbirds. Right. What what's something you think is overrated? Just to that point, when I'm high and I see a hummingbird, I try and get my slow motion video camera out so quick. Yeah. When I'm high and I see a hummingbird, I try and get my slow motion video camera out so quick. Yeah. I have like 18 videos of hummingbirds.

In slow motion. I hastily got and I'm like, oh my God, you can really see how fast it goes when you put the slow motion camera on. I'm so very easily amused. The three worst videos on my phone are attempts at taking a video of a hummingbird in slow motion. I never catch them. i never catch them i never catch them my kids are now like get get the camera out go let's do let's do slow motion it's just a tiny dot flying away all right overrated you got an overrated overrated i don't know if it's overrated or under i saw the village people okay so i saw cool in the gang cool in the gang are

fucking amazing you know seminal artists like the cool you know the original cool uh who's on base now just legends and all their their whole catalog is fucking hits that's what i know so i was like okay i know what i'm gonna get with cool in the gang especially when they did like a 10 minute version of summertime and everybody was just soloing. And I was like, Oh yes, please go, go, go. But the village people opened. Right.

And I was like, this will be fun for like a laugh, you know, like what's up with the village people. Like, and in my mind, I'm like, okay,

they got three songs. YMCA, macho man in the Navy. That's like all I can say, like off top of like the songs that I really remember. Let me tell you something. I was not prepared for how how bummed out i was gonna be by seeing the village people first of all like i i forget really that the

village people was like one guy who actually did the singing and then like animatronic dudes and costumes behind is that real yeah like the cowboy the biker they don't say we're just like yeah they were just people that in costume they were just in costume yeah disney characters 100 i also had no idea that like they were like a they were created basically by french producers uh so i was like okay i didn't realize any of like the background of it but the main singer has been like the same guy this dude dude, Victor Willis. And he came out, he's 72 years old and God bless him.

I thought he was going to pass out up there. Ooh. Cause like, he would be like, like really like he would have to gather his like, like breath to hit some of these notes. And then like the depictions of the people, they still got that native American up there wow with the wild like the most flagrant offensive motherfucking costume

when they introduced the band like the lead singer came out last the first village person came out was a native american wow and i was like i was groaning and then the other like older people who were there for like the vibes were like oh yes i remember you and then like everybody in the background i don't know how the people are cast anymore because it's not like they're not older like they're all younger dudes like okay like it's like a hot cowboy now like uh the biker was so buff he couldn't dance and it was like and he was fucking up the choreography like there's a part where in the navy goes they want you they want you they want you and they go cool there's like this clapping part right this man could not do the clapping and it was fucking him up so bad i was like oh no no no no no um it felt like a darren aronofsky movie basically where i was like

what is happening after the lights go down and they take those costumes off who are these people right so it's native american cop cowboy cowboy construction worker yeah cowboy's always been there biker construction worker is that the okay and then a guy like in a military uniform like an officer and yeah which was hilarious because that's dude the dude who played the officer he was like this older black guy who looked over it like he was like man i can't believe i'm still doing this shit up here like he his energy was like foul but like he was still you know it was still a gig and there was a moment where he comes up to introduce the other village people while the lead singer took a rest and the first words out of the the this dude who's about

to do he's like he's like, I just want to introduce everybody. But before I do that, I just want to say I love you to my wife out there in the audience. I've been with her for 20 years. I was like, wow, this guy had to just underline his heterosexuality with like a fucking sharp. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The first thing he's like, yeah, so I'm married to a woman. But anyway, I'm the soldier. Let's give a shout out to our biker and everything.

But yeah, it's wild, though, to see YMCA go off live and then even Kool and the Gang when they do Celebration. I mean, Trump figured that out, that it's wild to see YMCA go off live. Yeah, but to see the Village people do YMCA and Kool and the Gang do Celebration, you feel like you're on like the most potent cruise ship performance ever because everyone's like i'm like but it's the real people doing it so yeah that's exciting shout out them like there is some weird conservative code like the fact that there's still a cop the fact that there's like a military officer i don't know if that was just if that was ironic in the 70s or what was happening i think it's just to be because you know they were it's like a nod to like greenwich village and like the

