The Daily Zeitgeist - Wall Street Healthy? Froot Loops Healthy? 3.10.20

Episode Date: March 10, 2020

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124 episode 2 of your daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio this is a podcast where you take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Fox News. It's Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I wish you would step back from that diving board, my friend. You could cut ties with gangster guys that you've been living with. And if you do not want to see joe biden i would understand and i was courtesy of pick last and zeit class uh and the crofton show of course uh

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by the hilarious and talented James Heaney. Hello. Hi. What do we call you? AKA what? Jimmy? Jimmy. I've got a lot of AKAs.

I would just go with James. That's really what I'm most comfortable with. Yeah. Nice. You never went by Jim? I went as Jimmy, but as I became a man, I shed the childlike name and I go by James. And it's brought me great deals of respect. My dad's a Jim and it was always weird to hear when people would call him Jimmy.

Like people from his childhood, I'd be like, why are they doing that, dad? Don't let him say that to you, dad. Kick his ass, dad. Kick his ass, Dad. Kick his ass, James. Come on, James. I mean, even Jim isn't bad, but James is just so much more formal. Oh, yeah. I'm intimidated.

Thank you. I didn't want you guys to be intimidated, so I didn't want to roll in with a shirt that had my name on it. You should have understood it was Jimmy. Now I'm like sweating over here, hanging with James. James, how you been, man? I've been really good. I've been concerned because I've been traveling. I mean, I'm sure this whole show is going to be about it, but I just am ready to have a little self, I don't want to call it a self-quarantine. I just don't want to go on any more tour shows for a hot minute. Yeah. Yeah. Miles, you were traveling? You wanted a sick day for the world. Yeah. I want a't want to go on any more tour shows for a hot minute. Yeah. Miles, you were traveling. You wanted a sick

day for the world. Yeah, I want a worldwide sick day. Give it to me. I think it needs to be like five or six days long though. Yes. I think two weeks is the incubation period, right? I mean, it could just be a good reason to do a general strike to try and take the power back because people will be like, oh yeah,

we're all doing that two-week quarantine. Right. Try and run your businesses now. Yeah. Tell me I don't need help here. Give us a week to all get the necessary shit that we need, and then, you know, everybody gets to take the week off to stay home and play video games and, you know, hang with their families.

I'm surprised more shitty teenagers aren't using coronavirus to, like, not do shit. I'm sure they are. Like the inner 16-year-old scumbag was like, people are not going to class. But you know what? That's not hurting anybody. Even that kid's not going to learn anything so important that they needed to be at school. If they're one less person touching knobs and licking fingers, then keep them home.

Let them play video games. As teens do. Always touching knobs, licking fingers. My question is- That's how they say hello to each other That's how Gen Z let us know You guys do some knob licking? Is that the new ding dong ditch? When I was a young person, my ultimate dream

was to find out from a doctor I would be diagnosed with something where they were like, oh man you've had a higher pain has hurt you worse or something. Like I've had like something against me my whole life. Like where life had been way harder than, and then like you just take that off and life's easy mode from that point forward. Whoa.

That was my big dream. I mean, I think therapy might be a form of alleviating whatever you think this big pain is. Maybe it'll be a doctor in a dream. Nah, man. Nah, man. Fuck that. Therapies for people who want to take care of themselves. They'd give you a God mode of opioids, and then you'd be like, oh, you've been in pain

your whole life. Try this. Yeah. No, it's like an ADD diagnosis. They give you speed. You're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Now. Anyways, James, oh my God! Oh my God now! Anyways, James, 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 of things we're talking about. You guessed it. We are talking about it the whole show. The healthiest cereals and the least healthy cereals, a list has come out. We are going to talk about coronavirus. COVID-19. We're going to talk about Ted Cruz and Paul Gozar. Yeah. Like Gozar the Gozar the Destroyer. Gozar, yeah. Wait, what is it? Gozar?

I thought it was Gozar the Destroyer. Oh, okay. Isn't it Gozarian? Who's the Gozarian? You might be right. I mean, look. It's Gozar. It's all about Vince Clortho in the end if we're talking Ghostbusters characters. We're going to talk about quarantines and how Italy is dealing with theirs. We're going to talk about corporations, how they're stepping up to the plate to bring discrimination against women to an end by doing empty bullshit on International Women's Day. We're going to talk about some cancellations. It's not just South

by Southwest anymore, and it might be next year, South by Southwest. So we'll explain why that might be. But first, James, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, sir? I've been incessantly searching the differences between an unreleased game called Tabletop Playground, I think is what it's called, and Tabletop Simulator because I'm a big gamer. And I play a lot of Tabletop Simulator online with people all over the world playing games like Code Breakers. I don't know if you guys – I don't really honestly know if you guys play a lot of games. I play a lot of games, not a lot of tabletop games. So Tabletop Simulator, you can can literally and i'm not sure the copyright

problem so it's it but any game you can think of it's in there you just load it up you can play with anyone around the world there's a new game coming out called tabletop playground and i'm like what could you possibly need if tabletop simulator is literally any game you can think of you photocopy it put it in the and it works it's the unreal engine it's being it's just got much better graphics. So especially like I play, and it sounds insane because I didn't think as a kid I would do this, but I play like Yahtzee and cards with my mom and my grandma through Tabletop Simulator, which was not easy to get started.

But once you do, it's easy. And now I'm like, do I have to get a whole bunch of other people to get this new game? And I think the answer is yes. I don't know. I'm still searching. What's Code Breakers? Well, what's really cool about this game is you play it with people that are from all over the world. And everybody has different things that words mean. Literally, if there's different languages.

Wait, what? If it's a different language, there's literally different words. But for instance, I think it's the UK. A fanny pack sounds very strange because fanny is not what we would call it. But in Code Breakers, you have 20 cards on the table. And each of the cards has some sort of a word on it. It might be fanny. It might be Godzilla.

And five of those words are bombs. And five of those words are points. Now, you want your team to be able to get it. So one person is guessing these upside-down cards, like which one the word means, and they're getting clues from their team. But it's hard to explain. It's a lot like something mixed between – what is it? Is it $1,000 pyramid where people have to say things and guess the next word without saying the word.

Yeah, mixed with guess who. Okay, I love that shit. But you're dealing with teams of five people on each side, and there are people that are probably, at least the way I play, strangers. Are they English language words always? Because I'm sure that each country has their own language, but when you're playing the English version, even if a word is in two different languages,

you're only supposed to be using the English word of it. Right. Just so that everybody's using the same. Right, so it's not just chaos. Yeah. I think that should be the rule just in general, like just for all countries. Yeah, I've always thought that.

Just English, man. Because I don't understand the other words. Then it's not fair and it's chaos. Yeah. I ain't no code breaker. So, yeah, I did a lot of searching today of trying to figure out what the advantage of this other game is. It's the Unreal Engine, which is, I think it's open source. That's wild, though, because it used to be that Scrabble was an app

that was very popular on people's phones. Words with friends. Right. And now people are like, you can play any tabletop game, basically. Oh, really? Games that you wouldn't even imagine would be on there. Like Don't Wake Daddy?

I mean, we could find out. I don't know if this is the appropriate way to Google it, but I'd bet money that yes, the answer is the time. Yeah, I mean, Googling Don't Wake Daddy could reveal a few different things. Well, you would go to the Steam Workshop, and then you would search it there. Also sounds like a weird, go to the Steam Workshop, but don't wake daddy. Oh, gross. What is something you think is underrated, Jim?

