The Daily Zeitgeist - ZeitTrends 7/3: Biden/OSHA, Havana Syndrome, 4th of July, Kevin Costner, Costco Chicken

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

In this edition of ZeitTrends, Miles and special guest host Blake Wexler discuss Biden proposing new OSHA rules to protect workers from extreme heat, conspiracy theorists thinking Biden was hit with directed-energy weapons during the debate, 4th of July 2024, Kevin Costner's new film "Horizon: An American Saga, Part 1" hitting the box office, Costco bagging their rotisserie chickens now and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's up, everybody? And welcome to this July 3rd, Wednesday edition of Zyte Trends. Like, that's a reference to Zyte Heads, which is what our guest guest host paul vegan allen was calling zeit gang uh shout out to johnny davis for that short show title with the lob assist from paul garaventa because apparently you couldn't access discord anyway that's a lot of internal stuff you don't need to know about no no paul paul's the john stockton of the daily zeitgeist the assist that he racks up oh yeah yeah people say like it's like could be with a little more flavor it's like gets it done no need who's dishing like this okay um dishes so

much you could be harvey levin at tmz here's the deal i'm miles that's blake wexler hi blake wexler hi miles gray how are you man uh i'm doing great i'm psyched i've only oh wait i forgot to ask you i'm sorry i'm gonna interrupt you right now what about paul great. I'm psyched. I've only got to ask you. I'm sorry. I'm going to interrupt you right now. What about Paul George? How do you feel about that? I've so I'm sorry. I just I just want to basketball talk listeners. The 76ers and Paul George. Oh, you're back.

I'm back. Oh, you're back in. You're back. I'm back in. And it's been two years. It's been two years. Literally, it's been two years. I'm back in.

Would have been nice to have had Paul uh when he was in his even his late 20s yeah yeah yeah but adam in and um yeah i'm in i'm in look you'll love a set of brittle knees don't you over there in philadelphia yeah it's it's not we can't get enough of them and they keep we keep losing them so we have to get more and more brittle knees yeah it's not even on the fire as if he is uh like a healthy like um like a luka modric you know what i mean like it's like oh this guy keeps going and going yeah yeah yeah no he does break down but you know an iron man it is what it is anyway it is what it is that was trending for the hearts and minds of philadelphia 76ers fans and watchers of the nba like me just

watching the lakers continue to just absolutely like disintegrate before my eyes but it's kind of fun because in a way you need you need a collapse to occur for something new to grow um i i agree but at least you got the head coach that you wanted so i think that's yeah going to be helpful yeah and he's got some there's a lot of interesting allegations about him too um so our first uh that's trending, some good news from the Biden administration, you know, while there's a lot of talk, get him out of here. Like, you know, if you put it on paper, he's doing good things. For example, because you got to big up, you got to big up the old guy when he does something good and in this instance he's looking out for the safety of workers uh basically proposing new standards for osha that will actually as they say have rules that are

designed to prevent heat related illnesses and deaths on the job which is a big deal because heat kills far more people quote in the u.s than hurricanes floods tornadoes or any other weather related disaster uh and obviously thanks to global heating climate change earth death however you want to describe the situation we're in right now that makes this yeah it makes it more yeah i think it's like for the most cynical of us like dying and we're just kind of like living on living on it as it just falls apart i thought you were categorizing natural disaster fatalities calling them just earth death no yeah the hurricane came through there were three earth deaths uh yes that would be something that like republicans would say to not talk about climate change like well we got a lot of earth

related deaths yeah the earth is murdering us that's why we have to declare war against our biggest enemy the earth on which we live because earth declared law and order against us we live on a law and order earth okay um but a lot of people lost they lost track of that so um biden actually announced these plans to create the new osha rules like years ago but it hasn't been a quick and easy process because, oh, wait, that's right. Their change has been opposed by business interests like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. are safe for workers is a complex question not easily addressed by a set of standards and rules and that differences in exertion and physical condition of workers plays in the risk from heat death um okay lobbyists representing farms and construction companies obviously are pushing back against any new regulations because they don't even know why they're like yeah i just it sounds

difficult like we just have to do more stuff and like we don't what are you going to do ensure the safety of human beings that were extracting profits from their labor no it just sounds like a fucking chore but again in the absence of a federal standard states like california colorado washington oregon minnesota have created their own heat exposure standards uh because libs and too woke or whatever the description is um but then you also have places like florida and texas where they like they've actively been fighting against protecting workers from the heat um which is just a tragedy and a half but yeah because there have been like these heat related deaths like there's a texas

