The Daily Zeitgeist - Short Daily Zeit (Bah Bah Bah) 5/12: Joe Biden, Cheugy, Hybrid Workspace, Seth Rogen, Ellen Degeneres, Mt. Westmore

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

On this edition of Short Daily Zeit (Bah Bah Bah) Jack, Miles, and Anna Hossnieh discuss 'corrupt' Joe Biden, a neologism for the washed, hybrid workspaces, a beardless Seth Rogen in hot water (not in a good way), Ellen moving on to 'new challenges', and the new washed hip hop supergroup 'Mt. Westmore'. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Short Daily Zeit. Ba, ba, ba. Trent, Trent, Trent. That is courtesy of the one, the only, Johnny Davis. I am Jack. That's Miles. And that is also coming over the horizon.

Here she is. Super producer, Anna Hosnier. Super do. Super do. Like Will Purdue, but cooler. Not as cool. What's trending, man? What are we talking about?

What is even trending? Corrupt Joe Biden is trending. I mean, I've been calling him that from day one, man. Yeah, I've had my ears open. Don't blame Trump. Don't blame Trump, bro. Exactly. This is because there was like a fundraising email sent out

where I think it's Kevin, like the minority leader was saying, I just got back from a meeting with corrupt Joe Biden. And he is still willing to push his socialist radical agenda. It's like, come the fuck on. He's, he's talking about means testing already. Right.

Any kind of, any kind of support check. So I don't know, but yeah, we'll support check so i don't know but yeah we'll see uh how i don't know this is just very interesting maybe hiding the fact that uh you know the gop is in some real in a real weird spot right now uh by the way big news guys i am now wearing one of those uh carpal tunnel gloves oh Oh, I thought you were bowling. I know. I got you going bowling after this.

It's cool. It's like a thing that I've always aspired to be one of the people with the carpal tunnel gloves. Yeah, you could look like a librarian. I feel like every librarian I had had carpal tunnel syndrome. A lot of people don't know this, but I do use jack's wife as my doctor uh just to text her things and she got me on my uh carpal tunnel uh hand oh really guess who ordered this one for me yeah i was like can i his wife my wife please and she was like my five my five-year-old was

like he was like will you stop complaining now? Chew your buster tingling fingers, Jack. It's weird. Yeah, I won't go into my carpal tunnel symptoms. Let's talk about Chewgy. That is C-H-E-U-G-Y for all the old, washed people like me. Miles, you had to explain to me what this is. Chewgy, man. Gen Z. That's how

they're coming at their elders who have the very basic predictable style. Essentially, if your house looked like a Pinterest board, they're going to be like, oh, that's just Chuggy. That's some Chug shit. If you're dressing up and your whole identity is

based off of a couple Instagram accounts accounts they feel that's choog uh so you know that's like this whole so there's like these articles basically i'm written by i'm what i'm guessing are panicked millennials being like what is choogy and how to know if you are choog because we don't want to be choogy it's like man fuck it bro at a certain point i'm like yeah i'll get the i'll get the grill that says chewy on it am i chewy am i so chewy that it's not chewy because i'm like aware or not that is the question i mean that is definitely going to be a buzzfeed headline or some sort of headline hopefully i got to it first but yeah you know it again it's like it's great

hopefully i got to it first but yeah you know it again it's like it's great intergenerational warfare which i love and i love anything that where suddenly like it just shows the insecurity of our generation too what is it man are we good are you you're not one of them are you because we gotta look cool to gen z baby i do like that they're targeting a thing that i think is worth targeting about that generation i'll say that generation i'm going to disown the millennials when they're being criticized only when it's good for me do i embrace the millennials uh but they i do i do like that is the the fact that everybody kind of blended into the average person on instagram uh a certain point, I think is probably worth shitting on. Do your own thing,

guys. I mean, exactly, you know, but I think it's also a criticism. I think of just like sort of uncritical mouth open consumer capitalism too, where it's like, I've collected these images to be me.

Yes. The capitalism. I don't know if they're looking at it like that. Infinity stones. Exactly. Is it Chugi that I don't know if they're looking at it like that. Infinity Stones. Exactly. Is it choogy that I just called something Infinity Stones? I feel like Marvel's super choogy. Look, handmade products are not choogy, okay?

Okay. I think it's choogy to ask if something's choogy. What? No. Yeah. I'm not, like, I'm joking, though, because I don't really even care. That's how not choogy I am.

