The Daily Zeitgeist - The Pit And The Trendulum 11/9: Ben Carson, Fox News, Supreme, McDonalds, Putin

Episode Date: November 9, 2020

On this edition of The Pit And The Trendulum Jack and Miles discuss Ben Carson being diagnosed with COVID, Fox News is still (mostly) in disbelief about a Biden win, Supreme has been sold to the owner of Vans for $2.1B, McDonalds has announced their McPlant line of plant based options, and rumors that Putin will be stepping down due to health issues have been officially denied by the Kremlin. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We talked about both of those on tomorrow's episode. We did not get to Ben Carson, however. Ben Carson has COVID. Dr. Ben fucking Carson, mind you. Motherfucker's a doctor. On some level, I mean, they got to be like i'm sorry i know you're a brain surgeon but like you couldn't even you you know how shit works you understand science uh yet you're out here maskless at the white house election party because that's where they suspect he got it or is the same like it wasn't the next day mark meadows was like the

chief of staff's like yeah he has uh covet as well and then you're like weren't all y'all in a enclosed room hooting and hollering while this man tried to usher in 21st century american autocracy uh 2.0 so i don't know wait mark meadows is the chief of staff right who yeah yeah who has it himself and he they ratted out ben carson he's like well it's not just me well i don't is that what happened i just know that like there are a few other people that tested positive over the weekend because people like as everyone was like oh my god and mark meadows has covid uh we have the total landscape of the heart and now ben carson just a lot of little nuggets for people to just sort of smirk at but yeah but ben carson really did yeah yeah wow what a shock that any person in orbit of this administration who's like in a

perpetual state of scientific denial is going to brush up against reality like that surgeons are very talented very intelligent technicians, but they're not always, like, they don't have tremendous empathy like a lot of good doctors. You don't always have to listen to them, though. Right. They'll be like, you need this surgery. You'll be like, I don't know, doc. That's your opinion.

Surgeons, like, have the most in common with fighter pilots on the, like, personality test. Where's that top gun, then? what i mean yeah two surgeons just fucking partying like where's that volleyball scene we deserve yeah oh that'd be great yeah oh yeah um fox news is trending bro i think everybody like has at least one eye on Fox news right now, because like, we're all trying to figure out like, are they gonna let people get away with just claiming fraud without having

anything to back it up? And yeah, you know, just endangering the peaceful transfer of power. Well, cause you're getting to that point where even like the republicans on fox news who have been like oh we love trump like they even get to like okay he lost right he lost that's true um now i need to think about how i keep a job uh and not just go all in

on this like tear the republic nonsense down even though i was fine with it doing the diet slow burn version of it the last couple years um and i think also too because a lot of these people know how like you know like they're invested in wall street too so they get that donald trump is not good for their money like unless you like have a hydroxychloroquine factory that you are now upside down on oh god uh but like yeah it's it's not there there's few benefits tangibly for even like even these republicans so sandra smith was on uh you know just doing her thing on fox news when like a pundit who came on just kept i don't know who it is it's unclear based on this clip is just sort of doubling down on this idea that joe biden is not the one true elected king of america and she doesn't realize her mic is on and i don't think she realizes she's on my on camera

either because her facial expressions are like so this is a fox anchor reacting to a talking head they invited on who's there to just you know keep the narrative of stolen election alive and the reaction is uh reasonable ever is decided to be the president remember just because cnn says or even fox news says that somebody's president doesn't make them president so i think everybody wants to know that this was done properly and legally what is happening trace we've called it and i think we have to look into every one of these concerns. Yeah, she's like she it's almost like if you put a camera on one of us watching TV. Right.

Like it looks like she's doing something else on her phone. And then when you hear, well, just because they could, that doesn't make someone president. And her eyebrow cocks so far up her head. I thought she was going to turn into rocky maya via the people's champion the rock and she was like what we've yeah when she's like what is going on uh yeah really keep having people on conspiracy yeah well that's that's what is happening trace what's happening trace you're you're you're inviting these idiots on to say this shit so i don't know who you get mad at um if that's you your producers or whatever but that's what's happening is the network is still willing to keep that shit on a simmer uh for the foreseeable

future i mean they've been doing it for the past four years where the you know opinion section of the network the after after dinner time uh part of the network like the your hannity's and uh tucker's carlson rwwe and then you have the news people but like i feel like the news people need to put their foot down because right now it's like yeah really dangerous i think that's what you're seeing though now is that there are certain people on Fox who like are now like, all right, this is my moment where reality is just on my side. And like, I guess they'll hate me, but at least I can say like, no, he lost. I'm going to I'm sticking to that part. But that's what this is. We have to figure out, you know, how to get create more racists to have a numerical advantage going

into 2024 is probably what they're all trying to figure out that's right um supreme is trending uh oh speaking of you you mentioned the stock stock market and the stock market has had like a unprecedentedly good uh run since the election since it started appearing as though joe biden was going to win um and that it would be a split uh the rich the rich people temperature says good and that is what is important but i think trump had said like you're gonna see the stock market crater if i lose um yeah i feel like this is this fact more than anything is probably the one that's keeping him up is how well the stock market's doing because he had really used that as his only barometer for success. And now it's hitting all-time highs. Supreme is trending because the streetwear brand sold to Vans or the owner of vans uh for 2.1 billion dollars

um oh so they also bought the carlisle group stake in supreme i guess so yeah yeah because the carlisle group bought owns like 50 i remember years ago they bought like 50 of it and it was like the carlisle group like the people who make war machines and shit. Oh, is that what it was? Yes. The fucking like from Fahrenheit nine 11. That's probably when most people heard of the Carlisle group.

That's right. Because they were talking about how, you know, it's a private equity company that was like doing business with the bin Ladens. Uh, and like, they were even having an investor meeting on nine 11,

2001. Yeah. Uh, and which reportedly Shafiq bin Laden was a guest of honor. Wow. And then in October, they were like, all right, we're going to separate. So we're just going to cash out real quick. So yeah, that's who.

And then I remember on Patriot Act 2, Hasan Minhaj was talking about, oh, the Carlyle group, who basically you can draw a line to the war in Yemen for them. They're also into streetwear. It's all fucking. It's all surreal. So now the Vans, the owners of Vans, is rocking the Supremes. Okay, cool.

Sick. I got out of Supreme, bro. The game changed, man. Like, I was rocking that shit in fucking 02. You know what I mean? I know. You know, like, and then and then like the game just changed like once once bieber started rocking the box logo i mean like it was just this all became it's too hype bro too hype i feel like this is the sign that something

is no longer cool is when it gets acquired for two billion dollars it's like when vice got acquired for over a billion i started i started putting like putting some of my supreme stuff like for sale when the carlisle group bought it and i was like oh it's done like it's this is this is not this is these are not the droids i'm looking for uh but yeah you know it's it's all hype and i think also as my relationship to like hype hyped up shit and rocking that shit uh like sort of evolves and dissipates i'm just like i look back and i'm like i spent a lot of money trying to look like the coolest 20 year old when i was 30 uh yeah i started selling my predator drones when i realized they were made by the

carlisle group i was like like, no way, man. Ah, damn, dude. Not this time. McDonald's is trending because they have announced, they weren't holding out on the whole Beyond Burger, Beyond Meat thing, Impossible Burger thing out of principle. They were just real late to the game. They have announced the McPlant menu. That's actually why they were late to the game uh they have announced the mcplant menu that that's actually why they were late to the game is they were coming up with that name uh mcplant they're

partnering with beyond meat uh and you can tell it's a good idea because as it was announced uh beyond meat shares dropped two percent or i think it dropped up to 20 and then rebounded but people some people yeah yeah like mcdonald's is a massive massive company you'd think that that would just be like a no-brainer like great thing for beyond uh you know there's that anecdote that might be apocryphal but that like once mcdonald's started putting apples in their salad like they became the number one buyer and seller of apples in america yeah right um like you'd think that beyond would be rolling right now but unless people just know unless they're like dude good luck trying to get all these people to eat stop eating 100% pure beef or whatever's on their wrapper. Have you had the Whopper one?

Nah. The Impossible Whopper? I haven't had any. The only fast plant-based burger I've had is just that fat burger, which isn't like drive-thru status, but it's still quick. I like it.

Yeah. It's Impossible. I like Impossible more than Beyond, though. You know what I mean?. Yeah. Yeah. It's impossible. I like impossible more than beyond though. You know what I mean? I'm impossible gang. Yeah. I'm not beyond. I'm not a beyond boy.

You know, DJ Daniel said he had the impossible whopper and that it was really good. Uh, no, actually he said it was fine. Um, the other parts of the burger were still whack. The bun is trash.

wow. Is DJ Daniel's, uh, take. Well, there goes our burger King ad deal. The bun is trash. Wow. Is DJ Daniels take. Well, there goes our Burger King ad deal. Not me. That's not where I'm coming from. But he said the patty is good. Anyways, the rest of the show, I'm just going to be reading things as DJ Daniel. They come in.

Yeah. Daniel write anything. We're getting word just now from DJ Dan. He's saying boom. Boom. Yeah, he wrote boom. Finally, something that was circulating last week

that is now being kind of retracted or countered is that Putin might be stepping down due to Parkinson's um it's been officially denied by the kremlin uh which means it's officially not true uh because they they never lie um no absolutely not yeah but that's i think something's gonna happen over there oh yeah because that law was passed that was was like ex-presidents cannot be prosecuted.

Right. Like, why? Is somebody about to leave? Right, right. I don't know. You know, lifetime immunity from prosecution is really something. Or at least that's what they're considering. So that would maybe seem like something that would be a condition. Vladimir Putin would be like, look, I don't want I don't want some post me splitting from the Kremlin smoke because suddenly people were like, what? What was he doing? What's going on? So, yeah, I don't. It's hard to know any. It was hard to even know what's going on in this country right uh so but i i think it's always it's it's safe to say when if the kremlin's far out in front

of something denying it then you look at the facts but maybe maybe they're confirming yeah i mean he is according to based on the evidence of the panama papers people think he is the richest person in the history of the world but he's's just hiding his money in the people around him. Like his best friend from childhood, the cellist who is a billionaire. Ballin'. He's got that cello money. Oh, damn. So is he as good as famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma?

Oh, no. He's trash. He can barely play. Wait, so where's money come from? I don't know. He's a cellist, man. ma oh no he's trash he can't he can barely play wait so where's money come from i don't know he's a cellist man don't ask me he's putin's boy you know he's very lucrative the is that like a does that cause you stress when putin hits you up to like hold on to a couple billion for my god yeah i can't imagine like i mean i guess partially it makes you like it's an insurance policy because he can't like have you killed or maybe you can.

I don't know. Yeah. How that works. So like you got to do dirt. He's like, look, bro, you can hold that billion. You can live a little bit of a hot boy lifestyle. But if you start feeling yourself too much, I can end things. Yeah.

I mean, yeah. Just let you know. Now he seems like a nice guy. I don't know. Yeah. We shouldn't be too hard on vladimir putin come on guys uh all right because he's not conceded he's he's a part of that whole chorus of uh former trump exes who are not willing to acknowledge this president elect him erdogan bolsonaro uh who is she they're all all just like we're still waiting we'll see what happens if we're going to congratulate Joe Biden

the only person who has is Netanyahu right yeah and their MAGA people are pissed yeah they're like what happened he's like I'm sorry you know I gotta give it up to Joe Biden thank you so much I'm looking forward to cultivating this new relationship between Israel and the United States. Shout out to you, man. Please,

please, man. I'm on thin ice over here in Israel, man. Please. All right. That's going to do it for this Monday. Don't forget what Philadelphia did for you, Joe. Don't forget what Philadelphia did. You know, your boy, Bibi Net netanyahu straight out the streets of philly you know so let's try and work something out it's really it's both a dead-on accent and sounds a lot like sylvester stallone oh they're i mean they're philly boys you know what i mean that's why it's always i always like it's whenever you hear bb netanyahu do like an interview with an american outlet he really just kind of turns it on. He's like,

yeah, I grew up in Philly. Like a lot of time. And you like for the, well, a lot of people just always think that he lived his entire life in Israel. It's like, right.

He's, he's pretty American. Yeah. All right, guys, that's going to do it for this Monday afternoon. Uh, we will be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other.

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