The Daily Zeitgeist - Waffle House Clout Chasing, Olympic Pillow Fight! 2.07.22

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

In episode 1079, Jack and guest co-host Joelle Monique are joined by comedian Dusty Slay to discuss Rep Mark Walker Proves He’s a Real G By Wearing a Suit to Waffle House, Ordering The Most Basic Shit Ever, Is the Next Big Olympic Sport … Pillow Fighting? and more! Rep Mark Walker Proves He’s a Real G By Wearing a Suit to Waffle House, Ordering The Most Basic Shit Ever Is the Next Big Olympic Sport … Pillow Fighting? Modern pentathlon will no longer include horse riding following horse-punching incident at Tokyo Games Pillow fighting: yes, it's professional combat sport – video Competitive Pillow Fighting – How a Children’s Game Became a Popular Sport in Japan Follow: @dustyslayLISTEN: Poster Girl by Talia Goddess Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Got a little background backing track for my a.k.a. Got a little background, backing track for my a.k. Suck. I'm anti-vaxxer, so don't kiss me. COVID can't do nothing to me long as I drink piss, B. That is courtesy of

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you know, how I drank pee to protect myself from COVID-19. Well, I am thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host, a producer here in iHeart's LA podcast studio helping to create shows like Fake Doctors, Real Friends. And welcome to our show.

You've heard her on Pop Culture Happy Hour, read her at Vulture the av club team vogue all the all the places you read shit she is the brilliant and talented joelle monique oh my god it's monday we're getting ready for the new week oh sure it is wink. How are you, Joelle? I am going to go play D&D today and I'm really going to attempt to slay a dragon. I'm just going to get it all out of my system. That's how I'm going to process what this week has been. We're out of Mercury

retrograde. Thank God. It's a new day. Yeah. It's a new day. I've been on the edge of my seat waiting to get out of Mercury retrograde. Listen, even if you don't know it, it's happening to you all the time and it's terrifying. But no more tech issues. been on the edge of my seat waiting to get out a mercury retrograde listen personally listen even if you don't know it it's happening to you all the time and it's terrifying i no more tech issues we're good now i uh i passively believe in like i have evidence to suggest that that stuff is real and i it just doesn't agree with my brain so i just don't do the the research but i'm like yeah if you guys say if

you guys tell me that it's important and that it's a good thing that we're out of mercury retrograde let's do it office party i'm bringing my tarot cards i have a movie deck tarot cards they're my favorite we'll do a chart reading it'll be great oh yeah these are amazing what's your uh what what like movies give me an example of one of the this one is the emperor it's the godfather you know it's the classic yeah yeah yeah yeah okay we got ridley is strength oh that's dope yeah yeah did scarface have like a pat of butter on his desk instead of cocaine let's see let's look at it that's supposed to be gold i think that's just a gold cigar box is what it's giving me got it okay but yeah we'll have a good we'll have a time and we'll read your chart i'll find out where your moon is it'll be

great i have a uh tarot deck behind me as well uh it's like a weird uh i swear i do wait no stop that's that's the one I just pulled today. I don't know if you can see it. What is this card? It's the chariot. Oh, going places. The illumination tarot deck. It's like a desert themed tarot deck.

My wife is into all this stuff, so I am too. And I think it's very cool. I just really like the art on this. Shout out to your wife. Love her already. Well, Joelle, we are thrilled and fortunate to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up

whose Netflix half hour in season three of the stand-ups is just so fucking funny. We both had the privilege of watching it. At 36, this is a fun fact, he is the youngest comedian to ever perform on stage at the Grand Ole Opry. He's done it a bunch. You've seen him on Fallon, Kimmel, Last Comic Standing.

He's touring all over America this year. And you mustn't miss him if he's on a stage near you. It is the hilarious, the brilliant Dusty Slay! All right. Okay. We're having a good time. I appreciate you guys having me. Man, we are having a good time.

We are thrilled to have you. What a wild podcast. So much has gone on already. Yeah, pack it. Pack it on top. But the wildest thing to me is that you said it was season 223. Is that correct? That's correct.

Every week is a new season for us. Okay. So we like to make it easy on ourselves to really set new records in a number of seasons. That's unbelievable. I've never heard of that in my life, but I get it, you know. It's still too many podcasts. We've still done way too many podcasts. But yeah, the season thing is a little misleading.

Okay. Well, I'm into it, but yeah. And I don't know a lot about Mercury retrograde, but I am ready for January to be done. And January is a wild month for me. Last year, I ruptured my appendix during this time. I'm ready for it to just be gone. I mean, it is gone.

Right. I was just going to say, I have good news for you, man. We're out of there. But I mean, I don't know about the planets, but I mean, I'm aware of them. I don't know what they're up to. But I'm happy that we're out of that. Whatever that period is, I'm happy it's gone. Yeah.

January, terrible month. Dark times. Horrible if you've got the seasonal depression. Yeah. I mean, and I think that I do, which is why I like the South and which is why I guess California is good. Because it's just sunny most of the time. In the South, we have a few cold, cold months, but the sun comes back quick and it feels good. Yeah.

I love the heat. I always say I like the heat so much that if it's not hot, it's cold. You know what I mean? Yes, I do. I can't because you can't, you know, I feel like cold seeps into a place that heat can't. You're like cold to your actual bones. That's not fun. That's terrible.

And a lot depends on like Southern California is just not designed for anything other than 80 degree weather. Like the walls are just like wooden slats. And like they don't have insulation. They've never heard of insulation here. Yeah. So it gets cold quick if it's not hot. So I think that's a

that is an accurate statement. Are you in Southern California right now? Dusty? No, I'm actually in ashville north carolina okay which is very nice but it's cloudy i'm right in front of a window trying my best to get some light in this dark hotel room i spent a lot of time in just a sad hotel room and uh they're all sad to me and i don't know what yeah i've been to so many hotels they're all sad to me. And I don't know what happened. Yeah, I've been to so many hotels. They're all sad now.

