The Daily Zeitgeist - Ziet Coke 1/21: Diet Coke, Bernie Sanders, #BidenErasedWomen, InstaCart, Wardell

Episode Date: January 21, 2021

On this edition of Ziet Coke Jack and Miles discuss Joe Biden getting rid of the Diet Coke button in the Oval Office, the Bernie Sanders memes are still flying, TERFs are saying Biden's Progressive ideas regarding Trans rights and the rights of Trans Women are "erasing women", InstaCart is firing every employee that wanted to unionize, and apparently Steph Curry's real first name is Wardell. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, damn. He's on a roll, huh? Yeah, man. No, he had to remove the diet coke button, I guess, from the people were pointing out the big red button that Trump had on his desk. Literally, literally to order a Diet Coke is gone. Oh, so that wasn't just, oh, what does it look like? Is it like a Coke can?

He has to like smash with his fist. I had always pictured it as a big red button like that. Uh, like staples. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what,

that's what I thought. But is there any chance that this is all a bit and I am just like QAnon fallen for it? Let's see here. Nope. This is a Hill article that says Trump's Diet Coke button appears to have left the Oval Office when he did. Um, yeah.

All right. It's not, it's not quite as big. It doesn't seem like as the, uh, as the Staples button. Isn't that just a theme for his administration? Not quite as big. No. um there's also you know less important things like biden uh arrived to find that there was no vaccine rollout plan uh well hold on more on that later jack the diet coke thing he got rid of it what is he saying what is he doing the thing i read was like that he he biden

was really secret he didn't want to share what the Trump letter that was left on like the Resolute desk was. He's like, it's private. And he's like, and it was generous. And I'll maybe say more after I speak with him. And I wonder if he's like, dear Joe Biden, please don't skull fuck me with the law. I don't have any money, please. I don't know. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I don't have any money, please. I don't know. We'll see what happens.

We'll see what happens. I don't know. Man, did you see that one clip with the woman crying, pleading with President Trump to help to save her? The woman who took a private jet to the... No, a different one. Different crying person. Oh, okay.

She's like, President Trump, save me, please. She's asking for a pardon? Or is she asking for... No, it was like a general, like, a cry out to God, basically. Yeah, yeah. That won't answer. So, should have learned the lesson that Christmas when you didn't get a Nintendo like I did.

Only rely on yourself and your cunning to get what you want in this world. Picture Miles as, like like a Stewie character. Yeah, basically. I mean, Only Child, like I read a lot of almanacs and shit, like fact books. So yeah, I have some ideas. Hashtag Bernie Sanders is trending. Why is Bernie Sanders trending?

Because his appearance will always be more intriguing than his policies for people on the Internet. It's just a fucking meme, you know? I love this. He's wearing a winter coat. He's got mittens. I mean, it's funny. Bernie Sanders' casual normcore is giving me life, Miles. as casual uh norm core is giving me life miles but it's almost like it's weird because that's sort of like part of the appeal of him too right because even like black twitter's like loving the

bernie memes and that's like there's a crossover there you know that i i think this speaks to his broader appeal as a politician we'll see what like what kind of gavel moves he makes uh once he's on the you know budget committee but yeah it's just interesting to see like how immediately bernie sanders basically became one of like the biggest talking points out of the inauguration and it was mostly just about like look at him he's like he's like a regular guy and like people most people like yeah yeah yeah that's what we need that's all more regular guys we're just regular people who like look like any person on the street and we don't have to be like isn't that weird he's like a regular guy up there where's his drip just with regards to the meme i do feel like we are seeing uh one of the details get left out because it's the same uh

shot of him photoshopped where he's got his legs crossed and his arms crossed and holding an envelope wait can you see the envelope in the picture oh maybe no i think maybe i think for all of us the envelope is the most key detail marked yeah for those of us that went frame by frame of the zapruder film of bernie entering the inauguration we saw like oh my he's running errands what's going on yeah it just like didn't didn't even give a fuck enough to drop off the envelope in his office before coming to the inauguration yeah um but yeah i mean the mittens the mittens miles are giving me life is it clear that that's the only uh thing that i know how to say oh yeah like a. Like a person. Giving you life. Giving me life. I mean, your drag queen slang is next level.

You know what I mean? But it's like three-year-old drag queen slang. I don't know. I mean, you've been pretty hip. You were like, oh, my God. You're like, Mitch McConnell just gave Trump his whole life on the Senate floor. Like what? And I was like, oh, shit.

Okay. It doesn't really work. And then you started like popping your tongue and shit. I was like, okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was like, Jack, shit. Okay. It doesn't really work. And then you started like popping your tongue and shit. I was like, okay. Yeah. I was like, Jack, what are you watching? What show are you into right now? You're like, RuPaul's Drag Race.

Drag Race. Drag Race. Yeah. That's what my kids call it. Yeah. Drag Race. Drag Race. All right.

Hashtag Biden erased women is trending because there's some TERFs out there at it again. Yeah. Trans exclusionary radical feminists for the people who don't know, which is, you know, J.K. Rowling. anti-trans but claim that they're still pro-women and they're claiming that biden's progressive policies around trans rights are erasing women yeah it's uh i don't it's just like so hard to wrap your head around i mean the logic just being like if you're protecting trans women then that is erasing the rights of cisgender women the whole thing is like are you okay you're a feminist are you intersectional right because if you are then shut the fuck up yeah that's in that's you couldn't be more intersectional than to include people like it's whatever so i'm loving it love when the turfs go off because yeah fucking hold that out like it's it's it's just it's ridiculous so yeah it's it's a big big trend big old trend today the um is this just because i see as at least as much uh of people being critical of

of the sentiment uh or if not more of people being critical of the sentiment uh on on twitter is this partially uh being sort of amplified by people who just want there to be messiness uh within the biden administration and with like the left the left is eating itself dems and disarray i mean like it's such a weird like this is such a specific take yeah you know what i mean like this transphobic shit and like especially when you're couching it in this language of it's of it's it's going to hurt cisgender women like it's just there i mean i don't know maybe there are people just trying to make a mess but like this is this constantly comes up like whenever anything happens.

