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Episode Date: August 4, 2019

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Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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 what is something that

people think is true you know to be false oh i think this one is always hard for me but i was thinking about this today i think that we're sort of sold the idea that like love is enough to make any relationship work do you know what i mean yeah and that's just it. It basically is a ratio of like extraordinary circumstances, extraordinary circumstances and context, right? Like just because you love somebody doesn't mean they're a good person and that you're good for them. Right. Yeah, I think that's a really good point.

Seriously? Yeah. You think that love can like conquer all? It doesn't. Yeah, I always make the point about rom-coms hold on hold on you're saying that's not enough yeah yeah no it's not what if your fights end and you tell each other how much you love each other yeah you'll never do it again yeah but if you keep getting into the same fights like that's what i was saying to her that's

the except that proves you're the exception oh my god miles is very uh mature about his relationship yeah yeah he's a very emotionally developed person unrelated do you have an air mattress i can borrow yes if you really need it go for it thank god um yeah no that's true though i think a lot of people do all jokes aside yes and if you listen to comedy Bang Bang, all jokes a salad, as they say. Yeah, you do meet people who brute force their relationship with just this North Star of like, yeah, but we got love and that's all that matters. And it's like, yo, what I just saw, well, I don't even know where the love fucking was. What I saw was like, looked like about to be a ufc fight over like someone spilling something yeah yeah love i think we're fed the idea in movies that we will have you know

there will be loving relationships and then external circumstances will like come in and get in the way but ultimately like love will conquer the day. And it's sort of the opposite. When you're fully in love, you don't let external circumstances get in the way at first. And then you, I don't know, there aren't enough movies about people just being too in love to realize all the things that are wrong with the relationship. And there also aren't enough movies about people who are actually communicative about working through, do you know what I mean?

Recognizing their problems and then watching them fix it. You'll never see it in a rom-com like, hold on, hold on, is this really about the thing that I did? Is this really about the bet that I took that I could make you hot? That I could fuck you and no one thought I could?

Is this really about that? I can't believe you're mad. I was kidding. I know, exactly. But it is funny, like, when you sort of mature a bit in a relationship and you're able to sort of, normally, like, you'll think a fight really is about,

well, how come you let the mail in the mailbox? Right. And it's like, you know what? I'm sorry. This is not about the mail. I have a feeling like I may have neglected some other thing, and this is just an opportunity for you to express that displeasure about that. How may I help you?

How may I improve? All of me and my wife's arguments start about me leaving the toilet seat up. Yep. It's every single time, man. Yep. Especially when you poop. If you listen to it, yeah. That's a big problem.

Why? You just don't like the seat. I don't mind that, except for sometimes I won't check. Right. And then you like. That's the thing. Yeah, yeah. And then you just don't like this i don't mind that except for sometimes i won't check right and then you like that's the thing yeah yeah and then you just fall right in you have to be fished out yeah yeah and he has to come with wd-40 and your life alert you have to use your life alert i need help um no i just think that's that was like the big 80s, 90s comedy thing that men and women were always fighting about.

Toilet seat up or down. I love jokes about the differences between men and women. Yeah. Men be like. Yeah. And. Men be like pissing all over the floor. Yes.

Consistently. My bad. And women be shopping. Do you know what I mean? Women be shopping and men piss everywhere and wear the same underwear for nine years until the elastic turns to fucking dust. Yeah. We that yo i'm starting to get that age where i have like old underwear right like yo her majesty be like what the fuck is up with this underwear the band is all fucked up i'm like i got this right when i got into college yeah and i will never let go yeah i know and then you know what it is part of me like i

don't i feel like and i'm actually only probably expressing this out loud for the first time i think i have anxiety buying underwear oh yeah even though you can buy it online yeah i don't know you know what it is i feel like i have to go inside online shopping yeah you know why because it's for new child because i would have to go i i have to go inside online shopping yeah you know why because it's for a new child because i would have to go i would have to go with my mom to the mall and shit so you just have i want these and we're just like why you need that right like i don't think you're a medium why do you need that fancy underwear i think you're a baby's tiny and i'm like no i'm 14 i will have i think this was a nightmare. It was a nightmare.

This is some latent embarrassment that you need to work on. I do think men in general should like, oh my god, Miles is openly weeping. I do think things that are like men typically complain about women doing like

shopping or like things like that are things men should do more, like should pay more. Like if you have an argument first, like be like, should I be doing more of that instead of, uh, well,

most arguments are about like how I don't need to fucking change. You do. Right. Exactly. And that's where, that's where a relationship fails. If you're not unable to just sort of be like, yeah,

um, this is a work in progress. I'm not saying I'm the finished article by any means. So if I have some blind spots, allow me to, you know, reconfigure, refire. Two people should want to be like on that journey together. Yeah. Like self-betterment. Yeah.

And also be like willing to acknowledge that like I'm not doing that well. You're not doing that well. But we can encourage each other to start doing better. And it's not a battle of who is right. No, no. And that's the thing. You can be right or you can be happy. Am I right?

Or am I happy? Well, I feel this way about writer's rooms too, where it's like there are some people who are so precious about the things that they bring to the table that they're not willing to collaborate or change any of those things. And that's true of the relationship too. It's like if you think that nothing can be improved upon,

you're not going to do very well. Yeah. Because it's a collaboration. It's about like the teamwork. And then you'll hear anything that is like that is like sways from your worldview or your perception of your work or your relationship as an attack on you. Yeah. And then immediately activate your defense mechanisms.

Yeah. But also, yeah, especially when like your partner is offering you support and being like, I want to help you because you do this. It's so easy to internalize that and be like oh well you think i'm wrong because i did x yeah oh why don't you leave me like yeah like if you think i'm so bad like why don't you just break up with me but it's actually like no they want they want to like help you and support you and fine whatever because uh the homie ellery's gonna let me borrow her air mattress i don't need to sleep here today right tomorrow maybe but not Tonight? I think generally why don't you just leave me like everyone

does as an emotionally mature way to deal with something. That's the most manipulative shit. Oh, yeah, just leave me. Hold on, motherfucker. If you find yourself saying that, you're in the right. No, no.

