The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 181 (Best of 6/21/21-6/25/21)

Episode Date: June 27, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
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Starting point is 00:02:14 did. 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 uh non-stop infotainment laugh stravaganza uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist we are thrilled to be joined by the brilliant and talented Shireen Lani Yunus! Okay, I apologize in advance for this. No, no apologies necessary. Go. Okay. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Oh, fuck. Bring Shireen to life Wake me up Wake me up inside I can't wake up Call my phone and I won't answer It's on silent I can't get out of bed
Starting point is 00:03:17 So leave me there instead Save me from the blob that i've become bring shereen i'm done i'm done amy lee fucking quit we got shereen in the building i just needed the background because the the song you just know exactly what song it is oh yeah like two seconds of it you know that intro just whenever i hear the the build-up to that chorus it reminds me of like bad magicians who i've seen use that or like or in comedies you've seen people deploy that song so perfectly but yeah there's so much tension in that instrumental are you big evanescence fan or just a fan of that so i heard I heard that song on the radio
Starting point is 00:04:05 like a week ago this was stuck in my head ever since and I mean like growing up it was definitely cool you know like during that like gothy phase I mean not everyone went through Christian goth phase but is it Christian yeah oh yeah yeah oh yeah okay I had no idea I regret this entire thing I was like did she wow okay she's down with his message, it sounds like. Wait, are you serious? I really had no idea. So is it about Jesus? Bring me to life?
Starting point is 00:04:34 Is she talking like she's Jesus? Yeah. Wake me up inside, Lord. Are you fucking with me? Wake me up. No, they met at a Christian youth camp. Like the people who were in the band. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:44 They're so lame now to me. It's like goth Christian. They're fucking dorks. No, they met at a Christian youth camp, like the people in the band. Yeah. They're so lame. It's like goth Christian. They're fucking dorks. Okay, never mind. I think the most high profile troll I ever got was from, I think, the bassist, maybe the guitarist from Evanescence, who left the band because they weren't Christian enough and talked shit about me in some respect. I don't even remember the context.
Starting point is 00:05:05 I just thought they were cool ass gothh people that loved like blue toad music videos but now they're just fucking dorks they're dorks hey look they're just they're just spreading his word you know dorks for the lord shireen yeah i thought they were just like all that i thought all their lyrics were like emo bring me to life save me from the nothing i've become like okay you're really depressed but now it's now it's all different it's skewed i don't i don't like that yeah i mean it's it is this is the thing that's that's how they that's how they indoctrinate us you know with their goth christian new metal wait so you just weren't right to talking about evanescence and not about my song yeah the performance miles talk about the performance that's what i told i said
Starting point is 00:05:45 amy lee needs to quit oh right that was the first thing i said i said i need validation all the time you got validation and the funny thing is you don't need it because everybody heard it you know what i mean it's apparent i just love that first wake me up when you're driving and you hear that you're like okay okay yeah see well you know what they try to wake you up so and you hear that, you're like, okay, okay. See? Well, you know what? They're trying to wake you up. So maybe you'll go back to church on Sunday. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Maybe it's working. It's in my head all the time. I can't wake up. Wake me up. I mean, oof. Please, Christ, help me. I'm spending too much money at Hot Topic. I did.
Starting point is 00:06:21 There's something I really related to. It was either a tweet or something whatever it's just something in the ether but it was like uh go I want to go back to lockdown because I've spent more money in the last three weeks than I spent in all of 2020 and that's how I feel right you mean like just going out there you're just just going out there cash flying out your pocket yeah I feel that way like I've been to like one like outdoor you know edendale and this is so yeah like it's like an outdoor thing and i spent so much money it was like the first time i had been to a restaurant i was like okay let's go i don't know i just don't like how you're
Starting point is 00:06:56 like buying everyone like meals you're like yeah send them a whole chicken over there i love their energy yeah yeah nicole we like to ask guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Well, I don't know. The most recent thing that I've been looking up is not that exciting. It's just bikinis. I've been like nonstop obsessing over the perfect bikini to find for the summer. And the best part about that is I've been looking at that stuff for like three days and I'm probably going to maybe wear a bikini once this summer because that's I don't even go to the beach. Right. That thing where you get an idea in your head, you're like, this is what the next three months are going to be. Yeah. And then you're like,
Starting point is 00:07:36 I don't know. I think it's just an idea. Oh, yeah. Like you're living in your mind. Are you living at the beach every day? In my mind, I'm living at the beach just Just in general, I feel like this summer, I'm like, you know what? I'm going to be like super sexy this summer. I'm going to dress all skimpy. I'm going to be, you know, flirting with everybody because we're free again. We're all vaccinated and out and about. And yeah, and I'll be at the beach and, you know, whatever, sun and fun and having my butt out.
Starting point is 00:08:01 But it's like, I'm not, I mean, yeah, that's my, that's, that's the idea. and having my butt out. But it's like, I'm not, I mean, yeah, that's the idea. But the reality is I will probably be chilling in my apartment 80% of the time or not at the beach, anywhere but the beach. Yeah. Yeah. I always picture LA summers like the 90210 or Saved by the Bell, like Bayside summers where they all worked at a beach club.
Starting point is 00:08:22 And, you know, that's just what it is. Just tossing a beach ball around, working at a beach club and you know that's just what it is and tossing a beach ball around working at like restaurant yeah yeah i know and that's how i live my summers and the best part about this too is i'm not even gonna be in la i'm gonna go to new york in like oh in like a week or two i'm going to new york for two months so i'm just gonna like so you'll be like one of those people who puts a blanket out in central park yeah yeah and like there you go like that i'll sound like that. I'll find a way.
