The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 119 (Best of 3/30/20-4/3/20)

Episode Date: April 5, 2020

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Trust us, it's out of this world. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one non-stop infotainment laugh extravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Now that was impressive, but are you ready for my 17-minute solo about JFK? About JFK assassination. We're thrilled to be joined in our fourth seat. Yeah, that's right.

Fourth seat, motherfuckers. It's Robert Evans. Jack, I enjoy your commitment to still calling it a seat, even though we are all thousands of miles apart and flung across the globe. Yes. Yeah. He is the fourth meal of guests, Robert Evans.

What's going on, man? The Taco Bell guests. You know, like no one else in America, I am sitting at home and drinking probably more than I ought to. Yeah. Atta boy. Quick. home and drinking probably more than i ought to yeah attaboy uh quick does okay what's the what's the feeling on if you finish a box of franzia for yourself but it takes two weeks it's okay right yeah no weeks uh i mean it's not okay that it took that long a box of franzia you really want to get that done in the first night otherwise it's going to go bad. That's true. I was just checking.

Jettison all space bags within 24 hours of opening. That's fair. I just drank some orange juice that had gone bad. I got that going on. Well, this is the R.I.P. Jack episode. We're all...

Now I'm going to vomit. Give him a good send off. All right, Robert, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We're going to talk about the Dean of Tisch with a very... I don't know if this is normal for Tisch, if this is how people who go to and work at Tish communicate, but she did an interpretive dance video to Losing My Religion, which was truly cursed.

We're going to talk about the idea that the deadliness of COVID-19 may be overstated, but that we don't know until we start doing antibody testing. We're going to talk about how the right is getting mad at Fauci, or is that how he says his name? Fauci. Fauci. The internet is slowing down. We were right, so we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about how the Nextdoor app is getting nicer hand sanitizer made in prison the major league baseball uniform manufacturers uh pivoting to making masks and gowns bob dylan's 17 minute song on the jfk assassination and we will close out with our thoughts on tiger king robert have you watched Tiger King? No, I don't believe in tigers or kings. Okay.

Fair. What is something from your search history, sir, that is revealing about who you are? Can you give horses COVID-19? And I wasn't looking for a medical guide. I was looking for more of a practical guide on how to

give horses COVID-19. You're very anti-horse. I am am and while we're like this is the time to strike like i feel like if we're going to win what i call the long war uh then now is the moment now is the time to to to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and finally overwhelm the horses when they think they've won. Yeah. Yeah. Just rest ourselves free from the under the mighty hoof of our equine oppressors. Yeah. Yeah.

Do not spread the COVID-19 unless it is to a horse. Is the long war a comment on face length? Is that like a backhanded insult? No, but it should have been because that that's that's good that's some real good horse shade jack yeah horse shade is uh kind of my specialty yes it is i i would think that uh this would actually be a time when the horses might get the upper hand because yep we're not out i know that's why we have to be taking back the power. That's the focus of this episode.

Wild horses galloping down my street on a regular basis. Listen to the documentary album Heavy Horses. It will let you know the danger we face. I was listening to a podcast recently that had to do with horse crimes. I don't know. It gave me empathy for horses that i wasn't expecting to have and i regret it see i would argue that the life of any horse is a crime but i guess that's open to interpretation robert's the only person who's at the triple crown cheering when he hears a gunshot ring out

after a horse falls down. I bring my own bullets just as like an offering, you know? Yeah. Jamie, it was a podcast about crimes against horses? Crimes against horses, not crimes that horses have committed. I believe that's a different podcast. That is the show that I

keep trying to launch. A horse bank heist having none of it. Crimes Against Horsemanity. This was an episode of, has anyone ever listened to Swindled? It was an episode of that. I don't listen to other podcasts. I think this is the only podcast.

What are podcasts? You're right, you're right. You know what, you're right. It's only one. I mean, yet again, twice in one morning, I've been fucking canceled yet again. The only podcast I need is the Daily Zeitgeist and re-listening to Bob Dylan's 17-minute song

about the JFK assassination. That's it for my content needs. I can't wait. The comedian John Daly was like, the new Bob Dylan song is a podcast. It really is. John Daly's a guest. Robert, what is something you think is underrated you know uh and and you know i i'm gonna i'm gonna throw some shade on myself for this one i have realized

throughout this quarantine how underrated movie theaters are and i i am not normally a movie theater guy i go maybe once a year uh i went more when I lived with our friend David Bell because he's super fun to go to the movies with. But I just don't care normally. I've gone a year or more at a time without going into a movie theater. And now all I can think about is going to a movie theater and how nice it would be. So I have accepted that I have been unfairly maligning theaters

for years now as a result of this quarantine i miss my stubs yeah oh my gosh did they halt that yeah they they were good about it usually they're assholes but they they just froze everybody's membership and now i have like regrets of i wonder if anyone else has been feeling like this of like things that i could have done and then i'm like i don't know if i should do it, and then I didn't, and then everything closed, and I'm like, fuck, I should have just gone and seen Emma when I had a chance! Like, shit like that.

