The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 116 (Best of 3/9/20-3/13/20)

Episode Date: March 15, 2020

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Overrated. Yeah. What did I put? Oh, I put Joe Biden. This is boring. I don't want to make it like that. All right. Overrated.

We can go with mine car. Monrovia bear. Monrovia bear. Now, this is important. Overrated cart. Monrovia bear. Monrovia bear. Now, this is important. Overrated is the Monrovia bear. Okay. Do you guys know about the Monrovia bear? I don't.

Okay. I live in Monrovia, California. Okay. In a back house, in the back of an acre and a half property that my boss, well, I don't need to get too far into it, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, I rent a back house in this yard, and my landlord inherited it. His wife inherited the house from her parents. They grew up in this house.

Anyway, so they've... That's really irrelevant. That was a cold brew related... That was a cold brew. That was a cold... See, I wait till I get to the studio. When I... Just a little behind the scenes stuff.

Before I come to the Daily Zeitgeistist so I can be extra tweaked. Right. Yeah. I do not drink coffee all the way to here, which is so unusual for me. And the whole way here, I'm in very dire straits. I can't talk right. And I'm like, I can't drive right and stuff. Yeah.

I would say the difference between you before and after the cold brew is akin to The Incredible Hulk. I don't know if it's really good, though. Actually, I get kind of disoriented. And you know about my famous brain wipe. Right. Where we had to stop the show because my brain just completely emptied. Yeah, we talk about little else around here. Of course.

Anyway, so a couple, what was it, a week ago? It was a national story, that bear wandering around the neighborhood. Did you see it? Yeah, for like two days. That was my fucking neighborhood. Oh, wow. Wait, really? Did you see the bear IRL?

That bear was, what do you call it when they shoot it with darts? Shooting tranquilizers. Oh, tranquilizers. It was tranquilized outside my kitchen. No way! I have a picture of it laying outside my, I mean, three feet from my, that bear chose my yard out of every yard. It had been wandering around for two days and it finally stopped and was subdued. Yeah.

Even though it was not. This is the other part of the story and why it's... The myth is that bears are a big deal. This bear... Right. Wasn't going to hurt. Okay. I wake up.

Okay. I wake up. I usually would have slept through the whole thing. Right. This thing happened at like 7.30 in the morning. I usually wake up at noon at best. So I also have no money. I'm not'm not married i have no children so don't get jealous um so i i woke up and i it's 7 30 i never wake up at 7 30 i had to work at this vineyard

you know it was a it was a show i what am i i have no job i'm a celebrity um so anyway i had i got up you're a celebrity and you don't cum. I don't work and I don't cum. Hashtag don't work. Hashtag don't cum. Thank you, Jamie. Oh, God, this is good. So anyway, I walked out. This is such a fucking crazy story.

So I walk out of my back house, right? There's nothing happening. There's no noise or anything. There's nobody anywhere. And I'm groggy because it's 7.30 in the morning, five hours before I usually wake up. And some of those tranquilizers miss the bear and hit you. I had cold brew late at night, so I probably slept terribly like I always do. Right.

And I walked out and I saw a bear walking 100 feet away from me. But it was in the same yard. I mean, it was through the, it had just come through the gate. That's too close. But it was walking real slow and it wasn't really looking at me. Okay. So I took out my phone and took a picture of it. And then I noticed that everyone in the front house was waving their arms madly.

Right. And like screaming. Right. But then I was like, I'm late for work because I had to drive really far. So I just took the other path out of the backyard. Right. And didn't really. And like one of the people in the front house was like, Chris, wouldn't you like to come

inside? And I was like, I'm just going to go this way. I came around the corner and there were 20 TV cameras pointed at the house. Oh my God. That sounds like a nightmare. But I was just like late. So I was like, okay, well, how are you guys doing? And got in my car and drove away.

Right. So I destroyed their narrative. Right. Completely. Yeah, because you were not. And I had. Right. The famous footage, news footage of man v. bear

is like the person who's like walking down the alleyway like texting and then like looks up and they're like a foot away from a bear and they like freak out and like cartoonishly run away you like had that same experience except you were just like oh what's up because of a combination

of like sleeping poorly because of cold brew like waking up early and yeah like there's nothing i was so tired and disoriented i could have any bear i'm surprised i didn't pet the bear or you know what i mean like but it was so funny because um yeah because the news people were uh i accidentally made fools out of the news people yeah and your face news people. Yeah. And your face news people. I think that was brave. I'd also been on a hike though in Monrovia. Monrovia is up again. Okay.

It's just like I went on a hike. It's best not to be called the fuck out. Well, you know, I got tired of the dating app, so now I'm hiking. Right. So I hike shirtless. Nice. So I'm in Monrovia. It's up against the San Gabriel Mountains.

