September 29, 2019 • 43 mins
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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
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really the first mono we like task
our guests, what is something from your that is revealing
about who you are? Okay O for my search history? Oh,
I wrote it down. Oh I remember what I wrote?
What it was? Um um ror Shack is hot? Oh
in the new HBO series. No, I mean historically all
(00:44):
the psychologist Rorschach Herman Orchak is fucking hot. Yes, google
Herman Ruschacks. So of course some the gay Internet, the
gay Internet was like, wait a second, this old timey
person was like and his hair cut, motherfucker looked like
Brad Pitt. Yes he does what the cut so good?
(01:08):
So good? That's like nineteen twenty. I think he was
born in eighteen eighty. Yeah, this he's like some time
travel like people back then fucking stunk and like they
like took showers weekly. Like even his like suit which
is whack like is like rumpled and like how a
cool person would wear it right, like the collars. I
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like how someone literally compared him to Brad Pitt in
seven Ye look at that. He's hot. So I've been
obsessed with it the whole game and it's losing their mind. Um,
theories are going around that he might have not even
been that good. But but think about it. I think
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most psychologists are like, oh yeah, like the Rorschach theories interesting,
but it says nothing more than the subconscious exists. He
was just so hot. People were like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we love it, we love it. Whatever its orange gatorad chen. Yes,
my orange chicken, I pour orange Gatorade on it. I'm
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saying the ink blot is orange gatorade gatorade chicken. Of
that's a myth too right there, boom, myth too for.
But yeah, he's really hot. How did you come How
did you learn to even have to google him? Did
something come up on It was Twitter and you're like,
hold up, it was on Instagram. It was on Instagram.
(02:32):
It was some stupid funny meme where it was like,
you know, like looking at your like something like when
you realize your grandpa might have been hot. It was
like I was like, um, something like that, and it
was like, uh, there's people freaking out that it was
Rorshak himself. I was like, that's wild. Let me tell
you what I see when I look in this image, right,
grand daddy, Well that is a hall of Fame search
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history right there. What is something you think is overrated?
Tandem bicycles. I had a real good thing about this.
Sounds like you almost hit somebody in a car right
in tandem. I just I've never seen someone happy on
a tandem bicycle for for the first for the first
third seconds, a minute, yes, and then off that the
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second person behind is like, well this is ship Like
I'm just looking at your back. Ye's ConTroll any of this.
I see a lot of tandem bikes near Venice, and
it always seems like a thing people just do because
it's a thing to do, not because it's the thing
they wanted. It's like it would be cool. Let's really
like tandem bikes like by the beach, like in California style. Yeah,
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and they're like oh yeah, and then they rent it
out for like a two hours, and I like this
is until you have to navigate around people like that,
and then there's always like the angry rollerbladers around the
venice boardwalk, right. But you know, I think there's no
joy in tandem bicycles and I think they should be destroyed,
all of them. Good. It's not fun for the person
the front, or it's not any more fun than would
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be a single bike. Right, Like like single bikes, you know,
you get to like see each other's journeys and maybe
you follow each other and you separate and you get
a little freedom. It's freedom on it. It's freeing on
it when you're on a bicycle solo and if one
of you falls, the other one can have a hearty laugh.
But if both of you fall, you're both dead. I
guess also too, if you think about it, right, there
isn't what's the benefit to it being a tandem bike.
(04:21):
It's not necessary that like, oh man, you get fucking
speed when you got two people. I get like if
you're in a canoe or whatever, yeah, two people might
be better than one or something like that. But a bike,
I think, aside from just being like it's like a
double mint gum commercial, I think that's it. I think
it was that double mint gum. I mean, obviously it
wasn't invented for that, but bike technology has always been
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suspect they the first bicycle was the penny farthing was
the big one. Yeah, and then they were like, what
if we made them the same size, wouldn't that be
get right? Well, if if it brings you a little joy,
my underrated is the penny Farthing? Yes, that is so
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on brand. I just I just thought, you know, bring
them back that they actually bring joy to people. I
feel like, well, at least they definitely bring a joy
to me seeing somebody because I think it's so dumb.
But it's also a penny farthing racing in the UK
for example, of course there's penny farthing racing and then
like the people that watch the racing they have bells.
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It's very old school. And where is it? Is it
a specific part of the kid but some way you
know where people have been forgotten? And do women were
like fascinators too? As it? Is it like posh or very? Oh?
I don't know. I think there's a nice blend. Yeah.
I feel like if I'm going to a penny Farthing
race and I'm a woman, I'm throwing a fascinator on
you know. Yeah, people don't know what fascinators are. It's
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the fancy things you see people where like, did you
believe just like a feathered accessory non hat? Yeah, but
does none of the work of a hat. But it's fascinating. Yeah,
it's a gesture towards the hat. It's like having a
hat shaped object penned to the side of your head. Yeah.
I just I just think we should bring it back,
and as the Roaring twenties are about to come upon us,
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and I think that would be one of the thing
that was too much. I think they're back. I'm still
pricting what you said, Jack, But the penny Have you
written a Penny Farthing before? No, I haven't. They just
I like that they exist. Yeah, yeah, tandem bicycles. I
fucking hate them. Yeah, a real anger. Yeah. Actually I
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am seeing a therapist because of the tend and what
they have, the effect that they have on me. Yeah,
there's Farthing. Yeah, there's no Finally one person that looks
at Penny Farthing and just gets angry. No one he
would Yeah, No, I mean again, it's it's I think
you would, and they would probably be wearing a maga
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hat like that sort of thing, like what is this bullshit?
What is this some like bullshit? Yeah? The thing though.
Oh wow, there I'm looking at a video of the
City of London's Penny Farthing race, and these people have
like they're kind of modern. I'm not gonna lie. This
ain't you're great great great great grandfather's penny farthing. This
is like they look like grand frames and ship. Damn
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that's fucking I just feel like to eat ship on
one of these bikes would be so dangerous. Like that's
why it's wonder your hospitalized guaranteed. We have free healthcare
in Europe, so we can take more risks. Yeah, well
we would do the same thing here. We're just we're
still figuring it out. Maybe that's why you guys have
time to bicycles. Maybe one of these got healthcast. At
least you take the risk. Then you can lie about
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who's already injured. Yeah yeah, I'm actually this is hilarious.
And he's tall? Are they Are they tall penny Farthings?
Yeah yeah, yeah they Yeah, that is how okay interesting.
Shout out to all the pro penny fathers being Watch
them go around a turn as pretty as something else
because they're leaning all the way. I just like to
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see him a motorized penny farthing yeah. In the future,
you you often see these big wheeled like sort of
vehicles where you entered the wheel and then just right
off and ride off on that wheel. Yeah. It reminds
me of the late sacle from tron Yeah. Hell yeah.
Um well, what's a myth? What do you think is underrated? Aging? Weirdly,
(08:29):
as I've just talked about what standpoint, Well, I just
so I'm staying at my friends and he has a
roof pool and I was up there the other day
and just I just sort of packed up my stuff
and I was leaving an incame a woman. It was
so iconic. I would say she was like late sixties.
Her body was incredible, the lips were I'm going to say,
you know, if I take a thing away, like a
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little bit overdone. But she was swimming crossing, but she
had like a spritzer in one hand, a wine spritzer,
and she looked like she was dragging a case in.
I was like, oh, she's here with a k and
then there's only as I went past her, I realized
that she had her Yorkshire Terrier in the case. And
I was like, this is my this is goals for me.
This is that One day I want to get to
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my late sixties, be at a roof pool with my
white wine spirits and my tiny dog in like a
rolling Yeah. I was hoping you're going to say the
rolling thing was actually a cooler with more white. Now.
I was just like, so iconic, and I think we
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often look at aging in such a negative way, but
actually there's something to be said for like letting go
of giving a ship about what other people think of
just kind of like living your best life. And um, yeah,
I was just like, that is iconic. I want to
be like that, that's my goals. Or Dolly Parton, who
just seems to be there was like a picture of
(09:55):
her up on a website the other day, one of
those awful like I want to say, like the Daily
a sidebar. I don't know what the equivalent of it
here would be. Well, people, we also check out the
Daily Fail here for trash Ukraine adoption story comes from right.
So it was like that. And then it had a
website called Cars and Yachts. It said underneath and it
said click on this. This picture of Dolly Parton without
(10:18):
makeup will make you want to skip lunch. And I
was like, no, that won't make me want to skip lunch.
