The Daily Zeitgeist - R.I.P. Papa John, Obamacare Lives? 12.22.17

Episode Date: December 23, 2017

In episode 54, the final episode of the year, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Brandie Posey to discuss Papa John CEO stepping down, Menghazi crims Michael Irwin, Eric Davis, 'bloidwatch, Paul Ryan, Obamacare sign ups, Netflix's Bright, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 11, Episode 5 of Das Daily Zeitgeist. For December 22nd, 2017, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jackson Brolic, and I am joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Minasan, ohayou gozaimasu. Mayurus togoshimasu. And also, shout out to my man, MFC Ericksonson for that litty Photoshop job of us and Wyatt Coke. And also Brian Croft because he won a Christmas shout out. And also to a new friend I found on Twitter, Cranky Old Baptist.

You know, it's good to know that even Baptist preachers come to the Zeitgang. Yeah, and weren't you saying somebody like told all their friends, like told 10 of their friends about the show? If people can prove that they've like gotten us some new followers, let us know. We'll say anything you want us to say here up top. Oh, that's... Anything. Wow, okay. Well, those are Jack's words.

Anything. I was going to be like, hey, we'll send you a fidget spinner or a coffee mug. Yeah, no, let's go with that, actually. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious stand-up comedian, Brandi Posey. Hello. Hello, Brandi. Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Hey, thank you.

It's great to have you here. One of our earliest guests. She's seen our new studio for the first time. Pretty sick. You've seen it. She saw us when we were at the bottom. Yeah. You know, in basically a utility closet.

A tiny closet in a building full of little scooters. I hate those things. What do you like, hoverboards? No, no, in basically a utility closet. A tiny closet in a building full of the little scooters. I hate those things. What are they, like hoverboards? No, no, no, no, no. Like the little... Razors? Razor scooters, yeah. That whole building felt like razor scooters were on every floor.

Right. Everyone was trying to be an aggressively cool office. Right, right, right. And you guys are the actual cool office. With no windows. Yes. It's an actual closet. Right.

Where people are like, oh, that's an office? And I remember they would give tours of the building. Like, yeah, don't worry about them. They're podcasting or something. We don't really know about those. Whatever that means. Yeah, right. Brandi, what's something you've searched in the not-too-distant past that is revealing about who you are as a human being?

So, next year, my resolution for 2018 is to win the lottery. So, I've been Googling how the lottery works. Basically, just trying to like... I believe you buy a ticket, right? Yeah, but what are my actual odds? Because in the last couple of weeks, I've been talking a big game about how next year I'm just going to win with all of my friends.

Because I feel like I don't want to call it the secret because I'm from the East Coast, but I do feel like I can will something stupid like winning the lottery into existence. You could. You can manifest it. I'm a good person and my karma is reaching en masse. What you need to do is just imagine that you already have the money when you buy the ticket. You're like, I'm already a millionaire.

Give me this ticket and then the universe will respond. Yeah, because I feel like the lottery is never won by people who actually need the money. It's always the people who... You know, the secret is true. That's how I got over my scoliosis. That's true. I was like, no. You just secreted yourself out yeah there's actually an entire genre of uh self-help books for buy-in for very stupid people that is like how to win the lottery and like how

to better do the lottery so here's the thing i've never bought a lottery ticket i also my plan is to win first scratchers no i never even bought a scratcher. My plan next year is to just buy one ticket and that's the ticket that wins. So I just need to like figure out how to get everything to line up in the right way that day. I'll know it. Yeah. I think there was a drawing on Wednesday, right? I think the Mega Millions was, it's at 253 million.

Yeah. We might as well just do this. Let's just get in this. Yeah. All right. Brandy Bozy and I, we're going to be millionaires. You heard it here first. Brandy, what's something that's overrated?

Slime. It's having a big moment. I'm saying just in general. Yeah, but have you guys noticed that it's become its own category on Instagram? It's its own thing. People are making hundreds of thousands of dollars off of making slime right now. We were just talking about that because last week when Google released all their top search terms, the top how to query was how to make slime. Yeah, it's huge. Wait, I just thought it was because kids are trying to make slime. You're saying there's a bigger

slime movement that I'm ignorant of? No, it's a massive movement. It's a huge sub-genre of Instagram of people that just make slime videos and then it's just them just sliming around. And then those people also sell slime to their followers and make hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the slime is just like...

It's just homemade slime. It's just colorful slime. And the video is just them fucking around with a handful of slime yeah it's it's a whole thing species people's careers are being made off of slime right have you watched these slime videos i have a little bit uh just to be like what what is happening they started getting hold on you have a slime account brandy i do not brandy slime i'm trying to use the game. I'm nagging every one of your listeners to follow me.

Slime sucks, unless you're cool. Unless you have cool slime. There's this cool account called Posey Slime. So when they finally make the slime, what is cool about the slime that they make? Is it stuff that't like get on your hands, but it's liquidy or what's going on? I think it's just that people are very stressed out and we don't have mental health care in this country. And that's where the rise of slime has come from.