The thing is that bears come down there all the time. And so I just happened to have been on a hike on, it was like President's Day or something? I don't remember what day it was, but it was like a holiday. And there was a bear up in the mountains and there were 70 people around it filming it. And I asked a park ranger just recently whether it was dangerous. And they were like, no, a bear is not going to bother you unless you bother it. So it really is like I didn't feel fear because the bear was like

not looking at me. Right. But I came out looking like I was a badass. But really it was just I just recently had been sort of told, like, as long as you're not right next to the bear or you, you know, want to interact with it. Right. You know.

Same bear, you think? No. You think that bear is coming after you know, wanted to interact with it. Right. You know. Same bear, you think? No, probably. You think that bear's coming after you like the shark from Jaws. Maybe it saw you

and was like, no, there's someone special. I got the good in that guy's house. See, that guy's built. I'm not falling for,

I'm not getting involved in whatever premise that's supposed to be. So, so anyway, the, the, the moral of the story

is the myth. Is this the myth busting? Nope. It's overrated. Oh. Overrated is fear bears. Okay. What is something you think is overrated?

Okay. Is this going to make hamster Twitter mad again? I feel like I'm going to get kicked out. No. Well, I was going to say cold brew. Overrated. Yeah. But then you offered me one when I came in, but then I couldn't think of something else at the last minute.

I was wondering why when I was like, would you like a cold brew? And you said, oh, fuck off. I was like, wow, we just met. No, go on. I mean, I'm not here to say cold brew is objectively the number one thing. People have their opinions. I just feel like people are just, they freaking will not stop talking about it. For me, it tastes like tar.

It's like, and also it's like a liquid heart attack. Whenever I drink it, I'll drink it in the morning because I'm like, I'm tired. And then around 3 p.m. it hits me. I feel like I'm going to just, my heart's going to pop out of my chest and then I don't sleep. You get latent cold brew hit?

So maybe it's just me. Are you drinking Creeper? Maybe. Maybe I'm drinking the wrong stuff. Isn't that the weed that like you would smoke and then an hour later? That's like decades ago. If you said that, I'd be like, what, officer?

You guys hitting Creeper? I'm like, yo, all right, Creeper Southerner, get the fuck out of here. That's funny because I'm like that with edible weed. I'll eat it three hours later. I'm like, I'm in a place I did not need to be right now. I needed it three hours ago. Cold brew, the reason I drink it is I'm, listeners have heard this time and again, I'm pretty insensitive to regular cups of coffee.

So this is the only thing where I've been like, oh, this is what drinking coffee is like. Then maybe it's just my body. I didn't mean to. Well, no, many people have sat across from me. No, no, no, no, no offense taken. I mean, it's just, you know, when you choose this life, you accept everything that comes along with it. For sure. But there are people who have been like, oh, is this good?

And then we'll have a panic attack in that seat and be like, yeah, this is intense. Yeah. No, it makes me feel like I'm going to, I don't know. Yeah. Do you drink a lot of caffeine in general? I drink like green tea. Just like green tea. Yeah.

So you're very caffeine sensitive. Yeah. That's enough to give you a little boost. I would say we are saying that cold brew is overrated for caffeine sensitive people. Sure, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's overkill. Yeah, it's overkill. It's way too much.

My caffeine receptors are just blown out for whatever reason. Yeah, blown out. My house's caffeine receptors are blown out. They're blown out. I don't know why. No, it's like, yeah. Blown out. I don't know, man. The calf's like, yeah. Blow it out. I don't know, man.

The cath receptors just blow the fuck out. Blown out, man. But my mom's the same way. Yeah. I would always, in my mind, coffee was something

you would drink late at night because you just wanted a warm drink. Yeah. So I never, I don't know if maybe I witnessed that and I'm like,

coffee has no power on people. Yeah. I don't know how much is placebo, how much is biological. No, caffeine's a powerful drug. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it exists. Yeah. I don't know how much is placebo, how much is biological. No, caffeine's a powerful drug. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it exists. Yeah.

Caffeine's real. The industry is going wild right now. I was reading an article how the caffeine, because they're drug peddlers too, having to constantly think of how they can keep people hooked on the calf. Yeah, new caffeine delivery methods. Yeah. Have you had the snuff? No.

You just snort caffeine straight to the caffeine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight to the dome? Colombian caffeine. Yeah, that stuff's great. It's white? Yeah, it's white. Makes you fart a bunch? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's only you, man. Well, they cut it with laxatives, man. All the drug dealers know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I know people

who were having trouble sleeping and having major anxiety and then they cut caffeine out. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like caffeine is, you know, you need to take it seriously and know yourself. Could you ever dial back your caffeine intake? No.

Probably not. I think that's what happens. Oh, so your caffeine receptors are blown out in the other way. Yeah, I need them. Where it's like, ain't no coming back. I need it. I've had some days where I can go. I just think that now I'm at the point where I get headaches if I don't have it.

Oh, dang. Ooh, the withdrawals, huh? Yeah. Yep, yep. Then I start shaking. Yeah, that happens. Yeah. The sweats have always happened.

Yeah. Yeah. Then I'm on the street just begging people for like sipping their coffee it's like really shitty like frappuccino let me get your frat bro yes with whipped cream and don't get cheap on me. Let me lick the whipped cream on top. Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false?