Yeah, bro. Keep on trucking, JJ. You'll find somebody eventually. All right. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Okay. Oh, I have a good myth, actually, that I heard in a writer's room. I don't know if I should be spreading this.

This is insane. The myth is, and I don't know this to be false. It just sounds like too much work is that Bradley Cooper has a sex device in his house that lowers him down onto his mates

what? the best thing I've ever heard there was a morning discussion about this and there was a writer who was like I'm telling, I know for a fact. So like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible? Yeah, it's like an apparatus that lowers him down

onto his mates and it's something about like everything feeling less shameful if he's just like lowered. I can't even do this justice. But I feel like I could say on record, I know that not to be true just because like no, he doesn't. But that is like I could say on record, I know that not to be true, just because no, he doesn't.

But that is such a great myth. But where did that even come from that someone goes, we should spread that? I'm telling you, he has an apparatus in his house. That's one of them. To be lowered down, that's kind of interesting. I'm just trying to think of how that works. Yeah, because I guess the idea was it's almost like the

sheet, you know, like sex through a sheet thing. Like, you're not really touching. So I think the idea is that like, just his penis drops. There's like a single point of contact. And there's no other touching. Assuming he's having sex with a woman, that he would, the position, it couldn't just be, you couldn't

be airdropped in for mission. No, it would be difficult for the woman. You'd have to be some kind of yoga headstand or something. Right. Yeah, I mean, I think if you're a woman or a man, and the talk was that

it's both sexes, the apparatus is... Applies to anyone. He's pleasing everyone with this apparatus. Right, of course he is. Or no one. Right.

But the talk is, we talked a lot about that. Like, how would you position yourself so that someone could just lower down on you? To airdrop a penis in from on high.

I mean, anytime sex involves diagramming, you're doing something right. Yeah. Or a release. It's very sexy. Like an indemnification agreement. Right.

They're like, if this shit breaks and you get hydraulic fluid all over you and you're burned. That's bad. That's on you. And just the sound

of the machine feels like it would hurt the mood. Yeah. She's like, Bradley, the harness hit my head. And he's like, you know what it was when you signed up.

Right. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's like a gas-powered machine. It's like belching it. He's like, go to the furnace. Get the bellows going. 100%. It's my steampunk

fuck apparatus and it's also like who built it and what did you tell them it was for yeah oh there's plenty of people who are like

yeah yeah what you want whatever I got you you want the Ethan Hunt airdrop dick machine that's actually like who builds

the sex dungeons because I know in Hollywood like there's a lot of sex dungeons and who's building them and how do they advertise I have a friend

who moved into a house in Louisville, Kentucky, and after a week found a really- False room kind of thing? False door wall? Yeah, false room sex dungeon. Yeah. They're everywhere. And it wasn't listed?

Somebody needs to write the definite- No. Oh, wow. That would add value. I mean, on the listing. Right, yeah, no. But it could freak me out. It's 1,800 square feet.

Three plus three with a full-on sex dungeon. It's 1,800 square feet. Three plus three. With a full-on sex dungeon. It's a blimp hanger. Yeah. But somebody needs to write the definitive history of sex dungeons, I think. I think we gotta get it all out in the open. Yeah, I'm sure our listeners know. I bet you one of our listeners is writing that book.

Yeah. Yeah. Do it. In their sex dungeon. Right. Does it have to be a dungeon? Why does it have to be a dungeon? Well, just like hidden rooms.

Because it's always about the domination and shit. I think that's a good point, though. It then implies that it's like naughty, negative, bad, right? Like the word dungeon. I want to reclaim the word dungeon. Yes. Good. Or we call it like a sex closet or something.

I mean, Dungeon Family gave us Goody Mom and Outcast. I mean, that's pretty fucking, pretty good. Hey, that's a really good point. Yeah. So I'm going to guess based off that the origin is in Atlanta, Georgia. Yes, for sure. Solved. Do you think that was a sex dungeon reference?

The first sex dungeon was in the Varsity. But do you think the dungeon family was like a sex dungeon reference? No, I think they're just thinking of Dungeons and Dragons or something. I'm from, in Florida, I'm from a town called Clearwater, but there's like a littler town in Clearwater called Dunedin. And for some reason, Dunedin became Dungeon. And so it's like, welcome to the Dungeon and the Dungeon Boys and the Dungeon Crew. And it's all based on-

What's the Dungeon Crew like? Dungeon Crew is fucking crazy. Is it like a real gang or is it like private school kids who had a Corvette? Well, there's no private school kids in my orbit. But the Dungeon Crew, it's like, you know, it's like southern sort of redneck-y, no offense, guys who fish and go to Dunedin Brewery and watch metal bands. Any noodling? You know what noodling is?

No. Where people fish for catfish with their arms. No. Hillbilly hand fishing. Hillbilly hand fishing. Isn't that a show? I think so. Hillbilly hand fishing.

There's some wild YouTube videos. That's more hillbilly-y than the show i think so there's some wild youtube videos that's that's more hillbilly than the dungeon yo there's one i was actually following a noodling influencer was this like woman who just like pulls out the fucking like 90 pound catfish yeah she's like very much fits the instagram like profile where she's like cute and wears like you know pink camo and then she just like hops off the boat and just like putting her arm in she's cute and wears pink camo. And then she just hops off the boat and is just putting her arm in. She's like, look at this shit I just pulled out. And the guys are coming.