gay neighborhood there and i think maybe just say like yo like you know this this is what everybody construction everybody military police cowboys um my overrated is just smoke detector technology feels like not that I don't think we should use smoke detectors or carbon monoxide detectors, but I just feel like the tech industry has been iterating on smartphones for years. There's like a new smartphone with a minor feature upgrade that gets announced. Like, why do smoke detectors still have one

button? We got woken up at five this morning by three shrill blasts from our smoke detector. Went up, checked it. That was not one of the options. It was like

four blasts, carbon monoxide problem three blasts uh nothing that's not on there right like persistent beeping it's a fire get out of the house um it just it feels like we've been working with the same smoke detectors since i was a child yeah and it's it's the the means of communication is still like Morse code, you know? Yeah. Just shrieky beeps. Yeah. Shrieky beeps. And which is weird too, because we see how, how used to the low battery beep Americans get used to myself included when I was in college, man, I just, I, I remember like one of my first apartments,

I think I lived there for, it took like a romantic interest to like point it out and be like really question me about it that i was like oh yeah this is like i'm fucking up by not giving a fuck about this it's annoying it's i i think it's one of the most revealing things about like the human mind is our ability to get used to smoke detector beeps because like somebody who lives at the place who's hearing it all day every day it just does not exist for them we can get used to everything i remember i noticed once when it stopped beeping you're like wait what the fuck

and i was like oh shit the battery really went out like i can't even do the death beep yeah please somebody yeah yeah i don't know i mean like in europe i think it's they're they're required in most countries i wonder if there's like are other countries doing it better you know i don't know is it why why have we just stopped with this one model maybe maybe they've looked into it and they're like no this is this is the best one but right i think there's also like something with like radiation in there so maybe it's just you don't want to fuck with it too much oh yeah okay like a special disposal that you're supposed to do when your smoke detector is done in españa they're not obligated to have one legally oh really, really? Yeah. Damn. Well, look at that. They're more

advanced than us. I don't know. I mean, yeah. I'm like, what is the most futuristic way to solve a fire issue? And it's probably just to have automatic sprinklers if you didn't want to have that. You keep a canary in every room in your house? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

A canary in every room. Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and get into some of the news from the weekend. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the

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talk about ron ron the meatball rob uh so he is switching things up early in his campaign uh because after announcing those fox news appearances and they don't and they don't stop either they're like why how like why is it that you're fucking up so bad like those appearances have not ceased but yeah ever since he announced in may the whole candidacy has just been a long slow fart which is like i guess noticeable because it's long and slow but again not much to talk about because it is a fart at the end of the day uh poll numbers quick chirps that people will get used to you know yeah exactly like a like a smoke detector every minute on the minute that's what i that's how i've found to deal with my flash unless people just you know get used to it it becomes part of their background

they set their watch they set their watch to the farts. But poll numbers have been falling. The donations have been drying up a bit from the big fish. Apparently, the biggest hole when you look at his fundraising, it shows where the energy is. He has barely any small

dollar donations. It's like the thousands of dollars end up because uh those people are currently getting their money stolen by donald trump uh who has a strangle like his average is like 33 trump's so he's got from like yeah yeah like that's like the yeah our our theory is that like he's always been kind of a mainstream media or like my theories that he's always been a mainstream media uh creation that is like they they liked the idea of this they needed somebody to be like what if trump but smart but like he's just not very popular with oh yeah with like he doesn't have the you know support on the ground he doesn't have the boots he's and he's doubling down like the

culture war shit that's like really putting a lot of people off because rupert murdoch of fox was famously like really into the idea of getting desantis in there instead of truck yeah and now they're gonna turn on him because they've they've officially given up and they're like yeah he's like you're meatball rob i'm sorry dude uh you're also like destroying your own state like to spite people outside of the state which is makes no sense like for all the records that he touts of like yeah florida is the fastest growing it's like it's actually shedding the most people of any state especially when you look at younger people uh but now apparently murdoch wants glenn yunkin the governor from virginia to maybe take a stab at it okay so anyway this has led to meatball rob he's cutting staff he's changing up his media strategy which i guess means he's expanding his

outreach beyond like the right wing echo chamber he's talking to cnn now so we'll i'm sure those appearances will be real fucking interesting when he goes on a like slightly less right wing network where a journalist might ask a question so yeah I mean it's always made sense that he would like kind of temper all the far right wing shit and like try and be the like leftward

tacking candidate so maybe that is what he's gonna do when he like goes on CNN but I can't imagine like CNN's gonna just not ask him questions about all the horrifying shit he's doing. They're going to be like, sir, what's up with that video? What happened there? Because now you're seeing there's some dark money group spending money to advertise Trump as a trans trailblazer. Oh, wow.

