The Daily Zeitgeist - OMG Omicron? Have Sex In The Home Alone House! 12.3.21

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

In episode 1042, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and writer Ellie McElvain to discuss Omicron Update - What We Know, Mark Meadows in dire need of spinal transplant…, YOU CAN RENT THE FUCKIN McCALLISTER HOME FOR ONE NIGHT!, Here Comes the Conservative Children’s Book Trend and more! Omicron Update - What We Know Mark Meadows in dire need of spinal transplant… YOU CAN RENT THE FUCKIN McCALLISTER HOME FOR ONE NIGHT! The Insane Truth About the House in Home Alone The Real-Life Home Alone House: Then and Now Here Comes the Conservative Children’s Book Trend Movement to ban — or even burn — school library books gains momentum These are the books conservative revisionists want to hide from kids Children’s book series hails ‘Heroes of Liberty’ like Ronald Reagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas Sowell LISTEN: Look What We Do - Benny Sings Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 213, Episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! Third production of iHeartRadio. women's sports. to talk to you guys about that let's we know it we love it i i don't know what what what do we do on national bartender day just like tip extra well yeah probably you know okay it says tip it it says show your bartender some appreciation tip them extra well be the designated driver for your group accept the taxi when it's offered make their job a little bit easier i like that they put in there accept the taxi when it's offered. Yo, so we're putting bartenders in charge

of preventing drunk driving deaths? Sadly, because then they can come back to you for over-serving somebody, you know? I've worked in that sphere before. Yeah, like, it's wild. People, they take that shit, like, it's almost worse than calling a white person racist. It's telling a drunk person they need a taxi.

It's like, what the fuck you say? It's a fucking taxi, bro. almost worse than calling a white person racist it's on a drunk person they need a taxi i've had i've had friends whose reaction to me telling them they can't drive drunk was similar to that dude who got elbowed by lebron james and just like oh just came oh like yeah it had to be held back by like six people like then would pretend he like had we had talked sense into him and then like do a head fake and then run for the car so the best move though you do to avoid that is you just take their key because they're so drunk they don't know you just hide them shits and then you fuck with them be like yo you must have misplaced them shit oh fuck man i can't find my keys you're like bro just chill we'll find it in the morning and then you put that shit in their jacket

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you know it's about its feature length video of my preparation of the thanksgiving turkey that i'm making for our family dramatic a lot of recreations of people saying i couldn't do it really hero the word hero wasn't thrown around enough when i was making the turkey but it will be in in this uh film that i'm making anyways thank you warren and i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles graham supreme court's a fucking dumpster fire. Inflation nipping at your toes. Yuletide Karens threading hate. Man, it's dire. Plus white folks dressed up like Eskimos.

Everybody knows that shit is racist as fuck. Okay. Shout out to Locker R room me on the discord hitting us with that nat king cole christmas song tweak of an aka uh i just want to say i like i know you you wrote a very long aka i just like at the very end though this joke that you put and so i'm offering this simple phrase to kids from one to 92. Although it's been said many times, many ways. If you're 93, fuck you. Love it.

Love it. Chef's fucking kiss. Mwah. That's beautiful. Well, well done. Well executed vocals. That's beautiful Well done, well executed Vocals, I gotta say Five stars out of five stars

All around What a joke at the end there Well we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat Miles, by a very talented comedian And writer, who you know From her podcast, What's Your Favorite Taylor Swift Song Please welcome The hilarious and talented

Ellie McIlvey! Ellie! Wow, thank you. It is so thrilling to be here. I've wanted to do it for years. I know, and your work always kept you away, and we found the time to get you on. Full transparency, Ellie and I, we go way back.

Okay. Seven years back from when we worked on youtube nation back in the day and then you went to college with her majesty yeah besties with her majesty get jealous goodness people don't know wow and then uh yeah and look at you now i'm it's it's great to have you on it's great to have you on. It's great to have you on. Yeah, it's really fun. Like, so I just, you said you might know her from her podcast. Absolutely not. It just launched.

Oh, be humble. Oh, thank you. I'm trying to tap into that Swifty market. I'm a Swifty. It's called What's Your Favorite Taylor Swift Song. But I just, this is the first time in my life that I've, like, gone out on my own. And I'm 100% working freelance. I'm doing some weird jobs and it's so fun i love it podcasting is fun it is especially when you get to talk about shit that

you like we're getting good reviews from people who are doing that yeah yeah and like what more do i want to talk about than taylor swift almost nothing else just uh i mean harry styles maybe knowing you yeah actually i have a i have a wide range of i was gonna say like passions and tastes might be the other one i i did i just saved the ads on social media for so the on social media for my podcast it's w-i-f-t-s-s or variations on that right i did save the ads for W-I-F-H-S-S in case I ever want to expand. There you go. Wouldn't you want to get hairy with it?

Okay. I mean, I'm seeing people already having What's Your Favorite Taylor Swift Song as their number one on Spotify wrapped. Thanks. I think it was your mom, but that's still them. Pretty sure it was my mom.

I got two DMs from fans of the show who said that it made their top five. Hey. I don't know if these are like hardcore podcast listeners, though. But I think at the end of the day, like, you know, you're talking about something. You are, you're like, you know fucking Taylor. Like, I don't know shit. I got to ask you on my, what's the album? What's this new stuff going on?

And then you help me understand. You've occasionally come through for expert advice. Yeah. You know, here and there, here and there, for sure. Yeah. And do you reveal what yours is or is it just, is that, that's the ultimate secret? That's the big mystery of the podcast.

I'll never confirm. Wow. You could probably guess based on things that I say. Well, I mean, if I'm being honest, like, gun to my head, you asked me what my favorite Taylor Swift song is. I'm going to choke. You know, like, so many of them matter so much to me for different moods, places, times in my life. What's your favorite Taylor Swift song to turn up to? Gun to your head right now. You got to turn up to Taylor Swift your head right now you gotta turn up all too well 10 okay see i know it's got to get

specific i get that feels better like if you're gonna turn up if you're gonna maybe cook some dinner if you're gonna have people over right is there even an ambient taylor song not really that's the one thing that she doesn't do is you really can't just have her on in the background like yeah maybe if you're like shopping at ross dress for less or something like that yeah but like she's not a background song like if i'm listening to taylor swift i am listening to taylor swift that's like what i'm doing you know what i mean yeah right just rubbing your chin with like a notepad no it's like it's like me hands on my cheeks being like uh and so for those who's my my eyes were just like bugged out with my hands on my cheeks

oh i saw that when you you went to the harry uh show at the forum right yeah who was you said i saw a pic you somebody who had a google lasd gang sign at the harry style show but like all be glittered and shit do Do you know who that was? Yeah, she found me. I posted on my Instagram and she commented. Shoot, what's her name? I mean, she was like so humble about it. Right.

