The Daily Zeitgeist - Wisconsin Parties, Mannequins > Real People 5.15.20

Episode Date: May 15, 2020

In episode 631, Jack, Miles, and Jamie are joined by Couples Therapy podcast's Andy Beckerman to discuss how outside may be the way to go for quarantine times, how to re-open America, diners using mannequins at tables, and more!FOOTNOTES: Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Quarantine Fatigue Is Real How to Reopen America Safely So small restaurants can open, some Cincinnati streets will close - and become outdoor dining spaces Diners at this reopening restaurant can get social with dressed up mannequins WATCH: Slum Village - Selfish feat. Kanye West & John Legend (junior state remix) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Friday, May 15th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Doo! When the doo's on the shelf, drop it in the car. Drop it in the car. Drop it in the car Drop it in the car Drop it in the car That is courtesy of Benny Young

And I'm thrilled to be joined as always By my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Running running running Running running Can't keep six feet away Can't keep six feet away can't keep six feet away thank you to that uh for that run in far side and also jay dilla by extension uh aka by at matt dick

though appreciate it because after looking at some of that footage from Wisconsin, it seems like a lot of people don't even know what one foot is, let alone six feet. So thanks to everybody for trying to socially distance. You are helping flatten the curve. And we're thrilled to be joined in our other hosting chair by the hilarious and talented Lil Zam herself, Jamie Loftus! I can see clearly now that Jamie's on The Daily Zot with Jack and Miles of Grey

Gone are the needs for Pants as our podcast I'm gonna record, record, record Podcasts all day. That's from Ransom Monkey. Thank you. I put out an emergency bulletin. I ran out of AKAs, and he came up with that inside of seven minutes, if you can believe it.

Oh, my goodness. I know. Gracious. Incredible stuff. It's like they say, all the hit songs just come flow right out from people's minds. It's like those really bad takes when they're like,

Trump is actually going to be great for art. Think about the great protest songs we're going to get, you guys. Have we gotten a single protest song versace versace i'm sure like those weird trump sister youtube channel things gotta have something kid rock dropped one yeah yeah you did it's all about protesting us the mainstream oh yeah that's what i'm... Oh, I completely misheard. I'm like, yeah, I think there's got to be

someone on the right already who like, you know... No, I think like boomers were all like, man, this is going to be great for art. Bob Dylan's going to drop some heat now.

And he did. It just wasn't about this president. We're thrilled to be joined today in our fourth seat by the hilarious and talented Mr. Andy Beckerman. Hello, everyone. Hey, here's a quick tip.

If you want to know what six feet is, that's the height of Shrek. So just picture Shrek lying face down in front of you. How tall is everyone else in Duloc? Is that right? Yeah, what the fuck? Duloc. Oh, they're very small. Yeah, yeah.

Shrek's. So just imagine a Shrek between you and everyone else. Wow. I'm seeing Shrek was originally based on a seven foot height. Oh, what? On Google, he comes up as 6'9". Wow. Who is making these decisions?

But then 6'4", I don't know. There's someone who has a lineup like the usual suspects and is trying to extrapolate everyone else's height based on how tall Shrek is. I confounded DreamWorks, so I think I'm the authoritative voice when it comes to Shrek's height. Now more than ever ever amid coronavirus panic it is a fun time to watch the shrek the musical

official broadway recording on netflix it's been up there for seven years and i think i'm the only one that's watched it it's so funny wait was it like a tortured, cursed musical that didn't go on for long? Is that why people watch it because it's so bad? It was a very successful musical that starred Brian Darcy James and Sutton Foster. What? It was a wildly successful Broadway musical. And honestly, and I'm not being edgelord here, it's pretty good. Bunheads, Sutton Foster.

Yeah, literally Sutton Foster in 500 pounds of ogre makeup. She was Princess Fiona. Wow. Wow. Okay. The makeup is horrifying, but the song's kind of slack. I got some mescaline and I just upped my broadband package, so that might be something to do over the weekend.

There you go. Yeah, yeah. That's what we reviewed, the Shrek musical. That would be fun. I think, Jamie, you should... We'll get into it. We do have to make that decision today,

what our rewatch is going to be. Choices will be made. Wait, why don't you do a podcast where you review each minute? The Shrek musical, minute by minute by minute. This hour is going to be just minute one of, Shrek the musical. Minute by minute by minute. So this hour is going to be just minute one of the Shrek musical.

But we're breaking it down painful. Each second matters. That sounds like a Guy Montgomery bit. A fleck of Shrek. Well, they do that with Star Wars. The Star Wars minute. Of course they do. Yeah, Andy, I don't know if we've ever brought up

The fact that you founded DreamWorks A lot of people think you just founded DreamWorks Animation but yeah DreamWorks Founder No yeah just the whole Me and Spielbe That's what I call him What do you think about Jeff going off for Quibi

Do you have any takes on that Because I know Jeff's a colleague of yours I have to plead the that because i know jeff's a colleague of yours i have to plead the fifth because of our association oh jeff's yeah because catsey they actually convened they convened a vote of the board to actually have it changed you say it's a dream works and it would say skg for spielberg katzenberg, Geffen, and there was B for Beckerman. And I don't know what happened, Andy, that it became, it used to be SKGB and it just became SKG. I actually asked them to do that.

You know, I see, this is not about vanity for me. All right. You know, it's about art. And I think when you, when I make paintings, I don't sign my paintings. So why would I sign my production company, studio, whatever DreamWorks is? Absolutely. Your first work of art, as you call it, was Ants at DreamWorks. And I know that you were pushing for Woody Allen in the title.

Woody Allen. Yes. Oh, 100%. Well, ants are predators, right? Are they? I thought they were scavengers. But it just started. I'd always heard that it started with you were just a man with a vision for a movie about a six-foot-tall ogre.

