The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 169 (Best of 3/29/21-4/2/21)

Episode Date: April 4, 2021

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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 I am also thrilled to introduce our guest today. Somebody that Jack is scared of for sure. I'm not scared of her because, you know. You're scared as fuck let me do the fucking intro man what the fuck um please please welcome one of actually one of my

favorite guests to have on here the brilliant and talented and hilarious and just honest as fuck, Marcella Arguello. Welcome, welcome. It's been a minute. It's been a fucking minute. What's new? What's new with you? Dog depression. That's new.

That's the new thing right now. What kind of depression did you say? Just regular depression. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, just like that quarantine. Like, i'm finally hitting i finally hit i'm actually coming out of it but i was like hitting a wall that's why you

guys didn't hear from me from a hot second and i was like marcella please come back great anna impression and i was like no bitch it's gonna have to wait april fools i'm back bitch yes there you are yeah man that shit that shit creeps on you because sometimes this depression doesn't look the same way and it can be a general malaise yeah it's different now because you're just like oh I'm gonna do nothing because I have nothing to do

oh that's weird you like meaning meaning no it's not nothing means there's no means I guess I can start timing how long these blunts I roll last and then start like a Grand Prix of blunts to see which one goes first. It's sad because your psychologist will ask you how much you're smoking and he's going to look at you like he knows you're lying.

I said, look, Shamitra. Shout out to Dr. Shamitra. But also I said, why am I on trial, Shamitra? Please. I'm coping. And also if you knew this one blunt had less than 1G and it went for 17 minutes, that has to be a record. And she's like, just let's start talking about your family. Dr. Kevin had the audacity to be like, it doesn't sound like all the weed is helping.

And I was like, well, not smoking weed isn't helping either. So I don't know. Weird answer. Things are so bad for me. My gynecologist prescribed me Zoloft. That's how bad things got, y'all. Where you at? My gynecologist was like, damn, bitch, your booze.

Okay, hold on. You know what? Give me that other notepad real quick. And then, Joelle, you were... I mean, look, we keep in touch because we work together, but I know you and Daniel were on Family Feud with Donald and

Zach for Fake Doctors Real Friends versus who are you and Daniel were on family feud. Oh my God. Donald and Zach for fake doctors, real friends versus who, who are you going up against on family? We went against Neil Flynn's improv. True. Oh, and that was like the janitor on scrubs. Right.

And he's also the dad on, I think in the middle. Right. Yeah. Right. And so he's, but he's got Keckner and like Horatio Sands. Yeah.

That's a, okay. So how did broken family was it fun did it feel did it get competitive did you did you perform well yeah so it was wild it was wild we uh i've indiated out the ass so i can't talk about performance but okay we like listen i and they were like we're doing family videos like oh fuck i don't know i don't want to do it i'm not into it i don't do the game shows and they were like, we're doing Family Feud. I was like, oh, fuck. I don't know. I don't want to do it. I'm not into it. I don't do the game shows. And they were like, no, Joe, you got to, please. And then, of course, Daniel, light of my life, was like, this is a dream. And I was on the road DJing.

This is what we watched in the trailer. This is it. I love Family Feud. And I was like, listen, I'm not going to be the human that lets Daniel down, OK? It could not be me. So let's just do it. So the whole day, I'm just like, I have to be up early as hell to be at the studio. All the way on the other side of town.

They did send a car, which I thought was very nice. I was like, thank you. I don't have to drive. I love that. So we get there. They're like, this is your trailer. I was like, a trailer for a game show? What kind of next level stuff are we dealing with? When I saw Daniel had a whole new outfit.

His lady helped him buy pants they went pants shopping the day before if he was adorable listen my whole heart lifted i was like okay i'm just here for daniel i'm just gonna do a day about daniel and making sure daniel feels good and have a great day on his favorite effing show competition got steep it was like it was real intense like i couldn't let him down i was worried i forgot which way to walk at one point. It was one of those moments where you're like, oh, no, that's really Steve Harvey. And his shoes are polished to the tens like the A-plus uncle he is. And his teeth are chiclets.

