The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit Z. Eisenhower 10/6: Trump Latest, Eddie Van Halen, Big Mike, Section 230, Pentagon Quarantine

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

On this edition of Zeit Z. Eisenhower Jack and Miles discuss the latest with Trump and his response to COVID-19, Eddie Van Halen has passed away, Trump supporters are trolling Michelle Obama, Trump is calling to "REPEAL SECTION 230" of the Communications Decency Act, and the Pentagon has gone into quarantine. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And this is What's Trending. I like Zike. Doesn't that depend? Yeah, right. Yeah, I think that's right. You know you got too much shit going on. Remember that old campaign phrase from Dwight? I like Ike.

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Shoot. Yeah, just dropping bombs and shit. All right. So let's just catch up with what the president is doing as of late. He's still high on steroids, it would appear, and he wants to debate. He's like, fight me, you cowards! He's like, there's no reason to delay the debate other than the fact that I have a disease that... What, are you fucking scared? You don't want to pull up to me? I got my new form i'm talking like you know

christopher walken a little bit there's something going on with me right now i don't know what's happening there's definitely something going on with him right now he's turning into something else i'm telling you my pokemon theory is holding strong he did his steroids and now he's talking different he's probably gonna have new hair it's uh um he's not going he's not doing talks about covid relief anymore until after the election um that's off that's a terrible terrible decision yeah no really bad he's decided to like i don't know what you call what he's decided to do with regards to covid like what do you call even a decision jack he's yeah he's decided like okay i lived through that and therefore i've proven that it's nothing that like it doesn't it's not a brush with uh you know the uh really scary disease he's just leaning into the fact that uh it's it ain't shit because he also tweeted something about how

the flu isn't as deadly as covid that uh twitter had to point uh out was false and Facebook took down. I mean, there's no way that Biden would actually get in the same room and debate him, right? Like maybe they could do a Zoom debate. Well, he said, I'll do it if a scientist tells me it's all good. I'm not going off an old fucking super brain over here. Yeah, who's on his, you know, looking like he's on a Molly trip with his eyes all, like, bugged out. And I don't know if they were.

I'm just saying that colloquially. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. He's just, like, you know, that Kanye line. He felt the pressure. Under more scrutiny. And what he'd do? Act more stupidly.

You know what I mean? Because literally, you can't tell this motherfucker nothing. Not even doctors who are like, sir cannot ah no oh watch me go up these stairs to heaven they they've always been connected in my mind even like long before the whole kanye rock and the mega hat happened because there was like a time when trump's presidential bid started like picking up momentum and it was at the same time that kanye was like kind of going off on a manic in a manic direction and it was it was just like these two narcissism like avalanches happening at once and uh yeah uh something was in there you know yeah something was indeed in the

air but i mean so this is this becomes the issue now is we have a the president who is just shedding viral load everywhere he goes uh not refusing to wear a mask because he still thinks it makes him look weak and why would he uh and you know the secret service is like yo what like what are we supposed to do what are we supposed to do the whole west wing is like cleared out uh or at least it was on monday morning i'm sure he's like you come back to work this is weak shit um and so don't let him watch any batman movies either he's gonna get idea i'm telling you he's he's all right now he's spitballing so many different theories and ideas just based off

his twitter i just know eventually he's gonna make the secret service he's like take that pull cue snap it in half put it put in the middle of the room all right now the one of you the one of you is that comes out of here is my number one guy all right see you in 15 like and they're like what the fuck is this he's we really got to do this shit he said yeah like he he's definitely in an altered state he was already one of our most unhinged presidents if not the most unhinged if you if you're not counting like nixon when he was drunk and yeah this this is just a terrifying time for our country that I think we'll all look back on and be like, wow, that was really something.

We were really at the precipice of literal apocalypse. Yeah, I mean, you say that, but this memory is occurring when you and i are sorting through old junk piles in the apocalypse looking for like power converters to like warm our huts like remember 2020 man anyway man oh shit marauders uh eddie van halen is trending because eddie van halen passed away uh after a years-long battle with cancer. Throat cancer, to be exact. He was a longtime smoker, but he claims that the cancer was caused by holding a metallic guitar pick in his mouth.

