The Daily Zeitgeist - Sen. Markwayne MullTrend 6/27: Jesse Watters, Epstein, Supreme Court, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, 73%, Titanic

Episode Date: June 27, 2023

In this edition of , Jack and Miles discuss Jesse Watters taking over Tucker Carlson's slot , the DoJ ruling that Jeffrey Epstein had entirely too much bedding, the Supreme Court ruling in favor of something good (I guess…), Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenging a committee witness to a "cage fight", 73% of people not having landlines, and Titanic (suspiciously) coming to Netflix!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hell yeah, Mark Wayne. That name rules. So we'll talk about that. That's called a tease. After the break, we'll talk about why. Mark Twain is trending. But first, we have to let you know that you're in for a

racing glass of cool waters. Fox News has named Jesse Waters to succeed Tucker Carlson as anchor of the 8 p.m. hour. The lucrative, highly sought after 8 p.m. hour. Jesse Waters has been on my radar since he was like an intern for Bill O'Reilly. And like he would do like Chinatown more offensive.

Yeah. Like openly racist against asian people yeah yeah that's when i first found out about him if you if you haven't seen it i haven't seen it in like 15 years is that when you knew that jesse waters culture was for you i know that's when i knew that's when i became a fan and got the poster yeah that was my first thing that was like that really terrible man on the street bit in chinatown. I was like, this is just unhinged racism. Okay, sure. Yeah.

His new persona seems to be that he tries to be like a character in Mad Men, like that is conservative for Mad Men. Like he dresses in like suits from that era. And he just like says wild misogynistic shit that somebody would have said in the 1950s um yeah he killed a guy he's trying to hide it and hit it um took over his personality is that how mad isn't that i've i've only seen like the first three episodes i was like i cannot deal anymore but i isn't that is that the thing right centrally like donnie drapes uh he doesn't you know i don't think he kills anybody. He does the war or something.

He's in the war. And like, he's just kind of a doofus and his like super confident leader higher up in the military. Just like dies right in front of him. And he just takes his dog tags and is like, I'm that now, which is the exact fucking conceit of season nine, episode two of the Simpsons,

the principal and the popper yeah yeah when he comes back and like his name is really Armin Tamzarian yeah it's Armin Tamzarian shit yeah they're like no but this happened during the Korean war so and that storyline was Vietnam war

so they based that on this that's so funny that I think of that I'm like that's the Simpsons like don't but that's The Simpsons. Like, don't. But that's probably actually something from literature before that, but I'm ignorant. So I will take The Simpsons as the original. The Simpsons for 800. Alex, who

posts that now? Mayim? How fucking incendiary is that first episode going to be? Because most people are saying, like, if you thought Tucker was bad, the thing that's going to come after Tucker is not going to be fucking more measured. Yeah. Seems like everything just keeps getting worse.

It's like the Putin thing. They're like, oh, you thought Putin was bad? You are going to fucking be crying for your mommy Putin when this next guy comes along you're gonna say wow wow where is daddy putin and you're gonna be where is he and he's gone you because pregogion's daddy now or maybe daddy who knows your daddy or diddy we don't know um but everyone's like he's weak everyone thinks putin's weak anyways this is not a story about that this is a story about jesse waters and how he is new king of um yeah this is

just gonna be some some shit we have to deal with now seems like a real bad guy um and he's gonna be probably twice as famous as he is right now in two months. Has Tucker come out with a new episode of his, uh, wood shop? I don't think so. Because Fox was like, you can't be doing these sad ass little wooden vlogs, my man.

Yeah. Interesting. So I'm pretty sure I, I, I mean, I feel like we would have heard because the internet would have started talking about it, but yeah,

I don't think, I think we only got that one grand opening grand closing grand opening grand closing um well miles speaking of grand closing we can finally close the book on jeffrey epstein's suicide uh the justice department no the justice department had in a way he was murdered by negligence of two guards, federal jail guards. When you said two guards, I was like, what, like a shooting guard or a point guard? Two guards. Yeah, it was Devin Booker.