I don't want to say anything else. Your eyeline does meet his teeth. I will say that. It was wild. It was weird to be there. If you check out my instagram uh donald i was so excited at one point that he broke out and danced to that girl is poison for the whole audience they loved it it was entertaining as hell would do it again and it

was celebrity family feuds so now my mom's excitedly telling all of her like cousins and stuff like i raised a celebrity and i'm like my baby's a celebrity 100 sure mommy she's very proud of me i feel like this is the least i've ever had to work for anything and she's like i just you're doing so well in life i'm like get celebrity family for you got mom's pride i love it i love that steve harvey legitimizes a lot of people to their parents i mean yeahhmm. I mean, yeah. Also, I'm just, you know, through the transitive property, you are a celebrity.

You were, if you are, if you're on Celebrity Family Feud and you are on there with other celebrities, therefore you are, you are not a, I don't see the, I don't see the flaw in that logic at all.

Steve introduced us as Zach and Donald and friends. And I was like, that's the appropriate level of celebrity. Yeah, you should have been like, oh man, you look good without your wig on, man. Damn. I'm not trying to roast Steve Harvey in his house.

Okay? Listen, here's my favorite thing about being at, so, you know, they've got the hair and makeup people, all the producers and stuff. No one, not a single person didn't call him Mr. Harvey. It's not Steve, Stephen, Steve, Harvey. It's Mr. Harvey to everyone. I was like, okay, I see the law has been laid down here. I see it.

Damn. I'm not coming into his house disrespecting him. I feel like someone would beat me. Yeah. Well, you know, look, that's why I'm not a celebrity and I'll never be on there. So I'll live my wild fantasies out through vicariously through you where I've created an alternate version. And then you snap out of it. And you're like, yes, thank you.

Good to be here. I would just go on there and call him Dr. Teeth. Dr. Teeth. You're looking great today. That's a sharp looking suit. Oh, man. What's your secret, man? What do you think is something that's underrated, Langston?

You know, I had a thing, but I think we're going to end up talking about it later, so I'm going to move that, and I'll say that something I'm pretty excited about that not a lot of people talk about is spray-on deodorant. I like it. I think it's pretty cool, and as somebody who suffers from

abscess, who gets the fucking boils under their arm from regular deodorant oh spray on deodorant it doesn't clog your pores you still smell nice and you get to kill the environment at the same time it's pretty cool all around nine out of ten for me they haven't figured out a way to make it environmentally friendly if are all aerosols some that are now right yeah there are some that are i am not investing in those those probably cost tens to twenties of dollars i'm gonna go with the ones that are damn near free or you get like killing penguins when like at school the like the janitor

like the custodial services would spray for bugs like that pump bucket that you have to self pump and then you can spray like you're like i can just do it on my own but yeah i could just stand next to hank and get whatever he's got is it like a an axe style container uh i've avoided acts more i mean fair enough yeah mostly because of uh the self-respect years and years of people making fun of acts if i'm being honest i think axe smells pretty good and I'm not sure why everybody hated on it. But I will say that, yes, it's like a degree, but, you know, just a regular spray can kind of thing. It's pretty cool. I felt like that was almost the standard in the late 80s, early 90s. Visually, that was being reinforced and my mind was like, oh yeah, you spray your deodorant on. oh yeah you spray your deodorant on i think i think they go out a lot faster i think right run out of it a lot faster and so the the stick became a little more uh you know reasonable

it's the purchase but and i think as we then science revealed to us something called the ozone yep there you go that was another thing people were like okay maybe there's another way to do that i'm here for the me zone baby I'm just trying to get nice and fresh. I tried with the crystals. They don't fucking work. I'm sorry. Crystals is bullshit. My stink is on another level.

And I don't know. I've never met a crystal that can fucking neutralize my shit. No. I'm sorry. I had a friend who told me about the crystals. And I did not understand if the implication was that you're you're holding the crystals under your arm. You just have to like tuck in there. But it's more you just keep them in your pockets and they're like stinky crystals and they keep you from stinking.

Is that the deal? Clear it up. They're rolling on. Just wet the crystal and apply. You know what I mean? Oh, shit. Yeah. This is look look this was some shit i remember seeing in my because my dad stunk and he tried everything and then at the time this is like in the early 90s we're like yo crystal you know he's an artist

so some other motherfuckers around him was like have you fucked with crystals and then them shits just it it made no sense like he would read a wet like a rock and like rub it on his arm and he's still stumped i tried that shit later on in life because i wasn't trying to put all that like chemical shit on me but i it was either that or just fucking smell fucked up yeah so what are you gonna do you know and hey zeit gang if you have a if you know a crystal that's fucking powerful enough to do battle with me then let me know let me ask why was your why was your dad so stinky why why did he stink so bad i don't know you know like you know how people i don't know i'm like one of these people if i don't wear deodorant

