The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeitzpinklers 11/29: Sitzpinklers, Fruit Loops, Golden Bachelor, Spotify Wrapped, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Wonka

Episode Date: November 29, 2023

In this edition of The Zeitzpinklers, Jack and Miles discuss Sitzpinklers (men who sit when they pee), Fruit Loops being too woke nowrr, the Golden Bachelor hit pieces (TL;DR Gerry's a fuccboi), Spotify Wrapped 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene's new "book" , and the initial reviews for the new Wonka movie!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the zeitfinklers um my name is jack uh i am not a zeitfinkler um but maybe i will be now uh i'm a night spinkler oh i'm definitely a night spinklers because i'm old as fuck how are you doing miles i'm good what are you eating i'm sorry about that folks i know i'm just saying do you have enough for the class because i'm hungry too and i'm like oh what do you get the nibble it's a little one of those uh little nut bar things not a granola bar they're like nuts stuck together you know yeah yeah yeah like an honest like true yeah whatever that kind of shit true honest kind all of those types of bars is there a sincere bar yet i feel

like we're always using those kinds of names yes and i want a paragraph written on the label to tell me about their business's philosophy. This ain't just another bar of nuts compacted together. This is a gateway to harmony with your body of self-love. That's right. Copyright. TM. TM. TMC.

The marathon continues. Run TMC. I'm Jack. That's Miles. This is some of the things that are trending. So what is a zeitspinkler? I guess it's not a zeitspinkler. It's a sitpinkler.

Yes. These are guys who sit down when they pee. And according to a recent YouGov survey on sitting and standing during urination, turns out there's a massive variance between countries. And of the 13 countries polled, Germany came out on top for sitting down, with 40% of men saying they sit down to pee every time, and 22% sit most times.

Only 10% say they never sit. Sweden comes in second in Europe with 50% men say they sit down all or most of the time. Wait, how is that second if Germany is 40? Germany is 40 every single time. Oh, and most 40 plus 22. Oh, I see. 62 all or most. Are all or most, yeah.

Yes. Wow. Sweden is 50. 10 in germany say they never said that's why y'all lost the war bro am i right what is the what is with like why are we still talking i mean i like i was saying before at night when i gotta pee in the middle of the night i'm not fucking standing like i don't fucking i don't know that i will pee in a toilet at that point like because i do this thing where like when i wake up in the middle night to be i like to i like to stay as like sleepy as possible like i'm not trying to be alert turn on the light

wander with the eyes half closed mostly and i hate i hate doing that shit when you're in bed you're like fuck bro i need to pee but you're like but i want to get out of bed but then you waste like 40 minutes like debating yourself or not to pee yeah yeah so yeah i just pop right up and i keep repeating to myself so sleepy yeah sleepy oh my god i pull my underwear barely down to my ankles like it is like by my thighs barely down here i can't even get my under like i'm like it's like i'm serious i use such little movement in the middle of the night to pee. Again, I have to maintain... I don't know if this is even a thing scientifically, but in my mind, I'm like, must stay in sleep zone. Don't move

too big. Take underwear only halfway down. Stay in sleep zone. Don't move too big. Don't move too big. Pee down. Pee down. That's one of the killer's inner monologues. David Fincher's the killer. I don't know if anyone saw that but i

heard it's i heard it's mid for fincher it's mid for fincher it's good though i enjoy it uh the thing that you have to go in understanding is maybe he's not the best at his job this guy so don't like that's why i was like i'm watching, this is going to be one of those movies where it's like badass assassin. And just right from Jump Street, he not so good. It's kind of like, oh, you might not be good at this. But I was realizing from the story that like the main reason I don't really try sitting when I pee is like a public toilet. Yeah, toilet too cold but also i feel like there's like a lot of like toxic masculinity shit like weren't there like stand-up comedians being like this is the type of guy who sits when he pees yeah am i right that's what they used to

say about drink i remember yeah yeah like that's kind of like yo he's the type of dude he said when he pee it's a real like masculine uh toxic masculine trait uh trend or meme i feel like yeah i think the only thing that would prevent me from sometimes it's i think i may have just have the muscle memory of being able to be standing and pee real quick and keep my shit going like keep it moving keep it moving yeah yeah um in public i don't even slow down i just slow down a little bit while I'm going by the toilet. Oh, wow. So you get 40% of it in the toilet?

