The Daily Zeitgeist - Stain ResisTrend Sheets 12/6: RFK Jr., Taco Bell SOS Kit, Hugh Grant, CosMc's, Gaza

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

In this edition of Stain ResisTrend Sheets, Jack and Miles discuss RFK Jr. admitting to a second ride on Epstein's jet, Taco Bell's SOS kit, famous actor Hugh Grant hating the filmmaking process, McDonald's new venture: CosMc's, and the IDF continuing their genocide unimpeded!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack that is miles it is wednesday december 6th in the afternoon and these are some of the things that are trending right now rfk jr is trending for admitting to a second ride on epstein's jet i actually was not i have a truck i have a tough time um remembering which celebrity like that i have a pretty good mental rolodex like i know matt graining uh malcolm gladwell you know like the right chris tucker chris tucker of course, famously space, space, the Clinton, uh, so many nineties luminaries, um, RFK junior, I had not put in that category and we're already getting a,

and actually there was a second one to, um, confession. Uh, so Fox news, uh, just aired an interview with the embalmed corpse of Robert Blake. Right.

No, I'm sorry. Wait, that is RFK Jr. Wow. That's, huh. Looks like the embalmed corpse of Robert Blake. So after previously stating he had only been for one ride on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet in this interview, he's like, okay, fine. There were two. He tried to put it on his wife, though, too.

He was like, my wife knew like Ghislaine or some shit. I don't know. And I had my kids there with me, which isn't like a great testament to your judgment of character and just judgment in general that you took your family

your children on epstein's private jet uh for a fossil hunting weekend so yeah i mean like it's one of those things it's like there's there's definitely levels to the epstein jet thing like yeah more in terms of like this guy epstein was just like a wheeler dealer type guy so he's gonna like part of his way part of his graft is to do these favors for people like be like oh yeah take my jet take my jet because you're trying to build that rapport so when it's time to like exploit the relationship you kind of built up enough goodwill uh i mean i'm not defending rfk but like there's there's i i can't imagine that like i feel like many people have been on that jet uh but yeah it's all it's just not a good look

at all just in general when you're like yeah dude i was on that jet once maybe like if okay fine a second time but whatever yeah how's he how's his polling holding up? Is he still... I know there was a thing back in end of November that was like, he leads all candidates in a favorability poll. Right, right, right. More respondents have a favorable opinion of Kennedy

as opposed to basically all the other candidates. But I don't know if that's like a... It seems like weirdly specific right like yeah well i think in a three i mean i don't know what the most recent polling is but i feel like recent the like at the beginning of november it was like he was taking like a little over 20 in a three-way race right which that is not insignificant. Yeah. Um, yeah,

I just like, there was someone on Twitter. I think it was Chase Mitchell. They, they took just like a screen cap of that Jesse waters interview where it's like RFK junior Jesse waters. And the Chiron says RFK junior, I was on Epstein's plane twice.

And then he tweeted, I'd keep workshopping that campaign. Holy shit. Yeah. Anyways, I was on Epstein's plane twice. Twice. Okay. All right, Ralph.

Easy now. Easy now. Easy now. All right. Taco Bell continues to just know their audience and they have introduced, um, because in, in honor of college finals,

they're offering students a seven 99 SOS kit complete with souses, uh, taco shells. Um, here's the meat. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no meat no meat no meat would be amazing if it was just a

lukewarm room temp ground beef it's shelf stable shelf stable ground beef uh don't ask us how but it is shelf stable and then finally a stain resistant bed sheets which Yeah. Which, um, God, that, those just, that combination of words evokes for me the least comfortable pair of bed sheets that I've ever, I could imagine. Like it's horrifying. It reminds me of like one of those picnic, like tablecloth,

you know? Oh, that's like plastic basically. It's like plastic on one side and then like a little felty thing on the other yeah yeah like that what else could it be made of you know i mean if it's just the it's funny like as for the most part i'm like oh yeah cool but i think we're just both thrown off by stain resistant sheets you're like wait what i get like some things will maybe like the way they're you know like maybe scotch guarded or something where like chemically it's going to like not be a absorbent resistant we talking is it am i when i spill fire sauce on these sheets are they is it

going to like bead up like it just turn into little like pearls of sauce or is it like stain resistant in the sense that because I'm looking at a picture of them and they are bright purple into hot pink gradient, so maybe it's just stain-resistant in the sense that you're not going to give a shit

what these look like. You seriously can see that red taco sauce stain on the red part of your sheet? Come on, bro. I like that if that's just it. They're just off the color there's nothing fabric wise it's just stainless it's like dude the color's all fucking crazy so don't worry man if you get some you know some some sauce on there some grease but you know uh people should just be doing i feel like look we love taco bell but you don't need to buy this what you need to do is do what I have been doing all the time, is you make a poncho out of a trash bag, and then you will never stay in your clothing the way you eat.