Okay, so I went beekeeping a couple weeks ago. All right. Highly recommend it. But I learned- What do you mean you went beekeeping? It was like an Airbnb experience. Airbnb. And you go to this guy's house and you beekeep.

Oh, so it's like, because I know in Airbnb they have stays and experiences, so this was like a two-in-one? No, just an experience. He lives out in Eagle Rock. We went for like a couple hours. And what I learned, which I thought was interesting and I didn't know, I thought that you've heard that bees die when they sting. Not entirely

true. So they will die if they sting a mammal or something else with really thick skin. So if they sting you, the stinger gets stuck in your skin. Oh, and it eviscerates them? It eviscerates and then they die. But they're fine stinging other insects and things with less thick skin, which I didn't know. That is cool. Got it, got it, got it.

So I was like, that seems like evolutionarily dumb for the bees. But it's not. They're actually fine. They're just putting their lives on the line. The gnarliest. Again, I'm going to talk gnarly. I'm going to go gnar-talk. Some gnar-talk? Some gnarliest. Again, I'm going to talk gnarly. I'm going to go gnar talk. Some gnar talk?

Some gnar talk here, guys. So hold on to your butts. But there are some wild stories about just how insects battle each other. Like bees versus the Japanese hornet. Oh, we all know that viral video. The one where they encircle it and start vibrating it. Oh, and use their heat to melt the wasp or whatever, the hornet? That's how they'd battle the wasp.

But then the wasps that just destroy the bees, and there's just bee body parts flying all over the place. There's a video with a camera within a beehive where these Japanese hornets or wasps come in, and their pincers are just chopping the bees up. Holy shit. But it was wild to see. Yeah, like the one defense the bees had was like

if they downed one hornet, they would just dog pile and then overheat the hornet with their butts. With their butt vibrations. Wow. Yeah. Their ability to regulate heat is super dope. Bees, they can air condition their hives with their wings. They create big drafts.

That's why you got to take care of these bees, man. The only thing you got to respect more than caffeine? Bees. Well, the guy said if you have the space to plant rosemary, they really like to pollinate that, so they'll come. Oh, shit. Yeah, I have a beehive in my backyard. I just leave it there.

Yeah. Some people are like, I'm really allergic. I'm like, I don't care. I'm not going to tell them to leave. Guess you don't get to hang out here. I guess, I don't know, bring three EpiPens when you come over? Deal with it? Yeah.

I've also, but it's so funny, the last times I've been stung by bees, it's always me stepping on a bee. Oh, really? Oh, wow. I haven't, but like, I used, as a kid, I remember being an idiot and fucking around near a beehive or something and getting stung tradish. Tradish, yeah. On the arms or something.

Yeah. But on the soles of your feet, the worst fucking kind of thing. Oh, yeah. You were like walking around limping, dude. Yeah. Like earlier. In my career, podcasting. In your career.

Yeah. Yeah, the, a little, one of my son's friends got stung in our pool by a dead bee uh just right yeah like floated over and like got her wow my very first bee sting uh dead bee on a boogie board yeah i tried to get on the boogie board and just fucking the bee was already on there and he was like get the fuck off get the fuck off boom cried yeah five years. What was the beekeeping experience like? Amazing. You were in a suit? Mm-hmm. You're fully suited up. I, going into it, was like, what am I doing?

You know, like, why am I here? But it was my friend's birthday, so we had to go. Why am I here? No, it was leap day. You know, we were just going crazy. Oh, leap day. Oh, leap day. We were doing leap day things.

There you go. Yeah, yeah. But it was actually so, like, it was so calming and relaxing because you have to be very, you know, slow and you don't want to freak the bees out. So I felt very safe. You know, you're totally covered and you go and the guy had a bunch of different hives and he would pull them out and you could just like watch them interact. And he would kind of explain like what each of their jobs were, what they were doing. And you just kind of like hang out.

And again, it's very you're very slow, very calm, very relaxed environment. And then at the end, he cut off some of the honey and we ate it. It was the best thing ever. So if you want something really fun and random to do beekeeping, it was random. very relaxed environment. And then at the end, he cut off some of the honey and we ate it. It was the best thing ever. If you want something really fun and random to do, go beekeeping. You just learn something, too. Especially a vital part of our life cycle. Our ecosystem.

Our life cycle, as well. We all start off as bees. And we leave the hive. That's our very specific religion that we practice here at the Daily Zeitgeist. Facing a kid in a pool. Yeah. And then you become that kid.

It's like a Santa Claus scenario. I'm this old bee now. We have a list of the healthiest cereals. And I'm glad to see a lot of these are some of my favorite cereals. Yeah. Is that what this list is? Yeah. We've been talking a lot about keeping your, you know, keeping your health the top of the list.

