The Daily Zeitgeist - Austerity Hilarity, (Parking) Lots To Lose 05.31.2023

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

In episode 1493, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Kyle Ayers to discuss...Republicans successfully holding the global economy hostage, cities around the world eliminating parking spots, Pedro Pas...cal being too friendly, and much more! 1. In the Debt Ceiling Standoff, the Democrats Are Letting Themselves Get Pantsed by the GOP (jacobin.com) 2. Lots to lose: how cities around the world are eliminating car parks | Cities | The Guardian 3. Fans Gave Pedro Pascal an Infection Recreating GoT Scene (people.com) LISTEN: Let Go - Kyle McEvoy Hit us up @TheDailyZeitgeist on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties
Starting point is 00:00:12 you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:00:30 I'm Jess Costavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Starting point is 00:00:56 or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeart on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to season 289 episode 2 of their daily zeitgeist day production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and it is wednesday may 31st 2023 oh yeah goodbye may hello june you know what also goodbye to tobacco it's world no tobacco day also national smile day
Starting point is 00:01:54 world parrot day national utah day national senior health and fitness day national flip-flop day okay and uh necrotizing fasciitis awareness day. The anti-tobacco movement, really. I was at a party this weekend where everyone was smoking for the first time in a long time. And I was like, man, this is so weird and crazy how successful that movement was. Is that a kid's birthday party? Yeah, the kid's birthday party. All the kids were just hacking away. And I was like, man,
Starting point is 00:02:28 this is like the olden days. All right, yeah. When men were men. That's right. Smoking filterless reds. Wait, was it just like, just like suddenly you were in a very cigarette heavy environment?
Starting point is 00:02:39 Yeah, it was weird. I think there were like some Europeans present. Uh-oh. Yeah, yeah. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Fights With White Lattice. Keep happening.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Teaching her tactics. The boats know no end. She said, fuck you. Yeah, yeah. Fuck you. That is courtesy of Chrissy Yamag Yeah, yeah. Fuck you. That is courtesy of Chrissy Yamaguchi, man. I had some white satin
Starting point is 00:03:10 in case you couldn't tell what I was screaming about. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles Gray, a.k.a. A.k.a. At 730
Starting point is 00:03:21 I run suicides in the parking lot. Then I walk with these huge plumpers and ask I heart which milkshake that they got. And here comes the cello. Can't you see? It's Jack's thighs we're dying for. Now I'm feeling more alone than I ever have before. Jack's a brick, but I've also got legs.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Here's an AKA about my plumpers. Jack's a brick, but i've also got legs okay anyway shout out to locker roni for that ben folds inspired aka yes i do in fact also have legs jack is a brick has the yeah very very, thick legs. I mean, I'll get the measuring tape out if we want to go there. You know what I mean? I think I jumped on it because I knew the truth. I felt insecure about the thickness of my legs next to my co-host. I've just been in the cut.
Starting point is 00:04:36 I'm like, yep, yep. No, he's got plumpers. Yeah, yeah, no. Sure. I might have. Sure. I don't know. Pow!
Starting point is 00:04:41 Just like looking at my thighs in the mirror every day. I'm like, these are bumpers uh miles little house up top yeah first time in the history show we're uh trying a new publication sketch yeah some um you can't really do summer uh as an abbrev semi we're gonna do a mere eight episodes a week we're gonna try some new episode formats. For you, the listener, the difference will be one episode on Friday, one episode on Monday, the regular two episodes, everything else. Tuesday morning's episode, we're going to try some different stuff out, interview experts.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Yeah. We'll see. Interesting, folks. Yeah. And we want to hear from you. So hit us at DailyZyg guys on Twitter or in the discord, keep letting us know about your job, your jobs.
Starting point is 00:05:32 What, what's something interesting, you know, we all tend to be, you know, in the same business, but we've gotten some great submissions from the listeners. So keep them coming.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Keep them coming. Keep them coming. Mile. Yeah. We are thrilled to be joined in our third oh yeah very funny stand-up comedian writer actor producer creator of boast rattle compliment contest never seen it the podcast where famous comedians rewrite classic movies they've never seen uh he hosted the podcast faking a murderer where he talked with eight comedians for he hosted the podcast faking a murderer where he talked with eight comedians for eight hours about the show making a murderer but didn't tell his guests that he'd never seen it i know those are old credits but they're very funny oh yeah very
Starting point is 00:06:15 funny welcome to the show the hilarious kyle some of those are still around yeah you know it's hard to make puns out of new true crime shows otherwise i would i would be out here pretending to know about those um you know there's not the the didn't winks it's hard the jinx is even my newest reference you can tell how much television i watch winks the stinks it's me did you guys hear about this lindbergh baby i'm here to tell you about this new true crime thing. Very hot. The Stinks is a podcast where you just keep farting with your guest in the room.