But I would still not smoke based on this story. Or, hey, listen to Eddie Van Halen. Don't put metallic guitar picks in your mouth um but i would i would still not smoke um based on this story or hey and if listen eddie van halen if don't put metallic guitar picks in your guitar i don't think anybody needs to have that in their mouth yeah stick with the plastic but man that dude was a genius uh the the beat guitar solo just everything you know that that sound uh was uniquely eddie van halen uh you know shout out the dutch american god yeah i don't really know much about him outside of this he could have been a terrible person but like i know the music i know that he uh popularized playing the guitar with the eggbeater and then you know i started writing jokes with an eggbeater uh and that that was just like my way of showing off so he influenced me in that way all right big mike is trending because trump supporters are

horrifying pieces of shit oh because of michelle obama's thing about basically being like this dude is racist and if and then we're like yeah we're racist and every kind of phobic there is yeah exactly section 230 is trending what is what's section 230 so section 230 is like this shit that protects twitter and facebook like that that doesn't make them liable for shit that's posted on their platforms like section 230 is the reason uh you can say whatever the fuck you want on here and it's like it basically saying like that's user-generated content so like we don't know what the fuck you know that's that's on them um donald trump tweeted repeal section 230 now sir that's the whole reason you can tweet shit like this the covid19 is like live with it like it's the flu

or spread all this kind of dangerous fucking misinformation so i'm not sure you know like if they didn't have that that would mean that twitter and facebook would be like we have to vet every fucking post so we're not you know liable legally for anything that's coming out of this website so yes i don't know i don't know so he wants to be able to sue them for anything that's coming out of this website so yes i don't know i don't know so he wants to be able to sue them for things that other people tweet basically i guess i'm not sure i didn't read this the like what is actually motivating this but yeah i mean usually it's that saying like because they take aggressive action on the right then they're saying you know then it always brings up that that whole like impropriety like are they favoring one side over the other because

clearly they favor the right over the left i mean people they let they let death threats bang all day when it's directed at normal people for being like women or trans or black or having an opinion uh but it's like the second it veered in the other direction like okay we're gonna start banning people don't even mention death with this thing uh so you know it's all just it's all just part of this really interesting fucking last few hours where his twitter has become you know some kind of insight to his matrix yeah it'll be interesting to see how long you know uh fauci came out and said well that like these are the early days and things could very well go in the opposite direction uh it'll be interesting to see how much uh his mental

state follows that path uh hopefully not at all because we uh i don't want uh the whole world to die but um yeah this is why you're not an american they talk about mania being followed by depression or psychosis or these are all things that can happen with steroids so and he does not seem like he's going to relinquish power and mike pence doesn't seem like the type who's gonna you know strong arm it out of his grasp. 25th Amendment up in there? Yeah. That'd be his shot.

They'd be like, they're like, the homie's on, the homie's just on some shit right now. We must, we cannot trust this person because, like, I'm sure, I'm curious to know, like, outside of, like, Dr. Twitter, like, what really, if you had a person on this kind of regimen if you'd be like yeah they can continue to do this job with like super high stakes that involve like being clear-minded and making consequential decisions for millions of people or if they're like you know he should he honestly he needs he needs to not be at work for at least

two and a half weeks and then we will assess from there but he's a president he does what he wants to do and that's the whole point of his presidency is to let remind people know that you know i'm president i can do whatever you want to do do whatever the fuck you want yeah i mean we've talked before about how vip syndrome has like killed michael jackson and elvis presley and you know all all the people who get uh relationships with doctors who are so impressed by their fame that they can't say no to them. Yeah, they forget how to be doctors. And I just didn't think it would kill all of us.

But that definitely seems to be something that is happening right now. That is what is trending this afternoon. The Pentagon is also under quarantine uh joint chiefs of staff were exposed to but jack how do you explain this how is it that all these people in the president's orbit are getting covid and no one on the left is explain that because i think something happened at that debate or at the rose garden i think something happened and it's purely it's definitely not the denial of science and going against what every medical expert said in terms of protecting

yourself against the novel coronavirus what is it are people is that a conspiracy theory that's yes yes yes and it just shows you again like it's never about the actions of yourself it's not what did they do because that's off the table considering what their own actions is not even close to entering the orbit of thought for trying to explain what is happening so it's immediately like oh here's a hit and how come it's these mask wearer motherfuckers are protected from the thing that you need a mask from i don't know why is it that all the people who were wearing motorcycle helmets had a better outcome when they had accidents with their helmets on? But the tough guys who didn't have helmets and looked cool, their coolness didn't save them. This must be anti-cool.

Something's going on. I believe that's true. There is a conspiracy against the tough guys. Anti-cool. People who ride their motorcycle with no hands. All right. That's going to do it for this afternoon. We will be back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.

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