The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump Support Sliding? Bezos And Elon FIGHT!!! 4.27.21

Episode Date: April 28, 2021

In episode 897, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Mall Talk podcast co-host Paige Weldon to discuss Trump support slipping among Republicans, Tucker Carlson's classically reaching, Marco Rubio's thoughts on corporations, the future of working from home, Jeff Bezo's versus Elon Musk, how home releases are helping theaters, and more!FOOTNOTES: Trump support slips among Republicans in new poll Tucker Carlson on wearing masks outdoors Corporations that undermine American values don’t deserve GOP support Most Americans Would Take a Pay Cut to Keep Working From Home Tensions rise as return-to-work plans gain steam FlexJobs Survey Finds Employees Want Remote Work Post-Pandemic Jeff Bezos challenges NASA moon-contract award to Elon Musk’s SpaceX How Warner Bros.’ Hybrid Releases Are Helping, Rather Than Hurting, Movie Theaters LISTEN: Spider Hole - Billy Woods  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Whoa. Sorry about that. Keep it. Keep it, Justin. It's all right. The people need to know. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 182, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist! A production of iHeartRadio.

See, Miles, I told you, when I don't do my half hour of vocal warm-ups before we record, this is what happens. Bumblebee, bumblebee, bumblebee. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. As we were telling our guests before we started recording, it was originally named after Carson Daly. Yeah, the Carson Daly. Yeah, couldn't get the rights, so we had to add an I. It was originally named after Carson Daly. Yeah. The Carson Daly. Yeah. Couldn't get the rights, so we had to add an I.

Well, it's also, the thing that you and I both discovered is we both had restraining orders against us from Carson Daly. Completely unrelated. We're like, weird. Huh. Maybe, I guess we'll pivot to something else then. Hey, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Little More Caffeination, Little Less Fascism. That is courtesy of Asher Klausen.

Klausen. I needed him to tell me what that was supposed to be, because if you start a song parody with a little, I'm not going to be able to get Mambo No. 5 out of my head. Oh, right. I was like, a little more caffeination in my life. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Deeper Bluer. I'm feeling like a shark's dick. Deeper Bluer.

I'm feeling like a shark's dick. Shout out to Christy Yamagaguchi main at wopple house because look i i heard the colloquialism i'm feeling lower than a shark's dick that kicked off a whole investigation into shark coercive sex uh and then this is a comeback to the deep blue sea where's that was called right deep blue yeah deep blue sea his hat was like a shark shark's fin in the oh shark's fin sorry oh misremembered that i'm gonna go back yeah and then uh the one of the best death scenes involving sam jackson i'll say yeah that movie has yeah absolutely that that conversation happened on mike huh the the shark's dick conversation that was uh but then it continued

for like 25 minutes after we were well if you remember we we were delaying recording the trending episode because we just got swept away by the shark talk and they're like save it for the mic man yeah but then we the google image search rabbit hole that we went down on on shark dicks after we record it. And the people that collect them. Collect them. Whale dorks. Also a collectible, which are human-sized whale penises. All very interesting stuff

that I'm sure our guest is excited to talk about. She is the brilliant, the talented Paige Weldon! Paige! Oh my God. Human-sized whale dicks. You know,

I think of whales, I think, wow, so peaceful, so beautiful. But we forget what lies beneath. I mean, literally.

Yeah, they can still be peaceful and beautiful. It's all about the eye of the beholder, I guess. Except when they're like breaching

with like a full-on woody and you're like, what is this? What are the whales doing what is this a show of force i don't know have either of you ever gone with like on a whale tour like have you seen a whale i've seen a whale but not with the explicit you know it was like just you know a happenstance it was just wonderful a coincidence that we saw a whale but no i've not like gone to see the whales no i do feel like i went i went on one once and we actually saw two whales and i do feel like it changed me i felt i feel like a different person after i saw them yeah did you see it really close yeah we got pretty close oh shit it was pretty cool i just got to see like

in the distance you're like oh shit that's a whale and then you kind of go on with your day but I can only imagine because whenever I see videos of like people like free swimming there's like a blue whale I'm like that seems so vibey that's what I need yeah and it's so quiet we like it was like this I don't know some Groupon that me and my boyfriend got and we were like oh my god this is the most beautiful experience based around Groupon that one could probably have. All my spiritual experiences are Groupon based. Well, we were like, it was like we thought we weren't going to see one because most of those tours you don't end up seeing a whale.

You just kind of have to accept that. But we got out to, it seemed really far and then it got quiet. They turned the engines off or whatever and it was just purely silent silent you could just hear the whales kind of little splashes right right right it's crazy whales are so cool that'd be a good like blog where you rank groupon experiences that could actually kind of be like

transformative for you yeah yeah like yo these are under like i know it looks like a janky whale tour but take that would be a good vlog chicken groupon for the soul for a podcast uh cut all this we are going to uh this is now the trailer for our new podcast yeah yeah i've only seen whales at a distance but yeah they're they're big i'm told is that one of the things yeah yeah big and peaceful and i haven't seen him in person so jury's still out for me you had a spiritual experience seeing seeing a whale you didn't go and make a fucking documentary about it like this octopus guy you know i mean you don't have to make a whole hour and a half documentary i didn't hang out with the whale for like a year or however long he was with that octopus. Well, again, do we know if the octopus was like, dude, you're so clingy.

Leave me alone. Yeah, the octopus literally was like, listen, I literally just got one of my arms bitten off. Could you please just leave me alone? I'm like trying to recuperate. Every time I see you, I'm reminded of it. Yeah, it's like he's like, I'm reminded of it. Yeah. He's like, I'm worried that it's my fault that the octopus got attacked, but I'm going to go back just to see.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ask him his opinion on that. Octopuses are aliens, but they're not actual sea life, whereas whales are our cousins. My whale teacher, the sequel, coming soon. All right, Paige, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

But first, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We're going to talk about whether Trump's support is slipping. It seems like it is, actually, based on polling, which has always been able to perfectly read the Trump-supporting contingent. But still, I'm hopeful. We'll talk about Tucker Carlson and what his fever brain is having to cycle through to keep the content moving. We'll talk about based Marco Rubio. We'll talk about the return to the workplace that we're all looking forward to and why it shouldn't happen why it shouldn't have to happen at least uh we'll talk about jeff bezos the billionaire wars that were the 80s had the cola wars we have shitty billionaire

space fighting over the fucking moon fucking aim we'll talk about whether that hbl max theatrical release strategy is actually saving movie theaters the warner brothers thing uh all that plenty more but first page we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history uh that is revealing about who you are or where you are or what you're up to okay so something i searched recently uh is hummingbird tongue did you guys know that hummingbirds have big long tongues yeah i thought it was a straw situation i don't know i thought i didn't see them carry that with them. I thought it was just a,

like their beak acts as a suction, but I, so I, where I'm sitting right now is like where I'll sit at my desk. I look out this window and there's this hummingbird who likes to hang out on the power lines right outside here. Cool. I really love that. He loves to hang out there.

