The Daily Zeitgeist - Ted Cruz vs Movies, Escobar Yayo Hippos 2.12.21

Episode Date: February 12, 2021

In episode 811, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Kyle Ayers to discuss how Covid-19 deaths could have been avoided, the Trump impeachment trial, QAnon losing its cool, some Republicans believing violence is necessary, Pablo Escobar's hippos, The Princess Bride cast hating Ted Cruz, and more!FOOTNOTES: Lancet Study Finds 40 Percent of U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided The Trump Impeachment Evidence Proud Boys Member Says Trump to Blame for Inciting Capitol Riot Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon A 'Scary' Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos Ted Cruz Called Out by 'Watchmen' Writer for Misunderstanding the Comic Inconceivable! 'Princess Bride' Fan Ted Cruz Criticizes Cast Support For Democrats Mandy Patinkin: The Real Politics in The Princess Bride Why The Princess Bride Is a Perfect Fantasy Movie WATCH: Azymuth - Rico Suave Bossa Nova Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the daily zeitgeist. That is for a handful of parents who have heard the hot dog song. Ramsey, what did you think of that? Did I nail it? My four-year-old is here. How was it? Good?

Yeah. And i'm thrilled to oh that yeah yeah sure thing man anyway make with the cookies that is courtesy of anarcho gun haver based on the uh they might be giants mickey mouse theme song. And I'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! They said, he's so hungry, subway's so far, so he cries, cries nothing missing in his life, then why is he craved tuna subs at night? Oh, wow. And there's a tear trickles down my face for that one. That is from Christy Yamaguchi-Main on the Discord or Gucci Slain or whatever. I'll use your biblical historical name.

Yes. Will. Yeah, yeah. That was beautiful. Yeah, thank you for that. Let's give it a moment. Yep, yep, yep. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented

Kyle Ayers! Thank you. Thank you. You know us. Christy Yamaguchi, man. That's art. That name is art. Yeah. I would expect no less from that. I would be so happy if I thought of that. I wouldn't do anything the rest of that day.

Do you know what I mean? I've done some stuff today. Yet he persists. It's the hustle. You got to admire it. How was your week? How was that Super Bowl for you, Kyle? Oh, it was bad.

You know, as far as like one isolated game i'm a chiefs fan so right i remember it was fun to answer the question does football have to be a team sport it turns we all got to answer it and it turns out yeah you need a team uh because can one man do it no will that stop him from trying absolutely not man that was like as bad as that game was for the chiefs like just some of the throws he was making uh patrick mahomes like as he was like there there was one throw you know he was just running around for his life uh behind the line of scrimmage yes Yes. He was making throws with his head almost on the ground. The greatest incomplete passes you've ever seen.

Oh, no. And it sounds dumb to be like, what a great incomplete. But he had that were dropped. That's what the most frustrating part is. Yeah, always dropped. Hit a man in the face mask in the end zone while throwing the ball while he's parallel to the ground. Had he caught that, the highlights still would have kind of

disappeared because they lost. But would they have lost? I don't think it's hyperbole for me to say that might have been the greatest throw I've ever seen in my life and it doesn't matter. Because you know how you always hear like the best this, the funniest thing that's ever been said

was probably not during a stand-up show. The greatest basketball shot that's ever been said was probably not during a standup show. The greatest basketball shot that's ever been made was probably a backyard horse shot. None of us saw. Right. That was the greatest throw I've ever seen in my life. And it got dropped. It hit a dude in the face. It was hit a guy in the face.

He kept hitting people in the hands and the face mask and they were dropping it. It is like if all of the catchable balls he threw had been caught, I don't know that you guys would have lost. The game maybe goes in a different path. Too many things went wrong to say that. Like there were a lot of bad penalties that I disagreed with for the first quarter and a half. But then they did not have an offensive line, which you need. You need. Yeah.

It felt like have you ever played a video game against someone who knew the buttons right this is like if i've never played madden but i picked the best team i'm gonna get some weird plays by just hitting x do you know what i mean even if i don't know what's going on that's kind of what it felt like and it was not fun to watch but i'm still you try and keep things in perspective sports fandom is such a bizarre thing if you think about it like it's a reality show i've been watching my whole life right and they finally rewarded my character like character last year after 30 years of them not beginning so susan lucci emmy win after decades it felt more like the peter o'toole oscar win where we were 140 years in and they were like, he might not be here next year.

And so this is I still have to be like, I could I can't believe that guy is the quarterback of the team I watch. Right. He's the most fun. Kansas City's never had the most fun player in any sport. Now they have Steph Curry, which is like he's probably the best and he's by far the most fun yeah absolutely so I just got to be happy to be there I'm just uh I am tired of Tom Brady and that's not even his fault well it is but not a negative thing to him yeah right um all right Kyle we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, just a few of the things we're talking about. We finally got sort of an analysis of what American life would look like, what the last year would have looked like with a competent,

or at least an averagely competent response to the COVID pandemic. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Republicans reacting to the impeachment trial and QAnon reacting to the president's loss, or I guess America reacting to it. Shout out QAnon. Shout out to Q. We will talk- Kyle's got a new audience he's working with.

Yeah. We will talk. Kyle's got a new audience he's working with. Yeah. Talk about Gina Carano getting dropped from the Mandalorian. Cocaine hippopotamuses, which is a fun phrase. We'll talk about the just very strange drama behind the Game of Thrones. Benny Offenweiss's new Netflix show, which is that series, The Three-Body Problem, that I have been halfway through reading for a while. You're not done yet?

Oh, no, man. I gave up on it. But yeah. I'm waiting for that TLDR from you. I read the Wikipedia summary, so i can still give that to you okay uh and we'll talk about ted cruz's relationship to the cast of his favorite movie all of that plenty more but first kyle we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. So the last thing that I Google searched was toe puppy behind bike thing inexpensive.

Hold on. Let me try. Toe puppy behind bike thing inexpensive. Yes. Oh, so a little cart to drag your dog in behind your bike? Yes. Okay. Inexpensive.

