The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 38 (Best of 8/20/18-8/24/18)

Episode Date: August 26, 2018

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All right, guys, let's check in with the charts. What do you say? I would love it. Let's see the chart. What's top in the charts, Casey Kasem? So on the book chart, this is something that we haven't really looked at up to this point. They make chart for book? Yeah, they make chart for book on Amazon.

Wow. And one of the top books right now is The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump by Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett. Greg 2Gs, love it. Yeah. All 2Gs. Gregig.

Gregig. Gregig. Gregignant. Gregignant. It's getting amazing user reviews but What are their user reviews like? Just in love but they like try and do the soft sell

like the top user review that is five stars is like hey I know like you guys might not like Trump but you should check this book out give it a read if you like to read it's really good easy read like you'll love it it. Give it a read if you like to read. It's a really good, easy read. You'll love it. It's just entertaining. And if you want to know the truth,

you should read this because you're all sheeple. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was that last part? And PolitiFact just debunked a ton of the crazy things that the book claims. Apparently it's wildly out of date already.

And when did it come out? Like a month ago. Oh, amazing. Good, good, good. Well, yeah, especially with the pace of this thing. I guess it's true. There's like an emerging market for the left and the right, or these sort of like opiate books that either help you believe that the White House is a total fucking dumpster fire,

but then added stuff that make you get like, oh yeah, it's got to end awful for this motherfucker. And then on the other side, it's like the QAnon shit or this stuff. It's like, no, it's all good, guys. It's all going to be fine. Everyone gets a check. Yeah. The complete ketogenic diet. So shout out to Ify because he's talked about that before on the podcast.

But that's the new diet fad, right? Where you just eat. Just put your body in a state of ketosis where your body burns fat. What's ketosis? Yeah. Well, it's basically where you go into a state where normally you burn carbohydrates for your energy, but if you don't eat any carbohydrates, your body will then start burning its fat reserves for energy, and then you're passively shedding your weight. So you're just not eating carbs.

You're not eating carbs, but you're also eating a ton of fat and things like that because that's your new fuel. And you're trying to get your body to switch energy sources. Oh, that's great. My dad did it. KFC skin. My dad did fucking turn into a rail thin dude. And to the point where he's like, I need to stop. I'm too keto.

If you want to look like Iggy Pop, this is a good diet. Iggy Pop diet. But there's a lot of, I don't know, this is a good diet. Iggy Pop diet. But there's a lot of, I don't know, people talk bad about it. I don't know where the science community has fully landed, but I think it's, to this point, people like it. Yeah, and it's big out here. You hear it on a regular basis. People talk about it.

I'm keto. I'm keto. 1984 is still in the top 50, which, I don't know. That's a long time, because it was written in 1984, right? 1948. 48, 84. Whoa. Pretty cool.

Ever heard of it? Pretty cool. Isn't that based off his travel to somewhere? I think it's his travels in Eastern Bloc. Yeah, or something where he totally blew his mind. He's like, okay, I think I know what I'm going to write about. Yeah, yeah. And this book that was mentioned on Friday's episode

by guest Kirby Howell- Baptiste. Baptiste. The Four Agreements, A Practical Guide to Personal Wisdom. I went on a deep rabbit hole on this because it is the modern, the secret. I've heard it talked about by people who are fans of self-help literature. And it has four basic ideas that you're supposed to agree with, like use your words wisely and basic stuff, but like make those the focus.

Make you think. Yeah, make you think. But it's based, the thing that I like about it, that might just be a scam by the author, but it's supposedly based on Toltec wisdom, which is like they're the predecessors of the Aztecs. Yeah, I've seen Legends of the Hidden Temple, bro. I know about Toltec.

Exactly. So like Legends of the Hidden Temple. The big head from the Legends. That's actually Olmec. You read about it? Yeah, that's Olmec. But yeah, I mean, we have all of these cultures in America

that we basically paved over, but they did have written traditions. They're just, they haven't been fully translated yet, but there's a whole entire library of ideas and philosophies and art and knowledge that's out there from a part of the world that was completely cut off from a lot of the world that we have studied up to this point. So it seems like, I don't know, it's a promising

idea to me. I don't know enough about the book. I love self-help, and I love how it's just like, be nice. The secret, I was very into it. My mom was deeply into it. She had a major thing with spoiler alert for the secret. Like, don't tell anyone what the secret is. Because it was a competitive advantage.

I was like, what was the most popular movie in the world? Oprah, shut up. Shut popular book in the world. I can't have these bitches on the whole secret. Oprah, shut up. Shut the fuck up, Oprah. I guess all those help books really just boil down to go easy on yourself.

Yeah, a lot of them do. In a way, you sort of arrive at the same place. Like, I need to relax a little bit more. I need to go easier on myself. Things are not as bad as I'm always making them out to be. And things will improve from that.

That's a big one from the four agreements. One of them is like that we have these built in sort of ideas from our parents that are like when you actually examine them, the reasons we get mad at ourselves are really stupid. Really? Yeah. Like my ED. Right. Yeah.

It's like I can't control that. Well, the secret I love because it's just like if you want a car, every day say to yourself, I want a car. And then one day, car shows up. Self-driving car. A Tesla just pulls itself into your bedroom. Beep, beep, beep. Hi, here for you. I want a car.