What the fuck? It's just goo. Yeah, it's just goo. Yeah, that's that's it. It's like that. You can't eat it or do anything. It's just like some nasty shit. And it's just it just looks like they mixed up some chemicals and made something that would be really hard to clean up and then spilled it.

And we're like, hey, that's what we made. There's a video on YouTube with 17 million views that's just called 10 Viral Slimes Tested. Yeah, dude. Slime is huge right now. Oh, dude. Slime is huge right now. Oh, man. And I really think it is people that just have anxiety. Because slime and Trump happened at the same time, basically. Right.

And I think it's just them being like, I just need to remember when GAC was around. Right. And 9-11 hadn't happened yet. Yeah. And Trump wasn't president. And slime was taking people back to a place. So it's part of the denial of what's happening. Similar times.

Yeah. When I could chisel a dinosaur out is taking people back to a place. So it's part of the denial of what's happening. Simpler times. Yeah. When I could chisel a dinosaur out of floam. Yes, exactly. But like some of that stuff was cool. Like the stuff that you could buy and like you could throw it against a wall and it would seem like it was like permanently on there. Like you had splattered something wet on the wall, but then you could like pull it off and it would just like magically retract.

And then you're like, see mom? Right. It didn't mess up the wall. Yeah. Is that what these people are making? Because I feel like- But these are adults. Oh, it's adult?

No, it's adults. I know a lot of adults that actually have slime right now. Hashtag slime gang. Yeah. Slime is, it's not just kids. I just like, we could just talk for the rest of the episode. About trying to wrap our head around this. With me just like being like, I don't, what's happening?

So let's move on. What's your underrated? My underrated is Britney Spears' Instagram account. Oh, yeah. Barbara was probably just was Barbara Gray just on talking about Barbara was on. Yeah. Well, that was she was it her. She has a podcast called Britney's Instagram with Tess Barker.

I don't listen to pop music, so I wasn't really very invested. Was it her that you were talking about? Because she has a podcast called Britney's Instagram with Tess Barker. Oh, that's right. I don't listen to pop music, so I wasn't really very invested, but I've been listening to their podcast, Britney's Instagram, and following Britney Spears on Instagram. And it's not so much the life of a pop star so much as an ever-expanding web of conspiracy surrounding a pop star. Right. web of conspiracy surrounding a pop star right because when you if you really just like apply the red strings to britney spears's instagram you're like oh shit she's just like home alone and can't leave any anywhere and there's this weird conservatorship that's surrounding her that like her dad sees all the money that she spends but the vegas residency is about to end

so she doesn't have to be in public anymore so what comes next right it's become kind of this thing where i'm like oh I never really paid much attention to Brittany before. But now whenever she posts, I'm like, what does this actually mean? What are you what are you trying to tell us? Yes, exactly. Because there's no way for her to get out of the conservatorship unless she can hire legal counsel.

But she would have to get that legal counsel approved by her dad and the people that run the conservatorship. So it's like every one of her posts you're just like oh she's showing a little fashion show of the dresses she bought but then she'll like post like uh let me shop and nobody will get hurt literally and she'll say stuff like that you're like are we wait what who are you communicating with like britney's just trying to let me shop and no one will get hurt literally like that'll be her joke that she throws in the end of it and i think it's just like she wants to be independent and these are her very like basic ways

of reaching out like she's the most basic person and it's really amazing just to like watch that try to break free almost like it's its own religion like in a way that like taoism is like the simplicity of just you know being one with the energy of the universe. It's just like being Britney Spears. Yeah. I have to help Britney? The most basic. Watch, the next post will be like an AR sitting on top of a medical journal article about Stockholm Syndrome or something.

Seriously. It's crazy. It's kind of been a really fun casual conspiracy theory to check in with from time to time that doesn't actually affect my life in any way right and so then is she really in any danger i mean like she's got millions of dollars and she's being babysat as a human but unless they're yeah she's trapped though too she can't really do anything was that like the fallout of her like mental breakdown yeah like every everybody was because that the mental breakdown came around the same time that everyone was trying to get upskirt shots of her like paparazzi like literally making her crash her car her kids were getting taken away because she was like erratic.

That's like when the conservatorship came in at the same time too. Like that all kind of dovetailed at the same time. So like her dad was taking control of her money completely and her kids were being taken away. And the only reason she signed up for the conservatorship in the first place is because she couldn't see her kids unless she did. Wow. So she was like forced into it on the back end. I mean, we shouldn't say this on mic, but maybe we need to start our own serial podcast,

really trying to figure out how we hashtag free Britney. Free Britney. Interesting. So her dad is who has her captive, is what we think. He's the one that runs the conservatorship. That's so interesting. It's a straight up Disney film. She has a court appointed person that is like supposed to be on her side.

But that person just petitioned to make more money. So there's a cap for how much those people can make, like the court appointed person. But they just petitioned to like get a raise for how much work they've been doing. So it's that person doesn't actually have Britney Spears. Yeah, they're there for the check. Yeah, exactly. So is her dad like her legal guardian or the legal guardian of her kids or something? I don't know exactly how that part breaks down.

