The Daily Zeitgeist - Male PaTrend Baldness 1.13.25: L.A. Wildfires, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dunkin Donuts, Robbie Williams

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

In this edition of Male PaTrend Baldness, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the L.A. wildfires, Loser Of The Week: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dunkin Donuts running out of donuts, Robbie Williams' "Better Man" doc flopping hard at the box office and much more! DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's RecoverySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blake, would you get up to this weekend? Did you watch your E A G L E S Eagles fly? My J E T S jets, jets, jets. No. Yeah. I watched it was, uh, yeah, it was great. It was great. Um, it's always a bummer when you see the other team, just everyone was getting hurt at the end. the other team, just everyone was getting hurt at the end. Yeah. Including so those play, they had a, um, have you seen those helmets that they wear? They're called the guardian helmets where big old helmets with like the padding on the size exactly.

But then they also will put like a sleeve over it that looks like the actual helmet, like, like with the same art or whatever, like, sure. You know how beautiful the art on helmets are? I'm a big fan of helmet art. Yeah, me too. I remember when DaVinci designed the first helmet and put it on top of a roof. But yeah, he got a concussion, which was like scary. It's just like such a violent sport where it's like even this guy who wears,

I'm sure his teammates make fun of him for in this big goofy helmet even though It's safer, you know, and he's still like it's a concussion. It's just not mandatory, you know I think that they're still like let's let these guys who are in a horrifyingly toxic Situation where they're like, yeah, I got my bell rung pretty good But I'm still gonna you know The thing that makes me cool and good and makes my teammates respect me is that I still do my dangerous job with regards to my own safety.

Let's let them decide. Let's see what they think about this helmet. People also don't talk about how dangerous euphemisms are, you know, where it's like, Oh, I got my bell rung. It's like your brain is bleeding. You have a brain bleed and it's gonna affect everyone that you love in three years Three years after you retire it's a metaphor and that situation is like the ringer in the bell is your brain and the Side of the bell is the skull is your skull. That's right right concussion That's a it's Liberty Bell style because it's your skulls probably cracked. That's right

You know, these are the jokes I make now. I make this is what the corner you've backed me into. Head injury joke. Yeah, this is on you. I like I like in pictures the statue of David with a football helmet on now. Yeah, I feel like with like the big the big old floppy one, big old puffy one. It would be good. His dick yet. They fix his dick. Did they fix his dick yet?

They fix his dick yet? Did they fix David's dick? Wait, are you thinking of the movie Boonies or did David's dick actually fall off? No, I thought they were going to make it bigger. Oh, they were just going to make David's dick bigger? Yeah. They didn't do that yet? Yeah. Update it for our modern era when you know

What people have everyone has seen porn and they're just like this is this is conspicuous at this point guys This is we've got a look at this got to do something Did you really hear that or that's just something that no you've now trying to get started for a while This is a joke I wrote in the 12th century, and I finally saw an opportunity to to tell it in a medium that I didn't even know that was going to exist. Is there any sculpture, any classic work of art where the person just has like a noticeably big dick like a. The fertility sculptures typically have a real weighing on them. I just feel I feel like it would be so

distracting, like they they started things out small and that's now the only thing that my brain will accept. And if there's like just an ancient Roman sculpture, like white marble and just like a big weird dick. I got kicked out of the Woodrow Wilson presidential library because his statue had a huge dick on it. And I screamed at the top of my lungs. Yeah, which was a bummer.

Yeah, biggest dick on sculpture does not result in the responses that I was hoping for. Yeah. What is the biggest penis sculpture ever built? But I feel like that's just gonna be a giant penis. I'm talking about, you know what I mean? Who has it? Yeah, who has, what's the ancient sculpture with the,

the largest junk? These are the important questions that we need to be asking at this time. Since you brought it up, I wonder if beauty standards, you know, obviously how that's changed over like, you know, hundreds, thousands of years, we're like, yeah, because if I was a, uh, I don't even like saying what I'm about to say, so let's just move past it. Let's not laugh about this. If I was a dictator or I was a like ruler or an emperor, you have control over your

statues, they're built while you're alive. You would put a big dick on them, but they didn't do it. So it's not like an oversight. I would imagine it just didn't matter back then. That's why I, we are kind of seeing what, and I do appreciate the dictator, the restraint you showed by only kind of acknowledging the dictator pun, but you got to get in front of these things. I do feel like we're kind of seeing what a modern like what modern sculptures of Donald Trump would look like if, you know, because people have made those photo shops where he's just like a jacked action hero.

Yeah. So I'm sure those guys have huge dogs. And of course, that's probably what we're going to see a hundred years from now is all cultures replaced by a jacked Donald Trump's with huge dogs. All right. So Brian has Monday, everybody. Yeah. Brian has shared some male fertility sculptures and they are, these seem to be more ancient than like the ancient Greek sculptures.

Like those are the only ones I know. They're like real, real, real old and they have big dick. So I feel like the small dick thing is more of a like fake that Western culture went through, because everyone's like, what? You you think that's small? What? You know, they're like David, he's got those yeeks. You go around the back of the sculpture.