It will make me want to buy lunch that are
paid for myself, which money I've made from working hard,
live maderine like Dolly and my salad dressing will be
the male tis of men who are upset that Dolly
has a bigger yacht on car than they do. Like well,
I think also especially those weird clickbeat things that are
(10:40):
always being served in the bottom of every website. It's
always just some nonsense, delicious garbage that is never actually
what it says it is right, like you know, it
may just be a photo where it was like her younger,
like looking different. They're like, anyway, you clicked, sorry you got,
we got the click we got. You have the temerity
to age and keep living. But to me so that
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I was actually, I think she's better than she's ever been.
She's like had this amazing career and yeah, she continues
to do great stuff and not give a ship what
people think. That's why I just thinking, And I think
all parts of culture are starting to like kind of
come around to her being a national treasure, like just
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every like it's not just you know, people from Tennessee anymore.
I think every everyone, I think everyone knows Dollies, she's Dolly,
she's the best, She's our Dolly. Um. And yeah, there
have been psychological studies that say that people generally like
get happier and happier as they age. Um is that
as they realize they let go of all the bullshit
they thought was significant. Right, because you're a learning organism,
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like as a human being, you get better at doing
life unless you know, unless you don't, in which case
you might not make it long enough to get happier
and happier as you age. I think there's a point,
and I think that probably happens in your thirties. I
think for me it was where there's a change. It
used to be When I was younger, I was obsessed
(12:10):
with what everyone else thought about me, and now I
just it's what do I think? Right? Well? Yeah, all
that validation has to come internally first, right, Yeah, because
if you seek it externally and it's it'll be fleeting. Uh.
Should we talk about caffeinated yogurt? Yes? Yeah, just because
what the fun pro fuel Oikos, makers of Greek yogurt,
(12:32):
they got, Yes, Oikos fucking pro fuel. I don't know
why they needed that name. Isn't good, but it is
a fucking what they described as a caffeinated and cultured
dairy drink. Notice they can't say yogurt because I'm guessing
it didn't reach the technical requirements to be considered a
yogurt um. But it's about now. It's twenty five grams
(12:54):
of protein and a hundred milligrams of caffeine. I don't
know how much how much? And a standardup coffee's a
hundred thirty or something like that. Yeah, okay, got caffeine
expert here, so a hunt, I mean, so what's thatcond?
I mean, I guess if you're sensitive cafe muscle milk
basically yea. But muscle milk, like caffeine, is good for
(13:15):
working out, So are people gonna use like as prey workout?
Is that the idea? But you don't like load up
protein before you work up? Yea? Yeah? I think I
like to have a nice big milk chake before I
go for It's like go gurt for adults that screen right,
It's like yeah, man, because it's like in a it's
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like in a bottle that's like shaped, so you can
just chug it in your fucking commute or whatever. So
I g black bottle too, so you know it's made
for men. Yeah, it's like it looks like it was
designed by the same people who make ax Body spray bottles. Yeah,
but the caffeine comes from the flesh of the coffee cherry,
not the nut that it turns into the bean that
we use for coffee. So what if that means any
(14:00):
to you? Great? Yeah, but caffe I mean I'll try
it because I think it's interesting. But also there's something
odd about caffeinated yogurt in general to me. I'm not
I don't know, but I think I think it sounds convenient,
it's likely doesn't swiler, and how like a caffeinated version.
It's not good. It's really really bad. Yeah, I mean
(14:22):
it's like passable, you know what I mean. Like, I'm like,
I get it if you're like so like fucking every
second my life fucking counts. I'm time to eat, time
to ship, right, I'm gonna drink soiling. Yeah, But optimizing
food consumption process, I think it is like just a
certain type of person who values different things that taste,
(14:46):
human experience. Yeah, kind of stuff. But I guess if
like your Lord and Savior is the almighty Dollar. Then like, yeah,
you're like, dude, don't have time to look at my
keys in the eye right barely. I sleep here at
Google every day. Soil and is also like unregulated. They
did a dollar episode about it. It's a mess, man.
(15:07):
They had like the ingredients for it just like sitting
out on a warehouse floor. What do you mean, like
were they manufactured. Yeah, they just had like a big
pile of it on a tarp on a floor, and
like they were people were getting poisoned by it. They
were getting like food poisoning from it, and they had
to do a bunch of recalls and the ship Jesus Christ.
(15:27):
So it's so were they branded as like some revolutionary
products when it's like they're like insure has existed. Yeah,
I think because it was that whole like idea of
like these rich motherfucker's are are pounding this ship because
they can't they don't have time. Man. So if you're broken, aspiring,
wealthy person, this is for you not to shoot. Your
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grandma has drink she had a stroke. Fucking soiling man,
How do I tell people that I use Apple products
with my food? A boy, it's a little early, but
it is time to start thinking about Halloween costumes. You
guys have years picked out already. I I dress up
(16:10):
maybe every election year, roughly like every four years. Half
the time I'm like, man, I'm not going fucking out.
Or if I do, then I do some half as costume,
but it's I only catch the true spirit every four years. Yeah. Um,
I don't know what I'm gonna be. And see I
don't have a family like you, so I don't have
I have no you know, kids to be taken around
the neighborhood. Yeah, you have a costume? Oh yeah, I
(16:34):
love Halloween. I have like a different costume every day
if and also it falls on a weird weekend where
people go out two weekends, I'll have like costume. So
my main one this year that I've started thinking about
is did you guys see the Normandy motivation music videos?
So I want to do? Yeah? I make most of
my own stuff. Yeah, like either like I'll find out
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or like you know, I'm really good with scissors and
I do have the song machines. I can do very
base things, but it looks pretty like like almost like
tied together. I think it'll be easy. And when I
just had to spray paint. Yeah, and then I don't know.
When I don't know, I'm usually a cat, but I
really like when I don't know. Usually that's what I love.
(17:18):
The instagramming all the all weekend. Oh so do you
have an entire do you have your costume programming already settled? Um,
that's definitely one of them. So that's like definitely gonna
be one night. Okay, damn, yeah, there will be photos. Um. Yeah,
I'm more more or less just shoehorned this segment into
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the episode because Taco bell Is just released a bunch
of costumes and you know, I'm I'm from hell so
that my blood type is fire sauce or Diablo sauce.
But their costumes are so lazy, but like in the
most amazing way, you could be a motherfucking Gordita. Okay,
not very impressive. It looks looks like it's screen printed
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onto a fucking olk sheet. They also have it for
children if you want to show people you really don't
care about your child's future. And then they have like
hot sauce packets for men and women. So there's a
thought e version, or it depends on if you want
to thought it up. You can make it a little
more thought e or you can be in a little
more generic sauce packet version. Then I kind of started
looking at what people are talking about in terms of
(18:20):
the shitty costumes. There is a hot Mr Rogers. Is
there any other type of Mr? Run that's true? Yeah? Okay,
point taking that is just basically like Daisy Duke shorts
um and red sweater and uh like like a playmate
caller with a tie? Wait did he rock a tie?
(18:41):
I don't know, this is what they're calling it. You
know he did? Yeah? Here tie? Okay, I can't in
my mind, I just think of his practical purpose. She
was also wearing high heels, where like his whole thing
was that he would sit down and take his sneak off. Yeah,
she'll probably take this off, right Yeah. And then there
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was another one. I just thought that just was a
dress that had dollars printed on it and it just
said tariff on the political costume. It must be, but
it's like a political cartoon. It's like one of those
things that like has like a bag with like an
elephant sitting on it, and it's like the country right there,
your tariffs, right, I mean I'm curious to know who
(19:29):
that appeals to. Like someone goes, I want a sexy
costume that is going to make commentary about our trade
war with China? Like where's that ven diagram? It's just
like rant, Like they were like, what what else is topical? Tariffs? Tariffsing?
Just write tariff on our dress? What haven't that dollar
dollar bills y'all dressed? We have? I'm not sure alright
(19:50):
reprint thof Um, yeah, I'm trying to think. Normandy's a
great like timely guice tea costa and she's like, you're
younger than me, so it's like a fun got it?
Oh nice, you're actually I don't really I'm not really
born in ninety six. Yeah, yeah, what you were born?
(20:13):
I'm older than Normando tragically for me, Oh my god,
how I had no idea? Wow? Yeah, it's hard. Does
that motivate a lot of your comedy? Feeling old or yeah?