Right. Because, I mean, one of the things that makes you most susceptible to COVID-19, diabetes, high blood pressure, all things that are caused by, you know, bad diet. Okay. 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. 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 you intake you should have with your breakfast

cereal. So they're saying it shouldn't contain more than 21.2 grams of sugar per hundred grams of cereal. And so you just divide the cereals, grams of sugar per serving by the serving size and grams. Anyway, they've made the list to show you everything that is above that list. So this one is – so at 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. Wait a second. So I'm looking at this list. So the higher the number, the less healthy. The more sugar. The more sugar, yeah. That's a higher concentration.

This is 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- It does? I think so 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- 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, we 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, you 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 and churros was delicious, so I guess. I guess it's not as delicious as my fault. I guess Froot Loops is pretty criminally sweet 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. 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 survive off of, you could probably pack your cupboards to the rim. And no one's out there hoarding cinnamon toast crunch. 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. 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.

People were stealing from the bank and it was like an old-timey cop. It doesn't pack. I would say the best of this group is Fruity Pebbles. That packs the most sweetness. Yeah. It's easy to eat Fruity Pebbles. 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. They're pebbles. 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. Yeah, give me 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, 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, like as a kid, see that and be like, I bet that's candy. And the fish tank. No, 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. 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 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' Captain 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 Captain 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 and had like, you know there's strawberry milk, chocolate milk. I'd drink some Captain Crunch

milk for sure. I think there's I know there's Captain Crunch flavored I think that's one of their milk bars that have cereal milk and one know there's Captain Crunch flavored. I think that's one of like their milk bars that have cereal milk. And one of them is Captain Crunch milk. So, yeah. How do you make, 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. 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.

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And we're back. All right, let's talk about, uh, on to, on to the next. Speaking of America, us Americans can't quit touching our faces right human beings can't yeah in general hey kids you you dtf one way don't touch face call the dad police Jesus. Yeah. Were you writing that this morning? No, I just thought of that. Dude, that's been marinating. Damn. Improv champion.

When's your Herald team performing next? Yeah. I got cut. They cut me. I'm like still, my head is spun from how amazing that joke was. No, there was like, and Wired, they were sort of putting together a lot of research that shows like just in general, human beings just, we have a compulsion,

like we have an instinct to touch our faces at all stages of like life, like in the womb, babies do it. In like college students, little like just with medical students, they said, okay, let's just watch them during lectures. The average was touching your face every two and a half minutes. Yeah.

Um, and then there was like other studies in Germany. They were doing one to put sort of young adults like under stress. So they were doing like a memory test, but like blasting them with unpleasant sounds like as they were doing this memory test. And they found that the people like in these more the stressful group ended up touching their faces a lot more yeah like nose cheeks chin and then like they're so they're saying okay so this spontaneous facial self-touch as they say it helps to like sort of regulate their emotions so add to that we're

already in a stressful environment just with people being like hoarding shit, thinking, you know, everywhere you go is just contaminated, that we're already fighting an urge that we have. Even pets, they even point to like cats and like dogs who like sleep with their paws. It's just a natural, it's like an animal instinct.

Is it like, I'm still here? Right. Yeah, like in a way it's just like, or it's soothing or like for a baby, you're just kind of figuring your face out. I mean, I sleep on my face. So that's, you know. Wait, face down? Yeah, I sleep face down.

No, you don't. Yeah, I do. You really do? Yeah. Are you joking? Just mashed into the pillow or into my arm. Yeah. Whoa.

So you look like you're planking in bed? No, I'm kind of to the side. Oh, like cheek down. Okay, I thought you were straight nostrils on the mattress. But yeah, I like having something pressed against my face. Yeah. It's a weird thing to say. No, I do that with pillows.

I'll sandwich my head with pillows. That's how I like to sleep. And I definitely have like I'm a nail biter. Me too. This has been hard. All the definitely have, like, I'm a nail biter. Me too. This has been hard. All the worst things. Yeah, it has been. Yeah.

I just wash the hell out of my hands and then bit my nails off so that I wouldn't, like, have that. Just clip them. Nah. You still needed that, like, that sensation of nervously biting them off? Wow. Veronica, I'm sorry. Yeah. I don't know what this guy's deal is.

I used to really like to bite my nails, and it's like it took a long time for me to overcome that. That's hard. I'm really bad with like picking like zits. Can we talk about that? We like pimple popping over here. I love it. I just almost touched my face. But it's like I walk past my mirror and I'm like hands down.

Unless you steep them in boiling alcohol first. Well, it's all right. Anyways, we're all going to die. Hey, here's a fun app for the kids. So it's a company named Pink Unicorn and they have apps called One Direction Fan App. Love it. They got one EDM Fan App.

Love it. I mean, is this company just buying for kids? Because, I mean, they got also a formula racing app, probably. Not for the kids. Yeah. The shorties fuck with that one. Yeah, kids love Formula, right?

Yeah. Babies. Babies. Babies love Formula. But Motherboard, the Vice website, found that those three apps are all collecting data in a way that's even more aggressive than Cambridge Analytica. Wait, what? And it actually shares code with a company called Banjo that is basically a surveillance app.

