The Daily Zeitgeist - Ron “Das Boot” DeSantis, Celine Dion Gangs? 11.01.23

Episode Date: November 1, 2023

In episode 1574, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Zahra Noorbakhsh, to discuss... Ron DeSantis Finally Talks About THOSE BOOTS, The Store That Cried ORGANIZED SHOPLIFTING RING!!!!, Dentists Agree: Eat All Your Halloween Candy In One (Disgusting) Sitting, New Zealand’s Celine Dion-Based “Plague” Is Actually Evidence Of A Thriving Subculture and more! 3 Expert Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is Probably Wearing Height Boosters Dentists Agree: Eat All Your Halloween Candy In One (Disgusting) Sitting Which Halloween treats are the worst for your teeth? Dentists weigh in Dentist says ‘eat all your Halloween candy at once, for your teeth’ Why You Should Eat ALL Of Your Halloween Candy At Once, According To Dentists New Zealand’s Celine Dion-Based “Plague” Is Actually Evidence Of A Thriving Subculture A small New Zealand city has been plagued by drivers blasting Céline Dion ballads at 2 a.m. for almost a year Cars competing who can blast Celine Dion songs the loudest plunge New Zealand town into chaos Auckland’s underground street music scene: cars, loud speakers and late-night sound battles Fed-up Porirua locals fear petition to ban ‘siren battles’ falling on deaf ears LISTEN: So Cold In Koreatown by Sleepy EyesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 312, Episode 3 of Dirt Daily's iGhost, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 oh yeah big day all howlows day i guess i mean it is day of the dead it's all saints day it's prime meridian day it's national biologic coordinators day it's world

vegan day cinnamon day calzone it's everything. There's way too many things happening today. They were all holding off. Dude, National Deep Fried Clams Day, National Stress Awareness Day, Cook for Your Pets Day. No, we're not doing that. National Family Literacy Day, National Authors Day, National Vinegar Day. Okay. Wow.

I didn't even know they had the day. But, yeah, shout out to you. It's like everyone was holding their breath for Halloween, and then they're like, Boom! Cinnamon vinegar calzone fried clams. It's all the days. Yeah, what a day. What a day. Wow.

Well, all right. Shout out to all of that shit. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. This is the story of a guy who pissed his pants named Jackie O'Brie. That is courtesy of Landowski. The Landowski. Nope. Landowski. Landowski C. Or Landowski. No, no way to know. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

Hey, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. I'm just bringing back the Halloween one, a.k.a. Bile Spray. Thank you so much for having me. I don't have my singing boots on today, but I have my lifted boots on, and we will talk about that later. We will talk about that. Best journalism being done in

the United States right now, and no, our priorities are not misplaced. No. Best journalism being done is looking at whether Ron DeSantis is wearing lifts, and we'll talk about it. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our very favorite guests, a very funny comedian, activist, the host of the great award-winning podcast

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, the senior fellow on comedy at the Pop Culture Collab. She's written in the New York Times, wrote and performed a piece on NPR's Fresh Air. It is the hilarious, the talented Zara Norba! Zara! Zara, last time we spoke to you, you were on the precipice of parenthood. Yo. You're back. Was that a precipice of parenthood. Yo. You're back.

Was that a precipice? I feel like I'm on one now. But the child is here for listeners who are hanging on to the developments. The child is here. Child is healthy. The child is here. Oh, congratulations. Congratulations.

What child is this? I had a baby. Yeah, you did. And the sleep is slowly coming, right? Slowly, slowly maturing. Oh, when I sleep. Right, right, right, right. Wait, I sleep?

I had like a panic there. She's sleeping. She sleeps fine. She's going to sleep. Right. Oh, my sleep. Right. No, I'm'm never gonna sleep again uh well yeah it'll it's temporary it's funny like our guest yesterday april simpson also has a young child and is also dealing with sleep deprivation oh my god we better hope this

whole week maybe should just be all sleep deprived from new parents. Sleep deprivation. The sleep deprivation season. 3.31? 3.12. 3.12, yeah. And that is so 3.12 is the numerical equivalent of 3.31 when your brain is sleep deprived. Exactly. Yeah. It's actually it's my overrated.

My overrated is sleep. Sleep when I'm dead. You don't need it. I'll sleep in my Lambo when I finally get that shit. That's right. Bury me upright. Upright. I don't want to be sleeping.

I maneuver a bulldozer daily. It's fine. Worthless. No problem. All good. All good. The sound of the people screaming when you're closing in on their house and your bulldozer wakes you up and oh yeah no i know that's part of the system

everything else works out yeah you're meant to just load this gravel into the truck oh right where's the truck five miles that way when they say it takes a village. Yeah. Right. Strange. No problem. Shout out to all the sleep deprived, tired, sleepy, sleepy people out there. Yeah. You just don't know. Everyone says you're not going to sleep, but this is a different kind of you don't sleep. It's just not the same. It's not like my husband was even saying it's not like medical school.

It's just different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Because you have this like little peanut putty being that could die any minute. That's what the stakes feel like, especially early on. Like half the time I would wake up to look if see my kid like is still in the bassinet. Okay, good. And when they're sleeping soundly, you're like, are you dead?

Yeah, you're like, this is too sound. And then you got to like, I don't want to touch them, but I'm going to see if I see their lungs moving. Yeah. And then they're too small. Sometimes you can't tell in a swaddle. So then you want to hold your finger under their nose. I've done it. The breath comes out.

I know. We all suffer from this sickness at some point. It's crazy how much they keep on breathing, even when you're not watching. I'm the type of person who feels like I need to stay vigilant on a plane in order for it not to crash, even though I'm not flying it. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, I'm gripping the silence, just like, come on, man. I've been flying planes. Have you really?

