The Daily Zeitgeist - The Great (Fake) Halloween Candy Shortage, Herschel Walker Faces Receipts 10.05.22

Episode Date: October 5, 2022

In episode 1345, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, producer, and comedian Brandie Posey to discuss… Dems Aren’t Really Offering Much in the Midterms..., Sadly, the GOP is Really Not Doing a Great Job with Candidate Optics, The Great Halloween Candy Shortage Of 2022 Is Here! (According To People Who Want You To Buy Halloween Candy) and more! Inflation, supply chain issues could result in a scary Halloween, warn experts Halloween candy shortage scare shows importance of domestic sugar production Retailers Prepare for Halloween as Global Supply Chain Recovers From Pandemic Disruption The Scariest Part of Halloween This Year Is the Supply Chain How the Supply Chain Stole Halloween Hershey, Nestle warn of Halloween candy shortages CHECK OUT: Opinion Cave by Brandie Posey LISTEN: Roda Mundo by Anna MazzottiSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Keeping people from, you know, attempting to keep us from being totally ignorant. National Walk to School Day. National Pumpkin Seed Day. National. Not fuck that. Coffee with a cup. National Apple Betty Day. National Do Something Nice Day.

National Get Funky Day. And National Rhode Island Day. There it is. National Get Funky Day. Yeah. In Day. Today is National Get Funky Day in this household. How are you getting funky? How are you observing today? Man, I just do a little shoulder shimmy when I get out of bed in the morning.

I feel funky. That's about it. That's the extent of my funkiness. Okay, okay, okay. And then, yeah, Yom Kippur ends today as well. Yeah, I don't how I get funky, I just, you know, I don't even know You don't get funky, you keep it funky I keep it funky, I just have to preserve the funk

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Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, aka Jack This holiday is brought to you by the National Funk Preservation Society. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack Not Good on Pot-atoes O'Brien. And that is Curzio Celti Mahoney. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a.

I repped the click today to see if Oz still here. The noodle never came. That punk ass wasn't real. I peeped through the peephole. A liberal wants my smack they call my product franks because i put vent in everything okay shout out to la caroni on the discord for that wonderful hurt johnny cash cover look rep mixing together the crips shit the harrow ron shit with john yeah love to see it thank you i feel like i need to do a textual analysis of that one there are

references that i wasn't quite getting but they felt meaningful i love you rep the click today you know what i mean you threw up you threw up your fucking you know your set i got that part oh okay i don't know about the frank's fent play on words i don't quite know what that meant i'm also i'm i need the you know rap genius annotation give us the rap genius but i like it i like your aka that was i just went for it yeah you know it is what it is well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comedian writer producer you've seen on mtv e comedy central her stand-up album opinion came debuted producer you've seen on MTV, E! Comedy Central. Her stand-up album, Opinion Cave, debuted at number one on iTunes.

iTunes, as I pronounce it. She has performed everywhere from a basement in Whitesburg, Kentucky to the stages of the Kennedy Center. Jeffrey Epstein's suicide saved her marriage. Welcome the brilliant, the talented, the hilarious Brandi Posey! Epstein didn't kill himself.

Hell yeah. Just gotta remind the people of the truth in my opening. I love it. brandy posey hell yeah just gotta remember remind the people of the truth in my opening I love it what's good oh man skeleton season is upon us my first question for you what's up with that 12 footer

she's been up all year but now she's really feeling herself I plugged her eyes back in for October it feels good now she's really feeling herself. I plugged her eyes back in for October. Wow. Yeah. It feels good. Now it's like the kids when school season starts it's school season school to school year. I don't

I'm an aunt. I don't know how the kids work. The kids have been walking past my house. They take pictures with a skeleton but now it's like we're going to get their costumes and stuff for this month. I'm very excited. You should put a thing that says Google LASD gang so when the kids click it up they're inherently going to get their costumes and stuff for this month. I'm very excited. Dude, you should put a thing that says Google LASD gang so when the kids click it up they're inherently going to have to put that in their

posts or just put really subversive slogans in it so that might not connect with them but they're like, yeah, check it out. And then suddenly they're like, recruiting in Brandy Posey's neighborhood is up for LASD gangs.

Everyone Googles it and is like, oh, yeah, that looks fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm in Eagle Rock. It's a little iffy over here. That's for sure. What's the outfit switch? Like, what did you have your Skelly wearing? And what is she wearing to celebrate these spooky times?

Well, currently, she's just wearing like a lei for the summer still. Like, she just had like a lei on throughout the still. She just had a lei on throughout the summer. I am going to make her a giant witch hat. Because I think a skeleton dressed like a witch is very funny. That is fun. The skeleton has a Halloween costume. Just a very basic Halloween costume. Yeah, exactly.

Although, a giant ghost sheet would be very good, too. I just got to get a california king white sheet yeah or the other super simple one a cat yeah it's like little cat ears on the skull oh a cat is really fun that might be really i got like yeah the problem is my ladder is only eight feet tall so it's like a very scary thing to get up there and do anything with the head. Good. And you're famously three foot two. So yeah, you would not make it to the top.

Exactly. It's a problem. I'm jumping on the top. It's a whole thing. Oh, yeah. Because you really don't want to get up on those higher steps. So what? Like you're maxing out what?

Like the chin of the skeleton? Yeah. With your arms fully extended? That's about there. I just need some people with a larger wingspan than me to really get to the top but you know it happens we it happened i just i just do it like don't worry about it you'll see it'll get there don't worry it happens people will see yeah yeah and so we're talking i I almost got, I started making a case for the Lowe's version. I haven't been to Home Depot yet this fall, but I was in Lowe's and they had a 12 foot tall, what looked like a skeleton out of the corner of my eye.

And I was like, gotta get it. You know, these things are so hard to come by. And then once I took a good look, it is like a mummy. It's like a very mid impersonationersonation of the 12-foot tall skeleton. Yeah, it's a skeleton that's wrapped in gauze as if it's a mummy. It's not good. It's bad quality. I prefer Lowe's as a company to Home Depot, but Home Depot does have the far better Halloween decorations, unfortunately.