That's right. But, like, I don't... Drive by. But it's the mere... It's the mere disgusting nature of most public restrooms that would prevent me from sitting at all, I think.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, of course. Yeah, I'm not talking about public restrooms. But, yeah, Zeitgang, let us know your thoughts, your opinions. Your feelings. And let's talk about Froot Loops, because they've gone woke. They caught the woke mind virus. Toucan Sam.

What the fuck is wrong with them? So the Right Wings performative media outrage machine has continued to cycle through random products, seemingly, that can be used to stir up false outrage. And the latest is Froot Loops, because the beloved, wildly unhealthy breakfast cereal is encouraging kids to read. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, what's next? What are they doing?

They're handing out free iPods with every book read or something? Yeah. So they're currently running a promotion on boxes in Canada that encourages kids to log into digital libraries to read stories. And said stories include diversity and inclusion. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. libraries to read stories and said stories include diversity and inclusion um oh my god oh my god because oh my god like there's one about a young girl learning about chopsticks crazy like how to fucking use them yeah there's one with a blind girl uh navigating her environment Holy shit So Accounts like EndWokeness And Libs of TikTok blasted

The woke propaganda Of Big Fruit Loop And it became like An OAN story Devoting a whole segment to Calls to boycott Fruit Loops Because You know

How's that going? How are those principled boycotts going over there i mean two cans shambles i've known i've known toucan sam was a problem since he had that rainbow peak you know oh you know what they're the agenda yeah come on yeah where he wears that agenda right on his nose follow my nose oh we're supposed to follow your nose yeah i remember they wouldn't let us i remember in junior high we couldn't eat fruit loops or bring fruit loops to school because they at the time they thought it was a reference to rainbow parties yeah is that for real no that does sound like some shit like look at his beak what is going on

you don't you think toucan sam's not coming right from a rainbow party? Okay, now who's naive? Because his beak is quite literally what the imagery was supposed to put in people's minds of the rainbow parties. Yeah. Do people? I mean, I know we've talked about rainbow parties before. We've talked about rainbow parties. If anybody's unfamiliar, it was when Oprah had people on her show in the

nineties, I think. Um, and it was like kids these days are sucking each other's dicks so much that they have to like come up with a fun art project to make it interesting. Yo, they're wearing different colors.

Lipsticks. She had those in 2003. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So much dick sucking in 2003. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. So much dick sucking in schools these days. And here is a 45-year-old parent to tell us about it. Yeah. It was an American Christian pediatrician, okay?

It was the one who said it, yeah. And the book that sort of kicked it off was called Epidemic, How Teen sex is killing our kids. Meanwhile, in the midst of one of the great, uh, slowdowns in teen sex and one of the great drops in teen pregnancy that we've seen ever in the history of the country, but they, you know, they got to get their sick little fantasies out. You know, this is kind of blowing my mind because they're saying it was first, it aired or publicized in October 2003 on Oprah Winfrey. I wasn't in high school then, but I knew what a rainbow party was in junior high.

You knew what a rainbow party was in junior high? Yeah. Because you were going to so many miles? No, I just remember that was like when when i think it's like one of those things where like someone in a book would be like and did you hear about richard gear yeah yeah yeah it's like a myth that's okay because in my mind i was like wait no the i think it was probably a local news story before it got to the big time of oprah right Oprah, yeah. The chicken definitely came before the egg in this version of Who I Remember.

All right. Gary, Jerry from The Golden Bachelor, there are hit pieces being written about him. Unfortunately, they are TLDR. So we're going to wait on that. But just so you know, so you can do the book club reading of this long read about how Jerry

Gary from the Golden Bachelor, bad guy. One thing was like, like apparently, and I like if you if you if you don't want spoilers, spoiler alert. But when it came to the fantasy suites episode, he basically was like playing both women and telling them I love you and presumably spending that knowing women that night. I don't ever say this to anyone, but I feel crazy. Yeah, and everyone's like, I think basically the realization is like, this guy's a fuckboy.

