The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 123 (Best of 4/27/20-5/1/20)

Episode Date: May 3, 2020

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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 nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. And let me just crack my Mountain Dew Zero Baja Blast. Wait, that's real? That's right. Wait, wait, wait.

What? What did you say? What combination of words did you say? Mountain Dew Zero Baja Blast. Wait, they put that in cans? Yeah. Wait, I didn't know that. They put it in cans.

Dude, this is crazy. It's got a little Taco Bell logo up in the corner. No, it does not. Oh, my God. It does. That's amazing. Oh, my God. How long has that been on the market?

Are you fucking serious? There was only a 12-pack at Ralph's when I was buying food coloring for my son's school project. There was a 12-pack. When I was buying food coloring for my Baja Blast. I needed to be more blue. The response to COVID that we needed. Put the Baja Blast in cans. The response to COVID that we needed. Put the Baja blasting cans.

I'm wondering if this is like, it's like a Zoltar and big. And like, I just found the one like mystical example of this, or if they're actually like rolling this out. I mean, it's funny. It shows up on the Walmart website and it is, there's even an option to add it to your wedding registry.

So, you know, I'll respect where it's due. Maybe I do want to get married. Holy shit. Jack, are you, like, rationing it out? Are you rationing it out? Like, one a day? This is my second one today. Wow.

Okay. I just, the levels of the levels that the name of this put me through because Mountain Dew in a can just like feels good anyway. I did not know that Baja Blast in general was available in cans. Right. Because I honestly don't even know if I want that information because that is dangerous because right now it's been like, oh, that's my treat when I go through a Taco Bell.

But then you add the word zero to the end of it. Yeah. This is a sugar-free Baja Blast. How does it stack up? Does it taste like it? It tastes like it. Yeah. This is a sugar-free Baja Blast. How does it stack up? Does it taste like it? It tastes like it, yeah. The Mountain Dew Zero is very good. Diet soda hive, we have a problem.

Wow, check in. That's exciting. I'm so excited about that. This is the hope that I've needed to get me through the quarantine. Okay, yeah. I mean, Men in Black was cool and all, but let's just kind of really get our heads around this Mountain Dew Baja Blast. I mean, based on I'm doing searches right now, it's popping up everywhere.

So in a way, I feel like I'm in denial that I could be ignorant to the existence of this product. I'm like, I don't know. It's got to be. Then I'm like, as I look, I'm like, no, I just missed that. I think they're doing it just with the zero to expose people to the Mountain Dew zero because they are having trouble. That was clearly a priority for them because they had that weird Bryan Cranston ad where he plays Jack Nicholson from The Shining, but there's Mountain Dew zero for some reason.

The mom from Black-ish is in it. But maybe it wasn't catching on, so they were like, all right, let's put a no-brainer great product out there that everybody's going to clamor for. That would be my guess. Again, this Baja Blast whole thing is a treasure trove of content because even when I search Mountain Dew Baja Blast, I can find reviews of the product just very narrowly of what it's like. This is one review I've read. Great flavor. I first encountered this flavor of Mountain Dew in a slush at Taco Bell. That was the beginning of forever.

It was a must that I try the regular soda, and it's a 10 for me. I would definitely recommend this soda for others to try. I absolutely love it. One more. Great taste, but still tastes a bit different than getting it from the fountain machine. Drink it cold from the bottle because it doesn't taste the same over a glass with ice. Great color. Blend

it with some ice for a yummy smoothie. I would definitely drink it. Smoothie is not the word. That's not a smoothie, sir. What if you put milk in that? I'm sorry, ma'am. Samantha G. That was Samantha G from a review on Influenster.com. Samantha G's on notice.

That's nasty. Dude, there's another thing. Being a Mountain Dew drinker for 12 to 13 years, I can say that Baja Blast is hands down the most enjoyable flavor I've experienced. I'm always on the hunt to buy this stuff during the warmer months. To me, it's well worth the money if you like a fruity lime flavor. My only complaint is that they don't sell it here during the cold months. The cold months!

This is, I think we've, we're dealing with a whole another country, I feel like, of our Mountain Dew Baja Black. It's real, gang. It's real. Wow. I'm so excited. I can't, I'm gonna go to a Ralph's for the first time in forever.

This is exciting. It's wild. This is also not Men in Black related, but I did notice as I was driving to the store with my mask and gloves on, there were just people walking all over the place. I mean, the weather in LA the past couple days has been really nice,

but people were just, it was like, all right, enough with this social distancing stuff. The weather's too nice for that. So, not great. You gotta keep doing it. You gotta keep doing it. I honestly, just check out the Mountain Dew Baja Blast reviews. The people are so, like, sincerely enthusiastic about it.

They're so excited. One just starts off, Baja Blast runs through my veins. It makes all of my stress and worries disappear. When it isn't in stores, my heart breaks. That one was me. That was me. Read the username on that. It says TheFamilyJOB.

Yeah, there it is. Have we thought about injecting Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero into our veins and seeing if that will cure the COVID? Rather than Lysol. We'll see what Trump says. God, the poor... He didn't say you should drink it. He just said you should inject it.

Clean out your lungs with it. Maybe it'll clean out your blood. It's germs. Oh my God. Dr. Burke's face was so painful to see during that moment. I honestly lost five years of my life from cringing so hard. I do love the human reflex of when you're hearing something that's impossible to mentally comprehend. You just begin blinking incessantly.