Is there anything else? Like, I'm severely missing hoops right now. Just it being the time that we would normally be having March Madness and the NBA playoffs or the NBA season, like I am in a severe basketball withdrawal. Is there anything else you guys find yourself missing more than you expected? I live near a bus stop and the buses are still going, but they're empty. And I am missing buses having people in them, as weird as that sounds, because there's just

something so unwholesome about empty buses passing each other at like three in the afternoon it's just like oh that's not a great sign it's so funny because there was a profile or like a journalist who lived in china and was like living in this place that had been fully quarantined was writing about how like they lived overlooking the subway and it was empty and i was like man that's so dystopian like two weeks ago and now that's like that's our reality yeah it is dystopian yeah uh what is something you think is overrated man you know i'm gonna have to say, fucking, oh yeah, sorry, juice bars. Now that we don't have the opportunity

to go out and get nice, fresh, fancy $11 squeeze juice, I've just been smashing oranges with the butt of a rifle. And it turns out that's as good a way to get your vitamin C fix, your adaptogens, all of the things you can get from a moon juice

or another high-end fruit juice, you can just get by smashing fruit with the butt of a rifle on your kitchen table. So try it out at home, folks. It really works. Yeah, I'm glad you've actually found a way to adapt because we all know you loved your overpriced juices. I'm a big juice guy.

That was you pre-quar. You were like oh here comes here comes robert juice evans it was annoying yeah you robert had me picking up moon juice orders and like i had to mail them to him it was like yeah they're like you know they're gonna spill in the box he's like mail them it really said and then and then he would have me communicate messages to his favorite employees at moon juice too like hi i'm here to pick up an order for Robert Evans. He wants to say hi to Luna. And it was horrible.

Well, the thing is, I never wanted any of them to meet me in person because I felt like that might spoil the purity of the juice slash juice buyer transaction. Right, right. But there's no greater purity than just hitting an orange with the butt of a rifle and I found that thanks to the quarantine and where does the juice go when you just put a piece of fruit on your kitchen table it goes all over the place when you just lick it off the table

keeps your table clean, keeps your tongue clean you get a lot of vitamin C is that how you normally drink juice? you just pour it on your table and lap it up well normally i just pour it out of the sodden envelopes that jamie sends me uh so this is not as as big a change as it might seem he's just wringing cardboard over his own mouth oh god which i understand is not safe anymore now that we're in quarantine. You should not. Yeah. And finally, Robert, what is a myth? What is this virus going to take from us?

I know. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? That the solution to all of the horrible problems we're having as a result of this virus is something that will be settled in the halls of Congress. result of this virus is something that will be uh settled in the halls of congress like at the end of the day if we're going to get anything that like resembles justice uh it's it's going to be as something that starts from the bottom up like this rent strike stuff that's going on right now um i think there's more of an opportunity in that to secure some sort of long-term like lasting

remedy to the the shit that's got millions of people wondering if they're going to be out on the street in two or three weeks than anything that like a republican or a democratic congress is actually going to vote on um yeah and yeah i guess that's just like uh we i just launched a podcast this week uh the women's war that's about yes yes that's this is my very subtle great podcast it's a hit people are loving this thing robert yeah we kicked we're gonna we're gonna fucking we're gonna kick the shit at a uh i don't know who's a person other podcasts uh swindled have you heard about this one yeah we're gonna fuck up lou dobbs we're to fuck Lou Dobbs right up. Who are you threatening online, Robert?

Krista Tippett? Yeah, I threaten Krista Tippett online every day of my life. Yeah, I'd like to extend that threat to Dolly Parton's America. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck all of them. We're taking them all. I just want to talk about some vulnerable groups who like with this outbreak, need to be sort of discussed a little bit more. The first group are prisoners, because a lot of

people have talked about, screamed from the rooftops that our prisons are overcrowded. We know that because it's a for-profit business and it's like a hotel. You book more guests, you make more money, or you make more arrests, you get more money. A lot of people have been going on saying a COVID-19 outbreak in a prison would be absolutely awful. The people are in such confined spaces. It would just be the worst thing to have. And we've already seen cases pop up in certain prisons. William Barr at the Department of Justice said that he is having, you know, federal prisons, like giving the order to release sick, elderly or other at risk inmates into home confinement based on an algorithm that is, you guessed it, racist. And the way it determines who's, you know, a less of a risk to be released. Basically, it's a computerized system, never been used before, but basically says white collar offenders who are most disproportionately white are safe.

