The Daily Zeitgeist - Top Costumes 2020, Trump’s Terrified Staff 10.19.20

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

In episode 739, Jack and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by animator and Stories with Sapphire's Sapphire Sandalo to discuss Amy Coney Barrett's constitution, California's ballot box saga, Trump's attack on voting, popular Halloween costumes, and more!FOOTNOTES: Which Constitution Is Amy Coney Barrett Talking About? California Republicans spark national feud over 'harvesting' ballot boxes ‘Unmasking’ probe commissioned by Barr concludes without charges or any public report In context: A look behind the NY Post headline about Joe Biden and a Ukraine meeting Scoop: Trump's advisers brace for loss, point fingers Exclusive: GOP Sen. Sasse says Trump 'kisses dictators' butts' and mocks evangelicals The Attack On Voting Roger Stone Promoted Another Fake Document To Support Donald Trump Frightgeist You can dress as sexy hand sanitizer for Halloween thanks to infamous costume store Yandy You can elect to wear a sexy mail-in ballot costume from a Phoenix company for Halloween 'Big hair and narrow mind': Controversial 'Karen' Halloween mask sells out The Viral Fly from Mike Pence's Hair at the VP Debate Has Now Landed on a Halloween Wig People Are Planning to Dress as Postal Workers for Halloween WATCH: A$AP Rocky - Purity (Audio) ft. Frank Ocean Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Eat it, Fondant. I still am. You jerk. I'd still eat it yeah yeah okay that's just like your opinion man that's just I guess hey it's Monday October 19th

2020 my name's Jack O'Brien aka now there you go again you sent tweets that are so dumb. Just put the goddamn cell phone down. It's super frightening. You just tweet shit without thinking. Determined to put us all down in the ground.

Cause you're sad and pissed that suburban moms are mad that's where it ends guys unfortunately I know you could have listened to it all day but that's where we're going to cut it off that is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi Slane spooky Halloween name

and I'm thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host the very first face on mount zeitmore she is the hilarious the talented lil zam jamie lofton okay so for my aka today it's almost halloween and so i got really excited because i have twerking mummy so my AKS is twerking mummy. Here he goes. Here he goes. Get ready.

Oh my God. BVS is finest. He's shaking his little ass. He's got his sunglasses on. I love it. Look at that booty. This is the greatest novelty item that's ever been created he's almost done he's almost done

is that a song i have no idea i think like do they create their own song because they didn't want to get the rights it was like part like te. It sounds like several songs, but I think that CBS doesn't have the money to pay for the rights. Fireball. Is it because he's so hot? He's so hot. He's a little fireball. Got it. I love him.

I love him. So much fun. I love that that is still within arm's reach. Ooh, wait. DJ Daniel says it's a Pitbull song. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Could be. Could be.

I believe it. Pitbull's the greatest. I have almost no awareness of Pitbull other than when he's in those mobile provider ads every once in a while. And when he's making mommy's twerk. He's making mommy's twerk. Jamie, what have you been up to?

We no longer ask how are you on this show. That's healthy. I've been up to a bunch of stuff and working on a new pod, a spicy new little pod that comes out next month. I've heard tell of this. Yeah, it's almost as if you may or may not be directly involved.

Yeah. But yeah, I've been working on that. And then I've just been doing what I can. Yeah. Made a little Volder's guide, been making some cartoons, just been doing cartoon stuff. One of my favorite cartoonists. Yeah. Just the best. Thank you. just been doing cartoon stuff one of my favorite cartoonists uh yeah just oh and my thank you uh and my babu frick comes tomorrow so by the time you hear this i will have my babu frick toy delivered at my home that is those syllables are a start those sound like star wars syllables

they're star wars syllables it's a star warm syllables. It's a Star Worm character. He's in three seconds of the movie. Hell yeah. And he makes the stars warm. That's what he does. That's his job. Star Worms. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant, the talented, Sapphire Sandalo.

Hi. Welcome. Hi. Welcome. Hi, happy to be here. Yeah, yeah. You have the coolest studio of anyone we've ever talked to. Oh my goodness, thank you so much. I spent a lot of money on it. The Nissan scene is dope.

Where are you coming to us from? I live in Echo Park. Hell yeah. East side of LA. Is that a chair behind you? Do you have like a really high back chair? Oh no Does that sound creepy? I thought that was like a

throne A gamer chair What kind of gamer chair are you working with for Sapphire? I know gamer chairs are real but every time someone says it out loud, I'm like, that's fake. That can't be real. My husband has one.

He hates it. He has a gamer. Yeah, it was gifted to him. Do you gamer? I mean, he plays games. What makes someone a gamer as opposed to just like a person who plays games? That's a good question. There has to be some,

I guess it would just be like when you're willing to buy the chair for yourself. Definitive, but a gift. That's a gray area. Right. That's true. Unless you're such a gamer that people are like,

look, he's not going to buy it for himself. We got, we got to do him this favor. I hate to see you gaming like this my man your back is all hunched over because you're not gaming in the proper chair dude i don't know i don't know what gamer chairs do do they make your posture better probably not i mean they're supposed to be make it more comfortable for you to game for long periods of time, but I mean, you shouldn't be doing that anyway. Hey, says you, says you.