And, I mean, once you consider Michael Jordan, right? Yeah, two guards. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Dwayne Wade, Michael Jordan. It was Steph Curry and Michael Jordan. Okay, two guards. Two guards. So the AP says Jeffrey Epstein was left alone in his jail cell with a surplus of bed linens the night he killed himself.

Nearly all the surveillance cameras on his unit didn't record. Right, I remember that. One worker was on duty for 24 hours straight. Right. I remember that one worker was on duty for 24 hours straight. And despite his high profile and a suicide attempt two weeks earlier, he wasn't checked on regularly as required. They needed a fall guy or fall guys. And they seem to just be like these two lazy bums who are working for 24

hours straight and couldn't even stay awake. That is their fault. So, yeah, I don't still not a very, uh, satisfying ending. I'd say, no, no, it's not fault. So, yeah, I don't still not a very, uh, satisfying ending. I'd say, no,

no, it's not. I mean, this just means that they've decided to stop investigating it and give us the fall guy that they are like, we've officially come up with an official fall guy. Um, just make an announcement. These two dipshits.

Look at them. Aren't they dumb? They look, don't they? Don't they look like they're about to drift off to sleep? These two, these two dipshits look at them aren't they dumb they look yeah don't they don't they look like they're about to drift off to sleep these two these two guys i just like to say a surplus of bed she's like what does that look like like were they also like encouraging him to like be like hey i don't know this looks like you might be able to do something with all this anyway i'm gonna take a nap for 12 hours yeah you know maybe yeah i don't know so uh maybe

like a mummy and that was what did it oh okay yeah i remember i remember my mom saying to not do that when i was a kid like like as a little kid like with like an older cousin be like let me wrap you in this sheet like a mummy and she's like you're gonna fucking suffocate i remember that was a good thing that scared me off of doing mummy wraps to myself. It's like, you could breathe. You could stop breathing. But that was just my concerned mother. You ever do a toilet paper mummy wrap?

Those shits are the coolest, man. No, you know why? That shit just felt so... Oh, you know what? We did it in eighth grade, I remember, as like a school spirit thing. There's like a contest of like who could wrap their teacher as a mummy in toilet paper the quickest. And I just felt this was such a waste yeah we could be wiping our butts with this and not just from a ecological perspective but just yeah like your your dumps are so messy that it just breaks your heart to see oh

yeah i mean all that toilet paper go unused at times i already know toilet paper is just is futile and at a certain point and just, I just get into the shower. Yeah. Um, all right. Uh, and then the Supreme court getting a couple, right?

Yeah. I think they, because this is on the heels of the Alito thing too. Yeah. It's like, I guess maybe the only way we can keep the Supreme court from like completely falling out of line is keep exposing a little controversy every time.

So they need to do a make good in a decision um but yeah it's all part of this like legal theory called like the independent state legislature and essentially their decision was saying like that's bullshit uh basically saying that the state legislatures can make decisions about elections from congressional elections all the way on down like and an opponents or like the people who are, you know, saying like, no, no, no, no. Like, this is actually a very valid legal theory that was basically saying that like, we can sidestep the courts to do whatever we want in elections. So the Supreme court did a solid by basically saying like, yeah, okay, we'll prevent some gerrymanders. So preventing gerrymandering,

does it also have an effect on like trump or a republican's ability to like steal an election or that that is separate when you talk about like states being able to do what they want on a presidential election or on an election i that's what jumped into my head and i think i might have been wrong i i'd imagine i mean it just it gives untold power like to to whoever if like if the courts can't decide that then that means the state legislature is higher than the court in that respect and that's and they're like no the place where you can like again post a bunch of 4chan memes and then suddenly you have the power to do this because you won your election no no no no got it so as your producer brian points out yeah

there is the overall gerrymandering that is the electoral college that we've been that we've been rolling with for about rank choice yeah about that all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about somebody named mark wayne mark wayne i've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

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and think he's black? Maybe like it. Yeah. It feels like it could go in one like what's your name mark one you mark wayne okay mark wayne yeah and then like and then he's probably like i know what it's like to be profiled because of my name anyway so this guy sean o'brien he tweeted a picture of mark wayne mullen at a debate like i think it was last year. And it was a picture that was taken from behind the lecterns at the podiums. And we find out in this picture, Mark Wayne was standing on like a little apple box to appear taller during the debate.

