The Daily Zeitgeist - ACAB Includes Mounties, Tesla Autopilot Video Fraud 01.19.23

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

In episode 1404, Jack and Miles are joined by host of Smart Mouth, Katherine Spiers, to discuss… How Low Can George Santos Devolder Anthony Macchiato Go? Shockingly, It Turns Out That Tesla’s Autopilot Demo Was Faked, I’m Shocked. Dolly Parton Is Really Making That Rock Album, Sorry Jeopardy--Mounties Are Trash and more! How Low Can George Santos Devolder Anthony Macchiato Go? Shockingly, It Turns Out That Tesla’s Autopilot Demo Was Faked. I’m Shocked. Dolly Parton Is Really Making That Rock Album Dolly Parton adds new baking mixes to Duncan Hines lineup Dolly Parton is working on a rock album — but says she has "no intention" to "ever tour again" Dolly Parton Says Her Rock Album Will Feature Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Pink, and More Legends Sorry Jeopardy, Mounties Are Trash The RCMP was created to control Indigenous people. Can that relationship be reset? Sports World Reacts To Embarrassing Celebrity Jeopardy! Moment As the RCMP deny systemic racism, here’s the real history You know the Canadian myth about Mounties always getting their man? How To Eat LA: howtoeatla.com LISTEN: Light My Fire by Lloyd PriceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to season 271 episode 3 of dirt dailies i guys a production of iheart radio i never really know like i i got a little bit of a cold thing going on. I never really know what my voice is going, like, what's going on with me until I do that Dirt Daily Zeitgeist. And, like, hear sounds come out of me. Yeah. Like, coming out of different parts of my voice box that weren't meant to be used. Anyways, this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Thursday, January 19th, 2023.

T-minus one day to my mom's birthday. But also it's get to know your customers day, World Quark Day, and National Popcorn Day. If you celebrate that. Shout out to the popcorn god. Is that Quark, C-O-R-K, or Q-U-A-R-K? Cork. Cork. Got it.

Okay. Your pronunciation was good. I just wanted to make sure. I didn't even know what the fuck that was until I think I was... Big fan of subatomic particles. Yeah. They're basically magical.

Nobody knows what the fuck's going on down there. It's very strange. Very strange. Nobody knows what's going on down there. You sound like my. Very strange. Nobody knows what's going on down there. You sound like my urologist. But, yeah. It looks really good. But this is like, what?

They say, delicious, high-protein, low-fat alternative to soft cheese and yogurt that can be used for baking, cooking, and blending. Okay, I'll stick to cheese, though. Thank you. Thank you very much. Wait, that's what quark is? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was the subatomic particle. I guess I'm not looking at the spell. I thought it's Q-U. So, that's what I mean is? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was the subatomic particle. I guess I'm not looking at the spelling.

I thought it's Q-U. So that's what I mean. It's a European superfood. Staking its claim on supermarket shelves worldwide, according to this thing. Look, our guests probably can put it on to what the fuck this is about. But as far as you and I are concerned, Jack, we're like, what is this fake ass cheese? Yeah, yeah. I was thinking Q-U-A-R-K.

It is spelled like that, though. What? Yes, Jack. Okay. It's coming straight for your dome right now. It is. My dome is in danger. It's in the crosshairs.

Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien, a.k.a. Taters O'Bing Bong, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray and I gotta keep the potato theme going because someone rightly pointed out, if you're Potatoes O'Brien, then call me Miles O'grotten. Thank you so much. That's Mikey Alexander

on the Twitch. Mikey actually likes it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was one of those pop culture references that people would always use, and I just internalized it, but I didn't know what the fuck it was in reference to because it was a little bit before my time, I think. And I did want to just stop the podcast

and let people know there are pop culture references before my time so I don't feel old as fuck. Were you old enough to know Where's the Beef? Were you alive for that? Nope. Oh, you're pre Where's the Beef? Were you alive for that? Nope. Oh, you're pre Where's the Beef too? I think Time to Miss the Donuts or Time to Make the Donuts, I think

I also missed. Holy shit. I knew a lot of the pop culture references from DazFX. They want effects. Right. Bumstickity bumstickity bum. Yeah, exactly. Oh, shit.

Anyways, Miles, we're thrilled, fortunate, blessed to be joined by a wonderful guest. The host of the Smart Mouth podcast, used to run the food section of LA Weekly, and now runs the website, How to Eat LA. Goated website. Just an all-around brilliant travel and food writer. It's Catherine Spires! You inspire us! Hello, hello.

Happy Quark Day to you both. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, we did have you on this special day because of your expertise in food and subatomic particles. We didn't know which one it was, so we just figured. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. I love that planning.

What's Quark? Have you had Qu quark i know you've had quark yeah actually quark wunderquark uh used to advertise on smart mouth like the i bet you it's the same brand that sent out that press release that you were reading from they are wanting everyone to get into quark for sure it's good it's kind of like half yogurt, half sour cream. Oh, perfect. Oh, I love that. That is what I look for. I do look for more sour creaminess in my yogurt and more yogurtness in my sour cream. Come on, man.

Get into it. I wish this yogurt was slightly off a bit. You know, that's what would make it perfect. I'm sure it's good. I'm just being a hater. It's good. It it perfect i'm sure it's good i'm just wait so how have you had it rather than accurately describing it like what's how have you had it where you're like man that's that's how a good cork dish would would be yeah i mean you just eat it like yogurt really so i just add fruit to it yeah i mean and it's some sometimes it comes

with fruit i think people make cheesecake with it a lot yeah i see that you just add a bunch of sugar to it i bet it tastes bomb okay i'm with that yeah i feel like that's with it a lot. Yeah, I see that little photo. You just add a bunch of sugar to it. I bet it tastes bomb. Okay. I'm with that. I feel like that's true of a lot of things. Yes, yes. Katherine, there's this little prank that myself from two years ago likes to play on.

Myself from the present, whenever you're on. Where I looked back, my brain always wants to pronounce your last name Spears. I know. Everyone's brain does. back my brain always wants to pronounce your last name Spears I know and I had your name written in my notes from the last time as Catherine Spears like Brittany bitch I wrote to myself

like a just a fucking jerk like yeah yeah keeping yourself on your toes yeah I think that's what it is yeah I don't know even it spicy i am mean and i always have the habit is to always ask you even though i'm slight i'm all if i put money i'd always say spires or i was like and it's all as usual spears or spires yep yeah you entered miles

says spears as far as i said ha ha ha miles actually you don't have to worry about it because I wrote down a note from last time. And it is Spears like Britney, bitch. And the call got so quiet. Yeah. I was like, how would I say? And you're like, yeah, Miles, dickhead. And I'm like, oh, fuck it. All right, Catherine, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we are going to tell our listeners a couple of the things that we are talking about today. We're going to talk about George Santos, Devolder, Anthony, Macchiato, whatever his name is, you know, all the names that this man goes by. But how long can he keep this one lie going? These many lies that are just like kind of a web. He's spinning a vast web. I don't think he's going anywhere, which is so fucked up. But yeah, inspiration for the next generation of dickheads. Yeah.