And I'm like, that sounds like a hit from the right that i've seen from the desantis crew and you know it doesn't seem to be getting you any kind of traction thank god turns out people don't give that much of a shit about that that's just right yeah yeah uh joe mansion not much to say here but he is making candidate type noises uh and he's going to be in new hampshire tonight monday where he's set to address members of the No Labels organization. Oh, that is just made up of establishment hacks from both parties. But they're clearly there to represent the interests of like some very wealthy people. And they say they keep doing this thing like we're not going to be a spoiler.

We would never do that. That's what we're trying to do if the like we just see that both parties are really dissatisfied with the options they have going into november 2024 and look if the polling shows that our candidacies or one of our candidates or our candidate is going to split the vote for either party we're going to refrain we're going gonna pull out don't worry so what i mean that seems to be them saying like the whole reason for us like our any power that we have if we find ourselves wielding that power in any way we will completely pull out so they are uh you know not being totally honest i think the no labels organization which is shocking coming from a party uh you know joe lieberman is the face boys for fuck boys yeah it's also like this is my

theory is that what they're gonna do is probably just they're just gonna try and get concessions from democrats they're not gonna get them from republicans they're gonna just the only people who are like what about what's gonna happen it's the dnc and if they see joe mansion getting any kind of numbers especially in places that might be tough you know like like in arizona or something like that for biden then that's probably going to be a way to subtly be like maybe you need to move to the right a little bit more with some of these policies uh but we'll see we'll see what happens and then we have rfk jr who he had a bad dinner that dinner where the guy the the two guys got into a shouting match and then one of them started farting really loud and farting i'm

farting to like punctuate the argument. About climate change? Meanwhile, remember, he got upset that the guy was being serious about climate change. And the one farting wanted climate change to be addressed as a hoax. A climate conspiracy hoax is what he wanted it addressed as. And he's now farting. So it turns out the fart-based fight wasn't the worst moment that evening. Because the New York Post published a video taken from the dinner in which Kennedy rants about ethnically

targeted bioweapons suggesting that COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people oh yeah I mean here let's we should just this video like

luckily we have a human being sitting right next to rfk where we can gauge his facial reactions to just see if he's lost the room at all with this rant about bioweapons it's about bioweapons i know a lot now about bioweapons because i've been doing a book on it for the past two and a half years and um, you know, the technology that we now have to develop these microbes, we've put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing.

In fact, COVID-19, there's an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19, there's an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. Dude, this guy to the left. The guy to the right. He's now in the squinting eyes phase. When he said ethnically targeted, his eyes went up like, huh? And now he's narrowing his eyes like, the fuck you talking about, Willis?

And now he's narrowing his eyes like, the fuck you talking about, Willis? The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are because of the structure, the genetic structure, genetic differentials among different races, of the receptors, of the H2 receptor. Is he? COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Aslan, Shih Tzu, and Chinese. And we don't know. and Chinese.

And we don't know the purpose. Okay, so after he said COVID was targeting apparently the people immune to COVID were Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese, he literally said, oh, that's news to me, motherfucker. So that's what you're going with.