He's a total fuckboy. Because then people were like, there was an episode where he had his shirt off and they're like, this dude has a lion head tattoo on his shoulder. Like, what is going on? And yeah. Hey, the fuckboys don't start they don't retire by the way oh hell no stay fuckboy they refine the art of fuckery yeah uh but yeah there's like but apparently when he was

asked about like what was going on you know because in the beginning it's like the fantasy suite's gonna be filled with like talking about our lives grandkids not like salacious stuff and then cut to like him just like squeezing on his lady's butt um the next morning when they asked him about what what happened he said it's quote nobody's fucking business what goes on in the suites damn he got real serious yeah so he's definitely yeah he's taking a bit of a villain's turn and i'm sure there's much more but that was those are the sort of the top line things i gleaned from a couple articles articles I looked through. Love it.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And it is spotify rap season shout out to all the listeners uh sharing your spotify wrapped uh stats with us um always blown away by how much time you guys spend with us um more than my family uh who you, chooses not to spend time with me. Um, yeah. What'd I say about to Jack? Don't bum the listeners out with that crap, man.

I just miss you guys. If, if maybe if they're just happy to be listening right now, I could just put it out there. If you're curious, if you've made it, you know, 10 minutes into this episode,

like if I could just get your stats to see how much you've listened, uh, that would be great because obviously, uh, don't get to see much anyways um no taylor swift uh doing really well in she she won 2023 spotify wrapped ending bad bunny's three-year reign and the most streamed star. That's wild. Three years running the most streamed person on Spotify. Yeah. Like, damn.

Also, like, I mean, Taylor Swift put out, like, what? Like, how many albums did she put out this year? Right. Of her, like, re-recordings? But, I mean, I think that along with the tour.

She's juicing the numbers, Miles. Nah, I mean. That's what you're saying. She's cheating. She's juicing the numbers. Bad i mean that's what you're saying she's she's cheating she's juicing the numbers bad bunny bad bundy no these rap stats are a goose suit get out of here taylor swift um but yeah i think it's i mean i can only imagine too like how many millions of people like who are like going to those live shows or just even the promise of it we're blasting taylor Taylor Swift on repeat for fucking nine weeks straight. Cramming.

Do they have actual, like, did she absolutely blow Bad Bunny out? I'm actually not sure. Data showed Taylor Swift was the most streamed artist on Earth. She had more than 26.1 billion streams on Spotify. That's a lot. Bad Bunny,

they said it was not a close second Bad Bunny. They said it was a close sec. It was not a close second. Damn. Are they even telling us what the fuck? You guys don't need to be assholes about it. You know how companies like that are cagey with their data. Yeah. They just said,

I just like that. It was, it was not close. So yeah. I mean, but he just like the three year run is fucking incredible. Yeah. I would not have guessed that anybody would have had three years running.

Like, maybe Drake at one point, but the fact that Bad Bunny did it, like, quietly, people need to put more respect on his name, I guess. Because they're, like, people, like, I'm looking at, like, some people posting their Spotify rap, and shout out to Zyte Gang, you know, who were saying they spent 18,000 minutes with us and you're in the top 2%. These people are showing straight up 116,000 minutes of Taylor Swift listened to. That's a lot. That's a lot of songs. Yo, or it's one song. Going heavy. Just over and over again.

Yeah. Well, on the other end of the popularity spectrum, Marjorie Taylor Green dropped her book on the world. And it's called MTG. It is sporting a cover that looks like it was made for a self-published Amazon political

thriller by an amateur graphic designer who died before he could finish the job of designing this cover. I think that might have actually happened. because it's just a black outline of her figure i guess it's supposed to be like shadowy silhouette back yeah american flag but it looks like shit but also why are they why do they it looks like presumably she's coming up onto a stage like with like the little handlebar hand like hand yeah it looks like she just got out of a pool yeah like take that off yeah you could have gotten rid of that that's just confusing yeah i am here the stars i see the bars

yeah no stars on the flag what is it like if this was a liberals cover like book cover the conspiracies would be out of control dude count, count the fucking squares and see what that number spells Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, good, good, good. Going further, further, further. But yeah, the cover suggests that she couldn't afford her own likeness rights or like the whole thing was made in Microsoft Word

with like really good outlining skills. But the book, which pledged to provide the inside stories about the swamp you won't hear anyone else anywhere else good um is a huge fucking flop debuting on amazon's bestseller list at number what nine thousand seven hundred and thirty five oh shit that's fucking terrible yeah that's way the fuck down there. And do the people know that she, and this isn't a joke,

she has a whole chapter dedicated to talking about how she was talking about Jewish space lasers causing forest fires in California. Then they know that still, and it's still at number 9,000? Yeah. Wow.