There's a famous Tesla autopilot demo video that Elon Musk tweeted out six, seven years ago. But I think a lot of people's self-driving car enthusiasm was started or at least built on the back of this video. It's a very popular video. Turns out it was misleading. No. Yeah. It's not what they said it was. So we're going to talk about that. The New York Times reported this last year, the year before, but we now have a confirmation from an internal Tesla source. So we'll talk about what they lied about. Dolly Parton is really making that rock album. like oh fuck yeah okay yeah i mean it's like a lot of covers of songs that are like the first rock songs that you find out about when you first find out about rock music but like i'm sure she's gonna pull it off because she pulls everything off but it does suggest a narrative to me where she like just found out about rock and roll when she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And then she's like, okay, all right.

So there's this thing called rock and roll. Let me do a little listening. Ah, Freebird. This Freebird one is pretty good because she is covering Freebird on her album. With the guitar solo? What's that? Is she going to hit that guitar solo too? Yeah, probably. That would be wild. I's that she gonna hit that guitar solo too yeah probably

that would be wild i mean if she shredded that guitar solo then i'd be like just you know we already yeah you were the goat uh and then we're going to talk about how mounties are trash a cab does include mounties in a major way all of that plenty more but first Catherine, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Oh, I've been searching all the synthetic fabrics like Lyocell and Tencel and stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to least blow up the planet with my choices. So all these new fabrics, they say they're recycled or whatever. Do you know, like, the process of recycling wastes so much water, it might be worse than using cotton? I don't like it.

I know. I don't like it. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. I'm trying to be a conscientious consumer, and it's just killing me inside because it cannot be done. Yeah. I mean, unless you go, like, full homespun. Yeah, but who has the time you because you also

live in capitalism so you have to make money from outside the home so yeah yeah right yeah the one recycling i've heard is good is the aluminum that's the one that like you you always need to make sure you're recycling all aluminum everything else it's like do they actually recycle it do they just send it to like we turn it to a pulp i don't know it's not paper anymore as you know it what are you worried about you're not burning it it's kind of like the energy but it's true like so many things are like this thing can actually turn this other thing into a useful item and we can reduce our waste it's like but it needs coal to operate and you're like what or like it uses untold amounts of water and like

yeah exactly and then i had this theory that online shopping has like precipitate precipitated the rise in these fake fabrics because we can't feel them and we've like forgotten what clothes are supposed to feel like too right so i think we're just in a mess with with our fashions at the moment i've noticed some websites now they take such close-ups of the garment so you can get an understanding of what the fabric looks like that's a good idea it feels like something where people been like hey i thought this was blah blah blah they're like no look it's clearly woven this is like cotton i know it looks shiny but that's the deal but yeah i i remember like that was like one of the first things i like a habit i picked up from my mom was you drag me to like go to a department store it's like she's like yeah this is well made she's

like yeah this is this is well oh this is good good fabric we're like words i would hear all the time she tastes it a little bit oh yeah she bite it they're like hey what do we tell you about this she's like our cover's blown let's go uh but yeah like i i realize now to your point there it's not like yeah yeah, shit looks good. And then you get it and you're like, it disintegrated the second I sweated in it. It happens so often. It's horrible. Yeah. I'm not the best online shopper.

I keep buying dolls clothes. Well, because you keep insisting how cheap they are. Yeah. I'm like, I'm getting a great deal on this jacket. Look how many patches are on that. Fits my hand. What is something you think is overrated? Deep dish pizza.

Which kind? Did you just ask what is that? No, which kind? Like, are you coming for somebody in LA? Are you coming for a pizzeria right now? Or are you just saying generally? No, I don't do that. Who are you putting out of business today buyers you coming at masa right now i am not i am not i don't know it just seemed like something that i've never

enjoyed ergo it is overrated some people like it right first of all why do they call it pizza that thing's like a casserole maybe a pie stop calling it pizza i I don't like that. That's what I mean. Call it pizza pie. With topping. Yeah. Yeah. I think, well, I think if you called it a casserole, that doesn't sound more appealing, but I think it would be more honest. It should be.

Man, you ain't eaten more than two of these slices. Yeah. That's what it is. Really? I've eaten half a Domino's deep dish. For sure. How much masa can you eat at one go? That's a good point. Because masa, that's the Echo Park deep dish. That's how much masa can you eat at one go? That's a good point. Because masa that are like that's the, you know, Echo Park deep dish pizza in L.A.

That shit is like a fucking brick. And when I eat it, I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I I like to eat a lot of pizza is my thing with pizza. Like, I want to have numerous slices. And I end up just gorging myself. Yeah. It's all about the fun ways you can toss it into your mouth. Yeah.

Yeah. Miles is a real showman when it comes to eating pizza. Really? I chipped my teeth. That's so fun. I chipped my teeth because the pizza is so fucking dense it broke my mouth. Yeah. But.

Now, do you hold this for Sicilian too? Like there's a certain type of Sicilian that I like. Like Prime has a good, I think they call it a grandma piece. There's this place, Bleeker Street in New York, that has a really good one, too. I think the crust is like focaccio-y. Yeah, that's more like a real thick crust with a little bit of toppings, right? As opposed to just stuff on stuff on stuff on stuff. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah

i mean yeah it's it's definitely it's not a little bit of toppings but it's definitely not normal the normal amount yeah the cheese is not you know going to affect my digestion for the next three weeks maybe just like a week and a half yeah i've noticed though a lot of chicagoans now are trying to basically be like stop stop thinking this is our pizza. You really in crust tavern style pizza. That's what the fuck our pizza is. I learned this from Jackie Sneels, a Chicagoan. And then I started seeing it more and more like on Twitter and like comedians who are from there who are like, I'm like, yes, we have deep dish.

But like, you want this tavern pizza? And I'm like, OK, we have deep dish, but you want this tavern pizza. And I'm like, okay, the thin crust. See, but then Detroiters would say that the tavern style is their pizza. The pizza fight is so funny to me because I think everyone's working with different terms and definitions to begin with. We're all like, we don't know what we're talking about when we talk to each other. But isn't Detroit like in that old oil pan style pizza though too? Yeah, and that's tavern pizza.

