The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 94 (Best of 9/23/19-9/27/19)

Episode Date: September 29, 2019

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. But first, Manu, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay. Oh, from my search history?

Yes. Oh, I wrote it down. Oh, I remember what I wrote, what it was. Rorschach is hot. Oh, in the new HBO series no I mean historically the psychologist

Rorschach oh shit Herman Rorschach is fucking hot really yes Google Herman Rorschach of course

the gay internet the gay internet was like wait a second this old timey person was like and his haircut motherfucker

look like Brad Pitt. Yes, he does. Brad Pitt could play him in a movie. And look at his haircut. What the fuck? Why is his haircut so good? Yo, why is his hair so good? That's like 1920.

I think he was born in 1880. Yeah, this is like some time travel, like time traveler hot guy shit. People back then fucking stunk and like they like took showers weekly. Those people back then fucking stunk and they took showers weekly. Even his suit, which is whack, is rumpled and how a cool person would wear it. Right. The collars. I like how someone literally compared him to Brad Pitt in Seven. Yes.

Look at that. He's hot. I've been obsessed with it. The whole gay internet's losing their mind. Theories are going around that he might have not even been that good. But what's the bubble episode? The bubble. Think about it.

I think most psychologists are like, oh, yeah, like the Rorschach theory is interesting. But it says nothing more than the subconscious exists. He was just so hot. People were like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, we love it. We love it. Whatever you say. The orange Gatorade chicken is my favorite.

Yes. From 30 Rock. My orange chicken. I pour orange Gatorade on it. I'm saying the Rorschach inkblot is orange Gatorade chicken. It's the orange Gatorade chicken of Psych Test. Shit, that's a myth too right there. Right.

Boom. Myth. Twofer. But yeah, he's really hot. How did you learn to even have to Google him? Did something come up on Twitter and you're like, hold up. It was on Instagram. Got it.

It was on Instagram. It was some stupid funny meme where it was like, you know, like looking at your, like something like when you realize your grandpa might've been hot. Or it was like, it was like something like that. And it was like, there's people freaking out that it was Rorschach himself. I was like, that's wild. Let me tell you what I see when I look in this image. Right? A granddaddy.

Well, that is a hall of fame search history right there. What is something you think is overrated? Oh, tandem bicycles. I had a real good think about this. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. a hall of fame search history right there what is something you think is overrated oh tandem bicycles i had a real good think about this oh wow sounds like you almost hit somebody in a car who was riding tandem i just i've never seen someone happy on a tandem bicycle for for the first for the first 30 seconds a minute yes and then after that the second person behind is like well this is shit this is like i'm just looking at your back yeah i don't get to control any of this i see a lot of tandem bikes near venice and it always seems like a thing people just do because it's a thing to do not because it's a

thing they want to right it's like right you know be cool right let's ride like tandem bikes like by the beach like in california style yeah and they're like oh yeah then they rent it out for like a two hours and i'm like this is yeah. Then they rent it out for like two hours. And I'm like, this is stupid. Yeah. Until you have to navigate around people like that. And then there's always like the angry rollerbladers around the Venice boardwalk who are like, get out the way. Right.

But, you know. I think there's no joy in tandem bicycles. And I think they should be destroyed. All of them. Good. I agree with that. It's not fun for the person in the front. Or it's not any more fun than would be a single bike.

Right? Like single bikes you know you get to like see each other's journeys and maybe you follow each other and you separate and you get a little freedom it's freedom on a it's freeing on it when you're on a bicycle yeah solo and if one of you falls the other one can have a hearty laugh but if both of you fall you're both dead i guess also too if you think about it right there isn't what's the benefit to it being a tandem bike it's not necessarily like oh man you get fucking speed when you got two people i get like if you're in a canoe or whatever yeah two people it might be better than one or something like that

but a bike i think aside from just being like it's like a double mint gum commercial right i think that's it i think it was that double mint gum. I mean, obviously it wasn't invented for that, but bike technology has always been suspect. The first bicycle was the Penny Farthing, was the giant wheel of the bike. Oh, the big one, Penny Farthing. Yeah, and then they were like, what if we made them the same size? Wouldn't that be crazy?