It was pretty awesome all right guys well let's talk about the continued fallout from what i think is still uh donald trump's last press conference uh when he got up there and started suggesting that people uh inject UV radiation or bleach into their body, into their lungs to kill Clorox or that doctors should do that. And on the one hand, it was like, that's just another stupid thing being said by the president. But this one seemed to, for whatever reason, be one that even his followers, even his base,

sort of wobbled a little bit. They were like, wait, what the fuck? Well, yeah. Some people had to do the thing and be like, no, he meant to say that. So actually, you look stupid because you don't understand English is what he suggested. It's like, okay, please. And I think, again, people need to realize what most people are responding to isn't the fact that he's saying shit like, oh, man, we got to check out the Clor he's saying shit like oh man like we gotta check out the clorox remedies

and shit like that it's that this man looks like he's winging it on stage in the middle of a pandemic i could give a fuck what he said specifically it does not inspire confidence in me to see the commander in chief take the stage and then look around be like hey i don't know should we look into this uv stuff? How about maybe Clorox? What are you doing in between these things? Dude, shut the fuck up unless you're going to say something. And I think that's why the White House is now trying to pivot a bit to say, okay, clearly this is fucking not working,

and we want to come out with just more focused briefings. Because it's funny, the New York Times and Washington Post kind of were analyzing how Trump speaks during these briefings because it's funny like the new york times and washington post kind of were analyzing how trump speaks during these briefings and they were just basically like yeah he mostly uses the time to like suck on his own porcini dick during the fucking briefings but like you don't need to analyze that to see like what you're seeing it's like yeah he he does it's a ton of self-praise it's a lot of blaming other people uh and absolutely zero empathy that's like the hallmarks of the briefings yeah somebody pointed out like towards the end of last week that like he just hasn't said a single empathetic thing and i had sort of taken that for granted because he's

uh clearly like just narcissistic beyond the capability of feeling any sort of empathy for anything but it is wild to to imagine literally any other president like and how like their their whole job would be you know making it seem like the the government is empathizing with them like while all the all these uh programs are being put into place yeah. But he is neither empathizing nor putting those programs into place, it seems like. Well, and you'd think that with now the death toll, they're saying it's going to, well, very much likely surpass the death toll of the Vietnam War this week,

that even then, you know, like a question like that, it's like we're looking at a tremendous loss of life. Like we're going to top 60,000 life like we're gonna top 60 000 pretty soon which is like the fucking kick ass we did a great job number that trump was talking about earlier uh like maybe a month and a half ago but even in those moments just fucking just doesn't register tens of thousands of lives lost just nothing maybe we should blame china and like that's all they have and what's interesting too is there there was this puff piece in politico written today about hope hicks uh you know who

left famously left the white house who was like the trump whisperer and we had reported how she had come back and we're like uh-oh that means like they're having a hard time getting him under control the in this puff piece a lot of the excerpts just read like they're straight shit talking or just it sounds like she completely is terrible at her job um i just want to read a couple things because some a lot of this is directly related to the coronavirus response it says for hope hicks it marked a challenge unlike any other trying to develop a communication strategy for the president to carry with a wartime footing in an election year. The former White House communications director urged the president to act as a front man for the coronavirus, a leader who could offer calming messages, critical health information,

and important updates on the progress of the White House's response efforts, instead of delegating those responsibilities to health officials or the vice president. Then, he says, along with Kushner, Miller, and staff secretary derrick lyons hicks urged the president to give an oval office address to the nation to convey the seriousness of the pandemic amid americans rising anxiety and volatility in the stock market that was the march 11th speech that went so fucking bad uh because it was poorly written no one really vetted it and he just like they just let him do his thing uh again this is this is the work of hope picks apparently so i mean to be fair in any like with literally any

other president that would be the right answer it's just yeah but you've been working with this man long enough to know you can't go up there and do that sure he just had you just got called on in the pitch meeting and he didn't come with anything. She said, Oval Office address? Yeah. One of the stories that seems like it's getting a little bit of traction that we wanted to fact check is the idea that Trump's Clorox speech was responsible for a bunch of calls to poison control, because people were saying there was a spike in calls to poison control because people were saying there was a spike

in calls to poison control but there's been articles fact checking it and it seems like you can't necessarily tie the two because there's just been an overall spike in calls to poison control because so many people are

over disinfecting everything. People are dipping their groceries in bleach and shit. Oh, wow. There's just more of that going on in general. People are dipping packs of Chips Ahoy in bleach. Yeah. Exactly. Pizza Hut pizza.

That probably wouldn't be as bad as dipping an apple in bleach. That's what you don't want to do uh yeah a piece of pizza it's the it's the big dipper from pizza hut yeah exactly no sauce bleach and in bleach pass around a bleach packet that's right i mean people have to i mean i guess this clearly shows that people aren't reading enough one of the first things i was thinking was this kind of stuff like okay shit does this mean like i have to wash my fucking like anything maniacally when i bring it home to eat and a lot of experts like transmission through food is very low risk yeah but they still say yeah you can't take precautions because absolutely the bacteria can live on all of these things but like it's hard because i think you see people just do... They either do too little or absolutely too much in the case of like,

let me just spray down my food with Clorox spray and then forget that I'm actually going to ingest that later. Yeah. Our writer JM was pointing out, it's not necessarily his like i mean it is bad that he's able to spread as much misinformation as he is but it's also and like this really surprising thing about this one is his just susceptibility to believing uh misinformation is really scary like that this is a very stupid thing that we can almost assume that like 99% of the population wouldn't believe, but we can assume that the president understands that. And people were trying to figure out like where this belief came from. And apparently just days before Trump made that statement, he got a letter from Mark Grennan, who is the leader of the Genesis 2 Church of Health and Healing.

Oh, boy. And he told Trump that drinking his chosen brand of bleach that he sells can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body and can rid the body of COVID-19. And last week, the FDA had obtained a federal injunction to stop him from selling this shit. But yeah, they think that their bleach can cure. He's tried to get his bleach used to cure anything from cancer to HIV to autism to the

common cold. Wow. And they're saying that Trump, his interaction with him may have led him to this conclusion. All we know is he got a letter a couple days before and that specific idea somehow got into his head. Well, he famously does not listen to people. And even when it came to when they asked him how he was going to go about reopening the country,

he kept saying that it was going to be partly based on his instincts. He kept saying that. was going to be partly based on his instincts like he kept saying that he's fucking weird like he doesn't yeah like he he really feels like he's got you know the the power to decide things which which he does no research whatsoever yeah so he doesn't listen to experts at all yeah now we're getting like the more literal comparisons to a cult where the leader is saying straight up nonsense. And people are like, yep. Inject the bleach.

That's right. That's what he's saying. And I trust him. He's waiting for a sign. He trusts his gut. And as I watched like the Waco thing, a shout out to the website, Wonkette,

who have called these like boomers who go out demanding the lockdown be ended. They call them the branch COVIDians. That's hilarious. Because they really are like looking at like, you know, David Koresh is like, I'm waiting for a sign from God before like I move on acting these things like this.