I just love that. She said she was carrying it in. And some girl commented like, I can't believe that didn't get taken away. And she was like, I hid it from the cops at the forum. Right. And it's like done in such an like aesthetic of like bright colored construction paper that if you didn't look at it, you'd be like, well, hold on. What's that shit say?

Google LASD gangs. Uh oh. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Cerise. There it is. Yeah. This girl, Katie Barr.

Or her name is. Yeah. Katie Barr. Shout out Katie Barr. Hottest girl at the Harry Styles show. Yeah. There you go yeah shout out knock la yeah shout out to reese shout out knock la um really important investigative

work and like i saw like teen girls coming up to him being like what is that and so i think um we got some harry stans uh finding out radicalizing some styles fans okay but i will say that harry styles marched in the blm protest last june and like for years there was a contingent of young black fans of harry styles who were trying to push him to say a word about blm and they were like on his case for years way before the george floyd stuff and so i also want to shout out the section of Harry Styles fans who have been trying to get him on this train for a long time. Damn, alright. There you go. Shout out to fandoms. They work

in blessed ways sometimes. It can be a blessing, it can be a curse but I often find it really interesting and cool and more often than not positive. It's also very smart to go after the most motivated fan bases on the internet and be like hey you might want to google the lasd games like does it have to do with harry it's like yeah

yeah in a way in the way that it has to do with all of us yeah like hegemony is sort of all-encompassing so yeah hey i love it all right ali 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 today we're gonna talk about the omicron is that how we're pronouncing it strain of the uh what's it called coronavirus i think they're calling it so we're gonna just talk about that do a quick update there. We're going to talk about Mark Meadows. We're going to talk about Dr. Oz, all the greats, all the hits.

We're going to talk about how you can now rent the fucking McAllister home for one night on Airbnb. And it actually looks like the McAllister home on the inside, which is pretty shocking. We'll talk about some conservative children's books that we got heading our way. Speaking of recruiting people, that's the recruiting technique that the conservatives are going with. So we'll talk about those. All of that.

Plenty more. But first, Ellie, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay, I've got a bummer one and I've got a fun one yeah so pick your poison bummer bummer first off okay how to become a midwife and then like connected to that like safe diy abortion right yeah so i know we're not we're not tackling on the pot you guys have already been talking about it i mean it's easy i mean it's but it's it's very much in the front of the consciousness of the entire one i'd say not in the entire country given how much effort i'm seeing from

leadership right to do anything about it but yeah it is it's it's it is one of those things again underlining that oh shit once again i think we've been shown that we're going to have to rely on each other for a significant amount of time if this is the status quo. Right. I mean, already because of certain states that make it really, really difficult, Texas in particular, there is a lot of really cool innovation happening with like abortion pills by mail and stuff like that. But like I've been talking to my friends, I've've had an abortion i have many friends who've had abortions we're trying we're like when we're looking at the future of this overturn we're like i'm gonna uproot my life to help people with this because if i hadn't had an abortion my whole my like i uh went to the rally and i had a sign that said, my abortion saved my life. And my caption was like, it's a real trolley problem for you. Like, if I hadn't had my abortion, I don't think I'd be here, to be honest. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think I would have finished the pregnancy. I don't think I would have survived it mentally. Do you know what I mean? And there's so many stories. There's so many, you know, people are putting their lives and their trauma on the line to talk about this stuff. And I'm just like, can't I learn how to do

abortion safely? How can I help? I feel when it's at the Supreme Court level, you feel so helpless. And I have a brilliant uncle, shout out Uncle Joel, who works at the DOJ. And he has been talking to me about like his like these brilliant lawyers are working really hard to try and fight these abortion bans. And before it got to this point and but but he was straight up with me like it's not looking good in terms of where the Supreme Court is right now. And I was just like, oh. in terms of where the Supreme Court is right now. And I was just like, oh. Yeah, you look at those majorities and you're like, okay, 6-3, that doesn't look good at all.

And then meanwhile, you have all this lip service being paid from people like Susan Collins who are like, I said I would make sure Brett Kavanaugh didn't get gut Roe v. Wade. And now she's like, trying to be like, we're going to try and figure something. It's like, make sure how do you have a sex tape him on him or something? Like,

I don't think so. Yeah. I'm like, I'm mad at everyone. I'm mad at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not stepping down under Obama. I'm mad at everyone. I'm mad at Obama for not doing it, for appointing somebody.

Push through America. What the fuck? Sorry. Yeah. But anyway, no, but I think that's sort of the situation we're at because we're, we're looking at something where something that seems so common sense is

being hijacked by religious extremism of one very specific form of a religion to then be like, okay, now that's, we're pushing that on everybody now. Yeah. I'm seeing people talk about the filibuster. Is that something that they could use to then push through, like, pack the court?

Is that basically the thinking there? If they haven't done it now, you know. Well, but this seems like a pretty big one. It's, I don't know, this seems like kind of a big one. It's quite literally life or death for a lot of people who can have, you know, pregnancies. Yeah. And also wildly unpopular what they're planning to do. But when you have people like, you know, when the president's like, God, we got to figure this stuff out.

It's like, why don't you fucking lead, asshole? Like, yeah. Why don't you like literally, Mark, kick down the Supreme Court and be like, like i mean not to say that that's all legally possible but like show some energy here and if that's true if you if you really wanted to codify row into law then start saying those words out loud and how that needs to happen because that's where right now i think there's a big messaging gap or just a lack of enthusiasm i think a lot of people are left to sort of understand like what's going to be the final sort of outcome. Well, elected politicians hate, you know,

riding for abortion rights. And I get it. Like on a numbers basis, I get that. That is so divisive or whatever. But like... But 60% of people, you know what I mean? Like two thirds. Yeah, but that number changes in different regions.

