The Daily Zeitgeist - Omg-arosa and The Kids Dig Socialism 2.9.18

Episode Date: February 9, 2018

In episode 82, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Adam Lustick to discuss a Rob Porter, Trump's hair, Omarosa's Big Brother appearance, Scott Pruitt's comments on climate change, National Pizza Pie Day, Bloidwatch, a Diet Coke taste test, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They try to save everybody. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 17 17 episode 5 of their daily zeitgeist yeah february 9th 2018 my name is jack o'brien aka looney tunes jack in action courtesy of dan muller and i'm joined by my co-host mr miles gray that's right. It's your boy, Grayjant Mulder, here to investigate some X-Miles.

And you know what? Shout out to Noel Berlage or Berleg for that, a.k.a. I've been keeping that chambered. And so, yes, thank you for that. That was fire.

Also, happy birthday to Salvia Plath out there. Feliz cumpleaños, mami. Te amo mucho. Thank you so much for listening every day. I see you out there

tweeting about us in Spanish. I half understand what it is, but I understand it's your birthday, so shout outs to you, mami. I always stay at the Berlagio when I'm in Vegas. That's an AKA back to you.

We are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious Adam Lustick. Thank you guys so much for having me. This is a real treat. I could listen to the AKAs. I mean, that could be a spinoff podcast. Just the AKAs.

Yeah, we get a lot. Also, yes, again, I must say, I have heard I will walk 500 miles, and every derivation... So please. I bet. We gotta set the game up. I don't want to shame y'all.

I don't want to just say, hey, I've already done that one. That was not original. But that is exactly what you're saying. But yes. He's funny, though, because off mic, he's always delighted every time he gets it. So I'd say just keep sending it. Keep sending it. He likes that one the most.

It's true. I do put on a different persona. I just got, I would jack 10,000 miles. That's a nice sort of... Yeah, that's a nice way to bring it together. Exactly. Walk doesn't really sound like jack. And I would jack 10,000 miles.

To be the man. Yeah, anyway, sorry. Works pretty well, I think. Adam is on corporate. He is part of one of my favorite sketch comedy teams, Harvard Sailing Team. Jack. Some of the funniest human beings on the internet. Human beings? How dare you? part of one of my favorite sketch comedy teams, Harvard Sailing Team. Thanks, Jack. Sweet of you to say. Some of the funniest human beings on the internet.

Human beings? How dare you? Adam, what is something from your search history? I just want to actually ask one thing really quick. Miles, over to you. So, Adam, when I... Before I got into comedy, I had a regular day job. That was very uninteresting in politics.

Yes. And around the time that I had switched over was around 2010. Okay uh which is the same year a video by the harvard salient team called uh boys will be girls yes came out yes and which is one of my favorite uh videos and i was like it kind of that was one of the videos was like damn like i'm funnier than them i can make i can do this shit uh and so thank you so much brother you're correct no turns out you were correct no no but also I got the most

massive argument with people I'm like dude these dudes go to Harvard they all go to Harvard did you guys go to Harvard not one of us Miles not a single one of us but it's such a prestigious

yes exactly title don't believe everything you read on the internet man yeah including your comedy group's name I was like man

these guys are funny man come here Harvard I take personal pride in knowing that we were the inspiration that we set we to you saw our video and you're like the bar is pretty low for comedy i think i can do that i can leapfrog that no totally but it was yeah man i remember because i when i was like trying to get like my friends to like buy yeah like no we got to make videos yeah like look how funny this shit is yeah man you don't even need props i know you just need ideas weird ideas yeah just commit to them they're just dudes acting like women uh yeah that's it that's the whole sketch no wigs no lipstick yeah yeah we were at nyu at around the same time that like derrick comedy like dc pearson and donald and dominic so we were like

we just saw sort of contemporary peers sketch comedy groups like making like youtube was just sort of like rebirth and like like Derek was like blowing up online we're like oh yeah like videos and we were like theater dorks and like we halfway wanted to be a theater company

in the first place and just sort of like found ourselves eking over into like the UCB verse just because it was like free to do our shows there we didn't have to like

you know drop 3k on like a to rent out a little theater in Midtown yeah and then buy all the tickets for your own trip exactly

exactly and like beg our parents to drive like three hours to see us um but i appreciate you saying that yeah no it's really sweet to be the same people have to recognize you know game recognize game and you have to know that we have legends in the seat pretty regularly not harvard educated legends but legend right yeah school yeah that's right yeah nyu real shit yeah it's a shit yeah all you tish people are taking the fuck over. I know. I know. NYU is actually an evil place, though.

You know, they're like one of the only universities to franchise. They built an exact replica campus in Abu Dhabi a few years ago. They're like the McDonald's of universities. Like, they're not totally awesome. Like, they are like a little bit like the evil corporation of colleges. So if you're in the Emirates and you go to that school, do they still call that NYU? It's NYU. And they built a replica Washington Square Arch.

Not kidding. No way. To scale in Saudi Arabia. So weird. It's weird. And they all – Really weird. They're also buying all the real estate or have already purchased all the real estate

in Manhattan. Either the second or third biggest real estate owner in Manhattan behind the church and the city. Wow. I think they may even own more real estate than the church. I think, yeah. So NYU is fun and great, but a little weird. What isn't these days?

What's something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Okay, so I would say recently I've been searching, can I Amtrak everywhere? Because my wife Maggie and I, we have taken a couple of like recent trips recently we went to we got married last summer hold your congratulations thank you thank you mouse uh but we got married last summer we took a train trip from la all the way up to portland all the way up the coast and it was so sick and then recently we went to san francisco and we are just like fully on the leaving airplanes and air travel behind us fully embracing the train it is so civilized how long to Portland?

29 hours. So we got a sleeper car. It's like the most gorgeous views. Like a good percentage of the trip up the coast, it's like only for train. It's like you're squeezed in between the actual beautiful coast and like gorgeous rocky cliffs. And it's just perfect. Right. And to me, like air travel is something you endure.

Where train travel is something you genuinely enjoy. To me. To me. I just find it very civilized. There's something like hypnotic about the sound. Truly hypnotic. Right. And to me, like, air travel is something you endure, where train travel is something you genuinely enjoy. To me. Yeah. To me. I just find it very civilizing. Yeah, there's something, like, hypnotic about the sound. Truly hypnotic. Yeah.

And, like, Amtrak has started, like, offering... I am not an Amtrak spokesman. I don't know why I sound like this. But, like, Amtrak has started offering, like, weird writer's grants for, like, writers. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Just to, like, cruise for free. Exactly.

