The Daily Zeitgeist - Noted Hotness Expert Michael Rapaport, Trump Hiding Bad News In The Holidays? 12.21.18

Episode Date: December 21, 2018

In episode 299, Jack and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe hosts Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham to discuss Michelle Obama's Balenciaga boots, Michael Rapaport's comments about Ariana Grande, Trump's decision on Syria, women leaving Trump's camp, a Vanity Fair article about the culture of sexual assault at Georgetown Prep, products being ditched by big brands, Rachel McAdams glamorous breast pumping photos, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Michelle Obama's Balenciaga Thigh-High Boots Are Metallic, $4000, And Absolutely Perfect2. This Actor's Sexist Tweet About Ariana Grande Is Getting Major Backlash Online3. No one knows what’s happening with Trump’s Syria decision4. Trump Administration to Lift Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies5. Women Who Love Trump6. “MEN FOR OTHERS, MY ASS”: AFTER KAVANAUGH, INSIDE GEORGETOWN PREP’S CULTURE OF OMERTÀ7. Chick-fil-A, Chevy, Apple are among the companies ditching merch next year8. What’s missing in all the praise of Rachel McAdams’s high-fashion breast pump photo shoot9. One-Quarter Of Mothers Return To Work Less Than 2 Weeks After Giving Birth, Report Finds10. WATCH: Reverie - Black Hearts Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 62, Episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah. or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Friday, December 21st, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Dashing through the trends in a second-rate podcast. Jack O'Brien sings his a.k.a.'s all right. With co-host Miles Gray, super producer Hosni A. What fun it is to get hot takes from Zyke Gang every night. Night! Yeah! Rhymes.

That's courtesy of Rich Jefferson. Rich Jefferson, check your rhymes, dude. Nah, man, that was great. And I'm thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host. She is sometimes known as

Lil Zam, the hacker who codes. It's Jamie Loftus! A.K.A. Childish Zamboni. Oh, wow. A.K.A., and I'm not as sold on this one, Jamie So Horny. A.K.A. Not Edgar. All right.

Yeah, Not Edgar. Well, we're thrilled to have you, Jamie. Thanks for joining us. Happy to be here. And we are also thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth seats by the hosts of Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. What's up, guys?

Hey, thanks for having us on. Hey, it's great to have you guys here. Welcome to the game. Are we supposed to have silly, slightly inappropriate nicknames also? No. No. Unless you have some at the top of your head, you know, and then we want to hear them. Yeah.

Let's hear it. I thought you guys were going to make that Halloween song. Oh, no. Unfortunately. No. That's out of our pay grade. I just go through my Twitter mentions and find the latest AKA, as you could probably hear from the quality of my AKA.

We're taking, yeah, we're taking free labor. And criticizing it uh well guys uh we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today we're talking about michelle obama's balenciaga thigh high boots uh we're gonna talk about michael rapaport just weighing in where his weight is not needed. Having bad takes. Yeah, we're going to talk about the Dow falling 550 points. Trump using the holiday and people not paying as much attention to the news to offload a bunch of things that seem to indicate he's colluding with Russia.

Maybe. We'll see. with Russia, maybe. We'll see. We're going to talk about the Vanity Fair look at the culture at Georgetown Prep where we got a brief glimpse of that back with Kavanaugh and his

homies. PJ. PJ. Squee. Squee. I mean, I'm referencing that just from Matt Damon's version. Right. No, I think his name was Squee, though. Yeah, Squee. He's like, man, Squee, Squeed on us.

Right. Angrily defending the honor of somebody named Squee. Ugh, Squee's house. Just say random cartoon sound effects. We're going to talk about some products that are going away in 2019 that are going to devastate you. But first, guys, what is something from your search histories that's revealing about who you are? Well, I recently had to search, is it safe to pick up feathers for this project that I'm writing for? Is it safe to pick up others?

Like physically? Feathers. Feathers. Feathers. Like some birds okay is it uh well we were concerned that maybe we didn't want to encourage kids to pick up feathers and but it turns out that it is according to the internet safe to pick up feathers yeah but you shouldn't put it is however or your nose yeah got it yeah hold on guys i i need a couple minutes to take all the feathers out of my mouth hold on one second I had a whole pillow

for breakfast are you talking mostly about like feathers on the street like pigeon feathers or what are we talking here I wouldn't pick up a street feather yeah like if you're out hiking and you see and your kid sees a feather is it safe for them to pick it up right okay yeah out hiking yeah in Times Square.

Totally, I can relate with hiking culture, outside culture, right. Yes, Jamie is in no way a hacker who codes. I'm the hiker who codes. She's the hiker who smells fresh air. If you see anything in Times Square, don't pick it up. Yes, okay.

Definitely don't put it in your nose. Daniel, anything you've been searching lately? Yeah. So Jorge and I do this podcast where we try to explain the universe, and I'm supposed to be the expert on the show, which means I'm supposed to be able to answer whatever question he throws at me. But sometimes the topics are a bit far afield from my actual expertise. So for example, last week we did an episode on string theory.

So my top search that week was was what is string theory? Nice. Uh, so you, you dove deep, you, you went in, you went deep. I got Google, I got Wikipedia. What else do you need to be an expert these days on some deep scientific topic? Is it the theory about how, like if you have cords in a drawer, they immediately get tangled into like a thousand knots is that no it's a theory that maybe the whole universe is made out of crochet oh shit wow i've always suspected the knitted theory of the universe right what which should technically include what's in your drawer so huh that's true yeah yeah i tried to read string theory back when i was like maybe i'm a smart person uh in my 20s and uh it it just it seemed way too i i don't know i

couldn't i couldn't get any of it it was like one of those things that i couldn't even if stephen hawking was like okay for a dumb person here's how you would explain this. I don't think I would have gotten it. String theory seems very confusing. Yeah. String theory is confusing. It's also beautiful though. But you should check out that episode of our podcast. Maybe it'll make sense to you.