And the Trump thing of just saying like, I'm waiting for my guts to tell me something. And if people really look at that and say, yeah, I'm going to go with that over science. Like, yeah, we're fully fully like we're fully fully there now you know like not just sort of like the uh like rhetorically being like yeah the cult of trump like no we're now we're going on things that are so i mean so many things are against well what is our like i don't know our accepted reality but when you go this far it feels like we're

we're waiting we're waiting for the next miracle or spaceship or some shit to come down. Yeah. Miles, you were researching boomers in general and their struggles with core life. Yeah, there have been a lot of articles just kind of talking with boomers. Because I think as these movements like the ending the lockdown thing, people are just trying to get an idea of how people are feeling um but in the daily beast they were raising a couple interesting things i mean overall it seems like a lot of baby boomers are getting they've hit they're starting to hit a wall in terms of like how long they can like stop living normally right there's like one woman that they interviewed who's like i'm just zoom Zoom, Zoom, Zooming all day. Like, and it's not good enough.

Like, I'd rather be there. Like, I used to go here and go do that. And I don't like this anymore. And, you know, this woman was in her 70s. She was like a retired teacher. And many younger past students were offering to like help her with groceries and things. She has a husband who's 78. And this is like another thing, even talking to my friends and anybody anybody, there's this resistance to help from younger people.

And credit to everybody who's found a way to help their elderly relatives or neighbors out that helps save them their pride. But they go on to speak with an expert, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a researcher on geriatric behavioral health. And just saying that like isolation in other research they've done in terms of like the effects on the elderly social isolation could be really, really bad. And they just say from, you know, past studies that they've looked at, they said they have this very, very intense need their social interactions, quote, they need it beyond what they get via media, such as touch. To feel they are in touch is very important, quote. So functional decline could be dramatic, meaning that their ability to perform their tasks to take care of themselves could begin to decline.

And it was interesting on some of these interviews, too. You'd see people be like, oh, I think I have like an ulcer maybe. Or I thought it was just like like an acid reflux but it's gotten a lot worse and i probably should have gone to the doctor but i didn't know i didn't know if it was that bad a deal and the covid thing and it's just and so like you're hearing too from people not taking like it's having certain effects like that yeah yeah it's a lot of this shit overlaps with depression and like yeah some of like the quarantine is just like enforced depression like it's i i had to like force

myself to start exercising because like you really can like more easily i'd say fall into the behavioral patterns of just being like i mean i i definitely did i i don't want to speak for other people but i definitely it was easier for me to lapse into behavioral patterns that I've had with depression than in other times when I can get out and do stuff outside of the house. It's been really interesting to note in my own life how... A lot of my choices were based around like going outside like you know like like there's there's like there's only like i feel like there's only like a tenth of my wardrobe

by access right now because like all the rest of it was built around like going places and seeing people and wanting to make sure they hadn't seen me in the same thing and like you know all this this stuff that i wasn't even consciously thinking about but was just like motivators of why i would make certain decisions and like you say like it's it's really easy to just fall into a pattern of like nothing matters yeah which is a which is a yeah a very easily door for depression to open and and set in like i had to i had to like another reason i'd started doing that quarantine radio show was that i had to decide that it was Monday, one Monday, so that I would stop drinking. Right. I had to put an end to the weekend.

Right, weekend. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Enforce Mondays. Yeah. The other experts they were talking to, they were saying they were raising some alarming points. Now, granted, a lot of the isolation research that's been done with the elderly was done completely out of the context of this quarantine. So they're not saying this is what's going to happen,

but they're saying typically the effects of isolation can be really, really, really terrifying. Then like a recent study that they had put out in terms of looking at elderly people who were going through chronic isolation, they said 25% increase in the risk of death from cancer, 29% increase in the risk for heart disease, a 32% increase in stroke risk. So there's a lot of things that go along like, you know, with just, you know, when you take out that social dimension of like life, it's really a lot of, a lot of bad things can happen for older people. So please check in on elderly friends and family. I know a lot of people too have been saying their parents have started watching more Fox news.

People have not even started watching Fox news because Fox says the shit that they want to hear. Wow. Okay. Boomer more. You okay? to hear. Wow. Which is like, less okay boomer, more you okay boomer? Yeah. All right.

I have a report from my neighborhood. There's a, the people who live across the street from me are older. And they have a party every Sunday. They have a fucking party every Sunday. Like, the first time they did it during quarantine, like,

they were super loud. And like, they were playing the music super loud and the fucking helicopters came and was like hovering over their house and shit but it didn't stop them they still do it they still do it every fucking week it is unbelievable but it's also it's like i i can tell with them it's just hit a certain point where like they have they have to be around each other they have to yeah like it just i think what i think and it's kind of what you're getting at too it's like what they lose when it comes to not being around each other is way more than you can quantify with just like you know productivity or you know what i mean like it just it means so much more to them well because especially at a certain age like if you're retired, like traditionally, like to end your retirement life too, because this was shut down your post-work social life that like retirees have. Like pretty busy schedules in that way.

And so I'm sure it's probably really jarring for a person in their 70s to be like, but I have all these things to make my life go longer because right i'm not working right now and i need this stimulation so yeah i think that's why a lot of there's been a lot of talk about this quarantine fatigue that we've seen like man southern california we some beaches we absolutely disgraced ourselves this weekend holy shit in orange county like newport and orange county it was a popping um ventura county not so much because their rules at the beach was sort of like you can come to the beach but you have to keep it moving you can take a stroll along the beach don't swim don't stop don't sit just keep it moving they have a keep it moving order la they're like fuck out of here dude like if we catch it it's bad don't get fucking near

here and yeah there's been like a study from researchers at the university of maryland showing that like they've seen for the first time they've been tracking sort of anonymous cell data that the social distancing effort has like across the country declined by about three percent like measurably um and we'll link to the footnotes to that study because what they do is sort of average out by state how many trips someone might be taking, the average distance, and sort of how that compares to over time.