Or just like, um, yeah, I think I will. I
also have a sister. She was born thousand two, so
(20:33):
she's not even eighteen yet, and she's like really famous
on Instagram. So um, this that's a you know, a
huge part of my own Brandy she's seven years younger
than me. I think I saw one of the first
tweets I saw from you was about your sister and
that you had an ex boyfriend who kept asking you
(20:54):
her birthday. Oh yeah, that was my first big tweet ever. Yeah,
there you go. Uh making making moves out here. Well yeah,
well we'll keep covering like I think. I think Halloween,
like topical Halloween costumes is a good way to just
sort of monitor the zeke Gang, see what, yeah, or
monitor the Zeitgeist. Not the zeke Gang. We don't monitor you, guys,
(21:18):
I promise, yeah, yeah, yeah, but please downhold the download
the I Heart radio app app there and leave it
open if possible, and allow microphone and cameras. And if
you could just describe like your purchasing habits, that would
be done fantastic. I'm trying to think what would be
the most two thousand costume. I mean, Tariff is like
(21:38):
a good example of the sort of thing. It's like
some ship from uh. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna
be some political ones about, you know, like ice agents
and then you know people being held in kids and
kids agent. Oh shit, I mean I think that's a
little too low, too wacky creative to be a thing
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A lot of one year I was for Arrell Williams
Wallace was Farrell mixed with William Wallace. I had that
big gass like fucking Vivian Westwood hat and then blue
face paint with like a babe shirt and a kilt. Ye. Anyway,
show off those legs, man, Yeah, yo, anything to rocket
(22:22):
kilt and man those quads man, you can see all
four of them. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll
be right back and we're back. All right, let's talk
about how millennials killed the m Track dining Yeah, so
(22:44):
time for my generation to see walk all over another grave.
We've done it, millennials. This time we killed the Amtrack
dining car. No. Now, for those of you who are
not familiar with the Amtrack dining car, it was the country. Yeah. Well,
I mean, hey, our parents, no grandparents, because yeah, burn
(23:09):
the thing down. Uh they you know, who would have
thought that of the most broke generation might not be
into the white tablecloth service of an Amtrak dining car
when you're on a train. Um. But again there what's
interesting about this is that the whole millennial angle came
from the person at Amtrak who was indirectly in charge
(23:29):
for the health of this car. So this guy named
Peter will Ender said, some people really like the dining car,
and you would a sort of a nostalgic train experience
pivot to some people, especially our new millennial customers, don't
like it so much. They want more privacy, they don't
want to feel uncomfortable sitting next to people. Okay, that's
(23:51):
that's through all of your analysis, That's what it was.
So will people not be able to buy food on
this is America? Baby, They're gonna still you what they can.
What they're doing. What's funny is the move that they're
doing is actually saving the company money because what they'll
do is basically make it like a pre order system
where before you get on the train, you say I
would like microwaved to hell pasta, and then you can
(24:13):
pick it up and eat it shamefully at your seat. Yeah,
the first class dining thing and the amtrack, anyone can
just no matter where, if there was a part of
the plane where you could get your plane food and
like sit with other plane passengers. But like that level
of like culinary excellence is plane food. It is plain food, right,
(24:38):
so it's not good to eat this food miserably on
your own, your with strangers. Yeah, like orient Express in
the Statiause if it was like an upgrade, it would
be different because we have that on the we have
the get on the night train, the overnight trains got
what are they called? Why can't I think of the
name of them? To Scotland and back used to the
(24:58):
sleeper trains train. So you get like a little birth
to yourself. But then there's also a dining car that
you can go into and you can have whiskey, and
it's got a bar and you can have and so
people are a bit more sociable in that. Yeah, that's
the same, it's the same kind of thing, but but
it is is there a bar in the Amtrak Well,
you can buy like little bottles of liquor there. I've
definitely gotten drunk in my share of dining cars, feeling
(25:21):
like a giant ty. Yeah, what's happening. You've had your
ninth little whiskey. So it's a similar thing then yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I think, you know, I don't know. I like
the idea of the dining car, but I think ultimately,
when you're on a train it's like I'll just sit here.
(25:41):
I'm so used to like plane travel or something else.
For like everything's done at my seat. But you know,
as having drinks with people, they're having drinks and going
on Tinder. Yeah, exactly, watching their TV shows on Tinders,
watching the TikTok's. Uh, let's talk about affirmative action, but
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for rich white kids. We mentioned this a little bit
in the past that, uh, you know, college sports, we
think of you know, college basketball, college football because those
are watchable, um, but there's all these other like most
college sports at any given college are sports like you know,
(26:27):
lacrosse and rowing and other things that you have to
have a lot of money to do, right, and so
it ends up being a somebody described it as affirmative
action for rich white kids by playing one of these
like non Big three type sports exactly right, right, Yeah.
(26:49):
And it's also like not super competitive. It's just like
you go to a prep school like in the Northeast
where this sport is actually played. It's sick at the regatta. Dude, squash, Yeah,
sailing and squash. We're like easy ways that people's collegiate squash. Yeah.
I love squash. You love a game of squash. Yeah. Um,
(27:13):
it's basically like racquetball with a debt or ball. I
believe you mean less bounce, less racketball, racketball in the UK.
But we do squash, do you. But there's lots of
you know, posh, fancy schools there, so I didn't know
that's where it came from. I feel like I'm really
subverting it being a working class state school girl playing squash. Yeah.
(27:35):
Hell yeah, that's like the number one street sport and
the UK squash. What's up man? Yeah? Yeah. You go
to any council housing you'll see it. Just a wild
squash games happening. You can hang out on my block,
but you gotta play me for it. Game squash. Anyways, So,
because Harvard was sued over their admissions policies, we got
(27:59):
a peek into their numbers and it's pretty shocking. Yeah.
A lot of the data came out as evidence because
this woman said the admissions process was unfairly discriminating against
Asian applicants, and so Harvard they're like, okay, well we
need to see the data so we can begin to
kind of assess this. The data became public. But unrelated
to that, these researchers started combing through the data, and wow,
(28:23):
there's a I mean, I don't know if you'll believe
this about Harvard University, but I just from what they
found from two thousand nine until they found that forty
of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard were either athletes
legacies meaning their parents had gone there, or children of
donors and faculty. Only about a quarter of those students
(28:44):
would have been accepted to the school without those admission advantages.
So is that legal? Yeah, okay, because I know there's
been this whole obviously, there's been this whole admission scandal. Yeah.
So what those people did is pay somebody to change
the school, to change the scores, or to bribe people,
(29:05):
bribe people to pretend like there was a tiny bit
of artifice, whereas this is just how America works. Yeah,
this is just like their grandparents paid somebody a long
time ago. I mean, that's the same as you know.
That's why before we started the podcast cast, I was
sort of saying in the UK, if you fail, if
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you're posh white man and you fail, you just fell
upwards relentiously into your prime minister. So so that's the
same there. I mean, if you like Eaton has that
and you know George W. Bush was kicked out of
the White House for being too drunk one time and
like that, that is something that would be life defining
for most people. For him, it was like a bump
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in the road that let him know it is time
to turn it around and U you know, become president. Yeah.
When you look at sort of the mix to like,
at first, I was like, well, surely this doesn't just
apply to the cockade Asian students. This like being a
legacy or faculty or donor, right, like that should be everyone.
If you're giving money your legacy. Okay, Well, so if
you break it down again into the like four racial categories,
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twenty seven percent of white students were likely to be legacies,
only five point eight percent for Black students, nine point
five for Hispanic and eleven point oh for Asian students.
So at best, it's over twice as much as the
closest families families who went to Harvard right or or
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but they also include like uh, the Dean's interest list
or fact are people who are children of faculty. Yeah,
there's like all sorts of ways they find to let
people in who they're essentially doing a favor for, like
their parents or something. There's uh one thing that you
can do where like a student can apply but then
take a year off so they become like part of
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the next year's class. I think, um, And it's just
I don't know, I don't for whatever reason that makes
it easier for you to get in. But I know
kids who did that to specifically go to Harvard UM.
So you're super talented. How many scholarships are there now
for like they are not sports based. Say you're super
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super clever and you come from projects or social housing
or like, and you scored off the charts on your
s A T S. That's what you call them here, right,
what are the chances of you then getting into somewhere
like Harvard? I mean, if your scores are good, there's
definitely a chance. I think at that point it's then
about how you come up with the money for tuition.
And some people might get an academic scholarship, they might
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get it from outside groups that they can apply to
to get a lot of their tuition paid for, But
it's not I mean, it's hard to I would it
would be hard to say that Harvard's admission admissions process
is meritocratic in any way. Right, It really seems like
this puts a lie to the idea that they're having
to bend over backwards to let in, you know, people
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who are from a different class, sir, people who are
you know, not who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. It seems
more like they're bending over backwards to let in the
children of people who they know, like all those average
like a third. Essentially, what this means is a third
of Harvard's Caucasian students don't deserve to be there. And
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so in place of that third, uh, you put like
people who despite like you know, having gone to uh,
you know, not prep schools, they went to public schools,
God forbid, uh you know, they get into Harvard, and
stead of that third, like we have a better country
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in general, they's gonna say it's not better for everyone,
the white spots and the brains and the small people,
the talented people in hire and more diverse mix of
people from different social backgrounds. And I think that's the thing,
because they do point out that even if you took
away all those advantages for those certain things like legacy students,
faculty kids, of faculty or whatever. It's not gonna it
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wouldn't change the amount of Caucasian students that were admitted,
but it would create a much more economically diverse class.
And I think that's the thing is, like you go
to Harvard and if you go to Harvard Business School,
like you're just in like predatory capitalism shark school and
you're not and you're meeting other people who are like
being like, yeah, man, we're just gonna make a ton
of money and whatever. Yeah, you're joining a club that
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it has access to insane amounts of power. And I mean, uh,
in addition for to it just being easier because their
friends with the parents of these kids, it's hard not
to think that there's some design, some overall design to
this that like you don't let the poor kids in
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because the poor kids then might like have a lot
of power and start giving money back to other poor
people instead of by the rules. Yeah, the social dynamics
and yes, the structures that exist. I mean it's wild
to me that there is an interview portion of the
admissions process where they're like, okay, but what is there
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like socialization, Like do they know how to act? Like
when you know it's most like, well, they're polished and
know how to do a given interview. You have test scores,
you have your application like essays, you have your grades,
and then you have an interview where previous graduates sit
down and like look you over and decide how they
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feel about you. Right, what you're wearing, how you sit exactly.
The question would be like you're in a life raft
and there are two people in the water. One is
an elderly billionaire. He's lived a full life, he's ninety
seven years old, and he says he promises to make
you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams if you just pull
him into the boat. There's only room for one person.
The other person is a disadvantaged asylum seeker from a
(34:55):
country where they're they're fleeing persecution. Who do you pull
into the boat? What do you um? The billion Okay, great,
Welcome to Harvard. Yeah, we're gonna take another quick break.
We'll be right back and we're back. What is something
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from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
I just looked up crem de lamaire, Yes, which is
skin cream skin cream because I was horse cream of
the sea. That sounds yeah, cream of sounds. Yeah, yeah,
(35:42):
that are like when when you're by the shore and
like the waves are like frothing. Yeah, that's in my mind.
I think that would be cream of the sea. Anyway,
white in the white Caps. I instantly went sexual engross. Yeah,
I mean I was just trying to think of what
that would look like. And yeah, I prefer the phone,
(36:03):
which is I think we described oysters as being like
the sea ejaculating in your mouth. Oh maybe the brainy
taste of anyway, we digress. Side note, I do like
to pee in the sea when a minute, just to
mark my territory. Yeah, I feel like this is my bit.
(36:25):
So I was looking it up because it popped into
my mind, and ad popped up on my computer for it.
I have used it. And then I had this kind
of memory about a friend of mine, my friend Ash,
about ten fifteen years ago. So I was looking up
Kremlon because I was looking at the current price, and
I'm pretty sure when we were first talking about it,
it was about a hundred and fifty pounds. And I
(36:46):
said to my friend Ash, this, this cream is a
hundred fifty pounds because it's got seaweed in it and
he went go swimming in the sea. You can't, was
his response to to people who spent a hundred fifty pounds, Yeah,
like around one nay, almost our us. That's a lot.
How big is it like a swimming pool worth of
(37:08):
the kremlin there? Or how much? How much we target?
I don't know. It's like a little target. Maybe a
couple of hundred mills, maybe a slider sized. Yeah, yeah,
that's realizing that people can't see what I'm doing hockey puck.
Maybe a bit deeper. Yeah, but I think it's more
than one fifty now. I think it's probably a couple
of hundreds. What is the secret of the sea exactly
(37:31):
that makes it so indispensable? Um, it's the seaweed I
think has like massive healing properties. I think originally the
cream was actually developed by a Swiss doctor who was
working on burns and developed it to work on people's
skin who'd had like interesting, here we go, enough of
helping these usd for what size? For a for what
(37:58):
looks like a chapter one ounce? How does that compare
to free value of cocaine? Well, it depends on where
you get it, but I wouldn't know. Allegedly, Um, but
for weed. That's, uh, this is more expensive than weed.
Well depends on what state. Again, it's how is it gonna?
(38:20):
Is it gonna? Is it gonna help your skin though weed? No? No,
it will help your appetite and it will help your
mouth get very dry. Yeah, those are about the things
or and you'll have a panic attack about maybe you
know something that's meaningless us most I started. My partner,
her majesty began telling me I should really give a
funk about my skin more because I was relying on
(38:41):
my black and Asian nost to not have a routine
aside from washing it. And she's like, you should use this,
use this after you wash them, Like what the fund
is this? Uh? So I'm I'm not good at it,
but I've been I've been told I should start thinking
about it, and I try to try to remember to
use Look see be young if that helps, Thank you.
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You know it's it's this damn biracial ship going on,
damn perfect genetics and parents of mine. Miles has incredible skin.
One time, actually a fame, a celebrity makeup artist said
I had great skin, and I used that to never
moisturize my face. Again, I held onto that to be like,
I don't think I need to do anything. I feel
(39:22):
like I had a small skin victory this morning because
I actually washed my face before putting on moisturizer, which
I had been just putting moisturizer without. My wife was like,
what are you doing? And yeah, it did turn my
face very greasy. Um, yeah, just on top of the morning. Yeah,
(39:45):
like you're already as you sleep. Yeah, you want, when
you like wipe your face on something for that thing
to immediately become see through, right exactly? Test yea. So please,
I've got I've come on and I've got guys talking
about ski. Yes, my dream, by the way, wonderful. How
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many how many? How? What do you say? What do
I use? How many stages of skincare are there? Oh?
I like I've I've I used to go to sleep
in my makeup all the time because I liked waking
up looking fox mudged. But but yes, I used to.
(40:30):
I used to. But now as I've got a bit older,
I've decided that I should be like, I'll just use
a face wash or wipes to take it off at night.
And you know, I turned four last year, so I've
started throwing money at my face a bit more in
terms of expensive cream. Does that work? I don't know.
It's more about it's more about the texture I suppose
of the cream and stuff and how makeup sits on
(40:51):
top of it and stuff like that. But I just
I never really used to use a separate I cream,
which you know, I got showered at it. I was like,
it's all skin, isn't It's all my face? Yeah? Exactly,
that's what That's what I think. I get hung up.
I'm like, ain't it all the same thing? It's like, oh, no,
skin around your eyes is very different. So I think
SPF is probably the thing that I've been trying to
do more more than anything else protected from the side,
(41:13):
because I think that's the bigger that's the big aging. Yeah.
Step one and sorry, just going back to your friend's comment.
So in the Queen's would count be between like asshole
and bitch somebody calling you that? Because I think if
I called my friend bitch, it would still even like
(41:34):
be a little bit more offensive than that sounded than
unt Yeah, then it sounded coming from her friend to her. Yeah,
I mean, it wasn't to me calling me. It was
just saying the people that buy it. Him in the
sea comes like stopping dicks. But also it is much more,
is much more of a term, even dim and in
the UK, and it is here. I don't know whether
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we can keep these hard season. You might have to
edit the maut we do, you know, because it's a
learning lesson everyone. 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 him Monday. By
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U
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
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really the first mono we like task
our guests, what is something from your that is revealing
about who you are? Okay O for my search history? Oh,
I wrote it down. Oh I remember what I wrote?