But if you have any drug related charges or history of prior arrests, typically who tend to be African-American because of biased police practices, the war on drugs, everything, what uh those you know they'll be they'll be disproportionately affected so that means 30 percent of white inmates uh would probably get this low risk uh rating while only seven percent of black inmates will get this similar designation and this policy also excludes non-citizens convicted of immigration related crimes so we're looking at just being like hi let's do what we can to ease the prisons but using a terribly fucked up algorithm and then even an algorithm brown people yeah right it's really they just open a door that says computer room and it's a guy named algorithm and he's just a racist uncle who's just like oh let the whites the whites will be fine uh and let's just keep all the blacks into it yeah and if you if you're an illegal immigrant that's also bad i mean it's true it's

almost like using it like it's only reinforcing a thing that they probably would have done out loud so it's easier to claim a algorithm like no we're using this computer system yeah it's computers computers are infallible it's uhible. It's always just as racist. And we also know that they're still doing ice raids throughout this time. There's not been a moratorium on that at all. And so it's...

It's a bummer. So this is just one of those things where because of the overcrowding and the absolute lack of compassion shown to the incarcerated population, this is something that could take your check fraud sentence and turn it into crowding and the you know absolute lack of compassion shown to the incarcerated population this is something that could take your check fraud sentence and turn it into a death sentence yeah meanwhile you know you're looking at how other countries are responding like uh like

america's sworn enemy uh iran and they are releasing prisoners and they've been releasing prisoners for weeks now and uh and it's like you always look at that and you just go like, yeah, this is, it's like every other month, the Ayatollahs will say something that I'll be like, you know, I can't lie. Like, I'm kind of more on board with that than I am with anything that the American government currently says. that the american government currently says like i i it's yeah when it comes to showing a modicum of humanity or of anything acknowledging people's humanity you're like that's so weird that like you know how many people have gotten an email from an insurance company recently that's like hey you should do this or hey we're worried about you hey we're gonna do this to make shit easier for you no nowhere yeah so like i think it you know helps i get more emails from like la fitness telling me like hey you want two free months of workout once this is all done then i do from like blue cross or

etna who are just like no they don't they don't care this is this is going to be a cash cow for them there's also another group um just with people with like you disabilities, any kind of neurally atypical people, there's some kind of troubling plans that are being articulated from states like in Alabama and Washington about how they will prioritize people who are going to get ventilators from COVID-19 related complications. And this ProPublica article is showing how a lot of advocacy groups are sounding an alarm to Health and Human Services saying like, the wording in this is deeply, deeply fucking problematic and troubling. In Alabama, one of their state plans say that, quote, persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia, or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support. Another part says that, quote, persons with severe or profound mental retardation, moderate to severe dementia, or catastrophic

neurological complications such as persistent vegetative state are unlikely candidates for ventilator support. So it's like they're essentially saying okay anyone with this kind of mental disability or super old is we'll throw them in the expendable column they're fine yeah it's and also like the the language that they're using is so outdated and dated like right it's just like absurd that i i don't know i guess we're in our liberal bubble over here. We're in our liberal Zoom chat. But yeah, the language choices are obviously inexcusable. And then just the outright prejudice that they're spelling out here is fucked. It's very much so the response that I would expect from you know the governor of alabama it's like just let's go the most

fascist angle that we possibly can with this outbreak before there's even an outbreak of cases with uh you know significant numbers like right let's just articulate that out loud so yeah like they get one call about like about a case of COVID coming and it's like, all right, first, we got to kill all the old people. And then anyone who's different. Yeah, pretty much. Which just discourages people from seeking care, too. Like it's basically spelling out like, hey, if this is something that affects you, don't even bother seeking the care yeah and i think just to say though too like how are we also you know allowing the these plans to be articulated worth clearly saying like this

group of people is completely secondary their needs are secondary to what what we will deem as the desirable population or whatever uh it's just really it's really fucking dark and i understand like that there probably is going to become some kind of point where they're looking at not enough resources for the amount of people who need the resources um but to to go this far it's like it's just so it's so brutal uh and i feel like you know obviously this this needs to be something that we we keep an eye on because it's just it's it's fucking eerie. And I asked one of my friends who's a nurse. I was like, are you seeing anything like this in your hospital?

