November 6, 2017 • 48 mins
In episode 21, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Solomon Georgio to discuss daylight savings, the weekly tabloid watch, Trump's reactions to national tragedies, & then producer Anna Hossnieh joins to discuss Oprah's annual favorite thing list.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season five, Episode one
of The Daily Zeit Guys, four November six, two thousand seventeen.
My name is Jack O'Brien, a K. Potatoes O'Brien, and
I'm joined by my co host, Mr Miles Gray, Kevin
Spacey's Wheat Dealer, a k A Professor of Japanese, and
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we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the hilarious stand up comedian Solomon Georgia. Hi. Hello,
I'm happy to be here. We're thrilled to have you. Yeah,
So let's let's dive right into it. Let's get our
listeners knowing who you are. What is something that you
have searched in the recent past that is reviewing about
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who you are as a human being? Well, my last
search was whether or not I should get a pressure
cooker over a slow cooker. I mean, I think the
name answers the question like slow cooker versus pressure cooker.
Well that I learned that electronic pressure cookers are also
slow cooker, So it's really actually just get the pressure
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cooker because you can get it's like the slow cooker,
but faster. It's right, Exactly, is there any reason to like,
at this day and age where there are pressure cookers,
is there any reason for slow cooker at this point?
I'm you know, I don't want to weigh in on that.
You should read the article that I looked up. We
forgot about afterwards. Yeah, just to me. I mean, I'm
no expert, but I'm gonna say, why waste your time
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with the slow cooker? I have used both, and what
do you So? The pressure cooker is great because it's
like really fast and uh, but not like faster than
a microd you know, it's like fast compared to a
slow cooker, but it still takes like an hour. But
you'll be amazed that like the stuff you can get out,
like the meat feels like it's been slow braised or whatever. Um.
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The one like weird thing is that like there's a
lot of pressure built up, and if you're stupid like
me and like accidentally like open a valve or something
at the wrong time, you like get steamshot at your face,
which is scary. Oh that's why your next all read. Yeah, yeah,
you see like this bubbling thing about it? Right, slow
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cookers dope because you can just like put stuff in
there before you go to bed. And then said it
and forget it and while friends. Uh, the only thing
is that if you like put the wrong thing in there,
sometimes you'll like wake up and it will be like
a solid mass at the bottom. Because yea, so h
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that's how I funked up both of those things. I
would recommend the pressure cooker. All right, I'm just from
my own curiosity. What do you like to cook? Well,
I cook a lot of comfort food, which is a
big problem. I want to get healthier, but I still
I'm like, you can just make a lasagna and so
that's I tend to just do like like lasagna's fasta
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and like rarely do I add vegetables to them, which
is like that okay, perfect, that sounds delicious. What is
something that you believe to be overrated other than vegetables? Uh? Um, recently,
I would probably would say stranger things too. Oh like
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that we hold on, we might agree. Well, I think, uh,
there was an added bully to this season that I
hated so much that has zero purpose and made a
lot of it very unwatchful for me. Because yeah, so
my understanding having not seen it, so I can't spoil anything,
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is that because the bully from last year is now
like kind of been redeemed. They needed like a new
bully and they just go over the top of it. Well,
because the bully from last season wasn't really that shitty
of a person. That's that was a great thing about it,
But now it's like, Okay, you're just making there. It
was like a terrible excuse for why he was so mean.
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And there's also one episode that like was fun but
literally had nothing to do with the main storyline. Did
not there's there's there's things that weren't. It just did
too much and it got to me, what is something
that you believe to be underrated? Underrated? I would probably
I still have a champion of it because I just
saw her in concert the other day and that's Kesha's
new album. Oh, I think it's underrated and way more
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people should be listening to it when the album come out. Um,
I think at least the first single came out a
few months ago, and I think the whole album was
out like a month or two. At you, You're the
second person I've heard that from. So yeah, were you
a kesh A fan prior to this album? I was
a cash of fan prior to this album. But this
album she did go above and beyond. She has one
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song with the horn section from the DAP Kings and
two songs where she got helped from the Eagles of
Death Metal. Oh and it's amazing. Wow. All right, we're
gonna get into format before we get into the stories. Uh.
We like to stayed our purpose up top the daily
He's like, guys trying to take a sample of the
ideas that are out there changing the world, whether you're
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paying attention or not. We talked about politics and the
president and the news, but we also talk about fun
stuff like movies and today supermarket tabloid's. Um, it's tabloid day,
you guys. Uh, So we're gonna take a look at
the covers of tabloids because millions and millions of people
past those every day and they can read, so they
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read the words. Some of them at least can read,
and so they read the words, and those ideas are
in their head. Uh you know. So that's what's going
swimming around in Americans head on any given day. Uh.
We're also gonna add to the list of cultural things
we talked about Oprah's favorite things. Uh, We're gonna do
a quick rundown of those because those just dropped on
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all of us. But up first, we are going to
talk about daylight savings time because you're all dealing with that.
I guess you're all dealing with a extra hour of
sleep right now. This is the good daily back um,
but yeah, it's not so good in the spring when
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we spring forward, uh and lose an hour of sleep,
and overall it's just somewhat annoying. Uh. I think it's
it's sort of like a thing that comedians like to
complain about more than it actually bothers real people in
their life. Uh, do a daylight saving I have? I
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rarely even know what it's happening, right, Yeah, Now I
have had experiences in the last couple of years where
I don't know what's happened my phone just like that
was the thing, because man, these iPhones wave of the future.
You get and then you feel crazy when you wake
up and you're like nine, Right, it's gonna just feel
weird tonight when it gets dark an hour earlier. Right, Yeah,
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that's the trade off. I guess darkness earlier is not
is not my friend. But isn't this darkness later or
it's darkness earlier and it's already getting darker. And I
don't think that's I have the issue with as like
it's uh, I don't want to like, I like it's
it's it's supposed to be like, if you're up early enough,
you get more daylight, but no one wants daylight when
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they have to go and be at work then want that.
They want that little sliver of daylight where there's truly
free from their burdens of the day exactly. The thing
that I had always heard was that it was like
based on farmers, because farmers like needed, for some reason
the time to match up with their day, even though
they like wake up at like three in the morning anyways,
But that's apparently not true, and American farmers actually voted
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against it when it was first introduced as a possibility.
So we can actually trace the idea back to Benjamin Franklin,
who noticed that he was sleeping longer in the mornings
when he was over in France around this time, and
suggested that the military shoot off cannons to get people
out of bed earlier so that by the time it
got dark they have gotten everything done that they needed
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to do for that day. So this guy just because
he was partying in France and was like, man, I
don't like that. I'm waking up all a. He's like,
fire the cannons earlier so I can get mass out
of bed. Yeah. I mean, have you ever read the
autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I've read the autobiography of puff Daddy. Yeah,
so it's similar. But he basically invented the whole like
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self help genre of books, and his autobiography it's all
about like self improvement, like he was kind of a bummer,
like it was the party. Yeah. And then he had
the Poor Richard's Almanac, which has had a lot of
those tips in it. The yeah, and he said, does
a penny earned? Yeah? Yeah, stuff, it's pretty good. It
still comes out. But a lot of things, uh, sometimes
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a lot of things that we do every day for
no good reason is just because one white guy was
slightly inconvenience to hunt it right. Good to know. There
you go. That's I'm gonna push back. Yeah, no, I don't.
I don't acknowledge this. This is some Ben Franklin oppressors. Um. So.
The idea of changing the clocks was actually first introduced
in England by the British Parliament in nineteen o eight,
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but it was unsuccessful because it's stupid. But then in
nineteen fifteen, everyone's favorite type of white guy, Germany was like, hey,
war is expensive, We've got to find ways to you know,
cut some of these costs. And so they implemented daylight
savings and then Britain and the other world powers UH
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followed right after that. The US got on board in
nineteen eighteen. UM, so what was the cost cutting exactly?
I think it was legitimately to save like candle wax
and then wow, so they recently we've been like, wait,
what the funk are we doing this for? And UH
research has shown that people actually go out and do
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more in the afternoons. I guess in the spring when
there's the fall forward, when like basically time matches up
more to the clock and you have like more daylight
in the evenings, people spend more money as eventually, and
that's it's like this conglomerate of UH it's called the
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Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing, so it's basically just
like a conglomerate of seven elevens. But they've been pushing
to start daylight savings time even earlier in the year.
Uh in two thousand ten, the head of that organization
reported that it would have made them an estimated one
billion dollars in sales because of just how much more
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people spend and are willing to like go out into
the world when it's light out. Um. But so Indiana
recently did a study because uh so a lot of
the stuff that a lot of the assumptions that used
to be made about, like how we spend our power
in our homes like no longer applies. They used to
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think it was like we spend or we use most
of our power on lights, but that's not the case anymore.
It's more like gadgets and air conditioning and so, uh
things have changed. And Indiana did a study fairly recently,
I think, with Yale that found that it actually, in
this new world order costs the population nine million dollars annually,
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uh like is spent uh just social cost and then
also because uh they're like all these health problems that
are caused by it, there's pollution caused by the increased
energy use, which obviously as a social cost. They put
it at between one point seven and five point five
million dollars a year um. But then there's also things
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like car accidents go up because people are driving to
work in on darker streets and so they're more likely
to like hit people essentially because it's like a quick change,
you know, it's like all of a sudden, like all
of a sudden, you're driving to work and it's like nighttime,
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where like if we didn't do anything, you're mine ended
body would like sort of and eyes would adjust to
the change a little bit. And also the week after
daylight savings is one of the worst times for you
see a jump in strokes and heart attacks because apparently
when people lose an hour of sleep it like really
fox with their bodies. Ben Franklin, come on, so what
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do we do? We just, uh should I put my
clock forward? I think California, Alaska, and Rhode Island are
all considering ballot initiatives, so call you are so really
cool politician. And it's not even a function of like
the Earth traveling around the Sun and that we need
to do that for the sake of anything. It's just
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this is just complete it's all man made. Yeah, because
I really thought, I really thought this was some science
based ship. No because it's just it's an hour. You're
taking one hour and you're giving it back. It's like
basic bookkeeping. It has nothing that has no effects on anything. Yeah,
you're taking an hour of I'm light and putting it
like on one side of the work day or the other.