And he was basically saying like, yo, look at this small man energy is what the Teamsters president is saying. And this is how this guy responded. He said, an attention-seeking union teamster boss is trying to be punchy after our senate hearing okay i accept your challenge mma fight for charity of our choice and then he offered a time and a place of september 30th in tulsa um which is where mullen's from and he gave o'brien three days to accept wow i mean we're just going towards

duels wait so on the on the apple box i'm just trying to picture how this works was he lowered from the because otherwise like you walk in and then you climb up on an apple box, it's going to be pretty obvious to people. And they're going to notice that you just got five to six inches taller as you reached the podium. So was he lowered down onto the podium? No. Like Howard Stern, Fartman style? Was he just standing at the podium as people filed in? No.

I have a feeling that was there and he had to just own it yeah you know or what i would do is i would pretend my back hurts i'll be crouching so then you can't really perceive the difference in height and i'm like oh let me stretch my back and then step on it like and then when it's over just kind of bend down a little bit and scoot on out pretend you you dropped something at the podium. He's double dipping, too. Look at that. He got some chunky heels there, too.

With the Apple box. I get it. But he's so racist. He was like, I can't be smaller than this man of color. I'm debating. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, no small man energy detected.

Nope. Oh, I'm standing on a box. I'll prove to you. I'll prove to you. Motherfucker. I'll prove to you I don't have a small man energy about me. No small man energy found. Fight me. Ugh.

Okay. Which is great. And I love the response of O'Brien, which is basically, you know where to find me. Any place, any time, cowboy. I'm not fucking with no teamster. Have you met teamsters? Yeah. Mark Wayne. Yeah. No. fucking with no teamster. Have you, have you met teamsters? Yeah. Mark Wayne.

Yeah. No, no, no, no. Maybe he saw that Elon Musk's mom asked that he not fight Mark Zuckerberg. And it was like, see,

that worked out cool. And he still looks awesome. So I'll just ask my mom. Say something. But now, now Elon, he's apparently he, George St. Pierre is saying saying i'll train you for your fight against zuckerberg okay it's all becoming saint pierre again he's a mma fighter okay but yeah we'll see but yeah this is very it's just

getting wwe mixed with dueling muskets yeah yeah yeah 73 miles number of the day daily zeitgeist number of the day 73 what's that is the number of americans who do not have a landline whoa hey i know my grandma still has hers uh i don't this is kind of fucking me up i knew people don't fuck with landlines because i myself have had numerous moves where I've denied. I was like, no, no landline needed here. But 73% is pretty wild. I didn't think that my mom and my aunts and older relatives are a part of that distinguished 27% that are still rocking with the landline. Landlines are still, when I go and visit my in-laws, they still got the landline and they are still going off. As you might've heard in the background of some of the episodes I've recorded there,

the spam phone call industry is still alive and well, and it knows about your landline. And they pick up every time thinking it's not someone named scam caller. They just open with their social security number to just get it out of the way. Cause they know that's what they're looking for. I'm going to go out on a limb and say every immigrant, like kids whose parents are immigrants, has their landline still. Yeah. What if you just haven't moved in a long time? Well, I just think of all my mom, like all the Japanese people I know that immigrated here that live in the States.