What it was? Um um ror Shack is hot? Oh
in the new HBO series. No, I mean historically all
(00:44):
the psychologist Rorschach Herman Orchak is fucking hot. Yes, google
Herman Ruschacks. So of course some the gay Internet, the
gay Internet was like, wait a second, this old timey
person was like and his hair cut, motherfucker looked like
Brad Pitt. Yes he does what the cut so good?
(01:08):
So good? That's like nineteen twenty. I think he was
born in eighteen eighty. Yeah, this he's like some time
travel like people back then fucking stunk and like they
like took showers weekly. Like even his like suit which
is whack like is like rumpled and like how a
cool person would wear it right, like the collars. I
(01:30):
like how someone literally compared him to Brad Pitt in
seven Ye look at that. He's hot. So I've been
obsessed with it the whole game and it's losing their mind. Um,
theories are going around that he might have not even
been that good. But but think about it. I think
(01:51):
most psychologists are like, oh yeah, like the Rorschach theories interesting,
but it says nothing more than the subconscious exists. He
was just so hot. People were like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we love it, we love it. Whatever its orange gatorad chen. Yes,
my orange chicken, I pour orange Gatorade on it. I'm
(02:11):
saying the ink blot is orange gatorade gatorade chicken. Of
that's a myth too right there, boom, myth too for.
But yeah, he's really hot. How did you come How
did you learn to even have to google him? Did
something come up on It was Twitter and you're like,
hold up, it was on Instagram. It was on Instagram.
(02:32):
It was some stupid funny meme where it was like,
you know, like looking at your like something like when
you realize your grandpa might have been hot. It was
like I was like, um, something like that, and it
was like, uh, there's people freaking out that it was
Rorshak himself. I was like, that's wild. Let me tell
you what I see when I look in this image, right,
grand daddy, Well that is a hall of Fame search
(02:57):
history right there. What is something you think is overrated?
Tandem bicycles. I had a real good thing about this.
Sounds like you almost hit somebody in a car right
in tandem. I just I've never seen someone happy on
a tandem bicycle for for the first for the first
third seconds, a minute, yes, and then off that the
(03:17):
second person behind is like, well this is ship Like
I'm just looking at your back. Ye's ConTroll any of this.
I see a lot of tandem bikes near Venice, and
it always seems like a thing people just do because
it's a thing to do, not because it's the thing
they wanted. It's like it would be cool. Let's really
like tandem bikes like by the beach, like in California style. Yeah,
(03:37):
and they're like oh yeah, and then they rent it
out for like a two hours, and I like this
is until you have to navigate around people like that,
and then there's always like the angry rollerbladers around the
venice boardwalk, right. But you know, I think there's no
joy in tandem bicycles and I think they should be destroyed,
all of them. Good. It's not fun for the person
the front, or it's not any more fun than would
(03:59):
be a single bike. Right, Like like single bikes, you know,
you get to like see each other's journeys and maybe
you follow each other and you separate and you get
a little freedom. It's freedom on it. It's freeing on
it when you're on a bicycle solo and if one
of you falls, the other one can have a hearty laugh.
But if both of you fall, you're both dead. I
guess also too, if you think about it, right, there
isn't what's the benefit to it being a tandem bike.
(04:21):
It's not necessary that like, oh man, you get fucking
speed when you got two people. I get like if
you're in a canoe or whatever, yeah, two people might
be better than one or something like that. But a bike,
I think, aside from just being like it's like a
double mint gum commercial, I think that's it. I think
it was that double mint gum. I mean, obviously it
wasn't invented for that, but bike technology has always been
(04:42):
suspect they the first bicycle was the penny farthing was
the big one. Yeah, and then they were like, what
if we made them the same size, wouldn't that be
get right? Well, if if it brings you a little joy,
my underrated is the penny Farthing? Yes, that is so
(05:02):
on brand. I just I just thought, you know, bring
them back that they actually bring joy to people. I
feel like, well, at least they definitely bring a joy
to me seeing somebody because I think it's so dumb.
But it's also a penny farthing racing in the UK
for example, of course there's penny farthing racing and then
like the people that watch the racing they have bells.
(05:27):
It's very old school. And where is it? Is it
a specific part of the kid but some way you
know where people have been forgotten? And do women were
like fascinators too? As it? Is it like posh or very? Oh?
I don't know. I think there's a nice blend. Yeah.
I feel like if I'm going to a penny Farthing
race and I'm a woman, I'm throwing a fascinator on
you know. Yeah, people don't know what fascinators are. It's
(05:48):
the fancy things you see people where like, did you
believe just like a feathered accessory non hat? Yeah, but
does none of the work of a hat. But it's fascinating. Yeah,
it's a gesture towards the hat. It's like having a
hat shaped object penned to the side of your head. Yeah.
I just I just think we should bring it back,
and as the Roaring twenties are about to come upon us,
(06:10):
and I think that would be one of the thing
that was too much. I think they're back. I'm still
pricting what you said, Jack, But the penny Have you
written a Penny Farthing before? No, I haven't. They just
I like that they exist. Yeah, yeah, tandem bicycles. I
fucking hate them. Yeah, a real anger. Yeah. Actually I
(06:34):
am seeing a therapist because of the tend and what
they have, the effect that they have on me. Yeah,
there's Farthing. Yeah, there's no Finally one person that looks
at Penny Farthing and just gets angry. No one he
would Yeah, No, I mean again, it's it's I think
you would, and they would probably be wearing a maga
(06:55):
hat like that sort of thing, like what is this bullshit?
What is this some like bullshit? Yeah? The thing though.
Oh wow, there I'm looking at a video of the
City of London's Penny Farthing race, and these people have
like they're kind of modern. I'm not gonna lie. This
ain't you're great great great great grandfather's penny farthing. This
is like they look like grand frames and ship. Damn
(07:18):
that's fucking I just feel like to eat ship on
one of these bikes would be so dangerous. Like that's
why it's wonder your hospitalized guaranteed. We have free healthcare
in Europe, so we can take more risks. Yeah, well
we would do the same thing here. We're just we're
still figuring it out. Maybe that's why you guys have
time to bicycles. Maybe one of these got healthcast. At
least you take the risk. Then you can lie about
(07:40):
who's already injured. Yeah yeah, I'm actually this is hilarious.
And he's tall? Are they Are they tall penny Farthings?
Yeah yeah, yeah they Yeah, that is how okay interesting.
Shout out to all the pro penny fathers being Watch
them go around a turn as pretty as something else
because they're leaning all the way. I just like to
(08:01):
see him a motorized penny farthing yeah. In the future,
you you often see these big wheeled like sort of
vehicles where you entered the wheel and then just right
off and ride off on that wheel. Yeah. It reminds
me of the late sacle from tron Yeah. Hell yeah.
Um well, what's a myth? What do you think is underrated? Aging? Weirdly,
(08:29):
as I've just talked about what standpoint, Well, I just
so I'm staying at my friends and he has a
roof pool and I was up there the other day
and just I just sort of packed up my stuff
and I was leaving an incame a woman. It was
so iconic. I would say she was like late sixties.
Her body was incredible, the lips were I'm going to say,
you know, if I take a thing away, like a
(08:51):
little bit overdone. But she was swimming crossing, but she
had like a spritzer in one hand, a wine spritzer,
and she looked like she was dragging a case in.
I was like, oh, she's here with a k and
then there's only as I went past her, I realized
that she had her Yorkshire Terrier in the case. And
I was like, this is my this is goals for me.
This is that One day I want to get to
(09:12):
my late sixties, be at a roof pool with my
white wine spirits and my tiny dog in like a
rolling Yeah. I was hoping you're going to say the
rolling thing was actually a cooler with more white. Now.
I was just like, so iconic, and I think we
(09:33):
often look at aging in such a negative way, but
actually there's something to be said for like letting go
of giving a ship about what other people think of
just kind of like living your best life. And um, yeah,
I was just like, that is iconic. I want to
be like that, that's my goals. Or Dolly Parton, who
just seems to be there was like a picture of
(09:55):
her up on a website the other day, one of
those awful like I want to say, like the Daily
a sidebar. I don't know what the equivalent of it
here would be. Well, people, we also check out the
Daily Fail here for trash Ukraine adoption story comes from right.
So it was like that. And then it had a
website called Cars and Yachts. It said underneath and it
said click on this. This picture of Dolly Parton without
(10:18):
makeup will make you want to skip lunch. And I
was like, no, that won't make me want to skip lunch.