Yeah. Just since you gave birth? Yeah, because I've been so sleep deprived i just wanted to test myself yeah and yeah put it on the line right that's yeah i i kind of like like there's got to be some work of satire that's like that that like somebody once they become incredibly sleep deprived and incoherent people just start trusting them with everything because that does seem to be how things work in Washington. Am I right? I was just going to say, like the U.S. presidency. Thank you.

If there's ever been a consistent presidency that feels like it's asleep, it would be the U.S. presidency. It always looks like he's straining so hard to keep his eyes open it's like that moment like when you're in class and like you've just like never been more tired in your life you're just like right damn my eyes yeah one of the different ones want to close so badly gets in your bones all right well so are we going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things that we're talking about today. We are going to talk about Ron DeSantis' boots.

Finally. We have diagrams, folks. Yeah. We have expert opinion. We got it all. So we're going to look at that. We're going to look at another one of these dang shoplifting rings that popped up in the last couple months. And it turns out to be bullshit again.

Uh-oh. Wait, no crime wave? Every single damn time, Miles. Every single time. What is it about it? When these retail companies start screaming, crime wave. It's not. Oh, my God. I was here for the's not. Oh, my God.

I was here for the last one. Oh, well, great. Well, perfect timing with you. You bring the myth busting realization. So we appreciate that. Love it. We'll talk about Halloween candy, whether what you should do with it, how you should consume it, according to dentists.

Yeah. And we will talk about a subculture that i need to get in on that's happening in new zealand it involves blasting celine dion as loud as you fucking can people are like it's a social contagion and i say let let it burn then yeah or do you mean let it burn exactly that's what i meant i meant the second one my heart will burn there we go the trend will go on there you go i can't sing like selene dion it turns out that's why you gotta just blast it just blast it out your speaker. You have to get in the here. Pound your chest.

Yeah, get that vibrato. Get that Wolf of Wall Street. That's right. I was watching that very recently. One of those ones that gets in your bones and you have to watch it every once in a while. Which started Matthew McConaughey started. That was like a vocal warmup he was was doing and scorsese was like could you just like

do that on camera that was weird as fuck that's how why we have that before we get to any of it we do like to ask our guest what is something from your search history math jokes math jokes what's a math like give me hit me with one uh okay uh the i says to the pie be rational y says to the pie be rational. And the pie says back, get real. This is rational numbers. Oh, come on. You know, the imaginary number I. Okay. I'm.

Ha ha ha ha. Love that math joke. There's one of the. Okay. Sammy O'Bain has better math jokes Than the ones I found on the internet But I was looking up Math joke cartoons Wait, wait, what got you onto math jokes?

Somebody told me that they don't like comedy They just like math What? Yeah, it was like Some guy was like negging me in a in the grocery store line i don't know why what were you doing like a type five about grocery lines or something i mean okay let's be real i'm a out of commission comedian right now right right right performing right now which means that i'm performing everywhere everywhere yeah yeah yeah yeah i get like i'm sorry world that's just what happens

that was just trying jokes out on everybody wait so you you ask someone randomly and lie you like hey like you want to hear a joke basically basically that's what i'm doing now i just like i say a dumb funny thing like oh guess this line's gonna just keep going and i don't get that a geometry is that a geometry joke no it gets there you know like keep at it you know just double down like it's just a wrap wrapping around corners all the corners so i'm sure there's a math joke to plug in here. Well, lions do famously keep going.

In geometry, they just keep going and going. And pi goes and goes forever. And the guy was like, I like math, just not jokes. And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about, man? I don't know if that's a binary.

They were just the person right in front of you. Did I get heckled? Yeah. Is he telling me to stop making nice? I love that binary, though. It's math or humor. Pick one. It's like, I don't know, but I guess why wasn't the geometry teacher at school?

Because she sprained her ankle? That's a good one. You like that guy? And he's like crying. It's so, he's like, holy fuck! You write that? You write that? This moment has changed me.

Right, right, right. I love it. I like math. Okay, thanks. I like math not chips. Was he my seven-year-old son? That's the sort of thing my seven-year-old son would say to me like i try and make him laugh he's like i like math dad okay that's kind of fucked up that's actually probably the most scathing response you could give where

you're like honestly i like math better than whatever the fuck this is i know yeah I was like Matt come on man I've had a baby I'm struggling please man I haven't gone up in like months help me warm up a little and then you just burst into tears and he's like fuck fuck I'm sorry okay I didn't know what the fuck

that's when I dropped the forklift on him. Yeah, exactly. What's something you think is overrated? Okay, overrated is sleep. You don't need it. Okay. I can no longer, ironically, I can no longer do mental math in my head. Oh, wow.

Because just running on pure fumes at this point. I can't. If you were to be like, like five minus two i'd just stare at you i like i'd wait for you to do it i just can't like everyone of course knows five minus two is you're doing that thing where like you're like you're at a party and you don't know a person's name and you're trying to get them to say it yeah yeah yeah oh and it's uh and then this is my partner and this is three uh sure yeah your name good sir why of course i know your name it's as simple as five minus three which is of course and i don't even have to finish that sentence. Well, my name is Hank, but that answers these words too, I guess. Right, too. Sure.

I wasn't going to say three. You're not an idiot, I guess. But I can do, I can operate heavy machinery just fine. Right. Fly a plane. And I could probably perform surgery. Oh, easy, easy, easy. I could probably perform surgery.

Oh, easy, easy, easy. I mean, the stuff that we have to do as new parents, like cutting a baby's fingernails on an hour of sleep. Oh, shit. Yeah. You know how long I fucking waited? Those little tiny baby fingernails, I was so afraid. I'm like, I'm going to cut the whole fucking fingertip off.