Keep it on that other side. I like that more light.
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I like I want to go outside. It's seven o'clock
and that there's still like there's a glimmer of sunlight. Yeah. Like, well, also,
if I'm waking up early in the morning it's still dark,
it's fine. I'm it's it's a terrible time to be up.
I don't want to I don't want to go do
whatever I'm doing at that hour. Yeah, and then if
you wake up it's too break, you're like, damn, what
am I doing? And then Ben Franklin's like, no, you've
got to get out of bed. Ship don't hurry up.
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Yeah exactly, don't waste that wax. All right, we're gonna
go to a quick break and when we come back,
Floyd watch and we're back. Uh. Great break, you guys,
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that was great break. I hope you relaxed. Took some
time to cough clear your throat like my friend christ
in studio guest Chris, who I've known since I was
seven years old, is here. Let's about it? Okay, uh
I will um just bitter than my friend, isn't so? Bloyd?
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Watch what are we seeing on the covers? I feel
like the m v p s of the tabloid covers
right now are John F. Kennedy because of the there's
there's all sorts of JFK things I think I've I've
learned by looking just at the covers that Oswald worked
for the CIA, and also that JFK was killed by
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a Soviet spy. I totally believe, we know, we know
what you believe? There we go and the music they
play when I started talking conspiracy secret Service agent arrantly
shot him, which I actually did a little more reading
into that. I prefer that of all the conspiracy theories,
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jess Um, there's actually I went down rabbit hole on
that once and there's actually a website trying to explain
how Jackie Oh was actually the one that shot Like
in the car, it's it's a lot, it's it's fully
built out, it's absolutely insane. Can you give us the link?
Do you know that might be called I think I
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think it might be just Jackie killed really but Jackie
killed jack Yeah, I can't remember what it's called, but
I definitely know it exists. That's an amazing theory that now,
putting it next to my theory that a secret service
agent accidentally did it makes me feel foolish. Um, but
uh so, I don't know what else. The other sort
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of tabloid cover m v P that I'm seeing on
multiple covers is the Bieber Weekend love Triangle. All over
the unconscious people are worried about that. I read in
one of the magazines said that she broke up Selena
broke up with the Weekend over text. That's a shitty move,
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not cool. And other people are speculating because she got
her kidney health right, she was always gonna go back
to Justin. I don't have a problem with the breaking
up with somebody over text. Really happily take it that way.
Don't don't drag me down somewhere, say it to my
face when that can get that's true. I've been broken
up with at like in a restaurant and like, but
we got the food and then she broke up with me.
I couldn't eat, and I was like, well, why do
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even why do even waste his food? Look, there's no
way you can make a break up good. I don't care,
so just might as well do it over text. Right,
we break up. Now there you go, you're done. Um
do you do? You? Do you care at all about
the ongoing saga Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber in anyway? Um?
I have not really invested in it. I don't think
many people are. I love Selena Gomez herself. I really
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rather her not date Justin Vaper. Why is that? He's
just something about him? Yeah, something, I don't know what
it is. Uh, I don't like his new age Christianity thing.
I'm not really buying it. I'm not. I'm just just
way it looks. I have no idea what he did.
Oh yeah, he was like he was at some really
cool hip young like Christian youth conference like with like
really hip pastures, like like you know, j C is
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like a pretty sick dude like megachurches. Yeah, but like, honestly, man,
guys like you can have relationship with Christ and it's
not lame, you know. Like I'm not like I like
to hang out. I have fun and just because I
opened christ like and led him into my heart doesn't
make me like a Lamo or whatever. Chris and I
wrote a song about it, just hit it, but looked
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like he was high, as those guys are never more
than five feet away from an acoustic guitar exactly. Um, yeah,
so I don't know. At the same time, the Weekend,
Uh Love Love his first three albums, his first three mixtapes,
but since then he's just kind of been sort of
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a boring dude. We were talking about it, like he said,
there's nothing wrong with that, that's the best part of it. Yeah, yeah,
I guess fine, that's my favorite party, especially if you
like Selena, you do want a boring boyfriend for you
know that he's he's he's well, he's Ethiopian and he's
also Canadian, so it's you kinda right, Like it's like
like Drake in real life is boring us hell too.
It's for those things where you're like, it's I'm fine
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with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what they all say. Yeah,
a lot of people say Drake is just really not
that great, like doesn't party as hard like as his
rapping would suggest. And with that, you know, I don't
think so at all. I don't think that's a problem.
I guess it's interesting when you think of like, oh
the Weekend man, he's like such a this great artist,
and I think people just build up this idea in
their heads like so dark and like, I mean those
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first three albums were dark as I mean, man, Yeah,
they were just described like really odd relationships, like yeah,
that's a I don't love her no more and she'll
never fucking know that he's sucking eyes that I'm staring at. Yo. Know,
we're just gonna do this for the rest of the
podcast spoken word. But I think a lot of artists
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are just boring in real life. Like I remember when
Snoop Dogg came out with his uh TV show, and
it's like, when he's not doing his rap videos, he's
a dad, right, He's saying his dad his kids to
like football. Yeah, and he's like that makes sense, but
that's not gonna be a good song. But he's doing
it all high as fun. So I guess that that
makes it that elevates a little bit. You go from
just being the dad who's a football coach, like yo coach.
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Snoop is like fucking getting so high. He called me
the wrong name again. Do you think he's like I
have certain friends who just never stopped smoking, and it's
pretty clearly because they have a d D, and like
that's their a d D medication is just like that's
the only way they can like focus. Do you think
that's what's going on with Snooper. Do you think he's
just like having fun that whole time. He's just like
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I think he just functions that. But I think, yeah,
I like it. For me, it shuts me down. I'm gone.
I can't talk to people. But my brother he's like
he was an agri kid, but now he smokes we
all time. He's just the chilliest person in the world.
Not even you didn't even think he was like the
most violent little child. For me, it just helps me
get over my parents divorce to this day, so they'll
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never have to confront it. Yeah, never, Because I'm so high,
I'm like like, oh, I'm gonna problem um. The otherwise
I didn't see too much. I guess Katie Holmes and
Jamie Fox are on again. It's a real it's a
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fucking roller coaster we've been riding these past few weeks.
I didn't even know about that one that they were together.
I'm in secret. See. I used to channel service. I
was able to get all this tabloid information before. But
now that I have all the streaming services, I'm just yeah,
I'm locked in, locked into stranger things too. Yeah. But
their whole thing is Katie had do not like couldn't
publicly date for five years or whatever. It was like
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a stipulation over divorced to Tom Cruise. That's why they
were like creeping on the because they had said they
were dating secretly for many many years. What a wounded
like just ego to hisstical like thing for him to
be like, no, you can't get over me for five years?
According right, Like that's is that a legal stipulation you
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can put on somebody else that they can't do this thing.
I'm sure I can bring up the legal leads of it.
But there was something about like she couldn't talk about.
There were like there was a lot of like non
disclosure kind of things, and I think one of them
was so much right, well, you know, we can go
take our guvances up with the church, we are with
any of the scientology. Um, I think one good thing
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was in the Globe that I really liked was Kim
Jong UN's plot to snatch Jennifer Aniston love sick dictator
wants dream girl all for himself, and then like next
to it, it says freaky friends fam boy. I just
love the alliteration in this magazine. It was that in
a direct quote. We talked last week about how they
always attribute quotes to anonymous sources, but the anonymous sources
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like speaking alliteration and then like it's exactly, yeah, well
this one. I mean, I had no idea that he
was so obsessed. Other people in the room said, this
is like a known thing that he's a huge Friends fan.
But apparently he had tried, supposedly according to a CIA
contract agent whatever that means, but like what you you
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you freelance as a janitor in the building or something that, yeah,
in Paris, Like he had a plan to swoop her up,
but because she heard, Like they say, the reasons why
the story it is because like her security was so
tight and her husband, Justin Threau was by her side
all the time, Like as if if you're really that's
what stops. Yeah, I mean they straight up marked his
brother like with a fake prank show. I think you
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could snatch up somebody by force pretty easily if you're
really about that life. So who knows now. But also
it's always weird when people choose like all these like
monsters are like and are just surprised that they're into
something normal. Right, Hey, did you know that Hitler's into
art and that watched the Charlie like Charlie in My
Finger video? Oh my god, Wow, what's so surprising that
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it's readily available? Popular things can be interjoyed by all.
I thought his favorite hobby was just baby staving or
something like. Yeah, Tyler loved adorable things. He loved Disney,
he loved like, he loved Yeah, he's uh no, wait
what am I saying? American? Like Coca was like, let's
not be surprised by that people can be evil and
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human and what you know, shout out to Kim john
Un you know, his big NBA fan of the nineties,
So yeah we have that. Yeah, huge bullsman. I didn't
like that's because isn't that like way him and Dennis
Robin have such a great relationships because like he's like,
oh my god, Dennis Rottman from my favorite Bulls team
is like talking to the third the second three pete. Yeah,
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that's ah, that is why Vice that one of the
more brilliant things they've done. A Vice show is actually
the first place I saw it was one on Flaphouse. Um.