So this is just a surveillance company creating an arm that is called Pink Unicorn. Uh-huh, who makes these weird apps. Yeah, that just makes apps specifically designed to spy on children. What sort of info are they getting? Just your social media information. Like your logins

and then they're using your social media information to, I don't know. I think they're sharing it with the police so the kids can, so the police can investigate kids. Yeah, because you know kids

are just a threat. Yeah, criminals. Oh yeah. High school students. Straight crims. They got to stop this vandalism. Is the content in the app even worth it? I feel like if I've downloaded an app and I was like, this shit sucks.

I never delete it still. It's just a weird thing with apps. Still in the background, yeah. I don't know. I got 700 apps. Yeah, it's just one of those apps where if you're a One Direction fan, you go in there and it's like, sign up with Twitter, sign up with Facebook, and no other option.

And so they're just like, okay. Also, who's fucking with One Direction is no longer a thing. I know. Well, this was years ago. Oh, that they were just figuring out now that this shit has been cooking for a minute. Wow. EDM fan app. I feel like anyone who really likes EDM, you'd be like, this app is not for me.

I'm having a hard time feeling bad for any of these people, but I'm just saying it's gross. But yeah, One Direction fan app, EDM fan app. I mean, they're probably- What fan app? Their phones are just riddled with spyware. What would you be susceptible to if you saw an app that said blank fan app? That's a great question, Miles. That you'd be like, oh, damn it.

Get your answer ready too, Veronica. My wheels are spinning, I don't know. Jaws 2 fan app. That's spot on, I think. Yeah. Actually for you. Yeah. But what could it promise you? That or like JFK assassination I think. Yeah. Actually for you. Yeah. Uh-huh.

But what could it promise you? That or like JFK assassination fan app? JFK assassination. Yeah. That's for you. Bonner Manager. Bonner Manager fan app. Yeah. We're going to have him on.

I'm going to do a whole bonus episode of Daily Zeitgeist where I just talk to Bonner Manager. Pick his brain. Yeah. I think this whole show has been built so you could just have a conversation recorded with Bonner Manager. I did an episode of a show that I only did two episodes of for Stitcher Premium. Nobody listened to it. But it was about the JFK conspiracy theory and Bonner Manager.

And now I want to actually talk to him on a show that people listen to. So I'm going to do that. Oh, okay. Yeah. What about you, Veronica? What's the app you download? It'd be like In-N- do that. Oh, okay. Yeah. What about you, Veronica? What's the app you download? It'd be like In-N-Out fans. Oh, wow.

It's like my favorite food. You like In-N-Out that much? I love it. Wow. What's your order? Double, double. Grilled onion, no tomato. Get this extra lettuce.

Extra lettuce. Add a little bit of crunch. Wow. Touch my face. I got so excited. You're thinking about it. I always get people think I'm out my wig, but I like double double animal style chopped chilies with light fries. Crucify me.

Light fries. Light fries. He likes soggy fries. Interesting. I didn't know this was the sort of environment I was walking into. Yeah. Cold brew and soggy fries. Welcome to my nightmare or your nightmare.

fries welcome to my nightmare or your nightmare if his fries can be the consistency of well done spaghetti that's what he prefers mom's spaghetti we call that mom's spaghetti let me get those fries mom's spaghetti Miles

what would you be susceptible to it would probably be Arsenal fan app or like I don't know like sick smoke ring tricks fan app. Oh, right. Yeah, that makes sense. Or like, I don't know, like sick smoke ring tricks fan app. Do you still watch smoke ring videos? Come on, man. Why the fuck am I on trial right now? Why can't you put me on trial?

Yeah, I fuck with the little smoke ring apps here and there. Hey, man, some of these tricks they do, I don't know how the fuck they do them. Especially when they do this shit where it's like a force push with the smoke ring and then blow another one in between. I don't know. Yeah. It is cool. That's what they do. Especially when they do this shit where it's like a force push with the smoke ring and then blow another one in between. Yeah. I don't know. It's cool. Yeah.

It is cool. That's what I do. I sip my cold brew, eat my soggy fries and watch vape smoke tricks. I mean, I'm next to eating well done fries watching zit popping videos. Like it's, it's fine. We'll be hanging out. Everyone has a thing. I like Dr. Pimple Popper.

Everyone does that. You know what I mean? Well done at. You watch Dr. Pimple Popper. You know what? Probably a Dr. Pimple Popper fan. Oh, 90 Day Fiance fan. 90 Day Fiance, yes.

Oh, you're a fan too? Oh my God. Miles has a whole show. Really? Yeah. For a 20 Day Fiance. Yeah, yeah. I just want to talk about Joel Osteen real quick, the mega church mogul.

He has decided that perhaps the love of Christ Jesus himself will protect his flock from the fucking global pandemic that has been declared by the World Health Organization. Where is Joel? Where's his headquarters? Or does he have a bunch of them? Yeah, Houston. Houston, right? But his main one?