immediately out of the shower and i'm like if i watch a sports game i'm invested in my sweat i smell awful like i don't know what the fuck it is. That's something I just, whatever my body, that's what our bodies are doing. I'm a sweater. I get that. I like,

if I start sweating, it's some bats coming out. So I, you get no fight out of me. Right. Exactly. I still am stuck on ax body spray. I feel like maybe there, there is like,

maybe they did get it too rough back in the day. I think so. Wow. Like Guy Fieri style, almost. Yeah. And then he had kind of a redemption arc. Maybe that'll happen for Axe Body Spray. Yeah, you want to believe that Axe has been giving, like, bottles to orphans this whole time. Right.

You know, you find, oh, Axe Body Spray is the humanitarian's deal. Yeah. Yeah, for every body spray purchased. You know, we send one to a body in need. It's like the Tom's shoes of seventh grader deodorant. Just making little African kids smell like a muscle beach. Yeah. I love that. I guess.

I mean, it smells like swag in here. I guess. I mean, it smells like swag in here. What do you think is something that is underrated? Underrated? Erectile dysfunction. I think erectile dysfunction is underrated because if you think hard enough about all the negative things that have been precipitated by erections it's almost obvious like the quest for power, wars assaults on people's bodies

if your dick stops working go teach a kid how to read go start a non-profit volunteer at a soup kitchen like take that energy that you were wasting and put it towards good, okay?

Each one teach one. When the dick stops working. I just had a beautiful vision of doctors being like, you know what? We're not going to try to cure this anymore. We're going to drive men to be better human beings, okay? This is a divine intervention. Your dick stops working,

you go do good in the world, okay? It's a double-edged sword, though. I feel like how many people with that toxic sense of masculinity then go on the other side and you're like what's wrong i hope not something else i have i have a friend who has said more than once like if if my dick stops working just kill me i'm like no dude stay alive and like plant a garden make an urban garden also yeah also please make your existence more than if your blood flows to your penis yeah yeah that's not i mean honestly like look if that's his measure

for like quality of life what does he look like the people who achieve things he's like how the fuck that he's like the dick work i don't give a fuck about no LeBron James winning a fucking championship. He got all those rings, but does his dick joke? Yeah. He got the rings, but what about that thing? Is it working? Is he with the shits or no? Okay, sir, please. The toxic section

is over there. Please let that go. As a non-dickhaffer, this is the greatest conversation ever. This is so funny. I mean, yeah. I really wanted to give y'all something that I truly think is underrated. I want to dig deep. Yeah, 100%. We appreciate that. See, that's why the listeners come here.

And we avoided talking about shit, which is normally what will happen sometimes. Now we're going there. That might be a song we go out on later. You'll be very surprised. But yeah, Langston, let us the official notification that I was on call for jury duty. So I've been Google searching how to get out of jury duty, like various methods for for escaping jury duty. And I think I'm just going to show up and say that I'm extremely biased against the police and see how that, you know, that plays in their little ears. police and see how that uh you know that plays in their little ears i've had to have an evolution around that because unfortunately if people like you or i don't do jury the the the verdict could get fucked up by the kinds of people that do serve on jury on juries and like there was a reckoning i had to have because i used to be the professional jury duty dodger yeah i'd come in and i would be

so contrarian like when they're asking questions that i would just frustrate whoever like i didn't need an excuse i'll be like i'm just gonna intellectually frustrate the like the lawyer so they're like get the fuck out of here and then as i get older and realize the complexions of juries in this country and the verdicts that regularly come out like i'm like fuck the thing like it is my duty on some level to be there but also sometimes you like i think about the case one was like about some tax accountant had a thing with another person like okay i don't i'm off miles i agree it is your duty to be there i on the other hand have no intention on upholding any of my civic responsibilities i'm going to lie my way out of

it and stay at home i'm out yeah you should if anything look a quick tip for people in la if you can get it at the burbank court half the time they'll let you they'll let you go early because the courtroom's small yeah just wow for the for the experts out there. Okay. I got jury duty at the beginning of quarantine, and then they had to cancel juries for a little while, so I got out of it. Oh, that was tight. That's the way to do it. When would you have to go in, potentially?