This year, they also have a 12-foot werewolf and a 12-foot witch that is flying in a broom. I've seen them both in person. They're breathtaking. I mean, they're breathtaking. They're really breathtaking. I smiled like a child when I saw them. They made me so happy.

That's so fun. Yeah. What do people who don't, the weirdos who don't keep their 12 foot tall skeleton up year round like does that thing break down pretty easily what do you do with it in the off season well there's a large christmas tree bag that you can get that your skeleton will fit into but but the head has to be the head kind of as its own separate thing i mean it's a large thing when i had to bring it home,

I had to unload the box into my car and just the rib cage alone took up my entire passenger seat. Yeah, rib cages, no joke. A lot of space there. Yeah, there's a lot going on. So, you know, I mean, I just say keep it up. If you got decent weather

and you can keep it up, keep it up. And if you're worried about the wind or anything, there's a lot of tips on 12- skeleton of facebook to like really secure that thing i mean i'm in several different groups right now is the best time of the year to be in them because people are posting their displays and they're just so happy and this is the time of year when the uh the hoas of countries all over of cities all over this country can't yell at them for keeping their skeletons up anymore because that has been a problem in the past.

But I love it because it's uniting people with their neighbors to come together and sign petitions to keep the skeletons up year-round. Yeah. Nobody doesn't love the skeleton except the presidents, people on the board of a homeowners association. It's really beautiful to watch Midwest Karens get slowly radicalized because their HOA is coming for their skeletons. You can see them just be like,

how dare this unelected body of assholes tell me what to do with my body? And you're like, yeah, you're getting it. You're getting it. That's how we get them. You're so close. With my plastic body, my 12-foot plastic body. How dare they? Exactly.

I'm like, extend the logic a little bit further. And then I think you're on our side. You're so close. All right, Brandi, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We are going to check in with both parties as we approach the midterms. We're going to talk about the great halloween candy shortage of 2022 is upon us and it's not real but you are going to be hearing about it because it helps people sell candy every year i forget i always

forget about the though where are we going to get our halloween candy but we always remember the christmas tree shortage valentine's day shortage but i forgot with the annual where are we going to get our Halloween candy? We always remember the Christmas tree shortage, Valentine's Day shortage, but I forgot the annual, where is the Halloween candy? Eggnog shortage. Yeah, yeah. This one, they're really aiming to amp it up this year. I can accept that the news is lying to me about

everything else, but I fall for that every year. I'm like, wait, of course they're also lying about that. You're like, yeah, right. This cop is innocent. Sure. More copaganda. Oh, my God.

Blue M&Ms might be sold out by mid-October this year. I better buy them in August. Yeah. Anything. Anytime it's in the lie in the direction of getting you to buy things, it's probably it's probably bullshit. Mm hmm. All of that, plenty more. They didn't tie it to worker equity and unionizing and shit like that in this one. No, no, no.

And the shortage is because poor people asking for a fair shake. Yeah. But before we get to any of that, Brandy, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Okay, so this is a billboard that I drove by recently, and I gasped when I saw it. There's a new thing this year at the Queen Mary called Shacktoberfest. Oh, okay. Shack is putting together a spooky little haunted house pumpkin patch for the entire month of October at the Queen Mary.

I was so happy. And the logo is amazing. Miles's face, by the way, he just turned into a child. It's really... Look, as somebody who had Shaquille O'Neal as part of his, you know, formative experiences, a young man, I'm like, hey hey will there be dubstep as well please be on brand dj diesel oh oh yeah i mean literally there's like the pumpkin patch description is during the day shack diesel's pumpkin patch offers a traditional experience where kids of all ages

can explore the attraction but at night the attraction erupts to life as a shack diesel mix blasts throughout the area accompanied by an over-the-top light show mixing Halloween and EDM into a walkthrough experience. I lost my mind when I saw this billboard. I was like, how am I only just hearing about it? I cannot wait to go. It's cheaper than Halloween Horror Nights. Yeah. I was so happy.

I was so happy. It's the best thing I've Googled in ages. I couldn't... I was so happy. I'm so happy. It's the best thing I've Googled in ages. I couldn't. I was so happy. I'm so happy I can share it with you and the people. I'm already at Shacktoberfest.com. I love how every sort of like attraction at this thing has like a daytime thing. And then it's like and then at night, like during the day, fun for the family to trick or treat. And then at night, these spooky motherfuckers will traumatize your fucking little kids.

So don't fuck around, parents. Like every single thing is like promising like safe for kids but then after eight all bets are off get the hell out you don't want to be here yeah oh i'm fucking because usually it was just always like spooky queen mary like very very standard shit they would do at the queen mary for halloween i remember going once in like middle school and being like this is so underwhelming yeah uh but now of of very lonely hall of fame basketball player playing dubstep that's just gonna say this feels driven by loneliness in a way that is remember remember in the group thread i sent that picture shack recently talked about how like how much his infidelities fucked up his personal life that he's like I fucking ruined my life like I the sound of my children saying daddy when I come home I there's the biggest thing I miss and I did this all to myself and when he's giving this interview he's wearing the most unserious like 360 wraparound like cyber shades and like has like a weird poster

behind him and you're like you look like a haunted single dad who's now doing edm in his like you know midlife crisis so yeah maybe i do want to you know go and support the big aristotle yeah no exactly let's get on down to shaktoper fest I think he needs it. He's going to need it. I think he's also a big Halloween fan because he's in, well, this is a slight spoiler, he's in Hubie Halloween, the Adam Sandler movie that came out two years ago, which if you have not seen it, fantastic. Underrated, yeah. Completely underrated. I think I've used that as an underrated before, but it was going to be mine today because I watched that on October 1st. That's my tradition. It's so stupid.

Yeah. Oh, I love it. I love it so much. And Jack just left in protest. Yeah, Jack can't handle it. He's like, I'm more of a Jordan fan. I wish that Jordan's holiday castle was around. You guys are really going to like Kurt Rambis Fest for nobody.

Oh no, I think his internet died. Oh no! That was not a protest thing. Uh oh. How much is it? They're pretty cheap. The standard ticket's only like $35. The VIP ticket's $100.