Because I remember during the hurricanes, people were like, would you mind opening your church to people who need shelter? And he's like, I don't know about that. He said, absolutely not, in his name. Yeah. God came to me in a dream last night

and said, keep it locked up he said um no he said reverse noah yeah oh boy uh yeah get the motherfuckers out the ship two of each please so his mega church services apparently they will continue over the weekend um even though there is a pandemic um meaning that around nearly 50000 people total will have come through that facility through the weekend. So right now, his Lakewood Church in Houston has three scheduled services, Saturday night and two on Sunday, and they usually get around 16,000 people at each service. Great, great. We can make the two on Sunday funerals.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, hey, you know the— But here's, I mean, I don't like Joel Osteen at all, but are we telling all churches to stop? Like, I mean, because like other churches aren't closing their doors. Well, he has a mega church. 16,000. That's a huge sample size.

I'm with you. Look, man, this guy sucks, but I'm just like my parents are going to go to their like 100 person church or whatever. No, I get it. I think a lot of people have, but even in other countries, they've had to make that call to be like, yeah, we have to close gyms. We have to like, we can't really open get it. I think a lot of people have, but even in other countries, they've had to make that call to be like, yeah, we have to close gyms. We have to, like, we can't really open the churches. I'm just, look,

this guy sucks. He's trash. But I'm like, people do love church. Oh, absolutely. I have no problem people going to church. I mean, my grandfather

still will go to his church. But Joel also has a telecast. So theoretically, he could, like, The View has, like The Price is Right has, who have smaller audiences than Joel. Empty Cedars. Wait, The Price is Right went to Empty Cedars?

Yes. What? The Price is Right is doing better than Joel Osteen? Wait, on The Price is Right, how do they pick a contestant? Oh, they're in bubbles? Wait, it's Jeopardy that went to Two Cedars. The View? And The View did, and there's another game show that went to Two Cedars.

It can't be The Price is Right. Jeopardy, Jeopardy, Jeopardy. It's the Wheel of Fortune. Wheel of Fortune. It's Wheel of Fortune. I know for sure. I was about to be like, all right, so our lucky audience.

And the cameras just pan and there's no one. It's people in their cars and it takes 20 minutes for them to get inside. It's me, it's me. Okay, first we need to do a laser thermal reading

to make sure you don't have a... Because that's what they're doing in a lot of places too. They're going to start thermal scanning people and we'll see how well a... Because that's what they're doing in a lot of places too. They're going to start thermal scanning people and we'll see how well that works. But again, they're saying

the precautions they're taking at Lakewood, they're going to say we're going to sanitize services like bathrooms and leave the doors propped open so they don't have to touch anything. And that should be fine.

And we're doing holy water for everybody. Okay? We're doing communion for the kids. Yeah, we're still sharing that cup. But just best believe when the offering plate comes around, that shit will not be sanitized.

Because those can't take a break. Oh, and money is very dirty. Oh my God. But you gotta give in his name if you don't want that rona. Yeah. Can you imagine some of the bullshit people are probably saying? I know Jim Baker was out here telling people that he had capsules that will fucking

save you. And a lot of grifters are on the come up right now. Plenty of scam goddess shit going. I saw, what's the InfoWars guy? Yeah, Alex Jones. Alex Jones. He's got a DWI actually too. Yeah, he's got, well, he combated that. He's going to fight that court cost with his new like lip balm.

Oh, the lip balm that fights Corona? Yeah, I just saw it right before we went on. They're like, I was like, oh. Are you wearing that lip balm? I got it on. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's why I don't have it. You're pretty confident.

I, too, have a lip balm that fights Corona. Oh, okay. What is your lip balm called, madame? My lip balm. It's called Corona Don't. Yeah. Give me a moment. It'll come to me.

But, yeah, it's mostly bleach. Oh, shit. Oh, uh-oh. So that's a whole other thing. But it's all special mix. people were supposed to drink bleach or something there's like that mix people do with fucking it's it's all grifter shit that makes people sick and has absolutely no scientific evidence that it works but this is the environment right especially when people are scared though too yeah that's a that's that's the thing that can happen too like

a lot of people especially when you have a pastor or someone who's shysty you will trust them and they will get you investing in their fucking businesses and shit. Oh, yeah. That happens. Dude, there are times I had to tell my grandparents, like, no. The pastor is not right. At least you talk to him enough. Yeah.

I'm like, do not buy. You don't need to buy this. They're like, well, see, if I buy this, then I sell it to people and then I can make money. And I said, who are you kicking your money up to right now? Well, that will go to the pastor. Multi-level Jesus. Oh, come on. Okay?

Come on, folks. Our roommate in college sat us down one time and then had a box. And when he was like, okay, what would I tell you? And then my other roommate goes, you got fucked, Steve. And then he just got up and leave. Because there were these boxes being sold around campus that you could kick down and stuff. Oh, right. He's like, dude, you got tricked.

You're dumb. And he's like, don't pitch this to us. It's like Tahitian Noni. I remember that was the one everybody was doing. Goji berries. There's always a way of herbal life. It was like a berry thing. Yeah.

