The Daily Zeitgeist - Truckers Need Love, Celebs Need to Sit This One Out? 3.20.20

Episode Date: March 20, 2020

In episode 591, Jack and Miles are joined by quarantine co-host Jamie Loftus to discuss the youth ignoring warnings, how to get the coronavirus test if you're not a celebrity or NBA player, spring break in Florida, truckers, Netflix slowing down the internet, celebrities trying to entertain us, Hallmark movies, movies dropping on VOD, and more!FOOTNOTES: “If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying”: Spring breakers are still flocking to Miami, despite coronavirus warnings.  Younger Adults Make Up Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S. FDA Urges Caution After Trump Says Malaria Drug Will Be Available to Coronavirus Patients ‘Almost Immediately’ Celebrities get virus tests, raising concerns of inequality Coronavirus Cases in N.Y.C. Near 4,000; Brooklyn Count Soars: Live Updates Coronavirus comes for spring break: Locals close Florida beaches after governor refuses to. Forced Quarantines Spark Confusion and Worries About Precedent Trucking hit by coronavirus concerns, CTA stresses drivers are ‘essential service’ Netflix asked to slow down streaming so the internet doesn't break Carriers suspend internet data caps during coronavirus Celebrities Sing ‘Imagine’ to Console the Little People Hallmark Channel to Start Airing Christmas Movies, Proving Time Means Nothing Now What the Coronavirus Means for Watching Movies Studio’s Movies in Theaters Will Be Offered for In-Home Rental DAILY ZEITGEIST DISCORD WATCH: Zoot Woman - Its Automatic Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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nfl fantasy football podcast on the iheart radio app on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to season 125 episode 5 of your daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck the Koch brothers, fuck Fox News, and fuck the Wall Street Journal.

Yeah, I said it. Like, for real, for real on that one. Yeah, they're keeping their coronavirus content behind a fucking paywall i so is the new york times to be fair i i tried to click on can i take my dog outside and it's like give me a dollar and maybe i'll fucking tell you give me a dollar maybe i'll show you an article like 20 minutes ago at this recording just uh said that you can access all coronavirus content uh for free but you do have to like give them your

email and blood sample email and all that shit blood sample yeah i'll give you opalzy opalzy it's actually opalzy it's friday march 20th 2020 uh. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Saving Private O'Brien, a.k.a. Sweat Me If You Hand, a.k.a. Joe vs. the Potato, a.k.a. Gnarly Wilson's War, a.k.a. Extremely Loud and Incredible Leaf Blows, a.k.a. Cole Gassed Away, and a.k.a.

Yeetless in Seattle. Those are amazing Tom Hanks related a.k.a.s, courtesy of Trike Gang at JustTDZ, a.k.a. That is so good. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, don't get blamed, don't get blamed For spreading germs around you Stay home and drink cold brew Instead of getting shamed

Don't get blamed, don't get blamed You acting kind of shady Not hanging out lately Why the sudden change? I'm just adding things because I need to keep singing for my own well-being, but thank you to Christy Yamaguchi-Main at Crispy Meme Donut for that wonderful Destiny's Child themed AKA. And Miles and I are thrilled to be joined, as always,

by our co-host, Jamie Loftus! I see quarantine. Red noses too. Oh, no. Locked in a room Just me and you And I think to myself I'm a boss whom is girl

I see miles of gray And Jack O'Brien Second rate all day while Trump goes online and I think to myself I'm a boss who is girl. I got a good Louis Armstrong. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah, man. Oh, wow. That sounds like a Michael Scott character. Michael Scott did Louis Armstrong at some point, right? Michael Scott has done any kind of problematic impersonation. Yeah, I'm like, I don't know. How does one do a Louis Armstrong impression? Yeah, man.

Yeah. There it is. That's a cough from just trying to go too deep in my register do damage to your vocal cords you got it there's no way to to survive a good louis armstrong impersonation yeah uh well guys uh how's everybody doing how's everybody hanging in quick check-in good. I'm running. You're running. Yep. Up and down the past day. There's kind of like some fun dystopian activities going on in my neighborhood.

I went on a walk last night or like around sunset around like a more secluded area because I read on a website without a paywall that you can do that um and uh there were people like riding atvs down the street it was like really oh shit it was like chaotic but it was fun it was like parents and kids just like zooming atvs down that like i almost got i was like oh it's really quiet around here it's like almost a little freaky and then i almost got like hit by an atv immediately so we're chilling yeah i mean this is the closest we've come to like the abandoned landscape of an apocalyptic movie i i'm assuming people are going to eventually start doing some of the things like riding dirt bikes around, jumping them off of buildings.

I wonder if Philly is lit right now. Everybody's on their bikes doing wheelies and shit. Because I know right by my house last night, there was definitely some street bikes going the fuck off up and down the street. So yeah, I the when the cats are away quarantined the mice will play it's fun i mean right now it feels kind of like the level of dystopia that's more kind of like you know the part of jimmy neutron right after all the parents disappear and all the kids like pee in the shower and run around nah not not too savvy when it comes to the Jimmy Neutron. Okay, I guess I'm the Jimmy Neutron scholar of the group.

Jimmy Neutron. Wait, why do the kids have to wait until their parents are gone to pee in the shower? I don't know. I didn't know you could pee in the shower before I saw Jimmy Neutron. I wasn't allowed to take showers when I was a kid. Is that fucked up?

Anyways. What do you mean? Like you weren't trusted to take a standing Bathing I don't even know what the words are You weren't trusted to stand and bathe? Bathing experience? Sitting bathing only Sitting bathing only in our house

For some reason with your cousins There you go Let's tell them what we're going to talk about today, guys. There's a lot of dystopian shit to get to. So we're going to talk about Netflix is being asked by the EU to slow the fuck down to keep the internet from buckling in Europe

and people suspect that might be coming to the United States soon. Just so many people are streaming Netflix content that it's gobbling up all that bandwidth, all that sweet, sweet bandwidth out there. I'm going to ask the question. Yesterday, I asked the all-important question, does the song American Pie still make sense in this post-coron virus world. Even in retrospect, that seems like a stretch to me one day later. But I'm going to ask if celebrities still make sense

after that amazing rendition of Imagine featuring all our faves, celebs. Some pretty major betrayals in that video. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm video. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm getting. Yeah, some of my faves. Some of my faves are out here.

I wonder if it's just in this new reality, if they no longer make sense. I mean, Gal Gadot, we already know that she's bad, bad, bad. Oh, I thought that's who you were talking about because that's my favorite celebrity who I trust the most. Oh, no. I have such bad news for you.

Oh, no. What happened? But, I mean, Kristen Wiig, top five anime betrayals. Like Sarah Silverman, ow, ow, ow. It's all, you know. Yeah, yeah.? Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, I think they thought

they were doing something good. That's the only benefit of the doubt I can give them. It ends up being just like a look at a lot of really nice houses. Yeah. Yeah. I can't really blame anybody except Gal Gadot who seemed to have really put a lot of thought into it.

Otherwise, it seems like people were just like, yeah she wants to do a thing they didn't necessarily know what how it was going to be formatted or presented and that she would be like i've been thinking a lot philosophically lately uh did you uh the post incredible zoe kravitz looks like she's being uh held hostage yeah yeah uh there's an anti-malaria drug that might be promising and how uh it is able to treat covet 19 so we're gonna talk about that we're gonna talk about yeah maybe could go right good night i don't know we'll see yeah we just don't know we just don't know um test availability is still a kind of a central question uh and it seems like it's sort of a a hole at the middle of all the coverage of the coronavirus spread because uh it's all like any numbers we get are purely based on like how available testing is there.

Like people are talking about a New York spike overnight. And it's just that they started testing more. And so now we can see that it's everywhere, which I think is the case basically everywhere. We're going to talk. everywhere yeah um we're gonna talk we're gonna speak directly to ron desantis uh which might become a recurring uh segment where we just speak directly to ron desantis uh we're gonna look at all the different age groups that are affected because it's not just the olds like we thought um but before we get to any of that guys let's uh let's just do a group sesh of uh one each total search history does anybody have a search history they want to share

i google the lyrics to tub thumping because i want the celebrities to do tub thumping next they're like we'll be singing when we're winning yeah Yeah. I think that needs to happen. I agree. We need to put it together. Because we are all feeling philosophical at this moment. And just deep as fuck, too. Yeah. Honestly, I'm pretty sure I know what the world needs

based on my very narrow worldview. Also, Imagine is literally about like socialism so whatever tub i mean i tub thumping now more than ever whenst one gets knocked down yeah one must get remember you're never gonna keep me down never Never. I searched for how to make Russian dressing. Okay. How? Because I'm trying to make a Reuben, but I did not find Russian dressing at the store,

but I read a lot of things where you can make it, so now I'm just trying to make my Russian dressing. There's also a development that you might have missed miles there's a fight going on between sunny and flea oh no just keep trying to break up the fight what are they fighting over cigarettes they're doing their fight the thing is like yeah the cigarettes are near the nearest us we can't i can't afford uh enough cigs for them both, so they're supposed to share. And they don't share. Sonny sometimes gets excited. He eats the

entire cigarette. That says flee off. And they both have withdrawals. This is actually a whole thing today. You should start going live, like domestic pet fights over cigarettes. Because we'd have no more sports to watch. This is going gonna be new yeah

is russian dressing close to thousand island dressing what's russian dress it's basically what i found out is that like the difference is thousand island is sweeter and russian dressing has more of a hip tang hip tang yeah like there's a little bit more spice to it like got it there's more spicy flavor like like whether you add a little horseradish or like chili sauce or something where thousand island is basically using like you know using those pickles or relish to give you a little sweetie sweetie well my sweet sweet is i kicked i evicted the animals uh Does anyone... Oh, wow. Okay, landlord. There's... Sorry. Yeah, I actually...

There's been a hold on evictions? Not the way I... Not the way I... Okay. Please remove the rose from your display name on Twitter. I'm a regular... Who are the comedian landlords? It's Hannibal Buress and then someone else.

Hannibal Buress, yeah. And then... So many people. I know so many people in the... many musicians so many musicians are landlords too yeah if you know an artist someone who's like i'm a cool artist and they're also a landlord uh call them out uh but i did just evict my animals is french dressing good do people hate french dressing you know i never developed a relationship with french dressing and maybe that's maybe that's my fault but that's like a less creamy russian right yeah like there's no russian

got some chunks in it right right yeah no i don't know people are salad dressing zeitgang is probably screaming into their phones i love french dressing was more thought French dressing was more of like a, it's not like creamy, right? It's like more of a vinaigrette? No, it's like a sweet red. It's kind of, yeah. You're like, you get the, you know mayonnaise isn't involved, but it's like not too far away from the,

it's really thick and orange. It's really thick and sweet, right? Yeah, yeah. I used to love it so much. My family, like my family can't cook for shit, so we would just put salad dressing on every meal, and French was my vice. Your jam?

Yeah. Wow. So wait, are you going to make the Russian dressing, Miles? Yeah, yeah. Oh, definitely. I have mayonnaise. I have some ketchup. I also have some a little bit more interesting ketchup

that has a little more flavor to it, and I definitely have prepared horseradish. I'll mix into that. Apparently, there was no rush on sauerkraut at the store, so I got me some sauerkraut. Unfortunately, there was no rye bread.

There's no rye, so I had to go with wheat. You know what? I think it'll still be a tasty combination. I got Swiss cheese and the smoked meat, so I'm good there. Bread is still gone everywhere. to go with wheat but you know what um i think it'll still be a tasty combination got swiss cheese and the smoked meat so i'm good there yeah bread is still gone everywhere uh eggs are still gone everywhere uh let's talk about what's underrated and i want to i want to call it travel agents for being underrated uh travel agent is helping super producer anah a hose and he is mom get home, uh,

which from Iran, which is huge. And, uh, you know, but she was able to use a travel agent to do that. It's been my experience that travel agents are, are a thing that we assumed okay the

internet exists we have kayak we will never need travel agents again but it it's one of those things where if you can afford it it's actually like they know all the people at the hotels they know the people at the airlines they can really make your life a lot easier um and get shit done get get a relative home from iran i'm hoping to like you can kick some travel agents business right now by like asking them to like i'm sure they know all the ways you can get a deal or if you have any disposable income and you know you'll have to travel to like be able to take advantage of buying a flight in advance. But who knows?

Maybe the entire airline industry will go bankrupt and the government will nationalize airplanes. I don't know. Just an idea. I feel like travel agents are resourceful. Even if all the planes go under, they'll be able to get you on a crop duster. Yeah.

They're like, I know a farmer who's going to be going over that county. How are you with a parachute duster. Yeah. They're like, I know a farmer who's going to be going over that county. How are you with a parachute? Yeah. How do you feel about parachutes? Okay, not great with those. Okay, well.

Oh, and they're not tandem jumps. Solo. What is something you guys think is overrated? Hair and sleeping. i was gonna say maybe our our lack of faith in humanity feel a lot of people are willing to just jump to the darkest conclusion right away yeah and i would i while i know there's plenty of evidence to see how selfish human beings are, there's plenty out there to see that there is also good in people and many people who are willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm choosing to really, really like lean into that and, and, and see that happen around me.