For, like, a year, right? Dude, nothing sounds better to me. Yeah. Like, to live on a train. It's awesome. It's totally awesome. And another, like, great bonus is that you get for lunchtime like there's a dining car and you get sat because it's like such limited space and it's often fairly crowded you get sat you're sort of like assigned a rando couple to sit across and like this team at four top so it's

like you're forced to interact with strangers that you would never like we met this adorable like baby boomer school teacher couple from olympia washington like these people that you would never meet or talk to in life and like you're forced to spend an hour with them and it's the best yeah they were like we love donald trump and i just jump out of the train just break the window shout out to amtrak do you guys ever mess with trains i did on the east coast but I have not yet Living out here And I've heard only great things But I just haven't had the trip

I love trains Are there people with children on those things? Are they allowed? Are children allowed? We take their mouth shut though You manage it I'm also from the east coast So I'm from upstate New York

And for me Amtrak growing up was strictly utilitarian, completely functional. And it was just like the two and a half hours from Albany to the city, back and forth, back and forth. But here on the West Coast, I don't know, like taking a long ass day and a half train ride. There's something kind of like sensual about it. It's really nice. It's pretty nice. In Japan, like growing up over there, like you always take the train in general just to get around Tokyo or even if you're traveling within cities because, let's face it, we got some of the best trains on earth. But anyway, I'll stop brushing my shoulder off.

Let's get back to the show. What's something, Adam, that you think is underrated besides Amtrak? Okay, underrated. And I'm the worst offender of this, but I have to say the Winter Olympics. I am a huge sports fan and I – huge. I've grown up loving sports my entire life. My father was really sports inclined. My brother and I played basketball all the time growing up and baseball and martial arts and stuff, and I love sports.

And I know nothing. I could not – with a gun to my head, I would struggle to name two or three Winter Olympians. And it's like, how did the Winter Olympics fly so low-key under the radar every time? It feels like they're being eclipsed in the news by summer Olympic gymnastic scandals. It's like the Winter Olympics can't even muscle their way into the Olympic space of this sort of zeitgeist. I agree, Adam. Enough with this gymnastic scandal.

We get it. I know, exactly. Not enough to diminish it. But it's just like, yeah, the Winter Olympics are here. And I was like, oh, shit, I think the opening ceremonies are now. And I love this stuff, and I don't care about it. The opening ceremonies are over. Yeah. And I love this stuff, and I don't care about it. The opening ceremonies are over.

They're over. Yeah. But we will be able to watch them tonight on TV. Great. Oh, yeah. The shirtless Tongan is back. He's back, baby. Who's that? He was from the Summer Olympics.

The last Summer Olympics. He came in bearing the Tongan flag. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Greased. Just looking like a snack what yeah yeah yeah there he is there he is brought up a picture uh just like real life i'm assuming that's not what he'll be wearing during the winter olympics because it's supposedly 20 degrees is he a winter

is he in a winter olympian he became a winter olympian he was so hot he was so hot he was like i really like the pop that i got from that last what sport is he gonna i forget but he became a winter Olympian. He was so hot. He was so hot that they couldn't get him. He was like, I really like the pop that I got from that last Olympics. What sport is he going to? I forget. But he became a winter Olympian. I wonder if because the reason why it gets less shine is not every country has winter. That's exactly right. That you can ski and shit and do shit like that.

That's true. You know what I mean? Everybody can go outside to run or throw shit. But yeah, I feel like- It's pretty exclusive. Yeah. There's a barrier to entry physically for some people to even get in there. Also financially, that's why only rich kids play hockey.

You need mad gear. You need to drop hundreds on gear if you want to get in the game. I played hockey for like 16 years. Did you really? Yeah, very competitive hockey. Wow. And yeah, I'm pretty sure,

I want to say, I'm going to go on record and say I might have been the first black and Asian hockey player in the 1980s. So you're welcome. That's some black history month for everybody. Like, are you in the right place though? Like, are you in the right gym?

Yeah. Yeah. And I was, yeah. All my teammates were Russian, Armenian and Canadian. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. This is their time. Those countries time to shine. That should be dominating the Olympics. Exactly. Apparently the Russians just like during the Paris figure skating, we got a report from producer Sophie Lichterman that the Russians were like getting eights and everybody else

was like getting sixes. They were doping on the ice in real time. They had interview stuff going. An update on the Tongan grease body. Oh. Summer Olympics, he was a taekwondo. Nice. And then Anna just informed me that the winter, cross-country ski.

Beautiful. And he just uses his taekwondo on all his opponents. Exactly. And he's shirtless on the Winter Olympics just because. By the way, we do not endorse Miles referring to him as a grease body. Definitely not. That sounds very offensive. Grease body.

I mean, it's greasy. It's shiny. The Tongan grease body. Young greasy. Adam, what's something greasy. It's shiny. Greasy. The tonguing grease body. Young Greasy. Adam, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated. Okay, I know I hate to be sort of serious and morbid here, but I would say what's overrated is the import of photo evidence of domestic abuse.

It feels like so many times, multiple times at least, with the Ray Rice thing and now with the, what's his name? Rob Porter. Rob Porter, yeah. It's just like people are, don't believe it. Don't, can't believe abuse exists. And then they see the photo of the black guy and it's like well now i believe it right that's all i needed to put me over the edge i don't believe words i believe images exactly it's like i know how women are with their words talking oh there's

a photo well now i see things completely differently now Now it's bad. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I just want to say that that's a little overrated, the import and the weight that is given to photos of domestic violence. Really unbelievable. Endless, a millennia's worth of verbal accounts. Yeah, I mean, it's more just like that's what sort of domestic violence apologists, like that's when they realize their position becomes indefensible. Yes, exactly. And they're like, oh, well, I guess now. Exactly. Yeah.

All right. their position becomes indefensible. Yes, exactly. And they're like, oh, well, I guess now. Exactly. Yeah. All right. We're trying to take a sample of what people are thinking and talking about right now, today, at the moment we record it. And we like to open things up by asking our guests, what is a myth? What is something that people believe to be true that you know to be false, Adam? Something that people believe to be true that I know to be false. I can't say that I know this to be false, but I would like to dispel the myth that, like, billionaire heroes will save us, like the Elon Musk's and the Jeff Bezos of

the world. I just want to dispel the preach, preach, right. That like this sort of great capital GM, like great man theory that like, all we need is like this, like I'm Randy and a philosophy of like, just a couple of true geniuses will lift us up and bring us where we need to go. I just am deeply skeptical of this. And it's dope when Elon Musk launches rockets out of nowhere into the sky. Like, that's awesome.

And that's super cool. But I don't know. I just am really wary of sort of like, you know, Jeff Bezos owning the world and like Amazon. He controls what we read and what we eat and how we think and what we search and buy. And it just spooks me a little bit that like we are consolidating all of the world's resources into the hands of like two guys, just like two or three guys.

Yeah. Yeah. It's unprecedented how much, how many of the world's resources are in the hands of just a handful of people. Literally a handful. Yeah. There's this story by Malcolm Gladwell where he did an analysis of the true stories of how billionaires became wealthy and then read their biographies and autobiographies.