What do I know? All right. Sapphire, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about today. We're going to talk about Amy Coney Barrett. We're going to talk about California's ballot boxes. We're going to talk about how that deep state investigation is going. And also the Hunter Biden New York Post story that is a thing, kind of, and also that is being removed from the internet by Facebook and Twitter. We will talk about reports from behind the scenes at the Trump campaign. The things are bleak. I will forward my opinion or my theory about how Donald Trump might win anyways.

We'll do a quick dive through the top 50 Halloween costumes. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Sapphire, we like like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So most of the things that I Google tend to be health related. I have major like health anxiety where I feel a twinge and I'm like, oh, am I dying? But I guess one of the most recent ones I did was, what happens if I accidentally scratch my tattoo in my sleep?

Because, you can't see it if you're listening to this, but I recently got this tattoo along my arm. That's amazing. Thank you. So this is actually called Batok. It's a traditional hand-tapped Filipino tattoo. And there's only maybe less than 10 people in the world that do this ritual and ceremony um and so it's a

4 000 year old tradition uh it's a way to physically connect you with your ancestors who came before you because they wore similar marks um yeah and so basically when uh western culture Oh, that's so good. means this to me. It's the opposite with Batuk where he chooses what to put on me. He basically meditates and speaks with my ancestors, gets to know me, figures out what would be appropriate for me, and then places it on me. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah. I love it so much. I can't stop looking at it. I didn't know that. Did you have to travel to find the person to do it? Did you have to travel to find the person to do it? So I actually met him because I interviewed him for my podcast. Oh, nice.

Yeah, and he lives in Las Vegas. So me and two of my cousins drove there. Yeah, not too far. Yeah. A little bit of a trek. Nice. I wish that that were more commonly known. I wish I had known that before i got to i feel like i've let tattoo artists improvise on me what sort of against my brave

but it's because i'm not very assertive and so i'm just like yeah it looks good i like it and then i have like a worm tattoo on my arm which wasn't supposed to that was like dealer's choice that was just like hey i like drew i i don't know i should have been communicating clearer there was fault on both sides but i but i definitely at the end i feel like i don't know i feel like he should have told me i don't think this looks like what you think it looks like because at the end he was like this is a worm right and i was like oh no and he was like that would be a hundred dollars you know it was that you're outlining a scar right i was outlining a scar and we talked about it and i could see hesitation in his face but i think he didn't want to hurt my feelings and at the end he was like i really hope this is a worm. And I was like, oh my God. I hope you like having a worm on you.

Yeah, he's like, I hope this works for you. Sapphire, like how different could the tattoo have been? Like, have you seen other examples of this ritual that like look completely different and are like a big eagle on someone's back or something? So there's a specific set of traditional motifs that are reused. So this is unique to me, but there's certain symbols inside of it that are used within people of my ethnic background. So the Philippines, before it was the Philippines, like one country, it was just thousands of separate islands.

They all had their own different language, different cultures. And so one of the things he asks you before is what is your specific ethnic background? Because that will determine which symbols he puts on. So mine is a Cebuan. My father's from Cebu. So mine is like specific to Cebuano symbolism. Oh, dope. Yeah. That's amazing.

Just describing it to the listeners who can't see it. It's kind of like a long runway going down the arm that has very intricate. How long did it take? Well, the actual tattooing took three and a half hours, but the like including the ritual getting to know you took maybe like nine, nine hours. Wow. That's amazing. That's like a whole of making a day of it. I wish the worm.

I wish the worm guy had done that. And is the getting to know you thing just like name games, stuff like that? Like just asking you what your favorite food is um well getting to know like what do you do for a living what are your values um stuff like that and since like i'm very much in the spooky community i'm like a paranormal person um he wanted to incorporate that in my tattoo so this is actually technically a curse oh wow whoa like it's protection for me but a curse to anyone who wants to fuck with me wow that's so dope so don't fuck with me i was planning to and now i'm not yeah i'm out on the whole fucking with you thing

you'll be fucked and then you you were saying that you were searching what would happen if you scratched it. Are you? Yeah. Is it itchy? Yes. It is currently in the itchy phase of tattoos. And so I actually I was doing really well about it. Like it wasn't like super itchy, but there was one morning like a couple mornings ago where I woke up.

And you know how you're just like in this half awake, half sleep phase? Yeah, I spend most of my day like that. Exactly. I just unconsciously scratched my arm and it woke me up. I'm like, oh my God. And I looked at it. Oh, it's so painful. I recommend putting one of those dog collars around that they do when dogs get stitches.

