The Daily Zeitgeist - Sounds of Zeitence 7/2: Herman Cain, Clone High, Masks, Jersey Mikes

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

On this edition of the Sounds of Zeitence Jack and Jamie discuss Herman Cain testing positive for COVID-19 after attending the Trump rally in Oklahoma, Clone High is getting a reboot, a new study ranks masks on how well they suppress a sneeze, and Yassir Lester's joke tweet has spiraled almost out of control. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special episode of the sounds of Zaytness. It's weird how that started out with vocals but then it became an instrumental when I forgot the words. That's Phil Collins' silent version where he's just playing steel drums to it. That was courtesy of Miguel Saavedra, and that's

Jamie Love. Hi. I'm Jack O'Brien. You're Jack O'Brien. This is What's Trending. And here's what's trending today. I'm Jack O'Brien. This is Jack O'Brien. Is what's trending. And here's what's trending today. I like that intro because it feels like something that would be on a local TV station or something. Yeah. Well, we have all sorts of local TV station stuff to talk about today. Yeah, we do. But first up, let's talk about today yeah we do uh but first up let's talk

about herman cain herman cain uh herman so he went to that tulsa rally the famous infamous tulsa rally the trump one uh that uh a lot of has caused a lot of people to test positive. It was already, before it happened, causing people to test positive for coronavirus. Herman Cain has been hospitalized with COVID-19. As of this recording, it doesn't sound like he's not on a respirator. It's not extremely serious. I don't even know what to say about this trend.

Like this is a trend that's kind of like fucking duh. Fucking duh, yes. My commentary on this trend is fucking duh. He went without a mask too as a statement. No. Yeah. What is he saying? What is that? The statement is I would, as a statement. Yeah. What is he saying? What is that statement?

The statement is, I would like to get sick. Yeah. I'm a Republican, man, and that is so important to me. I will die for it. Yay. Or it's, I have a pretty mouth. Look at my pretty mouth. Yeah. That's the other aspect. You can't really take in the full picture until you've seen my mask. or it's I have a pretty mouth look at my pretty mouth yeah

you can't really take in the full picture until you see my mouth I mean I obviously I don't wish any harm on him but this is a real fucking duh story yeah it's a real duh it's a real duh I do wonder like how is

this being covered how is this information being greeted how is this being covered? How is this information being greeted? How is this entire second spike being greeted in the media, in the Q circles, amongst QAnon, amongst the people who thought we were all panicking way too much? Yeah, I guess I don't really have enough cues in my life to know. I'm very curious because

the president is oscillating on his. He said sometime today or last night that he's like, no, masks are fine by me. Cool. Great. It's like the constant... You never said anything bad about masks.

Right. Backpedaling now so it's like the constant. Never said anything bad about masks. Right, right. Just like backpedaling now that it's affecting people close to him. I don't really, I mean, the logic is truly untrackable to the point where I feel there is none. Pence's like whole take had been that we, this was okay because the death rate was so much lower this time around um but that was purely based on the fact that it was like early stages and young people were getting it but it was still spreading exponentially through the community so that

like anybody could have told you that wasn't going to last and now uh you know arizona just had a record day in terms of uh deaths from coronavirus and i'm sure that is not going to be the worst of it so uh he immediately uh revised his statement uh for being completely full of shit or stopped saying it at the very least. Until it becomes convenient again to return to that and then I'm sure he will. Anyway, shout out to Herman Cain. Hopefully he survives this, comes out and is an advocate

for wearing masks. And has the first good take of his life. I know. Oh, man. Clone High is trending. This is an animated show I knew about

but did not watch when it was on. This is a kind of fun one. We talked about Reboot on Trends yesterday, too, where basically what this says to me is that MTV is going to reboot old properties

instead of investing in new ones, which I find to be personally depressing. But I really like Clone High. And if you haven't seen the original show, I think it was on in the early 2000s, I think. It's the first Lord and Miller project ever, and they went on to do, they most recently did Into the Spider-Verse, but they've done,

they did, like, the 21 and 22 Jump Street. They've done a lot of stuff. But this was their first show, and it is really funny. It stars Will Forte. Wow. And it was a cute little show

that lasted for a season. Most of the episodes are on YouTube, and it actually feels kind of where i was like kind of like i don't know beavis and butthood makes sense for a current reboot and it's kind of depressing to be like oh and now they talk about zoomer stuff i feel like clone high actually could make sense as a reboot. Sure. What are your thoughts on Will Forte? I love him. Do you like MacGruber? I do like MacGruber.

MacGruber is one of my favorite movies. I love that movie so much. It's absolutely a classic. And I'm so glad to hear you like it. That makes me happy for some reason. It's so good. I did not know that they started with that show though lord and miller uh they yeah i think that they were like in their like late 20s or something and it was like their first thing and is the premise that uh it's like

a high school with all sorts of historical figures cloned yeah yeah so the the lead character is abe lincoln uh and so will forte plays abe lincoln and there's like cleopatra is there jfk is like the jock jonah vark is there and she's like a goth girl and it's all it's super silly. And all the original series probably did not age the best. But I feel like it's an updatable concept that will be good. I'm excited. Awesome. Masks are trending. Have you seen this?

Have you heard about this? You heard about these masks? Not in the Kane household, but they are trending elsewhere because there was a recent study, I guess in the past few days that was released that ranked the different like masks, mask styles in terms of how well they suppress a sneeze.

how well they suppress a sneeze. With a bandana, which I have been occasion to use. I've had occasion to use when I didn't have another mask. Yeah, I used a bandana or two early on or if all my other masks are stinky or dirty. Yeah, yeah. They say worst one.