Starting point is 00:08:46 I'll find a way. I'm going to buy the perfect bikini. I'm going to put a blanket out in Central Park and be chill. Oh, yeah. Or then maybe some like Wall Street person's like, hey, man, you want to go to the Hamptons? See, that's the plan. I'll advertise the goods in Central Park and then someone will ask me to take a trip to the actual beach. And I'll be like, yeah, I'm prepared.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Yeah. For growing up here, I go to the beach. Seldom take a trip to the actual beach. And I'll be like, yeah, I'm prepared. Yeah. For growing up here, I go to the beach. Seldom do I go to the beach. Yeah. But, you know, I'm hoping to maybe make it out one or two more times. I went kayaking in the marina for the first time. That was nice. Nice and easy.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Nice and easy time in the calm waters. Oh, yeah. So the waters are calm. Down in Marina Del Rey. Yeah. Like it's just the water is real flat. You can just rent a kayak for like an hour and kind of go like in the in the marina area where I felt like I was getting real active and then very frustrated because I'm terrible at kayaking. But I got my shit together about 30 minutes in. Are those the boats where you go by yourself and you row back and forth and they can.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Yeah, when you got the dual paddle and you got the dual paddle. But they have like tandem ones. Oh, yeah. But, but you know it's all it's paddler's choice i feel like the last time i was in a boat like that was a canoe and it tipped over and so ever since then i'm like you know what i'm actually good on boats that i have to row myself yeah these ones are very stable so i felt very calm the tipping factor wasn't quite there so yeah i encourage people to to get out into the yeah still waters row yourself out there in the marina the marina is known as the uh swinger hot spot of uh the west side of la fyi a therapist once a like you know a therapist in her mid-60s was like ah marina yeah
Starting point is 00:10:22 you know the the swinger hot spot i was like oh hell yeah yeah why is it always the most random people that are like you know new this or uh swingers hot spots they're getting laid a million times and i'm like how's that happening if you see a couple on with backwards life jackets in a canoe they're swing. Just follow them to their houseboat. The SS fucks a lot. I'm surprised you went out there and nobody asked you to be a third. You didn't get invited to be someone's third? There was nobody out there.
Starting point is 00:10:55 It was very overcast. It wasn't the best day. Next time, I might just wear a shirt advertising, down to fuck. And just see what happens. You're down to fuck jersey. shirt advertising down to fuck, uh, and just see what happens. You're down to fuck Jersey. Uh, you're down to fuck a Clippers Jersey.
Starting point is 00:11:11 I feel like I might start actually incorporating. I got a pair of, uh, swim trunks as, uh, I say, cause I'm in my forties that are really nice and I like them a lot. And I've never like worn swim gear as like part of my clothing but
Starting point is 00:11:26 i think i might just start rocking it like on the daily uh even when i'm not planning on going to the ymca because i'm an old person wait what kind of swim trunks do you get what are they like patagonia columbia no they're from like uh i don't know i just like the pattern they're they're like long board shorts remember those like you got them thighs out. I just like the pattern there. They're like long board shorts. Remember those? Are you like thighs out Jack? They're above the knee. You know,
Starting point is 00:11:48 I like to show, I like to show off the, the thighs, get a little color on there. Otherwise it gets, people have to wear sunglasses around me. Yeah. Show off that Marge Simpson thigh tat you have.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Hot. Actually, it's so far off that it's not actually, I not allowed to say it's marge simpson it's marg samson so fox doesn't hit you yeah you don't want to get you don't want to get in trouble for that yeah that's great yeah it's funny whenever i think of someone wearing swim trunks as you say like in a non like water setting i always think of a camp counselor yeah like that's who that's who that outfit is yeah i don't know man you never know like these kids are probably gonna drop shit on you it's better to wear quick dry clothing all the time
Starting point is 00:12:35 you just gotta be prepared but do you guys wear boxers under swim trunks i never understood that like they some of them do right no okay it. Okay. It's not a thing. It depends on maybe how generally comfortable you are with your nudity or something. I mean, a lot of shorts have like the built-in underwears in them. So yeah, do you. I've never worn underwear. It just feels like a, like, why would you wear a cotton that is going to not dry underneath the thing that will dry very quickly? Just never quite made sense.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Yeah, that never made sense to me either so that's why i was like if you're wearing the the shorts out with your regular clothes as your outfit are you going to be wearing boxer that we just go and you know we free ball oh you're saying oh right so like are you someone in my position are you truly prepared for are you ready to dive in that's it that's actually a question that i've had so far uh i've only worn it without but maybe maybe if i really want to make it a part of of my rotation i i should probably think because it's not fully comfortable you know the netting it doesn't fit yeah and it's i like a boxer brief and like the the netting is not and it you know can get ill-adjusted down there.
Starting point is 00:13:45 So, yeah. You're going to have to plan that one out for your look, for your summer look. Absolutely. I do appreciate, Miles, that you turned me into a camp counselor with the zinc on my nose. Oh, yeah. But you're like an inner tube around my waist. There's something about it, too, that feels very 90s to me, wearing your swim trunks with like a t-shirt and wearing it as an outfit.