Just put that around your arm. My wife uses that on me all the time and it's very, very useful. Sure. What is something you think is underrated? I would definitely have to say adult animation. Animation that is made for an adult audience. Yay! Yeah. to say adult animation animation that is made for an adult audience um i yeah like i'm an animator and it you know i went to animation school worked as an animator for a while um and it just really uh makes me cringe when people either refer to all animation as cartoons or they call animation

a genre because it's not animation is a medium in which you can tell a lot of different types of stories. And for just some reason, like in this country specifically, the wide majority of people don't view it as a medium. Like, you know, Japanese animation, plenty of stuff for adults. They understand that, like, yes, you can have adult animation. There's a lot of French animated movies too. And it's just, I don't know, it's making it really hard for, just because I'm trying to, like, sell an adult animated horror show. It's really hard to find people who are going to want to buy it.

Because they're like, well, we only want to do something that's, like, spooky and animated if it's for kids. and animate it if it's for kids um you know they don't think that there's a market for it but they're absolutely 100 is a market for animation that is for an adult audience agree yeah it's really i mean it's it is really bizarre to me that adult animation i feel like it also has like such a kind of even that is kind of a limiting thing because it's like, okay, TV, you don't call live action TV, TV for adults. Like there's different sub genres inside of adult TV. So like, okay, it's adult animation. Like there's a lot of different kinds of adults there. It's so, it's frustrating.

And then to feel like if you, if you like adult animation, you work in adult animation, it's a very specific type of humor that you're kind of relegated to and if you try to tiptoe outside of that they're like wait that's not adult animation i feel like it implies a certain sense of humor which doesn't even really make sense yeah it's weird like there's definitely you know tv shows that are aimed aimed at adults that have been uh animated but there's not really like movies that have been aimed at adults that were like big hits that uh are animated right like there's roger rabbit and like cool world and like those those are specifically ones where they had to like but brad pitt's in it too so like you can see people so it's okay that it's for adults guys they do exist but they're not like wide release like right adult

movies i call them uh they're not like other adult movies right adult films yeah um and that's another thing like there there's been a couple times where when i was working in animation and people ask oh what do you do like oh i work i make adult animation and immediately their mind goes to right you make animated porn like no it's just animation that adults watch yeah yeah that's so weird i i just wonder how much of that is just incidentally Walt Disney being like the first person in American animation, because like there's literally nothing that would suggest that that should be a thing for kids necessarily. even like south park uh is one of my favorite animated movies and that's obviously for adults but it they have to have like the stars be kids because like there's just something about the american mind that like can't get past the idea that oh pictures that's for that's for kids that can't be that can't be big people right like picture Like picture books. Yeah. That's for kids.

Like why can't like holographic novels? Yeah. Yeah. It opens up every genre to do like. Yeah. It's. I don't like it. I agree.

What is something you think is overrated? Well, like I said, I live in LA. I feel like the hustle is overrated. And what I mean by that is just this idea that we have to overwork ourselves, make lots of sacrifices to try to reach some sort of version of success that we think is what we want. And I'm totally guilty of this too. But I don't know. I just think, you know, we're all kind of obsessed with like turning everything that we do into some sort of form of income or I don't know, like if you're not like at a certain level of whatever, you aren't quote unquote successful. Especially, I mean, now more than ever, dare I say.

You dare, you dare. No, but it does feel like, and especially here, it feels very kind of silly and almost jarring to see people that are like i'm back on my hustle you're like but why like right yeah there's and it's also just nice to see people like have you know if they're lucky have a little bit of bandwidth to just do things that bring them joy and not worry like well how can i monetize my only source of joy like that's such a whatever depressing prospect yeah drains it of joy pretty quickly a lot of the time I just heard somebody say don't just do something sit there as like a mantra and it has me in like more of a Zen mode than I usually am. And like when I am like more just willing to sit quietly with myself,

it's, it's really striking how much of the things that I do, like whether it's my phone, my job, like just, you know, whatever it is, is just to like escape my own thoughts. Like I'm just trying to, trying to distract from, you know, whatever it is, is just to like escape my own thoughts.

Like I'm just trying to distract from, you know, the knowledge that we all die. You know, fun stuff like that. But yeah, that's what podcasts are good for. So forget I said that, listener. Forget I reminded you of your own mortality uh what is a myth sapphire what's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa oh man so this might make people go okay i'm gonna stop listening but i wanted to ask both of you first um Do either of you believe in ghosts?

Yes. It's complicated. I definitely, I'm like agnostic on ghosts. Old school Facebook, it's complicated, but Jack O'Brien. I'm agnostic in that I don't fully believe one way or the other, but I believe there's stuff out there that we don't understand for sure. in this world because it is. But the problem is that people's definition of what is paranormal, what is supernatural, what is magic is just wrong. And it's shaped by our entertainment, you know, what we see in movies. I think the word ghosts is very loaded. Usually people jump to,

you know, seeing a white figure in a white dress, like in the middle of the night, like, oh, I've never seen that. So ghosts don't exist. Well, that's not what a ghost is. So what would an expanded definition of like paranormal be that you think we could be rocking with? Like the basic, basic definition of the supernatural is just something that we do not know how to explain. And our intuition is a really big example of that. Like intuition is something that we all have, that sort of gut feeling, that voice, that sort of just pops up every now and then.

