The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 77 (Best of 5/27/19-5/31/19)

Episode Date: June 2, 2019

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:01:03 I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Let's talk about what Pigeon Forge Tennessee is fucking with. There is a new museum. That no one asked for.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Except for me, but... Really? We should go, actually, out of respect. Yeah, I would definitely, definitely go. I want to see what the gift shop's like. But anyways, Pigeon Forge is a tourist trap haven. There's the Titanic Museum, the Alcatraz East Crime Museum, and, of course, Dollywood. Shout out to Dolly the God.
Starting point is 00:02:56 It's just funny that the Titanic Museum is in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. And also the Alcatraz East. What? In case you can't get to San Francisco, come to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. And also the Alcatraz East. What? In case you can't get to San Francisco, come to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You can knock out Titanic. You can knock out Alcatraz. What, is that one plate at that museum? Dolly Parton's Stampede used to be Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede,
Starting point is 00:03:18 which is basically medieval times but reenacting the Civil War. We've talked about it before on the show, I think. The audience gets divided, uh, into North and South. Uh, the South will occasionally win the civil war. Uh,
Starting point is 00:03:32 slavery is never mentioned. Um, yeah. Cause civil, right. It's about civility there. anyways, pigeon Ford is home to a new attraction,
Starting point is 00:03:41 which opened, uh, last week. It's called national Enquirer Live. It's a museum dedicated to the National Enquirer. Yeah. I mean, for all the Boyd Watch fans, we should definitely pull up a group trip.
Starting point is 00:03:56 Maybe we need to go to Tennessee, man. Yeah, because why wouldn't you choose now to celebrate the famed tabloid that's been revealed to have allegedly blackmailed Jeff Bezos and used catch and kill tactics to bury scandals that could damage the worst president and countless other powerful men? Yes. Yeah. I mean, the exhibits are fucking lame as fuck. fucking lame as fuck and they spent 15 million on this they spent 15 million and they are advertising the shit out of it as a family-friendly attraction which is weird like i that makes sense from a business perspective yeah but the attractions they have are like one of the things they have is a 3d computer model of the car crash that killed Princess Diana. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:04:48 And you get to follow her route as she's chased by the paparazzi. And then at the end, after the car crash has destroyed her body and she's no longer alive, they ask families to vote on which conspiracy theory they think is more likely, that the queen killed her, that she was pregnant. Who do you think was involved? Were the royals even involved? You know those fun conversations you like to have with your kids?
Starting point is 00:05:15 Yeah. I'm imagining they have, it's almost like the wax museum where you take your photo and then they put you up on a fake national inquirer. Right. It's like, local man. Killed Princess Diana. Right. Because she was pregnant with his baby.
Starting point is 00:05:30 It's you, honey. Islamophobia. Well, speaking of wax museums, they had, I think the visionary behind this, whoever it may be, had a dream of a wax museum, but were also like suffering from a terrible fever because they have a room uh where you get to see different um michael jackson photos recreated in like wax figure form but he looks like he's like melting or like it's like a mummified dead body a lot of them it's it's like a brown face with a curly hair wig on it. There's nothing Michael Jackson about the fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:06:08 In one, they have a recreation of a photograph of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, but it doesn't look like him, like Miles said, and he has like a big curly, you know, Afro wig on. But his eyes are yellow and he turns turns to you and then closes his eyes and rolls back over, back to sleep. But they gave him thriller eyes, the yellow eyes, which is...
Starting point is 00:06:33 Because you know the Chinese, maybe they're like, he's a monster. Another fun exhibit for the whole family to enjoy, a recreation of Nicole Brown Simpson's condo where she was murdered, complete with her chalk outline. Oh, boy. Yeah. Look, it's like the recreation of the front steps.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Oh, my God. Like, so what? And what, this is all supposed to be grammable? Yeah. So like, yeah, yeah, yeah, go post like Nicole. No, you can't even get there, though. See, if they wanted it to be successful, they would charge an... You'd have to show how many Instagram followers you have to be able even get there, though. See, if they wanted it to be successful, they would charge and ask.
Starting point is 00:07:06 You'd have to show how many Instagram followers you have to be able to get in. Right. Anyways. That makes sense. Your kids will thank you. Oh, sorry. Not your kids. Your kids' therapists will thank you.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Yeah, that is the worst thing. Dad, are we going to Busch Gardens? Are we going to Disneyland? No, we're going to the site where Nicole Brown was murdered. No, we're going to the site or where nicole brown was murdered no we're gonna find out how princess diana really died who's princess diana shut up shut the fuck up i think it was the royals because they didn't like dodie alfied there's also a room full of celebrity portraits that will follow you around the room just for extra so they just like that entire place is just built of nightmares.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Yeah. It's built of like what a bad trip would be. They're like, how do we make sure that anybody coming here on a hallucinogen will lose their mind? If you're Zeitgang and you're in the Pigeon Forge area. Yeah. Go on mushrooms. If you go, hit me up and maybe we'll talk to you to get a firsthand account of what the fuck that was like. That would be amazing.
Starting point is 00:08:08 I'm only reading the descriptions, and I'm weirded the fuck out. So please, if you are in the Pigeon Forge area, contact me at MilesOfGrey on Twitter, and let's try and figure something out. Yeah, I mean, the only way we could get any worse, any more nightmares, is that at the end of the tour, they asked you, would you like to give a skin donation? It was like we build all of our sculptures from donations. It's like, here, swab your cheek with this Q-tip. Find out, learn about your alleles. Jamie, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Starting point is 00:08:40 He's gesturing with every syllable. I'm thinking about throwing my hat in the ring for 2020. Yeah, I see you. You got the gesticulations of a candidate. No, no, get down off the table. Get down off the table. Please get off your skateboard, Jack. We're trying to...