Okay. Okay. Hey, Jorge, what is something you think is underrated? I think that forgetting your phone is underrated. Forgetting your phone. So it's something I think people, we all stress out about, but when it actually happens, I think you'll find that your life is underrated. Forgetting your phone. So it's something I think people, we all stress out about. But when it actually happens, I think you'll find that your life is actually a little bit better if you forget your phone.

Yeah. Totally agree. I love being off the grid and knowing that someone is mad at me, but not knowing who. Right. And not being able to do anything about it. So it's just like a vague weight on your chest, but not like a full on like. Sometimes it's exciting because you're like it could be anyone yeah no i i agree though it's it's nice to have the freedom to be bored and

let your mind wander yeah no yeah and you think that you maybe you'll get into an emergency where you need to make a phone call but really it just forces you to like talk to other humans or go into a store and ask for the phone so So it's not that big a deal. I'd probably injure myself and eat shit less if I did not have my phone with me at all times. If you weren't always going around on a lime scooter with your phone two inches from your nose, just tweeting. Jack, I got cat called on a lime the other day. I know.

I saw that on Twitter actually. It was the worst. Now you were on the lime scooter or something? No, I was walking on Twitter, actually. It was the worst. Now, you were on the Lime Scooter or something? No, I was walking. You were walking. Somebody was on a Lime Scooter passing me at approximately the same speed as I was walking. Right. So it's not like...

It was like some teenager on a Lime Scooter because you don't need a license to ride it. And he was just like, you're beautiful. And then kept riding really slowly to his grandma's house. Wow. It was wild. Just right there. It was wild. I give him a pass.

Because God forbid you should actually walk somewhere under your own power, right? Yeah. I mean, I could have done a light jog and scalded him, but it was busy. That would have been pretty funny. Daniel, what is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated is canceling trips.

You got a trip planned and you just sort of dreading it. And then you can just say no and decide not to go. And there's this enormous weight. It's like, oh, I have several open days. I can actually live my life and not have to go out and interact with all those humans. Yeah. I think canceling trips is vastly underrated. Sometimes I think about just making trip plans so that I can cancel them later.

Just to feel the rush of freedom. That's sadistic. Yeah. It's sort of like, you know, hitting yourself on the head with a hammer and then stopping. Right. The sweet release of letting someone else down. Yes. And you have children, Daniel? Is that right? I do. I do. I have a nine-year-old and an 11-year-old okay

so they're okay at travel by this point oh yeah actually they make travel more fun yeah oh wow they're actually people now you know they like order their own food in the airplane they set up their own movies they can like talk to other humans that can handle themselves it's amazing children actually turn into people eventually nice Nice. They can carry luggage. It's great. Carry all your luggage for you. What is something, Jorge, that you think is overrated? I think sleep is overrated.

Oh, no. I try to avoid it as much as possible. One of those. As safely as allowable. Okay. So how much sleep do you average on a nightly basis? Would you say? Oh no.

Um, I don't average a lot, maybe like four or five hours, but then I catch up. I have to catch up on the weekends, but generally speaking, I'm just not comfortable sleeping. I don't know why.

Huh? It's not, um, I feel like, I feel like you sort of like you go into a coma for a little bit, which is weird to me. Yeah. It's very unproductive, I've found.

You don't get a lot done when you're sleeping. Jorge, you're the reason everyone feels bad about themselves. You and the president. Yeah, no. Jorge, that is something you have in common with Trump. Yeah. Does he sleep only four to five hours? Yeah.

He's always said he only needs like three to four hours of sleep a night. Well, he has that exhausting golf schedule, you know. Right. Well, yeah, if you're fully manic and never doing anything,

I guess. Yeah. There's actually a genetic thing that it sounds like, Jorge, you might have where you just don't need quite as much sleep

as other people. Oh, really? Yeah. There's certain people who only need like three to four hours of sleep. They're hyper productive sleepers. Like when they sleep, they get all the benefits that we get just much quicker.

So, yeah, that makes me very mad at you. Jealous. I didn't say I was productive with my waking hours. I just don't know. It's more time to consume content. Right. I wish I could consume more content every day. Daniel, what's something you think is overrated?

Something I think is overrated are Christmas cookies. I mean, I love the season. I like holidays. But in the end, Christmas cookies are usually disappointing. They're just like sugar cookies with a mountain of frosting on top. Yuck. All right.

All right, Mr. Grinch. So, Daniel, we're going to let you continue on this show, but just know that's strike one. That's strike one. That's more offensive than sleep? Yeah.