And you can watch Shaq cry in person yeah i know exactly i wonder if like one of the attractions is shack sobbing over his life's mistakes as like a cautionary tale to people you're like you don't want to walk through the the den of regrets it's don't be like me respect your marriage vows or lead a life of loneliness. And then fucking Ned from the Try Guys is there too. He's like, woo. That's exactly. I just want a hoodie with the Shacktoberfest logo on it.

It's so good. Because it's like Shack has a skeleton. Oh, yeah. Like holding this jack-o'-lantern. It's really good. so good because it's like Shaq has a skeleton with a giant pumpkin. It's really good. Like, I mean, I'm going for the gram. I'm fully... Instagram might be dead, but this might be

it's death rattle to me. This will bring it back. Oh, my man's doubling up. Shaq went to go buy his tickets for Shaacktoberfest and to Home Depot. But I think he might be back. Damn, it's only fucking two nights or three nights? No, it's a whole month.

It's for the whole month, but it's like only it's three. It's four nights a week or five nights a week. Damn, I don't know how to read numbers. I read 9.9 to 10.31. I was like, that's only two days. I had the same exact thought. Same exact fear. Yeah. Well, and I honestly, I do want to throw it

out as an alternative to Holoscream, which I've never been to Universal for their thing, because it's like, I've heard that you have to buy the VIP for like 300 bucks, otherwise it's not worth it. But it's also completely sold out already. Yeah.

But, you know, at Shacktoberfest, I will say the cheapest ticket is $35. VIP is $100. But if you look at their calendar, nothing says selling fast yet. So I think you can. Because the billboard literally just went up the other day. I think it's a real last minute. Love the great marketing. Yeah, exactly.

Dude, warn them five, tell them about it six days into the fucking thing. Yeah, exactly. I think the Shacktoberfest website crashed my internet. As I went and was exploring, clicking clicking around my internet completely went down i think we're back but usually you are this is foreboding this usually means trouble to come but we'll see how we hold up but i did want to mention on the logo whose note do you think it was to add a scary snake around his neck because it feels like a hat on top on a skeleton's body right very very clean straightforward skeleton hands holding a pumpkin and uh like scary staff but then there's

a scary snake around his neck which just like i don't i don't associate snakes like you don't go to a haunted house i'm like oh no a a scary snake came down. Usually it's like spiders or something. Snakes are too tropical to work for that. Yeah, it's not Halloween canon at all. Right. Oh, you know, I wonder if, I think Shaq might be afraid of snakes. Yeah, he probably was like, he saw Indiana Jones and was like, yeah, I'm also afraid of snakes. That gave him the courage to admit his phobia.

He's like, well, Indiana Jones, I'm so afraid. Yeah. Like, okay, all right. You think about how big Shaq is. Shaq is a 12-foot skeleton himself. That snake must be huge. So, I mean, it's not an unscary snake, but it is. Oh, wait.

Oh, wait. No, Charles Barkley's got, because remember, Shaq would always mess with Chuck about his fear of snakes. Oh. I don't know. Oh, so he's doing this as a diss. I don't know if it is or if Shaq maybe secretly does. And like during the notes, like, and this is the logo, Shaq, you know,

like we're ready to print. He's like, no, you're going to be really scary as a big snake. Yeah. Really? It's a beautifully rendered logo with just one extra piece thrown on it. ready to print he's like no you're gonna be really scary as a big big snake yeah really we just it's a beautifully rendered logo with just one extra piece thrown on there it doesn't really make sense yeah he's like charles is gonna see this and he'll be jealous i have a i have i have a shaktoper fest and then he'll see that i'm smiling with a snake around me oh shit i'm

comfortable around snakes yeah exactly uh what is something you think is overrated, Brandy? I think caramel apples are overrated. Wow, wow. I agree. Actually, my wife, Her Majesty, loves candy apples. It's like a thing where when she sees them, we have to buy them. But I'm not quite feeling the same way. I had one recently, and I was like,

is this worth all the bullshit that goes with it? They're through the roof now. They're so expensive. And it's just like, I don't think it's worth its bang for its buck. And I think it's messy. The one I had, the caramel wasn't. Because it came out where the caramel was cold to make sure it wouldn't melt.

But then it gets hot quickly. And then you're at a race against time to really make it work. And I feel like the ratio isn't necessarily right. It's not great. There's a lot of wasted caramel around the bottom. You got to eat the caramel that's on the bottom You know like you gotta eat the caramel That's on the stem and you get little like Dirt caramel in there

When I was in Seattle a couple weeks ago Shout out Dix first of all Love their hiring practices everybody from Seattle Has been like the reason Dix is great is because They pay like living wages I'm like Oh great and their fries are soggy I'm winning We went to this spot to buy a candy apple

Obviously we were near a Pike's Place market, so soup to markup is ridiculous. Yeah, yeah. It was $18 for one fucking candy apple. I was like, yo, I'm doing okay, but I can't justify this purchase. I'm sorry. Are caramel apples like helium? They're like a natural resource

that is being depleted? Yo, they had ones that were so like, they looked like they weighed 40 pounds because they had ones that were so like they look like they weighed 40 pounds because they had overloaded the shit and i think the the biggest thing is i could never handle a candy apple like eating it off a stick like that's absurd when they say yo you want us to cut it for you i'm like i can like more manageable pieces of a candy apple or you know caramel apple i could probably wrap my head around but it as its own thing, it's an overwhelming proposition. All right. So my pitch for it, because I do love the taste of a caramel apple. I love caramel mixed with apple. I love peanut butter with apple. Those are like what I ate for breakfast this morning.

The caramel apple needs to be packed in peanuts. Like the peanuts need to be all the way around it so that there's not just like stray lint sticking to the thing. Because that gets around every square inch of it being just a magnet for anything that wants to stick to it. And it also allows you to touch it with your fingers without your fingers then getting completely sticky. Touch it with your fingers without your fingers then getting completely sticky. So that's the one caramel apple experience that I've come around to that I'm like, if you have that, just like peanut, little peanut pieces packed on every little square inch of the apple, I'm here for it. And if you've got a peanut allergy, fuck your life. Yeah, fuck your life. That was the other thing that I wanted to say. That was the note from the candy apple.

