The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeit of my Geist 2/12: Justin Timberlake, Valentines Day, T.J. Ducklo, Detective Chinatown 3, Re-heating Pizza techniques

Episode Date: February 13, 2021

On this edition of The Zeit of my Geist Jack and Miles discuss Justin Timberlake's apology, Valentines Day, Joe Biden's deputy press secretary, T.J. Ducklo, being suspended with no pay, Detective Chinatown 3 beating Avengers: Endgame box office record, and a round-up of pizza re-heating techniques. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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sit back down have you. We talked about this. Until you can get the ball at least a half-court dribbling, we can't really entertain that idea. But those are all messages on Sweetie Candy, which is appropriate because I am absolutely housing handfuls of those things right now. Do you have some? No.

Oh, God. I was going to be like, oh, be like so gross jack please you're eating sweet chalk that sweet sweet chalk well speaking of romance let's talk about justin timberlake that's something that's trending um speaking of eating handfuls of something yeah he should be eating handfuls of my shit for this lame ass dick justin this dude just tried to do a two-for-one apology like a coupon uh for all his bullshit my man we have been waiting for you to address the janet jackson bs for centuries now and obviously if you don't remember the nipple gate thing at the super bowl he just laid low got away with it yeah and it took all all of the flack to the point where like see people were like we will never work with janet jackson again and this motherfucker should

have spoke up and said yo i was part of that's not it's not fair like but you know he he kept it low uh which patriarchy allows people to do especially if you're a white man and then with the britney spears doc i think we all kind of felt some type of way if you watched it especially seeing like a lot of people we got angry at again including ourselves watching the britney spears documentary but like specifically i didn't realize how deceptive the crimea river video was to add to this speculation that britney was this or that or doing you know pulling some shit yeah so yeah the whack is like the the part where he goes on the call-in radio show and they're like so bro tell me you bangs britney and he was like i did it no come on man

like it was just i don't know how do you let a morning zoo radio dj like bully you into uh that's not bullying man that's like when you're just you're just a toxic dude you know i've been there and all i need is to know oh we we're here is it yeah is it toxic soup okay great safe space to be yeah to be beyond my bullshit absolutely and it takes you have to like really have some moments to like be able to look and leave that shit behind you but yeah this so this so he puts out this apology and i just want to read it because it's so like it's one of those ones that it's like wavering on almost a good apology he said i've seen the messages tags comments and concerns and i want to respond i'm deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn or did not speak up for

what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and many others and benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism. I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson, both individually, because I care and respect these women and I know I failed. I also feel compelled to respond in part because everyone involved deserves better and most importantly because this is a larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be a part of and grow from. The industry is flawed. It sets men, especially white men, up for success. It's designed this way. As a man in a privileged position, I have to be vocal about this. Because of my ignorance, I didn't recognize it for all that it was while it was happening in my own life. But I do not want to ever benefit from others being pulled down again.

I have not been perfect in navigating all of this throughout my career. I know this apology is a first step and doesn't absolve the past. I want to take accountability for my misstep. I care deeply. Okay. Yeah. Okay, Mrael jackson sound alike he wants to extend personal apologies to them via a single written apology and not even getting specific not and not even janet jackson who i allowed the dark forces of racism and white supremacy to devour you. And I did not even for a moment consider speaking up against it as I saw such a terrible,

imbalanced reaction play out before my eyes. I mean, whatever. I'm not his publicist, but. Yeah. Do we even know? Like, has there been a full reporting of how that went down even no because i think even i i mean i'd hate to say it i don't think maybe we probably dove the deepest with like jm writing about it because we did talk about it like of all the fallout from it

afterwards right right um in an episode i think it was around one of the superbowls you know we were doing the show for so long, y'all. I don't remember that at all. Oh yeah, because that's when I remember there was a thing where Les Moonves said after that Super Bowl, Janet Jackson will never be on CBS again. Right, right.