Is it? or would other people say that i have it all wrong justin get on mic right now yeah so producer justin is over here in the comments saying from chicago chicago pizza it's more like a birthday cake where you only do the deep dish once twice a year yeah deep dish is a celebratory thing it's like when you have a bunch of people chicagoans like true chicagoans don't really fuck with deep dish. We're not ordering it weekly or whatever. I don't ever remember using the term tavern style when I was younger. We always just used to call it thin crust pizza. order at like it's kind of like finger food where you're at a bar and the slices are really small and they're super greasy and they're kind of thin and uh there's like a hundred of them and you just share them amongst a group of people and uh that's what i'm used to more often so yeah that's mostly what we were doing when we ordered pizza all right thank you nice we have experts it was

actually started by uh dominoes with their crust pizza. That style that you were describing. It's pretty good. What is something you think is underrated, Catherine? Lab-grown diamonds. I just started learning about these, and I don't understand why everyone isn't just buying thousands of dollars worth of lab-grown jewels. Oh, no. Because that's what that's

what the fucking diamond industry is doing yeah we are we are at ops for the diamond industry uh so we're gonna actually have to remove all this uh what else do you think is that no i'm just wait oh i'm sorry i think you got it mixed up you said overrated as lab grown diamonds right because they don't even they pale in comparison to the rich history of a child mind diamond yeah yeah it's true we love a history don't we we love a story with our diamond that's the but have you seen the propaganda against it that's the kind of shit that they're trying to say like yes the bloody history of this yes it is incredible and then i also heard and i haven't verified it but i heard that so you know how in natural gemstones there'll be like errors in them they call them occlusions it's like where it's not like perfect so i guess in lab diamonds you can supersede that because they're grown in

a lab so they can be perfect if you want them to be perfect so now i guess the natural gem jewelers are being like oh only natural ones have occlusions and then marking them up for having occlusions which used to be like a mistake yeah diamonds right they used to be the thing that they would mark them down for exactly so it's all just like a conversation that the diamond industry is having with like a bunch of guys with like jeweler loots jewelers loop loops is it yes yeah yeah yeah jewelers loops yeah just being like okay so i said this is bad i guess yeah they're just they're tripping all over themselves it's it's kind of funny but they aren't like the lab grown ones are a lot cheaper they're not cheap but you could get like a big

old ring or something and stunt on everybody yeah exactly and then somebody's to look in a loop and be like, I can't believe it. Obviously, nobody wants VVS1 or F-level diamonds, which are flawless. Everyone now wants I3, the bottom rung of the diamond. I mean, you're joking, but in a month, we're going to see that everywhere. I know, but that's what you're saying, basically. It's like, fuck VVS, fuck VS, fuck vs fuck s fuck all that we want eye level diamonds now and that and you see this yellowing streak that suggests that it was left in maybe uh animal urine or something and i believe there's a little bit of newsprint that's rubbed off onto this

diamond wow so that's that's great that That's good, actually. We actually like very yellow diamonds that are not canary diamonds. That's what we like. That's the thing. They need to look like an old book you opened after 70 years. Yeah. Yeah, it is weird advertising. I mean, it's so funny because even like recently when I was getting engaged and stuff and like I'm starting to familiarize myself with it, I'm like, why the fuck wouldn't you just what I'm sorry, what is the difference? They're like, well, it's not mine. Yeah, that's I'm trying to get away from that, actually. So, again, what is the good? Right.

Yeah. Yeah. It's nuts. We actually. So these are lab made, but we hold the laboratory scientists. First of all, we recruit very young laboratory scientists and then we hold them against their will at gunpoint while they're making them.

So it's extra valuable. Yeah, that's an extra $5,000 if there's fear involved. Yes, exactly. Oh, wow. You want to see, man, there's a hack post I just found that said seven reasons not to buy a lab-grown diamond. Really? Number one, lab-grown diamonds are worthless okay great wait what they're worthless so that's that sounds like cheap to me

they're like it's once it's made it's about 20 less than the price of a natural mine diamond and okay yeah and also they just contradicted themselves because that's not worthless 20 less is still a chunk of change right and then they're like worthless just feel yeah that that feels like it's some diamond shop owner being like they're worthless exactly piece of shit of course all right bring that over here let me all the arguments are so bad another one's like they're bad for the environment because you got to use electricity. Oh, yes. Okay. But then people are like, people are using renewable energy.

They're like, whatever. It also is a ton of water. Number three, whatever. No, number three, lab diamonds ain't real diamonds. Who gives a fuck, asshole? They're like down to the cellular level, the exact same fucking thing. The process is just different. Yeah, and isn't the process the exact same, just sped up?

Yeah, they're like massive amounts of pressure. Yeah. They know, we got the recipe to make them. They're just doing it outside of, you know, the middle of fucking Africa where they don't have to brutalize people to be like, the De Beers family needs more rivers. Oh, my goodness. And then another one. You can't get lab grown diamonds appraised. A diamond is a diamond is a diamond.

No. Come on. This is. You can't get them appraised. Why? Because, like, all the appraisers have just been like, nope, we're not. We won't even look at that piece of shit. You can only buy small. You can only buy small lab grown diamonds. Okay. have just been like, nope, we won't even look at that piece of shit.

You can only buy small lab-grown diamonds, okay? That's not true either. Then they're expensive. Right. I mean, but they're also worthless. All of these have an implied probably after them. Can't probably get a big one either, probably. I heard you can't even get a good one, man.

Yeah, this is truly the sound. Your mom's going to find out. What? Find out what? When I tell her. She's not going to be very happy. Okay. Who is this? A down and out diamond dealer.

And the next thing to fall fall so diamond industry first and then sneakers reps you know yeah yeah i mean lab grown sneakers there are lab grown sneakers exactly no more finding them in the wild anything that takes the fucking teeth out of luxury goods i'm all for it yes like anything that anything that upsets somebody who defines their lifestyle or level of well-being based on the amount of goods they can afford or the type of goods they can afford take that away yeah we don't need that like that's why it's so funny when you see especially like with like replica fashion people like now like they can buy knockoffs in china real easy on the internet

and they pull up with like almost you know nearly one-to-one looking garments and be like yeah but that's fake and it's like yeah guess what asshole you're mad because you don't like because it's all built on this idea of like well some people shouldn't have access to some things and that's how i feel good about myself yeah blow that shit up shit up. I do know there's a lot ethically wrong with fast fashion, but I think the fact that the ethical problems with that get called out and not any ethical problems with high fashion probably has to do with the fact that there is an established order in place that is trying to protect it. Because you see advertisements that are like, you wouldn't buy a fake Rolex, would you? Yes. Yes, I would.