I don't know. They never... No, I meant for Lacey. Oh, fuck. Jamie's still waiting To go in She's like no I haven't seen her in a year

No one's seen her Hey just bring Jamie with you And be like You know she's She's actually down To do a part She's actually really cool

And would love to do Jury duty She pledged herself As tribute For this jury summons But like Did they have Oh yeah

Do they Like what's the date Cause It was today Have jury trials Completely resumed I don't know's the date because it was today trails completely resumed i don't know they said to they said it was today and then they said uh i went online and they said uh you don't have to come in today but you got a call tonight to find out if you uh tomorrow yeah go in tomorrow or do you know the whole you get it right but. But that said, you know, I'm just going to keep trying to draft dodge as much as possible. I'm going to blame my shin splints.

I'm going to do whatever I can. Exactly. Exactly. The whole the vibe, though, in that waiting room is so funny because like it's the whole spectrum. We have people who like have time. You know what I mean? And they have done it. They have crossword puzzles books and shit

fucking thermos then you have like the young idiots that were like me who like even before smartphones i had like half of a script that i like panic just grabbed out of a pile of things to read and i was like fuck what the fuck am i doing and then there's always somebody stressed the fuck out on their phone who is like having to handle some monumental personal business. But they're stuck in this fucking room and they're like, look, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I I feel like I'm missing an opportunity if I skip out on this, but I can't bring myself to. You know, it's it's comedy gold.

It's got to be just a bunch of miserable people trapped in a courtroom. That sounds wonderful. I just can't bring myself to, you know, it's comedy gold. It's got to be of just a bunch of miserable people trapped in a courtroom. That sounds wonderful, but I just can't bring myself to do it. To try and find equity and be effective in a legal system that is completely flawed and upside down. I mean, the whole thing is a farce, but so is this country and we're still participating, right? There we go. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are well also in the spirit of moving in toilet bowl brushes oh man looking up then toilet bowl brushes that's been so you know uh my partner you take huge shits right i take huge shits hey there's the bowl in there honey those event horizons where it like peers out over the water it's just

one of those ones it's just it's a mess the listeners are going it's always become so shit i know sorry about that yeah it's a shitty podcast guys that's what i'm saying second rate more like a number two podcast anyway there we go so um toilet bowl brushes just been in the process of getting things for the house. We've had different responsibilities. And while Stephanie is covering the main things like the couch and the bed frame, she's like, why don't you look up a good toilet bowl brush? I'm like, babe, I got you on that one. No problem.

Let's get it. And so, yeah, I've been searching a lot of those and the market is ripe there are so many toilet bowl brushes out there of all different designs and shapes now that i was um i mean i'm thrilled by there's just there's a lot and it's very it's very fun to shop what's the new technology technology? I feel like they need a new technology. It's pretty gross that toilet bowl brushes exist and we just leave them there. I'm trying to come up with

maybe a squirt bottle or something that we could use. I don't know. Isn't the other lazy version where you put the thing in your toilet tank so there's always some kind of with that blue shit remember like in the night it looks like a blue liquid yeah or you

or you stick one on the side of the bingo yeah exactly throw a couple of those in there every time I go to the bathroom just drop a couple in you're gonna need that plop plop fizz fizz oh my god guys we got it we're off the air this is we're off the internet what's happening who knew i remember like any time i would move into a new

place back back in the day there was a bed bath and beyond trip that always took place oh yeah oh yeah we had we handled the bed bath and beyond trip got always took place oh yeah oh yeah we had we handled the bed bath and beyond trip got our necessary you know shower curtain hangers and all that jive but the uh the other thing the the funny thing about the toilet bowl brush is that babe i found a really a couple really cool ones there's one from cb2 there's this other one in this place she said no we're not going to cb2 because i have her gift certificate there and we're only going to buy stuff from there when we have a bunch of things to buy. And I was like, okay.

Okay, so I won't get that one. You idiot. What about this one? She's like, we also have a gift certificate from there, so we're not going to buy anything from there because we have a lot of stuff to buy. Domestic bliss. Wait, y'all got like moving in gift certificates? Dude, like all of these.

So I'm trying to remember which service it was. Oh, it was changing your address with the USPS. When you change your address with the USPS, you change your address they give you like a just a i thought coupons okay that's different than a gift certificate where i thought people were making it rain tushay cards on you okay it was definitely improper improper language there but yeah we just been you know 15 here 20 there on whole order i mean like makes you wonder. Makes you wonder. What are they charging normally? What's that really?