But it took people to us to be interested, and I'm sure other people have written up about it. I'm not going to claim we're the first people talking about it obviously but that you know no one I don't think has ever actually examined it as like a piece as a

cultural moment like much in the same way framing Britney suddenly people went oh right that was all kinds of bad and continues to be like I'm sure if you saw that too how like their paths diverged from that moment on yeah you'd there'd probably be some people have she was

bigger than him by far heading into that like by far yeah i mean she was massive she still is you know yeah yeah valentine's day 2021 trending because it's i don't know why is it do we have a oh it's fucking sunday hey i gotta go man uh that old that old yarn that old trope forgetful partner hey fellows uh you didn't remember did you do you get uh how do you do you do Valentine's Day it's like a kid thing it's like something that our kids get psyched up about my cousin is a very talented

jewelry designer Richard Yurman yeah my cousin Richard Yurman or David Yurman I call him Richard but his real name is Dave. David Yerman. It's a really dumb bit.

He hates it. No, Sophie Ramsey. Designs really dope shit. And so I got something from that for my wife. Okay, well, don't let her match to hear that because I'm making ribs. Nice. If I could make ribs ribs we're both anti that holiday like we don't mess around like on an anniversary or whatever but like

sometimes it's just like it's too many holidays to keep track of and like i remember early on dating it's you do that thing we're like do you care about this right yeah where you're trying to and are you just saying that or do you really exactly i'm like don't say that because you're trying to be chill just because and then it comes out you dead you really matter because i don't mind jumping all in but i just want to know what the you know just tell me what key we're in so i can play the notes and luckily we're both like no i'm dead that shit did it tj duck low is trending This is somebody whose name I should not have to know. That sounds like you put your name in a conservative Star Wars name generator.

And you come out, TJ Ducklow from Tatooine. He is deputy press secretary to President Joe Biden, but he's been suspended for a week without pay because according to Vanity Fair's Caleb Akarma, Ducklow had a call with a reporter. So he was having a relationship with somebody who reported on the Biden campaign. Alexi McCammon from axios and he reached out to a reporter by the name of tara palmieri and was like stop reporting on this you're just jealous

you're just jealous of her because somebody else wanted to fuck her instead of you. Oh my god. That's like literally, that's being quoted. Right, that's a literal quote. She was quote jealous that an unidentified man in the past had quote wanted to fuck end quote McCammond quote and not you end quote. So, uh huh. Come on in.

It's almost like there's shit bags on both sides. I mean, yeah, get this. I mean, he all said, I will destroy you? Yeah. Like, come on. He said he will destroy her career, essentially. And what, he's like on no paid leave or whatever? Yeah, for a week.

Yeah, that's it. I mean, he's going to get fired. Yeah, you can't have that shit. Yeah, get the fuck out of here. Also, people were pointing, it's like, he's also calling on Newsmax people during the don't, that he should be fired for that, like, to take questions. Oh, does he? Yeah, like, he's been like, okay, yeah, you're like, nah, no, no, no, no.

Suffocate the little fires by not giving them oxygen. Thank you. Detective Chinatown 3 isn't trending, but it should be because it just beat Avengers Endgame for the single day box office record for a single market, in this case, China. So Avengers Endgame used to have the record for the highest gross in a single country for its first day in the United States, had put up $156 million. For the Friday it came out. Detective Chinatown 3 just came out in China and put up $160 million.

And according to Scott Mendelson, who writes for Forbes, very good reporter on this sort of stuff, was saying this has been coming for a long time. There's going to be movies coming out of China that a lot of the U.S. market has never heard of, aren't designed to even make a ripple in the U.S. that are going to be bigger than any Hollywood blockbuster is ever going to be.

And this is going to be the shape of things to come. No, but everything's for me, the American consumer. I mean, I'm not going to lie. I watched the trailer. It looks kind of dope. No, no, that's not right. It shouldn't be. Why?

Why did it happen? Wow. I mean, that's fully getting dunked on because on multiple levels, right? Because I'm like box office, as in people went to a movie theater? And they got this much revenue was generated? Yep.

Yeah, they're fully back up. Boy, boy, boy, boy. Up and running. Yeah. All right, well, good. I mean, shit, yeah, keep breaking the records. The more people, more American people can wake the fuck up and be like, it's a whole ass world outside of your neighborhood. Good. people can wake the fuck up and be like it's a it's a whole ass world outside of your neighborhood good i mean like part of me is like oh cool maybe they'll like start making you know 50 to 75 million dollar movies they'll make like five of those instead of one 350 million dollar movie

about superheroes but the other part of me knows that you know the way american capitalism is trending it just means that like walmart will buy all the studios and like start churning out just giant blockbuster garbage. Yeah. But it would be dope if they started making smaller movies or like medium sized movies again. Yeah. Like when when like development was more free and like who were developing films were like, I love this idea. Not like, can it make triple the marketing costs

we have to put in because we have to do an 11-figure spend on marketing or some shit. Well, speaking of cooking up special meals for m'lady, there's an article about different pizza reheating techniques you're coming for the crown you're coming for my favorite uh pizza reheating technique which is as close as i saw cooking i look i saw the article on the takeout as i peruse for my food stories and you know because i think national pizza day was this week so pizza was you know pizza was on the brain in this country, and they did a roundup of the best ways to reheat leftover pizza. Now, I pointed this out because the first version that they note is the method I learned from you, Jack.

Yeah. Heat up the pan, put the slice in, put a little water in there, put the top on, let it steam a little bit. Drop it to low. in, put a little water in there, put the top on, let it steam a little bit, drop the heat low, let that sit for a minute, and then you come out the crust crispy and the top gooey glistening. Great. So some things I've learned since then. Okay. The pan

better be completely clean like it can't have been a pan that you recently used to make a grilled cheese or something like that because it doesn't work as good. Okay, we'll write that down. It will absorb any scent of anything that's

been cooked on there and it's easy to fuck this up. So I'm going to go ahead and say I've been derelict in my duties. I have a new favorite pizza reheating technique that is on this list. Okay, which version is that?

Well, you go through them. Okay, so then there's version two, which is heat up a pan on medium heat. Drop the slice face fucking down on the pan with the chi on the pan and wait till you hear it sizzle. Then you flip the slice over and then let it hang out for another minute. And that gives you a little burnt cheese top and a crisp bottom. And then they say, put hot sauce and it kind of becomes its own thing. Version three, put the slice directly on the rack of an air fryer or toaster oven. Okay. And put that shit on air fry or extreme convection and let it get there until you see the top start to bubble, bring it out and you're in trouble. And then lastly, one of the ones, I mean, there are a couple more,

but this one was really interesting. One of the editors of Takeout was saying, for the unconventional way, and my wife gets credit for this, sandwich two pieces, crust side out, and waffle iron them into melted crispy perfection. It's a second life for the pizza. That actually sounds fun. So which one are you?

It's the boring one, the toaster oven. Just put it on a toaster oven. We just got a toaster oven and it's really cool. It makes it so good. Reheating fried food in a toaster oven, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. I get like little, like this Japanese thing called karaage, which is like Japanese fried chicken pieces or whatever.

And I get it at the Japanese market, but it's refrigerated there and it's frying like something, you know, fried cold food is the best, but that's in the toaster oven though. It's, it's a new lease on life. Yes. So the,

the one that is most intriguing to me, however, heat up on medium heat, face down, face down. Yeah. So that's a pan. That's still like stovetop they're talking about.

Yep. That's on a pan. Yeah. On the stove, face down, ass up. That's the like stovetop they're talking about. Yeah, that's on a pan. Yeah, on the stove. Face down, ass up. That's the way we like to reheat our pizza. And yeah, get it like that. All right.

I'm trying that this weekend. I'll get back to you. I'm not. I don't have super high hopes because they felt like. And then add hot sauce is like a reheat technique. It's like, yo, what? No, no, no, no, no. We're trying to. is like a re-heat technique. It's like, yo, what? No, no, no, no, no.

We're trying to, I guess for methods, I feel like you almost forgot that that shit was from a couple days ago. That's the sweet spot. All right. That is going to do it for this week. We are back on Tuesday. Tuesday. We are taking Monday off.

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Woody, dude, did he really lift a finger? I don't know. See, these are hot takes you get from the show yeah yeah uh but try that out at your uh family's president day barbecue uh we're back on tuesday until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves wear a mask stay inside don't do nothing about white supremacy we'll talk to y'all on Tuesday. Bye. Bye. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits?

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