The Daily Zeitgeist - They Zeit Be Giants 5/13: Have a Good Trip, Red Lobster, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, Obamagate

Episode Date: May 13, 2020

On this edition of They Zeit Be Giants Jack, Miles, and Anna discuss celebrities tripping (and tripping in general), an altercation at Red Lobster starring peak Karen energy, Paul Manafort has been released from prison while the Judge presiding over Michael Flynn's case is trying to keep the case going, and Trump is threatening Obama with an unknown crime. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Like an Amish dairy farmer. Am I right? I'm going to go. Boy, yeah. Let's just end it right there. All right. Well, thanks a lot. See you tomorrow.

Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. And be kind to each other. Yes, yes. We're thrilled to be joined uh for this episode of the trending zeitgeist by super producer anna hosnier what's up anna oh you know living my best you know wow i have uh fogo now fear of going out yeah yeah that's what i heard i heard that's the new thing yeah you you shouldn't have fogo because you uh you're the one person i've seen who gave themselves a haircut and it looks really good you did a good job i've seen some bad haircuts i'm not gonna say anything

but yours is a good one i remember i pressed you when i noticed you had a haircut because it looks so good i thought like this fool went to a salon. Yeah. Somebody's been going to the salon. Putting in work in the mirror. I have one hair, like an A-line bob I know how to cut that my hairstylist of like 15 years taught me how to do. And so that's my go-to cut when I need to cut it myself. Love to see it.

Love to see it. Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day teach a man to fish and they will never have to come see you again bad move by your hairstylist so break that fucking fishing pole and tell them there's a bunch of monsters that's what i'm saying oh uh we were talking about a bunch of tripping shows a bunch of shows about tripping uh not a bunch too uh but you guys were talking about one I didn't know and figured might as well share it with the Zeitgang. You're saying there's a new show

where people take you through their trips? It's a documentary. It's called Have a Good Trip. And it's about, you know, whatever, two hours, hour and a half long. But it's a bunch of famous people like sting carrie fisher nick kroll um you know paul sheer just a bunch of like comedy and like ordain yes anthony bourdain a lot of uh comedy and just like you know fun actors or personalities uh and they yeah they share the

most fun i know he's actually the least favorite of the group but yeah they share stories like Sarah Silverman they share stories of themselves like tripping on acid and it's kind of like guided with by Nick Offerman who's playing like a scientist character but then they also have reenactments played by different actors as well so it's pretty fun it's like almost like a drunk history in a way but for tripping for the acid yeah sting just i'm like i like sting's music i don't look to him be like oh sting is so fucking wavy you know like oh and we were like this dude what did you say his what was his trip like it was almost one percenter yeah it was like he wanted to try peyote so he was like so i flew down to mexico city like it's that easy and um just like hit up a peyote cult and like asked to

be initiated and then like had to take a bunch of peyote and climb a mountain blindfolded and then had deer's blood poured on him like all this stuff where you're like what see that's just like some i don't when i hear that i'm like, that's some narc shit, man. The people who was really in the game, they was doing trips before they had money because they were just surviving their own psyches, like, and trying to expand their minds and shit. The first time I did, if he wants to do peyote like me, the first time I did peyote, I took what I thought and was told was peyote and was not. And I had a terrible, terrible time. Yeah. But, you know, salute you know salute till it was still

psychoactive it just wasn't the type of psychoactive you were looking for yeah it was like it was definitely not uh like when i i took a photo and showed it to someone who like actually deals with psychedelics they're like this looks like some kind of awfully treated like mushroom thing i don't know yeah i had a similar experience where like a close family friend i went to college with gave me something and he was like it's either peyote or mescaline you'll only find out if you try it and i was like well what is it and he's like i don't honestly remember and i was best advertising for mescaline i ever saw as a kid was in the matrix when like that first scene where neo is mr anderson he gives that guy the disc and he

sees the woman's white rabbit tattoo he's like you know ever have that feeling where you don't know the difference between the real world and a dream and the guy's like yeah it's called mescaline and i was like whoa dude fuck some matrix shit yeah that's drug taking and then you find yourself talking to a homeless man for 45 minutes about nothing and then you're like oh i'm high and that's that's drugs midnight gospel is another kind of trippy show from, I think, The Adventure Time. It's Duncan Trussell. And then Duncan Trussell's podcast. It's basically Duncan Trussell's podcast animated to have really

psychedelic things going on. It's pretty cool. It definitely feels like some things that I have dreamed when I had a fever. It's like alternate universes. My first introduction to Duncan Trussell was when he was on Drunk History, and I didn't know who he was as a comedian,

and he had one of the most violently ill drunk histories, the way he was just floored from how drunk he was. It was like, oh, Dunkle. Dunkle, trust him. He's really great. I guess we should talk about what's trending. Yeah, he's very cool. He's very, and he also has a really great voice to listen to.

Yeah, can I tell you a quick Dunkle? Very friendly and high-pitched. Can i tell you a quick duncan and high pitched can i tell you a quick duncan trussell uh story so he used to come do my live shows back in the day and one time we were doing like a stylized one where it was about y2k and i was like yeah if you want to play a religious figure like a pastor or whatever and he's like yeah totally and he shows up in a full pope outfit like the full like beautiful robe huge hat like i'll find photos and post them but we were all like oh you okay yeah sure to flex yeah like and we were all like okay sure if you want to be the boy like and he's like yeah i showed up we're like that it works but it was

just really funny because it was also a gorgeous outfit like i was like, oh, you came through. It's a $700 a day rent. We're like, we cannot reimburse. The Popat is, to this day, I think the funniest thing that we don't acknowledge is a joke, but is just the fact that the Popat exists, that somebody was just like, yeah, I got to have the biggest hat. I wrote a

sketch for Cracked About It before. We need more people to troll him in the Vatican. They're like, yo, look at that fucking hat! Get that shit off, man! You look stupid as fuck, bro! And he'll be like, oh. Maybe it is stupid.

I'm acting impressed by it. I just want, I don't know, Pope trolls, Pope hecklers for the hat. I don't know, somebody. Just never forget him slapping that woman's hand away. He wouldn't let go of him. You ever that? Oh, yeah.

I was like, get your goddamn hand off me. You said, goddamn, Pope. Get your goddamn hand off me, ho. Smacking. Red Lobster is trending, and it's due to an altercation a peak becky moment if you will peak karen energy uh at this point old there's a you know again on mother's day there was a lot of people getting takeout and this particular red lobster there was a video filmed outside that's why it's it's going viral of this woman she's like she's it starts off with her being pushed out of the restaurant by the employees

and she's like no i need my money i want my money and they're like we're gonna give you your money just get the fuck out of the restaurant we don't want you in here you're making a scene like i get you've been waiting you're stressed or whatever and this one woman's like trying to keep her out. And then this other this this other woman takes a swing at her. Some shit pops off. But then you hear all these other people in the back, like crowing at the employees of this Red Lobster. Like it's not hard enough to be working right now. They're there being like, I've been waiting for three hours for food.

First of all, if you were were waiting what's your dumb ass doing waiting there for three hours if it's that important you can just say i need a refund i'm out but i think the this this crowd particularly looks like they got off to seeing these mostly what look like people of color working this uh this red lobster and i think they were just being like oh now i get to yell at people who are already stressed out in working conditions that are unsafe. Now I want to add to that my where's my fucking Cheddar Bay Biscuits bullshit or that nonsense. So, you know, it's it's just another moment, another snapshot in the tension in this country. The Karen figure is the one who throws the first like wild punch.

The other person seems to be trying to get them out of the red lobster. And it just sucks to see like the other employees trying to restrain the, their coworker who was struck by this woman. It sucks because like in the street you'd be like, yep, you know what? There you go. Yeah.

Your thing. There's a fair one. Yeah. We want a one-on-one, but it's like, you can see the way her coworker was trying to look her in her eyes and be like, please don't, please don't, please don't. Right.

The stakes are so much larger, even larger than this white woman disrespecting them. It's like, ugh. Anyway. That's why. All this for Red Lobster, correct? Yeah. Yeah. All this. I mean, Red Lobster is pretty delicious sometimes. Yeah, I should go check out a Red Lobster, correct? Yeah. Yeah. All this.

I mean, Red Lobster is pretty delicious sometimes. Yeah, I should go check out a Red Lobster. The Cheddar Bay Biscuits, they've been hacked that menu already. You can make them at home. You know what I mean? Really? Yes, sir. What is it? Bisquick and cheddar?

I don't know, man. Some bay? Some bay? Throw in some bay? Some bay. Some dirty bay water? Some bay? I don't know. Some old bay? Some bay? Throw in some bay? Some bay? Some dirty bay water? Some bay? I don't know.

Some old bay? Some Tampa Bay? So Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn are both trending probably for good reasons, right? Because they were brought to justice and everything is right in the world? Justice prevailed. Well, it's kind of like a flip-flop where on one hand, Paul Manafort is out of prison right now he's been released because white because man because i love trump and i have secrets that will damage him um so he

was released trump loves me i will fake having covid 19 so he's been sent home to do his like prison sentence from his house. But the thing is like, you know, the DOJ was like, yeah, you know, we got to look at cases and people who are vulnerable, like their federal penitentiaries, like in Lompoc in LA and, uh, like in the area in Southern California, um, where there are cases of COVID where they're not being so hospitable to these people, the facility Paul Manafort's in, there's not even reported cases of COVID in there. So it just adds insult to injury

on top of, I think there are other standards. If you had already served a majority of your sentence or had less than 18 months left to serve, you could be released. He didn't even meet those guidelines. So again, it's just some nice shoulder rubbing from the Department of Justice. And then that brings us to Michael Flynn,

who we talked about how the DOJ dropped their case against Michael Flynn, even though he had confessed twice. And the judge basically was like, oh, no, not so fast. Basically, what he's doing is allowing amicus briefs or outside groups to file uh like their you know arguments against uh michael flynn um so the judge is trying to slow that process down uh at a minimum but yeah that's where that's where the michael flynn case is so a judge at least said but we'll see what happens there so is this a different judge this is a conflicting judge who's coming i think no it's the judge presiding over the case like so once they heard they're like okay that's your deal then took a second and the next point was like okay well i

think there may be other people who may want to uh not want to drop this case and may want to actually see this thing out and then finally we have uh something that i think a trend that i think we're all involved with we're all guilty of tweeting, and that is hashtag subpoena Obama. It's Obamagate. It's the biggest political scandal of all time. It puts Watergate to shame. It makes Watergate look small. These are all things Trump has said while being nonspecific about what Obama did.

Yeah. It's stupid this is just like about like how did how dare president obama as president figure out what person what may have been doing kissy face with the russians uh to subvert our electoral process and i think that's like how did he what did he do and again obama's just been back in the news because he'd you know know, white America hasty hear a man of color's opinion on what Trump's doing. But he was like, this is a this response is basically not good. And McConnell's like, you need to shut his mouth.

Did he really? Yeah. Yeah. You keep his mouth shut. I believe. Keep his mouth shut. I believe was the thing. Wow.

Because they say, no, like an insult. It's set Trump off. That's why he's like, think about Obama. All this shit. It's just fucking. It's just so messy and dark and not addressing what's actually happening right now that it's just really odd. And the other thing was people in the White House were like, Obama left Trump with no way to deal with a pandemic. Like, what?

Just nothing. Empty cupboards. And they're like, he literally left like a 69-page or 70-page playbook on how to handle a pandemic in the United States. And they're like, just fucking, I don't know. An entire department. This is like anything. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't matter. And then that's why now, like, the crusade from the right is against the CDC

because Fauci and Birx are getting too close to the truth. Although it seems like Birx is kind of going along with helping alter the numbers at the CDC, which is a little disheartening to hear. Yeah. All right. Well, this is not the best timeline of all the possible timelines we could be living in right now but it is the one we have so uh here we are glad to be uh traveling down this timeline with you guys and uh listeners be kind to each other wash Wash your hands. Stay inside. Do your part. Support small businesses.

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