Starting point is 00:14:10 It feels very 90s. So yeah, you got to have the zinc. You got to have a little tube or little floaties on your arms. Like Oakley sunglasses with a strap on the back. Yeah. Echo strap. Yeah. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:14:21 There you are. Do the whole look. It'll be a thing. It'll be your new thing when you go out and everybody will be like, oh, that's the guy. That's the guy that's always wearing Slim Trump. Council Jack.
Starting point is 00:14:30 You know, you got to have a brand. I need something. I do. He eats free here. Yeah. He eats free. What is something you think is overrated ever? I'm assuming we'll wait
Starting point is 00:14:39 and you'll let us know if we hear back from Will B. The Will B. Yeah. It's an iPhone for sure because the messaging is blue. Okay. It went blue on them. So it's the iMessage. I know it went through.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Will B., I'm waiting to see if Darla's still available. I think weed gummies are overrated. This is a new thing. I'm not against weed gummies, but everyone's like, I took so many weed gummies. And it's like, no. I'm not against weed gummies, but everyone's like, oh, I took so many weed gummies. And it's like, no. I'm not that. No, I'm done with that.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Like, oh, man, I ate one too many. It's like, are you really that high? I'm sure some of it, you know, you can't get really stoned. But I'm over that whole, like, I can't do it, man. It's too much, you know? I see that on TikTok a lot as a meme of like the just ate a, you know, 200 milligram edible, which is like, are you dumb? But then they act like they were suddenly having like a transcendental moment in like a target. When really, if you got hit, like if you really were smashed by edibles, you would be laying down and just be asleep.
Starting point is 00:15:47 Yeah, 100%. And also, if you're that high at a target, you're having a panic attack or an anxiety attack. If you're calm, you're a sociopath. At a target? If you're calm at a target on a 200 milligram edible. That person's not okay. My natural environment. The new American gladiators is just seeing if people can do that. It's like, all right, you're going into this target on a 200 milligram edible.
Starting point is 00:16:17 See if you can keep your shit together. Peace and home. Little does our contestant know we have contacted several of his former high school and junior high school classmates to have random run-ins with him in the random aisles and see how he navigates those social interactions. The challenge is just running into an ex-girlfriend. Yeah. I'm fine. Oh, are you feeling awkward no
Starting point is 00:16:45 you shop here too bananas can't handle it Johnny Bananas can't handle it oh I forgot American Gladiators is coming back is it already back there was a version that came back and then I didn't watch it
Starting point is 00:17:02 in my mind I was like well unless the unless the original gladiators are there, I'm like, they can't be alive. Those people were abusing steroids in the early 90s. Yeah. You know for sure they were at Muscle Beach. Yeah. Just eating all that protein that those guys were eating. Is there a documentary about how they assembled the gladiators?
Starting point is 00:17:24 No, but they need to. What's the backstory of Turbo and Ice? You know what I mean? A morning casting director. He's like, these guys really need muscle videos. Yeah. This guy, he'd be cool for the show. What? It's a family sitcom.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Alright, alright, alright. Yeah, cool, cool. I do like that those gladiator shades are coming back in the hulk hulkins yeah oh are they dad fishing sunglasses i've seen them around i i you know what i'll say that's an underrated sunglass that's an under underrated fashion the gladiator sunglasses like the you know what i mean they look like it's like it's kind of like what like randy savage would wear macho man yeah i'm thinking that almost look like goggles right like that there's no like the frames are different look up hard thunder hard thunder okay yeah yeah they kind of look like ski uh ski goggles
Starting point is 00:18:17 a little bit yeah i like that yeah but maybe that makes me a bad person because i want to look like a dj you know i've been thinking about that bad person because I want to look like a DJ. You know, I've been thinking about that lately. Do you just want to look like a DJ? Yeah, it's like that isn't, that's not a good thing to aspire to. Hey, rocking a party? Hey, someone who used to be a DJ. I'm talking about looking like a DJ.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Oh, just looking like one? Because DJs can pull it off, but like looking like a DJ, you just walk up looking like an asshole. Yeah. But if you're a DJ. Right. Very different. You know what I'm talking about. You don't want to be the person who's like, yo, why am I ever looking like a DJ or something? Then it feels like an insult.
Starting point is 00:18:55 You're just like a DJ. Yeah. Why are you wearing drop crotch pants? Right. With a lot of ropes? Okay. Cool. I'm really about this lifestyle now yeah you got bracelets up to your elbows scandinavian yeah well i've been watching a lot of youtube about djing
Starting point is 00:19:16 getting really into the dutch sound you know but like jamaican dutch you know like everybody in the building come in you know dj ever is in the building come in come in like what just the most like basic uh takes on how we all need to get together everybody get together you together. You know, we need to love. Hey, everyone, jump to the music and let's be happy together now. Are you ready for the beat to drop? Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Let's count. Three, four. Four. Yeah. Okay. Speaking of Dutch DJs, oh, Anna wrote to us. It's when that dj shouted out george floyd before dropping oh yeah oh my god i didn't see that yeah that's fucked up dave it was david
Starting point is 00:20:15 getta oh my god remember he's like a shout out to george floyd's family and like underneath it was like uh martin luther king's i have a dream speech it was like Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. It was like, shout out to his family. Oh, my God. Y'all, this is too close. This is too close to him actually dying for you to just disrespect him like this with your DJ drop. Is that real? Oh, my. Here, for people who don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:42 And fuck masks. What do they even do? Obviously, this brought to you by hydroxychloroquine. I feel like there's a lot of anti-maskers in that scene. Listen to this. Here we go. This is David Guetta doing whatever the fuck he thought he was doing by honoring George Floyd with an EDM track.