Kids these days, they want trophies and they're all allergic to peanuts. Which actually is wild because I feel like they wouldn't. That's not a problem because I feel like any shop that sells candy apples also has like peanut dusted everything in that spot. Yeah. Just accidentally peanut dusted. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

Exactly. Candied apples, though. I've never been able to fuck with those. Like, that's a whole other. It's like soft lollipop around the apple. My brother-in-law was telling me he used to, like, he used to work with all the Jackass guys and the Otts, like, as their photographer. He says Dave England from Jackass would take a fruit roll-up, unroll it, and then wrap

that around an apple and then eat the apple like that and called it a rappel. That's pretty good. It's a weird level of stupid genius. I really love...

That's the most 2003 shit I've ever heard in my life Yeah, like of a dude who works at, like who's in Jackass, like, you're at Rappel Now I'm gonna go get a concussion and a shopping cart Yeah, exactly Yeah, I think the other dope way would take a fruit by the foot And then wrap an apple like a mummy You know what I mean?

Cause you got that little thing Anyway, spooky ideas, I'm sure that's probably a fucking Pinterest thing anyway Yeah, but I mean Maybe it's not, maybe that I'm sure that's probably a fucking Pinterest thing anyway. Yeah, but I mean, maybe it's not. Maybe that's your way onto Pinterest. Exactly. You know what?

I'm going to take this to Shaqtoberfest, get the big guy's thoughts on it, and then we'll go from there. I can see Shaq being like, ooh, and then push one part up and then put a raisin there and it's like his eyes sticking out

of the money rack. Shaq? Yeah! Exactly, Shaq. We're just riffing. We're just riffing with Shaq. Shaq would steal that idea and make it the Shaq chapel. Yeah, the chapel. Put a python

around it to make it real scary too. Well, we don't have to do that. I always want to add a python to shit to make it scary. What if just hear me out here. What if? What if? Just hear me out here. What if these signature sneakers of mine had a Python wrapped around them?

Jack, I think that's pretty impractical, man. Yeah, I feel like what if Kazam, instead of being a genie, he could also turn into a big Python to scare the little kids. Sure. Okay. Well, I to scare the little kids. Sure. Okay. Well, I'll ask the writer what he thinks. And we'll see what ends up in the shooting script on the day, Shaq. Thanks for that note, though. Good note.

Good note. I love that note. Good note, Shaq. Good note. We'll bring it back to the writers. Oh, yeah. One more thing. Add a scary python to the poster.

Oh, exactly. Exactly. Great idea. Okay. Thanks, Shaq. Great. Perfect. Brandy, what is something you think is underrated?

I mean, I was going to say OG Twix, because I forget about a Twix a lot. Wait, what do you mean? What happened? Well, you know how Twix has, like, there's several different... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the different... It's like, I blame Reese's for all of this. Reese's, like, basically was like oh we're

gonna do 20 different kinds so we don't have faith in our original and i think that that's pushed a lot of the other candy companies to also do a similar thing but i think an og twix is like real good i at least kind of forget about it often and then i had one couple like a week ago or something and was like oh man this is great it's got elements of like several candy bars that I like in one place. You know, why am I not fucking with the Twix more often? Well, I wonder what, for a while, I felt like Twix was the coolest candy bar you could get as, from my perspective, as someone coming into media consciousness in the late 80s and early 90s.

Like, Twix just had the better. Didn't they have the one that was like the old shit you should be like oh yeah oh yeah yeah that was like the og twix commercial music i mean obviously it was in ferris bueller and shit but like i feel like that helped me be like the twix song hell yeah good call john yeah no i mean like twix like really felt in the 90s it felt like the fuck boy of candy for sure and like now i don't i don't know it's kind of i mean i think like all fuck boys that grows up and um just doesn't age as well maybe but i think it actually is still great but you just don't hear it i think i got drowned out by the noise of all this other

candy and yeah i just love a damn twix did they change the recipe on the caramel at some point because i feel like either the twixes i've had most recently were aged twixes that were you know for like at the bottom of the halloween candy barrel and i just got in there but the the caramel was not soft when i got to them and that was just i i need the caramel to be you know new snickers soft when i when i'm getting into a twix that's a big part of it for me first for nostalgia i don't know look i just want to play this 80s twix commercial for you because i feel like it i thought this shit was the coolest from 88. Yeah. Yes. Whoever said you can't get everything in life?

She's opening up her school locker. Oh, my God. Whoever said you can't get everything in a snack? Never try to twix. Look at that. Look at that fucking... It's sexual. There is a PG-13 candy.

See, this fucked me up. I think maybe I'm all fucked up and I'm like, I want to have sex with that candy bar. Look at the way that caramel's threading when they pull it apart. Exactly. The look that the young man gives the young woman in this ad is also, it's like one of the horniest performances by a child actor i've ever seen

like it's obscene like it should not have been allowed on television what we just witnessed holy cow but yeah that's what they're giving because that was a vibe was like oh yeah you're like okay i thought that was a 30 year old when i saw that when i was eight years old i was like oh, these are adults. What's going on? These are adults. They're at their work lockers. Their work lockers.

Yeah. And their work backpacks. That was great. A great trip down memory lane. Love it. And that was back when Twix had the OG caramel. I don't know if they changed the recipe or if I'm just not getting to my Twix fast enough. And maybe that's on me for underrating the Twix.

Go get a Freshie. Go get a Freshie. Because I know what you mean. I've had ones where you're like, hmm, this is a little toothy. You know? Yeah, yeah. When you start eating it,

get you a fresh one. Because you will. I remember, like, when I bit into it, like you, Brandon, I was like, I felt like I flashed back and it was going, oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, I forgot about you. Yeah, I need Snickers caramel instead of Whopper's caramel.

