The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 115 (Best of 3/2/20-3/6/20)

Episode Date: March 8, 2020

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laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? I'm going to say texting. Texting. Okay.

Because it just occurred to me the other day that when i was a kid the big thing was like video phones like i remember seeing video phones like radio shack for a thousand dollars or oh yeah you know in movies there's always video phones and it just occurred to me that we're always constantly sending each other like electronic telegraphs basically right just because we're too anxious to actually see each other face to face or talk to each other like if you if you just randomly facetimed a friend they would call the police yeah i would i would just be like what is wrong with them yeah if it's not a family member like i only expect facetimes like i know when to expect a facetime not even like outside of a hey facetime me like

certain time like my birthday if i get it from an aunt or something yeah fine like i get that out of the blue from like a like a friend from high school i'm like what the fuck is this yeah oh man or what how are you trying to invade my life at the moment i have butt faced time to people before that's way more embarrassing than butt dialing people yeah but you do that yeah you just sit on your phone like you literally were just setting it off i don't think it was yeah i think it was in my pocket and then i think one time my one year old uh had my phone and like facetimed somebody and yeah it was like oh hey sorry that's like a really awkward thing sorry my baby's trying to communicate with you uh but yeah i i definitely prefer facetiming i've facetimed my family all the time from from the road you know yeah uh turn

the page man we're just a couple road dogs i know man here just never know these kids grow up so damn quick man you know what i mean you're basically living the lives of like old old like old vaudevillians. You're this duo traveling from town to town. Yeah, exactly. And our act is very physical, a lot of physical comedy. A lot of pratfalls. Yeah.

That straw hat you wear on stage. Yeah. A lot of tumbling. Yeah, Anna comes out with the old hook when you do a dad joke. I mean, it's all very well-spoken. Yeah, you guys missed it. If you missed out uh you really missed out let's get to the real news yeah we're really fucked now this is one of the grossest looking things i think i've ever okay it could be gross or i think i'll eat i'll try anything once you know okay uh because i you know i'm the gross food bandit uh and the bagelrito is from Einstein Bros Bagel Company.

Do y'all have that up here? I'm a fan. I've never heard of that in my life. Okay, so that's an American company. But essentially, it's exactly what you think. It's a burrito. It's a bagel. It's everything you need.

The way they describe it, the Bagelrito is the latest breakfast innovation from Einstein Bros Bagels. Substantial in size and high in flavor, it's loaded with two cage-free eggs, thick cut bacon, turkey sausage, three cheeses, hash brown, salsa, and green chiles in a flour tortilla. It looks like the filling of this burrito just looks like what you would push out of an artery of somebody who just died of a... It looks like an artery. It doesn't even look like a photograph a it looks like an artery it doesn't even look like a photograph it looks like a salvador dolly painting or something it's so surreal yeah yeah um and it's all all hand-wrapped in asiago bagel dough and baked fresh it's

substantial size high flavor and portability has earned its slogan big bold and easy to hold yeah now the reviews have actually been good. Really? Yes. They're saying because it actually has a lot more ingredients than normal fast food things do. Right. And there's actual flavors in it. The only thing I'm a little confused about is why have a flour tortilla within the bagel already?

No. I feel like the bagel itself. Wait, there's a flour tortilla in the bagel already? No. I feel like the bagel itself. Wait, there's a flour tortilla in the bagel? So it's like you have a mini breakfast burrito. Inside. And then a bagel outside. So you have two starch layers. I feel like that's a little redundant. That's too much, but I don't know.