What's the cost really to them? Exactly. Costing them literally nothing. But it's saving us pennies on the dollar. Well, you know what? Let us know which brush you end up with. Oh, I will be updating. What does it matter?

That it's conical? I want that slightly conical. That way you can really hit the underneath rim rim as i call it i want the good points but i also want the ball the one that has like the cap attached to the stick so that when you put it back in like the tube it stays cat i have one that opens like that and then when you push it down like venus also also very nice i've been looking for those, but they all have a kind of, those ones all have like a very like future kind of aesthetic where I want

something a little bit more, a little bit more. You've always said that you like cottage, cottage core. Yeah. Very cottage core, you know, Spanish style home.

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And we're back james cameron oh is making another titanic movie kind of kind of okay kind of because it's a documentary but i but i'm gonna put a pin in that because we have to do a little bit of research here or just a little bit of context um shout out to jm our writer who was like look at look at what's happening um there is a chinese developer right now who is in the process of constructing a life-size full-scale version of the titanic um it is built in the countryside of china about 1 000 miles from the sea so it is very landlocked um why is it being built nobody knows what the fuck is going on why why question joy in this way why i mean who cares i like this photo of seeing it being built like clearly in the middle of nowhere and i like and i do you can tell what they're doing is they're building like a miniature dock so it look it will sit in water essentially so it'll look like it's in water

titanic puddle yeah it's a little bathtub little foot bath for the titanic um this i mean it the shit looks massive so yes uh they are building in fact, a full scale replica. The way it's all. So there's an infomercial, apparently, that the developer of the like this construction site screens for visitors when they go visit. And even the infomercial that plays doesn't answer any of those questions. It's just sort of like this is a replica full scale coming soon. No. Why? Who? Where? Why? Huh? And it turns out this is actually being built by a very wealthy businessman. A businessman by the last name Sue, who is the president of a seven-star energy investment group. He's just a gigantic Titanic fan.

And this is a passion project. This is like a cool if there i i reject people this wealthy except for this person specifically this is a fun way to use fabulous wealth this is and and also there's been other attempts to do this like over the as a long time titanic head there have been so many attempts to like get uh you know that like to create a titanic cruise ship and then take the same route as the titanic and shit like that for years i'm like i'm just so happy it's actually happening james cameron didn't even get to build a full-size titanic he only had to i know half he's pissed i think he's jealous yeah he's so jealous a little bit of lore he seems like a bitter man my mom was in mexico

when they shot the sinking scene and got to witness it yeah or like when they had the half half version coming out of the water and i remember she was like i remember as a kid i was like why are you going to mexico like for a work trip i'm like i don't want to be here with dad and she's like it's titanic and i'm like I don't know what that means. And it always confused me, like, why it wasn't shot in the sea in Mexico. And I had no idea about production then. But anyway, a little bit of facts. You should have her on your show. That's so fucking cool.

What a legacy. What it was like to be there in the cold. So back to this new thing. There's a new Titanic movie with James Cameron at the helm. Or, well, rather rather he's producing it. But it's a documentary about the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic sinking. Cool. Who have gone ignored by history.

This is called, the movie is called The Six. And it's just about just all the Chinese aspects of this story that have been completely erased or not told outside of china perhaps so um it's going to be coming out like pretty soon actually this april on the 109th anniversary the titanic damn that's why i had to think my grandma would have been 109 she was born uh two days after the titanic snake um she lived to 102 though she was doing all right shout out michiko um but you know i think one of the reasons that we didn't get the you know full story about these six chinese survivors is you guessed it racism um the men were in steerage uh where their survival rate was only about 20 and once they arrived in the U.S.,

they were detained and deported due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Oh, my God. These motherfuckers survived the sinking off the Titanic, being pulled out the water. They got to the U.S. Were they put in another boat? Yeah, and they said, y'all are out of here. No, we're not doing this.

Holy shit. The other thing that uh jm notes is that other passengers were given medical treatment and they were denied medical treatment it was like an immediate like nope nope nope you already know you can't be here can't be here here's your ticket goodbye so yes this is like a very american telling of this story but another really interesting bit was that james cameron originally had a scene or a shot where a Chinese man was rescued from a wooden plank. But they cut it from the theatrical version. Are they going to release it in the new movie?

I know. Like, shouldn't that be like the new Snyder cut? It's just like, put back the little weird bit of Asian representation there was in this film. In a four hour movie. Wow. This is, I had no idea this was going to happen. This is so fucking cool. Yeah.