I'm just trying to envision, because I know Google speak. I was like, hold on. This isn't just a jumble of words. It's a real thing. Got it. What's that called it what's that called the tobe a trailer it's called a trailer it's the same as it is if it's not for a dog it's a word we all know yeah but sometimes you got to dance your way around the word before you say it right and then you can find it like the media with white supremacy right yeah yeah yeah that way you never actually have to say it but you can find it online provocative language right uh just a bunch of isolated incidents all crowded together in a

group of 11 000 11 000 isolated incidents within six feet of each other right uh you know these are just some misguided patriots really trying to um so anyways i got my dog a thin blue line trailer to tow my bike uh what's the what's the dog trailer market look so i could they're about so it's all over the place i got this puppy he's it's his five month birthday today he was born on september 11th so you can remember and um that's why purpose they didn't that's just why you bought that's why you bought the puppies with that person. It didn't hurt. I thought, did my girlfriend.

I wanted to name him Jet Fuel. That was refused. Yeah, and then Building 7 was the other name that didn't work, right? Right. He had a lot of siblings that we were trying to get to. Gotcha. But I wanted to tell him behind my bike because he just likes to be outside. He's real small.

I thought it could be fun to go to a dog park with it. And I just thought it'd be funny to have. So I was looking it up and I feel like this tells a lot about me because bike puppy inexpensive are all sort of like three of my top tens. Yeah. Bike, bike, uh, bike is one of my biggest new things now. I'm just, I'm just a bike and fool. Yeah.

It's really, really nice to go there because it's like it's so i'm realizing the car thing gets stale and when you're really dealing with like limited stimuli you really it's like really have to take it upon yourself to vary your like way you move about and things like this thing happened to me where i told my girlfriend i was gonna go to my other room and i went and sat in my car. And that's when I realized I might need to figure something out with the vehicle. It might be getting a little sad and a little isolated here. I was like, I'm going to go to my other room. And then I just sat in my car on my phone for a minute to be alone.

I was like, maybe the bike needs to... Let's air the tires back up. There you go. Yeah, people don't... Listeners can't tell what Miles is in a full... One of those bike racing outfits. The Lance Armstrong. Weirdly enough, though, he has the speed walking helmet.

Yeah. Look, I mean, Kyle, man, when you get to some of these speeds, I would be remiss to not take my safety into consideration. It's smart. It's smart. And so I want to get my dog a little thing so he can, it'd be fun to take him out and kind of go explore a little bit. I live in Atwater Village in LA. It's pretty flat and there's a path right there so i think it's manageable uh but you know you start reading reviews of stuff online it gets so overwhelming you don't buy anything yeah reviews are the they're so poisonous and it's so like i've had

to develop and i think most people have to develop like the filters to look at a review and understand what is actually trying to be said like whether yes is this an actual review of the product they bought or is this person a shitty partner bought a gift last minute it didn't arrive on time it was the wrong color and they're taking out their shame as a bad partner on this product vis-a-vis the review because i see so many restaurant reviews like that too so the a phrase that is not held up in any capacity is the customer is always right that was written by someone who never met a customer yeah that's just a like a manipulation tactic to draw the customer further into your financial trap uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh come on in come on yeah sign, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Come on in, come on. Yeah, sign that, uh-huh.

You're ready, yeah, no problem. We'll do that, uh-huh. And now you owe us your baby. Yeah, so I didn't buy one because there are too many. But, you know, I'm going to find one. If anyone has wrecks, send them to me. And I think it'd be fun to sort of bop around with them

and be that guy. I'm slowly trying to become that guy in all the harmless possible ways in my new neighborhood. Right. It's the bike. It's the dog bike guy yeah um what is something you think is underrated so i i i think i i i asked this morning while i was eating

breakfast i asked my girlfriend both underrated what are things i think are underrated overrated she goes oh you think everything's overrated and i was like okay what's something i think is underrated she goes oh you think everything is underrated. And I was like, okay, what's something I think is underrated? She goes, oh, you think everything is underrated. And I was like, I can't be both. And then I was like, give me a specific example of either. And she goes, I can't think of any. And I was like, this sounds like a you thing. This sounds like something you're projecting onto me.

No details. I don't know, man. I think comedy acting is so underrated as an actual art form. I think that acting in a comedy is hard. And I think it is underrated yes actual art form right i think that acting in a comedy is hard and i think it is underrated because people are like look at the funny person being funny i think and i will i say to this day often rachel mcadams deserved an oscar nomination for mean girls and there are 10 equivalent performances every 10 years yeah in comedy that no one else could do. It's so funny too,

because it's, it's even the thing that actors acknowledge is harder than the thing they're constantly like lauded for. You know, when people are like, Oh my God, the dramatic performance. Like, I'm gonna be honest with you.

Comedy is a way harder than it's so much harder to be funny than it is to pretend to be Lyndon Johnson. Or whatever award someone's winning. It's actually hard to pretend to be Lyndon Johnson and that not be funny. Are you talking about the new movie Lyndon B. Laughin'? He did use

his AIDS as piss screens. Those calls, I mean, how do you do with a straight-faced, say, bunghole like he does and like try and right while being sworn in right right while being sworn in with jackie jackie kennedy standing right there yeah bunghole i'm just saying it's a funny word faithfully execute the duties of this office upon my bunghole all right he has this entire suit pulled up over the top of his head like beavis like cornoleo yeah cornoleo pulled up over his head that dude is one of my like hey uh daniel o'brien uh from cracked and now uh last week tonight used to uh talk about like just there's all these wild

stories behind the scenes he would make reporters do interviews with him while he was pooping on the toilet like because it was like a power move of some sort yeah um he would show people his uh what he called big jumbo uh because i guess he had a big a big uh penis he exposed himself a lot to people yeah tons uh and that was yeah what am i why am i surprised that someone who runs the united states isn't also flashing their dick when they get the chance imagine running a country because a guy died and not having a weird ego and then being like well he left me with a fucking mess of a country right now right well i mean that's assuming that he had nothing to do with it

which yeah you've seen the picture why was he ever smiling um the yeah he's like looking at looking over at jfk like uh but sorry i distracted from your point which i think is a really good one the like it's definitely harder to pull off and like in the case of rachel mcadams like that is a more lasting performance than any dramatic performance from that year like culturally impactful uh sorry my son is ramsey are you doesn't like this take he's he's been honestly laying on the ground and like stage yawning uh during like every time i talk just going oh man um oh man coal gas study oh you're on that one again but it's all just about how like that's a youth like the audience thing wanting to feel when they won't nominate any comedy movies for oscars that's

just because the academy voters watching it want to feel like they're doing something serious and therefore right like it's them it has has nothing to do with the actual power or cultural impact. It does feel a lot like you're right, it is jealousy. I will say. I don't know what comedies came out the year Manchester by the Sea came out,

but I bet there are a bunch of comedians who are good at being funny and can look like sad sacks of shit. I don't know much about Casey Affleck. I don't care to learn anything more about him. And I think he's been better in other movies, but that movie was just a guy being sad. And his version of sad

was being quiet. And so he won an Oscar because a cinematographer was good at making him look sad. Right. Yeah. Give me Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, which is comedic and dramatic. Give me Rachel was good at making him look sad right yeah yeah give me give me bill murray and groundhog day which is comedic and dramatic give me rachel mcadams and mean girls give me everyone in

bridesmaids i don't know will ferrell probably should have won an oscar for anchorman we're still talking about it and no one else could have done it like that it's people just don't value it as as an art form but then if they when try and do it, they look a fool. Right. Yeah. Give me Casey Affleck using a baseball glove for cleanup. Like, I'll take that over Manchester by the Sea. Yeah.