And they said no. And just sort of like it's just also very they also pointed out how using the term retardation is just so out of date and just like what completely who would write that into an actual plan um but you know i think that times that does happen it's uh you know possibly if you are in a persistent vegetative state that you know that they may ask your family like what what they would want to do but again these are well uh we're starting to see how how willing some places are going to be or how willing some states are to be humane to their citizens. These are choices that people in like clinicians in Italy and I think Spain now have had to make because of just lack of resources. just lack of resources like this is it is a thing where there's uh not enough ventilators and like clinicians are literally making a decision between who to give the ventilator to and who to not give the ventilator to and a lot of the time you know they'll give it to someone who is younger and they

think has a bigger chance of uh of living whereas they're like we don't want to you know give it to someone who's old and vulnerable and then have both of the people die and it's a really messed up decision to have to make and it's weird to preemptively make that decision right yeah and then articulate it that way and then also throw in people who are perfectly healthy despite some the idea that anyone with special needs is automatically someone that you need to euthanize is like it's nazi shit it's straight up nazi shit and and it's like this is this is a time in america where we're having a lot of mask off nazi people just kind of

just being like well time to do a genocide like like no qualms about it whatsoever yeah it is like the preemptiveness of just like saying hey just so you know if this if it comes to this if this decision comes up this is what we're going to do it just seems it feels like fear-mongering too like why would you yeah yeah and just to like articulate your discriminatory practice up front at a time like this. I guess most people don't write it down. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. It's alarming. Okay. Just one other thing I want to say, especially with the prison population. There was a thing where Governor Cuomo was saying that essentially be some of the prison population would be working on making hand sanitizer uh and people are like what the fuck is this because again prison labor is just essentially slavery uh but like that you know a lot of people are like what the fuck is going on you know are they you know who's making? And it turns out that like this hand sanitizer isn't really being made by the inmates.

They're actually just bottling it and then putting like someone else has made the sanitizer. They're bottling it and labeling it. And a lot of people are like, what the what's the point of this? Like what? I don't understand what the everyone's question is. Is there a need for that? Obviously like there'll, I,

you know, I think those prisoners in those, uh, facilities are making like $2 an hour basically. Yeah. Uh, but unconscionable, I don't know what the,

it just seems odd to be like, yeah. And like, look, we're putting our, our, our offenders to work. You see,

they're not just partying it up, uh, behind bars. We're getting them to work. It's just a odd partying it up uh behind bars we're getting them to work it's just a odd they just want to make everyone uh everyone who needs hand sanitizer complicit in uh modern day slavery right right we gotta find a way to make them complicit like literally all over your mind you're in america yeah it's just a fully i mean it's it's like along the same lines of like the fact that it being framed as like, look at what we're doing. This is good.

We're putting these citizens to work. You're like, no, it's just denying them. Especially considering the power of the executive to enact the Defense Production Act and actually get a company to do it. Yeah. A company with employees. And they're like, well, why do we need to do all that? We got all these prisoners who can make it. It's like, it really is.

It's way cheaper. And they haven't unionized on us yet. Yeah, you really can't underestimate a conservative government's ability to pinch pennies in the times of crisis. You know? Yeah. Okay.

On to some other news. Guess which garment is surging in sales right now. Now, I'm not saying this is unequivocal, like this is the only one, but can you have a guess what garment you think is having a real spike, a real surge right now? Cute little tank tops. Okay, how about this? Easier.

What's a garment that is crashing right now? What are people not buying right now? Tanker chiefs? Wait, a garment. Okay. No, like a main garment. It not nothing like an accessory a main garment pajama pants i mean pants jeans no one's no one's wearing pants pants are pants are crashing if you got oh they're stocking pants okay yeah yeah if you've got stock in pants right now divest

sell off all your pants stock right now because a lot of people are seeing just the the pants sales are bottoming out but people are buying way more shirts for some reason more shirts huh yeah a lot of people think this is because if you are like someone who has to wear some kind of you know if you don't dress casually yeah work the zoom Zoom era has been like, well, I don't need to wear fucking pants because everyone's seeing me from chest up. That's true. So I'll just wear like, I'll wear these new up top garments.