Now you're telling me that it's getting positive reviews, and now I kind of want to try it. Yeah, because the takeout. But who's reviewing it? Just like. One of the food writers at the takeout. Who like, you know, typically I, you know, I like how she talks

about food. I think it was written by Marnie Schur, and it, you know... Marnie Schur-Einstein? Wait a second. But yeah, like, everyone, a lot of people there were pretty impressed. She went to, like, a press event. The write-up was at the press event, and most people were like, oh,

you're worried? And's actually like the bagel was rigid enough that it wasn't falling apart. It is big, bold, and easy to hold. At the same time, at a press event, they're making sure they fucking nail that thing. The issue with fast food is you're having to

spread that out across a nation. They don't have a press event for the diarrhea you get. They might. I think we have to have the bagel-rito, though. Yeah. I mean, that needs to be something that is always... I think the Doughboys do a good job of this,

of taking into account when they're reviewing fast food restaurants. And then I felt sick for four hours, which is actually not that bad for fast food like i don't ever really feel bad from eating fast food that's incredible i think that's why i'll never stop you're a machine yeah yeah or i'm just completely rotten on the inside right and like nothing's working anymore and it's like yeah dude i don't know just the wheels are basically have come off somehow you're in free fall but alive feel great. I haven't pooped in 30 days.

That's great. And then when it comes, watch out. Oh, man. Once a month? Lock all the furniture down. You guys know. One day a month, I don't come into work. That's one of my favorite SNL sketches is the one about the birth control pill that gives you your period.

You only have your period once a year, but then when you do, they're running around with axes. Wait, which year was that? How long ago was that? It was one of the first ones after Tina Fey left when she came back and hosted. Oh, okay. It was just very strongly in her voice.

It was amazing. Next up, Chili's. I want my baby, baby, baby, baby. Apparently Chili's. I want my baby. They're turning. Apparently Chili's is 45 years old. It's turning 45. What? Okay, Chili's.

And they want you to know. Okay. Y'all over the hill, Chili's. March 13th. You can get $3.13 margaritas that will come in a commemorative glass. But the also part is funny. Like if you do it like all these companies are doing like, hey, follow us on every single thing so we can get all of your data. You can, like, win stuff like a T-shirt that says, I feel God in this Chili's tonight.

Which I don't know. I don't know what that means. It feels sexual. Yeah. I'm okay with it. Have you ever felt God in a Chili's? I love it. I love a Chili's. I've definitely felt Satan. Yeah. I'm okay with it. Have you ever felt God in a Chili's? I love a Chili's. I've definitely felt Satan.

Yeah. I felt the presence of Beersburg. When was the last time? I felt drunk in a Chili's. Have you ever felt God in a chain restaurant before? Yeah, of course. Which one? Chili's would be one of them.

So what happened? Chili's would be one of them. I think that was one of my family's arguing restaurants. When you when you're like when we go to this restaurant we argue we're gonna get into a fight uh and that so like chili's would be like we would go we would get a rack of ribs and we would argue about uh you know a large issue would it be oh so you knew that if you're going to chili's it was to have some kind of argument it was or was that like somehow the energy into chili's always brought out the worst we had some nice ones i feel like chili's you're going to Chili's, it was to have some kind of argument? Or was that like somehow the energy in the Chili's always brought out the worst? We had some nice ones.

I feel like Chili's, you're like, it's nice enough, but if you get into an argument, you're not like, well, everyone's like, I'm wrecking the vibe at Chili's. Nobody's paying attention to the fact that y'all are like yelling over baby macarons. Right, they're like, oh, this seems about right. That's about the energy in this place. Like anyone can bust out into an argument at any point

and like no other like group is gonna be bothered by it honestly full on fist fight I would still be eating my ribs right keep it away from me

right you can fight on the other side of the fence I felt God in a red lobster you felt God in a red lobster why is that because of the food or because you're on a great date I mean the cheddar bay biscuits

the yeah yeah yeah just the overall ratchetry yeah have you ever felt God in a restaurant that was because of the person you were with The biscuits, the, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just the overall ratchetry. Yeah. Have you ever felt God in a restaurant that was because of the person you were with? See, and this is why our generation is doomed. That's the real question.

Pregnant pause. That's the real question. We're like, oh. We're all finding God in the wrong places. We should be finding them in each other. Instead of a motherfucking Chili's. You could also get a bomber that says skillet queso on the back. What is a skillet queso?

Yeah, the skillet just full of molten cheese. But it just says the word skillet queso on the back? Just old English, cross the back, bomber jacket, skillet queso. Oh my God, I love that. Is that racism? Skillet queso, baby. Yeah, just get your Chili's swag. I don't know how I feel about that. Is that racism? Skillet case. Skillet case, baby. Yeah, just get your Chili's swag. I don't know how I feel about that.