Starting point is 00:21:01 The world is going through difficult times. And America too, actually. So, last night I knew we were gonna do this. And I made a special record. So this record is
Starting point is 00:21:21 in honor of George Floyd. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace. When already things are so difficult. So, shout out to his family. Ah! This is your kitchen. What?
Starting point is 00:21:53 Oh, no. This is straight violence. And he's doing the most obnoxious. When the beat drops, he just goes like this. It just feels like the most disrespect. But anyway. Jack, you look like probably what his entire team was doing when he was like, I know we said we were not going to do this.
Starting point is 00:22:24 No, David! I tender my resignation, sir. What is something you think is underrated, Kate? You've Got Mail, the 1998 romantic comedy. Now, hold on. Before you close this recording session, stay with me. That's been plenty. Thank you. this recording session. Yeah. Stay with me. That's been plenty. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:22:47 Stay with me. You're both like, wow, Kate was cool. And now, complete point of view change. You've got Mail, the 1998 rom-com. Yes, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks,
Starting point is 00:22:59 but more notably, guest starring Dave Chappelle, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn. Here's the thing about this movie. When I was a kid, when I was in high school, I got my wisdom teeth taken out. My dad rented all these VHS tapes for me to watch when I was recovering. And I kept going back to that movie, not sure why. And then that kept happening. It's a movie I've seen a bunch of times.
Starting point is 00:23:21 And then that kept happening. Like it's a movie I've seen a bunch of times. But I have to tell you, I have met so many people who are the last person you would expect to like that movie. And like a very dear friend of mine who's an incredibly, he's from Queens, incredibly talented rapper, artist. I was like, one day we were hanging out. I mentioned a line from that movie, just like not even thinking about it. He's like, oh yeah, yeah, I love that movie. And I was like, what? You love that movie? Recently, a friend who's an installation artist, like just like very like artist person was like, I love that movie. And my husband is like, you shouldn't like that movie. And she was like,
Starting point is 00:23:59 I know, like, I know I shouldn't like that movie. Like it goes against everything that I am, but I don't know I you know a friend of another friend of mine told me that he had done a breakdown of the script of that movie and it's like perfectly symmetric so I have this theory that it's just like a weird calming mechanism for my brain to watch that movie like the way that symmetry things that symmetry can be okay anyway I also just have to say the supporting cast is amazing like chapelle is fantastic greg kinnear is like so subtle you don't even realize he's acting he's so good and the little kid who's his brother saying f o x miles thank you i'm there too
Starting point is 00:24:40 kate you know the devil knows his own. This is a safe space. Yeah. No, I mean, like, I've watched that movie a lot more than I care to tell people that I have. Because also, like, when you start watching, like, yo, the plot will also, I think the plot holes, like, sort of like, I'm like, hold on. You haven't figured out who you are to each other quite yet. This feels a little, like, very unrealistic. But not to the point where i'm like i'm done with this there i don't know what it is if it's like the aesthetic of like
Starting point is 00:25:10 late 90s new york and like that could be a big part like mega stores aren't still a thing so like you're like oh right yeah this is cool and like people were on their weird little apple laptops and shit yeah politically it's weird because it's like Barnes and Nobles is taking over. And that's just what happens. They're just like, yeah, we still love them. We still love them. The moral is a little odd now, but I think when you're in a vacuum, I'm like, I feel the same way. Like there's something.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Yeah. To your point, Kate, I feel like plot holes and things that are like the moral is weird. Like that's almost a testament to the spell of the movie. Like that's Christopher Nolan makes movies that are just like riddled with plot holes. But it's like, I feel like that's him showing off that he can like spin this web of like movie magic that we just like won't notice them. And like, yeah, I feel like that's a good example of a movie that we should have hated. And when we rewatch it now, we should be like,
Starting point is 00:26:15 well, this isn't good. Cause this is like a love story in which, uh, Sam Walton like sneakily seduces like a local, like mom and pop store owner. Yeah. But it just works because it's Tom Hanks, obviously, and Meg Ryan, obviously, but also just like a really well done movie.
Starting point is 00:26:35 I feel like it's the new love. Like Love Actually for a while was the movie that like a lot of really like very smart people were like, no, it's actually great. And I, I would disagree with them. But then when you watch it, you kind of get it. I feel like we're having that moment for you got mail. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:53 I think just such great points. And it's making me think about, you know, cause it's also like, it's a movie that I've watched over so many years. And to your point about like the moral issues of like a thousand percent, you know, it's making me think like, well, what is it about that movie? I also think it's Nora Efron, you know, who, who wrote and directed it and, and, and actually was not like, if you read
Starting point is 00:27:14 her essays, she was, she was very feminist. Like she was not a, you know, sort of a like sugary rom-com person, at least it didn't seem like it so i think some some of that must be a play yeah it's a little bit of an enigma that movie but uh yeah but worth worth i like one fine day over you've got mail personally but oh my god i actually recently re-watched that on hulu miles and the opening scene of that like to your point about nostalgic new york like it's raining it's a brownstone you can see in all these warm glowy windows you're like wrap me up in this blanket you know i know it made me like i was so confused watching that movie growing up in la my whole life i'm like
Starting point is 00:27:54 how do these schools work and like they walk across town to shit i'm like no this is this hasn't made up like i don't know what the fuck this is. What is this magical fairy tale bullshit? And this guy's in Barbados? Who? B-A-R-B-A-D-O-S? I just remember so many wild lines from that film. I don't remember that movie at all. That didn't even... George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Starting point is 00:28:20 It's a deep cut, Jack. Maybe that'll be an egg from Arrested Development as a child. Yeah. Oh, really? That's right. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:30 A thousand percent. Maybe that'll be the next one that has a second life in the zeitgeist. God, I feel like I have to do a whole soul deep dive if you've got mail. What is it about these things? I don't know. Also, too, if it maybe harkens back to when i think of when i saw it and i was truly like a i had no responsibility and so this like these films are like glimpses into like oh yeah like i don't know like uh the economy seems good enough in these films like maybe it'd be an adult isn't that bad
Starting point is 00:29:03 and then you're like this isn't like one fine day or like anything i saw it's like mad max now yeah nothing about it is real yeah except for the yeah sam walton like the bookstore is the only real part is like dark as fuck like i feel very conflicted about because my my mom was a librarian like i grew up supporting independent bookstores. I actually feel deeply conflicted about it. And yet, I just share that I believe that it's underrated. So there's some more soul searching to do there. Yeah, yeah. You're like, yeah, I don't know what it is about it. My mom's a librarian. My dad is the CEO of Barnes and Noble. And they lived happily ever after. I just don't get it. What does it mean?