Even the nice ones. I find the nicer the hotel, the sadder it is. Oh, yeah. At least a rundown hotel, you expect it to be sad. But when you walk into a nice place, you're like, oh, this is going to be happy. And then it's not. Right.

They have the lighting right. Yeah. But everyone's still like, fuck you, man. Yeah. You know, but it makes me happy to get out and do comedy. I spend half the day in my hotel room sad. And then I go, all right, now it's time to bring some happiness. There you go.

So you're down there doing shows in Asheville. I did a show last night. I opened for Fortune Feimster uh we had a great time and then tomorrow i'm on my way to atlanta to do a show with jeff foxworthy wow so you cover you run the gamut i'm all over the place all the time yeah my schedule makes no sense i'm flying here and driving here and this and that it doesn't make any sense, but at least I get to fly a little bit. I like to say I make airplane money now. You're not driving across states to get to gigs. That's real great. Wait, Dusty, I have a question for you. Do you find, because it seems like your

audience could span a lot of different types of demographics. Is there like a certain type of person that's your typical fan? I don't think so. I mean, I find that if people have ever been poor in their life, they love my comedy. That's what I love most about it. Yeah. You know, I've got some weed, you know, and I also was, you know, spent about eight, nine years as an alcoholic. And so lots of people have struggled with that sort of thing. So they relate to that. Now I got several jokes about weed and about how weed's too strong now. And I think people are really relating to that. I'm afraid to give my parents weed for that exact reason.

They're like, I don't know, maybe. And I'm like, oh, no. Where would we start you? It's too intense. I know. When I was a teenager, I used to like to smoke weed with people for the first time. It was a real joy to me. And now I'm like, no, if you've never done it, I don't want to be, I'm not introducing you to this drug now. Yeah. It's too late. You missed the train. Get to answer questions about whether you hate them or not for an hour. Yeah, it used to be a fun, happy plant.

Now it's drugs. You know what I mean? Right in time for it to become legal. Legalized. Yeah, yeah. Approachable by parents of all ages. I got buddies doing dabs, and I'm like, that doesn't seem like weed to me. I don't know what that is. But if you're lighting weed with a torch, I saw somebody had to plug their bong into a wall to heat it up. I was like, I don't need it to be that hot.

Let me just start up this generator here so we can get high. In my day, all you needed was a Bic and an Apple, okay? Yeah, exactly. We used to put ice in the bong to cool the smoke down. Now people are lighting it with a torch. I'm like, this doesn't seem right. Yeah, that's aggressive. All right, Dusty, we're going to get to know you

a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple things we'll be talking about later on in the show. Somebody, Representative Mark Walker, who I am not familiar with, but he looks like, he has a picture of Mitt Romney

taped to his mirror, and he's just like, that's his inspiration when he gets dressed in the morning, does his hair. Anyways, he posted a picture of himself at a Waffle House, and there's just some things about it that kind of come off as false or like not authentically like this man really likes Waffle House as much as he wants his constituents to believe he does.

So we're going to talk about that. We might even talk about whether pillow fighting is going to be a Olympic sport and why it absolutely should be. Oh, the average man can compete. Get ready, Olympics. Here I come. I'm ready. Why it maybe should be the only Olympic sport. Truly.

All of that. Plenty more. But first, Dusty, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Oh, you know, I was looking at some things and these were all like of all the things that was the hardest one for me because you were like, what's something that would tell people about you? But you know what? I've been searching a lot of fruit trees. I bought some land. I bought a little bit of land and I'm trying to build an Amish cabin on the land. And I'd like to get a little bit, an orchard sounds fancy,

but what I'd like to do is just plant some fruit trees and then let them grow. And then I can just go out and eat fruit right off the tree. That's what I'm into. I mean, that's what I like about the country. And just, you know, it's like you just can grow things. I grew a little bit of stuff this year. I grew, you know, and I got into it. You know, I always say if I had to live off of what I grew, then I would be dead.

But. Wait, so are you like into cottagecore? Oh, I don't know what that is. I could be into that though. Are you into cottagecore? Oh, I don't know what that is. I could be into that though. So cottagecore is a category on like Instagram and it's like just aesthetically beautiful cottages.

Oh, I'm going to get into that. Yeah. Cottage. Okay. I'll find that. I love that. I mean, I'm all about it. I'm all about just being able to,

I got into this thing. I watched a documentary called Earthing. And it's where you just walk around on the land barefooted and they say that we're electrical beings, you know? And so we connect to the earth a documentary called earthing. And it's where you just walk around on the land barefooted and you're, you're, they say that we're electrical beings, you know, and so we connect to the earth and we ground and it takes out a lot of inflammation and it resets us. I don't know if it's true, but I'm into the idea that you could potentially heal yourself by just walking barefooted. Again, potentially heal yourself by just walking barefooted. Again, I don't know if it's true,

but it's easy to try. I feel like there's definitely a calling back to the land for a lot of people in the pandemic. I mean, we have so many guests on the show who are like, no, I moved back south, got a little land, am growing. This is a story we've heard a couple of times. It's something I've certainly, I don't think I could survive in a not city space i have add and like how am i going to keep everything together you got to remember to like pick all your stuff and then label the jars it's just never going to happen for me but i really admire everybody who's doing it and getting out there and it's like you know i'm going to build a space that like both replenishes me spiritually and also sort of allows me to invest in a space that is my own instead of, you know, I don't know, renting an apartment with 60 other people.