Siri, I want a car. Give me the car. Miles, it's not your fault. Let's get into the Rosé conspiracy, guys. What is this conspiracy exactly? So apparently this article was written by a Rosé expert, a person who has written books on Rosé and what quality Rosé is. Yes, thank you.

Bring in the conspiracy music. Bring in the conspiracy music. She basically says that rosé is generally usually garbage, and they use grapes that can't be used in other wines, and then apparently this stuff called bulk wine that she refers to is made with 75 ingredients besides grapes, which I didn't know was possible, but apparently wine doesn't need to have ingredients on the bottle.

What? Yep. 75 ingredients that are not wine? Yeah. That are not grapes. Yeah. God damn it. Okay.

Go on. Yeah. What the fuck? I didn't even realize. I thought it was simple. The rules of wine was like motherfucking grapes. It was grapes. Yeah. You would think so. I thought it was simple. Like the rules of wine was like motherfucking grapes. It was grapes. Yeah, you would think so.

Water. Water and grapes. So they say that somewhere along the line, a rosé company will realize a restaurant is popular or has some buzz, particularly around the wine program. So they stop by, drop off a business card, and then they will start offering things like cash incentives to the sommelier. The writer of the article is a sommelier. Dinners, she writes, sporting game tickets, proving that she is- Sporting game.

Yeah. As posh as you think she'd be. Yes, exactly. Hello, fellow billionaires. Would you like a ticket to the sporting game? billionaires would you like a ticket to the sporting game and basically it's a payola deal for putting different bottles of rosé and the way that they can sort of trick people is that rosé is served colder than other beverages and the colder the beverage the easier it is to kind of come right you basically are masking the flavor with the beverage, the easier it is to kind of come. Mask the flavor.

Right. You basically are masking the flavor with the sensation of coldness, which is why Coors Light made it their whole thing to be like, our beer is cold. It's so cold you don't realize you're drinking piss. For the Blue Mountain, just close your eyes and think of England. Right. And then in Europe, you know,

they serve beer at room temperature because they know how to make beer. Apparently, Americans are not going to like that statement. But I find alcohol marketing really interesting. Like I read an article a long time ago about the guy who made Grey Goose. And I think he became a billionaire off of this and just the way he made his first amount of money was by discovering that jaeger was this thing that like uh frat guys were taking shots of as like a dare and he was like oh we could actually market that and so he started with this one college and then started like building out this marketing network of people who were taking Jaeger shots as a dare, and essentially made it

into the college shot alcohol that it is today. Which is why bars now have that weird fucking cooling machine with the upside down bottle behind the bar. With the little spigots on it. Yeah, and they're like, oh yeah, shot a Jaeger out of this weird. It was just like some frat bros discovered this weird German or some

European country aperitif and they were like, oh, this is so gross. But it also doesn't make you feel sick to your stomach because it is

for digestion. Yeah, because it's used as medicine for something. Like, oh, have a little bit of Jaeger-Meister. I didn't know that

that was why it was appealing because every time I've ever had Jaeger I felt like I'm dying. Yeah, oh, have a little bit of Jägermeister. I didn't know that that was why it was appealing because every time I've ever had Jäger, I felt like I'm dying. Yeah. Yeah, I think it feels like a rite of passage. Like, yeah, man, you do some fucking Jäger shots. Not because you love...

The flavor was never that appealing to me. Right. I don't think it's appealing to most people, but realizing that he was basically a marketing wizard after he tricked people into buying the grossest liquor ever, he was like, well, what can we trick people into drinking next? 50% more than other vodkas, which has already sold at a huge markup. And chemically, it's identical to other vodkas, but they just put it in what looks like a wine bottle and put a cork on the lid or on the cap. And that made it seem classier. And he made even more money on that. It's that frosted bottle.

It's interesting that it's such a chemically based thing, like an actual widely used drug that most people have used. You'd think that we'd be better at knowing how the chemical makeup affects us. But it actually, I feel like, has so much tied up into self-mythologizing and self-image that it's easier to trick people with marketing with alcohol. It's weird that rosé blew the fuck up in the last five years. I remember

it being like, oh yeah, there's that pink wine and then everything was like, it became a lifestyle thing. I'll go to your bridal shower if there's rosé. Rosé all day shirts. Yes way rosé. Rosé all day shirts. Rosé hats. Yes way rosé. Rosé pink houses.

Rosé in cans. I was at Target and I was trying to get just some beach towels and shit. And the only ones they had left were all the rosé line of beach shit. And I was like, yo, yes way rosé. Namaste in rosé. Yeah, seriously, rosé and chill. Chill and rosé. Okay, cool. Wow. Netflix and chill and rosé? Yeah, like seriously, like rosé and chill, like chill and rosé. Like, okay, cool.

Wow. Netflix and chill and rosé tied together. The most of the moment corny thing. But guys, if you do like a dry and fruity floral rosé, please check out Provence or Grenache. I dig a good rosé mostly just because like I dig cold shit in the summertime. Most wine makes me sweaty. So it's one of the few beverages that doesn't do that. But also, if anybody here has ever had rosé in anything other than really, really chilled,

it tastes like shit. That canned rosé that's really popular now because they had this house painted brightly pink somewhere over on Wilton. And they didn't say what it was for, but millennials kept going to take selfies there and take photos and tour the house. And it turns out the house was actually an advertisement for Millennial Pink being tied in with Rosé for this campaign for this canned Rosé.