Everybody has this, but we don't truly know where it comes from or how it enters our bodies, right? It just like happens. And for indigenous Filipinos, the belief is that that voice is actually the cumulative voice of the spirits of all our ancestors. So in that way, when we are having intuitive thoughts, we are speaking to ghosts.

Wow. Wow. That's amazing. That's how I like to think of it. Yeah, I like that a lot. Yeah, I like that a lot. Yeah, I just, anything but the materialist, atheist perspective that it's like,

we're just meatbags and then we're in the dirt and then, you know, that's my impression of atheists. Jack, that's what you did. You just did a big Gen X. We're just meatbags. We'll just meet bags. We'll just meet bags and we're in the dirt. But yeah, that's super dope. I like that notion of ancestors still being with us. Well, that was very cool.

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And we're back. And this being Monday, is the Amy Coney Barrettrett thing like over or did she my understanding is that it was three days three fits in and out and i right is that yeah like wasn't there a thing where like kavanaugh did the same thing like he had three days but then we found out that he was a serial sexual abuser and And so then like, and then they were like, we got to get back in there.

I don't really, I don't really know. It's going to overtime. As, as I was watching, honestly, half watching the Amy Coney Barrett, like sessions,

I guess I was like, Oh, I guess I have never really paid close attention to like a fairly uneventful Supreme court. Because I just was like oh i guess i have never really paid close attention to like a fairly uneventful supreme court uh because i just was like the only one i'd really ever paid attention to was like the high drama high trauma of the kavanaugh hearing so i'm like maybe this is how it goes i have no idea yeah i feel like i don't know the the thing that it made me realize just watching it is how full of shit the whole Supreme Court thing is. are going to be multiple interpretations that you could conceivably be like sided with like they're equally valid and every time a case comes before them it has two arguments that are going to be equally persuasive and correct and you just choose the one you want to go with based on your preexisting politics.

And the fact that like she kept getting out of it and that there's even this like pretense that she let that any Supreme court justice like has no preexisting beliefs and is just like this lawyer philosopher priest that is just like, lawyer philosopher priest that is just like i will then like descend upon the bench and give the one true answer is just so full of shit and it seems almost outdated that we still like even give lip service to it yeah i mean she was very uh but i mean i guess what supreme court justices are allegedly supposed to be doing but it's so clearly untrue like for every justice of like well i'm gonna read the constitution and whatever the constitution says to do

and that's what i'll do and what i think the constitution i'll whisper to the constitution and what it whispered back that's what i'm gonna vote on yeah and like i only listen to the constitution which is like whatever putting aside all the issues with the constitution is also like not true the constitution is misinterpreted for like partisan reasons every day all the time yeah there's i did i i found it my least favorite part was when ted cruz was getting all flirty oh my god i hated extra he was like so what are your hobbies i was like what is this i mean she's like she's like play the piano they were on the fucking bumble date yeah they were like i played the piano he's like oh my gosh so you're married you got kids like we can work around that i'm like what the fuck sick man a sick man like there's not some

new piece of evidence or like a new footnote in the constitution she's going to notice and be like well i'll be damned a woman does have a right to choose what to do with her body like that's just not going to i don't know the whole thing just seems like a farce to me hot take this politics stuff is a farce the real circus yeah no i'm gonna say, Jamie. It's someone put a 10 on this circus. Someone. It was, I don't know. I was honestly in and out on it because I'm engaging with the news at this point where I'm like, if I truly can do absolutely nothing and my opinion will not alter what is happening in front of me,

I've just been engaging with it slightly less. Yeah. Because then you're just like, well, this is depressing. I'm just watching someone who, if things work out, will just definitely try to take reproductive rights from people, will definitely try to take health care from people. And then what? I'm supposed to just drop everything on a Tuesday morning and watch?

No, thank you. All right. to just like drop everything on a tuesday morning and watch no thank you yeah all right let's talk california's ballot box saga so the california republicans have been putting ballot drop boxes around the state uh that and there are more than were first reported that they're like fake they're like traps where you like put your ballot and then it's like psych you didn't just vote yeah trump has like approved that and also he has not approved aid for california during the wildfires because yeah this is just like a great argument for ending the electoral college. Like that he can just be like, well, they're never going to vote for me anyway. So they get no aid.