And I wonder if it's, you know, like you're saying, Jack, like they can't really acknowledge how significant comedy is to culture. And like how much of a lasting impression that leaves on the audience like more people quote you know not that it's i'm saying this is needs to get an academy award but more people will quote dumb and dumber than fucking saving private ryan or something like that like there's there's something about comedy that like it really uplifts us and like we can draw upon something positive just like with a recollection of it and granted of course like dramatic acting is an art form in and of itself as well but it's not like impossible to do art form right and it's also wild yeah like

so to not hold them up and be able to say like it's like the grammys saying like the only music is classical music right it's like yeah yeah exactly no you idiot what are you talking about like people turn up to all this other shit i don't know if we have to acknowledge do like oscars need to do what the golden globes do but then generally the golden globes gives the best comedic or musical performance to whatever is the most dramatic thing that pretends to be a comedy like martian to game or something yeah yeah the most dramatic movie that also made us laugh this year yeah i also wonder if there's something changing because like uh not to keep hearkening back to cracked i have uh cracked on my brain but the first podcast we did on uh

for the cracked podcast was about like how um comedy like ages poorly compared to drama and like old comedy movies aren't really funny anymore except for like the marks brothers because they went uh town to town and just like honed these jokes that were like funny irrelevant of what town they were doing it in um i i just wonder if like now it seems like things have like we still think anchorman is funny i don't know you guys are younger than me but like it seems like people i think that fewer i think i do think that fewer comedies hold up over long term than dramas that do and i think even fewer dramas hold up than like an action like die hard is so old at this point by movie standards and feels like a movie that could

have come out a year ago but comedies from that year there's like a naked gun sequel which has probably kind of funny but does i just you know doesn't hold up as much as these other things so it seems to be like this the couple of comedies from most years that hold up whether it's like groundhog day or airplane or movies like that that hold up whether it's like groundhog day or airplane or movies like that that hold up for a while but i i kind of think blockbusters tend to hold up the best we still watch jurassic park yeah that's true everything that is an avatar will still go back and watch jaws i think is often cited as one of the movies that holds up the best and that's a whole nother oscar gripe that I have is we don't

acknowledge that these movies that influence culture more than anything else should get any sort of nomination for this stuff. Let alone stunt people in movies. Let alone acknowledging that computers help make movies now. Academy Awards could be so much more fun. It feels like

the Major League Baseball of awards. Where you're like, come on. That of where like the mtv movie awards got it right where they get super specific like wow this fucking fight scene yeah and then you're like oh shit it actually gave you something like really you're like actually comparing like from blade 2 i'm like okay let's like watch this fight scene and trying to even i remember watching the shit and like talking to my friends like you really thought that was better from matrix okay whatever okay like just make some more awards i don't know john wick get nominated for nothing

we all talked about it for four years right yeah exactly yeah but i guess that's where it's like what yeah i wonder if the academy can take itself a little less seriously and understand that like film itself is something much larger than like if the people who call themselves the academy can take itself a little less seriously and understand that like film itself is something much larger than like if the people who call themselves the academy can take themselves less seriously yeah yeah it's you're talking about a bunch of people who work in something they call the industry and i say they i'm part of that but the industry maybe doctors should be the industry yeah and everyone making up like racist lies that poison our brains like you think because like also too you look at a movie like crash that one best

picture in 2006 that motherfucker doesn't hold up at all it didn't hold up when it became a punchline in an hour of course i mean for people who had half a brain in 2006 you're like are y'all seeing this and then you're like okay so white people are in charge of everything and like it was hitting a little ally cord so people like oh that's so good it's so good so good yeah yeah they would never make that mistake again two years ago with green book i mean how i would be so much more like they keep talking about like people aren't as interested in the oscars anymore like if they just did an award that was the best uh special effect in move in any movie and you just got to see like how they did it i would love that that would be so fun like because they do that with like they have the like behind the scenes costuming and like all these things they do to

honor those arts but like i don't know't know. That would be nice. Yeah. Behind the scenes. Cause you know what? I feel, I feel like we lost, like we sort of lost the magic of filmmaking too, because we don't see as much behind the scenes stuff. Remember like on HBO,

part of the whole marketing thing would be a 15 minute behind inside. Look at the making of a film that was coming out and you get to see like them between takes the technology being used. And that for me me as a child like anything that was behind the scenes anything always had my imagination going even further because i'm like oh wow like this is how you do it these are jobs you could have this that and the other and i think because like with that content being less there it's like we're just focusing like the actors more and we only think like the one thing you do is be pretty in front of camera and talk. But all the other arts are lost.

You always hear stories about how those behind the scenes are what prompted so-and-so to become a filmmaker or so-and-so to get... Every time you ever see any visual effects person, they're like, I saw a 10-minute behind the scenes about how a head exploded in Evil Dead and I wanted to do this and now I'm... That's beautiful.

The credits are so long. Right. Yeah, the credits are so long. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, this... I wrote two things down. One is too specific and the other one is... Okay, first thing,

the style of all those... How every home ends up in an Hgtv renovation show everyone's house is looking the same now yeah don't live in a barn everyone wants new barn cape cod shit i call the look wedding invitation that seems to be the look that a lot of houses are ending up to be right now i call it wedding invitation and it's crazy because i think you know what i'm talking about i know half script oh yeah everything is oh you know we we installed a barn here's what we're gonna do we're gonna open up this space we're gonna expose those beams throw an island in there and then what we're gonna do is uh everything's gonna be half incursive half not incursive and it's gonna look like no one

lives here it's gonna look like we took the air out of the room b&b and every those shows are kind of watchable because i think it's fun to watch them destroy houses. But then at the end, every single one looks the same. And then you start noticing them in your neighborhood. You're like, oh, this looks like a flip house. Don't worry. We gutted the porch. We put two rocking chairs on there.