Starting point is 00:08:56 Something from my search history was I was really tired last night and I was trying to remember a phrase and I had to Google... I like where this is going. I had to Google libertarian snake phrase. Oh, from the Gadsden flag? I was looking for...
Starting point is 00:09:11 Don't tread on me. Don't tread on... I know, but that wasn't even the one I was looking for. I was looking for give me liberty or give me death because I was trying to... Live free or die? Someone said give me liberty or give me death? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:23 I was trying to think of the state motto of New Hampshire. The state motto of New Hampshire is live free or die. Oh, no, not that. Give me liberty or give me death. I feel like that's like one of the founding fathers. One of those founding father adjacent guys said that. I just wanted to write on my dog's Instagram, give me liberty or suck me off.
Starting point is 00:09:40 And I couldn't remember how the phrase went, and I was just like, oh, I think that's on the snake flag, and that wasn't even right. It's Patrick Henry. God damn it. Old Pat Henry. Patty Henry. I like that better than the snake flag.
Starting point is 00:09:54 I like snake flag. You should just give him a shirt. Your snake flag, Stan? It would be cool for Sonny to wear a shirt that just says snake flag on it. It's just so reduced down to like. You know what I mean. It's not even the Gadsden flag or image. It's like, dude, snake flag. Snake flag. You know about snake flag.
Starting point is 00:10:08 You know what it is. That used to be like the way, like in the tea party, how people were like... Yeah. That's like the original MAGA hat was the snake flag. Yeah, it was. The snake flag. I mean, I feel like the snake flag... If someone has a snake flag in their house, that could mean a lot of things. It's hard to know exactly
Starting point is 00:10:23 where people fall on snake flag. Snake flag culture is... mean a lot of things. It's hard to know exactly where people fall on a snake flag. Snake flag culture is... I mean, look, if it's just a straight up flag with a boa constrictor on it, more power to you. I think we just need an alternative snake flag because some people just want a flag with a snake in their house and they don't really know what it means. So I'll work on that. Yeah, you're a gifted illustrator. Give the people the new snake flag. Yeah, you guys want a new snake flag, I'll make you a new snake flag. Wow, I think you should that. Yeah. You're a gifted illustrator. Yeah. Give the people the new snake flag. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:45 You guys want a new snake flag? I'll make you a new snake flag. Wow. I think you should actually. Snake flag? Snake flag? It'll just have something that says like neutral snake flag. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:54 I just want a snake flag in my house. It's like a snake and it's like fairness? Like shrugging? Whatever that means to you is what this snake flag means. It's only fair. Is Patrick Henry the one who chained his wife up and threw her in the basement? Oh, wow. That doesn't...
Starting point is 00:11:11 Kept his wife chained in his basement. That doesn't... That wouldn't surprise me about any person in history. Yeah, one of the founding fathers, I think, kept his wife in chains in the basement. Oh, my. So... Oh, yes. It does seem like that is the one.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Oh no. God, any woman with mental illness is literally chained up and thrown in a basement. Oh, because she was suffering from depression and violent output. Wow. You know when you're sad and your husband throws you in a fucking basement?
Starting point is 00:11:37 Yeah. That helps. It's like, I seen a dial in my meds. No. Right. Just refill my Wellbutrin, please. But he said that give me liberty or give me death thing. So pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Snake flag. Maybe she... I bet she actually said it. And then he took credit for it. Oh, yes. Of course he would. He was like, Patrick, goddammit, give me liberty or give me death. I want to get out of here. Yeah, she's yelling that from the basement. Give me liberty or give me death. I want to get out of here. Kill me or get out of this fucking basement. Oh, she's yelling that from the basement.
Starting point is 00:12:06 Give me liberty or give me death. And he's like, oh, that would sound good on a snake flag. Dear Diary, snake flag. Shout out to Sarah Shelton Henry. I like that. Dear Diary, snake flag. Love, Patrick. What is a myth?
Starting point is 00:12:21 What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, that all the JCPenney photo studios are closed. They're open, baby. Oh, wow. They're open. I was so excited. I wasn't sure if they were going to be open because I went to Wisconsin this weekend to visit my boyfriend and meet his family and then do the show. And his mom is a higher up at JCPenney.
Starting point is 00:12:47 And I was like, I got to ask, do you guys still have photo studios? And she was like, no way. And then I did a light goog, and there was one in Kenosha. And so I was like, okay, get the dog, get in the car, put on a sweater. We're going to Kenosha. We're getting the pics. And it was, oh, man, get the dog, get in the car, put on a sweater. We're going to Kenosha. We're getting the pics. Wow. And it was, oh, man, it was great.
Starting point is 00:13:08 It was great. But then when you told her about it, she was like, okay, and got on the phone and shut it down? Immediately? Yeah, she was like, oh, yeah, that's not, there's no way we're making money out of that. It's got to go. She works for JCPenney. It's pure oversight. She's JCPenney.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Yeah, she's JCPenney. She's corporate. Her name, she's Penny. Oh, my God. She's Penny. Wow, look at you. Yeah, she's JCPenney. She's corporate? Her name, she's Penny. Oh, my gosh. She's Penny. Wow, look at you. Yeah, I know. But she's junior college Penny.