And yes, like rat fuck everybody's like the entire population. I don't care. There's nothing like he's just totally unaccountable when it comes to california because he doesn't he knows he's never gonna get california's votes yeah and every state is having their own version of this nightmare depending on like which direction the white house has you know in terms of like do we want votes from this state or are these votes garbage to us um because they're not going to generally vote for them. It's so, it's so bizarre and frustrating to not only have like the, whatever,

like be like, Oh, here's like, here are all these voting guides and here are like helpful things that you can do. Here are resources. But then on top of that to be like, Oh,

also here are like joke boxes. These are like where you like, don't go here. It says vote, but actually don't. And like, oh, also, here are joke boxes. These are where you... Don't go here. It says vote, but actually don't. And here are boxes that are real. Here are boxes that are fake. It's just designed to make people skeptical and confused and exhausted and give up. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that seems right. I mean, they say that negative political ads are actually bad because they make people less likely to vote and less enthusiastic about politics in general. And it seems like just generally that's what this whole thing is about, is just trying to get voter participation down as much as possible and it seems like it's not working like the early numbers are really strong people are are voting which is encouraging which is great yeah there's like over a million in california already and over a million in a bunch of states yeah yeah like the numbers every time you like check in with comparisons between like how many people have voted at this point in 2016 it's like 28 times more people have voted um which is pretty encouraging um that's the best i also

felt way better when i realized that if you just did like ink because i have i've been so paranoid that it's like my ballot box is near my local library. But I'm like, but what if they switch it out? And then I put my ballot into the wrong box. But I guess they email you once it's been received. And then you're like, okay. So if you don't get an email in the next whatever couple of days after you drop the ballot, then you know you've got hoodwinked. Right, right.

But then are you able to vote again? I don't know. I don't know. You would just know that your vote didn't count and then you couldn't do anything about it. I get like a moment of, anytime I put a letter in like a USPS mailbox, like I have a moment of panic,

like after I drop it where I'm like, ah, did I do that right? Like, did I put everything on there? Were the stamps right? Like, was that the right thing? So like, I can only imagine how this is going to feel. Also, I constantly just write addresses wrong and put the stamps like on my sleeve instead of on the letter. It's very confusing to me. Yeah, walking in with stamps on your head. instead of on the letter. It's very confusing to me. Yeah, walking in with stamps on your head. All right, let's talk briefly about Hunter Biden's been trending, was trending at the end of last week, still trending, I'm assuming, even though we're recording this at the end of last week. But

I think it's worth giving some context on like where this came from so bill barr was basically deployed by trump to dig up any and all bullshit that would somehow make the muller report look like uh it was actually a positive thing and that in fact biden Obama and Hillary were like doing crimes to to Trump basically seems to be what he was looking for but it's basically any negative investigation that looked into the Trump administration he wanted to like undo yeah he was just reading his own press reading his own uh paranoid political blogs and uh none of the shit ended up coming true. Like it was all bullshit. The guy who Bill Barr hired, U.S. Attorney John Bash, spent, I think, months looking

into Obama era officials trying to figure out if what they did to justify you know their investigations into michael flynn etc was justified and ultimately found out like they didn't have enough to charge anyone there was really no wrongdoing there bash fucking resigned after doing his investigation he was just like yeah that's uh you're gonna be mad at me i think so now that that desperate attempt to like dig up dirt on the biden uh obama hillary grouping uh failed they're now going with hacking hunter biden's, which is what they did. It's just a bunch of, you know, pictures and like what you would expect from Hunter Biden's computer.

It's like, you know, evidence that he smoked crack, uh, that he was, you know, he's a fucking mess. He's a,

and, and also like completely open about it. There's like all these heartbreaking like interactions between hunter biden and like his daughter where she's like dad could you put 150 in my account like i need i need it to get home from the airport and he's like okay but just know like your dad gave away all his money like i'm a fuck up okay so like don't no like basically that just giving the most serving the most dead texts of all time like yeah i'll do the bare minimum for you but know that it's killing me you're like okay thanks dad yeah it's just and then a lot of weird pictures of him like

flexing in the mirror and stuff but it's just he's a flawed person who who's his dad like knows he's flawed like i don't i don't think it's like damaging in any real way to joe biden's campaign so then that brought about this like facebook and twitter suppression of that story because they're saying it was because it was hacked but that seems kind of specious and uh also it's just like a really bad precedent for Twitter and Facebook to be deciding like what stories get shared on their platform yeah yeah I don't know like it comes from the whole Russiagate thing and like the accusations that it was like Facebook's fault because they were willing to let all these fake stories circulate which is true but at the same time like facebook deciding that a story is fake like you can really see that going in some dark directions in the very very near future

i don't know i don't know i the the stuff with facebook and twitter is so fraught, like going past America where it seems like, no, I mean, I don't know. It's impossible to give anyone any credit because it always feels like, like, why is this a discussion that is all of a sudden coming up for you less than three weeks before a major election? Like this, people have been talking to facebook and twitter about this forever they never do the right thing and then at the last second they're like we're really trying you guys we're really doing our best here when it's like there's already so much blood on the hands of platforms like that already that it's just like i don't know i'm just like there there's no way they're gonna you know do the right thing it's great if they're like, oh, actually, we're going to do you a huge favor and filter out some false hate speech that is being spread on our platform. But I don't know.