This is I mean, this is a thing that I'm constantly pointing out. You are. Yeah. Like we if you want to know what has happened to our bodies, just go to the Louvre and look at the butts on every sculpture artist they're caked up they they really they're toned they got nice big big butts nice high butts and yeah they they would look at us and be like well what what happened to our species was there I would even take the art off the wall and see if there's a reverse of the paintings to see if there's a back. Yeah.

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You're totally totally welcome to no, I won't I'm gonna save it. We have a very special guest later today Yeah, we do. All right, Blake. Thank you for stepping in as miles continues to be out Dealing with the horrors of the wildfires If people didn't catch our Friday trending episode miles of his family lost their home of the wildfires. If people didn't catch our Friday trending episode, Miles and his family lost their home in the wildfires. There's a GoFundMe that we will link off to in the show notes on this episode in the description. But I've been chatting with him on and off over the weekend, and he's just overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and, you know, people who can give or people just, you know, sending through

their love and helping however they can. So yeah, the Zeit Gang has really stepped up. It's been really cool to see and we appreciate y'all. We are gonna talk about the wildfires in a little bit, but before we get to it, we like to start things off extra stupid and let you get to know us a little bit better by telling you a couple of the things that we think are overrated and that we think are underrated. Blake, I kind of sprung this on you. You didn't know that you're going to have to do an overrated and an underrated. So I can kick us off and then I can just go through the overrated and the underrated and then you can chime in. Well, I'm gonna say that it will be completely indiscernible whether or not I had a whole weekend to prepare for this

or whether or not I just threw it together compared to like my normal underrated overrated. So no one will notice. Maybe we'll discover this is the move. You're so good at overrated, underrated, it's just on the spot. All right, my overrated, obviously a lot of important things going on right now

in the news around the world. But I did have to call out the decision to show Mark Wahlberg's bald head in the trailer for his new movie, Flight Risk. Did you see this trailer? Like it was played a number of times during football yesterday and just over the weekend. I did see it. I was watching my heart and soul, the Philadelphia Eagles win yesterday. And yeah, GLAS Eagles. And I couldn't tell what it was at first because the sound, I wasn't really paying attention. And yeah, I thought like, first of all, I didn't identify Mark Wahlberg right away. I didn't know it was a promo for a movie. I thought maybe it was some funny bit that was going on. It seems like an SNL sketch or a like joke commercial type thing.

It's so unnerving. It's crazy. So for people who haven't seen it, it starts out he's a pilot flying a prisoner, Topher Grace, no big deal, to New York to testify in a case, testify against a mob boss. And he's the pilot. It's him. It's the law enforcement executive next to know, next to him, but you know, big, big time law enforcement person, I forget, like the DA or something. But it's not just like some cop and then Topher Grace in the back and they're in this tiny little prop plane because they don't, they don't give a shit about this guy getting there

at all. And as he greets them in the extended two minute trailer, which I had to go watch the first half of, I didn't even make it all the way through because such is my dedication to this show. You don't want to spoil it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. He greets them. He has a Southern accent and what appears to be a full head of hair under his backwards baseball cap, you know, it's like a strap back or what, what, what are those things called snap back strap? Uh, it's a snap back. So like, it's got that little window where you can like see the hair and he's

got it, nothing out of the ordinary here. This is just a Mark Wahlberg movie where he has cool head of hair and is trying to speak with a Southern accent in a way that is, uh, I don't recommend Mark Wahlberg try and speak with a Southern accent going forward. It's bad. The word is it bad? Yeah. I think bad is generally the definition that's been given. It sounds like you pulled any Australian person off the street and we're like try and talk like Forrest Gump here

Yes, like yeah with absolutely no preparation Spun him around five times and then made him try he did say I do declare over and over and over again But yeah, he's his character is going for it good news This character does not appear to actually have a southern accent He appears to be like a mob enforcer from from the Northeast, but those have hair Yes of hair. So you would hair has hair and then They start noticing some things about Mark Wahlberg, the pilot, blood spatter on his clothing.

The ID of the pilot he had just killed to take the job is on the ground. He didn't bother cleaning that up. Yeah, that was an oversight. Uh-oh. A fight breaks out and his hat comes off accidentally and just bald as the day is long up top, just male pattern baldness. Um, like Jeff van Gundy bald up top and flight pattern baldness, baldness exactly.

And it's not played as a joke. I don't think where it's not supposed to be It doesn't doesn't interact with the tone of the trailer in such a way where it becomes a comedy at that point It's just like he's menacing Mark Wahlberg is a bad guy I have to assume this is a very thin movie the fact that they felt like they needed to give away this thin movie the fact that they felt like they needed to give away this aspect of The movie like it during the trailer that mark the big twist that Mark Wahlberg is I don't know what's more surprising Mark Wahlberg playing a bad guy or Mark Wahlberg being bald But this is his big Oscar bait thing

I think where it's you know to play different roles because he's often like the action star, and that's not what this is. He's not an action star. He's not like a bad guy, this edgy, you know, guy. He's bald. So he's not any of the things I just mentioned. He's made a career switch to bald, and I think that is gonna bring him to the next level. You think this is, you think he's gonna get nominated

for an Academy Award? I mean, it is direct, bitch. This is the whale. So he Brendan Fraser, he was Georgia the jungle. We all know that. And then obviously he did the whale. This is Mark Wahlberg's, uh, the whale, but he's, but he's bald. Yeah. Brian, the editor points out he hasn't been a bad guy really since fear. I mean, he wasn't, he was kind of bad ish. No, uh, the departed, I think he turns out to be like the last and only good one. Yeah. Yeah.