I get that, whatever. But it's like like just show up for abortion rights yeah it's such a fundamental anyway so that's the bummer one do you want to hear the fun one yeah oh my my literal last google search was when exactly did taylor swift write i knew you were trouble like i was trying to find it and like all of the all of the journalism about it and there is journalism about it la times was like taylor swift says i knew you were troubles about harry styles and i'm like that's not true this is surface level reporting let's crack into it google gave me nothing and then i asked the fans like i just went to twitter and i was like can anyone give me dates

on when she might have actually sat down with Max Martin and shell back and write I knew you were trouble and I get linked this insane google doc that has all of the chronological timeline of like when she was writing what pictures of her going into and leaving studios with certain producers wow everything it's psycho and it goes all the way back when she was like 12 and she was first putting out demos and according to that she wrote it in like january of 2012 and she didn't meet harry styles until um like march of 2012 so it's not about him and that's important to me yeah of course yeah that's that's an intersection of your fandoms right there that you had to get to the bottom of.

I get that. So who was she dating at that time? Do you know? Well, this is like directly after the Jake Gyllenhaal relationship. But I do think that song is about John Mayer because it has the element of feeling like you've been through it and you processed it. She has a line that's like, and I can see now the blame is on me. And she like, never says that. But that's on my episode that was released this week as I knew your trouble with

guest Pat Buteau, who is my ex-boyfriend. Yeah. Wow. Saucy stuff. Saucy stuff. But also I get a more of a I knew you were troubled vibe from John Mayer. Right? I just feel like you see that guy and you're like. She was getting warned about him. Her mom was saying don't do it. And then she did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Jessica Simpson's like shaking her head like no, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, behind her and giving her the front slash. Run and never look back. You want a career like mine? Go, Air Bud, go. Get out of here, Air Bud. Get out of here. They leave Air Bud on that line. Go on, get.

Go on, get. I think he just lets him off leash and tells him to run away. Oh, the typical, come on, get out of here. Get out of here. Yeah. I can't quit you, Air Bud. What is something you think is overrated okay

I know you guys have mentioned you talked about it this week but Spotify wrapped I was of two minds it's either overrated or perfectly rated depending on like what your timeline is like I think it's fun

and I was thinking it was really fun except I have some questions about my numbers i think some of the data is off it was since lord was in my top five and i love lord and i love lord's back catalog but i hated the new album so i was like actively not streaming her this year and she was like my number three allegedly my number three most streamed artist and that just doesn't feel right to me are there playlists maybe it was coming on passively like you weren't intending to play it but you're just rocking with some playlists and it was on there i don't know yeah i mean i do listen to melodrama a lot so it's possible but i don't know and then i found

out that there's this intern this girl who used to intern at Spotify. Her name is Jewel, who tweeted and she was like me watching the Spotify rap, knowing that I pitched this as an intern and I'm getting like zero dollars from it. And it's like it's just classic. And she's really cool about it. She's like, I get it. I'm not trying to litigate this or anything like that. But here's my pitch deck. or anything like that, but here's my pitch deck. And if you look at her pitch deck,

it looks exactly like how all the slides look for the new interactive Spotify rap. Because she pitched it when they did Spotify rap where it was just a link. You would get like a list or whatever. And this pitch deck is like this incredible, like just exactly the genius brain thing a 22-year-old would who's super super fluent with social media, would come up with. And, you know, Spotify has a statement that's like, we get a lot of ideas from, you know.

Oh, shit. We hear a lot of ideas a lot of the time. And Jewel's okay. She's, like, presenting at Art Basel this weekend or something like that. Oh, shit. Yeah, she's cool. She's doing it. But it's still like the whole the ethics

of internships and whatever yeah for sure and also apologies apologies for everyone because i'm i'm spamming the fucking timeline with retweets well i do think it's nice i do really like that they have the podcast section because i really like using spotify for podcasts more than apple podcast i always thought that was like annoying. And making podcasts big on Spotify is good. And this year, everyone tagging their favorite creators and stuff. It rules. I think that's nice.

That's not overrated. But I wish I had. I just use the iHeartRadio app, so I don't really get those metrics. But I think it's coming down the road, I think, eventually. Right? Is that you just being an iHeartRadio good company boy? No, it's just the best app. And iHeartRadio is number one

for audio, so it's pretty obvious. Oh, I love that. Yeah, I love iHeartRadio. Wherever you get your podcasts. I don't know. No, actually, I'm just kidding. Okay, I'm on the iHeartRadio app. Oh, I'm just kidding. Yeah, okay. I'm on the iHeartRadio app. Oh, just kidding. Please don't shout about me.

I was kidding. Oh, you thought. No, I was kidding because, yeah, of course, we all use iHeartRadio. That's right. I'm not seeing your podcast come up on the iHeartRadio app anymore, Ellie. No. Also, iHeartRadio, if you want a Taylor Swift podcast. Just kidding.

What is something you think is underrated? Okay. Fancy nails. I got my first Gel X extensions. And I'm different now. I'm a new person. And I always thought that acrylics were more

trouble than they were worth. I was like, you can't pick things up or whatever. this seems hard and then they're expensive and whatever but there's new technology in nails so this is sort of like a step down from acrylics but a step up from just your normal nail and it was so easy and it's been so fun i mean i was sending sending off some clunky texts in the first hour or two but i'm adapting and i feel like okay like look who is she you keep bringing him into a frame and i'm like okay stunter like get it stunter s thompson over here yeah i feel i feel amazing like i feel like i walk with better posture now yeah there is something your nails do feel like very like that shade of red.

There's it's it's it's make you feel like an authority, an authority on something. Yeah. Thank you. And like, you know, like women, you know, people who really like take care of themselves and do all that high maintenance stuff of nails, hair, hair, dead nails, dead, et cetera. Like that Drake song. It's like it's like i get it like i don't normally go super high femme with stuff but because i'm just lazy but i got this done and i feel better and i feel like i'm more more yeah go go nab you a a billionaire who's on their deathbed yeah i did that shit so passively.

There you go. Going out on a date with a male ballerina tomorrow. Wow. Is that called a ballerino? Ballerino. That's what he said. Okay. Yeah.

It somehow sounds way more Italian that way. Right? Ballerino. Yeah. I think he's from Jersey, but yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do tell. Tony Ballerino. Yeah. yeah i think he's from jersey but yeah yeah okay do tell i'll tell you you know yeah all right well yeah your your extensions look great and i agree there that that seems to have been a

huge breakthrough that i don't see mentioned like in the zeitgeist a lot, but yeah, the gel talks about the gel X is like a constant, uh, point of like, these, these are great. Uh, these make your nails a little bit brittle, but they're fucking awesome.

Just, yeah, it's, it's big. It's huge. Yeah. I mean, we're not like hunting and scavenging for our food anymore.