I agree with you on both of those things because I like being around where stuff is going on. Like I grew up kind of in the country and it's like, I just remember dreaming of like, I'd love to be around some people. Yeah. Take me to a museum. And my wife grew up in the country in Canada. And like, she said the same thing. She's like, when I was growing up, I just wanted to be around people. And she moved to Toronto for 10 years and loved it. And so I want a little bit of both if it's manageable. I want to escape to the cottage core you know and just get out there is that what it is cottage core yeah that's correct yeah the core

of cottage i just want to get out there and just hear the birds i love it and it's got cottage core like hardcore music is a thing is cottage core music just like taylor swift is that basically that's not what i would be listening to out there right yeah no taylor swift is for the girls in the city who sort of sometimes think about the country but yeah i think cottagecore would be more like traditional bluegrass you know you might get some guitars happening there yeah i i think it's it's much more we're making our teas from scratch. Like we picked our different tea leaves and we're blending it with berries. And it's very much about like that old stove that your grandma had and fixing it up.

And now it looks nice. And it's somewhat modern but very reminiscent of a time where it's just peaceful and glorious. We're getting our Laura Ingalls Wilder on. And just some old man sitting on a stump playing guitar for you. But like guitar in a way you didn't think he could play. It's just magical. Butterflies are landing on his shoulders.

That's what I meant. A little jug music. I have ADD too. I feel like I'd have yeah, I was just trying to picture what a orchard would look like. I feel like I would have one corn, like not a corn field, but like a corn, you know, like a stock of corn that would give me one piece of corn on the cob for the year. What a delicious day that would be, though. Right, but that would be worth it there's a thing that people are getting into they call the food forest where where what

would normally be a regular forest is a forest of fruit trees and instead of ivy it's grapevines and that's what i want to create that's what i'm trying to get into that sounds it's great yeah my neighbors have this like ancient lemon tree they're like it's extremely old and it bears so much fruit they give us a whole like target bag full of lemons and they're like it's extremely old and it bears so much fruit they give us a whole like target bag full of lemons and they're like could you use all this i'm like i will make so much lemonade don't even it's amazing it's it's i've dreamed of fruit cheese forever they're literally life giving you lemons here yeah yeah but in the best way possible you're like this is fresh grown lemon we have a lemon it's the best thing because squirrels fucking hate lemons that's like the most important thing

about lemons is that squirrels hate them so like every other food just gets eaten the second it like hits the point of ripeness the squirrels have like a series of alarm clocks and they know exactly when everything's gonna get ripe and just eat that shit but lemons they don't fuck with and so yeah you bountiful lemon harvest around the clock in in our backyard which is nice i my one issue is so we just tried to get loquat trees because one of our friends had a loquat tree and my kids were in their yard and they started eating them and they were just like so good. They're really delicious. And then so I ordered some loquat trees and got them shipped in the mail. It's a cool product or a cool like service they offer,

but they come and they're like two, they just look like two branches that you like put in the ground and they're, they seem like they're about seven years from having a loquat no like if we could if we could get some sort of tree speeding up technology i think that would be useful just like a ray gun we just want to scan the tree and like help it get up there i feel you i feel you i think when i think about like planting an apple tree from seed to actually getting a fruit, it's like a ridiculous long time, like at least a decade. Who has it? I don't.

I know. That's why what I am trying to do is get the fruit trees out there now and then forget about them. You know, not forget in the sense that I don't take care of them, but forget they're out there. And then, you know, in years to come, because I'm always like, that's what happens in my head. I go, oh, well, if I plant it now, it'll be 10 years. But it's like, had I done this 10 years ago, I would already be eating apples off my tree. My grandfather planted apples and pears and figs where my dad lives. And my dad went out there and bulldozed all the apple trees down.

He was like, I got tired of cutting grass around them i was like jeez dude i was like come on oh no i mean i gotta say the book the book the giving tree is pro tree propaganda because it suggests that trees are just giving and giving you just you know forget about them and take and take, but it's really the opposite for, for a long time. You got to take care of them and they're not giving you shit. That's true. And you know, I'm tired of it. Low quad trees.

Yeah. It's the taking tree for quite a bit. It's also the saddest book in the history of the world. Once you're a parent and you realize it's like a metaphor for parenthood. Oh, that was going to say, that seems like what kids are like, you know, as a kid, they're just take, take, take, and then they get older and hopefully they start to give. Yeah. Well, there's some debate about that too. I got some, I got some family that I hope they don't listen, but I got some family that's, uh, they're, they're takers. Yeah. They're takers.

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the fancy, I mean, unless you got unlimited money supply, the fancy hotel, way overrated. You get in there, no one's that nice to you. They charge you for everything. You pay so much for the room and then you get up to your room and then you got to pay for wifi. You got to pay for coffee. There's no free breakfast. Not that the breakfast that's free is ever any good, but they make you pay for everything. And then usually if you want to park a car, it's another 50 bucks a night. And I'm like, give me a good in between. I'm at a country inn and suites right now. And it is not that that nice but i slept so good and i also feel like no one looks at me suspiciously i look like that i should be at the country inn and suites everybody's

like yes he belongs here and it's okay but if i'm in a nice, people wonder what I'm doing in there. I like a nice hotel. Like when I was a film critic, you know, studios would fly you wherever and put you up and then be like, you have a $250 day per diem. Bam. That's room service, baby. That's amazing. Like, I agree with you. Like, I've never been to a really great hotel where the bed was better than an average hotel. They're not spending money on extra mattresses.

Your sleep is definitely not better. A lot of good hotels have great rooms that are sky high prices. And then every other room is average without a view. They're like, here's a hole. Yeah. You're paying for the right to stay in the same building as that really nice hotel, as that really nice room. You're really trying to impress your Lyft driver. They're like, oh, you're staying here?

Yeah, man, it's great. And for the two second high of like, man, somebody thought I was really doing it here. Yeah. Otherwise, they're basic. You know, it's like I do believe that they're overrated. But also, like when I filmed Netflix in New York City, they put me up in a hotel. And every day I sat in a chair and drank coffee and looked out the window at the city. And I was like, this is pretty nice.