Starting point is 00:29:45 Yeah. He bought a house next to this library, claimed eminent domain, demolished it, and then built his first store. It was cool. I know. Like Dabney Coleman shows up. Gene Stapleton is still like, what? What's happening? I also have a brother who's three.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And a grandfather who's six. Yeah. Grandfather who's six. We're like, oh, wow. Wait, what the fuck? it's a modern american family yeah yeah all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk news i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours.
Starting point is 00:30:37 BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything?
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Starting point is 00:33:16 the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. In a galaxy far, far away. No, babe, that's taken. We're in our own world, remember? Right, in our own world. We're two space cadets. And totally normal humans. Sure, totally normal humans.
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Starting point is 00:34:07 available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. And we're back. And in what is becoming a continuing segment we're going to talk about just cops being petty and having their feelings hurt this time in portland uh the portland police bureau's protest response was not great uh not great if you want to listen to robert evans's podcast uh uprising that's that's worth checking out to get a better understanding of what was happening on the ground there.
Starting point is 00:34:51 Right. Because it wasn't just like, hello, everybody. This is the Portland Protest Response Bureau. Please disperse peacefully. This has been declared an unlawful assembly. Shout out to your families. This has been declared an unlawful assembly. Shout out to your families. No, they were definitely fucking people up. We saw the kinds of violence that was happening. And I think anyone who saw any protests around the country, you wouldn't be surprised to hear that police officers were physically assaulting protesters, peaceful protesters. That was clear as day.
Starting point is 00:35:23 And what happened was the city of Portland did the unthinkable, which is they indicted an officer for an assault. And what happened was after that, 50 members, the entire protest response unit resigned from their positions. They said, quote, from this article, resignations came after Portland police officer Corey Budworth was indicted in connection with an alleged assault during a confrontation with protesters. Budworth, who was a member of the response team, was charged with fourth degree assault for allegedly striking a woman in the head during a protest in August. So, yeah, those 50 people who resigned, they didn't leave them. They didn't leave the force.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Come on now. Have you seen those pensions? They just left this unit and said their their reasoning was they felt that they didn't have the support of the city council cool so they're gonna take their batons and go bash people okay snowflakes right really the biggest fucking snowflakes in the world these cops are so well i think that's inherently why people abuse power right because they're so insecure and whatever their position or station in life is that they found a way to sort of like leverage their position to act out their like small person fantasies by right brutalizing people and then the
Starting point is 00:36:36 second there's accountability yeah this was the woman he attacked with a weapon and beat over the head with his baton was a photographer. So, you know, she hadn't coming. She was, you know, daring to take pictures. But keep the press free. You know what I mean? That's just like some. It's interesting because I think people forget that like Portland is just a small part of Oregon. And Oregon is scary.
Starting point is 00:37:05 Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're trying to make new Idaho right now, or greater Idaho. Oh, yeah, that's right, right? Aren't they trying to make a movement? Part of them are like, we want to be part of Idaho. We're leaving Oregon. You're like, yep.
Starting point is 00:37:17 Okay, see you, bye. Oh, fuck, I was going to say something about snowflakes. It'll come back in the middle of the podcast, and I stop that's how it works stop yep shout out to your memories yeah shout out oh i was okay i was diagnosed with frontal lobe seizures over the pandemic oh wow what does that mean sorry for part of my ignorance oh so like i'll have these things in the frontal lobe of my brain, like right here. So I might say my third eye. And for a long time, I thought like, wow, I'm really psychic because I don't like convulse. It feels like I'm about to sneeze.
Starting point is 00:37:54 And now it'll feel like, you know, when you get deja vu. It's intense deja vu, but then I'll see like visions that don't add up. Wow. Or memories that aren't real. And they'll last like 30 seconds to maybe a minute. They happen randomly. This is embarrassing. But when they first started happening,
Starting point is 00:38:13 I did go to a very expensive intuitive woman. To figure out. She told me, well, she told me I had the gift and I believed it. And then three years later I went to the neurologist, and he said, you absolutely should have come to me first. And it was actually cheaper to see a neurologist than to see this psychic.