Something that's underrated. Hit him with the gym. You know, I guess kind of on the same topic of Tabletop Simulator, like I think meeting in person, and I'm so grateful to be here today. Oh, yeah. But you can play games with anybody in the world not being there. I have people need me to come in for like creative meetings where we're writing, and I'm like, why do you want me to drive to where you're at?

If I'm there, if you really want me to be creative, I should have my laptop open and I should have a connection to the internet. I don't need to touch your face. I don't need to interact physically with you. Now, if you're paying me good money, then sure, absolutely. I'll do whatever you want.

Whatever you want, I'll be there. Right. But if you're wanting to do a creative session, let's just do it online. You're saying that's overrated? Wait, do we start with overrated? Underrated, if that's what you asked. I said underrated is using things online, to meet online, you're saying that's overrated? Wait, did we start with overrated? Underrated. That's what you asked. I said underrated is using things online.

It's to meet online, you're saying. Yeah, doing remote. Yes, doing remote stuff. Remote meetings, remote anything, especially now. And I can't stop thinking about the virus. And I know that we're probably safe. Yeah. But in general, let's shed the ability to need to drive a car that needs gas, creates pollution.

We could do so much more just virtually. I think a lot of companies are going to find out that they might be able to still be efficient without having everybody drive to a mothership. And that's going to bring the bottom line down. Yeah. Especially, I noticed that you greet people with the face off hello. You do the face to face. Yeah, which is- Aggressive.

Aggressive, but whatever you grew up with. And then you're like, don't worry, that's not water on my hand. What? What the fuck? No, it's sweat. I got sweaty hands. Right. Hey, it was very slick, though.

What is something you think is overrated? Something that I think is overrated. I guess, gosh, i had thought about this you know what i think is overrated is people just being able to apologize for their incredibly asinine mistakes i think we let people like what's going on right now in the administration how are people able to just be like well they learned their lesson right no they didn't fucking learn their lesson. It's like people died. Those people learned their lesson for them. Yeah, I guess easy

forgiveness. I think that it should be like the telltale old thing where it's like, you know, my trust is, I'll give it. But if you break it, it's going to be really hard to gain back. I think, and I hate to use that because I'm such a happy person. But I've been so disappointed with the actions lately, and I'm already seeing people back

down. It wasn't even two weeks ago that we're hearing Donald Trump say, it's going to be fixed in no time. Right. And now it's over. Yeah. It's spread. It's been here long before he even made that asinine comment.

Beyond containment. But we're so quick to forgive that kind of thing. I don't know. Maybe it would be a sadder world if we were forgiving. I don't know. What would you like? Just some more hardcore groveling? Well, you know what?

If you're going to earn our trust back, you better drag your belly across this broken glass and coals. I don't know. I guess what's... Like in a debate. There will be two people at the same time that will say opposing views. Now we'll just like, well, that's everybody's opinion and let's move forward. No, fucking stop the debate. Let's Google it or do whatever we need.

Get a fucking expert. One person's right. One person's wrong. We don't have room right now for the gray area. I love the gray area, but not today. Yeah. Professional sports are doing the replays. Yeah. I love the gray area, but not today. Yeah. Professional sports are doing the replays. Might as well do that in debates.

Just pause a debate. Actually, give me one minute. Let's take a second to just check that with the refs up in the booth. Right. What you said was total bullshit. Now drag your belly across the coals. Yes. If you want us to trust you.

So I guess it's maybe I've worked myself. It's not necessarily forgiveness. It's that great area it's the right like let's let's figure it out yeah we need to be able to stop bullshit in its tracks because i think now like you're saying the stakes are so incredibly high with things like we don't have time to both sides shit on a lot of issues right we're we've been both sizing shit to the point where now we're some people are at a point of no return yeah especially when you talk about climate change like don't even start.

The second you say, well, no. Bullshit. Drag your belly across the coals. Exactly. Because that's what needs to happen. The other plan of accommodating and apologizing for people, it's not working. Yeah. We're a very New Testament kind of turn-the-other-cheek society when it comes to the actions of the powerful and rich and people who, yeah, run the country.

But then we're very heading in the other direction when it's the powerful and the rich making the decisions. We become very Old Testament, like an eye for an eye type shit. And it doesn't seem totally fair. Thanks for bringing the good book in. Yeah, I just wanted to put it in terms that our listeners, the good Christian people of America. The good Christian people of America. The good Christian Zeitgang.

Christgang. Christgang. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? This is going to be so dark and I want to stop myself and I know it's false though.

The fact that you're closing your eyes It's just that I've had these arguments online. Is that what you mean by dark? Because if you just open your eyes it's less dark. It's a naked gun joke. A couple of years ago was the first time I saw it and I snoped it and it was not true and then I saw another one

just come out like there's a dot on your hand. If there's a dot on your hand, you go to a bar, bartender should know that you're in a dangerous situation. So this or this or that. I've never heard this. Well, this was like a few years ago. The new thing that I read on CNN was that there's this new drink that you can order at a bar in Florida. It's the owl drink. And you can either have it neat or you can have it dirty. And it's only in the women's bathroom that you'll read this sign. And the thing is, is it's never going to work. Because if I know about it, and I'm not, like, this is where it gets dark. Maybe this isn't my place to say.

But I read the article. Right. I'm a good guy. Right. But if I'm a bad guy and I'm next to you and you're ordering the owl shot, then it's going to get weird. What does the owl shot mean? What do you communicate if you order an owl shot?

So here's what it was. And don't take my word for it. If you want to use this form of production. It's an urban myth you've been looking into. Right. This just came up on CNN last week. So look it up if you want to use the order. But a regular owl shot says that, or owl drink or owl whatever, is that this date isn't going well and you would like to get a taxi.

The next one is if you want it neat uh you want this person to escort you to your car and the final one is if you want it dirty you want the cops to be called but if you're instead of i mean it sounds like a great idea yeah but just the idea the fact the fact that i read it means that can't work well i mean i i mean i i think on some level it could but i know what you're saying is like if it's if it's known information then like how well can it operate as like a very if you feel like you're in danger tell the person to call the cops right period yeah now i'm not saying it's easy and i'm not trying to like i don't i i'm so lucky and privileged that i've never had to wonder

when i ordered my drink how I could communicate this. It's just not something that comes up. But I know that this just can't work. That's just not a realistic thing. And if people are going to rely on like, oh, I'm just going to – things are going really bad. I know when I tell this bartender I need the all shot. It's a really dangerous genre of myth because there's also the myth that if you like type 9-1-1 into your bank account that the cops will be like notified if you like are at the atm and you or

no it's if you put your code in backwards that like lets them know that like what if your pin's a palindrome right well then you're fucked yeah yeah but see those are the cops come every time i get money i think racism no they but but one, one, one, one. Yeah. That's such a, that's such a terrible like genre of myth that like, Hey, if you're ever in a life threatening situation, here's a, here's a fake solution. If anything, it's worse because if you needed it and not everyone is on the same page, then now it's failed.

I think more than even for the reasons you're saying of like, well, if I know it and I'm not a creep, we'll believe it for now. Thank you. I appreciate it. You said it very, very self-assured, but I think, yeah,

for someone, imagine you have a new bartender and they're like, what's that? I don't think we have. Hey, we got, I'll drink, call the cops.

No, I'm sorry. I don't know. Worse. You think you've ordered the thing that somebody's going to escort you, and you probably walk out the door, and then it's just you in the fucking crate. Yeah. Sorry.

Anyway, I'll drink. I'm not always that dark. But that sounds like a... No? That's a really good one. Not one of the darker myths we've heard on the show. But so CNN was sort of covering, it was like, this is the new secret code for people in distress at this one specific Florida bar.