He was just dumb. He wasn't bad. He was stupid. Right. It is being directed by Mel Gibson. So, and the Academy does love to reward him for his directorial efforts. But yeah, I don't know if he if this was his movie that he was counting on to like propel him into the Academy. I don't think I don't think that was the right decision.

It seems to be more of a, you know, at best, like the top top top that this movie could deliver on is probably cliffhanger, which I, this movie doesn't appear to be any cliffhanger, but it's just, it's so funny looking. It's it really looks like an SNL skit. Like, it's amazing that they were just like, yeah. And then his character's hair is going to be connected to his hat. The disguise is his hair is connected to his hat. The disguise is his hair is connected to his hat.

I think they stole this because this was an old slapstick vehicle where a guy would be wearing a toupee and there'd be a string attached to the toupee. And then like a gust of wind would come and then they'd yank the string. The toupee would fly off to reveal. Yeah. Yeah. And then he's chasing fly off to reveal. Yeah. Yeah. And he's chasing it around the stage. Exactly.

I wish that's why they needed a bigger plane so he could chase after his hair more efficiently. That's the second act of the movie is him chasing his hair around the plane and it just keeps like taking a nose dive. Um, he, yeah, I mean, it's just, he is a person who is unrelentingly committed to two things. One, like blurring the line between his super heroic movie characters and his reality, you know? Yeah.

Like it, if he had been there on 9 11, it would have gone different, et cetera. And in this case, he is himself a plane hijacker, which is pretty wild. And then also just an unrelenting devotion to hotness, to his own hotness, waking up at two in the morning to lift and work out. So I don't know. It's a brave new look for one of our bravest men. Yeah. Our best and brightest and bravest bravest performers and still hot We don't want to say that he's I know we've been making fun of but he's still obviously an 8.9 at the lowest

It's even with the hair gone. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he plummeted All the way to a 8.9 He demands that like at every shot where he doesn't have his hair on, like he has to like have his abs out in some way. Like, oh my God, his shirt came off too. As his hat came off, I guess those were connected. Anyways, I was about to say, I hope this isn't like, I was about to say, oh yeah, it is like big Dick because we were talking about statue dicks in the opening. But then if that gets cut out, then I just said that. And then there would be no reaction. We'd move on. It was like, why the fuck. But then if that gets cut out, then I just said that and then there would be no reaction.

We'd move on. It was like, why the fuck did he just say that? No, we always, we always keep statue dick stuff. Whenever, whenever it comes up in your contract. Yeah. That's, that's our promise to you. Thank you. Um, any, anything, has that brought up anything that you think is overrated Blake? It has actually, um, it reminds me a lot of the salt that's used to salt streets when it's cold out or when it's about to freeze.

It doesn't remind me of that at all. I just looked outside for an overrated and that's what I came up with. And yeah, but I do believe that. Fuck that stuff. There has to be a may I say a better way of salting the street, because it's also really bad for dogs as feet to where that's a tip also where we just got like our dog, these booties that are crazy. And also, if you put boots on a dog, they will walk around

like a horrific Marionette, like someone who's like marionetting who's also in an earthquake Like is what the dog looks like and it's adorable It's the cutest thing but we put them on his feet not necessarily because of the cold snow or ice But because of like this chemical salt this blue shit. Yeah, it messes it just messes up your car I don't know. I feel like there has to be Something that isn't as chem. It can't be good for the environment either. Yeah. When you work on that CES,

when you work on some better salt, I feel like yes, C C E S not CVS, but they just had their consumer technology, big, big conference, uh, with, uh, yeah, I thought it was more of a money 20, 20 guy, but they, uh, yeah, we'll probably talk about it on tomorrow's episode, but it was just the stuff that they come through with. Like, this is an opportunity to be like, we've solved a common problem that everybody has. And instead it's always, um, just, yeah just a drone that looks like a little boy that can

steal more money from the middle class. It's like, wait, why are you making that? Yeah. But anyways, work on salt that doesn't destroy our pups, little toesies. Cause yeah, I remember one of our dogs back when we lived in New York got one of those it's big chonky salt You know, it's like big old chunks that then like kind of turns into mush when it meets the snow but got one of those salts in his paw and it was unpleasant and yeah, then we put the little foot footy things on and

Hated that almost as much he was like, what is this? Just be in pain. Just let me be in pain because this sucks wearing these boots. Yeah. But yeah, see, yes, I want world's fair vibes. Yeah. Brian, that are pointed out like that's what we're looking for. Not this where it's like a refrigerator with AI. The big takeaway this year was like the Roombas. But like now they have arms so they can like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, a refrigerator with AI. The big takeaway this year was like the Roombas,

but like now they have arms so they can like take socks out of the way and move them. They can tie your shoelaces together as a prank. And so when you stand up, you fall down. Yeah, exactly. These punked Roombas. Yeah, yeah. Now Roombas, but now they do pranks.

