There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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episode 4: Black Friday = Corporate Propaganda, EDM Pope 11.28.25
In this episode, Jack and special guest co-host Mort Burke are joined by comedian Amy Miller, to discuss... the slowest news week of the year, the new Six Flags CEO looking like the old Six Flags mascot, Pope Leo pulling up to the DJ set with a heavenly light show and drops of biblical proportions, the many myths of Black Friday and much more!
- Struggling Six Flags names new CEO...
00:02
Speaker 1
How you doing?
00:04
Speaker 2
Ah?
00:05
Speaker 3
Pretty good? All right, I don't know.
00:08
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, it's a loaded question. I shouldn't ask you, right,
00:14
Oh my god, so good, so good this past year.
00:19
I don't know. I think bad before, but good yeah
00:24
twenty sixteen on really yeah? Yeah? Oh shit, yeah. I
00:32
need to stop asking people how are you? Give me
00:34
an answer to how you're doing. Let's get it, let's
00:38
get into it.
00:38
Speaker 2
The news.
00:39
Speaker 4
Yeah, the thing, because it's like you're either doing horrible
00:42
like most people, or if you're doing well, no one
00:45
wants to hear that.
00:46
Speaker 1
I don't want to hear that.
00:47
Speaker 2
Shit.
00:48
Speaker 1
How bad are you? That's what I should ask? How
00:50
bad are things for you?
00:52
Speaker 3
That's the worst thing going on?
00:56
Speaker 1
What's the saddest shit? This happened recently? My hairline? Oh on,
01:02
your hairline looks spray air.
01:04
Speaker 4
Nice to do the doopostical.
01:08
Speaker 1
Worst thing, Brian, you were trying to ask me something,
01:13
and I apologize. I just okay, just about your hairline?
01:17
Speaker 4
How's it look?
01:18
Speaker 2
Jack?
01:19
Speaker 1
Jack?
01:19
Speaker 2
Sorry?
01:20
Speaker 1
Real quick? How's my hair look? Hello the Internet, and
01:26
welcome to season four to sixteen, episode four of DIRNDAILYSI guys,
01:32
Oh god are you okay? Sorry? Sorry? Real quick, wellness
01:36
check on Morse sprain my ankle. Uh. It's a production
01:41
of iHeart Radio as a podcast where you take a
01:43
deep dive into America's share consciousness. And it's Friday, November
01:47
twenty twenty five. It's Black Friday. The reason for the season.
01:52
You know, we've moved Thanksgiving forward and backward just to
01:57
you know, get people time to shop, the corporations time
02:00
to make that dang line go up.
02:04
Speaker 5
I'm grateful to say eleven percent on flat screen TV.
02:07
Speaker 1
That's what I'm great. That's my name's Jack O'Brien aka
02:13
zip Ties, zip ties, so zip ties sold close to me?
02:20
That one courtesy a Smitty Werbin Jaeger mun Jensen in
02:24
reference to the Google search that undid the perfect crime
02:29
that we covered earlier in the week, when a woman
02:31
from Asian City, New Jersey, had herself zip tied and
02:36
hired a scarification expert carved Trump whore into her body
02:42
in order to try to make herself the next conservative
02:46
victim who gets one hundred thousand dollars to go collect
02:49
an award for being brave. Unfortunately, her accomplice had just
02:57
googled zip ties close.
02:59
Speaker 2
To me.
03:01
Speaker 1
And they were like oh boy, that's also you guys,
03:05
this one was most recent Google. That's right. Yeah, I
03:09
mean that they should just have have an alarm that
03:13
goes off every time somebody searches that that's not good. Yeah. Yeah.
03:18
Thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a
03:21
very funny comedian, actor, writer. Improvisers podcast is rebrand got
03:26
a new special coming up called a Timeless Masterpiece. He
03:29
just knows grinded into this meeting because he is our
03:33
skateboarding man on the street. It's more what's up, God,
03:39
thanks for having me, dude, Hello, mort what's up? Thank you?
03:42
Thank you for being here. On to be here the
03:45
slowest news week of the year. Yeah yeah, not really risk,
03:50
that's nothing happening. Yeah, So we're thrilled to have you
03:55
here and more we're thrilled to be joined. You're in
03:58
for a treat. One of the funniest stand up comics
04:01
in the world, one of our favorite guests on this podcast,
04:06
and it's been way too long, you know. Here from
04:08
TV podcast. You can see your headlining at a theater
04:11
near you go. Check the website. Some dates coming to
04:14
the Pacific Northwest Ashland Sarcasm Fest in December. I dang sarcasm. Uh,
04:21
that that'll be there. It is made the same exectveling. Yeah, please,
04:29
welcome back to the show. It's Amy Miller. What's up? Amy?
04:36
Speaker 2
Guys?
04:37
Speaker 1
So good to have you, I know, great to have
04:40
you back. How are you? How are how's everybody planning
04:45
to spend their Black Friday?
04:47
Speaker 2
Oh I'm gonna like, I'm gonna lie I'm gonna lie down.
04:52
Speaker 1
Probably that that is the correct answer.
04:56
Speaker 3
Yeah, my couch.
04:59
Speaker 1
Yeah, I think think that's that's where everybody should be
05:02
on this entire weekend.
05:04
Speaker 3
Maybe a little small amount of.
05:06
Speaker 1
Crying, gentle sobbing, Are you going to really go for it?
05:09
Do you think?
05:12
Speaker 2
I think I'm going to have maybe a good big
05:15
sob sash for a few minutes, But then you got
05:19
to hydrate after. Don't forget to hydrate.
05:21
Speaker 1
That's true, like some gatorade for a.
05:24
Speaker 2
Good water coming out of your check.
05:26
Speaker 3
Yeh, never cried before.
05:27
Speaker 2
Let's try to relate to the humans on this.
05:33
Speaker 1
I got a bad headache. Yeah, it was rough. My
05:37
face was making weird shapes. I do cry sometimes, but
05:42
my face doesn't change shape. There's just tears rolling down
05:45
my face and I don't know what's happening.
05:48
Speaker 2
From Ghosts.
05:49
Speaker 1
Yeah, exactly, in that I have a lesbian scene with
05:55
Whoopi Goldberg.
05:57
Speaker 2
You wish I would leave. I would love to see
06:00
you act in the dramatic film Jack.
06:05
Speaker 1
Yeah too. Yeah, there's a dramatic range. Oh yeah, for sure. Amy.
06:13
We're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get
06:14
to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
06:16
we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things
06:18
we're talking about. In terms of the news, we'll just
06:21
cover that it is the slowest news week of the year.
06:25
So like I I can remember a story that broke
06:28
in like two thousand and nine. That's how slow the
06:31
news were. The news is. I'm like, oh, yeah, there
06:34
was one story, so I want to talk about that.
06:36
It was when Tiger Woods, like drunk drove into his garden.
06:41
Speaker 3
Oh yeah, that was good.
06:43
Speaker 1
That was good, and like everybody remembers. So it's like
06:45
a double edged sword because like the news media is
06:48
not around, nobody's working, but if you fuck up, everyone's
06:54
going to see it because there's nothing, nothing else is happening.
06:58
Speaker 2
You would think more solebrities would just try to be
07:01
the news story. Something fucked up and crazy.
07:05
Speaker 1
This is your chance.
07:07
Speaker 2
They said celebrities Jack.
07:11
Speaker 1
That we should we should game plan something for for
07:14
all of us to do. It's gotta Yeah, well, we'll
07:17
talk about the makings of the perfect celebrity news story
07:20
in this Tiger Woods gandal.