And here's where I should also, like, I want to be able to be held accountable for the things that I say. And it is very possible. I didn't snope this myself. Maybe it's true, A. B, there is also sometimes some pretty tricky links that will say that it's from some place. I didn't thoroughly investigate it. I just got angry and closed it. So it's possible that it was some other person trying to push it with a some place. I didn't thoroughly investigate it. I just got angry and closed it.

It's possible that it was some other person trying to push it with a credible name. I mean, I think CNN's pretty credible. I think that's why I put it in our myth section. I mean, no, I see it on CNN.com. Okay, good. So it's not just some

Florida University's bars are giving women a secret way to ask for help. And you know what? That is a title I saw in the sidebar of an article I was reading recently. So that's, and I was like, I'll bookmark that. I'll come back to that one. If it's on Fox and CNN, well, I mean, I just don't know what a secret, like, what's the point of having this secret? Yeah. I mean, it just shows you like sort of what patriarchy looks like and how predatory meant.

Like, even now, we don't live in a world where someone could just say, you're making me massively uncomfortable, and I would like to end this. And, like, there's also these added layers of, like, even asking for help has to be coded. Right. But, you know, there have been,

like, historically secret languages like the flower language and like other codes that people use to communicate things who are like oppressed people but yeah let's just make sure it's yeah it's tough because how do you make sure it's agreed upon before using it because if you make sure it's official then people will but i have a feeling it is regional because i know of something like this but i i don't remember the exact details but i've known that in like a california context yeah there's there's one uh where i grew up that if you order a pizza with extra anchovies uh a young man comes and has sex with you really where no that's actually uh that's a

teen movie with patrick uh something. Patrick something or other. You're on your own here, man. Go on. I'm not touching that. I think it's called Loverboy or something. All right. All right. Hold on.

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You're not allowed outside of your house unless you're going to work or it's an emergency. Oh, right. And we'll talk about Italy's quarantine in a bit. But, yeah, okay. So that's the whole, and I think Israel also did a similar thing. A lot of people are starting to just be like, we're locking it down. Yeah. Yeah. I heard somebody float it, that nobody goes and comes into the country. It's just like, you have to, everybody has to stay inside the country. In the United States, they were floating that. And the stock market is in free fall in the United States.

There is something that I think we all just learned about yesterday called a circuit breaker. When you woke up on the West Coast, you found out that rich people have a little kill switch in place that if the stock market starts going down too fast, it just turns the stock market off. Oh, that's what that word meant when it happened because i just read the headlines are like after seven minutes of trading they stopped yeah they were just like fuck all of that i think they

did that one time before yeah once since i've been sentient well they had a uh they had a thing where there was like a runaway like shame spiral for the stock market where it was like basically artificial intelligence based and it was just like runaway and they were like, okay, we're going to do a reset for the day. Just pretend today didn't happen. So yeah,

I mean, I mean, that shows you how handled, how fucking imaginary that fucking stock market is. Right. And it's like, what, what are y'all doing over there with all that? I mean, not to say that it doesn't exist, but I mean, who are the people who feel it?

So there is, you might hear oil raised in the context of how bad the economy is doing, but it all goes back to COVID-19. Fewer people are traveling. There was also a deal between... Just a question. Are we abandoning coronavirus, and are we now in the era where we refer to it as COVID-19? I think we are going to talk about it so much in the coming weeks that we can shoulder two different words. I'm not sure if this is true, but the coronavirus, we all know that's been going around for a while. COVID-19 is one version of this.

Now, this is just me talking about my ass. Right. But the Spanish flu, the first version of it was one thing, and then it mutated to something else. So it's very possible that the reason we're saying COVID-19 is once a million people have it, it could also mutate and it's not going to be COVID-19. It would then be the next mutation. I mean, coronavirus is a type of virus that includes, I think, SARS and MRSA and a lot of different illnesses like respiratory illnesses.

Those are all types of coronavirus. We're calling this one novel coronavirus because it's new this year and COVID-19 is a more specific way to describe it. But this COVID-19 could also mutate into something, right? I mean, I'm not sure. But coronavirus is just a more broader category. It's like having a cat now that has thumbs on it, which are getting around places. It's like each year the flu is a different type of influenza, right? It's like a different strain usually.

And so you're only calling it the flu is like calling this coronavirus. Got it. Yeah. Okay, good. Good to know. So we'll be specific. Is my understanding and could be totally wrong. will be specific. Is my understanding and could be totally wrong. Going back to the stock market,

fewer people traveling, less demand for oil. Saudi Arabia is also going through some negotiations with Russia where they were basically like, you know, they entered a trade war, did like a trade war maneuver as demand for oil was dropping. And it's kind of a perfect storm type issue with the economy that is tied. At least one part of it is this COVID-19. But just talking about a perfect storm, it's almost like this crisis is perfectly designed to take advantage of the Trump administration's just inability to deal,

like to lead a nation. For sure. There was on Wonkette, one of the headlines was like, Trump hasn't defeated coronavirus yet because he can't come up with a nickname for it. It's like his one foe. It's like his usual tactics aren't working. But yeah, it's one of those things where I think even very early on in his administration, his presidency, we're saying, if this man doesn't trust science and doesn't trust experts, there will be a moment where the situation is completely outside of his area. He has no area of expertise except for maybe, you know, whatever.

Insert joke there. whatever insert joke there. Yeah. But like, yeah, whatever his area of expertise is where his sort of contempt for them is going to completely be the undoing of things. And yeah, now the thing that he's been tying himself to the whole time,

the stock market, baby, right. He's out here now, I think on Monday morning, tweeting shit like the Obama Biden administration was the most corrupt administration in history. Like what?

That's you. That's one of your first tweets when the stock market that you're saying is so healthy is going down? But I mean, it's also, yeah. So you need to have a clear-eyed, sober relationship to the truth. And that's just not happening. how politicians are uniquely ill-suited to just dealing with a pandemic because they view things in like how well it's going to reflect on their administration, how it's going to make them look. They're calculating everything before it goes, like that's the filter it passes through

before it hits their lips essentially. And they are, you know, so they are uniquely ill-suited as a profession this administration is like the logical end point of that yeah that movement like to the point that trump was like i don't want you to bring that uh plague boat in because it'll hurt my numbers drive me fucking crazy yeah i don't think he understands how it works yeah those numbers are still there. Actually, they did let him dock today, right? Right.

They did let them dock yesterday. Because we're recording this one. And they were covering it. Miles, you were saying that you were watching it on, like, CNN, and they were covering it. It's like the fucking OJ chase. It was ridiculous. They're like, here's this diamond princess, whatever the fuck, coming down into the San Francisco Bay. And it was like a helicopter.

There were like multiple angles of this boat coming in. And then it would be like an update in the middle of like a news break. It's like, okay, it's just crossed under the Golden Gate Bridge. Okay, it's about to dock. They were like, I think a man is holding a sign from his balcony. That was probably like, yo, fuck this cruise or whatever. But yeah, it was really odd. They were really making it seem like a slow motion missile was like about to hit the mainland or something.

And I guess it's I understand a to make make sure people are aware. But it's like when they start doing shit like that, it's no it's not a surprise when you see people hoarding hand sanitizers or like toilet paper and shit like that. When there are a lot of like businesses, like I know people who like need that shit for their businesses and they're like, here's the deal though. Y'all bought all this shit up, but I need it to like actually interact with customers. Right. And I guess I could do bootleg bathtub hand sanitizer. Right.

