The Daily Zeitgeist - Unpaid Teens To Save Democracy! Trump Selling Viagra Honey? 10.18.24

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

In episode 1761, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by comedian, Django Gold, to discuss… America Is Relying On Unpaid Teenagers To Save Democracy, Trump’s $100,000 Watch Headquarters In Are A Daycare? Also... He May Secretly Be Selling Erectile Dysfunction Honey, Tostitos And Doritos Are “Fighting Shrinkflation” – But Not Really and more! America Is Relying On Unpaid Teenagers To Save Democracy Poll Work Is in Crisis. Teens Are Stepping Up to Fill the Void. Election worker turnover has reached historic highs ahead of the 2024 vote, new data shows Poll of Election Officials Finds Concerns About Safety, Political Interference Right-wing activists pushed false claims about election fraud. Now they’re recruiting poll workers in swing states. ‘SOS From Your SOS’: How poll workers are being recruited in Kentucky Kentucky Secretary of State partners with breweries in campaign to recruit poll workers Poll workers can be hard to find. In Nebraska, election officials can draft them Long voting lines threaten our democracy. Fixing them is easier than you think States pass new laws to protect election workers amid ongoing threats Election workers worry that federal threats task force isn’t enough to keep them safe Trump’s $100,000 Watch Headquarters In Are A Daycare? Also... He May Secretly Be Selling Erectile Dysfunction Honey Tostitos And Doritos Are “Fighting Shrinkflation” – But Not Really President Joe Biden and Cookie Monster are both sick and tired of 'shrinkflation' America revolted against Tostitos and Ruffles. Now they’re making big changes Tostitos introducing bags with more chips for the same price, but only in select locations Twitter Clip: Psy introduces himself LISTEN: No Caller ID by 1300See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You watching anything good? The Penguin. I'm watching season two of Shrinking. You're watching The Penguin? The big tall one? Pesto? Pesto? You just watching videos of that dude?

Oh yeah, yeah. I love that guy. I'm going to start telling people I'm watching the penguin. I just need the big top He's so tall yeah, I guess I guess so It took me like halfway through that to realize you guys were trying to get a cold open. It's a struggle every day. Jack's just hanging out with me. I'm always workshopping. Anytime I'm talking to someone, I'm workshopping cold open material.

You and Lorne, both of you guys. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, exactly. On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

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We're still making up our minds. You know, Trump keeps doing these Univision, women's, he's reaching out to women's and we're just, we're still learning. We're taking in new information, we're processing, but we just, we still don't know. So the New York Times hit us up if you want to like throw a viewing party for us or something like that, like you do for other undecided voters. We, our phones, the lines are open. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness

and it is Friday, October 18th, 2024. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Paduncle Dunk. Do do do do do do. Paduncle Dunk. Do do do do. Paduncle Dunk. Do do do do do do.

Do do do do do do do do do doot doot doot. Paduncle dunk. Doot doot doot doot. Doot doot doot doot. Doot doot doot doot. Doot doot doot doot. Doot doot doot doot. That one courtesy of Herkule Pierogi. Pierogi. Herkule Pierogi on the Discord. Great name in reference to paduncle.

One of the great words that I've learned in the past week. It means the main stem, we learned it in reference to pumpkins having a big old fat peduncle stems that that's why farmers are like, no, you can't come to the actual pumpkin patch. They got peduncles that you're not gonna be able to deal with. Can't deal with all this peduncle. So that's why they just like have pumpkin patches in parking lots now where they just like buy pumpkins from Kroger and

put them in a parking lot. But anyways I just love that word. My main takeaway I don't really give a shit that they are fake pumpkin patches but I do give a shit about the word peduncle and I like it. It sounds like a description of a big old dumb guy with a big butt or something. I enjoy it. Anyways, I am thrilled to be joined once again by a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser, the co-host with the mo-host. You can catch her on stand-up stages everywhere. Check her website at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces. It's Polly V. Gunaway.

They pay paradise and put up a pumpkin patch. They did. And they did. And that is America's biggest problem. According to me, an undecided voter. I'm a political, I'm a political about pumpkin patches. I just don't like to think about it. It doesn't really affect me. That's right. How are you doing, Pallaby?

I'm good. I was recounting the horrors of Terrifier 3 and now that's still in my head. Yeah, you went and saw it. So we did a story the last time you were on that Terrifier 3 is the number one movie in America. It destroyed the other killer clown movie, Joker 2, and did extremely well. Joker faux pas. Yeah, Joker, that's right. And you went and saw it, and you said it was a good time.

And I will never be the same. I think I need to dedicate my next therapy session to just talking about it. Cause like, I don't understand, like a lot of people walked out and the entire time Jackie was like, we can leave if you need to leave. And I was like, I don't know. Like it was, it was definitely the most gory thing I've ever seen.

But beyond that, it was like fucked up, like, but also like and terrifying. It was fucked up, bro, like super fucked up. But like also like terrifying, but also like funny in parts. And I was like, what is I? I it's you. I don't know. I can't tell anyone to go see it, but also I will never forget it. There's that. Unforgettable. You do sound exactly like the person they interview in a commercial for a horror movie.

They're like, I was shaken. I will never forget it. They just cut out the parts where you're like, why are they doing this? Yeah. Where you seem like, why are they doing this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where you seem like existentially troubled. I have a lot to think about, honestly.

Do I mean, you also like mentioned that the killer clown in terrifier three, you were like, I was actually really impressed with their clowning deep clowning knowledge, which is definitely, I'd be very surprised if they weren't like a fully trained clown. Yeah. Deep clowning knowledge. Oh, 100%. Which is interesting. I'd be very surprised if they weren't a fully trained clown. Yeah, like they trained at that school in Paris. Probably. I'm not even kidding. That's the best clown work I've seen in a movie in a long time. Maybe. I don't know.

Well, speaking of some of the best clown work, we're thrilled to be joined by a very funny standup comedian and writer out of New York City. He's written for The Onion and Colbert. You can see a standup special on his YouTube channel, Django Industries. It's Django Gold! Hello.

Hello. Hello. Thank you for allowing me to bring my clowning to you guys. It's funny how clown is just like, probably I'm sure you can tell in the L.A. scenes, because it's such a huge like faction of like the comedy scene now. It's like, yeah, it's like a clowness is happening right now. I do want to I want to give credit to Chad

Damiani because he is like the link between clowning in L.A. and stand up. And so like there is more more mesh between that those worlds now. Would you say is a scene like dominated by roving gangs of like bully clowns, you know, pile out of the car and like surround you. Oh, you're going to power town twerp. Kick your ass while juggling.

I would honestly be more terrified of roving gangs of male comedians. Yeah. Oh, social commentary. No, no, no. And entirely fair. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Jango, I was just saying clown in the way that a high school bully would call someone a clown.

Speaking of clowns, this next clown has written for Colbert. Okay. So a more demeaning way. Professional clown. Professional and personal clown. That's right. A clown who doesn't make the audience laugh. That is something I will say.

I want to see more. This is so stupid, but I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. I want to see more of this. a clown who doesn't make the audience laugh. That is something I will say.

I want to like see more. This is so stupid, but I want to see more clowning because I do respect that as an art form. I respect to like all like all types of performances. I think it depends on the individual performance, whether it can be great or not. But I want to see it because I do know that sometimes clowning like people often fall into the thing of like getting naked or eating crazy shit or doing like body

stuff. And I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, what, like, I want to see more shades of clowning before I educate myself on clowning. Sure, sure. I didn't know about those shades of clowning. So I clearly have a lot to learn. I didn't know about the nudity or the mukbang. Jack's in now.

He's all in. Yeah, that's gross. And now I'm back. Yeah. All right, Django, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. So this election at this point, nobody knows what's going to happen.

It's like watching a weather report for a day, three weeks in the future, or just like, I don't know, could be really bad or not. Seems to be, we talked on yesterday's trending about this polling article from the New York Times where they're just like, yeah, it could be a big miss towards the Republicans, or the opposite could be true also.

These were their experts. Anyways, one thing we do know for sure is it's going to be a complete shit show at the polls. Election poll workers already being kind of targeted by Trump conspiracy theories and the same Trump conspiracy theories that are similar to the conspiracy theories that have like militias pulling guns on FEMA workers recently. So it's just like a gnarly situation that poll workers are walking into and we are going to try

to engage the help of unpaid teenagers, apparently. That is a big part of the plan, is getting high school students to volunteer to do poll working because they can't find enough people who are willing to do it, not for a college credit. We'll talk about that. We will talk about just Trump's recent run of appearances, where his brain appears to be melting like

cotton candy that someone just dumped a Diet Coke onto. We'll talk about the headquarters of the place where he makes his six-figure watches. There's a place, a company that's based in Wyoming. CNN went there and I just, the physical description of the place where these watches are made is pretty incredible. Uh, so we'll talk about that. And of course we will talk about Tostitos and Doritos and how they're fighting shrinkflation, but not really.

All of that, plenty more. But first Django, we do like to ask our guests What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? this is a good one that really kind of encompasses a lot of my My anxieties, but the last thing I searched for was can a radiator catch your mattress on fire Because obviously, you know in New York I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna die in a fire. This isn't gonna happen. So I looked it up. Also, it's very New York that your mattress is basically on top of your radiator.

That's the thing. I could move it away, but that would sacrifice like one third of my bedroom space. So I had to carefully weigh that against whether I wanna be alive or not. And I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna die in a fire. And I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna die in a fire. And I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna it away, but that would sacrifice like one third of my

bedroom space. So I had to carefully weigh that against whether I want to be alive or not. Yeah. I once lived in a room so small in New York that my mattress was not flat on the ground. It was like, I also just like had three pieces of furniture and I probably could have only had two in the room. Yeah. And so it ended up. You don't need that big, that big wood globe as much as you.

Yeah, it was a globe and the other one was just a giant steering wheel from an old ship. Yeah, it's called interior design. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, the heating situation in New York is so wild. It really is the most steampunk thing that just exists in our, yeah, hot stuff goes through this pipe and the first there like I feel like in my building They're kind of like testing out different temperatures first day 98 degrees Immediately just go

Yeah awful so they're fine-tuning at the moment, but as long as I don't die in my sleep, I'll be a happy camper Yeah, what is something you think is underrated? Oh, this is a new one for me. So my whole life, I've been like an like an ice cream purist. Like I'm like anti gelato, anti frozen yogurt. My thinking has always been, you know, if you're going to indulge, indulge all the way full fat, yeah. But recently, I had a nice little scoop of sorbet and brother, sister.

I think I might be I might be on the sorbet train. I think it's so fucking pussy. I know. I know. I know. So glad you said it, Paul. The like, obviously, I can't. It's not very alpha male. It's not. I'm coming in here saying like, so we got a sorbet clown. It's like it's almost it's like such like a fake food because it's just like puree and ice.

It tastes like clouds. It tastes like clouds. It has no nutritional no fat value at all. It's kind of like it's like you know when the zookeeper will put like on like a puppet of an animal and I put it in the cage with the other. I'll put on like a ferret puppet. It's like, that's like the version of ice cream I'm eating with sorbet, but I do find it quite, quite light and refreshing. So that's my underrated pick of the week sorbet. Oh yeah. It's, it's good. It does make up for any loss of fat with just being the sweetest, like the most sugar that you can possibly concentrate into a tiny little

spoon. And I appreciate it for that. That is one of the things I've learned to love about sorbet. It's also, oh, go ahead. It's sweeter than ice cream in some cases. Oh yeah. In many cases. Well, it's fruit juice, which is already really sweet. Yeah.

And it adds sugar to it. What if this was like way sweeter though? Like, so it was like not even a liquid anymore, but like more gelatinous. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But so wait, gelato, is that a healthier alternative to ice cream? I always thought it was just softer.

It's just European and as a, as a red blooded American male, and as I naturally assume, assume that it's less full, less, less fatty. Right. That honestly might not be true. It's a lot of gelato has four to nine percent to the usual ten to twenty five percent of ice cream. So it is lighter and healthier. So it's like injecting air into it to make it puffier, I guess. Okay.

Not for me. Nice try, Italy. But not on our watch. Again, no POC slander against the Italians, okay. Paulavie is trying to bring back a world where Italians are considered POC. Me and Ariana Grande. Grande.

Yeah. Grande. When it was her grandfather, it was the Grandes, but now it's Grande. What is, what's something you think is overrated? Man, I've tried for years to get on board with this, but I think I'm done with buying, nurturing, and watching house plants die. I think I'm just done with plants because they just always fucking, they, they just immediately start getting sicker and sicker.

As soon as I take them home, they attract, they attract bugs. When I went out of town, I said, I have to have a friend over. It's just too much work and I suck at raising them. So I think I might be out on the pandemic plant. Okay, I'm hearing what you're saying and I'm hearing you go, go on, get out of here. I didn't want you anyway.

Yeah. I don't care that you die. It's an old yellow situation. But I mean, I don't know how much more love and attention can I give these things? And they just wilt. They just immediately wilt, it's depressing. I mean, even in the know how much more love and attention can I give these things? And they just wilt. This immediately will. It's depressing. I mean, even in the canopy jungle of your room.

I know. Survive. They can't survive here. They can't. They can't make it anywhere. I also feel that it might be the widely, vastly fluctuating temperature. And you're better. Yeah, probably. They have it also partially you at the same time. Yeah, it's like your room is like the surface of mercury. It's like half of the time it's like freezing.

It's zero Celsius. And the next day I'm certainly not blaming the plant. I'm certainly not absolving myself. I have not been a good father figure to these guys. Yeah. Almighty. Some of us just aren't cut out for it. Maybe you need to be like a stepdad to a plant first, and then that'll ease you back. You can adopt a plant.

If I could get another household to raise the plant to maturity, then I could come in and take it to go see baseball games. That would be ideal. Yeah. Yeah. Just fostering fostering a plant situation. Maybe you could be the friend who's watering other people's plants when they're out of town. Oh, yeah. I can dig that. Yeah. You're not the step plant dad. You're the plant dad that stepped up.

That's right. Yeah. Plants are temperamental. I've had varying levels of success. Like California, Southern California is like, I went from Missouri to New York to Southern California and I trapped Missouri and from Missouri to New York to Southern California. I trapped Missouri and I tried to have a garden in Missouri and I was very unsuccessful. New York didn't even bother like other than like a couple of orchids that lasted a week or so.

Orchids are so fancy. Oh, orchids. I am known in the orchid community. It's like an I am legend situation in Orchid community. It's like an I am legend situation in the Orchid community, spoiler alert, for the end of that movie. But yeah, they know about me and run when I enter a room. You come to Southern California and you just drop an apple by accident and a tree is growing there the next day.

It's just the most verdant place in the world. Oh, good word. Fertile. Verdant. Other vocabulary words. The verdant crescent Southern California. That's right. Yeah.

So I recommend moving to Southern California. I was about to say that might be the easiest solution here. I feel like that would solve a lot of your problems. Move across the country. There you go. With a sorbet, sorbet flows like water. That's true. It does.

They do love a sorbet out here because everybody's vegan. Yeah, I was going to say that. It's actually contractually. Oh, yeah. It's a nice vegan option for me when people want to go get ice cream and I'm like, but I want to be included. Or like at a restaurant, they have sorbet often. So it's, yeah, it is.

It was as an Audrey. What do you have in a pre-dinner sorbet? Yeah. Three globes of ice, please. I don't want to, I don't want to be difficult. Just give me three globes. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll talk about the news.

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And we're back. Like how's everybody doing with the election? Like I'm, the fear is on me. I've said for like a couple of weeks now, the fear is on me. I'm just like having flashbacks to 2016, reading a bunch of shit about like how the polling can go as in the past, like vastly underestimated Trump. I'm like oscillating between that and then being like, if Trump loses, maybe this is

it because his brain so bad. Maybe the whole like open fascism thing will, will be gone. But how are you guys feeling? Is everybody hanging in there? It feels like we really, we like this blink of an eye. We went from like six months out to three weeks out. It's like, it just came down the pike real quick and now it's like, Oh, the rubber's being the road here.

And yeah, I think, I think what you're, what you're talking about is like kind of my anxiety where it's like, the more you read, the less calm you feel because you just keep on getting all these like contradictory, you know, op-eds you see. And like, they'll con you know, I'm very malleable in my opinion. So like, like, oh, Harris is a lot for Michigan. Like, great. It's in the bag. We're done.

And then like, it's like, oh, these polls are all nonsense. Yeah. Michigan's over. Yeah. Michigan's over. Kiss Michigan. Goodbye assholes. polls are all nonsense. Yeah. Michigan's over. Yeah. Michigan's over. Kiss Michigan. Goodbye assholes. It's Trump country.

Yeah. The best thing I've been doing for myself is just trying to remind myself that. Nobody knows anything. Nobody knows anything. Yeah. And by, by saying your opinions are very malleable, that's because you're still an undecided voter like me. That's right.

Well, I'm still pretty much in the bag for Cornell West. Yeah. That where did that Well, I'm still pretty much in the bag for Cornell West. Yeah. Where did that, what happened? God damn it. He's still going strong, man. He got a victory in, what's the state he could win, Alaska? Oh wow. That's not true.

Unfortunately, so I think one of the big things that we know is going to be an issue is the like what is going to happen at the polls on election day. This was a big concern heading into the 2020 election. I will be handing out comedy flyers at the polls on election day. I will be barking for my show. Hey guys, come see, bring your friends. Good call, good call. I'll bring a QR code for my Instagram.

They can't leave. They're going to be in line. Having an assault rifle as well as that. Yeah, come to my fucking show. Yeah, I mean that you'll fit in better if you have an assault rifle. I remember having these concerns heading into the 2020 election and that was before they staged an insurrection to try and overturn the results of that election. So, and by the way, Trump has recently gone on record, referring to the people

who were at it on January 6th as we, like we, and we were very peaceful. So that's unnerving. And I think it's just one of the big questions, concerns surrounding this election, like first of all, how safe will it be for them? And I think it's just one of the big questions, concerns surrounding this election. Like, first of all, how safe will it be for them? Second of all, will there actually be any? Re that first question about how safe it's going to be. Will anybody actually want to do this job?

Because there is a massive shortage in poll workers owing to a mass exodus in 2020 caused by the pandemic, first of all, and then countless Trump-inspired threats and intimidation campaigns like that. It was ugly in 2020. Like there, I still remember it, like some of those scenes in like Detroit, where there was just like massive crowds of Trump supporters, like chanting, stop the count outside of counting. That's only because they hate counting. Yeah.

They're talking about the count from Sesame Street. He's an immigrant. Get him out of here. What's he doing in this election? I'm going to take your job. I want to stop the count. The shortage is pretty understandable since more than half of election officials have reported being concerned about the safety of their colleagues or staff already

this year, because yeah, there it's just, there's constant like threats. There's a lot of like right wing training happening. So yeah, it's, it's not just that like concerns that voting sites will be understaffed. There's also like right wing conspiracy theorists, theorists are actively trying to use the shortage to install their own poll watchers as, you know, workers and swing states who will watch the watchers. Right. Yeah. So Who will watch the watchers? Right, yeah, so they will watch the watchers.

They're gonna watch those watchers. I gotta say, all these factoids you're dropping here are not making me feel any better about this election. I know, it's not, well, yeah. How are you feeling, good? Well, let me just wreck that for you. Right, hey, so let me just check. Arm insurrection at my local high school gymnasium is not setting my mind at ease.

Yeah. I, and I feel like that's, I don't know. It feels like a tangible thing at least, but it's like a very scary one. Yeah. They, they keep in these like places where they're recruiting and training right wing poll watchers, they're talking about acting as a spy or a Trojan horse. That's literally how like a Christian right influencer described his plan. So you dress up as a poll worker.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if they know specifically what happened. Hello, I work for the government. There was a, there was a, um, uh, USC, like their, their football team is called the Trojans. Like there's like all their sports teams are called the Trojans and they had like a warmup

video this year where they were like pretending to be in the Tro- like they showed a Trojan horse and I'm like showed themselves and it's like, wait, no, you guys are the Trojans. Like you're the Trojan horse fooled you. no, you guys are the Trojans. Like the Trojan horse fooled you. It was a gift to the Trojans. Well, these football players aren't much on book learning. All right.

They're not history majors. No. But anyways, that's what the Christian right plan to do. There are safeguards that would prevent these workers from interfering in the electoral process, but their presence will probably lead to, at the very least, a lot of misinformation, which, you know, is what we're seeing happen a lot of like just with her things that straightforward as

hurricane relief, you know, just your Trump and JD Vance, spreading hurricane misinformation. Trump and JD Vance spreading hurricane misinformation. What does training entail? What does it mean? Are they getting trained in martial arts? What are they doing? Yeah. You've seen those videos of terror camps. IDS is going to train them on how to fuck up voters. It's a desert camp and they're doing the monkey bars and then firing. Yeah. It's a desert, doing the, uh, the monkey bars and then firing.

Yeah. All these elderly poor reserve, kicking, kicking some serious ass come to. I'm guessing it has very little like physical training and more just like here's where to apply and here's how to make your presence felt, even though you're not supposed to, you know, I mean, here's how to use a voting machine that was made in 1980. Right. So people, the states have been desperate to hire new poll workers because of this, and they're so desperate.

In fact, that in Kentucky, they've been putting QR codes on beer cans and wine bottles, allowing people to easily sign up to be poll workers. And then presumably it's too late to back out of it once. That really is something you wake up like, Oh my God, I'm doing, I'm doing what this week? Oh, why do I ever agree to make plans? That is crazy that they're trying to get drunk people to sign up because they're like, only drunk people would be, would be willing to put their bodies at risk.

You know who loves waking up early on a weekday? Alcoholics. Top of crack of dawn. They'll be out there. Yeah. They, I'm sure we'll have the best just election day won't happen. Cause nobody shows up. Yeah.

Too fucked up. Yeah. You're like, fuck. I'm too fucked up. Nebraska is allowing counties to draft workers to fill election vacancies. Sort of how we do jury duty. Yeah. Which poll workers get paid though, right? Yes, they do. How well they get paid is another question. That's that seems to be the solution right there.

Just give them more money. Ah, okay. But we don't want to do that. Wait a second. Okay. No. And also we're going to take away whatever healthcare you have. How about that?

All right. So they're apparently turning to child labor in this worker shortage. The children yearn for the polls. labor in this worker shortage. The children yearn for the polls. They do. So all the young ruffians with their TikToks and Sony Discmans, is that right? I lose track sometimes. Just walk into the tar pits right now.

Please. You know, the ones that the very people who are fueling the rise of Trump, like the boomers, et cetera, like already hate so much, just nonstop. Like it's their favorite things to complain about them. That those people are going to be like a sea of those of these children are going to be awaiting the boomers at the polls, according to this plan, which I, I feel like would, would be the equivalent of like a bunch, according to this plan, which I feel like would, would be the equivalent of like a bunch of people with ARs.

Like they would be there to make the boomers feel safe, but then the children would just, they wouldn't know what to do. They'd be pretty furious. It's a bad situation where you have like some stoned 17 year old, like counting ballots or being entrusted in carrying a box of ballots to someone's car, you know? Yeah. Did you ever like have to do like high school, like fundraising work for, I think I did it for my basketball team where we like worked at parking lots of

like a fish show or like, it was just like, they would just have to grab high school students and be like, yeah, you're doing child labor, but you're doing it for this program that needs money to like pay for gas to go to like the next away game. So you just went up to people with like nitrous balloons there. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Kind of 20, $20.

Like worked a bingo hall where you couldn't like see three feet in front of your face from the cigarette smoke. Oh my God. You know, just stuff like jobs that could have been staffed by people and paid for. They were just like, no, we'll just throw these children at it. And it feels like that is the level, like the, the lowest level of, of like employment that you could possibly have is like, we'll just make high school kids do it because they will think it's like good for their resume.

That's like how it's being pitched to them. Yeah. I worked on the, uh, the last day of American democracy. Right. Yeah, exactly. But it's actually like all over the country, officials are actively recruiting high school students to become poll workers.

While minors aren't allowed to become poll workers in every state, a loophole allows for it as long as they're pre-registered to vote. Pre-registered. Yeah. There's going to be a whole group of like weird incel dudes who have it memorized, like the ages that they're allowed to be poll workers state by state. Right. Right.

Might be able to get laid in this, uh, insurrection. In some cases they're paid just like regular poll workers, which I don't think is much because in other cases they're simply asked to work for free pizza because the gig is such a quote resume booster. And that's like a whole bunch of people that are like,, they're simply asked to work for free pizza. Because the gig is such a quote, resume booster. So surely the solution to this national emergency is not to treat election workers even worse. But that does seem to be the direction that we're going with it.

I think it actually might be a good thing because imagine you go with your like AR whatever to the polls, you're this angry Republican and then a fucking teenager just roasts the shit out of your shoes, like what are you gonna do? Right. You know what I mean? You're armed but disarmed, you know? Like there's nothing crueler than a teenager who has something to prove.

Yeah, I think a person with a gun might be a bigger. than a teenager who has something to prove. I think a person with a gun might be a bigger. Yeah, it's kind of hard to make fun of the shoes of people who are carrying ARs, but yeah. Nice gun, loser. Well, what are you gonna do, shoot me, you bitch? Yeah, especially getting shot at in exchange for two slices of Domino's pizza. Right, but it's, I mean, it seems like a bad idea I was just getting shot at in exchange for two slices of Domino's pizza. Right.

But it's, I mean, it seems like a bad idea in terms of just like accomplishing the thing you're looking for. It also seems cruel when you keep in mind that like the reason there's a shortage of poll workers in the first place is due to widespread harassment. And we're like, oh, just throw some minors in there. Throw some minors with the problem. And the fact that they're actually like that they're even selling it as this is valuable life experience. If you engage with like a disaffected voter who's mad at you, like, uh, this

is a quote for Caswell students dealing with the occasional frustrated voter can be a valuable job skill experience. She said, Who's mad at you? Like, this is a quote for Caswell students, dealing with the occasional frustrated voter can be a valuable job skill experience. She said, one of the people who was speaking in favor of this plan. It's not the same talking about it in a classroom as it is with a stranger who's coming in, yelling at them. She said, they have to learn. This is a real, this is real life.

This happens. If I work at McDonald's, somebody might get mad whether they're right or wrong. It's a valuable on the job training. Love to learn about suffering and danger because later I will also experience suffering and danger, right? Let's scam life experiences. Right. Every bad thing that happens to us, that's valuable life experience. It's really exposure.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Exposure and life experience are the same boat here. Yeah, I exposed to a mad man with a gun. I 100% would have done this to be in like the honor society or something like I would have been one of the kids they duped. I would have been like, yeah, I'll go. I don't care. I'll it's good to add to my resume. Yeah.

It's good to add to my resume. Just cover so much bullshit. I know. They can get you to do anything and nobody knows. There's like no way to fact check that. Uh, yeah. So, I mean, Django, as you said earlier, the easiest thing to do would be to pay poll workers like the essential workers they are.

Yeah. You'll have to pay them once a year too, for the record. This is something. Yeah. Some poll workers make less than $10 an hour, which seems like it's too low. Isn't that illegal? But maybe not in some states. Right.

But yeah, we convert that to pizza. And so now we're doing conversions of dollars into pizzas, which is good math experience. If you spend a fraction of your life working at the polls, how much will you have left? A number of states have enacted new election worker protections, but the federal response has just been, I don't know, not, not great. A number of states have enacted new election worker protections, but the federal response has just been, I don't know, not great.

They put together a special federal election threats task force, which has resulted in 17 total charges. There've been over 2000 reports of threats and harassment to election workers since the task force was created in 2021, but only a hundred of those were even investigated because like a lot of, you know, government enforcement agencies, they are drastically understaffed and underfunded. And then they're like, well, the government sucks at their job. And I was like, well, you put like three people on a thing that requires a full company's worth of people.

It sounds like they need to hire some teenagers for the investigation. I know exactly. You got some teenage PIs in there. Some shrewd kid detectives. I mean, if movies have taught me anything. Encyclopedia of Brown would get to the bottom of this. Thank you. Exactly.

All right. Anyways, so don't be worried about the intangible things that you can't control. Be, be worried about the tangible things that you can't really can't control. Unless you want to volunteer to be a poll worker, you know? Yeah. Ask your, ask your children if they want to. Do you know where your kids are getting the shit beaten out of them at the polls? Yeah.

God, what a time, man. Yeah. God, what a time, man. When they used to just have an ad at night at like 10 o'clock being like, Hey, you, you have kids. Do you remember that? Oh, shit, dude. Wait a second. All right.

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Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. And we're back. And we got a Daily zeitgeist update update on a previous story where we talked about how Donald Trump was selling a watch that looked like shit. Yeah. I mean, it looked like a gold watch, like a kind of fancy gold watch, but it had his signature somewhere on the face, I think. He's selling it for a hundred thousand dollars.

And it was made like, so people were like, where, where did he suddenly get this watchmaking ability from? And they traced it to a company based in Wyoming. And like when you Google maps it, it just looks like kind of a building in the middle of nowhere. CNN actually decided to go to this place. That's clearly just a bogus address used by shell companies. And they were shocked to find there was no Swiss watch company. In Wyoming.

Yeah. And instead what they found was a daycare. With all the kids making the watches. there was no Swiss watch company in Wyoming. Yeah. And instead what they found was a daycare. With all the kids making the watches. I was about to say, that closes the loop right there. That's right. Children, child labor is the future of this country. They're tiny little fingers are good for those gears, you know? I really like, yeah, they can, I mean, they love building with Legos.

This is just like one step over. You do have to, they get a little trip. They get a little careless and so you do have to, you know, use some motivation tactics that people don't want to know. You have to waterboard the kids. One. Yes. You do with little juice box.

So it's makes it, the fact that it's a daycare is so bleak. It's a, it's a daycare that shares a parking lot with an H and R block, a Wendy's and a vape and hemp smoke shop. So what a strip mall. Get your childcare, kill yourself in two easy ways. Just need a liquor store to kind of create the full trifecta. I feel like. Oh, there might be a small watch factory in this building.

Right. Maybe it's Cinderella where like the animals are doing it. Yeah, see, we got to use our imagination here. It's not as bleak as we thought. Yeah, it's cute. It's probably cute in some way. I'm sure it's cute. In addition to the quote, the best watches on earth, LLC, the address. I like that it's one word.

Yes. That's one word. The best watches on earth, LLC. The address was also being used by the company selling Trump's sneakers and a company selling the best honey on earth. All one word, the best honey on earth, which sells male enhancement honey. What? I don't think men need to be enhanced right now. I think they need to be de-enhanced. Okay. Yes. Let's just back it up. You guys are, it's too much, too much honey.

Let's just back it up. You guys are it's too much too much honey Male enhancement honey is very fun. That's sounds like I got a term for a sex worker or something, right? Also, if it worked wouldn't the workers like rise up against the Queen Bee, you know, yeah V rail worker bees on the market. I think it's literally for boomers who are like, I don't like pills. They're like, It's easier to take that little thing of honey and like, Yeah. Hold on, sweetheart.

I gotta dollop the honey into my mouth. It's just a normal thing of honey with like Viagra sprinkled throughout. You can see like the little pieces in it. Yeah. It sounds great. I think I'm going to get on the horn in my account and see what I can get. Does seem like a great business proposition. But I mean, given the address and the similar name, we don't have proof yet, but it does

seem to suggest that presidential candidate Donald Trump is selling honey that gives people boners, which this is the October surprise we've been waiting for. There it is. Is this good for Trump or bad for Trump? Yeah. Yeah. People are at this point.

I'm so confused. Like this guy can cure boners. Yeah. Man. Four more years of this, I'm so confused. Like this guy can cure boners. Yeah. Man. Four more years of this, huh? Could be good stuff. They, they share the same organizer who just so happens to spend all his time in Puerto Rico and therefore can't comment on any of this can cannot be reached for

comment, unfortunately, the guy who heads the company, yeah. Our fearless leader, the CEO of a Trump, Trump, Trump owner the company? Yeah. Our fearless leader. The CEO of Trump, Trump owner honey. Yeah. I mean, the fact that it's called the best watches on earth, all one word LLC does suggest that it is just Donald Trump in a wig, which we've definitely seen in the past. His pseudonym was like Baron something, right? John Baron or whatever.

Yeah. Yeah. Trump really is a master of disguise. I've definitely seen in the past. His pseudonym was like Baron something, right? John Baron or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. John Baron. Yeah. Trump really is a master of disguise. He can do it all.

I'd like my lawyer to represent me today. Yeah. Fake mustache turns around backwards, comes back. Is doing what he thinks is a British accent. Oh, I'm seeing that down here. You guys are right. The honey does just contain portions of Viagra. It's literally homemade fucking moonshine honey.

You grind it in a mortar and pestle, Viagra and sprinkle into the honey. It's like mom used to make. Yeah. Just like mom used to make. Yeah. The FDA has warned people not to consume the Viagra honey. Don't eat the boner honey.

I know it seems like a good idea to eat honey that's sold on a watch factory. Just has medicine ground up in it. That's a daycare. Usually the FDA is like, oh, we're not gonna approve your device or like this thing. But they're like, oh, we're not going to approve your device or this thing. But they're like, please, anyone that will listen,

please don't eat the boner, honey. We can't in good conscience be out here. They're just trying to stop us from pleasing our wives. It's pathetic. They're so disinclined. That's right. Nice try, the FDA. Yeah.

You guys just love women. And finally, Tostitos and Doritos have stepped up to the plate. We may not be able to count on the political process to save us, but we can count on our corporations owned by PepsiCo. So there, there was a period early in the election when Joe Biden, remember him? Joe Biden. He was running for president. And Cookie Monster.

You remember that asshole? Okay. They teamed up to take on shrinkflation and Biden specifically singled out potato chip companies, man. Yeah, potato chip companies selling less chips than the same, same size bags, man. It's like, you know, damn. I Joe then wandered off somewhere.

Maybe he has just been high. What? Go ahead. I was like, he's had like a 60 year political career and the capstone at all. It's like chips are too small. Bye. And I'll be seeing myself out. Yeah.

But yet the most relatable aspect of his career. I mean, honestly, this is something that pisses me off. So I'm pretty happy. The most every I'm like, glad he's moving away from like working with segregationists. Yeah, right. His big stands before. Why can't we all just get along, man? I was a strong thermos. Cool dude, right. His big stands before. Why can't we all just get along, man? Strom Thurmond was cool dude, man.

Dude's rock. Anyways, there are reports that PepsiCo is adding more chips into chip bags, including Tostitos, Doritos, and Lay's in order to quote, fight shrinkflation. Woo! Yes. The hero of the common man. Yes, exactly. and delays in order to quote fight shrink flation. Woo. Yes. The hero, the common man. Yes, exactly. Pepsi co always in touch.

Yeah. I mean, they're in touch with my needs. Yeah. So, so, so, Hey, can you guys stop charging us for water? Shut up and take the chips. Well, baby steps. Yeah.

That's, that's what they do. They, they, they give us more chips and they keep charging more for the refreshing beverages we need to wash them down with. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And they also have to be able to fund those commercials that are responsible for slowly, but surely say saving our hearts and minds, like the Kylie

Jenner one, you know, Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, they've done their part. They've done their. Kendall Jenner, Jack O'Brien. Oh, my God. What? How dare you? Yeah. What has happened to me? I used to know what was going on in this world.

But so it turns out they are putting more chips into bags. They are selling them at the same price. They are also branding them as bonus bags with 20 percent more chips. Bona bags. And we're going to mix Viagra. They will. They will be Viagra dusted. So they're advertising that they're adding back the chips they took away, but just calling them bonus chips, which is like stealing someone's wallet and then selling them back their ID and credit cards

as like bonus, bonus features, bonus collectibles. This might be coming out of left field, but I think I would prefer instead of more chips, just one big chip. I think is the way that you know, no one big jury, the family can do it the fucking cartoon corn thing on the size of it. Unpleasant. I don't like our way towards the middle. Everybody gets a corner.

People said the same thing about the automobile. Yeah, running out of earth. Yeah, look on the bright side of life. Big chips. Cars are sick. And so are big, big old giant chips. Thick chips too. Half an inch width. How is this big, thick chip?

Like how thick and do you want this chip to be? About as thick as what the side of my hand. And about as big as a medium sized kite. You want it kite shaped. Yeah. now I want it to be a diamond. I'm innovating so fast over here that it's changing the parameters on the fly. Learn a lesson from the pumpkin peduncle. Just go thick and big and it'll stay intact. People will love it.

People will come, right? They, yeah, they're actually kind of doing that at Taco Bell. They just added even bigger giant Cheez-Its to like one of their products. So preach the way she says, just say preach about the cheese. Yeah. Preach. Preach. Preach brother. Preach.

They're just adding other junk food into their food. They're literally like doing what a high person would do at home. They're taking out the middle man. Like, yeah, they're trying to do gummy bears taco. I'm sorry. I don't think you understand the demographic that Taco Bell is targeting to.

It is the high person at home. I know, I guess so. That is a hundred percent true. I used to do the show person at home. I know. I guess so. That is a hundred percent. I used to do the show where you would like do a sober set and then you would get high and do a high set. And like every time I left afterwards, the Taco Bell next to it was, there was just a huge line of cars. It was wild.

Cleaning out like a cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. No Taco Bell, the big cheese at Crunchwrap supreme is back. And I think, I think they've made the cheese at bigger and they might've added a second one. I like it. They were like, not enough cheese in this thing that is basically

wrapped around a giant cheese. Every time I hear about a talk about item. It's always it's back. I'm like, when did they have this? Bitches. It's back. Whenever there's like pending FDA legislation, they had to withdraw their latest monstrosity. Yeah.

Yeah. The FDA is like, we, please don't, we don't advise you to eat this. Please stop wrapping this in a. The crunch wrap Supreme that is basically just wrapped around a giant wax cornucopia is back Holy shit, this is I'm reading the description right now an a la carte big cheese a cracker 16 times larger than the standard cheese a cracker. They got my letter. Yeah They've they've incepted. They went into your dreams.

This is so, so crazy. If inception existed in real life, I would hope that's what they're using it for. It's just like, cruising through our dreams and like stealing all our best ideas for fast food concoctions. A man being eaten by spiders. Of course. That's, that's what they launched with the giant cheese thing. What if we put the teeth that fell out of their mouth into a quesadilla? That's where they came up with Baja Blast.

They were like, what a drink that makes all your teeth fall out of your mouth. The moment you drank it from just like sheer sugar consumption. Anyways, there, it has been reported that PepsiCo is actually not doing this to fight shrink flation. They're doing it because they want to sell more bags of chips now that it's football season. That's what they're. Well, can we believe in anything anymore? Dollars and cents of these people.

Wow, I can't believe that Pepsi. Because CEO said it's the football season. There's a lot of gatherings. There are gatherings. We do. We do. We gather. That's true. She's not wrong about that, folks.

Anyways, and imagine at this gathering, you and all your friends bite into one giant. Yeah It was 16 year but your friends just eating towards the middle and then you all love this. I just kissed here Moving to LA if you're a Cheese it all a cure. Yeah cheese it based poliq attitude, you definitely should be moving to LA if you're into Policule. I'll be a Cheez-It Policule. Cheez-It based Policule. Well, Django, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

You can find me on all the socials. My handle is Django Industries, one word. And yeah, that's pretty much it. There you go. Yeah, Django Industries, one word. And yeah, that's pretty much it. There you go. Yeah, Jango Industries. If you see me walking down the street, say hello. There you go. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

Yeah, I was glad I saw that prompt in the emails. It forced me to look back through my Twitter bookmarks. And I remembered, have you guys seen the video of the South Korean musician Psy backstage before he goes on stage? You know what I'm talking about? Where he gets like shot up through the bottom of the stage. Yeah, yeah, I revisited that.

That for all time will be my favorite piece of media. Yeah. Just being launched in front of 40,000 people in an arena is so cool. Yeah, and that's how I enter the room every time for one of these remote recordings of daily side case. That's how I picture myself. Yeah.

I mean, that is the energy you need to have in your day to day life. Oh my God. You'll be a little more like signed up yet. So fun. Yeah. Amazing. Great pick.

That's also one of my favorite tweets of all time. I'm gonna put it in the chat just so it exists for a posterity sake. Yeah, we'll link off to that in the footnotes. Paula Viganallan, what a pleasure having you as guest co-host for a couple days this week. Hello. Where can people find you, follow you, and is there work in media you've been enjoying? I'm at Paula Veganalla, N-P-A-L-L-A-B-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N.

Facial recognition comedy is tonight, I guess? October 18th, 10.30 p.m., the comedy tour. That's tonight. I saw a tweet that a friend posted at Klugans, K-L-O-O-G-A-N-S, says, I have an area in my backyard I call the Big Stew, it's a pit I-A-N-S, says, I have an area in my backyard I call the big stew. It's a pit I dug where I dump old batteries, gas, household chemicals, Dr. Pepper. I stir it once a month. And then someone quote to that with Charlie from Always Sunny, like with the speed bubble

pretending he said it. Yeah, yeah. The big stew. Beautiful. That's great. I hope that's true. I hope they really do have just a little place for toxic sludge, for like brewing toxic sludge. I have a Ziploc bag of electronics that I'm always like, I got to dispose of this in a responsible way. So I just have a growing pile of bad electronics. Just steer into the curve and dump some Diet Pepsi in there. I might as well Baja blast it back to where it came from. and dump some diet Pepsi in there. Blasted back. Yeah, exactly.

To where it came from. That'll dissolve all those old cell phones. Yeah. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, a tweet I've been enjoying from Josh Gondelman, a friend of the show who tweeted billion dollar idea Santana Rob Thomas remixes of Smooth, but about other kinds of weather.

Just instead of it being a hot one, you'd get like, it's a cold one. Cha-ching, cha-ching. Just wasting money. This cash register won't stay closed. The radiators off. A radiator on that. Yeah. I mean, the songs, I would listen to all of them, you know, because I need to play that

song before leaving and popping through the floor, Psy style. That's the song that gets me going. But sometimes it just doesn't feel right. That's also how you leave a room. Yeah. Okay. Can I say something? I had a huge crush on Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20

when I was growing up, but I also, I also didn't realize he was different than the director Rob Thomas. So I was like, that's crazy. This guy is a talent. That this dude made Veronica Mars and smooth with Santa. He's a polyglot.

I was like, incredible. Yeah, I've definitely blended people. I can't think of the example, but I've like blended people, not even people with the same name sometimes. People did that with Michael Jordan. Like they thought he was the guy who was invested in private prisons, but that's like a white guy from like Oregon. Right.

So they were like, well, Michael Jordan's actually bad. Right, right. Michael Jordan's actually bad. Right. Right. But he's not. Well, I was a kid, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, sometimes blurred together, which is a crazy life if you think about it. What a run that guy was on. This guy could do it all.

I feel like that makes Prince from Dave Chappelle's stories. Cause Prince could ball, right? So I feel like not, not heresy against the Prince purists, but you know what I mean? Musical talent, basketball balling. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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