People are not hungry for her explanation on the Jewish space lasers. On her terrible anti-Semitism. Yeah. The only publicity the book has gotten has been pretty negative. It's from the fact that the bookstore Hudson Booksellers has decided

not to stock the book, which she and her allies claimed was censorship. But the book company was like, no man, no one's going to fucking buy that. Yeah, it's not. What? We're not. You can't call it censorship if the shit sucks.

Yeah. I think was the official quote. Yeah. They said our stores are small and our shelf space is limited. So we have to make tough decisions about our title mix. Just like keeping it. A.K.A. shit sucks. Yeah.

Yeah. A.K.A. nobody wants to see this shit um and they apparently know what they're talking about because yeah nobody wanted to see this shit and it has flopped horribly it was published by winning team publishing i can't believe this is a company co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. Reportedly printed the book in Canada, despite all the America first bullshit. But I love them being like, we're the winning team.

So, uh, get with the winners guys. Yeah. It's like, it sounds like that's what you say. Like when you're on a sports team and y'all are doing a drill where they, they divide your like squad up into like different bibs.

They're like, all right, blue team, like the winning team. Okay. Yeah. Good guys publishing. We're the good guys. They're like, all right, blue team, like the winning team. Okay. Yeah. Good guys publishing. We're the good guys.

Also, like I didn't realize. So when a politician signs a book deal, they get to keep that shit. They don't get to keep the royalties. No, they get the advance. Right.

So, but what they can do is they can use political funds to buy big orders of the book. To try and boost it up into the bestseller list. And then they have to donate those proceeds to charity, whatever the royalties off those sales are.

But the publisher gets to keep the royalties from those sales. That is still money for the publisher. So the publisher is then going to give them a bigger advance which they get to keep because they know that this is like part of the deal you're gonna pay it back with your pack purchases yeah it's a wild loophole that of course they're not in any hurry to close up but no because it affects left and right yeah

on capitol hill so don't don't don't knock their publishing hustle straight up they just get to donate money to themselves essentially to their own book yeah um yeah anyways join the winning team yeah and there are fantastic insights into our world there will just be like layers of this book in garbage dumps. Oh, like the E.T. game? Yeah. There's layers and layers of people searching for it. N.T.G.

Yeah. Not a ton to go off of here, but we are getting the first reviews for Wonka in and people are surprised to find out the critics actually really like it. The first reviews are calling it a winning confection,

which fuck off. You try harder as a raider. But also an instant holiday classic. I believe it. I mean, it is by Paddington. Same dude as Paddington. Yeah. Mr. Paddington, Paul King.

Paul King. Paddington, Paddington 2, and Wonka. Yeah, that's a pretty good record to then be like, is this movie going to be okay to watch with everybody? It's like, yeah. So this person's like the fucking goat of that kind of movie, I feel like, of recent memory. It looked like it took place in the paddington universe like this movie like had all

the all the same vibes as paddington um except they were like what if instead of adorable bear timothy chalamet and uh that so that was my main thing is like, there were some moments from the trailer where I was like, he seems weird in this, but people are saying his performance is great. Um, this director, the Paddington director, like is apparently obsessed with Timothy Chalamet. Like he was like, yeah, I've been a, a Chalamet Stan ever since he was coming up and like, you know, this is a musical and um because timothy chalamet's life is very strange uh all of his like high school uh theater performances are available on youtube and like i've watched them all many times and so i knew exactly what his strengths and weaknesses were so might have a winner on our hands still like we're not kind of we don't

have the review aggregators or anything it's just kind of drips and drabs but people seem to be pretty pretty excited about this one I mean look look if someone's like a straight-up acting nerd and you're looking at tape yeah King high school plays and like identifying okay do you see the high school tape on this guy oh my god no no look at shall we dude he was tevye on fiddler in the roof um like yeah then i'm like okay you probably got something maybe you have something going there yeah yeah anyways i'm excited to take my kids to see Wonka 2023. Um,

my favorite is from, uh, my favorite tweet on the Wonka reviews was from JL Harris, who, um, tweeted. They're saying Wonka 2023 is good over a picture of the guy telling George W. Bush about nine 11.

Oh yeah. Was that a second tower hit the plane? Yeah. The second plane has hit the tower. You're saying Wonka is actually good, sir. 2023, 2023. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday afternoon.

We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you

can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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