I'm like, are we really at a point that we have to be like, thank you. Thanks, dad. Thanks. I don't know. It's, yeah. All very bleak. Yeah yeah it's just confusing it's tough because on the other hand there have been like these stories that went out of control there were like panics in towns overseas where like people died and in those cases like yeah, yeah, you do think it does make you think like Facebook should have been on top of that and not allowed for the like lightning fast like transmission of like myths and, you know, material that would cause people to kill each other.

But it's just like a very a line that like it's not as clear-cut as i think a lot of people think it is yeah well speaking of bleak oh hey uh transish let's talk about uh there there are a lot of reports that things are kind of bleak behind the scenes at the trump campaign i don't know if there were stories like this during the 2016 stretch run i think there probably were around the time of the like access hollywood uh tape when everyone was like he's toast lin-manuel miranda went on snl and was like you're never gonna be president now um so not uh not the best got him in your face trump every time i see an snl sketch i'm like that's gonna be the one he's toast oh man can we talk about the white house jack can we talk about the snl teeth thing real quick do we oh yeah back then it got the teeth I think that's my update

yeah I think is there I did watch the season premiere of SNL because I was I was curious and I was curious to see if anyone got the teeth over the summer the teeth being uh Lauren Michaels famously makes like legacy SNL cast members get entirely new sense of teeth because he's obsessed with teeth who knows why um i've seen it happen over the years pete davidson i think was the last person to get the teeth really egregiously where you're like that's a new mouth i don't know that mouth yeah he got the teeth a while ago and then this is i'm pretty sure and all you like eagle-eyed zeitgang viewers correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure mr beck bennett got a new mouth over the summer and he came back and you know he's got five million teeth at this point it's it's not so

many new teeth it's also like additional teeth and they's too many teeth. And they're all the same length and they're all made of the finest porcelain. And I don't know. I think, I think back then it got the teeth. I don't know if anyone else got the teeth. And I, and it makes me wonder in regards to the teeth, is it like,

Hey, if you want new teeth, we'll get it. Or is it like, you need to get the teeth. I wonder if it's like, we're just going to see if we're saying, hey, the teeth are available if you want them. And then only one or two people say, I'll take the teeth.

I don't know. It seems like cast members of that show are like in a perpetual state of being like, I'm going to get kicked off. I'm going to get fired. So like, I feel like it would be enough for lauren to just like push a like business card across the table to you that was like his teeth guy and that would be enough you'd be like yeah i'll get i'll get the teeth sure lauren um and also like it's such a weird power dynamic that i bet like him suggesting you get the teeth would be seen as like, you've made it kid.

You got the teeth. Is this something you've just noticed about SNL or is this something that people know about? It's both an observation and a rumor. I've never heard anyone directly involved with SNL be like, yes, the teeth is a thing. Help us save us from the teeth. Got it.

There's enough peripheral whispers about the teeth and Lorne Michaels having maybe a certain fixation on how your teeth look on screen. The first thing he asks you when you get the show is how do you feel about wigs uh allegedly and and like like that is has there ever been anyone who is like not good with wigs and therefore like their career is just torpedoed um but like he also will compliment somebody or like say behind the scenes when evaluating talent they've got a great head for wigs so that's like the first step you have to like get past and then once you've got a good head for wigs and you're on the show you're being

evaluated as to whether you have teeth material if you're teeth material you go to auditions and he's like show me your mouth yeah like he like lifts up your gums like you're a racehorse let's just checking what's going on in that mouth of yours i don't know what he sounds like i'm realizing yeah no that's that's dead on apparently like dr evil which it sounds like exactly what you're doing i mean that's a dead on dr evil anyways i don't know how we got on teeth other than to say uh so behind the scenes trump's campaign manager is apparently very bleak like pessimistic knows they have no shot um and the people who are or claims to think they have no shot i still think they have a shot because they're willing to openly cheat and uh rat fuck the counting of ballots so uh that that's how that's my big theory on how

he's gonna win we don't even need a whole segment of it. It's just he will claim that ballots are invalid or that it's voter fraud, and Fox News will go with him. And then there will be a whole chunk of the country who believes that's true. That's true. But anyways, internally, his internal team, he's out of money. So they're spending small amounts of money in all the states. And other campaign people behind the scenes are like, wait, we should be picking a path to 270 votes and like pursuing that but apparently uh stepien his uh his campaign manager is scared of like him of getting yelled at because like trump's such a like rage monster that like

so stepien's dilemma as described by several advisors is that trump would inevitably blow up at him if he were to read newspaper stories that he was going off the air in a Rust Belt battleground. So rather than giving up on states where he's clearly not going to win and spending money in states that they think they have a shot at that would give them a path to having enough votes, they're just spreading it out so that there's no bad stories that make trump mad at him which i love to hear i love anytime the things that are like evidently not good about the president when it comes to like being a manager just are shown to be like toxic uh and bad for his ability to like win a campaign or