It's like, okay. Yeah, we want to see rich guys electrocute elephants again for no reason. That's not, that's not true. We want better road ice. Okay. Better road ice. All right. My underrated Blake, uh, since you so rudely asked, uh, soyear-old kid lies is my underage like nice my six-year-old is

at a time and a lot of his friends seem to be at this time to Where they're just discovering their ability to lie Mm-hmm, and some of them are really like exploring the studio space with it really, you know, stretching their legs pretty good. Yeah. Like, so my six year old is, uh, it's kind of like living with Bill Clinton. Like I ask if he's brushed his teeth and he assures me he has. And then when I figure out he absolutely has not, he argues that he was telling the truth

because he interpreted my question to be, had he ever brushed his teeth at all in his entire life? And he had the night before. Did you brush your teeth tonight? Is that how I have to phrase this going forward? Exactly. No, I do now. That's where I'm at. Because otherwise we'll get into debates about the definition of like have, I guess. Have you brushed your teeth? It's very broad. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. Like he, some of his friends, like the lies he brings home, like

one of them claims to be a world-class hacker. I've talked before about one of them who claims he's never touched the color pink in his life. Like that's not just like doesn't who claims he's never cut touched the color pink in his life Like that's not just like doesn't like he's never touched it He stood up at dinner at a nice restaurant and slammed his fist on the table and said I've never touched the color pink Exactly There's also one that claims to not only just have never seen a unicorn but never thought of one also Just I've never I've never even thought about it. I have no fucking time for those horn horses.

I have other things to do. Why would I think about unicorns? It's like, you sound like someone who thinks a lot about unicorns. Not only have you thought about it once, it's probably your prevailing thought at all times is about unicorns. Such a weird overreach. I've never thought about unicorns. Even as we're talking about this right now, and I'm saying the word unicorn, I've actually

never thought of a unicorn before. Never. That kid also doesn't have a mom and was never a baby, according to him. So, just legendary shit coming out of the first grade right now. That kid kind of rules. That kid kind of rules. Kids awesome. Yeah. Never had a mom was never a baby like you losers. So I don't know what any of you are talking about. That kid has two moms and also is so many moms age and is still a baby.

Is wearing diapers and just like on a pacifier as he says us Is there anything you think's underrated Blake? So I have like the unicorn kid. I've never thought about Eddie Redmayne before in my life And I've never thought about him and then um my wife was out of town this weekend So what I did is I went crazy and watched all of the Jackal, the day of the Jackal on Peacock in like, however many hours it was is like just how I spent my, every waking minute of my day watching it.

And you know, it's not a genius television. It's no flight risk, but he does have a good head of hair in that movie. But I never, I think I wasn't too familiar with Eddie Redmayne as an actor. I don't know what he's like as a human being, but I only saw him in those like Harry Potter knockoff movies where his name's like,

like slinky Scalamander or something. And I'm like, this guy's a loser. And then he was cool and the fantastic beasts. Thank you. Another and just unicorns movie. The most fantastic of beasts is a unicorn. But, um, yeah, he was really good in it. Like I found him like very, there's just something about him. I don't know if it's his face or like, yeah, I don't know. He was very captivating. So like underrated. Are you encountering acting for the first time? There's something I don't know. He was very captivating. So like underrated. Are you encountering acting for the first time? There's something I don't know. Like his, like his face, he like pretends it's almost like he's a different

person as he said his name's Charles, but I know his name's Eddie. So I don't know if he's lying. Doing this thing with his face where I don't know. Cause he had a sniper rifle, but I'm like, I thought he was an actor and here he is as a sniper. So whatever talent that is, I'm not familiar with it, but it's, it's unbelievable. And he should find work doing it. He started as newt Scamander.

That's fantastic. Feast beast film. Fantastic feast is my favorite streaming show. The table spin off. He does seem to be that quality of actor. That's like, wait, you're doing a TV thing. Like you kind of, like, I remember this with the first season of Fargo and Billy Bob Thornton, just being like, this is incredible.

Yeah just being like this is Incredible like to have an act a level of actor. That's like that Yeah, I feel like there's a a handful of those where it's just like when they're in a streaming series. It's just like elevates Everything I haven't seen the jackal one But I kind of got that sense just from the trailer that it was going to be like, Oh shit. I actually like wish that was a movie. Like it was a trailer for a streaming series that I was like, I just wish this was a movie so I could watch it because I'm not going to, I'm not going to waste

eight hours on this shit. Well, you know, maybe if you like get a, the flu or something, you can, you can watch it. Um, but yeah, and it's more, it's like 11 hours of a, but it's one of those things where having a guy of that acting quality in a series where normally the feeling after you see a movie is like, oh, okay, well, I guess I won't see that guy again. You know, like that guy that I enjoyed watching

for an hour, 40 minutes, two hours. And it's like, oh, wait, I get to see this guy again and again and again and again. And I do it nine more times, but yeah, it's, I don't know if the show's good necessarily I'm sure there's problematic elements of it, but he's great in it. So I Assassin like, you know story give it to me put it right in my veins assassins, I love like eight guys in a room like that that cat like a Tarantino

Eight cowboys in a in a barn or whatever like that movie they hatefully yes yes that I like they hatefully guys colon eight cowboys in a barn yeah one there's one woman in this whole movie in this 17-hour movie there's one woman and the horrifying things that are done to her. Jesus. My God. Yeah. By the way, Eddie Redmayne, if you had given me, here, maybe I can do this with you

if you haven't looked it up. What age would you guess Eddie Redmayne is? Now? Yeah. Of course now. Yeah. Blake? Yes, now.