But like at the same time, you don't need a literal year supply of hand sanitizer. Exactly. But it's also just weird that they would think that, I mean, this, the disease can't be that bad. If you're the be all end all for your safety is Purell. Right. You know what I mean? It's not, they're like, yo, all the biohazard suits are gone.

Right. I would get that. Okay. Like maybe you're, there's some real shit there, but like when everyone's like, oh, all the biohazard suits are gone. Right. I would get that, okay? Like, maybe there's some real shit there. But, like, when everyone's like, we're out of wet naps. Yeah. On Friday night, I noticed that the movie Contagion was the number one movie on iTunes. So, I watched it.

I haven't seen it. Re-watched it. Was it good? Worth watching. Yeah. If you think your mental health can hold up. Oh, if you're a germaphobe, a little anxiety. Oh, boy.

Hey, here's a- It's just like you hear shit on the movie that I saw. I remember seeing the movie, and now all those things are being talked about in the news that they're talking about in the movie that just seemed like gobbledygook to me at the time. Gobbledygook. Gwyneth Paltrow, who famously dies at the beginning of the film. Spoiler alert for Contagion. Sorry, did it.

Gobbledygook. And I was just thinking I was going to watch it tonight. Not now. I was hoping Gwyneth is Contagion, right? Who's Contagion? Which one's Contagion? She is Contagion. So she's bitten by a radioactive Contagion.

Shout out to Caitlin Durante. And so she becomes contagious. Oh, great. Yeah. And Italy is where we're really seeing things that actually look like the movie Contagion in the sense that people are all quarantined in their homes. That's what happens. That's when it starts to get wild in the movie is people are quarantined and they start...

There's a run on all the groceries and then people are like breaking into each other's houses. Right, right, right. So in the north, they had like a whole state in the north or a whole region in the north on lockdown. And people were taking trains down to the south and people at the train stations in the south were like protesting being like send them back yeah they're like put yourself into self-quarantine immediately don't bring this shit down yeah exactly and again like a lot of a lot of the chaos happened over the weekend when uh i think giuseppe conte was the prime minister the president uh there was like a what are the containment decree that leaked basically saying like okay if you if you're in the north, you got to stay put.

But it wasn't like officially signed yet. So a lot of people are like, okay, that's a countdown to flee where I'm at because I literally don't want to be trapped in a city where it's completely locked down. And I think because of that, a lot of people in the southern regions were like saw this movement again. Just how people are looking at is like here come the hordes of this sick that are going to completely melt down my world right granted and now suddenly they are those in that same exact position that's that's happening a lot of right different ways and salerno they were saying people were blocking the train doors yeah like to be like you're not coming out of this fucking train um but don't they realize that that's probably the

worst spot when the doors open to be standing just like blowing out into your mouth yeah exactly and it and there's also just shows you right like this is you know the italy uh lockdown or you know sort of uh decree containment decree is interesting to look at because this is a democracy uh where you're seeing like how is the government gonna try and limit the free movement of their people for like health reasons and a lot of people like we you know a lot of people saying the quarantines are fine to a certain extent but they're not really the best way of doing it because a lot of people find ways out of it right um and they say like especially like in italy too people like to get out, hang like the cultures like, hey, man, we're going to make shit work no matter what.

I was using his hands while talking right now in a very offensive manner. Yeah, I don't need to bring up the Italy drop quite yet because it's a little too flippant. But I think, you know, like in Rome, for example, they were there are guidelines to say, like, here's the one meter rule. Like, keep up, keep a good three feet, about three feet between you and people. Here's the one meter rule. Like keep a good – Keep three feet between you and – About three feet between you and people and like you'll be – it's better that way. They were like – they had like at restaurants or supermarkets or bars.

They had people like regulating how many people would go in and out to make sure no – everyone would have about that. Like it was a bar in New York. Yeah, exactly. But you need three meters. Sorry, buddy. But here's the knock-on effect though. Because of that, the flow in and out of these businesses gets slow, so lines start to build. Right, on the outside.

And you get crowds of people. Yeah. And you're actually creating a situation that you were already trying to prevent because people are just trying to have some sense of normalcy and be like, yeah, but I get coffee. And like, fine, if I wait in this line, fine. Oh, wait, there's not a meter between every person in line here. Right. So that's a little bit of trouble. And then even then, in the South, they're trying to limit weddings, closing down gyms, museums, and things like that. But then the spring weather brings everybody outside.

Now everybody's like, well, if I can't go there, I'll go to the park. I'll enjoy something outside. Kids are using jungle gym equipment, things like that. And now you're still, it's, it's hard to limit this because naturally people are wanting to go out and do things, but there isn't enough people. I guess, you know, the guidelines aren't realistic or I think taking into consideration those things. Cause they even asked, they interviewed a cop who was like watching people like leave. And they're like, aren't they not supposed to leave? And they're like, we weren't really told to stop anybody yet. So and plus with that form, you can print a form out basically when you get to like a quarantine checkpoint.

That's basically saying this is the reason I came up with why I can be in my right. Yeah. They vet it from there. But just the idea of like quarantine checkpoints is pretty. Yeah. Post-apocalyptic. It's the beginning. The idea of like quarantine checkpoints is pretty post-apocalyptic.

It's the beginning. It's like the first, it's like the exposition in a film about like a post-apocalyptic world, like how it started where you're like, okay, it seemed like everyone was going along with it. Not to say that this is what it is, but like that's always like the moment in like those films. It's like, and that, and that virus is the reason we gave up our freedoms or whatever.

Right. But it's going to be really interesting to see and slash scary as fuck to see how something like that would play out in other countries when they're really trying to restrict people's movements and people not being as educated enough to know like because i would say you look at most pharmacies here the shit that's gone there are people in their minds who are like this is outbreak this is ebola i'm gonna have like bloody eyes seizures or something right and i'm really concerned about it i don't think i'm gonna get bloody eye ebola but i what i'm more concerned about is this fear because like you're saying you're talking about these other places where it's gonna be restricted movement and i know i'm

gonna probably get flack from this but i've always thought that Donald Trump was going to try to find some way to suspend the election. This is the easiest way for him to do that. And honestly, there is many scenarios where I might think that maybe it is a good idea to keep people in. So during an election, it's just so scary. This could change. I mean, it's not could. This is changing the trajectory of our country. Absolutely. And I think on top of it, it's not good. This is changing the trajectory of our country. Oh, absolutely. And I think on top of it, it's odd that, you know, we were joking about Mike Pence like being leading the task force, but he's actually been trying to take the job seriously. I was surprised, like he has two calls a day. He's letting a lot of experts like craft the language on like what the messaging is, obviously for Trump just to meddle in it. But like he's given it the old, you know, college try or whatever you want to call it. And I was a bit surprised by that.

But even looking at like Trump, he's even there's even fears that he may have been exposed. Right. So this is something I want to talk about, because I mean, if there's no hope for, you know, if our bravest, biggest badasses are quarantining themselves, then it could happen to any of us. I'm talking, of course, about Ted Cruz, Representative Paul Gozar. And now, so Matt Gozar, Donald Trump's like homie troll in Congress, who was wearing last week, we talked about the fact that he was wearing a gas mask in congress wasn't that him as a as a bit uh as a goof as a bit of bullshit yeah he is now uh he's now quarantined himself uh yep and that there's some interesting timing there right yeah uh so matt gates and doug collins also i he's saying hey saying, hey, I'm going to have to cry quarantine myself.

