The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 68 (Best of 3/25/19-3/29/19)

Episode Date: March 31, 2019

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Starting point is 00:02:00 or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist what is something you think is underrated underrated uh just to kind of you know live in the season right now brackets about other things oh that is my favorite thing to do around this time because you know it's
Starting point is 00:02:41 around the final four everyone makes brackets i just did a cereal bracket bleacher report put out a trash cereal bracket their seating was trash the cereals they chose were trash but i still played out their bracket and it seemed like everyone agreed with me oh how many cereals they start with oh my gosh are you ready to hear this bracket look we'll just i'll try and do it super just tell me like the top 15 top 15 is it's it's hyper speed it's super trash okay let me just pull it up real quick. Is it an Elite 8? No, it's the best cereal bracket. So, number one seed
Starting point is 00:03:11 on the left side is Lucky Charms. Number two is Honey Nut Cheerios. Number two is Honey Nut Cheerios. Honey Nut Cheerios is pretty good. I mean, nobody can say no to the... And then the snub, number three, is Cinnamon Toast Crunch, which is a one seed cereal. Four is Apple Jacks.
Starting point is 00:03:30 So that's on the left side. On the right side, number one is Frosted Flakes. I can rock with that. Number two, Captain Crunch. Regular Captain Crunch. What are you smoking? Number three... You need some Crunch Berries.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Is that what you're saying? This is going to be divisive, but I'm thinking it's too high. Honey Smacks. Whoa. Yep, I knew it. I knew it. Some people rock for Honey Smacks. For me, it's not a number three seed.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I love fucking Honey Smacks. Number four is Cocoa Puffs, but pretty much I had Fruity Pebbles take it, because Fruity Pebbles was a sixth seed, and it beat out Honey Smacks for me, so that's already going to be... Right. was a six seed and it beat out honey smacks for me. So that's already going to be. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:10 There's just not enough separation in the world of cereals for it to be analogous to the NCAA tournament. I mean, yeah, because you like if you have Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Puffs, you can't have Cocoa Krispies or, you know. Also Rice Krispies treats. Yeah, dude. Krispies treats cereal needs to be in there. Right. And I would even opt for Kix as like a 12 seed.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Like the eight seed, which is the equivalent of a 16 seed, they did make that intentionally shitty because it's Wheaties and Rice Krispies. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:04:35 Just straight Rice Krispies. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah, that's what we're looking out for. Yeah, that's terrible, man. Yeah, SB Nation. I said Bleacher Report first,
Starting point is 00:04:44 but that was SB Nation. Okay. Yeah, SB Nation. I said Bleacher Report first, but that was SB Nation. Okay. Yeah, SB Nation. And also very lazy. Like you couldn't come up with 64 serials? Sorry, this is what I used to do for a living. So I'm like, come on, guys. I invented the listicle.
Starting point is 00:04:56 You're right. There's so many stubbed serials that you could have come up with 64. That's just so random. Yeah. Also, man, pay your graphics intern a little bit more. That's right. I'm going to have to feed your graphics intern a little bit more. That's right. With that. The graphics on that.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Lame. All right. Speaking of a different perspective, Papa John's has replaced Papa John himself. Papa John Schnattery or Shattery or whatever. Whatever the fuck his name is. Are you okay? How's your voice? My voice is...
Starting point is 00:05:23 I will say, yeah, that uh i'm advocating for the listeners who listen to you every day and go that's a zaylee zeitgeist was mad scuffed but you know i was gonna let you finish it were you screaming a bunch last night yeah no i i have a cold oh okay all right why don't we go over here yeah it's not it's not anything cool my two-year-old sneezed into my mouth. Oh, man. You just tell people you ate a bunch of ass. That's a lot cooler.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Much cooler. Ate a bunch of ass in my throat. In my throat. You know that ass, man. Sound like Miles Davis. Yeah, that's why Miles Davis. Yeah, motherfucker. I don't count eating a bunch of ass.
Starting point is 00:06:04 I'm sorry, but yes, Papa John. Papa John has replaced John, Papa, himself, with Shaq. Shaquille O'Neal. Yes. Yo, before you finish that, I was just going to be, because I didn't know this was coming, I was going to be like, you should replace it with a black guy. Well, boom. They did it. All right, I guess you did it, Papa John.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I mean, he's rolling in his grave. Yeah, great PR move. Replace the racist white guy with a lovable, gigantic black dude. Yeah. And, you know, NBA Hall of Famer. You want some pizza? But he's, so he's not, he's what, just like the, like a brand ambassador? Right.
Starting point is 00:06:38 He's going to be a brand ambassador. Oh, and also joining the board of directors. Yeah. So like, it's, it's kind of, it's more than just, like, he's in one of our commercials. Right, right, right. Yeah. They put him in the company. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:50 Hey, man, it's too much. Y'all doing too much with these. So, first thing I want to bring up is your door's too small. I keep coming in with Papa John's. Pizza's too sweet. Pizza's too sweet. I think that's what I hope. I mean, look.
