The Daily Zeitgeist - Rushin’ Vaccine, Dr Pepper In Danger? 8.12.20

Episode Date: August 12, 2020

In episode 692, Jack and Miles are joined by our writer and Rewatchability podcast host JM McNab to discuss Russia rushing vaccines, a Trump BS quote round up, Smash Mouth deciding Covid-19 isn't a thing, the rate of firearm in plane carry-ons going up, a Dr. Pepper shortage, Qanon trolls versus Troll dolls, and more!FOOTNOTES: Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell says 'f*** that COVID s***' as he performs to large crowd Packed Crowd Turns Up for Smash Mouth Concert Despite the Coronavirus Pandemic Everything to Know About the Chainsmokers Hamptons Concert, Featuring DJ D-Sol of Goldman Sachs, Presented by FuckJerry's Tequila Line Rock band Great White apologizes for playing show with no COVID-19 precautions Smash Mouth Singer Goes Berserk When Crowd Throws Bread Onstage: ‘I’m Gonna Beat Your Ass’ (Video) Rate of firearms found in flight carry-ons has tripled amid pandemic Dr Pepper confirms that some of its flavors are experiencing a shortage in the US, as fans panic over their disappearance from shelves Hasbro pulling Trolls doll from stores after accusations of ‘inappropriate’ button placement under toy’s skirt How QAnon and Pizzagate Conspiracy Theorists Got a ‘Trolls’ Doll Pulled From Stores Poppy Troll Doll Pulled After Child-Grooming Complaints WATCH: HERO - ROT IN PIECES (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to season 146 episode 3 of your daily production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck the coke brothers fuck. Fuck Fox News. Fuck Russ Limbaugh. Fuck Bugs X. And fuck Ben Shapiro. And fuck Tucker Carlson. It's Wednesday, August 12, 2020. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I heard there was a special test that Donald took and he owned the left. But you don't really care for Fox News do you

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that is courtesy of Zamboni Zamboni and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles Gray, aka your whack, your twisted, your girl's a hoe, you're broke, the kid ain't yours, and everybody know your old man think you're stupid. You be like, so? I love my baby mother.

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I was going to say, that is the song, right? Those are the lyrics. Oh, yeah, but I'm just going to start just doing grimy rap lyrics. Grimy shit. Yeah, but really owning it because there's a few DMX freestyles you could actually not even say out loud in the year 2020 without being arrested uh but you know i will

say this i i i like the energy the support for the shapiro uh the impersonation so i will i will try and hone that one in uh yeah to the point where i was freaking some people out who thought they were listening to ben shapiro i think our think our guest today said that he had that experience where he stopped paying attention when I was talking, and then you started talking to Ben Shapiro again, and he was like, wait, did they go back to the recording? Was that Miles? And how quickly until Jack starts talking again

and I get to check out again? I quickly switch over to Marin. talking again and i get to check out again uh well we quickly switch over to marin we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious the brilliant the talented the writer of many a story that we cover on this daily zeitgeist he is mr jm mcnab I am McNam! Boop, boop, boop! Sick, sick, sick, sick! Hey, guys! Wow, J.M., good one. Thank you so much for having me. I mean, I'm here in my living room in another country.

Yeah, we were just reminiscing how you were the, like, you know, you were our last show we recorded when we were doing our live tour in Toronto. And just thinking of, like, how we were just looking back at that. We're like, we got on so many planes and shared so many drinks and joints of people. Oh, by the grace of God, go.

