The Daily Zeitgeist - Vote or Thigh Thick Romney 10/03: Rudy Giuliani, Will Smith, McDonald's, Melania Trump, Longshoreman Strike

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

In this edition of Vote or Thigh Thick Romney, Jack and Miles talk about Rudy Giuliani texting the wrong number about overturning the election, Will Smith's viral farts, McDonald's introducing the Chi...cken Big Mac in the US, Melania Trump coming out as Pro Choice, The Longshoreman strike, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:03:11 Was there any trend words in there? Zeit does, what was it? Zeit D. Theisenhower. There you go. I saw that on that list. That one courtesy of Lockeroni with all the presidential election references to our thick, thick thighs. My name is Jack. That is Miles.
Starting point is 00:03:30 And these are the stories that are trending right now. We, of course, have the big document dump, all the, you know, things that are going to build the case, Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump when it comes to that Trump tried to cheat in the last election It's all stuff that we kind of know we will dig into it a little bit more on tomorrow's episode But one of the best details and scariest Somehow according to a document unsealed in federal court on Wednesday on December 7th, 2020, Rudolph Giuliani tried to send a message urging someone unspecified to help in
Starting point is 00:04:11 the plan to appoint a slate of fake electors. Yep. Yep. Yep. So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the legislature. This is a quote. This is a quote. Yeah. Yeah. So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the legislature that states the election is in dispute. There's an ongoing investigation by the legislature and the electors sent by Governor Whitmer
Starting point is 00:04:29 and not the official electors of the state of Michigan and do not fall within safe harbor deadline under the Michigan law. And you sent that to like a political operative? The wrong number. Oh. He sent it to the wrong number. To a rando.
Starting point is 00:04:43 To a rando. Yep, yep. Yep. Thank God for Giuliani's senility and love of alcohol, so that there may be plentiful receipts for the Supreme Court to ignore. But yeah, it's so Rudy at this point. I feel like we should have thought this was going to happen. Like, of course, he's always sending people, like he doesn't know anyone's phone number,
Starting point is 00:05:04 and he's sending people the wrong shit incriminating stuff all the time on accidents the number of people must have been blown up by Like dick pics that just like sent to wrong numbers by Rudolph Giuliani And you think it's a prank maybe not even intentionally Yeah, you think but you also you think it's a prank you like dude someone just sent me like a pic of Rudy Giuliani's dick What the fuck do you know the number? No, man. It's like a 9-1-7 area code. That's right. I don't know dude I don't know. Yeah, but I mean overall just a lot of good details like that. There's Ronna McDaniel
Starting point is 00:05:37 Calling Donald Trump's plans fucking nuts Like it's just the conversations happening behind the scenes are exactly what you would expect them to be. This is bullshit, right? Like there's no secret here. It's just like him being like, yeah, we got to cheat, right? We got to cheat. Like, yeah, we got to cheat. Yeah. So cheap for me. And that people being like that doesn't make sense. Like the thing you sent me to like, like present to people as evidence of cheating, like this shit is fucking nuts.
Starting point is 00:06:06 Like it doesn't even make sense. But yeah, I'll try to do it. I'll try to do it. Like I know, I know, I know what the plan is here, but like, I'm just letting you know, it looks like shit. So yeah. Will accountability reach the shores of Trump land and Mar-a-Lago? We probably not.
Starting point is 00:06:19 I mean, we're all on the edge of our seats. Oh yeah. The momentum of history indicating... Probably not. It's like a TV show with a will-they-won't-they plot. It's like, wow, they never seem to answer that question. And I keep coming back for an answer, huh? Anyways, tune in to the next episode.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yep, yep, yep. Man, this next one really just fantastic, fantastic insight into filmmaking. I'd say. Yeah. Um, so one of our, uh, finest filmmakers from the early nineties, Barry Sonnenfeld, uh, Mike Kidd's big fans. Uh, he's the director of Men in Black of the Adams family, Adams family values. And he just dropped his new memoir on the world. And it is a classy work that you need to pronounce in that way. Memoir.