Like I don't need my nails to be strong. Right. Exactly. That's right. And these days I open a beer with a car key. Oh, I did try to open a pop can and it didn't go well. Oh yeah. See, that's where you might need that little, you know, adapter or something. That bartender. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Go, go find a bartender. And thank them. National bartenderender can you open this please please i'll get a taxi if you ask me to all right there you go miss all right let's

take a quick break and we'll come back and talk omicron I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and L.A.-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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other than the impending loss of reproductive rights in America is the Omicron,ron a variety varietal of coronavirus which yeah i just like i've heard people say various things that are panic inducing so i just wanted to like do a quick quick run through of what we know and what we we don't know which is a favorite uh catchphrase virus from election season what is in that muller report just don't know oh yeah that's what it was the muller report and that was not great news it turned out it was sundowning batman's diary you're like oh no this is not good god that's what i in the thing about like conservative books that we'll maybe get to later i was writing that i feel like that whole thing about like rbg is my

queen and like all the like culture stuff from the trump like the sort of lib culture stuff from the Trump, like the sort of lib culture stuff from the Trump administration, like now feels like wild dated. And the, the Mueller thing, probably the most dated being like Mueller is fucking Batman dog. Mueller is Mueller is like so hot. I would fuck. Yo lib,

lib canonizations are just peak cringe though like it's like that is not it fool and you're further underslining why you don't okay anyway yeah i just don't yeah i don't think we should have crushes on any of our elected officials or whatever especially people who headed up the fbi yeah maybe not. But he looks like my grandpa. When he started talking, that was one of the wildest things ever. You're like, who are me? What?

You're supposed to be like, you got Mueller. Yeah. Like talk like a fucking 1950s, like film noir. Like gumshoe? Yeah. Look what I got here.

See? Trump was in a whole lot of malarkey. He was a fucking, he was an old prospector instead yeah anyway all right uh so we don't know about omicron we don't the one thing we know about omicron based on structure it seems more likely to be contagious because it's got and i'm gonna quote from multiple articles i saw more viral grappling hooks cool metaphor in multiple places so let's go with it but yeah it seems to be spreading pretty rapidly in south africa which is why people are panicking but there are some pretty big unknowns that i feel like should give us i guess not necessarily

hope but at least like patience like pump the brakes before you decide to panic. So what one thing that we've talked about from the beginning of this, and it doesn't seem like it's come to bear thus far in this pandemic, but many viruses as they mutate get more contagious but less deadly, with the idea being that the more deadly or dangerous the like variant or the mutation the more likely the virus is to like you know kill the host quickly knock them down so they can't leave their house and spread it like ebola is the best example of this super deadly to the point that it would kill people very quickly and they wouldn't be able to kind of pass it on. And it was also pretty evident, like nobody was just like going to work with a case of

Ebola. Hot zone, baby. Yeah. Yeah. But and then the sort of alternate side of this is the cold virus, which, you know, doesn't really kill many people or really knock you down so hard that you stay home from work or school. So you've just got a lot of carriers out and about and sneezing on people and things. And so that is why it's just been with us and is the most omnipresent virus. So some people are thinking slash hoping that's what's happening here. And one kind of detail that I found that made me slightly hopeful is that they. So one thing they're doing is testing the wastewater in South Africa, which is gross, but it's a good way of finding out, like, just how much of this virus is in the population. And it's fucking everywhere like it's really like they they were shocked by how widespread it is but we're not seeing a lot of people reporting like

being sick with it which you know could be that it's just a lagging indicator like that they just haven't developed symptoms yet or it could be that it's a milder disease and that even though it's everywhere, only like not that many people are actually getting sick and going to the hospital. We also don't know if like previous vaccines, like how well they're going to work on it. But, you know, I think the big unavoidable factor that should give us hope or would give us hope if we lived in a more like just global society is that we have vaccines better vaccine technology to create vaccines that adapt to new variants and we now have medication to treat people who have already caught the disease and

you know are sick with the disease like and they're in pill form and not shots, which seems like that should make it much easier to distribute. So I think just the main takeaway for me as of right now is we need to get our governments and corporate overlords to let people have those tools. Because we have the tools to fight this no matter what. It's just a matter of like we don't have the people in power who are willing to use those tools. Well, I mean, I think it's it's there's yeah, there's plenty to pump the brakes on the panic. I think that's what even like the White House was just saying for the very similar thing. It's like, look, we're watching it. You know, I think the White House is just now recommending that they're trying to get rapid tests for people as quickly as possible and have insurance cover that. Because, yeah, I mean, I think that's also been just part of the strategy in this country that's been lagging like epically that getting a test or having an at home test is like you have to go on StockX to fucking buy one because they're so rare at the moment.

Or you got to go to like a clinic and like take a huge chunk out of your day or time out of your day to do that. So yeah, you know, I'm just waiting and hoping for the best. Waiting and hoping. Just waiting and hoping. Don't want to jump to conclusions quite yet. Yeah, I will say that like, it seems like we have the tools to handle this,

but Omicron does sound like the big boss at the end of a video game. It sounds scary. They gave it too cool a name. Who decides on these names? It feels like there should be a little bit more market research into how scary that sounds. Or maybe people do need to be scared,

or maybe they don't. I don't know. It's the Greek alphabet. But they went from... It's the Greek alphabet. But they went from. Oh, the Greek alphabet. Yeah. They skipped a letter, though. So it was like beta, which we were like, this ain't shit. We can take this motherfucker down.

Yeah. I'll steal your girl. Yeah. But then they skipped to Omicron because they were like, ooh, that sounds like the villain from a Transformers movie. We're not going to do Epsilon, I guess. Right. Yeah. Well, they skipped New because they didn't want people to get confused by being like the new variant.

Right. And then the next one would have been Xi, which they would have been like conflating that with like she and china so they're like okay let's go to omicron because this is all right the other two are just going to confuse the fuck out of people and give people too much weird shit to like rhetorically at worst this sounds like a villain in like the transformers movie or something so it's definitely a pokemon like you know yeah evolved pokemon for sure yeah yeah got a bunch of like boulders on his shoulders yeah yeah 100 just spike proteins you know what i mean grappling hooks grappling hugs yeah uh we did want to just uh shoot down real quick any hope anybody had that mark meadows was

gonna like be any sort of help in anything because we talked about how his books coming out that reveals that trump tested positive for covid before like meeting with a bunch of gold star families like basically just he endangered a bunch of people's lives the media was like whoa that's a that's a big bomb drop and then he just walked his ass out onto newsmax to uh you know, clear up exactly what he meant. But it's pretty straightforward. It seems like a book should give you enough time to make it pretty clear what happened. But what are we hearing from Mark now? I mean, look, yeah, Trump got angry.