It will make me want to buy lunch that are
paid for myself, which money I've made from working hard,
live maderine like Dolly and my salad dressing will be
the male tis of men who are upset that Dolly
has a bigger yacht on car than they do. Like well,
I think also especially those weird clickbeat things that are
(10:40):
always being served in the bottom of every website. It's
always just some nonsense, delicious garbage that is never actually
what it says it is right, like you know, it
may just be a photo where it was like her younger,
like looking different. They're like, anyway, you clicked, sorry you got,
we got the click we got. You have the temerity
to age and keep living. But to me so that
(11:02):
I was actually, I think she's better than she's ever been.
She's like had this amazing career and yeah, she continues
to do great stuff and not give a ship what
people think. That's why I just thinking, And I think
all parts of culture are starting to like kind of
come around to her being a national treasure, like just
(11:23):
every like it's not just you know, people from Tennessee anymore.
I think every everyone, I think everyone knows Dollies, she's Dolly,
she's the best, She's our Dolly. Um. And yeah, there
have been psychological studies that say that people generally like
get happier and happier as they age. Um is that
as they realize they let go of all the bullshit
they thought was significant. Right, because you're a learning organism,
(11:48):
like as a human being, you get better at doing
life unless you know, unless you don't, in which case
you might not make it long enough to get happier
and happier as you age. I think there's a point,
and I think that probably happens in your thirties. I
think for me it was where there's a change. It
used to be When I was younger, I was obsessed
(12:10):
with what everyone else thought about me, and now I
just it's what do I think? Right? Well? Yeah, all
that validation has to come internally first, right, Yeah, because
if you seek it externally and it's it'll be fleeting. Uh.
Should we talk about caffeinated yogurt? Yes? Yeah, just because
what the fun pro fuel Oikos, makers of Greek yogurt,
(12:32):
they got, Yes, Oikos fucking pro fuel. I don't know
why they needed that name. Isn't good, but it is
a fucking what they described as a caffeinated and cultured
dairy drink. Notice they can't say yogurt because I'm guessing
it didn't reach the technical requirements to be considered a
yogurt um. But it's about now. It's twenty five grams
(12:54):
of protein and a hundred milligrams of caffeine. I don't
know how much how much? And a standardup coffee's a
hundred thirty or something like that. Yeah, okay, got caffeine
expert here, so a hunt, I mean, so what's thatcond?
I mean, I guess if you're sensitive cafe muscle milk
basically yea. But muscle milk, like caffeine, is good for
(13:15):
working out, So are people gonna use like as prey workout?
Is that the idea? But you don't like load up
protein before you work up? Yea? Yeah? I think I
like to have a nice big milk chake before I
go for It's like go gurt for adults that screen right,
It's like yeah, man, because it's like in a it's
(13:36):
like in a bottle that's like shaped, so you can
just chug it in your fucking commute or whatever. So
I g black bottle too, so you know it's made
for men. Yeah, it's like it looks like it was
designed by the same people who make ax Body spray bottles. Yeah,
but the caffeine comes from the flesh of the coffee cherry,
not the nut that it turns into the bean that
we use for coffee. So what if that means any
(14:00):
to you? Great? Yeah, but caffe I mean I'll try
it because I think it's interesting. But also there's something
odd about caffeinated yogurt in general to me. I'm not
I don't know, but I think I think it sounds convenient,
it's likely doesn't swiler, and how like a caffeinated version.
It's not good. It's really really bad. Yeah, I mean
(14:22):
it's like passable, you know what I mean. Like, I'm like,
I get it if you're like so like fucking every
second my life fucking counts. I'm time to eat, time
to ship, right, I'm gonna drink soiling. Yeah, But optimizing
food consumption process, I think it is like just a
certain type of person who values different things that taste,
(14:46):
human experience. Yeah, kind of stuff. But I guess if
like your Lord and Savior is the almighty Dollar. Then like, yeah,
you're like, dude, don't have time to look at my
keys in the eye right barely. I sleep here at
Google every day. Soil and is also like unregulated. They
did a dollar episode about it. It's a mess, man.
(15:07):
They had like the ingredients for it just like sitting
out on a warehouse floor. What do you mean, like
were they manufactured. Yeah, they just had like a big
pile of it on a tarp on a floor, and
like they were people were getting poisoned by it. They
were getting like food poisoning from it, and they had
to do a bunch of recalls and the ship Jesus Christ.
(15:27):
So it's so were they branded as like some revolutionary
products when it's like they're like insure has existed. Yeah,
I think because it was that whole like idea of
like these rich motherfucker's are are pounding this ship because
they can't they don't have time. Man. So if you're broken, aspiring,
wealthy person, this is for you not to shoot. Your
(15:48):
grandma has drink she had a stroke. Fucking soiling man,
How do I tell people that I use Apple products
with my food? A boy, it's a little early, but
it is time to start thinking about Halloween costumes. You
guys have years picked out already. I I dress up
(16:10):
maybe every election year, roughly like every four years. Half
the time I'm like, man, I'm not going fucking out.
Or if I do, then I do some half as costume,
but it's I only catch the true spirit every four years. Yeah. Um,
I don't know what I'm gonna be. And see I
don't have a family like you, so I don't have
I have no you know, kids to be taken around
the neighborhood. Yeah, you have a costume? Oh yeah, I
(16:34):
love Halloween. I have like a different costume every day
if and also it falls on a weird weekend where
people go out two weekends, I'll have like costume. So
my main one this year that I've started thinking about
is did you guys see the Normandy motivation music videos?
So I want to do? Yeah? I make most of
my own stuff. Yeah, like either like I'll find out
(16:55):
or like you know, I'm really good with scissors and
I do have the song machines. I can do very
base things, but it looks pretty like like almost like
tied together. I think it'll be easy. And when I
just had to spray paint. Yeah, and then I don't know.
When I don't know, I'm usually a cat, but I
really like when I don't know. Usually that's what I love.
(17:18):
The instagramming all the all weekend. Oh so do you
have an entire do you have your costume programming already settled? Um,
that's definitely one of them. So that's like definitely gonna
be one night. Okay, damn, yeah, there will be photos. Um. Yeah,
I'm more more or less just shoehorned this segment into
(17:39):
the episode because Taco bell Is just released a bunch
of costumes and you know, I'm I'm from hell so
that my blood type is fire sauce or Diablo sauce.
But their costumes are so lazy, but like in the
most amazing way, you could be a motherfucking Gordita. Okay,
not very impressive. It looks looks like it's screen printed
(17:59):
onto a fucking olk sheet. They also have it for
children if you want to show people you really don't
care about your child's future. And then they have like
hot sauce packets for men and women. So there's a
thought e version, or it depends on if you want
to thought it up. You can make it a little
more thought e or you can be in a little
more generic sauce packet version. Then I kind of started
looking at what people are talking about in terms of
(18:20):
the shitty costumes. There is a hot Mr Rogers. Is
there any other type of Mr? Run that's true? Yeah? Okay,
point taking that is just basically like Daisy Duke shorts
um and red sweater and uh like like a playmate
caller with a tie? Wait did he rock a tie?
(18:41):
I don't know, this is what they're calling it. You
know he did? Yeah? Here tie? Okay, I can't in
my mind, I just think of his practical purpose. She
was also wearing high heels, where like his whole thing
was that he would sit down and take his sneak off. Yeah,
she'll probably take this off, right Yeah. And then there
(19:04):
was another one. I just thought that just was a
dress that had dollars printed on it and it just
said tariff on the political costume. It must be, but
it's like a political cartoon. It's like one of those
things that like has like a bag with like an
elephant sitting on it, and it's like the country right there,
your tariffs, right, I mean I'm curious to know who
(19:29):
that appeals to. Like someone goes, I want a sexy
costume that is going to make commentary about our trade
war with China? Like where's that ven diagram? It's just
like rant, Like they were like, what what else is topical? Tariffs? Tariffsing?
Just write tariff on our dress? What haven't that dollar
dollar bills y'all dressed? We have? I'm not sure alright
(19:50):
reprint thof Um, yeah, I'm trying to think. Normandy's a
great like timely guice tea costa and she's like, you're
younger than me, so it's like a fun got it?
Oh nice, you're actually I don't really I'm not really
born in ninety six. Yeah, yeah, what you were born?
(20:13):
I'm older than Normando tragically for me, Oh my god,
how I had no idea? Wow? Yeah, it's hard. Does
that motivate a lot of your comedy? Feeling old or yeah?