run the country um it just makes me feel slightly more sane like yeah more sane i mean it's been a pretty it's been a pretty brutal stretch of bad pr but at this point it's i i kind of i mean it makes me curious of like i don't know i mean god only knows who's really thinking about end game and like how to attain uh an end game but i'm just like they're clearly there's just no response to like hey people don't like what you're like people don't like that you're gonna lose voters for doing that that clearly doesn't matter i'm like is that because the plan is to just throw votes in the garbage or like what what is the internal logic is there internal logic it's all very unclear to me right he's just he's got the one speed he's going that same speed and people don't like it his polls are getting worse he's just like doubling down is that because that's

all he knows how to do or is it because he knows something we don't about like their strategy for rat fucking the election it's doing so bad he's managed to create enthusiasm for joe biden something i thought was impossible talk about teeth baby oh we're talking about veneers. We're talking about three times the amount of human teeth you're going to want in your mouth. Oh, man. Ben Sasse, who's like a very popular Republican, went on a tirade about Trump on a call that was being recorded that i think he should have like probably knew was being recorded but he just did a thing where he like said all the things that people have been saying about the tron he's like he viewed covet 19 as a publicity crisis instead of a public health crisis uh just like went down and like put it perfectly everything that trump has done that was like very bad for the country so it just like makes it clear that

he like they they've known the whole time they know what's happening they're just lying and cynical um when they don't like point these things out it makes me feel better for a second but then i'm just like i just i don't i don't trust any of any of the like trump is sunk i'm like i need i need some results i need like i need some results and then i need like his him and his followers to say they're not going to to take to the streets and start killing people. And then I need a nap. I need lunch.

What a nap. What a nap we're all going to have on the 4th of November. Either from just sheer depression or... Yeah, probably that. Yeah, probably depression. One way or another uh all right guys let's take another quick break and we'll come back and talk about halloween costumes

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based on i guess a survey and like search data um but so some of them are like i'm gonna be star wars for halloween uh which is funny to me that somebody like in addition to like having actual star wars characters as the answer uh some of them are are uh star wars as like the the halloween costume is star wars um it's just star wars yeah it's just any of them all of them you can be all the all the star wars for halloween yeah number three harley quinn which i was saying last week like birds of prey came out this year that is i know it's one of my last theater movies yeah that's wild that it came out this year um and then our writer jm mcnabb did sort of a deep dive of some of the uhical Halloween costumes.

One that I've seen. I don't want to see a Carole Baskin. I don't want to see any Tiger King, anything ever again for the rest of my life. Is that on the list? It's not actually. Oh, good.

Worse than that. The sexy hand sanitizer costume, which is just a vinyl flared dress with Velcro straps that reads, Yandy hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs. And then it comes with a bottle of hand sanitizer. The idea is like hand sanitizer bottles are clear. And so this is like an opportunity for a sexy Halloween costume. Totally naked underneath a hand sanitizer bottle.

That's hot. Too bad you can't see anybody. Yeah, exactly. It's good to have this at your crowded Halloween party. You know, somebody walking around. That you shouldn't be having. Right. Exactly.

One guy made headlines for selling a $180 Karen mask on Etsy that has like the Karen hairdo and then a real angry white lady face. Of course, the Mike Pence fly wig, which is literally just a shitty white hair wig with a fly glued onto it. Can you imagine? You can order that, and by the time it arrives, it's already a very dated, exhausting reference to make, and everyone will just sigh looking at you. Like, okay, funny.

The picture of it is a guy wearing it with a real serious Pence face and he's pointing to the fly. So FYI. I got a Navi costume. I'm going to be Avatar. You're going to be Avatar. How cute. I'm going to be Avatar.

It's a cute costume and they don't cost a lot of money right now because I don't think anybody wants them. It's a cute costume and they don't cost a lot of money right now because I don't think anybody wants them. It's not on the list. It's not on the list. Not on the top 50. Give it two years, 2022. I'm going to be laughing all the way to the bank that I thought to get a Na'vi costume early. Yeah.

Joker is at number 30, which i i suspect that joker is like the trump voter of the poll and that jokers are approximately 40 of the costumes i see every year but they're apparently not the type to like answer polls because they believe in nothing and just want to see the whole world burn um oh i hate joker culture there are really funny joker meme pages that are so nonsensical that i i'll send you subject they're fun they're they're all just so deeply misogynist but like so misogynist that you're like i don't even know what this is trying to say where it's like why do you need a girl when you could be a joker i don't need a wife i have chaos like it's i'm married to chaos To chaos. Madness.

Sapphire, so one of my sons wants to be a ghost, and he wants to just wear the white sheet over top of his head as his version of ghost. What would be a more accurate or better depiction of a ghost for Halloween purposes? Ooh, I guess it depends on what vibe of ghost does he want to be like genuinely scary probably not he's too oh man i guess i don't know just slap on a bunch of I like how earlier I was like oh ghosts aren't like white figures you see but I'm like oh just slap on a bunch of like white paint

like white clothes or just trying to communicate with people that he's a ghost I think the sheet the sheet costume after all this time it still hits I love a good ghost it's a classic yeah flowy white classic

like a bride yeah exactly like classic brides bride's dress right bridal gown oh by the way this is the spooky music that you will hear if you go to the Halloween Google Fright Geist page. So just reading through the list. Number one, witch. Number two, dinosaur. Three, Harley Quinn. Four, rabbit. Five, clown.