Well, I'll tell you something. One of the first times I went to a Chili's was like I had never gone like with my family. But I had just I went on a date there because I had a little bit of money to go. You know, I was like, OK, I'm pretty sure you get a deal where like you get two meals for like 15 bucks and then i can look like i'm doing well uh and i felt god that night in that chili's i felt like i was an adult that's beautiful yeah never went again though i've been to friday's more often than chili's um okay quick pivot onto the corona beer thing where people thought Corona beer, Corona virus was the same thing.

That's still going on? Well, so what happened was, here's what had happened, okay? CNN, Fox, many other outlets had reported on this. We're saying like, what the fuck? I even saw it too. I was like, what? 38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona under any circumstances. So this is what happened.

This actual poll was done by a group called 5W Public Relations, a PR firm that represents other beverage companies. No. Yes. So they have other alcohol companies like Purity Vodka, Santa Margarita. They also work with Zico Coconut Water. Santa Margarita. And Sparkling Ice by Talking Rain. Oh, those are like the ratchet ones.

Those are like the drinks that underage children drink. Yeah, exactly. Wait, so they don't rep Corona though? No, not at all. Okay. And also, the wildest part is that the whole 38 percent like stat that most people were hanging these headlines on to it doesn't even state like the way the whole poll was conducted it's completely unclear how they even arrived at this number because they

didn't they made it up right called imagination what they did was just sort of very hastily put out a press release that sort of had like this one headline and they thought they could hang on to it, hang on to it. And then it completely sort of took a life of its own. So they said by presenting this finding in the context of other questions that are explicitly about the coronavirus, the press release creates the impression that Americans reluctance to drink the beer is due to coronavirus. So the question that actually gives us like this 38% statistic is one of the questions that doesn't even specifically mention the virus. So like of their questions, like, are you a beer drinker?

Are you a Corona drinker? Is Corona related to the coronavirus? In light of the coronavirus, do you plan to stop drinking Corona? Would you buy Corona in a store? Would you order Corona in a restaurant, bar slash slash public venue and would you buy corona under any circumstances now the last question is the one that people answered 38 to so they were just like well we asked about coronavirus in the other way so i guess we're just gonna draw a really reckless line between the two and be like yeah that's what's happening now don't worry about corona the brand i was like don't worry about yeah but everyone the point of the story is don't worry

about coronavirus don't worry about yeah that as long as there's nothing called mike's hard virus i guess i don't really care you'd be like patient zero yeah mike bloomberg might come up with is that the way to your heart mike Mike Bloomberg, Mike's Hard Lemonade? If Mike's Hard becomes aligned with Mike Bloomberg. They wouldn't. They endorsed Deadpool, and that was hard for me. But when they endorsed Mike Bloomberg, I'll never take another shot. Is Mike's Hard from the Sam Adams people?

Is that coming out of Massachusetts, or they're their own thing? I don't think so. That would be nice. I just want to make sure. They're owned by somebody. Oh, no. Truly, I think, is Sam Adams. I'm just thinking of the Seltzer Wars as well.

Let's see. I think Mike's Heart is their own operation. They don't need anyone. They don't want anyone. But that could be absolutely wrong. No. I think you're right. They're headquartered.

Wow. The parent company? The Mark Anthony Group. Stop. What is that even? What the fuck? What if we found out? What if this is how we found out

uh wait mark anthony like jlo mark anthony no no it's just called the mark anthony group oh when it says like the parent company wow this is we're learning a lot right now my head is spinning yeah so basically no one thought that the coronavirus basically no one thought that that corona beer caused the coronavirus and someone just started spreading that i think it shows just generally like how little confidence we have in each other as a country we're like yeah yeah we're stupid enough that i would believe that there's 40 percent of the people who's like yeah coronavirus no no everybody is real dumb okay and then when they were pointing to like yeah i mean the the market like their stocks aren't doing well either

that's because the whole stock market was doing terribly. Right. That has nothing to do with the virus. And their whole thing is like- But way to make it about you. Yeah. Yeah. The thing, but the Corona people who run the company are like,

hey, but don't worry about us because we got something up our sleeves. Corona seltzers coming ashore soon. Oh, no. Wash it away. Yes. Not everyone needs it. We got enough seltzers. We do. We got options seltzers. We do.