So people didn't even know that when they were tagging themselves in all of this, they were essentially creating the hashtag that would be used for this rosé company. They were tricked into thinking it was an art installation, but it was actually advertisement for this can rosé thing. And I tried that can rosé at a party once, because they had these girls walking around

having people try them. The only thing is they didn't chill it sufficiently, so as soon as we all took one giant swig, it was just like a back, because it tasted like those buzz balls that you get at gas stations oh wow yeah like half sphere

that always tastes like plasticky somehow and they were like oh there's the thing you can't have this at anything other than almost frozen right I mean Froze was big too that was like the hit of last summer.

That's like a wine slushie. Yeah, it's like a wine slushie that they even like made tumblers for. Like, they look like little wine glasses

but they had like a little sippy at the top and they would keep it frozen so you can like take it with you places. Achoo. Yeah. Frosé, man.

The market is strong. Just go for a cheap white Zinfandel. It does the same thing. Right, exactly. And that's what they say. Like, it's pretty much what you want. If you want the Rosé experience, do the Zinfandel. But does the same thing. Right, exactly. And that's what they say. It's pretty much what you want.

If you want the rosé experience, do the Zinfandel. But I wonder if they can. You're like, ooh, this is good wine. They're like, actually, legally, we can't say wine. It's 1% wine. It's a grape drink. Yeah, what? Alcoholic grape drink.

Guys, the social medias were abuzz over the weekend because Netflix apparently started showing them ads. Yo, get out of here with this shit. You motherfucker. I was giving a promise. I know. I don't not pay for access to a Netflix account to see ads. Right.

No, sir. Yeah, but I mean, we're supposed to be able to binge. When you're binge drinking, you don't have to pause between bottles for a few words from Captain Morgan. You're just expecting to mainline that shit. So this is kind of breaking the spell of what we go to Netflix for, according to people outraged on social media. On Redditdit someone posted they're like i'm getting ads after my bob's burgers or some show they're watching and then other people like i think i'm getting it too but not everyone got it but the whole new thing was

like it was suggesting shows in between your binge sesh and then netflix kind of came out with a statement that said you know it's a test, quote, we are testing whether surfacing recommendations between episodes helps members discover stories they will enjoy faster. And I get that. But I feel like most people, it's weird. I use Netflix like when I used to have DVDs and you just had that like the same like fucking 40 DVDs.

And you're like, what am I going to watch today? The same nine episodes of The Office I've always been watching or whatever and like even I'll ignore the thousands of other things that might be good but I think a lot of people were mad or whatever but again they're saying it's just a test so they do this all the time

this isn't the first time they've tested things so if you don't like it don't interact with it and then maybe they'll get the fucking message they wouldn't like the ads. Even though I feel like that's not going to work because I feel like they've already introduced UIs that we have shown we hate and they're we'll get the fucking message that we didn't like the ads. Even though I feel like that's not gonna work, because I feel like they've already introduced UIs that we have shown we hate, and they're sticking around. Like the autoplay of trailers when you scroll through.

Right. Everyone has been very, very vocal that they hate that UI, and it's not going anywhere. Right, right. Like, I used to work customer support for Hulu, and I would get, like, insane amount of calls and emails and whatever it may be for something that we introduced and, like, the numbers showing that people aren't interacting,

but it doesn't change. Right. They're like, we have to do this for money, so. I think the most annoying thing is that once you see an ad for something, you're like, fuck, I can't watch that because then it will seem like the ad worked. Oh, is that how you think? Well, I mean, if we're going by your rules, which are you can't actually click on the thing. Right.

Because they're just trying to expose you to new things while you're watching your same nine episodes of The Office. Yep. You're just trying to open your mind. Great episode. Great episode. asian racism in that one it's so heartwarming for me but i mean this isn't yeah like you were talking about dvds and vhs tapes and we had to sit through hs tapes we had to sit through like previews uh before those, I don't know. And also, Netflix apparently has been selling us shit in the background of their movies in product placement, and we just didn't realize it, or I didn't at least. That scene during Stranger Things 2,

where the kids are shoving KFC into their mouth, and one of them says, this is finger licking good. That was an actual product placement like that KFC paid for. Oh shit, I didn't know that. Damn you, Stranger Things. Tin Cup Whiskey, it pays for product placement on Jessica Jones,

which is weird because the show makes it clear she like has a serious drinking problem. Yep. GMC pays for product placement on Queer Eye. Dunkin' Donuts pays for product placement on House of Cards. Jose Cuervo pays for product placement on Fuller House. No, they don't. When the fuck were they sipping Cuervo?

I don't know. Probably when DJ, not DJ, but the other one. DJ, DJ Tanner. When Stephanie goes as DJ Tanner. Stephanie as a DJ. At Coachella. Yeah, probably then. Wow, they made that real confusing to try and describe.

Yeah, I know. Jesus. I'm trying to think, though. Millennials are so easy to market to. Hey, I fuck with Fuller House. It's awful. It's a terrible show. But there's something so nostalgic about that family.

I don't know what it is. I can't quit them. I know we're easy to market to just because of the amount of subscription services I have. Right. I have a're easy to market to just because of the amount of subscription services I have. Right. I have a subscription water bottle service. I am so fucking gullible. Wait, a subscription water bottle? Where they just send you an empty bottle?