So like slightly below average height ogre. And that was like one of these days they they will know my vision all right andy but to me an average height jew a giant perspective perspective uh all right we're gonna just so into these egg sacks oh my god we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. Wisconsin is open for business. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the kind of, it seems like there's some growing consensus that going outside is maybe a good idea.

So like some things that cities are doing to encourage that. We're going to talk about Kroger being not that cool. We're going to talk about restaurants using mannequins to fill their tables for some reason. A lot of restaurant trends. Yeah. We're going to talk about going to the movies, what that's like these days. tables for some restaurant trends. Yeah. We're going to talk about going to the movies, what that's like these days.

And also we're going to talk about what we're watching slash rewatching this weekend. But first, Andy, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Yeah.

So most of it's just stupid. But I looked up, did you know, do you guys know who Richard Sala is? No. He's a cartoonist. I think he has, a lot of his books are on Fantagraphics Comics. Oh, okay.

He's great. He's really, I found out he died yesterday. And it like, I kind of went down like, I was like reading a lot about him because I didn't know him that well. I didn't know i just read his his comics and um i read that he was a lot of people compared him to edward gory and then that brought this into my head do you guys know john bel-air so this is what i searched john bel-air's he he writes uh wrote he died in like the 90s kids uh fiction but like incredible like this kind of like sci-fi fantasy supernatural

stuff and edward gory did a lot of the illustrations oh cool i think they adapted oh got it they adapted one of his books into a movie with Jack Black. I don't know how faithful it was. Goosebumps? No. Shallow Howl, I think is what it's called. The Clock in the Wall. I forget. I read these when I was a kid, but they're incredibly kind of spooky.

Oh, I read those. Yeah. I remember the kid who moves into the house with his- The Curse of the Blue Figurine. Yes. Yes. And I just like, the only thing I really want to do, there's like a handful of things that I care about, about like adapting in Hollywood or about,

like besides my own projects, I want to reboot Night Court, number one. If I ever have any power in this town, I want to reboot Night Court. I have a whole plan too. And then I would love to like write a john belair something yeah that the house with a clock in its walls was uh like a library book it wasn't like something that uh they officially uh like assigned in elementary school but it was one that like i

feel like was on like reading lists of stuff for me yeah at least i remember these seeing these covers reminds me of like at the time like in the library how i would select books as a kid in my school library because i'm like yo this cover art looks fucking old fuck that look at peewee scouts that shit looks more like comics i would read like whatever the fuck. Uh, but I remember reading the, the blue figurine one. Uh,

I think it was for, I don't know. It was, it was like on some list, but yeah, that art, I definitely remember now. Yeah.

That Daniel Pinkwater, these were all, you know, if you are hitting middle-aged about right now, this is all your youth. What is something you think is underrated uh underrated okay i got a question all three of you guys are gentiles right yeah yeah yes have you ever had challah just sitting around the house yes yes really oh my god yes i put a poll up on twitter

and i was asking i i as a jew so I think challah is underrated. I don't, like, bagels have been gentrified at this point, but I don't think, I didn't, I didn't think people just had challah sitting around. Like, oh, like the other day I had, my lunch was cantaloupe and challah because this is the quarantine and, you know, you just make, make do with whatever you have. I used to have chall hall of French toast. Sure. That's how it would be in my house.

You're just going to slice off a slice for a snack? Yeah, I used to work at a bakery in college, though, so the access was high, and then I just kept getting it because it's so good. When I was growing up, I didn't have it, but as an adult, I've seen the light. Yeah, growing up in LA, I had a lot of Jewish friends, and then Her Majesty is also a tribe, so we keep it real with the challah from time to time. But recently, it's come back because I've seen a lot of core challah baking uh because a lot of people

trying to flex with the braiding uh you know and like get just picturesque challahs off uh but haven't actually bought a loaf and kept in my house for a while you just i just remember as a kid it would be around too because we'd have french toast with it sometimes who's doing the core baking of challah is it goyim or is it uh jews uh no their tribe their tribe okay i think it just it must feel like one of those like you know like it's a definitely like a it's a finesse baking thing like when it comes out beautiful like i get it you like you want to take a photo it's so shiny and beautiful you know versus a dull look is sourdough what gives it that uh sheen do they paint it with a little egg?

What's going on there? It's beautiful. It's gotta be, right? Yeah. I put lager on top. I put lacquer on mine. Lacquer. Yeah, anyways, we did not have it. I'm gonna start buying it. You think just like

a loaf, bring it in, cut off a piece when when you're hungry and ready for a snack is that proper usage hey it fills you up yeah it's true and it lasts for a bit too yeah there used to be i don't know if it's still around in la there was like that kosher deli that was making everything kosher but turning it into like a sub shop basically like you could get you could get a basically a hero like on a holla hero role uh and then like rather than bacon it would be gribness which is basically fried up chicken skin so when you make schmaltz like it every level to keep it kosher like they were considering and it was so delicious i don't think they're open anymore but it was i think it's called fly shicks um and it was like yeah can you imagine like going

to like there's hey do you want to go to quiznos subway or fly schnicks fly shicks right till you read the menu and you're like oh my god this brisket sandwich i want to run through drywall for yo i'm gonna get a gefilte fish sub at Fleischnick's. What's something you think is overrated, Andy? This takes a little bit of explaining, but the concept of genius in the 21st century, and I'm mostly- I love this.