Oh, get out of here, you heretic. Right. Well, if it brings you a little joy, my underrated is the Penny Farthing. Oh, wow. Yes. Go on, sir. that is so on brand i just i just thought you know what bring them back that they actually bring joy to people i feel like well at

least they definitely bring a joy to me seeing somebody on it because i think it's so dumb but it's also penny farthing racing uh so in the uk for example oh of course uh there is penny farthing racing. In the UK, for example. Oh, of course. There is penny farthing racing. And then like the people that watch the racing, they have bells. It's very old school. Where is it? Is it a specific part of the UK? I'm not too sure, but somewhere where people have been forgotten. Right.

And do women wear like fascinators too? Is it like posh or no? Is it very? Oh, I don't know. I think there's a nice blend. Yeah. I feel like if I'm going to a penny farthing race and I'm a woman, I'm throwing a fascinator on.

Right. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. People don't know what fascinators are. It's the fancy things you see people wear, like the Jubilee, just like a feathered accessory, not a hat. Yeah. Does none of the work of a hat, but...

It's fascinating. Yeah. It's a gesture towards a hat it's like having a hat shaped object pinned to the side of your head yeah i just i just think we should bring it back you know the roaring 20s are about to come upon us no and i think that would be one of the things come all over our face oh wow sorry that was too much uh cool but yeah i think they're back i'm still processing what you said jack Jack. But the penny farthing. Have you ridden a penny farthing before?

No, I haven't. I like that they exist. Yeah, yeah. Tandem bicycles. I fucking hate them. Wow. Yeah, honestly. I have a real anger.

Yeah, yeah. Actually, I am seeing a therapist because of the tandem bicycles. The tandem, right. And what they have, the effect that they have on me. Yeah. Penny farthing. Yeah. There's no other.

Find me one person that looks like penny farthing and just gets angry. No one. He won't find a single person. No, I mean, again, it's. I think you would, and they would probably be wearing a mega hat, like that sort of thing. Like, what is this bullshit? What is this European bullshit?

Yeah. The thing, though. Oh, wow. I'm looking at a video of the city of london's penny farthing race and these people have like oh they're kind of modern i'm not gonna lie oh really this ain't your great great great great grandfather's penny farthing huh this is like they look like they're like graphite frames and shit damn that's a fucking i just feel like to eat shit on one of these bikes would be so dangerous like that's why it's wonderful you're hospitalized guaranteed uh we have free health care in europe so we can take more risks yeah damn well we would do the same thing here we're just we're still figuring it out maybe that's why you guys have tandem bicycles maybe

one of these got health care so at least you're right take the risk and you can lie about who's right injured yeah yeah i'm actually this is hilarious are these tall are they are they tall penny farthings yeah pretty tall yeah yeah oh they have to be yeah that is how okay interesting well shout out to all the pro penny farthers being wow watching them go around a turn is pretty is something else because they're leaning all the way over. I'd just like to see a motorized penny farming. Yeah. In the future, you often see these big wheeled

vehicles where you enter the wheel. And then just ride off in a wheel. And you ride off in that wheel. Yeah, it reminds me of the light cycle from Tron. Legacy. Hell yeah. Well, what's a myth? Oh.

What do you think is underrated? Aging. Aging. Oh, weirdly, as I've just talked about. From what standpoint? Well, I just, so I'm staying at my friend's and he has a roof pool. And I was up there the other day and I just sort of packed up my stuff and i was leaving and in came a woman was so iconic i would say she was like late 60s um her body was incredible the

lips were i'm gonna say you know if i was to take a thing away like a little bit overdone but she was in the full swimming costume but she had like a uh a spritzer in one hand a wine spritzer and she looked like she was dragging a case in i was like oh she's here with the cake and then it was only as i went past her i realized that she had her yorkshire terrier in the case and i was like this is my this is goals for me this is that one day i want to get to my late 60s be at a roof pool right with my white wine spritzer and my tiny dog and like yorkshire terrier in a rolling suitcase yeah yeah that's pretty great i was hoping you're gonna say the rolling thing was actually a cooler with more wine

he's like no no no i'm not going anywhere i was just like so iconic and i think we often look at aging in such a negative way yeah but actually there's something to be said for like letting go of giving a shit about what other people think of just kind of like living your best life and um yeah yeah i was just like that is iconic i want to be like that that's my you know my goals or dolly parton right who just seems to be there was like a picture of her up on a website the other day one of those awful like i want to say like the daily mail sidebar i don't know what the equivalent of it here would be well people we also check out the daily fail here for trash gossip yeah that's where our ukraine adoption story comes from right so it was like that and then it had a website called cars and yachts it said underneath and it said click on this this

picture of dolly parton without makeup will make you want to skip lunch and i was like no that won't make me want to skip lunch it'll make me want to buy lunch that i paid for myself which money i've made from working hard living my dream like dolly and my salad dressing will be the male tears of men who are upset that dolly has a bigger yacht and car than they do like well i think and also those especially those weird clickbait things that are always being served in the bottom of every website it's always just some nonsense salacious garbage that is never actually what it says it is right like you know it may just be a photo where it was like her younger like looking different they're like anyway you clicked sorry we got the ad we got the click we got the you had the temerity to age and keep living, Dolly. But to me, I was like, actually, I think she's better than she's ever been. She's had this amazing career.