We got options. Yeah. We're fine. You can get cherry, tropical, lime, blackberry, lime. Tropical? Lime. I don't know. Look, it's a lot.

I don't mind an alcoholic seltzer, but we got enough options. When I see the Bud Light seltzer, you're like, no, that's not that's just hard to look at. It's weird how my like the two I think of is like Truly and White Claw. So when I see the other ones, not even because I've tried them all and I'm like, those are the best ones. I'm just like, y'all were late. Right. So I don't like I don't like the tardiness to the party. Right.

As what was that? Kim Zolciak. Yeah. Don't be tardy for the party. Yeah. Yeah, what was that, Kim Zolciak told us? Yeah, don't be touted for the party. Yeah. Also, second movers, it's just like with streaming platforms. It's like, I'm sorry, I have met my limit. I'm not going to subscribe.

I don't care what you're cooking over there. Unless Quibi comes at you with a contract. Would you take some Quibi money? Listen, they've already slid. Oh. And you slid on out? I took the Quibi money. I have yet to take the Quibi money? Listen, they've already slid. Oh. And you slid on out? I took the Quibi money. I have yet to take the Quibi money.

Whoa. I lost my shot at Quibi money. I got far. But I don't think I nailed my last audition. To host. It's not even, I mean, whatever. Come on, full disclosure. What did they offer you?

Mike's Hard Lemonade? Full disclosure. They paid me five nickels and a Mike's Hard. Five nickels and a Mike's Hard. That sounds about right. That's the going rate at Quibi right now. Yeah.

No, I'm kidding. They have, I mean, you're like, no, I'm kidding. It's fine. I know. I just feel like they're wasting so much money. you should watch the show

when it comes out in April. Yeah, I mean, a billion dollars in ads or in content spend. We will see where that goes. What is something you think is underrated? Clothes lines. Clothes lines. How do you say that word? Clothes you think is underrated? Clotheslines.

Clotheslines. How do you say that word? Clotheslines. Clotheslines. Clotheslines. But you want to honor the TH in it. Clotheslines. Clotheslines.

Clotheslines. Because when you say, hey, pick up your clothes, you say your clothes. Your clothes. We say it like- Right, you say clothing. You get clotheslined. Yeah. Wait, is that a different-

Clothesline. No, that's the whole thing. Because if you ran without looking, you would have got necked up by a clothesline. I love a clothesline. I love when I see clothes and washcloths hanging from a clothesline in the breeze. I think it's the coolest thing. Yeah. Just for our cinematographers, just hang your clothes on clotheslines.

It's a beautiful thing to have. It's an establishing- Yeah. It's a beautiful thing to have. It's an establishing. Yeah. It's a great thing. We also have to help people who are on the run and need to change identities. You usually be like, oh, what's this shit hanging? I don't know. Make an outfit out of this.

Suddenly they're wearing a different outfit. They help in chase scenes. A little bit of stakes. Exactly. I do like a clothesline. Do you have one set up in your abode? No. No.

So you sort of long for the days of the clothesline? I love, you know, when you're on a train, I love trains, not trains in a city, but trains like, you know, going across. Traveling between cities. Yeah. I love that. Like an Amtrak train. Oh, yeah.

We're just on one. I love Amtrak trains and things like that because usually you're seeing a lot of backyards. You're going through in between towns. I love to look into backyards and i love just when i go on i i do love looking at people's yards you know yeah i even love it's funny when i walk my dog kind of at dusk at night i love looking in people's windows i love when the like lights start to come on and the hills get all twinkly and you're like what are people doing they start changing clothes and clothes clothes yeah and um yeah and and yeah and when people stand naked in front of windows and i just stand transfixed in the street yeah hell yeah man no but there's something about

trains i don't know why it just seems like they cut across like random parts of the landscape. Whereas like highways are just completely protected. Walled off sound. Yeah. Walled off sound walls, but like trains, you feel like you're seeing a part of the country that you wouldn't see it. Just like a straight line that was cut through a random. Although going down that Atlantic corridor.