Well, we'll figure it out. We'll do that in the new podcast, spinoff podcast, Hashtag Free Britney. Yeah. All right. There's a lot of craziness. All right. Let's get into format. We're trying to take a sample of the ideas that are out there changing the world.

We talk about pop culture, the news, and just everything that makes up the global shared consciousness of the human species. And we like to start out by asking our guest what a myth is. What's something that we believe just in general in our movies or just in people you generally speak to uh is something that humans just have wrong in general that's a good guy always wins done boom cut and print guys yeah i don't know i mean it's it's so weird i feel like a lot of the stuff with uh we see so many movies where like the third act is always like and your hero is now rising and will be better and stronger and bigger and better and all of that stuff. But in real life,

you're like, well, no, that person usually just gets cancer. Right. Right. Or just goes away. It becomes an airbrushed t-shirt that people wear.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They get their, their look gets commodified and marketed and their story gets mistold and used for propaganda and all sorts of different ways. I think that's like a lot of the stuff with Trump is also people just waiting for like, surely a hero will save us. Right.

Like superhero movies are so big now. Which is why everyone's like so invested in Robert Mueller. Yeah. They're like, he is the savior. Yeah. Can we give him a cape? Can we just have a cape? He deserves a cape.

This dude is just trying to stay in the job right now. Yeah, I know. Exactly. So I totally agree. We've been completely ruined by Hollywood endings to the point that like you notice it when you don't get a Hollywood ending, like with many of the seasons of some of the books was to actually tell stories that were more in line with how history actually operated and when things would happen that were actually more true to history it was fucking shocking like that that guy who's like built up as the hero and he goes against the mountain and uh I guess no spoilers for a three-year-old show. But yeah, things don't go so well for that guy. Oh, damn it.

And it's just. Broke my heart. Yeah. But it's like so shocking. I was saving that episode. Because we just assume that things will. Don't want it. Deserve that because someone deserves something that that will happen to them.

Right. In the words of Clint Eastwood and unforgiven deserves got nothing to do with it. Yeah. It's just a continually hard lesson that I feel like I have to learn every year of like, oh, no, just because you're like trying to be a good person doesn't actually matter. Right. In the grand scheme of life. Yeah, and I think for our last full in-format episode of the year, that's

a good place to leave people. Happy holidays, guys. Just purge it up, y'all. Well, I do think it's appropriate for 2017. Yeah. So this is how things sometimes work out. Yeah. Just got to keep fighting, as DeRay McKesson said in an episode that he was inexplicably on with us.

I still can't believe that. Which is only yesterday. Holy shit. Wow. So, all right, let's get into the stories. Right now, there are a couple of high profile people stepping down. They're not really giving full explanations of why they're stepping down. Your boy Papa John. Miles, I know you're a big fan. Fuck no. had to settle like four sexual harassment cases because I don't think any of that's public.

But yeah, they're using the fact that he said that thing about the NFL. And that seems to be what people are going with. So that's what we'll go with, too. But they didn't really even the statements explicitly call that out. Right. No, they're not saying anything because they don't want to be like, well, it's not because our revenues are plummeting or the stock prices are plummeting or that we had to publicly distance ourselves from white supremacists because of his comments.

No, no, no. I mean, it's just his time. You know, he'll just be stepping down. He just wants to go on vacations. It's fine. He's done. You know what? If they really want to save the business, change the fucking pizza.

Right. It's nasty. I don't eat it like our. I didn't eat it because of the NFL shit. I ate it. I did not fuck with Papa John's because the pizza was terrible it was too sweet

I say this maybe once a week Domino's they figured it out they switched it up and now the new crust is beautiful you know what Domino's did? tripled the amount of cheese they put in their pizza just everything is cheese now it's all cheese

and Papa John's the way they spend their calories is they put sugar all throughout the pizza and it's disgusting it's so fucking gross like nobody wanted sweet pizza yeah it's it's gross uh papa john is allegedly not a good dude but uh we'll we'll see what comes out i mean just google images of him he looks sweaty in a lot of photos you're like yo you don't sweat like that because you're a good dude, but we'll see what comes out about him over time. I mean, just Google images of him. He looks sweaty in a lot of photos. You're like, yo, you don't sweat like that because you're a good guy.

That dude has not slept in a long time. And anybody that insists that you call them Papa or Daddy just in general is not a good person. Eric Schmidt from Alphabet and Google has stepped down for unspecified reasons. I mean, I guess he's saying's saying you know it was just time uh so because he wants to like work on like i think like defense use like ai capabilities for

defense like what his like passion is sure but so we'll see well it's in there's like a new york post article that they're saying like his surprise exit rekindles womanizing rumors that apparently like he fucked around his wife a lot i guess yeah uh but like you don't say in this article they were saying like a lot of journalists have been going around to old flames trying to see if there was like a mangazi style story around him and apparently right now they haven't found much so they're not sure what what is going on but who knows it's still young That's true. And sometimes these things don't come out. You just never find out.

