The Daily Zeitgeist - Oldster Fashion Takeover, The Oscars Gonna Be WEIRD 4.22.21

Episode Date: April 22, 2021

In episode 893, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Roy's Job Fair host Roy Wood Jr. to discuss reactions to the Derek Chauvin verdict, states criminalizing protest, Quibi's possible return, Natty Light's new ice pop, senior citizen style, the Oscar's 'contagion' theme, and more!FOOTNOTES: How Minneapolis police initially described George Floyd's murder G.O.P. Anti-Protester Bills Include Immunity for Hitting Them With Cars Quibi’s library will live on through the Roku Channel Natty Light Now Comes as an 8% ABV Ice Pop Grandpa Style: Why 20-Somethings Are Dressing Like Senior Citizens Gramparents Instagram Oscars: Academy To Create European Hub(s) For Nominees Unable To Travel To U.S.; Producers Reveal New Details On Show Producers of COVID-Era Oscars: "It's Not Going to Be Like Anything That's Been Done Before" Oscar Show Takes Shape With Letter To Nominees: No Zooms, No Casual Dress, Covid Protocols In Force & “Stories Matter” The Oscars Are a Week Away, but How Many Will Watch? Oscar Producers Facing Backlash And Logistical Headaches After Requiring Nominees To Attend Ceremony In Person, Not On Zoom Oscars: Academy To Create European Hub(s) For Nominees Unable To Travel To U.S.; Producers Reveal New Details On Show Banning Zoom at the Oscars Didn’t Work Out: Producers Accommodate Overseas Nominees Oscar Attendees Will Not Wear Face Masks During Telecast (EXCLUSIVE) Oscar nominees, guests will qualify as essential workers to attend Academy Awards LISTEN: MED x Blu x Madlib - The Strip (feat Anderson .Paak) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That baby's disgusting. That is courtesy of Pick, Last, and Zeitklass and my three-year-old. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Who thinks 90 Day Fiancé slaps? Who twists up some nice blunts raps? Me do. Me do. Who smokes weed and games at night?

Who lives that mofongo life? Me do. Me do. All right. You know, we're talking with Stone cutters and the discord went off. Shout out to Hank Skippy. Oh, Hank. Shout out to Rory the Scrivener for putting that one together for me.

Made me laugh. Beauty. Kind of fucked up the rhythm. Miles, we are fortunate, thrilled, overwhelmed to be joined in our third seat. Completely unworthy by the brilliant the talented roy wood jr well hello well welcome welcome who is that with noisy child who has child won't shut the fuck up how old your child he's four i'm being a mean father i don't think i love him and he's the best thing that ever happened to me blah blah blah yeah yeah do you have those moments where

you i'm jack as well like where your comedy brain and your parent brain come at audrey like i can't let this lyric go and i'm gonna say something like this crazy ass kid won't shut the fuck up like but i love him but i also had to do the bit you know why did you have to say that disclaimer at the end of a kid joke right because some people what do you mean is it worth the disclaimer yeah it is because also we're the first generation where our kids will be able to like there's a whole digital log of everything i've ever said about him yeah right yeah and i don't want him to stumble across this episode and just hear me go he won't shut the fuck up yeah i was i was like there's that michael keaton movie my life where he is about to die and like his wife's pregnant i think

or like they have a infant and so he like records a bunch of home video i i could die now like i could die and have eight more kids and like they'd be fine because they could just put together like they could black mirror a version of me with all the shit that we've recorded on this they could totally program a robot that would say we're not all my same thoughts yeah that's a very good point miles well they could deep fake a robot with your face by the time your kid is 20 right yeah he just know me as a zoo as dad on zoom yeah and to your point about this generation of kids like we we don't there's very few times we could present receipts to our parents about how they fucked us up like right literally like here's the fucking audio tape of what you said it's like no you're not remembering

that right and now it's like um i was listening to episode 348 of your podcast that you used to do 40 years ago what were you saying about me our parents are literally a mystery like anything younger than age six you just i don't fucking know your parents all have like eight photos that confirm previous moments before you yeah that's all they got for you right right right and they're so good at editing the like unuseful memories out of like they're like nah that never happened actually i don't i don't remember that and you were a dumb kid so i'm gonna go with my memory over over your all right roy we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about uh we're gonna talk about some of the chauvin reactions yesterday put that in a

little more context and how they're criminalizing protest we're gonna talk about whether quibi is back fingers crossed somehow we're gonna talk about some new frat sickles that are hitting the market uh the oldster fashion takeover that's happening all of that plenty more but first roy we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are you know i'm going to give you something even better than that i'm going to give you my youtube recently watched that. I'm going to give you my YouTube recently watched videos. Okay. Perfect. I will not give you Pornhub.

Thank you. But I will give you recently watched videos. YouTube is where I go for tutorials just to learn how to do stuff. How to stop Internet Explorer from redirecting to Microsoft Edge. Helping my girl with that. Okay. Wow. Internet Explorer. Is Lionel Richie's girlfriend too young for him?