And billionaires happen to be very good at myth-making and self-mythologizing. Totally. But when you find out how the financial transactions that actually make them wealthy, it's basically they're predators. They like just wait and wait and wait. And then when they find an advantage, they just like use that advantage, just hammer people with that advantage until they're billionaires. Like it almost takes a sort of mental illness and just preach. Yeah. Like sociopathy to to do what they've done yes and yeah people don't become billionaires by accident exactly it's rarely because they're such good people that's exactly i was raised by two like very sort of like um middle class sort of idealistic liberal thinking school teachers and i was always there was a deep deep mistrust of the wealthy that was ingrained in me that i always like growing up it was just sort of

intrinsic and innate i'd never questioned it i think as i got older i was like why do my parents hate rich people or just not hate but just like why are they always just like skeptical and wary of the wealthy and successful and now as a fully realized adult i was like oh no you were right mom like you were totally correct there's reasons to be wary and sort of look askance at billionaires like psychopaths. Right, right. All right. Let's get into stories. Okay.

We're coming off of Trump Free Thursdays, and it is time for a Trump dump where we just get some of the stories from the past 48 hours that we've been missing. We already mentioned the rob porter scandal uh he was secretary staff secretary which basically means he was like the go-between like things came through him before it reached the president like his desk so literally every memo and every everything right which is funny because i guess like let's just distill this down to one thing the white house doesn't believe women no okay so there you go that's all you need to know about this story because everybody knew that this guy, his wives were telling the FBI. Wives.

Yeah, ex-wives, plural, that when they were doing a background check and they're like, hey, should we know anything? They're like, yes, he abused me. They're like, okay, he does not get security clearance. He was not cleared a year ago. Yeah, but look, Jerry Kushner doesn't have one either. So what does it matter? Anyway, baby, this is the White it matter it's a party yeah yeah uh our writer sam wrote that it was either that the trump administration and everybody like knew about this or it was just a remarkable lack of curiosity they were just like

oh no security clearance all right right right thank. Right. Thank you. And which is worse? Right. But they knew. Yeah. But they knew. Yeah. They knew. I also just want to say, like, appearance-wise, Rob Porter looks – like, has total abusive husband from Big Little Lies vibe. Yes.

Like, he literally basically is that character from Big Little Lies. Yeah. Very – yeah. Like, home handsome but, like, ready to explode. Exactly. Like, Oxford shirt, Harvard grad. And it's weird. When you even – like, listen, like, when they say, like, ready to explode. Exactly, like, Oxford shirt, Harvard rad. And it's weird. When you even, like, listen, like, when they say, oh, why wasn't he ousted?

Like, I think in the Washington Post they're writing that Don McGahn was, like, sort of reluctant because he saw this, the Harvard-educated Capitol Hill vet to be a, quote, steadying professional voice in the administration. People are duped by diplomas and a nice haircut, I tell you. Just that word, Harvard. People's brains just shut down brains people's brains shut down and john kelly yeah he's he really went to bat for this man so look john kelly uh i guess is the adult right my friend ali tweeted something that i didn't read the article but it was linking to something that apparently he was a character witness in a like a marine corporals trial uh where he was abusing his kid or something. Oh, chill. Super chill.

So he has a record of pulling up for people. Abusers. Right. Yeah. This is a sad, bad, mad time. It's been on the floor. Yes, exactly. Yeah.

Oh, and just one last thing on that. Some people are saying that this was all sort of engineered and leaked by Ivanka because she wants – John Kelly. John Kelly. She wants him out, and so she leaked this story. It is the rumor. They've known for a while. It's like, why is this suddenly coming out?

I mean, not that it could have been leaked or whatever, but, yeah, it jibes well with, like – I remember after the wall thing, the immigration thing, and Kelly was the president was very uninformed on that and Trump did not like that. So don't sun the president in public like that. Do not. It just – it does feel like this is like the most grotesque example. It's almost like a comic book version of white male supremacy privilege entitlement it's just like the most egregious most grotesque examples of white male supremacy and how it's systemic and baked into our culture just day hourly exam hourly examples yeah the most grotesque ones and it's like wow grotesque yes uh this seems like it

was a long time ago but remember that we had trump free thursdays yesterday so we did not get to his hair oh there's that video of him boarding a plane gorgeous windy day uh his hair blows out of place hairs in the weirdest way and in the yeah it's just much stranger than we thought and everybody thought his hair was very weird they they were like there's a you know weird comb over thing happening yeah but it's apparently like coming from a very small point on like the back right of his neck yeah because it like what it looks like he's combing over the back of it yeah like how he's balding on the back you know how like on the mask how he has to take off the mask from the back yes exactly he has to peel the back part back like his hair is being combed over. Yeah.

Somebody was saying earlier that it was like seeing under Darth Vader's helmet. Yeah, exactly. It was just like, whoa. That does not look healthy, man. It also made me realize I don't know how toupees work. I was just like, oh, it's from the back? Is it a zipper? How does it go? But I think it's all his hair and he's just like – I think he spends – I think he gets up at like 3 in the morning and just starts working on his hair.

And like that's what he spends most of his time in thought. Just switch it to a wig, my man. Yes. It'll look cooler. If he went full bald, if he was just like embraced it and just like came out for a press conference, just like, you know what, America? This is me. I'm ugly. Yeah, exactly.

Would you have more or less respect? I mean I think maybe it's a little bit. I couldn't have less respect for him. Yes, exactly. I don't think I'll't have less respect for him. Yes, exactly. And I don't think I'll ever be able to respect him. Yeah. Unless he, like, comes out, resigns, and then admits to, like, all his wrongdoing. Yeah, exactly.

But that's unlikely. So keep rocking that shitty hair, my man. Do it. Yeah. Somebody said yesterday, Casey Lai, yesterday's guest, was saying that he almost, like, looks like the dinosaur from Jurassic Park. The dinosaur. That has, like, the things come out of the side of his head

because when the hair comes out, it flaps out to the sides. It's very strange. It's truly grotesque. Do not corner him. Do not. And then we finally – we didn't really get details on what Omarosa's life was like inside the White House, but we just saw a glimpse of her contemplating talking about it. Yeah, for the longest time, people – I think especially people of color were like, yo, Omarosa, how are you up in the fucking White House with this dude openly racist?

And you're still shucking and jiving for him. I don't know. Yes. Luckily, hard-hitting investigative journalist Ross Matthews, a.k.a. Ross the intern from the Jay Leno show who is also on Big Brother. The Bernstein and Woodward of our time. Got to the bottom of this shit, huh? Right. I think we have the audio.

And from the outside, can I tell you as a voter, a citizen, I never got it. Why you went to the White House with him. I felt like it was like a call to duty i felt like i was serving my country not serving him whenever was it accepting a political appointment

it was always about the country like i was haunted by tweets every single day like what is he going to tweet does anybody say say to him, what are you doing? I mean, I tried to be that person, and then all of the people around him attacked me. It was like, keep her away from me. Don't give her access. Don't let her talk to him. And it's like, and Vodka's there, Jared's there. And it's... Who has that power to say what's going on no i'm not there i don't i it's not my

it's not my circus not my monkeys you know i'd like to say not my problem but i can't say that because you know the old saying not my circus not my monkeys it's bad it's bad haunted by should we be worried should we be worried and i think she just nods yes don't say that don't say that because we are worried but i need you to say no it's gonna be okay okay it was gonna not be okay no it's gonna not be okay it's not okay Yeah It's so bad It's so bad It is

It's so bad Okay I just want to say this really quick Which is like We are deeply So deeply confused as a culture And television has become We elected a television for president Right

By accident And it was like It kind of reminds me of And this is a bit Sort of abysmal But it kind of reminds me of Like that thing of like What took down the Roman Empire It was like – it kind of reminds me of – and this is a bit sort of abysmal. But it kind of reminds me of like that thing of like the – what took down the Roman Empire? It was like the lead in the water and all the Romans went crazy and like that was like one of the secret reasons like the empire crumbled.