Fuck! It's choogy to not care and to care it's true get a dick to exist existence is spooky or like whenever you text us like when you got a new outfit and you said i did a thing you know i mean uh-huh uh-huh yeah or like when you said like i'm getting chocolate wasted When you're having a bowl of ice cream with your kids We're like bro that's choog bro Chooog But you know what I love it I think it's called cutie On my counter Sunday With my kids

Just putting the ice cream down Cold stone creamery all combined Cold warm creamery Can't get the Can't get the counter as cold as i ever want it hybrid workspace is trending yeah uh what is this for the reasons that it's chewy man it's chewy i'm just getting ahead of it so fuck that uh no it's just it's it's trending because there's like a an article out asking if what the hybrid workspace, how realistic it is.

This idea that we'll be working half from home, half in an office, that it's not going to last because of things like trust in terms of company. If you want to work together well, you may be able to work now because you have trust among the coworkers you had prior to lockdown. But adding people could be a bit of a stretch depending on the nature of the work uh just the idea that it a lot of people like that on some level a commute can help punctuate the day or time or created some level of like uh normality or schedule and another one that i didn't quite identify with either but all in all is just to say like there are reasons to believe that it's when everyone is able to move freely that not everyone is exactly going to want to work from home all the time but i think on some level it probably will because

a lot of people are getting a taste of a like a easier way to navigate their like work-life balance and i don't know how many, you know, I think it all depends on what it's been like. It just seems like they're working, like the person who was talking about this was like a productivity expert or something, you know, a workplace expert. But all of that research was done pre-pandemic, right?

And the, like, we now have a global experience of a new reality where people have worked from home and been comfortable working from home. I just, I feel like, I don't know. I, I didn't notice as somebody who works with, you know,

a handful of people who we used to work together in the same place now we don't i didn't feel like a seismic shift of people feeling less included or less involved and a lot of the communication that went away it turns out wasn't all that necessary yeah i mean it just feels like the old way kind of kicking and screaming a little bit yeah well i think that's always going to be the case it's definitely siding with that idea this will be choogy of me but i feel the opposite i feel like i have no idea what's going on people will ask me about things where i'm like what oh i had no idea that was a thing people be like wow i'm so excited for this show and i'm like i don't know who that i don't know what that show is like you guys are doing a show about this and

i'm like i didn't uh oh so like i. Like you guys are doing a show about this. And I'm like, I didn't, uh, Oh, so like, I actually feel like we've lost a lot of that basic communication that we would have. We were just sitting around each other that helped create context for a lot of things. Um, and am I saying, um,

I should be the manager, not Jack, maybe, but that's kind of a bit of a choogy. Yeah. Try and, uh, step on my manager's face to the top. But you know what?

That's the millennial choogy in me that has to kind of use this podcast as a way to promote myself and lessen the men around me. But no, I do think it feels... I feel like there has been like a bit of a disconnect because we're not in office. I haven't talked to certain employees that I spoke to every day literally in like a year i feel like i don't have a relationship with them anymore because they're i just don't have to work with them on anything and i don't like stare at them all day there's definitely been uh a like a couple situations where i was like oh shit that probably wouldn't have happened if we were all in the same place and like we just like ambient communication was taking place at the same time like i i do

wonder if the benefits outweigh the those like handful of drawbacks i think that's why it's going to be just hard to tell because we can only either theorize it from the before times right or theorize it in the midst of a pandemic and then what it looks like sort of on the other side because i think what's really strange even about all these takes that are starting to come out about like what look at how australia is going back to work will there be office buildings they're acting like the pandemic's over right right and i think that's the weirdest thing sort of tonally even about a lot of it is like we're still not out of this thing but that's what that's what's interesting too is seeing the momentum of a lot of like the bigger media sort of creating these articles like that sound or

making the assumption that we're out of the pandemic too which because you know the the bosses would love to be like yep you know don't don't get any ideas about how much sort of life work freedom you had because i think that's truly one of the really interesting things that occurred for a lot of people of the you know the churn slowing down at a certain point yeah we work uh the we work ceo just came out and said that the people who are engaged this is just a very ceo uh disconnected thing those who are overly engaged with the company want to go to the office those who are least engaged are very comfortable working from home it's like i don't think that's necessarily the case bro that's basically saying like this is

what you're going to think right if you're not here you don't give a fuck right and if you do maybe you give a fuck too much but at least we know like okay right back to work everyone oh yeah why don't you make sure the pandemic's over and also keep people supported that need the support because it's a pandemic uh seth rogan is trending for a number of reasons most enjoyable there's a picture of him without a beard and he looks like a like handsome character actor from the 80s yeah branch davidian also like he just doesn't look like himself at all. He looks like he was in David Koresh's band. Yes. You know what I mean?