But yeah, they came up with the idea of just
grabbing Dennis Robman because they knew he was such a
fan of Jordan's and those Bulls and just send him
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over there and to Dennis Rodman. I don't know the
fun up for everything. Yeah, they just had to kick
over a bunch of garbage. It's like, hey, Dennis Rodman,
do you want to go? Well, that reminds me I
have an idea for show. Hey man, get the funk
out of my trash, Dennis. What else? What are you
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guys seeing? I mean there's one Sean Penn is terrified
that El Chopo was going to kill him. Wish. I'm
not gonna say that. I'd be okay with that. But
Sean Penn is not my favorite ude in the world. No, no,
I'm not the most important. Again, a great example of
how the tabloids use just quotation marks around like anything
they write to make it seem like it's a quote
from someone just says Sean is frightened out of his wits,
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such a source close to the Mr River, star of
all the movies, Mr River. Okay, but I mean that
was a good one. Uh but it's like who says
frighten out of his wits? It's like something again like
a seven year old tabloid writers just doing like right
and out of his wits. I don't think I've ever
said that in earnest So, El Chappo was into this
actress who wanted to meet up with Al Chappo because
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these monsters, like that is a way that they're trying
to like get these monsters. They tried to uh get
Joseph Coney to meet with Angelina Jolie and like had
the you know US special forces like waiting in the bushes,
but they couldn't. They basically Angelina Jolie as they were
planning it just like ghosted them, was like I got
other stuff going on. Uh, so, um, I was gonna
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do it, but then I was like, you know what,
I don't want to be bait for exactly. Um. But
so this actress actually was like carrying on a conversation
with El Chappo and then Sean Penn like sort of
insinuated himself into the situation and like they went and
met with him. He brought I think journalists with him.
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That that footage ended up in the net Flicks documentary.
But El Chapo then was caught soon after that and
like thinks that they like basically turned him in, set
me up. So uh and if l Chapo was listening,
he totally did that ship and it's exactly what happened.
Pen Chappo, what do you think of Chapo traphouse? Are
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you going to come after them for trade market? Yeah? Great,
great podcast. I'm sure. Do you think they shook over there? Um?
Probably not? Yeah, I think I think originally it was Penn.
Sean Penn was writing a story for Rolling Stone and
like brought all these cameras and stuff. I was listening
to that actress being interviewed, uh fairly recently, and like
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they were like it was so scandalous, Like did you
have an affair with Sean Penn? Did you not? She
was like no, there's nothing scandalous about it. We had sex,
and it was like on NPR. I was like yeah, alright, cool,
um cool, So alright, We're gonna move on to uh.
Donald Trump's uh has not always been the best at
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responding to tragedies. I saw this last week when he
uh immediately politicized the attacks in New York, which uh,
I don't know, like I it didn't bother me. But
at the same time he also was anti politicizing. You're
talking about gun control in the aftermath of Vegas, so uh, well,
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if it doesn't serve his purpose, why touch it. And
he also was calling the terrorists in this case an
animal all over the place, but he didn't use that
language the death penalty before there's even a trial. Thanks
for tainting that jury. So yes, strong steady leadership that
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we look for in president the aftermath of a terror attack. UM,
but we we wanted to take a look back. One
of our writers went back through his history of responding
to sort of national flashbulb type tragedies and Solomon, we
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wanted to kind of quiz you on whether you remember
it or not. Uh, And if you don't like trying
to guess, like what, just the general gist of his
response to the tragedy of these tragedies was so for
a moment, try to enter Donald Trump's mind. God, it's
(28:26):
getting really, it's getting scattered. Um let's talk. Let's talk
Charlie Hebdo. Uh So the Charlie Hebdo attack, the satire
paper in Paris was attacked. A bunch of people were
shot and killed, and you know it was just a
(28:48):
national tragedy for France and you know, global tragedy. So
in the aftermath of that, he tweeted his thoughts on it.
What what would you guess? His tweet was, um, Obama
created isis sent him to kill he Doe? That my
closest again. Um so his actual response that that that
(29:11):
he probably tweeted that before this, but his the one
that we've chosen as quote. If the morons who killed
all those people that Charlie Hebdoe would have just waited,
the magazine would have folded dash, no money, no success
exclamation point. So I just started talking shit about how
unsuccessful the magazine was because because those the people who
(29:34):
the gunman's aim was to be, like, I want to
put you in a terrible financial situation, right Like just
the fact that he like couldn't keep himself from just
like talking shit about another business. But that's a that's
a wonderful, weird take. I wouldn't have I couldn't predict it,
and I thought I would have been able to figure out.
I guess in a way that's a more peaceful ending
because he's like, well, then you wouldn't have to kill
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anybody because the magazine would have folded. But it's just
so petty and just like, I don't know, shitty to
be like, it's not that good a magazine. It's just like,
at least you could you know. The The response was
sort of talking about how it was an important magazine
clearly if it made these people that angry, and his
(30:16):
response was like, wasn't that wasn't that big a deal.
I don't know why they did that. Um, And then
contrast that with what Obama said, I strongly condemned the
horrific shooting at the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in
Paris that has reportedly killed twelve people. Are Our thoughts
and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attacked
and the people of France at this difficult time. Frances
America's oldest ally and has stood shoulder to shoulder with
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the United States in the fight against terrorists who threatened
our shared security, and the world goes on with more
like I just like paragraphs upon paragraphs of the right
thing to say. All right, the aftermath of Princess Diana's
death is actually a good one. Oh yes, this one
isn't actually a tweet because Twitter did not exist. Oh
my god. He actually had a public response to that.
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They're people who were around him in the aftermath of
her death who have who he talked about, like his response,
like what he said was repeated. Uh, like that, this
is what he talked about in the aftermath of that
with regards to Princess Diana. Yes, So when any time
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he had an interview and Princess Diana was brought up,
he had a he had a thing that he kept
touching on. What do you so you're you're Donald Trump,
Donald Trump, what do you think about Princess Diana's uh death?
It only sucks when the pretty ones died. Oh man,
that's that's in the neighborhood. Yeah, that's not assumed it
would be. No, it's basically that could have sucked her essentially.
(31:45):
Only weeks after her death, he was already making claims
about the likelihood that Princess Diana would have succumbed to
his charms. I would rather die in a car accident. Seriously,
maybe that was like the sliding door scenario that she
was like, oh no, this is your fork in the
road select oh please, right, and come to the subtle charms,
(32:06):
which we heard about his subtle wooing techniques on the
dateline uh tape, how he subtly approached and then but
the actual quote is like stone Phillips as Trump if
you thought, I don't know why he's like, if he
thought he would have had a chance with that, because like,
so you think you had a chance, and he says,
I think so, yeah, I always have a shot. Oh god,
(32:29):
that's just I mean, come on, like that's that shows
a complete inability to think about women as anything other
than sexual objects and likes project conquest. Yeah, he's a
total sociopath. I mean, you can't even you can't even
acknowledge that someone died like and be like, oh that's terrible.
Nothing is more terrifying than an ugly man with confidence. Um, alright.
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The other two are somewhat well known, but we can
we can see if you remember them. His response to
the attacks of nine eleven and specifically the World Trade Centers, uh,
falling down. He had a direct response about that, Yeah,
direct response to that, because I think that was when
(33:16):
he made the statement about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating,
right he did, Yeah, many things said, oh my god,
how many uh? Oh, now he has the tallest. Now
I have ing. We need a sound effect for that.
And then when they built the World Trade Center, it
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became known as the second tallest, and now it's the tallest,
he said talking about his building, like God forbid something
nine eleven level catastrophic happens to the country and he's
he's our president. That would be because you would probably
incapable of having a human response. He would have a
concert for himself. Well, here's the thing. He also thinks
(33:58):
a lot of these are jokes, like this is like
the worst open mic we've ever been to. Like it's
not fun at all. Right, it's like your bombing and
and bombing. Okay, do you think he knows what's funny
about himself? Because I feel like there's also a complete
lack of awareness. Um, like you haven't have you been
to an open mic, because that's exactly what it. It's
(34:21):
just a lot of white guys with a lanny with
no self awareness. Um, all right, we're gonna take a
quick break and we'll be right back after that. And
we're back. Uh. So we're bringing in our expert guest
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super producer and a hosnier who has been raving about
this Oprah Winfrey, thank you for having me voice. So, Um,
this is the thing that she does every year right
around this time. Correct, she drops a list of her
her favorite things, Yes, right in time for the holidays,
(35:07):
so everyone knows what they're supposed to get their families.
So the list has like a cover image which is
Oprah on a sled being pulled by adorable little like quarties,
like I would love the person behind this photo shoot, like, Oprah,
what can we do? And She's like big, we want
to go big, huge sled dogs everything literally slay on
(35:30):
that slate. Look. The fact that she is the cover
of her own magazine every month is the most the
greatest thing I could ever met. I want that power.
It's the power play of the century. It's like, I
dare you to not have me on this goddamn cover
every month. And this is the twenty year anniversary of
Oprah's favorite thing. So this is a big year for us,
(35:50):
you guys. Well, you know why she's on the cover
of every magazine is because that sells better than anything else.
Like people love Oprah, like you know, she's smart as fun.
I love Oprah, right, So I don't even know anything.
I've never seen a single thing. The only thing I
know about her favorite things was that SML sketch where
the woman's head explodes or no, she gives birth? Do
(36:12):
you remember that? No? Alright, well I'm thirty three years old.
See later. I recommend following her on Instagram as well.
Was her I g liddy? That was, Oh really is
it all? Just like this is how a billionaire lives. Yeah,
she's like, look at me and my like everything she's
done for the past on my level, holding a basket
(36:36):
full of veggie she picked out of her own garden,
but like a huge one, and she's just like, yeah,
whoever styled that? And that's the best part. I love
that part. That's like, yeah, she has a person to
make sure she can take this wonderful photo. Do your thing.