Starting point is 00:07:00 That's what's next. They've solved their PR problem. Are they going to solve their pizza problem? Shit's too sweet. Yeah. That's what's next. They've solved their PR problem. Are they going to solve their pizza problem? Shit's too sweet. Yeah. The sauce is too sweet. With me, I'm always dunking it in that garlic sauce. One thing I will always give them.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Hence Shaq. Yeah. That garlic sauce is slaps. And that's why it hurt to have this trash dude in charge. Because I was like, that's the one thing y'all got right. Well, I'm back now. You can get down with Bob and John's. Go ahead and and and
Starting point is 00:07:26 smash shack jack jack is wildly speculating about shack's health though too i just worry about his health i don't know man he's he's djing now too what's that he's like doing dubstep dude i love shack diesel the dj but yeah i mean what he was what did say? You said in 2004 he was what? He was 370, I think they said. Oh my God. 340. So yeah. I mean, players don't necessarily tell the truth on that publicly available information. And the dude has blown up since then.
Starting point is 00:07:58 So I'm just saying, you got to watch out for your health, man. Yeah, please don't do an Andre the Giant on us. Yeah, exactly. But, you know, at least he chose to go with the pizza brand that has a candy bar's worth of sugar in each piece. But it's got that sauce. That's the one thing, again. Also good for your health. Yeah, that's just like margarine.
Starting point is 00:08:24 With a garlic flavor. What is something you just like margarine. With garlic flavor. What is something you think is underrated? The Wendy Williams show. Okay. I thought her coverage of the cheating scandal was the best of anybody. I actually think she should be on Late Night because I think she just rides the line of edgy or not. And also, she did this whole thing this week where she was like, hey, I need to be honest with you guys. I've been living in a sober house.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah. And I just thought that was great. So she did this whole thing this week where she was like, hey, I need to be honest with you guys. I've been living in a sober house. Yeah. And I go right. And I just thought that was great. I get most of my news news from PBS NewsHour and all my pop culture news from her. Wow. There you go. I think she's great. How you doing?
Starting point is 00:08:54 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, yeah, she's very open and honest. I remember when she was like, who hasn't smoked a Woola? And I was like, ooh, okay, Wendy. Wait, what is a Woola? Rolling up crack in your blunts. No, for real?
Starting point is 00:09:05 Yeah. There was some actress, I can't remember who it was, but she does, what is a ruler? Rolling up crack in your blunts. Oh, for real? Yeah. There was some actress, I can't remember who it was, but she does say things that certainly cross the line or are just bizarre. Like one time she was profiling someone who had just been diagnosed with diabetes. And she goes, are you mad that they have diabetes? I mean, I don't know if I'm mad or not.
Starting point is 00:09:16 I don't think I'm mad. And it was like, why would you be? Why are you mad that they have diabetes? All right, well, keep thinking out loud, Wendy. I love her opinions. And I don't know. I think she's very refreshing. She stays.
Starting point is 00:09:28 She's an outsider the way like Stern is. Like just tries to stay outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's awesome. All right. Well, we always like to check in with the box office after a weekend. And the results are in. Jordan Peele's new movie Us is the biggest original live action movie since avatar
Starting point is 00:09:49 so like wait what do you mean it made 71 million dollars which is the most of an opening weekend for a movie that isn't like some existing property like isn't like one of the marvel movies or something right and isn't like a like a Pixar movie basically. Holy shit. Avatar was the last one that just blew up like that. And it's crazy to think that like Jordan Peele on his, well, I don't know if this is technically his second movie, but on one of his first,
Starting point is 00:10:15 you know. I think it is his second. It is. Okay. Is like people are going to see a movie based on who the director is. Yeah. Yeah. It's incredible.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Yeah. Yeah. And it's also funny. I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to go see it this week, but like how people are going to see a movie based on who the director is. Yeah. Yeah. It's incredible. Yeah. Yeah. And it's also funny. I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to go see it this week, but like how people are already trying, like everyone is like, it's just a horror movie.
Starting point is 00:10:32 This is like get out. Yes. Get out was a little more psychologically involved. They're a little like, and then all the people trying to like parse through like fucking Breitbart was like, this is an actually a great warning against socialism. Right. What?
Starting point is 00:10:44 And he's like, and if that family just had guns, the problems would be solved. Right. But I'm not even sure what that means. But I guess everyone's taking into it what they need to get out of it. I have to say, after Get Out, I started expecting more from my horror movies. I haven't seen us yet. But I did start, like, I remember seeing A Quiet Place and being like, but what did it mean?
Starting point is 00:11:03 Right, right, right. Do you know what I mean? And I'd never had that expectation before, but Get Out was, like, I remember seeing a quiet place and being like, but what did it mean? Right. Right. Right. Do you know what I mean? And I'd never had that expectation before, but get out was like that good. Yeah. Cause I think that's what made it even better is that it worked on you more than just like the, Oh shit.
Starting point is 00:11:12 What the fuck was that? Right. Yeah. Horror shit. You're like, yeah, Oh, this is a fucked,
Starting point is 00:11:16 like this is a head space. It was the smartest movie that came out that year. And I don't think a horror movie had done that. No, because horror movies are always so just like visceral. Right. The best horror movie to that point, I think by a lot of people's estimation,
Starting point is 00:11:30 was The Exorcist. Well, I don't know. Did you see Turistas? Oh, right, right. 2006. Go Home. Oh, yeah. Great film.