Probably goji. That had a big moment. Yeah. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Search history. Recently, I have been very into the legend of the Persian princess. The legend of the Persian princess? The legend of the Persian princess. This is, as you may know, if you perhaps live in the UK, but it's not well known here. A few years ago,

there was a fake mummy that was found and was said to be a daughter of Xerxes and a descendant of the Ahmedid dynasty. And it was a very big deal because there are no Persian mummies, but it was like, this was a Persian princess who married an Egyptian guy and then she was sarcophagized and whatever. Is that the one they scanned?

Yes, it's the one they scanned and they were like, this is fake. Right, right, they're like, oh, this is made of Legos. Well, that was the fucked up thing. It was a real body. Oh, really? It was a real body. It was a real dead lady,

but she was from like 1996. I'm going to have to ask you to stop telling this story because we just greenlit it as a true crime podcast. I'm sorry. And we've already got a new host, so we don't want any friction with the existing host. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. They don't know who she is. I mean, this is an old

thing, but it's something that I was looking up recently because I was just looking up the phrase Persian princess to see what comes up. Let me be honest. I was looking it up to see if anybody had released a debut comedy album entitled Persian princess. And it turns out they haven't, but it is a fake. So can we expect Persian princess with Sarajun?

I don't want to get mixed up with this fake mummy. I don't want people to think I'm a fake mummy. Pat? Oh, no, even better album, Fake Mummy. Fake mummy? Fake ass mummy. Fake fake mummy. Yeah, yeah, bad optics. I don't want people to think I'm a fake mummy. Pat? Oh, that, no, even better album, Fake Mummy. Fake Mummy. Fake ass mummy. Fake ass mummy. But it's like, this woman just was,

they think she was maybe hit by a car because she had some kind of like broken hip and stuff. So they were like, well, it seems to be the corpse of a lady who was hit by a car and then somebody took her body and like- Wrapped her in. And took all her organs out and mummified her and made it a prank mummy and well yeah they were trying to sell it wow how does

that happen are they trying to make it a homicide case yet uh no it's like two it's still on the list of unsolved murders yeah yeah like i don't know if she was murdered or if somebody like robbed a grave or whatever but they put her in but they put her in a fake sarcophagus. They put all these symbols. Egyptian cuneiform was on the outside, and they put all these symbols of Sirius of Koresh, the Ahmedan dynasty, to make it look like she was one of the daughters of Xerxes. Damn. And were those artifacts legit? Because you'd probably be like, man, this shit looks new.

The symbols were correct, but when it was carbon dated, it was like, this is not. Also from 96. Yeah. And also they like, they took her heart out and apparently the Egyptians didn't do that when they mummified. They left the heart in. Classic move. Classic mistake.

Yeah. Eat the heart in y'all. Could have told you that. Idiots. All right. Let's take another break. We'll be right back. All right, let's take another break.

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I just like the idea of like, let's just check in with the coronavirus. Let's just check in with who has the coronavirus at this point. Who's got the tenderoni? Yeah. It's Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro might have it.

He's being tested. Bolsonaro virus. Yeah. Bolsonaro virus. Borona. Anyway. Anyway. But yeah, one of his press aides had it tested positive and like they had all met at Mar-a-Lago.

Yet another opportunity for Trump to contract the illness. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, unfortunately. Yeah. RIP. Thoughts and prayers to them. You know, but it happens. Chet Hanks said that they're... Oh, I have it right here. Do you want to hear what Chet Hanks said?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Chet Hanks, obviously... Cheer to combination. And I'm surprised he didn't come with the iry talk, you know, big up, me parents just got corona, you know? Tom Hanks. Yeah, big up, you know? Wagwan, Wagwan Internet.

So this is him actually giving a very sober update. What's up, everyone? Yeah, it's true. My parents got coronavirus. They're both down in Australia right now because my dad was shooting a movie down there. But I just got off the phone with them. They both are fine. They're not even that sick.

They're not worried about it they're not tripping but they're going through the necessary health precautions obviously okay but uh i don't think it's anything to be too worried about i appreciate everyone's concern and the well wishes but um but they don't need i think it's all gonna be all right but i appreciate it and uh just everybody stay safe out there. All right. Thank you, Chet. Everything can be IRE. Was that a better calming message than we got from the president? Certainly.

Probably. Oh, yeah. Well, at least because everything he said was accurate and didn't require entire swaths of the government to come out and correct what was said. Yeah, exactly. And the fact that he just said, you know, they're not tripping. Yeah. That helped me. That was the true, like speak to me in my language. You know what I mean? Like on MSNBC, they never let me know

who's tripping. Who's tripping, who's not tripping. Should I be tripping? Right. And see, that's why we need to, like everyone's been talking about this. We need another network for It's gonna be Mean Stevie, baby. Yeah, exactly. It's gonna be Mean Stevie. Here it is. Look, y'all shouldn't really be tripping. I get that it's freaky right now, but panicking is not the vibe, okay? It's going to be Mean Stevie, baby. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be Mean Stevie. Here it is. Look, y'all shouldn't really be tripping. I get that it's freaky right now, but panicking is not the vibe, okay?