Yeah, yeah. I'm like, nah, man. And then in the beginning i was biting them off ain't nobody got precision precision like my mouth and teeth oh yeah so you're you're a fingernail biter right you yeah yeah every every now and then but then now like it's finally to the point where i trust myself with those little baby fingernail scissors and like we were doing all right but yeah it's there's a lot there's a lot getting adjusted for a little tiny life yeah and then just holding her going downstairs i go downstairs with a child yes i don't know why that's so terrifying to me you're like an autopilot yeah like you are when you're flying that plane right you know exactly yeah so that's why i just was

like sign me up for all the things i don't need sleep i'm a hero i just don't ask me to do math i can't tell you what five minus three is but i can do everything else but yeah oh yeah you need me to you mean you operate that backhoe real quick yeah i got it easy i mean there is a they found a real similarity between like sleep deprivation and like having a couple of drinks. Like they're not that dissimilar. You see. And like, yeah, I definitely get because because when you're sleep deprived, you you have less energy. Your inner critic has less energy to like pop up and be like, hey, shut the fuck up.

What are you doing? You can't drive a backup. So you're just a little bit, there's just less energy to go around. And so some of the things that are, you know, luxuries, like the things that step on the brakes for us during our most awake moments are no longer operational. And we just get, that's why we, you know,

get a little punchy because we're basically sleep drunk. Hmm. Yeah. I've been sleep drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Great. And this is why you should be flying those planes because you have utter confidence.

Would you rather have a drunk ass pilot or a sleep deprived pilot? That's what I'm saying. You want me. Is this a math joke? I don't know. I'm just if we're likening the two right and people always make jokes about how pilots are drunk as shit all the time would you yeah i'm like part of me is like i'm like the drunk pilot yeah at least

yeah yeah like pilots are really sleep deprived yeah yeah oh yeah for sure and that's why they're so damn smooth when they get on mic they're like hey right it sounds like everybody it's like when you get that yeah you get the phone call from your boss that's like waking you up because you slept in you're late for work and they're like where are you and you're like yeah man i'm just like yeah i'm like in my car right now so everybody's like hey why do you sound so fucking chilled out man that's what I sound like to my baby all the time. Hey, baby, how's it going? We're at a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet. We're going to be there.

What? I just asked why you're not at the office. I'm going to land this plane on a fork. Yeah. What did the acorn say when it grew up? What? Gee, I'm a tree. That's a math joke.

Oh, shit. We're doing it. And that's how I end it and that's how I end all my math jokes and that's a math joke what's something you think is underrated okay everyone should have a child this is such parent

I love it no matter what no matter this yes everyone adopt a baby have a baby take someone else's do an egg donation kidnap a baby however you get to it you should have a baby. It's an experience. I like that you said it like it was almost like doing ayahuasca or something. It's so outwardly positive. You'd be like, dude, it's a fucking trip. Oh, my God.

What do you do on ayahuasca? You remember your past. You go into your deepest, darkest holes. You throw up a couple of times. Yeah. Oh, my God. You're visited by the spirit yeah by a presence that is familiar yet oh my god yeah do you know what it's like to just like be there at like two o'clock in the morning just like in excruciating pain but by the way i'm 40 having a kid like this is not like being 20 or 30 even.

When you're 40 and you're having a kid. It ain't for sissies. Oh my God, it is not. To quote old crusty men in Alcoholics N' Roses. Getting old ain't for sissies, kid. Oh my God, my back. My back. Oh my God. Yeah. oh my god my back my back oh my god yeah it just like i can't tell you how many times i like thought

back to all these like baby showers i blew off or like friends that i just was like oh yeah did you have a kid no big deal whatever i'll see you when you come out of that in five years i guess well zara you're doing a hell of a job selling it thank you i think everyone who has heard this can agree we should all have kids yeah yeah oh it's so fucking hard it's so hard in like all the ways that your life hasn't been hard up to that point you know like you just don't know you just like i had i have a doula who uh and by the way thank god for doulas talk about underrated and and she also is a parent now and she just was like yeah i, I just had no idea. Yeah.

Like, you can be an infant care specialist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have your own kid and then you're like, oh, my God, the hours. Oh, my God. It just when they cry, there's no one else in the world who when they cry, like every bone in my soul feels like it did something wrong. Yeah. Yeah. It happens.

It happens. And it spreads to other, like, I can't watch nature documentaries. I can't watch movies where bad children. Yeah. Nature documentaries are fucked up because it's like, Oh, the natural rule of like,

I don't know if it was just the specific nature documentary I saw, but so many nature documentaries involve the youngest member of a pack getting picked off by a wolf or by some shark. Oh, yeah, that would fuck me up. Yeah, and you can't. It's like you see the mother, the mother animal, like, you know, having. I know. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Fuck no.

No, no, thank you. I told you, Jack, you got to stop watching that compilation video on YouTube. It's not a video you're watching. It's just a fucked up, gory compilation. Baby animals get munched. Okay, but here's why else everyone should just have a kid. It's because I realized part of the reason why I waited until I was 40 is because there was just no accessibility for me in

my 30s to be able to have a child yeah and there are all these like social programs that we used to have that we just like do not have anymore and like in other countries there's all this nanny care support nanny care is like subsidized by the government you know and I just think like social structures vanishing is a sign that we all need to just like procreate or, you know, adopt or, you know, do egg donation or surrogacy. Because the more we're all having children, the more these programs have to be like supported. Right. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So this is my pyramid scheme. Is to just have more people have kids and it forces puts the pressure upwards yeah the bottom-up approach yeah yeah it's like is is this how

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Hey. Come on. I read that one, and I was like, well, that one sucks, because I didn't, because I was like, I thought it was Henry the one-eighth. I hadn't even, like, thought about it. You could say it, but hey, you know, all former drug dealers unite. No, that's an eighth right there, bro. That's right. Henry the 3.5 grams.