So at Walmart, one of their executive, their stores in their online outfit have seen like a spike, as he calls it, in sales of shirts. But the pants is just so, so, so bad. The Gap, same. Major spikes in sales of shirts but the pants is just so so so bad the gap same major spikes uh in not only shirts but obviously comfortable clothing like sweatpants and pajamas uh basically all

because we don't have to be seen from our waist down it's all zoomed dude everyone at a board meeting right now is donald ducking and they don't even know it. I love it. I love it. Donald Ducking is the best style of nudity. It's the funniest style of nudity. Yeah, it's a good reveal. It's a great reveal. Yeah, I've been wearing the same pair of pants for, what, three weeks? Two weeks? Two weeks.

I was wearing them for about two weeks straight until Francesca saw a, like, I don't know, saw something on TV or read something that said that, like, make sure to change your pants because of COVID. And I was just like, no, sweetie, not everything is real.

That's fake news. That's Russians or something. And then she was like, change your pants. No, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, your pants no no no no that's russian that's russian that's russian bots trying to fool you into trying to get trying to get your medicare uh dude is the i like just the yeah you got to change pants like that's like some like lobbying effort from big pant right now because they're doing terribly they're like hey get the word out bro you gotta change pretty frequently that's exactly what's happening it's just like the levi strauss company is it levi stra happening. It's just like the Levi Strauss company. Is it Levi Strauss?

Or did I just invent the last name? No, you nailed it. Yeah. Just, yeah. It's all of their lobbyists just being like, we got to get pants sales up. Random fact I remember from Levi Strauss, because it was part of our gold rush education in California,

that they used to call them, rather than denim, they were pronounced denims. So how do you know that? I kind of love that random COVID fact I think it was it was a bus calb tweet I think where she was just like I don't mean to trigger anyone but my husband has been wearing jeans every day of the quarantine and I'm the baby and I are safe and in a second location. I have noticed that people have been talking a lot of trash about jeans. And I realized in this quarantine that I mostly, I only really own jeans. They're not, they're not. Yeah, I know.

I know. Everyone just looked at me weird, but I do. It's true. It's like I, most of the jeans that I have, they're like different colors. I have a dark blue. I have a light blue. I have a black. I even have one pair of white jeans. Nice.

All right, Andrew WK. Yeah. Well, you know, I like to party, but I just realized that just every other type of pant, I don't even know. What's other pants? Corduroy? Corduroy, chinos, khaki. I get those, like, just fabric-y pants.

I mean, I guess, I don't know if men wear them as much, but just, like, flowy fabric pants. I like flowy pants. Oh, yeah, like some nice, like, harem pant. I think that's not a problematic term, but, you know, those big baggy. Some, like, aunt teaching yoga pants in her basement. You know what it is? If you ever had a problematic term, but, you know, it was big baggy. Some, like, aunt teaching yoga pants in her basement. You know what it is?

If you ever had a friend who went to Thailand or Cambodia on a trip, they come back with those pants. And then they never shut up about the trip. Yeah. I just don't have any. Also, like, it's so cheap there. Like, everything is so cheap there. You're just like, you don't know.

I'm vividly envisioning this one specific person do you remember when like okay there is there is the the one like rich girl in my school system she would like go to like the bahamas over um summer breaks and she would come back with those like hair wraps the like color hair oh sure sure she'd come back with four of them and she'd be like they cost they're like they look expensive but they're so cheap and you're like shut up they don't look like everyone's so nice there like i know it's like it's like really poor there but like everyone's so nice it's really great like everyone's so nice i know i haven't thought about why that might be true no what do you mean they depend on our tour? Whatever. Like, just you're a hater. All right, let's take a quick break from that and we'll be right back.

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but it, uh, led to Russian Imperial forces kind of pressing down on the people to try to keep them from rioting, which led to uprisings, which led to further pressure from above, which eventually led to the Bolshevik uprising in the early 20th century. So that was something I hadn't really thought of that that initially started with a pandemic. And there was another article about how bad our healthcare system is right now. And they put it in terms of the economic damage that it does to individuals and just our economy in general is worse than the penalties put on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, which was...

That's the thing that we all think of as the obvious culprit for the rise of Nazism. But I don't know. People throughout history have kind of turned on doctors, and I'm hoping that's not how we choose to funnel our anger in this. I have actually been slightly heartened by the fact that the wellness influencers are taking this seriously. Yeah. Because I thought that was a real crossroads for them to be like, are they going to be like, when they give us a vaccine, do we want it? Yeah.