When? When? Who are you talking about? And Eddie Eddie Redmayne you're talking about? Okay. Okay. Okay. Guy who's good at any red bay now. Yeah. Um, I would say he's red. You're talking red Edward. Yeah. Yeah. Red main 38. Yeah. I would have gone like 12, 13. Uh, I think for some reason he's perpetually been a child in my brain. He's 43 years old.

Whoa. Which I he's been around for a while. Like that makes sense to the logical part of my brain. But the elderly part of my brain is like, who read the Redman boy? Redman. Yeah, it's the freckles. Freckles infamously age incredibly well. Always.

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The wildfires are as this recording, you know, it's Monday morning. We had a couple days with fairly good conditions where they were able to get some of them under control, but they're still burning. I wouldn't say under control, more under control. They're still like the level of containment is pretty small as this recording and they are expecting the winds to kick back up on Monday night into Tuesday and Wednesday. So really, you know, an ongoing situation that has already impacted a lot of people in horrible ways.

I'd say one of the big stories that's emerging is the insurance companies are probably going to be no longer solvent after this. The government is going to have to bail them out or just like directly pay people for their homes or the ability to rebuild or not. As we saw in the first Trump administration, when you tried to cut funding to California during wildfires and yeah, people are just saying the whole like the just, you know, if the homes become uninsurable, then the whole real estate market tanks, it's just like a, it's a bleak outlook for people who

think economic factors are the only thing that's real. Fortunately, there are a lot of people who are just regardless of that shit going out and working their ass off around the clock again want to shout out like gang for coming through for miles and Just the outpouring of support and donations for his family But I'll let him speak to his experience when he's back But yeah, just elsewhere the food and donation centers seem to be you know, just tons of staff And which is a good thing because just so much stuff is churning

in from people who are trying to help. Like the real test obviously will be whether we can like keep this level of community action up after it's no longer front page news. But for now, I feel like the story of the fire that I've seen is just people stepping up for one another. Um, as a lot of the, you know, systems that are supposed to step up end up kind of failing. And the main system we're seeing fail is the market. Like, well, yeah, there's all sorts of shit happening with landlords and we'll get into it. But just generally, LA has like the lowest ever soil moisture right now because of, you know, we let the market cook for a good hundred years and the

result is we no longer can survive in parts of the planet. And people are, I don't know, yeah, the reporting on well, and then like, what's going to happen to the market and the insurance just seems like, well, this is the end of that. It would seem like, well, we'll see what happens, but it feels like that is no longer. You can't even like really have that conversation anymore. But like, well, how's the market going to respond to this shit? It's like, well, it's so gross. Yeah. It's, it's all, and it's all bad where like, it's one of those things where each, you know, piece of paper you turn over, there's just more bad news on it. There is something too, where like, even if the government does help the, if you remember like during COVID, the disbursement of funds is kind of prehistoric where they send paper checks out. So, or like those weird prepaid cards

and these people are trying to be paid for something that happened where they don't have an address anymore. So even if they do fucking, and that sounds like a simple thing where it's like, wait, why wouldn't they just, you know, even ACH a C H it to like a bank account or whatever. Like these are all like that's even fucked. So yeah, I saw an interview with Gavin Newsome where like the, um, the idea that we have

to be careful about giving out funds to the wrong people started coming up where it's like, we gotta be, we gotta worry about fraud here. People. And it's like, just fucking find a way to get the money to people. And if like people commit fraud, you can get it, investigate that later. Yeah. Get their ass later. It's crazy. And I've noticed too, like, obviously you said it perfectly, but when I, um, search my name on the zeitgeist reddits and discourse, which I do 15 times a day.

I did stumble upon how generous everybody was. No, I'm joking. It is really, really cool of, it's the, and you know, I don't have a stake in this podcast, so I'm not kissing ass. Not a fan to be honest. I truly, I've used the phrase waste of time

exclusively to describe it, but the, I should say like the listeners, the Zeit gang are, it's amazing to see a group. If I were you, I would be like, oh, this is who I want to be fans of the thing that I'm doing. And I think that's, you know, I know in standup, you see a lot of comedians behave in a horrendous way.

And then they go and do shows and they do shitty, like, you know, like punching down material. And then they look at it at their audience and they see the stupidest fucking people in the entire world coming to their shows. This is the opposite of that where it's like, oh, if you're doing good work and you're doing, you're trying to progress, you know, like, I mean, you're not trying to progress humanity.

I know, even though you call me every single day and you go, Blake, I just progressed humanity, Blake, how do we continue to progress humanity? Yeah. If you're on the right side of things and you put out great stuff all the time, like that's who you want to be consuming it. So it is cool in a tangible way to see that these are the people who are, who are listening to the show. And the people who stopped listening along the way because they're not down with that stuff have, have let us, have let us know. So we're, you know, but yeah, we, we appreciate the people who stopped listening,

donated the most, you know, the landlords illegally jacking up rent prices. Again, it's like early days. The reporting is not like super buttoned up at this point. And like a lot of the stuff is coming through the local news, which as I mentioned, like watching the local news, I saw a reporter just like start being like, I think that fire was like started by a person just randomly with like no basis whatsoever. Just improvising on camera. Yeah, yeah. Just be coming up with a

villain like a Hollywood movie plot that he could graft on top of the horrible, senseless tragedy that's happening. But, you know, a lot of people are talking about landlords that are illegally jacking up rent prices by as much as 50 percent, about landlords that are illegally jacking up rent prices by as much as 50% despite stern warnings from Attorney General Rob Bonta and things are so bad that even one of the stars of Selling Sunset is complaining about this issue and he was recently implicated in a $100,000 illegal kickback scheme so imagine how shitty you have to be to lose the moral high ground to that guy. Well, the kickbacks, that's different.

That's a different vertical of jacking up rent. But he was just pointing out that, like, he's seeing crazy amount of bad shit happening in the real estate markets. And even Kim Kardashian came out. And this is another story that we'll be kind of digging into more deeply in the coming days. But Kim Kardashian, speaking of reality, stars coming out and suddenly making good points, spoke out against the fact that these fires are being fought in large part by slave labor, thanks to California's prison labor laws, which allow inmates to make between 13 cents and 52 cents hourly while risking their lives fighting fires. They their maximum day rate is between 580 and 1024.

Yeah. And this is like a thing that was up. It was on about initiative, whether we could like stop this from happening. And people were like, I don't know. it was on a ballot initiative, whether we could like stop this from happening. And people were like, I don't know. So let's, let's see where this slavery thing takes us. And it wasn't one of those ballot initiatives that had like a confusing wording where it's like vote. Yes. If you do, do not, do agree with it was just like, Oh, do you want, um, uh, slavery?

Do I ever brush my teeth? Yeah. Yeah. Have I ever, when, when do I want it? Yeah. The, uh, but yeah, I mean, what, one of the people, a former incarcerated firefighter pointed out the conditions in California prisons are so terrible that fighting wildfires is a rational choice. Like it's maybe the safer choice for people to get out of the prisons. So yeah, this is stuff that we've covered before with regards to the 13th Amendment, but we're seeing it play out in real time with real prison inmates who are being paid

literal slave wages fighting these fires for us. So we'll continue to cover that. I do just want to, my loser of the weekend has to be Marjorie Taylor green, uh, who just for the 80th weekend in a row, Taylor green, she, uh, she made a, like, I feel like this has to be, when you go to conspiracy theorists school, and maybe there isn't one and that's the problem, but you got so many conspiracy theories going and you can't bring up one. So she brought up her conspiracy theory that the global elites were able to start hurricanes that will, um,

this weekend and was like, why don't they do the thing that I claim they can do? Um, so it's just, it has to be like Alex Jones has to have called her and bill my March. So if in her mind, she's like, wait, so if I birthday cake candles blow on them, they go out So why doesn't the elite use more wind to blow out the fire? Yes, thank that is a question that my six-year-old wanted to know is easily well, but like Wind usually blows the fires out and I was like I I wish you had a smarter dad to be able to explain that to

you. And then Mrs. Real says, I don't have a father. A big part of my origin story. I don't have a dad. I don't have a dad. Yeah. You play it. Pretend you don't know me.

But yeah. So last year she was claiming that the government had created the horrible hurricane season with cloud seeding technology, which is a technology where you put silver iodine in the clouds, I believe to get it to start raining. And basically it is a thing that can have that they can do. You shoot these, you know, rockets full of the substance into the atmosphere. They explode out. It does cause it to start raining. If

there are existing clouds with a lot of moisture in them, it can like help it help push it over the edge and create a small amount of rain for a brief period of time. And she has taken that and been like, they have a machine that controls the weather, essentially, which great work conspiracy wise. But you got to just not bring that up when we're having a conspiracy, a massive national tragedy that could be solved by that technique. You have to pretend you never said that you don't bring it up. But she came out and was like, why aren't you making it rain? Like I claim you can. And everyone's like, well, let's you're the one who fucking made that up. What are you talking about?

So we have to go back and talk about this. We already said you were an idiot for that I was like, well, let's, you're the one who fucking made that up. What are you talking about? So we have to go back and talk about this. We already said you were an idiot for that thing. Right. And now we have to, you make us so tired. Yeah. Marjorie, you make us so fucking tired. Exhausted. But anyways, this is one of the many times, God, I wish she was right.

Um, unfortunately it turns out she's, I think she's wrong on this one. I don't think you can just create a hurricane out of thin air. Um, so let's take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll talk about a couple stupid things that happened in pop culture. We'll be right back. John Stewart is back at the daily show and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports

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And we're back and big story that you might have missed over the weekend. Dunkin' Donuts. Like as if things didn't seem apocalyptic enough already. People at 4% of Dunkin Donuts locations went to their Dunkies and found them without donuts. And also if you went to one and it was without donuts and you went to another one and it was without donuts, two different, totally different explanations. It would see. One said due to supply chain issues and inclement weather. Another said due to a donut manufacturing error. We currently do not have your favorite donuts at this time. We apologize. Please enjoy our munchkins in the meantime.

So it's real. It's strange that it's based specifically on the donut shape like a munchkins they can make. But yeah, well, there's just holes. Yeah, there's just the holes. So like what what are that what's happening to the surrounding? Yeah, exactly. I think that the inclement weather was perhaps rain washed away the outer crust of the donut and just left the middle part. Yeah. Yeah. But it's stores in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and areas near Albuquerque, New Mexico were just completely without donuts on Thursday and Friday. And

yeah, it just, it feels like one manager in Omaha said that she had been ordered not to provide any information by Duncan HQ. What was the company's name? Duncan H Christ. Duncan H Christ. What's going on here? Which sounds pretty suspicious. What's your Duncan donuts order? If I can, if we can edit this out, if that's too personal. It's way too, way too personal. I don't go to Dunkin' Donuts. I haven't been to Dunkin' Donuts in a long time. Like I, it's a very situational, special thing for me.

And in those cases, it's usually some manner of breakfast sandwich on a donut. Just tell them to put the bacon, egg and cheese on a donut of some sort. Glazed donut. Now, you know, bagel sandwich is usually what I go with. And then a big iced coffee, usually one that's sweet as hell. You know, it's usually like I'll usually go sweet as hell. Can I get that sweet as hell, bro?

I usually go pretty standard, like black coffee and all coffee products. But for some reason, Dunkin Donuts, I can give myself permission to it's like this should should be like eating a piece of birthday cake. This is coffee. Yeah, because it's I also only go on like anniversaries, like special occasions as well. But when I, take your word on an anniversary. Yeah.

When, when my number gets called, I spend it on, on Dunkin' Donuts. No, it's, I'm sim, I'll, I'll get coffee from there, like at the airport, if like the other lines are too long. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, if, or if the other people are striking, I'll go to whichever coffee shop that's not being,

where their union isn't being suppressed. I remember in LA when they brought the first Dunkin' Donuts up, like I feel like, cause LA is such a transplant city that obviously it has its own identity, but a lot of people, you know, get nostalgic for stuff like from wherever they're from. And I remember the first Dunkin' Donuts in LA was placed in Santa Monica.

And the pilgrimages that were made to that place, it was as if it was like, you know, the most rare sneaker or whatever, like the lines outside was wild. And it's like, guys, this is shit. Like we all know this is shit, but we miss that shit from whatever coast you're from. But you gotta go there and get your hand manufactured donuts because apparently manufacturing errors are what's causing this shortage.

But yeah, I don't know. I don't begrudge anybody there, you know, creature comfort. Like Blake does, Blake clearly begrudges you that, but not me over here, man of the people. I'm an artisan. But yeah, I don't know. I feel like this one goes all the way to the top. I don't know.

It's a side of some sort for sure. Tread on Marjorie Taylor Green's a, it's a sign of some sort, um, for sure. Tread on Marjorie Taylor green's territory because she's not good at it. Uh, I'm going to go ahead and say, this is a sign she's dumb and sucks at it. It's like, you could, there are people who are dumb and like, unfortunately excellent at it, but it's, it's, she's getting sloppy. Yeah. She's getting sloppy. It's what a spokesperson for Duncan's parent company, which is Inspire Brand, Smith and Wesson is their parent company. My, my Inspire Brands does make Smith and Wesson and Dunkin Donuts.

That's not true. Don't sue us. I was just, I was. Satire, satire, satire. But that's so wild that it's like called Inspire Brands. Like that's like the name of name of, I don't know, some health care provider. Right. Yeah. I don't know. Inspire or like a children's learning company.

Yeah, it should be called Inspire Brands. Like, look at this puzzle that helps kids learn or whatever. But everybody just uses all the words that test well with in group tests and folks group testing until everything is meaningless. Yeah. Inspire brands, which brings you Duncan. Didn't they used to be yum?

I thought they were yum at one point. I could be yum. I believe it's pizza, Taco Bell and KFC. I'm not sure. Feel like an idiot. You sound like one. And You sound like one to, um, anyways, we're, we're going to keep it. This is a story. I keep saying, but this is a story we'll be,

we'll continue to follow closely because somebody's gotta pay for that for this. So someone's gotta pay for this. 4% of dunking us stores impacted by the issue. Uh, think, think about all those people who, uh, couldn't get the Krola, the Boston cream. Uh, that's my impression of people in Omaha. Go call in Huskers. You were saying there's only one type of cream and that's Boston cream.

That was, yeah. And that's what I believe as well in this house. I'm not just a mouthpiece. All right. And finally in the world of the box office a movie dropped that we talked about when we First heard of it a movie called better man tells the story of British pop star Robbie Williams He is represented as a CGI monkey in the film. It got really solid reviews, like it was getting, I think, as good or not, if not better reviews than the Bob Dylan biopic. And it's, yes, again, about Robbie Williams, who was like one of the boy band idols who then became a, you know, solo artist of note in the UK and in the US that he had like a hit or two.

They dropped this movie. It was treated like it was going to be a blockbuster. They made it for one hundred and ten million dollars because CGI monkeys aren't cheap if you watch it it looks expensive then it was acquired by Paramount for 25 million dollars that's not good to distribute it and this weekend it made one million dollars in the the US and it struggled to get there. It's, that's bad. That's the most it's going to make in a given week is $1 million. No, it keeps going up.

So like there's the premier weekend and then that's the lowest and then it keeps going up. I had no idea who the fuck this was, like Robbie Williams. And then I'm like, oh, this is probably one of those things where it's, I would recognize them if I saw them, but like I didn't know them by name. And then I read Robbie Williams' entire Wikipedia page

and I still don't know who this is. So like, I think that is a tough sell. And internationally it didn't do well either. Right? No, even in the UK, which is like where he is very famous, it made $4.7 million to date. It has made $4.7 million total to date. A lot of people have been on social media making the same point that you just made,

Blake. Didn't really make sense to make this movie a biopic of a person who nobody knows who it is or is familiar with. There were. who nobody knows who it is or is familiar with like there were like I guess yeah that's true of many biopics of like people who did inspirational things and it's like you didn't know but this person actually shaped the way that everything is done today but this is just a pop star who the point of the movie is like look how famous this person got, despite looking like a monkey, I guess, is kind of-

Yeah, looking a lot like a monkey. Yeah. But people were like, this is a particularly good one. Nick is sad on Twitter, tweeted the mad men scene between Peggy and Don, where Peggy's saying, "'No one in America knows who Robbie Williams is!' And Don is saying, "'That's what the monkey is for.

Because it's the, that's what the money is for. But that was the point of the monkey was like, well, people will go see a movie where a monkey becomes a singer for some reason. That doesn't totally scan, at least in the trailer. Um, maybe if his, you know, had had fallen off midway through and it was revealed that he, this monkey had male pattern baldness, we would have, we would have gotten butts in the seats. We got more asses in the seats. That's right. I did not like the way you just said that, but

sometimes I speak while I exhale all the air out of my body. And it's a, they taught me that at a broadcasting school, kind of the death rattle line delivery method. But anyways, I don't know. It's a, it's a sad day for people who were hoping to see more unorthodox biopics where like monkeys played the main characters. Maybe it's good. I've heard it's good, but I have. Yeah, that's what the reviews say. Yeah. So it'll be a forgotten classic. You know, Citizen Kane was not well loved when it first came out. So no, think about that. He was originally a walrus and they had to cast a human being.

They actually use CG to make it look like it was Orson Welles. Yeah Blake pleasure having you on the show Appreciate you stepping in where can people find you follow you all that good stuff Find me at Blake Wexler all social media Stand updates coming up, March 13th, Fort Collins at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. That was just added, I don't know if those tickets are up, but just save the date in your calendar,

it will not sell out. And then, March, and then I don't know, this is a weird thing to even bring, I'm supposed to be in LA March 15th At the ice house, but obviously there's way more important things going on and then in April I'm gonna be in in Minneapolis, but I'll post about all these things and they'll be up on

Blake Wexler calm. Yeah, also Supervisor Victor just pointed out that one of the lines from one of the reviews is there's nothing glamorous about a monkey doing cocaine. And yeah, I did actually saw somebody talk about the scene in which Robbie Williams monkey does cocaine and they like say it as like a compliment inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic. It's sad seeing the monkey do cocaine. The unexpectedly brilliant better man dives into the rise of Willis. So apparently like the weirdness of seeing a monkey do cocaine is like part of it. They're like, yeah, that's yeah. Exactly, man. Cause of course, if you give a monkey cocaine, they're gonna love it. You know? And has anyone

ever done that? I hope not. But I honestly, I think probably because I was watching that, uh, remember chimp crazy that, um, HBO thing, uh, HBO documentary about the lady who just owned a chin and also just how chimps go wrong in general. If you try to very close to starting to watch that this weekend, is it, is it worth it? Yeah. Yeah, it is. So it's by the person who made Tiger King and it's just another like banger of a weird animal people. So you're insane. Yeah.

It's, I mean, it doesn't necessarily, it doesn't make you feel good watching it, but it is a definitely interesting, but they feed this and this is why people shouldn't own chimpanzees is this lady would give them like McDonald's. Like that was the food that they would have. So we give them like fries, not to equate McDonald's with cocaine. But, you know, it's that good. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. I would actually be like a really good advertising ploy for McDonald's.

The cocaine of things that are legal. The cocaine of in quotes food. Yeah. Also, I have to again, back check myself to fact checks in a fucking single episode. That's sorry, not come from a review. It came from the director explaining why he made the decision to use a monkey. Even better. Yeah. All right. Those are the things that are trending on this Monday morning.

We're going to be back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. John Stewart is back at The Daily Show and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports and more. Joined by the sharp voices of the shows, correspondents and contributors.

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