I want to make sure I get that full 14 days out of me just in case. He said that one hour after getting off of Air Force One, he was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, came back with him to the Capitol on Air Force One, not to mention that Donald Trump. OK, so a lot of these guys, they're all being like they're like, I shook hands with a guy at CPAC, which is, you know, conservative Coachella that happened a couple of weeks ago. Right. And they're like they're like, I was informed like in photos that this guy had actually come down with COVID-19.

I shook hands. So like, I'm going to do it. That's what Ted Cruz is doing. Everyone else. So Donald Trump could have a couple ways. Matt Gaetz shook hands with this same guy at CPAC, who is the reason why Ted Cruz and them are quarantined. But also Matt Schlapp, who's the guy who runs CPAC,

also shook hands with that guy. And then later on was like shaking hands, hobnobbing with Trump on the cpac stage so he's been around it quite a bit i mean i don't think you know who knows what the actual if if any of these guys actually have it they're just doing their due diligence but for someone like him i can't imagine he was fine hearing stuff like the guy who i was just on the fucking plane with just now said he's going to self-quarantine. What the fuck? He is a germphobe, right?

He doesn't like to shake people's hands. Well, he does. I mean, he has no problem. He was just doing it in Orlando. Right. Yeah, yeah. He just got off a plane in Orlando. He was shaking hands with a line of people.

Yeah. He hasn't stopped the handshaking. But yeah, that's why he's so worried about German stuff. That's why he likes eating at McDonald's. They'll never catch him slipping. No one can ever do anything weird to his food if he just pulls up to a McDonald's randomly. But you'd think that would even help, him being a germaphobe. But meanwhile, he's doing a lot to just say, this is a hoax.

It's fake news. Getting people on Fox to say, don't worry about it, especially if you're old, when everyone's like, no, no, no. The thing we told you said, worry, please be extra careful if you are old or have any kind of immune system failures or vulnerabilities. And then to tell people to go to work when you're sick. That's the kind of thing where people need to be accountable for what they say. We can't just let that go. He should be forced to be in a group of people with it. As long as you've given your money to Bill O'Reilly to invest in gold,

you should be fine. Yeah, I mean, this is – I was actually just listening to – last podcast on the left is doing a series on the JFK assassination where I have a feeling they're going to side with me on what what ultimately happened. But not with me or a theory. It's not my theory. It's a guy named Bonner manager, but they're going to side with me and Bonner Bonner. OK, we're going to side with me and Bonner. Okay. Bonneroo. Okay. We're going to have Bonneroo. Anyways, they talked about how one of the big reasons that the JFK assassination happened

was because Kennedy was against all warnings by the Secret Service. He was like, no, I have to be out there with the people. I can't be hidden away behind a glass. I need to be out there and like he's the motorcade had like stopped multiple times and like shook hands with people on the way to dealie plaza uh and yeah i mean it was like that people were like yeah this is a like if you want to give yourself like yeah it's a huge risk and so I'm just like presidents who want to be out there and seen as, you know, touching, kissing babies and shaking hands. Probably it's, you know, it has caused trouble before.

What do you think Trump is saying to himself that he's I feel like if you're a germaphobe party, you just has to hear that there's any kind of like he's the kind of guy like, I don't know. I hear you can catch herpes from uh you know handshaking somebody right like like he would be that much of like i don't want to be near anyone who might be ill but then on on the surface he's so concerned about what it does to the markets that he's like it's fake news do you think this has probably been the most conflicted he's ever been about yeah because he says the markets are i don't know about he says, maybe say the markets, but the Trump industries change the worth of it on how he feels.

So he should really get out there and feel good with people if he wants the markets to reflect that. Because his attitude changes his stock price. Yeah. And even though he says, yes, don't worry, it's all, it's everyone's fine. He hasn't, he doesn't have any more rallies planned. No, which you know what?

I'm kind of worried about Biden. I'm kind of worried about Bernie. It's like, what are they doing? They're going to catch it. And neither of them are in the strong categories. No, they're in the about to be 80 category. Yeah. Now it's like, I'm not against Buttigieg.

But at the same time, he's the kind of person that can be like, well, he'll get it and be okay. I don't have that faith in either of the people running right now. What's the backup plan if both of those guys get it? I mean, we talked on Monday how weird it is that old people run the country. Yeah, this is the calling. are in politics and who get elected and who run big companies are older than the average member of our population than in most countries. And it's not something I wish upon them, but that might be just what you get. It's cause and effect.

That's what, but even Congress as a body skews in that sense too. Like it's an older group of people too. Oh, by far. Yeah, yeah. Much older. It's, that's why you'd hope they would be making more noises about actually handling this

properly because everything's just so reactionary and everything that could have been done, Trump was like gutting years ago to be like... And then to be like, oh, I could just bring in the experts last second, not a big deal. Well, looks like you can. And then push back when they're like, okay, what?

You want me to tell old people to not get on planes? No, we're not doing that. It's like, oh, okay. The thing with him at the CDC talking about how he is as smart as any of the experts there because he understands things. He could have been a doctor and his uncle is the smartest person who's ever taught at MIT. and his uncle is the smartest person who's ever taught at MIT, was such a good encapsulation of just why this isn't going to work,

why we're uniquely fucked as a country. But I guess here's the other thing, right? We always thought as long as the stock market's good, the real wealthy, the real powerful class that makes moves with the money, especially in politics, are they going to be like, dude, this guy's actually going to fuck everything up for us right now. Like, I don't care.

Like it, I was able to turn my cheek when, you know, you know, Brown kids were dying at the border and shit like that. But now my, but now my accounts look verifiably shitty. Right.

What do I do now? Yeah. Do they interview? I don't know. I mean, or are they just being like, okay, if we just hold on a little bit longer, we can stack the Supreme Court with more ghouls

and then it's a free-for-all. I don't know. We'll see. All good news, regardless. I'm glad we started a... Wait, good? Yeah, all good news no matter which direction you look. I'm glad we started a comedy podcast based around the news a couple years ago.

Oh, it's rough. Yeah. But I mean, look, at the end of the day, wash your damn hands. Yeah. Again, I'm sorry. I was in so many airports these last weeks, and I was just in an airport over the weekend.

The amount of people who are just, I don't know if it's hubris or what. Open coughing, open sneez, or like coughing, open, sneezing, open, coughing, not washing their hands after they touch their dick.

Not that it's that big of a deal. My dick is generally clean, but that's a great opportunity to schedule a moment to wash your hands. It'd be surprised how many, I was surprised he met more men washing their hands. And also just as many being like, yeah, yeah. I'm going to touch all this like shit on the, like whatever. was surprising more men washing their hands and also just as many being like, yeah, yeah,

I'm going to touch all this like shit on the, like whatever. I'm in a public place where many people are traveling and just please do the minimum. That's all you got to do. Keep your hands clean and away from your face. Just do that much. And don't worry about all this other shit.

Don't start hoarding fucking whatever you think you're going to need. I mean, obviously there are vital items, but don't go off the deep end. So here's a little question I have, and I don't know if there's an answer that we can come up with, but when you wash your hands, it's after you go to the bathroom. But if you've been touching things in the airport,

and I haven't done this, but do you wash your hands before you touch yourself? No, because you can't get it through your penis. Are you sure? What if you were sticking it in? No way? No way. Okay, good. No way, Jose.

What if you're less you breathe through your penis? Well, you can get it through your eyes. If you can get it through your eyes, why can't you? I don't think you can. It's mostly through your nose and mouth. It's mostly through your nose and mouth. Like cold and influenza, you can get it through your eyes. Somebody coughs right on your eyes.