You know what I mean? This is a little better than the country inn and suites. Yeah. Right now I'm looking at a parking lot in some woods. That's different. It is different. I don't mind the free breakfast at the country inn and suites with the cinnamon raisin bagel with cellophane on it. Sometimes they have the conveyor belt toaster and also the snack pack cereal, the little cereal snack packs.

Oh, yeah. Because I never. I like the cereal in the thing where you twist it and then it just falls out. Yeah. Always a little bit stale. This feels fresh yeah yeah sometimes you just get a big dump of sugar which is always what i'm looking for and then sweetened cereal is like that last like chunk at the bottom where it's like frosted many wheats when you crunch

them up i like to crunch up a few and put in the bowl that way at the end there's just some sugar bites yeah and it doesn't destroy your mouth when you try and eat it. Exactly. True. What is something you think is underrated? I think black coffee is underrated, right? And this is like, I go to the Starbucks all the time and I get it. A lot of those drinks are very tasty and it's great.

But it's like in the morning, people are basically getting a milkshake to start the day or people are drinking a Red Bull or a Sparks. I don't know what the names of them are. There's a lot of crazy energy drinks where I'm like a good black coffee. It's soothing to drink, but also you feel awake and you never need anything. You're never like, oh, I got to get some cream. I got to get some sugar. It's just,

it just comes out like that. And I love a good black coffee. Yeah. The problem with black coffee is finding a coffee that is brewed correctly. And I feel like, cause if I go to Starbucks, it's a 75, 25 split on how good is my coffee,

literally any drink going to be, but specifically coffee, they don't really care you could go to a uh like like groundwork yes yes okay so like these upscale coffee places are maybe you're gonna hit like 85 percent of the time you're pretty good but you're still not gonna hit that like perfect cup of coffee my friend figured out like she got the big coffee craft and she weighs her grounds beforehand and she buys them from an independent distributor and that is really good coffee and i feel like it's ruined

me for all other black coffees i can't go back to you know my folgers in my little pot it's just it's not hitting anymore oh no drug you might as well treat it like one and weigh it out and do all that shit yeah folgers is out there There's no fault. You cannot drink Folgers. And every time I go to Starbucks, I order black coffee. Every time my first sip, I go, ugh. Yeah. They want to hurt you. They want to give you. I do love that when you were referencing energy drinks, you mentioned Sparks. I think you and I might have been drinking too much around the same time in the recent history because I think that's long gone but that was a orange soda energy malt liquor combination that okay that did uh get me through many long nights yeah i probably had a

few of those i mean i used to do the jaeger bombs that they called them. That was the Jaeger and Red Bull that you would chew. Right. I was a big fan of those. I don't know what was up with our generation being like, we need energy drinks with our liquor. I once got lost for several hours on a Four Loko. And by lost, I mean, I drink a can of Four Loko, told my friends I was going for a walk in the dead of night and came back thinking I had gone around the block and they're like, it has been hours. Where were you? I was like, no, I just went around the block. Police are looking for you.

That's definitely not what happened. You come back, they're all holding hands, like doing the human sweep for like the... That sounds like a four loco and a hit of acid, you know? Right. I don't think we were doing acid that night, but we might have been. I think the thing about our generation that made that switch is that we learned that cocaine was not healthy for you. I think previous generations just did cocaine like it was a vitamin that just helped be extra healthy. Stay up a little. Just do a bump in the bathroom. It's fine. Yeah. That makes sense.

You could always do Adderall and drink, but it always made me like a zombie. Just do a bump in the bathroom. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. You could always do Adderall and drink, but it always made me like a zombie. I would do Adderall. And I could drink all night, but I never felt drunk. And I was just like a zombie. Yeah. I used to drink too clean because drinking helped me deal with boredom. And so I just drank and do really boring shit.

And that's how you know you should stop drinking, folks. One other thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. The milkshake thing with the coffee in the morning. Like I we talked, I think, last week about how coffee mate, which is something that I was consuming at the rate that like most families go through, like gallons of milk. I was drinking so much hazelnut coffee made for a long time. And it apparently so the context was a story about foods that we have in America that are banned in other

countries. And coffee mate is not only banned in other countries. It should be banned here according to like the laws. It has like stuff in it that is like, yeah, no, this like goes directly into your arteries. Like this is killing you. There's so many foods like that that are banned in other countries that we're like eating. Like you eat like it's healthy, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Mountain Dew is the one that I will not give up. But this is devastating. trees that we're like eating like you eat like it's healthy you know yeah yeah yeah i mean mountain dew is the one that i will not give up but this is devastating someone find us a hazelnut flavoring that won't kill us the hazelnut coffee is everything it's oh isn't that coffee flavor i think it's the fact that like it's basically chemically like lab produced lard is the problem. It's not the coffee, not the coffee. Yeah. Yeah. It's not it's not the hazelnut of it all. It's the. Yeah. Disappointing. Yeah, it is a little disappointing. And I have switched to matcha, which I do recommend as annoying as that makes me. If you don't mind feeling like you have the flu for like three weeks,

once you are off coffee and onto something that's slightly less caffeinated, I've had probably like 50% fewer panic attacks. So yeah, highly recommend. And it also looks cool. Like it looks like, I don't know, looks magical. It's like bright green. Kind of cool to drink something bright green right in the morning.

And you get that little brush and you circle in the morning. I love anything that has a process to it. Yeah. It's a great way to start your day. Yeah. It really felt like the coffee mate conversation made us all a little sad. It did. We're all just like, ah, fuck.