Starting point is 00:07:06 Like mid Atlantic? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because one of the details from that story, or maybe it was just an interview he was doing about the book, but he revealed that Will Smith once farted while filming a scene with Tommy Lee Jones inside of a sealed cramped car. while filming a scene with Tommy Lee Jones inside of a sealed cramped car and
Starting point is 00:07:31 the fart was so bad that they had to evacuate the set for about three hours. That's amazing and I know hyperbole unless Will Smith has something terribly wrong with his insides. I mean, three hours lingering fart in a sealed car sure like I don't know All right, so let me just say this. Okay. Mm-hmm. I recently was put in charge of other people's Kid I was picking up my son their son from a lesson of some sort and I
Starting point is 00:08:00 Parked the car went there was like an hour thing that the kids were doing that I was watching them do, you know, came out of the lesson, walked back to the car and got in the car and they were both like, what the fuck is that smell? And I didn't smell it. And therefore I must have farted before I left the car. Wow. Wow. Okay. It lasted for like an hour and a half. Wait, so do you remember being like, all right, I'm just going to close the door.
Starting point is 00:08:34 No. And that's what's so scary. Oh no, Jack. That's what's so scary. I mean, I was by myself, so like, I feel like I don't notice those things, you know? Oh, whenever I got a fart. I'm like, oh Here we go. Oh time to do a solo real quick Yeah, well then I know that makes me think that if it was three hours and some poor PA like Sonnenfeld's like Hey, check the check the picture car really quick. Oh, yeah. Yeah No, no, no, it's still not out. It's still not out. It's still not out. But yeah, I like the way he even explained
Starting point is 00:09:08 Yeah, Will Smith is you know, yeah, so he said quote Will Smith is a farter. It's just some people are Damn bro. I didn't know it was gonna be a philosophy book. Yeah. Yeah, this is just like Hot gas from behind the scenes, but it's hot gas. Yeah. And turns it turns out, and that is how I pronounce gas. Gosselin, please. Yes, exactly. Fill it up.
Starting point is 00:09:33 20 worth of goss. I fart. Therefore I am. Ah, very good. Very good. Hey, speaking of horrible, horrible farts, McDonald's is bringing the chicken Big Mac that everyone hates to the United States.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Don't eat it. This is disgusting. So this is exactly what you assume it is. It is a Big Mac except replace the patties with patties. You know, beef patties. Just Jack, sing the song. What's that? Sing the song, but just swap out the lyrics.
Starting point is 00:10:04 No, I can't do that. I don't know the song. Two fried that? Sing the song, but just swap out the lyrics. Oh, I can't do that. I don't, I don't know. Fried chicken patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. I mean, fried chicken patties. Yeah. And, oh man. And three pieces of bread.
Starting point is 00:10:20 Huh? So much bread. So yeah, producer Victor made a very good, you know, some might even call him a super producer. I just call him producer, but he's a super producer in many people's hearts. We try and keep him humble. We try and keep him humble. So I hadn't quite put my finger on like the first problem that erupted in my subconscious when I saw this. But it is in fact too much bread. Yeah. Yeah. I like the Big Mac quite a bit personally,
Starting point is 00:10:47 but it is verging on being too much bread. Yeah. Yeah. But adding breaded meat to the too much bread sandwich. Yeah. Is not a good move. That ain't going to work. That's so much bread. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Jeez. It just looks, it just looks terrible. In case we're wondering why they're making this move. McDonald's keeps adding more chicken to their menu because it's quote, cheaper than beef. And they're desperately trying to reverse slumping sales. She's that's kind of wild. That, that makes me highly suspect of their chicken.