construction worker uh who like like like there's all these stories around us from people succumbing to the heat and like these work contexts um it just shows that we actually need like federal standards rather than being like yeah man whatever you want to do um is cool do you live somewhere that's like hot and humid like i don't know man like i don't know i don't know what i don't know what a wet bulb is that's like science talk but let's not let's not have any rules that uh protect people so with these new rules employers are required to quote craft plans to prevent heat injury and illness and have procedures in place to respond to symptoms

of heat illness like muscle cramps nausea and fainting they also need to designate a quote heat safety coordinator and high temperatures uh that will trigger extra 15 minute breaks so again uh this is expected to cover like 35 million workers in the country who are routinely exposed to heat so incredible yeah my my wife counterpoint oh okay yeah no i don't see it as that big of a deal uh but uh my uh my wife is a uh like she'll write about like health stuff for um like huffington post self magazine i'm gonna say like for on facebook health.com she dms it to me we don't have each other's phone numbers so she facebook messages me her opinions on it but she was just writing an article about like con summer concert safety which obviously that's for pleasure not

occupation which i which and this also but i think they go hand in hand here where heat stroke is such an issue where you need to not just go cool off in the shade in order to reverse heat stroke or stop it and i'm probably messing this up a little bit but people know we're not smart so yes yes you're aware of my whole vibe so i am being he is being serious folks i'm being serious like yeah i i am being serious so i'm pretty close here if not right. But you need to go inside into air conditioning for a while in order to stop the heat stroke from coming on. Yeah, you need like cooling tents and stuff, too. Like if there isn't that, like they missed you to bring your body temperature down. Exactly.

And then you add in. So that's happening. That's being proposed for concerts, which you're paying money to go see right and then you add in the additional pressure for a job where you might have a boss making you go back to work and you have you know potential uh retribution on like on your finance like you could lose your ability to make money if you don't want to pass out that's but that's the thing about capitalism man yes everybody's got a gun pointed at their head if they don't listen to pass out but that's the thing about capitalism man yes everybody's got a gun pointed at their head if they don't listen to what boss say even if you succumb to the heat

and yeah there's also another article too about telling all the like presidential candidates you also need to be worried about your rallies because people went people started going down at the trump rally in vegas and they're like you need if you actually need cooling tents you actually like people need to be constantly rehydrate be rehydrating too when you're in that heat um so yeah this is like a huge issue so it's um you know we can't knock a good thing when you see it um so more of that we'll always we will always welcome uh protections for workers because props to that's how these companies make their money um now also to talk about joe biden there's a conspiracy theory that has taken hold like with democrats

lives just and just the weird internet in general um look the vote blue no matter who crowd is also susceptible to weird conspiracy theories this one oh god so the debate obviously this has been what everyone's been talking about. It was his makeup. It was his heavy travel schedule. He was too prepared. He was too prepared. And he didn't know how to answer things.

It was after 3 p.m. Yeah. But now some people are saying that he got Havana syndrome, like he was hit with a supersonic acoustic weapon that scrambled his brain a quote social media influencer igor sushko alleged that biden's gaffes to put him lightly were actually the result of being targeted by these invisible weapons but also the weapons he's also letting the that they were delivered by a russian government quote russian government plane that was seen in the U.S. because there were reports that a Russian diplomatic aircraft was parked next to the Trump airplane.

So everyone's like, yo, what the fuck? Did he get the death rate? Or they did it so obvious that a Russian government aircraft handed off a secret weapon to the Trump airplane? Because this all tracks, folks.

That's why Joe Biden answered that way. Yes. But the source for this guy's claim is a man named yuri schwetz who is a quote former kgb spy who was based in washington dc during the 80s who first posted these allegations on youtube um and he isn't exactly a trustworthy source either um and this guy sushko who is like the the person whose tweet got like the most traction he's a race car driver so it's not like he's like some future future weapons engineer or something like that but anyway there's a lot of people now who have like picked up the story on twitter like the cia needs to investigate this it didn't you're guys y'all we just saw someone in their

80s be in their 80s up on a stage being asked questions that that's that's all that happened and yeah there was no there's no secret weapons um and let's not try and explain away what's happening there by by saying that's what happened um because it it's just you know time are sometimes our times are up you know in many ways but i agree it's it is very funny you you referenced it where the the secret handoff was between the two most conspicuous vehicles yeah on the planet earth a plane that says trump in the biggest typeface that you could possibly find and a known russian aircraft and also i would imagine these havana syndrome um phasers are not something that you can just in a weird handshake like you're passing off a couple dollar bills to

the other person do like i would imagine it's a little more obvious because there was no crowd it's not like you could have had like some dude in the audience being like watch me zap from the crowd. Was it one of the camera operators? Does it go through walls now? I thought they were getting hit through windows. These are great questions. And I thought it would linger for a long time. A lot of people who say they have Havan syndrome say it's i know it's difficult to watch that and i know the media all they talk about is how old he is i mean look myself included but i think for most people understand at this point we know we know it can't be donald trump no no no no no one's here saying well you know maybe give him a shot um but i think this just sort of speaks to the panic people are fearing because they don't they so desperately don't want to see a second trump presidency that they have to be like they're fucking with biden somehow it has to be yeah it's it's pure panic yeah all right let's