It's called Circle. The first one is free because the first one always is. Of course. And they send you a free water bottle with interchangeable filters that taste like different things but don't have sugar in them. Hey, they're not a sponsor, okay? And they're definitely not a sponsor. You're making this sound too good. And they do not taste free water bottle with interchangeable filters that taste like different things but don't have sugar in them. Hey, they're not a sponsor, okay? And they're definitely not a sponsor. You're making this sound too good. And they do not taste that great.

Oh, good. I think they taste good. Everyone else thinks they taste like trash, but I like the taste of sugar-free things. Right. So I like it. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? I hate that sweetener.

Yeah, like I like the taste of sweetener things. Of aspartame. Yeah. Aspartame. Otherwise known as aspartame. Which is, I think, technically a neurotoxin or something like that. Oh, yeah, I'm dying slowly. It has some kind of classification as a neurotoxin?

That's a weird one because, yeah, it gave rats cancer, and there was a lot of publicity around that. But first of all, there's speculation that a lot of that was funded by the sugar industry and also the amount of aspartame you would have to take would have to come in wheelbarrows to be the equivalent of what the rats were eating. Right, right, right. I just meant more in the sense that the way it tricks

to give that sensation of sweetness is by tricking your brain cells and shit. Oh, really? I already got tricked into getting the water bottles. And I'm out here pronouncing it as aspartame. So, yeah, take that with three grains of salt. At that point, I mean, there's also these things about how different colored pills

can make you go to sleep faster and sleep longer if it's a blue-colored pill. And it's like, yes, it's a placebo. But when you get into like the brain chemical it's causing, it's both pills are just causing chemicals to occur in your brain. So at that point, it's like getting into the matrix of like human existence. It's like, well, of course, the blue pill puts you to sleep.

Right. Exactly. So I can take that fucking red pill. Well, we do that with food all the time. Like wasabi shouldn't be that green. Ginger shouldn't be that pink. Banana pie shouldn't be that yellow. But people need the little push to be like, oh, that must be delicious.

It's brightly colored by what I think it should be. Right. It's glowing. I need that in my mouth. Yeah. I do just worry about what this says about us, that we're up in arms about them showing us ads for their other products, but we're just letting them shove KFC ads down our throats

just because it's like, yeah, well, it doesn't interfere with the stream of content that's just going directly into my veins. I'm just waiting for someone to break the fourth wall in the middle of a fucking show to sell something. Like 30 Rock? Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. When they just look at the camera and be like, Snapple! Right. Do we know if Doritos paid for the Wayne's World spot? You mean like that whole section where they do all of them?

That whole section where they do product placement? I mean, they probably would have had to because you can't say Doritos without getting Doritos permission. So, by the way, Doritos are delicious. The taste of a new generation of Pepsi.

And they're so flammable. Oh, I can't. I got this headache. They're so flammable. Yeah. Here, take two of these. What are they? New print.

Little. Yellow. Different. I miss the 3D ones. The 3D. Oh, shit. 3D Doritos. Remember them?

They would come in that weird little canister. Yeah. And then you'd pop, it looked like a flashlight and you'd pop it open and they were all puffed out. Oh fuck, I love those. They were basically two,

it reminded me of a Japanese chip that's like a puffed corn chip. It was like a puffed corn chip but made to look like a triangle had become pregnant. Yeah. Didn't they serve those at 7-Eleven? There were like hot three-dimensional Doritos.

I never had them, but I always wanted to. Oh, the asteroids. There were hot Cheeto Puffs. Yes. I know my trash food. Yes. And welcome to our new podcast, Trash Food. All right.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We wanted to talk about the president's coke problem. Oh. I can smell it through the bag. I can smell it through the bag. Oof. Oh, what are we talking about? We're talking about the president having a dependency on Diet Coke.

All that aspartame. Yes, all that aspartame. We've talked before about how- I should rewrite some of my jokes for this. I think we talked even yesterday about how a lot of the artificial sweetener panic that happened in the eighties was because they were feeding like in order to take in the amount of artificial sweetener that they fed rats that gave them cancer, you would have to eat NutraSweet by the like wheelbarrow full.

Oh, right. So it's like, well, nobody would ever do that. Except our president is doing that. Um, so what, uh, Omarosa and her latest book, uh, Nobody would ever do that. Except our president is doing that. So Omarosa and her latest book, her latest.

Her latest book. You probably read her first couple. I did. Her latest is about her time in the White House. And she talks about how she would put the average at eight cans a day for the last 15 years. cans a day for the last 15 years. In her time knowing him, she said he never does not have a Diet Coke in his hand, which totals out to 43,800 cans of Diet Coke that he has poured into his body in that time. They say that your body completely replaces its cells every seven years. So he is mostly Diet Coke, I guess, at this point. Mm-hmm. And then, well, again, it's 43,000, you got 125 milligrams of He is mostly diet Coke, I guess, at this point.

And then, well, it counts 43,000. You got 125 milligrams of aspartame in a can. So he's ingested about 14 pounds of aspartame. Aspartame? Yeah. Could you imagine eating a 14-pound bag of aspartame? I can't imagine you just did math in your head. Yeah, well, you know, I hate to play into the stereotype, but I am good with a calculator. That's ridiculous.