Cause there's plenty of cases to be like yeah well it's everything's gonna go to shit or whatever but there's also a lot of people who are willing to help each other and they may not their their moment may not have arrived yet but i know there are plenty of willing people and for the people whose moment has arrived they're doing really great things and i think that's something that uh should not go overlooked but i think it's a bit overrated for you know a lot of the nightmare scenarios people are playing out in their heads in terms of like total collapse of society

and things like that. I mean, hey, look, we've all listened to it could happen here. It's definitely possible, but I think where we're at right now, I think it's very important to remember that we are able to lean on each other and we are able to help each other and we should be open to helping each other as well because that's how

yeah that's how we really avoid any kind of ugliness well i got your self-esteem by doing esteemable things for other people i've been it is like kind of yeah i don't know i've had to mute a couple people who seem to be capitalizing on this moment by just like reminding people that whatever i don't know yeah there's there is a lot of good stuff going on i've been really encouraged to see uh teachers uh doing stuff online these past couple of days it's both like very beautiful and very funny to watch um a lot of my mom's teacher friends who are mostly women in their 50s and 60s trying to figure out how to live stream they don't know how to do it but they're really trying and it's it's i don't know there there is like a there are so many people out there who are like willing to help and do good things.

You want to add some extra chaos to that situation, you throw in a classroom full of like three and four year olds who also don't know how that works and try to get them to stay in front of their webcams as the class is going on it's amazing it sounds like a fucking mess like i i do it's such a mess i i love i mean i love it it makes i i hate that that's the situation but i'm glad that it's like everyone is like actually making the effort to to make it happen And I was talking with a parent this morning who was like, yeah, just everyone's trying to figure out Zoom. I don't know. We're doing our best. It's good.

Yeah. Oh, one thing I wanted to say, because I missed the underrated, I want to say underrated the movie Richie Rich with Macaulay Culkin. Oh, did you watch that yesterday? I watched that shit last night. Is it good?

I mean, no, it's not good, but I was really surprised because there's this whole thing. There's an argument of this factory manufacturing plant getting bought up, and John Larroquette is the evil capitalist who's like, we got to shut the plant down. It's not profitable. evil capitalist who's like, we got to shut the plant down. It's not profitable. And Richie Rich's dad, who's also the grandpa or the father of Lorelei Gilmore on Gilmore Girls. Oh, Edward Herman?

Oh, shit. RIP, rest in power. He's like, no, we must not. We must keep the factory open. It's for the people. It doesn't matter about making money. We want to keep these people in jobs. And then John Loraket actually schemes against the family to get regina

and richard i believe rich the father uh killed on and by like exploding a plane that they're on so then john loriket can take over the company but he doesn't realize richie wasn't on the plane so he has to fucking battle do battle with the evil capitalist john loriket but it's weird because he's like a billionaire but richie's whole vibe is like- He does murder his parents? No, he tries to, but they knew. There's a moment, okay, look, it's long-winded, but there was an inventor who created a sniffing machine that you could point it at anything

and it would tell you exactly what it was. So it'd be like, beef, hamburger. The other thing would be like, oh, this is chocolates. And on the plane, he used it, he puts it on the box that had the bomb and it said tnt so the dad's like oh fuck that so he's able to throw the bomb out before it blows a plane up but it does enough damage that they're like marooned at sea they eventually come back but all that to say is there's a moment where richie wants to return the factory to the workers

he's like i want them to own it and i was like what the fuck richie damn okay okay mr dsa richie richo in the building uh put a rose put a rose by your name mr rich but like it was just very it was odd to see that and the thing that really struck me is odd i used to i remember watching it a few times like i remember it was one of those videos like back in the day when you have your homie have vhs's you would always watch like if you spent the night at someone's house and that was one i think we would always just watch passively uh but i was i was i was startled at how many moments started like i was started remembering like the flow of a scene or a joke that was coming so take the time to watch something that you're like, I haven't watched that shit since I was nine.

And it's weird how amazing your memory can be in that aspect. That's amazing. Yeah, did you notice at all that your perception, like I had this experience with Teen Wolf where I rewatched it like 20 years after I had first, I had last watched it. And I realized that like my,

like the shape of what movies should be is like heavily influenced by Teen Wolf, I think. Cause it was still like a perfect movie in my estimation when I watched it. Wow. Yeah. I don't have movies like that where I'm like this is the thing that I weigh

all movies against. I'm sure subconsciously I probably do because we all have that but I've not yet discovered that film for me. I thought I was going to be okay because Jaws was the main movie that I watched hundreds of times when I was a kid but then I re-watched Jaws 2,

and I realized I thought that was equally good to Jaws 1. And so my taste in movies is suspect. Jamie, what's your movie like that? I'm trying to, I mean, I like a lot of terrible movies. My favorite movie, I think, ever right now is i tell her right now ever right now i tanya i think is the my favorite the movie i've seen most as an adult i saw it nine times in theaters what did i tanya usurp what uh overtake titanic yeah before titanic Titanic. Titanic, yeah. And before Titanic? I feel like that's you and Caitlin's jaws. You guys watched it hundreds of times.

I think it is. I could recite Titanic by heart. It's just in my DNA. I love that shit so much. And I used to really, really love the 2004 Phantom of the Opera with Gerard Butler. Oh, honey. I know every...

It's the worst. It'sard butler emmy rossum barely doing a high school soprano cannot sing um and uh patrick wilson who's amazing oh the singer oh patrick wilson like uh like patrick wilson yeah yeah and he's he's like an amazing i guess he started as like a theater guy because he's like a amazing I guess he started as like a theater guy because he's like a he's a beautiful voice Gerard Butler if you want to hear some of the world's worst singing like you think cat singing is bad you got to listen to Gerard Butler's The Phantom it's like it's really bad did y'all hear about uh the butthole cut of cats they want the butthole I just know I just keep saying release the butthole cut on cats they want the butthole i just know i just keep saying release

the butthole cut on the internet i've got you okay so the apparently uh so uh film writer slash great writer uh ben meckler tweeted out like you know what the world needs now is an oral history of cats that make everybody feel better and kind of as a joke but then someone replied saying that their friend was a video effects editor who had been hired uh late last year specifically to edit out 400 buttholes from cats and so now people are saying or speculating that there is a butthole cut out there and to release the butthole cut. A lot of people are asking because I think everyone is just like so bored and looking for things to feel positive about. A lot of people are asking for weird shit to be released. I saw I sent this to you guys yesterday, but the the bat uh was really funny to me okay this is a tweet

a very well-intentioned tweet that really made me laugh from at bat source uh it says we probably won't get anything official for the batman until at least june due to coronavirus so i think it would be great if matt reeves would please show us a picture of Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne to hold us over. Hashtag show the bat. He was really trying to make show the bat happen. Just show us the bat, dude. Show us that bat, homie.