Starting point is 00:38:40 That's so wild. I wouldn't have believed it in this country. But, yeah, you know, like, it's... And then he prescribed me dog medication. Oh. The neurologist or the psychiatrist? Or the psychic? Yeah, I was like, I didn't see a psychiatrist.
Starting point is 00:39:01 I don't need help. Everyone's like, it's okay to go to therapy. Right. I'm going to clairvoyant. I'm not need help. Everyone's like, it's okay to go to therapy or see a psychologist. I'm not a snowflake! Watch your mouth. No, it's called Keppra, and it's the same medication they give dogs
Starting point is 00:39:16 when they have seizures. So you thought you were having a bit of deja vu? Is that how that just came up now? Oh, memory. So part of the caesars is a memory memory loss which is terrifying because i do have a grandmother with dementia so it's like all right starting early yeah here we go yeah my grandmother yeah had uh dementia as well that's always uh i think anything when you're like it's i'm a generation after do i need to worry they
Starting point is 00:39:43 skip the generation my parents are gonna be fine right i'm like shit Do I need to worry? They skip the generation. My parents are going to be fine. Right. I'm like, shit. And I need to take my dog medication. But the side effects outnumber the benefits. Right, right. Yeah. And he told me this.
Starting point is 00:39:57 The pharmacist told me this. The internet is the internet. I'm sure the internet told you a lot. Like, is the internet. Sure, the internet told you a lie. Yeah. But it's like, one of, like, the most, like, frequent side effects is severe aggression. Like, mood-altering aggression and irritability. And then this sense of, like, out-of-body severe depression.
Starting point is 00:40:20 And it's like, cool. And the doctor was like, but you'll know you're depressed. And you'll be aware that you want to kill yourself so you'll could just get off and i was like what just like that doc i think i'll stick with deja vu thanks he's like you'll you'll you know you'll start you might start having suicidal thoughts and ideations but just remind yourself you're on a medication and the thoughts aren't real. I liked it better when I thought I was a psychic.
Starting point is 00:40:51 I was like, are you a warlock? The psychic's telling you he's like, oh, don't listen to him. He's a sorcerer. He's against us. Yeah, my psychic said. Who are you saying, Clara? How'd you know?
Starting point is 00:41:09 No. See, I told you. He said my name right. We used to date. They're in a racket together. Neurologist is misspelled. N-O-O. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, my insurance covers this.
Starting point is 00:41:25 And the guy's like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure it does. Kill yourself. Just sign your life policy over to me. Yeah, go ahead, keep taking these. So I haven't started my medication yet. I refuse. But maybe this next story will help me.
Starting point is 00:41:47 Yeah. Well, speaking of not having their needs met, let's talk about people in retail jobs. I feel like they're starting to wake up to the fact that America treats workers like shit, basically. And they're fleeing. 649,000 retail workers just put in their notice. They're leaving their jobs in April. In April, that was like this figure. That was the largest one-month exit
Starting point is 00:42:13 from like a given industry that the labor department has ever seen since they started collecting data in general. So they're like, wow. And I think, you know, it's like everything. These people were they went through all this shit over the last year dealing with customers dealing with you know being understaffed and having to do way more shit while also having this label of essential without
Starting point is 00:42:37 any real gratitude really attached to it from their employers and people are just monetary compensation yeah i mean there was like kroger did a hero's bonus for like two seconds and then like okay we called them heroes isn't that enough yeah what is yeah come on it's called a hero bonus i mean but yes i'm the hero in the c-suite because i put a sunset on that and it didn't go the whole time of the pandemic but yeah this other thing is like you know a lot of people just on part of that. It's not that they're just quitting, because I think if you listen to Republicans, it's going to be like, well, this is what happens when Joe Biden gives people some stimulus checks and unemployment. These people are going to other jobs.
Starting point is 00:43:18 These people aren't just not working. They're just saying fucking retail was fucked up and I don't want to do it. So a lot of people are finding other places like insurance agencies, marijuana dispensaries, banks, local governments, you know, where they can have customer service skills, but also have like things like better wages, benefits, things like that. And a lot of people are going, some people going back to school or learning new trades or waiting till they can get child care to like better their options. So it's I think it's really telling, you know, where we're at, especially with the fact that we constantly have this thing that we're seeing now where people are refusing to work for subsubstance wages and they want to they want to be able to have a dignified life like you
Starting point is 00:44:01 should. It shouldn't matter where you work. the fact that you can contribute unfortunately to this consumer economy or whatever that you can have a life you can have a home to sleep in rather than well do you have enough jobs for a home do you have enough jobs to have a child that's the the equation's so backwards yeah i feel like a lot of people are just seeing i feel like people in office jobs that were working nine to fives, regular jobs, they got to step back while they were working from home and doing zoom jobs. And so they're kind of having this moment of being like, I don't need to go into the office, or I only want to work two days in the office, the rest of the days I can work remote and still get all the work I need to get done. And so it's like they already had their moment. And now the retail workers, now that things are
Starting point is 00:44:43 slowing down, they're like, what was this shit that we just dealt with for the past year and some change? And so now they're just like, I'm out. Like, I think people are in general just having these awakenings of being like, we don't deserve to be treated like this. We're not getting paid well enough for being taken care of. So we got to go find something different. And I'm glad that so many people are leaving. Maybe people, maybe someone will wake up and make some changes. I mean, I worked retail back to the day. It's not fun. Yeah. It's not like I get it. And I think for even before the pandemic, a lot of people were like, this is just, it's a tough job and there's very little, there's nothing in return that makes it worth our time aside from the crunch of living in America where, dude, you can't just quit your job and, you know, pivot to something else quickly because some people, you know, a lot of people live check to check and that disruption in their income can be disastrous. These are the moments, too, where you're like, God, if some people just had their shit together, you know, politically, they could look at what's happening here and be like, yeah, there's a there's a way to get support for from a lot of Americans that would help a lot of people without being like, who's a Republican and who's a Democrat or whatever. And just like, you know, guide this thing by something called human dignity. But, you know, that's that's the person to be a priority in politics no no unfortunately not and especially again when you have people like joe mansion who got there he's getting he got an award from the chamber of commerce for the bipartisanship
Starting point is 00:46:17 award which was basically because he he took a shit on the 15 minimum wage hike so he gets awarded by these business associations like the chamber of commerce to say he is a hero of bipartisanship no he's the fucking fullback who blew up your you know opportunity to whatever so he's it's all just obstruction and yeah you hope that these things will all add up on some level because or maybe they'll just be like then this is why we need robots oh for sure yeah yeah i mean you're sending like retail in particular you're sending people into like impossible situations like if you if you've ever worked retail like the american consumer you're supposed to like go on with the premise that the consumer, the customer is always right. And like that's and the consumer like goes into any interaction knowing that and just like it's just such a fucking brutal dynamic to then like not pay them exorbitantly well.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Like it's so not pay them exorbitantly well. Absolutely. Not pay them a living wage. Like you were saying earlier, they have to get multiple jobs just to be able to support their family when they're working so much for what? Isn't the restaurant industry also having a huge hiring problem because of all of this?