Starting point is 00:11:22 The fact that it's cheaper than their hamburger patties, which have always struck me as not the finest quality of questionable provenance as people would say. Yeah. Well, it is a hundred percent beef with an asterisk on it. That's right. But, but we love that and we love that about it. We have enough problems in America. Don't, don't import these abominations onto our menus, please.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Yeah. People have tried it in other countries countries seem to really not like it. They've described the flavors as incongruous, noting that there's a weird aftertaste. That is such a scathing Euro take down. I know. This flavor combination is just incongruous. Oh. It's a wobbly collection of flavors.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Right. It's just, it's cacophonic, if I may say so. It's a cacophony of flavors that I just cannot, I cannot abide by. We're, meanwhile in America, there's going to be some like TikTok fast food dude is going to be like, ah, dude tastes like shit. And that's our version, but hey, it's efficient. Tastes like shit. We get the point. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Probably like leave one of those in your car for an hour and... Probably smells better than a fart, to be honest. Yeah, that's true. You did raise an interesting question, though. What is McDonald's doing with all the burger tops? Because, I mean, a Big Mac is burger top, two heels. Top and two heels.
Starting point is 00:12:44 There's a dirty joke that I can make about that, that I'm not going to make. But is there like some special thing that they're doing to create the extra heel? Is there another food item that is just top? I think it's, it sounds like because God bless TikTok for showing us like people who are working on the lines of fast food places that I think it's its special owned bun. The mid bun is a special owned bun. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:13:15 They call it a crown. That's what the top with the sesame seeds is, is the crown. The middle part is called the club, which makes sense because a club sandwich is a three-piecer and then the bottom is the heel, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't know. I didn't know if they're, if they're turning out clubs, uh, on their own or if it comes to the anyway, just it's too much bread. Do you fuck with big max? No, fuck.
Starting point is 00:13:36 No, it's disgusting. I don't want that shit too much bread. Yeah. Too much bread. Way too much bread. Too much thousand Island dressing. No, I'll eat like if I can, I'm eating breakfast there. Yeah. I've evolved past the regular offerings. Way too much bread. Too much Thousand Island dressing? No, but I'll eat, like, if I can, I'm eating breakfast there.
Starting point is 00:13:45 I've evolved past the regular offerings. For the longest time, I was just eating obscene amounts of McDonald's breakfast, especially when they started doing the thing where it's like 24 hours a day and my insides died. So now I'm off that. A highly evolved palate indeed. I'm still a caveman over here. I think I'm about to enter the Renaissance, but still well behind you. Yeah, you really should try egg whites, Jack.
Starting point is 00:14:12 All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about a strike and talk about Melania Trump. We'll be right back. My name is Brandon Kyle Goodman. I'm a black, gay, non-binary author, TV writer, actor, and I'm messy. But not in the way you think. Messy as in I'm human and flawed. I'm on a mission to destroy shame around sex. And the only way to do that is to talk about sex. So that's what we'll do on my brand new podcast, Tell Me Something Messy.
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Starting point is 00:19:38 We're back. And Melania Trump has finally entered the 2024 presidential election. Everyone's like, where is she? Where is she? What's she doing? Does she hate Donald Trump? What is going on?
Starting point is 00:19:52 So she has a memoir out and it's basically like propaganda to make Donald Trump seem normal with a few anecdotes of her own. And I think the thing that is getting a lot of attention is this, there's like an excerpt that people are posting where she basically says that she is pro-choice. She believes in the right to choose, point blank. That's it. No further questions, my honor. And the stupid reactions, like you saw a lot of people be like, whoa, Melania's
Starting point is 00:20:18 pro-choice, she must really hate Donald Trump to put that in her book so close to the election, why would she do that? But realistically, this is just another fucking ruse. I think in order for people who are not critically thinking to believe that like, Oh, maybe Trump can be reasoned with despite all the nonsense that he says about abortion, if his wife is there advocating for it, then that must, maybe that balances out his completely regressive view on, on, on abortion and healthcare. And then, so after that thing came out, people were like, Oh, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Like, what, what does this mean? What does he get? What's going to happen to the conservative vote? She dropped a video like in the most, I don't know what this, it looks like film noir or something restating for everyone what her beliefs are. She's saying it with her whole chest right now. Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to the lighting is so disorienting
Starting point is 00:21:18 that all women possess from birth individual freedom. What does my body my choice really mean? Okay. Anyone that's like buy my book, millennia-trump.com. Fully inspired by early nineties perfume commercials. Yeah, it is very much Elizabeth Taylor's white diamonds kind of vibe. Yeah. I'm surprised there wasn't like a shot of like the shells washing ashore, like as B-roll.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Right. But yeah, this is again, make no mistake. This is merely to put something out there where it's like a woman from the Trump family is on board on the same page as other people who believe that you should have, you know, agency over your body. They look, it's a nice try because I think at the end of the day, her meal ticket in Donald Trump must win in order for her life to continue the way it is. So at least they're on the same page for once.