Oh, and she's a resurgent. Yeah, she continues to do great stuff and not give a shit what people think. That's why I just think aging. And I think all parts of culture are starting to kind of come around to her being a national treasure. Like it's not just people from Tennessee anymore. I think everybody. Everyone. I think everyone knows Dolly.

She's Dolly. She's the best. She's our Dolly. And yeah, there have been psychological studies that say that people generally get happier and happier as they age. Is that as they realize they let go of all the bullshit they thought was significant you just learn right because you're a learning organism like as a human being you get better at doing life unless you know unless you don't in which

case you might not make it all long enough to uh get happier and happier as you age. I think there's a point, and I think that probably happens in your 30s, I think for me it was, where there's a change. It used to be when I was younger, I was obsessed with what everyone else thought about me. And now I just, it's what do I think? Right.

Well, yeah, all that validation has to come internally first, right? Yeah. Yeah, because if you seek it externally, it'll be fleeting. Should we talk about caffeinated yogurt? Yes. Yeah. Just because, what the fuck?

Pro-fuel. Oikos, makers of Greek yogurt, they got, yes, Oikos fucking Pro-fuel. I don't know why they needed, that name isn't good, but it is a fucking, what they describe as a caffeinated and cultured dairy drink. Notice they can't say yogurt because I'm guessing it didn't reach the technical requirements to be considered a yogurt.

But it's about now it's 25 grams of protein and 100 milligrams of caffeine. I don't know how much is in a cup of coffee. And I guess under a cup of coffee, it's like 130 or something like that. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Caffeine expert here. Yeah.

So what's that going to do? I mean, I guess if you're sensitive, you get a little something. It's just like a lightly caffeinated muscle milk, basically. Ugh. But muscle milk, like caffeine is good for working out. Are people going to use it as pre-workout? Is that the idea? Yeah.

But you don't load up protein before you work out. Yeah. I think it's for people who. I like to have a nice big milkshake before I go for a run. It's like Go-Gurt for adults that scream. Right. That's basically what this shit is. It's like, yeah, man.

Well, cause it's like in a, it's like in a bottle that's like shaped so you can just chug it in your fucking commute or whatever. It's a black bottle, too, so you know it's made for men. Yeah. It looks like it was designed by the same people who make Axe body spray bottles. Yeah. But the caffeine comes from the flesh of the coffee cherry, not the nut that turns into the bean that we use for coffee.

So if that means anything to you uh great yeah but caffeinated i mean i'll try it because i think it's interesting but also there's something odd about caffeinated yogurt in general to me i don't know i think i think it sounds convenient right it's like how like doesn't soylent have like a caffeinated version probably have you yeah it's not good. It's fucking really, really bad. Yeah. I mean, it's like passable.

You know what I mean? Like I'm like, I get it. If you're like, so like a fucking every second of my life fucking counts. I don't have time to fucking eat. I don't have time to shit. Right.

I'm going to fucking drink Soylent. That's some Silicon Valley shit. Yeah. That is some Silicon Valley shit. But I think it's- We're optimizing the food consumption process. I think it is like just a certain type of person who values different things

than like taste. Human experience kind of stuff. But I guess if like your Lord and Savior is the almighty dollar, then like,

yeah, you're like, dude, I don't have time to fucking look at my kids in the eye. Right. Barely.

Right. I sleep here at Google every day. Yeah. Soylent is also like unregulated. They did a dollop episode about it. Oh, really? It's a mess, man.