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One-eighth of one ounce of the finest chronic you have. Oh my god, I miss weed so much. Oh yeah, well, hey, all in due time. All in due time. That's right. Just like the reckoning for Ron DeSantis' boots. All in due time.

That's right. Look at these boots, though. Look at these boots. Fabulous. But look, we've talked about the boots. His boot game is strong. Some say even fishy. Saying, what's going on down there. And people started drawing like drawing dry diagrams of what they believe to be inner lifts within the boot.

And, you know, the GOP, sadly, is not a great party to run in, especially for men that are perceived as anything less than a 12 foot tall Rambo recreation. anything less than a 12 foot tall Rambo recreation. And naturally the Trump fans have especially gone in on, on Ron DeSantis, his boots as a way to like, you know, neg him and be like Trump. Number one, this guy wears boots that have lifts in them.

Uh, and the debate over like his heels has now got to the point where political fucking political outlet got the fucking opinions of several cowboy boot and shoe experts, like fucking cobblers, to figure out whether or not Ron DeSantis is actually wearing altered boots. This is awesome. And look, it's in now. Okay, we've got the results in. All of these people are saying something's going on here. Something ain't right, Ron. There's one

diagram they point to. This diagram, Miles, is unbelievable. It's the best journalism I've seen in the past five years. It's a close-up of him sitting on a bar stool, but just focused in from his ankles and foot area. And they say

one, they're saying, oh, the leather is bunching too much here. Meaning like that there must be there must be a foot there. Another point shows to where his ankle joint is, right? Yeah. They're like, that's where his ankle joint is. Then they point to like where his toes likely end. And then they juxtapose that. They're like right next to it.

Number four, you can see where that big joint is where your big toe meets your foot yeah it's actually bulging that thing's pushing out way too early that's like in the mid so like in the arches area and they're like the verdict is our man is playing around with these big lifts and like the the function of the diagram the diagram is so effective you can like see his foot inside the boots and you can see how uncomfortably it is positioned. Like he is suffering for his art here. Yeah. It's, it's not great. It's like straight up his ankle, his like toes pointed like a ballerina. But then it's also like mashed to the side like his calf.

It would be wild like if he like snapped his Achilles on the, you know. But like I wouldn't be surprised. It's pretty stretched. He might tear his calf in the next few years. His calf has to be in just agony at all times. I kind of love it when men get picked apart like women do though. Right. Right. Exactly.

This does bring me great joy. I mean, and talk about your calves being in agony all the time. Oh, my Lord. Welcome. Welcome, Ron. One bootmaker they spoke to in Texas who candidly admitted, he's like, you know, actually made custom boots with hidden lifts for politicians in texas i won't say who but let's just say i know how this shit works they say it ain't george s bush i don't i couldn't think of it i couldn't think of a letter besides w what should we call him g bush no that's too obvious. Boo! George W.B.

What is the theory behind... I mean, doesn't Tom Cruise wear lifts and he saves the country regularly? Yes. I think, yeah, in some shots, too. And then other times, I know they'll just have him standing on stuff just to make it look good. Oh, right, like an Apple box or something. Yeah, exactly. But so the one guy, this Texas bootmaker, pointed to the fact that he's like, the boots

do have a traditional Western silhouette, but the heels appear shorter. And he's saying that when you put inserts into cowboy boots, you want to actually saw down the exterior heel because you can get up to a quote, five inch skeletto of height in there if you do it right and he said and he said quote that's too much for the common man so on a ready-made boot they'll cut down the heel about half an inch to accommodate the lifts which looks to be what happened here point of evidence number two is they point to his pant legs that seems to indicate that he is wearing a wider than necessary boot that would also accommodate the insert.

I would have to agree. Looking at this diagram, it's pretty clear to me what's going on. Yeah, and you hate to see it. Again, the GOP is not a place for short kinks, especially when, too, a lot of political people pointed out that taller candidates win a lot of like political people pointed out like taller candidates win a lot of the time except for like the uh one time where barack obama was shorter than mitt romney and joe biden is shorter than donald trump but guess what i don't just in my

mind times in my mind's eye barack obama is not shorter than mitt romney barack obama is an inch and a half to two inches taller than Mitt Romney in my mind's eye. And that's all the math, right? Like when we're, you know, like when people are voting, they're not like sitting there and looking at like a boxing weigh in. It's like how tall they read. And he reads as taller. You're right. My grandma's always said to me, it's not how big it is.

It's the motion of the ocean. Yes. Your grandma did always said to me it's not how big it is it's the motion of the ocean yes your grandma's feet too mainly defeat isn't that mainly what she was talking about i think she was talking about big dicks but oh really oh well hey shout out the wisdom of grandma for there too yeah but like he recently went on a podcast, right? Where the host is like a fucking avowed Trumper. Like he's worked on the campaigns. Like all he does is praise Donald Trump. Which also, by the way, is weird to be an avowed Trumper. Of course.