Yeah. That's actually ridiculous. But I also kind of feel like LaCroix might be killing us, too. Yeah. Well, what's in there, really? Yeah, exactly. Aside from the problematic CEO. Every time I reach for the can, I think of those pilots and I retreat.

I didn't know LaCroix was problematic. No, well, the CEO is kind of a kooky guy. We did a story on him. He was feeling up the pilots on his private jet like a bunch of times. And it was – he's a very odd person. But this isn't here or there. We're talking about the president. It's fine.

It's fine. It's fine. That's – yeah, I don't like that. So do you think he has a diet can of Coke and in lieu of coffee or something like that? Oh, yeah. I think it's the only thing he drinks. So no water. Literally the only liquid that he takes in.

We've seen him drink water. Have we? Oh, yeah, that one time. Remember he held it like a fucking otter? But he didn't know how to hold it. Yeah, I remember that. He was like, is this going to come apart in my hands? Oh, God.

Also, he's just dehydrated. Yeah. Oh, for sure. He infamously does not do drugs or drink alcohol or something like that, right? Infamously. Infamously. That's the thing he's most known for. Right.

Unless a doctor prescribes him. Right. In which case, all bets are off. We do know that he used to see, back in the 80s and 90s, All bets are off. We do know that he used to see, back in the 80s and 90s, used to see a doctor who was famous for prescribing Manhattan socialites just all the speed in the world. Oh, gotcha. That would make a lot of sense of his behavior also. Although people are saying that even Diet Coke can contribute to dementia. There have been new studies that say that people who drink a lot of Diet Coke

are more likely, like 5% more likely to suffer from dementia and have strokes. Yeah. I mean, but those medical studies are, it wasn't saying that there was like a cause and effect relationship, but that when they observed that group that- And what was the study sponsored by, like Diet Pepsi or something? I mean, I don't know about that. I think it was done like sincerely. It was actually the UK's National Health Service. Yeah. Which is owned by Big Pepsi.

But even, yes. The UK is owned by PepsiCo. By PepsiCo. Yeah. But I think, you know, but even then they're saying, they're like, we're not trying to say that there's a cause and effect, but we noticed this relationship. I mean, who'd think that?

The thing that struck out to me was that in the Omarosa thing, she was saying that she would have to go make the Diet Coke runs. Like, go out to Sam's Club to stock the fridge. Now, if I'm not mistaken, you'd imagine that in the White House, being the president, even for this asshole,

they would be like, what do you need in the house to be livable? You know, because it's not a fucking Airbnb where they're like, hey, there's a loaf of bread in there you have that right we'll have it like we'll have it helicoptered in from the coke corporation in atlanta right yeah i don't know that's what that's why i was like is that like a shade move to like be like yo go get my coke at sam's club right i work in the oval office right or maybe he's just going through them so quickly the staff can't keep up.

Right. They're like, we have him coming in on pallets. I don't understand. Is he just taking one sip and then throwing it away? Does he always have to have the new sip of a can? Oh, no. He has an IV drip that just says Diet Coke. Good lordy.

So because that is how he consumes a lot of junk food, right? Through IV? No, no. The like throwing most of it away and just taking like one bite or he... I feel like, I don't know for how big he is. Pizza, I think he doesn't...

He just eats the toppings. Eats the toppings. From one report we read. He only likes... He only eats the burger part of Big Macs. The good part. The good part.

I only eat the good part which is the cheese and the fucking pepperoni. I can't stop getting that one image of him climbing up the airplane. You know what I'm talking about? Where like his booty's popping.

Where like the wind is blowing. That's just in my mind right now. That's why I'm like, that's a dude who respects the sacrifice made for all those burgers. He's eaten those to completion, I feel like. So this brought up a question in my mind because he basically eats three Big Macs a day is the estimate. Like on average. But he's not eating McDonald's every damn day, is he? I thought so. He eats it a lot.

And he can eat whatever the fuck he wants. But it raises the question, if they're going to Sam's Club for Diet Coke, they're just going to an average McDonald's and it's three guys with earwigs and like

clearly Secret Service agents being like uh we need five Big Macs and uh these for you guys yeah yes like a teenager's probably farting all over yeah farting all over it and maybe like like why that just seems like such a wild security risk to be taking like but that's but no he his whole logic is they never know when i'm coming therefore they can't fuck with my thing and that's how i stay safe oh yeah that's always been the thing with him and like is it he's such a germaphobe that he feels like well they'll never fuck me over or maybe diet coke is an anti-venom for most poisons right and he's just drinking it by the buttload because of that. It kills the poisons.

It's so bad for you. It actually kills all poisons. But it also makes me think that he's definitely had like a Sam's Club, like burger or hot dog or something like that. Just Omarosa picking it up on the way out. Right. Go back Costco. Yeah.

Get me a chicken bake. But I mean, at the same time, he's sending people to pick up his McDonald's. We don't know if he can trust those people to not be like, this is for the president, man. And also those people probably hate him because he's so mean to everybody. So I just have to think he's ingesting a lot of cum. But that's just me.