And when you see someone just jump to Newsmax, oh, boy, it means that maybe somebody's got some explaining to do. And in this case, it was indeed Mark Meadows, who just said, oh, that book that said he was sick. OK, let me clear that up. Meadows, the author of The Chief's Chief, joins us now to talk more about that. You've been a popular guy in the last week or so. Mark, it's good to see you. I want to start off with the covid story. The media is going nuts with the story. I believe the president says it's fake news. What is the story here? Well, the president's right. It's fake news. If you actually read the book, the context of it, that story outlined a false positive. Literally, he had a test, had two other tests

after that that showed that he didn't have COVID during the debate uh and yet uh you know the way that let me just stop you there mark oh boy yeah it was a false positive yeah like shut up many people confirmed his accounting of it and like the way he was saying like hey they're ignoring there there were also that he had had a negative test but the media wasn't ignoring that at all they they've laid everything out there it's noted right and also he eventually did test positive immediately after the debate and a lot of people at the time were like wait when did he first find out that he had a positive test so like there were already signs that y'all were lying at the time and that you knew what you were doing was not what you should have been doing right 100 and in his book

doesn't he say like he or no i think it was people like found pictures of him addressing people and he like has this of trump addressing people and mark meadowsadows has his head in his hands, he's like, oh, fuck. We're so fucked. He's kidding. But the president's right. My book is false, so don't buy it. You're right.

It is fake news. You can't trust these jokers as far as you can throw them. Wait, but you're the author of the book. Right, right. Don't trust me. Don't trust me. I'm an untrustworthy source, so please. I'm a stupid fucking idiot.

No, and here's the thing. The president is right. I'm an ignorant little asshole. So, yeah. I'm a dumb, dumb cuck. Yeah, I'm a dumb fucking cuck. I'm a soy boy i'm the furthest thing from based you know it would have been great if he was clearly reading from like a

list of things that the president told him to say about himself right because i have a he was doing that but i just wish it was a little clearer i have a glass jaw probably i bet i couldn't i probably couldn't take a punch in a fight. I'd probably go down real easy. They don't have a term for me because micro penis does not cut it. It is actually inside my body. It's just right. Yeah. He again, like you're saying, Jack, like if this is what this guy is doing after he went for his cash grab, I mean, book to try and make a little bit of money that he would just about face, go out there and be like, yeah, that's that's all a lie.

Right. What is that? It truly like what does that mean when he has to go to the January 6th principal's office up on Capitol Hill to go give testimony to that committee? I don't know. I'm not sure what he's going say like i guess in the most terribly optimistic sense it's that he's trying to like walk of the line up until the last moment where he's like i just got to get to that point then i'll be the hero at the at the january 6th thing i'll get my name back and then i can be off this but this does not this this does not look like that's even close to what's happening here i'd love to see him give himself a trump nickname like that, like Narc Meadows or something. Oh, yeah. Wow.

What are these like Trump guys like when they say they want like public, they want to be back in the public good graces or that they're making moves to do so? Like, but like, do like, do they do they really care about that? I don't know. It's so strange to me. All of these like moves to be considered oh no actually i thought trump was bad but like all your buddies don't right all the rehab i mean it all depends on how you know you see it in many different ways like people get that if you're not big enough like a lot of former staffers are like shit i can't get a job fucking

anywhere in dc right okay okay i was was wondering, I have so little context for like sort of the D.C. how things work. You would think that they would be pretty numbed to the idea of the way people crisscross those lines. But I guess Trump sort of changed everything. Yeah, and I think but most but the higher profile people aren't having trouble at all. That's for sure. They can keep grifting on the proximity to Trump, you know, for a while, it seems. I mean, speaking of moves, you'd understand his rehab strategy if you saw his Dancing with the Stars audition tape. Mark Meadows has, as Miles puts it, honey in his hips.

No, not yet. But that's going to, it's coming. When he comes out. Doing the lumbada, Mark Meadows. Wait, wait, is this a bit or is this real? It's a bit. I was just saying. That's the direction Spicer went.

Okay, well, that's why I was like, wait, I heard about that, but that wasn't him. Okay, sorry. Idiot. I'm a dumb cuck. Okay, sorry. Idiot. I'm a dumb cuck. Oh, man.

I really hope Trump starts writing his appearances for him. I just love the idea that he'd have to... It is fake news. He'd have to self-own like that on script. Yeah. He'd have to script and go, read it, you little fucking puppet cuck. And so your book is saying that he was reckless after testing positive. Who are you talking about?

Narc Meadows? That guy's a fucking loser. What? Mr. Meadows? I'm sorry? Mr. Meadows, what was that? Yeah, don't listen. Are you speaking to the third person?

That guy's a fucking loser, man. I bet his wife cheats on him all the time with guys with bigger biceps than him. Guys with Christmas hams for biceps is probably what she's into not me they call me noodle arms mark anyway what's your next question the book comes out uh in two weeks uh bookstores everywhere december 14th sweating bullets just but yeah you've many people like and that's but that's what happens you go and you want to step to trump like and be in proximity you you basically give the keys up to your dignity at that point so yeah yeah you know it's it's but it's a it's a pattern it's far if you're way too many people are willing to engage it yeah yeah yeah all right let's take a quick break and we'll come

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So, yeah, they know how to get Miles's attention, I think. Oh, 100%. What's the latest? So, yeah, I first started Fresh Prince of Bel-Air House. I was like, okay. Even though I don't know much about the interior, I love that show. And the idea to sleep in that appealed to me. Then there was the Outkast Dungeon House, where you could go and see where a lot of early Outkast things are recorded.