He's so cute. But I took a video to show others my cute hummingbird friend and i was showing it to my boyfriend and he was like what is that he like paused it on a part where the hummingbird was sticking out its tongue and i was like oh i think it's just like i think it's just like eating it's like it has something in its in its beak like i don't know and he's like i think that's a tongue eating. It's like it has something in its beak. Like, I don't know. And he's like, I think that's a tongue. And I was like, do they have tongues? And it's a disturbing Google if you're not aware of it already, in my opinion.

They're freaky. They're freaky. It's like they're as long as their bill. Like, they look so funny. It's funny that you mentioned I was just watching Planet of Color or whatever that new David Attenborough series was last night and I was watching this hummingbird sequence where like they were mating

and this motherfuckers neck like just blew out with all these iridescent feathers and I was like look at these fucking show off their long tongues and wonderful plumage yeah hummingbirds are magic. Again,

we're, we're becoming a nature podcast. I know. I'm like, I'm really talking about a lot of animals. Right. But the whole thing, like it curls up like half in their head or something.

Cause like it is, it's so long. Like it's almost like tape measure mechanism to be able to contain the tongue. Yeah. They have that little tab that you can put down to keep it in place is that what you're claiming is happening mouse there's a little tab in there yeah a little tab it's you know pretty much uh it's exactly like a tape measure uh any ornithologists out there get

at me uh so that freaked me out they just seem to be operating at a different like like they interact with time differently than other species like they move so fast i i feel like i'm watching something in like the matrix or something when i when i look at a hummingbird that's why i'm so tripped out by the fact that this one chooses to hang out like right outside my window this also does tell you where i'm at as i'm just often sitting here looking out this window like, oh, a friend. Oh, my gosh. Someone wants to hang out. My favorite stoned activity, though, is to catch a hummingbird in the wild and be like, yo, get the slow motion camera out.

And then you just watch the wings and you're like, yo, they go fast. And then you realize their metabolisms are like 80 times as fast as ours to move like that. They live like three years or something they like can't handle it they like live fast die young that's their that's their whole vibe you know hummingbirds do it well yeah but yeah i think you'd have the equivalent if you if you had like the amount of calories they burn you'd have to eat something like close to 200 000 calories or something like if you're spending the amount of energy relative to your body, like that hummingbird does.

Yeah. Bless them. There's a onion headline from, oh wait, this just made me feel very old. Cause I was like, oh yeah, what was that onion headline from 13 years ago?

That's hummingbird back at feeder again, grandmother reports. Well, that was a funny thing too, is I, I, um um my dad is really into having like like he's really into they they have quail where he lives and they like hang out in the backyard and he loves to like watch them and feed them he's like always got to count on how many quail there are he's like i think they just had babies is really sweet and he's often had hummingbird feeders and so i texted him i was like i got this hummingbird that hangs out and his immediate reply was instructions on how i should get a hummingbird feeder he goes okay

two parts water one part sugar you'll have them around all the time yeah i was i was at like a in costa rica there's like a hummingbird like sanctuary where you just like walk in and they're just like all around you yeah oh shit yeah it's wild yeah but i get freaked out about the idea of putting out a hummingbird feeder because i've also seen hummingbird feeders where like bees and ants start to hang out right yeah you're like this wasn't for you This is for the hummingbirds. Okay. I'm looking at a diagram of what, like, you know, a cross section of, like, how the tongue wraps. And it, like, goes around its eyeball. It really does look like it's, like, a tape measure that, like, wraps around its eyeball. Yeah, it's like Justin put in the chat.

It's fruit by the foot. It's wrapped around. I should read the foot. It's wrapped around. I should read the chat. Justin always has dimes that he's dropping that I see after we're done recording. Yeah, you go, I think

something's wrong with that. There's words showing up. Yeah. Damn it. Not this again. The ghost is here again, Sarah. What is something you think is overrated, Paige? Alright, I'm going to say ice cream. I think it's overrated. Are you guys going to be mad at me for saying that?

I don't care. Whatever. It's your fucking life. Do whatever the fuck you want with it. I just feel like it's something like 65% of people are lactose intolerant. and yet there's a new ice cream shop on every corner and i'm like how many people are like carving out their their days as a sacrifice yeah to the lactose gods yeah it's like can we just i don't know it's like i just think it's not worth it and i just think that people get so excited about ice cream when it's,

it's like only like 30% of people can eat it and not have diarrhea. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Everyone has diarrhea. Who has, who is lactose intolerant that eats it? Well,

there's different variations of how lactose intolerant you could be, but like there's also, then there's also like different variations of how much lactose is in different dairy products and like milk and ice cream is like the the most it's like yeah you're just sniffing base yeah it's like step on this you're getting fucked up yeah right right we're not supposed to eat this so i i sometimes wonder if like the american diet like part of it is the diarrhea like people enjoy getting diarrhea because like the stuff that we really uh like to go after you're right it's that that should not be a thing like something that makes you ill uh people are just like yeah but i still do it because yeah i wonder if that's able to like

just sort of proliferate because we're a culture, famously, that isn't going to bring up our own perceived deficiencies or inefficiencies. So you don't want to be like, y'all, did that pizza give you a bunch of diarrhea? You don't want to be that person. So you're like, oh, man, yeah, let's get another slice. Fuck yeah, I love pizza, man. Ice cream, cheeseburgers pizza is fine because cheese doesn't have that much lactose in it which thank god for me you

know but it's like when you have too much of it you know but yeah it's exactly no one wants to bring up i used to date someone who had what's the the really severe gluten allergy celiacs yeah celiacs yeah and like uh lactose intolerance and she would eat pizza all the time yeah and it was and it was like that bit we were just doing where it was like oh i love it though but like has to eat it actively on the toilet it just takes planning i feel like is the only thing and stuff like that no but this wasn't like this was a thing where eventually i was like oh no like you this is you have some weird relationship with right yeah you aren't like because it's like oh let's get this hot and ready pizza and i'm like great we'll take it to the house like no let's

go to providence hospital and eat it. Just in case. But you know what? That's another overrated thing is lactate. I feel like, okay, it's very rare. And of course it's happens to me. I've tried lactate.

It makes me violently ill. Like it does. Yes. Like I truly, I had it. I had started trying to use it when I had like dairy stuff and it was fine like a couple times. And then one time I got sick and I was like, oh, I didn't, I like didn't put it together.

And then it happened again and I started Googling it and it's like there's all these message boards online of angry mothers like I gave this to my son so that he could have ice cream with us and he was very sick and lactate doesn't put that shit on their labels. I guess it's like maybe rare enough that they don't feel like legally they have to put it on there or something but like i was like of course the one like the like miracle thing that people take where they're like actually i can have whatever i want like doesn't work for me yeah i take a long hard look in the mirror figure out why that's your karma it's supposed to work for everyone except demons

says it right there on the box except me and some some kids on message boards wait is there is there a treat that you like that you think is worth the worth the burn well so like i was saying it's like if you have a lot of cheese you can have an issue so sometimes i'll like i'll be like yeah you know what i am gonna have a bunch of cheese, you can have an issue. So sometimes I'll like, I'll be like, yeah, you know what? I am going to have a bunch of mac and cheese right now and I will just suffer the consequences. You know, that kind of thing. Sounds like you're more of a savory person than a sweet person. Maybe.

No, honestly, no. I mean, I'll do I just my move is I just I love fro-yo, which I never really have an issue with. That's how you sidestep it, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's that's I mean, whenever I get sick from fro-yo, it i never really have an issue with that's how you sidestep it right that's how yeah yeah that's that's i mean whenever i get sick from fro-yo it's because of the candy i put on it not because right not because of the the lactose enzymes or whatever right uh because they don't clean the nozzle from the machine right well and they're all just like sitting there in like a mixed nuts bowl like it's probably as clean as like the mixed nuts at a bar but we're just like sitting there in like a mixed nuts bowl like it's probably as clean as like the mixed nuts at a bar but we're just like yeah but this place is bright and everything yeah so it's

probably fine what i mean what is a pink berry even i don't even know i like it i like the idea yeah they make those little uh like caviar fish egg type uh oh yeah those little boba pearls yeah little flavor pearls yeah yeah i think there i like the little like round chocolate crunch things and i never have learned the name of them and i always just say to the person that um the chocolate ball things and then they go the wet ones or the dry ones they don't have a oh those are wet because there's the ones pink berry people know what i'm talking about there's the dry ones. They don't have a vocabulary for it either. Because there's the ones, pink berry people know what I'm talking about.

There's the wet ones and there's the dry ones. Right. What is something you think is underrated? All right, I was just staying on food and we were talking pizza. I'm going to say mushrooms as a pizza topping. Okay. I'm fully with you there thank you it's tough when

they use canned mushrooms sure yeah you know that's i think the times i'm like no yeah you know like you want to the real you want fresh mushrooms i can sometimes or like that's the time i i found myself being like holy shit this is really good yeah i mean i guess there's like bad other toppings too though you know i just feel like it's weird to me that mushrooms i feel like mushrooms aren't one of the like toppings we add like if a group was getting pizza no one would like be like like no one would suggest it as like a sort of base level topping it's like i feel like hawaiian pizza has like more cred than mushroom pizza don't do that don't do that around me don't do that i don't like that i don't like

it but i know i'm just letting anyone know if you have a parasocial relationship with me know that don't do that around me okay pizza parties in our minds i'm not having that yeah i just think i don't know mushrooms are my favorite my favorite pizza topping yeah because it's not like i think it's weird because we almost in my mind as a kid i always thought of mushrooms as a thing that was on the parents pizza yeah they got the mushrooms we got straight cheese pepperoni and shit but i wonder i think it's like we have to mature to this point where it has to be considered a normal first item to throw out when people what do we want to put on this thing? And you can say mushroom and we don't

say, what the fuck? It's vegetarian. Come on. Yeah. I'm just not sure. I'm going to take a long, hard look in the mirror on that one. Are you a mushroom pizza person, Miles? I like mushrooms on pizza. If I'm at a nice spot

and they have a thing with like porcini mushroom you know like fresh mushrooms and shit I like that yeah I think because my earliest memories go back to canned mushrooms that just contributed to like soggy pizza that I just did not I was like this is fucking weird y'all like

I don't know why y'all eating this shit they don't ask you if you want the dry ones or the wet ones you want the dry or the wet i mean this yeah i mushrooms are the one thing that i will always have on every pizza that i order if it's for myself and nobody else like i'll have mushrooms and green peppers mushrooms and pepperoni, like it can be any of those, but mushrooms have to be there. I agree. I agree. Although I'm not into like the like, you know, like Costco, you get the like sort of everything

pizza. I go, we don't need all this. The mushrooms are doing enough work here that we don't need the peppers and the olives. We can have them, but I feel like they're hiding the mushroom they're trying to trick us right this sounds like a mitch hedberg bit right you don't need all these topics mushrooms are doing enough work you got a lot of shit on your pizza you know pizza accessories i'll own up to being a bad father uh we order dominoes almost every weekend and my kids order is pepperoni and pineapple and i get like green peppers onions bacon sausage uh mushrooms and

they threw fucking pineapple on my pizza the other day like it like like there was crossfire or something and they accidentally hit the pineapple on my shit i was like what like you can't tough yeah pineapple is a very specific topping like you can't just assume people want that you're throwing candy on a fucking pizza right right it's so sweet it's not like you're i mean look if you're somewhere and you're like hey actually we use like sort of like less than ripe pineapple so you get a nice texture but all this sweet because everyone's using canned pineapple just sitting in sugar yeah i'm like this is not it for me at all i'm i'm real picky about the sweet on top of the savory shit. It has to work well.

It would seep into the cheese, I feel, because they're so... Because they're canned, they're in that liquid to have them on top of your pizza. It's also... It's very sad to have to pick a topping off pizza. You feel very sad. You feel like a failure. I didn't do it. I just took

it down and it was actually fine. But still, the idea that you would add pineapple like it's just another topping is... No. You got to be sure that someone wants it. Yes. Thank you. For sure. And look, for those of you who like pineapple on your pizza, fine.

Go ahead. God bless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don't force your pineapple on there, okay? I don't want candy pizza. That's just how I feel. And that's not shade at you. For me,

I just want candy. Okay. And you do, and that's okay. Yeah. But this is now very diplomatic. Yep. Just got to let them know.

Cause this, this is such a weird thing. Like you see like the memes around pineapple on pizza culture. You know what I mean? Like it's a very, it's like a real thing that I think we're, we talk about through memes and shit about like, or not you have pineapple your pizza and shit like that yeah but you know so i just like to like to let it know i'm not a hater yeah yeah it's just

the top tough to bring up for overrated and underrated food stuff because obviously it's like maybe some people just don't like mushrooms but i do feel like a lot of people have a negative idea of mushrooms because of like mushroom soup or like canned mushrooms, which are gross. Yeah. But like there's a ton of different types of mushrooms and often the mushrooms on pizza are delicious. And some of them are literally magical. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

magical okay so yeah yeah the pineapple actually now i'm gonna go back on what i said and say that like i i didn't pick the pineapple off i ate it and it was actually fine and i i think that pineapple blends well with better than you would expect with tomato hold on why are you why are you wearing that dole hat i'm just saying like it's an underrated, it could be a staple food. A lot of people think you can have bread sandwiches, but you can't have pineapple sandwiches. You can use pineapple for anything, really. I mean, we should look into this as an energy source. I think the people at United Fruit were really misunderstood in the second half of the 20th century. The only king of Hawaii in the modern, like while Hawaii was a state or maybe a president, the only president of Hawaii ever was a doll.

I just read that somewhere. I was like, oh, my God. Wow. What an awful, what an awful family. Anyways. Bob Dole. Piece of shit, huh my God. Wow. What an awful family. Anyways. Bob Dole. Piece of shit, huh? Yeah.

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support. So, you know, interesting, interesting shift. I don't think I don't know if it's that groundbreaking more so than I think it's just sort of this idea of out of sight, out of mind that because he's just not on Twitter being able to fire off shit takes and, you know, Fox and a lot of the networks are sort of like trying to figure out what to do with him because now he's just literally just some fucking guy and he's not the president anymore. It's less, I think, maybe ratings worthy to let him rant for 40 minutes straight. leaders want to get you into a isolated location because they know like just fully occupying like all your time and energy and attention like that's the only way to do it and once that spell is broken like once if you're just in a in a urban area and like see people walking by on the street like that's enough to break the spell i feel like we're kind of going through a similar thing as a

nation where it's just like wait what, what the fuck was we were? We were doing what we were paying how much attention to this motherfucker? Right. Yeah. Yeah. That the his banning of from Twitter has been like such a such a sea change for like so many people. I feel like. Yeah.

Yes. He just he's got his email list now is how he's communicating with people or he's emailing people his tweets his thoughts right yeah and just being like you're gonna you better give me money or else or else i'm gonna think you've abandoned me it's like holy shit bro raise money yeah man well yeah it's like it's like in theory this is feels like good ish news but i don't know how true it is or what it really means yeah you know yeah i'm sure he'll read this and then this the second it comes down to him wanting to assume his kingmaker role again within the party he's gonna start getting real loud and what i don't know but we'll say i

think at the very least it does show though like because now the support for like you know biden's handling of the pandemic essentially based on the numbers would also include republicans right there are some people who are like i think the 50 people were like well what about the party because this guy whatever we we like when we were secret racists right um which might be what's happening yeah secret racists it was wild comedy bang bang uh which i don't know how many of our listeners listen to that show but it's a comedy podcast where like people come on and play characters and this week they had somebody on who was doing a trump impression and it was like what's that james austin johnson it might have been i or a tammanic it was it wasn't a tammanic

i don't think but i think it was james it was really funny and it like didn't i don't know it seemed like wow that this feels like we're like years away from when when like it would have been too soon or something it just felt like he was just approximating all of the sort of vocalizations and like stupid like leaps of logic and shit but it wasn't I don't know it was just weird to me that like they were able to have somebody on and do that and it wasn't like i mean i'm sure there's probably reasons that we shouldn't already be like that's hilarious but uh right yeah the performance was just so good that it like didn't bother me i james I haven't heard him on Comedy Bang Bang,

but his whole thing, and it really started getting steam in the last year or so, is he does these videos where he's doing an impression of Trump, but he'll be talking about Pokemon or something totally nothing to do with anything that Trump actually talks about, but he'll so match the way that Trump thinks that you you can't you can't look away he does this one where it was that it was like he did a video that was my favorite where it was based on like that one interview where trump like got up

and walked away and it's just it's just james talking about gilmore girls and he's like see because jess is a pre-luke and uh logan is a pre-chris like it's james is awesome he's a friend of mine yeah yeah that's who it was james austin johnson yeah also langston kerman was on there wonderful it was a great episode uh and that's what we're here to do is get people interested in comedy bang bang but yeah guys that is that is uh so i've seen those videos and that is like he totally nails all of the non-political like it's just he has like that uh complete lack of logic that like confuses like it's just constantly claiming that he's good friends with like he's just mastered the jazz thing yeah exactly it's he has mastered the jazz it's truly like how trump would be you just put a topic and it's just going to use the same garbled logic to try and like figure out

how you're going to be like the authority on this topic yeah that's right that's right yep anyways fuck that guy Donald Trump in particular fucking James too man come on bro yeah fuck James dude you're doing it too good man you're keeping him alive with that shit James does some other impressions as well he does Mike Lindell the my pillow guy let's talk Tucker, Tucker Carlson.

What's he reaching for these days? I mean, just again, there's so many real things to talk about. But right now, Republicans have to find anything but the actual things to talk about so right now because our president joey badass is out here saying like we're relaxing the mask uh fucking protocols you don't have to wear it if you're vaxxed and outdoors unless you're in a crowd and all this stuff because that's been a huge thing and being like where are we at with masks outdoors what are you saying to do what are you saying not to do so tucker carlson spent so much time about this idea of masks as a few different things first he was likening it to child abuse where he is like as for forcing children to wear masks

outside that should be illegal because he's going on this whole thing about how it's like part of your mental obedience to like the party so it's like wearing a kim jong-un pin or something in north korea that's what you do to wear your mask to show fealty uh to demonstrate fealty and so he's just talking about like if you see someone like a child wearing a mask like you it should be no different than what your response would be if you see someone beating a child in a walmart call the police is what he says how is it hurting the child? Does he have a read on that? Well, what you're looking at is abuse. It's child, this quote, what you're looking at is abuse. It's child abuse,

and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it. If it's your own children being abused, then act accordingly, which I will play you this clip because he starts talking about like what to do if, again, if it, let's say it was your kid. And you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it. If it's your own children being abused, then act accordingly. Let's say your kid's school emailed you to announce that every day after lunch, your sixth grader was going to get punched in the face by a teacher. How would you respond to that? That's precisely how you should respond when they tell you that your kids have to wear masks on the soccer field that is unacceptable dangerous and we should act like it because it is dangerous

because he says like they're zealots only zealots wear masks then he had this other thing he's like 64 percent of white liberals have been diagnosed with some kind of mental health issue and so that's why they were called them neurotics yeah neurotics wear them uh it's like this whole it's just so all over the place it's truly you're like i don't even know like that's a jump right to say yeah they're punching your kid in the face every every time tucker carlson speaks it's like when somebody like you know in in like your class in high school when you were like assigned what side you have to be on for a topic and it's just like he like didn't do the work he's just like really trying to like hustle on this side that like doesn't make any sense and he just is like saying insane

shit like he was talking earlier i watched the clip that you guys had in this in this doc about like he's like if you see someone wearing a mask stop them and say please take off your mask you're making me uncomfortable so is your maga hat yeah let's just be on our way huh you're a piece of shit and i believe in science all right see you later it's like yeah you're making me uncomfortable as well again it's just all this weird way to try and he's trying to create more outrage among the base to be more confrontational in public like it's so transparently clear that this is meant to whip them into a friend just get everybody so excited about this idea of masks that all he can do is be like they're punching your kids in the face they They're zealots. What's going on?

You better tell him to not wear a mask. Like the outrage is really it's wearing thin. And you know what's wild? It got fucking weirder in the episode in terms of what he's likening to mask wearing. He had look, he had a guest on. And I don't know. was oh actually it's actually fucking matt walsh and they were talking about like cb yeah matt washington he's the big one of the four he's out here uh but again talking about what it means to be a man wearing a mask

oh you know i had the same experience you're talking about i was in austin uh a few days ago and i'm walking outside without a mask on, and people are staring at me like I'm the crazy one for not having a mask on. Meanwhile, if you're walking outside with a mask on, I should be looking at you, and I do look at you like I would look at a grown man hugging a teddy bear and having a pacifier in his mouth while he's walking down the street. This is your security blanket. There's no reason for you to have it on. You're just afraid. You're afraid of fresh air. That's what's happening. People are afraid to breathe air and we're making it so that kids are afraid of air too. And that's insane to me. I agree with you completely. I would even actually up the analogy and say vaccinated person

with antibodies wearing a mask outside is like watching grown men expose himself in public. That's disgusting. Put it away, please. Okay. what the fuck are you talking what what does that even mean what i don't again this this is like the same shit it's like this has nothing to do with you this has actually nothing to do with you if you want to be the freaky piece of shit who alienates themselves because they don't want to wear a mask to consider others then so be it but someone else wearing it has a fuck all to do with these people but like that's why it's so bizarre that like tucker's like yeah i mean you're basically like you're you're gay if you wear a mask dude like you're what are you gonna be like a fucking little boy with a baby fucking like what are you gonna do take take your penis out but he's like his sense of the world is so like just dominated by misogyny and white

supremacy like because because uh guys running around exposing themselves as a crime that is like only perpetuated by like middle-aged white guys like him he is like he's like that that i feel like he can't think of that as being a like that bad a thing so he's like i mean it's the same thing basically because i personally think it's weird and so that's anything i think is weird is the same across the board same as uh sexual assault basically it's like hanging brain in public it's also like were people looking at you or were you like mad dogging people who were wearing masks and then they look back at you like why are you looking at me yeah yeah that's like nobody gives a shit about you yeah so thirsty to

be able to turn your fucking cell phone on and record your stupid rhetorical martyrdom video where you're like and i i actually i'm wearing it because i believe in science actually it's all of you all in here who are afraid of air no one fucking said i just want to say i am afraid of air though just to be clear i'm scared and i am a neurotic and i am neurotic neurotic to the bone no doubt about it you know what i mean i sometimes i do give myself the creeps yeah just continue on the lyrics okay sometimes i like to kiss fauci the only safe person to kiss by the way he calls him tony he's like tony fauci it's like you don't

know him yeah don't call him tony like when he talks it talks about his friend antonio bandera says tony flags we're close so uh all right let's talk about marco rubio the other we we might as well just get through all of the shit that is happening in the soul mental inversion tortured soul of the uh republicans right now so marco rubio is pissed at corporations and to the point that he's like basically threatening to become a socialist is that basically where we're at based rubio dude comrade rubio hold it down fucking throw down the gauntlet for these corporations please vis-a-vis your op-ed that you wrote he's got this whole thing in the new york post where all my favorite op-eds are yeah exactly that's when you know it's some real next level

analysis coming through from a racist and they can't believe like his whole thing is like these corporate monsters we fed for so long why are they going to pivot to like woke stuff and do things like act in their own self-interest because they're reading the tone of society what's happening so this is what he says uh he wrote this op-ed in the beginning this is just like sort of in the middle he said quote to help our corporations fulfill their patriotic role the the GOP especially enacted business friendly policies. We kept tax rates low, slashed red tape where appropriate and limited the reach of labor unions. But wow. But somewhere along the line, corporations began prioritizing short term financial windfalls and ruthless offshoring.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, very true. That's true. And you did do all that. You have been limiting That's true. Hold on. Go on. And you did do all that. You have been limiting the ability of labor to organize. Go on, sir. He says, quote, corporate America began to view these good jobs, families, communities, and even the nation as an afterthought. American workers of all backgrounds suffered as a result. Corporate greed annihilated an entire way of life.

Yep. Yeah. Oh, so you were aware of all that? And you were still doing this shit like as yeah it's all like the quid pro quo that he uh outlines here is way too honest he's like no we were helping all out so you would keep us in power and you were annihilating the american families and we were fucking cool with that. But now it's gone too far. Now you're going to be on fucking Meghan Markle's side?

Ugh! Who is this? Like, it's so dumb because it's all just about the fact that they don't... Anyway, let's keep going because he's like, because I'll do something about it. Yeah. This is what he's going to do. Quote, cutting corporate taxes and especially investment taxes makes sense if U.S. companies are going to invest in American industry. But if they're instead prioritizing offshoring operations or simply returning windfalls to shareholders, then policymakers are going to start being more careful in how we structure tax cuts. Oh, what? Go on. I'm going to tell the fucking truth. if you don't start backing us in these fucking political culture wars.

You better defend de facto white supremacy, you fucks. So then he goes on. So first he's saying, I'll get rid of your tax cuts next. Employer-friendly labor laws make sense in a world where corporate CEOs feel an obligation to their fellow countrymen and workers but the logic of resisting labor representation on behalf of corporate management falls apart if an american worker is no different to the corporation than any other input wow yeah man you will cut these tax breaks and make it easier for labor to get organized thank you marco what what does he start talking about the wokeness like is that the beginning of the article or where where does this come from i mean this is yeah in the beginning he's just sort of talking about all the things that's happening with georgia and like companies just starting to like

speak up about societal issues when they're like you guys used to do this like what is this now right and it's just it's and i think this is the problem they're like, who did you guys used to do this? Like, what is this now? Right. And it's just, it's, and I think this is the problem they're finding themselves in. They're so confused and they don't realize the absurdity of their ideology, which is so it's so regressive that you're not going to go anywhere except backwards and eventually hit a wall because you've, you're burning up any chance you have of any kind of forward movement. So yeah, you're someone like Marco Rubio. You're like, you have to, you have to be against all this wokeness from these companies. But since you've been on the side

of corporate profiteering, your only pivot can only lead to progressive policy. Like that's the only thing. So you know what? Congratulations. Yeah. You won an iPod. Wow. Wow. I have a headache from this essay by by marco like they don't i don't know it's just but i guess like he's just yeah blunt to them for being like blunt to the companies like we'll get

rid of your tax breaks and we'll let people get you want you want organized labor it's like yeah the people do actually it shows that people have better outcomes when they're when they're unionized in every industry uh but then he's the stuff he's like saying if you do this that's stuff they've already been doing for 20 years that you're talking about like offshoring all your profits and treating the workers like shit like what the only like it has nothing to do with whatever fucking wokeness he's objecting to so he's just basically describing like the state of the american worker and i'm like corporate america and then being like and that's well well i'll describe it out loud again if you uh keep keep criticizing us yeah even the company's

like yo shut up dude like i mean like we get what you're saying but like do you hear do you hear yourself i feel like this started as an email a private email and he's like you know what this makes a lot of sense i'm gonna turn it into an op-ed because yeah the shit he's saying like that logic works in an email where it's like between donors and politicians who are like, look, we let you fuck people over. And in return, you do the you fuck people over in the specific way we're describing. But, yeah, that's that's wild, man. Yeah. There you love to see it.

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Laughing. Fucking those SICE videos. So a lot of like corporate America is, you know, very carefully planning the return to the office. And yeah, I just want to. So Miles,

you kind of linked off to this article that makes sense. I want to read from the CNBC article, though, because they are describing like the thoughts among business leaders. industries. There will be different approaches to return to work plans, which also gives employees more opportunities to find a job that fits their preferred lifestyle. The majority, or 58% of employees, said they would look for a new position if they weren't allowed to continue working remotely in their current position. We've also talked about how people get more work done when they're working from home. And then the second to last paragraph of this article, ultimately, however, quote, nothing will change, said Peter Capelli, director of the Center of Human Resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Employers have virtually unlimited power. And he's basically like, this time next year, it'll be just like pre-pandemic and done. Oh, is that what you think? Yeah. Mr. HR, Mr. I'm the cops at your company. HR is the cops. I'm the cops of cops?

Yeah. Oh, HR, I'm here to fuck you up if you try and make it spicy for the employer. But I will smile and act like I'm advocating for you. Hi, I'm welcome to Human Resources. This is the exact quote that is the last sentence of the article a year from now will things look much different than they did before the pandemic i don't think so again a quote from peter capelli director of center center for human resources wow well maybe i'm interesting maybe you should ask what's happening with workers. Right. They're thinking because you're looking up the C-suite's butt and you're like, what's going on here? And I'm great. Back to work. Perfect. There's this thing called the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, like this research working paper that that's out.

And they're looking at all kinds of data points and just analysis and questioning that they've done over the last year. And essentially like there's whole thing is boiling down to them saying people whose jobs are like, don't explicitly require their presence physically really want to continue to work at home, at least some of the time. And most people, most over 50% would take a pay cut to do so, which is wild wild like that's the tone of a lot of people i think the sort of that slight sense of freedom or being unburdened by the commute has done for people being like oh yeah fuck that like especially now uh in a world where efficiency has been proven it's hard to go back on that. So the other thing is they say that right now, a lot of the employers want people to, they're willing to compromise and say like, okay, maybe you come

in three times a week and then you take the other two or you get one day a week or whatever, you can work from home. But what they're looking at isn't that it's going to be virtually back to normal. They think it's going, the amount of work done remotely will be about 20% of what is happening right now, which is going to be a huge, huge boost considering that pre-pandemic remote work was like 5%. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that every white-collar job simultaneously went remote. So it didn't create like everyone's realized, Oh yeah, shit's still working.

And then this like idea that working from home is like some kind of fucking eighties comedy film where a guy like when he figured out the sweet deal to work from home, like Randy had the summer of his life. Like no fucking. Oh man, Randy. I mean, there is literally a Folgers commercial i think where

uh where the like the guy's camera like drops down and you see that he's only wearing undies with his suit um so and i get all my cultural takes from folgers commercials um yeah on top of that it's gonna affect like downtown areas too the other thing they're predicting is consumer spending could fall by 13 in manhattan and 4.6 in san francisco because a lot of especially in those cities those companies someplace been like yo we just sold all of our office space because we realized we can save money not paying for a fucking physical building anymore or at least as less of a footprint and have you know this the same output the same fucking revenues being generated but i mean those places will move to where the people are like they'll eventually change so that you know they're serving salads

that are takeout instead of like salad salads that you have to like line up at the salad bar to order. So like I don't I feel like this is more of a problem for like the landlords and the property owners of lower Manhattan who have a harder time like feeling a lot of sympathy for. It's not like the wage workers will still be able to like find jobs they'll just be over in brooklyn where people live instead of uh the financial district or you know yeah i think that's gonna be a huge shift or like people even think of like what are downtown's gonna look like if we are working more remotely yeah yeah regardless it seems just absolutely bizarre to say that things will just be the same as before what says says violent capitalist teacher what capelli at least a little bit different buddy like no right back to normal right back

to normal everything's fine don't worry because i, all he's doing, like, somebody who works at Wharton, like, they're only talking to, like, the Wharton grads who fucking, like, run the companies. And probably not even the ones, because, like, just from a business perspective, like, the shareholder level and the, like, CEO level, like, it doesn't make sense to, like, continue to pay rent on some... Maybe in the short term, because you're locked into a lease. But in the long run, you're paying rent on real estate

that you're making people come in. They don't want to be there. So you're having to either pay them more to keep them away from other other employers and you're also getting less work from them because people are more efficient when working from home according to like a number of surveys so yeah they're probably just worried about they're like well what where am i now on friday is gonna like start offering people alcohol like it's fun to be here and be like friday company culture culture. Come on, guys. You all like me, right? Come to the office. I mean, because I can't sexually harass my wife at home.

Get the fuck out of here. People are like, what do you want to go back to the office for? I would, if you're a shareholder, you'd be like, yo, I'm looking at the fucking statements here. If you kicked rent in its ass and just nicked this shit right out right you'd have look then that's like the kind of shit that these ceos pat themselves on

the back for and then cut themselves a bonus because normally it's just like oh yeah we cut down people's 401k contributions fucking suckers yeah so we could buy a bunch of razor scooters for the office so everyone can say they like being at work we got one orange couch which officially makes it a fun workplace. Yeah, we actually let people, if they don't want to, they don't have to sit at their desk. They can sit on an uncomfortable beanbag chair.

Yeah, exactly. Just compress your discs and you'll get herniated discs. But also just so you know, there is a stipulation in your insurance that we don't cover any back injuries. Okay. Also a huge portion of us abusing our employees is that we say that we're't cover any back injuries. Okay. Also, a huge portion of us abusing our employees

is that we say that we're like a family here. And so it's going to be tough to claim we're like a family if we never see each other. I mean, most people come from fucked up families. Yeah. That kind of practice. They're like, yeah, my dad did lie to me. Okay.

Okay. Anyways, Peter Capelli, they're like yeah my dad did lie to me okay right okay anyways uh peter capelli let's let's keep up with him i i told myself i was gonna keep up with the libertarians who were like this covet thing is no big deal and i never did and this is probably another person who i'm just gonna forget had this terrible take but um they're all just trying to figure out what to do right now anyway right yeah yeah i'm gonna move to bolivia let's talk about bezos v elon the fact that i'm so upset like i've talked about my disgust with america's like crush on elon musk for a long time and now like he's because he has like managed to make himself the uh like opponent of jeff bezos who is like very not cool people are like elon musk's actually kind of cool to the point that he's now going to be hosting snl and he's getting off uh tasty one-liners like uh bezos can't get it up

i'm talking of course about his rockets but uh oh boy yeah i don't know i feel bad for all that snl staff they're like uh why is this dude coming on yeah they're like we don't anyway because yeah he's he's the he's the sickest baller tony stark the realest thing we've got to that uh but the two billionaires in various states of baldness denial are now arguing about going to the moon yeah because elon because so spacex got this sweet, sweet NASA contract for almost three Billy to create the next lunar lander. And Bezos and his Blue Origin company also has something to say about that, along with other companies like Northrop Grumman, just fantastic. The good guy makers and Lockheed Martin. They're all crying right now about this,

but this is from Blue Origin, Bezos company saying, quote, NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the human landing system program and moved the goalposts at the last minute. In NASA's own words, it has made a quote, high risk selection. Their decision eliminates opportunities for competition. Significantly narrows the supply base and not only delays, but also endangers America's return to the moon. I mean, I'll agree that, yeah, those SpaceX rockets have been blowing up a lot more than maybe people would like to the point that the FAA had to get involved because they're like, we're not going to have you like explode shit above like where people live and put

people at risk here. So I don't know. Don't they have like some civilians who are currently training to go? Is that a SpaceX rocket or like they're going to send some civilians into space for the first time since the Challenger, which was not if memory serves, was not a huge success. Like that feels, I don't know. I don't feel great about SpaceX being in charge of that. Especially since over the weekend,

they kind of got swept under the rug, but like they almost crashed into a UFO, like a thing that nobody has identified yet was flying through the air. And they had to as these astronauts were ascending into space, they had to do an emergency. It was too late to do an

evasive maneuver, so they had to put... All the astronauts had to inflate or do something to their anti crash suits, basically. But then they missed. I then they just like lean to one side of the shit that's a very extreme version of that fucker came out of nowhere it's like we don't even know what it really did we don't know what it was i was watching right

yeah i don't know that's uh very fucking freaky also like yeah that would be how we kick off some fucking space war right motherfucker sent a rocket up and killed their like fucking leader and shit they're like oh it's it's on now motherfuckers and then probably just one of these drones that uh we that have technology we just don't know about yet right but it's it's also like really something because elon musk when like they asked about you know these rockets they're like you know they're explosions don't seem like successes but yet you congratulate the teams and things like that and yes a ton of engineering goes into it so to a certain extent

yes it is i want to root for these things i don't want to fucking cheer for elon musk there's so many like smart creative geniuses working on this i want to root for them but like i don't want elon musk to be the mouthpiece of all those people yeah how about the fucking people who work on it but the other thing is that he'll say but he would say respond to shit like that to be like it's meant to explode quite frankly this is a quote he said like something like quite frankly something would be wrong if it didn't oh okay yeah okay i'll get that that's the sort of logic you want in charge of a bunch of civilians you're flying into space as somebody who's like no actually i meant to do that um and it was actually kind of sick like you have to admit it looked cool so um and also admit shit is after his

after his rocket has a near miss with ufob i'm like dude if there were aliens i'd know about it that was his that was his response to somebody being like a lot of ufos out there what are your thoughts if there were aliens dude your boy elon would know i'd be the first one they'd talk to because i fucking rule yeah you rule so much what happened the fucking hyperloop you dick? Yeah. What about all that fucking, that tunnel is just a fucking... You're going to get to fucking San Francisco in three seconds.

And that's bullshit. All the fucking, there's so many Tesla recalls. There's a lot of shit that he has to deal with all the time. But I get it when you just sort of distill your whole personality to being like on Twitter, smoking blunts, making rap music and saying like, you know, fuckinggecoin moon like cool but there's other shit didn't somebody die over the weekend in an autopilot accident i i read something about somebody like they discovered that there was no one at the wheel of the car which i'm pretty sure it was in houston that's yeah it's like

don't yeah that's not how those are supposed to be used but i think that's the uh sort of hubris that will be instilled by being a elon musk stan is gonna be like yeah yo dude i trust this shit hop in the back we'll just treat this robot like our designated driver and now the outcome isn't optimal. Um, well, I, I'm really, I can't wait for 10 years from now when people no longer give a fuck enough and are willing to tell the true story behind, uh, Elon Musk's week as the host of SNL,

like the, like the stories when Steven Seagal hosted SN snl and people are like he was a monster those stories if you ever read those uh they are in i'm sure they're like somewhere online but uh they were in that oral history of snl and whoo yikes yeah all right what one last thing i just wanted to check in with warner brothers i just want to give big ups to warner brothers uh no this is to my bros at warner so scott mendelson uh one of my favorite people who writes about the film industry is pointing out that the only thing that is really keeping hopes alive that people might return to

theaters are those like hbo max warner brothers drops uh that everybody was worried were gonna like destroy theater going uh and i don't think like i think they did this out of pure greed but i think it's just another example of how like nobody knows shit in hollywood and it's always like the accidental stuff that makes changes to the industry and like basically nobody was going to be the first to move on releasing blockbusters because it's just too big of a gamble right but like this gave them insurance to like release converse godzilla and mortal combat and those those movies are doing solid. Well, Kong vs. Godzilla was a big hit at the box office. Mortal Kombat was solid.

It made $22 million domestic over the weekend. So it seems like this is sort of the stepping stone they needed to get from everything closed to, okay, we'll start releasing blockbusters. And Warner Brothers now is responsible for almost 50 of the box office so far this year like with tenant and they re-released elf which was smart uh and they're like yeah there's some people want to go to the movie theaters and i do i do i yeah i can't wait just i just just i just need that you know, I'll be there two weeks after I'm vaccinated.

Yeah. And two weeks after you're vaccinated, I think is right around the time that F9 comes out. Oh, great. I would love to fall asleep off of edibles in another Fast and Furious movie. That's my problem. Yeah, I get too high.

I literally, and I've talked about this before, I'll get too high in anticipation of a and i've talked about this before i'll get too high in anticipation of a fast and furious movie and i've ruined i've i'm actually you no longer unable to view the film that's okay i mean that's the thing is it's just like i feel like also i haven't done a ton of the like renting movies at home you know for 20 or $20 or whatever, because I don't know. I like to watch movies by myself. Like I love going to the theater alone and I don't know why, but it feels fine to spend

$20 to like actually go somewhere. But sitting on my couch by myself for $20 feels sad. Depressing. Yeah. So for sure. feels sad depressing yeah so for sure the only what did i only thing i actually paid money to rent was the new craft like the sequel to the craft that came out because i fucked with the original craft so heavy so her majesty and i were like yo this shit came let's watch this shit yeah and that was like the only time i've put money down otherwise it was like passively through whatever hbo max was giving us for free the droppings thank you hbo i paid for minari and that was it

minari was well minari's great um yeah did you see the interview with uh the winner of the best supporting actress who oh yeah yeah everyone was like yo like asking her about brad pitt and then like back in korea they were interviewing her and she was like with the wine her eyes yeah drinking wine being like yeah and then kept asking me about brad pitt fool i was just like like apparently her speech when she was like oh it's really nice to finally meet you brad pitt was like she was shading brad pitt because he was a producer on minari and he like never showed up on the set and apparently right after they stepped off stage she was like yo you need to fund your movies better like you didn't do a good enough job funding this movie like it was

there were problems that oh and then is that where the story came out where she was like subsidizing like her own travel At a certain point Yeah Oh shit And so she Like everyone was like Oh my god What did he smell like

You must be like He smelled cheap as shit He smelled like a cheap ass Motherfucker What did he smell like It did not smell like money He smelled like the samples Of perfumes

Like he didn't even Buy the shits Smelled like horse hair Cheap ass motherfucker Yeah Did you see he had a ponytail on that he pulled off halfway through

as he was talking like he was like to the side of the stage and pulled it off. Yeah, why not? You know, because he's got to let people know he's here to shake his hair out like those reveals in 80s film where like the nerd who's had their hair up is no, no, no. It was a fake ponytail that he pulled off his head

i swear to god wait what yeah i'm pretty sure that's oh okay because i was gonna say if it was real and then he pulled out the hair tie i mean he's gonna have that crease and you don't want to see that you know he pulled oh okay so he's. He had a tiny ponytail. Yeah. Well, now you're saying. I thought he pulled off a fake ponytail. He might have just pulled. I like that better.

I misread the headline. You'll have to forgive me. I like this version where he was like, he's so embarrassed because his hairstyle is like no brad rock the little fake pony it's gonna look really cool i'm such an idiot and then he bails on it on stage like nope it was real i'm an idiot okay anyways hey that's what people tune in for hey it's been as always such a pleasure having you on Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you? All that good stuff. Thank you for having me.

You can follow me on, I guess, whichever social media platform you think you're not going to delete soon. So if that's Twitter or Instagram, it's at Paige Weldon. I am also on TikTok at Paige Weldon Cartoons. And you can also listen to my podcast, Mall Talk,

where we talk about the mall. Available probably right here on the platform where you're listening to this. Please listen to my episode. It's so good. I was on there talking about just the power of the Fashion Square Mall in Los Angeles and how it was the

fucking center of my universe. I'm not gonna lie, Paige. I've never I've had I'm trying to think of the last time I was so energized by a topic to talk about. So yes. And if you fuck with like everybody fucks with the mall. That's the thing is it's like I think people

maybe think it's like a podcast about like shopping and about like that kind of stuff. But really, it's like we have a guest on every week and it kind of just becomes like an interview about where they're from and how they grew up because of and their relationship to in relationship to like stories at the mall or not going to the mall. Like, you know, some people are like, actually, I didn't go to the mall. You still just hang out in a basement. That was more my thing, you know, and it just becomes about that. And I mean, then we got to talk to you about working at Coach, which was so fun. hang out in a basement that was more my thing you know and it just becomes about that and um i mean then we got to talk to you about working at coach which was so fun i got you know it's

funny i got more i've i think down page i didn't get to i'm not gonna make this i'm not gonna ruin their podcast where are you going where are you going i got this other one about how i got fired look for part two uh and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying page okay so i had a hard time choosing can i say two yeah of course okay so one was i was actually doing i was looking for stuff for we do a patreon for mall talk where we'll talk more about like mall news and like things like mall events and things and i i found this tiktok for this mall eastfield mall i don't i forget where it is exactly but it's this tiktok where the marketing manager has started posting videos of these two geese who are nesting in the parking lot of the mall and she named them henry and violet and she like update post

an update of them every day and this like first video i'm just gonna play the very beginning of it into my mic so that you can hear this is henry and violet they decided to nest here at the mall so we gathered everything vialed with me she gets like stuff from the greek restaurant inside the mall for them to be to eat and she like cleans off this like this pool to to fill with water for them and like she like there's another one where she there was one that got huge where she's like getting berries for them there's another one where she like goes to the hardware store and buys like dried meal meal worms for them oh shit it's eastfield mall on on tiktok the latest is that apparently other geese have started to show up oh yeah that's gonna be yeah and the chick is like she was like henry you gotta stop telling people to come here this is not a good place for people to nest we're taking care of you because so it's like very sweet they like they like uh put barriers

around this it's like one of those little islands in a in a parking lot they chose there to have their babies which i'm like a tree or something yes yeah it's so fun i'm following them i did a duet of me reacting to one of those videos and they responded. You're our first duet. And I was like, all right. Hey, hell yeah. An honor, dude. You're like, help me get my kids back.

Wait, I'm involving this mall in all my personal problems now. The other thing I wanted to bring up is do you guys know that Lorde has an Instagram where she reviews onion rings? Nah. Lorde has in Australia's very own? New Zealand's very own. She reviews

store from a restaurant onion rings? She has this Instagram account that she actually started to be a private thing with her and her friends and like i think she was doing it like when she was on tour and then of course people found it and like realized it was her she's only she only has like nine posts ever on here but it's like pictures of onion rings so it's like every few months lord will be like so i ate some onion rings here Here's my review. And she posted one like yesterday. She last time before that was in December.

And it'll just be her being like these. She's like, we're talking pickled onion rings, which is a first for this reviewer. I totally vibe the concept. You see pickled onions out of a jar as a youngster. However, I think you're going to go there. If you're going to go there, go there and let acidity rather than sweetness dominate absolutely sensational batter perhaps the best i've tried four out of five overall ring experience wow she's posting pictures of the onion rings i i want to believe as a lord fan that this could be a sign that maybe she's gonna release another

album after several years, but probably not. I don't know. Yeah, she's been quiet for a minute. I love that that was a four out of five and not a five out of five. Like, she has real standards. That sounded like a five out of five and she was like, yeah, could have been better. She's got to be honest. I mean, the bullshit.

No, I don't know how often she gives that. Best batter I've ever had. Could have been better. I don't know if she's ever given a five out of five. Damn. Yeah. Here's one that's one out of five from Burger King. Damn. Tough day for Burger King.

Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, Miles of Grey. Also, the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. Miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying Twitter Instagram Miles of Grey also the other podcast for 20 day fiance let's see a couple tweets I like this is from at PTAC jokes Alex Patak

is that how you say his name then this is just sub zero kills a guy me that's from the video game that happens in the video game I love that shit uh another one is from chunk bardy at chunk bardy tweeting uh keeping myself sharp by regularly asking myself tough tough questions like what happened yesterday and what was i planning on doing just now? Which feels just about right. And then another one is from Patrick Monahan at Patty Moe, quote tweeting a Wired headline that says,

this researcher says AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. And next to that is Mike Myers' portrayal of Linda Richman from Coffee Talk, which would definitely be a topic like AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. Talk amongst yourselves. And one of my favorite ones was Duran Duran is neither a Duran nor a Duran. Talk amongst yourselves. So for the washed SNL fans out there,

that's for the Linda Richmond thing. I had another Chunk Barty tweet I enjoyed. So crazy when someone gives you the prompt, tell me something you've never told anyone. Like, are you out of your fucking mind? 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, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we recommend you go check out miles what are we recommending today this is a track from billy woods uh we did a track of his called spongebob a few weeks ago i don't know could have been years i don't know uh but this is another track from him called spider hole. And I just like his whole flow.

It's lethargic but feels very poetic but also rhythmic enough that it still feels like bars. And I just appreciate the topics that he raps about. So this is Billy Woods with Spider Hole. All right. Go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning.

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