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smokes you miss a lot on the 2024 bingo card though i don't know how you put that together yeah it's not good it's not i it's a lot of wish fulfillment stuff it's like yeah i'm praying that my hairline comes back to look like 2004 levels it's not like i was like gosh i didn't have that on my 2024 bingo card it's like trying to my parents got back together i didn't have that on my 2024 um fourth of july are you doing anything special uh i'm going down the jersey shore and yeah yeah so that's what that's what my plans are so I'll be sitting in traffic where do you go which which part we we go to the same place that Jack O'Brien Ocean City yeah we go to Ocean City yeah and yeah we're psyched I always

love it's a dry island I don't know if I know that yeah yeah no no I did I I did know that but it's funny because Jack was also saying like but people get so fucked up there it's wild even though it is a like meant to be like good clean american christian family fun they're like but there's a lot of duis happening over there oh of of course people i think it's because you can't simply walk and buy alcohol it builds up you bring so much with you and you're like oh yeah we have to make this through we can't bring it home with us so i i think that might be yeah yeah yeah they got a soccer tournament four hours so we got look we gotta we gotta speed this up are you doing anything no i think just like giving my dog a bunch of sedatives so he doesn't hate that it's

the worst parts yeah and also like this the fireworks started i'm not joking three weeks ago like of course right where i live because look i get it we like to set off bang bangs but like i said previously the fucking dogs man think of the fucking dog it's so brutal other than that uh i'm probably going to go to someone's house that has food and eat all their food. And even though it's a potluck, bring a thing of grocery store cookies, but then eat all the meat and then leave. Yeah. Because I'm a great guest. Perfect guest.

Perfect guest. 10 out of 9, people would say. Kevin Costner is trending. did you hear about his new like three-hour western movie that came out jesus no exactly so sounds right this one's called horizon an american saga chapter one okay chapter one's three fucking hours we talked about it i think last week or the beginning of this week because it's like kevin costner's politics are so all over the place like you don't even know if this is like pro colonization or not or what the fuck is he saying it's like like truly like critics are like i'm not sure what this film is even saying outside of it taking place uh and like as a western um

it made 11 million dollars in its opening weekend they're hoping i guess for like the fourth of july bump like sound of freedom did but you forget a lot of just like weird wealthy donors just bought a bunch of tickets for people and we're like go see it for free at this theater man so i can prop up the perceived popularity of this film but uh yeah they costner apparently he he wrote or directed produced and stars in it and is one of like put his own money you put 38 million dollars of his own fucking money into this movie plus marketing costs for him to break even this shit needs to make 65 million dollars otherwise he's eaten a whole big burger of debt or not debt or whatever you know he's gonna have to

gonna have to take a 38 million or whatever hit on your 38 million yeah um so we they're waiting to see what exactly could happen but you know kevin costner i keep forgetting you're out there although i know yellowstone is a thing i just keep forgetting that you're out there still so i'm up i apologize because after water world dude i didn't i stopped paying attention it's that was because it was so good you were like well you don't want to ruin movies no absolutely not for you i don't even want to know that guy's name is kevin cost no no no no no this is a dude who has gills behind his ears and like i say the whole time he speaks portuguese which is a futuristic post-apocalyptic language interesting between between two countries that probably didn't exist anymore portuguese um

i so is yellowstone and i'm being vulnerable here is there a way to let's get rid of any of our snob like any of our condescendingness and i'm talking about myself as much as I am talking about you as well. Is it enjoy? Like, can we enjoy that? Like, is it like watching a Marvel movie? Cause I enjoy watching Marvel movies.

Cause I can just shut my brain off. Cause it's all like action and stuff. Is it enjoyable like that? Or is it, is it better? Is it worse? I've seen one episode. It's not for me,

but like a lot of people actually say that like it it's like low-key like lib pilling older conservatives because like there is like this one character in it who is um like this uh there's like a native american character in it and like he'll object to certain things but like he always ends up being like right oh interesting right at the end of something so it's just i don't know yeah i don't know it might be the right i'm just not into like western drama you know what i mean because a lot of people also like it's like succession basically like yeah like where these like rich people just like fucking hate their lives um right right i i was laughing

at like the the most offensive answer you could have given it said exactly what you just said and be like yeah it's not for me you'd like it yeah you'd love it i think you'd like it yeah that's you'd probably let me look you'd love it yeah you'd like it you'd love it actually let me look at you one more time yeah you oh it's right around you're gonna love that you're gonna love that um what the fuck is this commercial yeah the last thing that's trending is costco because they changed the do you know they changed the fucking costco rotisserie chicken the 499 goat chicken um greatest of all time not that it's made of goat um that's the rfk story that we'll get tomorrow yes uh but like they it's like normally goat. That's the RFK story that we'll get into tomorrow.