I feel like I got one that had Whopper's caramel. You know, that's like trying to glue your teeth together for the rest of your life. Yeah. Yeah, come on Twix. I thought you knew better. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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And it's midterm season, baby. Hell yeah. And we're so close. so close to uh the election so close to a fascist theocracy yeah i mean you know we keep hearing it's the most important election of our lifetime every election i can't argue with that because the the other party keeps getting worse and worse but you would think that the Democrats would be like, and that's why we've completely stepped up our game and nailed down our messaging and have concrete things that we are going to get accomplished.

It's the Democratic Python, you know, they can't just leave it alone. I mean, like we talked about how the Democrats plan has basically for a while just been gesturing at the GOP as their way of campaigning. Being like, yo, is this what you want? Vote status quo this November. Like that's kind of their that's been their platform for a while. And we talked about even in the midterms, right? The Democrats are actually spending money to prop up Trumpy extremists as a shortcut to electoral victory without having to promise much and as journalists like begin asking democrats the simple question of like what will you do with another two years

in power the fucking answers are all over the place there's like nothing really concrete some people are like we got to address the child tax credit. Yeah, I think that's something absolutely needs to be addressed. Some are like, we have to talk about fucking climate change. Are we fucking stupid? We're dying right now. We're killing the fucking planet. Others are like, I think now's the wrong time to be too aggressive about climate change. And that's not the right move. So truly uninspired stuff from the donkey crew. But, and this isn't a great plan, especially when you consider that a lot of swing voters right now have major concerns about cost of living issues like inflation. And instead, Democrats have seized on abortion rights as their way to do the

minimum with a very, very serious issue. And it's obviously an energizing issue because we're talking about fucking life and death situations here. But Democrats don't even necessarily even have like a unified message on what they will do to address the Dobbs decision that would motivate people. They're more just being like, and this guy thinks abortions are bad. What's like your version of are you're going to codify like Roe? And how are you going to do that? Is that line item number one on an agenda? We don't really have specifics.

So it's leaving a lot of people like, okay, well, what, like you have an opportunity to go a little harder here. But it seems like they found like the soothing waters of knowing that the existential threat that the Dobbs decision poses for people is enough for them to just kind of sit back. Right. Yeah. Yeah. poses for people is enough for them to just kind of sit back right yeah yeah and they i don't i it seems like they're reading different numbers than because the numbers always favor the democrats going into the election just in terms of how polling goes but polling still seems to indicate like the republicans are going to win the house and then that's a that's a rat man that's just

going to be all impeachment shit them impeaching biden over and over for the next two years just completely freezing everything up until the next election where it's trump v biden and they'll have two two years of like actual like enforced inaction as opposed to uh chosen planned inaction to run on. And that's not going to be a good look. No. And, you know, right now, also, Democrats are they're going against the rhythm of history, which is the party that wins the White House is going to lose in the midterms.

So it's not that they so the time isn't to be like, oh, thank God for the Dobbs decision. Right. If they're serious, then you have to do even more, because as it stands, you're already up against it, because that's just the rhythm of our electoral politics in this country. And to just to assume that they can just sit back and just run these like hit pieces, not really talk like not really giving people assurances as to why. like not really giving people assurances as to why obviously a lot of people are like yeah man forced birth is fucking terrible like cutting people's restriction to health care is fucking awful but also go further than just merely stating the shit that they always do which is like racism is bad okay what y'all gonna do about it it's bad folks? What, do you want the guy who says racism is good? Yeah. I said it's bad. I know it's bad.

What's your plan? I think we're being punished right now for not donating enough to them when Dobbs came out. I think they're like, you know what? I guess then we need to be in the defensive position again then. So then we'll see what you do then. Huh? Yeah. Like that's, I feel like i'm being punished for unsubscribing from email lists that i'd never asked to be on in the first place you know like right that obviously the everything going in before the dobs decision everything was like boy oh boy buckle up yeah because y'all are gonna get rinsed in november democrats i don't know then Dobbs decision came out, uptick in support for Democrats. And they were like, great. I'm even less motivated to talk about every other urgent issue that could motivate voters because it's not just one issue. Yes, I'm not. I'm not trying to discount the importance of that. What I'm also saying is you left a lot of other things undiscussed and untouched on your way into the 2020 victory.

Like you act like y'all are you solved income inequality and police violence and student loan debt. Like, right. It's like the it's like the vision of the Build Back Better shit was like a concept album. They want people to forget about. Right. They're like, yeah, look, we said that shit. We were high. We just got back from the, you know, from from asia and stuff we were trippy man yeah and now we're back on our bullshit uh a month

ago the only reason that a fire in california got put out was because a hurricane hit us uh climate change is a problem right you know what i mean yeah it's wild and so and i think sadly the gop is doing a great job of helping the democrats be even fucking lazier because they are running a veritable fucking three-ring circus of candidates right now and they're just like oh fucking great fucking great i'll do even less and yeah they've had to they've had to contend with a series of bad moments in the last week. I guess we can just talk about Herschel Walker again. We talked about in the trending episode about how he thinks the government is making people put solar panels on their cars because of climate change. And then they will have to live in their car because the logic is the car is worth more than their house.

And therefore, that means it is now your home because we all know how that works. And he's also had a steady stream of like forced birth takes like on multiple occasions. He's likened abortion to murder and said that like exceptions for things like, you know, rape or incest were merely excuses. So on Monday, when news dropped from the Daily Beast that he paid for a woman to have an abortion in 2009, there were a lot of groans and like finger pointing and things like this. And this woman gave the Daily Beast like literal receipts, you know, like one for an abortion. Another was a deposit slip with an image of a $700 check from Herschel Walker.

And she even handed over a fucking get well card that this dude signed and sent in the aftermath and he for whatever reason the news broke monday he had he was going to appear on hannity and he's like you know what let's go on let's get let's just fucking confront this thing head on and he decided to give just a terrible fucking Let me just play what this man is saying in terms of, you know, looking at straight up evidence of what his behavior has been and then just finding a way to just pivot off of it. Because right now, for them to come out with total lies, I think that's not right. So they're claiming that on September 12th of 2009, that the woman has a receipt for an abortion. that on September 12th of 2009 that the woman has a receipt for an abortion. They're claiming that five days later on September 17th, you sent a $700 check and that you sent it in a get well card. The get well card, it looks like it's included with your signature on in the article.