Starting point is 00:47:39 Because at the end of the day, enough is enough for people. And yeah, it's funny because you see people i've seen people who work retail like who manage a retail store have way better communication skills than like fbi hostage negotiators oh yeah you know what i mean like the shit i've i'm like oh my god this person is racist as fuck in your face. And you've somehow just fucking shoulder-dipped, head-baked, Euro-stepped around their bullshit. And then got them to be like, feel heard.
Starting point is 00:48:13 And then they leave. You're like, oh my God. And I'm like, you're not. And they're not paying you shit. This is fucked up. And I think that's what, you know, I commend people who are taking these things into their own hands. And I hope that, you know, that they can enter a job market that will, you know, reward them for their skills as well.
Starting point is 00:48:32 Because, yeah, unfortunately, retail isn't it. And especially like working in retail, people come up to you thinking you are the ex-company. Like you're the fucking son or daughter or child of whoever owns the company or the store. Yeah. Like, fuck. Yeah. Okay. I'm just making t-shirts in here.
Starting point is 00:48:49 I'm going to take my business elsewhere. Yeah. I'm like, okay. Well, I'm sorry. We don't have this graphic and I can't press it to these sweatpants that you want. Right. You're like, what is this about? Have you read it?
Starting point is 00:48:59 On the website, it says you have it. I'm like, I don't know. They're not paying me shit. Also, you don't know. My boss hasn't paid. My last two paychecks bounced yeah so what the fuck you want me to do what do you have you seen the uh tiktok with the guy working at ikea yeah it's so good because that's what everybody that works in customer service and retail just wants to say because i don't know it's so strange how customers suddenly either forget or
Starting point is 00:49:26 just don't understand how it works but yeah they think that you are john ikea or whatever it is and it's like i am not the company i am simply a man trying to make money you know it's not i don't i can't do anything for you yeah because they get in there i'll say they get in their heads where the the word no doesn't exist if you're a customer according to some right yeah and i think it offers people to like in this country it's like the one place you can go in with your sense of entitlement and someone kind of has to half oblige it yeah or at least that's the expectation for yeah like other some places you know you can't come in with that fucking energy right like or certain contexts in life, you can't have that fucking energy with people.
Starting point is 00:50:07 But in this one, you can suddenly now project all of your frustrations on someone who's working retail or whatever and go off. And then these people can't fucking clap back. Although you do see it more and more now where you see conflicts with workers and people getting in people's faces. And you guess what? You're also dealing with a stressed out human. So maybe things will happen. That could be a class that they teach in schools, like working retail for one day. They make every kid work in retail one day. have to assume that they're always right is like such a like imagine i like the comparison of a hostage negotiator because imagine if the hostage negotiator had to deal with like a role that the terrorist is always right and the terrorist knows that they're supposed to have that assumption like it's a completely impossible it's a completely impossible situation. I want $1 billion in unmarked bills and a
Starting point is 00:51:06 fueled jet. Okay, we're working on that. Let me talk to your manager. I am the manager and I love what you're saying right now and that's going to be heard. What I can offer you right now is maybe 10% off your next purchase. You got your retail voice on?
Starting point is 00:51:22 Okay, fine. Okay, fine. Fuck. Shit, I gotta quit this fine. Okay, fine. Fuck. Shit, I got to quit this motherfucker. I hate the coach store. I hate the coach store. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk Britney.
Starting point is 00:51:40 I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this?
Starting point is 00:52:17 We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In a galaxy far, far away. No, babe, that's taken. We're in our own world, remember?
