The Daily Zeitgeist - The UnDailing 11/30: NFL, Ajit Pai, Cyber Monday, Moderna, Monolith, Long Weekend TV Dispatch

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

On this edition of The UnDailing Jack and Miles discuss the spread of COVID within the NFL, Ajit Pai will be stepping down next year, today is Cyber Monday and the deals are flying, Moderna appears to be the most trustworthy place for our vaccine hopes, another Monolith has popped up in Romania, and what everyone watched over the long weekend! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Anna Hosni loving it. Yeah. So I hear the wig game is impeccable. Hugh Grant gives a performance to die for. Yep. Kick game bonkers, wig game bonkers. I said that like I know that he dies or something, and I don't know anything other than that he gives a good performance.

It's not about necromancy? Like about someone coming from the dead that's right if it isn't then i don't want to watch anymore i'm only here for necromancer content uh let's talk about what is trending uh miles you are asking the question sincere question sincerely what the hell happened in that nfl what's going on i just saw a thing that was basically being like i don't know the whole ravens team should just be called like the covids and the broncos are so fucked up by covid that they had to put in like a practice squad ride wide receiver as quarterback yeah and it's all because they're saying like shit's out of control uh the thanksgiving break they suspected people were fucking not giving

a fuck about anything getting together mixed households and things like that so yeah yeah there's apparently some video of all the uh broncos the denver broncos quarterbacks like all three all three of them hanging out without masks i don't know how the nfl just has like surveillance everywhere but yeah i i think it's just kind of a microcosm of what's happening to the rest of the country where like they don't have any strict protocols in place um and it's now hitting a tipping point where the shit that you used to be able to get away with without getting infected just doesn't work anymore um right because like that if you're playing like the the margins or the numbers they're not it's not a good game to play right now uh right because it's just sure when it's maybe one in 100 people you feel

like yeah fuck it i can skate by but it's it's it's just becoming too much then i'm like part of me is like my god damn like they were like so many teams have no quarterbacks because of covid and part of me is like man get, God damn. Like they were like, so many teams have no quarterbacks because of COVID. And part of me is like, man, get Kaepernick. You know what? No, just stay the fuck out of this. You don't need to get this shit too because they literally don't give a fuck about these players. They really don't. I had an up and down of like, well, then get him.

No, you know what? No, because these people are all expendable. That's clear. And that's what sucks is like, it just revealing how a certain at a certain point or of a any kind of organization at the higher end of the or at the top people are just seen as expendable rather than like we need to protect the people who make our industry thrive it's more like fuck it man if they get it they get it these are big motherfuckers who cares if they you know get dementia from all these people we've seen how they treat them when they retire so i mean yeah so it's no surprise but it's it's just seems really

fucked up because we're dealing with you know like you know now more than ever like this is the kind of shit that is costing thousands of lives right um the ravens were supposed to play the steelers who are undefeated uh on thanksgiving night. That was the big matchup on Thanksgiving, and that had to be postponed, supposedly until tomorrow night. But now those numbers just seem out of control. I don't know what they would do there. Agit Pai.

There's a blast from the past, from the early days of the Daily Zeitgeist. Agit Pai, the FCC chairman chairman he has announced that he will be stepping down we covered him in the past because he is a plant like a corporate plant from verizon who was coming in to fuck up net neutrality um and he did to a certain extent yeah definitely took made a dent yeah absolutely was not able to deregulate as much as he wanted to but definitely made some dents here and there and also gave us a lot of laughs at the same time we gotta admit oh man that big rhesus mug it's got a big coffee mug that he brought and that is the

one joke that he knows uh and it is the highest form of comedy, as they say, prop comedy. Yeah. So shout out to him. What are you going to do? I mean, he was giving away the airwaves for high speed mobile broadband. It was like an auction. He just did all kinds of non shit. He was like, it'll be light touch when I'm, you know, regulation when I'm there.

He's like fucking open to the back door. And's like yeah hurry up man before the fucking lights come on right right exactly it is cyber monday oh almost over as you listen to this but uh well what about those deals huh there yeah you can still get them on t public uh for our merch speaking of which uh go cop cop some zeitgang merch for you and the family but other than that i mean i feel like everybody's trying to get a ps5 today because there was all be like oh man there's gonna be restocks man you know what's gonna happen yeah it seems like there's a lot of uh just refreshing uh various pages right now going on across the country just refresh refresh refresh um and laptop seems like it's the other thing that people are going in for.