And my grandma drinks coffee. God damn it yeah i mean it has like it's such a classic you know like i remember yeah any institution any church that you got the big like silver thing of coffee silver like chest of coffee and then next to it, the coffee mate. They really one of the more trusted things in my refrigerator that turns out the doctors are like, oh, my God, no. Anyway, speaking of things that make doctors say, oh, my God, no waffle house. Mark Walker, I like intentionally did not look up who he is because, again, I didn't want to make myself sad. But he's like a politician of some sort. And he did a Instagram photo op or I guess it was on Twitter. And it's just a picture of him in a suit at a Waffle House. And the caption is, it's not for the faint of heart or DC elites, but there is nothing like late night Waffle House on the campaign trail.

He couldn't look more like he just got out of a makeup chair in this picture. Suit pressed. Just hair. Perfect. And his Waffle house order sucks it's just white toast plain hash browns yeah plain disc of eggs one sausage patty and can we also talk about how uncomfortable he looks in this booth yeah it feels like he's like this is dirty and i need to leave him he's right by the door which is the worst place you can sit in a Waffle House. Clearly a novice. You're going to get all the foot traffic, that cold blast of air.

That's you want to be in the back booth near the teenagers or couple that's fighting. That's where you sit and you get your entertainment with your meal. I don't believe it. I don't buy it. Yeah. I mean, I've been to the Waffle House more times than I can count. And I don't know that I've ever taken a picture of myself in the Waffle House. This may be a first. Like certainly there are like world star videos and like people pulling out cameras when like a fight starts, but usually that's out in the parking lot. But you get the sense from this picture that there's somebody behind the camera with like one of those like lighting umbrella things. Oh, God.

Like it looks like a professional photo shoot down to him looking like me, like when I was six years old, like getting my picture taken at Sears. Like he just looks like somebody stuffed him into that suit. I can't see the picture, but also it's like, who's going to the Waffle House in a suit? Yes. It's like, even if you've been working all day, you know, I don't know. I imagine there's a tie. I would say pop off the tie, lose the jacket, unbutton it a little bit. Yeah.

So he does have an unbuttoned. He did get that note from his consultant and is not wearing a tie uh has his collar open down one button okay but is also like sitting very stiffly and you know what you're not alone our listeners can't see the picture either so that's that's a good reminder well that's the best thing that you can do on a podcast is just talk about a picture nobody can see. The Waffle House is so fun, though. I met a guy from New Jersey once. I was working with him, and he said he had never been to the Waffle House. And I was like, okay, well, let's go right now.

And I wanted it to be a good experience because he had never been. And I walk in, and there's an older waitress there, and she's like, welcome to Waffle House. And I was like, how you doing? She's like, I'm tired, and I could use a cigarette, but people keep coming in here. And I was like, perfect. This is exactly why we came here. See, and I feel like it's a, I take a real issue with the statement. Like it's not for anything after that is incorrect. Waffle House is for everybody. Okay. This is our version of the British pub. Okay okay everybody can come in here at the same time and get treated to the exact same terrible service maybe you'll see the people in back fighting

that's my favorite okay if the cooks are fighting you know you found the best waffle house because for whatever reason their food is better who who hasn't been like if you haven't been to a waffle house either because you just don't live in proximity of one or for some reason you've deluded yourself into thinking that you're better than Waffle House. And I don't think there's that many people out there who doesn't like late night pancakes. It's like one of God's gifts to the world. It's perfect. Yeah. Especially when you're drinking. I mean, there's not, I mean, I used to drink and drive all the time. I'm not promoting it, but I'm saying you're driving along and you're like, oh, I could get in trouble. Let's pull into the Waffle House, soak up some of this

alcohol here, have a good time, yell with the other people in there. It's a great time. Nobody at the Waffle House is ever like, I don't think you should drive. They're like, get out of here. Get out of here, you scamp. Yeah. Yeah. In college, I lived in the Gaper Hood, known as Boys Town in Chicago when we were walking distance from an IHOP. And, you know, 2 a.m., pancakes, 15 gay kids in their club gear. Like, it's, I feel like all my best memories are from that, like, parking lot, like, chain smoking, trying to figure out, like, when the next party is. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

It's an institution. I remember when I could smoke cigarettes inside the waffle house and that was a real that was a real time period that i enjoyed i mean i quit smoking now so i wouldn't enjoy it now no no as a smoker i'm like let me smoke in here if you were fortunate enough to spend six hours in a booth talking about nothing and chain smoking while your waiter's very upset at you for taking up too much of their time. It was a moment. It was a moment in history. And again, wouldn't want to go back, but I do sort of miss it. Yeah. Now only the guy at the grill is allowed to smoke. Everybody else has to go outside. I used to work at a Western sizzling. I don't know if you know

what that is. It's like a golden corral without all the class, you know, and we used to, you know, you had smoking sections in there and I would wait tables, you know, and we used to, you know, you had smoking sections in there and I would wait tables and you just pass through this like smoke filled area. And we would smoke cigarettes while we rolled silverware. You know, that's how I learned to smoke without using my hands, you know, and it's a great time. I don't know that story's going nowhere, but it is a good time. I could never master not getting a bunch of smoke in my eyes it was that hands were necessary and the most impressive skill to watch an old lady like bite her cigarette and like french exhale and like count up all her money

at the same time like this man she's a pro she's been through some stuff and she's a survivor an inspiration she doesn't really mind the smoke in her eyes. Yeah. Yeah. That's at least her worries. Just a second hit that you're getting. That's the second entry point right there. Yeah. The closing one eye is also, so you got it out of one side of the mouth and then that eye is closed while you're still able to do your job. So I wanted to just put this in the conversation. It's definitely, it's up there. I don't know if it enters the pantheon, but I wanted to talk about some other celebrity moments where they are trying to get like cred and clearly revealing themselves to be robots or just like living on a different planet. So you've got this person's idol, I'm assuming, Mitt Romney, who in a speech said,

my favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat. And then he followed that up by, my second favorite meat is hamburger. And everyone says, oh, don't you prefer steak? It's like, I know steaks are great, but I like hot dog best. And I like hamburger next best.