But I think it's natural, right? I think at a certain point, yeah, people are starting to meet their own natural resistance to this way of life. But I think it just says that we have to strengthen our resolve to stay committed to this because it's truly like the outlooks can be really bad if we don't. Yeah. And it's not that they're over-counting the number of people who are being killed by this disease. And in fact, they are probably

under-counting because there's a new report that uh like when you just look at the expected number of deaths like just across history in the u.s and then this year like around the time that the pandemic started like deaths went up by way more than what we're currently attributing to uh covid19 it's it's like like we don't know the full extent of the death and destruction. And people are just... And try as we might to figure out the truth, I'm not sure that'll happen.

Because again, and I bring the same point up, just like in Puerto Rico with the hurricane there, many people died not directly from the hurricane itself, but the lack of access to medical care and supplies and things like that. And those are deaths caused by the hurricane. So, but to keep it tidy, they want to suppress those figures. And I think that's really important because even in Italy, a lot of doctors were saying, yes, we had a certain amount of COVID deaths. Yes, we had a certain amount of COVID deaths, but then we also had these other deaths that were probably, I mean, doctors are saying like we would attribute to COVID because it was based off of the strain on the hospital. And these people, they were preventable deaths, but because we were overwhelmed by COVID patients, couldn't address those people's needs in time, et cetera, et cetera.

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program or payment plan uh but yeah the idea is basically to keep people employed uh by small businesses and there's a there's a really good case study recently, and I guess popular. It's about a guy named, what is it? Monty. Monty Bennett. First of all, his name is Monty. Yeah. So you know he's just a regular man of the people with the name Monty.

Yeah. I mean, look, everyone named Monty. I just think of old Monty Burns, Mr. Burns. I love Monty. I love him. He's been a great supporter of the president. You know, he owns three companies that basically work in the hospitality industry. Fucking did over $2 billion in revenue last year.

Just killing the game. 120 hotels, 7,000 fucking people employed. And then the pandemic hits, cuts 95% of his staff, and still takes fucking PPP money to the tune of $96 million. Now, we keep hearing about this shit because there's like Ruth's Chris. People are like, why the fuck are you taking this money? Or Shake Shack. And a lot of companies were shamed into giving their money back because the thing that they don't talk about, which is another reason why we absolutely need to get money out of politics, is lobbyists help even craft this kind of recovery legislation.

And in this one, they put in a nice little provision that says if you have a location that employs 500 people or less, that's a small business. So even if you are a massive company, you can apply for each location as a company or as an entity because they employ less than 500 people. And this man, Monty, was using that exact loophole to collect $96 million and cut over 90% of his staff. Now that money is meant, like we all said, to keep the whole reason is to keep people employed. So they're not going on unemployment. Then these small businesses can ask for subsidies from the government to absorb that hit. And the government's like, Hey, if you spend 75% of this money on like payroll expenses, um, we like, then the debt will be forgiven. But based on everything we're seeing from Monty, this dude is just taking the cash and writing medium posts about,

ha ha, I was poor a long time ago, so fuck y'all, this is my money, essentially. Yeah. So if you spend 75% of the money on paychecks, you don't have to pay it back and he's like yeah i'm not gonna do that instead i'm gonna fire 90 of my employees and then uh pay out dividends to holders of preferred stock whatever the fuck that means it just means like basically finding a way to make rich people richer uh well rather than taking that money from those dividends and putting it back into your fucking company or we've talked about like buybacks that were a big thing that were talked about for a lot of the companies that got tax cuts during the trump tax cut you know that money should if you were if you were worth a fuck you'd put that money back into your business so

you can keep people employed rather than being like well the revenue is down if i cut this off then i can get 96 million from the president and i can just pay that back over two years that's essentially what's doing now the thing that's really fucking disgusting about all of this is this man goes to medium like every great thought leader does to defend their bullshit um in a really really sincere essay uh there's some really great excerpts that wonket pulled out. One of the opening paragraphs talks about why this bailout is fine, and this is what he says, quote, some politicians are too concerned whether proposed government programs help small businesses rather than, quote, big businesses or individuals instead of, quote, corporations. They seem terrified they'll be accused of bailing out an industry or certain companies.

Is it preferable for a large business like Marriott to lay off hundreds of thousands of workers so we can say we helped only small businesses? Interesting. Okay, interesting point. Then he goes on to say, well, now let's mix in some xenophobia. This crisis was caused by either the purposeful or negligent actions of a semi-hostile foreign nation. This is not a normal market condition. Goes on to say, why is Washington protecting the Chinese? Why am I allowed to legally pursue an

American citizen or company, but the Chinese government is off limits? Why does Washington care more about a communist regime than it does about its own citizens great trump tactic that he's using there um and then fine like really great one to sum it up media concerns over our receipt of ppp funds are misplaced the ppp program was specifically designed to help companies like ours as part of the national objective of shoring up businesses and getting people back to work but But you are not doing that. Right. You're taking the money and running.

Instead firing everyone. Taking money and using it as a low interest loan to, you know, just using it the way really wealthy people use money to make more money in for themselves only. This makes me so mad. Yeah. This makes me so mad because my dad, he's a small business owner.

He had to shut down all his stores obviously it's like a clothing store he has one store open because it sells medical scrubs and that's been a really important thing for like obviously people are washing their clothes more often because they're if they're working in the medical field but he's been struggling a lot he hasn't gotten any financial help yet and uh a lot of his employees like he's been struggling a lot. He hasn't gotten any financial help yet. And a lot of his employees, he's trying to pay them as much as he can because a lot of them relied on that paycheck. But the fact that people like this fucking, just an awful person is he doesn't when and using it the wrong way it makes me so enraged because i'm seeing firsthand how businesses are suffering it's so awful this is what class warfare looks like this is saying this is money that should go to you to help you help your father help other small business owners because the thing is the government and these

wealthy people are exploiting our willingness to be humane to our fellow human to excuse their greed. And they know, OK, well, if these people take care of each other because they don't have shit and they they're already treating each other humanely, I'm going to take this cash and fuck off and laugh my ass off to the bank. While in my Medium post say, actually, I'm only getting seven hundred thousand dollars in my salary this year because I took a big pay cut. Eat shit. These are the fucking people that are stealing from us. And they laugh all the way to the fucking bank. And I think, you know, it's I really hope that out of this, people begin to see what these sort of manifestations are in our day to day lives when we're trying to help smaller

the little guy, quote unquote. And we have the but the system is set up for assholes like monty to swoop in and pick up their 96 million dollar check and fire everybody yeah empathy yeah but they get but the thing is they get away with it like that's what's enraging they get away with it that's what they do it over and over again because we our government allows them to do it and so that kind of just makes me feel so hopeless and like what is the is there a solution like can we actually like the fact that we have to there is a little guy compared to a big guy the big guy's always gonna want to stay the big guy you know what i mean like

it's so rare that a fucking billionaire person is like actually distributing their wealth in a way that is helpful for the betterment of the world and not just the betterment of themselves. You know, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I like America and American capitalism are a system or a machine that's under stress. And we are seeing, you know, what what the we're seeing the problems really highlighted. You know, we're seeing the problems really highlighted. And, you know, this is a great example of, you know, just a perfect illustration of how empathy is a liability in American capitalism.

