The Daily Zeitgeist - When the Zeit has Come 1/24: Corona Virus, Doomsday Clock, Nicki Minaj, Comcast

Episode Date: January 24, 2020

On this edition of When the Zeit has come Jack and Miles discuss Corona Virus spreading, the Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds, Nicki Minaj is coming, and Comcast has a nation wide blackout. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this Thursday afternoon episode of When the Zeit has come, and the land is dark. Zeitgeist. I'm Jack, that's Miles. Let's talk about what's trending. Miles, coronavirus. Coronavirus. Continues. This is fucking about what's trending. Miles. Coronavirus. Coronavirus. This is fucking.

It's getting freaky. It is. I think in China, they had to quarantine like three more cities or something. Oh, word. They're like locking shit the fuck down. There's a suspected case in Texas. There were people who were quarantined at LAX. Hey, I'm glad we're going to be traveling.

Yeah. Excited. I'm excited. I'm just going to wear my respirator, put my BDSM latex protective suit on. And they found out it came from snakes because it wasn't scary enough already. Wait. You know how bird flu came from birds? Sure. So this is snake flu?

This is snake flu. Wow. This is the most recent animal that it came through. And it came out of- They did a genetic analysis. Like a market in Wuhan where this, like you could get any kind of animal. Any animal.

I saw some shit like they sold koalas there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know about that. I've not been there, but it does seem like there was a- Why are you getting cagey? I cannot confirm that.

I may be the manager. I do not condone eating koalas at this point. I don't know. Is it koala meat or is this for like a, you know, your child wants a koala for Christmas? Yeah, could be that. Oh, but they have a, what's the thing? They have a STD or something, right?

Chlamydia. It's chlamydia, yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I know that It's just one of those weird facts like internet facts you always learn where it's like yeah koalas may look chill but they will give you chlamydia

Snakes have a clap actually the clap is chlamydia so snakes the way that they pass it on is not like through biting. It's actually man bites snake. It's through snake meat, I guess, would be how it was spread to human,

is my understanding. So, yeah, don't eat it. Stop eating snake, you guys. I mean, you know, I've had a rattlesnake sausage. It's nice and rough and substantive. You just bit into a rattlesnake like Smeagol? Yeah. Just the side of it like, come here, you son of a bitch.

Yeah, so I don't know. Stay safe out there, but let's also try not to panic. Also, wash the fuck out of your hands. Right. Really? That's like such an easy thing to do. Right. Started doing that more.

Yeah. I went from never washing my hands ever. Right. I would, well, as we all know, I would do my once a year bath, once a year hand washing. Who was that? Wasn't that a Fox News host who was like, I never wash my hands. Yeah. Why would you ever wash your hands?

After going to the bathroom, I think was his whole thing. It's like, I'm not peeing on my hands. Right. Anyways, wash your hands before and after you eat your snake raw uh scientists have moved the doomsday clock closer to midnight um approaching midnight it's it's now that even means mere seconds from midnight so this is one of those things that i am conflicted about because uh it's from the bulletin of the atomic scientists uh it you know they are reacting to a very real risk uh the the idea that humanity will just

uh snuff itself out with a thermonuclear war um oh right because last time they changed i feel it was like oh we got climate change we have like nuclear arms proliferation so now they've expanded it to all human man-made disasters uh not just the not just a nuclear war oh oh okay so it's more like we have an opinion on where y'all are at it's's an opinion. That's correct. And that's your opinion, atomic scientist crew. And it's also, I just, I agree that we are in a very bad position with the president of the United States that we have, with climate change breathing down our neck. Breathing down our neck. At the same time, I would just say that this is a organization that has its entire existence and reason for being and all the attention that it gets based on this one sort of decision

that they make every year, whether to move it closer to midnight or not and it so it is as close to midnight as as close to the end of humanity as it's ever been uh last year it was two minutes to midnight now it is a hundred seconds uh to midnight so it's i do take this with a bit of a grain of salt, you know. Well, because it's a group of people who are sort of getting together to be like,

should we move it up? Nothing's changing, right? Right. At this rate, we are looking at certain. It's a board of experts and then a specific group that issues this statement

of when or how close to midnight the doomsday clock is. it's just did it start in the cold war or something yeah i think it started in the cold war and oh because they were like okay this is how close you are to like that nightmare scenario of everyone vape vaping yeah or vaporizing yeah to t2 judgment day uh fence rattling yeah watching your kid playing the playground yeah but it's just like like I guess I need to look more into it, but I'm interested to see how

often they have been like, actually, we're moving it back. A good year for the end of humanity. It's staved it off. Or they're just like a bunch of really cynical old scientists who are like, ah, it's all fucked. I mean, facts. I believe everything you say. Right, facts, facts.