There's been a lot of people who, I'm thinking of some college football coaches who just stepped down and you're like, hmm, that was weird. You just stepped down for no reason and then got another job a year later. Urban Meyer. Yeah, I get moved around like priests. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like allegedly

um all right uh why would you cheat on your wife when you could build a robot to cheat on your wife with right you know like uh and literally put her in sleep mode yeah take off and then all those guys have that there's still some weird sort of quasi rumors that Paul Ryan is going to step down 2018. It's sort of in a in-between state. We're not totally sure he's he's denying it. But for some reason, there was just suddenly a flood of rumors to the point that it was the main headline on Drudge that Paul Ryan stepping down 2018. And then he was like that's not helpful to me or my career so i'm gonna deny it so we don't know he he has vociferously denied

that he's going to step down in 2018 i mean i could see why he would and i can also see why he wouldn't because he hasn't fully fulfilled the prophecy of the horrible fuck bag who wants to just get rid of entitlements and everything that's good about like our safety nets for human beings in this country exactly but you know maybe he got enough of a raging boner from the tax bill that it's enough to carry him through the end of his life but i feel like he's still you know because wasn't the thing like that article he was like fantasizing about getting rid of social security and medicaid and shit so once yeah i feel like he still has got it he still has some unfinished business maybe he'll get visited by three ghosts over christmas you

guys anything is possible right at this point so that wasn't mangasi because we don't have any indication that it has anything to do oh yeah no that's just a stepping that we're not even in mangasi right now quick check-in with mangazi uh michael irvin and eric davis uh getting caught up at that nfl getting swept up in that nfl network suit just uh everybody was harassing the stylists at the nfl network apparently it said this one was like a woman who worked under the stylist uh so this is a different woman but still same network where like eric davis apparently was like commenting on her flexibility when she grabbed, like bend over for stuff. Just gross stuff.

And like hugged her and pressed his genitalia. Yeah. But it just seemed like there was almost like a system. All right. This is where we put the women for the guys to harass. They're in the styling department. In this dark room. Right.

Right. And it's wild. In the article, too, the woman said that the stylist had warned her right was like hey you're young and you're nice looking i would be careful yeah and then i would i'm surprised her thing was like okay i'm gonna work here right what can you do you gotta get those bills paid yeah exactly um there's a movement to get matt damon uh his cameo removed from oceans 8 because oceans 8 is supposed to be sort of a feminist film. And Matt Damon's recent comments are annoying.

But, you know, we'll see where that goes. There's also a weird thing with Meryl Streep going around. So, you know, Rose McGowan at first seemed to be implying that Meryl Streep knew about Weinstein and was complicit. And then Meryl Streep came out and said, I didn't know. And then all these weird, creepy posters started showing up all around L.A. where Meryl Streep's eyes were like torn out and she knew was written over her eyes. And, you know, it seemed like, you know, we weren't quite sure where that came from, but it turns out it's a right wing artist who is doing that. Right wing male artist.

Yeah. Literally said it was like revenge for her anti-Trump politics. Right. So that's just something to keep an eye on is Menchie being weaponized against the left, like sort of the right wing using the left's outrage against them to try and, you know, get revenge. We obviously saw Trump talking shit about Al Franken when Al Franken was accused of sexual harassment. Meanwhile, Trump has like 13 outstanding sexual harassment and assault uh accusations just floating out there well he's the boss at the end of the video game right guys we're gonna get yeah we're gonna get there that's his final form yeah man gazi's final form yeah well it's wild too like

it's back to the meryl streep art thing is like what's wild is that this guy is directly ripping off barbara kruger's like art style style of doing the text with the future font. And anyone who is familiar with her art has a very specific look. So when they asked this fucking shitbag about hey, so you're also using a feminist

artist style? His response was like, it bothers me that people believe we were in any way influenced by the butt ugly feminist hack barbara kruger it was it was supposed to be like the posters for the post my man come on i think you didn't even know who barbara kruger was and then you figured out you just you were familiar with that art style because it's very pop yeah and then you're like oh no no you created that yeah yeah nice tragic probably fat. All right.

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And we're back. What a break. Time for some Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. And there wasn't too, too much going down in the tabloids this weekend. You know, because I think the year is winding down. For this weekend. You know, because I think the year's winding down and people are starting to even check out even like in the tabloid world,

rehashing old shit. Do you guys find that, do you know most of the people on these magazines? I feel like I stopped buying them because I never recognize anybody. I don't. Yeah. I know the main people.

One thing I was really surprised by was how much Jenny Garth is still in tabloids. Oh. That I'm like, what? Okay. But yeah, for the most part, like there are a lot of like TV celebrities who I'm absolutely not familiar with. Yeah. But we check in for the celebrities.