Sociopathy and narcissism are an asset. Yeah, and then just having an advantage, whatever advantage he used to get to the front of the line presumably something with his money uh right also gave him an advantage so you know the idea i i think the idea that anything like the the underlying idea of capitalism that we like like to use to justify it that it's a meritocracy just is being put put to shame like no nobody can see what is happening here and believe that well you see to hear how tone deaf there's another thing actually i want to point out from his medium post that he said to defend himself against these attacks against capitalism, Jack, that he says, quote, I'm proud of our accomplishments of the hotels

I've bought and built and of the thousands of folks I've hired who have become like family to me that I've just fired. I won't apologize for being a capitalist in America or for being reasonably successful at it. But even a capitalist system with companies only and no government backstop does not work. So him saying, yo, this only works by me exploiting their labor and then also asking for subsidies from the federal government that should actually be going to the people that are vulnerable. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, this is what it is.

I would starve to feed my family and it really is frustrating when these corporate leaders are use the language of like hey we're a family uh we're we're all a family here and it's just what there's completely either they don't have enough empathy to even have real human relationships with their family, or they're just appropriating language. I think what you do, though, too, is to insulate yourself from doing this kind of fucked up shit is that you just have to use that saying of like, it's just business, man. And sometimes you got to make tough business decisions, because if you can use that language you can

compartmentalize what that effect is on an actual human being because when you say tough business decisions is different than putting a employee of mine on the street to figure out how they're going to survive so i can fucking buy whatever you know what i mean like then you got to go that down that rabbit hole and that's too dark for somebody to do. So I'd rather just say, I'm treating this as numbers, man. We just got to tighten the belt.

We got to make a tough business decision. And that's where it ends. That's where all the thought. I just, but yeah, it justifies, it justifies having a severe lack of empathy. And I think it's so,

I'm going to think about this for a while. The fact that like empathy is, empathy is not cohesive to capitalism, right. Or like the idea of capitalism, is, empathy is not cohesive to capitalism. Right. Or like the idea of capitalism, like, uh, it just doesn't work.

I, yeah, you're not going to make money by everything, but like, yeah, you're right. Tough business. You know,

you don't make money by giving the money away to fucking, what the fuck are you talking about? You're supposed to suck up as much fucking money as possible till your cheeks puff out, and then you fucking swallow it down and get more till your body gets so bloated with fucking greed and money that, you know, the world rots around you. You just described Kirby.

You just described Kirby. Yeah. Ah, but this is no dreamland. Yeah. All right, and finally, the president is using the DPA, the Defense Protection Act. Is that right?

Defense. Yep. What is it? Production Act. Sure. Defense Production Act to force meat processing facilities. I said protection. Defense production.

I was like, sure. It was was the sure reaction that was so funny sure who gives a shit at this fucking point uh so trump is using the defense production act to force meat processing facilities to open and start providing the critical infrastructure of give him his meats. He's a meat daddy. He likes his meats. And so over two dozen facilities had been shut down due to COVID outbreaks. And he was like, nah, fuck all that. so he's forcing them back to work and he's saying the feds will throw down on some ppe uh and also uh he'll use his talent and innate ability to provide some tips on ways that they can not get sick or at the very least ways that companies can avoid getting sued. You can only imagine the tips on protection that the White House is going to offer

concerning the state of some of these briefings, which means probably none that's functioning. Well, probably. But anyway, yeah. The other thing is the liability protection that he's offering these companies because inevitably you know these companies want to put these people back to work and if things if we don't know who has the illness and who doesn't inevitably someone will contract the illness and potentially pass away so then if there's if they have coverage from the government over liability, then they can't go after the employer for forcing them to risk their fucking lives. And the unions are fucking screaming their heads off about this and be like, you're not

even doing the minimum of giving. There are people wearing hairnets as face masks at one point, and they're like, that's not fucking even remotely close to PPE. That's just a weird face mask. Like, that's not fucking even remotely close to PPE. That's just a weird face mask. And, you know, it's just we're seeing now that the whole irony of it is that of the states that are reopening pretty aggressively are like trying to make it so that you have no choice but to go to work if your employer says, hey, we're open again. Because essentially, if you don't go to work for a health concern, when your employer saying, hey, we're open, then they'll consider that a quit and you will lose

your unemployment benefits. This story hit close to home, obviously, because a lot of these meat factories have reached out about using one of my legs to feed Idaho and I think Minnesota. It was to use it, obviously, because the amount that they could get off these babies, I politely declined. But to your point, the that uh liability coverage is one of the first things that's being mentioned in this uh wait why even pivot to a serious point maybe i'm about to make another joke blake calls his gym the meat factory yeah yeah at least that's what the sign behind you says it does it does in my god the electric bill that i am getting for this sign yeah in the tens of thousands it's

unbelievable it's blinding uh it looks like a leather biker hat and a handlebar mustache that's right fluorescent light that's right instead of teeth it's toes oh whoa yeah yeah everything else i like where i'm at um i'm sorry were you gonna make a serious point or a joke about the liability no no i actually uh i was gonna make a serious point but you also made a very good point why make one at this point but i was gonna say that if if the liability uh is just one of the first things that you mentioned, maybe there's so many horrible things that could happen that you would be liable for. Perhaps it's not a great idea to open back up. What's the point?