Have you seen it? And is that your signature? First of all all the card is a card is a it's a literally like a steaming tea cup from get out i think with a spoon in it yeah it's got the spoon and everything it says rest relax and and then when you open it says recover the three r's yeah so and again sean hannity has just laid out a pretty he's like what about this this and this any if this were this were a real candidate and like there was actually like a PR like machine behind it trying to do the best they probably would have prepared Herschel Walker to say something different than what he's about to say uh I haven't seen it uh but you know I can tell you uh I send out so many get well, send out so much of anything.

But I can tell you right now, I never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never paid for an abortion. And it's a lie. And I'm going to continue to fight. You know, I tell you, that's what they want. They want this seat. But right now, they were done. Wow. Look, I send out a lot of cards all right i've never seen it it's on he he says he's never seen it it's on screen with him as he's saying i've never seen it he's showing him so he can see that look at the monitor but he's that's your handwriting i've never seen it yeah no the thing you're looking you're the thing you're seeing right now haven't seen it it's right there the get well card is also just signed with his like you know professional athlete autograph yeah right kind of funny yeah exactly and then so sean haney's like okay fine i'll let

you wriggle around that question and he's like but this 700 check like what's going on with this what about the 700 check? Is there anybody you can remember sending that much money to? Well, I send money to a lot of people, and that's what's so funny. Let's go back to my part. I do scholarship for kids. I give money to people all the time because I'm always helping people because I believe in being generous. God has blessed me, and I want to bless others. Okay. I'm not going to let him go any further than that. So first it was, did you send this card with your handwriting? I don't know, man. I send a lot of cards. What am I going to say about that? Just, you know, even ones that are specifically like get well, not just

blank mailers. He's like, I send all kinds of everything. Like what? You just go to the fucking post office with a stack of like pre-addressed postcards you're like i don't know just fucking let it rip man i just like to send stuff then the question is what about this 700 check look man i give a lot of money to a lot of people it's like a scholarship fund that i've done before right yeah but just like a freelance scholarship fund that i send out also like man imagine having like sent him a gift at any point for like i don't know if he's married or whatever or like anything and then not getting a thank you card and then he goes on tv and you're just like i you mother sent you a blender motherfucker you

have you got a vitamix and i got nothing like and you, then his son, Christian, came out and also like a scathing like tweet thing and like did like a selfie video and stuff like that. And again, he's doing the thing where he's like, this guy is such a liar. But again, this isn't going to move the needle with their supporters or anyone like this isn't you can't you can't rhetorically own these ghoulish people because fucking hypocrisy is a fucking tool for them it's not an obstacle they love cognitive dissonance yeah and it's never it's like yeah of course i'm gonna say no abortions for you for you for you for you for me i'll do whatever the fuck want, but I'm here to say this thing. Oh yeah. You can't like all these other things. Like, you know, you should, you should be, it's all about family values.

Yeah. I have four kids and I wasn't there to raise them. That's for you. That's for me to impose that shit on you. Not for me. Cause this isn't about having real morals. It's just about exercising as much fucking power over somebody as possible. So, you know, we'll, we'll see what that does but it

definitely like the the fighting amongst the gop was funny because like apparently more people like god this fucking guy every week it's like this new thing and it's like i don't know though he somehow isn't being blown out by rafael warnock which shows you that the you know the voters in georgia are like hey man i'll take this over fucking anything that's like remotely resembles like a humane policy or even barely humane policy. Yeah, exactly. Well, it's also like it just goes to show you that. Remember when, you know, Warnock won and there were all these promises that the Senate was going to do. And that was the whole point of why we needed to get these two Georgia senators in.

And then tick tock. Not much has happened. So, you know, why would I believe you? At least this man is lying to my face and I can tell he's lying to my face. In a way, isn't that kind of honesty when someone is this bad at lying?

Yes, exactly. Like, well, we know what actually happened here. So that's reassuring. It's more of the won't be fooled again effect where I'd rather take someone I know is dumber than me because I'm ahead of them every five steps ahead of them constantly. Yes. And then on a side note, Dr. Oz killed a bunch of puppies. Right.

I mean, it's an October surprise. Not the one I was expecting. but here we are, of course. When I saw the headline, I was like, this can't. This is too perfect. Dr. Oz killed puppies. Obviously, not he himself, but while he was overseeing medical research at this lab, his name is the one running the show where these experiments were happening happening and an investigation showed a review of 75 studies published by mem at odds

between 89 and 2010 reveals the senate candidates research killed over 300 dogs and inflicted significant suffering on them and the other animals used in experiments they go on to say like these the teams and conducting experiments on over a thousand live animal subjects that included dogs pigs calves rabbits small rodents and then like there were like animal welfare people that went to the lab and said it was like unseen like cruelty in there and i get like already this is like this is something that is done, unfortunately, testing on animals. Yeah. And, you know, when his his I think his part is campaign was like just not really saying anything about it right now. Right. And yeah, just hearing like other people, the other descriptions in this Jezebel article, like talking about it, it's pretty fucked up. Oh, I'm sure. Also, like like what is dr oz researching that's of

any medical value whatsoever like is he just like right filling these dogs with botox until they fucking die like i don't like i don't what would he be ever be in charge of that matters to humanity i mean it's the heart stuff right because he's a cardiologist i forget that he's an actual doctor yeah i do forget this real shit yeah he was like one of the foremost heart surgeons in in america which is wild because it's just evidence of like oh man like anyone can convince themselves of anything and just fall to the point where they are doctor you know like you know and again it allows like democrats are like oh thank fuck manna from heaven manna from fucking heaven the guy killed puppies we don't have to talk about anything real right

now right we can do fucking everything except talk about the substantive issues and you know i get it this is like it's it's it's a fucking payday for like these neoliberals who think, you know, their ideology peaked at globalization. Like, right. They're not they're incapable of thinking beyond this point. They've reached the apex of neoliberal idea like globalization. Boom. A fucking globally. Look at all that money flying around.