Oh, I'm sorry. You want to spend fucking $40,000 on a wrist metal? Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll talk about the new spiritual leader of this movement of, you know, what? Nothing. Yeah. Fraudulent is cool now. Thanks to our new king, George Santos. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casaveto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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before he became george santos and prior to that he has all these like he's wanted in brazil for like swindling an old man's checkbook and writing himself checks it's a whole thing but anyway uh now george santos or anthony devolder or captain marvel or whatever the fuck he's going by or i guess in this case he's anthony zabrowski and when i tell you wait why why is he anthony zabrowski well allow his former roommate to just enlighten you onto why he had had, you know, this specific name. How long did you actually live together? We were only roommates for a few months. And I also knew him as Anthony Zabrowski.

So you knew him. Why did he say he had two names then? Well, he used Zabrowski for his friends of Pets United, his GoFundMe. And he would say, oh, well, you know, the Jews will give more if you're a Jew. And so that's the name he used for his GoFundMes. So that's where we're starting off today with the George Santos saga. Again, remember, he also said he was Jewish. And then that was also a lie when he was like

yeah my family they were fleeing like the pogroms you know and like you're like i can't we can't find anything that is even close to that so look he's a shapeshifter and in this case he's you know uh using using this like go fund me scam that he likes to go with and we've talked about this friends of pets United charity that he has, but this is what's, this is what's sort of going on right now. The biggest thing that's come out now is we found out that through that charity, this guy screwed over a sick dog and a disabled veteran. So there was a disabled Navy vet named Richard Osthoff who was living like he was unhoused, living in a tent. And he had his service dog Sapphire who had like, you know,

he received from a charity organization because he would, he needed a service dog, Sapphire, who had like, you know, he received from a charity organization because he needed a service animal. But that dog had a life threatening tumor that needed to be removed. He had no idea what to do because his situation was so dire. And another another person, you know, said, I think I can connect you with somebody who could get you to a pet charity to get, you know, the operation or procedure the dog needs. This is where Santos comes in. His like friends of Pets United, which again is not an actual 501c3 nonprofit organization, claimed that they could raise the funds to get Sapphire the procedures she desperately needed. So he put up a GoFundMe with that, you know, spurious name and they successfully raised the $3,000 that was needed to help the dog. Oh wait, but he's a stinking pile of shit so he absconded with the money and ghosted the fuck out

of this man and ossoff this the veteran said he was in such despair he didn't know if he could live any longer he was had some really dark ideation and then he realized he did not want to abandon the dog and that was the only thing keeping him going eventually the dog had to be euthanized and this was the quote that this guy said when he talked about how much he loved the dog quote i love that dog so much i inhaled her last breaths when i had her euthanized so that's this is the kind of you know this is this is like low hanging fruit to this con man who's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to I'll use this guy in this situation to take my three thousand dollars. And when Santos, Devolder, Hermione or whatever was reached for comment, he said it was all it's all fake.

You can't prove anything. But they have text messages that clearly show Devolder, Santos, Vacario or whatever his name is telling Osthoff that the dog was not a candidate for the surgery. So the money would go to the next animal, a.k.a. his bills. Oh, God, not to be like such a white person, but can we just kill him for that? I was actually going to put a joke in there about I'm like, and I know this is going to resonate with white people because dogs, human beings is one thing. But man, you hear about a puppy meal or some shit. Y'all organize. Yeah, I'm done with him. That's it.

Last straw for sure. That's why I included that sentence about inhaling the last breaths, because that's like I mean, anybody who's had to euthanize an animal that is fucking harrowing, especially when it a an animal you've like you know you have grown to love over many many years but anyway the gop is seems like they are absolutely have no intention of doing anything right now like mccarthy just gave santos a bunch of committee assignments he's going to be on the small business committee and the house science space and technology committee what so there's that but it is interesting to just see like what this is going to the momentum that carries on from having somebody who's this you know fucking foul on on his on the surface i'm many other people are just as bad as he is but like on the surface like this transparently you know insincere but you know it's weird to me

because i'm i'm not a rich person but even i know that three thousand dollars is a pathetic amount of money to steal like what what's the what is that that's a month maybe two of rent that's always something that pops up in my head whenever you're reading about this shit like we were talking about the murdoch the murdoch murdoch murders like the guy who like the guy who allegedly killed his son and wife and is going on trial and had this long history of siphoning money from payouts to people who needed the money.

And there are some points in there where it's small amounts of money and this person's a multi-multi-millionaire, but that never seems to factor in it's like well yeah i got to be a multi multi-millionaire because of how much i like money and that is not changing the more money i get it turns out did any of you grow up with friends that loved to steal shit yeah yeah you know like i i i grew up with people like that and some of them they don't give a fuck what it is it's just the fact that they can come up which is the thrill like anything's a come up they're like yo i just got this i got this butterfly earrings from claire's

i'm like the fuck are you gonna do with that it's like they didn't see me take that shit i'm like this doesn't even make sense like i think on some level some people like it's a compulsion where it doesn't matter they're like oh this is easy that's three that's three grand right there oh this person that's that that's this that's this and it's probably like a video game sometimes you fight the big boss level characters and that's a big payday but sometimes just jump on the little mushroom looking motherfuckers and keep it moving yeah's interesting i don't know i'm just just some i don't know that's something i saw from my experience or to your point you're like why the that doesn't even make sense to even take like you have money and you don't need this thing but it's like no that's the fact that i could

yeah yeah i suppose so this guy this santos he seems like really old-timey to me there's something old-timey about his games. Like he's a little confused, like giving people the wrong name worked 130 years ago. Giving people the wrong name and then like becoming a public figure like in this modern world is just so brazen. And yes, it does suggest an out of control-edness,

like an inability to even like look one step down the road, let alone like two, three, at the consequences of your actions. There was a really interesting clip of like, I think it was Anthony, like he was at some like Republican meeting and the guy introducing him, he's like, George Santos?