Yeah. No, it's true. But I think it's fucking cruel. And this is, again, this is what this kind of class warfare looks like. These companies are saying like yo i got meat rotting i need these people to go back to work so i can sell this shit but they're all scared of the fuck so dude do me a solid here cover my ass while i force these people possibly to illness or worse death and i can get my money going and they have no choice

because look if they don't come in then they won't get on insurance, but they won't get unemployment benefits. It's fucking really, really fucked. The governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds said, if you're an employer, this is what this is her like whole quote on Iowa's policy. If you're an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to, that's a voluntary quit. Therefore, they would not be eligible for the unemployment money. And in Texas is a voluntary quit therefore they would not be eligible for the unemployment money and in texas is a voluntary quit was that a phrase before that sentence uh yes probably in terms of

applying for unemployment got it a voluntary maybe not those exact words but if you voluntarily like left your job a job you can't yeah yeah yeah voluntary employment at will employment i've just never heard someone say that's a voluntary quit it's like it could be a little child a catchphrase of a blue collar a blue collar comedian yeah and greg abbott in texas you know lifted restrictions i think starting the end of this week and a lot of people are still don't feel safe going back to their jobs and but same thing you could lose your benefits but the state is saying like they're kind of looking at if they can make exceptions and things like that but again this is like we could

only go three fucking weeks when we were like we need to think of people and keeping them safe and keeping them healthy to immediately the fucking billionaires are bitching and so now it's like we got to get these people off the fucking unemployment benefits and into the fucking meat facilities and into the hair salons or whatever fuck the safety it's really the change up is so fucking drastic and this is what happens when you have a federal government that's not on the same page with the states and when the states are not on the same page with each other and sometimes the local city governments aren't on the same page as the states either where there's an interesting thing going on uh my parents uh or my family lives in charleston and the uh you know mcmaster the governor of south carolina has opened up you know like the

beaches etc etc but on a local level some of the local towns have not opened up, you know, like the beaches, et cetera, et cetera. But on a local level, some of the local towns have not opened up their beaches. So, you know, there is like possibly the governor could take action against these, you know, like, but it is interesting to see if you have more liberal pockets at a local level in more conservative states they are you know trying to take some sort of control whether legally or morally over what they're doing yeah it's amazing it's just so pronounced like you can tell how much a human life is valued based on like what leaders are willing to do to protect people it's like it's just it's directly you know they're saying the people who have too much pressure on them are caving and they're like fine whereas

other you know you you want to hear someone act like they're your parent or knows better than you or knows more information saying yo i'm gonna be real with you this shit is still out there like i'm like why risk no it's not worth the risk it's just not worth the risk no one's life is worth the risk every other people like it's got we got it's worth the risk it's worth the risk of losing your life my jeans don't fit anymore because my legs have gotten so goddamn big they burst through the denim which was supposedly a strong fabric so now i need to go shopping for new pants i can't just order them online they show up they don't fit i'll be fucking naked from the waist down yeah right i

mean i've never yeah you made those jinkos look like they were painted on yes yeah yes i did impressive truly and i will again for the for the photo of this episode should i just draw a face on my thighs and like blakewetzler.com i don't want to give that away i'm not going to do that okay yeah uh okay and mnuchin last story before we get into the less serious news mnuchin whose name i have totally forgotten steve yep steven steven doesn't seem like a steve stevie stevie mnuchin mnuchibuchi uh is saying that they will audit any sba loans that are over two million dollars he announced today jack that actually it's just all SBA loans. So not just the $2 million anymore. He amended that and said all of them.

Oh, even more oversight. Great. Well, yeah. I mean, we were talking about how the weirdest people ended up with millions of dollars, including my Los Angeles Lakers, which is, I think, the only fucking team in the NBA to get this ppp money well miles in their defense they do need all of all of those millions of dollars to buy a weed whacker strong enough to knock off whatever is above anthony davis's eyes oh so i think that's why they needed they needed They needed the money. They need it. Burn, burn.

Oh, man. Miles does not do well with criticism of Anthony Davis's unibrow. Do not talk about AD's unibrow. It's powerful. Oh, he'll resign. It's powerful. But yeah, I think it's just like so, they were like, the logic behind the Lakers getting is so stupid. They should be embarrassed

well when they applied for it um but then they said they only like after they learned that the funds were low they were like okay maybe we should give the money back why did you fucking apply for it in the first play you don't you don't need it you don't need it right i think people just look at it's like well we could lose money so we should take it rather than like is it ethical is it moral given the revenues or that we're valued at like over four billion dollars or some shit as a club whatever but i mean the rules of capitalism that like we are learning like the more out in the open this shit becomes the more we learn that it's like you cheat until you get caught and then you act like if people are looking at you you act in a superficial way like you're good good guy uh but then yeah you cheat as much as you can you take the money because everybody

else is taking it because everybody is a thief we have the president of the united states is you know won at capitalism by being a grifter so like what are we gonna do we're gonna suddenly start like holding ourselves to high moral standards like everybody for the past three decades has won the game of capitalism by you you know, being predatory and cheating. So that's just how it's going to work. Right. I'm not saying it's good. I don't,

I don't forgive the Lakers. Uh, you don't forgive them. Not yet. I haven't apologized to me directly. Yeah. Um, not since they took a little text message and they were,

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We're so excited for you to hear our brand new podcast senora sex ed listen to senora sex ed on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast and we're back and uh one kind of topic of conversation that I've seen many different kind of opposing takes on is horniness during the core. Corniness. So one piece of evidence we had been kind of looking at in the past was a report that Chinese drugstores were completely out of condoms. And that was like their version of toilet paper but people are now saying that that might have had more to do with the supply chain than it does with how much sex everybody was having well that and like people just i think maybe projecting what they thought they're you know they thought it was gonna be COVID coitus fest 2020,

you know? And it was like, I better get 9,000 condoms. Cause trust me, I haven't examined the existential damage that's being done by this. But one thing I know I'm in a house with someone else that I have consensual sex with, Oh,

that's what's happening. Cut to worldwide global depressive States from people who are not horny. And are just sort of like, cause at first I you know we've i thought and most of us thought logically we're like yeah probably yeah people probably having more sex they're indoors but yeah condom sales are just way down actually like in europe and in the united states and that actually makes more sense when we now that we are living in this reality like no no one's moving around freely to like socialize or date like they used to. And actually, it seems like all this confusion and chaos around us and uncertainty makes us less horny.