I mean, it's kind of stunning that we're in our
fifth season and bringing up Oprah for the first time. Like,
I think that proves we're not doing a good job
(36:57):
at like reading the zeitgeist, because Oprah creates the zeitgeist
every morning. Like, uh, but yeah, I mean she she
like picks what books are going to be popular. She
uh now just picks what things just nouns, what nouns
will be popular for the next year. So what are
some good ones on the on this year's list? So
(37:18):
I'm I'm a comfort person. I don't know if you
knew the smoke me check. You only wear sweatpants? And
where's pajamas to work? You know? Right now? Job, I
just like to be paid to sleep. Um, right now,
I'm looking at the softiest woman's stretched snuggle lounger. Now,
(37:39):
what you need to understand is Oprah lives on a
different scale than us. So a lot of these things
on this list are you know, like ninety dollars plus.
Like it's expensive, it's a life Christmas, it's a once
a year kind of thing. So now this snuggle it's uh,
it's basically a lore sweater that comes all the way
down to your knees. Oh, it's got a cow neck,
it's got a kangaroo pocket. It looks insanely comfortable. It does.
(38:03):
I'm looking at this right now and it's literally visually
the ugliest alf that I've ever seen. But this, it
is very comfortable. It's for like the lazy person, like
the lazy woman who just wants to flex on her guests,
like welcome to my home. It's like a slightly more
attractive version of that snuggie that had arms in it
that you could wear slank it, yank it and and
(38:24):
the hoodie put together. And yeah, so there's a lot
of very comfortable clothes. Because Oprah, just like me, we
have a lot in common. Does she actually wear does she?
Do you ever catch her like actually in some of
this stuff, like in the wild, she usually is wearing
these things, and like just like because especially on her Instagram,
she's like this is the thing that I recommend, and
here's me using it. And I think a lot of
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people send her their stuff because they know what opens into,
because they want to get on this list. Like this
is like, yeah, because I know how real the Oprah
effect was, because I know, like Tony Morrison actually like
she didn't interview where she said she got a bigger
boost from being on Oprah's book list than she did
from winning a fucking Nobel prize. So yeah, but how
many people know who's won a Nobel prize? Every right,
(39:07):
that's true. That's another We're just talking about Nobel President bullshit,
care about your stream of consciousness? Bullshit? So these are
these look so this next, this is another comfort piece
that she put on her list, is the EMU Women's
Mayberry Slipper. It is a sheep skin slipper, but it's
(39:29):
not a normal slipper. It has its basically looks like
a sandal that's like so furry, and it goes over
your feet but your toes can stick out so you
won't get overheated. It's honestly, it's quite genius and uh honestly,
And what you're realizing is a lot of these things
are all selling out like crazy amounts because like it's
all on Amazon. People are on here one click, you
(39:50):
got it, and this slipper. I am actually considering buying
this slipper. I was paid today and I am going
to go a little while tonight. These look like if
you took like the rope belt of like a really
nice robe, a bathrobe, and you just wrapped it around
your foot this is the look you. Yeah, I think
there's ways to make all this stuff on your own, right,
but this is this is like fur furry. I don't
(40:12):
know what kind of robes you wear, miles, but are
not well come through. Yeah, I will be live streaming
from my home, so you can't see what that robe.
Think by the end of it, you'll end up looking
like a bath mat. Yeah, you got that ODI like
the Lord hoodie with the pouch and you got your
carpet feet. Yeah, it was like I'm absorbing and with that,
(40:37):
I will be laying on my yellow leaf hammock, which
was also recommended by Oprah. Now, lady and I bought
a hammock this year, and I let me tell you
it is the life. Hammock life is a real thing.
Hashtag hammock life. Yes, so you could argue, like once again,
me and Oprah a lot in common. We're kind of
getting a lot of the same vibes. So the hammock.
(40:57):
It's a classic double hammock. Honestly, if you I love it,
you do sound like a hammock. I understand you, guys,
but I'm actually a lounge chair person. Um, I'm sorry,
what does a double hammock real quick, before we get
into lounge shairs, basically get pulled up to four hundred pounds.
That's what it is. And I a very idea. Okay, valid,
(41:23):
So talk about lounge chairs. Well, there's an allounge chair
of Apple. So I don't know what I would. I
don't know what to do. Since it's not our favorite thing,
I guess I'm done having it as one of my
favorite things. It's very rude for you. And then wasn't
on her list real quick. One of Jack's favorite things
from my list is, uh, bears in hammocks. Look up
bears and hammocks on YouTube. You guys, there's some great
(41:44):
videos bears just somehow, for some reason, I think there's
like word got out in the forest because bears just
keep trying to get into hammocks and it's they are.
I thought Jack was crazy because when he's like, hey,
check this out, it's like some weird But yo, the bears,
the bears look like they're having the best, So I
(42:04):
will go sign that way. Anyway, back to Oprah, do
you think there's any pay for play involved? Like, look,
I was just gonna say that, I don't course think, well,
I don't know, because all of them are like I
feel like they're all caught off guard. They're all just
like selling out immediately. So like it's not like she's
like they're given to her for free, because she probably
gets a bunch of stuff and the whole concept of
(42:26):
just getting on that list is enough. But I think
they do pay. I think it is. It's advertising, so
there's no way that they think. There's no way that
a billionaire is promoting another product without getting any cut
from it. Like she is a good businesswoman, so therefore, yes,
I'm sure she probably will get paid and be like,
(42:46):
well hold on, let me make sure it's up to
Oprah standards, like she's not putting anything on there that
she doesn't like. But there's no way, and it will
convince me that she's not getting money. Maybe she got
like three orbit cards to give to every person that
she chooses these without consulting the people themselves. And then
maybe there's a thing where she's like, all right, look,
(43:07):
I'm gonna put you on my list and they're like,
oh my god, like you can have a cent of
our company or whatever. But I don't think she would like,
you know, gamble with her brand by like just letting people.
I think I think there is some kick back in her,
Like there has to be, because that's association, because there
are many like even like in Wall Street, like they
(43:28):
all know. Like the Oprah effect is really like when
she bought weight Watchers staking weight Watching the stock like
that love bread, she brought bread back. Apparently Oprah spent
forty three point two million dollars to buy six point
three million shares at six dollars seventy nine cents a share. Uh,
(43:51):
the original investment is now worth two hundred and sixty
three point three million, So she made two million salute
from October to July. That's great. So that is what
we call a good investment. One. I want to talk
about one last thing. I think it's just the most
(44:11):
absurd thing on the list is the Farmhouse Pottery bee
high fatwood croc sticks. Basically, yeah, there's a bag that
comes with it. They're just sticks of bee high fatwood.
What the fun is that? Exactly? That is literally something
where you're like, what, yeah, you can tell oh, okay,
(44:32):
So what her quote is Steedman thinks I'm a genius
at building fires. My secret These brilliant fire starters that
sit on our hearth, and stoneware croc which was hand
thrown in Vermont. That would be hilarious if somebody just
walks into him, like, you're really good at building fire,
You're a genius fires like this, Like it sounds like
somebody like you're an arsonist. No, I've just been using
(44:58):
these Hi. The subject is like she's just always playing
with fire at her house and set and it's like
you still fucking burning ship over there. You just burnt
my guest room time staying in again. Oh yeah. So
so those are all things that we're going to be
seeing out there in the zeitgeist. Behind fatwood, Get ready,
motherfucker's behind the fat wood upside your head. Awesome. Well,
(45:22):
thank you so much. As put your eyemask back on.
Solomon Georgio has been so fun to have you on.
Where can people find you? I can be found at
my website, which is the Solomon Georgio dot com. And
I also have an album out that's another thing that
(45:44):
was probably mentioned with the most glamorous cover. Thank you
so much, Comedy Central Records. It is called Homo Negro
Superior Homo Negro. If you can't spell with accents Um.
That's out right now and it's available on iTunes and
Spotify and every readily available thing in the world. Uh.
(46:04):
Solomon spelled with all ohs, and then Georgio spelled how
you would expect it to be spelled and actually spelled wrong.
It's g E O R g I Oh. That's how
I would have spelled. It's supposed to be spelled g
I O R George. I would have gone George. Uh,
Miles Gray, it's also been fun having you all right,
(46:25):
where can people find you? You can actually find me
looking through this OPRA list a little bit more because
it looks like a lot of things that actually intersect
with my lifestyle, but also on Instagram and Twitter at
Miles of Great Awesome. You can follow me at Jack Underscore,
O'Brien I E N. And we are going to drop
an extra episode today. You guys were trying out a
(46:48):
different schedule this week. We usually drop episodes, uh the
morning before at midnight. Now we're gonna be recording the
day of, so the news will be hotter fresher, the
Zeitgeist will be zegeist here. Uh, but we're so we're
dropping an extra episode this Monday, afternoon slash evening. Uh,
(47:11):
and we will be talking about this was our weekend
episode and uh this evening we will be talking about
Monday's news. Um. That's gonna do it for us at
the Daily Zekeeis. You can uh find us at the
Daily Zeigeist on Instagram. Uh, the Daily Zeiegeist is there
facebook fan page. We are on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist
(47:33):
and our website is just daily Ziegeist dot com where
you can find our footnotes. We have uh links to
all the stuff we talked about today, including that Oprah
lift because probably don't know where to find that here.
So um yeah, so uh and that's gonna do it
for today. We will be back later on today because
(47:55):
we are daily podcast thanks to the UT
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season five, Episode one
of The Daily Zeit Guys, four November six, two thousand seventeen.