Starting point is 00:11:37 Where those kids with Olivia Wilde, I think, was in that, Josh Duhamel, where they're on vacation in Brazil. By the way, Olivia Wilde made her directorial debut at Sundance, or no, not Sundance, at South By with a movie called Booksmart that is supposed to be really, really good. Okay, awesome. People are doing their things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:56 But yeah, Us is not only critically acclaimed, but it is just a huge, huge opening. acclaimed uh but it is just a huge huge opening and uh our writer jm mcnabb was pointing out that like all of the media's headlines were like shocking how much money it made because i guess all the estimates had it closer to like 40 million dollars maybe 50 million and they usually don't go they're usually not off by more than like a couple million here and there and so it was a big surprise apparently to forecasters but um he was saying that you saw the same headlines with black panther and girls trip and other movies that i don't know like there's something that is surprising to hollywood a lot of dots right now. Right. Some strange similarity between these movies with black protagonists
Starting point is 00:12:49 that Hollywood prognosticators are always like, what the fuck just happened? It's insane. Because I actually think they don't see the past. Because it is, you're right, it's the headline every time is like, who knew? It's like, we all did.
Starting point is 00:13:02 We've known. Everyone knows. Just more representation. Make the movies. People will come out to see them. They're like, oh, wow, a thing that I can relate to? Yeah. I'm there, even if it's a fucking whore.
Starting point is 00:13:13 There's always so much fucking pressure for any movie that has anything to do with any marginalized group of like, this better be a hit. And then it isn't. It didn't matter. Right. So hopefully now they see a fucking pattern. Yeah. You would think so. And yeah, we talked. It didn't matter. Right. So hopefully now they see a fucking pattern. Yeah, you would think so.
Starting point is 00:13:25 And yeah, we talked just with the Sony hacks. You saw these emails with producers talking about how you shouldn't green light the next Denzel movie because black doesn't travel and shit. Like there's all these like rules of thumb about like international. Yeah. Like internationally, Denzel Washington movies aren't going to do very well because they're racist. Not us. No. Denzel's one of my favorites.
Starting point is 00:13:51 Oh, my God. You know, actually, I wrote him in for president. Right. Exactly. I would have voted for Obama a third time. But he. Yeah, there's all these like just shitty like behind-scenes rules of thumb that are based on nothing. And then now here we see that when you actually make movies
Starting point is 00:14:10 by people of color, starring people of color, people actually go see them. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And look at Jordan Peele, man. Jordan Peele is out here. Yeah, the New Yorker called it a towering cinematic achievement. Oh, my God, I can't wait. I know, I really want to see it. The New Yorker called it a towering cinematic achievement.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Oh my God, I can't wait. I know, I really want to see it. The New Yorker. The New Yorker never likes anything. And then when they do at the end, they're like, I don't know if I'd bother. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Anthony Lane is my favorite prose bitch of all time. Anthony Lane is such a bitch. So, so snarky. I know. All right, guys, let's talk about AI. The... The movie?
Starting point is 00:14:51 No, not the movie. Oh, okay. I don't really have much to add, then. There is a AI that, like, is using machine learning to basically predict when people are going to die. So a group of scientists... Great, jeez. I mean, this makes sense.
Starting point is 00:15:07 It's like, it is now. If you've ever done a life insurance policy, you know there's an entire industry that is just devoted and constantly updating its methods of trying to find out when you will die most accurately. And they can make a lot of money on adapting how they evaluate the data that you give them. will die, like most accurately. And they can make a lot of money on like adapting, you know, how they evaluate the data that you give them. So scientists in the UK took 500,000 people
Starting point is 00:15:33 between the year 2006 and 2016 and fed a bunch of different variables that they were able to get from those people into a bunch of different systems, and then asked those systems how likely were those people to pass away from 2006 to 2016. And this algorithm was able to identify the people who would die with 76% accuracy. So in total, how many people died at the end of that 10-year study? At the end of the 10-year study, it was 14,500 people, which is just like in keeping with... Sure, just people's lives or whatever, right? They died primarily of cancer, heart disease, respiratory diseases. And so it's really interesting for a couple of reasons.
Starting point is 00:16:21 First of all, that's insanely, like all the, you know, models that doctors and insurance companies have been using up to this point are usually below 50% accuracy. And so they got up to 76%. And they also said that the variables that the AI was able to determine, like were the most beneficial to determining if you were going to live or die were not the ones that the other models emphasized. So the other models looked at age, gender, smoking history, prior cancer diagnosis, and another one of the other models looked at body fat percentage, waist circumference, the amount of fruit and vegetables that people ate, and skin tone. And this AI determined that it was mostly useful to know
Starting point is 00:17:11 exposure to job-related hazards, air pollution, alcohol intake, and the use of certain medications. Damn. Yeah. And those are the top, wow, those are the departures
Starting point is 00:17:23 from the traditional models where they're like, hmm, that's how we'll figure it out. Yeah, those were the things that jumped out as the AI determined that that would tell you how likely people were to die. It's strange that the survey size was so massive. Right. I think they picked a massive number in order to make themselves look accurate. I think they picked a massive number in order to make themselves look accurate. If you told me, here's 50 people, guess all their favorite colors,
Starting point is 00:17:51 I probably wouldn't do that well. But if you told me, here's 500,000 people, guess their favorite color, and I picked blue, I'd probably have a much more impressive number. Sure, but when you have a data set that big, though, and you can repeat it over like what? So 76 percent of 14000, that's pretty that's pretty good. But here's what I mean. It's it's death is all like individual to us. But then they do a sample size that's so big that it's no longer about individuals. It's about a population. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:20 You know what I mean? It's like it's so bizarre. Yeah. And who are these 500000 people that said, yeah, I want to know when I'm going to die? Oh, they agree? So, no, they were just giving, it was basically they agreed to be part of a health study. That's gnarly. I don't like that. Yeah. I mean, I don't think they were identified or anything.