He's like, I mean, I know him as Anthony DeVolder, but all right, George, and like, and then brought him up still. And even the guy was like, bro, I thought him as Anthony DeVolder but alright George and then brought him up still and even the guy was like bro I thought you were Anthony DeVolder okay this is George Santos and they kept it moving because at the end of the day it's all about power that's why McCarthy's not going to do anything he needs

asses in the seats on these committees and who cares if some guy who you quite literally don't even know like who or what he's about is representing you. But yeah, yeah, I this is all I can like again. Can you imagine the people that see this and like I'm a better liar than this asshole? Yeah, it must be so demoralizing for them. Or they're like, shit, I could be a senator.

What the fuck is this? Like, I do have to say, I think it's interesting that it's okay for the veteran to say he inhaled his dog's last breaths. But when I tell you, Miles, that if you go before me, I want to inhale your last breaths into my lungs, that it's weird and has to be removed from the show. Well, it's that because you were probably going to force Her Majesty out of the room where it was happening to be like, I'm going his last breaths not the wife i just think it's a beautiful metaphor i know and that shit honestly that shit fucked me up when i read that that chilled me to my core because i remember man i had to put my dalmatian down when i was like 16 yeah and there's a dog it's like the first dog i ever had like i was it was like that dog when you're a kid like i want a puppy i want a puppy i want a puppy and then you get your puppy and then that shit only went about like 10 years 11 years and putting euthanizing her was like i'm still like it's like

the worst one of it was just so harrowing to watch your dog like quite just watch the like life go out yeah it's very difficult yeah no it doesn't yeah i did i was at work with you guys miles in the office when our dog finn like had to be euthanized unexpectedly and like i was on facetime i came in i was just like i was like bawling you know yeah it was uh i know and and i think we're all like dude don't come in bro well i didn't know that that's what was that like it wasn't a thing right right he had been to the vet like oh you know what i think 20 times i think what i'm revealing is something i was telling anna on the side i'm like you should he should go man he's going through it right now and i was like all right the show must go on but then i just wept through that

episode yeah yeah people don't even know. I mean, try and look back. Maybe you'll, I mean, to be fair, we sound like we're weeping or have something going on emotionally in most episodes. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about autopilot. Tesla's autopilot demo that I think gave the world a lot of faith in self-driving cars that they're just around the corner was actually faked.

So a couple of things were happening. I'll just play this in the background so people yeah we'll we'll we'll be playing it but it's the video where the car is navigating a railroad nobody's touching anything that just pulls up somewhere parallel parks which we do know that cars have been able to do but elon musk was like the person's only there for legal reasons like this car was completely driving itself but they had made a detailed 3d mapped model of the route that the car had taken and pre-programmed it to you know follow this path and you, make sure that nothing unexpected was going to happen. And somebody was, the car did not have the ability to deal with traffic lights. So somebody was having to do the acceleration and deceleration around traffic lights, which they didn't mention.

And that's kind of a, that's kind of a big one since they still haven't really figured that one out yet, like to a satisfactory degree. Or that video we saw of like the one like stopping in like I think like one of the Bay Bridge or something in San Francisco caused a pile up. And you're like, yeah, that shit works, huh? Yeah. So what they did, was this a video that they made for consumers or investors or both? It was on their Tesla website. Yeah. So anybody tweeted it out and said, this is this is real.

This is a car driving by itself. The person's only there for legal reasons. So they faked the results of what their product can do. So that's what the haters are saying. But in reality, what they were doing all doing what was possible to build the system so okay person said so even that like best case brightest look scenario is still exactly what theranos got in trouble for doing yes it's like my ultimate point all the time if elizabeth holmes has to go to jail they all gotta go to jail they all do the exact same stuff she just was a woman

doing it that's so wild that like with white supremacy, like misogyny still is a factor. It's not like white won't always protect you. Exactly. Men are good. Look at Elizabeth Holmes's ass. But this guy out here being like, I'm just trying to show you what I think this shit could do. And I'm framing it as what it is doing. Yeah, she was in the medical industry.

So people worry about the deaths caused by her product, which didn't ever happen. This guy, like Tesla's have caused actual deaths. Like he's doing more danger. Why isn't he in jail? I know why he's not in jail, but I just I've got a thing about Elizabeth Holmes. I think she did almost nothing wrong and she's not going to jail. Right. Hey, she's confident.

You know what I mean? She's confident. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to your point, it should be all or none, Catherine. jail right hey she's confident you know what i mean he's confident i like that yeah yeah i mean to your point it should be all or none katherine like if we're throwing her into every other holmesian motherfucker it's we gotta follow the by the letter thank you thank you this quote that they were you know they weren't cheating on the math test they were doing something to represent

their mathematical potential actually actually came from a tesla employee like somebody who you know was working on the project had information about what was going on they couldn't remember gosh my this damn memory couldn't remember if the person in the driver's seat was the one who actually controlled any acceleration or braking or if the car did it. But that's a pretty important component of driving. Yeah. It's up there. Yeah.

But yeah, I think it is wild because this is like this is someone from Tesla versus everybody from the outside who is being like this is like this thing's rife with problems. They're probably bullshit. But it was always able to be like, well, you're not is there. Like this thing's rife with problems. They're probably bullshit, but it was always able to be like, well, you're not in there. So what do you know? And now we're backing away from this world of the Ironman. Elon Musk is Tony Stark world where technology through technology,

all is possible into, into a world where it's like the self-driving technology that everyone thinks is just around the corner turns out is much further off. And a lot of people think they should actually abandon it because the road is a crazy, unpredictable place at all times. And like these motherfuckers still don't seem to be good with traffic lights. Like that is a light that is always in the same place. It's one of three colors yeah they had to create a fake video to pretend otherwise so i don't know someday a driverless tesla is going to crash into a driver tesla and kill the driver and then the tesla fans won't know what to do with

themselves yeah they'll just hold water for tesla i think yeah whatever they'll find they won't know until tesla issues the statement and then they'll be like ah that's that's actually the investors made elon do that that's the other thing that you always hear for the fans like dude the board forced his hand on that one man it's not how he really thinks yeah like you know this is a this is a true story a friday night i had just gone to bed i woke up because i heard what sounded like a car crashing into a bunch of garbage cans and went outside to see if anyone needed an ambulance it was actually a car that had driven into my neighbor's house oh my god and yeah and it was a tesla and a lot of horrible things happened like at that moment and then he like backed out and ran

over a person it was chaos but through this all i was like of, it's a Tesla. My friend saw this on the news, didn't know I was there. And I texted her about it. And she's like, oh my God, of course it was a Tesla. They have like, there's something going on with Tesla drivers overall.

There's like a problem here. I know what confirmation bias is, but like even within that, like. No, but you're right. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Oh, that's science, I believe.

I think we can say that. I mean, I yeah there's oh that's science i believe i think we i think we can say that i mean i know there's so many people that i like like kids i went to high school with who like i follow like loosely on social media or something where there's one guy i know as a tesla and he's like the biggest fucking nerd about it and he's like like eating and it's on auto like just always wants it to be on autopilot. And I'm like, you know, your obituary may show up eventually. But there's such a culture of people just stunting on the autopilot that I'm like, well, I wonder what the real numbers look like with horrific accidents. Seriously.

Yeah. And it is just, I don't know, another another thing. And it is just, I don't know, another another thing. Like, I think the future is not all these things that we think are going to have like self-driving technology and stuff. Like, I think what I realize the longer like we try stuff like this is that like the human mind is incredible and vast and like we only have a small inkling of understanding of like how powerful it is like these articles are always like yeah you don't want to trust the computer but you want to trust humans they're idiots they mess up all the time and that that's true but it's like you you haven't like even come close to approaching like just all the shit that is happening driving's crazy like it's crazy that we're able to just drive and not really think about it that much like no no it makes no sense it's too much power for one person also i thought that all the type of guys who would be obsessed

with tesla would have also seen the movie 2001 a space odys, where the computer turns evil. So, like, don't they know that the computers hate us? No, no, no. What's that? They were like, we're Team Hal, actually. My Tesla's called Hal. I was actually shipping Hal and the alien species. They were going to meet, and I'm a little disappointed. I thought that was the inherent tragedy of that movie.

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now there's cornbread biscuit and two brownie mixes. Nice, nice, nice. I don't know. I guess I'm not familiar with the culinary aspects of Dolly Parton's legend. Are you, Catherine? What does Dolly Parton connote? Like southern cooking? Yeah, I mean, that's got to be why they have it.

Did you say two cornbreads? Two brownies, actually. did i hear that correctly was that two cornbreads indeed it was anyway yeah i don't think her her legacy really has much to do with food but putting her name on box mixes sounds like a smart idea for both parties because everyone loves dolly oh my god they made i mean like look at the boxes that's like barbie branding i know it looks they've animated her the script is very barbie-esque it's a little infantilizing she looks like jen and the hologram jim and the holograms she does they're completely pink yeah yeah oh sorry not two cornbreads cornbread and a biscuit yeah my bad yeah breadbread, a biscuit, and two brownies. In addition to the cake mixes that were already there. I'm picturing everything being pink. And indeed, the boxes are pink, but the brownies, they've decided to keep brownie colored.

Also, how different is this from other Duncan Hines mixes? Oh, please. It's got to be the exact same thing, just with a new packaging on it. But the reason why it's good for her too, is because there's no downside because box mixes are very, very good. Yeah. They, they're unfuck upable. If you,

if you've go by the letter of the law, it is what capitalism has produced. Like we, you know, the, none of the, you know, transportation and all those things like great towns that we were promised.

They, they fucked all that up. We now live siloed off in our homes like talking to each other through computer screens but the lab food the food that they came up with in labs nacho cheese doritos the box mixes like that is that is the height of capitalism that's why i still stand by you know, one of the things that is going to be in the America, like peak American capitalism section of the museum, like 4,000 years from now, if the earth still exists, is the Cheesecake Factory menu. Because that was like, we did that. We did that.

They're like, we did that. We did that. They really did not fuck around when it came to appropriating and turning sweet anything that humanity had achieved. But we digress. We digress. Her rock album. Yeah, but it is true that our best scientific minds are in food labs. Yeah.

They're doing the best work there because those are the places that can afford to pay the best. Yeah, and those are the most pressing issues of our time, obviously. So in addition to this exciting new collaboration with Duncan Hines, Dolly announced more details about her upcoming rock record. So we talked about the story

that she was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, withdrew her name from the nominations because she didn't consider herself a rock act. They were eventually just like, yeah, sorry, we're doing this one way or another. You can show up or not. And she said at the time she was inspired to one day put out a hopefully great rock and roll album. And the details are starting to emerge. She got right to work on it and

it's like all she's treating it like a greatest hits album of rock music. She's going to be covering Purple Rain, Stairway to Heaven, and Freebird, among others. Hell yeah. She's like, those are good, but

I have notes. That's a big swing. That's a big, yeah. a big yeah you sure you want to go for purple rain dolly i mean i fuck with you let's not like you know we can all we can all be great in our own ways but i am interested i mean part of me when i heard that i'm like what like what's the most rock dolly parton could sound you know and i feel like heart kind of vibes like yeah yeah like i would love to hear her sing like crazy on you or something like that that would be fucking wild but again but a part of me is like fuck it let's let's see fucking free bird with dolly parton's free bird yeah there's also going to be guests such as stevie nicks john foberty steven tyler and paul mccartney oh that's it that's all

she could get she's she's just having a nice time i think yeah this is just for her to you know fuck around a little in the studio with some pals right or is this her like also being like shit man i'm probably making the most money i ever had now like somehow now because all of these like deals and like collaborations she's doing i wonder wonder if because she seems so charitable, she's like, fuck it, man. Let me let me ring out the fucking sponge. That is my brand for every cent so I can go on and do some shit with it on the way out and be more philanthropic. Maybe that's my I love that. I love that idea.

Let's go with that because it's so nice. Or she's like, no, motherfuckers. I have a rocket and I'm the fuck out of here i'm sorry y'all yeah it is like that i did have that question when we were talking about george santos like the just the the willingness to change your name like just use a different name with different people just not just completely create your life like if used for good that could be interesting and like i guess there are there are people who are you know equally inventive who who do use it for good a la dolly parton but it is she's also gonna do a duet cover of i can't get no satisfaction

in case the the previous three songs were not clear enough that it's just the most played songs on classic rock radio. So I do, I have to wonder, like I want to hear the behind the scenes of her process for making this album. And was she just here, like she just like doesn't really fuck with rock music. She's like, all right, bring me, bring me the best ones, I guess. and then it's just going through and she's like okay get the watts stacks but get the stacks band from that record i'm like they're all dead oh man they could play though uh who else who

else uh do i remember jimmy hendrix what's he up to uh more bad news yeah more bad news dolly sorry about that well speaking of sorry sorry cruz so we have some bad news for jeopardy because so there's a little controversy around celebrity jeopardy which our writer jm called the t-ball of the game show world fair i it it's still so like the the wolf blitzer andy richter episode have you guys seen that one or like seen the highlights of that andy richter is brilliant or you know just like net mowing the questions down one after another is like you know four times ahead of the next closest and wolf blitzer is revealed to be a full-fledged dummy like just no yes oh he's a prompter reader no facts in that brain no facts not the first fact in the brain and missing like the easy ones with comically bad answers it's really he and um mr not mr incredible that's from the pixar movie but what's the guy from shark tank

which one mr wonderful or mr you know what i mean the bald guy who got scammed mr wonderful yeah he was also like just comically bad. And that's that's what I look for in Celebrity Jeopardy is like just these exposures of people who, you know, through marketing have elevated this this image of themselves and then go up there and just can't can't get anything but anyway some of these questions i'm like this episode like upset even like the mass holes because mass live was like there were massachusetts related questions and no one could even answer those this is the one the patton oswalt and candace parker the episode that pissed people off patton oswalt cand, Candace Parker, WNBA star, great NBA commentator, just basketball commentator in general. And then Tori DeVito fucked up an easy question about Field of Dreams. I guess it's easy.