That sounds like a robot. That's AI technology trying to come up with a sentence. And the only one of those three that he knows how to like pluralize and like actually use correctly is steak, which is the only one he's ever actually eaten. And then the other ones he's like, I love hot dog. I'm like, that's not how then the other ones he's like i love hot dog

that's not even a type of hot dog yeah no one's favorite meat is hot dog right hot dog is not a meat it's many things but even it's like it could be beef it could be pork it could be chicken but that's no one's favorite i love a hot dog but there's no way if you're like I love a hot dog, but there's no way you're like, all right, a hot dog, a hot dog or a steak. I'm like, OK, give me a steak or a hot dog or some rice and broccoli. I might go, you know what? I'll take the rice and broccoli. You know, hot dogs way low on the list. And I'm I'm a fan of it, of a hot dog. Not all of them. Yes. Right right and hamburger is also such a strange way to describe hamburgers my favorite meat is hot dog and hamburger you don't know what those are

you've never used that word out loud it would seem it is fun when politicians try to relate there was a little like a uh a de blasio thing at one point where he was talking about if you get, you know, if you can get a free hamburger. And then the way he's biting it, it's like, have you ever eaten a hamburger before? He was like, oh, no. That's a great one that I didn't have on this list. You're too rich for the hamburger talk. Yeah. You know.

He's like, he seems a little surprised at what's happening in his mouth. He's like, oh, it's the French fries. So many celebrities do the same thing where it's like, they're trying to relate to people. And it's like, it may not even be your fault. You've just been too rich for too long. It's not your fault. You have everything. Yeah. You got to stay at the country and it's sweets once in a while. Yeah. I had on the list Garth Brooks joining Facebook, but it's not probably not in the same conversation. It doesn't have anything to do with food. It's just his. Yeah.

If you haven't seen the video of him announcing that he's joining Facebook, I highly recommend you watch it. That's another person. He's been rich for at least 30 years. And it's how do you live in reality like i'm on facebook now and it's like well that's been around for a while and yeah i mean it was yeah it was early in the facebook run but it was just the strangest thing i it's not even worth talking about because it's like you just kind of have to watch it to watch like him addressing the camera and his like stage presence in the sense you get that like this is take number 17. And I don't know.

But like he also seems to want to fuck you in the video. Like he's just like looking at the. Anyways, I think my all-time favorite is when Gwyneth Paltrow claimed that she was going to try and live off $29 in groceries for a week because that is what families on SNAP, i.e. food stamps, in her words, have to live on for a week. And so she posted a picture, said this is what $29 gets you at the grocery store, you know, what families on Snap have to live on. And it's, like, one of the things that she has in there is seven limes. She bought seven. Seven limes. She has bok choy.

If you got $29, limes is not making the cut. Limes is not making the cut. It's, like, clearly an Erewhon. Also, like, she would not be able to buy that much. For $29, you're buying your favorite meat hot dog. Right. Yeah, exactly.

You got to explain what Erewhon is to the folks who are not here. And to me. It's a supercharged like Whole Foods. It's like, but what if whole foods was more expensive is basically what air one is right yeah it's just super fancy it's a grocery store trying to be a farmer's market you know what i mean they're like adjacent but they don't have to like put up stalls every week the ladies love it i haven't been to one i just found out there's one in the valley apparently parking is great so get it if you love it what i like about this is there's no

her tweet doesn't say if it's like oh this is not enough food or you know we could be doing more there's no like call to action based on she's just like you could buy this for 29 at a grocery store thank you i've been to a grocery store i i know like what was the point of posting this? It's one lime for each day of the week so that you don't get scurvy. Right. Yeah. Maybe that's what she thinks. You can have it with your one egg for breakfast with a tortilla. She's got black beans and rice, a single jalapeno and a single sweet potato. Your children are starving is what she's saying.

Yeah, she could have bought enough black beans and rice for a week if she hadn't bought seven fucking limes and bok choy but yeah i think i think that that lasted her her week-long experiment lasted less than a week he's like i'm a human look at me look at me guys it's not her fault she was born rich she't know. She's shocked that you can buy milk for so cheap. She's like, it's only $5? My God. Yeah. Amazing. What could a banana possibly cost?

$17? I forget what the guess is on Arrested Development. Also, she has one tomato in there. A single head of garlic, guys. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gwynny's not flavoring her food I mean as you read off the list I'm like this is honestly not bad for 29 bucks it's not I mean I'm like okay we got quite a bit you keep adding things I'm like oh okay because I can't see the picture I'm like this is actually a pretty good grocery list I should take

her shopping with me because I need some help. Yeah, it does feel like she might be bragging about how much she was able to get for her... See, that's a much more interesting post. It's only $29. Can you believe it? Supermarket sweep style. If celebrities would just say call us idiots and stuff, I think that'd be

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Like, I don't remember them at all. No. We were too traumatized to form memories at that time. Which is why I think we have to stop having big events. People are like, oh, I'm like, I still think it's 2020. I'm still not caught up. They were in Tokyo and they had them already. And yeah, I do a daily news show. I definitely talked about them.

There's probably hours of me talking about these Olympics. I don't remember them at all. Anyways, there's more Olympics starting right now. I remember one thing and I don't remember what country it was in. I don't even know what I don't know anything about the Olympics, but I know that whatever country it was taking place in, there was a person competing that was from the country and there was no one in the arena to cheer for them. And I just thought you work your entire life to make the Olympics.