We know and love. Yeah. Yeah. But a lot of standard Nixon and LBJ behind the JFK assassination. They keep using the same picture of the JFK assassination. Melanie Griffith drug relapse it says in big letters and then in tiny letters pals fear so they found someone who

said they were friends with her and said that they were worried National Examiner is telling us that Prince Harry's real dad has been banned from his wedding who's his real dad? real dad is James Hewitt who is a redheaded person that Princess Diana apparently once slept with, supposedly after Prince Harry was born. But the national examiner is running with that. is in touch, has a big story about how Melania, like there's going to be a big reveal because

Omarosa has, you know, left the White House and is now in the run up to her $10 million tell all where she's going to talk about all of the things she witnessed behind the scenes. I was initially intrigued by this because that's how Donald Trump tends to turn on a wife. Like that's how, you know, his current wife's time has come and he's going to trade her in for a new model is that he will start leaking shit about them to the tabloids. Like that's how he did on Ivana. There were all these stories about how trump is having an affair with marla maples and like you would think that that would be something he was keeping under wraps but in fact he was the one talking to page six of the new york post about that

uh so that's something to keep an eye on because if the amarosa uh tell all really has some interesting details that that could be interesting. So you're saying self-destruct sequence may have begun. Yeah. Or probably was like probably seven years in the making anyway. Right. Well, I could also see him just being like, I know what I'll get everyone off the scent of all this Russia.

Right. Will they will the Ross and Rachel of like my Russian, my Russian shit. What if I just have a messy divorce in the middle of all of it? Yeah, there hasn't been a president who's had a divorce. And yeah, and he is hell bent on just being different in any fucking way. Yeah, right. That means having a weird divorce. And I mean, his wife did straight up like slap the shit out of his hands when he tried

to hold her hand a couple of times during the year. Like that is she full on hates. That's messy. Like that's not the sort of you you'd think that they would have just replaced her with a robot because and may have because there are some rumors that uh you know certain melania appearances were handled by a stand-in yeah although that was fake yeah probably but this is a comedy podcast so let's act like it's real let's act like it's real and i believe that but i don't know that is a one potential uh area of interest for anybody could you imagine that omarosa is the

savior brought down because like whatever's in her book is like so wild it's like no i mean really is that i could see it uh omarosa being the savior of democracy is that as strange as like five years ago if i told you that donald trump was gonna be like yeah he's gonna be the hitler of america that's true literally anything's possible right tara reed will save us all right exactly although her brittle bones might not work because she's also in the tabloids she's also all over the place yeah they're always skinny shaming her yeah i think omarosa just wants michelle obama to shake her hand and she's like anything i can do to earn that respect right if it means taking down a president yes exactly uh let's see in ok magazine uh they're saying that you know brad pitt he's sober now and he's a perfect dad yeah that's true brad pitt there

there are big things happening in the brad p. He is now allegedly dating J-Law and Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They would make good looking children, I'd imagine. And because of his sobriety, he is now the perfect father, according to Angelina, presumably that quote that I saw was like Angelina's pals. Right, right, right. Yeah, but he's now getting to spend time with his kids again after apparently having some pretty shady interactions with them there at the end. And is Rihanna actually engaged? So they're reporting that she's engaged. She's been dating a billionaire. And they took a picture of her hand and were like, see, she must be engaged because she had like a big diamond ring on her ring finger. What they don't mention in that caption is that she has a giant ring on every one of her fingers. Like it would be weird if she didn't have a ring on her

ring finger yeah here's the thing rihanna can buy her own diamonds right right she doesn't need to wait for a man to buy her a diamond well yeah this guy hassan jamil apparently he's got dough so yeah he's got even more dough than rihanna damn i can buy a diamond that is your entire net worth yeah you could wear that uh also in the globe uh they're saying they found Steve Irwin's death video. And there is a weird video image of a stingray and Irwin in the water with like his full on khaki outfit on. I don't imagine that that's how he was diving with stingrays. It's like, holy shit, they're going to show video. And then, yeah, you look in tiny print dramatization.

Right. So we don't know. They just stuck a guy in a khaki outfit in a pool and photoshopped a stingray in there. Yeah. They're also saying that Camilla Parker Bowles is dying and Charles is kicking her out. Right. Because she was shady about Harry and Meghan Markle's relationship. This feels like a slow news day at the Globe.

It does, doesn't it? To be pulling up Steve Irwin. It's like, there's a lot. Right. To be we found the video no we didn't but we found it on the cover it's a long time and then they also say tanya harding still on thin ice notorious skaters fight to come back from blubber booze and poverty right i can't believe that on the cover they say that she is uh fighting for her life yeah and then on the inside, it's like she kind of has a drink problem. Yeah. I think she's just living in Portland and everyone in Portland just kind of has like a casual drinking problem.

Right. That's whimsical. Right. Whimsical drinking. Yeah. So that's kind of what happens up there. She's fine. All right.

I think that's going to do it for Bloodwatch. Hugh Jackman, still married to his wife of 20 years, is one of the, like, lead stories. He still loves his wife. Yeah. The story is he still loves his wife. Yeah, basically. It's like how we've made our 20-year marriage work. They are a weird couple.