07:21
Speaker 2
That's like fun It doesn't make people hate you and
07:24
you're not hurting anybody give them on the coverage.
07:28
Speaker 5
I was gonna say, it's funny if you started publicly
07:30
dating the January sixth shaman guy, but that really make
07:34
people hate you?
07:35
Speaker 4
Up.
07:37
Speaker 1
Yeah, he seems cool and.
07:38
Speaker 2
We're not getting back together. Messed it up.
07:45
Speaker 1
And then, as if to illustrate how slow the news
07:47
day is, we're gonna cover the fact that six Flag
07:51
just hired a CEO who kind of looks like the
07:55
six Flags guy, And uh, I want to talk about that.
07:59
I want to talk about the pope introducing like having
08:02
a video at the front of a EDM rave. And
08:06
then I want to talk about Black Friday news stories
08:08
in general, the trend. We've covered this before, but uh,
08:14
it don't stop, and it don't quit. They continue to
08:17
treat Black Friday as if it's a capitalism thunderdome. And
08:21
we'll talk about the reality behind those stories, all of
08:25
that plenty more. But first Amy, we do like to
08:28
ask our guest, what is something from your search history
08:31
that's revealing about who you are?
08:32
Speaker 2
Oh? Okay, well, I I was looking up a picture
08:39
of that that played a fancy food from Missus Doubtfire.
08:44
Speaker 1
Like, oh yeah, from the restaurant at the end.
08:49
Speaker 2
Yeah, and he's like jumping heat.
08:52
Speaker 1
And he's jumping back and forth, yeah.
08:54
Speaker 2
From table to table, right, And it always just looked
08:57
as a kid like like that was like a peak
09:00
of like California cuisine, like this is what good delicious
09:03
food looks like with those like tiny tiny carrot.
09:07
Speaker 1
Oh yeah.
09:08
Speaker 2
I was like, what if I just recreated this meal
09:10
for friendsgiving?
09:13
Speaker 1
I'll have one Missus Doutfire please? Yeah, and then you
09:17
get to stick your face into a cream pie at
09:19
the end, you're still pretending to be a different person,
09:23
but you're changing clothes.
09:25
Speaker 3
Nast your search history, Jack, Yeah.
09:27
Speaker 1
How do I cream pie myself? Is what I said?
09:30
And people there was a lot of complicated and confusing diagrams.
09:35
It's kind of hard to pull off, apparently, man, I yeah,
09:39
just what rewatching Missus out Fire with my kids for
09:42
the first time this past year. It is so good.
09:46
Some of his riffs, as when he's just being funny
09:50
Robin Williams, are like hard for kids to get, Like
09:54
he's doing a lot of like old timey actor things,
09:58
like old timey actor reference is. They still liked it,
10:01
but to them it was just like he was doing
10:04
imitations of just random voices.
10:07
Speaker 2
You know, he would be like doing jive talk or whatever,
10:11
and you're like, hey, yeah.
10:12
Speaker 1
And then there's the subtle races. Ignore that one. We
10:16
don't do that voice, we don't do that one, the
10:18
seventies racism, which is a funny specific kind of yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:24
like that's Humphrey Bogart. Never mind, okay that ignore that one.
10:30
But it's also like a lot of the genie riffs
10:34
in Aladdin are like here's Johnny and like references to
10:38
the Tonight Show that they have no.
10:40
Speaker 2
Frame of reference or the Shining.
10:42
Speaker 1
Yeah right, well they have seen the shining and they
10:44
do love that. Yeah. My seven year old, in particular,
10:48
I had.
10:48
Speaker 3
A seventh grade teacher that was an alcoholic.
10:54
Speaker 5
Uh huh, yeah, I'm familiar with that phrase. I know
10:58
about those one that wasn't that was a ship.
11:02
Speaker 2
Anytime she like wasn't feeling well or whatever, like that
11:07
was the go to.
11:08
Speaker 3
Like we would always be shining missus.
11:14
Speaker 1
Kids in it. The kid's a star, it's a kids movie.
11:19
Speaker 2
Yeah, she would just throw on missus doubtfire. But uh,
11:22
you know, it was a lot. It was many, many
11:24
times of the year.
11:26
Speaker 1
That's that's an interesting one. That's an interesting one because
11:30
I'm trying to wrap my head around like we had
11:34
a I went to a Catholic high school in Kentucky
11:36
and we had a priest who not not like because
11:40
he was hung over that day, but like as part
11:43
of his curriculum at the outside of the year, it
11:46
was like three solid days you were going to be
11:49
watching Brave Heart for some reason, which everyone was like, fuck, yeah, man,
11:54
that's that's fine. I'll take that. But I think the
11:57
way he justified it was that it was like based
12:00
on history, Uh, missus doubt fire. I'm trying to figure out, like,
12:05
based on history to you about drag in a way
12:10
that isn't going to scare people. We had a I
12:12
had a public health teacher who was also the pe teacher,
12:15
and one time he came in class and he wrote
12:17
public health but he forgot the l in public. So
12:19
it's a pupil and that was our super Bowl, Like
12:22
I've never seen your children.
12:25
Speaker 2
You don't think he did it on purpose.
12:26
Speaker 1
That almost feels that almost feels like he that was
12:30
his introduction to sex ed And then he was like,
12:32
people think this phrase is weird. Once he saw your reaction, public, public, public,
12:39
I gotta go. He just really wanted to talk about it.
12:44
He asked questions for us about what is something amy
12:49
you think is underrated?
12:52
Speaker 3
Not going home for Thanksgiving underrated?
12:56
Speaker 1
Not going just.
12:57
Speaker 2
Underrated, like ignoring the actual dates that things happen, Like
13:02
I don't know why. We're just like I've never really
13:05
got I didn't even really care about my own birthday
13:07
on the day, I mean my birthday. Heills in New
13:10
Year's Eve, so there's probably a reason for that.
13:12
Speaker 1
Yeah, oh my god.
13:13
Speaker 2
Can I just drive up next week when there's not traffic? Yeah,
13:19
it just it's just insane. I'm opting out this year
13:23
nice thankfully. Yeah, I feel good. I feel strong about it.
13:27
I can't be guilted any longer.
13:29
Speaker 1
That is not an overblown story. The way that travel
13:32
is just an absolute fucking nightmare around Thanksgiving yeah, it's
13:36
just like in America tries to fit on one plane. Yeah.
13:40
Speaker 2
Yeah, my family lives in the Bay Area. And even
13:43
driving it was like there was a year that I
13:45
three years ago, I drove back and it was like
13:48
literally twelve hours to get from like Oakland to LA. Yeah.
13:53
Speaker 1
If you're wondering why mort is here instead of Miles Gray,
13:56
it is exactly to avoid that situation. Was the way
14:00
up to the Bay Area and he was like, Oh,
14:01
if I record this podcast, we're just going to drive
14:05
up there, get there and leave right away because it
14:08
will take us twenty four hours. But yeah, it's, uh,
14:11
it's hell out there. I think that's a I think
14:13
that's very valid. Why yourselves, Yeah, yourselves to coordinate with
14:18
the people. Yeah, freedom, I think he said, for your
14:22
mind and the rest will follow. The color blind. That
14:27
was what he screamed at the end. What is uh,
14:32
what's something you think is overrated?
14:34
Speaker 2
Okay, I didn't hear. I didn't see it in the
14:36
stories we're going to cover, So I have to say
14:38
Campbell's soup. Yeah, a big piece of news.