Okay, good. are stinky or dirty yeah yeah um they say worst one so okay normal normal sneeze travels eight feet uh the droplets travel eight feet gross uh with a bandana on it travels three feet so improvement but not that much of an improvement then they have the folded handkerchief which is not a mask that i that's not a mask a solution i'm familiar with yeah that one's the second worst it's about a foot and a half um okay and then the best is cone mask cone mask is uh i think it's just like your standard, like, you know, all the masks that are designed to be masks. The fabric mask, like with the folds and all that stuff? Yeah, I think that is the one that it's like, it's way better. It's like two inches, the sneeze goes.

Wow. Wear a mask. And people are, everyone's making such beautiful masks too. There's no, you can make a statement with this shit. You must. And you must.

And you must. Super producer Anna Hosnia makes the coolest masks, y'all. It's true, yeah. And finally, we wanted to check back in with the Jersey Mike story Jersey Mike saga started by Yasser Lester on

with a tweet so we talked about this on today's episode I guess it was I think Danny Fernandez yes it was today so it's it's continued to grow like i truly love where this story went so there is now a i think it's a local new jersey uh local news broadcast that has covered this story accurately saying like it's not like they fell for it or anything they say like they it's this poor like reporter who looks like

he's been at it for a while also seems resentful that he has to cover the story yeah standing in front of a jersey mike's in New Jersey saying that, oh, there was a false statement from Yasser Lester about Jersey Mike's. Anyways, we know it's false, but here we are asking people at Jersey Mike's what they think about it. It's great. And they got like a bunch of kids

who are like, you have to be careful what you say because like it can hurt people like Jersey Mike's. You have to be careful what you say because like it can hurt people like Jersey Mike's. You have to. Yeah. Um, nobody really takes Jersey Mike's feelings into this,

uh, into account. And like, they talk about Jersey Mike's as if Jersey Mike's a single person. Jersey Mike's his feelings are hurt. And they also say there's just a bunch of good soundbites, uh, or they're like jersey

mike's gives back to the community actually quite a lot so i don't really understand like why you would come for jersey mike's and then at one point someone says it's not jersey mike's fault that that's what his name is or like they're like it's not the business's fault that that's what their name is it's like no it is their fault that that's what their name is entirely what the the original tweet was yes sir lester uh created like a a statement from jersey mike saying that they changed changed the the name of their blt to a blm in support of black lives Matter and they spelled it out as Bacon Lettuce Mato. It was just so dumb and people were

falling for it and got enough retweets that this local news station were like, we're in New Jersey. Let's dispatch the nearest reporter to the nearest Jersey Mike's. Oh, boy. Yeah, they seem vaguely

mad at him for making the joke. There's one guy who's like Jersey Mike's has always been... There's definitely a lot of passive aggressive shit. They've always been a stand-up organization and not into gimmicks. So I don't know what this is about.

And it's like, yeah, well, it's not true. Yeah, it's like yeah well it's a it's a it's not true yeah it's like that the point of the story is that they didn't do it they said that at the beginning i'm wondering like how did the news company like prime them do the people know right i don't know i think it is kind of i mean it's ultimately another win for yasser because he gets It's ultimately another win for Yasser because he now has all these aggrieved Jersey teens being like, why are you being mean to Jersey Mike? Which is a beautiful thing to come from all of this.

And you should be careful what you write on social media because it can hurt people's feelings. Such as Jersey Mike. Such as Jersey Mike. be careful what you write on social media because it can hurt people's feelings. That is true. Such as Jersey Mike. Such as Jersey Mike. And then the broadcast closes by the reporter being like, and as Mr. Lester said in his response statement, you can always Google these things.

It's incredible. I've been Jersey Mike. Back to you Wendy's isn't Jersey Mike from Jersey Mike's a bad person is that is he the one who is Jersey Mike

another Papa John I don't know who Jersey Mike is I'm like Kiki Palmer I do not know that man like no idea I think he's a big game hunter who is perpetually, looks like he's uncomfortably tan. But I could be mistaking him for like Johnny Joe's subs

or I feel like there's another. There's so many sub connoisseurs. There's so many shit food connoisseurs with bad politics. It's hard to keep up. Um, anyways, Jamie, it's been a pleasure having you,

uh, as my special guest cohost this week. Pleasure being here. Um, where can people find you? Follow you? All that stuff. You can find me on the worldwide web at,

uh, at Jamie Loftus hop on twitter at jamie chris superstar on instagram hell yeah so that's gonna do it for this week uh have a great long weekend if it's a long weekend for you have a great regular next few days uh we'll be back on mond. Until then, be kind to yourselves, be kind to each other. Don't do nothing. Wash your hands. Stay inside or stay outside, I guess. Just stay.

Don't cough on each other. Wear a fucking mask. Just stay. And we'll talk to you on Monday. Bye. We'll talk to you on Monday. Bye. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,

two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart Heart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts.

There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar.

Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. MTV's official challenge podcast is back for another season. That's right. The challenge is about to embark on its monumental 40th season, y'all, and we are coming along for the ride. Woohoo!

That would be me, Devin Simone. And then there's me, Davon Rogers. And we're here to take you behind the scenes of the Challenge 40, Battle of the Eras. Join us as we break down each episode, interview challengers, and take you behind the scenes of this iconic season. Listen to MTV's official challenge podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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