My name is Jack O'Brien, a K. Potatoes O'Brien, and
I'm joined by my co host, Mr Miles Gray, Kevin
Spacey's Wheat Dealer, a k A Professor of Japanese, and
(00:21):
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the hilarious stand up comedian Solomon Georgia. Hi. Hello,
I'm happy to be here. We're thrilled to have you. Yeah,
So let's let's dive right into it. Let's get our
listeners knowing who you are. What is something that you
have searched in the recent past that is reviewing about
(00:42):
who you are as a human being? Well, my last
search was whether or not I should get a pressure
cooker over a slow cooker. I mean, I think the
name answers the question like slow cooker versus pressure cooker.
Well that I learned that electronic pressure cookers are also
slow cooker, So it's really actually just get the pressure
(01:02):
cooker because you can get it's like the slow cooker,
but faster. It's right, Exactly, is there any reason to like,
at this day and age where there are pressure cookers,
is there any reason for slow cooker at this point?
I'm you know, I don't want to weigh in on that.
You should read the article that I looked up. We
forgot about afterwards. Yeah, just to me. I mean, I'm
no expert, but I'm gonna say, why waste your time
(01:24):
with the slow cooker? I have used both, and what
do you So? The pressure cooker is great because it's
like really fast and uh, but not like faster than
a microd you know, it's like fast compared to a
slow cooker, but it still takes like an hour. But
you'll be amazed that like the stuff you can get out,
like the meat feels like it's been slow braised or whatever. Um.
(01:46):
The one like weird thing is that like there's a
lot of pressure built up, and if you're stupid like
me and like accidentally like open a valve or something
at the wrong time, you like get steamshot at your face,
which is scary. Oh that's why your next all read. Yeah, yeah,
you see like this bubbling thing about it? Right, slow
(02:06):
cookers dope because you can just like put stuff in
there before you go to bed. And then said it
and forget it and while friends. Uh, the only thing
is that if you like put the wrong thing in there,
sometimes you'll like wake up and it will be like
a solid mass at the bottom. Because yea, so h
(02:27):
that's how I funked up both of those things. I
would recommend the pressure cooker. All right, I'm just from
my own curiosity. What do you like to cook? Well,
I cook a lot of comfort food, which is a
big problem. I want to get healthier, but I still
I'm like, you can just make a lasagna and so
that's I tend to just do like like lasagna's fasta
(02:49):
and like rarely do I add vegetables to them, which
is like that okay, perfect, that sounds delicious. What is
something that you believe to be overrated other than vegetables? Uh? Um, recently,
I would probably would say stranger things too. Oh like
(03:10):
that we hold on, we might agree. Well, I think, uh,
there was an added bully to this season that I
hated so much that has zero purpose and made a
lot of it very unwatchful for me. Because yeah, so
my understanding having not seen it, so I can't spoil anything,
(03:30):
is that because the bully from last year is now
like kind of been redeemed. They needed like a new
bully and they just go over the top of it. Well,
because the bully from last season wasn't really that shitty
of a person. That's that was a great thing about it,
But now it's like, Okay, you're just making there. It
was like a terrible excuse for why he was so mean.
(03:50):
And there's also one episode that like was fun but
literally had nothing to do with the main storyline. Did
not there's there's there's things that weren't. It just did
too much and it got to me, what is something
that you believe to be underrated? Underrated? I would probably
I still have a champion of it because I just
saw her in concert the other day and that's Kesha's
new album. Oh, I think it's underrated and way more
(04:13):
people should be listening to it when the album come out. Um,
I think at least the first single came out a
few months ago, and I think the whole album was
out like a month or two. At you, You're the
second person I've heard that from. So yeah, were you
a kesh A fan prior to this album? I was
a cash of fan prior to this album. But this
album she did go above and beyond. She has one
(04:34):
song with the horn section from the DAP Kings and
two songs where she got helped from the Eagles of
Death Metal. Oh and it's amazing. Wow. All right, we're
gonna get into format before we get into the stories. Uh.
We like to stayed our purpose up top the daily
He's like, guys trying to take a sample of the
ideas that are out there changing the world, whether you're
(04:57):
paying attention or not. We talked about politics and the
president and the news, but we also talk about fun
stuff like movies and today supermarket tabloid's. Um, it's tabloid day,
you guys. Uh, So we're gonna take a look at
the covers of tabloids because millions and millions of people
past those every day and they can read, so they
(05:20):
read the words. Some of them at least can read,
and so they read the words, and those ideas are
in their head. Uh you know. So that's what's going
swimming around in Americans head on any given day. Uh.
We're also gonna add to the list of cultural things
we talked about Oprah's favorite things. Uh, We're gonna do
a quick rundown of those because those just dropped on
(05:43):
all of us. But up first, we are going to
talk about daylight savings time because you're all dealing with that.
I guess you're all dealing with a extra hour of
sleep right now. This is the good daily back um,
but yeah, it's not so good in the spring when
(06:05):
we spring forward, uh and lose an hour of sleep,
and overall it's just somewhat annoying. Uh. I think it's
it's sort of like a thing that comedians like to
complain about more than it actually bothers real people in
their life. Uh, do a daylight saving I have? I
(06:26):
rarely even know what it's happening, right, Yeah, Now I
have had experiences in the last couple of years where
I don't know what's happened my phone just like that
was the thing, because man, these iPhones wave of the future.
You get and then you feel crazy when you wake
up and you're like nine, Right, it's gonna just feel
weird tonight when it gets dark an hour earlier. Right, Yeah,
(06:47):
that's the trade off. I guess darkness earlier is not
is not my friend. But isn't this darkness later or
it's darkness earlier and it's already getting darker. And I
don't think that's I have the issue with as like
it's uh, I don't want to like, I like it's
it's it's supposed to be like, if you're up early enough,
you get more daylight, but no one wants daylight when
(07:07):
they have to go and be at work then want that.
They want that little sliver of daylight where there's truly
free from their burdens of the day exactly. The thing
that I had always heard was that it was like
based on farmers, because farmers like needed, for some reason
the time to match up with their day, even though
they like wake up at like three in the morning anyways,
But that's apparently not true, and American farmers actually voted
(07:31):
against it when it was first introduced as a possibility.
So we can actually trace the idea back to Benjamin Franklin,
who noticed that he was sleeping longer in the mornings
when he was over in France around this time, and
suggested that the military shoot off cannons to get people
out of bed earlier so that by the time it
got dark they have gotten everything done that they needed
(07:53):
to do for that day. So this guy just because
he was partying in France and was like, man, I
don't like that. I'm waking up all a. He's like,
fire the cannons earlier so I can get mass out
of bed. Yeah. I mean, have you ever read the
autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I've read the autobiography of puff Daddy. Yeah,
so it's similar. But he basically invented the whole like
(08:15):
self help genre of books, and his autobiography it's all
about like self improvement, like he was kind of a bummer,
like it was the party. Yeah. And then he had
the Poor Richard's Almanac, which has had a lot of
those tips in it. The yeah, and he said, does
a penny earned? Yeah? Yeah, stuff, it's pretty good. It
still comes out. But a lot of things, uh, sometimes
(08:39):
a lot of things that we do every day for
no good reason is just because one white guy was
slightly inconvenience to hunt it right. Good to know. There
you go. That's I'm gonna push back. Yeah, no, I don't.
I don't acknowledge this. This is some Ben Franklin oppressors. Um. So.
The idea of changing the clocks was actually first introduced
in England by the British Parliament in nineteen o eight,
(09:00):
but it was unsuccessful because it's stupid. But then in
nineteen fifteen, everyone's favorite type of white guy, Germany was like, hey,
war is expensive, We've got to find ways to you know,
cut some of these costs. And so they implemented daylight
savings and then Britain and the other world powers UH
(09:20):
followed right after that. The US got on board in
nineteen eighteen. UM, so what was the cost cutting exactly?
I think it was legitimately to save like candle wax
and then wow, so they recently we've been like, wait,
what the funk are we doing this for? And UH
research has shown that people actually go out and do
(09:44):
more in the afternoons. I guess in the spring when
there's the fall forward, when like basically time matches up
more to the clock and you have like more daylight
in the evenings, people spend more money as eventually, and
that's it's like this conglomerate of UH it's called the
(10:05):
Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing, so it's basically just
like a conglomerate of seven elevens. But they've been pushing
to start daylight savings time even earlier in the year.
Uh in two thousand ten, the head of that organization
reported that it would have made them an estimated one
billion dollars in sales because of just how much more
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people spend and are willing to like go out into
the world when it's light out. Um. But so Indiana
recently did a study because uh so a lot of
the stuff that a lot of the assumptions that used
to be made about, like how we spend our power
in our homes like no longer applies. They used to
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think it was like we spend or we use most
of our power on lights, but that's not the case anymore.
It's more like gadgets and air conditioning and so, uh
things have changed. And Indiana did a study fairly recently,
I think, with Yale that found that it actually, in
this new world order costs the population nine million dollars annually,
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uh like is spent uh just social cost and then
also because uh they're like all these health problems that
are caused by it, there's pollution caused by the increased
energy use, which obviously as a social cost. They put
it at between one point seven and five point five
million dollars a year um. But then there's also things
(11:35):
like car accidents go up because people are driving to
work in on darker streets and so they're more likely
to like hit people essentially because it's like a quick change,
you know, it's like all of a sudden, like all
of a sudden, you're driving to work and it's like nighttime,
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where like if we didn't do anything, you're mine ended
body would like sort of and eyes would adjust to
the change a little bit. And also the week after
daylight savings is one of the worst times for you
see a jump in strokes and heart attacks because apparently
when people lose an hour of sleep it like really
fox with their bodies. Ben Franklin, come on, so what
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do we do? We just, uh should I put my
clock forward? I think California, Alaska, and Rhode Island are
all considering ballot initiatives, so call you are so really
cool politician. And it's not even a function of like
the Earth traveling around the Sun and that we need
to do that for the sake of anything. It's just
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this is just complete it's all man made. Yeah, because
I really thought, I really thought this was some science
based ship. No because it's just it's an hour. You're
taking one hour and you're giving it back. It's like
basic bookkeeping. It has nothing that has no effects on anything. Yeah,
you're taking an hour of I'm light and putting it
like on one side of the work day or the other.