14:41
Speaker 1
Did you guys We covered it yesterday? Yeah, that one
14:44
we covered it on every day two Damn much. Yeah,
14:50
one of our nine episodes yesterday we did record three.
14:56
Speaker 2
I've always felt it to be overrated, and I am
14:59
one of the fat poors. He mentioned, I grew up
15:03
eating it, and it's like, no, it wasn't. There's not
15:07
even a comfort to it in the way that like
15:09
a pack of blue ramen is still comforting. And I
15:12
still do you know what I mean, it's like always
15:15
been disgusting. Like and also why am I cooking? Like
15:20
the whole point, why do I have to add water
15:22
to this? Like we already decided. If I'm gonna buy
15:26
a can of soup, it's because I don't want to
15:28
cook soup. Don't make me put an ingredient in it.
15:32
Speaker 1
One place he was completely on the money was when
15:34
he described the chicken as seeming as though it were
15:37
three D printed.
15:44
Speaker 2
He's very funny. I mean, he's gonna if if it's
15:48
like not too late to add anyone to Trump's cabinet,
15:53
he would be a shoe in.
15:56
Speaker 1
A Department of Defense and healthcare. He's like it's like
15:59
nine per so he's he's he's he does see it.
16:05
I mean he seems like could be a perfect fit
16:07
in that I feel like a lot of the people
16:09
like Rudy Giuliani became a perfect fit for his cabinet
16:13
when he just was like what if I stayed drunk
16:16
all day? And like this rant definitely feels like somebody
16:20
who was just hammered, Like nobody has that much stamina
16:25
to be like and another thing for an hour long
16:28
zoom call where everyone else is like video off and
16:32
he's still going. It's like the backstage at the comedy
16:34
store when like people have been doing cocaine for too
16:36
long or whatever. He's like, you want to go home,
16:38
but it won't stop. He could have been cocaine actually,
16:41
because he is he was in the c suite of Campbell's.
16:44
Campbell's was like, uh he was like some tech guy
16:47
and it's like no, he was a chief technology security whatever.
16:52
Like he he's in this c suite. He's like one
16:54
of your main dudes. And and a lot.
16:58
Speaker 2
Like Rudy Giuliani, he is red wine drunk, which is
17:02
a special kind of It was like that drunk you
17:06
know what a jug of not even good red wine,
17:10
Like it's just a different kind of alcoholic. Like they
17:14
they they're very emotional.
17:16
Speaker 1
Yeah, dewey eyed and slow kind of that's right.
17:22
Speaker 2
Yeah, and like rosy but you know, just yeah, dark teeth.
17:28
Speaker 1
The teeth they need another hug, stained teeth, needing a
17:33
hug for a hug.
17:35
Speaker 3
Yeah, they're listening to a lot of opera.
17:38
Speaker 1
Yeah, pretentious, their pretentious alcoholics. Yeah, we did. We did
17:44
take a look into not just that rant, but also
17:49
just their history and there's there's a lot of ship that. Uh. Yeah.
17:54
They were like dumping toxic waste into Lake Eerie. For
17:59
a number of you, that sounds that's why if you
18:02
swim in it, it tastes like it tastes like chicken noodle.
18:04
That's right. They were like, fine, we did it nine
18:08
hundred times over the course of like three years. So
18:11
they were doing it three times a day, dumping toxic
18:14
waste into Lake Erie, and it like contributed to a
18:19
algae bloom that made the entire city of I think
18:21
it was Toledo have to turn off their water for
18:25
four days.
18:26
Speaker 2
How are they going to make the soup?
18:28
Speaker 1
Exactly? Thank you.
18:30
Speaker 2
Can I say something about those chicken noodle noodles too,
18:33
because there's nothing like it. They don't exist anywhere else.
18:36
Because they could just use a short, small noodle like
18:39
a shell or macaroni or whatever. But instead they're chopping.
18:43
Speaker 1
Spaghetti, chopping chopped spaghetti.
18:46
Speaker 2
It's like little pieces of noodle chunks.
18:49
Speaker 1
But the least aldente pasta has ever been. Yeah, it
18:54
tastes like it has the flu.
18:55
Speaker 2
Yes, it's like gladness.
18:59
Speaker 1
It is so fucked up. The substance of that is
19:03
like the fact that that was the first pasta that
19:06
I probably ever ate is.
19:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, that spaghettios for sure are delicious. If that guy
19:12
goes off, I don't know what I was in charge of, mister.
19:17
If mister Boyardy lose.
19:19
Speaker 3
Is it a jug of wine?
19:21
Speaker 1
That's right, doctor Boyard. I think I think he got
19:24
his PhD in spaghettios with Pepper old friends. Yeah, it's
19:32
a very good point about the ramen too, Like that
19:35
that has totally supplanted any at home soup option. Like
19:39
if you're gonna you have to add water to that
19:42
one too, But like if if we're adding water, might
19:45
as well make it fucking awesome.
19:47
Speaker 3
I mean, I am cooking that one.
19:49
Speaker 2
I'm adding proccoli, I'm atkins shit onions.
19:53
Speaker 5
Oh so much better than Campbell's to say. In the
19:56
first fifteen years of my comedy career, like I owed
19:59
all wrong the baby.
20:00
Speaker 3
Yeah, what's your color?
20:02
Speaker 1
Uh dude, well, I do the the I don't think
20:05
we should call it oriental, but that's what I did.
20:07
Speaker 2
I do.
20:08
Speaker 1
That's what it's called. Yeah, that's that's what it was.
20:11
Speaker 3
Yeah, the blue one.
20:12
Speaker 1
I'm chicken just because that's what we had in my
20:15
dorm when I was like in high school, and yeah
20:19
it was I've never given up on the chicken.
20:24
Speaker 2
Is the saltiest.
20:25
Speaker 1
Yeah.
20:26
Speaker 2
And when we eat one of those freaks in your life,
20:28
that's like I only use half the packet, you know,
20:31
Like I don't want to know you.
20:32
Speaker 1
Yeah, just wanting to get out of here. Yeah, I'm
20:35
too busy exercising. You're like relaxed. I like how you
20:39
define it by color. I'm going to start doing that.
20:42
Speaker 3
Yeah, that's kind of love to say oriental like you.
20:45
Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm on the edge of my scene. I have
20:51
a gong that I hit like Jackie can't enters Rush
20:54
Hour of Seeds.
20:55
Speaker 2
Does anybody eat the beef one? I don't. I think
20:58
beef is like like mag I mean, I just I've
21:03
never met anyone that defaulted.
21:05
Speaker 1
The prefers read.
21:07
Speaker 5
Yeah, anything that anything any they think that's be flavored
21:10
makes me want to retire, like that's yeah, yeah, that's
21:13
so good.
21:14
Speaker 1
Yeah being alive. I don't want to be around anymore.
21:18
All Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
21:20
right back to talk about the slowest news day of
21:23
the year. Into her back and guys, the pressure is off.
21:39
It's slowest news time of the year. Everyone who makes news,
21:43
both the journalists and the famous people, usually take a
21:48
break from doing anything interesting or over the long weekend,
21:53
and we get stories they wrote last week that they
21:56
like try to pass off as breaking news. I just
21:58
got a breaking news alert on my phone from Smithsonian
22:01
magazine that scientists just discovered a second lion roar.
22:07
Speaker 2
I know, can you demonstrate it?