And you're like, okay, that's fucking cool, too. And now they're doing it with, as mentioned already the mcallister home from home alone and yes it's the fucking house from the first movie and like they even have that little fucking brass like messenger guy like statue that was at the front of the of the steps that gets knocked over yeah that shit is there and so you know like with all these it's really not about like a money-making thing it's typically just to like create buzz because i'm just like a new home alone movie coming out because it's only like 25 for a night and it's like four people can stay there and no way yeah the proceeds go to a local children's hospital in chicago they should

charge more than i know i was gonna say like what the 25 bucks a night you're only doing this for like a week that's less than like a super eight yeah seriously and then being like okay and here's our uh here's our gift to the children's hospital a whopping 400 you're like oh okay thank you hey that's like half an x-ray i guess yeah right they're like okay like we can't even get a kid of one IV bag with this. But big deal here for me is that the interior actually looks like the home alone. And I guess they shot it. They did the exterior and the interior match, which is almost never the case,

like in any famous like movie or TV home. Yeah. Like, which is wild. I mean, exactly. So most of the time, and we,

within our document, our other writer, JM McNabb was just like, you know, I just got to point out that this house didn't act. They didn't actually film everything inside this house. They built a fucking, like a two story set inside of a high school gym because they couldn't fit all the crew and stuff to shoot in the house however as i'm looking at these pictures and jack was looking at pictures

like no that's the fucking staircase from the movie like the kitchen is the staircase and upon further review they did both exactly so this place gives you a good balance like that when i saw that staircase i was like yo i could see a fucking paint can coming straight from my stupid head right now and i was like loving it but like for me i don't know why this has kicked off such like rabid nostalgia fever in me because like i want to like i would love to spend the whole christmas holiday there to like be like it's christmas i'm in the fucking mccallister home fuck with me okay i'm smoking blunts in the fucking attic. Okay. Where Spike used to fucking hang out. But they do let a tarantula loose in the house before you go to sleep.

They do. Yeah. They demand that you have to do that. So that it's been like three or something. They said, don't trip. It should be fine. But yeah, it's a really, I don't know. It's just like one of those things where I feel like you could do this with a lot of things.

Like, imagine if they, like, you had regional replicas of this house. I would be like, yeah, I'd go there. I would like to stay there during the holidays just for a quick thing. Do you know exactly where this McAllister house is? I don't know exactly where it is, but I'm guessing it's nearby somewhere to central Chicago. I don't want to brag, but I think it's really close to where I grew up, where my childhood home is, which is Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Yeah, like all the John Hughes movies were shot like in the outside of Chicago suburbia. And so like the Macalester house and that kind of nostalgia like also is like how i grew up like it

is like it's in winneka yeah winneka that's where my cousin okay so yeah i mean it's it's good stuff it's like true americana you know yeah no it really is it really is so i don't know why like my like heart rate my heart like what heart well you're like an la boy you know yeah exactly and i think and you know this about me i love the cold i like anything not la like in the winter so yeah yeah and like i tell you or or my other like la friends about my high school experience like the captain of the football team was dating the head cheerleader. Like, there was, like, there were, like, you know, people making out under bleach or, you know, it's, like, so classic.

Like, John Hughes movie. Yeah. Home Alone, shit like that. You know, it's, like, I come from the middle of the country and I really do, you know? I would love to check out Cameron's house from Ferris Bueller's, because that was that was like a very iconic house with like that. Yeah.

Wild garage. Frank Lloyd Wright House or something. Yeah. I think it's an Oak Park or maybe River Forest. One of the Oak Park or River Forest, I think. But yeah, that's cool stuff. I mean, there's a lot of like wildly cool architecture yeah island park damn you're nailing it i had ben rose house oh wow i had no idea that any movie

ever used the interiors and like the same interior and exterior because like i knew the cosby show exterior that was supposed to be a brownstone in Brooklyn was actually by my apartment in the West Village. Like when I lived in New York City. But like they, you know, just use the exterior. And obviously everything else was a soundstage. And I just assumed movies like did the same thing. So it's kind of cool that I don't know. Yeah.

Well, so for Home Alone, I watched the like how how like how movies get made on Netflix or whatever that series. Oh, the movies that made us. The movies that made us. Yeah. I think they had an episode on Home Alone and they did specify that they had that recreation in the gym so they could do those practical effects. Right. Like all the not like fucking ruin a beautiful home. Huh? Really? they weren't just

smashing through walls right right like for like the normal scenes in the beginning it was a lot of uh practical sets like i want to fight over slices of pizza and drink a coca-cola in that kitchen you know what i mean out of a liter yeah exactly just get disgusting with it but it's so weird like i don't know if there's any other movie where like i'm looking at a home and be like this is everything i did not have as a child and that's where i want to be right now yeah the i mean doing the fake party with the train set with the cutouts on it the michael jordan cutout yeah would be would be fun i i kind of like your you know what you were getting at when you were like just a big pink can just swinging down on my big stupid head. If this was actually secretly a masochistic S&M thing where people could go and just get fucking abused by all the different wet bandits.

McAllister House meets BDSM Dungeon. All right. Hear me out. SharksDSM Dungeon. Yeah. All right. Hear me out. All right. Sharks, hear me out. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because you watch that movie.

Any one of those. Mark would go for it. He's a little freak. Any one of those traps that they said. Like the amount of TBIs, traumatic brain injuries, that the sticky bandits or wet bandits would have gone through you're like it also gave me i remember as a kid a completely upside down understanding of physics and what like the human body can actually like

what you can survive yeah yeah yeah like yeah you should be able to take a fucking paint can being full steam at your face and you won't bleed yeah until like i remember running into like a like a basketball like you know where the hoop the the post like where the hoop is sort of secured at a park like in concrete and i ran into them shits as a kid like busted my shit and i was like this is not like home alone i remember having like a memory like fucking lied to us man yeah i remember i got um i was a goalie in soccer and i hit my head fully into the side of the goal post and i remember just being like oh god this was not like the cartoon yeah like i had a bump like it was a cartoon oh shit but it was so bad yeah did it make that sound when it came out of

your head yeah it did and i like, where's that coming from? Uh-oh. But, Zeitgang, I want to hear, like, you guys' pitches for fictional locations that you want Airbnb to hit next. Gattaca. Gattaca. I would want to stay in the Mars family, Veronica Mars World, their apartment in San Diego. Oh, okay. Yeah. I know it's in san diego but i would

want to stay in it right right exactly as it is in the tv show i feel like full house for some reason even though that's definitely not like what that place i feel like that happened but no that's again that's all exteriors to like yeah it's just exteriors there's nothing that'll match that that's why i think this really appeals to me because it's like it's it like it feels so authentic rather than just like a location for exterior shots. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think they should like some of you should just make it their whole business model to like build these like experience things since like so so much of what like like Levittown.

We spend money on. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Hughesville. Hughesville. things since like so so much of what like like levittown yeah yeah exactly hughesville and any john hughes film they have faithful replications of those homes yeah i mean like harry potter world is so huge and i get it like i love harry potter stuff and um i'll admit to that and like when you go to har Potter World I took my mom there I surprised her and got us like fast passes at Universal and we went to Harry Potter World and she's a huge Harry Potter fan

she'd never even she's an adult so she never thought about going she walked in she starts sobbing she's freaking out I have a video of her and she's just going

oh my god a pretty box for a hot seat she's like she's so cute and she's flipping out like crying like i'm in harry potter world i didn't think i would ever make it to literally yeah i mean i feel like that's how i'm gonna be on the star wars hotel oh like when i step on a ship and i'm like yep all right so i'm like i'm just gonna record the podcast from here have you been to disneyland no not since the not since they

opened up that that shit no because i remember in the early days it was really hard to go then the pandemic hit and then i'm just like well one day but yeah i, I will. I will. Okay. All right. Let's talk really briefly about these conservative children's books that are coming. I feel like this is very reminiscent of how conservatives reacted to The Daily Show. They, you know, once the Daily Show Jon Stewart edition was like done and in retrospect, somewhat embarrassing, like in some ways, then they like about rbg or like the marlon bundo book from last week tonight which is actually pretty delightful and i have both of those on my kids bookshelf but i feel like we're past that point where we're like just creating these like trying to turn people who are like politically convenient heroes into like children's heroes i feel like that feels weird in retrospect right and yeah anyways uh conservatives now that it feels weird and bad and like outdated conservatives are going to start doing it which seems to be their general

you know metabolic rate for culture yeah because if you know their whole thing is like they're doctor we're letting them indoctrinate our kids man with yeah concepts of fairness equality yeah you know mutual aid and responsibility altruism reciprocity what the fuck is next yeah like that's really because when you when you just boil it down that's all it is and yeah and i think because they look at too how much like demographically younger and younger generations are just skewing more and more liberal progressive even like socialist that they're like fuck it man put a put a fucking children's book about how amy coney barrett is like a cool person they should look up

to and maybe that'll stem the flow of progress so i mean they are first of all they're trying to like it's not just about the marlon bundo or rbg books or whatever like the books about becoming a anti-racist as a baby they They are trying to get kids' books about Martin Luther King Jr. banned from school libraries. And so on the other side of that is, like you said, Miles, they are dropping a series called

Heroes of Liberty. Oh, good. And they're debuting with three books about Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and Amy Coney Barrett. Oh, you'll love it. The Amy Coney Barrett book, the cover looks like it's from a Goosebumps thing. It's her reading to her kids. But one of her kids seems to be clinging to her arm in fear and looking at a ghost off out of the frame.

And just the lighting is creepy.ken eyes yeah the lighting is also creepy it really they they just took a picture a painting from like a uh horror novel and put it put it on the cover of this and we're like yeah sure she looks good though she looks like an avenging angel yeah which is ironic yeah this the the covers too it just no kid they and it shows they don't even understand fucking kids like no kid isn't be like oh what's this weird like john voight looking motherfucker book oh it's ronald reagan cool ronald reagan looks like shit oh ronald reagan looks really bad yeah like that was the one thing that he was good at is looking good and they made him look like shit in their illustration and it looks like a unfinished paint by numbers thing of ronald reagan that like not even aimed at kids but they did give it funky font where like the

Ronald and the Reagan are like kind of funky they're not like the kerning is off I guess like yeah what a word I haven't thought about in so long but he looks like you took his you you like made a skin suit of Ronald Reagan right you popped You popped it off. You sort of like... Got the wrinkles out, tried to whip out the wrinkles. Got the wrinkles out, whipped it out, sort of stretched it, maybe ran it through the wash, let it air dry, and then put it back on Ronald Reagan's skeleton. Right, right. Yeah, it's very strange. I tend to agree this does not look like they have thought this through all that well.

The logic is also scary of the need for it it too oh yeah they articulate yeah but yeah this so they interviewed on fox business uh bethany mandel who is behind this series of books and i just her quote is i i don't think i've ever heard someone like a more ineloquent or poorly thought out critique of like an industry someone's trying to like enter. She says children's literature is one of those things that people realized this is garbage and indoctrination. And there's never been an alternatives. That's not garbage itself or indoctrination itself there's never been an alternatives that's not garbage itself or indoctrination itself what's your favorite book what's your favorite book miss mandel oh where the wild things are right like what the fuck are you talking about there are so many like works

of art that are children's but like that i who hates all children's books like a fucking demonic racist who's hell-bent on upending societal norms by any means necessary with no uh awareness around how ham-fisted it is so all right the first thing the premise we start from everybody knows we hate children's imaginations right like fuck that am i right like that's right yeah yeah all right so i just reread charlotte's web and it was amazing like as a nearly 30 year old woman i was like i love charlotte's web it's maybe one of my favorite books yeah children's books are fucking great they're they're nailing it like and when you look at like what they were in the 40s and 50s they are so shitty you you really appreciate like the the work that dr seuss did because they're you know what

one of the books that's still around just because of like sheer inertia because i think it was like the only children's book for hundreds of years was it's like pat the cat and it's just a cat and it says look at the cat pet the cat the cat likes when you pet him like that's what children's books were for a long time it sucked and this person like yeah this is daryl and he just bought a lower receiver for an ar on the dark web when he gets it he'll be able to make his own assault rifle because the feds don't know when to fucking take their nose out of shit it's like whoa what the fuck it's not subtle either and like the people that they want to continue with right fucking margaret thatcher yeah rush limbaugh rush limbaugh because Wait is that really listed?

Publisher claims that Limbaugh's story Can offer a valuable lesson For kids because kids are afraid Of being offensive Get the fuck Kids are not afraid Of being offensive Have you ever met a human being Under the age of 12

Like they only talk about poop and pooping and farting and penises and vaginas and that's yeah i had a five-year-old grab my tits the other day and i didn't take him to court over it it's like he's an edgy comic it's what it's true though like my my struggle since childhood into adulthood is to become less offensive over time right that's been the thing like i started off as like a shock jock child saying the wildest things to just get reactions out of adults and then you're kind of like okay right this is not a this is not a sustainable form of humor or humor at all. And then you're like, OK, let's let's let that go. But yeah, the idea that like where is that fake?