Keep it on that other side. I like that more light.
(13:05):
I like I want to go outside. It's seven o'clock
and that there's still like there's a glimmer of sunlight. Yeah. Like, well, also,
if I'm waking up early in the morning it's still dark,
it's fine. I'm it's it's a terrible time to be up.
I don't want to I don't want to go do
whatever I'm doing at that hour. Yeah, and then if
you wake up it's too break, you're like, damn, what
am I doing? And then Ben Franklin's like, no, you've
got to get out of bed. Ship don't hurry up.
(13:29):
Yeah exactly, don't waste that wax. All right, we're gonna
go to a quick break and when we come back,
Floyd watch and we're back. Uh. Great break, you guys,
(13:50):
that was great break. I hope you relaxed. Took some
time to cough clear your throat like my friend christ
in studio guest Chris, who I've known since I was
seven years old, is here. Let's about it? Okay, uh
I will um just bitter than my friend, isn't so? Bloyd?
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Watch what are we seeing on the covers? I feel
like the m v p s of the tabloid covers
right now are John F. Kennedy because of the there's
there's all sorts of JFK things I think I've I've
learned by looking just at the covers that Oswald worked
for the CIA, and also that JFK was killed by
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a Soviet spy. I totally believe, we know, we know
what you believe? There we go and the music they
play when I started talking conspiracy secret Service agent arrantly
shot him, which I actually did a little more reading
into that. I prefer that of all the conspiracy theories,
(15:00):
jess Um, there's actually I went down rabbit hole on
that once and there's actually a website trying to explain
how Jackie Oh was actually the one that shot Like
in the car, it's it's a lot, it's it's fully
built out, it's absolutely insane. Can you give us the link?
Do you know that might be called I think I
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think it might be just Jackie killed really but Jackie
killed jack Yeah, I can't remember what it's called, but
I definitely know it exists. That's an amazing theory that now,
putting it next to my theory that a secret service
agent accidentally did it makes me feel foolish. Um, but
uh so, I don't know what else. The other sort
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of tabloid cover m v P that I'm seeing on
multiple covers is the Bieber Weekend love Triangle. All over
the unconscious people are worried about that. I read in
one of the magazines said that she broke up Selena
broke up with the Weekend over text. That's a shitty move,
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not cool. And other people are speculating because she got
her kidney health right, she was always gonna go back
to Justin. I don't have a problem with the breaking
up with somebody over text. Really happily take it that way.
Don't don't drag me down somewhere, say it to my
face when that can get that's true. I've been broken
up with at like in a restaurant and like, but
we got the food and then she broke up with me.
I couldn't eat, and I was like, well, why do
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even why do even waste his food? Look, there's no
way you can make a break up good. I don't care,
so just might as well do it over text. Right,
we break up. Now there you go, you're done. Um
do you do? You? Do you care at all about
the ongoing saga Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber in anyway? Um?
I have not really invested in it. I don't think
many people are. I love Selena Gomez herself. I really
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rather her not date Justin Vaper. Why is that? He's
just something about him? Yeah, something, I don't know what
it is. Uh, I don't like his new age Christianity thing.
I'm not really buying it. I'm not. I'm just just
way it looks. I have no idea what he did.
Oh yeah, he was like he was at some really
cool hip young like Christian youth conference like with like
really hip pastures, like like you know, j C is
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like a pretty sick dude like megachurches. Yeah, but like, honestly, man,
guys like you can have relationship with Christ and it's
not lame, you know. Like I'm not like I like
to hang out. I have fun and just because I
opened christ like and led him into my heart doesn't
make me like a Lamo or whatever. Chris and I
wrote a song about it, just hit it, but looked
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like he was high, as those guys are never more
than five feet away from an acoustic guitar exactly. Um, yeah,
so I don't know. At the same time, the Weekend,
Uh Love Love his first three albums, his first three mixtapes,
but since then he's just kind of been sort of
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a boring dude. We were talking about it, like he said,
there's nothing wrong with that, that's the best part of it. Yeah, yeah,
I guess fine, that's my favorite party, especially if you
like Selena, you do want a boring boyfriend for you
know that he's he's he's well, he's Ethiopian and he's
also Canadian, so it's you kinda right, Like it's like
like Drake in real life is boring us hell too.
It's for those things where you're like, it's I'm fine
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with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what they all say. Yeah,
a lot of people say Drake is just really not
that great, like doesn't party as hard like as his
rapping would suggest. And with that, you know, I don't
think so at all. I don't think that's a problem.
I guess it's interesting when you think of like, oh
the Weekend man, he's like such a this great artist,
and I think people just build up this idea in
their heads like so dark and like, I mean those
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first three albums were dark as I mean, man, Yeah,
they were just described like really odd relationships, like yeah,
that's a I don't love her no more and she'll
never fucking know that he's sucking eyes that I'm staring at. Yo. Know,
we're just gonna do this for the rest of the
podcast spoken word. But I think a lot of artists
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are just boring in real life. Like I remember when
Snoop Dogg came out with his uh TV show, and
it's like, when he's not doing his rap videos, he's
a dad, right, He's saying his dad his kids to
like football. Yeah, and he's like that makes sense, but
that's not gonna be a good song. But he's doing
it all high as fun. So I guess that that
makes it that elevates a little bit. You go from
just being the dad who's a football coach, like yo coach.
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Snoop is like fucking getting so high. He called me
the wrong name again. Do you think he's like I
have certain friends who just never stopped smoking, and it's
pretty clearly because they have a d D, and like
that's their a d D medication is just like that's
the only way they can like focus. Do you think
that's what's going on with Snooper. Do you think he's
just like having fun that whole time. He's just like
(19:43):
I think he just functions that. But I think, yeah,
I like it. For me, it shuts me down. I'm gone.
I can't talk to people. But my brother he's like
he was an agri kid, but now he smokes we
all time. He's just the chilliest person in the world.
Not even you didn't even think he was like the
most violent little child. For me, it just helps me
get over my parents divorce to this day, so they'll
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never have to confront it. Yeah, never, Because I'm so high,
I'm like like, oh, I'm gonna problem um. The otherwise
I didn't see too much. I guess Katie Holmes and
Jamie Fox are on again. It's a real it's a
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fucking roller coaster we've been riding these past few weeks.
I didn't even know about that one that they were together.
I'm in secret. See. I used to channel service. I
was able to get all this tabloid information before. But
now that I have all the streaming services, I'm just yeah,
I'm locked in, locked into stranger things too. Yeah. But
their whole thing is Katie had do not like couldn't
publicly date for five years or whatever. It was like
(20:47):
a stipulation over divorced to Tom Cruise. That's why they
were like creeping on the because they had said they
were dating secretly for many many years. What a wounded
like just ego to hisstical like thing for him to
be like, no, you can't get over me for five years?
According right, Like that's is that a legal stipulation you
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can put on somebody else that they can't do this thing.
I'm sure I can bring up the legal leads of it.
But there was something about like she couldn't talk about.
There were like there was a lot of like non
disclosure kind of things, and I think one of them
was so much right, well, you know, we can go
take our guvances up with the church, we are with
any of the scientology. Um, I think one good thing
(21:35):
was in the Globe that I really liked was Kim
Jong UN's plot to snatch Jennifer Aniston love sick dictator
wants dream girl all for himself, and then like next
to it, it says freaky friends fam boy. I just
love the alliteration in this magazine. It was that in
a direct quote. We talked last week about how they
always attribute quotes to anonymous sources, but the anonymous sources
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like speaking alliteration and then like it's exactly, yeah, well
this one. I mean, I had no idea that he
was so obsessed. Other people in the room said, this
is like a known thing that he's a huge Friends fan.
But apparently he had tried, supposedly according to a CIA
contract agent whatever that means, but like what you you
(22:18):
you freelance as a janitor in the building or something that, yeah,
in Paris, Like he had a plan to swoop her up,
but because she heard, Like they say, the reasons why
the story it is because like her security was so
tight and her husband, Justin Threau was by her side
all the time, Like as if if you're really that's
what stops. Yeah, I mean they straight up marked his
brother like with a fake prank show. I think you
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could snatch up somebody by force pretty easily if you're
really about that life. So who knows now. But also
it's always weird when people choose like all these like
monsters are like and are just surprised that they're into
something normal. Right, Hey, did you know that Hitler's into
art and that watched the Charlie like Charlie in My
Finger video? Oh my god, Wow, what's so surprising that
(23:04):
it's readily available? Popular things can be interjoyed by all.
I thought his favorite hobby was just baby staving or
something like. Yeah, Tyler loved adorable things. He loved Disney,
he loved like, he loved Yeah, he's uh no, wait
what am I saying? American? Like Coca was like, let's
not be surprised by that people can be evil and
(23:24):
human and what you know, shout out to Kim john
Un you know, his big NBA fan of the nineties,
So yeah we have that. Yeah, huge bullsman. I didn't
like that's because isn't that like way him and Dennis
Robin have such a great relationships because like he's like,
oh my god, Dennis Rottman from my favorite Bulls team
is like talking to the third the second three pete. Yeah,
(23:44):
that's ah, that is why Vice that one of the
more brilliant things they've done. A Vice show is actually
the first place I saw it was one on Flaphouse. Um.
