The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit Emitting Diode 10/16: Biden, Mariah Carey, Super Predator, Dwyane Wade, Hubie Halloween Anchor, Babylon Bee

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

On this edition of Zeit Emitting Diode Jack and Jamie Loftus discuss Biden getting better ratings for his Town Hall, Mariah Carey has a new book out, there is no record of Biden EVER using the term "super predator", Dwyane Wade crashed a wedding proposal, a news anchor in Boston was fired for her cameo in 'Hubie', and the Babylon Bee is FIRING off hilariously bad, fake articles. 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 special episode of Zite Emitting Diode. Light emitting diode is LED. So this is ZED. That is courtesy of Johnny Davis. I'm Jack o'brien that is jamie loftus hey jamie and this is what's trending uh this is a tough one it's a tough day for trending i don't know if it's because it's the end of the week and the news has beat me down into a fine uh mist but watch something really fucked up happen in like an hour yeah like oh nothing's happening what's going on so boring i wish something dramatic and horrible would happen uh no uh i did

not just say that um not just say that i didn't uh here's what's trending guys all right let me cut let me cut to the chase here biden biden won the ratings all right he won the ratings battle uh this was something that people were paying attention to uh because i think it's just like they knew that trump would pay attention to it that uh like going up against biden in the ratings and he got smoked uh he gets smoked folks that's kind of i mean that's fun i i guess at very least like if trump did it to prove that he could get higher ratings and then failed to do so i'm on board with that yeah a fun dunk i mean i certainly very helpful for all those undecided voters yeah that was why i was like who the fuck is this even for i was so for i found the trump

one so troubling just because of they found these undecided voters and it made it feel like this is normal. There's so many undecided voters. Did he like sneeze in the moderator's mouth? Like what? It was so confusing. Who is it for? What is anything for? Yeah.

Where are we? What's happening? it for what is anything for yeah where are we what's happening it's definitely more relaxing to watch robinette oh robinette uh just kind of talk about his plans will you to sleep yeah there's a new mariah carey book it's a autobiography super producer anna hosnier was giving us a rave review of it before we started recording. I'm very excited to listen to it. I got an Audible book and then I returned it because I thought that, like, have you ever gotten an Audible book because you really like the person who's reading the book,

but you're like, I don't know if I actually like the book. No, I always get the book and then find out after a couple chapters I don't like the person reading it. Ooh, that's brutal. No, I got a, my crush Will Poulter read an Audible book, but guess what? It was Crime and Punishment. Oh. And it's 40,000 hours long, and I listened to it for two minutes, and I was just like, this is not is not gonna no amount of latent horniness is gonna

make this 40 hours go by yeah there are a couple i've tried to audible uh infinite jest uh your fave i've tried to audible war and peace and it's just daunting it's just just like I would need to be in prison, I think, to get through these. Oh, man. Crime and punishment is funny, though. Why did Will Poulter do crime and punishment? When you listen to it, you're like, Will Poulter doesn't even know why Will Poulter did crime and punishment.

I think he was just like, yeah, I've got 40 hours. I'm locked in my house. Right. Who knows? Just for the listeners, who is Will Poulter? This. That's fine. He is a who.

He was in Midsommar. He's the guy that pees on the tree. Okay. Is that hopeful? Nope. I haven't seen Midsommar. He's the guy that vapes in midsummer he's the hacker in bandersnatch is that helpful no it should be all right well i'll just

look him up in my own time this is not helpful it sounds like he's in a lot of very widely seen things that i just haven't watched because i'm not. Yeah. I'm fully in love with him and my boyfriend's of the mind that it's too attainable because no one knows who he is. Yeah. You could study up. You could listen to more Crime and Punishment.

You could listen to more Crime and Punishment. No, it's not worth it. Returned. Will Poulter. I see if I recognize his face yes eyebrows eyebrows guy eyebrows guy you know him he's like a child actor he i recognize him from stuff he's in chronicles of narnia yeah yeah he's from children's stuff he i he's stuff. He was such a well-known child actor that I can't not see him as a child. But that is...

Yeah, his first three things are Maze Runner, Narnia, and Eyebrow. Okay. Eyebrow, famously Eyebrow. Famously Eyebrow. Anyways, Mariah Carey book apparently she starts singing she breaks into song had a very rough upbringing and uh you get the dish on why she said i don't know her to j-lo so all things um i am interested in hearing i will probably not read that book though uh there is so super predator was trending

uh why i actually don't know why you look this one up i mean it just goes back to a fake trump tweet um where he uh president trump i went and feel good uh said um on twitter today that Biden freely uses the term super predator, that being a callback to the 1993 war on time. Hillary Clinton. Yeah, that Hillary Clinton said. And so he was sort of trying to get the rumor going that Biden's been using that term recently, which is not only not true but they're upon a further investigation no one can find any record of him ever having said that word at least in public ever yeah um it's just not

that's just not true right it's a fake one the uh there there does seem to be this movement um that you're only really hearing from trump's side uh and people in the conservative party uh but that trump is going to pull out the election because he's getting so many more uh latinx and black voters this time that like he's going to make up all the difference of uh all the uh rational people who are abandoning him uh with i i just i don't know why i i that's definitely yes yeah it definitely seems like it's a strategy they're pursuing based on this tweet. But I don't know why that would be possible. Every time something like, I mean, yeah, I'm just like, whatever. Cue Lindsay Lohan's Rumors.