Starting point is 00:22:09 You know, they're both like, yeah, I guess you can't lose this one. So if I need to just be the fucking person who pretends like you're reasonable or I can at least seem like a foil to all your bad ideas, then we'll go for it. Damn. All right. Well, I appreciate you because my take was going to be, wow, she must be so mad at her. The exact take that you just did. And I appreciate you telling guest editor Josh to edit out my take and just do a dumb sounding impression of exactly
Starting point is 00:22:39 what I said word for word. Oh my OMG miles. Do you see this next one? She's fucking it up. He must be like sleeping on the couch now, bro. Wow. I bet they sleep in separate homes. Wait, they do. Yeah. All right. And finally we have the longshoremen are on strike and people are, uh, losing
Starting point is 00:23:02 their shit about toilet paper, so to speak. Everyone's losing their shit. So the International Longshoremen's Association, which represents the longshoremen who work all along up and down the Atlantic coast. It is a longshore. Yeah, it's, that's a clever name, my folks. It's not.
Starting point is 00:23:16 They've gone on strike after their contract expired with the port owners, and their response is like, it's all over the place, depending on where you get your news and what your perspective is on like worker rights or the election. So Republicans are preemptively already blaming Harris for the economic chaos that this will bring. If the ports are shut down, if goods aren't coming in, supply chain is
Starting point is 00:23:36 going to be messed up, the prices are going to go up and that's on them for not felling the strike and forcing people to go back to work. You know, that's not a great option when you're, you're sort of coming off of this pro labor thing, Kamala Harris has come out and said like, no, no, like, yeah, go ahead, I support them. Get yours. Get yours. Liberals are blaming the workers for being in cahoots with Trump because
Starting point is 00:23:56 the head of the ILA is like, you know, he's, he's said a lot of glowing things about Trump and they're like, they're just striking right now to fuck with the election and the sure. That's a very cynical way of looking at it. And then consumers are panic buying toilet paper again, because they're like, the ports are going to close and where, where are we? How are we going to wipe our assholes? So first off, I think it's important to say the strike is warranted.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Okay. Given the record breaking profits shipping companies have enjoyed over the last few years, especially during the pandemic, they're merely asking for what all workers in the United States on some level have been yearning for, which is that you have wages that actually match the productivity gains or the profit gains for the entity that you work for. So some bad faith arguments against this are that like, they already make a lot of money. Like it's not right that they make so much money or why are they against technology if it makes things more efficient?
Starting point is 00:24:51 Well, I think looking back, there's a, like a great article about this in the new prospect or the American prospect that essentially talks about how like over 60 years ago, these longshoremen unions had to embrace containerization because back then the goods were in a ship's hull and then all these goods came out and were pulling stuff out on nets and then bringing it to shore. And so when they said, okay, we'll agree to containerization, we're like the goods are in containers and like they can be moved easily on rail and truck and cranes and things like that. Basically, when they agreed to that, it took a huge bite out of
Starting point is 00:25:25 like the need for these workers. Sometimes like near, it's a 90% by just agreeing to containerization. So they've already taken a huge hit in terms of the number of people that can work in terms of like, quote, efficiency. And so now they're worried about things like automation where like, it's like, oh, everything's scanned automatically rather than that being someone's job, like that kind of stuff is what they're pushing back because they've already had huge chunks of that workforce taken out by, you know, these
Starting point is 00:25:49 sort of technological gains. So they're merely saying, this is a good system. It works. No further automization. And please give us increased wages that are matching the, like the profits that you guys are seeing. Uh, Miles, um, that money's goes to shareholders value. So, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Well, so fuck all that. Um, I think is what their point is. Sorry, those aren't the rules, dude. Uh, that money's any extra monies goes to shareholders. Whoa, dude, if this line isn't a hockey stick and turns into a ping pong table and flattens out, uh, I will die. Uh, not realizing that it's monies goes to shareholder value is actually childish of you and you don't know how things work.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Oh my gosh. My sweet, sweet child. But yeah, so the timing isn't great. You know, if there's a huge choke point in the supply chain, prices will probably most likely go up because that's how this shit works. And it could be used as a political attack against Biden and Harris. But if you had a functioning media, they could avoid, you know, this call of the journalistic void and just say things like the shipping companies and ports could
Starting point is 00:26:54 end this strike immediately. They are just choosing not to out of greed. But then you see a lot of takes are like, Oh, this is going to be trouble for Harris rather than educating people. I'm like, this is, this isn't merely the decision of the administration to have a strike happen. And then the toilet paper thing I think is important. Stop panic buying toilet paper, everyone. Here's a fun thing.
Starting point is 00:27:17 You can tell people who have been losing it over like toilet paper vanishing because the ports are closing because there's pictures. There's a ton of pictures, TikTok videos, or people like walking into Costco and they're like, um, it's, it's like March, 2020 again, up in here. Like people are raiding the toilet paper and conservatively, 90% of the toilet paper we are using comes from domestic factories. The rest is coming from like Canada or Mexico, which means doesn't have to come in through a port comes in, you know, the old fashioned way.
Starting point is 00:27:49 And if anything, the strike would affect the exports of toilet paper abroad. You see what I'm like, that's where it gets messed up. So you would probably be looking at a, just an oversupply of toilet paper. If it's not able to be exported of industrial bed, toilet paper. Well, I think the one thing where toilet paper manufacturing, like as I was reading about it, is affected is the fact that they import like this eucalyptus pulp to make the softer shit. Yeah. And that comes from Brazil.
Starting point is 00:28:17 So you're just going to have rough shit on your butthole. But what they're saying right now is like, we're good. Like even the, the lobbying groups that represent them, like, please stop. We have so much. Like it's probably not going to be that big of a deal. And worst case scenario, commercial grade toilet paper is out there because it doesn't require this like imported pulp. So don't worry, you can wipe your butts in peace. So don't worry y'all. There's this really fucked up SNL sketch, like early days of SNL where Jackie Kennedy is like sitting and every time there's
Starting point is 00:28:46 a loud bang she starts like climbing up behind her. Oh God. Like on the motorcade. Like on the assassination of the motorcade. Like just it's a joke about panic. Trauma. Reflexes. Reflexes.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Wow, triggered much? It's really fucked up. But I feel like that is us as a nation. Like the second there's any sort of news about supply chain interruption, we just like mindlessly sprint to the supermarket to buy toilet paper. We're just like, ah, I need toilet paper. Super producer Victor again in the chat. That's right.
Starting point is 00:29:20 That's why you got to be like me, Bill Shudders, and get a lovely bidet. Love bidet. Because then you just got to dry like me, Bill Shitters and get a lovely bidet. Cause then you just got to dry your butt. You know what I mean? Love bidet. Love bidet. Oh, but the one thing that could get affected is I think one of the huge consumer items would be bananas. Banana? Cause we 100% are not growing that shit here.
Starting point is 00:29:38 No, no, no, no, no. Don't tell your minion buddies, no more banana. All right. Well, pour one out for the minions. Hopefully, it's also funny. So this is being done at a time when really the Biden administration would be incentivized to help. It's almost like the union has a lot of leverage right now.
Starting point is 00:29:59 And to use that leverage is un-American is like how the story is told. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And that propaganda is like, they already make enough. They already make enough. You already make too much money. They do make a good wage, but again, that's because it's so vital and critical.
Starting point is 00:30:16 And also because again, they've argued the negotiated contracts that have had a bit of foresight to be like, well, if our workforce is going to get cut down by some of these like advancements, then you're going to pay relatively what is going, a fair proportional wage based on the demand and the work that we do. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get your flu shots.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Peace. Two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, gay, non-binary author, TV writer, actor, and I'm messy. But not in the way you think. Messy as in I'm human and flawed. I'm on a mission to destroy shame around sex. And the only way to do that is to talk about sex.
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