To me, television is a little bit like the lead in the water for our culture. It's like we got fully turned around and we have fully – or we are not at all able to extract television from life and reality tv from politics and now it's so much the same thing that that music is underscoring a conversation about the president just like national security tell me it's not it's gonna be okay ross first of all motherfucker have you looked at the news where you've been ross come on my man we've been worried we've all been worried. What do you think? Omar will be like,

it's good, it's good. It's just an act. You know him. No, it's fucking bad because look, people in other countries are like, come get your man.

Exactly. One of my favorite tropes of reality TV is the whispered conversation where it's like, you know they're going to see this, right? This is a show

that's on television. You're wearing a microphone. You're mic'd right now. You're fully mic'd. And they're aiming par see this, right? This is a show that's on television. You're wearing a microphone. You're mic'd right now. You're fully mic'd. And they're aiming parabolic microphones at you, too. The entire country is hearing you. But yeah, the fact that a major sort of revelation comes to our culture via that, the whispered reality TV conversation. Deeply troubling.

Deeply, deeply troubling. We're fucked. Oh, we're so fucked. It's official now because Omarosa said so. Exactly. And that the White House is now a stepping stone in an entertainment career to another reality show. A job in the White House is just a sort of a launch. It's like a YouTube Red series. It'll just launch you to the next thing.

Yeah, usually reality TV kills your career. Exactly. Now it's like you might even get into government. Well, look, you might not get on a regular show, but how do you the executive exactly all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 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

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Yes. Okay. That was it. The very same. Okay, got it just the very same scott clarify yeah um and who also said what didn't he say like trump was going to present like a constitutional crisis to the country too yeah did he he said something like that uh before he was actually became the nominee and like they asked him about these oh no i didn't say anything

like that nice just awesome hell i i really want to try just spending a year having no problem, just living completely free from the consequences of my actions and the truth. Yes, exactly. Just being like, yeah, yeah, no, I didn't say the thing that you just heard me say. On camera. Now, anyways, he has now come out now that I don't know, the science has become even more 100 percent locked in. And he said, hey, even if climate change is occurring, as the vast majority of science say it is, a warmer atmosphere might not be so bad for humans. He said, we know humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends.

So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming that necessarily is a bad thing do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100 i mean you don't even know what year 2100 is going to be like right holy shit he calls it arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what the temperature on Earth should be. How did we get here to this? How did we get here where it's just like science is now sort of on a sliding scale? It's kind of up to the imagination. It's up for debate.

How did we get here? I don't know. That somehow like ego is a good response to like a debate about science. Like, well, I think that's arrogant. Or clearly he's operating in a place like a scientist is not gonna tell me what to think yes exactly oh i'm sorry what the fuck do you know yeah yeah it's it's this habit uh that the trump administration and you know just liars in general have of saying like whatever they're doing they say you're doing that's right So if they're being arrogant about global warming and saying that, like, we don't give a fuck about, like –

Nuh-uh. They're like – Full projection. You are. They're being arrogant that you think you know what the temperature should be. Exactly. And climate scientists are like, we do know. That's our craft and job.

That's my job. Yeah. We do know what it'll be. He also has one of my most pet peeve-y vocal tics, or like language tics, when he goes, we know that humans have flourished in what? Warming time. Like that David Brent asking the question and answering it. It's like, fuck you, dude.

Just like that is such a condescending vocal tactic. I hate that. Yeah, it's the worst. Warming trend. Yeah, exactly. Just doing a really good hand gesture right after. Exactly.

The market has continued to not do that well. Monday, the market dropped 1,600 points before recovering a little bit. Thursday's market wiped out all of the gains from the last year and yeah things just aren't going that well on the markets uh immediately after trump was like yeah

see the markets are the best they've ever been yes i'm the best yes i don't know anything about stock markets really do y'all and what accounted for this like flash crap like this like flash crash in two days was that like you, I think a bunch of things. Yeah, we're applying all this logic to it. We've said on past episodes that it's actually the strength of the economy is causing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates or, you know, people think they're about to raise interest rates. And so companies are responding to that because that means – and also because wages are going up. So it's going to – they're going to need to pay workers more. And so that means less profit for companies and the stock market trades that happen are done by computers

that are completely out of human control. They're like algorithmically derived. So what is life? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like computers making trades. Yeah.

Just automatically based on like, you know, these complex algorithms that are so complex that people can't even predict them ahead of time. They just know after the fact. They're like, well, the reason that being controlled by technology that humans are not smart enough. The human mind is not complex enough to understand and predict ahead of time. We built the things that will destroy us. Right. Exactly. We'll see.

We'll see. We'll see. Yeah. And again, why are they fucking they still come at immigrants man clearly these fucking computers are taking everybody's jobs yeah fucking up the stock market i mean you have a much sexier argument you know what i'm i'm with the luddites on this yeah exactly right yeah so uh yeah they're still trying to figure out why the stock market is going down, basically. Exactly. They're like, tell us, computer lord. That's right. That's a good point, though.

It's like computers take more jobs than immigrants, so you should be building a wall around, like, Apple. Right, right. Or just being like, hey, let's embrace humanity. Yeah, exactly. You think someone was trying to figure out the stock market was just, like, banging on the computer that, like, does the algorithm? Hey, computer! What the fuck's going on in there? I think blow on it.

Just unplug it and plug it back in. Maybe just blow on it. Yeah. It's not a Nintendo cartridge. Um, but, uh, we,

we need to get to the hard hitting story of the day. Okay. Uh, it is national pizza pie day. You guys. Uh, so I wanted to ask you guys best pizza you've had anywhere. And then what's your favorite chain pizza?

Wow. The best pizza – We have two New York City people here, too. New York? You lived in New York for a little bit. I lived in New York, yes. Adam, you're from New York and lived in New York. Yes, sir.

I'm from L.A., so my pick might be fucking crazy. So let me hear what experts talk about, and then I'll blow it up with my uninformed opinion. Miles already told us his favorite pizza is California Pizza Kitchen. Oh, the BBQ Chicken! He said that's both his favorite chain and the best pizza he's had anywhere. Yes. The BBQ Chicken.

So I'll say my top three anywhere are Bleecker Street, Nono Maria, or whatever the Sicilian pizzas they have there. John's, which is right down the street. uh, Nono Maria or whatever the like Sicilian pizzas they have there. Um, John's, which is right down the street.