And these are the, it's the same people with like the, like they have some emoji. They use like red X's or something on their Twitter. Like when, you know, JK Rowling goes off and they're like, Oh,

we love it. We love it. So it's, uh, it seems like they're the men's rights activists of feminism. Like they have a very, uh, narrow and straight. It's all very like it's just old

school you know like because a lot of them just come out of fucking like negative first wave with feminism like it's so far back but yeah and it's it's has a tinge of misogyny to it wouldn't you know instacart is trending because uh they are firing every employee who voted to unionize. So I'm going to be deleting Instacart from my phone. Jesus, fucked up. They're firing every... My God. Like, yeah, no, let's have a vote.

I mean, whatever, you know, it's totally up to you. And then, yeah. It's vote. I mean, whatever. You know, it's totally up to you. And then, yeah. Yeah. It's a trap. Yeah, exactly. They set me up. Yeah. Wow.

Cool, cool, cool. And we're talking, too, about how the NLRB, the Labor Relations Board, you know, Biden had to switch stuff up because the guy who was running that for Trump was basically Instacart the the person who was like, would you say, oh, no, no, no free speech. You have no ability to fucking vote for that. I'm firing you or whatever else is going to happen. So, I mean, Jesus, like their whole business has been booming because of the pandemic. The pandemic. And then to then say like, oh, that's going to eat into our already uncharacteristically high profits by giving these people more protections is just another sign.

Again, the argument is always it's not that it's going to fuck their business up. It's that the assholes in the C-suite don't want to make less money. Right. want to make less money right they and also if they're publicly traded then they have to they value their goddamn shareholder shareholder value is just too important to them to then just do right by the humans that make the whole thing possible so eat a big pile of shit instacart right i'll deliver that too you know give me that i'll pull up with it i'll shit on your my homies naked ass cut that out actually Cut that out. Actually, cut that out because I don't want this. Well, they'll find out soon enough. They'll find out soon enough.

Shit on my fresh naked ass. Sorry, this doesn't make sense. It will. It will tomorrow. Tune in tomorrow. It will tomorrow, gang. Took up a lot of oxygen on the show. Wardell is trending, which is steph curry's

real first name and uh it's trending because i mean he just gifted the internet with a pre-packaged reaction meme is basically a reporter asked him a question that was one of the worst questions i've ever heard in sports journalism which is bad because sports journalism is usually like worse than like what jim gray would ask yeah it was well jim gray is just a bad person yeah he's he's like have halfway to having his soul sucked out of his body like by a dementor yo one of the first times he went left i remember trying to figure out if his family owned mine i'm not joking i was like where the fuck like i just can't yeah it can't be this that was that but that was 2002 there was there weren't many resources there aren't many resources now for people to try

to figure that stuff out. Yeah, interesting. Anyways, the guy's question was, why is one of the players on his team so good at put-back dunks? Which is the question that I would have asked when I was seven years old to somebody like, hey, Jon Paxson, why jordan like so good at dunks like yeah it's basically that level of a question but he oh kid he opens it by addressing steph curry as wardell uh like very formally slash like he knows him like that yeah and steph curry's eyebrows just shoot up like uh what the fuck are you trying to,

how, how is this? What? And then to follow it up with the worst question ever. It was clear that he put all his energy into having the gumption to call him Wardell and hadn't even thought beyond that word. But the it's, it's mainly trending because what Steph Curry did in response will be a reaction meme for the rest of our lives.

Yeah. And the shout out to Marcus Thompson who asked that question. I'm sure that helped his follows because they're already memeing him. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually funny. Like, yo, this is how I'm going to get my numbers up as a journalist. Yeah, he might be.

I'll call him by his real name which isn't controversial right we'll raise his eyebrows get a conversation going and i was like a damn smart all right marcus i see you did you have did you have anything that your parents called you when you were in trouble because somebody was pointing out like the reason he responded that way is because usually didn't hear that unless he was about to you know catch an ass whooping yeah i'm thinking no i mean my mom no i mean i was i have a real name that is not my name so i right john christopher o'brien that's when i was in some shit yeah that was funny because i only heard that at the white kids houses like you're like why the fuck i'm like your name's not dj right like what the fuck she just

call you fool like what was that and then you're like what is this because my i think i think my dad would be like hey or my mom would say something in japanese that would like, my mom had more of a prelude to the head ripping off that she would say in Japanese that I knew that the tide was going to take me away. Yeah. Which was, which means like, I'm getting irritated. Wow. So very measured.

Yeah, if I continued down the path, I knew I would then begin the sequence of combat I could not reverse. You know what I mean? So I was like, okay, I got you. I see you, I see you. That's all you had to say. And then, like I was saying too,

you act up in front of your friends and your friends will speak Japanese. Like, yo, what'd you say? I'm like, nothing, fool. Just shut the fuck up, bro. Just stop making jokes about it. All right. Those are five of the things that are trending right now.

We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay inside. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we'll talk to you all then.

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