You're the hometown hero and no one can cheer for you. It's so sad. It's a hollow experience and yeah we must stop until we can have them safely bananas yeah i mean it's so sad it's like i made the olympics and it's like a pep rally with no one to cheer what's the point right you just run through that piece of paper yeah there's just no one there Just an echo of the sound of paper tearing. Yeah, so one of the things that sounds like all three of us missed is that a German pentathlon coach

literally punched a horse. No! Yeah. Which I didn't know there was a horse riding portion of the pentathlon. Is that the one where you shoot guns too? Are horse riding portion of the pentathlon. Is that the one that where you shoot guns too? Are there guns involved in the pentathlon? Listen, I'm not an athlete.

I have no idea what a pentathlon is. I wonder why one man punching a horse canceled an entire event though. That's really, okay, we're looking it up. What is a contest featuring five events? It is the one where you shoot the gun. Okay. Does it involve punching at all, or does this guy, he just got upset? So, lest you judge, I think the puncher was a woman.

It was Kim Reisner punched a horse ahead of the women's competition in August. So, like, apparently, yeah, there's it's horse riding, gun shooting. What else? Like running? Standing long jump discus throw. Okay. Greco-Roman wrestling. But that was in the 1906 versions.

Horses can be aggressive. What was what led to the punch? So competitors could not meet their horses until shortly before the horse riding portion of the competition began. I don't know if that was COVID related. I don't know why they couldn't meet or if they normally can. But several riders struggled with their horses. their horses. One such rider was Germany's Annika Schlü and her coach tried to talk some sense into the horse by punching it in the face and did not work. The horse refused to jump. And so they decided to cancel that event from the pentathlon and are now talking about what they're going to

replace it with. To be fair, it has to be an unfamiliar horse. So you are riding a horse you have no experience riding. I don't, that's not me condoning violence against horses. Okay. I don't think punching the horse would do literally anything except make the horse mad and possibly buck your rider. Like what was the point of it? But I am now fascinated that this has not become

like a social media thing because it requires fencing pistol shooting freestyle swimming show jumping on an unfamiliar horse and then a cross-country run i need to know who has mastered all of these things enough to take it to the olympics i want to know what their daily life is like because i imagine you can never stop training like regular olympians like if you're just doing like the hurdles you're practicing hurdles every damn day hours a day getting that hurdle right but you have to do five this is this is so much it feels like the olympic event version of like those guinness world records where the person just like made some shit up to do that would like that they could do because they were the only one who thought to do it.

Maybe someone couldn't win each individual event and they were like, you know what? But I'll challenge you to all of them. I'll challenge you to all of them. Grab bag, grab bag it up. Grab bag. Grab bag it up. So, according to a recent Instagram post by the International Modern Pentathlon Union Athletes Committee, some of the sports that they're considering to replace the horse jumping, show jumping on an unfamiliar horse, which does seem wildly specific, are less specific things like roller skating, which I kind of like. I don't know if it would be a roller skating race or like a roller skating just like dance off.

Bike riding. Also, drone racing. No, that's too far in the field. I don't like that. Olympics should be about physical strength. Only if they ride the drone. Only if they can drive the drone. There it is.

If you just ride into the Olympic whatever opening ceremony is being like propelled by drones, that would be cool. And then finally, pillow fighting, which people, some pentathletes were even like, wait, is that last one a joke? But apparently not. Pillow fighting is being considered a legitimate sport now. And there's a league and everything. They just had the first pillow fight championships last weekend in Florida. So you know it's legit. The pay-per-view event reportedly featured hardcore swinging with a specialized pillow. And people who competed were MMA fighters, reality TV stars, bare-knuckle boxers, mechanics, single moms,

and veterinarians. Okay. I see what's going on here. Trying to take out some COVID aggression. Yeah. Yeah. One, a great way to take out some COVID aggression. Two, this is absolutely someone thinking about ratings, right? The one thing I do remember about Tokyo is that they added skateboarding x games gets tons of views every year it's very exciting it's an established sport easy to get enough competitors in there i wonder if i guess because it's one of five events in a smaller category that you could probably train oh my god training for a pillow fight but you could probably get enough athletes to be like

okay if that's the thing like let's go i want my olympic medal what i have to do they have to wear these uniforms now if you can't see the picture but i'll just describe it looks like a terry cloth 1920s bathing suit yeah and that's it that's what it looks like and then their pillows are like maybe silk cased. If you remember the like Rock'em, not Rock'em Sock'em Robots. What are those pillow hand fist things? They were inflatable. Sock'em Boppers.

Thank you. Sock'em Boppers. That's what, but in pillow form is what it looks like. I don't know what a Sock'em Bopper is. I like that in the list of people, they included mechanics. That's just funny to me. I don't know why, but they were like MMA fighters, bare knuckle boxers, mechanics. Veterinarians.

All the same kind of people. Single moms. Anyone can do it. Anyone can get punched by a bare knuckle boxer, you know? Yeah. Maybe the veterinarians thing was like a play two horses to be like, this one's going to be so much easier for you guys than that last one. But yeah, the mechanics is confusing. Like riding a bike, it does seem like the equivalent of like maybe if there was bike jumping, like you had to like jump a bike because it's like a horse that you can't punch

or people won't get mad if you punch a bike, I guess. But this, like adding a combat sport that like presumably no pentathlete has ever attempted is actually kind of fun. I was about to criticize it and then I realized that they should do that every Olympics. There should be a wild card fifth event that you can just like guarantee nobody has any experience in and throw it on

on them like the day of the event and see how the internet gets to vote and my first pitch is pirate ship battle it's a team sport oh yeah you guys got it instead of like cannons you have like paint balls but they're like giants that you put in a cannon, you know? So you're just getting splattered with paint. Because shit most covered in paint loses. Done. Yeah. And then if you give us this level of sports.