Painted everything white. Everything is white. The outside's black. Right. Everything's reclaimed. We actually were able to go down to the original beams and then restore those. Which I get like. And I like wood floors. I like wood beams, but they all look the same.

They all look like a wedding invitation. They all look like, oh, this house, it was designed by two sentient mason jars. And what they did is, and that's like what it all feels like. I don't even hate those. Yeah. They're good, mindless TV, and then I get mad. Yeah, every one everyone every one of them then by the end of it i'm like i swear to god if they put another free if they change just i want

to look i want to see what it looks like when the people move their crap in that doesn't match i want to see what it looks like when they're like fighting over if the guy can keep his lazy boy like i just want to kind of see what it looks like when they're done they're so generic it makes me frustrated with it and that's a very fun mindless watch are a lot of these renovation shows but then at that point i'm like why is this guy if they showed me that i'd be like why am i living in a model home yeah or just specialize them like be like yo what's the goth version that's because that's what pimp my ride did so well that wasn't practical at all because it was cars yeah my ride would be like okay wasn't practical at all because it was cars

yeah my ride would be like okay so we did put up we fixed your engine we got you new brakes we did put a fish tank instead of a passenger seat also good luck in affording insurance insurance on this new car there is a live fish you have to feed your car because we saw on zanga seven years ago you said you like fish so we put a fish, at least, but then it's a car. It's not practical. In a house, give them the stuff they like. Yeah. Yeah.

I know. I can't imagine the interest. That's fun. You ever read old Pimp My Ride people who are on there talking about how they just gutted and sold their car two weeks after the show? Exactly. They're like, I can afford that shit. It's impractical.

Yeah. Even with that new style, the fucking new but like yeah even with like the that new style the fucking new barn cape cot like those everything's gotta be a door that like slides across not a fucking on a hinge have you ever been to a house and tried to take a shit with the door like that you don't feel like you have privacy right welcome to my house is a bar in bushwick uh that is my my water closet is right over there it It says WC on my bathroom door. And please just let me go. Yeah.

I got this old pickle barrel that we use to house the toilet. So it's real whimsical in there. My great grandmother, her remains are the bathtub. But we took down all the pictures of her and put up pictures that are a little bit more like. And no one has TVs in this house. They're like, we put 17 different chairs and a poof in here in the kids' room. And you're like, I know what the kids want. You should put USB ports in the outlets.

Right. You should put USB ports in the outlets. I need 40-foot USB cables that they can just walk around with their iPads just to leave me alone. There's no router in the house you just made. Chip and Joanna Gaines. just to leave me alone there's no router in the house you just made chip and joanna gains they're fucking up this entire country i think that's the people i'm talking about i think that's the people i'm talking about because theirs is even more repetitive than most of the other ones it's offensive chip and joanna i mean like though and the whole like magnolia network fucking industry brand that they have it's like you're just it's it's funny because like in

certain places especially like america like we're we have such a consumer culture like we just take our cues from ads and tv like no one actually develops their own taste a lot of the time like yeah it's sort of like a collection of instagram posts and like yes with chip and joanna gaines and like that magnolia aesthetic like that is like the new thing everyone just sort of like is like aspiring to mindlessly if you haven't you know what is timeless in a home is your stuff and your life and that's what i wish i saw a little bit of this always stories yeah about the things you have photos people are gonna move into them they've they picked their art for the walls and stuff and i'm just like but don't you what do you why would you want someone else to put that stuff

on the wall plus most of the time you're you're actually paying like at least 80 for that anyway so yeah those shows work the property brothers uh just like redid like basically took a house down in my neighborhood to like studs build it back up looks like exactly what you're talking about. And sold it at the most incredible premium. We've taken the actual practical love of hardwood floors and gone too far with it. Hardwood floors are wonderful, but everyone agreeing that those

are good has now turned into this entire thing. The whole house is hardwood floor. Your ceilings are hardwood floors. Don't touch them. One of the property brothers is dating uh zoe de chanel which feels like the most perfect like uh accoutrement to like their aesthetic sense is like and so in your house i actually have my girlfriend zoe she stands in the corner all of the time but the dress she's wearing actually complements the uh fan above your stove

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Actually, I've kind of been waiting for this study to happen without realizing it somebody did a study to see like what would America have looked like if they had had a competent pandemic response yeah I mean you know the medical journal theet, they're the ones who put this study out, and it's just like sort of, it's like a study

that's sickening and no shit at the same time when you just see it. Well, the top line is basically that 40% of the COVID deaths that occurred in the United States were preventable. But they're also saying it's not just Trump. This is sort of part and parcel of the momentum we have with our just deteriorating health care system.

But what they're saying in this article or this study is, quote, many of the cases and deaths were avoidable instead of galvanizing the U.S. populace to fight the pandemic. President Trump publicly dismissed its threat despite privately acknowledging it discouraged action as infection spread and eschewed international cooperation. His refusal to develop a national strategy worsened shortages of personal protective equipment and diagnostic tests. President Trump politicized mask wearing in school reopenings and convened indoor events attended by thousands. Where masks were discouraged and physical distancing was impossible. And so they got this on top of that.

They're saying, OK, so clearly he was actively trying to make it worse. But let's also look at other G7 nations. So countries that are of similar economic backgrounds, I would say development. They're saying the way they did it is comparing the COVID deaths in the U.S. with the average, like the weighted average of other G7 nations. with the weighted average of other G7 nations, and we had 450,000 excess deaths. I'm sorry. We had hundreds of thousands of excess deaths when comparing it to these other countries

that had a response that was the somewhat opposite of what Donald Trump did. Yeah. So similar circumstances, different response. Here's the surplus of deaths that we had. As sad as that sounds. Yeah. This sounds like from the makers of Did You Know Gun Control Might Help comes. Hey, this also would have worked. The sequel no one wanted to have to ask. Yeah. Which is like why it's like I was saying, like I wrote this up of like in sickening no shit news but it's just

up you know it's like something we have to actually go through measuring to understand even though we all could see the effects of it in real time but and on top of all this they're saying you know the u.s has already been dying at a faster rate than most g7 nations because our health care is just this fucked up death casino so they're saying already right um when compared to similar countries in the g7 already stood like u.s deaths already had 450 000 excess deaths in 2018 alone wow when comparing it to other countries like and people remember 2018 wasn't when covet happened This is just regular times when we were the greatest country in the world with our flawless