No, actually, we just got really great. I'm out there trying to improve the health of the population. People don't eat as many Christmas cookies. Jorge's telling people to stay up late and cram Christmas cookies in their mouth. Increased health, lower joy. Yeah, you guys are really out here. I like the Christmas cookie, the Pillsbury one, where it's like a roll of cookies and you just cha-cha-cha. And then they all have like little santas on them yeah and do you put icing on them

like sometimes i go why my my family uses a lot of dips and not all of them make sense for the food we're having so hummus yeah maybe a salad dressing you eat a whole roll of christmas cookies while on a lime scooter on a lime scooter? On a lime scooter, yes. Please don't look up a picture of me. I'm more interested in what you think that would look like. Yeah, we actually just got a basket of Christmas cookies that it seems like they were, I don't know, curated from different cookies that this person has had because they're not all from the same manufacturer, but they're all really, really good. And so had I not been gorging on amazing Christmas cookies

for the past 24 hours, I might have agreed with you. But yeah, I have to disagree on this one. Is that going to be like a new profession, Christmas cookie curator? Yeah, I think, well, yeah, like basket curator, gift basket curator. Like lifestyle designer? Yeah, exactly. How rich do you have to be to hire a Christmas cookie curator?

Yeah, apparently very rich. Jorge, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Well, I was thinking about this, and you know how my cartoon is, and whenever I tell people my cartoon is and whenever i tell people my cartoon is they go oh man that's that's great um you probably sit around in your pajamas all day and do nothing uh-huh and i just want to set the record straight yeah i just want to set the record straight that's not true at all you don't even own pajamas even i don't even know

he doesn't sleep he doesn't have pajamas He sits around naked all day drawing cartoons. There you go. That's just too much work to put them on at night. Maybe that's because you're tired from not sleeping at all. Well, you were joined. Today's co-host is also a cartoonist. It's Jamie Loftus. But I'm sort of always wearing some form of pajamas.

Pajamas, yeah. So it's hard to say exactly what they look like. But I think you're not wearing them right now, right? No, I mean, I'm always wearing some loose cloth, so pajama adjacent. Yeah. It's the look. It's loftus chic. It's pajama chic.

I'm wearing a horrifying shirt today. I'm sorry. No, Jamie's wearing a shirt today that is, can I describe your shirt? Please, go for it. It's amazing. It is. So the cloth part, like the background of this shirt, is the matrix thing, like the ones and zeros. All zeros and ones.

The green ones and zeros with black. And then on the front, it just says, hysteria. It's pretty red. Shout out F21. It really came through on this one. And Daniel, what is a myth from you? What's something people think is true you know to be false? An important myth I want to debunk is that if you are wearing a lab coat,

you are necessarily an evil character. I watch a lot of science fiction, and every single one, there's some dude in a lab coat with plans to take over the world or develop some technology that's going to destroy the planet or some sort of thing these characters are always evil or malevolent or selfish or sort of like jurassic park hubris you know yeah shape of water wait are you saying that the myth is that you need a lab coat to wear that to be evil or that if you wear a lab coat you are evil putting on a lab coat does not necessarily transform you into a purely malevolent character.

I mean, I know you guys had Josh Clark on recently and he likes to talk about how the LHC might disturb the world, but you know, that's not what we're out for. We're not out to kill people and swallow the earth in a black hole just to see what would happen. Sounds like something someone trying to swallow the earth into a black hole would say. Right. Throw us off your scent. I just want to create a black hole so I can throw all the Christmas cookies in it.

Right. I'm happy if it stays around. Get rid of all of them. That would be a great, like, I feel like that would be a good piece of children's entertainment villain, like children's movie. He's like, I must destroy all the Christmas cookies. I see this like the hyper-specific Grinch, like I like Christmas except for this one thing. Except for this type of cookies, this brand only. That's right.

All right, guys. Well, let's get into what's happening today in the zeitgeist. We're looking at Google Trends in our first little batch here and something that is trending are michelle obama's balenciaga thigh high boots they are metallic they're incredible they're four thousand dollars and they're really pretty cool like i i don't know it's not clear what they're made of they're like a glowing sort of rainbow gold yeah they're golden but they're so beautiful i mean i i think the whole her whole outfit at this was it like a promotional event for her book or something i think it was she was being interviewed by sarah jessica parker well i mean yes there's a lot of thoughts that go there right uh yeah i mean it's

an incredible look this has been sort of the year of thigh high boots in a lot of ways between this and the ariana grande lollipop pick alone i mean those are some iconic thigh high boots yeah so it was last year like thigh high boots were just no go and this year they're all in i'm having trouble keeping up with the footwear trends i feel like miles can better answer these questions than i can however uh i don't think that they it was like if you wear thigh high boots you're trash right go but it's more of a gradual thing but yeah the a-list has been very into you know the a-list yeah i see there's not something your typical pajama wearing podcast host would wear do you have thigh high boots that would go well with your pajamas?

No, I'm wearing Sperry's. Sperry's are so comfortable. Isn't that glittery? Very comfy. The boots are- I kind of want to know how she puts them on. Yeah, they raise as many questions as they answer, but in a good way. Unless it's Secret Service.

I bet it's like three Secret Service guys have to be there to put them on her. There's just a long zip. Yeah. Insert and then zip. Yeah. But what are they made of? Is it metal?

It looks like it's a special effect from the Aquaman film, is what it looks like. Could be a cross promo. We don't know. Yeah. Could easily be. Maybe it's made promo. We don't know. Yeah. Could easily be. Maybe it's made out of meteorite or something.

Yeah. Well, on the other end of the spectrum. Is it $4,000 for the pair? Yeah, $4,000 for the pair. For the pair. Okay, not each. Yes. Just for one boot.

I don't think shoes are generally priced that way. Oh, it was the closing night of her tour. So she's like, okay, got to bring out some really... And also, I think that, you know, Michelle was... I would guess she and Sarah Jessica Parker are the same age-ish? I don't know. That's a good question. On the other end of the spectrum of trending for the wrong reasons, Michael Rappaport is in the news for going on, I think, Instagram and demanding that people listen to his opinion on how hot or not hot, in this case, a person who is young enough to be his daughter is.