I could see him and Koresh talking about something. Yeah, he's got a strong look, though. I'll give him that. I think the reason why people were talking about that photo is because it shows how much of a chameleon he is. Because you're like, I know that Seth Rogen, but that is not Seth Rogen as I know him to be. Not my Seth

Rogen. No. So there's also a story that's kind of cutesy about how he was going to talk to Beyonce and her bodyguard just basically straight-armed him and he spilled his drink all over himself,

and he's just being bumbling. Well, who is he? Right, yeah, yeah. He might not have had a full beard going, and then it just seems like some Branch Davidians running up on Beyonce. I mean, unfortunately, I think he has to lead with his laugh. Yeah, and then they're like,

Oh, right, shit oh shit this guy right right but then more problematically uh charlene yee uh has responded so he a couple days ago he was like i'm not working with james franco anymore because of all the just shady shit that has come out about him yeah abuse allegations i don't know why i called them called it shady shit but she got a d bro your mind man like he's being major shady dude real shady real shady 21 we call that a sex product sexual abuse um yeah so he was being sex pred uh back in 2018 seth rogan had come out and been like yeah I'll still work with him which kind of you know basically made gave

James Franco a vote over his accusers instead of like saying believe women and you know so Charlene is basically saying who was one of the accusers from her time on the disaster artist

um said that it was like a really uh abusive environment she was like you can't just come out now and be like well now i'm making the right decision because when you said that was kind of at the height of all the attention and it's like you need to apologize to the survivors of you know james franco's abuse and yeah i think that's probably right and i suspect he might actually do that um so we'll see um and finally ellen uh is ending her run um but she's actually doing it because, so I assumed it was because her entire show and persona is based around the idea that she's nice and likable, but then all these stories were coming out

about how she's the meanest person in Hollywood. Well, actually, it turns out that she's ending her show because it was too easy for her. She wants new challenges. This isn't a challenge anymore, which is weird because I would assume that the last six months have probably been the most challenging of her entire career since she lost like 50% of her viewership because everyone was like, you're a mean vindictive monster uh and yet you your whole show's based on you being likable like that seems like a hell of a needle to threat uh i'm impressed that she found it like not just easy but so easy that she

couldn't bring herself to keep doing it it was like goodwill hunting when he said that mathematical proof on fire i thought it was because dakota johnson showed up and pulled that thread that unraveled just a world of darkness and fear and terror and and matchsticks and urine and and just like murder you know what I mean like that was the vibe like it was like Dakota Johnson showed up was like you're invited to my birthday party and then it was just like it was like the thread all of a sudden

like some people just kept pulling and pulling and pulling I don't know about that sticks and yeah I don't know I thought that was the catalyst that was the catalyst for us to be like Dakota Johnson would never lie Ellen yeah what's the deal ellen two versus dakota ellen what's good yeah i feel she's uh she's she's mastered it you know her ego has ended up on the other side flawless victory right like whether the storm won't even acknowledge that shit and you're going out

on sorry yeah sorry y'all the shit was too easy you know what i mean like i'm gonna let some mortals fuck around with this now you know what i mean i'm being a kind god and i'm i'm out cool hell yeah all right that one take off i think she's no longer doing it so people like dakota johnson can't be like i'm pretty sure you were invited and you said no i think she's no longer doing it so people like Dakota Johnson can't be like, I'm pretty sure you were invited and you said no. I think that's why she's not doing it anymore so celebrities can't be like, that didn't happen, Ellen. Yeah, and also

because the longer she's in the spotlight, the more she feels exposed, I'm guessing. What do you think she'll do next? I mean, the world's her oyster. Ellen, come on the Daily Zeitgeist.

Let's rehabilitate you. Let's get to your side of the George Bush thing. I mean, if she drops a podcast, then... Another shot at it. He loves gays. He didn't treat anyone poorly. oh god you guys are so judgmental

that feels so much like a podcast that would get pitched uh right alan and george george w bush the new obama and uh just both of them sitting with those stances damn that would do numbers though right would it yeah i guess in like just this bizarre way at least the first episode people like what he's like they're gonna hate it this is my impression how do you can someone do a george no you're nailing it alan how do lesbians have sex oh george and then she has to describe it to him i would listen ellen and ted nugent brian has suggested oh yeah also a good idea but i mean yeah she could have a or ellen and charles barkley well i mean that would actually be good that would be weird it would be yeah but i'm kind of curious to know, like, what...