What side of history will they be on? But they're all like, oh no, no, no. This is real. Stay home, everybody. Drink all your cordyceps. They're still grifting. But they're still... Although Gwyneth Paltrow did post that picture where she was wearing a mask and gloves

and was like, just got back from the Brentwood Farmers Market. I know. And then a week later, that story about the Brentwoodwood farmers market still being a huge crowd now catherine schwarzenegger demanding that the city shut it down that was a funny headline i heard that on who weekly this morning of yeah them just being like catherine schwarzenegger demands this of eric garcetti and you get you're like oh my god is it really is it going to be something amazing is Catherine Schwarzenegger secretly cool and then she's

just like close the farmer's market which is right but it's just I think it's not that she's cool she's married to Chris Pratt now and she anyone who's super super Christiany but I think like Arnold Schwarzenegger she's like cooler than you'd expect based on what you imagine you know like when schwarzenegger was just like more of a libertarian than a than a right winger just in some ways where you were like huh didn't know that the lowest of the low bars it's like right the president and anytime he does something that isn't actively killing people uh on on a public stage people like his approval rating shoots through the roof right well i keep thinking like what if schwarzenegger president

schwarzenegger was like the less bad timeline you know right yeah that happened i was like oh shit like everything's fucked up now uh little did but then i'm like well if he were president you know the guy who seems like an actual austrian nazi type guy even more at least we'd get better environmental protections it would be too on the nose for him to actually turn into a nazi yeah he's like he's he's in the he's like a right winger who also wants to smoke pot and have some environmental protections, AKA libertarians. Also, he can't be president cause he wasn't born here.

But anyways, I would be fine with the public outrage going towards insurance executives and, you know, grifters. But let's leave doctors alone, please. Yeah.

Or any of these executives who are like, now their plan's coming out for these airlines, like American Airlines and United, to just completely fuck over their employees despite them getting this bailout money. Yeah. That's where I think people need to start. I mean, at the very least,

I think people are starting realizing the powers that are crushing them above them in terms of the system that we're in above them uh in terms of like the system that we're in and i think maybe that will that will lead to something and i also it brings up the argument of like this might be a good time i mean if if obviously the world were perfect where you could completely go after the for-profit health care insurance system we have and try and make it work for everyone because this is a moment where like we need sort of the same sort of protocols and policies for people as we face a pandemic that's

what i'm thinking might be the like the outcome of of this is that that just gets torn to the ground because it's it's really being exposed as completely fucked and unprepared for anything like this. Well, we didn't get to this yesterday. I don't know if it was touched on in Nightguys, but just I mean, the relationship between like workers and employers right now, it's it's just like it is the issue aside. is the issue aside. I mean, aside, it's a public health issue and then it's like bringing to the forefront how important it is to treat workers ethically or things absolutely fall to shit in situations like this,

where like the, the, the whole situation with the Amazon warehouse worker who was rightfully so bringing up the fact that, Hey, social distancing is not being in, in like enforced here. Workers are not being protected in like enforced here workers are

not being protected um the whole you know they're they're lying in terms of like oh we're we're doing everything we can and then that person who brought it up and tried to organize was fired for quote-unquote like not social distancing at work it's just all such bullshit that like the companies that get assistance i mean it almost goes without saying but like none of it is is or very little of it is going to actually assisting workers it's just like taking the check and um and moving on well that's why i think a lot of the people in congress are saying like this is probably just the beginning of multiple stimulus packages we're going to have to put together because obviously the money that they're giving people figure out how to make that flow more equitably and relieve the pressure on the people who don't deserve it and ask people or organizations that

have tons of billions of dollars in their coffers to say, yeah, you know what, dude, you're going to have to fucking take a hit here. I'm sorry. There's no way this works where your nebulous bank account that's attached to these like five people in a C-suite isn't going to go down because we'd rather pass that pain on to millions. Also, like we've seen now that money isn't real. You know, they're just like, oh, here's a trillion dollars. Oh, they kept saying like, oh, how we pay for health care. And it's like, no, you just pulled a trillion dollars out of nowhere to bail out like cruise ships. Really?

We can make money appear when we want to. And the other thing is techno-feudalism clearly is not working. Here we have this moment where all these fucking billionaires who don't get taxed so that they can share their

wealth have the opportunity to do that and to be a hero in a public health crisis and none of them they all are just crickets from everybody yeah you know look at bloomberg and tom steyer they were so rah-rah and shit a fucking month ago motherfucker you might as well you think they took a spaceship to another fucking galaxy i also just like think about all the money they like flush down the drain on the bloomberg campaign just just yeah where the money they like flush down the drain on the Bloomberg campaign just yeah where the money goes is clearly

not subject to logic and it's just obvious now that if it is not subject to law of some kind it's just never going to happen I mean the whole idea that the US needs to like balance its books is such