It's just weird. Like how I'm having trouble still figuring out where I am on the linear calendar. Like, you know, tomorrow is December 1st. I keep forgetting that you could tell me it's going to be June 8th. And I'd be like,

yep. Cool. Yeah. That makes sense. It's just something that I've lost all of these things that I hang my hat on chronologically to say this, that, and the other. Thanksgiving help, but I've just been having to play Christmas music nonstop since Thursday to try and be like, hey, hey, hey, remember, remember? remember remember because normally you have like you drive around and you'd be like oh they're putting up the you know shabbat telethon uh like signs and like the tinsel's going up on wilshire and all this other shit i'm not really seeing that shit so i'm looking i'm like okay got it

i'm gonna turn up a fucking gingerbread house candle in my room and start putting fucking like holly wreaths everywhere and play christmas music but yeah that's why like cyber monday i was like i was i forgot about black friday and then half the time i was getting all like cynical i'm like isn't it the same thing like what's the point like it was monday and seven nobody's going anywhere that's the only reason you have cyber monday because black friday says well cyber because it's the future man we're in the future um the yeah i i totally agree especially i mean in in los angeles like time is especially a flat circle it's like difficult to differentiate because we don't really have the seasons um absolutely we have no seasons no seasons and now we're in indoors completely so it's extra

like we don't even put on coats to go outside right uh it's really hard for us uh pity us feel bad for us um i i do honestly i i love a jacket you know i love to wear a jacket can't do it still um i mean i'll force it in 70 degree weather and just be sweating uh in line in front of like a taco truck or something like that but that's that's the game we're all playing here and the thing that fucks me up is the leaves don't really turn like right away right because you go to other play like fucking new york yeah these other play they got fall you know foliage is a flame it's just telling you if shit's just i don't know like i saw one leaf i'm like oh that's right and like we have like fall for 13 seconds winter for 15 seconds and then just like clear and high 70s yeah what kind of hell do we live in having a thanksgiving out outside uh at my aunt's house was actually really nice and

uh yeah so filing leaves and it was nice and chilly. Everybody had coats on. You wore a sweater? Yeah, I wore a sweater. You know I wore a sweater, man. And a coat? And a jacket. Jean jacket on top of a sweater. You greedy motherfucker.

Look at you. God damn. Just layering up like I'm Steve Bannon. Right. Moderna is trending because their stock prices are through the roof. Oh, man. We should change the background to market sounds.

People like to yell. Just a ticker going on. Yeah. Yeah, they got the new... It seems like that's as the... We're in the vaccine wars and seeing who's got that. Who's got the fire vaccine?

Who's got the good, good. Oh, you want Pfizer? I mean, yeah, they got 95% efficacy, but oh, you got a fucking minus 94 fucking freezer? I don't think so, bro. seeing who's got who's got that who's got the fire vaccine got the good good oh you want pfizer i mean yeah they got 95 efficacy but oh you got a fucking minus 94 fucking freezer i don't think so bro let me put you on my other shit over here in my other trench coat pocket i got the moderna vaccine okay high efficacy not as high as the pfizer joint but don't let me finish let me finish easier to store this shit than that pfizer shit uh and i think that's what's putting it at an advantage at the moment is that it's easier to store while maybe not as high of an efficacy rate

as the pfizer one it seems like the easiest one to transport and get to people as quickly as possible so i think that's caused a bit of a uptick in rich people racing or it was what i like to call the stock market yeah yeah and they do a bunch of research and they're this is the one that seems like it's going up the most so this is the one that probably has the best uh data supporting it at this point would be my guess although the timelines seem weird that i've on a few family calls i was like are y'all serious about how you quickly you think this vaccine's coming together yeah yeah yeah man then by the beginning of the year man like thank god i was i was sort of like okay well about that i'm that's there's a lot of people there's a lot of people on this earth

um legitimately you could get that shit but that exact conversation happened at thanksgiving because we were all like yeah it'll be super quick and then uh the two doctors who were at thanksgiving dinner were both like well one is pre-med one is a doctor we're just like yeah i would say more like towards the end of 2021 uh we were all very sad after like shut the fuck up liar liar dr fauci said it's almost done even fauci was like i wouldn't he was even like on some interview i saw him he was even being like not so quick y'all like yeah it might get approved but don't think that approval means you're running down the streets maskless holding the hands of people you never met quite yet right so yeah i think at the very at the very least it's a

good just light at the end of the tunnel, because before we're going through riding through all darkness and now we're like, OK, there's viable vaccines that seem affordable, can be transported relatively safely stored. And now we can begin to see that. But fuck, I mean, at the very least least let's get a fucking stimulus going huh how about that too because as much as we focus on the vaccines and shit and the stock market like oh fuck yeah completely ignoring how consumer capitalism works in this country and if people don't have money they're not gonna buy your dumb shit to keep the thing all the gears moving so i god more than anything i would love for a trend to be about how they've been like, yo, fucking wild stimmy coming your way.