Paintball is a pretty good idea for an Olympic sport. I was going to say, if you lose, then it becomes a swimming event, you know? There you go. There you go. But so, pillow fighting championships have been a thing for a while in Japan and the All Japan Pillow Fighting Championships were

apparently inspired by pillow fights held by Japanese students on school trips. They apparently have school trip money in Japan for taking kids on school trips more than once. But the rules are it's like a team sport. Sounds like team dodgeball if you've ever played that or witnessed that. But with pillows, except it has like fun things like everybody starts in a sleeping bag. Like

you have to like when they blow the whistle, everyone's in like laying down under a comforter. And then you have to like run up, like jump out of bed, grab a pillow, start throwing it at each other. And when somebody yells, the teacher is coming,

then everybody like has to run back to their futon, pick up more pillows. And then there's a captain who you defend with a duvet. I'm in. Let's do it. Is this real rules or did you just create that right now?

No, that's real. In the Japanese game, that's how they play. That's a Japanese game that is established and has been for a number of years that we are choosing to turn our back on in America for some reason and just do them one-on-one. And there wasn't a boxing ring which is dumb boring like that's so much less exciting than like here's a literally a team event and the

ability to defend in a dodgeball so that's revolutionary okay you can only defend in dodgeball if you're good at bouncing the ball off the ball already in your hands and eventually you have to throw that ball so you know it's a temporary defense like strategy but the idea of using an entire comforter to protect your team captain chef's kiss man that we've got real game like stats in here now it brings some like bullfighting panache to it because like you could just be like the sickest with the comforter you could just be doing all sorts of wild shit imagine multiple people using comforters and now you don't know where the captain is you gotta figure it out gotta break it down your captain can be moving in secret getting ready to like nail the other team's captain this is very this

is thrilling yeah it's thrilling i would absolutely watch this level of pillow fights at the olympics should be more fun it takes itself way too seriously they're like we're gonna start in rome we going to run a torch around. Like, blah, blah, blah. We've seen it. It's good. It's fine. It's whatever.

But if you really want to get spicy, like, bring me a paintball championship. I want to see actual school-level pillow fights. I want to see pirate ship battles for sure. You get that one for free. You don't have to pay me anything. I just want the benefit of watching grown people paintball but with pirate ships is that a thing you just made up or is that a thing that exists okay all right that came whole from my brain i would invest money in it i would absolutely be a ship captain in it it's dnd but a

whole like extra level of it yeah beautiful no the ancient it was either Greece or Rome. They would like fill up like stadiums with water and have like military ship battles in front of people. They sure did. Listen, waiting to get into historical context, Jack, I'm putting that in the pitch. You guys have already done this. We're just modernizing it. There it is. I'm for it. Let's do it.

American gladiators of the Olympics the olympics with pirate ships i love american gladiators is fun and the olympics could use some of that i miss american gladiators also the most fun i've ever had was both like having a pillow fight that i was winning getting a lot of clean shots in and then got like knocked out clean by a pillow like that. Sometimes pillow fights are very violent. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to compete in it.

I don't want to be in the event. I don't like being hit. I've been punched many times. I don't want to be hit by anything. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it. Do a fun one guys.

All right. Well, Dusty, it's been truly a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? Well, I really appreciate you guys having me. My website is DustySlay.com. All my social media is at Dusty Slay. I'm on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok. Very fun stuff. And that's, yeah, I mean, you can find me there. I'm there, you know, posting videos and stupid pictures.

There you go. But it's a good time. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? I don't, you know, there is a thing on Instagram that I've seen recently. And I don't know, I may have forgot what it's called. Good news underscore movement. And it's just positive stuff. It's good things happening to people and people having good times. And I don't know, it's fun. I mean, the internet can be a real negative black hole of death.

And when you find something that's good news, it feels fun. There you go. But it's like, I was thinking about videos and I'm like, I consume so much content that who even can remember a thing that they saw? Right. I mean, I would recommend if you're really looking for something on the internet, pop over to Netflix, watch the standup season three, episode five, watch all of the episodes, but watch mine.

I would say watch mine first and often, but do watch the others. Cause everyone's very funny on there. It's a great season. Yeah. Brian Simpson was on earlier this week and, or last week. And we've had Naomi at pair againigan on before and yeah just all really

an incredible lineup joelle where can people find you and what is the tweet you've been enjoying well y'all know me i'm joelle monique you can find me all over the internet at joelle monique it's j-o-e-l-l-e-m-o-n-i-q-u-e my internet my tweets have been so serious but um listen it's a niche tweet you have to know the people involved but someone said max wolf i can't say his handle it's a lot of it's a lot happening there but someone said lynn with field may always play evil but she has never played broke and i know that's right and that's true if you all know who lynn with field is always plays bad bitch always has money and i really respect that out of an actor just being like listen i don't have to have the largest roles but i'm just never playing broke an aspiration way to set goals for your life lynn you did it lynn winfield where where

do we know lynn winfield from if you watch a lot of black television you know lynn winfield from everywhere let's let's pull up some of the line between love and hate gives by yes okay she did uh she's ty perry's medea family reunion she did the josephine baker story which i think was a tv movie back in 1991 and yes she played the mama in green leaf which if you like church drama which i do uh you can enjoy that it's it's listen lynn whitfield holds it down for the black community and we love her all right you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien uh tweet i've been enjoying hannah black tweeted uh interviewer can you explain this gap in your

resume me it was then that i carried you great answer that's a lot of fun that's a lot of fun i also like that you you said if you enjoy church drama. I had not heard that genre of film before, but I'm into it. It's a strong one. Southern Baptist, like black, messy family running the church. Lots of people getting saved from their sins. Someone's definitely cheating. There's a cheating husband-wife scandal in there somewhere.

A kid gets off drugs I used to work at Western Sutherland On a Sunday so I'm very familiar With my own version of church drama And It's 3 o'clock mass went way too long We are hungry right now I know the energy

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