They had like the ingredients for it just like sitting out on a warehouse floor. What do you mean? Like were they manufactured? Yeah. They just had like a big pile of it on a tarp on a floor and like people were getting poisoned by it. They were getting like food poisoning from it and they had to do a bunch of recalls and shit jesus christ yeah so it's so weird that they branded it as like some revolutionary product when it's like they're like insure has existed just mail replacement right yeah what i think because

it was that whole like idea of like these rich motherfuckers are are pounding this shit because they can't they don't have time man right so if you're broke and an aspiring wealthy person right this is for you not to shit your grandma has to drink she had a stroke right it's fucking soylent man how do i tell people that i use apple products with my food right no i'm just kidding for real yeah oh boy it's a little early but it is time to start thinking about halloween costumes do you guys with my food. Right. No, I'm just kidding. For real. Yeah. Oh, boy. It's a little early, but it is time to start thinking about Halloween costumes. Do you guys have yours

picked out already? I, oof. I dress up maybe every election year. Oh, okay. Roughly, like, every four years.

Half the time, I'm like, man, I'm not going fucking out. Right. Or if I do, then I do some half-ass costume, but it's, I only catch the true spirit

every four years yeah um i don't know what i'm gonna be and see i don't have a family like you so i don't have i don't have no you know kids to be taking around the neighborhood yeah do you have a costume oh yeah i love halloween i have like a different costume every day if and also if it falls on a weird weekend where people go out two weekends i'll have like i have a caused so my main one this year that i've started thinking about is did you guys see the normani motivation music video yeah so i want to do the 1996 okay white top do you make your own yeah i make most of my own stuff yeah okay like either like i'll find out or like you know i'm really good with scissors um i do have a sewing machine, so I can do very basic things. Oh, shit. Okay. But it looks pretty almost tied together.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think it'll be easy. And then I just have to spray paint 1996 on it. There you go. Get your airbrushing out. Yeah. And then, I don't know. When I don't know, I'm usually like a cat.

But I really like Instagram. When I don't know, usually a cat. Usually a cat. That's the default. But I love the Instagramming all of Halloween weekend. Oh, wow. So do you have your costume programming already settled? That's definitely one of them.

Wow. So that's definitely going to be one night. Okay, damn. There will be photos. Well, stay tuned. You'll see. Yeah, I more or less just shoehorned this segment into the episode because Taco Bell just released

a bunch of costumes and you know I'm from hell so my blood type is fire sauce or Diablo sauce but their costumes are so lazy but like in the most amazing way you could be a motherfucking gordita okay not very impressive it looks like

it's screen printed onto a fucking silk sheet they also have it for children if you want to show people you really don't care about your child's future and then they have like hot sauce packets uh for men and women yeah so there's a thotty version or it depends on if you want to thot it up you can make it a little more thotty or you can be in a little more generic sauce packet version then i kind of started looking at what people are talking about in terms of the shitty costumes. There's a hot Mr. Rogers. Is there any other

type of Mr. Rogers? That's true. Yeah. Okay. Point taken. That is just basically like Daisy Duke shorts and red sweater and like a playmate collar with a tie. Wait, did he rock a tie? I don't know. This is what they're calling it. You know what I mean? No, he did. Yeah, collar with a tie. Wait, did he rock a tie?

I don't know. This is what they're calling it. You know what I mean? No, he did. Yeah, he wore a tie. He always wore a tie? I think so. I can't.

In my mind, I just think of his voice. With no shirt underneath? Just a tie? Yeah, just a tie around his neck. Chiseled chest. No practical purpose for that, weirdly. She's also wearing high heels where like his whole thing was

that he would sit down and take his sneakers off. Yeah, well, look, come on. Well, she'll probably take those off. Right. Yeah. And then there was another one I just saw like his whole thing was that he would sit down and take his uh sneakers off yeah well look come on she'll probably take those off right yeah and then there was another one i just saw that just was a dress that had dollars printed on it and it just said tariff spray paint on the front is that a political costume it must be but it's like a political cartoon it's like one of those things that like has like a bag with like an elephant sitting on it. And it's like the country. Right.

Here's your tariff. Right. I mean, I'm curious to know who that appeals to. Like someone goes, I want a sexy costume that is going to make commentary about our trade war with China. Like where's that Venn diagram? It's just like rant. Like they were like, what else is topical? Tariffs.

Tariffs. Just write tariff on our dress. What happened to that dollar dollar bills y'all dress we had from last year? All right, reprint those. Reprint those with tariff on the front. Right, right. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Normani's a great, like, timely, zeitgeisty costume.

Well, she's like a year younger than me, so it's like a fun... Got it. Oh, nice. You're like, actually, not really. I'm not really born in 96, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we do what we gotta do. It's Halloween, yeah. Wait, you were born in 97?