Uh, and it's like, yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. Thank you. Uh, they're just plain slices. Beautiful.

And my number one is Jersey shore, Manco and Manco. Yeah. Weird. But anybody who's been to the Jersey shore, Manco and Manco, it used to be called Mac and Manco. And then but anybody who's been to the jersey yeah manco and manco it used to be called mac and manco and then there was a messy like divorce so now it's just manco and manco manco in japanese means vagina vagina vagina pizza that's what it is that struck me as a

tourist i'd be like we're not eating here it's just incredible thing like the perfect crust uh yeah they like put the cheese down first then like have a sauce hose they put on top of it. Sauce hose. It comes out so hot and like crispy. Stop it. It's honestly, it's a little like John's, but everybody should make a- Manco and Manco. Jersey Shore.

I highly recommend going to Ocean City, New Jersey, going up on the boardwalk. It's a great family town. You can check out Mango and Maco. I will fully echo John's Pizza in the West Village. That was not just trying to be a copycat. That was fully my number one pizza. Definitely, definitely, definitely. Here in Los Angeles, I really like Tisano's over in Silver Lake a lot, not only because of their vast parking lot, but also because of the pizza.

And Masa and Echo Park, that deep dish world. That was really good. Oh, it's like cake pizza. It's wild. Each bite is a loaf of bread. Truly. And I'm very obviously partial to New York thin crust, of course. That's my hometown home spirit pizza.

But there's something about that Masa thick crust here in LA that knocks me out, man. It is very good. It knocks me out. Oh, sorry. I should have said my favorite chain is Domino's Thin Crust. Domino's Thin Crust? All the way. Yeah, okay.

Look, I like DeSano. Shout out to Marino, the owner, who is from Italy. He used to work on Hell's Kitchen. Cool. Or he was the maitre d' on Hell's Kitchen. That's cool. And my friend Brianna, shout out to Brianna,

who used to hire me on Hell's Kitchen. That's how I got hip to that place. It's very good in LA. Really good. Then I would say after that, oh man, it's a tie. I would probably say Little Caesars, hot and ready.

One of my favorites. Because it's both hot and ready. It's hot and ready. Little Caesars is good. Pizza, pizza. There's no denying. And look, if it wasn't legit, why would it have Caesar on there? Okay. Caesar signed off on that. Lastly, probably Santarpia. Pizza, pizza. There's no denying. And look, if it wasn't legit, why would it have Caesar on there?

You know what I mean? Okay. Caesar signed off on that. Lastly, probably Santarpia in Florence, Italy. Santarpia? So I got to go. Oh, I'm sorry. Fuck you.

I got to go. But yeah, those other ones sound good, fellas. It's the first pizza. Yeah. Catch me Googling best pizza in Italy right there. Right. But I think really for LA, yeah. Oh, Prime Pizza on Fairfax shout out to prime pizza they're actually they're they do a pretty good job okay pizza but again i don't know and watch people are gonna fucking flame us for

being like you don't know about fucking pizza yeah hey look motherfucker we're limited by our experiences and we're not saying this is the best pizza on earth right we're saying this is what we feel is good yeah exactly okay so you're putting it down right now i put it down domino's thin crust that that's a fact no not domino's thin crust domino's thin crust is the best pizza on earth, we're saying this is why we feel as good. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so you're putting it down right now. I put it down. Domino's Thin Crust. That's a fact. No, not Domino's Thin Crust. Domino's Thin Crust is the best chain pizza, although Little Caesars is good also. Also, shout out to Shakey's in Japan.

Shit. They have Shakey's in Japan? No shit. What? Shakey's in Japan. They have, they have, they put corn on there.

They got everything. The flavor. The corn. Yo, the pizza in Japan, like there's places like Pizzata and Domino's there, but they have corn pizza. have they put mayonnaise and corn yes mayonnaise i used to make fun of the uh stock photo house that we used it cracked always like when you googled pizza like all their pizza would have fucking corn on it i was like what what is this where's this coming

from i also just want to shout out the town up in highland park that place on york that's super good that's a nice pizzeria in highland Park here in LA that's like thin crust New York style. Oh, that's on the corner. That's right there on the corner. Really good. Yeah, next to Donut Friend. Yep, really good. Yep, yep, yep.

Yep, yep. I cut you off, Miles. I'm sorry. I interrupted you. No, no, no. Okay. I'm only talking nonsense. I've been to Italy.

I'll take Manco Manco over any Italian pizza. Jersey Shore wins. Yeah, yeah. I've been to Italy. I mean, the Jersey Shore. And I think I've had the best. Yeah, yeah. Is what you're saying. I've been to every p I mean, the Jersey Shore. And I think I've had the best, is what you're saying. I've been to every pizzeria in Italy. All right. And then I wanted to talk about something that I think I've been hearing about it mostly on Chapo Trap House podcast.

They've interviewed a couple journalists who are sort of covering the upcoming election and how the DNC Democratic National Committee is approaching this next election. left-leaning wave, a lot of energy coming from young people and just a natural movement that is happening. And there are candidates who are being produced by these grassroots movements. And the DNC is kind of refusing to let those candidates be their official candidates. Interesting. to let those candidates be their official candidates. Interesting. So the way the DNC determines who a candidate should be is they go through their phone and check how many rich people they have. And there's like a certain amount of money that you have to have in your contacts. And if you have enough money in your contacts, you're allowed to be a candidate essentially.

It's all about fundraising. exciting guy who was like a leader of men just naturally and was like, you know, politically engaged in 2016, wanted to help the democratic party volunteered on this campaign and was just like blown away with how just ass backwards everything was like, they wouldn't put their talking points up, even though every time he would go out on behalf of this candidate, uh, people would be like, we don't quite get her stance on all these different issues. And they were like, yeah, well, we don't put it up yet because then the Republicans would like get us and nail us down on those talking points. And so the gamesmanship is totally right to any sincere desire. Yeah. And it's just very bureaucratic.

And it's just very bureaucratic. And so he was like, all right, I'm going to run myself. And there's he's got a lot of support in the grassroots, but they're just not letting him run basically. And it makes sense. I mean, because establishment Democrats, they just they want to keep that in. And clearly, like we saw that with, you know, Bernie was very popular. Right. And we got an idea that oh that might be some shit people are responding to yeah but you can tell just even

with uh they always talk about the mcgovern effect in this one because like oh i don't know if we should put someone so liberal out there because we don't want to get crushed well look man everyone it looks like people are more and more and more becoming more and more left especially like within the democratic party yes it's fracturing right now. Yes. And when you look at young people, too, like this article came out Mother Jones today that showed that, you know, millennials are joining unions in record. Wow.

Really? Yeah. Because they see how bleak their economic future looks and like, oh, shit, the only way I can like really guarantee some kind of balance of power. So I'm not like beholden to the people I work for. Squad up. Yeah. Yeah. Squad up. Unionize. Yeah. uh guarantee some kind of balance of power so i'm not like beholden to the people i work for squat up yeah yeah squat up unionized and it's it's it's i mean it's very interesting to see because uh if you look at it like when workers bargaining power peaked like in the 50s yeah

that was when middle-class families did of the total income in the country yep and when union rates started to fucking take a dip uh in the 80s so the middle income is shared so i mean i think people are starting to see there is a way. We're at least trying to get out of this. We're trying to build a middle class. I also think from just a sheerly symbolic point of view, I think of these first-time voters who are like 17, 18, 19 years old now. I saw Yara Shahidi, who was a guest on Kimmel last night.

She's starting her own DNC, Get Out the Vote for Young People kind of initiative. I think about these people who have only ever known Obama and then Trump. These are their only reference points for president. I'm 18. I grew up with Barack Obama, this fabulous, deeply kind, smart, funny, media-savvy president. And now I have this. It's like what a splash of cold water and what a clear contrast for these first-time voters to be sort of motivated to. But I agree with you.

Another myth maybe worth dispelling is that like the DNC and like establishment Democrat and like the Democratic establishment is any less rotten than they are. It's just like any less like. Just who you're beholden to. Is it Wall Street? Is it like. Exactly. is that like these left leaning politicians who are coming out and trying to run in 2018 and 2020 are like too radical and they're isolated from most Americans who are more middle of the road. Yeah. Like polling shows that's not necessarily the case anymore. Like that might have been the

case in the 90s when Clinton was doing his like like triangulation thing but it's not really the case anymore and there's more and more uh sort of support and energy behind these more socialists yep well yeah there's a survey also that came out they mentioned on this article is that when they polled 18 to 29 year olds that group gave a slight advantage to socialism over capitalism. How about that? Yeah. Hey, now. Look at that. Come on.

Yeah. Because everybody gets it. I mean, like, at the end of the day, you may say, oh, it's too radical or whatever. But if you just go out there and tell people, do you think fair should be fair? Yeah, exactly. Do you think everybody should get a fair shake? Everybody should be healthy. You shouldn't go broke because you have cancer.

Right. Do you think you should be able to go to college because you want to? Exactly. Like, that shit works. Exactly. That's not too crazy to anybody when you just say hi let's let's split the cake evenly exactly right i feel like you feel the left even bernie like pandering to the middle especially on like abortion that seems to make an issue too

it's like no democrat is like there's just a reluctance and a trigger shyness to being like pro-choice like abortion that's still like the thing that even creeps the leftiest of lefties back to the middle just to pander to the – yeah. So here's hoping. Here's hoping we go full socialist. Hey, freedom, baby. Full socialist, baby. Y'all want to do what you want with your body?

Go ahead. Go. But I mean there are a lot of very powerful concerns, corporations who are very interested in the country staying at the very least in the middle. That's for sure. The middle in America is far, far right in Europe and any other country. Yeah. And that's – like the DNC is controlled by moneyed interests. They want candidates who can get a bunch of money.

So it's not necessarily like that GE is like behind the scenes pulling all the strings on the DNC. Just change the model. Just change the model. The money – that's where the money is. Change the model. If these candidates weren't so beholden to their corporate benefactors, then you can change the game. Right. During the Adam Conover election special that we did last year, there was this like stat that he sort of put up, which was like pre-1970s-ish, red and blue would vote together on a lot of issues.

And it was like it wasn't so partisan. And then it became like over – starting in the 70s-ish and turning to now, like now they really, really factioned off. And it was like red votes red, blue votes blue. And I was like, so why? And I think it was the introduction of the Koch brothers and campaign finance and the way that campaigns were financed literally changed everything. Just make everybody even playing field. Hey, everybody gets – you know, you can only work with $5 million at

most. And everybody gets the same thing and just campaign off that. Because if you can blow somebody out with the air war, with your robocalls and your TV ads and your radio spots, bro, it won't even matter because you can just inundate voters with your message

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Except for OK and a couple maybe Life and Style. Yeah. Donald Trump is a tabloid magazine the man. Right. Yeah, exactly. He is a human tabloid magazine. And more and more, the National Enquirer reads like it is written by him. More and more, the National Enquirer reads like it is written by him.

For instance, the National Enquirer, the cover is that Obama and Hillary were personally responsible for wiretapping him. And they have photographs of both of them with like listening devices in their ears, like holding listening devices into their ears. And so it suggests, yes, they were like they're literally just tuning in like it was a podcast like okay what's trump talking about okay right and the national card would have you believe that this these photos of them are like they caught them in the act of wiretapping just them obama and hillary ordered fbi to spy on trump maybe they were at the un when a foreign diplomat was speaking not in English and they were listening to a translator via earpiece. But I don't know. I don't know, man.

Hashtag deep state. But Obama looks so shady in this picture. Yeah, exactly. And even Obama at his shadiest looks so good. He's just like – still. Still my president. Presidential. My god.

Yeah, the National Enquirer of all – I mean it's so perfect, like similar to the Omarosa being talking to Ross Matthews about our national policy. It makes disgusting perfect sense that the National Enquirer is like the official media outlet of the president. It makes perfect sense. Well, and then also, yeah, who else did they come for? So yeah, on the cover, the other big story is Jay-Z's hidden love child and what Beyonce doesn't know about it. Oh, no. And what Beyonce doesn't know about it. Oh, no. So if you just want to know what is on the president's mind, Obama and Hillary always, he's just like simmering hatred for them. And then now he's pissed off at Jay-Z, obviously.

I can't believe Jay-Z ethered me like that. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He always reminds us that he is a celebrity first. Right. That is what he is concerned about. Not America first. Not even celebrity first. Celebrity. he is concerned about america first not

even celebrity celebrity like i'm concerned with my celebrity status only like didn't he go after kristin stewart didn't he have like he cared so much about kristin stewart and robert pavison pervert relationship yeah i don't fuck with fka twigs though yeah leave her robert she's she's no good why is that new robert paddison's but now are they still together oh you don't like her though no i'm saying that's what trump would say oh got it that was me doing a terrible got it got it because he ships them he ships kristin and robert yes exactly uh so the globe is talking about olympic skaters hidden lies and then it's just uh stories about injuries they had before they were famous. It's really weird.

Hidden sprained ankle. John battling Parkinson's, Loretta Lynn ready to die like Biggie. It really says Loretta Lynn ready to die. Like Biggie. Like Biggie was. And also what's interesting, too, why she believes in life after death. That's two B.I.G. references in one little bit.

Yeah, really. I mean, shout out to the globe. Real hip hop fans. Trump runs the Enquirer, but Biggie and Tupac run the globe. Oh, look,

Anna Hosni's just doing a frowny face saying that apparently they're not together, that they might get back together, so that means they're not together.

Okay, well, I guess you won this one, Trump. Let's see, what else we got? Oh, National Examiner. Can I do that one? Yeah. So guess you won this one, Trump. Let's see. What else we got? Oh, National Examiner. Can I do that one? Yeah. So National Examiner, one of my favorites.

They always dig up lost prophecies from Nostradamus that somehow they only found. And they never explain. Actually, this one says, stunning long lost predictions made by the historic sage Nostradamus have been discovered. We don't know how. Oh, yeah. But this is claiming that these are 50 prophecies that will come true by Easter.

And I just circled some of my favorite ones. There are a lot, so just bear with me and I'll just fly through these. Number one, all electronic devices will crash for 10 minutes,

resulting in mass chaos in the globe's greatest cities. 10 minutes? Interesting. That's so funny. Hailstones the size of melons will pummel a city in Utah, killing five.

Killing five? I'm glad that he saw that detail. So specific. Wealthy customers will flock to a new chain of, quote, vodka saunas, relaxing in warm clouds of high-grade alcohol vapor. Wait. Okay. Sounds fun. I think that actually happened already.

Yeah, well, look. There's some low-hanging fruit in here. Vodka vapor saunas. Like this one. Social media platforms will mysteriously release government secrets from the 1950s. Okay. Almost already happening. You mean WikiLeaks? Yeah, exactly. Okay, cool.

JonBenet Ramsey's murderer will come forward and confess to the heinous crime that captivated the nation. Favorite. Let's see. A new reality show will feature people interacting with their guardian angels. Hey, man. I mean, pilot season's right now, and you're saying this is going to happen by Easter? Will it be ordered to series that quickly?

Exactly. We will see. Let's move on. Oh, so he comes from Beyonce. Yes. So Nostradamus apparently is Nostradamus. Oh, right. Because Beyonce will lose her voice and never be able to perform again, but she'll love

life as a full-time homemaker. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. Seriously, Beyonce, you know where your real place is. Sit down in the kitchen. Stop talking. The remains of missing mobster Jimmy Hoffa will be discovered in New York Central Park

by kids digging with plastic shovels. Plastic. Plastic is the key detail there. Yeah. Or that it's digging and it's... Nostradamus had a lot of time. Yes, right. And then let's see.

One last one. Oh, this one might happen because it's the Olympics. A hockey scandal involving the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, will rock the nation. Wow. A hockey scandal involving Mike Pence president of the United States, Mike Pence, will rock the nation. Wow. A hockey scandal involving Mike Pence. Oh, and then my favorite one, Mexico votes to join the state of Texas. The new state will be called Mexis.

Stop it. Is that real? Get real. Yep. That's printed in a fucking thing that people read. Nostradamus' other, like the other sages at the time must be so pissed that his legacy has lasted. Right.

I feel like Nostradamus is the go-to sage that gets like, there's probably so many other sages at the time must be so pissed that his legacy has lasted. I feel like Nostradamus is the go-to sage. There's probably so many other sages who made way of him. Who was his favorite sage? Exactly. Who was your favorite sage's favorite sage? Exactly. And I also just want to say that Trump is so bad and such a destructive force in this country that literally – it just reminded me of government secrets being leaked from the 50s. Didn't NASA come out and were like, yeah, aliens are real.

We've been looking for aliens and they're real and we were like we don't have time for that right yeah we talked about it on past episodes yeah there's like all these really weird reports that uh the the new york times actually published yeah uh yeah just search ufo on the new york times yes um so you guys there is uh a handful of new diet coke flavors we're gonna taste test them for you uh you guys, there is a handful of new Diet Coke flavors. I can't believe this. We're going to taste test them for you. You guys know that if you've seen any pictures of the inside of our studio, you've maybe seen some Diet Coke cans sitting around.

I'm a fan. Can I ask you about your history with Diet Coke, Jack? Yes. Just on a personal level, like how you sort of fell into becoming such a fanboy? Let's do it. personal level like how you sort of fell into becoming such a fan boy let's do it uh so i personally never liked diet anything growing up uh and then like in my 20s i worked at abc uh diane sawyer like just mowed through like 18 diet cokes every morning and i was just like holy shit like that's amazing and she like never slept

she slept uh because she would like you know go out at night and then would have to be up at like four in the morning for good morning america so i was always impressed by her ability to do that and then uh yeah it's just basically i i slowly uh went from being addicted to sugar as a kid to being addicted to caffeine yeah and uh diet coke addicted to caffeine. Yeah. And Diet Coke. It was basically when I found out that Diet Coke has more caffeine than regular Coke. Oh. It was all over. I didn't know that.

Yeah. You're kind of like a Diane Sawyer cosplay a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always. Always have been. Always. Yeah. All right.

So. I'm excited about this. Okay. So. The idea here is that they're infused with fruit. Okay. I thought it was just a design rebrand. I did not know that there were new flavors.

They got new flavors. That's massive. They got it. You know, people are drinking less soda, so let's turn it up. Exactly. What we have are the four new flavors. I won't reveal them first. First, I want you guys to taste them blind.

Great. Okay. And then just give me a little idea. I will taste them too, but only I know the flavors. So first one. I'm going to pour you guys up a first one. Okay. And I'll just put a little sip.

So exciting. Yes. So here we go. Closing my eyes. flavors. So first one. I'm going to pour you guys up a first one. And I'll just put a little sip. Exciting. Yes. So here we go. Closing my eyes. Okay. Don't worry. Miles, are you also – my eyes are closed. Miles, are you a diet coke head as well, just in general?

No, I'm a coke head. Coke head. Straight up. Straight up, baby. Straight up. Straight up. Now – Okay.

Thank you, sir. There you go. Pass one down to Jack. Yep. Thank you. There you go, brother. Drinking it out of our beautiful Daily Zeitgeist Mugs. Really beautiful.

Okay, so there's yours right there, Adam. Thank you, man. All right. So let's just try this one. Cheers, guys. Cheers. Salud. L'chaim.

Uh-huh. Okay. Subtle. Subtle. Interesting. Oh, shit. I'm going to go for one more. Hmm.

It's got like hints of, it's more like vanilla-ish than normal. Tastes like an old Tic Tac or something. Like someone left a Tic Tac in a Diet Coke. Orange? Maybe it's like a subtle tangerine vibe, maybe? Orange, tangerine, vanilla. So that one, this one is called Zesty Blood Orange. Zesty Blood Orange.

I kind of like it, actually. You like that one? Yeah, it's like basically a sweeter Diet Coke. That's right. Yeah. Okay. Okay, let's move on to number two. That's pretty good.

Yeah, I like that. Make sure you clean your mugs. This is not a real taste test, so we will... Honestly, delicious, to be honest with you. Yeah, I thought it was good. So you like Diet Coke? Yeah, I do like it. Yeah, awesome.

You guys like that one? I like it a lot. All right, so here is flavor two of four. Zesty blood orange. Okay. Flavor two of four. Bottoms up. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Hmm. Hmm. What do you think, Jack? I do not like that. No.

That is. Does this even have a flavor to it? That is – Does this even have a flavor to it? It seems like they're underlining the more medicinal and metallic flavors in the Diet Coke. That's a good way to put it. This one is ginger lime. Ginger. I think it's the –

Oh, ginger. Okay. Yeah, no. That didn't work. Yeah, I smell it now. The ginger. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

Did not work. So far, it was a valiant effort. Zesty blood orange is still top? Thumbs up. Yeah. Okay, so here's flavor. Yeah, the zesty blood orange is like underlining the sweetness. And these are still zero calories?