22:09
Speaker 1
Jet, It's just like, that's what it sounds like. I
22:13
was like, well, there might have been a reason we
22:15
weren't we didn't go with that one on the speaking spell,
22:19
but you know, we're in the doldrums of the news cycle.
22:22
Let's luxuriate. And then I did just want to really
22:25
briefly talk about the one big breaking news story from
22:29
this time of year, which was totally unplanned. It was
22:33
such a weird story. So this is for anybody who's
22:35
trying to go viral this long weekend. I think it
22:39
had some key elements because the very first version of
22:43
the story we got didn't make any fucking sense. Do
22:46
you remember? It was like Tyr Woods crashed his car
22:50
into his garden on Black Friday at two in the
22:53
morning while driving away from his house as we all do.
22:57
So it was like day after Thanksgiving. He's driving away
23:01
from the house like so fast that he crashes into
23:05
a fire hydrant in his garden. I don't know. I
23:07
guess when you're when you live in a ten million
23:09
dollar mansion, you have a fire hydrant in your garden.
23:12
And then he was rescued from the wreck by his wife,
23:15
who had to break the back window of the car
23:19
with a golf club. I was like, wait, what why
23:24
did she have to do that? You got to climb
23:26
out in the back of it. I think it was
23:28
like a big suv and it was. And then people
23:32
were like, you know, the National Enquirer had just dropped
23:36
a story about how he was having an affair, like
23:39
it was like next to a story about like Aliens,
23:43
and so nobody took it seriously. But then it just
23:47
like that was the beginning, and then it was like
23:50
the next week twenty people came out and were like,
23:54
I fucked Tiger Woods. I fucked Tiger Woods Woods. Yeah,
23:59
we're fucking Tiger Woods. So I think that's what you need.
24:03
I think you need a story that gets people's attention
24:06
but also like sticks in their brain because they're like, wait,
24:09
what what? Yeah, there's some things, there's a there's a
24:13
mystery to solve that we don't need the mainstream media's
24:16
help with. In fact, the mainstream version sucks and the
24:20
fact that nobody's working. It's actually kind of helpful that, uh,
24:25
that nobody's working, because they just gave us this bullshit,
24:28
like straight from the mouth of Tiger Woods's publicist, version
24:32
of what they wanted it to be.
24:34
Speaker 2
Well, we love when a celebrity man cheats and then
24:37
the lady goes off in something.
24:40
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, you know, burns something.
24:42
Speaker 2
Down, smack those nudes or whatever.
24:47
Speaker 3
Oh yeah, when.
24:48
Speaker 1
Lisa LEFTI Lopez burnt down Andre Risin's was that? Who
24:53
did it? I feel like, yeah, she burnt down, Yeah,
24:57
like her boyfriend's mansion.
25:00
Speaker 5
Feel like the closest was recently was Puffy going after
25:04
kit Cutti's car.
25:06
Speaker 3
Yeah, thing he ever.
25:07
Speaker 1
Did, that's the one I won't forgive.
25:10
Speaker 3
I'm waiting for Malania's freak out.
25:13
Speaker 1
That is so great.
25:15
Speaker 2
Christmas this year, we're not decorating.
25:18
Speaker 5
I mean, yeah, they like because she she'll disappear sometimes,
25:23
That's what I'm assuming that is.
25:24
Speaker 1
It's amazing she has him in such a like she's
25:28
in such a powerful position right now, like ever since
25:31
all the Epstein emails dropped, and it was like, not
25:33
only is he mentioned, he's the most mentioned, He's the
25:37
person whose name is the most all over these fuckers.
25:42
He has been dropping Like the the White House was
25:46
like posting just pictures of them holding hands, being like
25:51
Washington power a couple much. It's just like they they
25:54
need her so much right now, and you know she's
25:58
not happy in that marriage, like she could we could
26:02
see like a fucking I don't know, something happened here
26:06
in the coming days where she's just like, yeah, I
26:07
don't fucking need this shit. She was like this dude sucks.
26:10
Actually she tweets it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's good.
26:15
Speaker 2
Guys.
26:16
Speaker 1
We were talking on Wednesday's Trending episode about how at
26:21
the White House, like Turkey Pard in media event, He
26:26
just like went into this fake conversation between him and
26:29
Milania that was like really forced. It was like when
26:32
somebody forces in that they have a boyfriend or girlfriend
26:36
so that you know they're they're just like trying to
26:39
let you know that. Yeah, yeah, exactly, I have people
26:43
in my life they love me. Because it was like related,
26:47
he was like, I should call these uh turkeys Nancy
26:51
and Chuck, but Malani would tell me not to do that,
26:53
that I have to pardon them, and I'd say darthing.
26:56
He like made up this fake dialogue those like you
26:58
guys have never talked to each No.
27:01
Speaker 2
Were you guys following the story when that guy was
27:05
on Twitter and he had been like a former like nanny,
27:09
you done childcare for another kid at Baron's school for
27:12
many years, and then he was saying like every day
27:16
that she is ever at school, her like coffee cup
27:20
is filled with wine.
27:22
Speaker 1
Yes, amazing. So she's a white wine drunk. So that's
27:28
why we haven't gotten the rant from her quite yet.
27:30
But the second she switches to red, yeah, any good
27:34
people inside the White House maybe uh maybe be like
27:37
you know what go well with that? Ham? Eleven glasses
27:41
of wine eleven glasses of red.
27:45
Speaker 2
My very good friend currently has her child at the
27:50
same school as the vance's child.
27:53
Speaker 1
Oh and so.
27:54
Speaker 2
She just like sees them all the time and it's
27:58
really bizarre. But she's like, I can't like tell my
28:01
kids did not play with that kid.
28:03
Speaker 1
Right, yeah, not nice. Not their fault necessarily.
28:07
Speaker 2
I don't want to just casually talk to that lady
28:10
like a demon, you.
28:13
Speaker 1
Know, right, yeah, but you do the child, like they
28:17
do have the opportunity to open that child's mind. Because
28:19
I have friends whose parents.
28:21
Speaker 5
My parents were really progressive, but I have friends whose
28:23
parents were super conservative, and they ended up because like
28:26
we talked to them like human beings and explained him
28:28
how the world worked. They became like way more progressive.
28:32
Speaker 2
You know.
28:32
Speaker 1
You guys had like a Kami re education camp for
28:35
your friends. You're like, step in here. Yeah, my fellow comrade,
28:39
do you mind if I call you comrade in third
28:44
grade with yeah? All right, So let's get to the
28:48
non news that we'll be covering. The new six Flag
28:52
CEO kind of looks like the Six Flags guy, we do,
28:59
mean of kind of. Yeah, he's both bald and has
29:02
classes not old enough to really look like him, but
29:09
his name is John Riley, not John c Riley. And
29:13
uh yeah, they they named a new CEO. This is
29:17
slightly related to a story that I wanted to cover
29:19
a couple of weeks ago, where Travis Kelcey announced that
29:23
he's part of an activist investor group that is uh
29:26
investing in like bringing six Flags back. Is there any
29:30
more evidence the word activist means nothing now? Yes, exactly.
29:34
There's shit to worry about, dude. I do love that.
29:38
It's I think activists, like technically in the world of finance,
29:40
they've they've given up on it meaning anything like progressive,
29:44
and they're just like just means they want to like
29:46
fire people, hire people, and like change the leadership.
29:50
Speaker 5
Yeah, like Republican activist Ben Shapiro. You're like, no, he's
29:53
a hateful nerd. Yeah, stop calling him activist.
29:57
Speaker 2
Yes, this is a cause. It's the cause is fun.
30:01
Speaker 1
This is what I'm saying. Okay, I'm team Kelsey on
30:04
this one. Start a new one. Six flags mold and broken.
30:10
Speaker 2
Let's do eight flags?
30:11
Speaker 1
Okay, what about seven? What if we just start with seven?
30:15
Speaker 2
You know you're such a small thinker, Jack, I know,
30:19
I don't know why you would just go right to eight.
30:22
Speaker 1
That's a really good point. The even number has been
30:25
working for so many years. And by working, I mean
30:27
they're in a lot of debt and thinking about declaring
30:30
bankruptcy for like the thirteenth time. I'm underwater of this
30:33
roller coaster. Baby, you know what I mean. The market
30:36
I don't understand though, like it. Why are they failing?
30:42
Like I think theme parks are like perfectly timed for
30:47
right now. They put you out into the world with
30:49
other people. They're thrilling. They are like the cure for
30:54
what ails us. They everyone's like phones have ruined all
30:57
the old stuff we used to like to do. This
31:00
is the one fun activity that phones have made way
31:03
better because now you have phones when you wait in line,
31:07
like you don't, Yes, it makes waiting in line. Waiting
31:10
in line is so much better than it was the
31:13
last time you waited in line.
31:15
Speaker 2
Like I used to play cards.
31:16
Speaker 1
We used to play brought cards with you. Oh yet
31:19
did someone have to get on all fours so you
31:21
could like put use them as your card table in
31:25
line on the ground. We used to play twenty questions,
31:29
just over and over, and by the third time my
31:35
dad was like, is this a character? From Jaws. Yes,
31:40
is it Sheriff Brody? You got it into this time?
31:43
Holy shit, it's we know it's always Richard Dreyfus Jack.
31:48
Speaker 2
I think they're just overpriced, but it's fucked up because
31:52
that's like the one thing there's not a lot of
31:54
shit you can offload from an amusement park, but you
31:57
can't like resell the coaster or whatever. I also don't
32:01
want them to be struggling financially and then go on
32:04
a coaster knowing like, hey, they might be cutting some
32:07
corners with the maintenance or right.
32:10
Speaker 1
Yeah, so we haven't lowered the price. We've raised the
32:13
prices on cotton candy, and there's more air in the
32:16
cotton candy less candy, but we have lowered the amount
32:21
of axle grease we use on the roller coasters. We've
32:24
cut down on that. About six Flags, it was like
32:27
that it's either operating those things. It's either like a
32:29
methadict or a teen and I feel safe with neither
32:32
of those people. Yeah.
32:34
Speaker 2
Yeah, my ex, like the first time he met my
32:37
niece who's who was twelve at the time, Like we
32:40
were at six Flags Valo, maybe the worst one in
32:43
the country, and they got stuck on a ride for
32:48
three hours and like the burning hots and I was
32:52
just like sorry, dude, Like he wore her down over time.
32:57
Like they came off really liking each other.
32:59
Speaker 1
Yeah, good friends.
33:00
Speaker 2
Plus side of six Flags. I'm like, Disneyland is that
33:03
they sell big beers everywhere, So by the time he
33:06
got off, I was just like, here's a jug of beer.
33:09
Speaker 1
There's so much beer for you.
33:12
Speaker 2
Yeah, but it was a teenager like climbing up on
33:15
the tracks to like fix something god knows what, and
33:20
it was terrifying.
33:21
Speaker 1
It's that's so crazy scary. Yeah, it's the case. It's
33:24
like the teen from the Simpsons. He's like, hell this
33:27
you know, it's a sunburnt and pimply and you're like,
33:30
this is my own family life is in his hands.
33:33
Speaker 2
I bet if you're a Carney teen that's really skilled
33:35
and good at your job, you're offended by this stereotime totally.
33:40
Speaker 1
It's a coaster with like a paper clip, and he's
33:44
like he's a master genius.
33:46
Speaker 2
Yeah.
33:47
Speaker 1
I'm like really in my thirties and forties like gotten
33:51
new appreciation. Like we just I went to this scheme
33:54
park Kennywood outside of Pittsburgh, which is I think its
33:57
own thing and is so fun. Like it's just I
34:02
don't know, like if you go to a good theme
34:04
park that's not Disney, because I went to Disney World
34:08
with my kids and it was like we got stuck
34:11
on rides and it's got all the same shit. It's
34:13
just like five times more expensive than any you're you're
34:17
just paying for the IP at those places, Like yeah,
34:21
it's the same level of ride, maybe a little bit
34:24
safer the rides, but like I don't need, like the
34:29
the lack of safety is what kind of makes it fun,
34:31
you know. So like Kenny is that just owned by
34:34
a guy named Kenny that's just like a stepdad, like
34:37
a cool stepdad who's like.
34:38
Speaker 2
Yeah, Kenny Rogers and.
34:41
Speaker 1
You get to see there it's not no, it's wait,
34:44
is he dead Kenny Rogers?
34:46
Speaker 2
Yeah, he did quarantine, so you might have lost chat.
34:49
It was like the first big celebrity death like maybe
34:52
like I.
34:54
Speaker 3
Don't know, April or May twenty twenty. I was devastated.
34:58
Speaker 1
That's tough.
34:58
Speaker 2
Yeh.
34:59
Speaker 1
It's not Annie Rogers. The other good thing that you
35:02
you get to see like their misfires at like attempts
35:05
to create where it's just like a weird mascots, just
35:11
different people named Kenny.
35:12
Speaker 2
I want to see some weird ip like that, like yeah,
35:15
like found it down amusement park.
35:17
Speaker 1
Like would be so fun amazing. Yeah, this also the
35:22
CEO thing. I think that mascots should be recorded. There
35:25
should be a week where every company lets their mascot
35:28
be the CEO and we get to see it. So
35:30
like Tony the Guy, Tony the Tiger costume.
35:32
Speaker 2
Yeah, I just found out there was a Twinkies mascot.
35:36
Never knew it in my life.
35:37
Speaker 1
All these Twinkie with cowboy stuffy. Yeah yeah, oh yeah,
35:43
we've all done for a long time. Every year I think.
35:49
Speaker 2
Filled with cream.
35:50
Speaker 1
That's right, cream pied himself. That's I've taken all covers.
36:00
Three holes on my back have three holes. That's bunge cake,
36:06
you know. Yeah. By the time I'm done with them,
36:09
they got three holes. I'm so sorry you far Jack.
36:15
I know that one was way too far. All right,
36:18
let's talk about the Catholic Church real quick. I got
36:20
to get a religion story and for amy and know
36:24
how much you love the Catholic Church. I don't know
36:29
there they've been doing stuff like that. There was an
36:33
event at the Vatican where Clips performed with like a
36:37
full orchestra. There's just like these little drips and drabs
36:41
of this new Pope just being like, guys, I'm cool,
36:45
I can get it, just like pulling his hatter out
36:48
of the back.
36:49
Speaker 3
Three trans people for dinner.
36:52
Speaker 2
And yeah, yeah, what a hero's.
36:58
Speaker 1
Not like publicly anti, you know.
37:00
Speaker 2
Not something. But it's also hilarious. Can you imagine having
37:06
to be one of the like three mouthpieces for the
37:09
entire trans community with the Pope.
37:13
Speaker 3
Be cool at dinner?
37:14
Speaker 1
Okay, used as a prop for them to be like, hey,
37:17
we don't hate you that much exactly.
37:20
Speaker 2
But then if one of those people was just like
37:22
super fucking annoying you know, yes, you know trans.