I. The, the open mouth kissing segment of the show. Yeah. In retrospect, we're like Isaiah magic fans. So we'd like to start the show. Nice kiss. That's right. Baby kissing. kissing oh i'll ask this you know parent kissing i read so many stories about how like you know

fucking americans just trying to invade canada at times there are people like sort of seeing an influx of people trying to enter or people that are there and it's annoying the people of canada uh quick vibe check up north what's going on jam is that a whole vibe it's uh yeah it's a bit of a vibe uh i i think people are pretty into the idea of keeping the border shut i don't even know if i should be talking to you right now i think there was a story about like a couple that snuck in across the border and was fine something like 30 grand or something uh but there are still like there are still international flights going in and out i think right but you have to quarantine but like the border where you drive across i don't think you can and they're like nope just going to alaska man just that's what i'm doing not staying bro just gonna power through passing through but

everything here is on the honor system so right that would be but also just really quick how's qualicum beach on vancouver island about now fun okay i'm not that i'll go there i know it's out of the way but i'm i am going to alaska not anywhere not alaska there's another thing that people were saying is a lot of fake alaska on the way to alaska people uh and then like camping places so also a lot of americans like own cottages and cottage country around here so i think they kind of came in early and and were able to kind of hole up up there and you know write their manifestos yeah but uh yeah but we will you know if if you try to come across the border we will find you and then you know probably apologize for so sorry about this uh now i know that uh in and around

your uh area it's pretty bad because you had those super spreaders come through right at the start of the uh pandemic but in general is canada like our things uh i was referring to us but uh are things mainly open uh so the joke was that uh miles and i were on tour and uh as we previously referenced two minutes ago uh now what what is the pandemic is what you're saying right and then so and then people by super spreader i meant uh covid uh 19 because we're in the middle of the pandemic and what i was asking jam is what uh pandemic wise least speaking uh how's canada doing uh i think generally like doing okay um i know like here in ontario the numbers have been pretty good for a while now, but they're, you know, opening more stuff up just in the past couple of weeks, like bars and movie theaters and things that are a bit worrying.

Yeah. And then that's, you know, open the bars just in time for reopening schools, which is the big kind of debate. A lot of people aren't happy with how schools are being reopened here, but it's different all across the country. So I think we're kind of in a, you know, I know some areas like out West, like we're doing better and then had some outbreaks again, but like generally speaking, I think, I think we're kind of at a crossroads because,

because we're coming to schools reopening. Right. I think that's going to be the big decider in terms of whether or not we we're kind of at a crossroads because we're coming to schools reopening. I think that's going to be the big decider in terms of whether or not we kind of stay on a positive course in terms of the numbers or whether or not we see everything go to hell when schools

reopen. See it start looking like a little bit of the US of A. You know, we've always tried to emulate you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quick tip, don't do it. Yeah. I feel like bars really need to be the very last thing that we open.

They're not necessary. Like, if anything, like, I get it. Like, oh, if you've got to get your sip on because that's your thing, keep the liquor store open. Yeah, liquor stores stay open. But you ain't got to, you know, you've got to get your, your sip on, cause that's your thing. Like keep the liquor store open, stay open, but you ain't got it. You don't just learn how to make it work on zoom. Yeah.

Or fucking across the, just holler across your street. Right. But not into each other's faces. Like you do at a bar. Yeah. I mean, it's also just like,

it's, it's literally, they manufacture a product that will make it harder for people to, you know, be responsible in terms of safety. Right. In terms of not kissing or screaming into each other's mouths or singing Sweet Caroline at the top of their lungs into each other's faces. Neil Diamond has been a super spreader, for sure.

Yeah. Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. I think there was actually a bar in Europe that had to ban Sweet Caroline because, yeah, it was a bar, Irish bar in Barcelona, I think, that had to ban Sweet Caroline because it's such a, you know,

you can't keep the Europeans from touching each other in the first place. And then you got these lyrics about hands reaching out. Touching me. Touching you. It is just one of those like torch songs. You're like, oh, here we go.

A bunch of assholes going to start screaming. Bah, bah, bah. And you're like, yeah. By a bunch of assholes, I mean me. Yeah. I mean, it also, you you know like it plays a lot of arsenal song arsenal matches too when we win so yeah it happens you know there's anthems what are you gonna do uh all right jam we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first

we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about we're gonna talk about russia has solved the problem we've been talking about thus far uh they have the vaccine um or at least they claim to have the vaccine uh this is one of those times that we're hoping that uh russia intelligence hacking is uh really up to par and is just crushing it and they have all the best information uh however the fact that they're rushing into it uh is worrying for a couple of reasons we'll talk about those we'll do a quick trump bs roundup uh we'll do a weird news story i hadn't noticed miles that you flagged is that the tsa has seen a spike in people bringing guns onto airplanes yeah or trying to, which is very strange.