When I'm thinking of people who still have landline, those are all the people I think of them like oh my god he's like i like going like wow this uniden cordless phone i remember this from 98 because my dad doesn't have one yeah and i think that's just american he's too he too american on that shit but anyway let us know who's who's got him who doesn't but i miss actually talking on the landline i do miss that form of communication that was something that man i spent so much time as a kid talking to girls on a landline okay lover boy lover boy over here hey lover boy on the phone stop dad i had a girlfriend that i really liked in like sixth grade and she loved talking on the phone. And I would spend like three hours a day just like sitting there playing either Bulls vs. Lakers, the Sega game, or Labyrinth, the wooden box game. Yeah, with the two axes that you had to rotate the knobs.

yeah the two axes that you had to rotate the knobs the phone to get the connection going and then you would play with a wooden box and a uh metallic silver like a ball bearing yeah i got so good at that game like i i can i think the last time i tried i could still take the the marble all the way to the end and back oh shit good for you so yeah yeah i uh i just man like the amount of time was spent on the phone my mom thought someone was wrong with me i would be quiet and she would like walk in my room and i'd have the phone to my ear it's like are you on the phone i'm like yes are you receiving terrible she's like you're not even talking right now and i'm like because we're watching something he's still there cops is on yeah oh my god you see that shit dude oh my god the guy's so drunk is on yeah oh my god you see that shit dude oh my god the guy's so drunk

the tone of my conversation it's like we're doing that shit it's funny our young producer bae was saying yeah oh i would love a landline like it's yeah like it was so like kitsch yeah nostalgia yeah yeah i get a record player yeah in a way though do you realize when like you didn't have smartphones and just all this like rapid information coming at you that yeah we were just spending time like on the phone that was just we weren't scrolling we were like honestly so much of my day would be spent talking to like whoever my love interest was on the phone and half the time we'll be watching this what are you watching oh what channel is that on right now oh yeah oh whoa whoa i haven't seen this one that's good okay okay and then you're just doing that those were the days simpler times there's a there's a thing going viral titanics coming to netflix people some people seem angry and think that Netflix hurried up a Titanic appearance for July 1st after the diving tragedy,

the submersible tragedy. Uh, but these things take, take longer than that. So, yeah, I get that though. I get that people go,

Oh, Titanic. Oh, okay. Put Titanic on Netflix right now. I think a more sexy theory is that Netflix was behind the submersible going down. That's an interesting idea. As pre-marketing, like they knew Netflix or Titanic was coming to Netflix, and then they slowly just egged the guy on into a tragic end.

Anyway, because I think that's all I have to believe after talking about private equity. I'm like, yeah, yeah, probably they would do that too. Yeah, right. But they're so incompetent. That's the thing. I don't believe anything now. I don't believe anything that's competent and well planned out is happening because the entire power structure of the country is just people doing a bad job on purpose and becoming billionaires. Yeah. We're just driving until the tank's on empty.

There's no grand scheme. But hey, I guess we'll check it out when's the last time you watched titanic uh it's been a while seriously watched like beginning to end yeah i think it's been since it was in theaters the first time i don't think i probably did it like in college like on a like just a for a laugh yeah yeah Do you dare me to go in my room right now and watch Titanic all the way through and not come out until it's over? Okay. Just come out weeping.

Oh my God. Miles is so drunk, dude. He just went into his room and watched Titanic the whole way through. To be fair, as our writer jam points out, uh, James Cameron's movie remains the safest way to gawk at the Titanic.

Actually, I would say this. I spent entirely too much time on youtube i think i mentioned this on the show of like a rendering of the entire titanic so you could actually kind of see what it felt like on the inside and like look at all the rooms and shit i just need to close my eyes to do that miles wow just my okay dream palace uh just close my eyes and i'm back there with jack with myself oh wow that's it that's an image i think we're gonna have to make for

oh yeah oh yeah like one of your french girls oh yeah absolutely yeah all right those are some of the things that are trending on this Tuesday, June 27th. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. A very fun one. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

Nope. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M

Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. appear and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. in the new iHeart podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app

or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday.