Weekly Zeitgeist 169 (Best of 3/29/21-4/2/21)

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 178 (3/29/21-4/2/21.)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, I I am also thrilled to
introduce our guest today. Uh, somebody that Jack is scared of.
For sure. I'm not scared of hurt because you know,
let me do the fu um please please welcome one

(00:48):
of actually one of my favorite guests to have on here,
the brilliant and talented and hilarious and just honest as fuck,
Marcella Arguao. We welcome in a minute, in a fucking minute. Really,
what's new with you? Talk? Depression? M hmm, that's news.

(01:09):
What kind of depression did you say? Just regular depression? Okay,
you know, just like that quarantine. Like I'm finally hitting
finally here, I'm actually coming out of it. But I
was like hitting the wall. That's why you guys in
here from me from hot second and I was like, Marcella,
please come back. Great an impression and I was like, no, bitch,

(01:29):
it's gonna have to wait. It fools, I'm back. Bit.
Yes there you are. Yeah, man, that ship that it
creeps on you. Because sometimes this depression doesn't look the
same way and it can be a general malaise. Yeah,
it's different now because you're just like, oh, I'm gonna
do nothing because I have nothing to do. Oh it's weird. No,

(01:50):
it's not nothing else, there's no means. I guess I
can start timing how long these blunts I will last,
and then start like a grand Prix of blunts to
see what said. Your your psychologists will ask you how
much you're smoking, and he's going to look at you
like he knows you're lying. I said, look shout out,
Dr Schmitra. But also I said, why am I on trial, Chamitra,

(02:11):
Please I'm coping. And also, if you knew this one
blunt had less than one g and it went for
seventeen minutes, that has to be a record. And she's like,
just let's let's start talking about your family. Dr Kevin
had the audacity to be like, it doesn't sound like
all the weed is helping, and I was like, well,
not smoking weed is helping either, So I don't know, sir,
things are so bad for me. My gunacologists prescribed me,

(02:33):
so off, that's how bad he's got. Y'all are you
at okay? You know what? Let me give me that
other notepad real quick. Uh. And then Joel you were
just I mean, look, we keep in touch because we
work together, but I know you and Daniel were on
family feud Donald and Zach for fake doctor's real friends

(02:56):
versus who who are you going up against? Some family?
We went against Neil Flynn improv true. Neil was like
the janitor on Scrubs. He's also the dad on I
think in the middle right right, and so he's but
he's got Keckner and like Horatio SAMs. Yeah, okay, so
I had a broken family. Was it did did it

(03:20):
get competitive? Did you did you perform? Well? Yeah? So
it was wild. It was wild. We have indid out
the ask, so I can't talk about performance, but we
like listen I and they were like we're doing to
know was like, oh, I don't know, I don't want
to do it. I'm not into it. I don't do
the game shows. And they were like, no, you got
you please, And then of course Danil Light of my
life was like this is a dream that was on

(03:43):
the road d Jay and that is what we watched.
The trailer is it? I love Family of You? And
I was like, I'm listening, I'm not going to be
the human that let's Daniel down. Okay, it could not
be me, but so let's let's just do it the
whole day. I'm just had to be up early as
hell to be at the studio, all of them the
OtherSide of town. They did send a car, which was
I thought it was very nice, like, thank you, I
don't have to drive. I love that. Um So we

(04:03):
get there, They're like, this is your trailer. I was
like a trailer for a game show. What kind of
next level stuff are we dealing with? When I saw
Daniel had a whole new outfit. His lady helped him
buy pants and pants shopping the day before, and he
was adorable. Listen, my whole heart lifted. I was like, Okay,
I'm just here for Daniel. I'm just gonna say a
day about Daniel and making sure Daniel feels good and

(04:25):
has a great day on his favorite effing show. Competition
got steep. It was like it was real intense, like
I couldn't let him down. I was worried. I forgot
which way to walk at one point. It was one
of those molds were like, oh no, that's really Steve
Harvey in his shoes are polished to the tents like
the A plus uncle he is, and it's much. I
don't want to say that you do that your eye

(04:49):
blind does meet his teeth often, I will say that
it was it was wild. It was weird to be there. Uh.
If you check out my Instagram, Donald I was so
excited at one point that he broke out into to
that girlss poison the whole audience. They love. It was
entertaining as how would do it again? And it was
celebrity family feuds. So now my mom's excitedly telling all

(05:11):
of her like cousins and stuff, like I raised the
celebrity and my baby is a celebrity. Sure, Mommy, she's
very proud of me. I feel like this is the
least I've ever had to work for anything. And she's like,
you're doing so well in life. I'm like, family, Few've got,
Mom's tried. I love it. I love that Steve Harvey
legitimizes a lot of people to their parents. I mean, yeah, also,