I don't know why I clicked that, but I did. They're good. MLB 21 wrote to the show. I just bought that. So I watch all of the gamers play the game that I'm about to play. So I have a little bit more familiarity about that. A gang of black women comedians um i'm starting to get back out on the road so i'm trying to figure out who's funny out there and you know you know

get to working with some new people i like new new faces on the road which means how i stay fresh the bgs you should be dancing 1976 version high quality audio damn that's eclectic it's not like a single thread that you're following through there that's like that's like your day i could screen grab this i could screen grab this the the youtube video i listened to right after the bgs three six mafia popping my collar instrumental oh the instrumental yes oh yeah oh dude i am deep into hip-hop instrumentals especially south shit from the 90s because i'm from alabama so that's like the soundtrack of my childhood bro i mean so were you just you put the beat on and you gave yourself your own never since i can't

remember i've been popping my collar popping popping my like Pop it, pop it. Like. So good. Hip hop instrumentals. That's when you really start appreciating the little nuances in production. To me, Manny Fresh is the master of random laser. Right. Like just just weird pium pium shit happening underneath the Lil Waynene verse from 1998 and the shit is amazing yeah it is a thousand percent amazing but that's pretty much what it is um a gang of comedians a lot of gospel music and rap instrumentals that's pretty much how i roll i like it i i wish that it

was something more weird no that's perfect no i think that's a glimpse because sometimes she'll just be like i don't know measuring tape i'm moving and you're like okay uh-huh next and then there's also a run of slavery movie videos that i was watching um i'm working on a bit about white people who played slave masters in black right struggle movies right yeah because i have what i'm workshopping a joke i have to beta test the thread of it the the theory has to hold water first before i can explore the funny right so i have to like dig in a crate and find the most iconic white actors being horrible and figure out which one was the best. Like the DJ premiere of looking for a white savior

and white demon portrayals in film, just dusty fingers going through the crates. The theory of the bit is that no white person ever gets nominated for awards for playing a slave master. Right. Because the assumption is that there wasn't much of a transformation that had to take place they didn't have to work that hard yeah yeah right right but it i'm not gonna bore you with the nuts and bolts of a comedy joke that i haven't even proven

it's funny yet but that's pretty much what's in my history and a gang of Cubs highlights. So, yeah. No, grateful for the glimpse into your progress, though, for sure. Wait for and with MLB, the show, I used to like to play a lot of baseball games. But like over the years, I think there was about a five year gap where I missed a game and I came back in and the batting was so complex for me. I was like, OK, this it's got to go back. It's like that's why I don't fuck with 2K. I don't play NBA 2K for the same reason. I don't have time to learn this analog shooting shit i'm sorry and then if i try to switch it to button mode apparently that's like having the bumpers up at a bowling alley and people clown you i'm sorry yeah i'm used to holding the button and releasing at the height

to get my shot off yeah right that's what i's what I do. The show, the show makes it hard. It's like Apple. When you update your Mac or your iPhone, you have to go through the settings to find the way your shit used to be right. To put it back like that. But no, the show,

the show is great, man. That, but then I also never took that five year gap that you're talking about when NBA live, when they start making NBA lives, i think 07 08 ish somewhere in there i stopped playing basketball games because 2k came in with the stick and i was like fuck you i'm not gonna no i'll just start playing call of duty now and i just shift it

to rpgs and stuff like that right no that's, that's it. That's why I just, like, NBA Street will just sort of be at the height for me. I'm like, yep, we perfected NBA Jam with Street, and I can always hop back into that and still feel literate. Ronnie Chang showed me, like, of all of the slick shit that I've learned in my life, Ronnie Chang showed me those emulators and how to put classic Nintendo and Sega Genesis games on your MacBook for free and playing with a PlayStation controller.

I was like, dude, I may not need a PS5. I'll go back and play some old school MVP baseball from O2 with Manny Ramirez on the cover. I'm happy. Right. It'll throw you off because, you know, the rosters are a little weird. David Ortiz is still playing, but fun is fun. Right, right, right.

The Griffey baseball is where my baseball game knowledge ends. How does that stack up? That was for Super Nintendo, right? That's not good. Not good. Nintendo's always been terrible for sports. Yeah, Nintendo has always been terrible. Nah, I don't know.

Well, I won't say terrible. They appeal to a different personality of sport fan where this is fun and more arcade style. Yeah. I want to control the price of the fucking hot dogs during spring exactly you're firing people because you don't like their call i fired my pitching coach in the middle of the season one year on the show because it's just because you can yeah that thing that's working out yeah i'm definitely in that bucket of like i didn't get on the basketball team when i thought I should have energy. And now I'm using video games to explore that and exercise those demons. So I do like the more simulator type things.

That's fair. Roy, what is something you think is overrated? i'm hesitant to say it i i've gone back and forth about whether or not this is what i was going to bring up i believe that new york city pizza is overrated okay it's floppy thin crust yeah yeah it's floppy thin crust pizza. The sauce to cheese ratio is not as good as a traditional pan or a deep dish. OK. I say this as a full card carrying member of Team Detroit style and Team Chicago style pizza. I know pizza is one of those serious things that americans tend to draw the line you know with each other on but i'm sorry i just maybe maybe i'm just a basic bitch who was

raised on pizza hut in the south and i don't know no better so maybe my palate isn't refined enough but the way people go it's a slice of new york pizza and it's just so nothing beat the slicer i can name five things right now what uh this slice of pizza i do wonder if you're like the specific chain that was like your go-to growing up uh affects like what your high-end taste in pizza ends up being absolutely yeah absolutely oh that's a great observation i grew up on pizza hut uh hand toss which is the closest you'll get to a chicago style and also keep in mind i came up in a time i'm 42 for the listeners i came up in a time where Pizza Hut was upper crust. There was no delivery.

Literally, Pizza Hut did not deliver. Motherfucker, you have to come here and sit the fuck down. Right, right. If you want this pizza. Drink from those frosted glass red plastic cups. Yeah. And so the rise of Domino's, the rise of Little Caesars, and Pizza Hut had to eventually give in and start delivering, so they had to make the pizzas faster to meet demand and the quality got a little shaky. But yeah, that's a fair observation, because that's what I always ran with.

Did you fuck with Pizza Hut's thing, Cross? No. No, I was never. Pizza Hut fucked. That's when I diverged from Pizza Hut and went full Domino's all the time. That's probably the only thing that me and my girl kind of, you know, there's disagreements in any relationship. And then there's the ones where, you know, wow, this is just a for real impasse. Right.

She likes thin crust pizza. Yeah. Okay, fine. impasse right she likes thin crust pizza yeah okay fine but then she has such an eclectic palate that she'll get all this shit on the pizza and then these motherfuckers are rushing the pizza out the oven so the crust on the bottom isn't sturdy enough to hold yeah a mushroom an onion a green pepper and a chive all this it's too much shit on it and it's good but this isn't for thin you have a hand-tossed palate and i can't get that through to her like you need a sturdier crust foundation to uphold all of the different flavors that your palate demands. But she just likes the flakiness of the thin crust, and it's all flimsy.

It's like New York pizza with two more extra pounds of shit on the top. And I don't know. And it's too floppy. It's like a wet paper towel at the end of the day. Yeah, I think, Jack, your thing holds up because I remember the March Madness basketball that will come from Pizza Hut in the the early 90s and now you demand all your pizza comes with a basketball with a basketball and the box to be so greasy that it can barely function as a box to hold a pizza like that's definitely because i will always i always

love a greasy ass pan pizza from uh pizza hut but yeah i don't think i think over the years of just hearing people argue so much over the years of just hearing people argue so much over pizza, I'm just like, man, fuck saying whatever is good. If you like whatever the fuck you like, like fine. But also I'll say what I like

and I'll say what I don't like. But to act like, no, it's just hard to rank at the end of the day. Like it's just one of those things. It's a fool's errand to try and really say one is better than the other.

I feel like because it's just no one's going to agree. I don't know if it's still open post-covid but there was a chicago style spot in new york city in the village uh or near the village called emmett's it's the only place in new york where you can get a chicago style deep dish proper like you gotta wait 45 minutes for that thing and i went and got one and i brought it to the comedy cellar to eat before the show like that was gonna be my thing and i got heckled out of the like my other comedians right i got how dare you eat chicago style in a new york legendary established i'm

like you motherfuckers don't even have pizza on the menu. You literally don't even sell it. Right. That's what the fuck he's going to do. Yeah. So, you know, it is what it is. But yeah,

I just, I just think, I think New York, I just think it's overrated. I'm not saying I wouldn't eat it in a drunken pinch, but stop acting like this is the measuring stick by which to measure all pizza. Right. I'll also eat a Little Caesars hot and ready in its entirety.

I have no palate. Right. Save your emails. I'm not going to reply. Right. Oh, a listener said, have you ever got a crazy seasoning on your pizza at little caesars no they will turn if you ask them they will turn up your hot and ready with the crazy bread seasoning they'll be like oh you want us to dust it with it and now you've got a fucking hybrid

hot and ready crazy bread pizza whoa i mean that sounds like what dominoes did to turn up their pizza a little yeah but they'll do it all, like the whole fucking thing. Wow. A fucking battle of pizza tech. Yeah, that's why I like when Zygang comes through and like, you ever get it with the crazy season? I'm like, thank you so much for giving me the imagination to envision a better time. I'm going to talk about some underrated grab-and-go pizza. It's Hungry Howie's.

They're a Southern chain. I think they're sprinkled around the Midwest song, but they have four flavored crusts. Oh, shit. So they do the pizza, they hand toss that thing, and then they brush it with the butter cheese sauce. And now you have a butter cheese crust and your fingers taste delicious on top of it. I could talk pizza all day, dude. I also love a pizza chain that sounds like a pizza chain in a movie hungry howies just sounds completely made up right it's that's oh also fuck pretzel

bagels from faneuil hall in boston too thick too big well no boston's usually very even-minded about any criticism about any of their cultural institutions so you should be fine let me stop it's not that it's nasty it's just it's too it's too tall right yeah you have to have a porn jaw to open wide and like you have to unhinge like a fucking boa constrictor to take a so you can never get an even bite because that's why when people have these fucking burgers that this is the big super duper turkey bacon beef burger. And we can't bite it, bro. So we're never getting all the flavors at once. Yeah.

But it's Meat Mountain. And you'll prove to your stepfather you are tough. Man versus food. I'm taking on food. And then after three seasons, I'm like, fuck that shit. I want to live yeah let me get somebody else to host this shit my doctor and family begged me to stop i know i know i got his friends with him he's like a really cool dude and i wondered that the

first season of man versus food how long can he do this yeah right how long and and i know that you would shoot the show and like like i guess like over the course of two months shoot the whole thing and then the other 10 months of the year this guy fucking eats picture of health he's fucking exercising right he knows two months a year i might die there are moments when you'll see him mid-challenge and he'll give like his eyes will meet the camera and you're like, Oh, this person's drowning.

He's lost. Yeah. And then they're like, but no, he, he found a way to get right back in it. But yeah, I mean,

Adam, please, please stay safe. How disappointed would you be if you were a fan of man versus food? And then you saw that guy out in the off season. Come on, man. Let's eat some.

So I can sit in there with some kombucha and some tempeh bacon right fake bacon shit is be crushed it'd be like the time i saw too short in the airport holding hands with his girlfriend did you really i'm i'm pro. I'm 100% pro-love. It's just not the brand. But when you know Too Short's brand, and you just see him, and he was like carrying her bag.

Like, it was cool to see. It was like, wow. But then there's a part of you that goes, wait a minute. Santa's not real. Yeah. Right. I thought you were a...

But it's funny, though, too, when he's like, oh, yeah, that's all just performance art. And you're like, oh, short? Okay. What's crazy, I could have taken a picture of Too's funny, though, too, when he's like, oh, yeah, that's all just performance art. And you're like, oh, short? Okay. What's crazy, I could have taken a picture of Too Short holding hands, and that would have been

the biggest scandal in black Twitter in three days. Too Short be holding hands! Man, everything is a lie! This is all bullshit. The fucking astronaut meme where it's like, Too Short respects the ladies? It's like too too short as it respects the ladies like always has

you know always is roy what's something you think is underrated do i do i want to say therapy i don't want to say bike riding you know it's underrated calling motherfuckers you ain't talked to in a long time like that's one fine every week find 15 minutes for someone you haven't talked to in a year that's i've got a list like 15 i'm sorry to get deep like that no no seriously like that's that's where i am and it's probably been the coolest thing to just talk and just reconnect with people and you know just try to be some degree of human yeah if you will i know it's a hassle i know it's a pain in the ass. So do it while you do other things.