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Starting point is 00:56:01 be like oh this is just a regional problem it is the subways that you have been frequenting. Frozen sent them... Is it my one-on-more park? It was five different ones. I mean, a vast sampling. It very well could have been. Frozen sent them to a lab that specializes in fish testing. The lab
Starting point is 00:56:19 looks for DNA that can be identified as tuna. And amplified. And they were unable to find any not a single sample so what is it? so they don't know this story is
Starting point is 00:56:35 because of the mayonnaise I think they open it up to being that at one point they're like it could just be that it's like so degraded from all of the processing that like it's no longer recognizable from a dna perspective which is like yeah well then we don't have a problem here but exactly there is no just move along this shit is so processed there's like uh in the look a super producer anna j, sent the article out because she wanted to take a shot across my bow. Although at the same time, she came up with a brilliant defense for me that if anything, if I commit crimes or something, I'm going to use the subway tuna defense that that's what happened. She's like, just blame everything you do on eating subway tuna sandwiches for as long as you did And someone may be sympathetic But yeah like
Starting point is 00:57:25 One of the other like sort of experts That was talking about it just said I mean like when you boil this shit down And cook it down It like ceases to have any sort of Organic like it'll be Hard to find the DNA at that point Because of all the processing
Starting point is 00:57:41 Do I think that it's just a bunch of Shredded up Haviana sandals and shit? I don't know. But if it is, they did something great. This will probably end up just being like a big advertising hoax by Subway. And they're like, yeah, there's no traces of tuna. It's all caviar. Subway!
Starting point is 00:58:00 Welcome. But then they find out that one of the same like one of the ingredients in their bread was the same thing that they used to make yoga mats yoga mats yeah yeah right right yeah everything at like a certain like you can break everything down far enough into a chemical compound that it's like yeah i mean like we all contain carbon and I bet there's some carbon in there. So you could be like, Subway is like eating people. I don't know. I think these articles... Also, this article, just from its methodology perspective,
Starting point is 00:58:33 he bought five Subway subs in Los Angeles, froze them, and sent them to a lab, which the testing you later find out is affected by how much it it's been frozen and like broken down and all these different things. So like why were there no subways near the lab? Like what was the New York Times budget that they were like, sorry, bro, you got to just like hack this investigation together using whatever subway you can walk to? Yeah, this smacks of something that was all orchestrated by jimmy johns or something right you know yeah where they're like look at us like it's like you can watch a video of the tuna being processed from the sea all the way to your mouth so you know you can trust our tuna but i think it would be interesting if you just did this across all American food, like just really to help people understand how fucking processed the food is that you eat.
Starting point is 00:59:32 Like there's a version of getting a canned tuna from your store and then making your own like tuna salad or whatever. And whatever it takes for these companies, again, because it's all about creating the widest margins for their profits profits as possible that it's you process this shit and do it cheap and things like that yeah that's how it ends up being a fucking five dollar foot long yeah all that to say is i feel great my magnetism has died down ever since i started eating subway tuna sandwiches to offset the magnetism from the vaccines uh occasionally like i, my toenails grow at such a rate that I find it to be very impressive. Yeah. Yeah. You can actually see it visibly from space like happening in front of you.
Starting point is 01:00:14 But yeah, there's this quote that says, because if we all want everything at rock bottom prices, that means something somewhere is going to be exploited. Whether that's people or the ocean, probably both in the case of tuna. Mayonnaise and a flaky, like brined fish looking substance that they then mix together with their hands and gloves. But it that that was the best I've ever felt about Subway. Tuna was like reading that. Yeah. Spoke. Yeah. Spoke under under the condition of anonymity.
Starting point is 01:01:01 Yes. It is made out of them. They both did actually fear for fear of reprisal from subway but both sandwich artists that they had on at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown i remember when so many restaurants and things sort of pivoted to being like hey you can just buy shit from like you need an egg or like some lettuce or whatever you could buy you could buy the tuna at subway they were selling five pound bags of this shit that was pre-mayonnaise and it was just pretty much labeled i mean i maybe bought it and was yeah so that was the
Starting point is 01:01:38 that was the good part of like what i learned the the bad part is that they will leave it out on the counter for 72 hours. They consider the like post mayonnaise tuna to be among their most like shelf or a sandwich bar, stable ingredients. The way they describe it is like the fish is like caught with a net that is like, I don't know. It's just,
Starting point is 01:02:03 it's exactly the thing that happens at the end of uh finding nemo i think where like all the fish in like the dirty part of the ocean get like trapped in this net and then like they just freeze them immediately once they get them on the boat and then like bake them with all their organs and shit in them. And then like at that point, remove the bones, like it's some factory. So that's like kind of gross. And it's also only the worst quality tuna. Like there's the, they're like the pink tuna.
Starting point is 01:02:33 We send to sushi bars, the like pinkish that has like some fucked up stuff on it. We sear the outside of that, leave the inside pink and like send that off to restaurants. And then there's the stuff that's just all, you know, cat food has a whole, yeah, cat food. Exactly. And that, that we send to the, uh, canneries, which is where your canned tuna comes from. The tuna that doesn't know how to swim. Right. Yeah. The shout out to all the listeners who incessantly tagged me in every single version that was had a link and could be I could be added in for bringing this to my attention.
Starting point is 01:03:12 I've again, I wouldn't be who I am without this mystery fish. Yeah. So in that way, thank you. But I'm still unwavering in my support of Subway, whatever this sandwich is. And so as a follow-up to this New York Times article, the New York Times is going to DNA test Miles to see if they can detect any Subway tuna in Miles' DNA.
Starting point is 01:03:36 Not human. There's too much mayonnaise in Miles. Almost all mayonnaise. His blood type is Hellman's. Almost all mayonnaise. His blood type is Hellman's. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
Starting point is 01:03:56 Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. Thank you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that?
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