Starting point is 00:18:38 They hauled them up. They're like, hey, you dead yet? Right. Well, you might want to get that bucket list going. Right. I think that's where you look at that 76% accuracy. I wonder how much just sort of, you know, what insurance companies call acts of God or something would factor in.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Well, yeah, I mean, one of the things that was unexpectedly predictive was on-the-job hazards. Like if you have a really dangerous job, if you're like working in a construction place, job if you're like working in a construction in a construction place like i'm sure there are you know you're exposing yourself to a ton of different opportunities to have a act of god or accident type thing right happen or a nail gun yeah right in your head while you're trying to shoot some cans like actuaries i i do think this is going to be a place that ai is going to stun us within our lifetime because actuaries are just constantly iterating on this like that is there's an entire huge like very you know wealthy industry
Starting point is 00:19:34 that is constantly churning trying to figure out better methods for figuring out when we're going to die or you know how being able to predict how risky people are different lifestyle choices are and so we'll I think does it say who funded that does it say who funded it I mean it's the insurance companies you well it was in the UK I think so I think they tend to have like better rules about stuff like that but yeah so that good. Also makes me feel better about my fruit and vegetable intake. They found that wasn't that predictive of whether you're going to live or die. Yeah, just workplace hazards.
Starting point is 00:20:16 Yeah. And then another study that's just interesting. It says that they looked at, I think, 36,400 Americans between 1971 and 2008 and the physical activity data of 14,419 people between 1988 and 2006. They grouped the data sets together by the amount of food and activity, age, and BMI. And they found that a given person in 2006 eating the same amount of calories, taking the same quantities of nutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age in 1988 would have a BMI that was 2.3 points higher. In other words, people are about 10% heavier or fatter than people in the 80s
Starting point is 00:21:06 why uh so the theories are like they were just like i don't know chemicals like chemicals that we've been exposed to thanks scientists it seems like we're getting better at uh identifying those they said also it could be medications that were you know we've changed a lot the medications that we're taking. And then the microbiome is the thing that I think is an underrated aspect of human health is, you know, they're doing things like poop transplants that really help people with all sorts of diseases. And it sounds crazy, but like a lot of our digestion and, you know, the whole machine of our body is determined by this entire biosphere that's living inside your gut. And it's a very complicated thing that we haven't really studied that much. So poop transplant is when I go to a music festival and I fish people's shits out of the porta potty. No, no No that's not
Starting point is 00:22:06 What do we call that? A weird fetish It's very trainspotting But so I think what we need Is we need one of our time travelers To take poops from the 80s Thank you Bring them forward to us
Starting point is 00:22:18 See what I'm talking about And then transplant the 80s poop into our poop And all good Yes we can Wave of the future, so to speak. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist
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Starting point is 00:26:03 What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Michael Avenatti is approximately as shady as I think we all started to suspect by the end he was.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Yeah. Once the other cases started coming in, like real murky stuff about like something going on with his ex-wife. Yeah. And like other weird deals. Like there was a fallout with like Stormy Daniels. I mean, we were always saying like based on in the beginning, we were like, yo, this guy's fucking amazing. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:26:55 He's just as shitty as the president. And we'll just talk that shit on the news. Right. And then like as it went on, I was like, this guy's either the dopest dude ever or the biggest piece of shit ever. Who's just like knows how to fucking work the fucking, you know, the optics game. And it looks like he's the shit bag, professional shit bag. Yeah, it seems like it. So he has been accused of basically trying to extort Nike, the company Nike, out of $20 million.
Starting point is 00:27:26 He said he knew about a scandal that involved high school basketball and college basketball, like big names in college basketball, and Nike basically funneling money into high school athletes. That sounds entirely possible. athletes. That sounds entirely possible. But rather than going public or trying to bring this information to a journalistic outlet, he decided to go to Nike and say, hey, if you don't pay me $22 million, we're going to let this shit rip. How huge. That is really how the heights of his ego reached. Right. Was he was like, I'm going to blackmail Nike.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Right. The motherfucking Nike. As the swoosh lands on his skull. Right. Yeah. I mean, he was like, even the talk was like, he's like, I'll fucking take billions off your market cap. Watch what I can do.
Starting point is 00:28:24 And I think, you know, he was, he gassed himself up over the last 18 months. And, you know, he found out there were limits to the heights he could fly. I think we had a sense that he had an outsized opinion of himself when he started talking about possibly, like, exploring a 2020 run. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel like everyone pretty, like, unilaterally was like, absolutely. Go away.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Stop that shit right there. Go back to being a fake race car driver. Yes. Go on TMZ. Scream. Right. Well, and then also, but not only that, then he has, then he's caught up in another embezzlement scheme too.
Starting point is 00:29:01 Yeah. So it's not just like he got hit with like two cases in one day yeah so he apparently defrauded a mississippi bank by submitting false tax tax returns in order to obtain loans totaling 4.1 million dollars uh which he allegedly used for his coffee bean business uh and there was also a thing where he was accused of negotiating a settlement for $1.6 million to be paid in January 2018 and then using the funds to pay expenses for, again, his coffee business. So he's just really in this coffee game. What kind of business is he upside down on with coffee right now? I saw him one time and I almost said hello but then decided against it because something even better happened.
Starting point is 00:29:46 He was sitting at the top of a hotel here in LA. Joan Collins passes him by and says, hello. And he goes, hi, how are you? And I was like, I can't believe that happened.