Nicki Minaj is coming is something that's trending. Yeah. Hashtag Nicki Minaj is coming. On the tweeter. So she retired. This is- I think it was she, I don't know if she's calling it a retirement or a hiatus. She announced that she was going to take some time away from the spotlight to focus on her family.

Right. take some time away from the spotlight to focus on her family right and then now uh as of this recording the number one trending thing on twitter is nikki minaj is coming uh but as far as i can tell it's just she announced like a live show that's happening in miami then that's happening right so she is coming back i guess i did notice a lot of people you know a lot of barbs Nicki Minaj stands who are like hey Nicki Minaj is coming hashtag Nicki Minaj is coming let me get a hundred replies with Nicki hashtag Nicki Minaj is coming going so it's almost like it's one of those fan groups that votes for the the artist yeah the more we do this trend show yeah and we look at twitter and other things too we've i think more than ever we're more like up on realizing

that there are very i mean we're so old we didn't realize there were active fan bases who just want to get things trending to you know outdo the other fan groups um but yeah this is purely i mean i thought i was like okay is there an album announced whatever whatever it's the only thing i can find is this hashtag right so yeah yeah welcome back barbie yes uh and then comcast finally uh nationwide blackout nationwide fucking blackout i mean i think this for most people right you live in any major metropolitan area you have like one of two choices for internet service providers because it's like a near fucking monopoly uh so the philly based company it's funny we were talking about comcast yesterday because they own the flyers and what's his face gritty punched a kid in the back

allegedly right allegedly uh they said that around 2 p.m uh there was like an outage that surfaced and people were just like what the fuck is going on and for comcast they're like come on we're comcast expected all day internet right uh and then you know i think for about an hour or 45 minutes they said uh you know it calmed down and by 4 p.m eastern time they're like okay all good right go back to using your internets i mean i think this just like shows how much like how fucked the situation is with these telecoms too where it's you know you can't really do the thing like whenever you want to cancel your internet they're like where the fuck you gonna go right right use the library yeah and it's like i might if i have to spectrum yeah but it's just there's might, if I have to. I need a heat spectrum.

Yeah, but it's just there's so much. The barrier to entry to provide the service they provide is just impossible. They're like, yeah, build your own fiber optic lines. Exactly. You're like, ah, shit. Yeah. Fine. Yeah, so for all the people who were caught up in the nationwide internet failure,

thoughts and prayers out to you. I'm glad you're back online. There's actually a New Yorker story about this town in eastern Kentucky that has like some of the fastest Wi-Fi in the nation. And it's just this like smaller telecom company that just invested in getting- Just their own area, right? Yeah, their own area. And, you know, they just have this dude

who's like the leader of the company who's just really practical and just wants to help the people from his hometown area. And it's kind of dope. The article's called The One Traffic Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S.

It's by Sue Halperin. And the dude's name is Keith Gabbard. But yeah, it's a dope article that, I don't know. It just kind of opens the possibility of, wait, what if we weren't controlled by these massive companies that just...

Shit, maybe we should start our own in L.A. Called, la right called hey hey hey give us a second right hey but we're getting there wait a second yeah uh but he did benefit like you also get insight into the process of you know the government had that time where they were going to spend a shitload of money to get the fiber yeah to get the fiber optic cables out there and they were like yeah let's double down let's do it but that's that's not a thing that's easy to to come by yeah that's why a lot of candidates even in the presidential primaries are like sort of they have that as a policy thing like yo no we understand right you got to get everybody

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afternoon anything else to share with the listeners just invest in our drone company stay safe wash your hands going to do it for this Thursday afternoon. Anything else to share with the listeners? Just invest in our drone company. Stay safe. Wash your hands before and after eating snake, and we will be back tomorrow with more podcasts. Talk to you then. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven

years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.

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