37:26
Speaker 1
Thinking of we're thinking of acknowledging your personhood. I know
37:33
it sounds crazy.
37:33
Speaker 2
Person's just chewing with her mouth open.
37:36
Speaker 1
That's a great idea. Yeah, like you has got any
37:40
chicken nuggets?
37:43
Speaker 2
You have any ketchup for this spaghetti.
37:47
Speaker 1
Jesus Christ. All right, we're gonna watch a little clip
37:54
of this. It's basically they use the Pope as like
37:58
the build up to the drop. Mmm, he like gives
38:01
a weird little blessing.
38:03
Speaker 2
The Son and the Holy Spirit will come upon you
38:05
and remain with you always.
38:17
Speaker 1
He like gives a big lung blessing and then goes, amen, Amen, Amen.
38:23
It worked on Catholic again, how you guys are at?
38:25
But that did it? Has this ever? Has this ever worked?
38:30
Like trying to meet the people where they are by
38:34
being like, we're actually kind of cool and here's here's
38:39
our leader, the mouthpiece of God blown up five hundred
38:44
times his size to look like snoke and then just
38:46
like opening a rave is like it is the best attack,
38:52
Like it's better than a cool youth minister, like putting
38:56
his hat on backwards and yeah, like taking out his
39:00
acoustic guitar, being like, I got a song about a
39:03
guy who is a little punk rock that clips album
39:07
is legitimately so good, it's wild. Yeah, but do we
39:12
feel like this is gonna work? Are you guys Catholic? Now?
39:15
Are you interested?
39:16
Speaker 5
I could feel our nation changing and becoming more and
39:19
more hippid Catholic.
39:20
Speaker 2
He needs to do like a full just Campbell soup level,
39:26
just like this company sucks right.
39:30
Speaker 1
Some audio where he's like, these guys are fucking idiots,
39:34
but they're all child resters.
39:37
Speaker 2
Like until he really acknowledges the place he works, I don't.
39:42
I'm not gonna trust him. I'm never gonna think the
39:44
Pope is cool unless he's like, we got a couple
39:47
of things to fix around.
39:49
Speaker 1
Here, right, Yeah, he needs to snowboard into masks. Then
39:54
I'll start listening. That's I think you were saying a
39:57
slightly different thing than a Jamie's saying, like more substantive
40:02
changes to the ideology snowboarding. I'm saying snowboarding. I think
40:06
that would imply all the changes that we need.
40:11
Speaker 2
Just do a kickflip.
40:12
Speaker 1
Yeah, this is like they are marshaling all the powers
40:17
at their fingers, Like they're like, all right, we're gonna
40:19
do this in front of a grand cathedral and just
40:23
have the Pope giant behind us.
40:27
Speaker 2
This is a weird thing that kind of happens, Like, uh,
40:30
Like I've been to these like cathedral shows, like in
40:35
Mexico and then in some like parts of France where
40:38
it'll just be like, hey, stand in this courtyard of
40:41
this beautiful cathedral and then they'll be like a light
40:44
and DJ show and that's like you know, and a
40:49
bunch of tourist groups go on it and it's like,
40:51
I don't know, I don't think this is the best
40:53
way to showcase this architecture, right yeah, And then and
40:58
then they think it's going to turn into a party
41:00
and it doesn't. It's just a bunch of people staring
41:02
and it's very bizarre. This has happened for a while,
41:06
but like, I don't know if the Pope usually is there.
41:08
Speaker 1
The Pope is usually like weird dropping bars on top
41:12
of it. Let me just lace the track real quick. Well,
41:16
And in Saint Louis there was an abandoned church that
41:19
since burned down, but they speaking of may you would
41:21
have loved this. They put a serious vert ramp in
41:23
there and basically a skate park in this like beautiful
41:26
abandoned church and it was really Yeah, the instagram is amazing.
41:29
I figure what it was called, but it has since
41:31
burned down, but it's like maybe very proud to be
41:33
from Saint Louis finally, and you would have loved this.
41:40
I think I remember you saying something about how it
41:42
would help if the Pope would snowboard into a cathedral.
41:45
I think that was your pointing this for years. Yeah,
41:50
they could also sell all those priceless works of art
41:53
and give the money to the poor. That'd be kind
41:54
of chill. Like the last pope was like I think
42:02
we should be like more about poor people and that
42:05
sort of thing, and this one's like we're about E
42:07
D M and dance parties. Uh, and he wants to fuck.
42:17
Speaker 3
I think he does.
42:18
Speaker 2
I do feel like he's had sex, Like, am I crazy?
42:22
Speaker 1
I don't think so seems you got to ask God,
42:24
But yeah, he doesn't know.
42:25
Speaker 2
As Yeah those guys fu dude, it's.
42:30
Speaker 1
From Chicago because he's also fun drunk at noon, he
42:33
beat up a he beat up a Cubs fan, And
42:39
all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
42:41
We'll talk Black Friday. We'll be right back, and we're back.
42:54
So we're gonna talk about Black Friday, which I think
42:56
I think a lot of people associate with Mayhem. Scariest
42:59
time of year. Yeah, yeah, can't even got kids to
43:05
fucking tickle me elmo. Yeah, or like disembowel this guy
43:10
for tickle me elma, you know what I mean. But
43:14
the sales have kind of they've changed. They're now like
43:18
migrating into October, but the day is still being covered,
43:22
Like there's a story in the sun Friday Frenzy inside
43:25
worst Black Friday violence, from Walmart worker trampled to death
43:28
to shooting at Toys r us five times Black Friday
43:31
shopping matess turned violent, even deadly. Black Friday's most gruesome
43:34
injuries and deaths through the years. These are that was
43:37
the headline in the New York Post, like top five
43:40
most gruesome injuries and deaths on Black Friday. Dude, there's
43:45
a website that tracks every single Black Friday death and injury,
43:49
the most recent death being twenty twenty one. Because I
43:53
think people are staying home, but it's also have you
43:56
guys seen the movie Thanksgiving, the Eli Roth movie. It's
44:00
like an entertaining slasher movie that opens There was a
44:05
Bruce Campbell movie called Black Friday that I didn't see,
44:07
but Eli Ross Thanksgiving starts with a scene that is
44:13
said in a Walmart esque store on Black Friday, and
44:19
basically people just get just destroyed. Like someone's head gets
44:25
like the top of their head gets ripped off. It's
44:27
just like everybody tramples each other. Someone gets like destroyed,
44:32
like multiple people die. It's very It is what will
44:35
always be in my head when I think of Black
44:39
Friday from this point on, Like they did a good
44:41
job of capturing what I think we all think of
44:44
when we think of Black Friday because we've seen the
44:46
local news stories. However, there's some problems with this. First
44:52
of all, it's like very classist. Research has shown that
44:55
the majority of Black Friday shoppers are people who are
44:59
low income people looking for deals because they're struggling, which
45:02
makes sense. Yeah, they're as Brian put a Campbell soup buyers,
45:06
if you know what I'm saying. But it's also like
45:09
wildly overblown. Most Black Friday violins. Yeah, usually it doesn't
45:15
have anything to do with Black Friday. It's just anytime
45:19
someone gets hurt in or near a retail location on
45:23
Black Friday, they turn it into a story like this.
45:29
They're like all these examples when you look back at
45:32
the stories where like they don't report on the truth
45:37
of it day, Like there was a story at like
45:39
a Colorado mall where like these two teenage girls were
45:42
fighting and they were like they were fighting over these
45:46
like this buckle store and they were just like they
45:50
hated There were two people who went to the same
45:52
high school who hated each other and like started fighting.
45:55
There's also like a Toys r Us shooting that it
45:58
turns out like happened to the parking lot and it
46:01
wasn't even on Black Friday and it was gang Really
46:05
that's just a standard American shootings. Yeah, that's just a
46:07
straight up normal American shoot I.
46:11
Speaker 2
Feel like we grew up with just like like in
46:13
the East Bay, there's like the fighting mall and then yeah, exactly,
46:17
but it's also like the fun mall a lot of
46:20
the times. So yeah, like, yeah, that's where you want
46:23
to hang out because there's this more other teens. You know,
46:26
you might meet a boy or whatever. And then there
46:29
was like the safe, boring mall where you won't get shot,
46:33
but also everything's more expensive.
46:34
Speaker 1
Oddly you might get shot by it, but it's by
46:37
the private security company that they've hired. It's just normal
46:42
ex masade agents.
46:44
Speaker 2
I mean, what movie it makes me. I feel like
46:46
it gave us jingle all the way.
46:48
Speaker 1
Right now exactly really.
46:49
Speaker 2
Think about it.
46:50
Speaker 3
Yeah, that's and that's.
46:52
Speaker 2
You know, I mean that Beef wasn't only about the doll.
46:54
That's you know, Sinbad. They're both just trying to do
46:58
the best for their families and sin has been treated
47:01
poorly by the United States Postal Service.
47:06
Speaker 1
No, not the US Postal Service. I will say Eli Roth,
47:10
by the way, the director of Thanksgiving, not always great
47:14
at knowing how to tell the truth of between propaganda
47:17
and reality. He's like one of the most outrage staunch
47:23
pro Israel voices in the world. He said, Greta Thunberg
47:28
should be eaten by cannibals for trying to deliver aid
47:30
into Gaza.
47:32
Speaker 5
So there's so many of these And same with that
47:34
kind of filmmaking, which can be fun, but it's like
47:36
so unsubtle. It's like people who were and not you know,
47:40
I'm not I don't hate professional wrestling, but there are
47:42
people who've like adopted that worldview of like a seven
47:46
year old you know, it's like extremely black and white.
47:48
I feel like those people are very likely to fall
47:50
for propaganda and strong man shit.
47:52
Speaker 1
I mean, he is one of the key filmmakers behind
47:56
the torture porn trend. That is like, if you look
48:01
at it in history, was around the time that America
48:04
started torturing people. And he's like, hey, that's a good
48:06
idea for a movie. Yeah, it relates to this story too,
48:12
because it's like the those basically the media has kind of.
48:16
Speaker 5
Turned into like a modern version of rotten dot com
48:19
if you remember those websites. Yeah, this is like faces
48:22
of Death stuff. It's but it's just like it's totally normalized.
48:25
Speaker 1
It's real weird. Yeah, we need our bloodlust. He claimed.
48:28
The theme of his movie was the commercialization of Christmas
48:31
and the hypocrisy of Thanksgiving, when Americans go from giving
48:34
thanks to trampling someone to death for a waffle iron.
48:37
And it's like, all right, that's on one way to
48:40
interpret this the big story that I think everybody remembers.
48:46
Speaker 2
They're not even expensive.
48:47
Speaker 1
I know, I know, that's what I'm saying. Guys don't
48:50
trample each other to death for a waffle iron. They're
48:55
not that much. One of the few clear cut examples
48:57
of like black Friday leading to a death, there was
49:00
a Walmart employee who was trampled to death by a
49:03
crowd after opening the stores doors, like back in two
49:06
thousand and eight. And this is the scene that seemed
49:09
to like directly inspire Thanksgiving. But some people might argue
49:15
that the unruly crowd was part of Walmart's plan to
49:18
create a spectacle and generate publicity for their deals and
49:22
like that. This is like I think there's like you
49:25
guys are saying there's always violence in malls and like
49:30
retail locations every other day of the year, and that
49:33
shit just like the mainstream media and retailers just agree
49:38
not to report it because they're like, you know, that's
49:40
bad for business, But this is the one day of
49:42
the year where they're like we can actually say what's
49:45
actually going on. And in fact, like the violence is
49:48
like good. It makes it seem like our deals are crazy.
49:51
It's like the I'm crazy Eddy, I'm slashing prices. Yeah,
49:57
and it's also like we don't we don't pay you
49:59
a money when you work, and we hypnotize your children
50:03
with billion dollar advertising, so you're required to get the stuff,
50:06
and then when you are like clumsy about it, then
50:08
we sort of make fun of you and exploit you.
50:11
Yeah you know, yeah yeah. They basically like fostered the
50:15
mob because they wanted to like create this sense of like,
50:20
oh my god. And then it also for the people
50:22
who are actually there, not just with the media specta,
50:25
but for the people who are there, like everybody's making
50:28
impulse buys, so it's it's how they would ideally like
50:31
us to shop like supermarket sweep styles, just like we
50:35
let you in for fifteen minutes and you have to
50:37
get everything you can possibly get. But a lot of
50:40
people have said that the Walmart thing was a textbook
50:44
case of horrible like negligent crowd control. Like there are
50:48
ways to like, when you know there's going to be
50:50
a crowd, you have security present, you have like safety
50:54
barriers in place. They didn't have any of that shit,
50:56
even though they were specifically like trying to rereate this
51:00
atmosphere of like frenzied shopping. Yeah, they had a guy
51:03
on a megaphone going like go ape ship had like
51:06
an airport and that's.
51:09
Speaker 2
What the greeters do.
51:11
Speaker 1
Look to your left.
51:17
Speaker 2
Well. Also, they didn't have like medics on him or whatever,
51:20
like anyway like save him, right.
51:22
Speaker 1
Yeah, Nah, they're just like where's where.
51:27
Speaker 2
Add to the chaos? I mean they should have ambulances
51:30
like parked outside the lights on. That's right, like when
51:33
you're going into a crazy concert or whatever.
51:36
Speaker 5
Yeah, feels so good, you'll be badly injured.
51:40
Speaker 1
Yeah. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission find Walmart
51:45
for the incident, pointing out that the retailer failed to
51:48
take steps that could have saved his life, that the
51:50
employee was exposed to a physical hazard that Walmart was
51:53
aware of from previous Black Friday events, and Walmart spent
51:57
more than two million dollars to try to overturn the
52:01
seven thousand dollars. Fine, God, not on like making sure
52:04
it never happened again, to try and like make it
52:07
so that they could be like, wasn't our fault? Which
52:11
is wild. So yeah, the moral of the story is
52:15
like corporations treat their blue collar employees like shit, and
52:18
we'll spend millions of dollars rather than admit that they
52:21
do that. And then the moral that the US mass
52:24
media took is like blue collar people are basically zombies,
52:28
Like the fucking kill each other for a fucking waffle arm. Dude,
52:32
they're crazy, Campbell, that's right, just pelting them with Campbell's
52:40
soup cans. Amy as always such a pleasure having you
52:44
on the.
52:44
Speaker 3
Daily seeing here.
52:46
Speaker 2
Thank you so much.
52:47
Speaker 1
Where can people find you? Follow you see all that
52:50
good stuff?
52:51
Speaker 2
Yeah? Follow me at Amy Miller Comedy on Instagram and
52:55
everything pretty much. I'm heavy into threads now since you
52:58
last saw me. Oh, I'm a thread stir, I'm big. Yeah,
53:04
so follow me there. I've only been mildly canceled once
53:08
for a thread. Okay, d'angelo's coum gutters. I shouldn't even
53:14
say it. They were so mad at me. Everybody was
53:16
so mad.