Or just like, um, yeah, I think I will. I
also have a sister. She was born thousand two, so
(20:33):
she's not even eighteen yet, and she's like really famous
on Instagram. So um, this that's a you know, a
huge part of my own Brandy she's seven years younger
than me. I think I saw one of the first
tweets I saw from you was about your sister and
that you had an ex boyfriend who kept asking you
(20:54):
her birthday. Oh yeah, that was my first big tweet ever. Yeah,
there you go. Uh making making moves out here. Well yeah,
well we'll keep covering like I think. I think Halloween,
like topical Halloween costumes is a good way to just
sort of monitor the zeke Gang, see what, yeah, or
monitor the Zeitgeist. Not the zeke Gang. We don't monitor you, guys,
(21:18):
I promise, yeah, yeah, yeah, but please downhold the download
the I Heart radio app app there and leave it
open if possible, and allow microphone and cameras. And if
you could just describe like your purchasing habits, that would
be done fantastic. I'm trying to think what would be
the most two thousand costume. I mean, Tariff is like
(21:38):
a good example of the sort of thing. It's like
some ship from uh. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna
be some political ones about, you know, like ice agents
and then you know people being held in kids and
kids agent. Oh shit, I mean I think that's a
little too low, too wacky creative to be a thing
(22:00):
A lot of one year I was for Arrell Williams
Wallace was Farrell mixed with William Wallace. I had that
big gass like fucking Vivian Westwood hat and then blue
face paint with like a babe shirt and a kilt. Ye. Anyway,
show off those legs, man, Yeah, yo, anything to rocket
(22:22):
kilt and man those quads man, you can see all
four of them. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll
be right back and we're back. All right, let's talk
about how millennials killed the m Track dining Yeah, so
(22:44):
time for my generation to see walk all over another grave.
We've done it, millennials. This time we killed the Amtrack
dining car. No. Now, for those of you who are
not familiar with the Amtrack dining car, it was the country. Yeah. Well,
I mean, hey, our parents, no grandparents, because yeah, burn
(23:09):
the thing down. Uh they you know, who would have
thought that of the most broke generation might not be
into the white tablecloth service of an Amtrak dining car
when you're on a train. Um. But again there what's
interesting about this is that the whole millennial angle came
from the person at Amtrak who was indirectly in charge
(23:29):
for the health of this car. So this guy named
Peter will Ender said, some people really like the dining car,
and you would a sort of a nostalgic train experience
pivot to some people, especially our new millennial customers, don't
like it so much. They want more privacy, they don't
want to feel uncomfortable sitting next to people. Okay, that's
(23:51):
that's through all of your analysis, That's what it was.
So will people not be able to buy food on
this is America? Baby, They're gonna still you what they can.
What they're doing. What's funny is the move that they're
doing is actually saving the company money because what they'll
do is basically make it like a pre order system
where before you get on the train, you say I
would like microwaved to hell pasta, and then you can
(24:13):
pick it up and eat it shamefully at your seat. Yeah,
the first class dining thing and the amtrack, anyone can
just no matter where, if there was a part of
the plane where you could get your plane food and
like sit with other plane passengers. But like that level
of like culinary excellence is plane food. It is plain food, right,
(24:38):
so it's not good to eat this food miserably on
your own, your with strangers. Yeah, like orient Express in
the Statiause if it was like an upgrade, it would
be different because we have that on the we have
the get on the night train, the overnight trains got
what are they called? Why can't I think of the
name of them? To Scotland and back used to the
(24:58):
sleeper trains train. So you get like a little birth
to yourself. But then there's also a dining car that
you can go into and you can have whiskey, and
it's got a bar and you can have and so
people are a bit more sociable in that. Yeah, that's
the same, it's the same kind of thing, but but
it is is there a bar in the Amtrak Well,
you can buy like little bottles of liquor there. I've
definitely gotten drunk in my share of dining cars, feeling
(25:21):
like a giant ty. Yeah, what's happening. You've had your
ninth little whiskey. So it's a similar thing then yeah, yeah, yeah,
but I think, you know, I don't know. I like
the idea of the dining car, but I think ultimately,
when you're on a train it's like I'll just sit here.
(25:41):
I'm so used to like plane travel or something else.
For like everything's done at my seat. But you know,
as having drinks with people, they're having drinks and going
on Tinder. Yeah, exactly, watching their TV shows on Tinders,
watching the TikTok's. Uh, let's talk about affirmative action, but
(26:05):
for rich white kids. We mentioned this a little bit
in the past that, uh, you know, college sports, we
think of you know, college basketball, college football because those
are watchable, um, but there's all these other like most
college sports at any given college are sports like you know,
(26:27):
lacrosse and rowing and other things that you have to
have a lot of money to do, right, and so
it ends up being a somebody described it as affirmative
action for rich white kids by playing one of these
like non Big three type sports exactly right, right, Yeah.
(26:49):
And it's also like not super competitive. It's just like
you go to a prep school like in the Northeast
where this sport is actually played. It's sick at the regatta. Dude, squash, Yeah,
sailing and squash. We're like easy ways that people's collegiate squash. Yeah.
I love squash. You love a game of squash. Yeah. Um,
(27:13):
it's basically like racquetball with a debt or ball. I
believe you mean less bounce, less racketball, racketball in the UK.
But we do squash, do you. But there's lots of
you know, posh, fancy schools there, so I didn't know
that's where it came from. I feel like I'm really
subverting it being a working class state school girl playing squash. Yeah.
(27:35):
Hell yeah, that's like the number one street sport and
the UK squash. What's up man? Yeah? Yeah. You go
to any council housing you'll see it. Just a wild
squash games happening. You can hang out on my block,
but you gotta play me for it. Game squash. Anyways, So,
because Harvard was sued over their admissions policies, we got
(27:59):
a peek into their numbers and it's pretty shocking. Yeah.
A lot of the data came out as evidence because
this woman said the admissions process was unfairly discriminating against
Asian applicants, and so Harvard they're like, okay, well we
need to see the data so we can begin to
kind of assess this. The data became public. But unrelated
to that, these researchers started combing through the data, and wow,
(28:23):
there's a I mean, I don't know if you'll believe
this about Harvard University, but I just from what they
found from two thousand nine until they found that forty
of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard were either athletes
legacies meaning their parents had gone there, or children of
donors and faculty. Only about a quarter of those students
(28:44):
would have been accepted to the school without those admission advantages.
So is that legal? Yeah, okay, because I know there's
been this whole obviously, there's been this whole admission scandal. Yeah.
So what those people did is pay somebody to change
the school, to change the scores, or to bribe people,
(29:05):
bribe people to pretend like there was a tiny bit
of artifice, whereas this is just how America works. Yeah,
this is just like their grandparents paid somebody a long
time ago. I mean, that's the same as you know.
That's why before we started the podcast cast, I was
sort of saying in the UK, if you fail, if
(29:26):
you're posh white man and you fail, you just fell
upwards relentiously into your prime minister. So so that's the
same there. I mean, if you like Eaton has that
and you know George W. Bush was kicked out of
the White House for being too drunk one time and
like that, that is something that would be life defining
for most people. For him, it was like a bump
(29:48):
in the road that let him know it is time
to turn it around and U you know, become president. Yeah.
When you look at sort of the mix to like,
at first, I was like, well, surely this doesn't just
apply to the cockade Asian students. This like being a
legacy or faculty or donor, right, like that should be everyone.
If you're giving money your legacy. Okay, Well, so if
you break it down again into the like four racial categories,
(30:11):
twenty seven percent of white students were likely to be legacies,
only five point eight percent for Black students, nine point
five for Hispanic and eleven point oh for Asian students.
So at best, it's over twice as much as the
closest families families who went to Harvard right or or
(30:32):
but they also include like uh, the Dean's interest list
or fact are people who are children of faculty. Yeah,
there's like all sorts of ways they find to let
people in who they're essentially doing a favor for, like
their parents or something. There's uh one thing that you
can do where like a student can apply but then
take a year off so they become like part of
(30:54):
the next year's class. I think, um, And it's just
I don't know, I don't for whatever reason that makes
it easier for you to get in. But I know
kids who did that to specifically go to Harvard UM.