That's my thing while I'm playing something brainless, doing PlayStation or whatever. Or if I'm at the park watching my boy, he's out there with his friends. So all I have to do is look at him and make sure he's not snatched or hurt. So

that's the perfect time to call an old classmate from somewhere and so you know that's that's the type of stuff that i like to do and i'm finally realizing oh wow this is meaningful and life is precious yeah especially yeah like being locked down and stuff and not really having the same sort of social connections it's funny too because there are times i would get a call from somebody who was doing that to me they're like oh i'm gonna i'm gonna hit miles up and i'll see a name come up like fuck i haven't talked to this person fucking a year and i was like sweating almost because you're like fuck what am i gonna say like what the we don't have this awkward conversation what do they want from

me and then you pick up and it's like we it's like we left off for exactly where we were however long ago it was and it we we spoke for 40 minutes straight because it was so effortless. And that was one of those moments, too. I was like, fuck, man, I'm out here creating stress about this when it's actually such a rejuvenating thing to even begin talking to your friends again or even people like you're saying that you haven't spoken to in a while. Yeah, definitely. Some of the motherfuckers want money. Luckily, this person had more money than me so i was like i'll ask them for money yeah i was gonna say i'm gonna try and just listening to you talk i'm gonna the next time i'm thinking of interacting with a bunch of people i don't know like on twitter like posting something

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Oh, God, Nancy. She basically said, I mean, for people who don't know, she said, thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for this to happen. Floyd's girlfriend came out and said something similar not too long after that. I can't remember where she said it, but like, I'm hoping that they just poorly worded their statement.

Right. Because George Floyd didn't wake up that morning. I'm going to die for the culture yeah no george floyd woke up to go mind his fucking business and regardless of what he was under suspicion of he didn't deserve to die no period to the nancy pelosi thing i don't think it was poorly worded i think that really underlined just sort of how the democrats move which is just sort of like you know it was essentially she was saying it's going to take a lot more bodies for us to give a fuck because she's sort of she's connecting the fact that george floyd had to die on video in order for them to muster the semblance of courage to begin

to address this like form of shitty policing that we have and it it's it's almost as if like it absolves them of responsibility as legislators to say thank you george floyd uh because like you helped push things a little bit more than like we were willing to as politicians too yay we got one and all it took was evidence, a whole fucking summer of uprisings and movement and the fucking police chief himself testifying. And we got him. And you know what? He still might not only get seven or eight years. Right.

That's the other thing that's wild is that first you march for transparency, then you march for cameras, then you march for arrests. Next, you have to march to try and get sentences. Yeah. And I think that's the thing that's really infuriating is that when you look at when you look at what happened you know with the chauvin verdict and then to immediately see what happened in columbus ohio it's a reminder that there isn't a lot that you should be celebrating right just yet yeah because the system is still the same regardless and the way we are defining crime and safety is still the same and police is still the same and it just it it sucks uh to just think that like a lot of the

sentiment especially from the media like kristin bell who's like finally we can breathe i have relief something right happened today like this idea that like hooray we won that's not nobody fucking won and when i feel like again because the media for people who are just tuning into cnn or msnbc or anything like that it should the what they should be saying is it is now so painfully clear that our system isn't just ill-equipped to solve this problem it in fact itself is the problem right and this is why it's so exhausting because it has been so painfully clear for a really long time now and like you're saying roy it the only reason this happened is because the whole thing was on tape the whole thing was on tape otherwise we would have had to put that on the pile of many other deaths that have occurred that unfortunately were not captured in HD for the entirety of someone's life ending.

And that's what's really fucked up. The Minneapolis Police Department report on the murder that went around like a lot of people were reposting this, but it is just wild to look at it. Like it just describes it. Man dies after medical incident during police interaction like literally so many things had to go right like that if that video didn't exist that none of none of this happens it just gets swept under the that's that yeah right yeah one down three to go so you know that's kind of how i look at it. I didn't watch any of the coverage. Like, I just, like, I know you work at a daily show and you're supposed to, like, watch the news and all of that stuff. But I was like, I think Trevor's got this one.

I'm not watching this one. I'm trying to figure out any indignation or outrage or anything that I can put together. outrage or anything that I can put together. That's the one thing that I do love about being a correspondent is that if I want to, I can just fucking unplug from the horror of today and focus my attentions on the solutions. What's happening to change this? What are people doing? Because there's comedy in the solutions because there's optimism. So if there's optimism, then there's an opportunity to find a joke or two. So for me, I'd rather swim in those waters and do a ride along with Klepper about police bias or walk the streets of Chicago on the South Side to show that black people actually do care about black on black violence. Like to me, that's more where my head starts to turn and looking at stuff, you know,

like the one thing I have been clocking is I think it's 34 states now that are starting to put anti-protest laws on the books and are attaching it to, I mean, you all can fact check this, but I think they're basically, you won't be eligible for student loans and federal grants and unemployment benefits, food stamps, public housing. Like in Florida, they'll just say they'll take all your shit away for trying to advocate for yourself. And yeah, no, it's true.

the segment that you did going to Chicago with that group of people who were intervening in neighborhoods, the point was clear in that it's not about the idea of that people want to be engaging in criminality. It's that there isn't support. There are no options. And the way we are looking at how we keep people safe isn't because we have more armed goons on the street. It's because we're able to provide people opportunities to live as they deserve to to have opportunity and not to resort to these other kinds of things and it's that simple but we're still sort of like locked in this mentality of like well what are we gonna stop spending money on these like vests and shit like yeah exactly but we're i think just societally we're not able to see like, no, you see, we have to turn this whole industry off to be able to like take all that revenue or capital and move it into something that's actually restorative. And we're just, unfortunately, don't have the imagination for that still, at least at a critical mass level.

Yeah. That Columbus cop who, you know, murdered a 15-year-old girl, shot her four times in an altercation that, like, with courage and, like, willingness as like courageous and putting their body in harm's way to do their job and like that's that's not what you see when you actually see the details you see them standing 10 feet away and firing four shots at a child to to stop them instead of you know just jumping in there yeah yeah i think that there's this weird collective grouping of cops that other jobs don't get you know it's like no matter what they're all heroes and good, even though these are there's clearly a systemic issue. But no, we cannot acknowledge that because the good outweighs the bad. Well, how do you measure bad? Right. Is that that's and I think that's the question that, you know, collectively people refuse to ask, which is why the same day that a cop is convicted of killing someone

on tape, you also have back the blue trending on Twitter. Yeah. Everybody's picked a team and they're in common decency is the thing that should always be looked at first before you pick a side. Yeah. So dug in. always being looked at first before you pick a side. Yeah.

So dug in. And while, you know, it's, if it's not George Floyd and it, or Brianna Taylor, who still waiting to see any form of accountability there. And now it's going to be Micaiah Bryant. And that's why,

you know, it, the idea that we can reform a system like this is just so absurd. Like you don't reform a malignant tumor. You remove it. You don't figure out how to do solutions like let's fund the tumor less no you need to get rid of it if we can acknowledge what it's doing and how insidious it is then we're it's it's incumbent on us to be responsible enough to look at it objectively like i think we actually have to rethink that but again that's a huge shift And that's why now the white supremacy has to now rally around itself in the forums.

As you're saying, 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills in 2021 in this legislative session. That's more than twice as many as any other year. And we're only in April. So that's the response now is to say, OK, because the logic for them is, well, the reason the reason Derek Chauvin went to jail is because the uprisings over the summer created an angry mob, which is now bullying the country into sacrificing well-intentioned police officers to the wolves, to the outrage community. And therefore, their strategy is now say, well, then we now we have to take away the ability to protest in this way. That's literally what Tucker Carlson said, right? Yeah, that was Tucker's logic last night. And then Candace Owens had to come on to yes and that in a wonderful improv scene.

It was just really some other shit. And like, you know, you look at what's happening, like in Oklahoma and Iowa, they're passing bills to grant immunity to drivers whose vehicles strike and injure protesters in public streets. In Indiana, there's a proposal saying if you're convicted of unlawful assembly, you can't be employed by the state. You can't hold office. There's a Minnesota bill that's on the books that they're trying to get passed that says if you're convicted of this kind of protesting, you won't get loans or unemployment or housing so it's it's clearly targeted at people of color and working people and people who are more than more most likely to want to get out and advocate for themselves um then yeah it's just watching this all ebb and flow which is why all of those down the ballot elections matter that's why all of that fixation on presidential stuff really doesn't do it justice

in terms of exactly what's going on in the world in terms of the things that affect you you know on the day-to-day right yeah and this is yeah well we're i think again looking at now just always thinking of having the federal things at the top of mind, not realizing that it's all the state legislative and municipality legislators that are the ones that are truly shaping what your day-to-day actual experience is. The people in the community you're in is by those people. And yeah, it's just a shame now to see how many also also police chiefs are saying like yeah well you know that it shows that the legal system works like that's been the sort of through line and it's like yeah alex villanueva the head of uh the la sheriff's department came through with uh see we told you justice works and yeah there's a gang problem in your department in your department they're in there

are sheriff's gangs and the reporter who's been reporting on it has to wear a bulletproof vest now because she's getting death threats because she bothered to report on these gangs that exist in the sheriff's department yes cerise castle who was on daily zeitgeist a couple weeks ago. She also went to a press conference with her credentials and was arrested for not having her credentials by the Sheriff's Department or detained and then let go. But, you know, the message was clear.

Just harassment. Yeah. Because, again, I think it's indicative and what they mean. Because a lot of statements too from police units like, well, policing as we know it is on the line. Yeah, good. What?

I mean, that's... But let's be real. Is there the will of the leadership in this country to change it like that? TBD. All right, let's take another quick break and we'll be right back to talk about Quibi. Segway.

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And speaking of things that bite, I don't quick bites quick bites quick bites quibi uh is back are we i'm just bringing this up because it's really about what quibi cost and then what they just sold everything for because roku who makes like tv you know roku and all those little adapters and all that shit they bought all of the quibi content and they're like sort of repurposing it as roku originals and they're making their own like streaming content or whatever but the reason i was like reading about it because this was announced batch back in january that wrote who might come through with it quibi cost 1.75 billion dollars okay that's how much they put into production that's what they've been spending that's what that's how much they raised to get quibi completed launched off the ground marketed

everything 1.75 billion dollars okay and this shit only lasted a couple months the wall street journal there's a thing saying they sold it to quote, for significantly less than $100 million. So let's assume that's what, $60 million? That feels like significant. Oh, it's got to come back because Roku trying to flip that hundo. Right. And now that's a 95% loss for Quibi. I just love that.

I can dig it. I just love that shit. 1.75. I was like, fuck, man, will you pay 50 for it? I don't know, man, please. Ugh. I think that Quibi has an opportunity to come back because it was an app that was for the commuter and for people in the office sneaking and streaming at their desk. Commuting went away and office work went away.

So you're dead. Then they had that stupid tech thing where you couldn't watch the shit. On a laptop or TV. Perfect. And by the time they lifted that embargo, it was too late. My focus was on life support. So, you know, it was done deal. Vaccines flowing. What did Joe Biden say this week?

200 million got the shot or 200 million shots. I don't you know what? Let me take that back. Maybe they might be padding the stats over there because 200 shots. It's technically 100 vaccinated because you get two shots so you're counting both shots joe bite anyway motherfuckers are going back outside again so if people are going back outside again then i think that there's a chance that quibi could come back also the other thing that's happened in the same time pretty much every streamer has raised their price or is planning to raise their price

and quibi has enough star power i don't i only watch the only thing i watched on quibi was chrissy teigen's courtroom show because you you know, I kind of like her. She's cool. And then there was a movie. They had like a movie that was split up into like seven minute parts. And I was like,

I made it through 30 minutes of that. And like, that was it. Like, I didn't really watch anything else over there. So I think if they come back cheap and they come back with names, they have a chance. But I think that's the problem is they wasted all that money and they've sold all the IP.

So they, I don't know what happens. Katzenberg is going to have to, I don't know. He'll take us do another round of fundraising to try and get all that money going. But yeah, it was interesting.

Cause I think the one thing that they did have was like the aspect ratio of going from vertical to horizontal and stuff and that would give you new things i think that was legitimately an interesting thing but yeah to your point like people also want to watch shit on a computer or a tv or whatever and when you have stars you're used to seeing on that format all right i rotate my phone i can see more of the room that the actors are talking in that to me me was like, okay, that's cool. But it still boils down to what's the story on the screen. It's like a porn. But it rotates. Really? Is it good? Yeah. Oh, I can see you around the corner now.

Oh, it's a bigger conference room than I thought. But that part was cool. But I root for it to do well because the more places there are for content stories to be told, the more opportunities I have to get a check. Exactly. I've always been rooting for it. There's so many talented people who are getting paid, who are, you know, drinking up that one point seven five billion. that 1.75 billion i just it is also such a perfect example of like executive overreach and just putting one idea an executive had before any of the many many things that you have to do to make something work they're like well people people like short stuff uh and then you know meanwhile youtube is trending longer and longer and netflix like the

thing people are addicted to is like streaming shows that like keep you glued to your tv until five in the morning like it was just i remember that like when the web like when putting content online first started people were like it's got to be 30 seconds or less uh or else nobody's gonna watch it and like they just stopped thinking about it at that point they were like all right we gotta we gotta make it bite-sized content uh for anybody to consume it in this fast-paced world and people are like no we we want relief from this fast-paced world the thing that's interesting about about quibi and netflix for that matter a lot of the shows are written to deliberately cliffhanger so it's never supposed

even the comedies like that are kind of serialized they deliberately want you to hit next episode so you just right fucking rat pushing the cocaine button in that cage. So it's like that's that's what they want. But Quibi is going to need a flagship hit, you know. Right. And that's difficult, especially at a time now where a lot of the sites are like they're just basically remixing existing IP. Right. Like pretty much every streaming site is like, what do we have that we already own? Fuck it.

Do a new one. Right. Yeah. Build on that for cheap and then start doing new ideas. So, you know, I don't know. But if they're going to come back, they're going to need content. So if you're listening from Quibi, get at me. Or Roku.

Whoever. I would love to see Roku like just take off as like suddenly a really successful streaming platform that like is up there with netflix and uh quibi like all the big ass executives who put stake their career on quibi or just you know shit bricks yeah somebody has to get fined yeah see get roy a check call it you know branded as roy coup you know there you go Roy-Coup. You know what I mean? There you go. I will accept that. There's a problem with yours right there. Let's go from really bad ideas to really bad ideas.

These are some frat-sickles that Natty Light is creating. I don't know. I mean, you guys tell me what you think so natural light has been like when i was in college that was the beer of choice because it was like four dollars for a 30 pack and they were just like trying to give it away uh basically and it tasted bad but like not so bad that it didn't get you drunk and since since then, they've apparently had some meetings where they're like, what if we did like a fruity beer

that like tasted like true age. Youth culture. This ain't your uncle's beer. Yeah. It's your nanny's beer now. I've also been on some RFPs from Nightlight where they're like trying to like brand themselves in an ironic way.

It's ugly. It's real weird and they had some weird like pr campaigns like internships and things like that but yeah they're this all their their first thing was like this natter days shit there's like their fruity beer strawberry lemonade or pineapple lemonade it's like okay fine whatever i guess it's popular enough i've never had it it definitely sounds like a better idea than those like sweet tea truly seltzers, which I've had one of and immediately thought I was being poisoned. And now they have turned this into an 8% ABV popsicle, which sounds like a dangerous development. I mean, I guess.

Yeah. I mean, anytime you make alcohol easy to consume and anytime you make alcohol fun to consume. Yeah. Like stupid bendy straws or those long New Orleans hurricane cups that look like a fucking long-ass water traffic control tower, the long necks. Right. You're going to get into some trouble. Right. You're going to get into some trouble right like you're gonna you're gonna get into some trouble

yeah um like i mean like there was um four loco beforehand four loco got everybody off the crazy colors but you know like i came up with like mad dog 2020 and all of that shit and all of that. Like there's James. Yeah. It's just like, Oh, it's just fruity or it's St. I it's the little fruity cooler cocktail joints or whatever. It's Natty light.

Like PBR is more refined cousin that like finished community college. And it's like, you know, a well-respected beer, but also a beer that exudes shot shot shot shot shots right yes yeah yeah i i would i would i don't know that it finished community college necessarily but it definitely lied about yeah definitely told their parents that they went they were going to class and didn't tell their parents they were just sleeping in the car of a grocery store near the

campus during class and then would drive back and say class was good yeah yeah and pbr told him so and said you should have never lied what do you know these are made like that they might have had a like excess packaging at the uh at the popsicle factory like these look exactly like things that my three-year-old and four-year-old would be so hyped to get their hands on oh yeah this is right at the candy cigarettes yeah exactly it's like old school how quickly cigarettes still gave you cancer what's the over-under on stories where a bunch of kids have found their kids natter days their parents natter days popsicles and god just bent out of shape off of them like i don't i feel like it's very quick because i when looking at it i had to look very closely

to be like where does it say this is alcohol like when you look at the red the packaging but yeah like you're saying really making it easier to consume i think is like this like because now we're going back to childhood where the popsicle is like yes i got a popsicle and now we're adding alcohol to that experience i don't know if there's another level that will inspire more childlike excitement than the popsicle they look like the squeezable yogurt tubes i give my boy yes right yeah the gogurts right yeah yeah this shit looks like gogurt and i don't want him having some natty light sending him out the door to four-year-old pre-k that's not good like mr wood we found something in your child's lunchbox uh just filled to the

brim with natter days wait what those gogurts yeah also like people aren't gonna actually freeze these i mean like responsible people will freeze these but this just gives you a faster way to to drink natter days i'm assuming and get drunk off natter days yeah i mean i don't really know how cool you look pulling one of these out of the Kool-Aid. That's a Natter Day, bro. Pass me a popsicle. Check the meat on the grill. Are you grilling meat?

Who wants a popsicle, bro? Frat Brothers sucking on popsicles is a funny image to me. Just replace all these party scenes with just frat boys just eating these popsicles and shit. Yeah.

What are you going to do? A popsicle stand? Doing the linking arms thing, but just sucking on a popsicle for like 45 seconds. They would freeze them and sit on them and put them up their ass.

Yeah. There would be some sort of ass shot. Right. Remix with a pop, like whatever the beer funnel, what was that when people were dying a couple years ago from yeah butt chugging yeah butt chugging this will be the new butt chugging

oh right it's just make a frozen butt plug like by like melting together like 50 of them things and be like can you handle the mega plug of natter days you're like oh my god my intouch are freezing that's the point bro maybe this will bring back bros ice and bros though which is you know just leaving just giving someone you should add a disclaimer right there because i feel like we just gave someone an idea yeah and they're gonna take that to the front house yes daily zeitgeist is not responsible for any uh mega plug for the mega plug for any uh anal ingestion uh really a rectal consumption of this rectal consumption uh all right let's talk about uh old people fashion there's a article in the wall street journal that that's my source for

all fashion right is the wall street journal but this article is kind of fun there's it's like a uh fashion blogger talking about this trend where like a lot of fashion photographers and like instagrams are like there are these really popular uh feeds of just old person fashion but like the shit is like really cool looking like the stuff the old people are wearing in these pictures and you know the theory is basically that they are picking the coolest shit from their archive of like decades old clothes and just authentically wearing whatever you know brings them joy and they're like ignoring whatever you know young people are chasing and just creating these wild ass mixes of

color yeah yeah and like ignoring that like makes them it's like the marge simpson scene where she's like does i'm so not cool that maybe I am cool. And the kids are like, nah. I think that has finally come true for the elderly. Because I've also seen accounts where clearly somebody's just dressing up a grandparent in their own clothes. And being like, yo, hype beast grandpa with the supreme drip. Which is like, okay, I see the novelty of that, but like, are these

so you're just saying these are the most swagged out elderly people legitimately digging into their own fashions. Because I'm dubious sometimes when I see people in the mega drip. That's the claim, right? That these are all old people who they just caught in the wild wearing dope shit.

It gives us hope. Isn't that the point? Is that the point? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not really a fashion guy. I don't really care about clothes until it's time to be on television, which is probably not the best time to be scrambling. Five seconds before.

Putting shit together. Yeah. I literally emailed your producer 20 minutes before this show began, and I said, hey said hey man is this video or fucking audio do i have to wear a shirt for this shit how do i need to brush my hair like that's right that's where i am now the pictures are dope i mean the people look great and it also really really shows like that i think these old people know that like they're just not like oh you caught me in my magenta and aquamarine blazer oh yeah like they're dressing you knew you

was fly when you left the fucking house for sure right you didn't know you were getting a picture taken right but old people are the ones who will like dress up for a flight. Well, you know, younger people are the ones you're more likely to see with socks and sweatpants on. Yeah. I remember my grandfather,

he wore a suit. There was this burger place on Crenshaw called Eat a Burger and it was designed like a 50s car hop place and it was really cool and everybody was like, oh, Eat a Burger's opening up.

This motherfucker wore a suit to go get a burger when, when I was a kid. And I remember being like, what the fuck? And I think there is just this generational thing where I'm like you, Roy, where I wear this mold, the same version of that same outfit,

pretty much infinitely where I don't have it in me. I don't have the mind to dress up for things as much as I see, you know, I guess other people who respect going out or something. I don't know what it is. Yeah. I just, I don't know.

I know a lot of that. It's old habits from standup comedy and places that didn't demand that I dress up. So there's that, but I don't know. Fat, good fashion. I respected enough to know that i don't have

the attention span required to do it well you have to shop at a level that i don't have the time for and then you have to put your outfit together and exit it with this and this i just don't have the time to think man for you what's the highest point of fashion for you personally, Roy? That's you when you say, oh, shit, I'm I'm dressing up today. Well, we went to the Emmys. I got a custom tuxedo. OK, that's fair. I mean, the Daily Show when the Daily Show was nominated that time, I got a really nice tuxedo from the homie Rich Fresh.