They said coronavirus. You can get it through your eyes, but somebody coughs right on your eyes. They said coronavirus, the guy who discovered coronavirus in the seventies said that it's particularly you, you get it through your nose and mouth and not through your eyes. If anything, they need to make things for open mouth sleepers like me on a plane.

Right. Cause like, I don't have a mask, so I had to like tie my hoodie up. But when I sleep, my mouth is agape yeah no when we went on tour me and the entire economy class we're taking turns throwing stuff into my mouth yeah i know yeah tissues just the whole uh anyways we're gonna take a quick

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And too much sugar reduces your ability to fight against. Oh, okay. So then maybe these are... Okay. Then this is not the healthiest cereals. These are the worst fucking cereals to fight against. Oh, okay. So then maybe these are, okay. Then this is not the healthiest cereals. These are the worst fucking cereals. Oh, shit. All my favorite cereals. Yeah.

Okay. So that makes sense. All my favorite cereals are the worst fucking ones. So CNN was sort of like going through this list of these guidelines of like the council for healthy children and adults. I don't know, something just like one of those nutritional groups who it says, these are sort of basic guidelines to keep in mind of like what kind of sugar intake you should have

with your breakfast cereal. So they're saying it shouldn't contain more than 21.2 grams of sugar per 100 grams of cereal. And so you just divide the cereals grams of sugar per serving by the serving size in grams. Anyway, they've made the list

to show you everything that is above that list. So this one is, so a number 11, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I thought it was going to be much higher in that list because I used to think, I mean, I still think that is sweeter than sin, but delicious. Well, wait a second. So I'm looking at this list. So the higher the number, the less? The more sugar.

The more sugar, yeah. That's a higher concentration. That's the highest level. Although I don't know where. I was just like, you know, one of my favorite cereals is not on here, and that is Raisin Bran Crunch. Oh, Raisin Bran Crunch. I was just going to say, it's my wife's favorite cereal

because she thinks it's so healthy. It's the sugariest cereal in the world. It's got more sugar than Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs. I don't know how they... Yeah. I think so. Yeah, it does because that's my favorite. I think they missed it on this list.

Yeah. I'm a big fan of sweet cereals. My wife thinks she's really healthy because she only eats Raisin Bran Crunch. I'm like, look at these two boxes. Yeah. It should be between number four and number three, I think, because you've got 19 grams of sugar per one cup, 53 grams. So calculate by dividing the cereals grams of sugar per serving by the serving size in grams.

Right. So the serving size in grams is 106, double the grams, 38 grams for every 100. So that is 0.38. And that would put it between actually put it number two. I guess maybe they just thought because Raisin Bran is like so in the back of our minds

not a typical one. Right. Okay, so we're doing y'all a service. Steer clear of that unless you really want to have a sugar high. Oh, but it's really good. So I will not be. So yeah, Cinnamon Toast Crunch is at 11. Then it's a three-way tie after that between Fruit Loops, Reese's Puffs, and Trix. Now, is it weird that I'm using this as a guide of cereals to try?

Yes. No, no, no. I mean, no. I'm saying yes, I agree with what you're saying. That makes me be like, damn, I thought Cinnamon Toast was delicious. So I guess. I guess it's agree with what you're saying. Okay, good. That makes me be like, damn, I thought cinnamon and churros was delicious, so I guess. I guess it's not as delicious as my thoughts. I guess Froot Loops is pretty criminally sweet.

Yeah. When I think about it. Yeah, yeah. But I guess I don't like fake fruit flavor cereal. James, your favorite is Reese's Puffs? I mean, what I do is I buy in bulk. I'm a big bulk fan. Yeah.

So I get this like double pack. It's all about your biceps. I'll get the giant ones. Yeah, that's how I get so buff. I'm a big bulk fan. So I get this like double pack. It's all about your biceps. I'll get the giant ones. Yeah, that's how I get so buff. Yeah. Bulk season. So it depends on like if I have one bulk box of Reese's peanut butter puffs,

the next time I'm going to get something else. Right. Ah, got it. But I'm always going for the sweet cereal. I think it's kind of like canned goods. Like canned goods are super high in sodium. They don't taste at all like salt because it's ingrained in the fabric of the food.

Right. This, the cinnamon toast crunch, all that sweetness is on the top, not necessarily inside of it. Ah. And that's why you're getting the surface area is what you're tasting all that sugar. Right, right. Oh, that's an interesting theory. And when we look at this list, I think that like getting cinnamon toast crunch, which

tastes delicious, has a lot of vitamins in it. Maybe not the healthiest food. No, definitely not. But if you wanted food that's not going to expire, that you could surviveast Crunch, which tastes delicious, has a lot of vitamins in it. Maybe not the healthiest food. No, definitely not. But if you wanted food that's not going to expire, that you could survive off of, you could probably pack your cupboards to the rim, and no one's out there hoarding Cinnamon Toast Crunch. No. Speak for yourself.

But you'll have the worst dental problems in the no-dentist world. But it's not any more sugar than raisin bread. As long as you brush your teeth. Yeah, right. You know? Yeah, and you somewhat exercise, but then with the quarantines, how do you know you're going to get outside?

And then next thing you know, your Peloton bike runs out of power because of the rolling blackouts. Anyway, that's the dystopia. Here's the other thing. You don't need to go to Gold's Gym to just flex all your muscles for a minute straight.

Just flex everything. From the stress and the sugar. Yeah, and then let go and relax. The next tier is another tie, a four-way tie between Apple Jacks, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, and Fruity Pebbles. I never had Cookie Crisp. It's all right.

That's the one that had the bandits and shit. Yeah. Like people were stealing from the bank and it was like an old-timey cop. It is. It doesn't pack. I would say the best of this group is Fruity Pebbles. That packs the most sweetness.

But here's the problem with Fruity Pebbles is that while it has the surface area, it doesn't fill you up as much. They're dense, but they're small. You want a big bowl. You fill your bowl to the rim, you're only going to get two or three bowls. I don't need pebbles. I need Fruity Boulders. I was going to say gravel or three bowls. I don't need pebbles. I need fruity boulders. I was going to say gravel, but you've got the right mind.

No, I'm straight up. Just give me a huge piece I have to chisel off into my mouth. Regardless, I think we can all agree that we want cereal that looks like the bottom of a fish tank. Yeah, right. That's what fruity pebbles nails for us. Oh, man. Wow. It does look just like a fish tank.

And now I think about it, I used to, for whatever reason, as a kid, see that and be like, I bet that's candy in the fish tank. No, that. Wow. It does look just like a Christmas. And now I think about it, I used to, for whatever reason, like as a kid, see that and be like, I bet that's candy. And the fish tank. Oh, that's tight. Then a number three, Frosted Flakes. Classic. But I guess we should say it's probably between Frosted Flakes, Raisin Bran Crunch, and Lucky Charms.

Yes. And they're doing some rough maths right there. Yeah. Lucky Charms, okay, that makes sense. The fucking marshmallows are just pure- Are just sugar. Sugar. Yeah. That they maths right there. Yeah. Lucky Charms, okay, that makes sense. The fucking marshmallows are just pure- Are just sugar. Sugar. Yeah.

That they call marshmallows. Right. I'm hip to what's going on. Yeah. But number one is Cap'n Crunch. I did not see that coming. What? Well, is it just Cap'n Crunch or is it Fruity Cap'n Crunch?

Is it Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch? They say Cap'n Crunch. But I mean, all Cap'n Crunch has the same general consistency where it's puffed cereal that has more of a buttery vibe than it has sugar. Like Frosted Flakes, whatever they're doing with those flakes, they're bringing the sugar right out. Well, you see it right on there. Right in the kisser. Just dusted with the sweet, sweet shugs. Yeah, but Cap'n Crunch is kind of, I don't know.