I don't know. I don't know. I think it's maybe ramped up other parts of our libidos in bizarre ways, maybe other than pure physical needs where you're admiring the cactus, the cacti in your yard. You're like rubbing the Mrs. Butterworth bottle. Yeah. Which is kind of thick.

I have her under my pillow so no one sees. I'm like, there you go. My midnight lover. They're like, I have her under my pillow so no one sees. I'm like, there you go. My midnight lover. Oh, yeah. I mean, quarantine horniness. It's funny.

I was peeking into Tinder because I was just curious. Like, what's Tinder like during the quarantine? So many Tinder profiles I saw were like, if you're not willing to break quarantine, don't bother swiping. Like, I do think people are still out there, like it in the quarantine oh they are i mean i know single friends who are like like working on like you know you thought they were working on like another negotiation with like cuba or something like top level high level diplomatic negotiations in terms of like their own contact tracing what time windows have looked like since they had interacted with other people in what context that was if they are then willing to then just be it's weird it's like forcing some people be like exclusive though too because they're like look if we do this fuck it like you'll be the only person

whose house i go to like i'm not seeing anybody else and they're like it's it's like a weird you know uh sub sub exclusivity subliminally getting it in there. I've never felt more for people who have like secret families, people who are like creeping on the side. It's got to be tough out there for them. I've never felt for them more. Oh, secret families? Secret families. Secret family community.

Oh, those poor guys. It's intact. You know how many children think their father is dead? Oh my God. You know how many children think their father is dead? Oh my God. You know how many because of this? Because the man cannot dip out to see the secret family anymore? They will have to say that he's dead. I don't know.

What else are you going to do? I don't know what you do or else you say, I don't know, is it easier to say, look, your dad's a scumbag and he's got this other family. We're like, I don't know, or it easier to say, look, your dad's a scumbag and he's got this other family? We're like, I don't know. Or you have a secret mother. Look, it's all secret family Twitter. Let us know.

How are you handling this? Very curious. I don't want to tell tales out of school. All three of us are quarantining with a partner, no? I am. You two both are. like quarantining with a like a partner no i am you two both are yeah i mean i i think it's different when you're in a like long-term like committed thing you know it's like i think a lot of my friends who i see on instagram like making sourdough starter kids i know they wouldn't be

doing that if they had somebody in their house they could have sex with i guess that's what i'm saying no that was like that was funny because that was like a reductor's tweet last week or something right yes yes right like it's like yeah are you bon appetit focaccia recipe levels of horny or do you live someone you have consensual sex with right i think yeah i really think that's true but yeah the other thing though back to the supply chain though jack is the thing that you know the global condom shortage is probably going to be a reality because in Malaysia, there's strict lockdown rules and they are one of the top rubber producers and major sources of condoms. So it's like, I think one of the, this one company Carex, they make one in five condoms.

They're saying like, they've had to close three of their factories, and they're probably doing 200 million fewer condoms than normal during this period. So they're saying, hey, look, if you don't need them, maybe save them. Because contraception is very important in other parts of the world where they don't have the same access to medical care. So that's actually a sort of darker dimension to all of that to say they they're kind of being like okay maybe we also need to be really mindful of this because of now not just the it's not the lack of horniness it's because we can't work work the rubber factories right right and you do call them rubbers you're always calling them rubbers i'm always calling them rubbers i think that's what our dads called them yeah i think i've ever called it a condom.

I don't think I've called it. What have I ever called it? I think condom. I don't think I've ever used a fucking. A Connie? A Jimmy hat? Yeah, Jimmy's. That's what Ali G calls them.

Yeah, Jimmy's was like a thing for a month in the early 90s, but I feel like they. Well, Jimmy Cap was definitely 90s rap gave us jimmy raps but sex pack but then at that time i wasn't trying to make that a thing yeah i was like hey girl uh i need to go to the store to get one of those lisa left eye lopez eye patches real quick yes honestly like kudos to lisa left eye lopez for like rocking the condom over her eye and like teaching us all about us all about safe sex, talking about it. Honestly. My uncle used to be the director of Soul Train or the AD on Soul Train.

And I would go as a kid whenever there were artists that I always wanted to see. And I saw TLC in that era. And I remember that was another uncomfortable conversation my dad had to have with me because she had the condom eye patch phase of Lisa Left Eye Lopez. And he just said it like he just was very dismissive of what it was about. But later on, after the 1991 AIDS walk, he told me what a condom was just personal. Just to let you in on my mental history of condom knowledge. I'm glad you I'm glad you figured it out eventually. on my mental history of condom knowledge. I'm glad you figured it out eventually.

Yeah, well, I took a handful because they were free at the AIDS walk. And my dad saw what I had. You know, because at those things, there's swag bags. He's like, what'd you get? And I'm like, all these condoms. He's like, what the fuck are you doing with these? I'm like, I don't know.

They're free. And you're six. You grab whatever's free. But, you know. And you still got them to this day, right? Still got them to this day. All right. Speaking of things to do instead of have sex,

it's time to choose our rewatch movie for the weekend. Yeah. I put together a list of movies that are available on Netflix. I just kind of went through the top Metacritic ones because they allow you to sort by what's on Netflix, what's on Prime. Snowpiercer is on Netflix.

I feel like that might be a decent pick. It's got a little post-apocalyptic-ism in there. Yeah. And there's also a TV series coming. I mean, Bong Joon-on is just so hot right now bong joon is so hot so hot right now yeah so that's kind of at the top of my list we also have marvels uh the avengers just near the top because uh again apocalyptic and uh everybody's seen it. I will say this. Another thing on your list that you have bolded and underwritten, underlined, is Her, which I've only seen the first 20 minutes of. Oh, I love that movie.

It's funny. Why did you only see the first 20 minutes? What happened? Because I grew up in a house like screeners all the time, so a lot of movies were watched on DVD. house like screeners all the time so a lot of movies were like watched on dvd so i never had like i sometimes won't respect the sanctity of the running time of the film and i'll start watching something be like what oh come outside you want to smoke a blunt and then i pause it and then i forget what i'm doing and then i haven't watched her um so yeah but i want to because i people always have thoughts about it but i don't know if it's because it's good or whatever.