it's like such cynical, just based on a misunderstanding. They know that people think of the government as a financial entity rather than as an entity that can make its own money up anytime it wants to. But they do that to enforce austerity measures

so that they have all the money. I've definitely seen people turning on celebrities. Yeah, I've been saying that for a couple weeks now. I feel like celebrities don't make sense anymore. They don't make sense and they're not reading the room at all. The only people who read the room and did a good job were Britney Spears, comrade Britney, who personally offered to help people out with bills and diaper money and stuff on DM,

and Rihanna, who just gave $5 million and didn't fucking say anything about it. That's all we want from rich people right now and celebrities is to just open your wallet. Do something. Nobody wants to see you sing. Right. And also their wealth is predicated on exploiting consumers to give them their money. So at the end of the day, it's like, come send some of that money back the way it came to.

And I think that's true. People don't read the room and it's weird to see people now, especially when so many people are facing true hardships to be people like lulling it up in like a palatial estate and be like, guys, you got to stay at home. And there was no one, there's no one to stop them. I think is the other thing.

There's no handlers to be like, don't do that. No, I kind of like the publicists have abandoned the celebrities. I like it. The publicists have abandoned the celebrities i like it the publicists are gone no one's left there was a horrible giselle bunch and one um oh really yeah oh my god it was so she and her family fled to costa rica and then they posted like a video of them singing a bruno mars song and and're like, hope this lifts your spirits.

And it's just like, you're like, what the fuck? You went to Costa Rica. You're just screaming Bruno Mars at me. And they're like, you know, hope no one coughs on you. Bye, motherfuckers. Like, they're just. Yeah. The thing of all rich people just like absconding to their vacation homes.

Also super dystopian, obviously. Yeah. It's fun to see how many people that you're just like, I think this was a tweet last week. It might have been Mike Drucker who was like, oh, really cool to see how many comedians have parents with really nice summer homes. Love to see it. You're just like, yeah. parents with really nice summer homes love to see it you're just like yeah well i keep saying it's like blade runner starts with all the rich people have gone to mars right like blade runner starts in the la that's like everyone who couldn't afford to get out of la when all the shit starts to go

down and like all the rich people have left and gone to their utopian planet settlement and then like whoever's left in a city during a pandemic or whatever it's just like fend for yourself is what the rich people have made clear. Good luck. Bye. Bye. Yeah. But as Madonna

pointed out it is the great equalizer. Oh my god. That was so fucking cringy. We're all taking baths and rose petals like she is when she said that. Amanda Haster wrote a good thing about it in the New York Times where she talked about the Gal Gadot video especially and she was like,

it's not only tone deaf, like literally most of these people can't sing. My favorite part of the Gal Gadot video isn't even the singing. it's the part where she was like this whole situation has me feeling really philosophical and you're like what are you talking about also she's a whole zionist right yeah oh yes while we're talking about heroes of the pandemic i did want to bring up really quickly the British American Tobacco Company because

they are doing the Lord's work. They're the makers of cigarettes like Rothmans and Don Draper's favorite Lucky Strike. Dude, Benson and Hedges? Yeah. The classics. And they

have said, you know what, coronavirus, we kill people by destroying their lungs, not you. And they are putting money into research to defeat the coronavirus, which is weird, and I don't like it. Well, it's odd because they're sort of, you know, they've, they've pointed to the fact that using, they have like a biotech company that they bought years ago and they're using tobacco plants, uh, as a way to develop a vaccine. And I guess they're saying it's advantageous because tobacco plants quote, cannot host pathogens, which cause human disease.

So they're saying it's an easy way. Like they've used this sort of tobacco plant strategy before, but never really to the point where you're like, oh, wow, they really bailed us out of a pandemic. It's just a weird opportunity. I like how it's just like lobbying for big tobacco too. It's just like tobacco, a miracle plant that cures all problems. Right, right.

Yeah, it's incredible how much they i mean this is a great just sort of case study and why capitalism doesn't work because they have so much money and infrastructure built up of making money off of tobacco that like they have learned it is this cursed plant that kills everybody and and they just can't stop. They just have so many people whose jobs are fucking to find a way to just one way or another justify the use of tobacco in one way or another. It's wild. I guess there is one timeline where the corporations end up doing more bet like doing better for the people

than the governments and then they become our new leaders and then we're like wow british american tobacco solved coronavirus no that's part of it started with a bet ended with a bet that's totally part of the dystopia is because we have no public infrastructure all these private companies are like i'll be the one but that's why also you're like Olive Garden literally did a better job than most states. Right. Cheesecake Factory did a better job. Yeah.