53:17
Speaker 1
Are they so mad? Was it like right after he passed?
53:21
Speaker 3
Yeah, but it was like, you know all I mean
53:22
that's a.
53:23
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, he was well, he was hot. All right. Wait, okay,
53:27
so if you're gonna like make a statue and tribute
53:30
to him, will he not have amazing cum gutters and
53:33
you're just gonna like not.
53:36
Speaker 2
Have to vote on this statue be involved in anyway.
53:39
But I also said voice of an Angel, I loved
53:42
you anyway. Follow me there on threads and then I'll
53:46
be in Seattle at the end of January, and I
53:48
have tour dates at Amy Miller Comedy.
53:50
Speaker 1
Dot com Go check them out. Amy. Is there a
53:55
work Amedia that you've been enjoying?
53:57
Speaker 2
Oh? Yeah, Oh, I mean it's a thread, you know what? Really?
54:01
When it's when it started to take off for me?
54:03
Maybe my favorite tweeter of all time that I know
54:07
and love as a personal friend. Solomon Georgio joined. Yes,
54:12
so it's a it's a Solomon post nice and it's
54:17
been Hayden cowardly Lion since the Wizard of Oz, acting
54:20
all shy and afraid but still managed to roll or
54:23
curl your hair before step.
54:30
Speaker 1
I was just talking about how beautiful his hair is
54:32
and that like two days ago. Yes, so gorgeous. Yeah,
54:35
go with the.
54:36
Speaker 2
Red bow and again old choice. That's not a cowardly choice.
54:42
Speaker 1
No, cowardly lion, and then just serving kunt I think
54:52
he is the source of the second Lions, or we
54:55
got it up.
55:00
Speaker 2
That's so good. No, it's like a friend that you
55:03
know is struggling and they come out like way too
55:05
overdressed for the occasion, like they're just meeting up meta
55:08
bar or whatever, and then you're like, oh, you look
55:11
amazing and they're like no, like, don't bring it up.
55:13
Speaker 1
No, no, I don't. I look like fucking shit. I
55:18
look like No, you're strong, you know you're how strong
55:21
you are?
55:22
Speaker 2
More?
55:23
Speaker 1
Where can people find you? Is there a workimedia you've
55:25
been enjoying?
55:26
Speaker 5
Yeah, follow me at mort Burke. Been posting sketches and
55:29
stuff on Instagram with my buddies. A Mendos that's fun here.
55:32
This is this media thing involves the story. I want
55:34
to go to listen, lads, that's my Yeah, that's my
55:40
morning DJ voice.
55:43
Speaker 1
So okay. My friend and I used to just text
55:45
each other funny tweets, and I don't remember who tweeted this,
55:49
so I need to know. I texted my friend this tweet,
55:52
just thought it was a funny tweet getting my dick
55:54
sucked at this webinars, Like, that's a great tweet. But
55:59
I asked and only texted that to my mom. No,
56:04
And my mom texted me back. Who's she's like? She
56:07
was an elementary school teacher. She's always like, I'm not funny.
56:10
She texted me back, Well, we've all been there.
56:15
Speaker 2
WHOA nice?
56:18
Speaker 1
I did? My mom's killing it. That's really good.
56:21
Speaker 2
I think she might have been my teacher that showed
56:23
me missus douk.
56:24
Speaker 1
That's right. Check what's in the mug? Mark check what's
56:30
in the mug? All right? You can find me on
56:34
Twitter at jack Undersquirrel Brian and on Blue Sky at
56:36
jack Obe the number one. Not on threads, but maybe
56:39
I should get over there. Probably it's over there. People
56:44
are living it up. Huh.
56:45
Speaker 2
It's fun It's really wild because you get a lot
56:49
of input from strangers, like way more than ever happened
56:52
on Twitter.
56:53
Speaker 1
Wow, crazy, that's what I That's what I'm in it
56:56
for from strangers who don't like me.
56:58
Speaker 2
Excited, but they'll hate you for reasons that they made
57:03
up because they have no context for you.
57:05
Speaker 1
Right, you're actually getting sort of like a refreshing new view.
57:10
Speaker 3
From me me, they don't know me.
57:13
Speaker 1
This is what I should be insecure about now, not
57:16
the other stuff that people have been saying about me before.
57:19
I get a whole new vibe people find off putting
57:24
in a way that I wasn't even prepared for. I
57:28
like to tweet by The Onion an article by The
57:30
Onion that says man who thought Fleetwood Max the chain
57:33
was over in for the thrill of his fucking life.
57:40
You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at
57:43
Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You
57:48
can go to the description of this episode wherever you're
57:50
listening to it, and they're at the bottom you will
57:52
find the footnotes, which is where we link off to
57:55
the information that we talked about in today's episode, and
57:57
we also link off to a song that we think
57:59
you might enjoy. With Miles out, we like to ask
58:02
Brian the editor, Brian, is there a song that you
58:05
think that people might enjoy? Damn it? Jack?
58:08
Speaker 4
Oh no, don't you know it's incredibly dangerous to disturb
58:13
someone when they're in a jazz hole.
58:15
Speaker 1
Oh okay, you have been in a little that. I've
58:19
been getting some very smooth vibes every time we enter.
58:23
Brian likes to have some music going whenever we enter
58:25
the recording, and it's been nice. Wee in a jazz
58:27
hole sign on the door handles.
58:29
Speaker 4
Yeah, so call me Chris Nolan because I'm about to
58:34
take you on an odyssey.
58:36
Speaker 1
Oh what if Chris Nolan was also about to take
58:41
us on a jazz office? What if they're scatting in this? Yeah?
58:49
Speaker 2
No, he'd have to put a black person in a
58:50
movie if.
58:51
Speaker 1
He did so.
58:56
Speaker 4
This is Freakadelic by Jeff Parker ETA for the Vinyl.
59:02
Speaker 1
Yes albums called The Way Out of Easy and It's
59:06
got everything Jack.
59:07
Speaker 4
It's got Jeff Parker on guitar, it's got j Bella
59:10
Rose on drums, it's got Josh Johnson not the comedian
59:14
and former guests on saxophone and Anna Butter's on bass
59:17
and they just make it up.
59:20
Speaker 1
It's amazing. They're just making it up. So that's the
59:24
thing about jazz that I heard, but I never believed it.
59:27
They're just making it up. Yeah, that sounds awesome. Well,
59:31
so the song will be linked in the footnotes. Is
59:35
that grimy? Yep? Yep? All right, well, thank you, Brian.
59:37
The Daily Zeiickest is a production of iHeartRadio. For more
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59:44
That's gonna do it for us. This morning. We are
59:48
back on Monday morning with the third episode in our
59:52
icon series, The Iconograph. This one's about Miss Piggy. It's
59:56
got Jamie loftus. It's a super fun time. That is
1:00:01
the correct uh pronunciation of haya. Here's better. I got
1:00:09
an hour of Muppet impressions. Oh hell yeah. Until then
1:00:14
your weekend, you're staying miller. We'll talk to y'all on
1:00:18
Monday morning. Bye bye.
1:00:21
Speaker 2
The Daily zeit Geist is executive produced by Catherine Long.
1:00:24
Speaker 1
Co produced by Bye Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright,
1:00:28
co written by J. M McNabb.
1:00:30
Speaker 4
And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries