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.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 2: England’s Absurd Museum Theft, Burger King’s Whopper Lie 08.30.23
In episode 1540, Jack and guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra are joined by comedy writer, improvisor, and co-host of Born to Love, Scott Eckert, to discuss…The Chinese Economy And The Dependency Ratio, Burger King Whopper Lawsuit Can Go Ahead, What Goes Around Comes Around: The Great British Museum Theft Scandal and more!
- Yi Fuxian, Critic of China’s Birth Policy, Returns as an Invited Guest
- The Scientist Who Foresaw China’s Stagnation
- Burger King Whopper Lawsuit Can Go Ahead
- Burger King Whopper 35 percent smaller than in ads, lawsuit says
- Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small
- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Great British Museum Theft Scandal
- British Museum: 'Close to 2,000' artefacts worth millions stolen
- British Museum bosses first alerted to thefts in 2021
- British Museum director resigns, admits to failings in theft investigation
- Artefacts stolen from British Museum ‘may be untraceable’ due to poor records
- British Museum Staffer Fired for Lost and Damaged Items Identified as Veteran Curator Peter Higgs
- Stolen Items from the British Museum Worth $64,000 Offered on eBay for As Little As $51
- Stolen British Museum items worth up to £50k offered on eBay for as little as £40
- Revealed: Sacked British museum curator's Twitter name is same as ebay seller who flogged 70 items to whistleblower - who now says museum director is 'an idiot who lives on a cloud in cloud cuckoo land'
- British Museum is world's largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC
- Fact Sheet: British Museum Collection
- China Joins a Growing Number of Nations Demanding the British Museum Restitute Artifacts From Its Collection in the Wake of Widespread Thefts
- Thefts expose British Museum’s ‘ridiculous’ stance on return of artefacts, says MP
- The British Museum Has Been in Secret Talks with Greece Over the Return of the Parthenon Marbles
- Will the British Museum give back the Elgin Marbles? History explained
- The UK Has a 60-Year Old Law Prohibiting Repatriation of Art. Is That About to Change?
- British Museum chief: taking the Parthenon marbles was 'creative'
- Greece renews its calls for British Museum to return Parthenon Marbles in wake of priceless thefts
- British Museum suspect was promoted to job in charge of Elgin Marbles after theft warning
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