(05:35):
I'm just you know, through the transitive property. You are
a celebrity. You are if if you are if you're
on celebrity family Feud and you are on there with
other celebrities, therefore you are are you are not. I
don't see the I don't see the flaw on that
logic at all. You Eve introduced this as Zack and
Donald and friends, like that's appropriate level of celebrity. Yeah,
you should have been like, oh man, you look good

(05:57):
without your wig on. Man, damn much at Steve Harvey
in house. Okay, here's my favorite thing abouting it. So
you know they've got the hair and makeup people, all
the producers and stuff. No one, not a single person
didn't call him Mr Harvey. It's not Steve Steven Steven,
Mr Harvey. It's Mr Harvey to everyone. I was like, Okay,

(06:18):
I see the law has been laid down here. I
see it. Damn I'm not coming in. I'm not coming
into his house. That's respecting him. I feel like someone
would beat me. Well, you know, look, that's why. That's
why I'm not a celebrity and I'll never be on there.
So I'll live my wild fantasies out through vicariously through
you where I've created an alternate version and then you
snap out of it and you're like, yes, thank you,
good to be here. I would just I would just

(06:39):
go on there and call him Dr Teeth. You're looking
great today, Oh man, what's your secret? Many? Um? What
do you think is something that's underrated? You know, I
had a thing, but I think we're gonna end up
talking about it later. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm
gonna move that and I'll say that it's not thing.

(07:00):
I'm pretty excited about that. Not a lot of people
talk about is spray on deodorant. I like it. I
think it's pretty cool. And as somebody who suffers from
from from absence who gets the fucking boils under their
arm from regular deodorant, spray on deodorant. It doesn't clog
your pores, you still smell nice, and you get to

(07:21):
kill the environment at the same time. It's pretty cool.
Not out of ten for me. They haven't figured out
a way to make it environmentally friendly. Are Yeah, there
are some that are. I am not investing in those.
Those probably cause tends to twenties of dollars. I'm gonna
go with the ones that are damn they're free, or

(07:43):
you get like killing penguins when at school, the like
the janitor, like the custodial services with spray for bugs,
like that pump bucket, and then like like I can
just do it on my own, but yeah, I could
just stand next to Hank and get whatever he's got.
Is it like a an AX style container. I've avoided
acts mostly because of the self respect, years and years

(08:09):
of people making fun of acts. If I'm being honest,
I think AX smells pretty good, and I'm not sure
why everybody hated on it, but I will say that, yes,
it's like a degree, but you know, the just a
regular spray can kind of thing, Yeah, it's pretty I
felt like that was almost the standard in the late
eighties early night like visually that was being reinforced in

(08:29):
my mind was like, oh, yeah, you spray your deodor
in on. I think I think they go out a
lot faster. I think you run out of it a
lot faster. And so the stick became more you know, reasonable,
it's a purchase. And I think as we then science
revealed to us something called the ozone that was another
people were like, Okay, maybe there's another way to do that.

(08:52):
I'm here for the me zone, baby, I'm just trying
to get nice and and I tried. I tried with
the crystals. They don't fucking work. I'm sorry, crystals bullshit,
I'm my stink is on another level. And I don't know.
I've never met a crystal that can fucking you know,
neutralize my ship. I'm sorry. I had a friend who
told me about the crystals, and I did not understand

(09:15):
if the implication was that you're you're holding the crystals
under your like you just have to like, but it's
more you just keep them in your pockets. Then they're
like stinky crystals and they keep you from stinking. Is
that the deal's to roll it on? Just wet the
crystal and apply you know what I mean? Yeah, this

(09:36):
is Look, this was some ship I remember seeing in
my because my dad stunk and he tried everything. And
then at the time this is like in the early nineties,
were like, yo, crystal, you know he's an artist or
some other motherfucker's around him was like the crystals and
then them just it made no sense. Like he would
read a wet like a rock and like rub it
on his arm and he's still stunn. I tried that

(10:00):
it later on in life because I wasn't trying to
put all that like chemical ship on me. But it
was either that or just smell fucked up. So you're
gonna do you know, and hey, exact gang, if you
have a if you know crystal that's fucking powerful enough
to do battle with me, then let me know why
was your Why was your dad so stinky? Why why
did he think so bad? I don't because you know,

(10:22):
like you know how people I don't know. I'm like
one of these people if I don't wear deodorant immediately
out of the shower, and I'm like, if I watch
a sports game, I'm invested in my sweat smell awful,
Like I don't know what the funk it is something
I just whatever my body. That's what our bodies are doing.
I'm a sweater. I get that. I like, if I

(10:42):
start sweating, it's some bads coming out. So you get
no fight out of me, right exactly. I still am
stuck on axe body spray. I feel like maybe there
there is like maybe they did get it too rough
back in the day. I think so, like guy fiery
style almost like yeah, and then he had kind of
a redemption arc. Maybe that will happen for X body spray. Yeah.

(11:05):
You you want to believe that ax has been given
like bottles to orphans this whole time, and then you
know you find out ex body sprays the Humanitarians deal. Yeah,
for everybody spray purchased, you know, send one to a
body and knees. It's like the Toms shoes of like
Deodurans just making little African kids smell like muscle beach. Yeah,

(11:30):
that I guess. I mean it smells like swag in here.
What do you think is something that is underrated? Underrated
of erectile dysfunction? I think a rectile dysfunction is underrated
because if you think hard enough about all the negative

(11:52):
things that have been precipitated by erections, it's it's almost obvious,
like the quest for power, wars, assaults on people's bodies.
If you're dick stopped working, go teach a kid how
to read gold, start a nonprofit, volunteer at a sup kitchen,
like take take that energy if you were wasting and

(12:14):
put it towards good. Okay, when the dick stops working,
if it had a beautiful vision of doctors being like,
you know what, We're not gonna try to kill this anymore.
We're gonna drive men to be better human beings. Okay,
this is a divine intervention. Your dick stop, go to
good in the world. Okay, I have a double edged sword, though,
you know, I feel like how many people with that

(12:36):
toxic sense of masculinity then go on the other side
and you're like, what's wrong with I have? I have
a friend who has said more than once like if
if my dick stops working, just kill me. I'm like, no, dude,
stay alive and like plant a garden a garden. Also, yeah, also,
please make your existence more than if your blood flows

(12:57):
to your penis. Yeah, it's not. I mean honestly, Like, look,
if that's his measure for like a quality of life,
what does he look like with people who achieve things?
And he's like that, it's like the dick work that.
I don't give a funk about the Lebron James. We
didn't he got on those rings, but Dick, Joe, he

(13:19):
got the rings. But what about that thing working with
the ships? Are no? Okay, sir, Please the toxic section
is over there. Please let that go. Please, let's non
Dick Hafter. This is the greatest conversation ever. This is
so funny. But it's y'all something that truly that I
truly think it's underrated, Like you know, I want to

(13:42):
deep Yeah, yeah, we appreciate that. That's why the listeners
come here and we avoided talking about ship because which
is normally what will happen sometimes. Well maybe that might
be a song we go out on later you'll see,
very surprised. But yeah, Langston, let us know something about

(14:05):
you in the form of your search history. What's something
you've been searching that This is exciting. I got jury duty,
uh the notification, the official notification that I was on
call for jury duty. So I've been google searching how
to get out of jury duty, like the various methods
for for escaping jury duty. And I think I'm just

(14:27):
gonna show up and say that I'm extremely biased against
the police and see how that, uh you know, that
plays in their little ears. I've had to have an
evolution around that because unfortunately, if people like you or
I don't do jury, the verdict could get fucked up
by the kind of people that do serve on jury
don juries and like there was a reckoning I had

(14:48):
to because I used to be the professional jury duty dodger.
I'd come in and I would be so contrarian, like
when they're asking questions that I would just frustrate whoever,
like I didn't need an excuse. I'll be like, I'm
just gonna intellectually frustrate the like the lawyers, so they're
like out of here. And then as I get older

(15:08):
and realize the complexions of juries in this country and
the verdicts that regularly come out, like, I'm like, fuck
the thing, like it. It is my duty on some
level to be there. But also sometimes, like I think
about the case one was like about some tax accountant
had a thing with other, don't Miles, I agree it
is your duty to be there. I have no intention

(15:32):
on upholding any of my civic responsibilities. I'm going to
lie my way out of it and to stay at
home out. Yeah you should. If anything, Look a quick
tip for people in l A. If you can get
it at the Burbank court, half the time they'll let you.
They'll let you go early. That was a court rooms
small yeah, just for the for the experts out there. Okay,

(15:55):
I got jury duty at the beginning of quarantine and
then they had to cancel jury for a little while,
so I got out of it. Oh that was to
do it? When would you when would you have to
go in potentially? I don't know. They never they like
Jamie ye, they just bring with Jamie with you and

(16:21):
be like, you know, she's she's actually she's actually really
cool and would love to do Jerry do pledge herself
as a tribute for this, uh jury summons? But like
did they have Oh yeah, um do they like what's
the date? Because it was today was completely resumed. I
don't know they said, they said it was today and
then they said, uh, I went online and they said

(16:43):
you don't have to come in today, but you got
a call tonight to find out if you tomorrow. Yeah,
go in tomorrow or do you know the whole you
get it? But that said, uh, you know, I'm just
gonna keep trying to to draft dodge as much as possible.
I'm gonna blame my shin splints, I'm gonna do whatever.
I can't exactly the whole The vibe though in that

(17:05):
waiting room is so funny because like it's the whole
spectrum we have people who like have time, you know
what I mean, and they have done it. They have
crossword puzzles, books and ship fucking thermous. Then you have
like the young idiots that were like me, who like,
even before smartphones, I had like half of a script
that I like panic just grabbed out of a pile

(17:27):
of things to read, and I was like, fun, what
then am I doing? And then there's always somebody stressed
the funk out on their phone. It's like having to
handle some monumental personal business but they're stuck in this
fucking room and they're trying. Like, look, I don't know.
I feel like I'm missing an opportunity if I skip

(17:48):
out on this, But I can't bring myself to you know,
it's it's comedy gold. It's gotta be just a bunch
of miserable people trapped in a courtroom. That sounds wonderful,
but I just can't bring myself to do it, to
try and find equity and be effective in a legal
system that is completely flawed upside down. I mean, the
whole thing is a farce, but but so is this country,

(18:09):
and we're still participating. Right there, we go, What is
something from your search history? That is revealing about who
you are. Well. Also in the spirit of moving in
toilet bowl brushes. Oh man, looking up than toilet bowl brushes.
That's been so you know, uh, my partner takes right

(18:29):
take huge bowl in their honey event horizons where it
like a peers out over the water. It's just always
one of those ones. It's just it's always becomes so
you know, I'm sorry about that. It's a shitty podcast,
That's what I'm saying. Second rate, more like a number
two podcasts. Anyway, So toilet bowl brushes, it's just been

(18:53):
in the process of getting things for the house, We've
had different responsibilities and while uh, Stephanie is covering main
things like the couch and the bed frame, she's like,
why don't you look up a good toilet bowl brush, Like, babe,
I got you on that one, no problem, let's get it.
And so yeah, I've been searching a lot of those,

(19:16):
and the market is right. There are so many toilet
bowl brushes out there of all different designs and shapes.
Now that I was, I mean, I'm thrilled by there's
just there's a lot, and it's very it's very fun
to shops. Don't new technology. I mean, I feel like
they need it's pretty gross. It is. Toilet bowl brushes

(19:38):
exist and we just leave them there, and uh like
I'm trying to come up with like maybe like a
squirt bottle or something that we, uh we could use
or it isn't like the other lazy versions like you
put the thing in your toilet tanks. So then like
it's always just kind of like there's like some kind
of with that blue ship remember in the night. It
looks like yeah, or you or you stick one on

(20:01):
the side of the thin Yeah, exactly. I just throw
a couple of those in there every time I go
to the bathroom, Just drop a couple in. You're gonna
need that plot plot fist fish. Oh my god, guys,
we got it. We're off the air, We're off the internet.

(20:21):
What's happening. I remember like anytime I would move into
a new place back back in the day, there was
a bed bath and beyond trip that always took place.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we hand we handled the bed
bath and beyond trip got are necessary, you know, shower
curtain hangers and all that jive. But the the other thing,
the funny thing about the toilet pol brushes that babe.

(20:44):
I've had a really a couple of really cool ones.
There's one from CB two. There's this other one who displays.
She said, no, we're not going to CB two because
I have her gifts or to pick it there, and
we're only going to buy stuff from there when we
have a bunch of things to buy it. And I
was like, okay, okay, so I won't get that one, idiot,
what about this? Also have a gift certificate from there,
so we're not gonna buy anything from there because we
have a lot of stuff to buy. Wait, y'all got

(21:06):
like moving in gift certificates, dude, like all of these
so I'm trying to remember which service it was. Oh,
it was changing your address with the USPS. Change your
address they give you like just a right, Okay, that's
different than a gift certificate, where I think people are
making range I have the cards on you. It was
definitely improper, improper language there. But yeah, we've just been

(21:29):
you know here, they're on whole order, I mean like
makes you wonder, makes you wonder? Yeah, yeah, what are
they charging normally? What's that really? What's the exactly costing them?
Literally nothing? But it's saving us pennies on the dollar. Well,
you know, let us know which brush you end up with. Oh,
I will be updated. What does it matter that is conical?

(21:52):
I want that slightly conical, that way you can really
hit the underneath, real sub rim as I call it.
I want the good points, but I also want the
one that has like the cap attached to the stick,
so that when you put it back in like the tube,
it stays like that and then like you push it
down like venus light. Also also very nice. I've been

(22:15):
looking for those, but they all have a kind of
those ones all have like a very like future kind
of aesthetic where I wants a little bit more, a
little bit more. You've always said that like cottage, cottage core,
very cottage core, you know, Spanish style home. We can't
have this future tech toilet ship. So which is why
you're doing with like a tree branch with a cotton

(22:35):
bloss And thank you. Precisely you've nailed. You said your
fashion icon is Blake Lively, right nailed. Thank you. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk
about news, and we're back. James Cameron is making another

(23:05):
Titanic movie. Kind of okay, kind of because it's a documentary.
But but I'm gonna put a pin in that because
we have to do a little bit of research here,
just a little bit of context. Um. Shout out to
j m Our writer who was like, look at, look
at what's happening. Um, there is a Chinese developer right

(23:27):
now who is in the process of constructing a life size,
full scale version of the Titanic. Um. It is built
in the countryside of China about one thousand miles from
the sea, so it is very landlocked. Um, why is
it being built? Nobody knows? What? Why? Why question joy

(23:50):
in this way? Why who cares? I like this photo
of seeing it being built, like clearly in the middle
of nowhere, and I like, and I do you can
tell what they're doing is they're building like a miniature
doc so it looks it will sit in water essentially,
so it look like it's yeah, it's a little foot

(24:10):
bath for the Titanic. Um this I mean it the
ship looks massive, so yes, they are building in fact,
a full scale replica. Uh the way it's all so
there's an infomercial apparently that the developer of the like
this construction site screens for visitors when they go visit,
and even the infomercial that plays doesn't answer any of

(24:33):
those questions. It's just sort of like this is a replica,
full scale coming soon. Know why? Who? Where? Huh? And
it turns out this is actually being built by a
very wealthy businessman, a businessman by the name of last
name Sue, who is the president of a seven star
energy investment group. He's just a gigantic Titanic fan project.

(25:00):
This is like a cool there. I reject people this wealthy,
except for this person specifically. This is a fun way
to use fabulous wealth. This is and and also there's
been other attempts to do this, like over the As
a long time Titanic head, there have been so many
attempts to like get uh, you know, they like to

(25:22):
create a Titanic cruise ship and then take the same
round as the Titanic and like that for years. I'm like,
I'm just so happy it's actually happening. James Cameron didn't
even get to build a full sized Titanic, he only
had to half. I think he's jealous us a little
bit of Laura. He seems like a bitter man. My
mom was in Mexico when they shot the sinking scene

(25:45):
and got yeah, or like when they had the half
half version coming out of the water, and I remember
she was like I remember as a kid, I was like,
why are you going to Mexico, like for a word trip.
I'm like, I don't want to be and she's like,
it's Titanic and I'm like, I don't know what that means.
And it always confused me, like why it wasn't shot
in the sea in Mexico And I had no idea

(26:06):
about production then. But anyway, a little bit of fact,
you should what it was like to be there in
the cold. Um. So back to this new thing. There's
a new Titanic movie with James Cameron at the helm,
or well rather he's producing it. But it's a documentary
about the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic sinking who

(26:31):
have gone ignored by history. This is called the movie
is called the Six Um and it's just about just
all the Chinese aspects of this story that have been
completely erased or not told outside of China perhaps. So um,
it's gonna be coming out like pretty soon actually this
April on the hundred and ninth anniversary the Titanic. Damn.

(26:52):
That's why I to think my grandma would have been
a hundred nine. She was born, uh two days after
the Titanic. Um she lived one or two. She was
doing all right, shut up, mich um. But you know,
I think one of the reasons that we didn't get
the you know, full story about these six Chinese survivors
is you guessed it, racism. Um. The men were in

(27:15):
steerage where their survival rate was only about and once
they arrived in the US, they were detained and deported
due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. These motherfucker's survived the
sinking of the like off the Titanic, being pulled out
the water. They got to the US. Yeah, and they said, y'all,

(27:37):
y'all are out of here. Now we're doing this. Yeah.
The other thing that JM notes is that other passengers
were given medical treatment, and they were denied medical treatment.
It was like an immediate like no, no, no, you
already know you can't be here, can't be here. Here's
your ticket, goodbye. So yes, this is like a very
American telling of this story. But another really interesting bit

(27:59):
was that James can and originally had a scene or
a shot where a Chinese man was rescued from a
wooden plank, but they cut it from the theatrical version.
Are they going to release it in the new movie?
I know, like it shouldn't that be? Like the new
Snyder cut is just like put back the little weird
bit of Asian representation there was in this in a

(28:19):
four hour movie. Wow, this is I had no idea
this was going to happen. This is so fucking cool.
Another mind blowing thing. James Cameron used the story of
one of the passengers, Fang Lang, who survived on a
floating door. As you guessed it, inspiration for Jack and
Rose's final scene. So you're taking from them and you're

(28:42):
still we didn't know this, James, James needs to make
this right. I'm glad he needs to make this right.
This is so oh my god, that's this. I can't
put into words how excited I am to watch this.
I hope it's like it will be widely available. Ball
shoot reshoot the film, but splice in these like this

(29:03):
is a much more interesting story than the made up
rich white lady who threw her ocean in her necklace.
But this is where they're at but yeah, and then
he released James Cameron did another documentary about Titanic that
I called Ghosts of the Abyss. Did you see that?

(29:25):
Oh that was like the one that went back down
into the sea, right, yeah, submersible one. He's just really
in love with Titanic the ship, and he's got so
much money. But this is this is like a story
I've never heard about before. This is I'm so happy
this is going to be released equal parts interesting and horrifying.

(29:45):
So gets your good and you're bad. But yeah, to
know that that's off based off of this other person's
like true life, is really like my moment. Yeah, Jamie
as a resident Titanic head, I don't know if you'll
know the answer to this, but I am um curious, like,
why do you was that Titanic such a badass ship

(30:06):
that we would want to make so many replicas of it?
Because it just seems like why do we keep trying
to replicate the Titanic? If it is this the dumbest question? No,
I think it's I don't know if speculating. I feel
like it's a number of things. I feel like it's
like a at least for us, right now it's just

(30:28):
enough in the distant past where it feels like, uh,
I don't know, like it does that mean? Am I?
Am I making sense here? Like it was just long
enough ago that people aren't like this is ghoulish. Yeah,
like so it's been you know whatever, almost a hundred
ten years. I feel like the way that the movie

(30:48):
presented it was so romantic and also the like the
because most of the Titanic media, even like before the
James Camera movie, we're all either it's like you're into
it because of like the whole like the ship angle
and like the ego angle and the and and that
side of it, or it's like you saw like there's

(31:08):
like a Night to Remember in the fifties and then
the James Camera movie and just like it was also
like romantic and glamorous too. Yeah yeah, and it always
and I feel like this is like part of what
this documentary will hopefully remedy. But it was always focused
on like the rich people, um, and the stories were
always like this tragic, like, oh my god, this millionaire died.

(31:32):
It's so sad and it's so I feel like that
the truly tragic parts of it were like sound like
the stories of like the Six and those were completely
erased and it was kind of made to be the
like almost this novelty thing, right, I don't know wild
I have a Titanic hoodie coming in the mail right now,

(31:54):
so this is this is throwing. Caitlin and I are
recording our annual Titanic episode next week. Okay, damn, there
we go. Then you can talk about that, because I
just only recently knew that the like the one black
man that was on the Titanic mm hmm. But hey, look,
we've got so many stories we can tell after this is.
But I think for me, the reason I want to
see it is like I kind of want to see it,

(32:15):
like I just want to see it. I think that's
my fascination. And I think for me it's truly like
the glitz of it of being like, oh, look, a
bunch of people would have not allowed me to eat
in here in real life, but I thank you for
having me. And I think it's just like all the
white Gloved ship, I think is like what I think
people just have this romanticized view of the nineteen tens.

(32:38):
I guess chandeliers on a boat dancing. Look, that's a chandelier. Yes,
on a boat. We must see that. People like the
idea of Billy Zane on a boat. That's what it
all boils down, keeps it, yeah, it keeps keeps the
memory going strong. What is something for your search history

(33:01):
that reveals a little bit about who you are? Okay?
So one thing from my Google search history is I
l g W you nineteen two strike New York? Okay?
Is this ringing any bells where you where my strike

(33:24):
nerds at? Is this a garment workers union? Yes? Okay, okay, yes,
So the International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike of nineteen
eighty two. I was searching for it because I randomly
like stumbled across it and learned that in nearly twenty thousand,

(33:50):
almost all women, mostly all of Asian descent, marched from
China Town down to Columbus Circle, Um. And it was
this huge labor uh moment where the garment workers Union
was fed up and they basically demanded rights that had

(34:12):
a major ripple effect into like just workers at large rights.
And my mind was just blown because I had never
heard of that before. And you would think that like oh,
twenty people taking to the streets, like maybe that would
be something that's like in our in our history books.
But no, no people of color organizing other people of

(34:34):
color and like making change. Oh shocker. Um, we aren't
thought about that in our textbooks. Um. So I was
doing some some digging to find out more about that
and the rad women who organized it? How did you even?
How did that even? How did you? Because I'm hearing
obviously I'm like you, I'm like, wow, I've heard this.

(34:54):
I've never heard of this. And also it's no surprise
because yes, why would you tell a little kids and
put idea in their head that they could organize themselves
and demand better treatment? Um? So how did you come
across the story? So? I was doing, um, some research
for Women's History month month content because uh, you know

(35:23):
custom content. So International Women's Day, if you didn't know,
actually has its roots in the labor movement and old
school socialism. Um so Women's History Month, by extension actually
has like very labor socialist roots. So I was thinking like, oh,

(35:47):
I can make some custom content around like women in
the labor movement and uh and also too, I feel like, um,
not to be too on the nose, but I think
that labor history is very zeitgey see right now as um,
the Mills and the gen Zs are getting maybe just
a touch fed up with capitalism. Um, And all of

(36:10):
a sudden I ran across this profile of may Chen,
Connie Ling and Alice It who organized this, and I
was like, God, damn it, more stuff that I didn't know. Yeah,
this is so cool. It's like, it's so funny. At
every turn, it's like it's always they don't want people
to have the imagination for revolution at any point. You know,

(36:33):
that's really all. It's what it all boils down to.
No, no no, that doesn't do that. Let's talk about cancel culture.
No no no, no, don't hear about how thoroughly Amazon is
getting owned with piss bottle Gate and the Fake Accouncil
has other nonsense. It's like the revolutions they teach are
very selective, that reinforce a certain kind of idea. These

(36:55):
I'm looking at pictures of this strike and it's so
cool and so on. On top of um, how incredible
it is to see just like women organ organizing and
getting results. The outfits are great. It's very eighties, so
highly I mean, you gotta love some history. I mean,

(37:15):
if only for the fashion only for the pants. Yeah, oh,
I mean okay, this all makes sense too that in
like one of their first strikes was right after their
triangle shirtwaist fire. So man, shout out to I L
g W and we're learning something every day. This is amazing,
thanks for doing. Let's talk. Okay, we're talking about fucked

(37:36):
up April Fools jokes pranks, and you know, so you
know ailing's worth here in the motor city. So this
is relevant because we're talking about cars. Volkswagen completely fucked
up their April Fools Day because what started as okay,
essentially their whole thing was like their April Fools prank
was gonna be we're gonna be called Volkswagon now implying

(37:59):
that they are going to now doing more electric vehicles.
But they fucked up because a press release got posted
to their website and was later deleted on March twenty nine. First,
so people thought this was for real. They're like, well
this isn't And then but some people were like, hold on,
is this early, Like did you guys make a mistake

(38:22):
or something like that. They fucking doubled down three days early,
and they doubled down then, so too when they said
it was just an early joke. They said no, no,
and to prove it, here is a legit press release
that we're putting out right now that had quotes from
the CEO. They even put a video on Twitter. So

(38:43):
and it was still March being like, oh no, this
is for real, like we're Volkswagen. Uh, it's sounding very
Matt gatesy. At the moment, the head of communications for
Volkswagen was straight up asked by reporters. They said, is
it early And even the head of communications said no,
the name change is real. Were they like really invested

(39:04):
in making sure that the joke landed. They were like, listen,
if we then if we do it on name the
first no one's going to believe it. So I really
I need people to believe that we would change our
name to Volkswagen, so that then tomorrow we'll be like
April fools. Everyone has a nice stuggle. It's been a
long year, Volkswagens trying to help us. They just don't
understand comedy. That so weird. But the funny thing is

(39:30):
to like in they fucked up. When the E p
A was like, uh, you're rigged. Your diesel cars have
like cheap devices that are making them look like low
emission vehicles. Like that was a huge scandal, and Volkswagen
paid like almost twenty billion dollars in settlement money because
it was so like so egregious how they were deceiving
people about how nature bound their cars were. So this

(39:54):
is like, oh, this this is oh, I guess it
is kind of like them. So the other thing is
be because of this, right, the like doubling down saying no,
we're getting in into electric vehicles. This ship had an
effect on Wall Street stock rows by five per cent
because everyone is looking at this. They're saying, I mean clearly,

(40:15):
you're the CEO is here saying they are committed to
electronic vehicles. And like one of these like analysts in
there like letter to ship, like you know, traders and
things said that the name change quote underscores Volkswagen's clear
commitment to its e V brand. And so guess what
Now you're gonna be fucked up with investors and the

(40:37):
Securities Exchange Commission. The sec is not gonna be like
because you cannot make false statements that would affect your
investors price. So it's like what do you what the
fuck it's it's all, it's all, it's all jokes. Yeah,
they had a clear commitment to working on their type,
their Type five for the next open mic, right, I mean, like,

(41:00):
what do you it's true? Like what did they really
want to make sure that people believed it? Because either way,
if they really believed it, then the stock price probably
would have changed as well, just like what happened. So
it's kind of odd to try and fixed sort out
like what exactly happened. Vote Volkswagen is not synonymous with

(41:21):
humor and like yeah, and then there's another thing our
writer Jam was talking about. You know, I'm some racist
ass ads that they had last year where like this
white hand like flicked a black person like away from
the car and then into a cafe. That's the name
was called little Colonists. What. Yes, I don't remember the ads,

(41:44):
um because they vanished pretty quick from Yeah, well, thank goodness.
I prefer when a company at least has some common
sense even after the event, as opposed to like, I
guess what they did this time, which is double down.
Volkswagen in its history has been known for trying to
have like comedic ads like when the Yeah, when the
bug came out everybody like it was poorly revealed, And

(42:08):
so they made a double page spread in a magazine
and called it a lemon. Does it sort of shape
like a lemon? It's a lemon? And in the sixty two,
what that's what you called your car? A lemon? Wild?
So funny, and there's like and they've done that. I
remember in my youth they have like weird kind of
cookie ads, and so I get this is it's a

(42:29):
step too far, Agold, you're doing too much. Yeah, they've
lost they've lost their way. You hate to see it
when a comedian loses their way in such a big
public way. All right, let's take a quick break and
we'll be back to talk some slightly positive news and

(42:56):
we're back. What is something you think is overrated? You
know what? I also hate this segment of the show.
So I decided to ask my group chat what they
thought were some overrated and underrated and things like overrated
was Hamilton's Motherhood and the Keto diet? What a what

(43:17):
a list? What a list? Was that from the one
person or that was like sounds like yeah, four friends,
my little Pizza Friday crew. I just asked them and then, um,
That's what they responded with, So are these friends are comedians?
Don't know? These are not comedians. That's why I asked them,
because they're not comedian. Yes, off the streets. And then

(43:40):
it was funny because the Hamilton's one is what got
the group chat arguing, because you know, a couple of
girls in the group chat like it's the greatest film
ever made, its revisionist history and yeah, and I mean
I don't care. I mean I watched I very being like,
you know what, something is so hyped up. You're like, Okay,
I should at least try to watch it. And so
my friend and had me watch it with her, and

(44:01):
I was like, this is the most boring ship I've
ever watched. I hate it. He's wrapping this is so dumb,
and yeah, and and and his story and it's also
that thing of like you don't even have to know
history to like just follow the story and be like
this doesn't this doesn't make sense. I don't like the
way this is going and this is all kind of weird.

(44:21):
And you're big musical fan in general, though, I mean
I don't hate musicals, like, I mean, I liked him
as a kid. Of course you know I liked him
as a kid, and um, and I don't hate that
the child's play from your perspective, you know, it was
a very mature child, Matt, Matt Gates would be into it,
you know. Sorry, problematic that's me. Um, the woke Lily.

(44:47):
And then the underrated. The underrated is the bid day
and sleeping in a bed alone. That was the only
two I got for underrated true mhm, sleeping the bed alone,
stretching out at any corner, the sheets on your schedule. Yes,
I'm really tall, so corner to corner is how I sleep.
But it's it's really like diagonal. Yeah I can't. I mean,

(45:09):
if I share the bed with somebody, have to be
off straight and uncomfortable because I'm so long, my feet
hang off. You know. Again, sometimes the pets sunk up
my sleep style. But like, I don't have the heart
to be like I'm like sleep ship. You gotta shape
them to you. I know when I was a kid,
you know, my childhood dog slept in my bed. So

(45:31):
when she passed away, I realized it took me years
to stop sleeping against the wall straight because that's how
because she took up all the bed and I would
just sleep against the wall to make room for her,
like a side sleeper with your back to the wall.
I think I was like facing the wall quite literally,

(45:51):
making yourself as like thin and small, which is crazy.
And so after she died, I was like, oh, yeah,
I don't have to sleep like this anymore. Exactly how
a parent walks in on a child in a horror
movie to be like, why is she just facing the
walls just like happening because they're in the bed too, honey.
They You're like, all right, we're selling Yeah, I like that. Yeah,

(46:17):
bedsize is a good thing. And b days also, uh man,
you know, not just because hello tuss she's the sponsor,
because sponsor. Yeah yeah, yeah that once. I've always you know,
being Japanese too, Like in Japan the toilet seats over
there have bidats built in, so from you know, that
would always be the thing. I'm like, oh, yeah, right,

(46:37):
we got this over here. And then when it sort
of became more popular or people like everywhere for a while,
everyone like the take of like the world's like, have
you been to Japan? Have been on the toilet in Japan?
Have you had an egg salad sandwich from Japan from
like Anthony Bordine. It's like those three things. Um, then
the bidats became more popular. But yeah, this thing telling

(47:00):
you beautiful never felt cleaner. Mother ship, Yeah ship, there
you go exactly. All right, that's gonna do it for
this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like and review the show.
If you like the show, uh means the world to Miles.
He needs your validation. Folks. I hope you're having a

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great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. By

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unto Active and Protector St.