Another mind-blowing thing. James Cameron used the story of one of the passengers, Fang Lang, who survived on a floating door as, you guessed it, inspiration for Jack and Rose's final scene. So you're taken from them and you're still, we didn't know this, James. James needs to make this right.

I'm glad he needs to make this right. This is so, oh my God. That's this, I can't put into words how excited I am to watch this. I hope it's like, it will be widely available. Shoot, reshoot the the film but splice in these like this is a much more interesting story than the made-up rich white lady who threw her ocean or necklace in the sea but hey 96 97 this is where they're at but yeah and then he released

james cameron did another uh documentary about titanic that called Ghosts of the Abyss. Did you see that? Oh, that was like the one that went back down into the sea, right? Yeah. Was that the submersible one? He's just really in love with Titanic, the ship, and he's got so much money. But this is like a story I've never heard about before. I'm so happy this is like going to be released.

Equal parts interesting and horrifying. Yeah. You get your good and your bad. But yeah, to know that that's all based off of this other person's like true life is really like mind blowing. Yeah. Jamie, as a resident Titanic head, I don't know if you'll know the answer to this but i am curious like why do you was a titanic such a badass ship that we would want to make so many replicas of it because it just seems like why do we keep trying to replicate the titanic if it is this the dumbest question to

ask no i think it's i i i don't know if speculating i feel like it's a number of things i feel like it's like a at least for us right now it's just enough in the distant past where it feels like uh i don't know like it does that mean am i am i making sense here like it was just long enough ago that people aren't like this is ghoulish this tastes right yeah like so it's been you know whatever almost 110 years i feel like the way that the movie presented it was so romantic and also the like yeah the because most of the titanic media even like before the james cameron movie were all either it's like you're into it because of like the whole like the ship angle and like the ego angle and the and and that side of it or it's like you saw like there's like a night to remember in the

50s and then the james cameron movie and just like it was all so like romantic and glamorous too yeah yeah and it always and i feel like this is like part of what this documentary will hopefully remedy. But it was always focused on like the rich people. And the stories were always like this tragic, like, oh, my God, this millionaire died. It's so sad. And it's so I feel like the truly tragic parts of it are like sound like the stories of like the six. And those were completely erased. And it was kind of made to be like almost this novelty thing. tragic parts of it or like sound like the stories of like the six and those were completely erased. And it was kind of made to be like almost this novelty thing.

Right. I don't know. Wild. I have a Titanic hoodie coming in the mail right now. So this is, this is thrilling. Caitlin and I are recording our annual Titanic episode next week. Damn.

There we go go then you can talk about that because i just only recently knew that the like the one black man that was on the titanic but hey look we got so many stories we can tell after this but i think for me the reason i want to see it is like i kind of want to see it like i just want to see it i think that's my fascination and i think for me it's truly like the glitz of it, of being like, oh, look, a bunch of people would have not allowed me to eat in here in real life. But thank you for having me. And I think it's just like all the white gloved shit, I think, is like what I think people just have this romanticized view of the 1910s, I guess. Chandeliers on a boat?

What? Wow. Dancing? Look, look boat? What? Yeah. Wow. Dancing? Look, look. That's a chandelier. Yes, on a boat. We must see that. People like the idea of Billy Zane on a boat.

That's really what... Right. It all boils down to. Keeps it... Yeah, keeps the memory going strong. What is something from your search history that reveals a little bit about who you are? Okay, so

one thing from my Google search history is ILGWU 1982 strike New York. Okay. Is this ringing any bells? where are my strike nerds at

is this a garment workers union yes okay i was able to piece together gw okay yes so the international ladies garment workers union strike of 1982 i was searching for it because I randomly like stumbled across it and learned that in 1982, nearly 20,000, almost all women, mostly all of Asian descent, marched from Chinatown down to Columbus Circle. And it was this huge labor moment where the garment workers union was fed up and they basically demanded rights that had a major ripple effect into like just workers at large rights. And my mind was just blown because i had never heard of that before and you would think that like oh 20 000 people taking to the streets like maybe that would be something that's like in our in our history books but no no people of color organizing other people of color and like making change oh shocker um we haven't thought about that in our textbooks um so i was doing some some digging to

find out more about that and the rad women who organized it how did you how did that even how did because i'm hearing obviously i'm like you i'm like wow uh i've heard this i've never heard of this and also it's no surprise because yes why would you tell little kids and put ideas in their head that they could organize themselves and demand better treatment? So how did you come across the story? So I was doing some research for Women's History Month content because. Oh, we love it. You know, you know, yeah, it. You know, content. Internet content. Love a bit of custom content.