I mean, coming from known hottie Michael Rappaport. Known expert on hotness. Can't think about it without getting soaking wet. Like, what is this? I don't know. This is a fucking mess. There must have been a time when the dude was good looking, right? I mean, he played Remy in Higher Learning, Deep Cut.

Maybe for five minutes when he was 18 or something. Yeah, I'm sure he's had those movies. He's like, listen, I know I look like shit and I'm old, but hear me out, which is so much of the world. Right. It's just very white male. Can you imagine, I'm trying to think of a famous 48-year-old woman being like, I'm sorry, Justin Bieber is not hot like they just like

kind of like right yeah if Oprah just came through came for Justin Bieber that would be kind of awesome I would totally listen to Oprah's opinion about that yeah I want to know does Oprah think Justin Bieber is hot right but he

seems to be confused he's like oh when I talk shit about Trump and Kellyanne Conway, people get mad. But suddenly when I say that Ariana Grande isn't as hot as people think, people get mad. It's like, yeah, dude, because you're a middle-aged white guy who nobody wants to think about what you find attractive. You're literally old enough to be her dad you're calling her not hot and then he reacted to people's hate by like making this gross like like gesture at the camera in a gross way that's like yeah it's gonna prevent any woman who sees

it from being sexually aroused until deep into 2019 he also like didn't get like he did no research he like he's he said she's 27 she's not uh he like posted a picture of her from when she was a literal child as evidence that he didn't find her hot and not to go full ariana, but she's been dealing with people's opinions on her enough. Right. She doesn't need Michael Rapaport. I know. Who the fuck that is. Right.

Get out of her face. Yeah, exactly. Get out of her face. Stop. Some people shouldn't be curating things is the lesson, I think. Right. Yeah. We don't need Michael Rapaport's curated list of the hottest 25-year-olds, which is actually how old Ariana Grande is.

Yeah, what an idiot. Thank you. We probably don't even care what he thinks about Christmas cookies. Right. Yeah, he was like, she acts like she's 12, but she's really 27. And it's like, well, you're 48. And by the way, she's 25. 48. And by the way, she's 25. And something we're keeping an eye on here at the Daily Zeitgeist News Lab, at the time of this recording, the Dow has fallen, I think, 400 points to a 14-month low. People are saying NASDAQ has entered a bear market and that we are on track to have the worst December in stock market history since 1931, which I think that was a good year for the economy, right? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I did really well in my portfolio.

31? Oh, yeah. I thought you were going to say it's a good year for bears. Yes. Big year for bears. Great year for bears. Yeah, I invested in bears. It went great.

I had most of my money in the Big Rock Candy Mountain, and it worked out really well for me. I don't know what most of that means. Could someone give me an idea of bear market? Well, the bull market is like a generally optimistic market where everybody's like, you know, there's a lot of sales people, whereas a bear market is like people are hibernating. People are going into less sales.

They're generally pessimistic. You can tell that like men created the finance industry because there's all these aggro, like it's the bear market, not the bull market. Right. Their way of describing like a a quiet period of like being nervous about things is like we're bears i imagined it all in like rhino pill font

wait what's rhino pill font you know what rhino pills are no okay. Oh, okay. So rhino pills, and I can't tell you why I know this, but rhino pills are like they sell them for like truckers at rest stops and it's to give you a rhino raging erection. If you check out the graphic design for rhino pills. Where did you do your research here on this rhino pill? At the truck stop or online? I may or may not be dating a former trucker who made me savvy to the RhinoPill font. And it's my favorite graphic design. Much slept on, I think. Oh, yeah. It is a very strong font.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and uh there's been a couple stories of late being initiated by the president and his administration that have led me to wonder if this is part of his strategy like for instance uh over thanksgiving weekend which is traditionally the slowest news week where people are just not paying attention to the news. He dumped the environmental report that was like, we're all going to die. I was like, it's water world in 40 years.

Yeah. But keep your Turkey. Don't worry about it. Right. By the way, stop reproducing. We're good. We're headed for water.

Yes. But make sure to buy a bunch of stuff on Black Friday. Right. Yeah. But they just, they knew that the environmental report would get buried under all the stories about people rioting on Black Friday. So, which is what we really want to read about

on that weekend. Anyways, I get the feeling that they're starting to do the same thing with people seem baffled in a decision that nobody can understand. The president has declared victory over ISIS and announced that he wants to remove all U.S. troops from Syria. And, yeah, there's just all sorts of articles on Vox and Washington Post like none of his advisors. Everyone has been completely blindsided by this decision. And by arbitrarily declaring victory over ISIS. Which seems like it's totally his sort of speed.

But also, it's definitely exactly what Putin would want him to do. Just like. Yeah. So his number one advisor is totally right with it. Right. Vladimir Putin. Yes. Great. Just like. Yeah. So his number one advisor is totally right with it. Right. Vladimir Putin. Yes. Decision, dude.

Yeah. His number one advisor knew before he did what he was going to do. Right. It's amazing. Yeah. I need that kind of advisor. Yeah. So we've been just pelted in the face for two straight weeks with evidence that he has

a weird, not totally above board relationship with Russia. And then all of a sudden he's like, yeah, we're getting out of Syria. The one place that we're completely at odds with Russia. And then they also. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Right. Almost definitely. Couldn't be anything there.