In the same boring-ass way other couples have made theirs. Yeah, I will say. So I had the opportunity to wait on Hugh Jackman and his family at a restaurant I used to work at. And he gives off a weird vibe of like, I am an alien who is pretending to interact with a child for the first time. Like he was like holding the kid up and like showing the kid to everybody in the restaurant. Like he had, it was the first time he had seen a tiny human before he was like, ah, look at this child. I am overjoyed with my progeny.

I love my son. Yeah. I love my son. Uh, yeah, it was very strange, but, uh,

do you like to order an appetizer? Yeah. Right. Right. Uh, so you want the calamari or you don't? Yeah. All right.

And then moving on from Bloyd's, Obamacare signups are actually keeping pace. This is some good news. True to roof. Yes. Good news heading into the holidays is that people are actually signing up for Obamacare, despite the fact that the Trump administration has tried to just, you know, they've halved the period to six weeks, the open enrollment period. They've slashed advertising by 90 percent and cut funding for in-person enrollment aids by more than 40 percent.

So they're trying to make it like invisible and just like something that people won't sign up for so that then they can be like, see, nobody likes the Affordable Care Act. Obama was a clown. I'm the best. Essentially, that is what happens in his dreams. And that's not happening. People are like, oh, no, I need health care. And everybody's signing up like it was any other year. Yeah, I think I'm getting more phone calls this year than I have when Obama was still president about Obamacare. Like I've gotten so many robocalls. They're just like, make sure you sign up. Make sure you sign up.

So somebody is funding something. Right. And it's like on pace to do have more than last year's signups because there's still like a lot of people like California. You can still sign up until the end of January. Yeah. So it's not the numbers could probably be better than normal. Yeah. Yeah. But the one thing I just when I think about this is like, you know, they blew up the mandate in the tax bill because, you know, Susan Collins was promised that the stabilizing bills that she wanted to stabilize it would be put into law. But the thing – that story was so misrepresented because the idea – those bills functioned when the mandate was still in place. So it means fuck all to have this other stabilizing legislation put into place because it's not nearly going to have the effect that it was purported to have because that was based on the original mandate or the Obamacare mandate being in place.

So, hey, look, I'm glad people realize that Obamacare is something they want. And please sign up if you are in a state that you still can. Please do because insurance is something good to have. Yeah, and Mitch McConnell was actually on NPR, which we can all trust Mitch McConnell's word. We all know that. Oh, yeah. We can trust him. But he was saying that he doesn't know about the House, but the Senate is certainly not going to make it a priority to repeal health care.

They're moving on. You can believe everything that turtle man says. Right. It's fine. Yeah. And I guess the individual mandate being repealed, I had sort of assumed that is going to completely torpedo Obamacare. And Trump has said, the penalty for not signing up for Obamacare, you know, wasn't that high. And, you know, people still signed up. And, you know, there's just reason to believe that it's not going to totally kill Obamacare. And there's also the Trump administration behind the scenes has been working with states to actually shore up obamacare uh so it's almost like a thing where he realizes obamacare is the law and it's just because he hates everything having to do with obama because he's a racist monster. He chooses to just outwardly be like, fuck Obamacare.

We repealed it. We killed it. I'm the best. I'm better than him. Pee on that bed that he slept in. So yeah, that's I guess some good news is that even though he made a big deal about repealing it, he really can't because he's not that good a politician. But only the future will tell what ultimately comes of all this. Right.

I think if we just let him put his name on Obamacare instead. Right. Oh, my God. That would totally solve it. I really think it would. If we just fucking put his name on Obamacare and gave him a monument in Monument Park in D.C., that would solve everything. Yeah. That's all he wants. Give him a statue that he can go to every day and be like that's my stuff with like a huge erection

yeah just a giant that's just big ass hands giant hands and like a huge dick that's all he wants yeah he would be we like our world would be saved yeah just like a beautiful mane of hair do you think he'll have a presidential library do you think he'll just like take a McDonald's and slap his name on it? It'll probably be a presidential newsstand. Yeah, exactly. He's like, I don't really read books, but I don't know. Love that page six, though. Yeah, exactly.

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And we're back. So yesterday we were talking some shit about Ed Sheeran. You know, there was this New York Times piece where he and the people who worked on his song. What's the song called? The Shape of You. How like how inspiration struck them. And they didn't even know they had created like the greatest song that had ever been set to a recording device. But like there it was. And our super producer, Nick Stumpf, was like, you know, that song is actually just basically TLC's No Scrubs.

But they totally don't acknowledge that. But it turns out they had acknowledged it back back in i guess march of uh this past year uh somebody tweeted at us and pointed out that uh after the song like had been written and he tried to put it out there as like his own shit uh he was like oh yeah and added tlc and the writers of no scrubs to the list of people who wrote uh the of You because, yeah. It was, yeah. It's actually, it's funny when you think about who the actual co-writers are. It's Tamika Tiny, T.I.'s wife, and Candy Burruss from Real Housewives of Atlanta because they were in Xscape because they were the co-writers of that song.