I was born in 95. 95. You're older. I'm older than Normani. Oh, I thought you said you were younger. Tragically for me, yeah. Wow. Oh, my God. Oh, how are you dealing with that? I'm so old. I had no idea.

How are you dealing with that? Not well. Yeah, I had no idea. How are you dealing with that? Not well. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's hard. Does that motivate a lot of your comedy? Feeling old. Or, yeah, or just in comparison to Normani. Yeah, I think I, well, I also, I have a sister.

She was born in 2002, so she's not even 18 yet. Right. And she's, like, really famous on Instagram. Yes, very funny. So, that's, you know, a huge part of my own brand. Yeah, yeah. In relation to your sister,

yes. Yeah, she's seven years younger than me. That's pretty difficult. I think I saw the, one of the first tweets I saw from you was about your sister and that you had an ex-boyfriend

who kept asking you her birthday. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you had to break up with him. That was my first big tweet ever.

Oh, was it? Yeah. There you go. Making, making moves out here. Well, yeah. We'll keep covering. I think topical Halloween costumes is a good way to just sort of monitor the zeitgeist.

Not the zeitgang. We don't monitor you guys. I promise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But please download the iHeartRadio app. App. Yes app app yes listen exclusively through there and leave it open if possible and allow my background allow microphone and camera access if you could just describe like your purchasing habits that would be dope fantastic yeah i'm trying to think what would be the most 2019 costume i mean tariff is like a good example of the sort of thing. It's like some shit from, I mean, I'm sure there's going to be some political ones about, you know, like ice agents and then, you know, people being held in kids and cages. Dude, a Smirnoff ice agent?

Oh, shit. I mean, I think that's a little too. A little too wacky. Creative to be a thing that a lot of people are talking about. Well, one year I was Pharrell Williams Wallace. And I was Pharrell mixed with William Wallace. You just had a Pharrell hat. I had that big ass like fucking Vivian Westwood hat.

Yeah, yeah. And then a blue face paint with like a babe shirt and a kilt. Hell yeah. Anyway. That's just an excuse to show off those legs, man. Yeah, yo. Anything to rock a kilt. Hey, man, those quads, man.

You can see all four of them. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. 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.

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Without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. 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 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 near them. Why is that? 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. 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.

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 near them.

Why is that? Just come here and 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. 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 vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. All right, let's talk about how the millennials

killed the Amtrak dining car. Yeah, so time for my generation to seawalk all over another grave. Yeah. We've done it, millennials. Hell yeah. This time, we killed the Amtrak dining car. No!

Now, for those of you who are not familiar with the Amtrak dining car, it was- Like most of the country. Yeah, well, I mean, hey, our parents know. Right. Our grandparents know. Is it because they weren't serving avocado? Because I know what you guys are like. Yeah.

The avocado. Where's the avocado? Burn the fucking thing down. You know, who would have thought that the most broke generation might not be into the white tablecloth service of an Amtrak dining car when you're on a train? But again, what's interesting about this is that the whole millennial angle came from the person at Amtrak who was indirectly in charge for the health of this car. So this guy named Peter Willender said, some people really liked the dining car and viewed as sort of a nostalgic train experience. Pivot to some people, especially our new millennial customers, don't like it so much. They want more privacy. They don't want to

feel uncomfortable sitting next to people. Okay, that's through all of your analysis. That's what it was? Yeah. So will people not be able to buy food on trains? Oh, come on. This is America, baby. They're going to sell you whatever the fuck they can.

What's funny is the move that they're doing is actually saving the company money. Right. Because what they'll do is basically make it like a pre-order system. Right. Where before you get on the train, you say, i would like microwaved to hell pasta right and then you can pick it up and eat it uh shamefully at your seat yeah so it's like a first class dining thing

in the amtrak no like anyone can you can access it oh okay yeah no matter where you are there was a part of the plane where you could get your plane food and like sit with other plane passengers. But it's like that level of like culinary excellence is plane food. It's plane food, right? Yeah. So you can eat this food miserably on your own in your car or your room. Or you could with strangers. Yeah, like Orient Express nostalgia. Because if it was like an upgrade, it would be different.

Because we have that on the, we have the, I get on the night train, the overnight trains. God, what are they called? Why can't I think of the name of them? To Scotland and back. Used to be the GNER. The sleeper trains. Ah, sleeper. Get the sleeper trains.