plan. Exactly. And they say we're saying if a lot of those deaths come from people under the age of 65. And is that, are they including, like speaking of gun control, are they including gun deaths in that? Or that's just like healthcare related

fuckery? I think it's just, yeah, in terms of like life expectancy and those things in that or that's just like healthcare related I think it's just in terms of like life expectancy and those things like that and just looking like oh wow and yeah they said if you if they were equivalent to like the other G7 nations they say because they say two out of every five people who are

passing away were under the age of 65 they're saying a lot of those people like they would have added up to all of the people who like lost their lives from COVID. If we could even get, you know, to the, to similar levels of life expectancy, but we just, we have a awful, you know, there's no support system for people and we have increasing despair deaths and all these other things that are all sort of systemic. of increasing despair deaths and all these other things that are all sort of systemic um so it's like yeah like on top of already the terrible leadership the lance it's also like but yeah yeah yeah i mean like let's you also this has been happening for a while in the u.s this was

this was obviously made things even worse but we also just just screaming why we need to change our health care system but it's not it, uh, like they say that that number, the 450,000 and 2018 alone is a number that's been climbing for decades. So it's not like a condition that is a part of like the American character. It is all this deregulation and just letting, uh, you know, health insurance companies and just corporations run roughshod over the population. I would love to see the overlap of the wealth disparity in the United States versus the unnecessary death increase in the United States. And I bet those lines look fairly similar because they seem to line up with people's.

I mean, I've had such a recent, not even recent, years and years been dealing with the health issue that has got me firsthand like battling with the health care system here in and out of having insurance. And you just do eventually get frustrated. And I'm and you're just like, I'm done. It's too much work. I'll ride it out and you see this is this is me who has a ton of energy and is young and can deal with the weird tech and is good at being on the phone with insurance companies right it's such a frustrating system this stuff sometimes feels like so many overwhelmingly bleak numbers that it is hard to take in. And I think people just distance themselves from it.

Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. It's just an awful thing to have to think about, like, you know, to anybody in the last year, right.

To think if you've lost someone from COVID and then there's a good chance that person might still be here because for, for any number of reasons. And then even on top of that, the fact that we are, yeah, I mean like, that's like the,

the fucking American superpower is like turning your, your consciousness off to like all of the just awful things that are around you. Like that you can see if you bothered to look, it's not that they're not affecting you. That's what's what sometimes you hear people saying they need it to affect them directly and i do i don't really i don't know i i don't you kind of get that you can warp yourself into being like oh this person didn't care about covid till it someone they knew got it or died or something this is affecting everybody if you just really pay attention or are willing to pay attention because it's so prevalent and has been

that it is in your face if you care. Yeah. And even if you have, let's say you're fortunate enough to have older family members that are in good health and already trying to navigate, trying to get a vaccination right now has been hell on earth for trying to get for older people in my family who don't know how to use computers who will go to a website that says all the appointments are filled up and say oh well can't do anything but like no you got to keep refreshing and then a thing might open up frustrating and yeah you're like fuck and then now think of someone who is not in good health who has other issues going on on top of that trying to navigate this system and that's before covid too

it's like we're asking the elderly in our country to battle ticket master scalpers to try and live right and you have to get on and refresh and and and snag radiohead tickets to survive or something like that they're like what's radiohead right radiohead grandma come on come on this is right they're not getting a vaccine. They're starting from the base level of, well, I used to camp out for this. And you're like, well, that's good because you might have to get back into doing that. Yeah, seriously. I actually last week was volunteering in Arizona, helping with the logistics of distributing vaccines at Arizona State. And I got my first vaccine at the end of the day, which was a wonderful thing.

And I got lucky enough to be one of a hundred volunteers who got to do this and i was in arizona just spending time my girlfriend anyways it talking to people about the hell they'd been through trying to get the appointments i'm just the last person who verifies who they are before they get them right and you just you see the relief on their face but still understand the frustration that has gone through and then a lot of people just showed up like please do you have any and it's just yeah it feels a little bit like lifeboats on the titanic all over and over and over again except the government made everyone get on the boat knowing it was gonna run into something right yeah yeah i mean i know we pre-sold the

lifeboats actually uh yeah oh and the thing the thing about the lifeboats is it is once again a financially based thing it's essentially bottle service at the club can you afford a bottle okay then we're not going to come through with sparklers and the vaccine there will be a sparkler in the lifeboat uh so that'll be kind of dope uh yeah even like the um 60 year old person who i know who was able to get it like without you know going through all sorts of different uh methods like had to get it because somebody she knew was like working at a clinic like it's it's straight up just like an indictment of the system that it's just like it's wild it's not hey so how much

risk did we unnecessarily put your life in did we put your life in enough unnecessary risk to where you are able to continue safely living like you have to like have earned has in the last year have you almost died if so we might give you this thing maybe if you're quick enough to maybe not almost die um and just to tie this to Ted Cruz's relationship with the cast of The Princess Bride, I want to jump ahead to this story just because something that we talk about all the time on this show,

but that is worth just banging over the head is... Inigo Montoya. Yeah. Who killed his father. Who killed him. And they should prepare to die. The people on the right who are the ones who stand in the way of this shit being changed. I mean,

there's also the centrist, like the Obama administration, letting the insurance industry, right. Uh, the legislation for Obamacare. But, uh,

you know, the people on the right are the ones who are absolutely like if they just disappeared tomorrow you would be able to make a lot more progress and at least get the u.s closer to these other g7 countries where it's not like uh well you gotta live or die by the free market literally uh anyways uh they tend to accuse the other side of exactly what is wrong with them um and so ted cruz uh claimed on his podcast at the risk of he's a fucking ruining this medium yes ted cruz has a podcast yo fuck the ted cruz podcast thank you uh it's fun to think about ted cruz figuring out audacity right yeah i'm sure he definitely

has the audacity right podcast is called the audacity of nope i would imagine uh he claimed that movies uh these days on a recent podcast often have quote rabbit environmentalists as the bad guys adding that quote the view of the left is that people are a disease uh and then he points to the examples such as avengers endgame and watchmen uh which so he is he's comparing the uh you know rabid leftists who make movies uh with the leftists who make movies with the ideology of Thanos.