Oh, yeah. That's not through food, though. Also, pick a better burger. You're the freaking president. Yeah, right? there's other options yeah we're getting mad now because like god damn it mcdonald's still right have like a fucking i mean have you had the bubba's brand frozen patties them shits cook all right for being frozen yeah maybe get some birch beer in there oh yeah like bougie ass soda he probably it's probably so disgusting because he's like a steak well done with fries,

do it even at a restaurant. Yeah. So. Yeah. I was just listening to the last podcast on the left about the Iceman and like how he murdered people with poisons,

with what's the one poison that smells like almonds? Cyanide. And like it's, I don't know. It's just. Smells like almonds? That's horrible. I love the smell of almonds. Yeah, smells and tastes like almonds's, I don't know. It's just. Smells like almonds? That's horrible.

I love the smell of almonds. Yeah, smells and tastes like almonds. Oh no. I know. Oops. I just drank a whole bottle of almond flavor. Well. I don't know.

It just seems like he's really opening himself up. And I don't know. We've talked about the QAnon conspiracy theory. If you are somehow one of these weirdos who missed that show, QAnon is this very sad conspiracy theory that covers many topics, but one of them is that there's someone with Q-level security clearance who knows what's really going on with the deep state. And a lot of that conspiracy has to do with the fact that Robert Mueller is actually not trying to bring Donald Trump down. It's that Donald Trump and Robert Mueller are working together to bring down Barack

Obama and Hillary Clinton and the pedophile sex rings that are out here. Oh, this was the Pizzagate thing, right? Well, this is before Pizzagate. So this is the newest thing. And it's starting at his rallies. More and more people are showing up with QT shirts and like CNN interviewed him. We have an episode where like you could hear them basically like like a journalist is walking them through their own ideas. And then they're kind of like, ah, like a few people are kind of realizing how flimsy it is.

But anyway, it's basically a security blanket for very scared Trumpers to be like, no, what is actually happening that is objectively does not look good for the president is actually a good thing. We just don't know because there's something going on behind the scenes that you have to read between the lines. Sure. So this is not one of the Trump supporter conspiracy theories where it's like, well, we're never really going to know. It's one where it's like they it has a clear expiration date. It's like one of those cults where they're like, and the world is going to end on this date in like two weeks.

And when it doesn't, you're like, well, you were wrong. Because they think that once the Mueller investigation is over, it's going to be revealed that he was working with Trump the whole time. Which is why some people think that the whole QAnon conspiracy was a left-wing troll. Like, fuck you. Yeah. I mean, it would be brilliant it really was uh i mean it will be because we are going to eventually find out that muller was not secretly working with trump to uncover a bunch of pedophiles quite the opposite so this is like these people

as much as it's possible to feel sympathy for people uh they are going to be proven wrong very publicly and they're already like oh god man i really need going to be proven wrong very publicly. And they're already like, oh, God, man, I really need this to be true. Yeah. So on 8chan, which is one of the Internet's greatest message boards. 8chan, not 4chan? Yeah. This is a whole other one.

Yeah. Turn it up by two. Anyway, on 8chan, there's some QAnon people talking. And one person began this discussion about a lawsuit against the mainstream media because they're making us look stupid, basically, is what their argument. So I just want to read some choice posts on this message board. Warnk had pulled some of these, and they are hilarious. So the first one says, and I'm quoting verbatim. Here we go.

When this is all done, can we get a class action lawsuit going against the MSM for wrecking all our families? No joke. The amount of division and pain the mainstream media has caused is incalculable. Just got accused by my 67 year old mother for spewing lies and aligning to a hateful ideology. Truth bombed her about Manfort being exonerated eight years ago by Rosenstein. Truth bombed her about Operation Mockingbird.

Truth bombed her about Olga Deripaska, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, goes on. She then has the audacity to call them lies but can't provide evidence. Just turns on me and tries to make me think I'm irrational. I'm serious. The MSM, they're responsible for this shit. How many families have been fighting for the past two years? Breakups, divorces, fire, distressed families, and ex-friends? God damn the mainstream

media. I can't wait anymore. Let's just sue them now. So you know what? He's being vulnerable. Yeah, I guess so. That's true. Yeah. He is being vulnerable in a way, right? But not being vulnerable, but he still has to be right. And he's still putting up the thing where he can't just own. He's like, he's not being vulnerable in the way that he can be honest with himself. Like, look, I'm was very desperate to not believe this and i'm uh i feel really bad right now because i don't know what to do it's no fuck the mainstream it's not me it's the mainstream right is what this is this whole conspiracy theory is built out of an inability to show vulnerability they're just unwilling to be wrong about anything and so they were trump supporters. It's either that Trump is guilty or there is a massive like the sting style operation that is going on where Trump is like playing the mainstream media and they cannot show vulnerability about Trump being wrong.

So they have constructed this giant conspiracy theory based on a guy who just tweets stuff like the storm is coming. And they're like, see, that means like they- Well, that was when Trump said that in front of a bunch of military families. Right. That they were like, oh, what is he talking about? Right. What's he talking about? Anyway, so let me read a couple more.