Tread carefully, sir. Some of us have a- Are geniuses. Yes. Okay. So accepting, some of us have a reaching our geniuses yes except okay so accepting let's pretend

that I'm not talking about Mensa alright what I am talking about is someone like Elon Musk who is

what I will say is a dumb dipshit who got lucky but like this is the thing about got lucky to be born

into a ruby mine yeah Emerald I looked it up so i i was born in a ruby i wanted to mind my p's and q's because i didn't want anyone to come for me on this one because i know like if you if you criticize elon musk uh a bunch of people that uh will never have any money and uh have no connection have no connection that's what his fans are called they are no i just made that oh i love it bro fighting 99 down in flames we go i'm just thinking that movie tuskegee airmen with laurence fishburne

his last scene at the fucking cockpit anyway i'm sorry so but tell me about the 24 are you talking about more of like a classical uh like in the antiquities era idea of what genius was and that people had a genius versus people being a genius no just the 20 like in the 20th century okay think of the people that like are called genius now it's uh dummies like bill gates steve jobs jeff bezos these are people who like just invested rich money like they were wealthy like elon musk had a had family wealth from an emerald mine all right uh he dropped out of a physics phd program after two days and all he's done is invest his money. I was about to say, well, but I think he's just invested his money and got lucky.

And then he is backdated his ego. Right. And he says, well, because I'm rich, I must be a genius. And then everyone agrees that, oh, these people, they must be geniuses because they're wealthy, as opposed to they've exploited all their labor, or they had family wealth in the first place, or they got lucky. But I was thinking about like- But that's genius, Andy.

That's genius, though, that they did that. 20th century, who do we call geniuses? Einstein, right? Niels Bohr. Picasso. Picasso, Watson, Crick, and franklin right uh james joyce like people who either uh scientific like changed the scientific paradigm changed the literary or artistic paradigm in some way those were geniuses um and now it's like a dude who buys a ski-do factory.

I feel like it's just all about how effectively you manage to mythologize yourself. Because I'm sure that there are some people that we have historically labeled as geniuses who aren't. I feel like Edison is a really good example of that, where more than a basic snuff test reveals that he was like in many ways a total fraud uh so what was he jamie he's just like these shitheads yeah right so it's just like if you're able to if you're able to afford to effectively mythologize yourself you'll probably get away with it edison is the elon musk of the 20th century. Yeah. Damn. Wow. Damn.

I was just thinking of just like the way we use the term genius as compared to antiquity when like that concept of genius emerged is that people had a genius in which it was something external that would visit them to inspire this like great work out of these people right and over time we began to sort of co-op that with our egos and narcissism and that wording became someone was a genius that person is a genius rather than has a genius and i think it's interesting just even think about how you might create things because people you look at somebody you'd be like if you're amusing like oh i love you know fucking johnny greenwood he's a genius or whatever like what does he do or but is johnny greenwood thinking that he's a genius or is it more about inspiration that you are opening yourself and allowing yourself to create things and that's where the that's where it comes out rather than like i think people put this pressure on themselves be like if i want to be a genius then i'm gonna do exactly our first the way we used to even articulate this

concept was that like someone opens themselves up to some truths that they are able to then interpret by how open they are rather than like they fucking got it this guy's got the fucking genius why do you think I took my name off of dreamworks the way that's the facts the way that I've I've found that term used a lot is just like it is like a narcissistic thing but it also is like i feel like sometimes used to remove your like remove accountability from your own behavior and actions like in the case of elon musk and in the case of just like a lot of the mental people that i was talking to back in the day it's just like a situation of like oh this person's behaving erratically

they're they're making bizarre choices and then it's just like oh well they're a genius so you just don't get what they're doing it's like no they could conceivably just be being an asshole or or acting weird and then but if you are able to like label yourself as greater than you're like you couldn't possibly understand why i'm exploiting my workers you're just like yeah let's not forget i mean right now we have a very stable genius very similar situation yeah yeah i think the way that america in particular commodifies like and commodifies narcissism and like makes people think that they are the genius rather than they are transmitters of a genius is there are a lot of american authors who just

write one great thing and our herald is as geniuses and then like never write anything again because there's like there's something just like toxic and unnatural and incorrect about that whereas i feel like other countries are just like i'm plying a craft or i'm you know a i'm channeling something higher than myself does the sophomore album curse i wonder if that's unique to american music or if we looked at is is the curse of the sophomore album, like globally embraced as like a law of creativity? You know what I mean? Because I'm to your point, Jack, about this emphasis, you do one thing or you come out with this work early, then the expectation of like the subsequent works just becomes like exponentially higher to the point where like you have no way to

compare it really. But then also there are some objective sophomore point where you have no way to compare it really. But then also there are some objective sophomore efforts where you're like, yeah, you clearly got a lot of money and stopped giving a fuck. But I wonder culturally if that's something we... Yeah. You need to us in our pursuit of fame. It's not a rule.

Because I think that's how you burn out. Yeah, I do feel like it's a tendency that Americans have that doesn't really exist as much elsewhere. Exceptionalism, baby. Yeah, yeah. What is a myth, Andy? Extractionalism. Yes, extractionalism, as we call it.

There's the title. It's a mashup of extraction and Shrek. American extractionalism is killing our country. Is there a myth that we need to bust at this point now that you've come up with extractionalism? Well, you tell me. My myth is that history is knowable. Is knowable? History is knowable. Is knowable? History is knowable.

Okay, this is what I've been thinking about lately. I was reading about hyper objects. Do you guys know what that is? Hyper objects are just, this is a dumb definition, but it's so large that you can't comprehend them. So history is kind of a hyper object like what we're seeing the effects of climate change right now that started in the 70s or the 60s right so the the climate hell we're in right now started 40 years like if we wanted to stop it we're like

four decades too late right and so what we're going to try to do now is stop whatever fucking nightmare is going to be like 40 or 50 years down the line right that's anything we're doing now it's such that like the climate the climate itself is a hyper optic so large we can't really come and there's all the we can't comprehend it and there's all these time delays right because we're not seeing the effects of what we're doing right now for, you know, half of a human lifetime at least. It's funny because, like, I find those things so easy to comprehend. But maybe that's just like you. Well, you are a classic genius.

You guys are having a difficult time. Yeah, of course. Of course. All he has to do is close his eyes and go to that big old encyclopedia brain tanica of his but i've been thinking about like history like i've been reading this book called the devil's chessboard uh which is a history of the cia history of like really alan dulles the guy who founded the cia and he was a fucking straight up nazi like literally like if fdr had lived this guy probably would have been prosecuted for treason because he helped hide a lot of Nazis after the war. He like he tried to

broker FDR's whole thing was, hey, I don't give a shit if you were like a low level Nazi or a top Nazi. We're going to prosecute all of you. Right. Especially the top level guys. And Alan Dulles was this kind of like old school gentleman, like his brother. And like, I think he worked, he had worked for a bank originally, like they had all these business ties with Germany and basically he helped protect like high level Nazis. And he had tried to broker a deal behind FDR's back that if like high level Nazis turned in Hitler, that they would be freed and there wouldn't be any repercussions for them. And only FDR's death prevented him from being prosecuted for treason, basically,

for betraying the US. And this is the guy that founded the CIA. And then the CIA, through the 20th century, just fucked up foreign countries one a year or more right and they all they did it all in the background like we don't find a again this is like this time delay thing right we don't find out about this stuff until the stuff is declassified or if for some reason someone ms13 shows up in a neighborhood in a white suburban area and they're like ms13 and then they're like well hold on you got to go back to el salvador and understand what the fuck we were doing there to destabilize to the point where these gangs split off and people like whoa like how many of us knew about the latin american dirty wars until we became adults right right oh yeah i mean i had to like actually pursue

that information because like when i even got an inkling of what it was, and I'm like, wait, so we were fighting the Cold War in this other way, like in Latin America, through debt and militarizing opposition groups. It's like, oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, because you didn't want to have an upfront parking armies. Yeah, it's a very interesting history. And I think that's to your point about how how we'll never it's hard to know history because the version you get presented in school goes through the filters of like the boards who work with the publishers who know the authors are also based on whatever the cultural tone is of a state i think it's it's hard because america doesn't have that thing yet where like other countries have like we'll take a sort of sober

look at their history to be like, yeah, you see that bad. That was fucking bad back then. That was no good. We don't like that anymore. We don't have that kind of, we don't have that kind of a curriculum in the United States.

No, we do not. Nope. It's just like, in fact, we have one that sanitizes it all. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Not even omission. Just like straight up. I was going to say like it, it was just like, no, it just reminds me of a thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Not even like, you know, in the writings back, you know, obviously from the new world, it's like, they're loving it. They're learning this new way of life. And then it's going to just be like, hi, how do we know though, that the

indigenous people didn't want to be converted though, if they're still doing it now and they like it. And it's just sort of like, no one was ever critical enough early on in their them learning history to say these are subjugated people or colonized people who were forced at their option was death or you know fucking straight up do gestures across their body that said they believed their god um but yeah it's very that's why i almost became a history teacher oh there you go I almost became a history teacher. Oh, there you go.

Uh, I'm a podcaster teacher. All right, guys, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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And we're back. And Wisconsin is back, too. They are open for business. OFB, baby. So the stay-at-home order was lifted by the Supreme Court, which includes all rules about social distancing and masks. And this is one of the top 10 infected states in the US. So we're surprised.

It's terrifying like it's my my boyfriend's family uh all lives there a lot of them are seniors and it's like anyone that you know give gives a fuck i mean is terrified because there's um by all accounts there's people pouring in from adjacent states who are upset with the stay-at-home orders in, like, it sounds like there's a lot of people coming from the Illinois border who are like, oh, I can go to a bar in Wisconsin? Great, let me take my COVID to Wisconsin. And it's just, I mean, we'll see,

but there's no way that it ends well. Like, it sounds like, you know like everyone I know there feels deeply unsafe and is so, like, it's just... It doesn't make sense, even in terms of this Supreme Court decision. I mean, when you look at, again, we've talked about this constantly, overwhelming majority of American people

aren't clamoring to go back and do things because for them, it's not like they're not saying, no, I'm fine living like this forever. Obviously, people would love to return to some semblance of normalcy, but they're not willing to do that at the cost of losing people's lives or getting ill and things like that. It's like, no, well, hold on. It's not that serious to the point where I'm going to risk life. You're also sending workers, like all restaurant employees,

all, all employees that are being forced to go back to work. You're sending them potentially to their deaths with like little, you know, with few options, because if your job is open, then why are you still asking for unemployment? And it's just like,

it's so fucking, oh, so you quit. Oh, so you quit. Yeah. So then I, that was the point of that, right?

Is to force people to choose to get them off the unemployment rolls, right? Yeah. It seems that way. And there's... There's no other way to explain something so cynical as like a regulation that said, if you don't feel safe because the science, clearly the science and the biology has not caught up to how severe this is, that if you don't feel safe enough the science clearly the science and the biology has not caught up to how severe this is that if you don't feel safe enough to go to work you're surrendering your job because you know the fucking ceo of kroger demands his blood money i've also heard of a number of

examples of like the the way that workers are getting to work has changed as well. I have, my brother works at a bakery and they say- With Kala? They do, they do. And it's great. I'll never be, but I don't think he works there anymore. And the reason is because they said, okay, we're reopening the bakery. You can have your job back,

but we don't want any of our employees taking public transportation. You have to drive. And he lives in a big city with four parking spots. And also, not for no reason, he's not paid enough working the front counter at a bakery to own a car. And so it's like there's all these fucking galaxy brain solutions that I'm sure the business is also in a very difficult spot

of they need to keep their business safe, but it's just like workers are left with virtually no options and then you don't qualify for unemployment anymore it's yeah culturally though we're just ingrained with this terrible terrible reflex that because we see how we that as a you know american culture and the government by extension treats people like those in need as like, that's suboptimal to be a person who's in need. Yeah. That like we have this like immediate thing to be like,

well, that's your problem. Well, that's your problem because that's how we're treated by the more powerful than us. Well, that's your problem. And when really I feel like you'd hope the reflexes should be like, oh my God, yeah, stay home. I know we're getting killed as a business i need to fucking talk to we need to talk to the fucking banks who is demanding this mortgage from us because and but i have to force you to go to work so i can pay this bank

or whoever this rent or the landlord who then owes money to a bank that the the frustration is not turned upward it's always turned downward it. Yeah. It's like you should be ashamed of yourself for not being able to. What do you guys think? It's turning a corner. I'm seeing more and more rage directed in the appropriate direction. Right. But slowly. Yes.