So you're super talented. How many scholarships are there now
for like they are not sports based. Say you're super
(31:14):
super clever and you come from projects or social housing
or like, and you scored off the charts on your
s A T S. That's what you call them here, right,
what are the chances of you then getting into somewhere
like Harvard? I mean, if your scores are good, there's
definitely a chance. I think at that point it's then
about how you come up with the money for tuition.
And some people might get an academic scholarship, they might
(31:36):
get it from outside groups that they can apply to
to get a lot of their tuition paid for, But
it's not I mean, it's hard to I would it
would be hard to say that Harvard's admission admissions process
is meritocratic in any way. Right, It really seems like
this puts a lie to the idea that they're having
to bend over backwards to let in, you know, people
(31:58):
who are from a different class, sir, people who are
you know, not who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. It seems
more like they're bending over backwards to let in the
children of people who they know, like all those average
like a third. Essentially, what this means is a third
of Harvard's Caucasian students don't deserve to be there. And
(32:23):
so in place of that third, uh, you put like
people who despite like you know, having gone to uh,
you know, not prep schools, they went to public schools,
God forbid, uh you know, they get into Harvard, and
stead of that third, like we have a better country
(32:43):
in general, they's gonna say it's not better for everyone,
the white spots and the brains and the small people,
the talented people in hire and more diverse mix of
people from different social backgrounds. And I think that's the thing,
because they do point out that even if you took
away all those advantages for those certain things like legacy students,
faculty kids, of faculty or whatever. It's not gonna it
(33:05):
wouldn't change the amount of Caucasian students that were admitted,
but it would create a much more economically diverse class.
And I think that's the thing is, like you go
to Harvard and if you go to Harvard Business School,
like you're just in like predatory capitalism shark school and
you're not and you're meeting other people who are like
being like, yeah, man, we're just gonna make a ton
of money and whatever. Yeah, you're joining a club that
(33:29):
it has access to insane amounts of power. And I mean, uh,
in addition for to it just being easier because their
friends with the parents of these kids, it's hard not
to think that there's some design, some overall design to
this that like you don't let the poor kids in
(33:49):
because the poor kids then might like have a lot
of power and start giving money back to other poor
people instead of by the rules. Yeah, the social dynamics
and yes, the structures that exist. I mean it's wild
to me that there is an interview portion of the
admissions process where they're like, okay, but what is there
(34:11):
like socialization, Like do they know how to act? Like
when you know it's most like, well, they're polished and
know how to do a given interview. You have test scores,
you have your application like essays, you have your grades,
and then you have an interview where previous graduates sit
down and like look you over and decide how they
(34:33):
feel about you. Right, what you're wearing, how you sit exactly.
The question would be like you're in a life raft
and there are two people in the water. One is
an elderly billionaire. He's lived a full life, he's ninety
seven years old, and he says he promises to make
you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams if you just pull
him into the boat. There's only room for one person.
The other person is a disadvantaged asylum seeker from a
(34:55):
country where they're they're fleeing persecution. Who do you pull
into the boat? What do you um? The billion Okay, great,
Welcome to Harvard. Yeah, we're gonna take another quick break.
We'll be right back and we're back. What is something
(35:19):
from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
I just looked up crem de lamaire, Yes, which is
skin cream skin cream because I was horse cream of
the sea. That sounds yeah, cream of sounds. Yeah, yeah,
(35:42):
that are like when when you're by the shore and
like the waves are like frothing. Yeah, that's in my mind.
I think that would be cream of the sea. Anyway,
white in the white Caps. I instantly went sexual engross. Yeah,
I mean I was just trying to think of what
that would look like. And yeah, I prefer the phone,
(36:03):
which is I think we described oysters as being like
the sea ejaculating in your mouth. Oh maybe the brainy
taste of anyway, we digress. Side note, I do like
to pee in the sea when a minute, just to
mark my territory. Yeah, I feel like this is my bit.
(36:25):
So I was looking it up because it popped into
my mind, and ad popped up on my computer for it.
I have used it. And then I had this kind
of memory about a friend of mine, my friend Ash,
about ten fifteen years ago. So I was looking up
Kremlon because I was looking at the current price, and
I'm pretty sure when we were first talking about it,
it was about a hundred and fifty pounds. And I
(36:46):
said to my friend Ash, this, this cream is a
hundred fifty pounds because it's got seaweed in it and
he went go swimming in the sea. You can't, was
his response to to people who spent a hundred fifty pounds, Yeah,
like around one nay, almost our us. That's a lot.
How big is it like a swimming pool worth of
(37:08):
the kremlin there? Or how much? How much we target?
I don't know. It's like a little target. Maybe a
couple of hundred mills, maybe a slider sized. Yeah, yeah,
that's realizing that people can't see what I'm doing hockey puck.
Maybe a bit deeper. Yeah, but I think it's more
than one fifty now. I think it's probably a couple
of hundreds. What is the secret of the sea exactly
(37:31):
that makes it so indispensable? Um, it's the seaweed I
think has like massive healing properties. I think originally the
cream was actually developed by a Swiss doctor who was
working on burns and developed it to work on people's
skin who'd had like interesting, here we go, enough of
helping these usd for what size? For a for what
(37:58):
looks like a chapter one ounce? How does that compare
to free value of cocaine? Well, it depends on where
you get it, but I wouldn't know. Allegedly, Um, but
for weed. That's, uh, this is more expensive than weed.
Well depends on what state. Again, it's how is it gonna?
(38:20):
Is it gonna? Is it gonna help your skin though weed? No? No,
it will help your appetite and it will help your
mouth get very dry. Yeah, those are about the things
or and you'll have a panic attack about maybe you
know something that's meaningless us most I started. My partner,
her majesty began telling me I should really give a
funk about my skin more because I was relying on
(38:41):
my black and Asian nost to not have a routine
aside from washing it. And she's like, you should use this,
use this after you wash them, Like what the fund
is this? Uh? So I'm I'm not good at it,
but I've been I've been told I should start thinking
about it, and I try to try to remember to
use Look see be young if that helps, Thank you.
(39:01):
You know it's it's this damn biracial ship going on,
damn perfect genetics and parents of mine. Miles has incredible skin.
One time, actually a fame, a celebrity makeup artist said
I had great skin, and I used that to never
moisturize my face. Again, I held onto that to be like,
I don't think I need to do anything. I feel
(39:22):
like I had a small skin victory this morning because
I actually washed my face before putting on moisturizer, which
I had been just putting moisturizer without. My wife was like,
what are you doing? And yeah, it did turn my
face very greasy. Um, yeah, just on top of the morning. Yeah,
(39:45):
like you're already as you sleep. Yeah, you want, when
you like wipe your face on something for that thing
to immediately become see through, right exactly? Test yea. So please,
I've got I've come on and I've got guys talking
about ski. Yes, my dream, by the way, wonderful. How
(40:08):
many how many? How? What do you say? What do
I use? How many stages of skincare are there? Oh?
I like I've I've I used to go to sleep
in my makeup all the time because I liked waking
up looking fox mudged. But but yes, I used to.
(40:30):
I used to. But now as I've got a bit older,
I've decided that I should be like, I'll just use
a face wash or wipes to take it off at night.
And you know, I turned four last year, so I've
started throwing money at my face a bit more in
terms of expensive cream. Does that work? I don't know.
It's more about it's more about the texture I suppose
of the cream and stuff and how makeup sits on
(40:51):
top of it and stuff like that. But I just
I never really used to use a separate I cream,
which you know, I got showered at it. I was like,
it's all skin, isn't It's all my face? Yeah? Exactly,
that's what That's what I think. I get hung up.
I'm like, ain't it all the same thing? It's like, oh, no,
skin around your eyes is very different. So I think
SPF is probably the thing that I've been trying to
do more more than anything else protected from the side,
(41:13):
because I think that's the bigger that's the big aging. Yeah.
Step one and sorry, just going back to your friend's comment.
So in the Queen's would count be between like asshole
and bitch somebody calling you that? Because I think if
I called my friend bitch, it would still even like
(41:34):
be a little bit more offensive than that sounded than
unt Yeah, then it sounded coming from her friend to her. Yeah,
I mean, it wasn't to me calling me. It was
just saying the people that buy it. Him in the
sea comes like stopping dicks. But also it is much more,
is much more of a term, even dim and in
the UK, and it is here. I don't know whether
(41:56):
we can keep these hard season. You might have to
edit the maut we do, you know, because it's a
learning lesson everyone. 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
(42:19):
great weekend and I will talk to him Monday. By
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