The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump In A Slump? Van Damme Assists Jewel Heist? 7.30.21

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

In episode 962, Miles and guest co-host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Carl Tart to discuss Capitol Police arresting the maskless, fast-food and retail workers quitting in record numbers, Trump losing his touch as the kingmaker, the Tokyo shit show, Jean Claude Van Damme's connection to a jewel heist, and more!FOOTNOTES: Capitol Police to arrest the maskless...unless you’re a member of Congress Changing Tides of Labor Vs. Capital?  Trump was a Kingmaker I thought? Tokyo Shit Show - More athletes testing positive, Tokyo cases going way up Simone Biles and 'The Twisties' Jewel Heist in Paris somehow has a Jean Claude Van Damme connection Listen: Jennifer Lopez - Get RIght (Ekany Remix) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hi, yes. Hello, y'all. I know you're used to hearing Mr. Jack O'Brien tease his class, but I am the substitute, and I would like to welcome you, the internet, to Season 195, Episode 5 of the Daily Zeitgeist. It's a production of iHeartRadio, and it's the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Pride Day. Thank you. July 30th, 2021.

My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. Fuckin' with the best, yes, I'm a host. Never had a problem making shows The ride out music's all I know In Hawaii volcanoes Shout out to the track I'm a Zo by Black Data If you remember that from 2010, the Haitian rapper And shout out to Christy Yamaguchi-Main for that wonderful AKA

That's a good deep cut I mean, I forgot about that song. I was like, how are you referencing this song? But again, that's what we do. We hop in the DeLorean and go back 11 years to bygone Haitian rappers. Now, it's important that I bring in my guest host. Someone who has stood by my side when I've just been left in the lurch by Jack. I need to help somebody.

Please help me carry the show. And I am thrilled and pleased to be joined by the talented, the brilliant. But you got a new podcast out. And you might want to fuck with it. It's about Kathy. It's the Atcast. And you know her from the Bechdelcast.

You know her from... What don't you know her from? Please welcome our favorite Lil' Zamboni herself, Jamie Loftus. A.K.A. Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. My dog has shitty

garbage politics. I wrote that one myself. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm mad at you. I've been in a purple state, so he's been really trotting around the yard telling people to vote blue no matter who. And I keep trying to explain to him why that's a flawed mentality. Flawed premise.

Yeah. There's no nuance in that. What state are you in? I'm in Wisconsin. Oh, okay. I'm back, baby. I'm eating so much cheese and there's a tornado. And I think that that's all that's happened in Wisconsin.

Tornadoes freak me out. Tornadoes freak me out. Well, let's get to our guest. This is somebody who is, you know, just an OG in that area. So people know him. I mean, look, he's a writer. He's a comedian. He's an improviser.

He's everywhere you want to be. He's like Visa or MasterCard or American Express. I don't know which one it is, but this man is talented beyond all belief. Please welcome the wonderful and brilliant Carl Tard. Oh, y'all done did it. Y'all done did it to him. Y'all done lifted the band. You lifted the band.

The band is over. If anybody remembers that, shout out to you for rocking with the show that long. Oh, the band? Yeah. I'm sure if anybody remembers that shout out to you for rocking with the show that long but oh the band yeah i'm sure that nobody remembers that been how long has i mean it's been that band has been in place for years for years four or five years yeah more years i would like to remember that i'm like damn i've been doing this show for that long yeah man are you still broke yeah and i'm still in a Mazda. Damn. You know when I'm like, yes, I'm moving up. They're like, here's a Mazda for six months. I'm like, okay, I'll take that.

I still don't have a driver's license. You don't? It's been four years. No. It has nothing to do with, I would like to hold Zeitgeist personally accountable for me not having a driver's license. I keep failing the test. You've transcended Zeitgeics, let's be real. I just don't pass it.

Anything at this point, that's on you, Jamie. That's on you and your representatives. Man, we cheated on that written test. And did you do the same? I'm sure, Miles, you have a similar. Jamie, you're from LA? You're not from California, are you? No, I'm from Massachusetts.

Okay. Well, out here, the test, the written test was the same for everybody. It was on a long strip of paper. And all they did was rearrange where the questions were. So when people took their written test at school and they got all the answers right, you just had to memorize the answers. Yeah, exactly. That's how you pass the written test. Yeah.

Because there's only like three. Like if you had three of them, you basically had every question. But my thing was in high school, I didn't get my license because all my other friends were like so on it and my parents weren't getting me a car or anything like that so like what the fuck i'm gonna do with the license yeah so i was always getting chauffeured around as i like to say in high school and then when i actually passed when i went for my test i did that thing where every you know i'm sure every state has that dmv in their area or they're like you can show up drunk and they will still give you a driver's license yeah yeah and that that was the Arlita DMV for me.

It was Englewood DMV for me. Yeah. There's always those spots. I failed at Englewood DMV. I failed at Englewood DMV. I failed at Glendale DMV. I failed at three different DMVs in the metropolitan area. Go to Arlita.

Go to Arlita. Okay. I haven't tried there yet. Yeah. Yeah. Arlita, if things have still held steady since my time out there, Arlita, I'm sure you could even show up with a fake ID. And they're like, all right, Mr. Reagan. Fake ID and hit a mailbox and you're good?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, good. You're fine. You're fine. Anyway, how's everybody doing? Doing well? Doing all right? Chilling, man.

Traveling? Pretty good. Yeah, we're all in different states. Man, your shoe rack is looking strong back there. You seeing that? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

People don't know. He's got a shoe haul behind him. They were all on the floor before. And then I moved and I got an office space here and I got a second bedroom and decided to have a little office space. And so I bought some racks off of the Evil Overlord Amazon. Sorry. Sorry to those who are woke. But I had bought some racks off of the Evil Overlord Amazon. Sorry. Sorry to those who are woke.

But I had to get these new racks. And I needed them quick. Also, what? You have a DJ set up back there? Do I see a rain mixer behind you? Yeah. Oh, shit. What are you?

What? Are you a DJ? I might throw some Anita Baker on and mix it with a little Chateau. Wait. When do you? Since when? When were you? Have you been spinning?

We'll talk about this off air, Miles. Yeah. As somebody who, who you, who DJed a lot, I saw that I was clocking that log. I'm like,

what the fuck is he doing? Yeah, you see. Yeah. Yeah. We getting back. I ain't doing clubs yet. I'm just doing brunch.

You know, I told you, I throw on my, I throw on my herb out, but making love in the rain. Okay. Yes. At the brunch? We love the trumpet sound. At the brunch. That's what you get. You know, the brunch, because everybody making love in the rain. Okay. Yes. At the brunch?

We love the trumpet sound. At the brunch. That's what you get. You know, the brunch, because everybody's talking at the brunch. Everybody's talking. Everybody's, you know, stuffing their faces. And then they hear that little groove and they go, oh, shit. Hold on.

Is that that old school? Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I throw that rise. I throw that herb out for rotation. You're like, okay, I see what's going on. Yeah. All right.

Well, I'm glad. I'm glad everybody herb out for rotation. You're like, okay, I see what's going on. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm glad everybody's doing well. And you're in Wisconsin and you got cheese and tornadoes and all kinds of stuff. Hot dogs, yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, let's get into the show a little bit. Let's give people a preview of what we're going to talk about today. First, we're going to talk about the Capitol Police. They said they will arrest the maskless if you are in the Capitol because Nancy Pelosi is not playing around and you

will get arrested unless you're a member of Congress, in which case we'll see how far she'll take that. We'll also talk about, you know, just kind of checking in with just the sort of mass exodus from a lot of jobs continues where like while a lot of business owners like there's a labor shortage, it seems like more and more than than anything we are starting to see things begin to sort of realign or at least people take you know the the power into their own hands to decide how they want to work uh then we'll talk about trump uh unfortunately because you know he's been he's been saying he's a kingmaker you know all, all the Republicans are like, I mean, his word is gold. And whatever he says is the truth.

It's the gospel. And he's been picking some losers recently in some special elections. So we'll check in on his kingmaking ability and his decision-making ability. Not great. We'll also check in with the Tokyo Shit Show, a.k.a. the Olympics. And we'll talk about a jewel heist. I saw Badminton today. I was eating cheese curds watching Badminton.

Yeah. Okay, look at you. That's exciting. Little Miss Muffet, eating your curds in way. And then we'll talk about a jewel heist in Paris that somehow involves Jean-Claude Van Damme. And it's very silly, but just kind of funny to me because I didn't realize Jean-Claude Van Damme

was just so fucking popular. But first, Carl, we want to ask you, our guest, what is something from your search history that's, you know, like revealing, you know, just reveal something about who you are, where you are, what you're up to. I looked at my Google and this thing I saw that y'all would like to hear about is chopped beef. I Google chopped beef. Why? chopped beef why because i was at denny's last night with a buddy uh shout out chenna do unaka and and uh i was at i was at denny's with chenna do and i wanted to get that i was like you know i never order chicken fried steak and then i looked to see how they prepared it and i and it said chop beef i was like chopped beef i feel like chopped beef when they say it like that it's just hamburger meat and i'm not trying to eat a chicken fried hamburger

and so i googled what chopped beef was as opposed to cube steak which is just really tenderized steak which which looks like it could be hamburger patty but it's not it's just right cube steak smashed to shit yeah you don't realize how tough it is. Exactly. And they were two different things, so I didn't order that. I got the Grand Slamwich. Isn't chopped beef like brisket? It could be. So there is a chopped beef like brisket. Yeah.

Yes. When you'll see chopped beef, it'll be like a chopped up brisket type situation, which you will put in a stew or something like that. But the chopped beef that they had at Denny's was most certainly hamburger meat. Ground beef. That's a good, like, scam to just be like, chopped beef could be anything. And you can't ask for specifics. Yeah.

It's like hot dogs. Yeah, what do you say? Like, it's chopped beef. I know, but it's just, can you tell me what kind of, like, what part it is? It's chopped beef. Chopped beef. What type of knife did you chop it with?

You chop it with an axe? Like what did you chop it with? Oh, man. How was, what was, was Denny's packed? How was it in there? Denny's was not packed. It was pretty empty. So it was safe, you know?

Sad times. Yeah, it was pretty empty. And my Grand Slam, which was kind of cold. My hash browns was kind of cold. But it was only, speaking of labor shortages, there was only one lady working. She was running in and out. And, you know, we didn't give her no stress. I only asked for two Diet Cokes.

There you go. Yeah, and we'll get to that, too. It's an incredible restraint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was fiending. I we'll, we'll get to that too. The incredible restraint. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I could, cause I was fiending. I was fiending for some of that fiending in a nine,

but, uh, yeah, I only, I only asked for two. Cause I'm like, look, she's busy.

Even though she only got a couple of days, only a few people in here, but she was the only person working. It felt like a 1950s diner. Like, right. Right. Help you should,

but like it was, it was like one person. And I'm like, man, that's crazy. Oh, man. What's something that you think is overrated? I'm going to tell you because I just saw this. I think something that is overrated is people using the word normalized in tweets.

I'm sick of that. I just saw one that like normalized buying a plot of land with your friends and raising cattle and raising your kids. Who is saying that that is not normal, number one? Number two, why don't you fucking do it? It feels like when people say normalize, it'd be stuff that they don't do. Like, they just want to, like, not be ridiculed for it. And it's like, be a leader. Don't worry about what other people need to normalize.

If you want to buy a plot of land with your friends and raise your families on it like a cult then do that ain't nobody ain't nobody think about you yeah but it doesn't need to be normal normalize that normalize wearing boot cut jeans with your air max 95 oh my god no that and that's true carl it sounds like a thing that you get like people will tease somebody for and then they have to go and be like, we need to normalize picking your nose at Denny's and then putting the boogers on your napkin, and then you count them at the end of your meal just to kind of keep pace with what your booger output is every day. We need to normalize that.

Normalize it. I'm just saying, if I saw it, I wouldn't think it was weird. That's just me. Do you, boo, do you. What other normalizing do we... I always feel like, what are the other ones you see? It's like, normalize, like, normalize, like, not buying whatever the fuck. I don't know.

It's just, we're trying to normalize many things. I got to normalize. I feel like it can be used well, but most of the time, it's normalize being so sweaty in the summer that people mistake you for gloppy that's when i just can't i'm here to support that right i mean that yeah i mean stuff like saying like you know normalize expressing your emotions with your male friends i get that yeah it's about mental health you know yeah yeah pushing them back against you know toxic habits we might have but like getting into this weird stuff like

you know whatever normalize filling your hat with beans and going to a show it's like i'm just saying just we shouldn't we shouldn't really be thumbing our noses at that yeah yeah i guess we'll see any if you like gang let us know if you've seen any good normalization tweets. Like, not ones that make sense, but ones that are, like, being so sweaty people think you're gloppy. Did Jack tweet that? That might be Jack. That might have been the tweet he got canceled over, and that's why he's not here today. Oh, yeah, I heard about it.

I'm not on Twitter anymore, but I heard Jack got canceled. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's every day. It's every day. It's every day. He really can't stop talking. And I'm shocked he's still online. Because he has all those sock puppet accounts.

And he responds to his own tweets. It's really embarrassing. Yeah. And it's really lame when you see Jack retweeting from the accounts. You know he runs the other ones, too. And it's like, come on, Jack. If you ever see Jack tweet and then someone with an egg for an avatar says, great point,

Jack, that's also Jack. Great, great point. Great. Yeah. Oh man. Carl,

what is something that you think is underrated? Okay. What I think, something that I definitely think is underrated is finishing your fries before you get home. We don't talk about it. We don't talk about it enough. Normalize finishing your fries before you get home. I was going to say, yeah, this sounds like a good opportunity to normalize something.

So what do you mean when you're taking some, you got a to-go order? Yeah. Because you don't want the fries to die in the back. Yeah. Because they can. Sometimes they hold up, but sometimes they can die. What if fries hold up? Because it's like I always hold a flame that my fries are going to make it to the next day intact, and it never happens.

Wait, the next day, you said? The next day, yeah. No, no, no. No fries. No fries can make it past maybe an hour and a half i take it back i take it back i take it you're in the choo-choo zone because it's so chewy but yeah i'm not gonna lie i'm also the kind of person who hates wasting food so if i have a ton of fries i'll save them and i'll look at them in my refrigerator and i'll say i'm not gonna fucking eat that although sometimes i'll

repurpose them into hash browns like i'll put them in a pan and I'll say, I'm not going to fucking eat that. Although sometimes I'll repurpose them into hash browns. Like I'll put them in a pan and I'll chop them up. Really? And then you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can use old fries and then you can kind of you can give them new life. Interesting. What is your stance on leftovers?

Now, this this this is what's going to get me canceled with with all the food shortages that is going on in the world. I don't do leftovers, man. I can't do them. It's only specific things I can do. i can eat pizza for three days pizza yeah i can do pizza for a long time also the homie vivian she told me how to do pizza like give pizza new life cold pizza spot but she told me how to give pizza new life where you put it in a skillet yep and put a like a spoonful of water in it and then put the top over it. And I tried that and I was like,

oh damn, that works. It brings it back. It was crazy. That's Dear Leader Jack's favorite way to bring back a slice too. Besides the cold gas study and the Havana syndrome, that's all he talks about is putting a piece of pizza in a skillet with a drop of water. Put the lid on for one minute.

The bottom is crispy. The top is bubbly. you're you're right back you're back in the game i can't eat leftovers is that is it just pizza i can do pasta too i can do pasta what about chinese food chinese food i can do i guess i guess i do do what are the ones you don't do maybe let's get to those i'm not gonna eat it now hey do no burger after oh no burgers if i order what would i order at a at a restaurant i also don't like carrying if i got somewhere to go after the restaurant i'm sorry i'm not gonna carry that shit around or i'll take it outside and give it to somebody or something like that but yeah i i'm not gonna take it home i'm not like what is what is something that i can't do anything bread involved honestly anything bread involved doesn't hold up for me.

Yeah, the bread gets droopy. Yeah. It gets gloopy. Normalized bread turning into gloppy. More gloppy sandwiches for everybody. Yeah, I mean, I have like the other version is where I don't like leftovers. So I will just kill myself at the table overeating to not leave anything on the plate. I will just kill myself at the table overeating to not leave anything on the plate.

Because I also was raised in like big, strong, empty plate culture at the end of your meal, even if it was at the cost of like overeating. So I still have that terrible habit, too. I'm like, I can't. I'll be like, give me your food, too, because we can't disrespect this cook like that. I'm like dying just eating all this like garnish and parsley I had my first experience eating so much at a restaurant that I threw up outside a couple weeks ago

that's never happened to me before like I was so shocked I didn't know what to do because it was like I've never known someone who worked at a restaurant but my boyfriend's friend works at a hibachi restaurant in Racine, Wisconsin. So we went and he kept sending out food. And I was like, I was like, I can't eat anymore. He's like, well, then you're disrespecting

my hibachi chef friend. And so we kept eating. And then I like when we finished, I like I just I don't eat that much in a single sitting. And I walked two blocks away by myself and I threw up in a bush and it was an amazing meal. But it was like, oh, my God, you are you are we talking like good out of a bush? Do you normally what you do? Like, what did you say? You would quadruple your normal intake for a meal quintupled it like how many how much how many exponents? What's the exponent on top of, you know, what you ate? And all the food was good, too. So I was like, my body was confused because I was eating good stuff, but I couldn't have any more of it in my face. And I was drinking a Long Island iced tea.

And then I just like absolutely spewed into a bush. I loved it. Like, don't disrespect the hibachi chef. He did the little volcano with the onions and everything for us. He did. It was really exciting. I've never been to a hibachi. I gotta go. I gotta go check out Benihana. It's theater.

I heard the food's pretty good, too. Yeah. I mean, the food's not bad. Honestly, I get more excited when they do that stupid-ass volcano with the onion. Yeah. I saw one. I'm like, here comes the volcano. He was a really good one, too. He could flip the onion into his hat and then flip it out of his hat and here comes the volcano he was like a really good one too so he like he could

flip the onion into his hat and then flip it out of his hat and then and then did the volcano it was really exciting i've i've noticed on tiktok there's like a huge genre of videos that looks like guys who used to work at benihana who with like the with many restaurants closing down they were just making their own hibachi content like their garage. They would have a flat top and just show you how to make fried rice or do different hibachi skills. I don't know. That was another form of a TikTok spiral I went down.

That's wild. Shout out to all the hibachi chefs out there. We respect you. Carl, you got to get leftover hibachi. It holds up. I'm going to go to that bush. Where was it? in Racine again? Here. Hey, ZyGang, if you're in Racine, check out the bush.

If you're in Racine, I'm going to go to the... I'm going to lick my barf. I'm going to go to the League of Their Own Museum, and I'm going to go get some of that. Is there a League of Their Own Museum there? I know it took place in Racine. I don't know if there is. I was thinking the same thing, too. I the racing peaches yeah hold on is there any league of their own anything in racing like acknowledgement there's people talk about it a lot i've never seen

a public acknowledgement of it but i might like today they're still talking about it they're like man remember league of their own like every time i come here yeah my boyfriend's grandma will be like you know like league League of Their Own. I mean, it's like the thing. Racing is great. I'm not trying to hate on racing or their hibachi food. It was my body that was wrong. Yeah, you did some kind of MTV, the challenge eating thing and you rightfully reached your limit.

I was trying. I was so inspired by I saw Joey Chestnut last month and I was was like i could do that and then i threw up right away how many he ate so many fucking hot dogs 76 hot dogs miles in 10 minutes no ketchup impossible impossible absurd it was ridiculous and then i saw him and then he, he, it was really exciting. He like kind of like didn't, he didn't push past me, but he like moved me aside to go to the bathroom afterwards. It was really exciting. Oh, wait, who did? Joey Chestnut.

Joseph Chestnut. Joseph Christian Chestnut? He touched my shoulder and said, excuse me, excuse me. Cause he had to go barf out all those hot dogs. Oh, my God. You've lived. You've lived quite a life. I know he went to San Jose State University, according to Wikipedia.

Yep. Those are random facts brought to you by me Googling something right then and there. Okay, let's take a quick break and we'll be back. We'll talk some news after this. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back. We'll talk some news after this. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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your podcasts. And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. And we're back. Let's move on to some news, mostly having to do with Congress. Yes, they might. They have some kind of bipartisan deal for the infrastructure that is not going to address any of the, you know, pressing climate issues. But we'll get to that at another time. The other thing that's really brewing on the Hill is COVID.

You know, we are still in a pandemic, despite a lot of, you know, a lot of the messaging out there that says, like, everything's fine. Nothing's nothing's bad. Don't worry about it. Just just do whatever you got to do. Take your masks off and just live, live free. A lot of the guidance has changed over the last week as the Delta variant is spreading. And the House, the House of Representatives, they're doing a very normal and responsible thing and making everyone mask up indoors, regardless of vaccination. They say, you know what, man, it doesn't look like we can we can live that free at the moment. So let's actually be safe and responsible. Wear these masks. Kicked off a bunch of BS from the right. Some were posting things like this one congresswoman was like, Pelosi's doing a power grab and I follow science, not Pelosi.

So if you want to do something, come and get me. And like this like whole menacing like look and shit. It's so fucking tired. this like whole menacing like look and shit it's so fucking tired but are they like tweeting that or are they like posting menacing up up angle selfies and saying that like what do they do it's like yeah it's like you know kind of when you when you got your eyes low so you look up from your eyebrows and shit you know what i'm saying yeah that that's kind of like the the angle they're going and they're like come do something about it is such like, you know, stepchild trying to get attention type tactics where it's like, I'll break the rules till they notice me. And I think that's kind of what's going on with some of these representatives.

But the good thing is, I guess, that the Capitol Police are here to, you know, because we love the police, not. Police are here to, you know, because we love the police, not. They have made it clear that they aren't going to tolerate people flouting the safety measures just so they can get some headlines. They have been instructed, quote, if a visitor or staff member fails to wear a mask after a request is made to do so, the visitor or staff shall be denied entry and potentially be arrested for unlawful entry if they completely refuse wow this doesn't apply to members so people like lauren bober and majorly tarnished gangrene are gonna just have to be they're just gonna do their thing and continue to like be shoot loogies back and forth and in each other's mouths can you imagine i mean i feel like that's the i'm sure i feel like it might get that petulant like they're gonna do something like they're gonna be like we cough in each other's mouths can you imagine i mean i feel like that's the i'm sure i feel like it might get that petulant like they're gonna do something they're gonna be like we cough in each other's

faces okay this is how i express my freedom i sneeze in my colleague's mouth like a like a groupon dentist like a groupon dentist exactly are they getting tested at least i mean i think some might be but there's right now there's really no mandate around that. It just seems that they were asked people to get vaccinated. They're like, then others are like, I have an immune system. I don't need to wear a mask. And it's just sadly, this is where it's going to keep going around and around. But the way it's like working is if the cops, you know, they see something like a like a member not wearing a mask, then what they do is they snitch to their superior who will then tell the sergeant at arms and Pelosi and then Nancy Pelosi will then figure out what she wants to do.

But I don't know what I don't know what she would, you know, what she's going to try to do, because any again, this is just like the problem with how our congress works is there's just such a fear of the reaction of the right that nothing will happen well then if they do that then they're going to start saying this and that's like well but then but people are still safe like what do you care like you're don't be the parent to sneeze all over the the capital cool right don't act like the parent who's afraid of their kids reaction because you're creating rules like oh but then my kids not gonna like me's afraid of their kid's reaction because you're creating rules. Like, oh, but then my kid's not going to like me. They're going to post about it. Hello. You're trying to you're the. OK. Hey, do what you got to do.

Do what you got to do. But, yeah, such is the state of the pandemic. And, yeah, I mean, for all the the talk of Republicans saying like especially in this one member who was trying to like be like, come and get me. When she says she believes in science, I'm like, what part of science are you believing in exactly? If you're saying because the CDC is going to recommend it. So who who is science in this? Jesus is science. Oh, yeah.

Christian science. Yeah. Yeah. But even like so just no dinosaurs. Christian science. Yep. So just no dinosaurs. No dinosaurs. We're good. No dinosaurs, no doctors.

That's it. Science though, I love it. That would make a good t-shirt in spite of its bad messaging. No dinosaurs, no doctors. That's a powerful phrase. Or it's a dinosaur dressed as a doctor. With a red X to it. Yeah, you're like, no doctors. That's a powerful phrase. Or it's a dinosaur dressed as a doctor. With a red X to it. Yeah, you're like, no thanks.

Oh, shit. Yeah, so again, this is just like the biggest pain in the ass to just experience as an American when we have so many vaccines that we're hoarding them and preventing the rest of the world from having them just to try and convince a group of people who aren't going to take it and allow, you know, these communities that are unvaccinated become like hyper laboratories for variant mutation. Because shit, I mean, that's another rabbit hole we can go down. But I'm not a virologist, so I'll just be a podcaster and say it could get scary, it seems, based on things I'm reading. I mean, I got it.

I'm back. I'm back since March. I got it a couple weeks ago. And I told people, like, hey, get the vaccine because I'm like, I got it. Only thing I heard was my pocketbook. But I'm like, yeah, i lost the job but oh i was shooting something and they had to because they said they didn't want vaccinated people on that set yeah yeah i was shooting a christian science movie and uh okay okay they said call dr rex and

when i said yeah i told him i was like hey man i shouldn't come in i have covid, I was like, hey, man, I shouldn't come in. I have COVID. And he was like, oh, you're not going to finish the movie? Well, you're fired. No, no. No, but I definitely was like, yo, you should get this because I think the fact that I still got it after having the vaccine means that this shit is strong. Number one. And number two, the fact that I'm pretty much like very, very, very mild symptoms means that the vaccine is working at least to an extent. But their takeaway from me getting it was it doesn't work. You can still get it. It's like you clowns. I'm not going to get it like you get it. Exactly. Yeah. Like you're not in the hospital about it. That's what, man, I have people in my family like that, too, That's what, man, I have people in my family like that, too, who have gotten this shit twice.

Okay. And since the beginning of 2020 and are still on some like, no, I have immunities type shit. And I'm like, you are like some people. I'm like, you are too damn smart for this shit. I don't know what the fuck you were thinking, but this is a familiar refrain. I think many people are experiencing in the country. We are not alone, no matter where you live or what community you're in. So yeah, again, this is just the current tug of war on the Hill. Another thing about COVID, which is interesting, because Carl, you're talking about how, you know, you're at Denny's and there was only one person working is this constant sort of screaming about a labor shortage that nobody wants to work because they're getting benefits and they're getting unemployment benefits and they're just loafing around.

OK, that's we've all seen the studies that say these people are not just collecting a check and kicking back. Many people are actually taking advantage of this social safety net. The fact that they could have benefits means they have they don't have the pressure to take just any old job that's going to screw them over because they've the pandemic has given many people the perspective of like what work should look like or what it means to work or what you deserve to work. And because of that, just this trend of people leaving their jobs has not stopped. Like it's continuing. A lot of people are just being like, I need to find another job. And again, because they have the ability, the flexibility with these benefits to just say, you know what, you don't need to, you don't need to actually have a job right now. You can take some time to look at what you want to do. That is being categorized as a labor shortage.

Yeah. I think it is like a really, it's been interesting to kind of watch this develop too, because I feel like it kind of like unravels a lot of the like bootstrap mentality that most of us are raised with of like well you have to like if you don't have a job even if you hate it even if you're treated like shit even if you're not given any benefits and you don't make enough money to live like interpreting that as a personal failing versus a systemic one and the past year has like just laid that all out if If it wasn't something that you had, you know, kind of pieced together already that people are just like, well, no, this is clearly a systemic failure. And there are already I mean, like there are so few social safety nets as it is that it's like, of course, people are going to use this. Like it's that's what it's fucking for. Yeah.

I mean, anybody, you know, who's worked retail server job or whatever, it's, it's bad. The money isn't good. And the sort of the constant deferential behavior you have to adopt to the customer is will grind your soul down, especially when people are screaming in your face about nothing, that's not your your problem and you're just there trying to do your job too. And, you know, the, we're seeing like this sort of, there's just two forces, right? There's the business owners who are like, where the fuck are they at? I got my less than $15 an hour I'm offering and they're not coming back because I'm not, I'm not going to change my fucking business model and say, oh, I'm going to, you know what, people are asking for a living wage. Well, that starts to cut down on my profits. And I know, and for smaller businesses, that's a, that's tricky math too, because sometimes you're already

dealing with razor thin margins, which is why I feel like business owners too should implore the government to have things like universal healthcare, because that's a cost that would be taken off an employer's plate. You know, there's ways that they can also participate in, you know, advocating better for everybody. But, and then on the other side, you have the workers who are just saying like, this, we cannot work for sub subsistence wages. I can't go to a place where this one job isn't going to support me. I don't, I can't work two and three jobs just to be able to have an apartment that's too small and barely enough food and have nothing to save at the end of the day. And really what this is, people are just begging for and screaming for is

a real, just like just having a reckoning with what we consider like labor, what we consider essential and what that means in terms of what you are paid, you know? Right. Like if you're if you're working an essential job, you should be able to work one job and live and have benefits so you can like it. It's just it's so obvious. But I really hope that there is like some sort of change that's forced here. And my, my fear is that the, the social safety net will just be scaled back.

So people are forced back into jobs. And I really, really, really hope that what workers are, you know, organizing or just making individual choices to do right now actually does push for better conditions and better money. Also,

Miles, I wanted to, you know, give you a shout out because you lost your small business, Studio City Shoe Buckle Company. And it was tough. You had raised your damn margins. Shoe buckles aren't, look, I, Carl, and Carl was like,

it's not going to work, man. Nobody wants shoe buckles. And I was like, what the fuck do you know, Carl? But listen, it's called Studio City Shoe Buckles. It's got S's and C's. It's got alliterative qualities to the name. Nobody, nobody, nobody wears shoe buckles anymore. I don't know.

I'll say it wasn't fun to work there. I didn't enjoy a second of it. Well, the problem was you weren't putting in enough hours to get those hour bonuses. I told you that would actually get you to that $15 an hour sort of wage that I promised. And your sales were low. I was only on calling shifts. Very easy to get COVID. Very easy to get COVID in the shoe buckle industry. Oh yeah.

Especially when you're trying someone on for shoe buckles, you are in coughing trajectory and just beneath someone's knees. Just being like, what about this? And they're like, just talking at you. It can be an infection vector. And I apologize that we didn't open. We weren't really open for more than a week, but yes, studio studio city shoe buckles is no more. Um, and I will be back though. Worry not because this

is America and I'll find some way to grift some money to start another business. But yeah, this like essential stuff, it really feels like at a minimum we could at the very least say if something's essential, that has to be a job that that can be your only job. And you can afford to have you could be a single parent and you could have two kids and you can still put a roof and mud and food and everything. And with your one job. But I think a lot of it, because we've whittled away so many social safety nets since like, you know, Because we've whittled away so many social safety nets since like, you know, the middle of the last century that things that were like used to be free, like college became cash grabs when like Ronald Reagan's like, hey, man, like, you know, like you can kind of start charging people for like UC schools. You know what I mean? And that gave all the other public schools across the country the idea that, oh, yeah, now we can squeeze people for a little bit of money here. You know, actually, if you cut this part back of medical care, you know, they'll pick that up and people won't really notice and you'll actually make a lot more money. We've whittled all these

things back because if you think about it, ask your grandparents if they're still with us or your parents. People had you could have been a custodian and supported an entire family just being a custodian because there were enough. And had retirement money. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a completely different era now. And now we're looking at things like that and just saying like, oh, essential?

That means essentially you're fucked. That's pretty much what it means now. It means maybe someone will clap for you as you pass to go to your job where you're not paid enough to live. Yeah. I feel like businesses should be like, hey hey if you come through with your like essential worker thing like you drink for free you know what i mean like you eat for free like i feel like but these are these are the this is the situation we're in everybody go outside and bang your pot to eight o'clock yeah yeah like what well no i think these people just rather have like the health care paid for and like adequate child care no no i'm gonna bang this pot thank you thank you so much like fuck so again this realignment or hopefully

there'll be some kind of realignment in terms of what we're calling labor these days. But, you know, as things get closer, you know, unemployment benefits are due to be cut off fairly soon. And that's going to put about 40 million people under some more pressure. And we'll see what happens then. And, you know, I think a lot of organizations, especially around labor, are talking about like we need real organized labor strikes. I'm like, we really need to be able to organize around that to try and create some pressure and put that on the business owning community and our representatives in government to realize, fuck, like it's it's it's I guess it's that bad. But I don't know, from my perspective as a millionaire in Congress, it's hard to see.

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behind a candidate in a special election that was happening in Texas earlier this week. This woman, Susan Wright, who is the the widow of the late Ron Wright, who passed away from covid. So this was like just it was a Republican seat. There was a primary going on and there was two candidates, Susan Wright and Jake Elsey. Trump was like, I'm all for Susanan right and guess what she lost and guess what trump said he actually won that one because he said this is from axios quote he also said that he actually won because right had bested elsey in the initial primary and the runoff came down to two republicans he liked his quote is i think this is the only race we've lost together trump said of macintosh and the club of club for growth before catching himself mid-sentence on the word lost this is the

only race we've this is not a loss again i don't want to claim it as a loss this was a win the big thing is we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win. He, if he can see, uh, if he can see it's three losses in his lifetime, he does explode. So there is a reason that he's not doing, yeah, his,

his head exploded into a cloud of blood. If that happens, God, that is so, that's so embarrassing. The best part though, is the club for growth straight played his ass to get him to back this candidate because they just were like, dude, this dude's so petty. Like, we can just say three things about the other person to make him put his weight behind this other candidate.

They said, oh, you know, Bill Elsey, he said he won't join the Freedom Caucus. So he's not really that Trumpy if it comes down to it. Also, you know, Bill Kristol, that Republican who's also giving you trouble all the time, who's like saying you're not a conservative. He gave him money that one time. That's your enemy, right? Like talking to him like that. He's like, oh, OK. Yeah.

So fuck him. Yeah, we're going with Susan Wright. And so he went all in on Susan Wright and lost. Ha ha ha. So this is just a very interesting moment for Trump because he's looking at all kinds of legal exposure just as a private citizen. And he's also, you know, that came out that he's been using all that money that he grifted after the election when he was sending those emails. He's like, I need y'all to give me your money so we can protect this election. He's been spending that shit on his own expense.

Taco bowls. Huh? Taco bowls. He's been spending it shit on his own expense taco bowls huh taco bowls he's been spending on taco bowls oh wait taco bowl okay taco bowls leftovers yes or no no i would do left okay all right but it's different look it's it's all context for different people like i would probably dump the context the contents out of the taco bowl because i'm not gonna lie you know out in the humidity of a taco shell can just turn to like the worst kind of yeah it's true texture yeah but you know i'm it's weird even though i say that i've had some trash leftover like scraped together meals so i don't really have i have

yeah i'll eat it i'll eat old fries i don't give a shit i'll pull fries out the fucking trash if i'm high enough i could do a i could do a burrito bowl okay the next day if i didn't eat the whole thing i will say taco bell soft tacos after after two hours can you do that yes i don't know if i can yeah i feel like i've been on a set where there was like old Taco Bell. Lukewarm ones. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm like, fuck it. Whatever. Let's do it. I can't do the crunchy ones, but I can do the soft. Yeah. Because again, a soft, crunchy shell, it's just disgusting. No, that's bad. And, you know, to get back on the leftovers thing, like an old burrito, sometimes the

burrito becomes so saturated with like moisture that it becomes a whole other texture yeah yeah it's hard and sometimes i'll just dump the contents out i'll just be like fuck it but as trump says as trump says for a fresh taco old burrito i'm gonna come i've gotta come i gotta love I'm going to love it. You're going to love it. So this man is really slipping in terms of his grip on the party because everyone was so afraid of like, well, whoever he picks is going to win because his word is the thing that will make all the boys come to the yard.

It's like Khalees' milkshake, okay? And that's what we're all trying to figure out. Is it still powerful? And it doesn't seem like it is. But his lack of being able to pick winners is becoming a problem for Republicans like Mitch McConnell is pissed because at the very least, this turtle goblin turkey neck fool is saying like, he knows you need candidates that are likable and electable to get them into the Senate to keep your majority. That's just like a basic rule. Whereas Trump, he's like he's picking people based off his like funhouse mirror of a brain and how he thinks election works.

For example, he wants Herschel Walker, the former football player, to run for Senate in Georgia against Raphael Warnock. to run for Senate in Georgia against Raphael Warnock. Herschel Walker lives in Texas, for starters, and he's also facing really dark, grim allegations about spousal abuse, like putting guns to his wife's head and things like that. Oh, wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's a lot to be like, ooh, this is not somebody you want to run. But Trump, again, his logic is if there's a black man incumbent that needs to be defeated then he wants a big buff football black man to go against him and that's like sort of his very

superficial logic he's like that's how we're gonna win herschel walker he's stronger and like it's not a it's not a mandingo fight like what the fuck are you thinking that herschel walker played football at georgia so he thinks that he has like a lot of. But that's been so long ago. The young voters don't know who the fuck Herschel Walker is. I was like, I didn't. Herschel Walker played for University of Georgia in 1980. We wasn't even born.

We were like people in their mid 30s were not born when Herschel Walker was playing football at the University of Georgia. But see, you know, Donald Trump and Herschel Walker go way back to the USFL because he signed with the New Jersey, New Jersey generals. Yeah, that was like his first big sign. He got a million dollar contract with them. And so that's why they're like friends. And then of recent, I watched a documentary on Herschel Walker. If I turn up missing, y'all know Herschel did it. Cause he'd be listening to this podcast. I heard he's a big fan of,

he gets his shoe buckles done at studio city. Well, he does. He's a big fan of Jack's tweets. He like, so he probably is listening to this right now. And I think young people, all they got to do is watch Herschel Walker's a football life.

And they're not going to vote for him. Do you think he's got like a, like CT? I think that, I think he's had that for a long time but he also just talked about how his whole life he's just had anger problems and insecurities i mean this sounds right because the things are that he was putting a gun to his ex-wife's head yeah blow your brains out the dude was like when i was 13 i used to do 1 000 push-ups oh every day and because they called me because they called me fat at school and i said oh man they called me fat at school and all i did was get fatter and then you ended up being that'll show you

that'll show you oh my gosh that's sinister yeah so this sounds i mean this all tracks and then another another candidate is in Arizona. All the Republicans are like, please have Doug Ducey, the governor, run. He is the most electable Republican in the state. And that's how we can get this Senate seat. Trump is just like he can't get over the fact that, you know, he needed he wanted Doug Ducey to really overturn the election results in Arizona because they were, quote unquote, close. Spoiler alert, they weren't. They're not.

And he just won't get over that. So he's like, no, Ducey's dead to me. It's going to be someone else. And everyone's like, fuck, dude. This guy doesn't even know how to pick properly. He's just in his bag all the time. And so now people are very, very concerned. This is from Politico just talking about like what they see is happening

with Trump. They say, quote, some Republicans contend that Tuesday's loss highlights a trend in Trump's post presidency. His endorsement doesn't carry as much weight as when he was in office after being kicked off social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Trump has been forced to promote his endorsement largely through email blasts. It is then up to the candidates and their allies to get the word out about his support. Wait. I mean, come on. Why isn't he on TikTok?

Can't he go live on TikTok? Can you go live on TikTok? Oh, no. I'm 75 years old. You can go live on TikTok. I watch people fishing live on TikTok a lot of times. That sounds nice. It's fun.

There are these people who have like black light fishing rods. And then they'll put a black light because it'll be dark. So like their fishing rods are going, I don't know. Normalize that. Normalize. Normalize black light fishing rods. Normalize day glow fishing. Come on now.

But yeah, so it looks like the deplatforming is working. Wow. Love that. Yes. Really quick. but yeah so it looks like the deplatforming is working wow love that yes really quick i just want to talk about tokyo simone biles obviously had to take care of number one and i just want to point out that her exiting the games because she was taking care of her mental health she's like i was getting the twisties which a lot every other gymnast was like oh no no no you don't want that please i didn't know about the twisties before yesterday every other gymnast was like, oh, no, no, no, you don't want that. Please. I didn't know about the twisties before yesterday. I didn't either. I got educated.

I thought it was a horn sight. Yeah. What is it? What is it? So it's this thing like where Simone Biles is saying for the degree of difficulty in some of her like vaulting skills and other parts, like you're doing all these twists in midair. She said she would do two and a half twists,

and by the first one and a half, she would lose sense of where she was like in midair and what her routine is and for how aggressive she comes at these events the potential for injury is really significant especially if you're throwing you know you're just flinging your body like left and right you come down on your fucking head or something yeah it could be terrible yeah so she was saying that's what they call the twisties it's just sort of like this thing that happens to you where you're like it's very dangerous and again that's why every gymnast was like i i get it like that's absolutely the reason even though most it's like something that can like it's like a mindset that can like get you can get locked in for like weeks and months at a time which i didn't realize

is a thing where it's just like yeah it's a mental block that you really like just need to take time and take care of yourself and push through. Yeah. Like like Gil Hodges, you know, the Brooklyn Dodgers. You know, sometimes you can just get get something in you and you're not right anymore. And you just got to kind of find it again. Do you ever get podcast twisties where you're just like, wait a a second i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about right now i got them when y'all was talking about politics i don't uh i got the twisties that's why i started talking about taco bowls i gotta contribute what about the taco bowls yeah

but uh suny lee she won the women's all around so shout out to her this is like the fifth time an american is like one like fifth consecutive win by an american um in that event but back to the simone biles thing the second she was gonna exit the games every trade like industry trade magazine and i say this like in in the television industry like things like deadline variety the hollywood reporter these are like the magazines that people who things like Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter. These are like the magazines that people who are like working at networks and things read every day.

That's their news. All the headlines were about Simone Biles potentially exiting the games. And when I saw that, I was like, oh, so this is, I know how they're looking at it. They're like, ratings, everyone. The ratings, if Simone Biles is not there, what are we going to do?

And that's when I was like this is so fucking like it because I'm I was like there's a lot of headlines about her taking care of herself and I don't think suddenly Hollywood are the biggest mental health advocates yeah so it's got to be about those sweet sweet ad dollars diminishing because we know the ratings have been terrible yeah and the basketball team is bad so like between the basketball team being bad and Simone Biles backing out like man am I watching this shit yeah I mean I think I think in general too just the the wind is out of the sails because most people are just bummed by the idea that it's still happening in the middle of a pandemic in a country that is only like 25 vaccinated and they're breaking bad records like in terms of daily new infections. So it's all

very top of like how awful the Olympics are for like any community they enter to. So it's just like, yeah, just don't just don't fucking do it anymore. But the big thing with all the organizers at the Tokyo Olympics and like the government of Tokyo saying like, I know we've got record cases, but it has nothing to do with the Olympics being here. Okay. So like, let's just try and keep those separate thoughts and let's continue just checking out the Olympics. Even though you see on like some of these events, people are coming out in the street to like cheer people on and the cycling or whatever stuff that they're able to kind of see. But despite all that, a lot of the experts are saying like, it's more than just like whether or not you can prove if the bubble works.

It's the idea that it's happening and people are watching it on TV. And if the coverage seems so normal, it's giving people a false sense of comfort, especially in Japan, that they're not going through a terrible inflection point when it comes to new cases. So, yeah, we keep keep your eye on that one, folks. No Olympics. There it is. No Olympics, baby. Just keep them in one place. The gear is very tight, though.

That Nike gear for LA 28 is hard. But no Olympics, though. No, it isn't, Carl. No, that shit is nice. The shit is nice. The marketing got me. The marketing got me. But no Olympics.

But no Olympics, though. Don't bring them. Carl's going to be rocking that, but still be like, oh, it's no Olympics every no Olympics though don't bring them Carl's gonna be rocking that but still be like oh it's no Olympics I'm gonna have a full American dressing just put a red X

across it yeah not on the front and dinosaur doctors yeah same as no dinos no doctors oh yeah

well oh shit damn LA 20 stop you see oh my god I'm leaving the fucking call

i don't know what the fuck i'm looking at this one shirt is all blacked out yeah um but yes we shall see what happens i think there's already the uh pole vaulter tested positive i think was like a heavy favorite for the event so we're already seeing that person exit so we'll see definitely not like the nba bubble bryce you know bryson de chambeau bryce de chambeau the golfer he also tested positive and had to back out he's a big trump guy really yeah he's taco bowl oh my god so yeah there we'll we'll we'll see what happens i hope you know whatever i don't be able get more people than have to get injured. But that's the cynicism of trying to force a global event in the middle of a pandemic in that place that doesn't have the vaccination rates that it needs.

Because, again, a lot of countries are hoarding them. And you have Pfizer being like, you might need a third shot, you know, or Pfizer might need a third check. But we'll see. There's so many things happening which is why it's in the zeitgeist as it were okay before we go i just want to touch on something just the power of jean-claude van damme um because earlier this week in paris a man got away with like a pretty brazen robbery at a very famous jewelry store now they see the gray haired man who was wearing a gray suit and tie, expensive leather shoes and a surgical mask to hide his identity.

Walks into the LVMH Chame jewelry shop, jewelry, jewelry, jewelry, jewelry, jewelry on Tuesday and asked to see several expensive pieces. Police say he had made the appointment day before under a false name, using false documents that proved that he had the funds to pay for more than $1 million in jewelry,

as is required to make an appointment at a place like that. Once the jewels were on the display table, oh, you thought it was killing Mike because he said, run those fucking jewels. He pulled a gun out and stuffed the gems into a grocery bag before swiping the dealer security badge to leave the locked store. He then made off on an electric scooter he had parked outside, easily melding into traffic to make his escape. Wow. And so everyone's like, what the fuck happened?

This man just casually got on a fucking scooter and zipped off to meet his other accomplice with millions in jewelry well what the fuck happened it's a quote witnesses at an adjacent cafe who could have helped identify him were distracted by the presence of actor jean-claude van damme who had just entered a local optical shop lens crafters lens loans crafters Lin's Craft Airs. Lin's Lone's Craft Airs. They're like, oh shit, it's Jean-Claude Van Damme. Someone's like, help!

I've just been robbed! I've just been robbed! No, no, no, no, just a second. Jean-Claude Van Damme! Jean-Claude Van Damme! I can't believe it. It feels like a scene in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie where like he would have done something to create a distraction for like the heist to go off. But I'm just I'm just really surprised that he is really turning heads like that in the midst of a brazen jewelry robbery that like everyone's like, I mean, how the fuck could we have known JCVD was walking?

I think he was getting new lenses and sunglasses. They're prescription. I think they was getting new lenses and sunglasses. They're prescription. I think they're Persals that he's wearing. So he's not messing around. But because Paris has like the wild CCTV system, they were able to just very casually track him. And they found him at a rest stop where he was trying to get on a bus to Serbia with another accomplice. was trying to get on a bus to Serbia with another accomplice. And they think that he may have unloaded a lot of the jewels,

like already sold them before he got on this bus. So, hey. And that's why we need our cities to be heavily surveilled. Exactly. I've been saying this. That's why we need to ban Jean-Claude Van Damme from our streets. That is truly. He was a distraction. Everyone should just get a cardboard

cut out of him in case they're ever like caught in a situation they just like throw it i mean i get it he's i believe he's from belgium right because they call him the muscles from brussels uh back in the day so yeah i don't know much about his like life i just know hey euro zeitgang can you tell me is is that really a neckbreaker to see JCVD like that? Because I feel like flippantly, like, wasn't there like an Amazon show that was made about him called JCVD? Like that was very sort of tongue in cheek about like him just being kind of Jean-Claude. Yeah, it was his Curb Your Enthusiasm. And they played a theme song on an accordion?

Yeah. Could you imagine? What does that show look like? And they played a theme song on the accordion? Yeah. Could you imagine, what does that show look like if there was a curb type show, but it was about Jean-Claude Van Damme's world? That'd be so good. What is he like getting mad at other martial artists who are doing splits? And he's like,

it's a pretty, pretty, pretty derivative. I was doing that. And you, like, okay, sir. But anyway, good luck to him. And I love to see his career keep going on. Well, Carl, thank you so much for coming on the Daily Zeitgeist today, bringing up Taco Bowl rules and leftover rules. Where can people find you and follow you? And what's a tweet that you like?

You can follow me on Instagram. I'm not on Twitter anymore, but I still look around every every now and then i got me a little burner you'll never find it you might find it but uh i saw a tweet it's very funny to me it made me laugh quite a bit i'm not saying that i agree with the sentiment of the tweet but it was very funny something to say anyway uh this guy jazz 2x said Jeff Bezos took two men with him to space instead of some bitches and that's all I needed to know that made me laugh quite a bit

it's so stupid what does that avatar look like it's 21 Savage. 21 Savage. Love it. 21, 21, 21. Oh, shit. Jamie, thank you so much for helping me host today.

Where can people find you and follow you, listen to you, your new materials, and what's a tweet that you like? You can find me on Twitter, Jamie Lobs' Help, Instagram Jamie Christ Superstar. You can listen to me and Miles on ActCast. It's my new podcast where I read every single Kathy comic strip and talk about it. I

promise it's fun. And Miles plays Irving, so if that doesn't sell you on it, I don't know what. If you're listening to this on Friday, I'm doing a DSA event tonight with a bunch of people. I really like John Early, Nick Cirelli, Brad Evans, Cynthia Nixon, etc. That is that's going on at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 Pacific. I'm reposting it everywhere if you're interested in checking that out.

And the tweet, I'm going to shout out the Gloppy tweet. I feel like we got a lot of mileage out of it, and it would be wrong not to shout out, normalize being so sweaty in the summer that people mistake you for Gloppy. And that's from at at two saddington is gloppy from candyland i gotta show because i was i don't quite remember oh yeah this image of it looks like the it looks like the pile of like check him out he looks like yeah he looks like a sentient diarrhea what is that he does is that chopped steak that's chopped beef diarrhea. What is that from? Yeah, he does. Is that chopped steak? That's chopped beef.

Wait, is that chopped beef or gloppy? Wait, that's chopped beef's cousin, gloppy. Yeah, oh, it's from Candyland, I guess. It is from Candyland, okay. Yeah, shout out the gloppies out there. Shout out gloppy. You can find me all over the place. First, let me tell you a

tweet that i like first one is from blair sake at blair sake tweeted going on a date tomorrow praying all day he doesn't have twitter yeah that tracks um and another one is from at kenzie an idiot uh tweeted today i said i want somebody to care that i hurt to my therapist and she started crying is that allowed that one just felt oh god i felt that shit in my bones my therapist ever start crying i beat his ass if you i was i i always i abide by the rule that if you can make your therapist cry the session is free yeah yeah that's. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's a good policy. What kind of cry? Does an empathetic tear sort of count?

They have to feel straight up bad for you. They have to be like, wow, your life is garbage. I have nothing to say. Or if you can stump your therapist where they're just like, yeah, that's just a bad situation. I'm like, I'm not giving you $100 for telling me it's a bad situation. That's why I showed up. Right. That's like that was like sort of in the office space where the fucking where he's like going to that therapist and he's like describing like just how fucked up like his he feels like his existence is.

And then the therapist is like, God, that's messed up. Like, hey, hold on. that's free i think because i ko'd you with my life you can find me at miles of gray on twitter and instagram also the other show for 20 day fiance if you like weed you like 90 day fiance you like 90 day fiance or weed or a combination check out the show go to twitch.tv slash 420 day fiance for that one you can find us at daily zeitgeist on twitter at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we got a website we got facebook fan pages you can go to www.dailyzeitgeist.com where we post the episodes and our footnotes footnotes there it is thank you and you can check out the song we ride out on which i will give in a second but just to remind you the daily zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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