It's like, marry me. But real quick, I want to talk about it. So Bradley Cooper, we've talked before on this show about how there are certain people who, for whatever reason, have sexual urban legends about them. Like Elton John got his stomach pumped or Rod Stewart was another one had his stomach had so much semen in his stomach that he had to have it pumped but Richard Gere has one and we've always like kind of both talked about like there are certain like there's some currency that they must have that we don't quite know what it is but

bradley cooper definitely has that because that's not the first like weird probably false sexual rumor that i've heard about bradley cooper people are just like intrigued by the idea of bradley cooper having weird sex you know what just let him live if he wants to airdrop his dick we'll do it as long as it's consensual you you can airdrop him to anything. Also, I like, though, that maybe this is the new semen pumped from the stomach rumor. Right. People are like, no, I actually heard that about this person. Right.

Like, wait, hold on. Are you talking about the harness fuck? The harness. It's not Bradley Cooper. You guys know Elton John harness fucks too? It's actually Gordon Ramsay. You know Gordon Ramsay harness fucks. Gordon Ramsay would be an amazing one.

You know Gordon Ramsay harness, folks. Gordon Ramsay would be an amazing one. We're calling this segment Things Different People Say Different, the most ineloquent way to possibly say that. No, there was a thread a couple days ago on Twitter where people say that the only- Well, actually, let's show Laura the photo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, let me find this.

What do you call this? I would call those glazed donut holes. Okay. Okay, yes. Yeah. You are correct. Thank you. Okay.

But I didn't realize, so people in the comments on Twitter, this is one of those amazing cultural artifacts that you're missing not being on Twitter. Some people said the only proper answer is munchkins. Munchkins. Other people called them timbits. Yeah. And beignets. Beignets I get.

But a beignet feels more specific to me. Yeah, it's a little different. You gotta get that at the Cafe Du Monde. You know what I mean? Right, with a little chicory coffee. And get all that powdered sugar all over your shit when you eat it and you look like you had either did a bunch of cocaine

or you have terrible dandruff. Right. Actually, I also want to ask you, what do you call a fizzy liquid with a lot of sugar in it? I say soda, but I know about pop. Is soda the standard in clear water? It's funny. Florida is very much like this melting pot of America, which is why I think America likes to make fun of Florida.

But really, they're just making fun of themselves because Florida is just like we're just America. It's just people from all these different states that have like ended up in Florida. So some of my friends had like, you know, kind of Midwesterner accents and their their moms did. So that's how they talked, even though they lived in Florida and they would pop. And yeah, they'd call to trash like a bin. And they had those. That's another one. We were trying to think of other ones because sneakers, tennis shoes, tennis, tennis.

Yeah. But yeah, bin and trash can. I just like sort of like you saw this and you're like, what else are we getting wrong? What else? Well, no, but I also wanted it because I hadn't noticed that, like, I've lived in Columbia, Missouri in the last 10 years. I've lived in New York and then out here. And I feel like there's becoming sort of a homogenization of, like, everybody kind of dresses like they're from Brooklyn. And everybody kind of, because the internet is sort of flattening everything out.

So like everybody knows the same memes. It's hard for stuff to happen in a vacuum. Right. So like, will that get rid of things like those cultural differences where people, some people say pop, some people say Coke, some people say soda,

like will, will everybody just start saying soda like they should? Oh, wow. Like they should. You want a universal language is what you want. Yes, Esperanto.

This is like why I watch Love Island is because it's watching British people and their slang is so different. You said Love Island is like warmer. Is it like the British Bake Off, Great British Bake Off? Yeah, I think they have like different manners. I think they're different with each other.

Yeah, and there are times when like they're outraged by another man's behavior, like in a way you wouldn't see in like American other yeah and there are times when like they're outraged by another man's behavior like in a way you wouldn't see in like American reality and there's times when two men

are just like you're my brother and like I love you and they're like I love you and they hug each other and they're constantly like touching

and hugging each other the men are in a beautiful way and I'm like and then I watched the American Love Island and the contestants were very

they're much more like self-aware like oh god it's bright in here these lights are bright oh my god am I being interviewed? weird

and I'm like guys be like British and soft well I think that's the part of like this country because like we export so much entertainment

that like it enters people's brains and they're like already like I'm always living my life like I'm on a TV show as it is so when I'm on one

I'm gonna really fucking turn it on because I've lost my humanity. Yeah, yeah, agreed. But they have great slang on the Love Island show. If you like different words for stuff, then watch Love Island. American men touch each other more. I think we need more touching. More love you.

Yeah, Jack, I love you. Loving your brothers. Yeah, you guys should kiss right now. You see, he didn't look me in my eye. I love you. Loving your brothers. You guys should kiss right now. You see he didn't look me in my eye. I love you, Miles. Hold the eye contact. Wow. Marianne Williams

is here in spirit and we are returning to love. Apologize to me for slavery. To half of me. And then apologize to my other half for Japanese internment. And then apologize to half of me for slavery. And then I'll apologize to you, my other half for Japanese internment. And then apologize to half of me for slavery. And then I'll apologize to you, my other half. All right, that's a push between you and me.

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Old Town Road, we talked about it when it first started flying up the charts with the controversy over whether it was a rap song or a country song, whether it belonged on the country charts. It has now been number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the longest. 17 weeks. 17 weeks in a row. Yes. It's overtaken Mariah Carey's One Sweet Day.

With Boyz II Men. Wow. It's unbelievable. And Despacito, the Bieber, Daddy Yankee song. Mariah Carey's One Sweet Day. With Boyz II Men. Wow. It's unbelievable. And Despacito, the Bieber, Daddy Yankee song. I'm surprised to hear that Despacito was like, I mean, I know people liked it, and I know that it was global, but I didn't realize it was record-breaking.

Well, yeah, I think that one proved that it's like, yo, this can be global, and you can dominate the charts with its global appeal. And then Old Town Road was like, you want to see a meme? Blow the fuck up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Old Town Road was like, you want to see a meme? Blow the fuck up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then kids love it, though, too.