Is this is the Vox headline? No one knows what's happening with Trump's Syria decision. Yes. Incredible. That's the Vox headline. Is that literally what's happening with Trump's Syria decision? Yes. Incredible. That's the Vox headline. Is that literally the headline? No one includes Trump, right? Oh my gosh.

Yeah. I think Putin knows, though. Putin's the only one who understands that. I think Trump's probably even confused. Right. It's like, he wants me to leave Syria for some reason. Whatever. But yeah, this-

Well, first he says, we won the war. ISIS is defeated, so we can withdraw. And then when people criticized it, he's like, no, no, no. Other people are still there to fight ISIS. Right. Like, did we defeat them or not? You know? Yeah.

And this is heading into a holiday season that has like unprecedented ISIS chatter. And like there's all sorts of reports saying that ISIS is planning on targeting New York on New Year's. And, you know, that's something that is in the news. And he's just like, ah, we got this. We're good. Right. Don't worry. Buy stuff on New Year's Eve.

Yeah. People, I read somewhere somebody making the comment that this would be his mission accomplished George W. Bush moment if he hadn't tweeted it on the toilet instead of if he had landed on it. Good Lord. If there's a picture of that, that would be gold. Yeah, that'd be a cool picture of Trump on a toilet on an aircraft carrier. Right.

Yeah. Oh, man. Somebody has probably already Photoshopped that. God bless the internet. Everything is on the internet. Yeah. And then there's a second story that's come out that has people similarly confused for some reason. The Trump administration has decided to lift sanctions on Russian oligarchs companies is the New York Times headline.

Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia's most influential oligarchs who got sanctioned specifically because of Russia's interference with the election, Trump has decided to go easy on him for some reason. I mean, that's not confusing. What's confusing is how is that allowed to happen? But that's a question that I have sometimes with like, why is the front page of The New York Times like it really looks like he's just doing stuff that is good for Russia. Why are we acting confused? Like, is it because we don't have like the smoking gun evidence or something? I don't know. I'm kind of confused. That's been the tone of a lot of news stories recently. It's like, can you believe it's like like, no, yeah, everyone can believe everything, but why? Why is it allowed to happen? Yes. It kind of sounds like maybe he knows he won't be at the job for very long, much longer. And so he's trying to do all these things that he might as well just do openly. Right. He's making good on all his debts. He's paying his debts because he knows that he's all his debts.

He's paying his debts because he knows that he's getting out of there. That's the wildly optimistic read on this. My read on it is he has never given a single fuck about what anybody thinks. And we are not going to get him out of the White House without like some sort of military action. I really think he's not going to make it easy. And I also am fully on board with the holiday, while no one's looking, let's see how much I can get away with narrative. I'm sure that wasn't his idea,

but they'll be like, hey, Mr. President, have you seen the movie Hall Pass? What about that, but for foreign policy? Right, the Hall passed foreign policy yeah well i don't even know how he's allowed to do it you know congress passes these laws saying we need sanctions on russia and then the administration just goes nah we thought about it but nah is that an executive power it is no he just doesn't do it

right i mean he claims that oh it's part of our you know foreign policy we need to have the option to do this or not do this or whatever but it's baloney like congress makes these decisions yeah yeah it does look like people are i don't know it we've been talking for a couple weeks now that it seems like washington like inside washington people are starting to be a little bit more hesitant, a little more bearish and less bullish on being associated with the president. Like no GOP member of Congress has the will to pass anything Trump wants. His foundation was shut down. That was fun. He's had a bad, I think SNL said that Trump had a bad year last week because it was just like a year's worth of bad, just terrible news.

No one wants to be his chief of staff. We've been at the Trump tipping point forever. Everybody's always like, well, this is definitely what's going to bring him down. We can't survive this. But then he just blows it over by doing something even dumber or more dramatic the next week, which makes it look like small potatoes. Yeah. He's just like a gambler.

He just keeps doubling down. Yeah. And then SNL's like, what's- And he's still super popular among the GOP. Among the Fox News watching demographic. There was a Wall Street Journal article about how his support among republican women is 93 percent that said the percentage of the country that identifies as republican women is at an all-time low so yeah it's like a lot of people are leaving the party it's the watching the gop's reaction to his actions it's it my my guess

and i'm sure there's other reasons is it seems like like if it seems like his presidency remaining a thing is on shaky ground then deciding all the way with him would probably be a bad thing to do right now if you wanted power soon. Yeah that's the sense you get. I just don't think anybody has the courage to do anything about it. I think it has nothing to do with like increasing morality. I think it's just to do with increasing morality. I think it's just all professional strategy. Yeah, it's all calculating risk management. Yeah. Basically.

Bear market for Trump right now. Yes, bear market on Trump in Washington. And we should probably mention that the government looks like it's going to be shut down. There was a deal that all indications were that Trump was going to go along with that did not give him funding for his wall. He was just going to bite that bullet. And then Rush Limbaugh started, you know, saying, I can't believe Trump is going along with this.

What is he, a chicken? And started making balking noises. Like an arrested development? Right, yeah, like literally. This is honestly how our national policy decided now. Yeah, essentially. I mean, Trump literally texted him and was like, you think I'm backing down, but I'm not, see?

I'm not, see? That was a little trick I was playing. Right, exactly. I was, I have them just where I want them. Somebody should dare him to quit. Yeah, right. Call him a chicken for not quitting. You shouldn't return to your life of debauchery.