Like, I think I knew it. Like, I guessed the right answer, but I wasn't, like, confident in my guess. Here, I'll do it for you guys. In Field of Dreams, a question is asked. Is this heaven? No, it's this Midwestern state, also known as the corn state. Yeah. What is Iowa?

Got it. That is both correct and also the level of confidence I was taking into my answer. And the fact that people are treating this as news, like that it spawned multiple articles, each comprised of hundreds of words purely about how three celebrities like missed one question is right. This is just the world we live in. Set off a thousand ships. Oh, can I just speaking of how easy these are? You know what? The other Massachusetts when they couldn't get.

Answer me this. You know what the Massachusetts one they couldn't get? Answer me this. Brainiacs know that MIT stands for this Boston area school. That was the question. Wait. What does MIT stand for? This Boston area school?

Yes. Wait. But the wording is weird. So it's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's just what they're just saying. I't know this is that's not good patent okay how about this jack uh in september in september 2022 about 50 migrants from venezuela were surprised to find themselves on this massachusetts resort island oh it's either nantucket or martha's it's martha's vinger there it is what is martha's

vingered miles what people were like they can't get these at all but i mean those seem pretty easy yeah they're pretty hard normal jeopardy questions are for someone like me who's constantly stoned like i said the point of celebrity jeopardy is for us to be able to see in broad daylight that celebrities are dumb, you know, that or at least they don't exist in the same reality as the rest of us. Anyways, so there's also another thing that should have gotten more controversy than that in the same. So apparently it was like a Kevin Costner category, I guess.

In the same, so apparently it was like a Kevin Costner category, I guess. And so indigenous Canadian actress and writer Devery Jacobs called out the show on Twitter for a question that had absolutely nothing to do with Kevin Costner, although I do think it was a reference to The Untouchables. So the clue was about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mounties, which the show asserted were created to clean up whiskey traders from the United States. But as Jacobs pointed out, the RCMP was actually created to, quote, control and assert sovereignty over indigenous people. Like that's a quote from the first prime minister of Canada. That was like, we need a force on horseback that is there to control and assert sovereignty over indigenous people.

Like the Brits are doing to the Irish. We want that. Except for First Nations people. Yeah. So they were created by Canada's first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, as a colonial army to assert sovereignty over indigenous people and their lands and he says that he got the idea from the royal irish constable constabulary with the which the british created to keep the irish people under control but the mounties are just you know they have a long history in the u and u.s pop culture of being sort of adorable and like,

like not cops, you know what I mean? Like armed doofuses who aren't, yeah, they're, they're always given sort of a, a pass as like innocent. Yeah.

That's how we think of everything Canadian. Yeah. Right. They're like, there's no way they're like, wait, what? They're also a colonizer nation that displaced millions of indigenous people.

Whoa, guys. They don't have it in them. We got a lot in common, it turns out. But I mean, like, in my mind, right, like, they've had such great PR to the point that I'm like, they're not even a real thing. They just dress up and they like, they, it's Dudley do right stuff. But then you're like what was their initial job again what were they doing uh as the the force so their initial job was to displace and forcibly relocate indigenous people and eventually to tear children from their homes

to put in residential schools which is a euphemism for like you know re-education child prison basically yeah and then the reservations were basically prisons where you needed a pass to leave you know, re-education camp. A child prison, basically. Yeah. And then the reservations were basically prisons where you needed a pass to leave, were policed by Mounties. And the Mounties were just like a tool for systemic oppression that continues to this day. Mounties routinely target indigenous communities with violence and harassment.

And yeah, I mean, this myth has been perpetuated by pop culture. Like Hollywood made movies about heroic Mounties in the Canadian wilderness, which I was not familiar with. That was like early 20th century, saving damsels in distress from villains with foreign sounding names. But yeah, I think by the time I was ingesting popular culture, it was like their funny red outfit, their simple mindedness, but like always in a completely non threatening way. Right, right. They were also part Pinkerton.

They were there to disrupt labor strikes, accuse immigrants of being Bolshevik radicals. So just chef's kiss. Yeah. bolshevik radicals so just chef's kiss yeah t's it's so you always know there's trouble when like there's some euphemistic origin story for any kind of law enforcement it's like yeah get those whiskey bandits you know what i mean right you're like no it wasn't i'm like y'all were slave catchers shut the fuck up and it turned into this other thing it's like no no no no no serve and protect and brutalize the fuck out of you yeah this other thing it's like no no no no no serve and protect and brutalize the fuck out of you yeah yeah but the mounties have like those silly pants and like the

gloves that seem overly fancy so if you just dress it up in goofiness no one's gonna notice exactly can you imagine like this fucking lapd starts going on like culottes or like weird writing pants or something they're like Huh? Huh? Look! We're not killing people at a disturbing tick. Yup. In the cop movies now, like they like, I think it was

21 Jump Street or 22, like one of the jumps street they start out as like bike cops because you have to make them seem right? Isn't that right? Like they start out as bike cops cops because you have to make them seem right. Isn't that right? Like they start out as bike cops because they've been like busted down to that level or something. But yeah, you have to make the cops seem silly.

That is going to be a wild new like direction for propaganda to take where they're just all like made non-threatening and goofy well that's why i mean with the the rise of you know smartphones that's always a steady stream of like yo that cop can pop and lock right a perps a perps glims out of their sockets right and you're like oh but also can get down they used to be a b-boy check out those moves or like and i hate that copaganda shit because it's always like, it's, it's so funny because even when I watch, I'm like, oh shit, look at that. Oh wow. He could see walk.