Zero calories. How do they do it? How? It's magic. It's all the miracle of aspartame. Yes, exactly. That's what I call aspartame. Aspartame.

Ooh, this one's got a nice aroma to it, nice and fragrant. Yes, which I like. And look at the legs on that. Okay, let's try this one. This is flavor three of four. Diet Coke Sommelier. Okay. Oh, sure.

This is coming at you hard with the fruit flavor. I mean, this is pretty aggressive. Whoa. This seems aggressive. I just grew hair and they turned to braids with beads on them. Yeah, it's like a tropical maybe mango tropical. I was going to say like passion fruit or something like that.

Twisted mango. Hey, Jack. What do you think of that one? I think it's fucking twisted, man. I gotta give it up. This is a pretty good mango flavor for a diet soda. Agreed. Agreed. Well done. Pretty good. I enjoy this one. Okay. Agreed. Well done. Pretty good. I enjoy this one.

Okay. This is the last one. Pardon my burp. Pardon my burp. Yeah. We keep the burps in. Yeah. All right.

So this is the last one. This is flavor four of four. That's three miles. Thanks, man. All right. Flavor four of four. Okay. We do this for the art.

You know what I mean? This is all for the art. This is for you guys. We love you, Coca-Cola. Here we go. Oh, art. You know what I mean? This is all for the art. This is for you guys to know. Here we go. Oh, I think I know what this one is. Yep. Oh yeah, baby. Jack, you don't even sip it. You gulp it. Yep. You are an

expert. Alright, that one was Feisty Cherry. That was definitely cherry. Absolutely cherry soda. No doubt about it. That cherry was feisty. Yeah, pretty good, man. It's pretty intense. Alright, so what do you think? What's the worst one I think is Zesty Blood Orange? You think that's the worst one? I think they're all terrible. Pretty good, man. It's pretty intense. All right. So what do you think? What's the worst one I think is Zesty Blood Orange? You think that's the worst one? I think they're all terrible.

Let me be honest. Worst one is all of them. All of them. Because I'll never drink this shit. Tied for all. Yeah. Okay. The only thing I can give props to is the mango one because that's, I like that.

Yeah. Yeah. The ginger one was a letdown. I agree with your metallic note. Yeah. I feel like it was- They underline the metallic notes on the Diet Coke. Agreed about that.

I liked, I'd say Blood Orange was my favorite, maybe. What? Maybe. Blood Orange was your favorite? Blood Orange or Mango. Feisty Cherry, I thought worked. Yeah. I thought worked.

I thought worked. On a conceptual level? Yeah, like, theoretically. Project Redway? Got Tim Gunn of the Diet Coke. It's actually what I'm using the Coke machine at a movie theater. I recreate that feisty cherry by just doing Diet Coke with the cherry flavoring. So you're a feisty cherry hipster.

Yeah, exactly. I've been there. I've been there before it was packaged. Diet Coke heard about me and was like, yeah, let's give that a call. Adam, what's yours? What are you giving that? I'm going to say fourth place ginger. I'm going to say fourth place, ginger. I'm going to say third place, mango.

No offense. No, no. I'm going to say second place, blood orange. And I'll take the feisty cherry up top. Wow. I'll take it. I really liked it. Yeah.

All right. All right, guys. Well, decide for yourself which manner of neurotoxin you'd like to use. They come in four great flavors. Exactly. Well done, Diet Coke. Yum. My stomach will never be the same.

It is. I can feel all the fruit just fell off. Adam, it's been a pleasure having you, man. This was such a blast. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. Where can people find you and follow you? On Twitter, at Adam Lustick.

Instagram, same, Adam Lustick. Please watch Corporate on Wednesdays on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. It is so funny. We had Jake in here. Oh, yeah. Weissman was here. Yeah, that's right. I think we're having Matt in here.

Exactly. So we'll have the whole crew. Please do watch. We've seen Aparna. Yes, Aparna, yeah. Like that happened. Hell yeah. I had Jake in here. Oh, yeah. Weissman was here. Yeah, that's right. I think we're having Matt in here. Exactly. So we'll have the whole crew. Please do watch. We've seen Aparna. Yes, Aparna. Yeah. That happened. Oh, yeah.

I want to meet her. Yes. She's amazing. Twitter goddess. Oh, me? Oh, you can find me. You know, probably in the bathroom, just trying to deal with drinking all this Diet Coke. But if you're interested in the social media, follow me on Instagram and Twitter at MilesOfGray.

You can find me finishing all those Diet Cokes, and you can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at TheDailyZeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page. Just search Daily Zeitgeist. And we have a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post each episode and our footnotes for those episodes, which is where we link off to the sources

that we used to research that episode. So thorough of you guys. Very thorough. Very thorough. He's thorough. Thorough. Good. I'm thorough.

He's thorough. Shout out to Big Lebowski, which we talked about on yesterday's show. Nice. 1998. What's up, Julianne Moore? So, Miles, are you going to write us out on anything? Yeah, you know, because two days ago on the 7th,

Jay Dilla, one of the greatest beat makers, hip-hop producer of all time. He was born that day. His death anniversary is actually this weekend on the 10th. And since we won't have a show that day, first of all, I just want to tell anybody listening to this podcast right now, if you like music, you have to get familiar with Jay Dilla. Truly. I'm sorry, that is just a fact. And if you don't you have to get familiar with jay dilla i'm sorry that is just

a fact and if you don't know that do not approach me in public ever because we will have to have a conversation about jay dilla and that is how i know you are a person of value and a person of worth so the album uh well donuts is like that was that's the class that's the most prolific one yeah of everyone if you haven't listened to Donuts, just remember this. This man made this album, Donuts, on his literal deathbed in the hospital. He was just like, I need to finish this. The world needs this. And his doctor said, you cannot keep making music because you need to rest because your body is dying. And he still, his brother and his friends snuck the beat, I think it was MPCR SP-303, into the hospital.

And he made this shit on his deathbed and died just after it was released. I did not know that. That's amazing. Yes, it's amazing. But what I'm going to play is Donuts Is Everywhere. But I just want to play one of my more deep cut favorite beats that he made. It's a Busta Rhymes song called Show Me What You Got. It's on the Anarchy album.

And it's dope because it has like a stereo lab sample. But it's just a really good vibe. And the bass line is silky smooth. So rest in peace. Rest in power, J Dilla. them and it's dope because it has like a stereo lab sample but it's just a really good vibe and the bass line is silky smooth so rest in peace rest in power jay dilla uh and to everybody who have not heard of jay dilla you're welcome because he produced pretty much like just look him up he did it all all right yes so we will ride out on that we'll be back on monday hope you guys have a good weekend. Bye. This is the song. Outro Music We got to get it. All my niggas, show me what you got for me. What you got for me.

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