We've done it. There's no such things as borders anymore. Because going beyond that requires the dismantling of capitalism. That's like the next step. So we're just keep like, we're just like, well, we're here, baby. I can't take another step because I either fall off or I got to turn around and start breaking this shit down. So let's just talk about how he's killing puppies. And I mean, Fetterman is just smashing him on social media now, like already doing like tweets that are doing numbers.

It's just like a thing where it's like, look at my new merch. Dog lovers for Fetterman. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I mean, and also could not could not be running again. I mean, like the Fetterman campaign is to set up to troll Oz completely. And they probably got this in their inbox and were like, oh, man. OK, we we got to we got okay come on we we gotta we gotta let's the

hoot we gotta load the hoot suite we got some more schedule these fuckers now it's an all-out fucking attack and then yeah i mean he and then credit to federman man like he did this fucking comparison of dr oz with dr nick from the simpsons it's like kind of them saying the same thing hi everybody everybody with my diet you can eat all you want anytime you want and you'll lose weight uh you might it's a free country i've got the number one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat loose fat without diet or exercise stubborn stomach fat instantly disappears this shit goes on for like a minute and a half oh my god uh and yeah uh for i'm sure people of a certain age are like whoa got him got him and we don't even have to talk about

super heavy shit and again i think that's what's that's what's really unsettling is the problems haven't gone away but like when these people these fucking assholes get into campaign mode it's like well oh man we kind of over promised shit going into biden's presidency and the whole build back better thing kind of fucked us up there we looked real impotent there and now i think they're just like thank god they're so like the shit they want is so fucking bad the status quo looks like progress comparatively yeah and that's where we're at and that's where we'll we'll be at for for a long time unless something drastically changes the circle be unbroken there boy all right let's

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Who knew? But now people are freaking out about how the supply chain is set to ruin Halloween because there won't be enough candy available we're all gonna just have to hand out vegetables and math homework like oh fuck like my household does yeah pennies are good yeah there you go don't spend it all in one plate but just some headlines from the toronto sun inflation supply chain issues could result in a scary hallow, warn experts. Halloween candy shortage scare shows importance of domestic sugar production.

How you should buy your Halloween candy now and how to store it. Retailers prepare for Halloween as global supply chain recovers from pandemic disruption. So for one thing, this is nothing new. Last year, we got similar scare tactics about the short supply of halloween decorations and costumes but i don't know yeah because because you have to buy your costume baby never make your costume like a poor person yeah right with creativity whatsoever yeah and you need a brand new costume every year or are you even american one year i was i remember i was a mad scientist when i was

in kindergarten and i wore a white bathrobe because my parents were like we're not getting you a fucking smock fuck out of here wear the white bathrobe and put some hairspray in your hair and now you look fucking like a fool when i get out there perfect perfect got my white robe it's a smock the new york times specifically wrote about like squid game costumes and WandaVision costumes are in short supply because of the supply issue, uh, supply chain issues. I saw, I saw plenty of squid game costumes last year,

by the way, somebody who handles like a thousand trick or treaters. It was there everywhere. Yeah. A lot of young kids in squid game costumes where I'm like, have you seen squid game? Yeah. Young five-year-old. Yeah, fuck capitalism.

Whoa. Okay. Buy the costume. Make sure you buy it. Consume it. I got the official Netflix one, not the broke, pirated one that the weird kids wear. Yeah, I love the idea of being like

a Squid Game, the fake version is like Octopus Party. That's the one they sell instead. Right. So, I mean, this is all based on the fact that our, you know, mainstream media in the U.S. and in the Western world is allergic to stories that don't help consumption and is just, you know, loves, is magnetically attracted to

stories that will spur consumption because there are massive groups that are headed by, you know, some of the most educated people in the country who, you know, well-connected people who make tons of money to, you know, help and so they're they're finding ways to get these stories out in the world this particular story this year's halloween candy shortage seems like it comes from you're never gonna believe this candy shop owners who really they can see the writing on the wall right chocolate overlords at hershey oh that they might not quote keep up with the demand back in july nobody wants to work anymore these keyblur elves don't want to work anymore right exactly but yeah so the story about how you should go buy halloween

candy asaps originated with people selling the halloween And they've already. In that same statement. Like this is a quote. I believe from that same. Like industry. Group meeting. They said seasonal consumer engagement. Is expected to remain high. And we expect high single digit sales growth.

For both our Halloween. And holiday seasons. So they're already saying. There's going to be growth like there's going to be growth yeah like there's going to be more candy consumed this year than last year by like up to nine percent and then they're saying despite the strong growth you know we're keeping an eye on capacity constraints we're so worried about our candy shareholders. We can't have Count Chocula losing any money. Absolutely. I mean, dude, the stock is up, right? Like it was on its way up in late July.

Then around the 28th is when that story came out about we might not. Hey, man, we might not. We might not hit it on one side. You'd be like, maybe they're trying to set shareholder expectations here then it goes up and then it kept then by end of august it was like super high so you know it's not like they're like oh it's gonna be bad for business they're like nah motherfuckers they're gonna we know how to we know how to get people to buy fucking candy every year you just say there might not be candy this year i don't know. Meanwhile, every candy corn that was made was made in 1950. And we have we have a cave full of candy corn. Strategic reserves. Shoveling it out.

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I mean, just that like small word of warning of like a thing they're keeping an eye on went worldwide. And despite the fact there's no apparent issue with sugar production, you know, that was one of the headlines that there was going to be a problem with domestic sugar production. That is not the case at all. A Hershey spokesperson even clarified that they actually have even more seasonal product available to the consumer this year than last year so somehow this just becomes a story because the industry wants it to right of course can you see like biden reading this though and then being like hey get me on the phone with the kiss i gotta i gotta talk to

kisses and hershey's bars make sure we're okay do they need to talk to the president i need to know that i can get my candy this year right what about necco wafers jack yeah yeah those are still those are still around right oh yeah mr president yeah hey charleston shoes are pretty good no it's a great candy yeah i slept on charleston chew for a long time until i think that eminem song when he says some choke you to death with a charleston chew chicken chicken slim shady and i was like let me try that it's funny how i tried abba zaba and charleston chew based off of tv or music uh and realize charleston chew falls into that category with me where i the candy is still in my mouth after I forgot that I'm eating it. You got a fresh one. Got a fresh one. Oh, fresh one. Dude,

a freshie. Breakdown. Dude, it'll blow. That was, that was a problem. Cause I feel like the way I used to eat Charleston chews was you do your candy haul as a kid.

