The Daily Zeitgeist - Solar Flares, Melania Clones, Gwyneth = Alex Jones, Globalist Vitamins 10.20.17

Episode Date: October 20, 2017

In episode 10, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Johnny Pemberton to discuss artisanal candles, what to do during a solar flare, Melania Trump's body double, the Hallmark Channel, Alex Jones/Gwyneth Paltrow nutraceuticals, woke movies, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 2, Episode 5. It's the season finale, you guys, of the Daily Zeitgeist for October 20th, 2017. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien, a.k.a. Young Jackfruit, and I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, shout-outs to P. Jemaine And, yes, my new name today, Asian Sand. Asian Sand. It was actually my favorite desktop sample.

We're looking at new desks, man. That's how exciting shit is in the office room. We're going to get out of our one-room studio slash office that we're all crammed into. It's going to be lovely. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat today by Johnny Pemberton. Hi. lovely and we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat today by johnny pemberton hi hey of the son of zorn and uh jump streets 21 and 22 and just lots of stuff johnny what's the weirdest thing you've searched searched on your phone in the last couple days i was thinking about this and i think in terms of weird uh, I think what I think is weird is probably not, and vice versa. What the most normal thing I've searched is definitely different types of scented candles, now that we're getting back into candle season.

I'm a real, I've got a real thing for... Got a knack for scented candles? For fine, artisanal scented candles. I really love them. It's like a thing where, yeah, it's a weakness, I would say. What is the difference between an artisanal scented candle and the Yankee candle bullshit that I get? I'll tell you. Okay.

We're talking about a couple different things here. I'd say primarily we're talking about the nature of the scent, the subtlety and the artistry of the scent. the nature of the scent, the subtlety and the artistry of the scent, and also we might be talking about the wax quality and the wick quality and also the presentation. These are all factors that go into candle purchasing. What's a scented candle holy grail for you? What's that one? I mean, I'm hesitant to share it just because it's so great,

but I feel like I'm so embarrassed now because I know exactly what I want to say. And of all the things that I can talk about, I feel the most comfortable and knowledgeable on this fucking scented candle. We can stay on this for the rest of the show, man. There's a company called Ethics Supply out of Ventura, California that makes a scented candle called House of the Sun. That smells really good. What does it smell like? It's supposed to smell like this place in Maui, I guess. It's like some sort of, I don't know, like a religious zone.

I can't remember what it is exactly, but it smells kind of like burned. It smells kind of smoky and tobacco-y. Whoa. Well, we should probably move on to your most overrated, underrated things, because I'm sure those will be candles as well. Overrated? Diptyque. Underrated ethics candle.

For real. I mean, ethics is so underrated. It's like fucking hidden, man. So, yeah, overrated. What's something overrated? I wrote down some things. Tomatoes are- Overrated.

Growing tomatoes is highly overrated. Oh, growing them. Okay. Yeah, growing them is probably the most overrated aspect of gardening ever. Wait, how is highly overrated oh growing them okay yeah growing them is probably the most overrated aspect of gardening ever wait wait how is that overrated

just cause people everyone does it everyone does it and most people don't even eat the tomatoes that they grow they just do it

like I'm doing that only if they forget that's overrated songs about rock and roll are overrated deeply deeply and terribly and heavily

I mean unless they're by Billy Joel right that's actually you know what that's the in all honesty that's the one exception Deeply and terribly and heavily. I mean, unless they're by Billy Joel, right? That's actually, you know what? In all honesty, that's the one exception. I didn't even think about that, actually. That basically throws off my entire metric now because I absolutely love that song.

I love that song when it's slowed down by about 20%. It is maybe 17% or 15%, not a whole lot. Is this you pitching it down on the turnstile? Yeah. Pitch down 17%. be 17 or like 15 not a whole lot is this you pitching it down on the turn still to me yeah pitch down if you slow it down it sounds like the most the most amazing nightmare you've ever heard it's great it's truly great so that just throws it off i would say i don't know if it's overrated or underrated or non-rated but the new back album oh yeah i was just i saw i saw an ad for that in the on the itunes the new back album

it sounds like it was rejected from a pharmaceutical commercial oh no like i can't believe i've been listening to beck for as long as i've been listening to music and absolutely love pretty much everything he's ever done and this is like i don't know what's going on oh man no crazy about it hi back if you're listening. Hey, buddy. Beck's a huge fan. He is, yeah. We always see him next door at the Scientology Center. Yep, yep, yep.

What else? What's underrated? Underrated is okra. Okra. Oh, hell yeah. Okra is a vegetable. Thank you so much. How underrated?

How do you eat it? Well, I typically will make like a stew. Okay, yeah, yeah. Sort of like a vegetarian stew. I'll take some canned peeled tomatoes. I mean, I just shocked tit about. That's the spin reason for talking shit. You're always shocking tit, bro.

Yeah, shocking tit. I'm shocking tit. Okay, yeah, I stew it. I like to stew it. Fried's good, but I feel like fried takes away a lot of the flavor. Oh, yeah, absolutely. In like Japan, what we do is like you'll just basically blanch it really quick and then chop it up.

Blanch is when you drop it in boiling water real quick. Real quick. And then put it under ice, right? Yeah, yeah. And then just cut it up because I love the slimy quality. Oh, yeah. Me too. That's my favorite thing about okra.

That's the thing. There's a cool word associated with that. It's called mucilinagus. Oh. That's the kind of feeling that you get. That's a mucilinagus vegetable. What else is mucilagous? It feels like the inside of a mouth.

I don't know. Maybe. The inside of a mouth, for instance. Yeah, I guess so. Inside of a mouth. Yeah. We are going to move on to our first story, which is apparently a new study has shown that the Earth is due to be hit with a crippling solar flare in the next hundred years, which a solar flare is like a nuclear detonation coming out of the surface of the sun that like sends so much radiation and sun shit in the direction of the planet Earth. Yes.

Radio magnetism. That it like knocks all of our electronics out it's an emp right essentially yeah essentially it's a naturally occurring emp in 1859 there was a powerful solar storm uh this is like the last time we were hit with one of these and uh it knocked all of you know we obviously didn't have the electronic equipment we have now, but it did knock down all of the telegraph systems and operators received shocks from the huge amount of electrical current that kind of went through the wires. It's scary because, I mean, it's interesting, but it's also scary as shit because essentially now, because we're so reliant on anything electrical, that it would just render it all inert. Now, how much advance notice would we have? I'm talking to you like you're one of the scientists.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe 15 minutes. Okay. Is that true? No, I have no idea. I'm just, this is all. I do know that it takes like eight minutes for the sun. For the light to travel. For the minutes for the sun, for the light, for the light

from the sun to hit us. So I don't know if they like have a remote like thing that they're monitoring the service of the sun with. Probably not. It might just like catch us all off guard. Yeah. So if suddenly like your shit just goes dark. Yeah.

Just assume either you didn't pay your power bill or it's a solar flare. Will planes just like come plummeting out of the sky? That's possible. They won't. No? No or it's a solar flare. Will planes just come plummeting out of the sky? That's possible too. They won't. No? No, I don't think so because a gasoline engine doesn't – that's the big reason not to have – that's why electric power is not scalable. That's why we're all screwed in terms of energy is because you can't have a – I mean I wouldn't feel comfortable flying in a plane that didn't have a gasoline engine. Right, but I mean like what would happen to all the things that regulate these systems that are electronic-based?

I think you'd be flying. What's it called? You'd be flying, but you wouldn't be able to navigate. But you can navigate. I mean, all pilots have to learn that shit. Right. My brother's a plane dork. Oh, really?

So get some of that from osmosis from him. Candle dork and plain dork. That's so much worse. All right. I there are people who are genuinely suspicious that Melania Trump there. There's a picture taken of the president and the first lady where it looked like Melania Trump is a double is not actually Melania Trump. But in fact, just some dude in a Melania Trump wig with like big sunglasses, because that's kind of what it looks like. It's a it's a picture that I guess there if you really wanted to believe it, you could be like, well, the nose looks different. The hair is different. Right. And, you know, why not? People in the age of Trump facts like seemingly hold very little weight. So I want to believe. Right. Yeah. i want to believe that is not melania but sadly right like then they showed a picture where the glasses are removed and it's melania oh really

no it was that easy there was also the fact that trump has been known to say things like and i think he said it like while this picture was taken in that speech he was like my wife melania who happens to be right here like that's a direct quote which is just like not a thing anybody has ever said in the history of the english language uh when they weren't lying that's why he's so effective as he says stuff that no one else says right yeah as he's like oh no one said that before. Okay, you got it. There's just no difference between lying and telling the truth from him. But this is actually, this is a thing that can happen to individuals when they have like a mental breakdown. It's called the Capgras delusion. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing delusion.

I don't know. I've never heard that word before. You mispronounce Catgrass? Catgrass. Capgras. Delusion. I don't know. I've never heard that word before. It's pronounced cat grass. Cat grass. Cat grass. Delusion. Delusion.

Yeah. When a cat eats a deluge of grass. That is correct. But it's when people who, like, they basically believe that someone they know has been replaced by a double. And I think we were all saying that. I believe that. You believe that? Well, I believe that were all saying that. I believe that. You believe that? Well, I believe that it happened to me.

Really? Yes. Well, I don't anymore, but there was a time when I did. I smoked salvia for the first time. And during the trip, there was a knock at the door and I opened it and it was a man in a suit with my doppelganger next to him. And then my doppelganger walked to my apartment and the man in the suit said to go with him. And I was like, oh, okay.

So this is how it goes down i left it i left the uh left my apartment but really when i came out of it i was just on my knees in my bedroom holding a pillow over my head that's a real salvi trip that's hard to achieve that type of level most people don't ever get that that deep trust me i was trying to get there so yeah that's impressive and i did so yeah it so like i said maybe i'll believe them or anything because i've lived it i've lived it uh that was actually the first thing on miles's resume for this job was highly sensitive to salvia yeah and uh and true believer and suffer of the capgrass illusion right um but yeah i guess i don't know it's interesting there's so many like sort of uh conspiracy theories around trump you know because many liberal people trying to make sense of his presidency too so i it's it's just fun to see that people really want to be

like yeah milani is a fucking it's like dave except with the first lady yeah makes sense but you're john you're saying that like trump's presidency essentially disproves many conspiracy theories and that's not my idea well not yours but you yeah i really hadn't thought about this yeah well because it's like if he if he got in there that should he shouldn't have been able to get in there if all these conspiracy theories about the deep state and the government are true then he wouldn't he wouldn't be in there because everyone fucking hates him all of his co-workers all the people who are there like the fbi hates him so much. So if the FBI was so powerful, he wouldn't be there. Exactly. Unless it's a setup move because it would have been Hillary.

And then that's how the deep state goes, see, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Right. Right. Again, who knows? Like if he's easily, if they feel like he's easily manipulated up to this point. And so they can just kind of like control him. Depends on who you believe, though. Uh-oh.

The conspiracy theory music this is the my theme song whenever i mention a conspiracy theory that i believe in that got johnny way off guard just now what about the book you know what about that presidential book you know the thing where like you always think about when you win the presidency they show you this book and all this stuff you didn't know about, like about UFOs and stuff. Yeah. Like, oh, okay. Oh, just to get you up to speed? Yeah, bring you up to speed.

Like, okay, you can see this stuff now. But then we have to take the book away. There was that meeting between Trump and Obama where, like, he came out of the meeting and he looked, like, shook. Yeah. I think because he just described the job to him. Right. He was like, oh, this is going to be so hard. Maybe that's what it was.

Yeah. He was like, okay, so these guys are called so hard. Maybe that's what it was. Yeah, maybe. He saw the book. These guys are called midichlorians and they don't like us. They only visit once every 45 years so you don't have to

worry about them. But, you know, they're good folks. Technically, a midichlorian is something in a Jedi's blood. Oh, you're right. See, look at that. I'm just saying,

you know, I don't want to misrepresent the Jedi culture on this podcast. Well, actually, that's where the Jedi has got it from. George Lucas,

visiting. Good guy. We're trying to get some help out to you folks. Yeah. We're going to need you to replace your wife every once in a while. Your wife will have a doppelganger. She's going to be really good. She'll be nice.

Have it on deck. It's going to be a genderless person from a different planet, but it'll be okay. And I'm going to have to unhinge my jaw and suck her insides out right now. All right. Here we go. Good folks. Yeah. Just apropos of nothing, the meeting that happened between the Obamas and the Bushes when the Obamas were first coming into the White House, Apparently that meeting went really well. I wasn't aware of this, but Johnny, you were talking about the kind of love affair between

George W. Bush and Michelle. Yeah, he loves her and she likes him. There are just some incredible pictures. Yeah, please Google that. I did not know until now. It warmed my heart. Yeah, they just have like a friendship. It's like a thing where you ever see like two animals together

that like, how come you're not killing each other? Right. It's like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the dog and the lion or something like that. But like doing like hugging adorably or some shit.

It's like the raccoon that rides a bear's back. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The natural enemies, raccoon and bear. I'm just trying to think of something that like, I just would get a kick out of seeing.

Right. Look at that raccoon right on a bear. Very simple minded. We are going to take a quick break and when we come back we're going to read some pop culture tea leaves. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017

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If people aren't familiar with the Hallmark Channel, how would you guys describe the Hallmark Channel's programming? Outstanding. Fun. Prestige. Plot-driven. Yeah, very complex character development, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like it's like— Traditional. Yeah, it's character development, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like it's like...

Yeah, it's like the Xanax of TV channels, really. Right. It's so, like, if you're feeling shitty, you could literally just forget your... I mean, I don't watch it because none of that shit really resonates with me. But during Christmas, it's great because they just do, like, end-to-end Christmas movies. There's a great one they produced a number of years back known as The Christmas Lodge. It is one of my favorite movies. Are you in that?

No. I wouldn't be one of my – well, I don't know. I wouldn't be able to view it objectively then. The Christmas Lodge is one of the funniest movies ever made. Really? It is a Christian movie, essentially. It's a Hallmark movie. All my favorite comedies are.

It's not a comedy. It is a heartwarming tale that just happens to be hilarious. The funniest movie. Oh, I love it. It's like a movie to train stroke victims about reality after they're recovering or something like that. It's so simple. Right. Wow.

But yeah, their programming is pretty much like they do like reruns of old sitcoms it's just like things that are the if you don't if you are scared of the world just watch hallmark well it's very it's very traditional values and um it has that thing that hollywood movies used to have and like tv shows used to have where there's almost like a deus ex machina that intervenes and like makes good things happen to like good characters based on morality and like bad things happen to bad characters. Right. It's that sort of thing. Like a very, very neat and.

Oh, yeah. Like heartwarming. The best is stuff where it's like, well, you're he's a city boy you're a country girl you can't stay together it's a lot of a lot of stuff where a person from the city is trying to handle the country and the country people with their traditional values sort of get that city person away because the city person can't handle the the homespun hardiness of the country right or sometimes there's an exchange right it's like you know what i do like wi-fi but boy can he dance exactly well yeah but i think some people they they attribute the the rise and saying that people just want to escape the round the clock like

we're gonna fucking die like news coverage right and then there are people like you know on the right who are more like this is uh flyover countries rejection of like the mainstream media and trump hit piece people on the right always refer to themselves as flyover country i've noticed what's interesting is like that's a i think i think i heard that alex jones said that that that's like how they're appropriating it yeah exactly like that's his spin on it's like well you know these people are you know the flyover states they're they're watching this because yeah so um yeah i i could definitely see that that it's the further sort of bifurcating of America into like two separate places. And this on the Hallmark Channel, you don't have to encounter any anything that is, you know, troubling to your sensibility.

If you're sort of more on the right, you don't have to see like gay characters like you do on modern family or you don't have to acknowledge the existence of human sexuality in front of your children like you do on other on just general modern television general filth you mean yeah the general filth that you see out there it's trash it's all trash it's all So, I mean, movies were, I think those are still going to be popular for a while. Thank you. I always like to try and look at what we're watching right now and try to figure out, like, what is the thing that in 10 years is going to seem the most dated like the from the george w bush administration i feel like the torture porn movies like saw and hostile and you know the show 24 where like it's a superhero whose superpower is torture like that there was very clearly there's very clearly like a weird torture thing

going on like the country was obsessed with torture and like looking back on it like history books are gonna be like yes so the fuck was going on you guys clearly had a thing and then obama was like hey let's knock this torture shit off well then the obama administration i mean i don't i don't know if it was causal but uh i feel like that is when uh superhero movies really really took over um that'd be cool if it was causal you like signed this private presidential declaration where we would we will be making more superhero movies now. You'll be Marvel. You have the resources of the Department of Defense to make all the movies you want. are in office vampire movies get made more and actually do better business and when republicans are in office zombie movies get uh made more and do better business and it's because uh or democrats are theory vampires and right democrats are like the vampires represent what uh people who hate democrats fear uh about them it's like they're like sort of European and Euro trash.

Yeah. Like never age. Yeah. And like sexually like strange and creatures of the night and like have weird sort of sliding moralities. And then zombies is what left wing people think think right-wing people are, just like groaning hordes who like kind of all kind of stumble together and stuff like that. Never thought about that. So I don't know.

I feel like both of them have – as genres have been sort of – Blasted to death for many, many years. Well, because that's true. Like the Twilight franchise started with like around 2008, didn't it? Yeah. 2007. It did. That is kind of in line with Obama taking over.

That seems too good to be true, that data. Yeah. I mean, it's- These data. It's not exact also. It's like you see a slate trend. I think it's like anything. They're just trying to make sense of it.

Right. It's not totally anything. But zombie movies were big during the Bush administration and. I am legend. Yeah. So I don't know what what is like. It seems like woke horror movies or I guess woke movies in general are that are that you have Wonder Woman. Yeah.

Woke horror. Wonder Woman is sort of a woke movie that did, you know, it's a superhero movie, so people assumed it would do good. But it's the second biggest movie of the year behind Disney's Beauty and the Beast. What exactly makes Wonder Woman woke? I think it's just a departure from, like, the traditional male-dominated idea of, like, what a... But she is, that's an old character. Right. It's, like, from 40 years old, right?

Yeah. Made by, like like a creepy dude yeah i mean i think there's there's a lot of debate over too like i think some people think it is i think i've talked to people who don't think it's really that woke either because like the idea of that island was like some problematic for some people right i think but i think what to me is that it's different is that it's like it's no longer like a woman whose powers are just like flying or mind control or things like that like wonder woman in this movie like she's like wrecking shit physically right and that's like i think that's visually something different i don't know if i

would call it super woke but it seems like we're starting to change the way we even like view wasn't the original title super woke man it was yeah that's wonder woke there's a super woke man who appears with long hair. He's so woke. He looks that way. It's also the biggest budget ever for a movie directed by a female director. That movie is? Yeah.

Oh. And it definitely, like, I think – The sands are changing. Film critics said that it has – it comes from a female perspective. it comes from a female perspective like just you you can feel that and it gives young women like somebody to uh you know lionize and sort of idolize but uh and then i guess the other big out of nowhere hit would be get out which what the liberals are sort of going to instead of the hallmark channel well they're saying like woke movies well that obama being in office you know uh sadly harvey weinstein said this a few years ago is that when man yeah wait what what happened what no nothing uh keep your head buried in the sand. H.W.?

Yeah, H.W. Yeah, He Who Shall Not Be Named. Basically, back then, he said Obama's presidency sort of opened the door for black filmmakers and actors because racial lines became somewhat blurred. Not that they've completely dissipated, but that more films came out that were sort of a departure from the two traditional kinds of black films which are like the comedies that were just sort of pushing stereotypes and then also just sort of like these tales of like historical oppression we're sort of like the two kinds of films you only saw and now we're seeing we are kind of seeing different movies like moonlight and even like black panther uh and things like that so i mean again i don't know if this is exactly they're entirely related or it's just more an indication of progress in general right but yeah it might just be that obama got

elected and we're making these movies because we're sort of waking up from this nightmare of history where only white dudes are allowed to do anything and make movies and we only make movies that are about white guys having problems well what do you guys think about is there anything on the music front miles you were saying that there's something with like tempo and yeah well i think there are a couple of things right uh there was an interesting study that showed the economy has a lot to do with like like the kind of music the kind of songs that like chart on Billboard. And when the economy is better, people actually tend to like slow, like slower songs in minor keys.

So a little more moody when the economy is good. And then when the economy is like in the shitter, up-tempo songs in major keys tend to be like more popular songs, which when you look at it, it's kind of interesting to see that effect. Because like even like right before the economy crashed, in 08, one of the biggest songs was T.I.'s Whatever You Like. And so that was interesting that they almost say like, oh. That song. I forgot about that song.

And it's a shout out to hyper consumerism of just like whatever you, we can get whatever you like. You can have a house if you can't pay for it. Yeah, right. Get your subprime mortgage on. You want a house? It's all right. You don't have to pay for it. But I think the other thing.

That's the lyrics. Go ahead. Buy a house. You don't have to have a job. Yeah. Get a house in Florida. Borrow money you don't have. Yeah. So, and I think the other thing too, that's that i think we'll probably see more we're already starting to see our protest or message

songs uh that are that are emerging so like in the 60s and 70s like that was sort of like like nearly all the bigger songs had some kind of message or that was inspiring a lot of artists and they say a lot of that waned during the Obama years. Yeah, and they were saying in the Bush years, there were also message songs. They were saying stuff like, I guess, John Mayer's Waiting on the World to Change. Wee-ah!

Sorry. No, no, hit me with that. Wee-ah! Wee-ah! Jesus, if that's, if history looks back and, like, that is our protest song. Yeah, then. Well, they say that in, like, American Idiot by Greenot by Green Day and there's like a Dixie Chick song. I don't.

That's fair. Now, I think we're going to see probably more protest songs because that. Yeah, but I don't know. Like there were great sort of socially aware songs during the Obama presidency, like All Right, like by Kendrick Lamar. And I don't know. like, all right, like by Kendrick Lamar. And I don't know, I haven't really seen much in the way of protests, like, what are people waiting for? Like, he's, he's been, you know, in office for almost a year, and, you know, sort of dominating people's reality for like, two years, at least, dominating people's reality for like two years at least right and we haven't gotten really a protest song yet i wonder if that's look at what you made me look what you made me do you made me

vote for donald trump right that's what she was saying i think her dad made her vote right he's a hedge fund manager yeah right like a lot for merrill lynch many generations of like banking right that family right yeah it's true i mean that's that is a protest song i guess if you up for many generations of like banking, right? That family. Right. Yeah. It's true. I mean, that's, that is a protest song, I guess, if you really think about it. All right. We've figured out what the future of pop culture is going to look like. So I guess everyone go around prediction. I think honestly, we're not gonna see disaster films for a while.

That's actually a really good prediction. Because we are going to see them as they pass by us. Because if you think about it too, like it takes like movies, like, you know, about two years to actually get to you. So like shit like geo storm that, yeah,

it's coming out now. Like that was in product. Like people were thinking of that, but even before Trump, and I think now people are gonna be like, I don't know if we need a nuclear mount. Well, that's been box office.

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channel, and he has an InfoWars store. And there was a recent revelation about the fact that I guess there's lead in a lot of these nutraceuticals, as he calls them. So I didn't realize this, that that's sort of how he makes his money, because nobody wants to fucking advertise on Alex Jones's station. So he, like, sells these crazy-ass products, like basically dietary supplements. Yeah. I mean, he's got the cave repackaged, the caveman paleo formula, Michael ZX. Ah, like what the, what's the other one was for the, the brain function. I mean, he has, he has, he has something for everyone. There's no way, there's no reason to not be operating at 300% of your mental capacity when you take these nutraceuticals.

He has a Patriot blend, coffee. I mean, he's got it all. And yeah, apparently, one of these, the Center for Environmental Health found that two of the products had pretty dangerous levels of lead in them, which apparently isn't good for you to consume. How is that possible? Because isn't lead like the – didn't we figure that out like in the 1930s? Yeah. Yeah. When unleaded gasoline became a thing?

Yeah. And pencils went to graphite instead of lead. Yeah. It is just the worst one there is, right? Yeah. It's also only four letters. Right. Right.

Lead. Bad. Don't fuck with lead. Don't eat it so johnny you were saying that uh apparently he is selling a lot of the same stuff that gwyneth paltrow sells her fans on goop yeah i guess they have a pretty big overlap in terms of products just different different different names for the same thing it's insane so i think we have some clips of uh of alex jones selling some of his i guess female focused products amy uh literally i didn't even know you got a bottle of this that shane took

some a month and a half ago i learned about it last week that you were bouncing off the walls from what i heard tell us and i appreciate you giving us a review what happened uh now that you the super feminine vitality i'm normally pretty a pretty groggy person i'm gonna drink a bunch of And I appreciate you giving us a review. What happened now that you've been on the Super Feminine Vitality? I'm normally a pretty groggy person. I don't drink much coffee and stuff like that. But I had tons of energy, tons of motivation, a lot of drive, you know, at the gym. I think, well, my husband thinks I've been in a better mood. And he says you've been chasing him around the house?

I mean, to make him do chores i mean oh yeah no honestly though my you know my libido is skyrocketed honestly it's i it's pretty crazy honestly i'm so glad that you guys made this for for women cool cool cool skyrocketing. Who says my drive has increased unless you're in a fucking commercial? Right. Also, was she calling from like a phone from many, many years ago? I believe she was. She was calling from like a sat phone. From 1988 on a cordless phone. God damn.

One of the first cordless phones. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So like a lot of these products, they include – they have all these ingredients that are just sort of like sort of nebulous to most consumers, like bacopa or ashwagandha. And things that like if you heard, you're like, oh, that must be good because I've never heard of that. And so, yeah, there's a tremendous overlap in these sort of like interesting ingredients that are also pushed by the Goop store and Moon Juice that the Goop store loves so much. Like Bacopa is an ingredient

that's in Alex Jones's Brain Force Plus and also Goop's Why Am I So F-ing Tired? Oh my God, it makes me want to kill myself. That's like something like that. It's like those fucking door tags at a hotel where you can't tell if it says do not disturb or come in. It's like, I need a second for me. Or figuring it out.

Just don't. Just don't walk in on me masturbating. Effing. Effing. Don't say that. Why am I so effing tired? Yeah. Another one is colloidal silver, which I don't even understand what colloidal silver is.

That is definitely some shit that I have heard in those old health manuals from the late 1800s where it was like, get your sarsaparilla and colloidal silver. Mix it with some castor oil. To cure your impotence. Yeah. Another one is cordyceps mushroom. That is in a thing on the goop store called sun potion uh and then on that's also uh inside of the info wars wake up america coffee so i don't know what kind of coffee you want you don't mushrooms in your coffee is that true he has a coffee that's called wake up

america coffee immune support medium roast 100 family that is pure self-parody. That's a piece of satire. He is selling coffee. Yeah, it's a Wake Up America immune support blend, 100% organic coffee. I'm getting it. I want to get it just to be a part of this whole thing. So 20 years from now, I can say, yeah, I had it. Yeah, right, right, right. I think I got a couple bags in the freezer.

Does he sell thanks a lot, Obama, thank you cards? I don't think so. Not yet. But yeah, so again, it was found out a few, like there are a couple, I think, courts in an article where they were, they sort of were comparing these ingredients. And like, oh, wow, the Goop store and the InfoWars store have a lot in common. And of course, Alex Jones obviously had a conspiratorial angle on why that is. About two months ago, Gwyneth Paltrow puts out her own supplement line. And they didn't want to look like they were persecuting just a, quote,

conservative, even though they were. So she drew the short straw. They've chosen poor Gwyneth Paltrow as the sacrificial lamb to go, oh, look, we're calling for consumers, everybody to sue and go after Alex Jones. But we're throwing Gwyneth Paltrow in there as well. You know, because she's saying seaweed baths are good for your skin or whatever. I mean, that even says that at the Walgreens. But see, nobody's going after Walgreens. So, you know, presumably.

Yeah. Presumably they chose Gwyneth Paltrow at one of their weird Hollywood sex parties with their like masks where everybody's naked. And she was chosen as the sacrifice. And that's why that's why they're covering her. It couldn't be the fact that both of them are selling bullshit products to gullible people. By the way, I just received my first note ever from our producer, Anna Hosnier. This is the first note she's ever passed me during the show. And it says, quote, Thanks, Obama.

Would be laxatives. So thanks, Anna. Dynamite drop. Got a little some punch ups the writer's room over there. I got a punch-up on that. They got one called, they took our jobs and it's just an emodium AD. Nice. Yeah, I don't know.

I know many people who like these new age supplements. I just eat fast food. Right. So what the fuck do I know about nutrition i'm into some of them i think it's kind of fun what are what are the ones that you can that you'll vouch for i like the maca i like eating goji berries um i like flax when it's ground oh whole flax seed jesus christ this shouldn't exist there's no human digestive system in the planet they can eat A whole flaxseed Really It's bullshit

It just comes out The way it came in That flaxseed Was designed to Stay intact All the way through What are the benefits Of flaxseed

Is it just like A fibrous thing To clean out your gut The oil's got All these omega-3s in it And it's got a great I think it's mainly the oil And also the fiber

Honestly just hearing you Say things like omega-3s I'm like yeah That sounds good Yeah yeah yeah No omega-3s, I'm like, yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Omega-3s. I take B12 every day. I swear by it. Yeah.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, I really do. Do we have a clip of Gwyneth Paltrow defending herself? I have a clip of it, yeah. Can we play that clip? Yeah, let's play that clip. There it is. There it was.

Can you translate that? It means it's like you have to have a certain amount of money to translate that it's like a it's like a sort of like a dog whistle for status gotcha and if you whale song yeah ish if you own three cars she's telling you um i don't know what she's saying because i don't own three cars right yeah because to me that just sounded like a groan but a whale song that only jay-z and beyonce right here yeah yeah and the other illuminati power circle right exactly um and finally you guys uh so yeah we'll keep an eye on that and let you know if any good products uh come out on the uh info wars do people know what info wars is

right who alex jones is he's like the president's favorite conspiracy theorist honestly you don't need to know who alex if you don't know like i'll save you that one. And if you do, go check out InfoWars and get fucking scared to death. He's got a great voice. Yeah, he really does. Can we get our favorite drop from Alex Jones? Screw you, racist! Yeah. That's his catchphrase.

Even though that was his satirical line from that clip. He's like the human version of a French bulldog with asthma. Right. Yeah, more or less. Alright, so we're coming up on Halloween. Just to close out, I wanted to cover a couple really shitty costumes that we've got

for that are like sort of topical. And then Johnny, I think you had one. Yeah, I got one. So we've got we got sexy border agent which is just like a I think you had one. Yeah, I got one. So we've got we've got one. We got sexy border agent, which is just like a sexy border agent. What you would what you would expect. There's Trump's the wall, which is just a wall.

It looks like Floyd's the wall. I would say like it's the Trump version of the of the thing. A more revealing version of Melania's inaugural dress. Sexy Melania. Okay. Right. So you have sexy. But yeah, anyway, is it?

Oh, but the wall isn't as sexy. Right. No, the wall is not sexy at all. You can make it sexy. I got some ideas. Right. Yeah. Just like cut a hole in some part of it.

Yeah. The most disturbing sexy costume is there's a sexy Eleven from Stranger Things. Oh, no. Who is a 12-year-old girl. Jesus. How does that even a costume? Doesn't she have her head shaved and wears a t-shirt? Right.

How is that a costume? They just basically put people in a sexy dress and then have a waffle thing that they're carrying because she likes waffles. Oh, okay. So, Johnny, what was your costume that you wore last year? Reanimated JonBenet Ramsey. All right. Reanimated. Yeah, because the whole thrust of it is that they don't know who killed her, and JonBenet says that—

They don't. Yeah, they, the Illuminati, and beyonce and i do not know who killed uh john bonnet uh she killed herself so she could be reanimated to be trump's bride that's the the thrust of the i mean i'm gonna step in and say you know obviously i i believe i'm from the school of thought that i believe uh katie perry is actually john bonnet that's that's another thing yeah i haven't i need to address that actually I should probably address that in the this year's costume this year's edition of John

reanimated John Bonet Ramsey bring out Migos and you could do a track with them to really come full circle with that what a dancer Johnny thank you so much

for joining us man where can people follow you you know online if you search my name things will come up you know different social media platforms otherwise search my name, things will come up. You know, different social media platforms. Otherwise, the podcast is always coming out

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It is on Sunday. It's the first Sunday of every month. The Satellite in L.A. And, um, yeah, you know, just generally just,

you know, send me money. Cool. Oh, nice. Sounds like a plan. Something else to say about, Oh,

you know what? Actually, this is the legit thing to promote. I keep forgetting about is I do a voice in this cartoon called pickle and peanut, which is as far as I also should have been included in the underrated portion of the show, which is the most underrated show. I mean, if I wasn't even a part of that, I love it. It's an amazing cartoon.

It's super funny, weird, and scandalous. Where do people watch it? Well, you can get it on iTunes, or if you're one of those people who happens to have Disney XD, get on there. To say it's on Disney XD, it sounds like it'd be really... I mean, it's not... Disney does not like the show. Let's say that.

I like it, Disney. Miles, where can people follow you? You can find me, I guess, on Twitter, at Miles of Grey. And on Instagram, too. But more impressingly, I'll be there. All right. And you can follow me on Twitter, at Jack underscore O-B-R-I-E-N. You can follow us, The Daily Zeitgeist, at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

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