So those are the people who are getting a little check off of that. Nice. So shout out to Candy Burruss, my favorite Real Housewife of Atlanta. But go watch that New York Times piece because at no point are they like, yeah, we were trying to write a song and then we were like, oh, yeah, I just heard No Scrubs. That song's good. Do you think we could get away with just like stealing that and like putting my white ass on it and making that a song? Will people listen to that? So total Lannister move.

Yeah. You know, people were like he was miscast in the game of thrones cameo and i'm like no no no apparently he's stealing from people he's yeah no it was a better casting people thought fucking made me want to headbutt my tv so this morning uh at following the midnight release of uh the new will smith, Miles and Nick and I watched the first 30 minutes. We watched as much as we physically could watch of Bright. Yeah.

As much as we could handle. And how much time permitted? Because the reviews have been awful, right? Yeah. Like a lot of people have been dragging it. Real bad. They're saying it's like a $90 million mistake. So we're like, oh, we should's let's see for ourselves yeah yeah um i can report will smith is still uh very

charismatic i i like watching will smith on on camera i was actually like frustrated by how good the parts around the script were like it was like man if they had just made a good, well-written police movie. Right. About actual race, that might have been good. Yeah. But there's this just awful fucking stupid, heavy handed racial allegory where they like add orcs, elves and fairies. And it really like doesn't work in so many ways. And it really like doesn't work in so many ways, like mainly because all of those creatures are physically and mentally different from one another, which human races are not. But like they're like, yeah, but orcs are good at this thing because they're stronger and orcs are stronger and they are physically different than you know humans and that's like part of the mythology uh but the races aren't physically different and like implying that they are like is actual like

racist eugenics fucking craziness like it's it's just like the most wrong-headed stupefyingly just awful script i've ever seen from Max Landis. Just with jokes like fairy lives don't matter today. Like he beats the shit out of a fairy like with a broom. It's like so fucking bad.

It's wild, man. And like also the fucking gangsters they are dressed so fucking whack. Like it's from a 90s conception or like an idea

of what gangsters look like or what like Chicano gang members look like in LA. They haven't been to the hood. They've just like watched Boys in the Hood gangsters look like or what like Chicano gang members look like in L.A. They haven't been to the hood. They've just like watched Boys in the Hood. It was like the last film. Yeah. They're like, yeah, OK, that's that must be what everyone should have a Gumby flat top.

Yeah, it's it's so. There's like a part where like his wife's watching Joe Rogan, the Joe Rogan experience. His wife is watching the Joe Rog rogan experience why is his wife watching joe rogan no wife has ever watched joe rogan right no when it's weird it was just a way to shoehorn in like commentary about this orc like he's the first orc on the lapd but you know what's funny is despite how fucking awful the movie is yeah i was still we were all still compelled to see it through incredibly watchable it's wild incredibly watchable garbage yeah it's wild it's one of those movies it's so

bad you have to keep watching and like yeah you might be like this is so fucking dumb but then you're like well what's what's going on with this magic wand and it has like the most tired like fantasy cliches like literally things just called a magic wand or the dark lord yeah or you know orcs or like the magic task force yeah that's the best part like the fbi shows up and then they like flash a badge and the guy goes oh no magic task force it's like yo that's what you thought there's like a part where they put a sign on the back of like the orc like a kick me sign and you're expecting it to be like some magical play on kick me or like some like orc themed and he turns around no it's just kick me that's just

it's like there's so many like we'll fill this in later things that were just left in there yeah it's a real it's like one of the great monuments to mediocre white men and nepotism. Yeah. Nepotism for sure. Max Landis. Damn. Like he is. Yeah. Apparently this is like what one of the highest prices anyone had ever

paid for a spec script. He should honestly never work in this town again and probably won't once people find out like what he's like. How awful the movie is. Yeah.

And how bad the movie is. But also sounds crazy what he's like. I'm surprised Willow and Jaden let this happen. They got their own careers now. Jaden is moonwalking the shit out of his shows. I don't know if – I mean, that clip blew my mind. He's on his own path.

So wait, I didn't see that. What happened? Oh, my God. So over the weekend, there's this festival called Rolling Loud, and it's like all these rappers. over the weekend there's this festival called rolling loud and it's like all these rappers and during jayden's set he killed the moonwalk like to a degree that the internet has not seen in years really yeah and like i was literally on my toilet on twitter and i know i'm old because i watched it and i literally went boy like it was so smooth i was like yes jayden do that shit like because the mechanics of the moonwalk are easy to understand.

You get it. But not many people can pull it off with the finesse that Jaden did. It was on Michael levels. Oh, shit. Wow. Jaden, boy. Damn, Jaden. Hitting that moonwalk.

So, yeah, they're fine. They're fine. But the Magic Task Force and Will Smith. Look, to be honest, we're going to keep watching it. I'm going to finish this movie because it's so, again, it's a car crash in slow motion. You got to see it all. And there's magic, you know, but.