And then like, you'd pick at your bag over the next month. And then the shitty ones at the end. Use the Charleston chew as a murder weapon. Exactly. Yeah. Then you forget about that bag. And then it's like May,

the end of school hits and you start looking in your room again you're like oh shit my old halloween candy and then you eat like a five-year-old charleston too and you're like right yeah this candy sucks yeah no totally my experience freshies man it's all about the freshies yeah you know but it seems like the strategy here is driven by the same strategy that causes her she to start selling halloween candy in the middle of august they want to sell a shitload of candy early to us that make you buy more halloween candy on october 30th because you ate all the candy you brought bought already which is something i've certainly fallen victim to. I really like that Big Chocolate has employed the NRA's tactics on gun laws.

You never know. They took our choco. Yeah, exactly. Hey, man, with Biden, with these midterms, you better fucking load up because these woke warriors are going to start saying that too much sugar is bad for you or some shit. Yeah, from my cold diabetic hands. Yeah, seriously. It's the same strategy. A bunch of strangers are coming to your house.

They're coming to your front door. You got to protect yourself with, and then they just wait out the, you know, the assault rifle and put in more candy. Yeah, exactly. I hope that people are able to, you know, get their candy safely this year, despite all the chaos at the pharmacies.

All the low. All the fentanyl. That's the other thing. I mean, this hasn't been brought up, but people are going to start giving out fentanyl if they're out of candy. Yeah. That's just,

that's what we have so much of in our households. Right. Of course. I mean, that's the next, that's the logical next step. Yeah. Hand out edibles and fentanyl. That's just what we have so much of in our households. Of course. That's the logical next step. Yeah. Hand out edibles and fentanyl. I can't wait.

We've also gotten some Halloween candy insight in this episode. The Twix. A fresh Twix and a fresh Charleston Chew. Be on the lookout. Be on the lookout, folks. It's chewy. I hate shit that sticks to my teeth. It's weird's weird i really for shit that sticks to your teeth i really like a charleston chew but a fresh one yeah i should probably like be happy when i'm you know a whopper charleston

chew because like i do feel like it's straight up a workout like my my jaw gets tired like it would if i were lifting weights. I didn't know I had a muscle there. That's interesting. Yeah. You're just preventing future TMJ by just working on it now. Yeah. Brandy, as always, truly a pleasure having you on the show in this giant skeleton season. Where can people find you, follow you, hear hear you all that good stuff uh you can find me on uh what is it the the twitter and the instagram at brand dazzle i am on tiktok unfortunately at brand dazzle is here follow me please i don't know what the hell that is um i uh i'm about to be on tour a bunch in october and november i'm gonna be in to be in Denver October 13th to 17th doing shows.

I might be recording an album if you guys are good audiences. So please come out. I would love that if that was the case. And then I will be in Fest in Gainesville October weekend or Halloween October weekend. Halloween weekends. The whole month is like Halloween. And then the first week in November, I'm going to be in Austin, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Phoenix, New Orleans

doing shows all across the 10th, bottom of the country so come on out if you're in those places you can follow me on all my socials and see my stuff there or if you use the app Bands in Town I list all my tour dates and everything there as well so yeah Amazing and is there a tweet

or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yeah, I actually really wanted to, I just finished a book that is like a bunch of tweets that I wanted to plug. Douglas Rushkoff has a new book called Survival of the Richest,

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. And it is fascinating and I think a really delightful read that felt very um validating to how i live my life he's like he's like a marxist futurist humanist kind of guy who does writes great stuff the new book is all about like how he gets flown out to talk to these billionaires and how trapped they are by their money because it's removed them further and further from humanity it's very fun There's a lot of really insane stories in it and just highly, highly recommend it. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you,

follow you? What is a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Look, if you want to hear Jack and I talk basketball? Check us out on Miles and Jack got mad. Boosty season is about to start and maybe the Lakers will break my heart. I don't. Well, yeah, probably. Anyway, so check us out there. Also, check me and Sophia Alexander out on 420 Day Fiance where we're talking 90 Day Fiance. Some tweets that I'm liking. Man, there is one from the Harrisburg Senators minor league team.

They tweeted something and at Ethel Day Lily, who seems like a big patriot, replied to their tweet in all caps and said, want to prevent voter fraud? Make them give us a receipt for our ballot or a copy of the ballot after it went through the machine on mail in ballot. Send a receipt through the mail. Demand a receipt. And they simply quote tweet and said, ma'am, we are a baseball team. It's just like the weirdest energy. Like for them to be like, I don't know. Maybe.

Yeah. We're called the senators. Then another one from at Gwen is online tweeted. Washing your face in the shower is so freeing. Like you can get as crazy as you want in there for real. It's just fucking washing your face however the fuck you want to and then uh andy ryanette it's andy ryan to george lucas this scene is set in the roughest bar you can imagine filled with violent scumbags will cut your arm off if you look at them sideways

john williams what kind of music will they be playing? George Lucas, light jazz. That Mos Eisley came to me. What was the jazz called? Jizz? Wasn't it called jizz? It's something. Yeah, I think space jazz was called jizz.

Yeah, jizz music. Jizz whalers. I believe that's what they were. A tweet I've been enjoying from Alan Ray at Alan Droid. Alan Droid. Oh, sure. I'm sure you're getting a billion tweets about this, but a comment about a section on Friday recording where you mentioned that new label equals worse product. You're not crazy. The FDA requires that if the recipe or ingredients of a product intended for human consumption change, the label must change too.

Now, I'm not sure if this is because we were talking about how all these label redesigns that happen where Tropicana suddenly looks like a white box with a single orange on it. It seems to coincide with a decrease in quality i'm not positive that that's exactly what's happening here but that that does that does make sense so thank you alan thank you ray allan that's the homie i'm gonna keep looking yeah yeah 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 where we link off the information that we talked about

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