That's just an odd duo. People are mad at podcasts for ending the Conan O'Brien show. They're like, now he's just worried about doing podcasts. Oh, yeah, that's what people were saying, right? Podcasts ended late-night comedy. I mean, the only place I saw it was on the timeline of the guy who everyone was like oh that comedian is racist and terrible last night i like was like why is everyone talking about this comedian who i guess is like one of joe rogan's like whack pack and on his thread he was like it's actually true

dude conan did kill or conan's podcast did kill late night tv so all right thanks kid show business all the way from austin texas the heart of it all thanks that's right anna it's been a pleasure having you and anything else we should tell the people um are we going to talk about the super group the super group oh yeah let's talk about that were you uh so there's a rap okay there's a rap supergroup with um e40 too short and ice cube and snoop dog also a second he's got to be mentioned twice uh and were you kidding when you said it was going to be all clean yes okay i just thought that was fun and can you believe can you believe it it's all it's all christian but i think that's interesting i believe they're going by uh guys forever just joking

guys five ever joke great show check it out peacock have you been watching it it's good yeah it's funny it's funny because you start watching it and you're like are we watching 30 rock because it's immediately that same vibe because it's Tina Fey vehicle what's his name that guy Carlisle

I don't know I forget his name Robert Carlisle the people who did there you go Robert Carlisle the people who did there you go Robert Carlisle the basketball coach slash Tina Fey's producer legally I'm not bound

to remembering any white person's name and you guys know that so yeah it's got that same energy and the jokes man they're firing off. They're going for it. Oh, they're called Mount Westmore, though. That's what they're called.

Oh, yeah. No, they're not really called guys forever. I was hoping they were. Shit. But yeah, they're all like too short 54, E40 53, Ice Cube 51, Snoop 49. And they said, they're at the age where it's a good time to do a thing like this and extend your career a bit in a different way. I mean, that'll be interesting.

Who's producing? Who's making the beats? We'll see, man. I'm just joking. But their first single, Chuggy as Fuck, should be cool. Pimps and Cheugs. That's what it's called.

So, wait, the band or the group is called what now? Mount Westmore. Mount Westmore. No, they're actually called What Now? But in an old man voice. I get it, because there's four of them. They're the Mount Rushmore of the West Coast. It should be Huh, What Now for sure, though. Huh? What Now? Right. Because none of them. They're the Mount Rushmore of the West Coast. It should be Huh? What Now? for sure, though.

Huh? What Now? Because none of them, they're old. Yeah. Who drank my oatly? I envision that they drink oat milk, too. They're so... Their lyrics might reveal

things, like talking about how they need acai in the morning and shit. Who was recently talking about... Was it Roy Wood Jr. who said he saw Too Short holding a woman's, his girlfriend's hand in the airport? His girlfriend's hand in the airport. Yeah. Broke his heart. Yeah.

Wait a second. Again, it's so funny to hear Too Short talk seriously about his career because you're like, damn, this dude's just smart. He's just like, no, it's a... Yeah. He's's like have you heard of art creating a character okay but you think blowjob betty that's okay that's hard job betty was probably some of my finest writing yes the character arc in that you may have heard the development i gave to blowjob betty she really believed in the blowjob she was giving. I really should.

I should do a full analysis as too short of all his music. As too short as myself of how he came up with these really, really demeaning characters. There's already a, yeah, I think inside the actor's studio where he's doing a lot of that. Oh, yeah. I mean, honestly, like when he does talk about it, it's so great. You're just like, wow. Yeah, you're right. He's an artist.

What were we doing? It was just a persona guy. Yeah. I went to art school. My parents were quite did well off. I don't know what you guys expect of me. And we're just like, what? Yes.

When I was at Juilliard workshopping this character I knew I had something I thought what is my favorite word bitch bitch I would always love when he would brag about how his dick hadn't fallen off cause that's like such a such a strange

he's been pimped up for years at this point alright well we will be on the lookout for that. Nope. That's going to do it for us for this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.

Wear a mask. Get a fucking vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years 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. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.

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