Nice. That's probably where I was like you know what yeah i'm gonna get right for this right my first hour special brawler i bought all that shit in macy's there you go like it wasn't like like everybody else i know and then you custom you get the drip and then i get the shoes from italy and then i get my socks from vancouver vancouver has the best i did it macy's on 34 i got all that shit between two floors there you go socks from vancouver the best outfits in this article are these this elderly couple who own a laundromat and like put together these amazing outfits using shit their clients

leave behind but that is definitely one where you can tell that they've got a either they have like the most just cutting edge fashion sensibility or they have like a consultant but like the big thing that they're doing is they're you know most laundromats are also tailoring locations and they're tailoring all the fits to like look really good on them which that's that's the key i think pretty dope though all right real quick speaking of award shows i do want to talk about uh the plan for this year's oscars i hadn't really heard of this but so um they're being helmed by uh stevenbergh, the guy who made Contagion. So the pandemic Oscars are being made by the guy who made Contagion. They're saying it won't feel like a TV award show.

It will feel like you're watching a movie. The presenters will be playing versions of themselves working from scripts, which I don't. I mean, that's true of all award shows i guess i wish i would get nominated for a fucking award and then the award show tells me i gotta do all of this extra shit to lose right and then lose so you're playing a character yeah exactly uh it's it's just very strange like so it seems like this idea was approved by somebody who knew that soderbergh had made like oceans 11 and contagion like all his successful commercial movies and wasn't aware of like all the really experimental shit that he's made that like

audiences were like no thank like full frontal a lot of people haven't seen that that's like like no thank like full frontal a lot of people haven't seen that that's like i missed julia roberts and yeah everybody missed that one but it's very strange experimental like 14 different characters nothing really makes sense and he yeah it's a he's he's just going very like in a in a very strange direction with this that this is the the first Oscars I'm going to watch just because for the watching. Nightmare aspect? Yeah, for the, like, this is going, this could be totally fucking off the rails.

I think it's going to be either all good or all bad. Like, it's either going to work, and you're like, fuck, man. And that, I guess, shooting it in 24 frames per second really did give us some cinematic feel or it's just gonna be pretty fun anything's better than seeing nine people in the zoom chat and eight of them are sad and there's one person grinning right like holding a face the trophy yeah it's like that's what i like that there's there's no so and this

one has absolutely no zoom anything right like nobody this one he when he agreed to do it which is kind of a weird move for the guy who made contagion like researched all pandemics and shit he said i will do this if it's agreed that they're going to be absolutely no people allowed on zoom uh and they agreed to that and so yeah they did they did create hubs for people in like europe to go to uh so that they wouldn't kill anthony hopkins yeah there's like a uk hub and uh other european uk uk oscar distribution hub yeah exactly um i guess it's a seem like a lot of trouble to go through to not give black movies the rewards they deserve all right we'll see it will yeah we will see the last time they tried to go high concept and like gave the oscars over to like a visionary it was a real disaster um like i tell

you now ain't no ain't no black movies going to win now. Cause that's Chauvin trial. They were black people. We gave you your W. The moral licensing will continue. Right. You get no trophies this month. Sorry about that.

I'm a pessimist. Yeah. Yeah. Then just to see it. I mean, again, with the, the drama of a presenter being like, I don't know about this presentation and I'm going to say what?

And the Oscar goes to or how do you how do you deliver that? Right. Like, what is that? How like what is the character they're playing that is not just them delivering an award speech? Like, is there going to be like a spy theme where like or these people just so you know thirsty to perform again that there's like okay we're going to format it so the whole thing is a performance baby right because we haven't been able to get out there and just stretch our wings trust me if you come to this you will have you literally you will have

to perform if you participate in these oscars now i need you to act like you just lost. Now act like you just won. Yes. All right. And you lost. So that was just an exercise. All right, Roy,

it's been such a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you? The podcast is roy's job fair so just start there and you can find me everywhere else if you find me in that spot another lesser daily show uh than the daily zeitgeist you're you're involved with i hear oh yeah and daily show at 11 o'clock weeknights at 11 and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying

you know you know who i you know who's twitter i like i like lavar burden because lavar burden is coming through they finally fucking gonna give him a chance to host jeopardy so he can ascend to the job that is right for him did they give it to him so well he's in the next batch of guest hosts i'll let you cover that on tomorrow yeah yeah we've done a lot we've done a lot here yeah miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying uh twitter instagram at miles of gray also 420 day fiance that podcast if you want to talk 90 day that's where i'll be at some tweets that i like first one is from at reductress saying promise me you'll at least think about it says mom about some bullshit uh which really does feel

like it's like yeah huh yeah yeah i'll think about it yeah yeah more on that later and then another one is from this guy scott scott seiss this comedian he's been doing like somebody retweeted these videos that he does on tiktok where he's using the what like the bgc drama format where the song plays but it's always it's like it's like this dude who works at ikea so i'm just gonna play a couple for you because it captures the rage of someone who has to work in retail so perfectly working hard or hardly working i'm hardly laughing i'm already at work i don't have time for a second job pretending you're funny

tell me something i don't hear every day thank you you should open up more registers and who's gonna work them i think i'm the only one ringing you up because i called dibs myself you say you want to apply when you see we're shorthanded where's your resume those are so good man i just they capture it so, and I love the use of that format, because normally it's just for other shit, but yes. Shout out to Scott Seiss. Yeah, that was mine. Another one I liked is Mike Ginn tweeted,

it's crazy car insurance companies try to make you call the police after any accident. Yeah, sorry about the fender bender. Mine's sticking around until two wheezing psychos with guns show up you can find me on twitter at 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 our website dailyzeitgeist.com where

we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we think you should go check out uh miles what song is your recommendation for today this is a nice little sample based hip-hop little futuristic a little bit of flavor this is uh from med and blue who are on the production and on the vocals you have mad lib and anderson pack uh and it's called the strip and it's just got a nice, you know, futuristic vibe to it, but still is maintaining like that sort of old school sample style.

So check this one out. It's a really fantastic track. It's called The Strip. Dope. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning.

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