Like, what have you done with your life? Okay, continue. So he should have. So Ron DeSantis went on this show knowing that the MAGA people have been coming for his boots. that the MAGA people have been coming for his boots and the host did not waste time making Ron DeSantis squirm with his concern trolling over his boots like really put it away he's like oh do you know what they're saying about you right now but here listen to this this can't feel good and I'm just worried about your mental well-being truly truly this is him on this podcast where immediately he goes for the

boot or the throat or whatever we're saying here. I'm sure your marketing team points out how they're trying to troll you in the marketplace. Okay. I'm sure they're doing that. Can you bring this one clip? I know you were on a, a, a, what do you call it on a, uh, what was it? Bill Maher and Bill Maher talked about the boots. I've seen you walk with these boots. Go ahead and play this clip. This on TikTok went viral. It doesn't have a million views. It doesn't have, you know,

10 million views. This thing's got 1.2 million likes. And, and some people are wondering. What are they? I don't even, I haven't seen that. What there's,

they have not shown this to you. Okay. What they're trying to say with this is that in your boots, you have heels. No, no, no. Those are just standard

off the rack um luke kz um how tall are you how tall are you governor how tall 11 5 11 okay why don't you wear tennis shoes and dress shoes uh i do wear tennis shoes when i work out yeah you do okay i got a gift for you i'd love for you to wear Okay, I shop Oh, he looks so guilty He's bringing that sneakers For him to wear I don't accept gifts, I can't accept it Found an ally So it ends right there with him being able to be like

I actually can't accept gifts or even try on the sneakers That would verify I'd be on this show anymore Smoke bomb Out of here Oh no It's so fucked up like part of me like you know you as far i understand like the toxic masculinity of it all but for someone who is such a vile piece of shit you're like i know you reap what you sow fella you know what i mean for all the stuff you do to come at people who are different than the cishet crowd like this is kind of this is a beautiful

irony but that yellow line diagram was the best thing i've ever seen yeah with the drawn in leg the host shows the outline of like what people suspect is going on here it's like the magic bullet diagram and jfk and it's like so convincing it's like yes that's exactly what's going on inside the shoe did you see how his posture changed his posture changed when he said 5 like we said how tall are you 5'11 and he sat up more in his chair but I was like sir

your shoulders are a lot lower in relation to that chair than the host is which cause you can't you can't fake the torso you know what I mean? But anyway, it's definitely clear the host was trying to rattle him. And I would say he succeeded. But I wonder if now DeSantis' team is now internally trying to figure out how to play this.

Do they embrace it and be like, all right, you caught him, so what? He's still a fucking monster bigot. One of the biggest bigots in the world he's a small man but a huge bigot huge bigot so what are we even talking about he's got a lot of hate in his heart he's got this guy i'm telling you he's a hustle racist this guy's all hustle don't worry about it i mean is this what undoes a racist is like but you're you're actually short and that's it that that's what makes him be like oh no yeah i have to rethink my entire career trajectory maybe the don't say gay stuff was a too far no no it's my shoes watching that podcast host just like push him around just have his way with him like makes me real like he couldn't be a worse candidate

to be the guy trying to unseat donald trump like professional bully like like truly the worst pick possible yeah like because they could have come up with and he has to know that at some level that has to be what's happening with like that when they're like okay say your thing and then smile and like the smile that he flashes appears to be trying to kill him yeah exactly it looks like he's being lightly electrocuted and trying to hide it a little bit he's all good he's like incredibly happy but yeah this is again this the saga will continue uh that podcast goes to your point jack like it was such like i love a low energy concern troll where it's like oh man are you like they didn't tell you about i don't know if they're worried about this i don't know if your team's so oh they didn't show you okay so this is what they're saying in the marketplace

and then the diagram yeah the. The damning diagram. Let me just show you something here real quick. Never, never. Get your thoughts on this guy. Yeah. Okay, Ron. Okay. I'm looking at this picture of him that you have here in Tampa.

That is a man wearing lifts. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. The video of him walking across the stage in the boots. Oh, yeah. I've never seen it.

It also it just looks like if you had taped erasers to the bottom of my feet and asked me to walk around on them. I don't know why that's what I went with. But like it, you know, like just the discomfort of like walking on a thing that is not supposed to be there like it just feels weird what if it turns out they're not lifts it's just how he walks in boots that would actually be really that would be something we were also saying earlier off mike that what if he just had one really big toe and that's why he's got to have his foot all back set into the thing he doesn't want to wear he doesn't want to wear overly long shoes so it's better to go vertical

with it to get by that big toe some space and then he has to do a big toe reveal to be like it's not lifts guys i got fine look at my big ass toes man you wanted? As a fellow long-toed king, I would be forced to feel a little bit of sympathy. Yeah. Shout out the LTKs. Yeah, I'm sure amongst the GOP it's okay to be different. Yeah, they seem to appreciate that.

They embrace the fact that humans are varied, and they don't conform to just one sort of set of traits or identities. But yeah. We'll see, Ron. Nikki Haley's gaining on you, but I don't conform to just one sort of set of traits or identities. But yeah, we'll see Ron, Nikki Haley's gaining on you, but I don't know what that means anyway, because it's Trump's to lose or actually to win,

I guess. Really? Yeah. Gaining. And that means that she's getting closer to second place. And second place is behind Trump by like 40 percent for 40 percentage points. Right. Oh,

my God. I can't believe he's running. He's going to win. What? Folks, he's going to win. He's going to run the country from prison. Biden's dropping the ball right now. He's upside down on everything.

He doesn't know what to do with foreign policy. He doesn't know what to do with domestic policy. He's losing support, folks. But yeah, anyway, we'll deal with that that next year we're just the middle east now yeah yeah truly i mean destabilization here we are do we think that the reason because this is like giving me a new perspective on like what it must be like to be a short king who's living a lie and like has to be in lifts all the time in public and like it it just puts a whole new perspective on tom cruise for me and the idea that like you know how he runs like loves to run in movies like movies are the one place where he can use camera trickery to appear taller right and

so i just wonder if it's like he just feels free it's the only place that he feels free because he can just like you know otherwise he's having to walk around in these in these lifts like which just look look like a real nightmare to maneuver i mean given that he also is very high up there in a major international cult. I imagine movies are a place where he's free. Yeah, that's true. Also. Well, yeah, because we were talking about how

JM was sort of doing an analysis, our writer, and suspected that the Mission Impossible movies are sort of low-key about trying to get out of Scientology. What? The theory is strong. The theory kind of holdsology. What? Yeah. The theory is strong. Like, the theory kind of holds together. It coheres.

Right. So much going on in a boot. I know, exactly. Just let us look in them boots, Ron. What if this was all just because I had a Ron DeSantis foot fetish? I was just like, just let us look at your feet, man.

Let me see those things, man. You don't got nothing on wicky feet, man. See, if you got them fangs on you, them long toes. I mean, I knew coming into this. I knew. You knew that's what this was about? I'm into fetishes. I have a fetish for fetishes.

Oh, okay. That's my thing. I like that. So, I knew. Yeah. All right. Good. Let's take a quick break, and we're going to come back and just keep talking about Ron DeSantis.

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Who has no feet? We can get right on them feet pictures. I feel so terrible that I didn't actually put this into the document for us to look at. But yeah. What? He's got thick feet, folks! Yeah. Thick feet. We love a

thick foot king. Yeah. Those look like the inflamed foot of a man who's been wearing lifts. Yeah. And one of his feet is propped up like a Barbie foot. He can't stop propping it. His calves. Oh, could you imagine that foot is stuck like that?

From overuse of the lifts. It took three days to get the left foot flattened out, but they just couldn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has extremely flat feet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, Ron.

Not anymore. Not with the magic of these lifts. No, not at all. Not at all. All right. We have an update on a story that we've been covering breathlessly. We're like, guys, stop stealing from Target. There's a theft ring that is putting them out of business. And it turns out that is bullshit. Yeah. What do you know?

bay area they're like oh god it's so out of control and then it's like no your rent's too high you're not doing enough business and you over expanded too quickly and you're using this as cover and now the latest one was like about a month ago target is the latest company crying crime wave and they said we're gonna have to close nine stores because they're shoplifting so much and again every fucking place. CNBC, Target says it will close nine stores in major cities citing violence and theft. Wall Street Journal, Target to close stores in San Francisco,

other cities citing theft. Bloomberg, Target closes nine NYC West Coast stores to stop losses from rising theft. The New York Times, Target citing theft to close nine stores. Everybody just took this and ran with it okay and sadly for times is the most liberal publication in the world what obviously yeah i'm so confused i know their coverage is so to the left it's right that's how fucking wild it is it's crazy but like sadly

for them uh judd legum's popular information team took a look at the numbers of the stores affected in san francisco and new york and guess what these stores that are being shuttered actually had lower instances of theft than the fucking stores that are remaining open how does that work and then but politicians they only read the wall street journal so naturally a few senators have introduced a bill called the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act. And that's really just more cop shit, right? Obviously. And they point to this statistic in their press release about why they need to act. Quote, organized retail crime costs retailers $720,000 for every $1 billion in sales.

That's up 50% since 2015. Damn, I'm in the wrong business. Hey, wait, quick math those are. You love math joke. And I know you're really good at math. What percentage is 720,000 out of 1 billion? Three. There you go.

It's actually 0.07% of sales. And like the group that they say they get the stats from this lobbying group the national retail federation is the one keeping the stats and even they admit they stopped recording these specific stats like back in 2020 because the numbers were so minuscule oh my god and really a lot of people are just like just like the walgreens thing some people who are like savvy investors kind of looking into it and they're like, it looks like maybe target is just trying to hide behind the theft argument to cover up the fact that their stores are just doing less business because they're poorly planned in the locations they're at.

And maybe because the prices might still be too high. Maybe that could also be a thing too. But of course, it couldn't be that what target be like we're losing business because our shit's overpriced yeah well and also for them to have nine stores oh yeah close down like and that's just the ones they close like there's more stores that they have i mean it's poor planning yeah yeah together yeah uh but i've seen a lot of people argue about this story too where they're like people really buy into it they love to people love to cape for retail stores it's fucking wild

like there's like there's a twitter thread going i was like looking at people saying like if you knew anything about being in retail you know that like law enforcement is so underfunded that they can't even do anything about it and other people are like have you ever worked at a store and have someone steal something you never call the cops you know why because they're gonna be like the fuck you want us to do yeah like you should catch them their response to most things yeah it turns out what you want us to do yeah oh wait hold on there's someone having a fucking mental health crisis we're right there we're right there guns yeah, like it's, yeah. So this fucking, this like little dumb story keeps coming back all the time. It'll never go away. But keep your eye out for that.

Theft has gone up a little bit in the past 10 years. And that is because of self-checkouts. They introduced self-checkouts because, and it was a calculated risk that self-checkout would save them enough money that it would offset the losses they would have from people just being like oh missed missed that one but okay everyone knows that self-checkout is where you go when you want to steal shit yeah of course and they know that saying i do i'm just saying right yeah and also what you do is the person who's like the monitor like the one human they have over there, you get good with them. You're like, hey, man, you want this?

I'm about to come up on a London broil if you want. I'll split it with you. That's right. Listen, I'm going to buy this boot lift. Yeah. Don't tell anyone about it. That's how I that's how my sleep deprived brain does things hey i'm gonna commit an act and you're like uh i think you're here for your child's three month checkup

yeah right oh oh my bad okay sorry that wasn't targeted all right there's a story from dentists where I appreciate the specificity of their they're really just being like, we don't give a fuck about any other part of the body. We're good here. An article this week, a dentist

in Virginia implored kids to eat all their Halloween candy in one sitting because it's much better for your teeth. Oh, hilarious. It might upset your belly a little bit. Yeah, it might. To eat all your candy in one sitting.