It's not the wave either. So let me tell you about somebody else who wasn't tripping. Jesus Christ. A young man. My good friend, JC. Always manages to creep up in our shows. Some kind of weird tangent on Christ's love. Rudy Gobert is one of the best players in the NBA,

very underrated in terms of one of the best. Yeah, he just affects things from a defensive perspective more than basically any other player. Great shot blocker. And also a bit of a cut up. At a press conference at practice the other day, people were taking precautions with the media. They were like sitting far away and just had their mics up on the table.

And Gobert thought it'd be funny if he touched all the microphones as a bit because y'all are scared. Yeah, y'all are scared, but he's not. And as the Utah Jazz, his team, were about to take the floor against Oklahoma City Thunder two nights ago and full stadium, everybody was there getting ready. They had to call the game off and then suspended the NBA season because Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. And then the next morning, his teammate tested positive for coronavirus. So this motherfucker is patient.

With the jokes. Zero with the jokes. Doing it. He canceled or suspended the NBA season for the lulz. Troll King. Troll King. Love him. J-R-R Troll King.

J-R-R Troll King in the flesh. So the NBA season is suspended. That's very disappointing for people whose teams were doing well. Oh, hell yeah. But he committed to the big. Yes. By having Corona. Follow he committed to the big. Yes. Like having Corona. Follow that through to the end.

Because, you know, that wouldn't have been funny if he did it all half-assed. You need that confidence. Oh, oh, oh, oh, touching your mics, licking them. If you did it like, oh, I'm touching your, then I'm like, oh, you're being weird. I mean, if he had really done it, he should have licked the mics. That's the real G move. But this seems to be one of the primary causes of Corona that is not being addressed. And that is doing bits about coronavirus seems to be getting people stuck with coronavirus because Matt gets the other like really ill advised coronavirus bit.

Was he like right as news started breaking? Florida congressman. Is it Gates or Gates? I call him Goetz. Well, I know. Yeah, I went to high school with someone who spelled their last name like that and it was Goetz. Shout out Catherine Goetz. Yeah, well, maybe he's trying to change it to sound like put a harder A sound

in it, but we know it's Goetz. It's Goetz, bitch. It's Matt Goetz coronavirus because he went on the floor of Congress in a gas mask as a bit. And then the next day had to quarantine himself. Yeah. Did you read the story about what happened when he found out he was going to have to quarantine?

He shame slept in a Target parking lot in a car. Really? Yeah. Because he was like. That's so Florida. Yeah. He said off 85 on my way up to D.C.., pulled off and slept in a Target parking lot in a car. Wow.

Just trying to figure it out. Just trying to figure out where I had gone wrong. I think so. Yeah. I mean, bits. How many bits do you think Trump is doing behind the scenes? I don't know. He's such a germaphobe, right?

He's such a germaphobe. I don't think he's doing licking things. He probably wouldn't like someone doing bits. If someone was like, or someone coughs or sneezes and goes uh-oh somebody's been to china yes i think those are the bits he's doing right i'm i'm very excited that harborsonaro has coronavirus uh because he said that he he like publicly was like coronavirus is bullshit and now it's like being tested and like definitely has it there you go is it a definite do we know no he's being tested i don't know for sure but is someone he he stands very close to very often does.

Yeah, they met at Mar-a-Lago. He was part of that little fun. That's the thing about having a cabal. You got to take health precautions. Damn, see if Entourage was around now. They could do a coronavirus episode. That'd be so funny. It would be a bottle episode.

Like Turtle got it. And then Drama's like, yo, get away from me. Yeah, and then they're supposed to go to an event like the Emmys or something, and then the Emmys get canceled. South by, they got a new shitty indie film that's coming out. Yo, Vince, you had it in the bag, man. I can't believe they canceled the Emmys on your ass. I don't know which one that was supposed to be.

Probably Turtle mixed with Drama. I don't know. It's been a while since I've worked on my entourage impressions. But it does seem strange that, so there's a Brazilian official who met with Trump who tested positive for coronavirus, gets, and another person from CPAC had to quarantine themselves. They also had been meeting with Trump. It's just weird. There's a Senate aide who also has it? I don't know.

Let's just keep an eye out. I don't think they would tell us if Trump had it, right? No. He would have so much corona shame, which he shouldn't. They would tell us if he died. Yeah, I mean, they'd have to figure something out. But if he was sick and in quarantine, I think they just wouldn't say anything. Yeah, exactly. Right.

Who knows? We'll never find out. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, Mr. Yeah, exactly. Right. Who knows if, who knows? We'll never find out. Okay. Okay. All right, Mr. President, we have your results. They are positive. So let's.

No, no, that's bad. That's not good. Ah, fuck, I got a pen mark. Ah, fuck, I got a pen mark. Do you think the pen mark was them showing him, yes, you tested positive? It was like a mark in the positive box. It was like a pregnancy test. And he was like, ah, test. Get the white stuff.

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