Where's that even fake interview or like a six year old? And I'm afraid of being one to say fart at school. Everyone in the preschool canceled me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. canceled me yeah yeah so dana loach one of one of our other favorites from the conservative movement used to like probably her most iconic moment was those like nra videos where she was like they're coming for us let's fucking kill people so she just dropped a children's book because she just gives off that person you would never leave

in charge of your children if someone literally had a gun to your head. She just dropped a children's book. A starving wolf in Dana Lo. She'd be like, I'm going to chance it with the wolf. The wolf probably has a maternal instinct somewhere in there. So she just dropped

a book called Paws Off My Cannon. And it's about a gorilla named Bongo. Oh boy. Who uses a cannon to keep hyenas from stealing his cupcakes even though his town wants to ban cannons. Oh my God. So it's teaching kids

that if someone tries to steal your dessert you should be allowed to murder them i guess is the point yeah like i don't know how there's anything aside from using arms to protect your property that anything a child gets out of that the she she dropped a promotional video on twitter to promote her book and the video was aimed at small children and featured a moment where a bunch of cgi machine guns take the shape of black wings behind her turn her into like a angel of death yeah you know because kids love that sort of shit yeah hey do you want this fucker telling you're reading your kid's bedtime story? Because the fucking machine gun wings. OK, but yeah, that's like the funny thing, too, is like even with these books.

Right. They they they try so hard or, you know, to like sort of normalize or mainstream them. But it's like they're also so greedy, like they just insist on selling it in a way that isn't like how most like publishers of kids books would be where they're like oh yeah let me let me get it to amazon or let me get it to this place rather it's just going to end up being yeah you can buy it from our one website and it's you can only buy it from me and it's also a pyramid scam yeah yeah yeah these are so it's part of Brave. That's the publisher's name. You can be a Brave Mom, which means convincing other families to sign up for the subscription. But don't worry, because for each new subscriber you recruit, you earn valuable Brave Bucks. And yeah, so it's just a pyramid scheme for shitty kids' books.

Brave Bucks? yeah so it's just a pyramid scheme for shitty kids book brave books dude if you're brave and again so regressive and gender normative it's got to be the brave moms that's who we got to go after yeah yeah and then it recruit other unwitting you know people from your your pta group or whatever to buy a crap book about fucking ayn rand or some shit yeah you can also get a dan crenshaw penned book about the dangers of cancel culture set in an underwater city surrounded by seaweed which offending citizens are expelled via the raft of shame or a book by jack posobiac called the island of free ice cream about the dangers of socialism the island of free ice cream like this shit is so dumb it sounds like bad comedy writing on our part like we're making this up and are the worst comedy writers ever um this sucks i will say

that any kind of public figure releasing a children's book who like their job isn't being a children's book author just reeks to me of like, I lost a lot of money. And I need a new income stream. Case in point, Jimmy Fallon has a lot of children's books. Yeah. And I'm like, are you gambling? What's going on buddy like he has like the dumbest children's books like there's one called this is baby i just remember having to pitch ideas to promote jimmy fallon's this is baby book and wanting to like walk into the ocean. Right. Yeah. That is a good point.

I have one of Jimmy Fallon's baby books and it was given to us as a gift. Okay. Sorry. Okay. The premise is that the dad animals are trying to get their baby animals to say da-da instead of mama. Okay. So that is a conservative talking point. Father's right.

They're furious. And then at the end, the kids finally say Dada. And it's too late because he's left them. He's walked out on them. They had their chance. Fatherhood wasn't what I thought it would be. I wasn't ready for this. I'm going to just go tussle this fascist's toupee

on my show. Ellie, it has been such a pleasure having you oh thank you on the Daily Zeitgeist where can people find you and follow you I am at Ellie M-C-E E-L-L-I-E M-C-E on all socials that includes TikTok and

my podcast is What's Your Favorite Taylor Swift Song and that's W-Y-F underscore T-S-S on Instagram. And variations on that on all the other socials, too. Beautiful, beautiful. There you go. It was so fun to be here. Oh, great having you. Glad it worked out, finally.

Finally. Is there a tweet or some other work, social media you've been enjoying? Oh, so I thought it was just tweets. But there was a TikTok that I was obsessed with this week.'s i mean i'm devastatingly on brand all the time but it's this this girl she's this taylor so stan and part of all too well 10 minute version have you guys listened yes some of it okay i've heard some of it not the full 10 minute yeah Yeah. No, no. Yeah, that's fair. That's fine. It's great. And there's this sort of back half bridge that she says, I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes, I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age.

And it's a really powerful part of the song. It's really great. And it's true. He's like currently dating a 25 year old and has been for a couple of years. So she was like 23 when they met or something. He's like 40. Anyway, year old and has been for a couple years so she was like 23 when they met or something he's like 40 anyway jake gyllenhaal i mean but there's this girl who did a tiktok where she it goes i was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes and then just like like in a janky voiceover with the audio she goes i'll get hotter but you'll always be five eight yes this like that's one of my favorite things about stan culture is just all of the media that

goes out that just takes something that's maybe a little too self-serious or or deep or something like that and they just go nuts with it it's so good right that's awesome yeah miles where can people find you what is a tweet you've been enjoying twitter instagram at miles of gray also the other show 420 day fiance with sophia alexandra come through for that one if you like 90 day some tweets that i like first one is from na Akparagin at Blacktress tweeted, Me running into people post-quarantine. How's your baby and your husband? Then, we're divorced and my baby is seven.

Me, okay, bye. And then Jaboukie at Jaboukie tweeted, I need this booster in me swiftly. No Taylor. That's great. I'm going to choose to take that as not shade on Taylor. That's great. I'm going to choose to take that as not shade on Taylor, and I don't think it is. No, no, no. I don't know where Chupiki stands on Taylor Swift.

I bet he doesn't care. I don't know. No, he doesn't. He seems like he has bigger fish to fry, mentally. Yeah. I mean, are there bigger fish, Miles? That's the question that we should all be asking ourselves. Yeah, now you have Swifties coming for me. Like, you're saying there's bigger fish than Taylor Swift?

She's bigger than God, homie. She's pretty big. Let's see. Tweet, I've been enjoying Jesse at MamaJesseC. Tweeted, by the age of 40, you should have 60,000 variations of the same password. Which I do, indeed. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. of the same password. I do, indeed. 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 and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think

you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy enjoy just uh you might enjoy this one it's called look what we do by benny sings and jones and it's just a great like you know kind of poppy funk track i'm trying to think of who i'd compare it to like it's kind of like if you like steve lacy or someone like the Kali Ucha stuff, like, instrumentally, backing track-wise, it's like that. The vocalist,

I'm not going to say that this is like Kali at all. But it's, you know, if you fuck with that, you're probably going to like this track. So look what we do by Benny Sings. All right.

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