It might put you into a diabetic coma, literally. But I don't know. Every single year, Dennis... Yeah. But this isn't one silly Dennis. dentists like every single year dentists give the same advice where they're like i mean if you're gonna eat candy like a big bag full of candy you might as well get it out of the way now and then just go brush your teeth immediately oh rather than like a prolonged a prolonged multi-years effort like my weird bag candy

vault would be if you eat all your candy in one city you're exposing your teeth to that frequency one time but if you're sitting there and you're eating it every 20 30 minutes for the next few days over the next week it's causing more damage to your teeth oh that's a quote from one dentist i put it all in a bowl by my bed. And after I brush my teeth, I have one. Yeah. There you go. I do not use hands. I just go face first into a bowl of, I called it peeled candy.

That's how much I use unconsuming vegetables and fruits that the only thing I can say is peeled candy. Peel the wrap, peel the skin off my candy and then just go at it. You got to do the thing where you know those flat Jolly Rancher candies? Oh yeah, those are so good. You just put those on each side of your mouth. Make a little retainer. Wrap it around. So you have one in your bottom

jaw and one in your top jaw. Or like you're going for x-rays and that film you have to bite down on just like two jolly renters those flat pieces go to bed folks dentists love that yeah i just i don't know i guess it could be argued that it's also not great for kids teeth to have them bolt through a plate glass window in a sugar crazed frenzy after eating an entire pillowcase full of candy but i'm with the dentists on this one you know what i watch a lot of true crime you know what

lives outlives you your teeth teeth that's right yeah you know after you've been murdered and manslaughtered massacred whatever tortured by a serial killer yeah how do you want your teeth to look to the whole rest of the world that's what that's mainly yeah when people are like what am i gonna leave behind when they're having existential crises teeth just your teeth that's what you're gonna leave behind yeah so you sit down little jimmy and you eat that entire goddamn bag of candy yes do you think while i watch you do you think kids want to do that like i know everyone's like i'm gonna eat it now but like i feel like there's always that sort of deferred

gratification thing like yeah no he's definitely speaking to parents of kids with candy like yeah adults in charge of kids bags of candy right like right i used to eat all my nieces candy they forget about it yeah yeah they really do they don't's candy. They forget about it. Yeah. Yeah, they really do. It's crazy. They don't give a shit. They forget about it. After like three days, they're like, yeah, whatever.

Halloween. Oh, Jack, you dole it. Do you dole it out? Do I dole it out? Yeah. No, they forget, man. No, I'm saying, are they in control of their bag account?

No, no, no, no. They get a couple pieces on Halloween night and then like maybe one or two and like a couple nights after and then they forget about it. Because they're also like they my wife raised them on the idea that fruit is dessert and fruit is the sweetest thing that you get. And so they are there. They really prefer fruit to candy. they really prefer fruit to candy. And I'm just sitting there being like, you

suckers. I eat all of their candy in a dark room. Dad has all my Jolly Ranchers in his mouth again. I'm going to enjoy this for the rest of the night. Dad's teeth are

rotting out of his head at such a rate that we can actually see it in real time i think i saw a worm come out of his incisor too that's a gummy worm i think let's get a diagram on this yeah and finally we've got a great trend a thriving subculture in new zealand there have been a bunch of headlines in the past week about how a New Zealand town has been plagued by drivers blasting Celine Dion ballads, which has turned people's lives into chaos. Sounds to me like plagued is the wrong word here.

It should be enhanced. Blessed. Serious, blessed. Thank you. But yeah, it makes it sound like it's a prank of some sort, but it's actually kind of nuanced and beautiful. So there's this elaborate New Zealand subculture

in which siren clubs have, quote, siren battles where they blare music on speakers hooked up to modded cars or bikes to compete for the title of Siren King to win. So this was happening with bass when I was growing up with cars. Oh, bass wars. Yeah, bass wars. But the difference here is to win,

their sounds can't just be the loudest. They also have to be the clearest, which is why competitors, many of them of the Pacific community, have been using Celine Dion because her music has high treble, which makes it very clear. You can play it at a loud volume,

and three blocks away, they just hear the voice of an angel sound out in the night clear as a bell as if i didn't already want to move to new zealand enough i know right that's their biggest problem is people blasting celine dion yeah well and it's wild too because it's not even like even when people are like it's a gang or whatever like no it's actually like a really positive thing for young people it's not even like they're people are like it's a gang or whatever they're like no it's actually like a really positive thing for these young people it's not even like they're doing instead of a gang they say like the kids are like actually like this keeps me pretty like it's like a fun

productive thing that we do together right it's like it reminds me of like how like in some cities on the east coast like they're they're like angry when they see like groups of kids in this like city on bikes and stuff yeah and they're like it's a nuisance we're like honestly some of these kids like this is this is healthier for them to have fun together doing something like on a bike than you know getting into some fucking nonsense or getting trouble so it's it's it's always interesting to see how these subcultures pop up and then like i love that it's such a respect for the fidelity that they've had to dial in. And it's like Celine Dion is actually, like, it's not even about the style. It's about this is the music that helps us really determine who the Siren King is.

I'm just picturing, like, a bunch of teenagers. It's like that scene in Shawshank when, like, the voice comes over and, like, all these teenagers just, like, look up in a single tear like runs down their eye you know right okay what's your favorite celine dion ballad i mean the power of lurve yeah i feel it has to be right i'm blasting that shit if i'm not by heart will go on that feels i'm sorry it feels a little kind of yeah little played although i'm not my heart will go on that feels i'm sorry it feels a little kind of yeah little played although i'm not saying the power of lerv is the you know like an original banger either but i just feel like that would if i'm trying to be a siren king i'll probably try and win with that one i think you would win siren king miles and you know thank you so much i'm you know i'm i am

planning to just maybe make my way to Auckland to see how I... Can you imagine that fucking comedy movie about some dude in America being like, I just want to be a Siren King, Dad! And making the journey to New Zealand. Do it, go! Live your dream! Live your dream, boy! What's that one?