Right. The most famous piece of music called Rumors. And Dwayne Wade was trending because he was walking by. This is a very interesting series of photographs. It's a person getting down on one knee to propose

to his sweetie. And then in the background as this is happening you see Dwayne Wade is just walking by, taking a walk on the beach and putting his hand to his chest like oh as he sees this happening and then they like have a picture with Dwayne Wade where like they apparently were like wait a second shut up about your engagement Dwayne Wade is walking by in the background get Get him in here.

It's like so strange. We have photographic evidence that he was charmed by your love. Either that or Dwayne Wade saw them getting engaged and is just like such a alpha, like just that he just like walked up and was like, hey, I couldn't help but notice that this is a life-defining moment uh i'm duane wade would you like a picture with me i mean would you say no i

would i wouldn't no that guy rules i love when famous people are randomly roped into life events yeah when it's bill murray then i think it's annoying. Yeah, it was fun for a while. Hubie Halloween is trending, and not just because I'm going to watch it this weekend. It's trending because one of the news anchors in a bit from the movie was recently fired. So they got a real news anchor to do a bit from the movie where she dresses up like harley quinn and her local news company fired her uh so fuck them

yeah i don't like that at all because she had a little bit of fun yeah too much fun halloween they said that she violated her contract but like can you just imagine the uh a-hole boss that it would take to be like i don't like her appearing in a movie like this thing that is like far bigger and more popular than anything that like our local news station will ever do that to me sounds like someone that is a little jealous yeah someone's like what you should have had me dress as me i could have dressed i should have been harley quinn shows who to dress up as harley anyways somebody should hire that anchor yes and finally babylon b is trending oh babylon b this

was a fun one this is another uh just slow news day at the time of this recording we're reporting on trump tweets god help us but uh mr trump uh retweeted some uh some nonsensical article from a publication called the Babylon Bee. And it's got everyone talking. And here's why. It's because the Babylon Bee is the right-wing Christian version of the onion. So it's, I mean, we know that this side of the political spectrum has no sense of humor and it makes no sense. But I browsed the B a little bit, the Babylon B, great name. Yes.

First of all, there's a ton of it. Their newspaper from inside Babylon, because our whole culture has gone to heck. Absolute heck in a handbasket, Jack. In a handmade basket. On the Babylon Bee website, there is 500 advertisements for Panda Express. Clearly, they're accepting advertising money. Here are some of the top trending headlines um here's okay uh facebook bans the babylon b for being too accurate oh what biden suggests stopping criminals by making them slip on banana peels i'm just like this is brutal uh trump attempts to catch hunter biden in a trap labeled

free crack i'm just like this it just god why are they so bad at this jamie democrats hiss in terror as acb pulls out crucifix uh twitter shuts down entire network to slow spread of negative biden news like it's just it's not even a pitch it's not a pitch uh i just i didn't know that that uh that this had happened and i mean i don't want to encourage these kinds of websites, but they're so horrible that it is funny to me if there was some sort of whatever, like traditionalist wife version of reductress. Yeah. ACB calmly answers questions while typing up a pellet court decision

and cooking dinner for nine. She's like, is there anything she can't do? Your move. she's like is there anything she can't do your move acb continues to have it all comma is unbothered uh yeah no it's so you know they're just a quick plug for the babble on b they're clearly doing some some good work and there's so many advertisements for i wonder if that's targeted i'm like maybe the panda express is just targeted at me i don't know is um yeah i don't i don't get any panda express uh mine are all for mountain dew just told on myself wow

i don't know what the fuck that no the algorithm thinks i want Panda Express. And it's right. It's true. Yeah. What was the story that Trump retweeted from the Babylon Bee? Let's check that out. I'm not sure which of these gems. It's difficult when there's no sense of humor on either side because then how the hell is he supposed to know that that's a joke when it's not even

doesn't even represent like it's not even joke like in appearance so it was the twitter shuts down entire network to slow spread of negative biden news and then he says wow this has never been done in history this includes his really bad interview last night why is twitter doing this bringing more attention to sleepy joe and big T. Wait, who's Big T? Is that Hunter? Big T? No. Is that Twitter?

Hunter? Oh, Big T. Big T. Big T. Is that him? Oh, maybe. Big T? Who is Big T?

See, now we're doing our service. Who is Big T? Who is Big T? See, now we're doing our service. Who is Big T? And when you tweet that, the answer that Google gives you is, Big T is a 26-year-old part-time wig maker. The Londoner's real name is Tula. So I think that's probably who Trump was referring to. Paying more attention to sleepy,

yeah, and 26-year-old wig maker Big T. I'm going to apply to write for the Babylon Bee. I wonder if they're accepting submissions. I don't think you have the voice for the Babylon Bee, Jamie. I want to submit an article or idea. Yeah. All right, Jamie, thank you so much for joining us on this

trending episode. Where can people find you, follow you, hang out with you? You can follow me on Twitter at Jamie Loved His Help me on twitter at jamie or on instagram and that's really all you can do

yeah you can't hang out with her actually you're not invited over sorry I shouldn't have suggested that they also have a book how to be a perfect christian by the babylon b I wonder what the jokes are in that one.

Oh, man. How to Be a Perfect Christian. I wonder if there's a lot of not jokes. It seems like most of their jokes on their headlines would just be appropriate. Like if they just ended with not. Not. That seems a lot of not humor um so shout out they have it they have a shirt that says i can win all sports games through christ who strengthens me

that is i don't know who your reader is i don't know i don't know who is reading this uh anyways that's gonna do it for this afternoon and this week. Another one in the books, guys. We did it. We'll be back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask.

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