Please. Because then the whole crew jumps in to be like, let me regale you with tales of emotional trauma because of my belief in QAnon. There's another one. I'm sleeping on the couch again tonight because I had a flare up. I hope this turns out to be truer than true. My wife wants to divorce me soon, possibly because she thinks I'm in a cult group for reading this stuff. It sucks. I'm do sick

over it. Typo. Okay. What about this one? Goodness. Yes, I agree with you. I don't know what everybody is going through entirely, but what I've been through has really changed my life. I've lost friends, been accused of all kinds of things, and almost had my girlfriend turn against me during Gamergate. She read the wiki on it and thought I was some kind of Nazi for being pro Gamergate. We have been abused, criticized, shamed, misrepresented, and we kept turning to the liberals while the liberals, commie liberals, I'm not saying the caring classical woke liberals, certainly seemed like the enemy. The real enemy is, was the elite and mainstream media. liberals, commie liberals, I'm not saying the caring classical woke liberals, certainly seem like the enemy. The real enemy is, was the elite and mainstream media. Another person, same story

here. I don't really talk to my 70 year old parent-in-laws anymore. Even my college educated younger brother and his wife, because all they watch is MSNBC, CNN, and NPR. And they've learned only to hate a straw man of me. I can't talk to them about anything at all. Recently, Pops made some delusional comment about Trump being a crony capitalist, giving kickbacks to his buddies in the prison industry. I was tired of the insanity and spoke up saying Trump is actually working to break up all that sort of thing and have prison reforms. This guy got emotionally upset with me for even hinting at a defensive Trump's character. If only they knew what was going on here. Oh god so yeah so many thoughts those people they're so hurt that makes me sad it really makes me sad well right because they're really grasping onto this thing of like

everything I thought is a lie but now they just have to see well well, reality has to be alive. Yeah. But this goes back to if Trump died tomorrow, if Trump got like resigned from office tomorrow, these people are not going to accept it. They're not going to be like they have way too much tied up in this. So the only way it could be is if Trump, which will never happen, made a public address and said, I did commit these things. I am going to resign my presidency because of these acts that I took. I should not be president of the United States. No, but even if he said that, they would spin it into, no, he's being forced to say that.

It's a deep fake. Yeah, they would say all of those things. It's just so sad. But yeah, I guess just in general, like the lack of self-awareness and being able to own up to like, yeah, look, maybe you really did think Trump was going to bring jobs back to where you were or somehow address your condition you're in with bills, with medical care or whatever. And it didn't happen. And now you're starting to see that all these things are coming out that would indicate to most people that him being president isn't a good thing. But if you can't accept that, then you just have to go on to, well, I need something else to keep me feeling.

What are the five stages of loss, of mourning? This is like the denial stage, the QAnon people. So next is like bargaining and then depression. Yeah, but that's when people are unable. Like if you had a whole conspiracy that like a whole group of people who was like yeah no you're right your husband isn't dead and here's the conspiracy where he's like hiding over

somewhere and he's doing it all to save the world like then he's working with Jesus right to put the devil in jail and then he will come back right you would just never need to get through the denial stage and I feel like that's where we might be it's the same shit with people who go to like And then he will come back. Right. You would just never need to get through the denial stage. Yeah. And I feel like that's where we might be.

It's the same shit with people who go to like psychics to feel good about, you know, because, you know, a psychic will just tell you some shit that you're like, oh, okay, good. That's really what's going on. And sure, I mean, on some level, people have intuition or whatever. But I think a lot of people need sometimes they just need something outside of themselves to help explain away the bad shit that they're experiencing or feeling and like if your family's telling you hey this you're full of shit none of this is true wake the fuck up it's hard for someone to be like yeah you're right i was really fucking dumb there wasn't i yeah that's just the thing that it's hard for people to say we've talked before like one of the most surprising things i've learned just in reading up on most of the people who believe all this shit and who are, you know, like the Roger Stones of the world who are still Trump supporters.

One of their core beliefs is that Nixon got railroaded. The whole Watergate thing was Nixon being done wrong by the liberal mainstream media. So all this shit that they're now coming out and openly believing, the basis for that has been brewing in the conservative movement for years. It's just they haven't felt strong enough to come out and say it in public. So yeah, there's never going to be... These folks are never going to admit that they're wrong. It doesn't seem like. Yeah, I agree. And I think it's just important to recognize, come from an empathetic point of view whenever you meet one of these people in the wild. And just come from a place of understanding and just not shame them or try not to.

Yeah, I think, look, I think what we need to do is we should create a space for people to come see the light from Trump. And look, if you were once a supporter, if you can realize you fucked up, I'm not saying, hey, you're canceled forever. Right. Hey, I wore bondage pants for most of 2003. Exactly. I'm here now. I just got rid of my Puka Shell necklace. Did you really?

Yeah. Wow. I've been wearing it under my- No, I'm just disappointed that you got rid of it because it looked so cool on you, man. It was the one time I've been wrong. The one time. The one time. Still a bit on MoviePass.

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Shout out to long-suffering wives of fuck-up husbands and vice versa. But she, because she stopped at Jack in the Box on the way, let him have a little Jack in the Box before he went away. What's better for a hangover than Jack in the Box for people who don't live in Jack in the Box regions? It's just a great, greasy fast food restaurant What's better for a hangover than Jack in the Box for people who don't live in Jack in the Box regions? It's just a great, greasy fast food restaurant that has some of the best deep fried tacos out there. They're deep fried?

Yeah. It's like they drop them in a fryer, which is how things become deep fried. That has been Science Hour. Let's myth bust that. No, I'm kidding. Big Bang Theory is coming to an end. These are all things that are in the top five trending things on Google over the past couple days. But Jim Parsons is apparently the reason why this tends to happen with sitcoms.