He's trying to bring bass music to the siren battles. And everyone's like, this fucking sucks, man. It's all muddled, man. This is not Siren King material. If you kiss me like this, and whisper like that. It's all coming

back, all coming back to me now. Wow. When it gets to, baby, baby, baby. That's when you just put your Siren King crown on. You're like, yep. Any other questions? That shit's hot.

I feel like I Will Always Love You would be a fun one to just hear, again, ring out. Because it opens with that long acapella, just Whitney. I mean, she's got lines like the flesh and the fantasy, folks. It's all coming back. When you said that line, it's all coming back to me. There you go. And by it's all coming back to me, I just could smell the backseat of my parents' car. That song was playing and I was nine years old.

Oh, I thought this was you like making out in the back of your parents' car or something. With a Dane, you're like, should I put the Celine Dion on? No. Set the mood. Shall we smooch to some Celine? Damn, Jack. Shall we bless the backseat with some Celine? They're like, wait, can you take me home?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, that was a big swing on my part. I didn't realize that would feel so bad. Sorry, why do you have goosebumps? Drop me off up here. Well, Zara, such a pleasure, as

always, having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me at the grocery store in line. Trying out some jokes. Yeah. But if you don't look there, you can catch me on X at Zara Comedy. Nah, not Twitter. You're on Twitter.

It's Twitter. On the I'm not on Twitter. You're on Twitter. It's Twitter. On the IG Metaverse. Metaverse piece. Oh, wow. So you've been staying up on the latest trends. I mean, just don't ask me to do mental math, folks. That's right. Right, for sure.

And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Oh, my right. Right. For sure. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Oh my God. No, not one. Looking at my baby monitor diligently. Yeah. The nanny camera pro I've been really, no,

I've just started bluey. Oh, you just started bluey. Yeah. Oh man. I, I was just bringing, I was just started Bluey. You just started Bluey? Yeah. Oh, man. I was just having a Bluey revival in the past couple weeks at our house. Bluey's the best. Have you gotten into Bluey yet?

No, I don't really watch it with the baby yet. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know when you're supposed to. I don't know that she she's just sort of stared yeah i mean like when the guy's child was first born i was watching the boys okay holding him yeah and i was like man these motherfuckers getting their heads melted but part of me was like man he can't like everything i read and like the doctor's like they're not their eyesight isn't that developed yeah so they don't know what the fuck is going on

i'm like okay cool cool because there's some pretty violent shit that was happening. I have watched a lot of X-Files with my daughter. Oh. And I'm pretty much banking on her not actually seeing any of it. Yeah. But maybe she is. Maybe she's going to be really into fantasy noir. Absorbing it.

Yeah. She wants to be the smoking man next year, probably. Miles, where can people find you? What's the work media you've been enjoying? Find me on the at based platforms at miles of gray. Also find us on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack. And also my 90 day fiance podcast.

Fortunately, fiance was Sophia Alexandra and check out the Good Thief if you still haven't heard the true crime show that I hosted let's see any stuff I like no I'm in the same boat I have not I just tried you know

goosebumps started losing me I'm not gonna lie I got a couple more episodes in I started wavering a little bit although there are references to Arsenal, which shout out to the writer, whoever decided to make that kind of be a central plot line for something. But yeah, I'm going to be honest. I've lost a bit of momentum there.

I think I'm going to try Five Night Freddy next. Yeah. Or Five Nights at Freddy's. Five Night Freddy. The writing, dude, the pieces don't stop. They're like, why is this film so divisive? And I'm like, now I got to see it. Let me know.

It's also the best, I think, debut for a horror film directed by a woman, too. Made history. Oh. Oh, hell yeah. No shit. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. First, Andrew Lawrence tweeted, wow wow you're in your 60s

and you think the kids these days are out of control what a unique and interesting opinion to hold are you impressed with their work ethic holy shit you aren't very fascinating please continue and then also we got a tweet from rocco t thompson which is Camille Paglia, the feminist academic, on a show. It was like a talk show. I don't know. Was she the traitorous one? Am I remembering right? Was she the one that was like, women should stay home?

I don't think so. But the main thing I know her for is she went on a talk show and was like, Revenge of the Sith, the third Star Wars movie, is the most important work of art of the past decade, essentially. And that is the sort of, like, if you're going to be a strange, out-of-touch, older person, I prefer that. Like having weird out of control enthusiasm for something as opposed to just having the same bullshit like disdain for everything new instead focus on new things and like find a thing that you really fuck with and and be wrong about

it but still you know i prefer that so that was ro Rocco T. Thompson retweeted Camille Paglia on Revenge of the Sith 2005. Oh, yeah. Okay. I just looked her up. She is. She's accused of being anti-feminist often. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Well, she's pro Revenge of the Sith. This track. Yeah. Blame the woman for Darth Vader. There you go. That's right. Yeah, that is kind of the plot of that movie, isn't it? That's perfect, Bert.

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cold in koreatown and as an angel you know like you know like that okay that's giving me a visual uh when you listen to it it sounds like it's like spooky house music but like lo-fi uh and it again like if you've been to koreatown there's like a lot of like like half occupied malls and shopping centers and shit so like i don't know like all of this kind of does come together aesthetically in my mind when i listen to this so this is sleepy eyes with so cold in koreatown all right we will link off to that in the footnotes the daily Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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