Starting point is 00:13:29 Oh, got you, got you. Yeah, JV Penny. I see. No, so we had a great experience at the JCPenney. It was very reasonably priced, I think, because it has outlived its usefulness as a service. Did Joaquin Phoenix take your photo? Yes.
Starting point is 00:13:47 And they did that thing that I forgot that photo studios will do from when I was a little kid where they're just like, man, these pictures are so beautiful. We're going to enter them into a contest. And I was like, oh, this contest isn't real. This is made up. But you're just being nice. So I get some 8x12s. And I let it happen. There you go. contest and i was like oh this contest isn't real this is made up but you're just being nice so i get some 8x12s and you know i let it right there you go i was like you know what i do on a larger print they're like yeah there's just such what beautiful family and we just we're gonna put you
Starting point is 00:14:15 in the contest we're putting you in the contest so much first to the trash can contest the reward of the contest is that you your photo could be hanging in all the other JCPenney. Wow. Which would, if they were serious, that would be the greatest accomplishment of my life. What are the rules and regulations of this thing? Oh, I don't care. I'm like, you can use it. Well, hold on.
Starting point is 00:14:38 But you got to think about your imaging rights. Why? There's so not, I mean, there's four. Miles, there's just like four left, right? It's like Kenosha. I could be the queen of Kenosha. Well, you know what? That's four there's like four left right it's like Kenosha I could be the queen of Kenosha well you know what that's four fucking checks
Starting point is 00:14:48 you just kiss goodbye I'm not in a position to give up being the queen of Kenosha at this point in my career with that attitude I gotta do it we got eyes on bigger shit Jamie we gotta start
Starting point is 00:14:57 we gotta first conquer all these JCPenney photo booths first the JCPenney photo booth then the fucking world yeah wow yeah you're right
Starting point is 00:15:04 but I got I mean I let them sweet talk me the fucking world yeah you're right but I got I mean I let them sweet talk me and they were like you're so pretty we want to put you in the contest which is like
Starting point is 00:15:11 I always wanted someone to say to me at a mall when I was seven yeah yeah like how Ashton Kutcher got discovered man yeah exactly
Starting point is 00:15:17 you're so pretty come this way we've got a model walk off happening right now change into these clothes isn't that horrible that that's like so many the dreams like so many,
Starting point is 00:15:25 the dreams of so many children is for some strange adult to be like, you're so sexy. So many children. You got to move out of this state. Yeah, like so many kids there's like who want to be discovered. No, I mean like we live in LA where there are adults who think like that. Who are like, yo man, I'm going to go to this party. Yeah, I'm the bartender there.
Starting point is 00:15:43 But like some dudes are going to be like, yeah, I'm the head of development at this place. I'm going to be like, oh, yeah, you want to hear about this script? It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets cereal. They're like, okay, go on. And boom, I'm up out of this fucking duplex, dude. But I mean, that's just networking. People are down on networking. That happens everywhere.
Starting point is 00:15:59 No, but I know people who personally who have this idea like a lack of work ethic is replaced by this very disproportionate belief. This insane delusion. Yeah, I don't want to say insane delusion. You know, I'm not trying to shame anybody. But like a fucked up version of reality that ain't happening. I mean, like, yeah, 75% of people at the Grove are just like sexy and waiting for something. And they walk in a loop around the Grove.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Okay, 20 laps. Yeah, yeah. They're like, okay, 20 laps. Oh, yeah. That's why I tell my son, like we can never go out with him looking like shit. Right, you never know. You're going to fucking blow it. You're going to fucking blow it, man. Anytime you come back.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Get it together walking by the Laduree store. Now the people who eat the macaroons in there, those are the ones we need. Anytime you get back from the mall with your son and no one has commented on how beautiful he is, you really are fucking up in there today. Because we were at the fucking Beverly Center and no one stopped to say how beautiful you are. You get home, hey, hey, hey, put your toys down. We got to look at some tape.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Severely un-fierce. Let's look at this tape really quick. Look at this fucking selfie, man. Look at you walking. Look at that. What's that walk? Fierce? Just tell me, is that fierce?
Starting point is 00:17:05 Yeah, poo-poo? Your posture in the Build-A-Bear store clearly, you know. Right. Did you do poo-poo? See? And I can tell by your walk. That's why I said tell daddy if you have to do poo-poo. And it shows.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Yeah. And it shows. And I mean, literally, it stunk. Because that look is poo-poo. And then real quick, I just wanted to talk about this thing that was brought to our attention by Josh King of the Hipsters on Twitter very humble name so there's a part of Watchmen where all the sci-fi writers of the world get kidnapped because someone's trying to like stage a soft takeover of the world
Starting point is 00:17:36 I won't spoil and say who it is but because sci-fi writers can like extrapolate the future problems that we're all going to face and solutions and technologies. And I thought it was a cool idea, but it felt a little self-serving and up its own ass. Right. It's like, we are the soothsayers. Right. But it seems like Alan Moore might have been on to something because Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, was scared to death of the internet and had a conversation. He interviewed Bill Gates for GQ
Starting point is 00:18:09 back in the day, and it was pretty... They're allowing nerds on GQ? Yeah, exactly. It's like, what's up, nerd? Tell us your tips on not fucking. Yeah. Cool.
Starting point is 00:18:23 So Terry Pratchett said, okay, let's say i call myself the institute for something or other and i decide to promote a spurious treatise saying the jews were entirely responsible for the second world war and the holocaust didn't happen and it goes out there on the internet and is available on the same terms as any piece of historical research which has undergone peer review and so on. There's a kind of parody of a steam of information on the net. It's all there. There's no way of finding out whether this stuff has any bottom
Starting point is 00:18:52 to it or whether someone has just made it up. When was this interview? This was 1996. Damn. Yeah, 23 years ago. And Bill Gates said, not for long. Electronics gives us a way of classifying things. And then he goes on to say how crowdsourcing and people telling each other, hey, go read this.
Starting point is 00:19:14 Like Gates is basically saying Google will save us all, essentially. Not before Google was invented. Also, when crowdsourcing is partly Nazis now, then you might have a problem yeah i wonder what the question was before because all you see is right before the sort of question about like how do we actually discern what's true or not bill gates answer before is not really and then the response is okay well let's say i call myself so i wonder what happened before it's like you're not concerned about the fuck shit that could happen on the internet? Not really. Not really? Okay, well, how about this? Let's say I call myself
Starting point is 00:19:48 the thing is like, well, not for long. Melinda? Melinda? But, yeah. God. So, are we going to move on to another planet called Discworld? Is that what's going to happen? Is that what he says happens?
Starting point is 00:20:03 I hope it's Mickworld. Mickworld! What are the Mickworld commercials? It was like a kid's fantasy world. I don't remember. The teachers gave out french fries instead of grades. And it's like, you scored great on your test and it's all burgers and they're like, wow!
Starting point is 00:20:20 And then it's like, Mickworld! And the kid's like, hey, it could happen. Oh my god, that's just ingrained in me. I don't even know why I knew it. Yeah. Make world is fucking. See, we are. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Yeah. We are trained by capitalism. Yeah. Pavlov. All right. We are going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state.
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Starting point is 00:22:34 Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys.
Starting point is 00:22:56 I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her.
Starting point is 00:23:10 What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.
Starting point is 00:23:36 I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really in here. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious.
Starting point is 00:24:09 She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese
Starting point is 00:24:28 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back! Let's move on to what I think is the only story we should be talking about, but I keep getting overruled by Miles.
Starting point is 00:24:47 The New York Times reported that aliens exist, essentially. Yes. So they filed this story. This is tense. Go on, Jack. Sorry. If you want to mislead the listeners again told you aliens aren't real okay anyways they filed a story where they talk about these unidentified flying objects ever heard of
Starting point is 00:25:15 them uh yeah never seen one it's called unidentified flying objects um and so this is basically the same story that the Washington Post had written about that we talked about earlier this year or at the end of last year. No, the end of the year before last. Was it really? Yeah, that one. I think Jaquise was on that episode.
Starting point is 00:25:37 That was 2017 when he was 18. And then it keeps kind of popping its head back up though. Yeah. This was like the most detailed way I'd ever seen it. So this was one that it brought some new details. Like I'd assumed that these were pretty rare. Like we were talking about, you know, a sighting here and there of those. Basically, they're like Tic Tacs that are flying at speeds that are like hypersonic.
Starting point is 00:26:01 And they're like moving and like changing direction at speeds that would kill a human being and at one point i think they were over the ocean and made the water below them boil and very strange stuff anyways i assume these were like very rare like one pilot and a million has seen these right but this new york times story talks about how there was like a pilot who saw one like every day for a year. And it was a known phenomenon. Like at one point there was one that was just there all day and they saw it on the radar all day. And it was just like a known thing that was happening. So at first it was they got this more sophisticated radar. They were, they had been using radar out of the 1980s throughout like the 90s and early
Starting point is 00:26:50 aughts. And then they upgraded their radar and suddenly they started seeing these things like zooming around and moving in patterns that didn't seem possible. And they just assumed that it was like glitches or something but then they started seeing the objects and in late 2014 uh one of the guys was back in uh the virginia beat he was back in virginia beach when he encountered a squadron mate just back from a mission with a look of shock on his face he said he was stunned to hear the pilot's words i almost hit one of those things the pilot and his wingman were flying in tandem about 100
Starting point is 00:27:30 feet apart over the atlantic east of virginia beach when something flew between them right past the cockpit it looked to the pilot uh like a sphere encasing a cube and it scared them so much that they like filed an incident report and tried to get the military they assumed it was like a classified military project that was just like not communicating properly uh prior to this event but when it almost killed one of them they were like okay this is clearly not something that the military is doing because they wouldn't do something like that. Yeah. And what happened to them is so,
Starting point is 00:28:09 does the military, what the response is sort of like? The military is just like, yeah. Yeah, we'll look into that, man. Yeah, they're looking into it and there are people, like these are still pilots in the military. These aren't like disgraced people who the military said are crazy. They are people in the military and they're just like,
Starting point is 00:28:26 yeah, we don't know what it is. It's probably not aliens though. And they don't really... So if it's not aliens, then it's... So that's the thing. So this guy, Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian, said the possibility of an extraterrestrial
Starting point is 00:28:42 cause is, quote, so unlikely that it competes with many other low probability but more mundane explanations. There are so many other possibilities. Bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight, except all of those would have to happen at the same time right somebody would have to see it there would be a glitch on the radar and then their brain would have to malfunction at that moment and see right or like the radar man sees it on the thing right says we
Starting point is 00:29:17 need to check that out and then the pilot goes out is having hallucinations but that his and his camera is also simultaneously malfunctioning to capture something on camera. Yeah, because we've seen video of it. And they're just like, yeah, that's probably something in the camera. Listen, the Reddit will come down hard on me, but I'm pro-sky tic-tac. Pro-sky tic-tac? You think it's an actual tic-tac? I think, you know, you look at the sky tic-tac,
Starting point is 00:29:44 and it's whatever you want it to be wow shit as to the reporting i love the headline for this quote wow what is that unquote right yeah is a fun way to report on ufos and my favorite part i think in un you know an underappreciated part of this new york times story which is on aliens in the year 2019, is all of the comment section is wild. Because I was going to the comment section because I love a comment section. I love to emotionally cut. I love to find out.
Starting point is 00:30:15 I love seeing feelings hurt. And so I went expecting people to be like, what? Even the New York Times has gone fucking crazy. But what there is, is a bunch of military veterans talking about UFOs they've seen. It is a wild comment section of, okay, it's all some version of, I also saw a Sky Tic Tac, quote, but I know what I saw and I've been paying attention ever since. Jill from Pensacola. It's like all these veterans talking about wild shit they've seen. Then they see that, right?
Starting point is 00:30:51 It's like all over the Atlantic seaboard, basically. A lot of these pilots were based on the Roosevelt aircraft carrier, and when that shipped off to the Persian Gulf, they stopped having the sightings. And that's something. So I listened to the last podcast on the left as keen-eared listeners noticed last week when I was pronouncing Guy Fieri's name like Ben Kissel and also talked about psychic vampires the week that they were talking about that.
Starting point is 00:31:20 But yeah, they talk about how there's way more ufo sightings over america and you know skeptics will be like that's because america's gullible but number one bro right but they like there's a preponderance of them over um like new mexico where they first split the atom and over nuclear facilities and also over u.S. military facilities. So they think, you know, whoever or whatever these things are is interested in, you know, the most deadly technology that humanity has come up with, which is still nuclear technology. Even if that were the truth, it reads like a movie script where aliens from another planet come to be like, oh, no, these people don't know what they're about to do to themselves with these things. How do we warn them?
Starting point is 00:32:10 I love it. No, the aliens were just a mirror in which we saw. Right. Well, Tony, I was a little bit wrong with that. And they're like, fucking kill it. The aliens came just because they kind of want us to better ourselves. No, no, no. We got to kill it.
Starting point is 00:32:24 So it could be aliens. Okay. Miles, you were suggesting it could be like a... Another movie plot where the Russians have been working on alien technology since the Cold War, but have done a really good job keeping it under wraps because they'll be like, okay, look, the world economy might pass us by,
Starting point is 00:32:39 but our trump card is going to be, pun intended, is going to be deploying alien technologies to scare the shit out of the rest of the Earth. Thank you. No, keep that going, please. Actually, I have a wild remix. If you think about it, Russia is most of the Earth.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Not actually, but Russia is the biggest country on Earth by far. So if an alien were to crash in any country, it would make sense. Playing the numbers? Right. So an alien crashed in Russia during the Cold War. They start reverse engineering it. Now they got the technology, man. Exactly, dude.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Man. Anyways. Or, I don't know. I like aliens. I prefer aliens. Yeah. It could be anything. I don't think it's like three aberrant uh malfunctions happening all at the same time
Starting point is 00:33:27 oh yeah um that that seems less likely to me sky tic tac is canon yeah sky tic tac snake flag sky tic tac is love we're out here yeah we're out here believing in the sky tic tac yeah we're all out here just on our spinning disc looking at a bunch of sky tic-tacs. In a way, we're all the sky tic-tac. Isn't it the sky tic-tacs we met along the way? You thought it was about finding out what the sky tic-tac was. It was about, no, but it was about the sky tic-tacs we met along the way. Yeah, and realizing we are the sky tic-tac.
Starting point is 00:34:04 And we were chasing it the whole time.'re just chasing ourselves chasing our truth but overall i think this is this is new that the new york times doesn't usually report on things like this and you know in this much detail this is i think as well they're too busy trying to humanize hope hicks right exactly trying to oh my god whaticks. Right. Exactly. We're trying to, Oh my God, what will she do? Will she follow the law or break it? Right.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Or break it to defend American Hitler. Sky Tic Tac. Sky Tic Tac. Sky Tic Tac. I personally, I prefer Sky Tic Tac. Sky Tic Tac 2020. Fuck it.
Starting point is 00:34:40 I'm all in. Sky Tic Tac. Okay. That's another t-shirt. Tic Tac. Tic Tac Loftus 2020. Sky Tic Tac 2020. Sky Tic Tac Tac. Okay, that's another t-shirt. Tic Tac Loftus 2020. Sky Tic Tac 2020. Sky Tic Tac 2020.
Starting point is 00:34:47 That needs to be a t-shirt. Let's do it, guys. All right, it's coming up soon, y'all. Finally, guys, let's talk about IHOP. Because they're changing their name back to IHOP. Oh, wow. From IHOB. Did they actually stay with the IHOP thing?
Starting point is 00:35:02 I thought that went away immediately. Yeah, I thought so, too. They did, and they had some stuff up still. I don't think many people changed their physical signs, but there was a whole thing. It's like, we're IHOP now. It's just to be like, we have burgers too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:13 My question is not like whether we should be on the edge of our seat, like trying to figure out, because they're acting like, oh, it's going to be like, you'll see. We don't know. We don't know what the P is going to stand for. Like OPP, do you think it's one of those situations wow but like they're at the point where they're pushing it like i might just never go there again because of this marketing campaign i mean why would you go that place is it was your relationship that's strained with i hope yeah i don't know if this is it i i might
Starting point is 00:35:41 have to fully write them off i don't know it's just i don't support if this is it. I might have to fully write them off. I don't know. It's just I don't support this marketing. This has taken it to a level where I am mad at them. You're doing a lot right now, iHop. You got us with the iHop. Yeah. Now relax. Yeah. Okay?
Starting point is 00:35:57 We don't need this. Hey, I mean, we're talking about them, right? Yeah, but angrily. And also, we'll never go. That. Hey. That makes me mad. That's what they're saying. That's what they're saying. And also, we'll never go. That. Hey. That makes me mad. I guess quickly.
Starting point is 00:36:06 That's what they're saying. That's what they're saying. And we're winning. Then we're winning. They'll be winning when we're singing. Is there... The H-O-P means
Starting point is 00:36:13 something different. What do you think the P stands for now? Pranks. Wow. That would be... I would go there. God, if only it were timed
Starting point is 00:36:22 with April Fool's Day. It's like, you know what it is. I think it was... Didn't they do it with the... Well,'s Day. It's like, you know what it is. I think it was. Didn't they do it with the, well, who cares? It doesn't matter. Naughty by Nature, guys. Give it up for Naughty by Nature.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Prince? I would go to that. If they turned it into a Prince. A Prince shop? Prince. No, Prince the musician. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Just theme. Yeah, okay. no Prince the musician oh wow fucking restaurant yeah okay purple grains that they'll give you for your breakfast that would actually be could it be international house raspberry oh I mean raspberry a raspberry beret no it's a beret made of raspberries you have to wear it
Starting point is 00:37:01 a pancake looks like a beret you could just put a little thing on it oh wow actually Prince would be awesome made of raspberries you have to wear. A pancake looks like a beret. You could just put a little thing on it. Oh, wow. Actually, Prince would be awesome. Go on. Yeah. You'd have to change everything to purple,
Starting point is 00:37:10 though. That would be the most cost-free. Little red omelet. Yes. It's all red food, like raspberry beret. A little red omelet.
Starting point is 00:37:22 All right, International House of Prince, we've done it. All right. It's starting to look, we've done it. All right. It's starting to look like LaCroix is going the direction of Napster, the dinosaurs, the dodo, the snap bracelet, the fidget spinner. Yeah, I said it. Oh, hey, come on now.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Yeah, I said it, Miles. Come after my spinners. I'm riding spinners. I'm riding spinners. I'm riding spinners. Beanie babies. You know, those things that were the wave until, and you just thought they'd always be there. Well, first of all, fidget spinners, they're unfuckwithable. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Most of my retirement is still in beanie babies, and I think they're going to come back around. It's coming back around again. Right. Y'all have two fidget spinners in front of me right now. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're trying to be the first step in the wave of bringing them back. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Look, I think they're very relevant. And just, I guess LaCroix is really, they're not doing well. I know last time we talked about it, it was because the owner, the CEO, sent out that one of his classical, wacky Microsoft Word clip art letters to investors. Where it has all these weird graphics and it's like, don't worry. It's the strongest it's ever been. Like there's evil doers in the world who are trying to bring down the name of LaCroix. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:38 And it was just like, no. I think it's just that there are many other people who have stepped into the arena now. Yeah. And you haven't done anything different since the beginnings. Yeah. So since that time, sales have been in free fall. So sales fell 6% in February around the time that the bug spray rumor was starting to make its way around and their CEO was making the news for just sending out wild letters to investors.
Starting point is 00:39:07 Then in March, 5% drop. Then in April, 7% drop. Well, May is over, guys, and it fell 15% in the month of May. Do they have any idea if that's just like the non-soda carbonated water industry is kind of taking a dive or like other people are taking that place? No, other people are taking that place to the point that Coca-Cola company just bought the Mexican sparkling water maker Topo Chico in 2017. Oh, wow. Smart water just introduced. So I think probably individual sellers might be seeing a dip because there are so many options being thrown on the market. But LaCroix itself is, you know, they overextended.
Starting point is 00:39:52 They released 3,000 flavors. Their CEO is Groping Pilots. Right. Their CEO started Groping Pilots. They managed to still only have two good flavors. Two. Pamplemousse and what's the other? Pamplemousse and Pamabaya.
Starting point is 00:40:08 What is that? I don't know what that is. Pamabaya is a cherry lime, I think. Oh, okay. One of the little narrow cans. Yeah. Kurite or whatever the fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:20 I don't even know why the fuck. I guess that was the most, that was the next evolution. Right. Iteration of the soda or drink where they're like, put in a thinner can and use cursive on it now. And use weird French words. Yeah. Because I don't know the fucking flavors.
Starting point is 00:40:35 I have to look at the pictures because I don't know what the fuck these things are called except in English and Spanish. And Pamplemousse is only good because it's fun to say. Yeah, Pamplemousse. Yeah. My French pronunciation is on point. On point, yes. Whatever competitor at Coke or Pepsi,
Starting point is 00:40:53 whoever it was who came up with the idea to sue them for having cockroach spray in their drink, even though that's not really true. It's just the same chemical that exists in both things. That was... Oh, you're calling that corporate sabotage? Oh, for sure. Oh, wow. I like this.
Starting point is 00:41:13 I mean, and the speed with which that spread, that started in 2016. A woman named Lenora Rice brought the lawsuit, and that shit just was everywhere. Lenora Cola. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:32 So now, yeah, I mean, Hey, Nick Caparella, you know, I can't wait for this next letter. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:39 Cause that shit is going to be, it's like numbers aren't real. Free fall is actually falling up. If you turn your head upside down that's right yeah flip those graphs upside down that's what's actually happening so he started strong as fuck look at it he started blaming the parent company which i'm sure they loved uh and he also said that managing the brand is similar to caring for someone who becomes handicapped. That's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:09 So he's flying high. Yeah. And that was from the last letter. Yeah, yeah. Before the 15%, 7% part. I was like, wait till this one? How does that make your brand sound good? Like, bringing LaCroix to you is like bringing a handicap yeah
Starting point is 00:42:25 right it's an invalid in a can LaCroix right y'all fucking with it no okay back to the drawing board a roach spray drink okay sorry should just come out with a roach spray flavor just you know people would buy that yeah because if they were you know, I would have like... Steer into the curve. Wow. Yeah, you have to. Just embrace your mistakes and be like, yeah, this is Raid flavor. The Colabo.
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Starting point is 00:47:01 And we're back. Miles, what's going on with this whole hotel bed jumping conspiracy, man? Oh, my God, wait. This is... What? I'm just excited. Oh, okay. You want me to wait?
Starting point is 00:47:12 I'll wait. No, no, no. Go ahead. Okay, are we ready to proceed? Yeah. Well, look, I didn't get into this. I was just reading... The dude who made that documentary, Tickled, David Farrier, he published like this little article and it was about what
Starting point is 00:47:27 he's been looking at recently so okay if you don't know the documentary tickled whoa there's a lot going on there's david farrier first of all david farrier i think it's i think it's very interesting and funny that he has chosen this direction kind of like a morgan spurlock of like right the first thing that worked for him he's just like all right this is me now okay my food thing worked now i'm the food man he's like oh the the weird fetish conspiracy words let's go with that right so his newest thing uh is the article is called the mysterious instagram influencers offering cash for hotel bed jumping videos now okay sure i mean everyone's seen people jump up and down on beds. We do it as children.
Starting point is 00:48:07 It's a great pastime. Yes. But he came across an account called- It's an American pastime. It's an American pastime. Yeah. And anyway. So he came across an Instagram account
Starting point is 00:48:17 called Hotel Bed Jumping Community and has like over 26,000 followers and a bunch of posts where at first he's like, okay, like this is interesting. I never heard of it. They're all using this hashtag. And, but the,
Starting point is 00:48:28 the sort of mix of photos was very, which is odd to him. It's like a mix of like stock photos, people jumping on beds, stock photos of hotel rooms. Also that's like next to stock photos of like kids, like starving on the ground or like, just like very like kids in dire situations, like destitute.
Starting point is 00:48:49 And so he's kind of like, what the fuck is this? And there's also offering, quote, we have been providing free hotel rooms to followers to capture content to put towards the hashtag Jump for Kids campaign. Now, the Jump for Kids campaign hashtag is legit. And it was set up by a company called Puffy Beds. And look, they were on Ellen.
Starting point is 00:49:09 So we know they're legit. Yeah, yeah. And their whole thing was like for every 1,100 people who use this hashtag, we'll donate one of our beds to a shelter. And that all seemed on the up and up. And then this farrier, he started digging a little bit. So first he asked them, he's like, oh, so you work with Puffy Beds? They're like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:26 Then he asked Puffy Beds, he's like, hi, do you know asked them he's like oh so you work with PuffyBeds they're like yeah then he asked PuffyBeds he's like hi do you know about this Instagram account they say they work with you they're like we have no idea what you're talking about we don't work with them and he's like okay then he also saw
Starting point is 00:49:33 they were like giveaways where like a hotel in Auckland New Zealand was like you know get two free nights for like your best submission for the jump for kids like whatever is gonna get a free night
Starting point is 00:49:43 if it's free you're the product baby exactly well he asked the hotel and they said no the person from that organization said they were charity and they just asked if we would be willing to gift two vouchers other than that we have no idea how they're using it or how it worked so it just got murky then he was trying to interview or ask like the people who run the page through the dms like what's going on they just give very vague answers. We're like, we're currently not trying to engage with any media engagement at the moment.
Starting point is 00:50:10 And it's like, engage with it. Okay. Like, but saying it's just about spreading awareness, nothing bad's going on. And so then he went to some of the influencers that appeared on the page and said,
Starting point is 00:50:20 what happened here? Like, how did you get involved with them? And they said, well, they were found and got an email. And the email read like this. It was just basically there was some other ramble, pre-wrap
Starting point is 00:50:30 boilerplate language at the top and then got to the ask, which is, quote, what we are looking for is around 10 to 15 minutes of bed jumping footage to help us with our YouTube channel and its launch. It doesn't have to be one big video. It can be broken down into one to two minute videos and 10 times of those if this is easier. Or perhaps just leave the camera running for 30 minutes.
Starting point is 00:50:46 For the footage, we also request a few different outfits, e.g. gym gear with shoes on, or just some casual outfits, shirts, jeans, cocktail dress, whatever you feel comfortable in. The camera angle, we need the whole bed slash bed base fully visible along with the person jumping. We also ask there is little to no background music, but the footage must contain sound and be unedited. Besides that, you're free to jump up and down, belly flop, flip, and seat drop as much as you like. As mentioned, feel free to get girlfriends slash colleagues involved. Okay. First of all, never get girlfriends slash colleagues involved, regardless of what it is.
Starting point is 00:51:17 If it's a wine and paint night, don't get girlfriends and colleagues. Like, never. Wine and paint. The outfit recommendations are very weird, like cocktail dresses. Yes. Right. You could do some seat drops. It can be anything.
Starting point is 00:51:29 Cocktail dresses. It does. Like black cocktail dresses. This weird oil Yankees hat. I don't know. I'll FedEx you. I would just love to, you know, jerk off to someone in a cocktail dress. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Right. It does sound a lot like the language in the Tickled movie, too. Yeah, it does. It's like kind of like stilted, uncanny valley language. And that's why he was then he's like okay there might be something here as of right now he said
Starting point is 00:51:47 there doesn't seem to be anything illegal going on aside from them maybe sort of like exaggerating relationships to certain companies and the people involved like it's not like
Starting point is 00:51:56 when he started digging on the tickled thing there were like people's lives getting ruined he hasn't quite found that for the jumping thing but a lot of the influencers he spoke to or at
Starting point is 00:52:05 least one or two of them were like i think it's it's like just sort of kink it's a kink page disguised as a charity yeah miles think about the people in the hotel room below those people okay there's your lives getting ruined oh wow i mean that would be seat drops in a cocktail dress while you're trying to eat your breakfast right come. Come on. Or your 2 a.m. French onion soup. Oh, that sounds pulled from personal experience. Hotel favorite. Yes, and it's always bad. Yeah, so I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:35 I mean, Zeitgang, I don't know if you know. Is this like a new thing? Are we just sort of realizing that this is another way to sort of aggregate a bunch of very very specific like kink content yeah are you guys out there doing this yeah if so you know we're in full support because another thing is they were offering people 120 australian dollars for like every two minute clip nice and then when he asked he said are you offering people money because i have a screenshot of you offering like no we would never do such a thing so it's like weird it's like they're not being upfront about it but they're clearly giving these people money you know what what? This is the gig economy.
Starting point is 00:53:05 We do what we must do. Yeah. Look, hey, no shame. I'm just curious. I want to know. I'm trying to get my WikiFeet score back up. So if anyone needs anything, let me know. Well, we should do a Glamour Foot Shot. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Go to JCPenney. JCPenney. JCPenney. Get it done for 50 bucks with
Starting point is 00:53:21 prints. We worked on an article at one point. I don't know if it ever ended up publishing, but it was with a guy who ended up becoming a pornographer off of finding out that people would pay for just videos of women playing poker against each other in certain clothing. And there was just this huge influx of attention for those videos,
Starting point is 00:53:46 and so he made it a cottage industry of himself shooting these videos. What were they wearing? I forget. It wasn't strange clothing, right? No, I think there was strip poker was the thing, but it was a very specific fetish that he was able to drive his livelihood off off of so i just wonder if that's more common than we think that people who have a lot of money basically invest that money into their very specific fetish yeah or yeah they're making their own yeah yeah i mean if you will
Starting point is 00:54:19 invest in their fetishes yeah yeah if you were wealthy and you had the resources to do it you'd be like yeah i'll make an Instagram account. Like, what? Great. 120 bucks? Great. Make sure the shoes are on because I'd like to know that the maid is going to have a real hell of a time cleaning up the sheets. I hope this story has a happy ending.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Yeah, I do too. How would that be? A couple of well-meaning perverts jumping on beds. Just wanting a couple monkeys jumping on the bed. Like one starts- Compensating. Oh, you know what it could be?
Starting point is 00:54:50 You shouldn't pose as a charity. Right. You should just be like, listen, I'll be charity. It could be like, you've got mail. Okay, so one well-meaning fetishist, it like intrudes on another's business and puts them out of business with their promising even bigger money
Starting point is 00:55:06 for the fetish pictures. But then they are also like friends, just like happen to be friends with each other. Right. And then they fall in love and it turns out they were the people. Well, that movie ends pretty lame because her business gets crushed.
Starting point is 00:55:21 She's like, it's okay, I'm with this guy now. So it's fine that the big book destroyed me. I want a rom-com about two people meeting in the fetish community. Does that movie exist yet? I think he just wrote You've Got Mail for 2020. Yeah, WikiFeet, You've Got Mail, basically. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:55:37 I don't know. I mean, it's like, just the one misstep here is like, if you've got kink, go crazy. However, you can't say it's a charity. Yeah, and don't put like dead children or like sick kids photos to be like, this is why we have to jump for them. Never involve children. Although my happy ending version is it's like these two brothers who just like they're in
Starting point is 00:55:57 charge of like their father's estate who's very sickly, but he was an evil man and got his money in very fucked up ways. Yeah. And he was like really shitty and abusive to them. And like whenever they would jump on the beds, he would get so upset for whatever reason that would always inspire the rage out of their father. So what they've done now is put all this money into creating this movement of
Starting point is 00:56:15 bed jumping and actually using his good money to pay people to create this content. And then they just show it to him because he's bedridden and they just scroll through it. Like we got another one today, dad. And he looks, he's like, no, I don't like it like we got another one today dad and he looks he's like no i don't like it's like man maybe not this is a weird elder of you saying we're for that one so i mean it's hard to see where is the happy we're trying to circle in
Starting point is 00:56:34 on the right angle on this story and we're getting we're getting close we'll be uh back tomorrow to just workshop this idea yeah further for an hour. Alright, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.
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