Wow. Unbelievable. I mean, I think a lot of people have been writing they're like for all the conspiracy theories that this man dabbles in we're like people were really surprised like when does when does the anti-semitism come up because that's like that's the foundation of so many conspiracy theories like they always bend towards they always go back to anti-semitism you may leave the station it's like a loop you know like you made the anti-semitic anti-semitism station may have been behind you but when you come back around you're gonna hit that one eventually and on a big tour around the conspiracy theories where you're

telling people i don't have an anti-semitic bone in my body and then you're saying that the chinese and the jews are immune to covet 19 you ever Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And he's like pointing. So then now people rightfully are like, what in the fuck are you talking about? Because like many people will tell you, uh,

you know, as, as far as we know, documented a million Chinese people have died of COVID. I'm not sure where that immunity comes from or what he's referring to, but he's like, they got it all wrong. You guys are misconstruing my words. Yeah. He later defended his comments and said, I've never, ever suggested the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I mean, we just heard what he said. I don't know if he knew he did that,

but I don't know if he planned to do that but that i don't know if he planned to do that but that's certainly what came out of his mouth he also like does the thing like he seems to be talking with his eyes closed a lot of the time like he's just like looking for the words inside him yeah to and it's does i don't know i i don't think he's a serious presidential candidate miles after seeing this video i'm starting to have my doubts i mean look i agree with him on a couple things so i'm gonna i'm gonna put these other heinous statements out of my mind i'm just saying do your own research do your own research but yeah like that that whole defense what he like just doubles down

because he's like it's actually more groups there's also ethnic fins that are also immune like what the hell are you saying he exploited this off the record conversation to smear me by association oh so it was off the record so this is just how you talk when you don't think the media is paying attention. So that makes it better? Or that tells us the truth about what your ultimate goal is here. You're at a fundraising. It's so funny. Remember how people were saying, too, while the whole fart thing was going on,

how he was just really calm and just kind of laid back? Yeah. I wonder if that's just him. He does have this sort of reclined, let me close my eyes, Mike Pence kind of like laid back yeah like i wonder if that's just him like his he does have this like sort of reclined let me close my eyes mike pence kind of thing going on yeah yeah where he's just disassociating from the the world around him yeah and absolutely you know yeah hey we we we all do what we can to disassociate from the world around us but this uh closing your eyes and then spouting anti-semitic uh this whole thing is just like he's like i'm just saying it's a saying that i

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even last summer and like just the lead up to this, there are a lot of things where it's like tips on how to beat the heat. There's stuff like that. Here's how the people that live in Madrid deal with their sweltering summers. And it's just basically being like, yeah, don't go outside when it's fucking hot. Just be careful with yourself. Then when it gets a little bit cooler, then maybe do do some outdoor shit but your body can't really handle it and then like you saw like engineers talking about how to make like your fans work more efficiently or blow cooler air etc etc and it was weird because the thing grumbling like beneath the surface of all this stuff is the climate is

changing and we're expecting the highest temperatures we've ever seen ever and molly taft at the new republic pointed out something that like also failed to connect like of like around all this like sort of like fun sort of energy around these heat waves is like yeah the news is absolutely like ill-equipped to talk about this like when there are fires or storms we see this intense imagery of shit burning and fucking flooding and like all this catastrophic shit that they love to broadcast because that's you know it's a sensational aspect of broadcast news but then when you when it comes to heat waves all you see is shit like people at the beach or like kids playing with

hoses like open fire hydrants like fun shit rather than like fun accurately cool shit slick shit you know what i mean that's what you come here for during a climate crisis or i'll post other things that'll distract you like i mean just for context extreme heat is the deadliest weather related event in the united states it kills more people than tornadoes or hurricanes combined right federal agencies report about 700 americans die each year from extreme heat but some studies estimate that figure could be closer to 1 300 deaths a year hell yeah because you know it's knocking out power grids it's you know and what like what it does to your body if you like go into like a you know like get heat

stroke or something like that so you know the the the energy is very uh it does not match what the situation is because rather than, you know, depicting, accurately depicting the situation where like the poor, immunocompromised, elderly and like workers are like living in this like fucked up world, like to just show like, yeah, and people are staying cool at the beach this weekend. It'd be like if all the pictures from like tornado or hurricane were of people like in shelters like fun stuff to do in your basement. Yeah, fun like playing bingo with their grandparents in the basement, you know. It's like what about what's happening outside there? Oh, it's all fucked up.

Yeah, it's bad out there. It's really bad. I guess because it's like not that photo photographable like the devastation is not because it's so it's not again because otherwise you'd have to really like reckon with that and do a story about like elderly people who their fucking power goes out and they're left to to die essentially yeah uh and they don't want to do that so it's like we completely do this other thing media matters did an analysis of like just the coverage of the heat wave in texas earlier

earlier in the month only five percent of national tv news segments even uttered the words climate change right it's just like oh wow it's gonna be a really hot summer i guess like what what the fuck are we doing and there's clearly a relationship between like our own inability as human beings in like society to like have a reckoning with our ecological situation um and the medias but like we're also kind of getting another example of like how insulated newsrooms are like i guess like literally at this point too that they're living in a world where the answer to record-breaking heat is probably more like i don't know hit the beach or just turn the ac on rather than like there are people who cannot do that there are people who cannot afford to do that there are

people who are not even being considered when all this shit is happening so yeah a little bit of a grim aspect to like everything uh we were seeing over the weekend but yeah yeah well that there's also the death valley tourists did you see like that was a big story that was like how they chose to do it because like if you if you want to show the danger you have to show like idiots walking into the danger willingly um so it became like, a thing that people were seeking out. I don't, I don't know how widespread this is. This could be like a dozen Instagram.

No people, people. I know people who come from like Japan and are like, I really want to go to death Valley just to like feel. I think just to, it's partially because like they want to see, cause there are some cool stuff to see there. Like if you're into photography,

but also it is like part of it. It like it really gets that hot there i think a lot of people just it's we have that morbid fascination on some level yeah so one one thing the media does do they they do always call the heat waves punishing so yeah at least they let us know we are being biblically punished for our bad behavior. Yes. Yes. Sorry, God. Sorry, God. Sorry. But, um, yeah, it's become a tourist hotspot with people who are like going there and trying to take a picture in front of the thermometer as it records the

apocalypse. Like there's, there's, I guess the record, the world record for like the hottest point in the history of the planet is in death Valley uh it was measured in 1913 at 134 degrees um but then people the the real heads are like that guy was making it up that was that guy wasn't a real well he wasn't a real hottest point in the history of the earth

a little wet brain if you know what i mean new and yeah so a lot of people believe that the weather observer at that time fudged the numbers because you know tv didn't exist and there was nothing else to do for fun right right right but it yeah in terms of reliably measured temperatures the record is 130 degrees also set in death valley in 2020 and 2021 also there's a picture of an influencer taking a selfie in front of one that says 131 degrees Fahrenheit. So I don't know if that thermometer is not accurate

or what's going on. Yeah, it must be. Also, like, that's, I get, like, the, like, you want to flick it up and demonstrate that you're in the hottest place on Earth. I remember when I used to do, like, production, I shot a music video in death valley that wasn't even like the summer yet it was like like may and i remember opening the door like a two p like you know when you can touch the windows and like the windows are fucking hot as shit yeah it's like an oven door yeah like i'm

like almost burned my elbow on the fucking window and i remember i opened the door and how oppressive the heat was the last thing i want to the door and how oppressive the heat was. The last thing I wanted to do was go fucking take a picture. I was so overwhelmed. It was punishing. Like to be in something that's like 115 plus. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Yeah.

Isn't there like a real tall thermometer there too? Or did that go world's tallest? Oh, there's one on the drive to uh to vegas okay yeah that's in baker yeah yeah yeah baker baker has the big giant one but yeah the i think someone died last week in death valley oh yeah because a tourist was trying to take a picture and they were just found in their fucking car yeah no it's so dangerous like it will kill you so quickly temperatures at that level like the human body like is not meant to exist at temperatures that high without immediate relief yeah so like you're really putting yourself in danger by going out there yeah 65 year old man

your car's ability to like function in danger like cars aren't built to drive at those temperatures because they haven't existed on earth for throughout the course of the history of the planet so you're not like unless like a volcanologist like designed it to be like i build all these heat shields around it so like it can still function it's bad but yeah this a man who's 65 years old san diego guy was found just apparently you know from dead from heat exposure yeah i mean it is a very common way to go it's very dangerous uh hopefully you know no nobody is going out there and trying to flick it up we yeah you you can photoshop yourself into that picture if you want yeah like i'll do it for you yeah and we can make it say anything we say 3 000 degrees if you want yeah a couple follow-ups aspartame um continues to be the sphinx riddle of

our time i think we talked on an episode uh last week about how there was this new world health organization study um that seemed to like cut in two different directions there was like one that was saying you know it could be linked to it is not a major concern at the doses which are commonly used and they really focused on like the the fact that if you are talking about drinking 12 diet cokes a day every day like that could talk to us that could be bad but then there was also another one that just uh like another world health organization linked agency that came out and said it was possibly carcinogenic so i don't know this just continues to be the sphinx riddle of our time because it's there, there is no objective truth. I'm like,

well, let's get below all the level layers of objective truth. But like all the studies are either funded by like, I'm sure big sugar or the, or, you know, the companies that are profiting off of aspartame. Um, my wife and I have like a rolling conversation about aspartame because like, I still enjoy the occasional diet Coke with the occasional you know three diet coke day sprinkled in when i'm feeling particularly you know a little zany yeah a little zany um it's like that's usually what i drank when we're like out and other people are drinking i'll have a diet coke but um or pepsi dear god oh god vegas when we're in vegas so many diet pepsis which diet pepsi doesn't have aspartame but um wait it doesn't but pepsi zero sugar does which is that's this i don't

know we're so afflicted with these zero calorie drinks that like it's like there's seven kinds based on like how much caffeine or which chemicals you'd like or not like to ingest. Yeah. Yeah. But she thinks I should drink it. Never. Which, you know, well, I should. And she thinks I should listen to her because she's a doctor.

Who specializes in carcinogenic sweeteners. Wait, but what's your counter to that? Like, like well what should i be you want me just drink straight up high fructose corn syrup so good is my counter i don't understand it just tastes so good no i think it's uh so i was going off of you know that when when you look at the aspartame studies from like that really caused the backlash in like the 80s and 90s um it was based on giving the the lab rats and the mice that they tested on just you know what would be the equivalent of so much you know more aspartame than anyone is going to consume that i that i am like in danger of consuming um which seems to be so that was why I am like in danger of consuming, um, which seems to be,

so that was why I was like, ha ha, we, we have a breakthrough on this one because that seems to be the logic of, you know, the agency that was like, it's actually like, you're, you're probably fine was like, you would need to drink a 12 pack of diet Coke every single day for the rest of your life for this to become the thing that they're talking about when they say it's a possible carcinogen but the way the media has seemed to take those two studies is like there's a vox story from over the weekend that was will diet soda yogurt and cereal disappear from stores and i can't tell if that's like big sugar if that's like the anxiety media bias we talked about on last week's Tuesday episode, or if those stories are right and it's a carcinogen and why would you even fuck with it?

And, you know, I'm just biased because I like to drink Diet Coke. Because it tastes good. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't think I'm ever getting to the bottom of this. If anybody has. Jack, just get with the time and start doing cocaine like the rest of the planet don't know. I don't think I'm ever getting to the bottom of this. If anybody has... Jack, just get with the times and start doing cocaine like the rest of the planet.

I know. The rest of us. What the fuck? Like the next set, it's like, actually, cocaine, it's actually better than aspartame. It's actually pretty cool. Pretty cool. Just put it in your DC. But yeah, I get it.

For those of us that have a little treat that we like to indulge in, sometimes it can be hard. Yeah. I guess don't drink 12 Diet Cokes a day, every day, I think is my takeaway, which I wasn't planning to do.

You know someone's doing that out there, though, too. You know what I mean? Yeah. I've seen it. I used to kick it with this one dude, this English dude, who would keep a two-liter bottle of Coke next to his bed. Yeah. And pound that shit through the night.

And just all day, always had that thing on him. And that thing was a two-liter bottle of i was like this is so wild oh like the double gulps those like massive things that you see in 7-elevens or like truckers kind of dry yeah yeah yeah like the things that are like the size of uh you know you could keep a full aquarium alive inside of them absolutely those are 50 ounces so you would have to drink two of those and then an additional 20 ounces of diet coke every day oh no no no that's yeah that's too much yeah never mind I'm just gonna drink water nah I at least started drinking water more

cause someone I knew got kidney stones where are the anti-water lobbies come on people yeah where is the anti-water lobby yeah I guess it's just boring yeah like big big agriculture technically cause they're like just let us have it. Yeah.