Wait, what did Olive Garden do other than bottomless bread bowl and salad? Other than change the world, yeah. They were extending all their sick leave policies before because they wouldn't give people any kind of sick leave. And it was just like draconian business practices. So taking away their awful world destroying policies. Yeah, I don't know if they solved the thing where they get paid on those prepaid cards.

I know some people who work there get paid on a card that they have a stake in that company. So they also recoup the service fees. So I don't know if they've solved that part. Just a bare minimum of humanity, of being like, oh, our workers are sick. We'll give them a little bit of sick leave

so they don't die and lose all their money. Yeah. I think all we need is a government that works and is run by people and not human monsters. Silicon Valley companies are never going to become moral at this point. I think we've all seen. Corporations are specifically designed not to be moral.

And especially startups are designed to just get around labor laws. So we're also coming up against that with the Instacart stuff where people are just like, I'm going to outsource the dangerous part of this to a more economically vulnerable person who might also still get me sick

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Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and so is alcohol uh the consumption of alcohol how about this perfect transition you guys read about this alcohol stuff bro are you clawing right now dude where's cloth this man hey cloth just get in here you got a cloth you got a cloth you got a cloth mask? The best part about tangerine white claw is you can smell it from a foot away. There you go. I got a morning business claw-nference call I got to get on.

So, you know, we've talked a lot on this show about how, like, there's always articles of what millennials are killing because we're broke as a generation. But, like, alcohol seemed to be, like, the one articles of what millennials are killing because we're broke as a generation but like alcohol seemed to be like the one thing actually most millennials like aren't really weren't like beer sales were tanking a bit uh because of the rise of the celtces and what have you i just generally like beers out of my repertoire i'm a claw gal beers out of your repertoire completely uh well we have some but it, but it doesn't get touched generally. I've got my sweet claws.

I let myself have one Mike's hard if I'm having a really sad day, but I try to keep it chill on the Mike's. I've changed. I've changed. Okay. Wait, but you call Mike's beer? No, no, no, no. Sorry.

I have various brands of malt liquor that makes your head hurt. Right, right, right. But so right now, with the Quar, I think many people are starting to drink more in general. Compared to last March's numbers, online alcohol sales are up 243%. And right now, just all across the board, from Nielsen research, they found that sale of alcoholic beverages rose 55% in the week ending March 21.

And then spirits like tequila, gin, and pre-mixed cocktails led the way in terms of the biggest jump, 75% increase compared to last year. Wow. And wine was up 66%. Beer up 42%. Is this taking into account what's sold to bars and restaurants too?

Or is it just what people take home? Well, I mean, I have a feeling because the week ending march 21st a lot of bars were not i mean many places were shutting down bars and things like that so i think this is purely from like the consumer level rather than the so um restaurant level unfun science fact uh alcohol is pretty closely associated with cancer rates uh so i'm say that i don't know man put down the claw but i was like i'm literally holding a claw right now put it down baby wait it's associated in what sense um i don't know if it's like linearly associated but there's like pretty high correlations between drinking alcohol just even regularly and likelihood of cancer.

And so but people don't hear that. But I said it. But I'm so I'm wondering if there's going to be like a spike of cancer like years down the line from just this event. Oh, from all the from the claw and stuff in the mall. Yeah. I mean, you know, but this is not. I drink just I just have a couple glasses of red wine every day just to

relax and then the tannins and antioxidants. The tannins. Chocolate and wine is all you need. The antioxidants are going to help me be cancer free. Sounds like fake news to me.

Look, Poppy, call me up in maybe four years and then you see where i'm at i was listen i was i'm the result of a medical experiment i sound like a fox i'm the result of a medical experiment i'm not gonna let a little white claw kill me okay you? You sound like Janine Pirro. I do sound like Janine Pirro. All right, everybody listen. You got to lean back, though. Janine Pirro would lean the fuck back

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She was a protagonist, right? She's the antagonist, and then you learn more about her, and you're like, oh, Robert Durst is right yet again. Janine Pirro sucks. And he says in court, he's like, Janine Pirro made me do it. And you're like, what the fuck?

He rules. He rules. court he's like janine piero made me do it and you're like what the fuck he rules he rules well now i have to bust open a claw with my man bobby d have viewed that show differently uh because you said she's an antagonist i think most people were watching it uh thinking that robert durst was the bad guy. I actually don't think that that's what Andrew Dreyfus wanted you to think. A lot of people saw through the fog and saw that clearly Robert Durst

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