I don't think it's. I don't think it's not. Yeah, it's slowly, which is I've been saying, like, if that's the one positive I've been able to see throughout this is like there's a little a couple nights ago and had barbers giving people haircuts. And there were lines at the door they opened up at midnight. And they actually get to open up because they did the appropriate things in a responsible amount of time and there wasn't this yeah like they were looking out for the welfare and the health of their citizens from the start um yeah my friend lives in helsinki and uh finland i i was looking up statistics finland is um a million more people than los angeles itself and right uh they have i think one one hundredth of

the cases of coronavirus yeah it's it's just straight up where you know this is what happens when a stupid person runs something as big and complicated as the united states and somebody who's just not capable of, who's not up to the task. Who's not capable of mammalian thought. Right. Right. But also just our system of governance is just built to crush the weak and, you know, enrich the rich.

Yeah, no, it's definitely not. We already, we went into the fucking, you know, hockey game with fucking soccer equipment. We're like, oh, bro, we're not even built for the fucking... With a chess board. We went into a hockey game holding a pawn. Loving these metaphors, guys. How are you going to get a slap shot?

Can't even get a wrist shot with that bishop piece. Right. It's like we went into basketball, but we were wearing skates. It's like we bought tickets to Shrek and we saw puss in boots. Right. By the way, Shrek by Shrek.

That has to be the title of the minute by minute. Shrek on Shrek? Shrekend by Shrekend. Oh my God, that's pretty good. The Shrekening. So, I mean, this is one way of doing things, the Wisconsin way, where everybody is crowding together despite the fact that we don't have the things in place

or the falling levels of infection to support that sort of behavior. There's the New Zealand model, which involves investment you know, investment of smart behavior and investment of like people staying at home and sheltering in place, uh, for a long time. Uh, and then you're able to open back up something that seems like it's sort of happening that I don't know. It's kind of like a complicated situation where i don't know necessarily how to feel about it just yet but you know because there are these studies like

the contact tracing uh with coronavirus in china that said that you know out of thousands of cases, there's like two cases of transmission outside because it's just the air is able to spread out more. The germs are able to spread out more. Some cities are starting to adapt things so that you can have restaurants that will have outdoor seating that bleeds out into the streets and so they'll close down streets. Love the idea of closing down streets. Love the idea of being able to go outside. But to Jamie's point, you're just hoping that this is not a situation where we're just doing this so that we can take people off

of the unemployment payrolls and force them back to work and things aren't all that safe for them in the first place. Yeah, it feels all connected to reopening the economy as opposed to actually doing anything in anyone's best interest. And it's also just benefiting people who like to be at bars. Yeah, well, I think whenever i hear any municipal leader governor whatever uh have the word you know because we we got we i know look we got to do it safe but we got to obviously people want to reopen or whatever i love that there's always just that like hat tip to like the ownership class always and they're like you know because

we know people want to reopen i don't know a damn person who doesn't who wants to reopen again we just want to know that it's safe deal with that first right deal with that first and the fact and i guess again the buck stops with the fucking citizens because the federal government failed to act so now it's like i don't know guys i mean you got to get back to work i mean would you guys go to like if Los Angeles opened up everything tomorrow and we could have live comedy again and go to movies? I wouldn't go. No. Yeah, definitely not. Alamo Drafthouse sent me.

I don't know why I answered their survey, but they sent me a survey. I've been answering so many surveys that I wouldn't normally. Me too. I'm just like, yeah, why not? Also, quick note to any listeners out there. Any surveys you have that ask where you heard about something, please always mark podcast. So that way AdRab will keep flowing into the industry.

Okay, back to you. Yeah, I answered it for some reason, but they were like, when would you come back to an Alamo draft test? They listed all these things like, what if we tested, what if we like took the temperature of our employees every hour?

What if we did social distancing in the theaters and all this stuff? And then the last choice was, there's a vaccine. And I'm like, yes, that last one. The one where I don't die, where I'm assured that I don't die. Health guarantee. What if Alamo Draft House is sitting on the vaccine and they're

just waiting for the results of the survey? They're like, I don't know. We haven't reached critical mass yet with enough yeses for that question. The FDA approved it, but we only have a handful of responses. So I don't know. What do we do? Right. They're just waiting for people

to respond to their online email survey. I guess if no one wants to take a few minutes to answer our survey, no one gets a vaccine. Anyways, I am in favor of the one aspect of this which is closing streets to road traffic since nobody has anywhere to go anyways um cincinnati everywhere or just parts no just parts cincinnati is closed parts of 25 streets

so restaurants can expand outdoor seating but just like the ability to walk down the street and like give each other wide berths is uh you know that's kind of how when i've gone out for a walk with uh my kids you don't want to like walk directly next to somebody uh so you you do use the street more than you used to um But Oakland has closed almost 10% of roads to traffic. So, I mean, I think that's... This is a thing we're probably going to need to do anyways because of climate change.

So we might as well experiment with different forms of city planning. It just seems a bit premature. For me, when I see that, like, okay, yeah, we've been able to do this to mitigate the the transmission and things i'd feel safe if there was a treatment right then to be going to this level of normalcy where it's like still because we're not talking about limits of people together we're just saying outside better than inside right sure but at that

point if you want me to be out there like you you know, yucking it up, like without having a concern with other what other people's secondary recovery from being in the icu so long yeah it's like another thing that is somewhat talked about but we we forget about like you're not many people like i'm not the same since this i'm just not yeah yeah it's very but it's worth it man if me and my bros can go to Applebee's and get some whiskey-soaked pork screamers. Yeah. From the Quibi sub-menu. Yeah. Brought to you by Quibi. If you know folks who are in Wisconsin and flocking to the bars,

please talk to them. That's all. But not in person. Not in person. Oh, yeah. Make sure you say this was doing it they might show up at your house they might just show they're like oh no we can do this now and then they'll just cough in your mouth and then that's it there yeah but like if you do i mean i don't

know i've been thinking about that too it's like eventually there will be people in our lives who are breaking like who are putting other people in danger with their actions and it's like you know the conversations will have to be had yeah and then cut them out of your life have that conversation and then people need to feel some kind of repercussions for their shitty behavior i think a lot of those people have already been culled after the election though that's what i was it makes me think of the facebook posts of like triumphant uncles eating thanksgiving dinner alone being like these snowflakes have no fucking tears streaming down their face i don't even miss my daughter there's this terrifying article about the on

the atlantic that's about q as a new religion like that this is going to outlive trump and outlive trumpism and that like when you look at it compared to other uh religions it's grown like faster than uh like all sorts of religions so they're just saying like it could end up being the next whatever. Scientology. Giant globe-spanning cult. Well, there was a thing where I think one of the Q accounts tweeted a link to a porn video, and all the followers were pissed. Yeah.

What the fuck? But one of the things was a woman whose son is a journalist, and she's a q adherent and it's just i see more graffiti of it around la yeah it's like people throw up stencils on the sidewalk oh yeah graffiti's up too because of all the delinquent teens no one's paying attention to them yeah and not even good not even good throw-ups i'm seeing i'm seeing some real sloppy non-stops all you graph kids in the city please up your game these non-stops are really looking real sloppy although in my neighborhood r.i.p juicy okay let them know all right guys let's

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Top some from the top 10 what are we thinking something what are we top 10 is dead to me the wrong missy which is the new lauren lapkus david spade show outer banks which we've already reviewed it's apparently great i've already i've come i've completed the entire season have you really by the way how did it turn out i finished it by wednesday wow yo it gets you know i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you something it moved the whole thing is trash but there is because of all the injustice in the world there's like these two privileged white characters that i must see brought to justice um and i'm left with a fucking cliffhanger at the end of season one uh so whatever outer banks is still up there uh john henry uh which

is like terry cruz as a superhero uh who's got a hammer and cleans up the streets i think is what it says in the trailer. Black Thor. Yeah. Trial by Media is like a documentary. Have a Good Trip is that documentary we talked about a couple days ago. Oh, yeah. Somebody should do that one. Grey's Anatomy, Sleepless, a Jamie Foxx action movie. People are calling it the extraction

of this week's Netflix top top 10 uh ozark in hollywood blackstraction yeah blackstraction okay i'm watching that i saw the thing because i was like look at jamie foxx's hairline again somehow moving forward reached a new phase of that we're moving forward as a hairline yeah but I think I will that definitely caught my eye and so did the John Henry one because the the thing the poster looks so weird isn't it like Terry Crews like a fucking sledgehammer like yeah like on his shoulder and he looks sweaty he's got like a patchy beard or some shit yeah yeah uh I don't think he's got a patchy beard I think and in fact the the trailer has him shaving his head and face.

Then I'm out. Yeah, I need the patches. I need the patchy beard. But I would do John Henry. John Henry. That's an old folk song. I'm down for John Henry. Wait, what about the Shrek musical?

I mean, listen. I think Jamie has to watch that. It's there. I think I'll watch it too. Really? It's really fun. How long is it? It's two hours.

Look, because I'll tell you something. I hate musicals, but I have nothing to do. This sounds freaky. And I think maybe my opinion, I'm already going into it with the kind of take that most people would expect. And who knows? Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. I love musicals. And for a very transparent cash grab musical,

I think it's pretty good. And it also heightens the emotional stakes of Shrek beyond what anyone ever wanted. There's a number of... Okay, well, okay. It's great. You've sold me. What do I search?

Just Shrek? Just look up Shrek. Shrek the musical on YouTube and it'll pop up? No, it's on Netflix. Oh, it's on Netflix? It's been on Netflix for like seven years. No one else wants it. No one's looking for the rights.

Well, then I'm getting my pipes warmed up. My weed pipes. Miles is watching Shrek the musical. Jamie, are you interested in Have a Good Trip? Which one is that? Everyone's Drug Stories? Everyone's is that? Everyone's Drug Stories? Everyone's Drug Stories. Animated. Sure, sure.

Or Wild Card. Pick anything. Or pick anything. I can do Have a Good Trip. I just feel like since we talked about it, we might as well get in there. There's also Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is streaming on Netflix, and so is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in case anybody and so is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

in case anybody's interested in either of those. Grab a top 10. Do a top 10 thing. I'll do the David Spade, Lauren Lapkus movie. Okay. That's a movie?

Oh, it's not a show? Yeah, it's a whole movie. No, it's a movie. Wow. It's a whole damn movie. It's a whole ass movie with, are they love interests? yes except Lauren Lapkus is wacky

right it's David Spade meets his dream girl Molly Sims and then he's like wait former SI swimsuit model Molly Sims? you bet take me back to 98

he invites Missy he has Missy in his cell phone and he invites her to a Hawaii vacation but it's the wrong Missy and so Lauren Lapkus shows up instead and David Spade's like oh brother, brother, I'm such a catch. He's like, I'm so smooth. What's the age difference between Lauren and David Spade? It's large. It's not small. It's not small.

Well, let's see. David Spade is 55. Wow. And I think Lauren Lapkus is my age, so maybe like 35 or 36. Lauren is 30. Oh, so just a 20- 35 or 36. Lauren is 30. She'll be 35 this year. So just a 20-year age difference.

Just 20 years. Okay, but Lauren Lapkus is the gross one in the movie. I love Lauren Lapkus so much, but she's unbelievable. Lauren is so funny. She's both a nice person and an extremely funny person. There's nothing she can't do. I'm looking forward to seeing what they make her do in this movie. Yes.

Do you think there's a scene? I haven't seen the trailer, but based on what you're saying, I'd imagine there's a moment where David Spade is drinking like out of a big pineapple, like a tropical drink. And then he's waiting to meet Molly Sims at the restaurant. And then Lauren Lapka shows up and just full on tropical drink spit take like. I have like a strong sense anytime david i don't have like a strong attachment to david spade i didn't like really grow up with him but like when i first moved to la uh i was at i was at the the uh the comedy no where was i were you at i was at the improv the brown derby i was at i was at the

improv like early on and someone like came over to me and said in this very conspiratorial like reverent way hey if you want to sneak into the main room spades on you could learn a few things and i just like just i just hear spades on echoing in my brain forever and ever. I can learn a few things. In the most reverent tone, you're just like, all right, spades on. Spades on. When I first moved to Hollywood, I was at Musso and Frank's, and I saw Spade, Sandman, and Schneider sitting over another table

sharing steaks. He's talented, but spades on really killed me. Spades on. Just 10 minutes before Pauly Shore got kicked out for drinking too much. I mean, man. Right before Dane Cook was banned from the improv for life or whatever,

there was some... Or maybe it was the Laugh Factory. Who cares? Comedy's over. Remember that? Comedy clubs? Miles, you pick for me. Sleepless or Willy Wonka? Sleepless. People already know about Willy. I'm more interested in Sleepless because I think we should forge ahead

with whatever. I think we're taking a sample of what's trending on Netflix and we're just like, okay. Even though I'm taking the outsider pick just because I think the possibility of a Shrek musical is too much. Okay, we'll do one outsider pick and then two Netflix trending per week. Boom. So we've got them all there.

Got it. I am Shrek the musical. Jack is sleepless. And Jamie is- The other Missy. What's that Lauren Lapkus thing called? The other Missy. The wrong Missy.

The wrong Missy. The wrong Missy. She's not just the other missy she's wrong she oh my god oh you guys that is so wrong that's so messed are you on crack she shouldn't exist that's how wrong she is you sound like a 16 year old white girl are you on crack? So let's talk really quickly about something that restaurateurs are doing to... I don't fully understand why. So they realize that when they reopen, they're not going to be able to have people in all the seats.

So they're going to have designated seats where people can't sit. Designated seats where people can't sit. And rather than just removing the chairs or removing the entire table, some restaurateurs, including a three Michelin star restaurant in Virginia, are populating the restaurant with mannequins in old timey clothes, in the case of the Virginia restaurant. And the servers will be filling the mannequins' wine glasses and having cheerful, one-sided conversations with them. This has to be...

This owner is fucked. This has to be just an attempt to get press, right? Right? Yeah, it seems like something... It's the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Virginia. I don't know how much more press they need. Or it's right yeah it seems like something it's the only michelin-starred restaurant in virginia i don't know how much more right or it's quare brain everyone's quare brains are fucking misf like all their synapses are fucking just like going nuts and then and there's a baby at the table offer them milk for their baby suckle the baby mannequin at your breast, waiter. Like Rosa Sharon.

As JM writes, presumably the staff will also prevent customers from leaving the room because they insist they're also mannequins who have to stay there forever. Because this is clearly part of an R.L. Stine story. That's so funny. But yeah, there's like a french restaurant that created like balloon people i once saw like one of the creepiest things i ever saw was a special effects shop from uh friday night lights where the crowd is full of mannequins so they could just like keep shooting and not have

to like you know treat the extras like humans but like somebody took a photograph of it and it's just this entire stadium full of dummies uh just sitting there uh anyway how's that different from sports anyway we were talking about that with like weddings a while back too though we're like choir weddings we were putting like homemade cardboard cutouts that they're like and this is my mommy and this is my daddy and this is my college roommate and like so that's all you know people need shit to do this broke everyone so there's this thing the last two months just shattered everyone's brains so belarus has a soccer league where they are desperate enough for money that they just never closed. Everybody else is like, we're going to close, but this Belarus soccer league is like,

nope. But people just stopped going for the most part. So the league started selling tickets for virtual fans, which meant that you would buy a ticket online and they'd stick your photo on top of a dummy. And it really looks like something you'd find in a serial killers at it. It's so strange. Yikes. There's just really a something. I mean,

I don't know. I'm trying to put myself in the place of a restaurant where you know there's maybe like 10 other people in it when normally there'd maybe be like 80 and i don't know if i'd i think maybe just like play some music or something right that's enough for me i don't need to be like oh isn't it weird how there's like no one in here i think maybe like the awkward sound of only like five plates being eaten off of might be weird, but I don't need fucking freaky mannequin. I think the most basic thing you can do if you're reopening your business is like just don't do anything to make the situation more haunting than it already is. Like it's already an uncomfortable situation.

You don't have to add 500 haunted mannequins into the mix just to see it. They're like, okay, so we know that this is really scary, but what if it got silly scary? To prevent any germ transfer, the receptionist will be greeting you with a dummy, like a ventriloquist dummy. And she's also wearing a pinhead mask. You'll have to speak directly to the ventriloquist dummy. Yeah. Okay, so we know we are forcing our servers to go back to work, but we're also making them put a papier-mâché head next to their head,

like they're a two-headed person, and you have to talk to both of the heads when you order. Do you feel safe? The restaurant is going to be that Times Square restaurant where people dressed up like monsters. Okay, that restaurant. Yeah, what is that restaurant called? Or the diner in Back to the Future

where it's all just robots with video screen faces. One of the less. It's like, hey, can you get Max Headroom to bring more Pepsi, please? What's Matt Frewer doing right now? Get him to reboot Max Hedrum. Jekyll and Hyde is the name of that Manhattan restaurant. I went there like two weeks before Quar.

Did you really? Yeah, it was one of my last. And it is stinky, stinky, stinky, sticky, sticky, sticky. All of the animatronics are broken and my groupon didn't work zero out of ten uh sticky and stinky wait stinks like what like just like they don't clean up or like everything smells like bo well it it's i don't even know what the smell it smells like rotting something it's not like and all the servers were super nice and also didn't want to be there.

But I wanted to go and see, like, I like animatronics. I'm like, oh, let's see. But they're mostly broken. It smells weird. And it's so dark in the restaurant that you're like, putting the lights on in here would be an automatic health code shutdown. Sticky. But that's the beauty of the novelty restaurant

is it's full of COVID-19. By the way, of everything we've talked about today, I think the saddest statement so far has been, my Groupon didn't work. It didn't work. Gutting. It was devastating. Would have been a great deal had it worked what was the deal exactly

like what what was the groupon what was the it was an absurd amount of food it was like you got like a drink you got like a three course meal for like 30 dollars there it would have been amazing but then but then they were like oh we don't fuck with this Groupon and I'm like okay I guess we'll have french fries and a Miller Lite and be on our way and that's what we did alright that's $43 it was still so expensive yeah whatever

Andy it's been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist where can people find you follow you hear you experience you at Andy Beckerman on all social media. At Andy Shrekerman. No. A couples therapy podcast that I do with my dear love, Naomi, weekly on Tuesdays.

We do a Twitch show at 2 p.m. every, at 2 p.m. PST every week. Sometimes we have guests such as the aforementioned Lauren Lapkus. Um, also I've been doing another podcast called beginnings for like 10 years now, uh, where I talk to, uh, artists I admire about their childhoods. Um, this week is Michael R. Jackson, recent Pulitzer prize winner uh um and the uh composer of a strange loop uh the off-broadway musical um i talked to stephen merit uh from magnetic fields damon lindelof a ton of people um they're pretty good conversations so check that out i think uh beginningspod.com nice awesome uh and is there a tweet or some other work of social media while we're on the subject of just timeless brilliance?

Is there some dumb tweet that made you laugh? Yes. I got two of them here. I owe a debris. If I were a multimillionaire, I would simply log off. Yeah. And Luke Moniz, both of these are stand-ups,

but he wrote, have we considered that years like 2020 and 2016 are not bad, but rather that existence itself is an unending nightmare? Worth considering, just putting it out there, you know? Jamie, where can people find you and follow you you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying you can find me on twitter at jamie loftus help instagram at jamie christ superstar i'm gonna recommend another youtube thing today um this was a youtube series and a youtube channel that was just brought to my attention the other day called Brat anyone ever watch Brat okay Brat is it's a channel that is directed I

think I'm just going to try to write a whole story on this but like it's a channel directed at teens where they get TikTok teens and musically teens to star in narrative series that have zero production value and make no sense. Where I'm going to direct you to begin on the Brat TV channel is a show called Chicken Girls, a show where there are no chickens, but there are girls. it's it is the most bananas thing i was laughing my ass off watching these poor 14 year olds try to enact a show called chicken girls for like three hours last night you gotta watch chicken it's on season six it has so many seasons there's so many examples of like just the production it's no i don't know who to blame but i enjoy it there's so many examples of like something that was clearly supposed to happen in post but then just didn't where it's like there's kids on computers and you can tell oh there's the screen is supposed to be on but whoever was in post just didn't add in a screen that's on so it's kids being like ha ha i can't believe she said

this and it's just an empty are you sure it's not like a tim and eric thing it's definitely not no it's very it's very late capitalism youtube channels like digital startup by like some guy in his like late 30s early 40s who was like kids love tiktok so if we make a youtube channel with tiktok kids it doesn't matter what they're fucking saying and he's kind of right i'm i've been i'm i'm only like halfway i'm you know in in the end of the first season but you gotta watch we gotta start talking about chicken girls your journey's just begun i really there's so much content on this channel it's it's like it overwhelming Miles where can people find you follow you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying

Twitter Instagram PlayStation Network Miles of Grey also my other show 420 Day Fiance talking about 90 Day Fiance super high now some tweets first I just want to tell people that

there was a story about how prince harry has no friends in los angeles and feels isolated if any listener can help get me in contact with prince harry so i can be his friend while he lives in los angeles please let me know the exact same birthday as him we like the same soccer team i have a feeling he has never probably smoked a blunt like i can roll uh i'm also a person of color like his wife. I just feel like I can keep going. Also, from the valley, look, the tail writes itself. One tweet I like is from Shea Serrano, who like sort of apparently today or Thursday, apparently Thursday was the anniversary of the seminal rap duo Clips, The Clips,

dropping the track Grindin'. And Shea quote tweeted this video of like the music video. He said, this anniversary has got to be like Pearl Harbor for cafeteria tables. Everybody was banging that shit out on the table. You can find

me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Charlie tweeted, nobody in TV show has friends unless the whole thing is they have friends. And that's just true. And then Kakashi's BM tweeted, him, doggy style? Me, okay, raggy. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on miles. What is that going to be today? This track, unfortunately, not available on the typical sites because it's a bit of a cheeky remix,

so it won't be on your Spotify or your Apple Musics. A bit of a cheeky remix, if I would, and I will. This one is for all my fans out there of Slum Village. There was a track that they had with Kanye West called Selfish and also with John Legend but this is the Junior State remix of Slum Village's Selfish and it's a great rework.

That's what I love about Finding on SoundCloud. There are all these bedroom producers just doing really great flips and remixes to classical songs. Alright. Well, we are going to classical songs. All right. Well, we are going to ride out on that. The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio.

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