Right. Yeah, now he's blown it up, and it seems like it's exclusively because somebody called him chicken. One quick article I wanted to check in with, Vanity Fair kind of did a deep dive into Georgetown prep and just what the culture's like there. Because if you were paying attention to the Kavanaugh hearings,

you got a sense that at least back in 1983, it was not the coolest place to be. And they weren't the greatest people to be around. And so the art so unless you were a rich white dude in which case it's probably a lot of fun for them right well unless you were one of the three rich white dudes like who hung out with kavanaugh it's squeezed to be believed right yeah they talk about how kavanaugh and his friends used to like throw people into garbage cans and stuff like they were very old school exactly Kavanaugh didn't do it himself

he just laughed like an idiot he was like squee you do it squee I might want to run for office someday right exactly um and there's a lot of stuff about specifically you know the Kavanaugh allegations and the way the community sort of seemed to band together around him. Like the women who started the campaign of women for Kavanaugh, they are specifically women who he, I think dated at one point or one of them he dated and they ended up marrying his good,

like squee or like people in that group of friends. If squee is married, I'll throw myself in the ocean. Oh no, Squee is definitely married. Do you think Squee wears pajamas every day? Squee sent me a Christmas card with him and his family in matching pajamas actually. And thigh high boots, right?

Eating cookies. No! Those women are sort of the I guess they had they're very influential in terms of like the parenting scene and like where your kids get into school and stuff. And so they started the movement and that's why they were able to get so many signatures. But they got quotes from a lot of women who had signed the thing being like, yeah, no, I mean, we feel bad for Kavanaugh because he was probably blacked out and didn't remember it. I'm going to go on a limb and say all these are rich white ladies. Yes, but then they were very put off

when he started raging about accusations that he had ever blacked out. They were like, no, you were always blacked out when we hung out with you and you always talked about it. And the detail about Judge jumping on Kavanaugh while he was sexually assaulting Dr. Blasey Ford, they were like, that was the detail that made it clear that it definitely happened because that was apparently just that Judge guy's thing. He was always just jumping on people. That was like his trademark god um sound like a great group of people yeah just awesome people rich people so much but the weird thing is how gross the culture is and remains like the reporter goes to this alumni event where all the people

from the georgetown prep class of 83 are hanging out and like one of the heads of the school talks about how proud he is of the way they all hung together during the Kavanaugh thing, how they all like look out for each other. That's what I'm, I was like really excited that comes up in this article because there's like around the Kavanaugh hearings, there was even with people and like, I talked about it with my parents of like, they're like, well, yeah, we're sure that it happened, but it was the 80s and like the culture was different. And so the reporting that is like far more recent is super useful because I worry about that becoming the narrative of like, well, all these like men who assaulted women in like the 70s, 80s and early 90s are getting canceled and how unfair. But there's info from the early to mid-2000s in this article, too. Yeah, it's crazy.

So the way that that community sort of got together and defended Kavanaugh during this was also the way that the Georgetown Prep community responded when a student accused one of the priests of sexually molesting him. There was this huge backlash in the community against the victim in particularly. Yeah, there was like this big alumni backlash and there was like an email chain that went around where they claimed that he was like,

the student Eric flat out admitted that he was like the student. Eric flat out admitted that he made the whole thing up. It was because of his rocky coming out experience because the student who was molested was gay, but he wasn't out yet. So the guy just outed him in this email. Victim blaming and outing someone. Yeah. And then he expressed shock at the lies he spread about Father Orr. And then the student ended up having to leave the school because people were spreading rumors that he was a sexual deviant, that his parents had molested him, and that he was dying of AIDS. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. What a wonderful, supportive learning environment. And it's also not just George. What is the town called? Stepford? Yeah, right. Exactly. supportive learning environment yes and it's also not just georgia town called stepford yeah right exactly like georgetown prep is i'm sure egregious in terms of college campuses that put up with this shit but there's like colleges have put up with this shit until so recently yeah like i went to emerson college and like you know very progressive art school but in like 2013 when i was still going there there was a huge

thing there that was an issue of like the school administration is uh not listening to people who report sexual assault there's no consequences there was like the year i graduated there were three different instances of uh women reporting stuff and this like fucking art school being like, we don't believe you and nothing happens. And so it's like, it's still like, it's weird. Cause there's now there's like this big discussion of like our college

campus is too politically correct, but it's like, they, they just started talking about it a couple years ago. Like it's even the schools that are like woke schools. That's like very new. Yeah. And I think that that is,

even in the mainstream media with its supposed liberal bias, the idea that people are being treated unfairly because the college campuses are too liberal is an overblown story when you look at all the things that could be being covered in terms of like actually hurting people. It's just... I don't know. I think being anti-rape

is just liberal enough right yes but anyways the priest ended up being you know there were other incidents as there often are in situations like this and he was eventually disgraced and you know the school had to send out an apology. And, you know, but it sounds like they learned from that lesson, though, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because as you saw during the Kavanaugh hearings and they complimented everybody. The key word there, though, is eventually disgraced, right? These priests just go on and on and on and molesting more and more victims and covered up by the church and moved around. It's an immense tragedy.

Yeah, there's a lot of bad shit kind of coming together there. All right, we're going to take another quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state.

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And as we head towards the end of 2018, the USA Today, the number one news source in America. My favorite. Hardest hitting. Hardest of hitting. The other daily zeitgeist. Yes. the USA Today the number one news source in America hardest hitting hardest of hitting they are announcing that there are five products that are going away in 2019

that you probably love say Christmas cookies unfortunately there are no Christmas cookies you can't cancel a genre of food Catholic priest nor an American classic. No, the Catholic church is not canceling priests, unfortunately.