Jim Parsons? Yeah, Jim Parsons ends them. He's like a sitcom executioner. No, but his career is, it seems to exist outside of the show. So he's the one who decides to end it. The rest of the stars are heartbroken. And yeah, America is also heartbroken. I am not a fan.

I'm not, but I also like, people enjoy it. They enjoy it. I'm happy for them. I also feel it's so deep in syndication. Yeah. Right. It is not like, it's one of those shows

where I feel like you're watching it like, is this a new one? Yeah. It's also, there's a point, if you like the show, I'm not trying to shit on you,

but you're an awful person and deserve to know. No, I just think of like, how many times can you watch, like I liked How I Met Your Mother, but I could have done without like several of those seasons and I feel like, I like i think i think it was fine to end when

it did i think friends was fine to end i think they're i think that every i i i don't want anyone who's working on a thing who depends on a thing for livelihood to lose their job but i also feel like if you've been on this show for this long you've probably got some some money saved up at this point but that's for me i i like the british tv model of we kind of just tell the story we want to tell and we get out like I know like the Good Place which I love

I thought it was always planned to be three seasons and apparently he's had like nope like at least up to seven seasons

in his head of what he can do with the Good Place and there's a point in my head I'm like I kind of wish he would just do

one more season to be done with it as much as I like that show but then again I'm also someone who when Brooklyn Nine-Nine

was cancelled by Fox I was like furious I was like no we need more Brooklyn Nine-Nine was canceled by Fox, I was like furious. I was like, no, we need more Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It's just such a comforting show to let wash over your brain, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But anyways, Jim Parsons, you're putting a lot of people's family in a very bad spot. Yeah, Jim Parsons. You're a monster.

Urban Myers, we don't cover a lot of sports stuff on this podcast. Well, I'm an Ohio State alumni. And so this is like, I guess there's a certain point where I'm just like, it's hard to say you're from Ohio State anymore because there's always a scandal. There's always something happening. There really is. But that's what happens when you have the biggest schools in the country and you make so much of your importance around your sports program.

Right. So he's being suspended for a whole three games uh which is which is a big deal because he basically had every reason to know that his former assistant his wide receivers coach was abusing his wife his wife talked to Myers and Myers's wife uh it. And they were like, ah, she seems like a real drama queen. Yeah. And apparently the dude is a monster. There's all sorts of, as the article wrote, embarrassing and promiscuous sexual behavior.

I think he likes to be dominated. Very puritanical. But yeah, I guess. Which isn't embarrassing. But I'm sure if you're in the Midwest or that high up married, they're like, how could you? How could you? There was a conversation between Meyer and his AD on the practice field where the athletic director over a year ago, which is just Trumpian, just incompetent shade.

And I've always been waiting for the other shoe to drop on this dude because he retired from Florida, had a really great career at Florida, retired to spend more time with his family and it was sort of out of nowhere. There were some health issues from stress which i totally believe but then he took like a couple seasons off and then took the most difficult and all-consuming job in college football as the coach of ohio state so when you're an alpha you're an alpha of the ohio state university i'm sorry riley yeah i am too the ohio state university were you there when he was coaching? No, I'm too old for that.

It was the previous coach who was left in shame. And finally, and maybe most importantly, guys. Jim Trestle was the coach. I think Trestle also had to leave for negative reasons. For violations of NCAA recruiting. He was the coach when I was a student. also had to leave for negative reasons. For violations of NCAA recruiting. He was the coach when I was a student. Guys, the Korean Taekwondo team.

Yes. Producer Anna Hosnia sent this to our group thread last night. Late last night. I've seen plenty of karate videos. I was like, what is she doing? So we had to get in this morning before I finally watched it. And it is not like the other karate videos you've seen before. No, this is amazing. Also, it's taekwondo.

I mean, come on, Jen. Yeah, but like in my dumb brain, I was like, karate video? I've seen Karate Kid. What is this bullshit? So this Korean taekwondo team does the most amazing performance where they're basically, they bring these sticks that have plywood held up very high up and then they just proceed to defy gravity and destroy every piece of plywood. But in the most synchronized, amazing way. Yeah, they're like doing flips through the air like you would see maybe a, you know how when cheerleaders do flips in the air, there's like seven people standing around them, throwing them into the air.

It's like they're doing that, but nobody's throwing them in the air. And then at certain points, as they are flying through the air, they just like go into slow motion. Like it's really one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The Korean Taekwondo team fucking rules. And it's to the point that you are like,

well, why isn't this just all of our karate movies? Like, why isn't this all of our action movies is just this team kicking people's asses because it's so dope. Yeah, they should just be hiring these guys. But apparently there's a type of martial arts where you just like throw people around and they just fly through the air and look like...

It's really Crouching Tiger-esque. A video will be in our footnotes. Please go watch it. It's wild. Yeah. That came across your transom on Twitter? Yes. On your Twitters?

It's got like 40 to 50K retweets because everyone is losing their minds over this. What was your favorite response to it? There's a lot of 50 Cent telling people to go grab the strap to go just shoot them if they come for you, which is just funny, just overwhelmed. Like, oh, God, get a gun. It's a great gift because it's a defeated response.

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