I guess it does blend in, like you said. It's a really good thing. It makes me think if you soaked your milk in Captain Crunch and squeezed it, it had like, you know, there's strawberry milk, chocolate milk. I'd drink some Captain Crunch milk for sure. Oh, wow. I think there's, I know there's Captain Crunch flavored.

I think that's one, like there are milk bars that have cereal milk, and one of them is Captain Crunch flavored. I think that's one of their milk bars that have cereal milk, and one of them is Captain Crunch milk. Oh. Yeah. How would you just make it? You would probably just get a cheesecloth. Right. And a bunch of cereal in it.

You just make it like a- Seep it. Catch me in the apocalypse. I'll be making myself some Captain Crunch milk. While people are like, we need water. You're like, James, please stop making Captain Crunch milk. It doesn't keep well at all. People are getting sick and it drains all their nutrients.

Okay, Cap'n Crunch cheese. Now that I had an overstock. Cap'n Crunch black beans. What do you do? I steep the black beans in a bunch of Cap'n Crunch. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about International Women's Day. This is something that has a longer history than I realized. It International Women's Day began as a way of fighting back against big business.

Its roots are in a 1908 strike in which women protested working conditions in the garment industry. think is a good summation of just how uh capitalism and big corporations have brought the labor movement to its knees by just incorporating it like taking all the iconography taking all the ideas and like turning it into the most surface level version of those things uh but using it to their benefit. So, for example, over the weekend, two days ago, Sunday, was International Women's Day, and Apple had an ad where it was just a bunch of pictures, black and white pictures of great women. There you go. Solved. Solved, even though they had an issue earlier this year where they had a new credit card with an algorithm that discriminated against women, offered them less credit, even if the man of the house had worse credit.

Oh, yeah. Well, who is the guy? One of the guys was a Steve Wozniak. Yeah, Steve Wozniak was like, yo, my wife was given like basically no credit. Her credit is what her credit is way better than mine. Oh, okay. Shell, who was recently under fire for toxic work environments for female refinery workers. Not to mention disrupting the Niger River Delta in Nigeria. Right. That's a whole other thing.

Yeah. Yeah, but they were recently, one of the refinery workers recently sued the company after she was fired after being viciously harassed by coworkers. A Shell gas station changed its name to SHIELD. They put a little apostrophe between the E and the LL. I think Jamie Loftus talked about that, but that's... She'll overthrow your government if you have petroleum there. Yes. That really is a perfect Jamie Loftus bit, because if you ever see her live show,

Boss Who Missed Girl, her character is called Shell Gasoline Sandwich. And I just like that. It almost sounds like a slide from her live show no of course i mean it's it's hard to uh satirize anything in a world where this is happening where like the yeah i mean they are self-parodies mcdonald's flipped their M upside down to make it a W for Women's Day. And yeah. Now, was Women's Day on Sunday, March? What day is it?

March 8th. But was it the Sunday or is it the day of the 8th? Because this year it was. It was the day. It's the day of the 8th. So is it always? Okay, good. So it's just this year that it was on Daylight Series.

Right, where they even took one hour away. Yeah, they took an hour away. I didn't know if it was like, that's the tradition is like, let's give that day. But it's just this year. I wouldn't be surprised if like someone cynically, but no, it's always, it's on the same day. But yeah, a lot of people had dates like that. I didn't know if it was one of those holidays that it's always on that Sunday. On Twitter it was, yeah, people were like, damn.

Like, you're not on International Women's Day. Yeah, I read that on Twitter also. I was just wondering if it happened to be this year it was that or if it was always that. Yeah. Anyway, that's been our review of corporations co-opting a day that started as a labor movement to sell their bullshit. I mean, and to think, right, because that was 1908. And then, like, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, I think is a little bit of a couple of years after that. It's like knowing what the sort of chronology of how you get there and why this is recognized from like a hundred and like 40 some people dying in the triangle shirtwaist fire. And then being like, all right, let's put an apostrophe on Shell real quick.

Let's upload some photos. Rather than being like, oh, my God, like we're we're looking at we're trying to address some real imbalances systemically here. Yeah. And it should be noted Shell has done some worthy things in terms of trying to get more women on their board. This isn't the only thing they did that was in line with kind of more equal representation. It's just they, you know, I don't know. representation uh it's just they you know i don't know it just seems like kind of an overall uh bullshit way of virtue signaling that doesn't actually accomplish anything shell is a despicable company hey come on man back off i remember my dad we would never buy shell gas right because

he was like nah he's like well because especially around the time everything that like you know royal dutch shell company has done in Africa. It's just like, just stay the fuck away from Shell. Yeah, that's probably very good advice. You know, I don't really think of that stuff. Maybe I should start. I didn't realize that there was one gas company worse than another. Well, I mean, they are all very.

They're really bad. Yeah. You look at British Petroleum. than another. Well, I mean, they all vary. They're really bad. Yeah, you look at British Petroleum, you could be like, okay, we installed a puppet government in Iran because British Petroleum didn't want to share oil with them. Exxon was the first

to know about... Weren't they the first to know about climate change? Like, they did some studies on it. We're the first, like, at the cutting edge of the science. Right. And we're basically, like, had the right idea. It was like, wow, you guys were really progressive and like knew about this before anybody. They had the scientists out there and then they used that information to like figure

out how to lie about it. Right. That was their strategy. Yeah. So, I mean, look, just let's just drive right on penny farthings or something. Yeah. Like something whimsical which is another thing just back to the

gasoline burn and things like that there are so many of these airlines who are still flying half empty jets because they don't want to lose their flight slots like we're adding layers of bullshit now even to like the lack of travel it's like well let's still burn the same amount of jet fuel not to mention they

won't let me be in first class, dude. Oh my God. This is a great opportunity. I've wanted a voice for this thing. This is two weeks ago. Stormed the front of the plane. Oh my fucking God.

This was the worst thing I've ever seen. Have you, you know how when you're on a plane and you're sitting in the emergency room, they'll come up to me like, are you prepared? Yes. Yes. I was like,

what kind of fancy big, I only ride where there's an emergency. That's what's on that upper level. You sit in the emergency row and they ask you, you know, I need a verbal, I need a verbal acknowledgement. I was on a flight back from Wyoming.

I think it was United. God, whatever. I bet you they'd all do this, but nonetheless, the entire row was empty. It costs money to get the extra leg room they let it go fucking empty and i have pictures in my phone of both empty rows and i asked the

lady i said like i've been on flights and you need a verbal there's nobody there who runs it she's like well there's an upgrade fee to get into the thing and there was a couple that had to sit separated that were asking her to sit in that row yeah and she was like no oh yeah on my way back uh on a flight it was so empty because people were i think were canceling their flights because of covid19 that at a certain point the flight attendants were like dude go fucking nuts y'all you can sit in the cockpit if you want like if you want nobody but i guess it depends on the flight i yeah i don't book my own flights for the tour shows that I do. But they said this time, stay in your assigned seat. This is not the time with the empty row.

They're just like, you need to stay in your assigned seat because there's the weight distribution on the flight, which maybe it's true. Yeah, I think that is true. But if that's true, then what about all the other times that have been in flights that they said sit wherever you want? Is only some planes able to pay? Hey, Aviation Zeitgang, let us know about the weight distribution. There's only like 17 people. Is it going to be that wild if everybody's like

you know, maybe, I don't know. What do I know? I don't know the answer, but I'm just suspicious that both things can't be true. Yeah. Alright, let's talk briefly. So South By we talked about at the end of last week that South By was being cancelled after some question as to, you know, how they were right let's talk briefly so south by we talked about at the end of last week that south by uh was being canceled after some question as to you know how they were going to pull it off and a

bunch of brands pulling out they eventually decided to cancel it and apparently they're losing so much money on that cancellation and on having like prepared for south by southwest without actually having the payoff of having all those people come in, it might kill that entire event. The amount of money spent by the organizers just to bring in infrastructure, marketing materials, all kinds of things, that having to cancel that is having a really tremendous effect because the insurance that they have for the event is like a lot of them don't cover illness or like pandemic there's no like it's not covering that kind of incident so they're being like oh

fuck like we may be taking an absolute bath on this um to the point of like tens of millions of dollars going right down the tubes i mean their lawyers are reading stories that like they are trying to go through all these contracts to find any way to recoup the money or if there are even grants to help them. But it's going to be, it'll be a definitely a big hit for the organization. Not to mention a, for people in like media, because it's a huge opportunity, especially for like indie filmmakers to get your film out there, people to see it and things like that. But also the local economy in Austin, because they were expecting around the festival goers there to spend around $355 million while they're like that kind of economic stimulation.

So if that goes bye bye, that's that's also a tremendous hit to the local economy. So you're starting to really begin to see all the reverberations of like, you know, it seems like, okay, there's no South by, Oh, this is just the tip of the iceberg. But if you're counting on things like that's a, a lot of my income, like where I use like, well, tourists cater to my business. Uh, that's a huge hit for them as well. Um, so it's, we'll see what happens, but it's, we're starting to see, you know, I think the think the indian wells uh tennis tournament was canceled there's just everything one after the other coachella might be next yeah and then i think coachella will i think will get canceled you think dude that would be such a disaster again to have that many people there especially young people

with the mentality of like i'm on so much mo, there's no way I can get a flu. Touching knobs, licking fingers. Dude, have you seen people that are fucking walking around barefoot with their flower crowns? I don't think so. Just let me go by myself so I can see rage. I also feel like just generally festivals are going to be a thing that if they do come back, they're going to take a break for a while until we figure things out. Like what's going to happen when E3 comes into Los Angeles, the Expo? They're going to be bringing people from all over

the world. A lot of these places are in danger. Yeah, especially like Asian-based companies and video games. Yeah, using the video game controllers. Everybody's playing the same controllers. They're huge lines, packed spaces. Yeah. I'm not going to... Can you imagine like, you know those huge demo areas they have where it's like a bank of 100 TVs

and consoles and one person around there has... Oh, boy. Yeah. But Rivers areas they have where it's like a bank of 100 TVs and consoles and some one person around there has. Oh, boy. Yeah. But Riverside County where Indio is, where the Coachella Festival happens, they just reported their first case of COVID-19. Oh, wow. So that began the murmurs of like, oh, well, it's in the county now. Right. And what, the first weekend is like a month out?

Yeah. I mean, I'm such a happier person than this episode is letting on. But I do think that that's the first person confirmed, but they're not testing everybody. They're only testing people that you know. What I would like to know is what is the ratio of the people that are tested to the people that get it? Because I'd say it's probably they're not testing many. I've only seen it reported in very specific places. Like the cruiser.

In New York State, they're talking about it. Cuomo is the one person who's like, fuck it, I'm coming out here. I'm going to be honest about the fact that people were not getting enough tests because we don't know. But they're just not giving us enough tests but there i think it was like 10 percent over the over the uh weekend which is 10 percent 10 percent people who they tested were testing positive oh that's actually lower than i thought it was going to be but yeah right so on uh some cruises i think it was uh up closer to like 50 percent yeah that's what i was seeing but that but that's again testing a specific population who have symptoms and who have been living in the petri dish right right right so uh but it's still

i mean you know it's still we i i still have a feeling that where we see the outbreaks on the map are purely based on where people are being tested. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Where the tests are being deployed to. Yeah. It's in the administration's best interest to just kind of keep it as quiet as possible. I mean, it's not in their long-term best interest, but they're not great at viewing things. Oh, no. It's only what is directly in front of them.

Yeah. Well, James, this has been fun. It has. It has. It has. I'm usually such a sunshine optimistic person. I am so sorry for bringing in the rain today. Oh, you didn't bring in the rain. I don't think so.

I didn't bring in the COVID-19. I am feeling great. Where can people find you, follow you, enjoy your typically sunny disposition? Well, the number one place I'd really like people to check out is Alchemy This. We record it right here. It's an improvised podcast. It's extraordinarily funny.

We get suggestions from the listeners, and we make up scenes about it. It's with Kevin Pollack from The Marvelous Miss Maisel. Yes, that Kevin Pollack. And a whole crew of equally talented, but just maybe not quite as recognizable of a name. Yeah. A whole crew of equally talented, but just maybe not quite as recognizable of a name. Yeah. But if you'd like to find anything from me, if you go to therealjamesheaney.com, there is, I have corrugated, not corrugated, correlated.

All of my stuff is on that webpage. Nice. So you can find anything that I'm working on. Nice. And I'm proud of 99% of it. Hell yeah. That is an incredible. It's a huge, I mean.

What the, how do I have that kind of confidence as a creator? I didn't always have that kind of confidence as a creator? I didn't always have that. It's a work in progress. I'm proud of nothing I've ever done. I'm an imposter. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?

There was. There's a lot. There was one by Romesh. Do you guys know Romesh? I don't think so. Romesh, I'm going to be embarrassed to try to say his last name. Ranguth, I mean, would you like to give it a shot? I'm sure he's a famous guy,

but his name's Romesh. Everybody knows him as that. And he says, and this was the tweet, I thought the whole point of washing your hands properly was so that you don't need to use toilet tissue, which reminds me when people are't need to use toilet tissue, which reminds me when people are hoarding all this toilet tissue, worst case

scenario, go to the bathroom, hop in the shower. You can't do that at your business, so maybe don't hoard the toilet paper. But at your own house, get normal amounts, and if it becomes a problem, shower it off. It's probably way cleaner than using toilet paper anyways. Wear an extra t-shirt.

Galaxy brain, bro. Fantastic. Miles, where can people find you? shower it off wear an extra t-shirt it's probably way cleaner than using toilet paper wear an extra t-shirt that's galaxy brain bro fantastic Miles where can people find you you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray tweet I like is from

past guest Demi Adjouibe at Electro Lemon it says it's just to the tune of dreams by Fleetwood Mac thunder only happens when it's raining.

This bit could be us except you playing. So easy to sing along in your head. Hell yeah. Froghammer tweeted, animal farm? That just sounds like a regular ass farm to me. Next book. And the Drake Gatsby tweeted, Animal Farm? That just sounds like a regular-ass farm to me. Next book. And TheDrakeGatsby tweeted, Oh, you brought all the toilet paper?

I bought all the toilets. Your move, idiot. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter, at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page

and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information we talked about in today's episode as well as the song We Ride Out on Miles. What's that going to be today? This is from a Swedish group.

I just started bumping in my eardrums called Dungen or maybe Dungen, but it's spelled D-U-N-G-E-N. They sound almost like the German group Can, but even trippier. They do all kinds. Everyone's really good on their instruments, but they are funky. So they keep it very funky.

This track is called, pardon me, I'm not a fluent Swedish speaker, but I believe it is Varharduvaret, which means where have you been? Question mark? Yeah, in Swedish. What does the Swedish question mark look like? Don't know. Yeah. They don't ask questions, man.

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