Haagen-Dazs is canceling sweet cream coffee caramel as a flavor, vanilla tangerine shortbread, pomegranate dark chocolate bar. And then this one sounds like somebody is dying or like their brain is misfiring. This is my favorite one. Yeah. Chocolate dark chocolate almond bar. That sounds like a code. It's like a Da Vinci code. Chocolate dark chocolate.

Chocolate almond dark. Like a hypnosis code. Yeah. I have no attachment to Haagen-Dazs. Yeah, I'm good with that. Because I'm not wealthy. Right. Yes. Making a Haagen-Dazs? I'm not wealthy. Right, yes. Making a Haagen-Dazs, no.

What kind of ice cream do you eat? Good riddance. I eat the McDonald's cone. Nice. That's not ice cream. That's okay. You know what? That's ice cream-like processed food something.

You know what? That is my favorite too. I love that ice cream. It's good ice cream. But it's not ice cream. It's good ice cream. But it's not ice cream. It's also not calorically dense. It's true. Yeah.

Have you guys dipped French fries on your ice cream? I would eat an ice cream French fry Christmas cookie if someone invented one. Also, speaking of fast food, there are the Cal Wall calendars from Chick-fil-A. Is anybody familiar with these? Oh, I didn't know that was a product, but now I miss it. Yeah, I know. Me too. So much.

Need more chicken. The Chevy Volt is going away. Is it big, small? I think that was a smallish hybrid or electronic vehicle. Oh, that's not good. Yeah. Henry Bendel. Anybody familiar with that? He's a product or a man he

he is a product a brand uh that was like i i think i had heard it before so producer i was talking about how uh on gossip girl they talked about bendel as a as like one of the only places they would shop because they were so rich. Oh, it's a store. Yeah. It's a store. Also, it's probably French. It's probably Henri Bondel.

Yes. Bring your hobby boss to it. Why? How did I pronounce it? That's how it sounded in my head when I said it. That's what I want in my tombstone. I wanted to say Jorge Cham. He was a man and a product.

Yes. The brand. I want to only be famous as something that's going away in 2019. You've never been before. Now I'm going away. Going away in 2019. The connect feature on Apple Music. Did you guys, do you guys use Apple Music?

What is that? That's like basically Apple's Spotify. No, but what's the Connect feature? The Connect feature is basically the social media. You know how on Spotify you can follow an artist and they will drop, have playlists and shit like that? Apple tried to do that and it didn't work for them. and it didn't work for them. I still wish that Spotify would stop showing other people what I'm listening to

because it's embarrassing and you can't turn it off for more than six hours. Is that true? Yeah, I have to every morning when I wake up before I listen to Pippin, I have to turn off my public feed. Wow. Yeah, it's hard.

They just automatically revert to turning it back on. Why are you embarrassed? Yeah. After six hours. Is that the most embarrassing thing you listened to? No, I was, I've been in a pippin hole, but I don't have good taste in music per se. And I would like to keep other, I need a, I need an interior life. You want, you want to pretend that you have a good taste in music, but then actually listen

to whatever you want. I'd like to, I'd like to listen to old Broadway songs, but not have that be my personality. You need like a Russian bot for your Spotify. All right, so those are the products that are going away. R.I.P. R.I.P. Dark chocolate, chocolate, almond, chocolate bar.

And then the internet is going crazy over this Rachel McAdams breast pump photograph. I think it was like just an extra taken on a lark by the photographer during a photo shoot because she had to pump between photographs because she had a baby six months ago. And yeah, it's a pretty dope picture. She looks like a boss and she has the breast pumps going. She's getting good milk, both sides. Well, she's Rachel McAdams. They can't show an empty bottle.

Right. So you're saying that's fake milk. I'm Rachel McAdams, breastfeeding truther. Yes. But somebody was pointing out that it's somewhat of a, like if you want to do a sort of deep political reading of the image. Hit it. Well, so it's cool to empower women and make breast pumping look awesome, but it's also playing into the sort of lean-in model where America doesn't give working women good maternity benefits and women are just expected to respond to that by working harder and under worse conditions.

And it's like, yeah, you can pump milk while doing your job you're like a boss and it's just you know it's it kind of sucks that america that that's sort of the going way we've decided to deal with i would also uh are you just from for my time at plabois uh magazine plabois oh plab oh you know I used to buy that magazine at Henri Bondel that there's like been this rise of breastfeeding pictures

which is like incredible in one sense that it's like there's at least the stigma is lessening for breastfeeding in public and like having spaces where you can do that uh but also I think that especially on Instagram that like having spaces where you can do that uh but also i think that especially on instagram that's the only way you can have your nip out if you're a woman is they like revise their uh policies this year so that you can have a female nipple in a picture

but only if it's in a maternal context which is alt-right. They're like, all right, we got to adapt with the times. How can we get an agenda, an anti-abortion agenda into our feelings on the female nipple? So I think that that has had to do with the rising trend as well. I don't know. I mean, in one way, I obviously obviously completely support uh breastfeeding and all photo shoots they're in and the other way uh it does feel like okay how do we desexualize a female nipple for the internet yeah yeah yeah and i'm i'm totally mystified by this stigma about breastfeeding like what's the issue there's nothing gross about it right boobs there's milk like both of those things independently are awesome right i'm pro i'm pro milk i've never seen

somebody breastfeeding and gone oh gross and i just don't get what's gross about it oh i've i've i mean i've seen other people react to breastfeeding that way yeah uh when when someone's trying to i have the i have reacted that way when it was that video. It was like a news story about a mom who's breastfeeding her like seven-year-old child. That's a different story. That weirded me out. I was like, oh. It's like the last emperor.