You get like a little berth to yourself. But then there's also a dining car that you can go out into and you can have whiskey and it's got a bar and you can have. Yeah. And so people are a bit more sociable in that yeah that's the same it's the same kind of thing but but it is is there a bar in the amtrak well you can buy like little bottles of liquor there oh i've definitely gotten drunk in my share of the dining cars feeling like a giant yeah tiny yeah exactly like what's happening to me it's like no sir you've had your ninth little whiskey bottle.

So it's a similar thing then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think, you know, I don't know. I like the idea of the dining car, but I think ultimately when you're on a train, it's like, I'll just sit here. I'm so used to, like, plane travel or something else. Right.

Everything's done at my seat. Yeah. But, you know, RIP. I mean, instead of having drinks with people, they're having drinks and going on Tinder. Yeah, exactly. They're watching their TV shows on Tinder streams. Watching the TikToks.

Let's talk about affirmative action. But for rich white kids, we mentioned this a little bit in the past that uh you know college sports we think of you know college basketball college football because those are watchable um but there's all these other like most college sports uh at any given college college uh are sports like you know lacrosse and rowing and other things that you have to have a lot of money to do right to play and so uh it ends up being a uh somebody described it as affirmative action for rich white kids oh by playing one of these non-Big Three type sports? Yeah, exactly. Right, right, right. And it's also

not super competitive. It's just like you go to a prep school in the Northeast where this sport is actually played. Sick at the regatta, dude. Squash. Yeah. Sailing and squash were easy ways that people

There's collegiate squash. Yeah. I love squash. I do love a game of squash. Yeah. It's basically like racquetball with a deader ball, I believe. You mean less bounce? Less bounce.

Yeah, less bounce. Like deader. It's like a popped racquetball. We don't really do racquetball in the UK, but we do squash. Do you? Yeah. Makes sense. But there's lots of, you know, posh, fancy schools there.

So I didn't know that's where it came from. I feel like I'm really subverting it being a working class state school girl playing squash. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's like the number one street sport in the UK is squash. It's like, what's up, man? Yeah. Yeah.

You go to any council housing, you'll see it. Yeah. Just wild squash games happening. You can hang out on my block, but you got to play me for it. Whoa. And it's a game of squash. Anyways, so because Harvard was sued over their admissions policies, we got a peek into their numbers and it's pretty shocking.

Yeah. A lot of the data came out as evidence because this woman said the admissions process was unfairly discriminating against Asian applicants. That's right. And so Harvard, they're like, okay, well, we need to see the data so we can begin to kind of assess this. The data became public, but unrelated to that, these researchers started combing through the data and wow, there's a, I mean, I don't know if you'll believe this about Harvard University, but I just, from what they found, from 2009 until 2014, they found that 43% of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard were either athletes, legacies, meaning their parents had gone there, or children of donors and faculty. Only about a quarter of those students would have been accepted to the school without those admission advantages. Yeah.

So. Is that legal yeah okay because i know there's been this whole obviously there's been this whole admission scandal sort of thing the problem yeah so what those people did was pay somebody to change the scores to change the scores or to bribe people bribe people to pretend like there was a tiny bit of artifice whereas this is just how america works yeah this is just like the networking right yeah where it's like their grandparents paid somebody a long time ago i mean that's the same as you know that's why um before we started the podcast i was sort of saying in the uk if you fail if you're a posh white man and you fail you just fail upwards relentlessly into your prime minister right so yeah so so that's the same there i mean if you like eaton has that and you know george w bush was kicked out of the white house for being too drunk one time and like that that is something that would be life defining for most people

for him it was like a bump in the road that let him know it was time to turn it around and become president. Yeah, when you look at sort of the mix too, at first I was like, well, surely this doesn't just apply to the Caucasian students, this being a legacy or faculty or donor, right? That should be everyone if you're giving money or legacy.