It's like normally in a plastic shell, they switch it to a bag now. And there's reactions. People are having reactions. Even though the chicken is not same, or not changed, the price has remained the same. There are still people who are like,

why the fuck is it in a fucking bag now? And people are saying like it leaks they're the chicken's gonna be soggy or whatever i haven't had one since it's been in a bag but like when you go to other like grocery stores a lot of grocery stores have changed to rotisserie chickens in a bag so i'm not sure what to think here or be outraged but i guess people they hate what changes you know like in any way they hate it they don't freedom they hit our freedom and most of all they don't want to work anymore and i i do mean it in that order so they these freedom-hating non-workers this has been a big thing they're haters yeah, yeah. They're haters. They're children.

Gen Z. So in Philly at Citizens Bank Park, which is where the Phillies play, they've come under fire because they took, it's a reverse of this chicken, this goat chicken situation, where they took hot dogs, which used to be in a foil,

wrapped in a foil, and they've actually put it in a plastic container. Like one in which that you would picture a rotisserie chicken, but it's been sized for a hot dog. And I prefer the plastic because you can take a bite, easily put it back in the container. It's more contained. It's contained, believe it or not. It's contained. That's what it does. Yeah container it's it's it's more contained it's it's contained believe it or not but that's what it does yeah it's contained but i i can't imagine that has to be worse for the environment like i wonder if the costco's doing this to save like to cut back on waste that they

right that's well let's get to the part that's a good news for earth um they say according to costco connections magazine obviously i have my subscription and i know you do too we just didn't read it because we had other stuff going on this i'm a gold member yeah yeah yeah aren't we all um that this new move will save 17 million pounds of plastic annually and reduce carbon emissions by taking 1 000 freight trucks off the road yearly is that's what it is because that's how, it takes 1,000, I mean, I'm not saying it literally takes, but damn, that's a lot of plastic containers.

It's a lot of chickens too. How many pounds? 17 million pounds of plastic. And what is that in US dollars? Ah, boy, he just walked off. He just bolted on back. I came back, I came back. Yeah, but again, they're cheaper and more space efficient

so look that's how they kept it at the 499 y'all just it's okay it's okay the tear in the bag is that what is a problem if it's tearing that's not ideal you don't want chicken grease all over your new shirt as i always get chicken grease all over my shit and i have to put stain remover on it sucks i when i buy my kirkland shirts i they say do you want a bag and i said i'll wear them out and they come in packs of 12 at costco and i just pile them on top of myself and that chicken grease can seep through two three shirts you buy a 12 pack of shirts and rather than just take it in its 12-pack bag you open it to wear all 12 shirts simultaneously correct so it's less of a bag more of a plastic or i'm sorry a paper belt you know

an adhesive paper belt that keeps them and then there's often one of those plastic tiny things that when you hold them all together yeah it holds them all together and and me together as well in in a lot of ways and so i removed those two things and then they asked oh do you want to put it in a costco bag or a empty wine box i was gonna say you narc there are no bags at costco there's no bags there's no bags so whatever you just did the glorious bastards i want three whiskeys and i just saw that and i said this motherfucker don't you called it out go oh. I'm the most inglorious of all the bastards. But yeah, no, I do wear them out.

Man, you ain't fucking with Costco, bro. You said Costco shopping bag, man. I feel really fucking with you. I took some creative liberties. I took some creative liberties. I took some creative liberties. What's your favorite thing at Costco? Then go.

That isn't anything you just mentioned. What if I was like the ketchup? Like the entrance. The entrance. The entrance. I mean, it's a free sample. The entrance is the worst part. Yeah.

Did you know that you don't need to be a member in order to buy alcohol? Right. In there? Yeah. At least that was true six years ago when I did that. But yeah, you don't. I think you can just walk in and buy it. Yeah, because it's some states. It's state specific to require a membership to buy alcohol.

So it's not everywhere. If you're in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, or Minnesota, you can check out the Costco Kirk Siggy's alcohol section without a membership. And that's called a life pro tip from the Daily Zeitgeist. There you go. You're welcome. Thank you so much for joining me on the trending episode. We are going to be back tomorrow or not.

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