It's genius. I don't know. I'm really excited about this. And I'm very, it's nice to see Nas get his time. Lil Nas X. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Queens Bridge. Nostradamus, okay.

Yeah, not Nostradamus. Nasty Nas to Escobar. Nasty Nas to Escobar. Now he is Nostradamus. Nasty Nost to Escobar. Now he is Nostradamus. That album was so bad. It's the most disappointed I've ever been. That was I Am, right? Where he's got like the pharaoh garb on.

I jammed out to that album. I didn't know what was good or bad. I know. It had good tracks on it. I listened to it like a hundred times. Of course. Was it the one where the bullet goes backwards from somebody's body, like back into the gun? Oh, I don't know.

Oh, I think that was. But yeah, there was some. Tell Your Bodyguards, Uchiwale vs. Better Than Yours. Uchiwale. This had Nas' like on there too. And Hate Me Now. Nas is like, oh no, that's a fantastic album. That's a classic album.

You can hate me now. But I won't stop. Yeah, okay. We digress. Hard. But back to. Because I think, you know? That's a classic album. You can hate me now. Okay, anyway. But I won't stop. Yeah, okay. We digress. Hard. But back to, because I think, you know, it's interesting with this hit,

it kind of shows you how the internet really can like democratize an industry in a way because Nas was just, he was making memes before this and then was like, I really want to get this song to pop and was just using social media

to try and get it to catch on. And now look at where he's at. Yeah. It's so catchy. And I understand why kids like it because they can understand the lyrics. They're like, I know what a horse is. I know what a road is. Like, you know, like they feel connected to it.

I think the biggest crossover. Got it. Old town road. Wait, mom, what's lean? Forget that. Shut up. It's a crossover between country and rap, but it's also a crossover between grown-up music and kids' music.

Yeah. It's like a Pixar movie. Yeah. It's like bringing enemies together, right? Like grown-ups and kids. Right. Country and rap. And then, yeah, country and rap.

It's great. Yeah. It's good for the world. I'm just thinking, man, I really loved One Sweet Day. I didn't realize that that was that much of a hit, but that shows you how powerful those R&B ballads could be in the 90s. Oh, my God, and that voice. When was the last time we had a ballad like that really?

Well, because we don't have right now. Do we have a Whitney or a Mariah where this person is almost a freak show, their voice is so good? Adele is kind of like that. I mean, I feel like she's the closest person who would do a song like that. Yeah. Gaga will do more poppy stuff. Right.

Yeah, Gaga might be able to do it, but we don't see her do it. But not a song like One Sweet Day. Oh my God. Those notes. The bygone era, man. Was that like a live song? Was that off of a live album?

The One Sweet Day? Was that Butterfly? I think that was on Butterfly, but I don't know. I don't know. And that was bringing boys to Men at their height together. Oh, that was the Boys to Men crossover. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When you look at basically everything else that held over 13 weeks, it was Despacito and One Sweet Day were tied at 16 weeks, then Uptown Funk, 14 weeks. I got a feeling. It was 14 weeks by Black Eyed Peas. We Belong Together, Mariah Care Funk, 14 weeks. I got a feeling. It was 14 weeks by Black Eyed Peas. We Belong Together, Mariah Carey, 14 weeks. Oh my God. Candle in the Wind, 14 weeks.

Oh, nice. The fucking Macarena. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. And I'll Make Love to You, 14 weeks. Yes. And I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston, 14 weeks. Damn. Wow, so it really is those love ballads.

The Quiet Storm. Yeah. Did you guys have Joe, 14 weeks. Damn. Wow. So it really is those love ballads. The Quiet Storm. Yeah. Did you guys have Joe Mama Johnson's Quiet Storm? No. Or was that just me? What is it? It was like Joe Mama Johnson's Quiet Storm. Was it like an FM radio thing?

Yeah, I think it was Sunday nights, and it was for horny tweens. Oh, really? Yeah, it was my friends and I. It was like, T-shirt in my panties on, like those kinds of songs. Right, right, right, right, right. And he would just, and he would talk so low, and he was so sexual, and I, it was like, T-shirt in my panties on. Like those kinds of songs. Right, right, right, right, right. And he would just, and he talked so low and he was so sexual. And I didn't, I don't know what he looks like, but I imagine he's like a human slug. What is his name?

Joe Mama Johnson? Joe Mama Johnson. Like he sounded so hot, which makes me think he has to not be because it's radio. That sounds so much better than what I had, which was Delilah. Did you guys have that? Oh yeah, Delilah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's just like really wholesome, talking to people about their heartbreak.

Yeah, and it was always- Oh, you don't want to see Joe Mama Johnson. Oh, is he not what I want him to be? If you were a horny tween- Masturbating to his voice. And you knew that this dude was on the other side, you would call the cops on yourself. I need to see it.

I need to see it. I need to know the truth. Joe Mama Johnson. Oh, wow. He looks like my grandpa. He looks like a busted pastor. He does. He looks like a broke down pastor. He's got the five button suit on. Oh, wow. He looks like my grandpa. He looks like a busted pastor. He does. He looks like a broke down pastor.

He's got the five button suit on. Oh, my God. But hey, I got horny for his voice and I will say it here, recorded forever. Was it just super? It was just bassy as fuck. It was just deep and bassy. And he's like, and to all you lovers out there, you know, and always playing like all the boys to men, but the horny songs.

Right, right, right. You know, really, really as horny songs right right you know really really as horny as you can get right yeah i'll make love to you as opposed to it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday no no love songs it's all fuck jams and we listened to them when we were like 12 and you know right some of my friends were sexually active then um in the dark turn of events yeah because they hung out with epstein and it's a whole thing. Right, yeah. No.

You did live in Florida. I know. Well, sometimes like if you Google Florida girls, which I do all the time. Google alerts. There's a lot of dark headlines. Oh my God.

Yeah, right. Florida as a modifier to any Google search is never going to get you the thing I think you're looking for. Right. Yeah, I just, it's funny when you bring up

Joe Mama Johnson because there was a guy named Theo on the radio when it used to be 92.3 The Beat in LA and he was like super smooth. And I was like, ooh, Theo's fucking dope. He's like, he's this black dude who like gets it. He was Asian. Oh, really?

Yeah, and I remember being like, whoa. Oh, that's cool. Shout out to Theo. Representation. Yeah. But he was like, that was the voice too and it was pre-internet. So you had to fucking go to like a radio event to see Theo Representation. Yeah. But he was like, that was the voice too and it was pre-internet so you had to fucking go

to like a radio event to see Theo in person because you couldn't just Google that shit. How did people know stuff? I mean, I know my generation was like pre-internet

but like still, I don't remember knowing anything before the internet. You know how I found out? I saw his headshot at a dry cleaner's in LA

and I was like, what? I'm like, that can't be Theo. But then it had the logo for 92.3, the beat on it. That's Theo. That blew your mind.

Yeah. Did that make you feel like you're like, I can do anything in my life. No, Tiger Woods made me feel like, Oh yeah. And I was terrible at golf. I swung a glue to club to your hand.

Yeah. And I said, my dad did it. He was like, no, he did it himself. Was that like, was he, was that like a groundbreaking thing for you, Tiger Woods? Cause it's like seeing hands. Yeah, and I said my dad did it. He was like, no, he did it himself. Was that like a groundbreaking thing for you, Tiger Woods? Because it's like seeing yourself.

Yeah, him and Blade. It's your specific mix too, which is like. Yeah. Well, that black and Asian for sure. But now I feel really good because I see people like Naomi Osaka and like Rui who's playing for the Wizards. And I'm like, yeah, look at us. Look at the black and knees coming up.

The black and knees. I know. It's funny being mixed us. Look at the Blackanese coming up. The Blackanese. I know. It's funny being mixed races. Like, my race is mixed race. Right, right. Like, when I meet a mixed race person, I'm like, you understand me. We're the same race.

Exactly. But that's the only people I understand. We have trouble fitting in. Yeah, we're different. But then we get over it through therapy, and we're like, we are who we are. Yeah, yeah. And I don't need someone else to approve my identity.

Exactly. You read some Marianne Williams we are. Yeah, yeah. And I don't need someone else to approve my identity. Exactly. You read some Marianne Williams. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry. Oh, yeah, thank you. I apologize. Thank you, and I am sorry. I do.

I love you. Thank you. Eye contact? Great. Okay. Checked in. We're checked in. Little Nas X's career,

I don't think he's going to have a huge recording career. I don't think he's going to have a bunch of hit songs, but I think he's going to have a career. I just don't know think he's going to have a bunch of hit songs, but I think he's going to have a career. I just don't know what it's going to be. Don't people like Panini or no? It's good. I don't think the, what is it, an LP technically as a whole is that great, or EP rather.

It's seven tracks. I like three out of the seven. Okay. But, I mean, hey, he's're not he's he's just starting out he's young it makes me think like geez cardi b is kind of like incredible you know because that was somebody where she had that song that everyone was talking about and then she then released an album and it was like this song this song yeah all of them are good yeah jesus i have a feeling like he could just be a brand consultant right that's what i wondering. Like that's what seems like his real genius

is in like identifying like a trend or creating a trend. More than like being like through my music, I'm crazy. He's like, no, I think this will fucking get cracked. It'll be like Kanye without the music or mental illness. Or the MAGA shit.

Right, or the MAGA shit. Well, that's the mental illness. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I think this the MAGA shit. Right. Or the MAGA shit. Well, that's the mental illness. Yeah. It'll be interesting. I think this kid's going places, guys. That's what I'm thinking. Where do you predict? 10 years. Set a timer.

How old is he? Reddit, set a reminder. Do we know what his current age is? 10 years. He'll be 26. Oh, my God. He's a child. Oh, no.

I actually don't know. Okay. I think he's still a teenager, though. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He is 20. 20. He turned 20 in April. He was born on April 9 teenager, though. Oh, my God. He is 20. He turned 20 in April. He was born on April 9th, 1999.

I got to get started doing stuff. Yeah. This is one thing you can miss. You may have missed out on Twitter, but if you're trying to get on this Old Town Road wave or something like it. I got to start some kind of Old Town Road thing. Yeah. So, yeah, in 10 years, 30. Ooh.

I got to start some sort of Old Town Road thing. It's such a great just... Damn, man. I got to start some sort of old town road thing. It's such a great, just damn man. I got to start something old town road. Like I feel like that's, that's a pitch. Like an uncle would give me or something. Why don't you start one of those old town, old town road things?

Oh my God. Or that's how like kids in their like first year of business school, like those are, it's like what we need is like an old town road type idea. Yeah. That's what happens in this town. Anytime a show does well, they're like, you know what we need is we an old town road type idea. Yeah. That's what happens in this town. Anytime a show does well, they're like,

you know, we need is we need like a big little Florida girls. What about like Nevada guys? Oh, I'd, I'd watch that. I don't know if I would. Well,

it's about to come around because people just do nothing. The UK show is taking place in Vegas and it'll be kind of adjacent to that. That could be cool. A Vegas show I'd be down for. Yeah. Where it's about like struggling EDM DJs. Really? Yeah, in fucking Las Vegas.

Because if you've seen the UK version, it's about garage music and pirate radio, but they're just trying to find the analog is in Vegas with club dancing and shit. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I would watch that once, I think. Yeah.

It all depends. The scoreboard for the fast food wars is up. And I mean that in the form of the Market Force Information's annual survey of quick service restaurants, of fast food restaurants, where they basically talk to, I think, something like 8,000 customers and get a loyalty index based on how friendly they think the staff is, how quick the food is, the quality of the food, the cleanliness, et cetera. And they use that to basically say like,

okay, like what's their score on here? And they break it down into very, you know, into the genres, if you will, of fast food. And above all else, the one thing that they did determine, Chick-fil-A is probably the most popular fast food restaurant in America. The chicken is good. I can in America. The chicken is good. I can't lie. The chicken is fucking good.

Their belief is fucking terrible. But the chicken is good. Now, when you look at in the chicken vertical, it's Chick-fil-A, 79% of their loyalty index score. Right underneath that, Raising Cane's. Now, I for one, I want to say it. Have you had it? I haven't had it. I haven't had it.

I know they have one in Ontario right now. It's so good. If you never have it, if you go to Vegas, if you're in Vegas right now, they have them all over Vegas. They have them in parts of L.A. Do they have them in L.A.? Or Orange County? But we don't have them in L.A., L.A. yet, which is weird. I don't know why.

But their lemonade is delicious. You get a little bit of crinkle cut fries and a little Texas toast kind of thing, a little garlic bread. The sauce, delicious. And these, oh my God, we got Engineer Dan nutting in the booth right now. The odd thing is he's not eating honey mustard. I wouldn't have seen it coming. Yeah, it's very, very good. So I'm like, you know what?

I want to start a movement. Let's get Raising Cane's to be Chick-fil-A. And look, I don't know if Raising Cane's has problematic business owners. If they do, let me know, and I will eat it in secret. Then Zaxby's at 60%. I like Zaxby's. El Pollo Loco, Popeyes, KFC, and Church's is at the very bottom. I wish Pollo Campero was on there.

Have you had Pollo Campero? No. Oh, man. They have them around L.A. I've seen them. They're good. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I ate a whole fucking chicken once. I wasn't even high. Just off the strength of the seasoning. Wow. I like to fuck with Costco chickens like that. Those rotisserie ones for $4. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The huge chicken. Yes. They put something in there that's ones for $4. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The huge chicken. Yes. They put something in there that's pretty gross, I'm sure. Yeah, it's called MSG. Yeah. But it's not gross, dude. It's just a flavor.

There was a whole thing about that. MSG's fine, right? It's fine. It was like a whole racist smear against Chinese immigrants. Yeah, Chinese food and stuff like that. You know what? I bathe in it every day.

Now, moving on to burgers. Number one, with a bullet in In-N-Out, 73%. Then, Five Guys, Culver's. I haven't had Culver's. Whataburger, still haven't had that. Smashburger, I've had. Red Robin, et cetera, et cetera. At the very bottom, though, McDonald's, which shows you, I think,

people used to be like, oh, I love McDonald's or whatever. Nobody ever said, oh, I love a McDonald's burger. I did in 1993. How old were you then? Nine. Yeah, yeah. I guess when you don't understand what a burger is. Right, exactly.

And you wanted the toy mostly, probably. Yeah, it comes with a toy. I remember they were doing a collaboration, Looney Tunes with Warner Brothers. And I had, I think it was Daffy Duck as Batman. I forget. Anyway, you know, I used to keep all my toys. Not cool that Shake Shack's not on here. Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

Well, I don't think that technically counts as like by their definition of what a good service restaurant. I think it might be if you have a drive-thru. Oh, okay. You know, I think that's essentially what it all boils down to. It's got to be bad to be anyone that's trailing Dairy Queen in the burger polling. Yeah. Dairy Queen makes a pretty good burger. They do?

Yeah. I just don't even think of that. I only get the peanut buster parfait. Yeah, right. I'm at Dairy Queen for the dairy. Yeah. No, no, no. They had one when I was growing up in my food court at the mall.

And it's a pretty solid burger. Really? It's not a bad burger at all. Yeah. You just don't think of it like that because you think of the dessert. Yeah, because you're like, why the fuck would I get that? It's just wild that Dairy Queen beat Burger King. You know what I'm saying?

Hey, yes. It's like, whoa. Queen's in the building. Yeah. Yeah, Burger King's at the very... Wow. They got... It's funny because you're starting to see all the traditional ones be overtaken by the

people who are like, we do it... Like, we give a fuck. Yeah. Like, we know that flavor's important. So how about this? Because at the bottom, it's McDonald's, Burger King, Carl's, Wendy's, Jack in the Box. I honestly don't think about those traditional fast food places whenever I've eaten a burger. And don't get me wrong.

Like the idea of like a cheese Whopper, it sounds like great in a disgusting, gross way, like to hurt myself. Yeah. But I never really think of the taste. For sure. Yeah. I know what you mean. I don't think like oh man what

great quality meat when i bite into it like what a burger yeah you do that with in and out i used to work at in and out and uh you get a um you get a up to a double double every time you work for free and as many fries as you want but i remember all the workers after a while you uh you get so used to eating the burgers you'll just have them plain. And the meat is so good. It's so salted. The cheese is so good. Yeah. Yeah, is that you'll just have two burgers, two cheese, plain, and it's just delicious.

What's your order? What's your order? I do a three by three animal, add ketchup, both kinds of onions. Okay. Yeah. What about you, Kenny? Man, I haven't been enough to have a go-to order. Oh, what do you think coming from not growing up here? Yeah, I mean

it's great. It really like I'll say this. I've done the show a couple times and it's never been on my overrated list. You know what I'm saying? It's perfectly rated. It's like perfectly rated. It's not a religion. I think that's when it gets weird. Yeah, yeah. But it is. It's really, really good. It's good quality meat. And for the price point too. For the price point

What part of Missouri are you from? Southwest Springfield. Do you have a Lions choice? No. In St. It's good quality meat. And for the price point, too. For the price point, the special sauce. What part of Missouri are you from? Southwest, Springfield. Do you have a lion's choice? No. In St. Louis, I've had it. Yeah. It's so good. What is that? Fuck.

What is it? Fuck, it's like lit Arby's. Yeah, it is. It's like, it's incredible, man. It's fucking, yo. It's like prime rib roast beef. I could not, yo. St. Louis, Zite Gang,

please find me out. FedEx me a Lion's Choice real quick. Okay, let's move on to sandwiches. Jersey Mike's, number one. Firehouse Subs, Wawa, Jimmy John's, Panera, Arby's, and Subway at the bottom. Yo, Subway, come on now, man. Come on, why you got to treat Subway like that? It's disgusting.

Yeah, it's really bad. I'm disgusting. it's really bad i'm disgusting you know you know that's true yeah they found the same uh material that yoga mats are made out of in the bread no yeah that's a real thing they put it in there yoga spongy subway that's like a real that's not even kind of a thing that's a real thing my uh my friend scott lorch told me one time i used to to eat Subway kind of regularly, and he said, would you ever grab a piece of the meat off of the sandwich and just like chew on the meat? Like, you know, like- Loose meat. Yeah, would you just grab that turkey and be like, oh, turkey.

And I thought of that, and he forever killed Subway for me. Yeah. I was like, I would never think of Subway meat. See, that's where you guys fuck up. That's where you got to get tuna, baby. The tuna's great. Yeah, I love the tuna. Someone, I forget, one of the Zyte Gang people tweeted at me.

They're like, yo, like confessions of a Subway person. Like, yo, you'll die eating the Subway shit. The tuna's great. It's terrible for you. And I was like, I'm in-fucking-destructible when it comes to that. It's terrible for you. It's like- It's all mayonnaise.

I think it's like 1,500 calories or something for the footlong. It's by far the most unhealthy sandwich I've ever eaten. I mean, that is a hilarious sentence. Like, oh, yeah, you wouldn't eat the meat? You got to try the tuna. Yeah, exactly. The tuna, though, is just good. I don't care.

I don't know. I'm disgusting, though. Also, but in terms of loyalty, I'm surprised Wawa is third because, I don't know, I moved here from the Northeast where Wawa reigns. And you want to talk about a loyal fan base. People freak out over Wawa. It's a restaurant? It's in a gas station, right? Yeah, that was confusing. And it's also like it's a whole thing. It's the. It's a restaurant? It's in a gas station.

It's in a gas station, right? Yeah, that was confusing. It's also like it's a whole thing. It's the way you order. It's like a touchscreen monitor. Yeah, it's a computer. You build it yourself. Oh, shit.

At the computer. You've never had it? No. It's really, really good. But I know a lot of people from like Philly or Jersey who are like, yo, Wawa. They freak out. People like, when I was living in New York City,

there was people that were from those places that would take a day trip to Wawa. They would take a train into Jersey to go get Wawa. Wawa, WeWa. Okay. Let's move on to Mexican. And I think, okay, I don't even know why they even bother. This should be in quotes. Chipotle, Moe's, Southwest Grill, never had that. El Pollo Loco, Del Taco, and Taco Bell. Again, why am I always caping for the worst ones? And also, Taco Bell is not fair. It should not be in a category called Mexican.

It should be called just trash-ass food that happens to be in a tortilla. Yeah. Repurposed diarrhea would be the category. What was number one? Chipotle.

I mean, I guess it's not. Wait, but they don't have a drive-thru. Yeah, I don't know. I promise you it's a price point. It's like an under $10 price point or something like that. Chipotle used to be really, really great, but it's just getting worse.

I think – do you remember when the burrito was just so stuffed you had to be like, stop. It's too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now it's just this big fat, dumb tortilla. Yeah. I love Del Taco. I love Del Taco too. I mean, ride or die forever until I die.

Chicken soft tacos all day. Yeah, to me it's home. And I used to work at a Del Taco. When I quit being a pastor, I was a Del Taco assistant manager for fits a month. That was a rough time, man. So what? You got head right after quitting, and you're like, yo, I'm going to work at Del Taco. I'm going to live mine.

I was a screen printer when I got that head. Oh, that was rough. It was a rough couple of years after I quit being a pastor, because I just always like to have money. So I remember at one point i was working for a year i worked full-time at a gas station and i worked no no full-time at a liquor store and i worked a graveyard shift for three nights at a gas station at the same time just because i like to have like money yeah yeah but uh i've you know i've since changed i found the restaurant industry but uh del taco does everything fresh uh they cook beans every morning they have i mean my del taco we had a mexican woman come in at five in the morning and she would start start the the

beans and shit oh like she was taking they were taking it seriously yeah like del taco everything you have there is pretty fresh the chicken's like regular chicken and they grill it in the morning really yeah i mean it's not like taco Bell where they add water and shit like that. Right, right. Del Taco is very fresh. And if you ever get an opportunity to go to the Del Taco in Barstow, that's the original one. It's the best Del Taco.

Stop at that Del Taco. It's different. The original owner, it's the only one he still owns. I think he's dead now. But everything's about 20 or 30 cents more, but it's stuffed full of cheese and beans and fresh. So make sure you go to that original Del Taco. Make sure you go to Barstow.

On your way to Vegas. I'm telling you, if you ever stop at the – everybody who loves Del Taco knows that that original one is awesome. They bring out the tray. It's like a restaurant. Everything's a little bit more, but everything's stuffed and packed, and it feels like you're at home. Damn. So, yeah, I love Del Taco. taco thank you that's my number one if you guys are i don't think they have it in a lot of states either so that's why it's a very west coast thing yeah i

still haven't had it yet and now i will what oh yeah i assumed it was like the taco bella the west and you can go bold they'll put fries in this shit no get a get a half pound red burrito it's like a dollar ten it's just a bean and cheese burrito with the red sauce, but it's fresh. It's good. It's clean. It feels clean. This pitch is amazing. Don't eat too many items, though. We better get these Del Taco

ads after this shit. Yeah, just get a couple of items. Don't go overboard. That's the way I hurt myself sometimes. Don't do it. Okay. Lastly, with pizza, number one, Blaze Pizza. Then Papa Murphy's, never heard of it. Marco's, never heard of it. Domino's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars.

Damn, come on, Little Caesars. It's trash, dude. I mean, if Blaze is your number one, I don't think you can count this. Any of that should compare, right? Yeah, you can't count any of this stuff. Blaze is not good. It's soggy. It's fine.

Is it? Yeah, have you never had blaze no i just never appealed to me when i saw it i'm like it just has this vibe i'm like that's not really the kind of pizza i like it's not good i mean i don't think it's cool kind of if you have to eat something but do you guys remember little caesars had pizza pizza and it came with two yeah man that was a time in the paper do you remember i had the paper cover yeah rip that off that was real pizza back then. Something happened.

I would love to see a history of Little Caesars where they decided to go with the $5 thing. True Crime Podcast. What the fuck happened to Little Caesars? Oh, is that a real thing? No, I think we should try that. Yeah. No, but that used to be real pizza. Then they switched to the $5 model.

You know what happened? In the 90s, man, it was all about as much as you can get for as little as possible. Right. Bang for your buck. Yeah. It was like every promo was like, get a fifth pizza for the price of two. Right. Like, whoa, shit.

Yeah. Yeah. And now I don't even think, it doesn't, it looks like pizza, but it doesn't, don't get me wrong. I have to take a little Caesar's to the dome once a year, but I don't think of it as pizza. What about that crazy bread? Yeah. No, I just don't. I'm like, yo, sauce them shits up extra.

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what the fuck is this? We've heard about people selling bathwater. We remember that whole controversy right gamer bath water um now there there is like this article about these uh this couple that is like on youtube they call themselves the ifam uh and it says parents chris and sarah ingham had a child and now they've decided to design a life-like baby doll modeled after their newborn Jace at two weeks old that their followers can buy and take care of for only $340. How does that make everyone feel? Well, I mean, it's too good of a deal to pass up.

For only $340. Yes. You can go to, I guess, a person who makes these reborn babies, where you can pick up a, quote, soft-bodied version of their child. Oh, soft-bodied is such an unsettling descriptor. Yeah. Don't worry, the body's good and soft. It's really freaky. I don't know.

Just a malleable baby. This will be an influential baby, this one. But this is kind of like, you know, playing out this sort of thing of like people who, like millennials in this sort of social media age of influencers where like you become the commodity and you become the product. So you have to commodify nearly every fucking dimension of your life, like to your fucking, I mean, not that the bathwater is like a thing that you have to do but it's just the logic path that you're gonna follow it's like oh okay well how much of myself can i give or sell or cut off and get and people will buy yeah and what's i mean is

it more troubling that they're selling the baby or that there's definitely a market for the baby you know like well if we don't know if there's a market but if there is a market then it's the saddest market in the world. Yeah. Because it's people who've lost their baby. It's like, you know you could just have a baby, right? Well, you could just have your own. But the people who would buy them can't have that baby.

I guess that's true. That's what I'm saying. It feels very predatory. Yeah. And it's just weird, though, too. Again, now everything's a product. Oh, now my two-week old child is a product and how did they get that made i don't even know because a lot of other things when i'm thinking

about like other kind of dolls that one would make or whatever you're using like you're dipping the thing in wax or that kind of casting a mold and stuff so how did we cast this little baby mold that's a good question we put it under anesthesia And then we wrap it, and then we have the mold. No, I have no idea. It's also like, okay, so the draw here is that the baby looks like another baby, but so does every other baby. It's two weeks. Babies look like babies.

They all look like newborn mice. How many followers do those people have? The Ingham family, 1.2 million subs. Huh. Welcome to the... This is what their page description. Welcome to the iFam. We're the Ingham family from the UK. We are Chris, dad, Sarah, mom, Isabel, age 13, Esme, age 9, Isla, age 7, and our new baby boy, Jace, who was born in March this year.

We vlog our daily lives, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's what they're... Yeah, and I mean, this is a thing that's always been around people love to like live vicariously through a lot of these like influencer families and things like that look i just hope uh everyone can if look if you gotta buy a baby uh please don't bring it out in public because there's like a i've seen a lot of photos of people like getting freaked out by baby dolls and there was that one baby doll that was like in new york that was like one of these real life babies that the cops thought was a dead corpse. And they're like, oh, fuck.

I think that's it. And they're like, it's a doll that just looks super real. Fucked up. I think they're going to. What are they going to sell? Ten. Let's do a run on this. They can't sell more.

Their next video is like, I think they'll hit 100. Really? I guess. Look, you think about the 1.2 million subscribers, I guess as a percentage, what percentage of those 1.2 million do you think are hardcore enough? 1%? Half of 1%.

50%? Half of 1%. 0.5%? Okay. Then what is that? What's the numbers on that? Let's do the math, guys. He grabbed his phone.

Yeah, oh, man. I would like to write a list of things that you could do with 340 dollars that aren't buying a baby doll yeah you know what i'm that's like a plane ticket you could go on a trip for that to the midwest yeah or if you're in the uk or in europe six thousand yeah all right damn but i don't if hey damn if you have that kind of record you know if you're if you're like a if you're like a rich scene stir kid with just unlimited Damn. But I don't know. Hey, damn. If you have that kind of record, fuck it, man. Sell these baby dolls. You know, if you're like a rich scene-ster kid with just unlimited funds, that's totally like an ironic purchase.

You know, like, oh, my God, look, I got the IFAM's baby doll. Right. And you just, like, laugh about it for a week. Yeah, let's do coke off its little head. Yeah. Fuck yeah. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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