As somebody that watched Jack and Jill in theaters, don't worry. I will never judge you for this. That Adam Sandler movie? Yeah. I didn't pay for it. Don't worry. I snuck in after I saw something else. Well, I'm still paying Netflix subscriptions, so I'm technically paying for this.

It's one of the worst things I've ever seen. Al Pacino is also in it. Mm. And he does a rap at the end. Oh, wow. Yeah, Al Pacino raps in Jack and Jill. And he has a crush on Jill. Yeah.

Who is Adam Sandler in a wig. And that's funny, because it's actually a dude. It's a dude. Having a crush on a dude. And that's funny because it's actually a dude. It's a dude. Having a crush on a dude. And then that would mean he's gay. Gross. Sick. Hilarious.

Doggy. Wait, didn't his movie just get fucking trashed too? Yeah, Al Pacino has a movie out today called The Hangman that is at a whopping 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's impressive. What's that Metacritic score though, Jack? I know you don't fuck. We know you don't fuck with Rotten Tomatoes. I haven impressive. What's that Metacritic score, though, Jack? I know you don't fuck with Rotten Tomatoes. I haven't looked it up because...

It's too depressing. I believe Rotten Tomatoes. When Rotten Tomatoes says 0%, I'll believe them on that. Right when it's 0%. Yeah. All right. That's actually going to do it for today's episode. And for the year of year 2017 Daily Zeitgeist

we're going to have some special holiday and year end episodes for you guys next week we're going to do movie of the year music song and album of the year person slash everything of the year and then we're going to tell you what we thought about Star Wars

so those are going to be like four mini episodes we're dropping next week you what we thought about Star Wars. So those are going to be like four mini episodes we're dropping next week. But this is it for daily zeitgeists proper for the year of 2017. Wow. Yeah. It's been a hell of a third of the year. Exactly. October 9th to today.

Shit is coming on. Almost like we've only been doing it for a third of the year. But I want to thank my parents. No, I'm just kidding. Well, if you allow me, I would like to thank God. Right, first of all. However you may perceive God to be. I would like to thank the HowStuffWorks network.

I would like to thank my mother and my father for letting me be a loud child. And that's it. I would just like to thank God for speaking through me into this microphone. I'd just like to say I turn it over to you before we start recording every day. But really, he's just like eating a bunch of mushrooms. That's right. That's how I say that. He's speaking to me and through me.

Brandy, thank you for being on this last episode of 2017. Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure, as always. It's a great way to close it out. Where can people find you? I'm on the internet at Brandazzle on Twitter and on Instagram. My website, brandyposie.com, has all my tour dates, stand-up comedians. I tour country a lot.

And then I have a podcast with Barbara Gray and Tess Barker called Lady to Lady. And it is good. It's very, very fun. Damn good. Yeah. How are you spelling your name there? B-R-A-N-D-I-E-P-O-S-E-Y. Miles, where can people find you?

You can find me buying last minute Christmas gifts, probably. But if you're interested in the social media stuff, at Miles of Gray on most things. And you can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can follow us at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page that is The Daily Zeitgeist. We are on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. And we have a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where you can find our episodes and footnotes. Footnotes.

Where we link off to all the articles we use as sources for each episode. And that's going to do it for today. I guess we'll be back next week with our short holiday-themed episodes. And then the week after that with more Daily Zeitgeist. daily zeitgeist uh and we have a special daily zeitgeist presentation of the jamie loftus vision uh santa university we talked about it on a past episode of the daily zeitgeist it uh completely lives up to the insane expectations uh that you heard her describe on the show too i think like earlier in november Loftus, one of our most frequent and beloved guests, has written a five-hour feature-length film called Santa University. We excerpted probably like 30, 35 minutes worth of those scenes.

Miles appears as Dan Santa, the protag. I am Goth Santa, among others. Dean Santa. It's it is a tour de force by your daily zeitgeist crew. Anno played Gal Santa. Yeah. And what was the other one you played? Oh, and then you also played Mike Santa, the father.

The father. It's going to be dropping this weekend. So keep an eye out for that. Yeah. So gather your family around the hearth. Yeah. Throw this on. And get ready to,

these Yuletide blessings. And get ready to have your family be severely weirded out. Yeah, actually be the weirdo, put the headphones on and just go to like the bathroom. You don't want anybody to listen to this, but it's crazy. Shouts out to a super producer,

Anna Hosnier, super producer, Nick Stumpf, and project manager Sophie Lichterman. And HowStuffWorks, I guess, for putting us on. And because we have Brandi, a sky expert, in our midst. Brandi, I'm going to let you tell us what we're going to ride out on for the year 2017. Let's just go out on a little jingle bells by the Scatolites. Oh, okay. Pick it up now.

What year are the Scatolites from? Pre-911. This is definitely a pre-911 world you're about to enter, people. Get joy. Pre-911. All right. That's going to do it for 2017. We will be back in 2018.

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