But will you stay in your bedsheets if you're eating in bed? So they claim that this was inspired, inspiration struck, you know? inspired um inspiration struck you know um the muse came to them entered their their door on flights of golden fleece and uh whispered in their ear this idea and uh they were inspired by numerous fans who confessed to eating taco bell in bed i'm not one of them nah be honest like truly much in bed i am averse to eating in bed and that is say your partner likes to eat in bed my partner has been known to eat crackers in bed and it is a pet peeve it's a it's an issue that we man that is so that's like that's violating. Crumbly, crummy, sharp shards.

I do in this respect feel like Tim Heidecker's character in that one I think you should leave sketch where he's like, the gazpacho burned my lips because it's room temperature and I expect it to be ice cold. With crumbs in bed, it's like

I mean they're small but like something about a like just a single cracker crumb in bed just fucks me mentally oh yeah i do not want to be in this bed anymore oh yeah especially like when it's like the small your back or like the back of your leg or some shit you'd be like what's that fucking broken spark plug in here the fuck was that i'm like no i was just eating my little crackers in bed i'm like again with the crackers yeah i've eaten enough taco bell in my car though to know that like it is hard it's it's not an easy food stuff to keep off of your clothes wait just it gets a lot it gets all over the place in your car

what am i eating like which item i think it's the cheesy gordita crunch like just any anything like i feel like you know once you get the sauce out like it it's coming out the other side a lot of the time you know look that's why that's what i do i just i just take little rips off the packets oh yeah dude that's i've had a few because sometimes when you're trying to sauce a taco when you're driving you could fucking cause a life-ending car accident you know what i mean like trying to like balance shit you're like trying to get the fucking wrapper open and then cracking open the thing either if i'm driving i'll be like yo her majesty hook it up like sauce this thing or i'm like tear off the corner of the thing so i get a little take little rips off the packet as i eat my

you know quesadilla hey babe sauce me and then she's like spray it sprays it in your mouth cops pull us over they're like what the fuck that's just like we're pulling you over and gonna arrest you on the grounds of that being fucking gross. So gross, dude. And I might be violating your civil rights, but I honestly feel like I have a good shot if once a judge hears what the fuck happened here. What you were just doing. Yeah. So, I mean, the price is right at $7.99. The only catch is, like we said, it doesn't contain any cooked food.

You have to provide the meat and veggies yourself. any cooked food you have to provide the meat and veggies yourself um and then the other catch is that you now have taco bell bed sheets that are presumably made of like scotch guarded within an inch of yeah also what size the bed sheets you know are like are you excluding people that might be in loving marriages who also might be wanting you know i mean is it just it's just for twin like they get yeah they did twin beds and we're like, and we're not hearing any complaints. Yeah. It's actually a flat sheet because we know how these scumbags roll. Just fucking lay it on top of the air mattress.

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and we're back we're back and uh hugh grant continues to come out of the closet as a complete asshole yeah yeah i kind of like just as an unapologetic asshole i guess so i mean his roles have been trending in that direction like he went from always just being like the lovable buffoon um to like playing more villains in in movies villain in paddington 2 of course the citizen kane of our time but then like on the oscars red carpet he was just kind of the biggest dick I've ever seen somebody be in one of those red carpet interviews. It was like he

just hadn't even heard of red carpet interviews and just thought the whole thing was completely absurd. And was, yeah, truly a complete asshole. Yes, those sorts of interviews are dumb but you showed up at the academy award red carpet so right yeah he just always has like he never has anything good

to say when like a movie of his comes out it's always like funny he's like yeah yeah it's kind of a shit time making it but uh yeah yeah cool he seems to hate making movies um but yeah so he said his quote his quote on this one i made a big fuss about it i couldn't have hated the whole thing more and then asked but was it all worth it to like get the final product what you see up there on camera or on screen and he said not really and then he later joked that it was nothing personal against uh wonka and director paul king uh just i slightly hate making films but i have lots of children and need money thank you there you go just let him know yeah you got three kids and no money you know what i mean why can't you have no kids and three money, Homer Simpson?

We know. Yeah. Oh, he got five. Woo! There you go. Damn, and they're not even in college. Bro, you're... Yeah, I get it.

No kids, five money. Starting to sound pretty good. Yeah. No kids, five money. The new Hugh Grant movie. He... Who is the mother of his children? Is it Elizabeth Hurley, or was that just like a old dating thing?

They were just dating. He has one with. When my brain stopped taking in new memories. He has three with his ex, Ting Lan Hong, Tabitha and Felix, 12 and 9. And then, wait, hold on. These numbers, these math say mathin'. And then his wife, Anna Eberstein, he got 11, 6, and 5. Damn.

So what happened in between? You got a 12-year-old and a 9-year-old with your ex-wife. And you got an 11-year-old with your current wife? Are we sure those dates aren't just un-updated on the first kids? They could be. I don't know.

This is in the news article. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, secret family. Wait, what don't you understand? I'm Hugh Grant. Secret family. Come on. Oh, my God. I mean, yeah. He's just a professional fuckboy. Yeah, yeah. Been like that. So, anyway.

Yeah, keep hustling, man. You're gonna have to, you might have to don that mocap suit a few more times. Yeah. I do love this level of just self-pity. He said, creating his crotchety oompa-loompa was like wearing a crown of thorns because of the camera rig around his head. Like, anytime the person, especially a middle-aged white man, comparing himself to jesus christ on the cross yeah right right right no man must have been so hard must have been so hard yo i don't know if y'all know this but wearing that the new mocap stuff like they use an avatar just like a crown

of thorns bro and i was getting whipped with the cat with nine tails on set yeah no i just no just the mocap suit i think was made of a synthetic like poly fiber and it just didn't react well to my skin so my back kind of broke out that's why i said i was hit with the cat with um mcdonald's is trying something new um other than raising their prices this article kind of bummed me out but like eater.com was like by all accounts mcdonald's is doing just fine the fast food behemoth sales have been great with price increases adding to its bottom line cool what a good feel good story it's just so wild to me that that is the tone that is the point of view of all american media is like just reporting on companies that are just charging people more money for like their budget as food by like reporting on

it. Like it's a sports team that we're all rooting for. They're like, Oh, like they got the most numbers. Yeah. That was so smart for them to increase their prices at a time when people really need budget food,

uh, because they're hurting financially this yeah this is kind of the other part when i talk i mean whenever we talk about like the economy and stuff and how there's a disagreement like the you know the the real neoliberal media class is like people aren't understanding the economy is fine and like sure by all the traditional metrics it is and there are certain things like like wages and things that have gone up but they completely discount what like all of the social services that ended after the like when they said pandemic over no fucking food assistance for people with kids all these other things the the

feeling that creates with people is they have less money now because their money's going to other things and then when you have shit like price gouging fucking everywhere like those are the kinds of things like if you're like working in the white house being like what do we do it's like try and figure out how you get these fucking prices under control too like make that part of the narrative but again you can't fight the hand that feeds but it's also like it's like shit like this where mcdonald's breakfast is now fucking 14 bucks yeah in l.a yeah the only president who can get away with that sort of price protections type shit, Richard Nixon, famous socialist Richard Nixon, who got away with it.

But McDonald's is, as this article points out, it's like just McDonald's. It's like the thing that is there that all other fast food restaurants are like competing against, but it's never really changing. But they are launching a new concept which we've mentioned before um seemingly aimed at capturing a younger and more mobile market it's called cosmix c-o-s and then capital mc plus bs um people are seeing a new location of this new small format um aka like no dining room chain getting ready to open in bowling brook illinois so it's gonna be like a one of those like slow rollout things but um i don't know it's i i don't understand the branding.

The chain's named after an orange alien character introduced in the McDonaldland universe in 87. Right. I remember when this story first came out, it's like, what the fuck is the point of it, dude? Is it for younger people because it's cheaper? Or just the aesthetic that you're trying to capture people and go into and then, look, you know, as much as I love a McDonald's cheeseburger, this shit should just be 39 cents. So my prediction is what they're doing here is we had the hurry up and wait with the aliens. Like, the people who were like, yeah, there's aliens.

Like, we have afo in our garage back there if you want us to like back it out and show you and then like nothing came of that i'm just wondering if the hold up on more information on first contact is that they are going to organize the first contact announcement around the launch of this restaurant because like aliens aren't gonna launch their presence without like a corporate tie-in are they like that would be such you're leaving money on the table i mean look at right mcdonald's is doing great just by raising their prices the aliens have to be aware of that right yeah i don't know i don't know that's like these are all very valid points fucking meal taco bell meal tie-in for like when aliens like announce their presence in our

universe well look i mean that would be appropriate for this whatever version of reality we're in right now. Um, yeah, that somehow like the most significant, uh, realization of mankind will be a collab with McDonald's. Right. Um, all right. And, uh,

Gaza, the fighting has continued, uh, has, you know, after the ceasefire, uh, picked back up and intensified.

And the IDF has moved into the city of Kan Yunis in Gaza and the IDF has claimed that they are giving Gazans fair warning to get to a safe zone but there just aren't safe zones. There's nowhere safe.

There's maps that they show even in Israeli news, or, like, these maps are, like, ironically bad and cruel. And, like, one of the people, a spokesperson from UNICEF said, quote, there are no safe zones in Gaza. These are tiny patches of barren land. They have no water, no facilities, no shelter from the cold, no sanitation.

And, like, that's along with, with like other news we've seen, like where there are hostages that were being held by Hamas were like giving like testimony to the war cabinet in Israel. And while they did not have much glowing things to say about their captors, like one sort of consistent criticism from these people was that they felt that they were going to be killed by israeli bombings like they were like we're gonna get killed by our own people like as we wait to be freed because there is one quote of a woman there was just talking about how like you know like shame on net and yahoo for like being so singularly focused on hamas that you would do that at the expense of Israelis who have nothing to do with this. So, yeah, it's yeah. But it's interesting that like the way the stories like the thing that hits the headlines is like Hamas is bad, which feels like every like everyone kind of knows that and agrees on that but like not not the fact that like netanyahu

like that the thing that is like counterintuitive which is that they were scared because netanyahu didn't seem to care about their safety like that right that seems to be the surprising counterintuitive thing but like that doesn't feel like it's hitting the headlines as much as just people continue to be like that's why hamas is bad and it's like yeah no no shit like no yeah they're fucking terrible there are some people who are like yeah i get it who are you know have are want to speak glowingly or whatever but the fact remains that again this is just this was just so hard to wrap your head around it's like they're like okay like we're we gotta, we got to, we just got to hammer home that Hamas bad.

But we're completely missing all these other parts because for all of the people who were like, who were saying like, yeah, these hostages, like figure out how to get them free. Like most onlookers, like, how are you going to keep these hostages safe? If you're indiscriminately bombing the entire gaza strip or you know portions of it how does any of that work um but yeah now like you know it it's hard to sort of totally read the sentiment like of what's happening because while there are definitely people who are you know i'm reading more about how like much in danger it is for people to be speaking out against the government right now in israel too but you know i'd imagine these kinds of testimonies from people that were actually held there saying like what were y'all like what are y'all thinking like this one one

was like give them whatever the fuck they want like get these people out of there like why isn't that the first thing and like instead it's all about this sort of very political thing and i think that's why many observers too are like this is this is pretty much the last stop for netanyahu before like serious repercussions there's like the last stop for netanyahu before like serious repercussions there's like serious fallout for his terrible leadership and just like the failings of their own their own uh military so it's again continues to be a mess uh and we've only heard sort of hints that uh the biden administration is willing to use begin to use more leverage to try and actually guarantee the safety of uh civilians there but yeah yeah ongoing ongoing the netanyahu

administration is an extreme right-wing administrator like that's yeah the thing that i feel like just keeps getting left out of the conversation is like you can object to the netanyahu administration the same way that you can object to the net and yahoo administration the same way that you would object to like the trump administration like they're a far far right extreme in the same way that you know hamas is a far right extremist organization like so is the net and yahoo administration like people are just ignoring uh like it just feels like you can fairly straightforwardly just be like no nobody should be killing innocent people but like that doesn't seem to be the the focus yeah it's unfortunately that's that would be a try to attempt at upending the status quo at the moment

especially too when you look at this country, especially its history in the region. Yeah. The government and the people in power are not in any way viewing Palestinians as human beings. Right. So there's, yeah, there's so many dimensions that allow this to continue. So, yeah, hopefully we will begin to see some kind of pushback

before the situation becomes completely untenable and we're dealing with like a full-on global conflict that could have been avoided but yeah all right here we are those are some of the things that are trending on this wednesday december 6th we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy and And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open. Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief, and once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast

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