Yeah. But it's Americans. As we've moved on from that storyline. I mean, God damn it. We're on to the vaccine storyline. If corporations are people and they give corporations all these breaks and shit. Yeah. By that logic, treat people like these corporations too

fuck yeah doesn't seem like that's how it works in this modern era it's just mind numbing the amount of concessions that are given to these corporations and not even just like understanding the fundamentals of how

this economy is functioning to be like you gotta give the people that spend money because if we're keeping them i don't know it's it's i think all people are kind of dealing with this frustration on so many levels and i just when you start hearing about people still getting evicted despite the moratorium on evictions it's just doubly frustrating and infuriating that we just live in this i don't know fucking greedy nightmare of a country yeah i oscillate between asking people not to treat human beings like property and then asking the government to treat human beings like corporations like those right those are my two wishes for this country or like property somehow

because even with like the uprisings people were like but the property the physical exactly it's like what about the fucking people fine god damn it then we are now property and corporations now will you fucking give us dignity yo absolutely like could you imagine is that easy why didn't you say something before you're a corporation we'll step on in finally monolith is back in the news the monolith uh we talked on last week's episode how a monolith that looks like you know the monolith from 2001 uh showed up in the middle of nowhere in a utah desert uh apparently that shit disappeared while nobody was looking. I feel like one of the bad guys in a conference room in the Bourne trilogy

where I'm like, how the fuck did we lose him? How did we lose him? Does anybody have eyes on Bourne? Eyes on Monolith. Eyes on Monolith, man. Where are the eyes on Monolith? Go look at where the Monolith was. Once you find a Monolith in the middle of the desert,

like, yeah, what? Put that shit on livestream. Seriously. Well, what happened? Is it like the Monorail episode where like, well, Utah got a monolith when Romania got a monolith too? Yeah, so now Romania is trending because a monolith showed up

there, just on a hill somewhere. It doesn't seem like it was Romania is trending because a monolith showed up there just on the hill, on a hill somewhere. Uh, and not, it didn't, it doesn't seem like it was like particularly, you know, I think my theory at this point,

and a lot of people's theory is that it's like some work of art, uh, that I guess the only other option would be like some alien warning. So not, not that big of a stretch. Uh, like we let y'all know, we let y'all know we put the

monoliths down you knew what time it was it does seem somewhat randomly placed because there's like you can see uh like it's kind of a pretty view where the current monolith is in romania but then there's a bunch of telephone wires like behind it it's like a bunch of telephone wires. So it's not like, it's not like the aesthetic choice would be what, what you would be going for if this were a piece of art. So, Oh, wow. I mean,

no, the question is still out there. Yeah. This is becoming a bit of an art critique podcast, as we've seen with our Chris scathing art review of, of Christian art. So now we're giving tips to the alien artists who are dropping these monoliths or humans i mean i feel like you would just look at where the old monolith was in utah

and you could begin to discern how it was put there what was holding it like are they going back into like yo there's no hole it's like the shit wasn't even there you know like i feel like do some research be like okay great so they they dug a hole, poured concrete, got the monolith in, and that's how they secured it, then put some dirt over it, whatever. I feel like the people who found it, who they had video of discovering it, were somehow in on it. Bring them in. Why were they dressed like the dudes who roll in at the end of E.T.?

They all looked like they were an astronaut, like hazmat suits. Just felt like it's all contributing to this general aesthetic. Yeah. And yeah. So keep your eyes out, guys. Keep your eyes open for a monolith near you. Stay woke for real. And please, please keep a camera on this Romanian monolith.

I don't want any more of this Bourne shit where they're just like, we lost him! We lost him! Yeah, it's just like, whoever's in charge of monolith tracking, please send me their at or whatever because I have a lot of time for this person. I would be like, how could you? We had the monolith right there!

All right, guys, that's going to do it for this Monday afternoon. We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay inside.

Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll be back tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do.

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