Okay, well, so if you break it down again into like four racial categories 27 percent of white students were likely to be legacies only 5.8 percent for black students 9.5 for hispanic and 11.0 for asian students so at best it's over twice as much as the closest right so that's families families who went to harvard yeah right or or but they also include like uh the dean's interest list or fact or people who are children of faculty yeah there's like all sorts of ways they find to let people in who they're essentially doing a favor for like their parents or something there's uh one thing that you can do where like a student can apply but then take a year off so they become like part of the next year's class i think we

talked about um and it's just i don't know i don't for whatever reason that makes it easier for you to get in but i know kids who did that to specifically go to Harvard. Say you're super talented. How many scholarships are there now for like, are they not sports based? Say you're super, super clever and you come from projects or social housing or like, and you scored off the charts on your SATs. That's what you call them here,

right? What are the chances of you then getting into somewhere like Harvard? I mean, if your scores are good, there's definitely a chance. I think at that point, it's then about how you come up with the money for tuition. And some people might get an academic scholarship. They might get it from outside groups that they can apply to to get a lot of their tuition paid for. But it's not, I mean, it's hard to, I would,

it'd be hard to say that Harvard's admissions process is meritocratic in any way. Right. It really seems like this puts a lie to the idea that they're having to bend over backwards to let in people who are from a different class or people who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. It seems more like they're bending over backwards to let in the children of people who they know right average white average white yeah average white dudes like all those average like a third essentially what this means is a third of harvard's caucasian students don't

deserve to be there and so in place of that third uh you put like people who despite like you know having gone to uh you know not prep schools they they went to public schools god forbid uh you know they get into harvard instead of that third like right we have a better country in general those you're gonna say isn't that better for everyone you're putting the bright sparks and the brains and the smart people, the talented people in here. And more diverse mix of people from different social backgrounds. And I think that's the thing, because

they do point out that even if you took away all those advantages for those certain things like legacy students, faculty, kids of faculty or whatever, it's not going to it wouldn't change the amount of Caucasian students that were admitted, but it would create a much more economically diverse class. Right.

And I think that's the thing is like, you go to Harvard and if you go to Harvard business school, like you're just in like predatory capitalism, shark school. Right. And you're not, and you're meeting other people who are like being like, yeah, man, we're just going to fucking make a ton of money and whatever. Yeah. You're joining a club that has access to insane amounts of power. And, I mean, in addition to it just being easier because they're friends with the parents of these kids, it's hard not to think that there's some design, some overall design to this that, like, you don't let the poor kids in because the poor kids

then might like have a lot of power and start giving money back to other poor people instead of you know playing by the rules yeah the social dynamics and yes the hierarchical structures that exist i mean it's wild to me that there is an interview portion of the admissions process where they're like, okay, but what is their socialization like? Do they know how to act? Right. It's more just like, well, they're polished to know how to do a given interview. You have test scores. You have your application essays.

You have your grades, and then you have an interview where previous graduates sit down and look you over and decide how they feel about you. Right. What you're wearing, how you sit. Yeah, exactly. The question should be like, you're in a life raft, and there are two people in the water. Right. One is an elderly billionaire who's lived a full life. He's 97 years old, and he says he promises to make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams if you just pull him

into the boat. There's only room for one person. The other person is a disadvantaged asylum seeker from a country where they're fleeing persecution. Who do you pull into the boat? What do you do? The billionaire? Okay, great. Welcome to Harvard.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I just looked up creme de la mer. Creme de la mer. Yes. The skin cream? The skin cream.

Of a horse? The sea, Jack? Of the sea. La mer. Cream of the sea. Oh, that sounds weird. Cream of the sea. Cream of the sea of the sea the man cream of the sea oh that sounds yeah weird cream of the sea yeah the sea sounds

like someone masturbating yeah that or like when when you're by the shore and like the the waves are like frothing yeah

that's in my mind I think that would be cream of the sea yeah the white and the white caps I instantly went sexual

and gross right yeah I mean I was just trying to think of what that would look like and yeah I prefer the foam but yeah The white and the white caps. I instantly went sexual and gross. Yeah. I mean, I was just trying to think of what that would look like. And yeah, I prefer the foam. But yeah, it would equally be, yeah. Seacum. Let's just go there.

Seacum. Which is, I think we described oysters as being like the sea ejaculating your mouth. Oh, did we? Oh, maybe. The briny taste of an oyster. Anyway, we digress. So we're thinking of creme de la mer. Side note, I do like to pee in the sea when I'm in it

just to mark my territory. There you go. I feel like other animals should know. Like this is my bit. So I was looking it up because it popped into my mind and an ad popped up on my computer for it. I have used it. And then I had this kind of memory about a friend of mine,

my friend Ash, about 10, 15 years ago. So I was looking up creme de la mer because I was looking up the current price. And I'm pretty sure when we were first talking about it, it was about £150. And I said to my friend Ash, this cream is £150 because it's got seaweed in it. And he went, go swimming in the sea, you cunts. It was his response to to people who spent 150 pounds yeah which is like what like around 190 almost yeah of our u.s dollars that's

a lot how how big is is it uh like a swimming pool worth of the creme de la mer or how much how much we talking i don't know it's like a little tub maybe a couple hundred mils wow you're making a slider sized uh yeah oh yeah that's hockey puck even realizing that people can't see what i'm I don't know. It's like a little tub, maybe a couple of hundred mils. Wow. You're making a slider-sized hand gesture. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Hockey puck even. Realizing that people can't see what I'm doing. Yeah, hockey puck. Yeah, hockey puck.