Right. Yeah, very last emperor. If you're breastfeeding your seven-year-old, maybe do it in private. Yeah. But she couldn't have been more proud. Sure. in private yeah but she couldn't have been more proud uh sure but yeah this is uh you know you have to deal with pump rooms which are not always like they don't like give you the the greatest room in the in the office usually it's just like a converted janitor's closet there's like yeah go

pump your breasts in there i'm a sick freak i say where in L.A. there's a pumping room that doubles as a podcast studio, but it does exist. Really? Yeah. I think it's just due to lack of space. But they're like, you can breastfeed here. But sometimes people are airing their takes out here. Oh, no. It's wild. Wow. Yeah. OK. You can tell me off. I will tell you. Oh, it's here. Oh, shit. Yeah. I didn't realize it's our studio. Wow. No. Well, guys, it's here? Oh, shit. I didn't realize. It's our studio. Wow. No. Well, guys, it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you and follow you and hear your voices? Yeah, you can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and all the social medias.

We're at Daniel and Jorge. And the name of the podcast is Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. Yeah. is Daniel and Jorge explain the universe. Yeah. What is something that you've been particularly excited about explaining in recent weeks? Yeah, some of our favorite episodes are, like, we talk about, is time travel possible?

Like, which movies get it right? Or we talk about things like, is there life on Mars? Or we talk about, what's at the center of the galaxy? Or what's inside of a black hole? All these kinds of crazy and amazing things that happen in the universe that physicists know about. What movie? We try to touch on, and none of the movies get time travel right, if that was your question. Yeah.

Because time travel is totally impossible. Oh, okay. Well. Sorry to spoil your enthusiasm right there. I'm just going to squish it. No, no, wait. But there's a caveat, right? There's a caveat.

What's the caveat? Well, you can't time travel forward. You just can't time travel backwards. You can travel forward, just not backwards, right? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Cool.

My favorite time travel movie, though, is Primer. That's definitely the best one. It's the most head-twisting, hard to understand understand but i think it's actually the most accurate and and creative sorry you mispronounced back to the future too but uh but no i mean i'm gonna pander to the millennials and say uh it's harry potter three for me wow wow such a woke choice. Lit. Is there a tweet you guys have been enjoying? I have a tweet I really enjoyed yesterday that made me laugh out loud. It has to do with the data transmission of ejaculation. Is that off limits?

No. So apparently somebody analyzed the amount of data contained in the DNA in sperm. somebody analyzed the amount of data contained in the DNA in sperm. And it turns out that every time you ejaculate, it's about 1.6 terabytes of data that comes out. And if that comes out in about a second, it means that penises are 120 times faster than your home broadband internet. Wow. Well, I feel sick.

200 times more than mine, which is super slow. Yeah, the latency is terrible, but the data rate's pretty high. All right. Jorge, is there a tweet you've been enjoying that won't make Jamie sick? For mine, I picked a good friend of ours, Katie Mack. She wrote this cool tweet the other day that says, You are stardust, the ashes of the Big Bang. At every imaginable level, you are a creation of the universe, vast, beautiful, and suffused with unbridled power.

That's a very nice thought for people heading into the new year. Yes. Jamie Loftus, where can people find you? the new year. Yes. Jamie Loftus, where can people find you? You can find me on twitter.com

at Jamie Loftus Help and Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. Also, Santa University dropping soon. Soon. Soon.

I think we're dropping it on Christmas Eve. For everyone's family gathering, of course. For everybody to sit around the hearth and,

you know, play it out loud for all the children yeah uh and is there a tweet you've been enjoying uh yeah i i am more going to point to an article but there's tweets that link to the article okay there's a great article in timeout new york uh featuring a comedian that i love uh namedha Belsky that I highly recommend checking out. She has her whole comedic persona is built around building a feminist militia that lives in the woods. She came out with Handmaid's Tale musical this year that went to the Kennedy Center

and it's a great interview with her. She is always on the right side of history. Highly recommend checking it out. And she's at Marsha Belsky, M-A-R-C-I-A Belsky. Awesome. A couple of tweets I've been enjoying from Pixelated Boat, one of my faves. Great account.

We all should have seen this coming. And then he retweeted a headline that he obviously Photoshopped that said, Report, Mark Zuckerberg breaks into Facebook users' homes and roots around in their garbage like a raccoon. And then he also tweeted yesterday morning, Forcing my children to eat gingerbread men with detailed genitals to own the libs.

And you can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Wow.

That was so nice. That was the echo of Miles Gray. Yeah. Where we link off to the information that we talked about, as well as the song we write out on Miles. What? Miles isn't here well i guess we're gonna have to ask super producer on a hosnier what song i am so happy to be here oh my god it's so great to hear you just crashing this

yeah i'm very like kool-aid man so i want to recommend a song from this kind of underground rapper. Her name is Reverie. She's from Highland Park. Shout out to super producer Nick, gentrifying the neighborhood. So she's from Highland Park. I saw her actually a year ago around this time. She opened for Hieroglyphics and Living Legends, and she was really amazing. So I want to recommend this song called Black Hearts.

So it's Reveries, Black Hearts. Enjoy. All right, we will. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back on Monday with a whole week full of special episodes to end the year. And then after that,

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