But yeah, they came up with the idea of just
grabbing Dennis Robman because they knew he was such a
fan of Jordan's and those Bulls and just send him
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over there and to Dennis Rodman. I don't know the
fun up for everything. Yeah, they just had to kick
over a bunch of garbage. It's like, hey, Dennis Rodman,
do you want to go? Well, that reminds me I
have an idea for show. Hey man, get the funk
out of my trash, Dennis. What else? What are you
(24:27):
guys seeing? I mean there's one Sean Penn is terrified
that El Chopo was going to kill him. Wish. I'm
not gonna say that. I'd be okay with that. But
Sean Penn is not my favorite ude in the world. No, no,
I'm not the most important. Again, a great example of
how the tabloids use just quotation marks around like anything
they write to make it seem like it's a quote
from someone just says Sean is frightened out of his wits,
(24:50):
such a source close to the Mr River, star of
all the movies, Mr River. Okay, but I mean that
was a good one. Uh but it's like who says
frighten out of his wits? It's like something again like
a seven year old tabloid writers just doing like right
and out of his wits. I don't think I've ever
said that in earnest So, El Chappo was into this
actress who wanted to meet up with Al Chappo because
(25:13):
these monsters, like that is a way that they're trying
to like get these monsters. They tried to uh get
Joseph Coney to meet with Angelina Jolie and like had
the you know US special forces like waiting in the bushes,
but they couldn't. They basically Angelina Jolie as they were
planning it just like ghosted them, was like I got
other stuff going on. Uh, so, um, I was gonna
(25:36):
do it, but then I was like, you know what,
I don't want to be bait for exactly. Um. But
so this actress actually was like carrying on a conversation
with El Chappo and then Sean Penn like sort of
insinuated himself into the situation and like they went and
met with him. He brought I think journalists with him.
(25:57):
That that footage ended up in the net Flicks documentary.
But El Chapo then was caught soon after that and
like thinks that they like basically turned him in, set
me up. So uh and if l Chapo was listening,
he totally did that ship and it's exactly what happened.
Pen Chappo, what do you think of Chapo traphouse? Are
(26:18):
you going to come after them for trade market? Yeah? Great,
great podcast. I'm sure. Do you think they shook over there? Um?
Probably not? Yeah, I think I think originally it was Penn.
Sean Penn was writing a story for Rolling Stone and
like brought all these cameras and stuff. I was listening
to that actress being interviewed, uh fairly recently, and like
(26:39):
they were like it was so scandalous, Like did you
have an affair with Sean Penn? Did you not? She
was like no, there's nothing scandalous about it. We had sex,
and it was like on NPR. I was like yeah, alright, cool,
um cool, So alright, We're gonna move on to uh.
Donald Trump's uh has not always been the best at
(27:02):
responding to tragedies. I saw this last week when he
uh immediately politicized the attacks in New York, which uh,
I don't know, like I it didn't bother me. But
at the same time he also was anti politicizing. You're
talking about gun control in the aftermath of Vegas, so uh, well,
(27:25):
if it doesn't serve his purpose, why touch it. And
he also was calling the terrorists in this case an
animal all over the place, but he didn't use that
language the death penalty before there's even a trial. Thanks
for tainting that jury. So yes, strong steady leadership that
(27:46):
we look for in president the aftermath of a terror attack. UM,
but we we wanted to take a look back. One
of our writers went back through his history of responding
to sort of national flashbulb type tragedies and Solomon, we
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wanted to kind of quiz you on whether you remember
it or not. Uh, And if you don't like trying
to guess, like what, just the general gist of his
response to the tragedy of these tragedies was so for
a moment, try to enter Donald Trump's mind. God, it's
(28:26):
getting really, it's getting scattered. Um let's talk. Let's talk
Charlie Hebdo. Uh So the Charlie Hebdo attack, the satire
paper in Paris was attacked. A bunch of people were
shot and killed, and you know it was just a
(28:48):
national tragedy for France and you know, global tragedy. So
in the aftermath of that, he tweeted his thoughts on it.
What what would you guess? His tweet was, um, Obama
created isis sent him to kill he Doe? That my
closest again. Um so his actual response that that that
(29:11):
he probably tweeted that before this, but his the one
that we've chosen as quote. If the morons who killed
all those people that Charlie Hebdoe would have just waited,
the magazine would have folded dash, no money, no success
exclamation point. So I just started talking shit about how
unsuccessful the magazine was because because those the people who
(29:34):
the gunman's aim was to be, like, I want to
put you in a terrible financial situation, right Like just
the fact that he like couldn't keep himself from just
like talking shit about another business. But that's a that's
a wonderful, weird take. I wouldn't have I couldn't predict it,
and I thought I would have been able to figure out.
I guess in a way that's a more peaceful ending
because he's like, well, then you wouldn't have to kill
(29:56):
anybody because the magazine would have folded. But it's just
so petty and just like, I don't know, shitty to
be like, it's not that good a magazine. It's just like,
at least you could you know. The The response was
sort of talking about how it was an important magazine
clearly if it made these people that angry, and his
(30:16):
response was like, wasn't that wasn't that big a deal.
I don't know why they did that. Um, And then
contrast that with what Obama said, I strongly condemned the
horrific shooting at the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in
Paris that has reportedly killed twelve people. Are Our thoughts
and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attacked
and the people of France at this difficult time. Frances
America's oldest ally and has stood shoulder to shoulder with
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the United States in the fight against terrorists who threatened
our shared security, and the world goes on with more
like I just like paragraphs upon paragraphs of the right
thing to say. All right, the aftermath of Princess Diana's
death is actually a good one. Oh yes, this one
isn't actually a tweet because Twitter did not exist. Oh
my god. He actually had a public response to that.
(30:59):
They're people who were around him in the aftermath of
her death who have who he talked about, like his response,
like what he said was repeated. Uh, like that, this
is what he talked about in the aftermath of that
with regards to Princess Diana. Yes, So when any time
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he had an interview and Princess Diana was brought up,
he had a he had a thing that he kept
touching on. What do you so you're you're Donald Trump,
Donald Trump, what do you think about Princess Diana's uh death?
It only sucks when the pretty ones died. Oh man,
that's that's in the neighborhood. Yeah, that's not assumed it
would be. No, it's basically that could have sucked her essentially.
(31:45):
Only weeks after her death, he was already making claims
about the likelihood that Princess Diana would have succumbed to
his charms. I would rather die in a car accident. Seriously,
maybe that was like the sliding door scenario that she
was like, oh no, this is your fork in the
road select oh please, right, and come to the subtle charms,
(32:06):
which we heard about his subtle wooing techniques on the
dateline uh tape, how he subtly approached and then but
the actual quote is like stone Phillips as Trump if
you thought, I don't know why he's like, if he
thought he would have had a chance with that, because like,
so you think you had a chance, and he says,
I think so, yeah, I always have a shot. Oh god,
(32:29):
that's just I mean, come on, like that's that shows
a complete inability to think about women as anything other
than sexual objects and likes project conquest. Yeah, he's a
total sociopath. I mean, you can't even you can't even
acknowledge that someone died like and be like, oh that's terrible.
Nothing is more terrifying than an ugly man with confidence. Um, alright.
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The other two are somewhat well known, but we can
we can see if you remember them. His response to
the attacks of nine eleven and specifically the World Trade Centers, uh,
falling down. He had a direct response about that, Yeah,
direct response to that, because I think that was when
(33:16):
he made the statement about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating,
right he did, Yeah, many things said, oh my god,
how many uh? Oh, now he has the tallest. Now
I have ing. We need a sound effect for that.
And then when they built the World Trade Center, it
(33:36):
became known as the second tallest, and now it's the tallest,
he said talking about his building, like God forbid something
nine eleven level catastrophic happens to the country and he's
he's our president. That would be because you would probably
incapable of having a human response. He would have a
concert for himself. Well, here's the thing. He also thinks
(33:58):
a lot of these are jokes, like this is like
the worst open mic we've ever been to. Like it's
not fun at all. Right, it's like your bombing and
and bombing. Okay, do you think he knows what's funny
about himself? Because I feel like there's also a complete
lack of awareness. Um, like you haven't have you been
to an open mic, because that's exactly what it. It's
(34:21):
just a lot of white guys with a lanny with
no self awareness. Um, all right, we're gonna take a
quick break and we'll be right back after that. And
we're back. Uh. So we're bringing in our expert guest
(34:44):
super producer and a hosnier who has been raving about
this Oprah Winfrey, thank you for having me voice. So, Um,
this is the thing that she does every year right
around this time. Correct, she drops a list of her
her favorite things, Yes, right in time for the holidays,
(35:07):
so everyone knows what they're supposed to get their families.
So the list has like a cover image which is
Oprah on a sled being pulled by adorable little like quarties,
like I would love the person behind this photo shoot, like, Oprah,
what can we do? And She's like big, we want
to go big, huge sled dogs everything literally slay on
(35:30):
that slate. Look. The fact that she is the cover
of her own magazine every month is the most the
greatest thing I could ever met. I want that power.
It's the power play of the century. It's like, I
dare you to not have me on this goddamn cover
every month. And this is the twenty year anniversary of
Oprah's favorite thing. So this is a big year for us,
(35:50):
you guys. Well, you know why she's on the cover
of every magazine is because that sells better than anything else.
Like people love Oprah, like you know, she's smart as fun.
I love Oprah, right, So I don't even know anything.
I've never seen a single thing. The only thing I
know about her favorite things was that SML sketch where
the woman's head explodes or no, she gives birth? Do
(36:12):
you remember that? No? Alright, well I'm thirty three years old.