So maybe a bit deeper. Deeper than, yeah. Deeper, yeah. And I think it's more than 150 now. I think it's probably a couple of hundred. What is the secret of the sea exactly that makes it so indispensable? The seaweed, I think think has like massive healing properties i mean i think originally the cream was actually developed by a swiss doctor who was

working on burns and developed it to work on people's skin who'd had like interesting oh here we go enough of helping these poor much is that saying it is now? 180? 180 USD. For what size? For what looks like a chapstick. A one ounce? An ounce. 180 an ounce? How does that compare to street value of cocaine? Well, depends on where you get it.

But I wouldn't know, allegedly. But for weed, that's, it's more expensive than weed. Well, it depends on what state, again, it's about what's legal. Is it going to help your skin though?

Weed? No. No. No, it will help your appetite and it will help your mouth get very dry. Yeah. Yeah. Those are about the things,

or, and you'll have a panic attack about maybe, you know, something that's meaningless. Do you guys moisturize? I started, my partner, Her her majesty began telling me i should really give a fuck about my skin more because i was relying on my black and asian-ness

to not have a routine aside from washing it and she's like you should use this use this after you wash i'm like what the fuck is this uh so i'm uh i'm not good at it but i've been i've been told i should start thinking about it. Right. And I try to remember to use. You look super young, if that helps. Thank you. You know, it's this damn biracial shit going on.

These damn perfect genetics. These damn parents of mine. Miles has incredible skin. One time, actually, a celebrity makeup artist said i had great skin and i used that to never moisturize my face again i held on to that to be like i don't think i need to do anything i feel like i had a small skin victory this morning because i actually washed my face before putting on moisturizer which i had been just putting moisturizer on without washing without washing my face my wife was like what are you doing and yeah it did turn my face. My wife was like, what are you doing?

And it did turn my face very greasy. Yeah, just on top of the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're already secreting oils as you sleep. Yeah. You want when you like wipe your face on something for that thing to immediately become see-through. Right, exactly.

Do the see-through test. Yeah. I'm so pleased that I've got, I've come on and I've got guys talking about skincare. Yeah. Is that my dream? You have great skin, by the way. Thanks.

You've got great skin. How many stages do you use? Great skin for a white. For an Anglo. What do you say? What do I use? Yeah. How many stages of skincare are there?

Oh, I like, I've, I've, I used to go to sleep in my makeup all the time. Cause I liked, uh, waking up looking fuck smudged.

But, um, but yes, um, I, I used to, I used to, but now as I've got a bit older,

um, I've decided that I should be like, I'll just use a face wash or wipes to take it off at night and you know i turned 40 last year so i've started throwing money at my face a bit more in terms of expensive creams does that work i don't know it's more about it's more about the texture i suppose of the cream and stuff and how makeup sits on top of it and stuff like that but i just i never really used to use a separate eye cream which you know i got shouted at yeah i was like it's all skin isn't it it's all on my face yeah exactly that's what that's what i think i get hung up i'm like ain't it all the same thing

right it's like oh no skin around your eyes is very different so i think spf is probably the thing that i've been trying to do more more than anything else yeah protect it from the sun from the sun because i think that's the big uh that's the big aging yeah step one i'm sorry just going back to your friend's comment uh so in the queens would cunt be between like asshole and bitch somebody calling you that because i think if i called my friend bitch it would still even like be a little bit more offensive than that sounded then cunt yeah then it sounded coming from her friend to her yeah i mean it wasn't to me calling me a cunt it was just saying the people that buy it go swim in the sea you cunts oh god it's a plural a plural cunt like stop being dicks yeah um but also it is much more cunt is much more of a term of endearment in

the uk than it is here i don't know whether we can keep these hard seas in. You might have to edit them out. No, we do, you know, because it's a learning lesson for everyone involved. Yeah, absolutely. All right, that's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show

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