Starting point is 00:29:56 I mean, that's the beginning and end of the story. Right. But it was like, yeah, Michael Avenatti, he thinks he's up here. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:02 Yeah. Yeah. And apparently so did I. I was there too. I was a real imposter. And you were trying to ext's up here. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently so did I. I was there too. I was a real imposter. And you were trying to extort Nike also at the same time. Right. I was the one who told him, I was like, listen, I can't do it.
Starting point is 00:30:11 You could do it. Yeah. You should try it. You should try this, man. Try it. This is slam dunk. This is power. Fail proof.
Starting point is 00:30:16 Yeah. Because then when you also look too, right, even with the fallout with like the William Barr Mueller thing, he was tweeting about like what, like about how the country has to beat Trump. And he's like, to all Dems, this is a tweet from late last night or early Monday, to all Dems, from now until November 2020, we need to have one overriding focus, the nomination and election of a candidate
Starting point is 00:30:38 who has the unique skill set, okay, Liam Neeson, to beat Trump and end this dumpster fire of a presidency. It's all about who matches up best against him. The weak need not apply. Which is kind of him advertising for himself. He's always been like, I'm a street fighter, man. And also, shut the fuck up. There's no such thing as electability anymore.
Starting point is 00:30:54 If we learned anything in 2016, it's that this doesn't exist. Don't predict that. And I think, you know, but Michael Avenatti, the devil knows his own because he's out here doing the same kind of shit about being like, hey, let me pop up my number so I can get this bank loan. Right, right. It's true. Yeah, they're from the same. He would be a great campaign manager that would later go to prison. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:31:13 Maybe he should just work for Trump. He should. Yeah, it's like if Manafort hadn't been employed by Trump, this is probably what Manafort would be doing right now. Yes. It's just openly talking shit in such a way that he could make money off of it and some sort of scam. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:31:27 Well, no. Because Tuesday at 11 Eastern, he will be telling the world about Nike's skimmings and scammings. Ooh. I mean, he says,
Starting point is 00:31:37 this criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball. Huh. Damn.
Starting point is 00:31:44 Interesting. Yeah, to be clear, though, he was arrested for those charges, for the extortion charges, I believe. But as we record this, we don't know what kind of bombs he has dropped, if any. That would be so funny if it's just big nothing. It always is. I know.
Starting point is 00:32:00 But then it would also be funny where he really does just be like, wow, okay, shit. All right, let's talk about Justin Bieber, guys. What happened? That's the most important thing. Yeah, I know. I was like, can we quit with the boring shit and get to the news? Get to the Biebs.
Starting point is 00:32:16 He posted on Instagram. It was just like among the most ineffective ways to counter a narrative that I've ever seen. So he posted on Instagram saying, basically, like, leave me and my wife alone. And then because people were asking him about Selena Gomez and, you know, his people were speculating that he still loved her. And he was like, you guys, leave us alone. This is so messed up. Obviously, I still love her, but I also love my wife.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Wow. It was just like, come on, man. Have you seen the notebook? You can love two people. Just surprised you didn't drop that one in there. Right. But he was like, yeah, okay, so there was an account, I guess, who he was responding to.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Right. It's called at Jaylee is a joke Justin and Haley okay yeah uh and saying like you are not in love with Haley you only married her to get back at SG plus Haley sleeps with men like at Shawn Mendes for fame and she's racist whoa where did that last part come god damn I don't know maybe she is uh then yeah he comes back and then but I love the way it's still like in like hyper millennial speak like young like it's like you're you are you're immature the fact that you have an account dedicated dissing my wife and i is absolutely absurd why would i dedicate my whole life to someone in marriage just to get back i mean he's really it's pretty amazing he's feeling
Starting point is 00:33:37 it because he he also doesn't capitalize anything except for I and Selena. Oh. Just saying, man. Then he says, yeah, I absolutely loved Selena. She will always hold a place in my heart. But I am head over heels in love. Heels, H-E-L-S. Because he's healing her. In love with my wife.
Starting point is 00:33:57 And she's absolutely the best thing, full caps, that has happened to me, period. Yeah, so, I mean, look, my man, if you're married, don't be out here being like, of course I love my ex still. But I think the fact that we're even trying to apply basic understanding of human behavior rules to a guy like Justin Bieber is where the train goes off the track originally. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Because when you reach a certain level of fame, this is just, this isn't, I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but like you reach a certain level of fame, this is just – this isn't – I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this. But like you reach a certain level of fame and now you've spun off the globe. Oh, yeah. You no longer have any idea what it's like to be a person or how to interact with other people. Because no one's interacting with you like a person anymore. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:34:36 And I could only imagine. I have nothing but sympathy for this kid anymore. Well, anyone who becomes that famous at such a young age, you can just tell it even destroys your ability to be responsible, especially when you have handlers who are like, yeah, but this time we're going to take you there, knock on your door, move your body here. Right. Now you're even losing
Starting point is 00:34:55 skills of self-organization and shit. Yeah. I just worry that people like this, they don't make it past 30, 40 years old when they get that famous, that young. Yeah. And when it comes to like even understanding what love is, I mean, if you're that kid, how do you believe anybody? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:15 You know, on a subconscious level. I mean, because maybe you've spun off the globe and you don't know what it's like to be a person anymore. Sure. But you're still a person. Yeah. Like deep down on that level. And it's like like how can you trust anyone i could not imagine how paranoid i would be as a person if someone comes like hey what's
Starting point is 00:35:31 up paranoid now and i made sixteen thousand dollars last year or or whatever you know what i mean like it's like how do you how do you trust anybody when you have what everyone else in the world thinks is total access. And just the same way, Ryan, how do I trust someone wearing two motherfucking eye patches trying to have a conversation? I can't see your eyes. I don't know if you're sincere. That's right. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:35:55 You're facing the wrong way, by the way. But I'm a believer. I'm a believer. I think he's in love with this gal, and I think they're going to make it. I'm sure he is. I think they're going to make it. I'm pulling for him. Oh, you're pulling for him? I'm pulling for for him i have no idea who this gal is but like
Starting point is 00:36:08 it's what steven baldwin's daughter yeah or billy baldwin's steven of those yeah oh it's one of the baldwin yeah yeah part of the baldwin baldwin claim yeah yeah oh you didn't know that about yeah oh man well this... That might change things, actually. Her father is not the super uber right-wing Christian Baldwin, is he? Stephen Baldwin. Yeah. Yeah. It is? Stephen Baldwin is the Christian one who was in Biodome and then forgot who he was.
Starting point is 00:36:40 How do you forget who you are when you're in Biodome? Viva los Biodome. I have seen Biodome more times than I've seen Citizen Kane, and I'm ashamed of it. Yeah. But I will admit it publicly. Love Biodome. Biodome. Terrible movie.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Terrible movie. Love it so much. And there's shitty people in it. They're the worst. Yeah. It doesn't age. But look, man. Those Pauly Shore.
Starting point is 00:37:02 How do we keep talking about Pauly Shore this week? Classic female girlfriend archetypes in that movie. Yeah. As far as like- but look man those Pauly Shore and classic how do we keep talking about Pauly Shore this week classic female like girlfriend archetypes in that movie as far as like or like obstacles yeah we're just trying to biodome it up
Starting point is 00:37:13 alright leave us alone um yeah isn't that the second time we've talked about biodome this yeah because
Starting point is 00:37:20 um Carla Gugino Gugino came up because she was in Son-in-Law. Yeah. We've just been, this has been Pauly Shore week. I mean, I think that's the first sign that you're succeeding.
Starting point is 00:37:32 Oh, as I look at Stephen Baldwin's bio, in 2004, he directed Live In It, a Christian-themed skateboarding DVD. Oh, nice. That must be tight. Yeah. Did they do Christ Air, like Rooney Glifberg's signature move from Tony Hawk? A little sacrilegious. That was a reference for the five people
Starting point is 00:37:52 who like the skating references I do on this podcast. What else is happening in the world today, Miles? Pierce Morgan, man. Yes. We know, look, he's an epic pile of shit. What? We know. Pierce? Yes. My Pierce? He, he's an epic pile of shit. What? We know. Peers? Yes. My peers?
Starting point is 00:38:06 He's a stain on all people who support Arsenal, too. That's a whole other thing. But he got some hot gossip out to Spice Girls World. Because apparently Mel B and Jerry Halliwell hooked up in the mid-90s. What? Yes. Hold on to your butts. Okay, here we go.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Quote. This is from an interview that just came out this is uh pierce morgan talking to melby did you or didn't you with jerry hollywell did you sleep with her melby yeah we all slept in a bed together but not like that all of us uh the 43 year old singer replied uh pierce did you sleep with jerry like that melby nodded and smiled and said she's going to hate me for this because she's all posh in her country house and her husband. But it's a fact. It just happened. And we just giggled at it.
Starting point is 00:38:52 And that was it. Huh. Good for them. I had no idea. Also had no idea that Jerry Halwell was living a posh life. Yeah. She's married to some Formula One boss. Wow.
Starting point is 00:39:03 Yeah. So she's out here. And then like then there there was some side gossip. Apparently, Mel C was in the audience too when this was happening and acted like she wasn't going to get involved in any of this gossip. Was Mel C baby? Which one was scary? Which one was baby?
Starting point is 00:39:18 Mel B is scary spice. Scary. And Mel C was baby. Mel C is sporty. Oh, no, Mel C is sporty. Emma Bunton is baby spice. Okay. Huh. Anyway, so when Mel C was in the Oh, no, Mel C is sporty. Emma Bunton is baby. Emma is baby. Okay. Huh.
Starting point is 00:39:26 Anyway, so when Mel C was in the audience, this was, I guess, for Piers Morgan's show, Mel C goes, I don't know anything. Because Mel B, like, looked at her right after she said, she's like, come on, girl. And she was like, I don't know anything. And then Mel B goes, oh, whatever, Mel. Mel C says, this is all new to me. Piers asked Mel B if there was anything with Mel C. And then Mel B replies, well, when I got my tongue pierced, we all kissed.
Starting point is 00:39:47 But that was just a kiss because I wanted to know what it felt like. It was just a silly kiss. Nothing sexual like that. Hmm. And this is coming. She seems to call sex silly. Yeah. Or is it just giggly, silly?
Starting point is 00:39:59 It was just a silly. Because they were all living together in the same house, apparently, like once, you know, the group was having to do a lot of work or whatever. But Jerry is not happy with this. Because this is causing friction with her husband, who does not like it. Apparently, it says... And I don't know. This is, again, more gossip.