Yeah. There's not a lot of, I don't feel like we didn't go through many backyards. No, not backyards. There's a lot of like old buildings. So maybe that's not a lot of, I feel like we didn't go through many backyards. No, not backyards. There's a lot of like old buildings. So maybe that's what it is. It's just like,

but I find looking out the window while on a train much more interesting than looking out the window. Yeah. I'm starting to, I think I'm going to put a clothesline into my backyard. Do it.

You have a backyard? Yeah. That's so great. I have concrete outside of the back of my house. There's not much. It's hard to call that a yard. But I am actually getting, I like to hang dry my clothes because growing up when my dryer broke, my mom just said, we're not fixing it. So we just always line dried our clothes

because in japan you do that anyway right um and i realized too like i dryers can fucking fuck your clothes up oh you're not careful with that shit absolutely and i sometimes absent-mindedly or high will do laundry and then i shrink the fuck out of something and it becomes her majesty's new outfit right but then don't you think that sometimes when you hang it dry in your inside, I don't think outside, but they're a little more stiff. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. 100.

Something about the sun, though. The sun also, the UV is also giving it a little desanitizing. Yeah, if it's blowing, then maybe it gets less stiff. But to be honest, I feel like I do think in this town, I think like, well, the air's not clean. I'm going to put the clothes on and they're going to be full of pollution. Your white shirt is just gray now.

I know. Man, I just took the train in LA for the first time ever and was really surprised that there were a lot of people on it. There are, yeah. The expo line? Which one? I got on, I went from Hollywood and Vine to downtown. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was crazy because I was standing at the kiosk trying to pay.

I did pay. And as I was looking, all these kids were jumping over the turnstiles and stuff and just jumping on. Yeah. I was like, oh, man, look at these crazy kids jumping the turnstiles. Look at these scamps. Hey, you get back here, scamp. And then when I tried to use my thing that I did pay for the ride, it wouldn't work, and I ended up jumping the turnstile. Hey, exactly.

I felt so cool. I felt so cool. You are cool. Thank you. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,

these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Well, speaking of what we were talking about a couple minutes ago yeah what's happening mainstream media freaking out uh chris matthews uh the wispy haired screamer

on msnbc so he he had a couple meltdowns during bernie's surge uh around nevada and was saying that he used to be afraid that socialists would take him into central park and murder him and execute him jack execute execute sorry sorry and like people started being like wait why is chris matthews on tv anyways then he did another nazi comparison with the imagino line then he would start calling people the wrong name and like just seemed Nazis, then he would start calling people the wrong name and like just seemed increasingly out of it. And then things started coming out that he was basically verbally abusive. Sexually harassing people, like saying like a guest had come on recently and he was like,

why aren't I in love with you yet? And then like telling the makeup artists like put on more makeup. Yeah. Oh, now I'm going to fall in love with her. Saying shit like that. Other people were just sort of like, he was like when he went on his show he was like look we basically i had a talk with msnbc it seems like uh might be time for me to retire right um and uh he's like i you know i was making compliments uh that i realized are inappropriate then and inappropriate

now yeah i mean the other thing too uh that we didn't have time to cover was when Elizabeth Warren, after one of the debates, basically put Mike Bloomberg to the sword when like bringing up his record on how he talks to women. And just remember, this was another moment, too, where Chris Matthews absolutely shat the bed to show people that he's like i don't know with the times this is an exchange where he's basically pressing elizabeth warren on why she would believe a woman do you believe that the former mayor of new york said that to a pregnant employee well pregnant employee sure said that he did why shouldn't i believe her you know i'm just really tired of

this world this one is personal for me it really is but you believe in that kind of person who did that look pregnancy discrimination is real and these we have gone on and on and on where people say oh i can't really believe the woman really why not mayor bloomberg has non-disclosure agreements for who knows how many women and it's not not just the one. The whole point is, how can you actually trust someone who will not just say, look, I'm going to waive on non-disclosure on sexual harassment and discrimination.

Anybody who has a story to tell can come tell their story. Sure, I agree with everybody. Deserves incredible response when they make a charge like that. My question about him, you believe he's lying. I believe the woman. You believe he's lying. I believe the woman.

You believe he's lying. Which means he's not telling the truth. And why would he lie? Because just to protect himself. What? Yeah. And why would she lie? I mean, that's the question, Chris.

Why do you assume that he's the guy? I just want to make sure you're clear about this. You're confident of your accusation. What? All I know is what she said and what he said. Wow. And I've been on her end of it in the sense of discrimination based on pregnancy.

And I've been on his edge. It happens all across this country. All right, so let me get this straight. You think he's going to lie to what? Like protect himself? Yeah, exactly. Exactly that, Chris Matthews. That's the definition of lying yeah for every

single lie right no one lies to put make their situation worse uh that was wild yeah so again there have been consistent people like especially after that people like what is going on like yeah we're we have we're moving in the direction of we're not being like, well, that's a heavy accusation, lady. What are you what are you talking about here? Yeah. And again, he has been he's been a little bit slow to move in that in the direction where the rest of society is moving. And I think it was, you know, I a lot of people at the network were sort of screaming like a cancel culture kind of things like that. Like on Morning Joe, one of the contributors there was like, it's a disturbing decision because some people like, and then Twitter gets noisy that someone like this has

to step down. Oh, they were saying that it's disturbing that he decided to retire. Retire because cancel culture. And look, however they handled it, like that's on them. But I mean, it's clear to me that his voice was one that was not keeping up with the times anymore. Was he always that way? Or did like the success of a socialist candidate in one state like jar something loose? No, he's just been. He's been. Yeah, he's just like that. And I think it took a combination of things to change around him to sort of underline sort of how fixed he was. And then even Meghan McCain was like, you know, she said,

he's like 75. I like that their quote is, he's like 75. He's a line of cable news. She's like, I grew up watching him. And then I love him. And then she said, and to reduce his entire career to this segment yesterday made me really sad because I thought he deserved a better send off than that. And then there are other people like, you know, like Joey Behar was like, yeah, dude,

this is the this is what we're talking about. Like, you know, as many people, I think Whoopi Goldberg, you know, was sort of caping for him and saying like, you know, it was a different time or whatever. And then Joy Behar was saying, yeah, but there are plenty of men who weren't doing this even back then in the times of mad men. You know, so there's not like that doesn't excuse these kinds of things, especially when we're trying to tell people, you know, there's a forward direction of moving. Yeah. It sounds like he could be president. Every single quality you're describing are current presidential qualities. Yeah.

Suspicious of women, socialists. Yeah. Not making sense. Yeah, absolutely. But it does seem like a lot of times on the left, the left tries to maintain standards. And those are the exact qualities that are just like 100% protected on the right. Yeah, exactly. And even on the left too, because, you know, Megan McCain did make a point. She's like, you know, what about the other people at NBC though,

too? Like they're people who are like killing stories about, you know, like Ronan Farrow's investigations and things like that. Yeah. That actually has to, that should be, there needs to be a reckoning with that shit too. Yes which is a valid point but i guess yeah like sometimes it's easier to be selective than sort of apply a standard or at least saying like okay are you ready to grow if not then you can you can sit on the sidelines for a second man rodent pharaoh yeah going to college at age 11 did you really do that yeah that's wild went to bard i think at age 11 and then um he like graduated from yale law school like before he was like 20 or something what a dick what a dick all right what are you trying

to prove bro all right yeah maybe i left with my doppelganger in college. That's what I'm blaming my- So I forgot my peas in the microwave. Oh, I'm the freaking bad guy now. All right. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Oh, I don't know. Okay. I mean, I was a Warren fan,

so I feel like Warren was underrated this election, Super Tuesday. Yeah. I don't know what the fuck happened. Yeah. I mean, I know what happened, I was a Warren fan, so I feel like Warren was underrated this election, Super Tuesday. I don't know what the fuck happened. I mean, I know what happened, but we'll get to all that. But I was a little surprised, too. I was surprised how well Biden did in Massachusetts. So much of it is this meta-narrative of who is electable, right? And it just everybody, it was just a self-fulfilling thing that once Biden became electable person, everybody coalesced around him.

At the same time, when Warren was winning, a lot of it was based on, you know, people just being like, well, she seems like she's a more realistic version of bernie and like some of bernie's policies make sense and are like in line with where people are going but then like the second it's just electability is so ephemeral it just goes away so quickly and it's such kind of a value yeah that like i mean that's what biden like won based on people who had decided in the previous two days. Yeah. I just don't know. Is that going to be a weakness in the long run?

We'll talk about that more in a bit. But I just, yeah, I worry. I do feel like Warren is by far the most underrated in terms of performance at the polls and just how good her campaign is, how good of a president she would be. She just was smart. Yeah. Like, I'm a nerd.

She's a nerd. Like, she would present numbers. She had plans. Those are things that I like. And just, like, great in the moment. Yeah. Like, just so good in the moment. Just, yeah.

Yeah, but now we've got to figure out how to get progressives together because this is really the i mean like if you're any person who is a progressive progressive should be looking at this joe biden shit with just fear in their fucking heart oh like this man i mean we'll get into all the reasons why he should he'd be a terrible president um especially with the things that are on at stake here but whoo i mean yeah you know again he got a real big he got a he got big help from the media too oh yeah and it's amazing too how much i think it also shows that some people saw how like how

much energy chaos whatever have you was going on during the primary that many people were just sort of like, just they're waiting for the TV to tell me which is the one. And that happened. And then you're almost like, damn, it was that easy. It was that easy. So easy. Yeah.

What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, okay. My last search was Post Malone lyrics. Not even a specific song? Congratulations. Okay, I was going to say, let's get into it. I couldn't understand what he was saying.

I used to have some shame about how much I like Post Malone, but now I've really embraced it. I feel like he's an incredible artist. Yeah, he just said some dumb shit like he doesn't do hip-hop or some shit and i was like okay fool really i mean he's just trying to make his music as broadly applicable whatever yeah but like when you start like turning your back on like this shit that is gonna get you to the point where you're at like miss me with that but yeah i do love his singing especially when he actually sings like when he does country, when I first heard him do country, I was like, what the fuck?

I'm like, okay, look at you, sir. Yeah, he always wears these fucking Johnny Cash suits now, too, with his face tattoos. Right. Yeah. What was it about congratulations? Were you feeling like a congratulations vibe and you wanted to be able to sing along properly? Yeah, no, I was just like, what did he say? Right, he's like, your mama's

comb? When I listen to him, I'm like, what was that? My mama comb. Yeah. Sitting on your TV. I'm like, what? Okay. What I like about it is I always feel high when I, and I'm like, I'm not high. It's the same feeling of when I get pulled over.

I'm like, I'm high, I'm drunk, but I'm not. So just pure panic he instills in you? You get pulled over a lot? In a different way. Sometimes I will take some risks on some yielding lights. Wow. Like merging onto the highway going the wrong way. You know, like that type of thing.

Sometimes I test out the do not enter wrong way signs. Just to see if they're serious. No, I definitely get that like residual pang of panic every time I see a cop that like, even though I'm not

doing anything wrong anymore. Oh, you guys do, huh? Yeah, and you're white. Yeah, I know. I know, I feel the same. I'm like, this is unjustified. Yeah.

But it's just a guilt thing more than anything else. Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm just a very guilty person. Yeah. Were you raised in a guilty religion? Catholicism? Yes. Yes, except for that my family wasn't practicing.

Oh, okay. Oh, that's good. You worshipped pasta. No, it was like self-inflicted. Oh, wow. Self-inflicted. The best kind. You didn't even need no theology to get that killed.

No, because I just like take everything really literally and like I'm very sensitive. So when I was a kid and I was like being immersed in it because my parents did make us go to like all the classes and catechism and everything even though they didn't like practice it. And who was your confirmation saint? I forget. Okay. But like even younger. Okay. But even younger. Blaze.

Blaze? What? Saint Blaze. That's not real. Yeah, French saint. No. Because, yo, everybody was fighting over that saint because it was Blaze. Saint Blaze?

Because it was like, yo, full Blaze. Even though I wasn't even confirmed, in our religion classes, they would talk about it, and I'd be like, yo, that would be tight. What did that saint do? Not even Catholic. Just like erupt in flames? I don't know. I mean, I heard he was like, he was a real wavy guy.

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how do you feel about biscuits hi i'm akilah hughes and i'm so excited about my new podcast rebel spirit where i head back to my hometown in hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it.

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But so this is a photo of the Pizza Hut and Ikea collab pizza, which is a pepperoni pizza topped with Ikea Swedish meatballs. Oh, just drop the bomb, DJ Daniel. Do you like those? The sound bombs? Yes. How do you like our show in general? How are you enjoying this experience?

Do you like us? No. Do you like the Ikea Swedish meatballs? I think so. You know what the picture reminds me of? When I used to go to India and Bangladesh and order pizza, they used to bring it out with keema, like ground meat and nothing else and like green peas on top of it. Now it's a little bit better with their options there.

But that's kind of what that looks like. Yeah. It kind of reminds me of that. It's beautiful. I love Ikea Swedish meatballs. I will fucking go to Ikea just to eat sometimes because I love them shits and it's a cheap lunch. Okay, let's be 100% real about it.

And to see it on a pizza now, I wish I see a little bit of lingonberry jam on the side there. Is that what that is? It must be. If I zoom in, I mean, that's the only that's the only other acceptable topping aside from the gravy. Now, I wish the gravy was incorporated to give you the full Swedish meatball experience. Right. Some dipping gravy? Yes.

I love a dipping gravy with my... Oh, man. Like ranch, but for this pizza, just a little dipping gravy. I mean, can you make this at home? Can you just get the pizza and then get the IKEA Swedish meatballs? Thank you. Good point. Sounds like a lot of work. Doable. Doable. Since them shits are available frozen in a bag

at IKEA. Are they really? Yeah. Alright, so I guess we'll just do them at home. Yeah, you're gonna try this. So I guess this isn't news. I like to see immigrant mom did. She's like, hold on, we can make this shit up. No, we're making this. We don't need it in Japan. And I'm like, damn, you're right. It's better than

like, yeah, you just need the frozen meatballs. We need to do a whole episode of this show that is just brainstorming ideas for brand fast food collabos. Oh, yeah. This was just sitting right there for us. It was right there. It was right there, and all we had to do was think about it. Quick, two-brand mashup.

I can't do it quick, man. I need time. This is how nimble you're going to have to be in these meetings, man. Okay, okay. Because if you're at Yum Brands, they're going to be like, hey, this is a KFC and the NFC. Okay, Domino's Taco Bell. All right, what we're doing here is... Nah, okay, that didn't work at all.

Just ignore the prompt, sir. All right. Samsung and Jack in the Box. Samsung, Jack in the Box? That's tough. It would be an app. Snake? Oh, okay.

A game? A Tizer? Okay. There you go. Okay, we got some momentum going here. Now we're working. And now we've hit a wall. Something with Baja Blast.

Baja Blast needs to be more widely available in other things. Yeah? Yeah. Like a Baja Blast Gatorade? Oh, wow. That was hyper caffeinated? Or like, don't people make like Gatorade cake or some shit? Like use Gatorade in a pastry or something? That sounds gross.

Gatorade in a salad. That doesn't sound good at all. Well, I know you can deep fry Kool-Aid, so maybe you can do something like that. Or just make a cake with, you know, because sometimes you like to use carbonation when you're baking because it helps create air bubbles when you're baking. You use Baja Blast, as we respect. Yeah, the Linguaje Caféano.

For people in Castile. The Baja Blast. Which is the proper pronunciation because it's Taco Bell. And then you mix. Then you get like a nice airy blue cake. I don't know. It looked a little bit like space cake. A little, yeah.

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