So International Women's Day, if you didn't know, actually has its roots in the labor movement and old school socialism. So Women's History Month, by extension, actually has like very labor socialist roots. But I think that labor history is very zeitgeisty right now as the Mills and the Gen Z's are getting maybe just a touch fed up with capitalism. And all of a sudden I ran across this profile of Mei Chen, Connie Ling and Alice Ip who organized this. And I was like, God damn it. More stuff that I didn't know. Yeah. This is so cool. It's like, it's so funny. At every turn, it's like, it's always,

they don't want people to have the imagination for revolution at any point. You know, that's really, it's what it all boils down to. No, no, no, don't do that. Why don't you talk about cancel culture? No, no, no, don't hear about how thoroughly amazon's getting

owned with piss bottle gate and the fake accounts all those other nonsense uh it's like the revolutions they teach are very selective that reinforce a certain uh kind of idea these i'm looking up pictures of of this strike and it's so cool and it's so on on top of um how incredible it is to see just like women organ organizing and and getting results the outfits are great it's very 80s so highly recommend yeah i mean you gotta love some 1982 history i mean if only for the fashion right only for the pants yeah oh i mean okay This all makes sense too that in like one of their first strikes was right after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Yes.

So, man, shout out to ILGWU and we're learning something every day. This is amazing. Thanks for telling us this. Let's talk. Okay, we were talking about fucked up April Fool's jokes, pranks. We should.

And you know, so, you know, Ellingworth, you're in the Motor City. So this is relevant because we're talking about cars. Volkswagen. fool's jokes pranks and you know so you know illingsworth you're in the motor city so this is relevant because we're talking about cars volkswagen completely fucked up their april fool's day because what started as okay essentially their whole thing was like their april fool's prank was going to be we're going to be called volkswagen now implying that they are going to now be doing more electric vehicles. But they fucked up because a press release got posted to their website and was later deleted on March 29th. So that's not the first of April.

So people thought this was for real. They're like, well, this isn't. And then but some people were like, well, hold on. Is this early? Like, did you guys make a mistake or something like that? They fucking doubled down. Three days early and they doubled down. Then, so, when they said, was this an early joke?

They said, no. Oh, fuck no. And to prove it, here's a legit press release that we're putting out right now that had quotes from the CEO. They even put a video on twitter so and it was still march being like oh you know this is for real like we're volkswagen uh it's sounding very matt gatesy at the moment the head of communications for volkswagen was straight up asked by reporters they said is it early and even the head of communications said, no, the name change is real. Were they like really invested in making sure that the joke landed?

They were like, listen, if we, if we do it on April 1st, no one's going to believe it. So I really, I need people to believe that we would change our name to Volkswagen. So that then tomorrow we'd be like,

April fools. Everyone has a nice chuckle. It's been a long year. Volkswagen trying to help us, they just don't understand comedy. I'm just gonna deal with that. Yeah, they were not willing to bail on that joke. They were...

No. So weird. But the funny thing is, too, like, in 2015, they fucked up when the EPA was like, uh, your diesel cars have, like, cheat devices that are making them look like low-emission vehicles.

Like, that was a huge scandal. And Volkswagen paid like almost $20 billion in settlement money because it was so like so egregious how they were deceiving people about how nature bound their cars were. So this is like, oh, this this is oh, I guess it is kind of like them. So the other thing is because of this right the like doubling down saying no we're getting in into electric vehicles this shit had an effect on wall street wow the stock rose by five percent because everyone is looking at this they're saying i mean clearly dude the ceo is here saying they are committed to electronic vehicles and like one of these like analysts in their like letter to shit like you know traders and things said that the name change quote underscores

volkswagen's clear commitment to its ev brand and so guess what now you're gonna be fucked up with investors and the securities exchange commission the sec is not going to be like, because you cannot make false statements that would affect your investors or the stock price. So it's like, what the fuck? It's all jokes. Yeah, they had a clear commitment to working on their type, their type five for the next open mic. That's what it was. Right. I mean, like, what do you it's true. Like, what did they really want to make sure that's what it was right like i mean like what do you it's true like what did they

really want to make sure that people believed it because either way if they really believed it then the stock price probably would have changed as well just like what happened so it's kind of odd to try and sort out like what exactly happened volkswagen is not synonymous with humor. And then there's another thing. Our writer, JM, was talking about some racist-ass ads that they had last year where this white hand flicked a black person away from the car and then into a cafe

that the name was called Little Colonist. What? Yes. I don't remember these ads. Because they vanished pretty quick. Yes, well, thank goodness. I prefer when a company at least has some common sense

even after an event as opposed to I guess what they did this time, which is double down. Volkswagen in its history has been known for trying to have comedic ads like when the yeah when the bug came out everybody like it was poorly reviewed and so they made a double page spread in a magazine and called it a lemon because it's sort of shaped like a lemon it's a lemon and in the 60s you're like what that's what you called your car a lemon wild so funny

and there's like and they've done that. I remember in my youth, they had, like, weird kind of kooky ads. And so, this is, it's a step too far, Volkswagen. They're synonymous with banjo. You're doing too much. Yeah. They've lost their way. You hate to see it when a comedian loses their way in such a big public way.

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what they thought were some overrated and underrated and things I got overrated was Hamilton, Motherhood, and the Keto Diet. What a list! What a list. Was that from one person or that was a collection? Yeah, it was like

four friends, my little Pizza Friday crew, I just asked them and then that's what they responded with. Are these friends or comedians? No, these are not comedians. That's why I asked them, because they're not comedians. These are real people. Oh, nice. Right, right.

Real takes off the streets. Yes, off the streets. And then it was funny, because the Hamilton one is what got the group chat arguing, because a couple of girls in the group chat were like, it's the greatest film ever made. Yeah, you're like, it's revisionist history and yeah and i mean i don't care i mean i watched i remember being like you know when something is so hyped up you're like okay i should at least try to watch it and so my friend had me watch it with her and i was like this is the most boring shit i've ever watched i hate it he's rapping this is so dumb and yeah and and historic and it's also that thing

of like you don't even have to know history to like just follow the story and be like this doesn't this doesn't make sense i don't like the way this is going and uh this is all kind of weird and are you a big musical fan in general though i mean i don't hate musicals like i mean i liked him as a kid of course you know i liked him as a kid and um and i don't hate musicals. I mean, I liked them as a kid, of course, you know. I liked them as a kid, and I don't hate them. Oh, so they're child's play from your perspective. I mean, you know, I was a very mature child. Matt Gates would be into it, you know. Oh, Jesus.

Sorry. Problematic light. Problematic. That's me. The Woke Lily. And then the underrated. underrated is the bidet and sleeping in a bed alone that was the only two i got for underrated true sleeping in the bed alone stretching out sleeping at any corner changing the sheets on your schedule

yes i'm really tall so corner to corner is how I sleep It's really nice Diagonal? Yeah I can't If I share the bed with somebody I have to be all straight And uncomfortable because I'm so long My feet hang off Sometimes the pets fuck up my sleep style But I don't have the heart to be like Get the fuck off

My foot's asleep You gotta shape them to you Move that sucker over When I was a kid my childhood dogs slept in my bed. So when she passed away, I realized it took me years to stop sleeping against the wall straight. Because she took up all the bed and I would just sleep against the wall to make room for her. You were like a side sleeper with your back to the wall? I think I was like facing the wall.

Holy. Oh, so you're quite literally making yourself as like thin and small as possible. Which is crazy. And so after she died, I was like, oh, yeah, I don't have to sleep like this anymore. Wow. This is exactly how a parent walks in on a child in a horror movie. To be like, why is she just facing the wall? Yeah.

And she's like, what's happening? Because they're in the bed, too. you're like all right we're selling this fucking house yeah i like that yeah bed size is a good thing and bidets also uh man you know not just because hello tushy's the sponsor because oh is it a sponsor yeah yeah yeah oh nice once i i've always you know being japanese too like in japan the toilet seats over there have bidets built in so from you know that would always be the thing i'm like oh yeah right we got this over here and then when it sort of became more popular or people like every for a while everyone like the take of like the world was like have you been to japan yeah have you been on the toilet in Japan?

Have you had an egg salad sandwich from Japan? From like Anthony Bourdain? It's like those three things. Then the bidets became more popular. But yeah, this thing. Woo. Telling you. Beautiful.

Never felt cleaner in my life. Shit. Yeah. Or no shit. There you go. Yeah. Exactly. All right. shit yeah or no shit there you go yeah exactly all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist please like and review the show if you like the show uh means the world to miles

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