See later. I recommend following her on Instagram as well.
Was her I g liddy? That was, Oh really is
it all? Just like this is how a billionaire lives. Yeah,
she's like, look at me and my like everything she's
done for the past on my level, holding a basket
(36:36):
full of veggie she picked out of her own garden,
but like a huge one, and she's just like, yeah,
whoever styled that? And that's the best part. I love
that part. That's like, yeah, she has a person to
make sure she can take this wonderful photo. Do your thing.
I mean, it's kind of stunning that we're in our
fifth season and bringing up Oprah for the first time. Like,
I think that proves we're not doing a good job
(36:57):
at like reading the zeitgeist, because Oprah creates the zeitgeist
every morning. Like, uh, but yeah, I mean she she
like picks what books are going to be popular. She
uh now just picks what things just nouns, what nouns
will be popular for the next year. So what are
some good ones on the on this year's list? So
(37:18):
I'm I'm a comfort person. I don't know if you
knew the smoke me check. You only wear sweatpants? And
where's pajamas to work? You know? Right now? Job, I
just like to be paid to sleep. Um, right now,
I'm looking at the softiest woman's stretched snuggle lounger. Now,
(37:39):
what you need to understand is Oprah lives on a
different scale than us. So a lot of these things
on this list are you know, like ninety dollars plus.
Like it's expensive, it's a life Christmas, it's a once
a year kind of thing. So now this snuggle it's uh,
it's basically a lore sweater that comes all the way
down to your knees. Oh, it's got a cow neck,
it's got a kangaroo pocket. It looks insanely comfortable. It does.
(38:03):
I'm looking at this right now and it's literally visually
the ugliest alf that I've ever seen. But this, it
is very comfortable. It's for like the lazy person, like
the lazy woman who just wants to flex on her guests,
like welcome to my home. It's like a slightly more
attractive version of that snuggie that had arms in it
that you could wear slank it, yank it and and
(38:24):
the hoodie put together. And yeah, so there's a lot
of very comfortable clothes. Because Oprah, just like me, we
have a lot in common. Does she actually wear does she?
Do you ever catch her like actually in some of
this stuff, like in the wild, she usually is wearing
these things, and like just like because especially on her Instagram,
she's like this is the thing that I recommend, and
here's me using it. And I think a lot of
(38:44):
people send her their stuff because they know what opens into,
because they want to get on this list. Like this
is like, yeah, because I know how real the Oprah
effect was, because I know, like Tony Morrison actually like
she didn't interview where she said she got a bigger
boost from being on Oprah's book list than she did
from winning a fucking Nobel prize. So yeah, but how
many people know who's won a Nobel prize? Every right,
(39:07):
that's true. That's another We're just talking about Nobel President bullshit,
care about your stream of consciousness? Bullshit? So these are
these look so this next, this is another comfort piece
that she put on her list, is the EMU Women's
Mayberry Slipper. It is a sheep skin slipper, but it's
(39:29):
not a normal slipper. It has its basically looks like
a sandal that's like so furry, and it goes over
your feet but your toes can stick out so you
won't get overheated. It's honestly, it's quite genius and uh honestly,
And what you're realizing is a lot of these things
are all selling out like crazy amounts because like it's
all on Amazon. People are on here one click, you
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got it, and this slipper. I am actually considering buying
this slipper. I was paid today and I am going
to go a little while tonight. These look like if
you took like the rope belt of like a really
nice robe, a bathrobe, and you just wrapped it around
your foot this is the look you. Yeah, I think
there's ways to make all this stuff on your own, right,
but this is this is like fur furry. I don't
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know what kind of robes you wear, miles, but are
not well come through. Yeah, I will be live streaming
from my home, so you can't see what that robe.
Think by the end of it, you'll end up looking
like a bath mat. Yeah, you got that ODI like
the Lord hoodie with the pouch and you got your
carpet feet. Yeah, it was like I'm absorbing and with that,
(40:37):
I will be laying on my yellow leaf hammock, which
was also recommended by Oprah. Now, lady and I bought
a hammock this year, and I let me tell you
it is the life. Hammock life is a real thing.
Hashtag hammock life. Yes, so you could argue, like once again,
me and Oprah a lot in common. We're kind of
getting a lot of the same vibes. So the hammock.
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It's a classic double hammock. Honestly, if you I love it,
you do sound like a hammock. I understand you, guys,
but I'm actually a lounge chair person. Um, I'm sorry,
what does a double hammock real quick, before we get
into lounge shairs, basically get pulled up to four hundred pounds.
That's what it is. And I a very idea. Okay, valid,
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So talk about lounge chairs. Well, there's an allounge chair
of Apple. So I don't know what I would. I
don't know what to do. Since it's not our favorite thing,
I guess I'm done having it as one of my
favorite things. It's very rude for you. And then wasn't
on her list real quick. One of Jack's favorite things
from my list is, uh, bears in hammocks. Look up
bears and hammocks on YouTube. You guys, there's some great
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videos bears just somehow, for some reason, I think there's
like word got out in the forest because bears just
keep trying to get into hammocks and it's they are.
I thought Jack was crazy because when he's like, hey,
check this out, it's like some weird But yo, the bears,
the bears look like they're having the best, So I
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will go sign that way. Anyway, back to Oprah, do
you think there's any pay for play involved? Like, look,
I was just gonna say that, I don't course think, well,
I don't know, because all of them are like I
feel like they're all caught off guard. They're all just
like selling out immediately. So like it's not like she's
like they're given to her for free, because she probably
gets a bunch of stuff and the whole concept of
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just getting on that list is enough. But I think
they do pay. I think it is. It's advertising, so
there's no way that they think. There's no way that
a billionaire is promoting another product without getting any cut
from it. Like she is a good businesswoman, so therefore, yes,
I'm sure she probably will get paid and be like,
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well hold on, let me make sure it's up to
Oprah standards, like she's not putting anything on there that
she doesn't like. But there's no way, and it will
convince me that she's not getting money. Maybe she got
like three orbit cards to give to every person that
she chooses these without consulting the people themselves. And then
maybe there's a thing where she's like, all right, look,
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I'm gonna put you on my list and they're like,
oh my god, like you can have a cent of
our company or whatever. But I don't think she would like,
you know, gamble with her brand by like just letting people.
I think I think there is some kick back in her,
Like there has to be, because that's association, because there
are many like even like in Wall Street, like they
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all know. Like the Oprah effect is really like when
she bought weight Watchers staking weight Watching the stock like
that love bread, she brought bread back. Apparently Oprah spent
forty three point two million dollars to buy six point
three million shares at six dollars seventy nine cents a share. Uh,
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the original investment is now worth two hundred and sixty
three point three million, So she made two million salute
from October to July. That's great. So that is what
we call a good investment. One. I want to talk
about one last thing. I think it's just the most
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absurd thing on the list is the Farmhouse Pottery bee
high fatwood croc sticks. Basically, yeah, there's a bag that
comes with it. They're just sticks of bee high fatwood.
What the fun is that? Exactly? That is literally something
where you're like, what, yeah, you can tell oh, okay,
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So what her quote is Steedman thinks I'm a genius
at building fires. My secret These brilliant fire starters that
sit on our hearth, and stoneware croc which was hand
thrown in Vermont. That would be hilarious if somebody just
walks into him, like, you're really good at building fire,
You're a genius fires like this, Like it sounds like
somebody like you're an arsonist. No, I've just been using
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these Hi. The subject is like she's just always playing
with fire at her house and set and it's like
you still fucking burning ship over there. You just burnt
my guest room time staying in again. Oh yeah. So
so those are all things that we're going to be
seeing out there in the zeitgeist. Behind fatwood, Get ready,
motherfucker's behind the fat wood upside your head. Awesome. Well,
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thank you so much. As put your eyemask back on.
Solomon Georgio has been so fun to have you on.
Where can people find you? I can be found at
my website, which is the Solomon Georgio dot com. And
I also have an album out that's another thing that
(45:44):
was probably mentioned with the most glamorous cover. Thank you
so much, Comedy Central Records. It is called Homo Negro
Superior Homo Negro. If you can't spell with accents Um.
That's out right now and it's available on iTunes and
Spotify and every readily available thing in the world. Uh.
(46:04):
Solomon spelled with all ohs, and then Georgio spelled how
you would expect it to be spelled and actually spelled wrong.
It's g E O R g I Oh. That's how
I would have spelled. It's supposed to be spelled g
I O R George. I would have gone George. Uh,
Miles Gray, it's also been fun having you all right,
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where can people find you? You can actually find me
looking through this OPRA list a little bit more because
it looks like a lot of things that actually intersect
with my lifestyle, but also on Instagram and Twitter at
Miles of Great Awesome. You can follow me at Jack Underscore,
O'Brien I E N. And we are going to drop
an extra episode today. You guys were trying out a
(46:48):
different schedule this week. We usually drop episodes, uh the
morning before at midnight. Now we're gonna be recording the
day of, so the news will be hotter fresher, the
Zeitgeist will be zegeist here. Uh, but we're so we're
dropping an extra episode this Monday, afternoon slash evening. Uh,
(47:11):
and we will be talking about this was our weekend
episode and uh this evening we will be talking about
Monday's news. Um. That's gonna do it for us at
the Daily Zekeeis. You can uh find us at the
Daily Zeigeist on Instagram. Uh, the Daily Zeiegeist is there
facebook fan page. We are on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist
(47:33):
and our website is just daily Ziegeist dot com where
you can find our footnotes. We have uh links to
all the stuff we talked about today, including that Oprah
lift because probably don't know where to find that here.
So um yeah, so uh and that's gonna do it
for today. We will be back later on today because
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