But hey. I think it's good. It's got the disembodied voice of Scarlett Johansson. So if that's your thing, you might give it a shot. Oh, yes. And you know how I love an actress of color. She did the Mrs. Butterworth bottle and then Scarlett Johansson's voice I think

I think we picked our movie if it's gotta be I'd hate to pit two Asian people against each other I know you know she's gonna be playing Angela Davis

in an upcoming movie I heard oh my god oh shit alright let's do her we'll rewatch her let's do her

yeah I mean at least I know I'll bring fresh eyes. It's something I've not seen, so I may have fresher eyes. Fresh eyes. Yeah. Fresh eyes realize fresh eyes. Okay, and then just in terms of,

I figured there were probably quite a few documentaries coming our way about COVID-19. quite a few documentaries coming our way about covet 19 and yeah they it turns out they're 20 in the works right now somehow in right now like in major like not just like oh we we just spoke to 20 people who were fucking around with a covet documentary like no like quibi fucking hulu people are like putting documentaries together but i don't know look i understand you this this moment should be documented i'm not talking i don't say that's not a worthy premise but some of these platforms seem to be wanting to take them to market like relatively quickly to capitalize on this and i don't know i can't imagine fucking anybody like wanting to harm

themselves more by getting more like entrenched in this story right i don't know yeah i i'm trying to imagine what they would look like and i'm picturing like the covet 19 commercials with all the like stock footage because like you can't really go out and do physical productions. I think maybe these people are embedding themselves with them, so they're like, I'm not going anywhere. But they're all different. Some are talking about, I get it, some projects focus on the food industry

or other nonprofit organizations. And I think, honestly, those stories are going to be harrowing and should 100% be entered into the public record and consciousness for people to understand just what the actual true toll is of this kind of thing but it's just weird because part of these articles are talking about how like quibby is really trying to get theirs out it's like quibby come on now nobody asked you do we need this you're already yeah you're already hurting from stealing people's ideas on other shows yeah by the way abc news does a pretty good roundup of everything happening in covet 19 and they are the number one tv show

every day basically on a all cable and network news people are really tuning into abc and also david muir the uh anchor ethelo doesn't know what to do with his hands king so uh i see him is that something you picked up at abc news because you famously also worked at abc i did work at abc news when i was in my early 20s and And maybe, maybe it was all just... Yeah, it's all related. It's the building, man. Yeah. Bridget, it's been so wonderful having you as always. Where can people find you and follow you?

You can find me on Twitter at Bridget Marie. You can find me on Instagram at Bridget Marie in DC. And you can look out for my new I Heart Media podcast coming out on July 7th called There Are No Girls on the Internet. So hit me up at any of those places and I would love to keep talking. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes. I actually have two tweets, if that's okay. Yeah, yeah. Yes. I actually have two tweets, if that's okay.

Yeah, yeah. So the first tweet that I found that I loved is by Dave underscore Horwitz. The postal service does not exist to turn a profit. It exists to remind us that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images. And when we kiss, they're perfectly aligned. Remember that song? I thought that was so clever. I was going to sing it, but, you know. And then another tweet.

It was one of those tweets going around where you're meant to quote tweet it with your response. And it said, you know, do you have a teacher that impacted you and stuck with you and changed your life? And I was really thrilled to see that I got a shout out. A former student of mine from when I taught at Howard University, she quote tweeted that and said, yes. She gave me a B and ruined my 4.0 and tagged me. So shout out to my former student, Phoenix. Thank you for calling me out for giving you

a B like nine years ago. Hey, you respect an age-long beef though. I do. We're coming full circle. I respect a long-held beef. You love a nice dry-aged beef. It's true.

Miles, where can people find you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Okay, I like so many tweets. One thing I just do want to shout out is, if you like the Fresh Prince, there's a video that someone just extracted the part where the entire cast is looking at a montage of James Avery, a.k.a. phil um and it will make you cry okay if you needed to cry even harder um

a few tweets that i like oh man this is i can't i just can't pick just one um this is from at okay claire she just said fuck i just sexted realistically. And it's a screen grab of her text thread. It says, the person on the other side says, want to sext? She says, okay. Okay, you start. I touch your penis with my hand while we kiss. After a little bit, I let my hand go limp because my wrist is tired. I start worrying about carpal tunnel. I will not come.

What? What? Another one. what um another one this is from uh at zz zzack 22 how old were you when the guitar hero crowd booed at you for trying your best um oh my goodness oh my goodness uh another one is from uh this is from uh jermaine lussier it says here's a real thing i just found in my parents house that i must have got in the junket swag bag and even then been so fascinated i kept it now he's talking about press junkets that happen for like films and things like that and this promotional item uh is going to shock you to your core when I show it to you. It is a soul patch from the movie Swordfish, and it is a swordfish soul patch.

What the fuck? So you can't be shocked about this character. That can't be real, man. That cannot be real. It looks like some really boneheaded idea that someone would have a lastly okay when you said soul patch i immediately was like it can't be swordfish because john travolta's soul patch in that movie is one of the all-time bad works of facial hair the travolta swordfish patch and then finally this is from d Dave Mazzoni, who says,

Offering Britney Burns Down Her Gym as Today's Disassociation Portal. I don't know if you've seen this clip where Britney Spears talks about how her gym burned down. But again, a fantastic way to describe it, a disassociation portal. Hi, guys. I'm in my gym right now. I haven't been in here for like six months because I burnt my gym down, unfortunately. I had two candles and, yeah, one for like six months because I burnt my gym down, unfortunately. I had two candles and yeah,

one thing led to another and I burnt it down. So... One thing led to another. And yeah, I burnt it down. It seemed like she was also explaining it to a parent nervously. You know, and I burnt it down. I don't know, Mom. I had the candles there and one thing led to another

and I burnt it down. Sorry. I hope nothing actually. Like, I had the candles there, and, like, one thing led to another. You know, I burned it down. Sorry. I hope nothing actually tragic happened there, but all praise be to Comrade Ricky. Thank you. Those are my two points. All right. That's going to do it for this week's Weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles.

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