Very idiotically, yeah. We're going to check in with a couple stories, actually, that we've covered in the past. First of all, we're going to check in with Smash Mouth and how their performance went at that Sturgis motorcycle rally. And we're also going to check in with Ben Shapiro just doubled down on his cell phone by being like my wife's a doctor and she says uh peas are not supposed to get wet at

all that's a problem that's a problem if they do uh you should call the police um anyways we're not really going to check in on that i just wanted to bring that up because we talked about it yesterday we're going to talk about Dr. Pepper we're going to talk about the Trolls franchise and some of their merchandise that has caught the eye of QAnon and we're going to

of course ask the question we try to ask as often as possible what's going on with that Mr. Peanut his storyline is endlessly fascinating. Oh, it's continuing? Yeah. I don't know.

Just like when he died. Just like, fuck, he died. Great. Fuck it. And then there's a baby, but like, I don't care. I'm not invested in that generation of the peanut family. There's greater appeal there than I think I realized, because people do seem to keep talking about it.

Anyways, but first, J.M., we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I was looking into, my kids are really into the Muppets right now. Mm-hmm. And specifically, they've been watching the new Muppet Babies. There's a new Muppet Babies? There's a new Muppet Babies. Oh, shit.uppet Babies? There's a new Muppet Babies. Oh, shit.

You're not talking about Scott Gardner's Tiny Fuppets? Oh, I love Tiny Fuppets. No, no, no. With Kremit? Kremit. I think it's like a Disney Plus thing. Okay. Just a sidebar.

Dude, the Scott Gardner animation Tiny Fuppets is the funniest thing because it's the most blatant ripoff of Muppet Babies, but the funniest thing because it's the most blatant rip-off of Muppet Babies, but the thrust of it is that it's not a rip-off. They fight tooth and nail. At one point, the creator of the show comes on to set the record straight, but it's like, how could it be? This frog is called Kremit.

It's really good. People need to check it out. Scott Gardner is a genius. You're looking around at uh muppet baby stuff i was specifically looking to see if there was any kind of continuity to the muppets that would make sense because we also watched like the first muppet movie which is about how they all met when they were not babies uh when they're full full grown what fuck yeah so i was trying to reconcile that it's like is there any kind of explanation so i i did google it uh this sounds like an episode of after hours by the way where you recreate the whole background um well people have that's the thing i looked it

up and they were like a lot of people have have dug deep into this. I found one. There was a really long essay on Medium called The Muppet Babies Cannot and Should Not Be Treated as Muppet Canon. Oh, wow. Interesting. I thought the best explanation I found was someone posted on Reddit basically suggesting that the first movie and the TV show where you see the behind the scenes that's the real muppets and then the movies in between where and like the muppet babies are are all

things that like the muppets have acted in right because the muppets get meta a lot of the time right like exactly yeah so so that by that token like the Muppet babies was like them selling out in the eighties, you know? Right. Right. For a Saturday morning cartoon. Yeah. I mean,

it makes sense. Like there's so many like eighties pop culture references throughout. So it makes sense that they're just like trying to cash in on a George Lucas and Steven Spielberg style things. Yeah. So it does, it does make sense. You know,

if, if you do a bit of work, which I did because we're in the middle of a pandemic and, and Steven Spielberg style things. Yeah, so it does make sense, you know, if you do a bit of work, which I did because we're in the middle of a pandemic and it took the time to do that. And that's what we got to do. What's up with, what's going on with Nanny in the new Muppet Babies? Nanny is there. It's the same deal.

You only see her legs, but she's voiced by Jenny Slate. Oh, wow. Okay, so this might be a new generation of nanny maybe yeah huh uh is she still rocking the striped uh leggings she is yeah and you don't see her and you don't get any you know inkling as to why she don't use this ruin in the time it's like dude all right nanny get out get out, bro. What did you picture Nanny looking like as a kid? Did you have a... I always pictured like a blonde woman, kind of looked a little bit like a grown-up Penny

from Inspector Gadget, I think. I actually... It's weird. I intentionally avoided trying to think of what Nanny looked like because I was having trouble. I was like, well, if these people look like this and if they do a Star Wars episode

and they look like this then what does this person like I don't even want to go there I would just take it as shin down woman just like you know what whatever you're in the way because it's about the Muppets and thank you Nanny for everything you do but please get back to Fozzie Bear and you know I'm the same with podcasts I don't want to know what you people look like

oh yeah no one does. And when they do, for listeners who have not looked us up, do not. Just keep it. Make it pleasurable for you. Just enjoy the voices because our grizzlers. We're so surprised by the tats. Yeah. By the neck tats that I bring to the table.

And, you know, I kind of rushed into getting those four Audi rings as a neck tattoo. But, you know, I think it looks cool. Jam, what is something you think is overrated? For overrated, I put down Kevin Costner. Overrated?

I thought you said Kevin Costner was overrated. Did you think I said underrated? No, no. Kevin Costner, therated. Did you think I said underrated? No, no. Kevin Costner, the actor, is underrated, right? Well, think about it. You said he's overrated? There's a lot of good Kevin Costner movies. This episode is over, JM.

No, I'm just joking. Go ahead. There's a lot of good Kevin Costner movies. I'm not going to say that Kevin Costner movies are bad. I love a lot of Kevin Costner movies. But I struggle to think of like a kevin costner movie where he was forced to emote or do anything other than maybe throw on a pair of glasses and like like furrow his brow yeah like he's not a good actor he's and i think he just he

just kind of got great like he's on a show that's super popular i don't want to do this right now i don't want to do oh is he what's the show yellowstone and it's fucking bro it's the number one fucking drama on cable man yeah it's got lost in it i think movie star and actor are two completely separate uh like skill sets i think he is a great movie star. He's the best example of somebody who has all of one and none of the other. Like he is not an actor in the least bit. He just knows exactly like where to be and how to look and everything. And like,

that's, that's why there's like these really handsome dudes who become good directors because they become movie stars without being really good actors at all. They just know everything. They're just aware of everything. Like the kind of dude that women just loved back then. He just had that vibe of that's what the star is.

And then he just had to merely appear in the context of being a star guy. And it was like, good like good enough man robin hood don't care if you can't act great bodyguard sure does he have like a suit on and he'll just like get do scary stuff great i mean i did like wyatt erp but i don't know if i liked him in it this is what i'm saying yeah oh you know what though i can't water world i don't even talk about the water world is untouchable fantastic he spoke portuguese greek in it that was some range and he was had gills thank you but i still think like bye-bye water world he put you know he could have been bonked on the head as an iowa farmer and woken up in water world no but it's right it's

just it's more than that it's Waterworld. It's more than that. It's more than that. Do you know Iowa farmers who have gills behind their ears, Jan? If it was like a dream, if all of Waterworld was a dream sequence that the guy in Field of Dreams was having, it would make as much sense

in terms of the performance. He acted the hell out of those ear gills, bro. Oh, yeah. That's true. You could tell he had ear gills from the performance. But he acted the hell out of those ear gills, bro. Oh, yeah. That's true. You could tell he had ear gills from the start. I feel bad. He did convincingly drink his own pee.

That was it. But he converted it to potable water. But yeah, he really does. He has no... I remember as a kid seeing him win Best Director and Best Picture for Dances with Wolves, and I got angry. And I wasves. And I got angry and I was seven. And I don't know why I was like, man, fuck this guy.

I don't know why. I have no fucking idea why, but I have a very visceral, like this very strong memory of watching that happen and being like really dissatisfied with it. A lot of those handsome dudes who become really good directors make movies that don't really hold up. And I feel like Costner, Ben Affleck, some of those, Mel Gibson.