I don't know if he's ever seen a movie because he's supposing that the people who make movies always agree with the views of the villain. You can tell they agree with the views of the villain by how the villain doesn't get killed in the end. Right. And then lives

happily ever after. Thanos notoriously survived Avengers Endgame. Yeah. And was right. Spoiler alert. He added, they buy into the Malthusian line that there are too many people in the world.

People are bad and everything would be better if we had fewer people. Thanos wanted to eliminate 50% of life forms in the universe with one finger snapping uh which is such a watch that and get anything except the viewpoint that so then all of the good guys banded together to defeat him and find a way to fix this actually so it would be four hours long and there's 38 of them you would be led to believe that he has never seen a movie and just like has no idea like how movies work or narrative structure he is he

has these movies that he's like he is actually obsessed with uh aladdin for instance he said that he would not go through with his wedding if uh he was not allowed to play a whole new world and sing it maybe i that's how i picture it yeah well i think it's for his dance and he wanted to but it the thing was remember he insisted that the the wedding band that did it couldn't play it because it had to be the cd version because that's the lit version not the fucking cover and that was the one that he had been practicing to in front of a mirror for so long but uh his favorite movie even more than aladdin is the princess uh the princess bride uh that's fucked up because that was one of my favorite movies me too it's so good it's so good but he so he is in

a battle with like so uh the cast of The Princess Bride kind of found out that it's his favorite movie. And the star, Carrie Elwes, pointed out that it must suck for Ted Cruz because literally everyone in his most beloved movie fucking hates his guts. And Ted Cruz responded with a photograph from the movie that has been autographed by Carrie Elwes and says to Senator Cruz. And he was like, does this mean you want your picture back, Carrie?

And Carrie Elwes was like, dude, I never signed that. That's so weird. Thank you. Hi, Michael Jordan. I bought this basketball card of yours. Are you my best friend? Right. Oh, shit.

I never signed that shit. Oh, wow. That's so funny. It's so specific, too. Yeah. Mandy Patinkin has come out, and I think he wrote an editorial back in 2015 being like you know the just talking about how ted cruz clearly doesn't understand the princess bride which is like uh in addition to you know a great fun movie is like a vietnam

war uh metaphor as are all movies from that era I just can't imagine Ted Cruz like well at least I can turn on my favorite song Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival and just listen to this pro-war pro-military ballad anyways shout out to the cast of Princess

Bride and fuck Ted Cruz look if you're not allowed to watch movies where the actors hate you my favorite movie is national treasure and john voight probably thinks i'm a piece of shit right everyone else is thinking uh our writer jm mcnab wrote this up and was like could you imagine like loving a movie where you know everybody hates your guts and like well, well, not specifically, like Bruce Willis doesn't know I exist, but I bet he would be like, you fucking punk. You would probably hate me and think I was whack for asking him to put on a mask

while outside of his home. Anyways, fuck Ted Cruz, I think is the moral of that story. I want everyone to know who's listening uh this is the longest single section of notes i've ever seen you guys have for any topic in the show in the history of me doing it for ted cruz being dragged by the cast of the princess five pages we're not fucking around we're not fucking around we gotta know from every angle three lines in here is 500,000 dead from pandemic, but then just

under it is seven and a half pages of a Google Doc of Princess Bride. Which I believe is okay. Yeah, absolutely. That's the credit to JM. He's thorough with it. And I don't want to admit to it now, I have never seen The Princess Bride. But I think it's important for me to say.

It's not important. It's just a fun movie with Andre the Giant. Yeah. It's all good. Whatever. We're not. I've moved past having reactions like that. I was like, oh, you've never seen that?

Yeah. It just felt important for the context of the entire conversation. Yeah. Well, that's fine. If everyone thought I was deflecting to National Treasure too much, I apologize're pro john voight stance i mean him in anaconda come on the thing but like ted cruz he really has the worst taste in movies like when you know that his favorite movies are aladdin and princess bride he's clearly like has to live in a world where he like regresses to these sort of childlike fantasy stories that like keep him protected from like the reality of the cruel world.

Right. So I don't know a lot about the princess bride, but there's this guy in the mask here in the pictures. Does Ted Cruz just like movies where young men pretend they do have the same theme of a guy who like knows a girl and then comes back undercover and pretends to be something he's not in like wow this doesn't relate to anything to any conspiracy theories about who ted cruz might actually be i do so somebody or heidi cruz's relationship with him right huh huh interesting

because remember like there there's that one thing about where his daughter was so clear-eyed about how the mom could have just exercised her agency and left Ted Cruz. Oh, right. Yeah, during his run for president, she was like, Mom, you really fucked up by marrying this guy. She's like, why did you quit your job? You don't make money? And she's like, well, no. But if he's president, and she's like, well, do you make money as first lady? She's like, no.

And she's like, then why would you do that, mom? Yeah. Oh, man. But he's a he's a heroic man who stands up for the women he loves. I wonder. I bet he is. I don't know. I won't speculate, but I think he would probably be more identifying with the characters

who have like the strong person come in and sweep them off their feet and protect them because he's certainly not doing that he's more throw my wife under the bus after somebody calls her unattractive yeah we call those heroes yes in 80s movies

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Hippopotami. Yayo hippo. Colombia. Hi hippo colombia hippopotamo you know pablo escobar el padrino the most famous narco uh ever you left many legacies behind in his death but aside from just the bustling cocaine trafficking network uh there was a ton of wild animals that he had at his like estate up in the hills near um i think bogota um but anyway when he died in 93 like the government went there like this motherfucker has a full-on zoo with all these exotic animals that should not be here they're like what are we gonna do with this so most of them they were able to put into different zoos because like they had the actual facilities to handle these animals.

But the biggest problem that they had were these African hippos that he had. They were just so big. They didn't know where to fucking put them. Like just moving them around was like a huge thing. So they figured, look, let's just lock the gates and leave them there. And smart, smart. Hopefully they'll just die from neglect. So fast forward. They, they in fact did not die.