I'm wondering if we've crossed the Rubicon where... I didn't know we were still doing clown. Yeah. So is clown... I mean, it's got to be scary clown. Rubicon where like will I didn't know we were still doing clown yeah so is clown I mean it's got to be scary clown all the clowns I see are always scary clowns like do kids even realize that clowns were ever something that wasn't

just like a thing that serial killers dressed up in well I hated clowns when I was a child right and I didn't know anything about Ed Gein or anything. Yeah. I feel like maybe Ronald McDonald is the last bastion of, like, clown that you're supposed to like. That you're like, oh, this clown is, I think this clown is, likes me.

That doesn't sound good. But, like, I think this clown wants to be my friend and give me a French fry or two. Yeah. Okay. Friendly vibes. Not like, hey, come here, kid vibes. Literally drinking from my clown glass. I was like, you know, look at.

Do you have a clown glass? Yeah, I got my little clown glass. Yeah. Wow. And he's doing a weird thing with his hands. Oh yeah. He's like frog hopping over one of the fry guys. But it looks

like he's, it does look like he could be like holding his balls after getting hit in the balls. Yeah. Out of context, the class is pornographic and disgusting. Yeah. 1980s is one of the top costumes, just the entire decade. Okay.

Yeah. Ghost 34, Hocus Pocus 37. It's all very vague. Isn't Hocus Pocus just a witch? Yeah. That's a movie. I think Hocus Pocus is, yeah they're the dvd right but they have like specific looks i think i think they're you can get like children's hocus pocus costumes

probably not like at rite aid or something but um yeah i my mom used to like make our costumes more often than not and so it would be like what is slightly in fashion already that you can wear long sleeves in because we lived in massachusetts and so anything with short sleeves wasn't allowed for halloween somebody uh retweeted a picture of robert pattinson in his batman costume with like a he was like wearing a coat because they were not shooting at that moment and they were like that reminds me of Halloween when you would like to put put on a dope costume but then like you had to put a coat on because the funniest my my little brother uh dressed up as Tarzan for one I don't this is I think maybe the worst trend in children's Halloween costumes.

It's like when the costume has abs, I don't like, but the costume is so uncomfortable. You're like, this kid is four, but it's like my brother, he's like three, maybe two.

And he's wearing this Tarzan suit. And he has, he's like fucking shredded. Yeah. But he's two. It's great. It looks really fucked up it's gross uh i've got a shredded batman costume that uh is weird um what number 40 is descendants which i thought was the george

clooney movie i was very confused for a second i really his wife's in a coma like I thought it was like kids wearing I think there's a scene where he like runs around and flip flops or something but it's it's a Kenny Ortega movie what's that?

it's like a Disney channel original movie right yeah yeah that's what it is it's like the children version of Maleficent. Anyways, that's a little look at the daily Fright Geist. Hope you got some ideas for things to dress up as and stay home. Sadly. I know. Yeah.

Are you guys, so you're Navi, Sapphire, do you dress up for Halloween? You got anything? I do. So my cousins are actually doing like a dog Halloween contest.

So we have to do coordinating outfits with our dogs. That's awesome. So I'm going to be Snow White and then one of my dogs is has only three legs and so i'm gonna make him an apple with a bite out of it that's so cute that's super cute sunny's gonna be joe biden i'm gonna get him dentures. I know. It's really embarrassing. Is Sonny going to keep dentures? He loves the center.

He loves the center so much. Are you doing that just to torture him because he's such a Trump head? Or is Sonny's Biden now? He pivoted to Biden a while ago. He used to be trolling Bernie supporters. And he would Photoshop Bernie out of his own advertisements, Photoshop Biden in. It would say, not me, Biden. It was fucked up. But turns out

he was right. Yeah, he nailed it. Sonny's always been good. He's always had an eye for political talent like that. Yeah. yeah sapphire it has been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist where can people uh find you and follow you um you can find me on twitter and instagram at awkward sapphire spelled just like those words are spelled okay and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes. Hang on. I wrote it somewhere. So this was a tweet I saw that was very wholesome from Simone Geertz. She just makes really cool videos on YouTube of her building really random inventions. building really random inventions.

And so she tweeted, I built my dog a selfie booth so she can take photos of herself by pushing a pedal with her paw. And then there's like a couple photos of the dog taking a selfie. And it's just, I love it because it doesn't really contribute anything to society, but it brings us so much joy.

It's really sweet. That's so sweet. Jamie, where can people find you and what's tweet you've been enjoying i can find me on twitter.com at jamie loftus helped instagram at jamie christ superstar twerking mummy at cvs uh let me find uh oh this is a fun one from Brody Gupta. Can't totally explain how this happened, but I accidentally just called her Reese movie spoon. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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