Starting point is 00:40:15 But it says, since marrying Christian, her husband, Jerry has worked hard to shake off her old Playgirl image and sort of reinvent herself as this perfect Stepford wife. Mel immediately rang Jerry to try to repair the damage, because they're about to go on tour. Oh, right. Yeah. I guess maybe they had a different reputation in the UK than they did here, because I don't remember thinking of Jerry Halliwell as, like, a playgirl.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Well, she posed in Playboy. Oh, she did? I think she was one of the first ones to pose in Playboy. Oh, I see. And was pretty, like pretty sexually liberated or whatever. So I think maybe that's what it... Yeah, but I'm not ever like, oh, yeah, Jerry, come on. We're trying to rehab that image.
Starting point is 00:40:52 Right, yeah. Wait, she is sporty? No, Jerry's ginger. Ginger. And she was an ambassador at some point. There was just a ginger spice? Ginger spice, yeah. That's wild.
Starting point is 00:41:03 It always stood out as shocking. It wasn't very strange. And the woman of color was scary. So hop on board. Wow. And sporty seemed kind of coded, too, from Elsie. Yeah, I mean. That's, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Yes, I agree. This whole version of, wait, why is it coded that she's. Well, she does like a tomboy. Okay, got it. There were rumors that like, well, I don't know if there were rumors, assumptions maybe that she was gay. She was gay. Got it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:29 But she might not be. But again, all the nicknames were not very useful for them. Because I don't know what was scary about her. It must have been her curly hair. That curly ethnic hair. She definitely had like a more aggressive personality than I think the other Spice Girls. She was more in your face. Yeah, I guess you always had that animal print on.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Right. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. But I don't know. It's scary. Everyone has a final. Terrifying, Miles. It's like they're sporty.
Starting point is 00:41:55 That's neutral. Yeah. Ginger, okay. Baby. Baby. I'm a sexy baby. What's a baby spice, though? If it was on a rack, let me put some baby spice on there.
Starting point is 00:42:05 I think it's like baby powder, right? Terrible. You don't put that on your food? No. Yeah, so it sounds like behind the scenes, it's exactly what the horniest 12-year-old boys were, like, hoping it was. Yeah. It was just all of them sleeping in a bed together.
Starting point is 00:42:17 You gotta get with my friends. That was probably the headline everywhere. Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this seems like just very shrewd branding on her part. People tell Piers Morgan. Like, I remember when, I can't remember the actress' name, but Kim Cattrall went on his show in the UK. And that's when she was like, Sarah Jessica Parker's a mean person and I don't want anything to do with her.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Right. And people were like, what? People spill their guts to him. Yeah. What is it? Because he's such an objectively shit character. I know. And no one really.
Starting point is 00:42:46 So trustworthy. Yeah, just like itchy and yeah. Maybe he presents like he's like, he's basically making like a safe space for messiness. Yeah. You know what I mean? And he just exudes that where someone's like, I feel like I can get messy as fuck with Pierce. Yeah. And somehow it'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Yeah. But then you get these like earth shattering revelations. Yeah. A lot of people's heads were spinning. I wonder if the Sex and the City cast is America's Spice Girls. Like it's honestly probably like who are you? Are you a Samantha? Oh, interesting.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Interesting. Did people ever say that with the Spice Girls? Yeah, I guess so. Everyone picked a Spice Girl. I was posh. Yeah, you were Spice Girls? Yeah, I guess so. Everyone picked a Spice Girl. I was posh. Yeah, you were definitely posh. I loved Victoria. I actually have never even associated anyone else with a Spice Girl,
Starting point is 00:43:31 but I just know the second you walk in a room, that guy's posh. That guy's posh. Yeah. The way he bends that leg for poses. Sticks his finger out like that. Yep. Doesn't sing. Yeah, doesn't, cannot sing.
Starting point is 00:43:45 Quietly mumbles in the background while other people Not even mic'd. Can't even dance. There were moments where she wasn't even holding a microphone. They were just like, let's not, we're not even gonna pretend. They're like people of the world. She's in the back. She's like, nah. Yep.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Man, that song, though. What a great song. Oh, they had a few that were great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Spice World. Great film, too. Great film.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Had it all, man. Aliens? God damn. Motherfucking aliens in that film. Were there? I forgot about that. A bunch of shit's come down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:18 But the aliens are horny, though, too. Oh. And that concert at the end is rousing. When they sing Spice of Your Life at the end it is like you're on your feet. People of the world. They save the world from horny aliens? I don't know if they save
Starting point is 00:44:31 I don't know if the aliens were an existential threat. I know at one point they come down and they were they were smitten I could be projecting their horniness
Starting point is 00:44:38 of the aliens where I was like man if I was these aliens I would be so horny if I met them because I was well 14 when that shit came out. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:44:47 Isn't that what Dude Wears My Car, the revelation of that was aliens too? Oh, yes. Well, hold the fuck up. Okay, my bad, my bad. Spoilers. That has to do with aliens? I think so at the end. Or a Hale-Bopp situation. There was something weird at the end. It's like Marshall Applewhite.
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Starting point is 00:49:30 I'm Christian. They're like, everybody's got to give something up for Lent. What are you giving up? I put this ash on your head and give something up. No, I mean, I used to. Actually, you know, I did in high school too because I wanted to get into college. I was like, God, I'll give up weed for length I know I'm
Starting point is 00:49:47 coming back in my time of need yeah I'm doing it very conveniently but please show me your real uh yeah because I I you know where I the way I grew up with uh religion I thought prayer was just asking stuff for free right asking for stuff for free yeah I. I think everyone thinks that's weird. Isn't that? Yeah, I mean, I was like, I'm sure I've told this story before. I really wanted
Starting point is 00:50:09 a video game system and I didn't get one. So I was like, I think I'm good on this. But yeah, I do not. You were just praying for a console. Yeah, I was like,
Starting point is 00:50:17 give me Super Nintendo with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtles in Time. Amen. And I got Mario Paint. Later on. Do you give anything up? Have you given anything up?
Starting point is 00:50:26 I mean, it's a great excuse to diet. You know, give up bread. Give up. You know, and then it's like a fun way to tell people that you're doing it. Like if you fast from alcohol, like everyone's always like, oh, you have a problem. But if it's lit, you can be like, oh, I'm fasting from alcohol. Gave it up for lit. I did that two years in a row before I actually gave it up.
Starting point is 00:50:45 I'm giving it up for salvation, actually. That's what I'm doing. For life. This dude is doing the opposite of that, it seems like. The complete opposite. Yeah. A man in Ohio. Del Hall.
Starting point is 00:50:57 Yeah, Del Hall. Shout out to your dude. You're getting a Del. He is basically saying, I'm giving up all food and I'm just drinking beer for Lent. What? And look, he's saying like, look, I'm going to a doctor. I'm very active. I've done a lot of my life.
Starting point is 00:51:13 I'm like ready to do this. I will be drinking water. I'm ready to do this. Right. He's like, it's going to be a challenge. Well, his inspiration apparently was like there were German monks who would drink like a-style beer for what they viewed as a liquid bread during Lent. Bruh, this is taking alcoholism to just the highest level. No, and these monks, I think, were looking for loopholes to try and figure out, how do I still turn it up?
Starting point is 00:51:38 Turn it up. Right, right. We're not really talking. We're wearing these orange robes. Hey, look, we're monks. We devoted our lives to God. Monks are just always drunk. Right.
Starting point is 00:51:46 But even then, I don't know if the monks were just straight up drinking nothing but beer. I think they were just being like, hi, we found an argument to drink beer. But he is doing it the whole way in. And that was so what? It's been a few days now. Update, as of March 25th, he has lost over 25 pounds. Bro, what? I thought beer was making people fat.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Well, if you don't eat anything else. Yo, ladies, let's get on this beer. No, that's dangerous. Guys, this is my new diet plan. Yeah, this started by Lacey. Diet's by Lacey. Get on my Instagram, y'all, and buy my cases of beers. I'm just imagining, like, you should definitely look at a picture of him before you decide
Starting point is 00:52:25 to follow that diet because I'm sure he looks like the dude who the bugs take over in Men in Black oh lord Edgar?
Starting point is 00:52:32 yeah yeah that was his name Vincent D'Onofrio's character not Edgar Montezer I was like damn I mean he lost over 25 pounds and probably like has a big goiter
Starting point is 00:52:41 on his neck this is wild and he's like getting with a health professional to do this. What kind of beer is he drinking? This is a Bach style beer. Is it like a home brewed type thing? He works for a brewery.
Starting point is 00:52:53 Which one? Who's sponsoring this? Whatever brewery he works for because that's who's basically behind this. Saying that, you know, look that's what we do. We do the beer. But don't you need nutritious things? Isn't nutritious up in beers? Like, aren't you going to-
Starting point is 00:53:10 Body? Yeah, like, where are your fucking vitamins coming from? Are his teeth going to fall out? Like, this is like what sailors used to do, is you would cross the ocean and only have, like, beer, and then your teeth would fall out and you'd get scurvy, but then you'd, like, start eating, like, your shoes and shit. Yeah, I- Like, what is he doing? It's funny because in the article I was reading, out and you'd get scurvy but then you you'd like start eating like your shoes and shit yeah i what
Starting point is 00:53:25 is he doing it's funny because in the article i was reading the person who wrote the article was even like on the takeout was they're like as i read this i started googling how long for scurvy yeah because that was their first thing too and if you look on google how long for scurvy it takes a while oh like it can be four weeks it all depends i I think, but it can hit you in four weeks. Is he allowing himself some orange wedges with his blue moon? Right. Then I hope someone catches him because that's not what you agreed to, Del Hall. Right. Come on, Del.
Starting point is 00:53:54 It's bullshit, man. I do love when people get real scientific about their alcoholism, though. Like, no, see, I'm connecting this to a historical research project I'm doing where I get to drink. Right. And just be drunk the whole time. Also for God. And then like, aren't you just fucked up the whole day? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:11 Yeah. I mean, unless he's really just being like, I need calories. So he drinks like two beers, but then it's still on an empty stomach. Right. Drinking two beers on the emptiest of stomachs, like I'm sure is not great. The acid reflux. Is he vlogging? Yeah. I want, can he go live on Instagram instagram i just want to see him for like five minutes like you know dude it's all
Starting point is 00:54:31 fucking good because it's day 25 dog and fucking jesus he's he's he visited me and it's he's like he's dude l you're doing the right thing and i'm know I'm doing the right thing. And it's going to be fine, dude. And the doctor's like, oh, your tooth is falling out. It's not falling out. You know? Falling in. Del is mild. Yeah. This is the alias.
Starting point is 00:54:52 The doctor's like, you know, you should really think about your health. You get sick. I'm like, oh, fuck you, doc. Oh, fuck you, man. Oh, fuck you. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show.
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