And then I'm like, wait, shut the fuck up. This person put on that uniform to brutalize poor people and protect private property. This is not somebody who gives a fuck about anybody. That's right. But it is, it just does go, go it goes like it goes to show you like that image whenever it's doing something a little bit goofier than like violence then you're like i love it that cop can juggle and make cotton candy yeah in rollerblade cop that's gonna be like the new all cops are rolling around on rollerblades oh my god oh well look we'll wait and see because i mean these ideas may sound absurd

right now but yeah if we've seen anything look at monkeys they probably sounded absurd and are still absurd uh all these years later Catherine, as always, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? Well, my new website, How to Eat LA, is Los Angeles Restaurant Reviews. So if you live here or if you're planning on visiting, you should go check that out. And I also do video versions of the weekend restaurant recommendations on TikTok. So I'm just at Catherine Spires on TikTok. Oh, OK.

And y'all, Catherine knows what the fuck she's talking about with food. Thank you. So this is some person's like, I wanted to make a website. No, she's coming in fucking heavy. OK, it's true. It's true. I, you know, you can give yourself whatever job you want so i decided restaurant critic but i have been writing about food for almost 20 years so exactly this is your

lane uh and i think i mean just already like when looking at your at the site i'm like oh i've never heard of these fucking places and i'm from here yeah yeah that's what i want to do i want to talk about places that aren't getting covered like in the bigger publications. Yeah, exactly. There's like a whole like complex of like lack of like a lack of imagination to what a good restaurant is in L.A. because of these websites. Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought about it that way. But yeah. Well, so many people just they and I get it because like infatuation eater those websites they aggregate like like people just default to that but a lot of the times it's like well these people know the

publicists that are like working the pr for restaurants and things like that whereas you're like y'all got it i went to monterey park and they they fucked it up over there exactly exactly that's what you want yeah that's what i'm more interested in. I think it's more reflective of Los Angeles culture. And I'm making a point to not cover restaurants that have like publicity teams because those places have money. They're set. They're fine. We don't need to talk about them. You'll find out about them anyway.

So just trying to, you know, there's so many amazing restaurants in Los Angeles that hardly anyone knows about. And they like deserve a little come up, you know? Yeah. My God. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Omar's Hal. Yeah. Shout out to Omar Salah. Right. Yeah. Andrew T put me under that place. Of course he did. And is there a tweet or some of the work of media or social media that you've been enjoying? There is a woman named Reb Maisel,'s mostly on tiktok where she reads court documents in a valley girl accent and that sounds so dumb but god it's the funniest shit i've ever heard in my life she finds the most amazing cases but also she recently tweeted that she likes that

hippos are the most dangerous animal on earth because they're vegetarian they don't want to eat you they just hate you and i also love when animals are like that moose are the same way there's people are always like trying to make friends with moose in national parks and moose just want to murder so much they just want to stomp your ribs in and i really admire that about them it's for fun yeah it's for fun and the way they whip their shit around with their tail yeah also an amazing thing yeah they're they're vicious and then like i galaxy brained and i'm like oh my god that's why hippos and moose can't live in the same climates because if they came together just like killer vegans like they'd take over immediately you got to separate them how come some like maniacal maga like donor hasn't

been like you know what i do i pit animals against each other in these kind of bespoke animal fights that you can only be invited to. Next month, we got a moose versus a hippo. You don't know that that's not going on. I know, right? It probably is. Yeah. But then they can't do it. You know what?

It happened once. And then the moose and the hippo looked at each other and were like, who do we really want to kill? And then they fucked the people up. Oh, that's a movie. Wow. About coming together and know who your real oppressors are who your real enemies are yes that's a kid's book can we write that the hippo and the moose that were forced to fight and then they killed the humans that brought them to this situation i think that's such a nice story yeah but it does involve

a hippo biting someone in half that's oh yeah yeah it's a pop-up book the kids will love that part you can rip the corpse look the guts come out miles where can people find you what is a tweet or work of social or otherwise media that you've been enjoying it's a spelling book e is for evisceration. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Fine. Jack and I on our wonderful basketball podcast to miles and Jack got mad. And my 90 day fiance podcast with Sophia Alexandra, which is called for 20 day fiance.

And again, I will say go to how to eat LA. Yeah. Because I'm not, I'm Catherine. I'm done. I'm done with these. These websites are like, this is the newest boba cafe in town.

Like, no, stop that. Stop that. So check that website out. And for all, I know a lot of people, Zyte gang, you hit me up on DMs. Like I'm coming to LA. Where should I eat? I'm saying this now. Go to howtoeatla.com.

That's all. That's all you need to know. Tweets I like. First one is from past guest Demi Adjuibe at Electro Lemon tweeted, calendar reminder went off. Happy anniversary. And it says Wednesday, January 18th. And it says all day, Mark Wahlberg said he could have stopped 9-11. This was the day that he uttered that famous phrase.

So yeah, for those that celebrate, take it in. I just found the image of the Wolf Blitzer celebrity jeopardy, by the way. And the score, final score, Andy Richter,

$39,000 Wolf Blitzer, negative 4,600. Oh, Andy Richter said, you know, It's her negative 4,600. Oh, fuck. Andy Richter said, you know, people always want to like high five me about that. But in the end, I just felt kind of bad for the guy. He just seemed really lost. I'll see if I can find the video of that and link off to that in the footnotes.

Well, we'll do it on a future episode. Yeah. We got some, you know, we might be doing some video stuff coming up in a few months. Yeah, that's right. And then a tweet I've been enjoying. Paul Jackson tweeted. So this is how I learned my work calendar wasn't private. And it's just a screen cap of an image that says, Paul, I want to do the product intro to blank on Friday. And on the only good spot for most people, you have a blocker called

get a chicken. Is that something you could move to join us? Work is hell. Work is hell. A chicken though. Like that, well, that would almost sound like a live chicken, right? Yeah, sounds like it. Or maybe it's just Costco. Costco, right? Yeah, but then I would say, when you say, like, yo, get chicken. Yeah. I don't know.

Anyway, I'm looking into it. And then at Prophet Husband, like Prophet, P-R-O-P-H-E-T, tweeted, Text a homie nicknamed Big Gulp. You make every day of my life better than the next. I feel like I have known you for a thousand lifetimes. Text to wife, make sure the bathroom door is open when I got home. I'm going to come in sprinting. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

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And the Light My Fire cover by Lloyd Price is what I'm going to recommend because it's got a little more soul, a little more flavor, a little more seasoning. You know, that's not to shade and John, and Jim. James Morrison. But, you know, sometimes people can fuck it up too with their own version. So this is Light My Fire by Lloyd Price. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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