They fucking thrived. And now we're at this point where there's like a lot of biologists and ecologists like are raising concerns. And it's like this huge debate right now over because like they've become an invasive species in like the River Magdalena River Basin area. They're like like we actually need to cull them for this to not get out of hand but it's kicked off like a massive debate over do they need to be culled is there a way to sterilize them half the like most of the people in columbia like love the hippos too like just sort of like the photos of them so they have a very unique problem that this massive coke dealer

left behind them and they took over the drug trade the hippos took over the drug trade it's they are i think probably they're among the most dangerous species to humans because they're the ratio of how adorable they are to how quickly they will literally bite you in half. That's what they're known for doing. They're like, they're deadlier than crocodiles. I think they're right after mosquitoes, aren't they? Mosquitoes overwhelmingly kill more people than any other

animal for obvious reasons, but hippos feel like they murder more humans than any other animals. And I'm down. Honestly, I've never been... This feels like the plot to that movie Annihilation that I didn't understand, where just something takes over and we think we can tell it not to. And it's like, this isn't

you anymore. This is ours. Let them have it. To the danger statistic, in 2016, there was a report saying, up until 2016, they were saying hippos were killing around 500 people a year in Africa. That's a lot of people.

We're so close to the hippo. It's huge. And the wild thing, too, is like Columbia is like a fucking vague. It's like an Eden for these hippopotami, hippos. Like, it's completely different than Africa. And it's like, actually, it's to their benefit. They're saying it's quote an evolutionary opportunity. They have no natural predators in South America, so they can reproduce much more easily.

The weather helps because of the droughts that happen in Africa that acts as like population control mechanisms that are natural. Columbia, baby, it's nice and damp. There is no there is no fucking drought and that means now that like it's creating an ideal environment where now they are reproducing at earlier ages than they even would in africa i love it so that the numbers are looking at they're saying like right now there's around 80 to 120 hippos by 2034 there could be over 1200 if they don't actually begin putting controls in place and so like some people just

want to shoot them other people want to sterilize them but in i just want to point to this in 2009 the people the public went nuts when the colombian army as they say quote gun down the hippo pepe in 2009 after it was deemed a threat to local communities. It was enough to lead authorities to make hippos legally protected, which is now an obstacle to any plans to cull them. So it's wild. I just have never been that hippos, sorry, one animal thrives, and now we're like, it's news. Sorry, one species, they lock into something, then they get it.

Just let them do what they want. If you want to kill the hippos, I don't know how much a hippo weighs you should have an equal weight amount of humans fighting it with their hands so if they weigh 10 000 pounds then you could have 10 000 pounds of human fight them to the death and that could be, you know, however many 50, 200-pound guys or 100, 100-pound martial artists. It's up to them on how they want to divvy up the poundage. But that's the only—give the hippos their land. What are you going to—there's no way that you can farm in the land that Pablo Escobar had. It's all tunnels.

It's all secret tunnels. So there's no—you can't till this. You're going to break into another tunnel. So just give i'm just team hippo i i'm ignorant to the whole topic i barely even know anything about the geography where these things are aside from the terms you're saying i don't know the difference in the landscape i enjoy you explaining why the hippos are thriving that sorry it's not the hippos fault they're there yeah right but i think that's why they're trying to because they're you know they there's people

pointing to like the dangers it faces like that it could affect like the chemistry of like the river ways and that would affect the fish populations and things like that. There's also studies that say it's not, the effect isn't as great as they're reporting it. So like right now, I think it seems to be that there's maybe two forms of thought of like, one is like, let's just kill them all. that there's maybe two forms of thought of like one is like let's just kill them all uh and another is like let's be a little more humane about this um because we're not also don't see as much of like the alarm because the other thing is too there haven't been any recorded deaths from any of the hippos so there's still very much the public sees them as just like these animals that are here and they're like oh cool right I wonder if maybe he got like one of the like really nice families of hippos and like

these are going to be like the dog what dogs are to wolves of hippopotamus if we could take all of my knowledge of hippos I think if they're hungry what you need to do is give them small white marbles and then they'll be less hungry and your dad will get mad and get rid of the game.

Yeah. Like, for example, one of the biologists, Natalie Castelblanco, who was, like, one of the people who was talking about, like, the issues and possible solutions, including, you know, killing them, she immediately received death threats from the public. That's what I'm saying. I mean, yeah, like it's hard because I think it's one thing when you hear an invasive species as a plant or an insect. Right. But like when you have this thing that in our like children's books, you never hippo is never a thing of like, oh, hippo.

It's always like, and then there's big hippo. That is nice that we still have like uh relationship to them where they're like they're mammals so this uh this scientist castel blanco i need to know if castel is uh translates to castle i just need to know if their last name is white castle it's not really related to the hippo situation but this is either my fourth favorite person or my favorite person depending on how this translation pans out that's uh but i do think that is like all of our invasive species to this point none of them have been adorable we've had zebra mussels we've had like you know carp we've had you know things that were people are going to be

fine getting rid of but hippos are too cute baby hippos are it's one of the biggest discrepancies from baby animal to full-size animal of like the cuteness scale yeah and so if you show someone a baby hippo no matter what you're if you're saying this baby hippo figured out shot in the head like if you're like this hippo grew thumbs and figured out guns and cyber security like hacking but look at it and people be like we got it we can't do anything about that what are we gonna get impeach that hippo come on i know come on didn't know what it was doing it's out of office anyway i did hippo didn't incite anything let's do impeachment real quick girl i'm talking about impeaching this creep the democrats wrapped up the impeachment managers

i guess is what we're calling them uh wrapped up their case the republicans continued to cartoonishly ignore it like they're a a petulant kid uh with like a teacher they don't like um ran paul sat with his back to the screen while they were presenting things uh taking notes aka probably like doodling on his notepad and then left halfway through uh the manager's description of the president putting mike pence's life in danger um yeah i mean they're doing all he was like laying down in the gallery yeah they're like even the very conservative wall street journal editorial board is like it looks bad like that nothing's gonna happen obviously like these guys are making it clear nothing's gonna happen but like this is a very bad look and like he he should

never run for a republican office again but that's the whole thing is uh yeah i think the only recourse people are gonna have is to get on the asses of corporations that continue to donate to these people yeah that's like because there's no way to fucking reason not even a 14 minute video that would make anyone shiver at how like intense all this shit was especially for the people that were fucking there um that you could watch that and still be like yep can't do anything about that um we know that's coming and yeah like i feel like even when you hear about mitch mcconnell he's apparently not pressuring senators to do anything like he's not going one way or the other your conscience yeah and i part of that is you know with him he is

worried about the money where does all the super PAC money go where does all the corporate money go and if they his concern the only thing in the calculus of Mitch McConnell is if there if we let this guy off after how bad and how glaringly obvious it was that we just sort of just turned the other way and just went through with acquitting him that could that could end up hurting us in terms of our fundraising that's the only thing they care about so i think the only other chip that is going to be able to be played in terms of some kind of effect uh punitive effect on the republicans is to then come after the people who fund them um because it's not going to happen in this impeachment trials we see people like it's like they were avoiding to see like video clips from like you getting really fucking drunk the night before and it's like embarrassing to see like oh dude i don't need