And finally, uh, Mickey mouse is a scab full on knew that scab fucking scab. So, uh, Oppenheimer is red carpet event in New York was canceled. Once, uh,

SAG joined the WGA and striking. Yeah. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more on tomorrow's episode. But Disney decided to go full steam ahead with their lavish premiere for the haunted mansion. And since SAG strike deadlines or guidelines prohibit promotional activity, including premieres, none of the film stars could show up.

So Tiffany Haddish, Lakeith Stanfield, Danny DeVito, none of them can show up but mickey mouse could go to disney and disney cast members as they like to call them uh are not actual cast members no they are employees of disney and so they're not sag and so they just rounded up they're you know the people that you would normally see at disney world and disneyland dystopian nightmare like yeah the way that variety was trying to

seriously act like this was normal they're like genius the tweet the fictional character cruella deville has arrived at the hashtag haunted mansion premiere premiere in Disneyland. Cruella is walking the red carpet and like opening her jacket as if she's been like, who are you wearing tonight? Kind of thing. And it's like this person who's just been like, man, I had to pull another shift just to... She said, I didn't catch their names before I skinned

them. Who am I wearing? That's a 101 Dalmatians joke. Is that from the movie? no should be you embodied, you used AI to write the voice of Cruella De Vil

and then like Mickey and Minnie were wearing like Victorian garb like the fuck? yeah, it was very strange I do think that this is probably like good for the writers and the strikers because now they can use an iconic character as the face of scabbing. Yeah.

So, yeah. But people think it might backfire on them for that reason. Variety clearly was hearing from bob eiger and bob eiger's people because they fully framed it up like this was a master stroke it was not a l yeah this was a big l sorry folks yeah well coming off the heels of bob eiger's like dickish comments about the strike at the end of last week. It's not realistic that they want more money. It's not realistic. They're just being unrealistic. It's a

bad time for me. And he's like coming from like a mansion in Sun Valley or something. Yeah. Sun Valley. Interesting pick. Isn't that where it is? In Idaho? Oh, I thought there's a spot in the valley called Sun Valley. And I was i was like bro that i don't

know about sun i don't know about that sun valley okay makes sense oh yeah in idaho oh yeah they really are oh i didn't realize that was the spot all the the billionaires are going to right now yeah they're hanging out at some valley uh hell yeah hidden valley ranch that's as much as I like, uh, I'm that aware of what sun Valley is, is I think it might be cause weren't, wasn't that picture like the Kristen bell picture with all the famous like friends,

cast members hanging out together. Wasn't that in Idaho or one of those places? It was, it was like in the great West, right? Like in that in that in that area that seems to be where they've retreated wow also this is another little tidbit coming from that because like all these billionaires are getting together in sun valley and what they call like summer camp for billionaires warren buffett's wife astrid buffett was heard quote complaining about the price of a cup of coffee at four dollars wow i mean they're very like right i mean yeah they they live i've i've driven by his house in omaha it's like yeah

it looks like some shit you'd see in hancock park like it's not like a fucking palatial estate or anything and he like i think he eats mcdonald's breakfast all the day all the time while he just hoards all his ungodly amounts of wealth so please be okay with this billionaire because he is cheaper than most even though he has the same amount of money and doing the same kind of destruction but apparently she said she could get a pound of coffee for that much money somewhere there you go especially if you go right to the source and just fly down on your pj yeah exactly i mean like look at them as a couple like their this their outfits are not screaming money not even stealth wealth you know what i mean like this is just motherfucking wearing dockers and shit and she got like cargo pants on from 2006

but they still go to the summer camp for billionaires yeah and i wonder if like people just make fun of them because they're just like, I wonder what their outlook is. They're like, oh, my God, they dress so gaudy. I just want a cotton T-shirt and some khakis. It's all simple. That would be great if he wore because like what he's wearing is actually like the rich guy thing to like be unassuming. Right. Like if he wore like really gaudy, like huge labels, like a giant like Chanel logo on his his like t-shirt like a balenciaga all over print that would be the way to like really upset the your fellow campers camp oh also like if you

want to just get torn down by like youth twitter some billionaire pulling up and some like real fucking designer garbs oh anyway yeah all right the wizard of omaha just keep it simple man stay in the shadows bro that's right um all right those are some of the things that are trending on this monday morning we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine. Stay cool. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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