Let me see that bat. I'm out there and Matt Reeves is facing. Put that bat out real quick. Honey, show us the bat. Show that bat. Oh my, show that bat. When you see the ROI on fracking that bat. Oh, my. Show that bat. When you see the ROI on fracking, honey. Oh, yeah.

All right, guys, let's take a quick break. We'll be back with the myth and news. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

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yesterday at the red cross and it's first of all everyone should do it it's very it was very heartening to see that there was like an intense social distancing thing in place because so many people wanted to donate blood that's great waited my turn went in and they were like sorry your blood fucking sucks we don't want it yeah this is the second time it's happened to me it happened to me a few weeks ago and they're like come back in two weeks your blood's just getting all thickened up don't worry about it you just gave blood because i gave blood at the beginning of fe and that went fine. And then I came back in March to give platelets because you can give those every two weeks. And so they're like, yeah, come back in a month

and you can give platelets. I was like, great. And then they're like, actually, your hemoglobin is dog shit. Why don't you leave and then come back in two weeks? So I made an appointment for yesterday. You can go work on that. You can go work on yourself, Jamie. Why don't you leave and then come back in two weeks? And so I made an appointment for yesterday. You can go work on that. You can go work on yourself, Jamie. Why don't you go to the gym?

I was taking iron supplements. I was like, seriously, I was like, I want to do it. It would make me feel better to be able to do it. And I went in and my hemoglobin was fucking worse. And the nurse was like low-key roasting me. She was very funny and very nice. But she was like, she pricked my finger and was like pushing the blood out. And she's like, kind of watery, don't you think?

I was like, oh, okay. She's like, yo, this bitch got watery blood over here. And she was just like, just so you know, it should be a little thicker than that. Wait, the last time it was too thick? Or last time it wasn't thick enough also? it wasn't thick enough also it wasn't thick enough and then i came back and it was even less thick it's getting my i would rather have thin blood than thick blood jamie if i you know yeah you want the thin blood you don't you don't want that thick shit that's gonna clog up your you know what they say though blood is thinner than water they do that's what they say in my in my case that might be true

so if you can give blood you should go and tell them that my blood is good okay everybody go to the red cross just with a note that says jamie loft is blood is good please let her she wants to get rid of it so bad like the but yeah they told me my blood is is bullshit and to get the fuck out and so i did yeah and also shout out to uh hemophiliacs whose blood can't clot uh also bad to have blood that's very thin sorry okay uh miles what is your myth uh my myth is that these fucking young people need to take this shit seriously. Now, I know it's not. I'm sure there are cases all over where people have seen young people out and about acting like nothing is going to happen.

Living with that youthful hubris. Those Miami Spring Breakers. You see that video? Yeah, exactly. Those kids did not look healthy yeah so i just want to play a video really quick of one of these spring breakers oh okay who is just like a montage of them these are the sick looking people yeah yeah these are all the kids who have like the rosiest cheeks could just be from being really drunk. I don't know, TBD. But just so everyone can kind of hear from the mouths of these Gen Z kids

why they are not going to let something like a global pandemic fuck up their sprang break. From the mouths of babes, indeed. If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not going to stop this party. They don't look well. We've been waiting for... He looks like he's wearing stage makeup in a play about tuberculosis.

Two, three months. We're not even having a good time. Whatever happens, happens. It's really messing up with my spring break. Why are they so rich? What the fuck? Go to the bars or the beach and they're closing all of it. It's really messing up.

I think they're blowing it way out of proportion. I think it's doing way too much. It's doing us bad. We need a refund. This virus ain't that serious. It's serious. It's more serious things out there like hunger and poverty. We need to address that. Yeah, I mean, we planned this a long time ago and it was kind of up in the air if we still go. But like we're here. I just turned 21 this year. So I'm here to party. So it's kind of disappointing. But we're just making the most of it. We met these other people in our little airbnb spot so we're just hanging out with them and trying to get drunk before everything closes wow wow so thoughtful everybody the some of the reasons i'm turning 21 i can't be

stopped i think they're blowing this way too out of proportion. They need to worry about other things. Now, some of those things are true, and I understand the spirit of it, but my goodness, these kids do not understand what we're trying to prevent. They really are just out there as if their mom is saying, don't go to spring break. You're going to catch a cold. No, that's not what it is. It's don't go to spring break because there's a global fucking pandemic that we're still learning about we don't know what the transmission rates are we don't know

who's infected we don't know how to combat this quite yet it's going to do so much damage to the economy we don't know what's going on please stay the fuck home um yeah and the myth is that you know a lot of these young people they're of like, it's getting blown out of proportion because I think there was a mistake made in the beginning to obviously not cause panic, but to sort of put this idea out that young people don't need to worry, that it's really a problem for the elderly. Now, while that is true on some level, it's more that it is more the fatality rate is higher for the elderly, but that doesn't mean that you won't be hospitalized due to how bad it gets.

It just means it'll be so bad you have to go to the hospital, but you'll probably live. It's not, it's, yeah, don't worry about it. It's all good because there's a new study that came out from the CDC that essentially is telling us based on the cases they were able to look at early on, they're looking at all the people that have been hospitalized. So that's about 508 patients in this specific study. 38% of those people that were hospitalized were between 20 and 54. So that's nearly 40%. So that doesn't, I think, you know, the idea that because you're young and it's all good to fuck around and not consider

everyone else, I think is just completely completely wrong-headed it's the it's destructive dangerous and again the stakes aren't uh you're gonna get a cold it's the effects on the economy it's effects on their own jobs it's effects on their community so again yeah uh this this idea that hey man it's all good spring break has to go on no no no no fuck that it doesn't have to yeah and I get like it's I don't want to be like like an old head being like you gotta stay inside but it's

just like it's do you like it is what it is yeah like you you're if you really don't give a shit about whether you get sick or not like you have to think about other people and you can't make the big sweeping generalization of like, well,

old people fucked up the world. That's absolutely true. But that doesn't mean that you could, that you could just kill them. And it also like it not, I don't know. It is like a killing a lot of people. Like I get,

I get why people, especially young people feel kind of nihilistic about it in some ways but it's like you got to think outside of yourself and it's like selfishly nihilist it's selfish nihilism you know it's if they were like taking a stand while doing something boring that would be one thing but they're taking a stand to go out and get drunk and you know go on spring break so here's yeah and here's a tip kids you can get drunk at your house it's allowed cheaper it's cheaper it's allowed it's fun i was yeah i had me and some friends from high school last night we

had we were having a franzia stream we were fucking pounding uh space bags slapping the fucking bag and bro and talking about high school like you can spray you can space bags yeah just rip hit a couple space bags later bro i've i've honestly been shocked and appalled at how easy it's been for me to get a box of franzia there should be a nationwide shortage of Franzia. We should all be slapping the bag, old school. Fucked priorities. But we're not. One of the best things I've read since this epidemic

kind of sun assault, marooned us, to borrow a phrase from Miles' recap of Richie Rich, was a thing talking about parenting, and it was like the first and most important thing you can do as a parent is lower your standards for what is acceptable parenting. And I think you could say the same thing about drinking. Like, you can drink at home by yourself now. That's all right.

Yeah. I mean, I think it all depends. Obviously, if you're in recovery you know let's not use this time to to slip and slide but right i see a lot of bored people too i think a lot of people are taking up weed in la more than anything yes they're like yes yeah because most people in la will be like dude or i know a lot of people like look if i smoked weed i'd just be at home all day, like fucking doing nothing. And I wonder how many weed demons are on people's shoulders right now being like, hey, you're at home all day doing nothing.

Remember when we used to play Halo together? And see what kind of reactions those are bringing out of people. Because I feel like the weed stores are pretty popular also right now. Yeah. I think I'm going to do mushrooms on Saturday. Oh, boy. Yeah. I'm going to come in. Livestream? stores are pretty popular also right now yeah i think i'm gonna do mushrooms on saturday oh boy yeah i'm gonna come live stream yeah i'm gonna come in on monday and be like guys i've got some fucking ideas you know you're like guys i've got some news you won't believe what i learned

we are actually so fucking small. It's actually nothing, man, because when you think about the universe, we're insignificant. We're like a pinprick. So it's actually fine. So one thing that just as we're kind of tracking how this is spreading, that was kind of one of the biggest revelations of the past 24 hours was that it's more common, like 40% of people being hospitalized are on the younger side.

Another thing that seems to be, I don't know, it's like a central detail that the main thing people are using to track it is how many people have the virus, but it's so tied to testing. It just seems like the numbers in New York spiked Wednesday night because a bunch of tests became available. And it's been spreading undetected for close to a month now. There's no smoking gun

that the trump administration did anything to actively prevent testing as the main reason it's been so slow but it does seem like they're actively not doing shit to get the tests out and they keep saying it's horrible everyone should have a test that needs one but we keep not having enough tests everywhere in the country and yeah yeah i don't know people made a big deal when west virginia had its first case like it's it's even reached west virginia but it's it's been in west virginia they just tested somebody in west virginia like that's i don't know it seems very when you look at like where the U S compares to Italy and South Korea in terms of testing,

it's just, it's very, very slow. And Italy is, you know, had a big problem with not testing. you know, South Korea seems to be the,

the standard that we should all be aspiring to in the sense that they made testing very available and they were able to get a handle on it before. Button that curve, baby. And test as many people as possible. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like, I mean, it's so slow, but it does seem like at least some response on the state and city level is starting to happen.

It's still, I don't know, I'm still really frustrated with a lot of it but there are like city services seem to be expanding and becoming accessible to more people i but but it's still like even in the midst of that like ice was allowed to go out yesterday detain people yeah detain people uh. There was encampments in Echo Park were still raided and taken down like yesterday. Like, what the fuck are you doing? You know?

Yeah. So I think, you know, if you, just stay vigilant in your area, stay connected if you can with just like on a local level as well. Because it's like you, I don't know,

there's a lot of disconnect where our mayor yesterday said, oh, there's going to be 6,000 beds that are going to be available for local unhoused people. But then the same day you have encampment sweeps happening. So if there is like a local place where you can get news on what's happening with your neighbors, you should try to do that. Yeah, I think even just with the how the White House is handling even the questions about testing reveals how they're fucking it up so poorly. Because it's never like they can never give a detailed answer to actually explain what the holdup is.

It's like, yeah, man, we got to get these tests done. Rather than being, if they were really honest, they're like, we're having a lot of difficulty getting these tests, but this isn't an administration that's willing to be transparent or be accountable for anything. So it's just a lot of hand-wringing and being like, yeah, we'll see what happens out there. Just everybody stay inside for now when really the reason why so many like other countries that have been able to get a handle on it is because they've been able to test people and identify the people who have it go through all these contact traces to make sure like okay what are all the the ways that this infected person may have connected with other people

locking that down as quickly as possible meanwhile in this country motherfuckers are partying on south beach like daisy fuentes is about to pull up on a jet ski and i know we have and it's like wait jamie you got that reference or no there no i don't know what the i don't know what the fuck you're talking about but daisy fuentes house of style spring break 1992 yeah yeah hell yeah dan cortez about to come down on a fucking parachute and be like oh what up y'all i got my bandana on but the real the real shit of it all is that again like i said yesterday we've been in a terrible car accident but we have not done an x-ray yet we just know we've been in a terrible car accident and we're not even doing the basics

first or at least emphasizing that we're so we're in such a state of disarray And we're not even doing the basics first, or at least emphasizing that we're so we're in such a state of disarray that we're having to like, use all these emergency measures just to make sure our healthcare workers are protected through this. So yeah, I mean, I think people need to really also be aware of just how just how poorly the administration's responded to this. And again, it's falling on people on the state level. There's no leadership at the federal level. So states are having to do what they can and then local municipalities

are having to do what they can. And people are fucking up on every level. So it's like, yeah. Yeah. Because we don't have enough information. People want to go outside because we're not properly communicating the severity of this to people. I still can't get a straight answer on whether I can take my fucking dog outside.

Everyone's telling me a different thing. I do feel like, yeah, I mean, there's all this macro, the way we're covering it is very macro at a huge level with where like people are treated as statistics. One thing that's been helpful for me, or at least I've found it reassuring. And I think we're all kind of figuring out what works for us in this new reality.

But like just the New York magazine, the cut had this article by Molly Fisher. That was just like her account of the week that where like coronavirus became real to everyone. And like having like just really, uh, well-written, well-constructed descriptions of like different people's experiences of like

during this was, I don't know, reassuring or like therapeutic to me. That might, that's one thing that I wanted to suggest. There's also, on the other hand, one woman went to get tested in Westchester. Two days later, two nurses in hazmat suits showed up at her door,

tested all seven of the people in her household and told them they're not allowed to leave the house for two weeks. Oh, my God. Just gave them a packet with rules that they had to comply to. And it's just, they're like, if you need food, call us. If you need food, call us. It's like the end of E.T. Just all of a sudden, these hazmat suit people just show up at your door and are like,

you are in quarantine. Dude, Drew Barrymore back again. Yeah, we can't stop. Oh, another thing I watched last night, Charlie's Angels 2, full throttle. Oh, wait, any good? Scrape trash. I was like, the first one is garbage.

We did that on Back to the cast not too long ago but the second one i have to imagine is worse it's it starts off with like a fucking ridiculous portrayal of i think like a mongolian drinking hall um where the blonde white woman of cameron diaz comes to lure them and distract them it's anyway mcg is a fucking visionary i must say mcg the fact that there's a working person that goes by mcg hell yeah really i mean now more than ever it was the era though when music video directors had these like monikers where they're acting like super like cartoon villains it's like, I'm X. I'm little X. I'm Mr. X.

There was a time where McG could have positioned himself as like, because didn't Spike Jonze start by directing music videos and McG could be like, yeah, I'm like that. Yeah. I'm like the Spike Jonze of people whose names are McG. Yeah. Hey, I hope McG is holding up in the choir, just cooking on some incredible shit

in the choir that would be terrific and that is spelled m capital m lowercase c capital g yeah yeah yeah yeah or his real name joseph mcginty nickel from kalamazoo, Michigan. Yeah, of course he's called Nick G. I love it. Speaking of people who are indispensable at this time, I want to give a shout out to people who are still working in the grocery store, not sleeping, putting themselves on the line. Them, in addition to healthcare workers,

are really the front line of this shit. Also, truckers apparently are being treated like shit. Like some of the place like the shippers and receivers are asking drivers to sign affidavits that they are not sick. And then they're not allowed to use the restroom or the buildings when they're doing their pickups. They just don't want drivers in the facilities because they want to keep everyone isolated. But it's like we still need to treat each other like humans. We have to set up a porta potty. Right.

And truckers are treated so horribly anyways that on top this is the whole line people are being treated horribly this is the hope or the thing i'm holding out for is that this crisis brings an emphasis on an attention to these kinds of jobs that we're like i don't know why we need to pay these people like money at like a living wage cut to we are fucking relying on them to keep us alive right now is why you need to pay them a living wage meanwhile it's like you know we we also overpay in so many other positions because of the way we're emphasizing the importance of occupations in our society so i think i hope that that is also a thing that is born out of this um sorry to sorry to derail this really quick i just want to let you know the the things that mcg had directed and we maybe should have no no no no okay no no we're still talking about people whose

contributions to society were oh yeah respect actually no jamie go on i'm sorry no no i what you're going to talk about mcg and then just stop we'll talk we'll continue to display solidarity with the working class but but we will. This is a continuing. We will always have solidarity with the working class on this show. But just to let you know, McG was no fucking loser. Okay. Let me just run down some of his early. Let me just run down some of McG's early work. work he produced sugar ray's first album and co-wrote several songs on their second album

including the smash hit fly wow the song i had a hit clip of fly also directed smash mouth's all-star video the offspring's pretty fly for a white guy video and and then directed documentaries on corn and sugar ray he's okay and then corn like the man he got the pop video of the year he got the pop video of the year award at the billboard awards in 1997 for also doing smash mouths walking on the sun music video okay that song actually slaps like there are some smash mouth songs that are genuinely like really uh then the morning comes is my smash mouth slapper that i feel like is very underrated then the morning comes was my jam mcg is he's a dirtbag icon yeah he literally no somebody needs to make a biopic about McG. That'll be incredible.

Just that whole aesthetic of dudes with frosted tips who are just completely red. It was like someone on their way to having the vision of David LaChapelle's photography. But then just rather than doing the work, did a bunch of Adderall and read some books and said, yeah, I'm pretty sure I got this. Got it. Yeah.

Read some books is you're being generous with your interpretation of his process. I think by that, I mean, he looked at some like picture books. Read some books. It's hard to say. Yeah. going back to so a quick solidarity uh story and just a reminder for our listeners if you have people in your life that you're concerned about uh another thing that i that was on my mind that i was curious if there was any writing about and there's a little bit um is uh quarantine life for people uh in terms of like domestic violence situations. So there, I mean, obviously for a lot of people

in a domestic violence situation, a quarantine is like, you know, infinitely worse. And the calls to hotlines has gone up by a pretty large margin in the past couple of weeks. So if you have someone in your life that you were feeling something is off here, there's maybe some concern there, I encourage you to, you know,

it's a shitty conversation to have. I've been on both sides of it. But, like, you know, reach out. It's very possible, especially, I mean, where, like, so much of domestic violence has to do with power dynamics and control and that people are feeling like there's not a lot

of control over their lives right now so if you have a friend or a family member who's in uh what maybe appears to be kind of a volatile relationship just check in on them um and and if they are in a bad situation you know like um get in touch with someone and figure something out because my i'm always just like so you know concerned that i don't know though i've this is my second quar my first quar was very brief because i was in boston during the marathon bombing in 2013 but i was quarantined for two days with like an abusive partner and it was like really scary and where this quarantine is indefinite, check in on everyone. Nothing is annoying. No check-in is annoying right now.

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and how it is delivered to us. Oh, no. Because, hey, Jack, how do you open PDF? How do you open PDF? No, but they're saying that they might have to ask Netflix to cap the amount of streaming that they're allowing people to do because... Yeah, it's eating up the bandwidth.

It's eating up so much bandwidth, which suggests that there's more... That there's just a global pot of bandwidth that we're all drawing on. And if one group is eating up too much of it, the other group suffers, which is not necessarily how I had really thought about

internet service providers before this. I guess we're all working with the same servers, right? So should we start downloading shit? What do we do right bit torrent bit torrent bit torrent right but bit torrent is like one of the big uh culprits isn't

it like bit torrent eats so much ah man then then we never win then we can never win i think well the the what they have to do is basically bring the streaming quality down so people aren't blasting straight up 1080p HD video into their homes. Oh, yeah. Bring it down because that takes a lot of bandwidth, not just a term that you use when you want to shirk work in corporate life. I don't know if I got that bandwidth. Maybe this is something Zykan can explain, but I feel like i'm noticing a

like diminished capacity like we we keep having uh our like g chat uh or our google hangouts like dropped uh which is not something that necessarily happened a lot to me uh in the past i'm just wondering yeah like is it the fact that i'm more reliant on it because we're all working remotely is it that everybody everybody's working remotely and so there's like more strain on it like i've heard some people complain that you know they are home in an apartment building and there's a lot of people working and drawing on the same internet and that's fucking with their ability to get work done. I'm just wondering if that

is... I know that that happens when you're at a big event like it's like everybody like you can't get a lot of service because everybody's trying to use their phones at the same time. I'm just wondering if like that's happening on a global scale right now.

I don't really understand how that works. Did y'all see the episode of Joe Pera this season where Joe Firestone's character is talking about the grid and how, I don't know. So has anyone seen that episode? Okay, first of all, Joe Pera Talks To You is always the most underrated, because I'll say it's underrated until every person on the planet has seen it.

Absolutely. And it's got a second season, doesn't it? Yeah, Isaac worked on the second season. Hey. Swish. But there's an episode in the second season where Joe Firestone's character is a major doomsday prepper, so i've been thinking about her character a lot and she like just talks about about how like yeah actually the electrical grid is owned or like the internet grid is owned

by blah blah blah blah and if one person gets mad everyone loses their internet anyways just something i think about and you're just like fuck yeah and you know we're having to like rely on the internet speeds to like upload these episodes to our editor to like put them together and it's just a thing like

yeah DJ wish DJ Daniel is incredibly patient and the best but yeah it's just a thing where I feel like the resources of bandwidth and the speed that our ISPs are providing internet at is now something we all have to be conscious of and paying a lot of attention to.

And that wasn't necessarily the case for me in the past. So what what do we now get to like tell film bros that like you can't watch things at the highest uh highest like resolution and not shut up about it is that fun probably dude i'm not watching i'll be fucking dead before i watch pan's labyrinth in standard death right right right they're like if i can't watch it in 4k my favorite thing is when like a fucking uh like a film bro goes off on you and is like they want to watch the shittiest thing possible in 4k they're like you seriously think i'm gonna like watch a 30 rock rerun in anything less than four fucking

we're just talking about how bad 4k looks for so many things. It looks so... Especially like older shit. So it's like, no, just keep it at like 720. Yeah, you're like, they didn't want it to look this way. They weren't thinking that things could look that way. They didn't think you'd be able to see every pore on their face. I don't want to see, yeah, I was like, I don't want to see Alec Baldwin's pores. I barely want to see Alec Baldwin. It's a compromise as it is, you know?

Yeah. Well, speaking of questions that I want to pose and have no way of answering, do you guys think celebrities still make sense in this new reality? Yes. Okay. Yeah.

They're funny. They're funny. So it's just celebrities being earnest doesn't work maybe i don't know it's it's it's it's tone deaf gestures that make me cringe uh and like if we're talking about this imagine video i can see how talk about this imagine video we're kind of always talking about this imagine video i can't imagine why we would talk about this Imagine video, but imagine a scenario like this in which the world is at a standstill

and people who are self-important and thrive off the attention from groups, massive groups need something to do and feel productive. I see the sentiment of having all these familiar faces smile at camera and sing one of these torch songs that most people know. But there's also this level that they're not connecting to of just sort of like the general fear and tension that people have right now about the uncertainty, especially financially.

And to see a bunch of people who are like broadcasting from like their mansions and like smiling like ain't shit going on there's like unnerving god i mean oh yes okay so i kate uh kate raft at kate raft on twitter she did a pretty cool thread that um she like researched what some of the houses of the celebrities look like and And they're like, here's what this celebrity was cropping out. Natalie Portman has this freaky ass space mansion that she was just standing in front of a bush. But if you pull out, it's the scariest shit in the world. And obviously, I just feel like, OK, obviously, celebrities are horrible, horrible, horrible. They'll never do the right thing.

Gal Gadot is literally chaotic evil. But we need shit to talk about celebrities are a resource we need to do our job right and and it's like i don't know i i think it's uh i think it's funny and stupid and jamie we have to we have to realize that we as podcasters see an opening to be the new Gal Gadots and Natalie Portmans of the world. Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah, we're going to take over. It is kind of funny. Imagine feeling useful.

That's like... Yeah, right. I think that, yeah, the celebs, they're feeling useless. They're feeling bored. They don't understand what it's like to be a person. And I feel like it's a good boost to national morale for all of us to unite and call them fucking dumb dumb dumb dumbs yeah yeah i think maybe it also is probably bothering some people that the only people who seem to be able

to get testing like without fail are like people who play in the nba and other celebrities and idris elba yeah it just elba and and like i think like a lot of celebrities have gotten just tested without any symptoms and that's like the only reason idris elba knows he has the corona is because yeah he like was just like i wonder if i have I'm sleepy. And it turned out that he had it. I mean, the inequality class-wise there is next level. As it pertains to the Imagine video, there's a lot of great celebrity betrayals, people that you're like, oh, I love this person. Oh, no, why would they agree to do this?

They're just fucking idiots, man. They're just dumb. They don't understand anything and uh it's i think it's fun for us to all unite and um be like look at these fucking jackasses because you think they're actually going to help of course they're not i mean yeah that's where that's where i want to see my breath waiting for someone to do a good thing yeah some showrunners have tried to like put their own money into like keeping some of like the the crews paid and things like that, because I know that's a big thing right now in L.A. is the amount of production that's halted. Yeah, which is one of the main industries here. So there's a lot of jobs, not just here in Atlanta, like Vancouver, other huge production hubs. They're all experiencing the same thing. they're all experiencing the same thing but yeah i mean i think maybe if that would the celebrity thing the thing that's going to change is maybe the nature of celebrity where when we were like

in the high flying times of like yeah don't worry we're like running on fumes as an economy but like we like to hold these other people up who live these like lifestyles that seem impossible that like keep us sort of aspiring to maybe back to people who are like doing really good uh but i don't know i think in the end we always need sort of like these fantasy fantastic figures to sort of like look up to and and dream but i also there's also moments i'm like ah yeah now that we're in a time like this like people need like some really like they need nourishment from people that have this much influence too yeah i i i mean i think it's kind of like it's net good that people have like

we've all generally like become very like the bullshit detector on like an insincere celebrity uh gesture is like it's almost a uniting thing where it's like it's less even the celebrity that matters but the fact that we're all like fuck you like yeah I think that's like the fun uniting factor here yeah it was like rich kids like riding by and they're like convertible and be like we're going to our fantasy island

to like drink champagne all day and the rest of us are like dude get the fuck out of here I don't need that shit right now. I love it. Well, real quick, for our quarantine activity for the day, it looks like the people at Hallmark Channel listen to Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, 100%.

Of course. We knew that though. I mean, look. The brands are listening, mate, because we make the culture, you know? And everything we talk about here basically becomes the law of the land. And many people were sharing this article with me and the show because, you know, on Tuesday's episode, I was like, I think we just need to fully regress. Put the Christmas decorations up.

If time dilation is going to fuck us up, like, let's fucking go for it. Let's let's start time traveling. Let's just we can call this month fucking december if we want and then we can make the 31st a whole new new year and do 2020 over if you want to but the hallmark channel i they i think understand how much people love christmas films because they're moving up like their countdown to christmas movie marathon from this friday the 20th up until the 22nd and they've got every they're they're they're opening up the uh the vaults basically to show films that were probably not going to come out to the end of this year so you can see uh candace

cameron beret's uh christmas detour uh and you can also see christ in Rome starring Party of Five's Lacey Shea Bear. Okay. And there are other films with people like Kristen Chenoweth. Wait, she's also Eliza Thornberry. Huh? Lacey Shea Bear, she's an icon. What's Eliza Thornberry? Miles.

In the wild, Thornberry's the cartoon. She talks to animals. This is the other divide where I'm like Daisy Fuentes spring break I'm like what the fuck is Thornberries what the

the wild Thornberries hey what Thornberries Lacey Chabert is also in Mean Girls she's Gretchen yeah I mean look I'm old though so I know her from

Party of Five okay fine and also Adrienne Grenier from Entourage is in one of these films that's coming out oh hell yeah

yeah it's good to see him hold on to your butts doing work um Adrian Grenier from Entourage is in one of these films that's coming out. Oh, hell yeah. It's good to see him doing work. And then there's also other movies that are being released on VOD, but still pretty expensive. They're charging $20 to rent them. That's what's bothering me. I hope that that changes and people aren't responsive to like, because I got AMC Stubs and they obviously everything's on pause there, but they're like,

Hey, uh, you can like see a movie you're going to see, but it's going to cost more than a month's membership and you can only have it for 48 hours. I'm like, well then who the fuck, I don't want to see Emma that bad.

I want to see it like 15%. Yeah. If anything, start, yeah. bootlegging that shit on, put them on your Plex servers. Yeah. Birds of Prey came out. Trolls World Tour, Just Mercy, The Gentleman, Bloodshot, The Invisible Man, Emma, The Hunt, and Rise of Skywalker

are some of the movies that came out early on demand. Yeah, we're going to come out in the next couple of days. Hey, I don't think that's going to work. Zyking, for real, if you've got access to digital screeners, slide into my DMs immediately. Immediately. Oh, yeah, what you need is Plex. I don't have it.

Oh, yeah, get Plex. And then, Zyking, if you have a Liddy Plex server, hit us up. Because that way, you can watch all kinds of media off the Plex server. And also, oh, announcement. We also have a Discord server that DJ Daniel hath set up for Zyte Gang to congregate, exchange ideas, communicate, help each other, post memes, post adorable pet photos just to keep everybody connected. Look at, you know, either my Twitter, the Zeitgeist Twitter, Daniel's Twitter. We've got that. We've got the discord going up. The link will also be in the Fort North as well.

So be sure to check those out. But, yeah, connect with us. We're on there from time to time chatting with everybody it's it's cool the vibe and you know keep the vibes nice out there you know how it is you do know how it is i'm excited i've never been in a discord and i and i'm gonna try okay i'm gonna try i'm gonna give it a shot uh well guys it's been a pleasure chatting with you as always. Jamie, where can people find you, follow you? You can find me on twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help. Love that website.

It's bringing me nothing but good vibes these days. And Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. days uh and uh instagram at jamie christ superstar i'm doing a bunch of live stream comedy shows in the next couple of days most of them are raising money uh for various causes you can go into my instagram stories for more about that and listen to the bechtel cast our black swan episode just came out and it's really fun and I'm still determined to become. Isaac caught me crying over being bad at ballet yesterday. So I'm back in the zone. Hold on.

You got to go easy on yourself, okay? You can't just go from zero to swan in a couple of days. Okay, so maybe I was crying because I wasn't a swan. Jamie, it's not too late to become a ballet dancer. You're 13? I'm 13 years old misty copeland started when she was 13 i'm 13 now i can make it happen i think with all this yeah with time being messed up i think maybe you should be like yeah i'm 13 i think what we can i think when we come out of the quarantine, we can all lie about our age by a margin of about five years.

I'm going to go as far as eight. Okay, do it. Yeah, I'm going to be like, and because I'm 18, I'm going to say I'm 13. There you go. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yeah, I got a tweet from my friend rob wisman at rob wisman uh it says i think this virus is so infuriating because we can't see it

it would be sort of rad if we had to all team up and bash some little mucinex guys yeah that would be tight damn they would get the fucking oh my i can't even imagine to the villain would get the fucking oh my i can't even imagine to the villain yeah i'm like americans already so turnt up if there was like hey guys go group mob jump this fucking thing oh no no what would happen yeah it would be those music they won't be like whoa i was just a weird caricature of a new yorker he used to be dj Miller. And then who did they bring in? Like Topher Grace or that social, that account. Let me voice the Mucinex guy. Mucinex, you cowards.

Who is it? Is it like Stifler does it now? I don't fucking know. It's not TJ Miller. That's for damn sure. Yeah. There's a new product that's like a tanning bed for your phone that Super Producer Ana Hosnia showed to us like a tanning bed for your phone that super producer anahosnia

showed showed to us uh that uses uv rays to disinfect your phone and they had some pretty cool art uh of where it was like taking knives and killing uh little germ people on your phone shank them uh thought that was tight i like. So maybe we can all just dramatize. Just picture that in our mind. Just wave knives wildly into the air to knife the virus if it's airborne. Miles, is there a tweet you've been enjoying, and where can people find you? Yes, I do have tweets I like. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray,

PlayStation Network, milesofgr. Discord, Miles of Grey. Also, my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where Sophia, Alexander, and I spark one and talk about our favorite trash reality show, 90 Day Fiance, which if you have Hulu, they got a ton of that shit up there. And if you have On Demand, you can catch up with all that shit. Some tweets that I like. First one is from Sean Clements at Sean Clements.

A lot of people posting about the fun phone calls and text threads they've been engaged in during this. And I just want to say that I also have that happening in my life with just so, so many friends. The other one is from Dana Donnelly. The streak is alive with Dana Donnelly at Dana Donnelly, D-O-N-N-L-Y. Her tweet is, discovering so much about myself in quarantine. It turns out when I said, I'll read when I have

more time, I actually meant I'll never read even when the world is literally ending. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Shireen, ShiroHero66 tweeted envious of everyone with dogs right now because the opportunity slash societal past they give you to simply go on a walk outside meanwhile i look like a freak walking around by myself carrying a poop bag and amos posner tweeted it's cool the government initiated

the Rural Electrification Act and funded the development of the internet so that years later dudes and Oakleys across the country could log on and tell us how terrible government spending is and that's just true you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien you can find us

on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist we're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website and a... What's the group chat thing called again? Discord server, Pappy. And a Discord server where y'all can hang out. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

We link off to the information that we talked about today's episode as well as the song we ride out on miles what's it gonna be we are gonna go out on a group called zoot woman um and they're just i don't know where they're from uh they just got like you know like a little electro poppy vibes from the early aughts. This is from their album called Living in a Magazine. And the song is called It's Automatic. And it's just got easy listening. If you like the song, stream the album.

Do some vacuuming. You'll be right as rain. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back this afternoon with an episode to tell you guys what's trending and we will talk to you then bye I've got a feeling it's automatic I've got a feeling it's automatic It's a physical feeling I'm gonna change this

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