to see that right like no no watch this part watch this part what like that's what they're doing the editorial wall street journal is interesting because they're like putting a lot they're like and trump will never live this down the stain is permanent on him alongside like describing these senators like you know doing noises like as they're presenting their case just like doing the most cartoonish like i i can't hear you shit you know the people who definitely didn't have bad things to say about nancy pelosi tearing up a blank piece of paper before a speech once and they but they're not drawing the like connection that that's also a hideous look for them which is weird i don't know like it does seem like in the public eye if somebody is mad about the president's actions they should be mad

about this complete disregard for any consequences it's just they're just it's the base they're just they don't know what to do they're just playing they're playing to a base that i think there's some people in areas and districts and states where they just believe that it's trump ride or die or it's not trump ride or die you can become a senator if you're a former college football coach who says i stand with trump and doesn't even campaign so they just sort of even that's how strong that brand is yeah if you get to the nightmare that is my home state's josh holly uh these are just people who double triple quadruple down because they they know that when it comes down to like grinding out re-election they're going to be running against someone they can call a socialist and win. Right. Right. Yeah. And then it's like that. But God, I just it's it's really hard to

think of what happens after this, because clearly this is the moment that they need to indicate to the country that they know what's at stake. And they are. They're saying we know what's at stake and we're actually voting for the shitty outcome. That's what we want. We want the we want the hellscape. That's what we're voting for. And I think that's what people need to connect a bit, is that there's an entire apparatus in basically the Republican Party that's there to just say, we're here to actually accelerate the coming of the American hellscape uh even more so than it already is like because they make a little bit more money under that hellscape in the short term so yeah it makes it like okay i'll grind it out and then when because let's see how many of these people actually stay if if we're at a point where the country really starts to fall apart even more

um how many people are gonna like how many republicans are like we actually need to do something about this or are they going to be further insulated like i don't know there's like a group of angry people which are actually just downtrodden poor people we've ignored that we're just going to treat as enemies of the state now yeah i mean it the whole kind of alignment seems like it could be shifting but like they don't they don't really have a way to know. QAnon obviously is polling worse than it was before, but then there's a poll that's saying four in 10 Republicans think if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions, is a finding in a recent poll. of finding in a recent poll. So it's, there's, I think they're like, well, on the one hand, this is a really bad look. On the other, that's a lot of energy that's storming that Capitol.

And those people probably will vote in the future and they're not going to go away. So we'll just ride that wave. Which was funny though, because remember, did you see a lot of the charging documents that there were people that stormed the Capitol that didn't't vote yeah yeah that's true you know what i mean like so many of them didn't vote yeah well when it's rigged so it's just a mom i mean when it's rigged from the start their vote was probably dead people vote i it makes me feel crazy to even

pretend to try energy their energy though is like it's not for voting it's for violence so yeah it's just for them to think that they need to they can somehow do something with that energy in the context of elections is completely misguided uh because these are people who don't give a shit about what happens in an election because at the end of the day it's like do we still have de facto white supremacy which box are we we ticking? If it's no, then we're turning up. Right. Yeah. Well, Kyle, it's been a pleasure, as always, having you on The Daily Zeitgeist.

Thank you for having me. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Well, I'm at Kyle Ayers on most of the stuff. You can find me on there if you like to follow on that stuff. Yeah, I think that's, you know, that's where I post about the other stuff. So, you know, it's a good way to find everybody. I got a podcast called Never Seen It where comedians rewrite movies they've never seen. And we read their scripts of what they just figured the movie probably is.

So you can also check that out if you like movies and stuff. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying yes I laughed really hard at this tweet it's by at mall cats not even someone I know their name is quarantine which is funny but it said my sister works in the mental health field

one day she told me no one in this world is fully realized except Jack Black I carry that with me wherever i go i like the idea that there's like mental health conferences that are like and as we know jack black is yeah once again we'll be watching school of rock and everyone cheers uh miles where can people find you and follow you twitter instagram at miles of gray also check out the other podcast for 20 day fiance talking all kinds of trash tv burning that tree v let's see some

tweets that i like first one from reductress at reductress slay this private prison is woman owned another one is from at kelly copter saying walking downhill is so embarrassing. Like, oh, look at me doing a little trot like a stupid fucking horse. I'd rather be dead. Keep going. I got so many actually, because I have not been on Twitter. And I just looked at a couple things. Oh, this is Solomon, Georgia. I love this one. If you're happy and you know it, you are high. If you're happy and you know it, you are high. That was mine. Finally, from Kyle Grotzinger, great singer, K-G-R-O-E-T-Z. This is just an interaction between himself and a person at Lululemon. The first line, the Lululemon sales assistant. Typically, guys get a size up when they buy these joggers.

They fit really snug. Me, skeptically. Even the gay ones? Herb, quietly, without missing a beat. Straight men don't buy these pants, sir. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Oatmeal Influ me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien oatmeal influencer on Twitter tweeted. I love contact list delivery. They just throw the slop at your door and I run out like a little pig. And Mike tweeted, if I were an anti-homeless architect, I'd design a 50 foot high bench

and then jump off it. There you go. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O you go. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes

and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we recommend. We're going to recommend songs on a spotify playlist instead of playing them here uh yeah you know just just want to tighten up a little bit uh first of all i just want to say infield fly 47 on spotify is the user who actually this person got the better spotify playlist than the one i was even making so we're gonna have to

link to this one because every day this person has put every song when it's available on this playlist. So check out the playlist, the songs we wrote out on. Pretty easy to remember if you listen to this show. And it's all right there. And the song that will be there momentarily is a track called Rico. Wait, let me make sure I've got the name right. Rico Suave by Jerome? No, it's actually Rico Suave Basanova by Azimuth,

which is not Azimuth, the UK band from long ago. This is from... Azimuth is this Brazilian jazz funk trio from the 70s. So their shit is fucking... It's spicy, baby. It's got that ginga, as the Brazileiros only know how to do. So their shit is fucking, it's spicy, baby. You know, it's got that ginga, as the Brazileros only know how to do. So yeah, check this one out.

Rico Suave Basano. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning. We are back this afternoon to tell you what's trending,

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