Starting point is 00:06:51 I'm pretty sad everyone missed out on our Fitbit pun discussion earlier. That was a good time. Yeah. I know. We were talking. I mean, let's take them back through it. We were talking about the succession finale. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:03 We were talking about how, you know, I think our last sentiment before we went into the weekend was it would be awesome if they somehow presaged the orca attacks and had like all the succession children get their whole shit bit. Yeah. And then they were like swimming around in the ocean at night and they reference fucking sharks they're like i don't want to get in there there's too many sharks and then they got in there did you start levitating when that happened because i almost like a fucking i almost like had the hydrogen atom like burned into my forehead like fucking
Starting point is 00:07:40 dr manhattan i'm like yes i'm seeing it all now. Their whole shit shall be bit. But the internet is so cruel. They could have got eaten by a regular shark and people would have said you guys weren't even close because you said orcas. Right, right. Exactly. I know you didn't predict anything. You said fucking orcas. Dumb, dumb. Yeah. But upon reiterating, we wanted to see them get their whole shit bit. Kyle, you came up with a brilliant invention. Oh yeah, to track your bowel movements and the health of your poos, there's the shit bit, which lets you know how many times, I would
Starting point is 00:08:12 say the opposite of steps, how many times your legs fall asleep on the toilet every day. And if you don't like the shit bit, you can get the crap a watch. It works with iOS. Just kind of depending on what operating system you're on. It works with ios um just kind of depending on what operating system that's tim uncooked salmon is in charge of the grapple watch i believe uh would that be a toilet or a peripheral device you wear i feel like the toilet is
Starting point is 00:08:38 would be the most effective tool it's just all about getting you into their ecosystem um yeah yeah their fecal system their fecal system. Their fecal system. The biome. The apple biome. Okay, I'm sorry. This is going to be funny until it's real. This is going to be the orca to shark closeness in like five years.
Starting point is 00:08:57 You didn't call it the right name so you didn't predict it. We got to keep it big. Well, that's what you can expect from this episode. Kyle, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Sure. First, a couple of the news stories that we should probably talk about. The debt ceiling crisis averted.
Starting point is 00:09:17 A victory for no one. Depends on, yeah, how partisan you are. Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about how America is rethinking the whole parking spot thing. We've talked about Paris and some cities in the Netherlands. They're doing the very minimum, the beginning steps of starting to think about maybe we don't want our cities just completely swallowed by cars and parking lots.
Starting point is 00:09:46 So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Pedro Pascal being officially too nice to the point that he let fans give him an I am medically too kind. Yes, his doctor has some notes for him. And Connecticut finally
Starting point is 00:10:02 did the right thing and pardoned people with marijuana. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's not happening. Pardoned people convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. That might sound like just a symbolic gesture that is like, yeah, obviously you're going to do that if you haven't done it already. They tried in 2008 and like couldn't get it passed they're like i don't know we're still looking into it what the fuck
Starting point is 00:10:30 you gotta think those sentencings were light as a feather stiff as a board i feel like that's probably what the judge said as he handed them down absolutely um before we get to any of it kyle we do like to ask our guests. Yeah, yeah. What is something from your search history? My search history today was, is mid-century modern real? I'm trying to sell a chair. Just like I got this old desk chair that's like wood and leather. And it looks, every time I try, you try and sell something or buy something, everything's mid-century modern. Yeah. it looks every time i try you try and sell something or buy something everything's mid-century modern yeah the whole world people be like mid-century modern uh los angeles dodgers
Starting point is 00:11:09 clayton kershaw bobblehead i'm sorry what well i mean his takes on religion are from the mid-century every single thing every time everything they do is this everything is a mid i'm like is that mid-century modern because like it says nokia like i don't know how this could possibly every piece of furniture play the snake video game on it but it is mid-century modern right from what century it is it's the snake oil game that's why it's mid-century modern i don't know what that means i don't know what miss i thought mine thing was that because it looks like a fake eames chair so i thought that's what it was i'm gesturing to it like it's going to defend itself over here in the corner.
Starting point is 00:11:48 What sayest thou? Piece of shit. I mean, you can look at that. That, right? Mid-century. So mid-century modern became popular in the early 1900s? It doesn't know what century it's the mid of.
Starting point is 00:12:03 What exactly are we doing here oh wait that's the beginning of that i had no idea i mean i again i just took it as like a catch-all basically for like minimal scandinavian looking furniture that's kind of what i was like it looks like ikea you didn't get there but i'm probably wrong about that too so i'm trying to figure out what that means mid-century modern and then gave up and just googled that so that that's where i'm getting the uh detailed download from the spruce dot com that mid-century modern can be considered a subset of modern design that became popular in the early 1900s because you don't get information if you google is my chair mid-century they want to know more about it right uh which i don't know why I accept all cookies if not for them to know what kind of chair I have. So I don't know. And then all I got is
Starting point is 00:12:49 scammers wanting to buy my chair. Who's like, I would love your chair. What six digit code just got emailed to you? And I was had to do with my chair. Wow. Wait, is that really like a phishing scam people do? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the con. I mean, I have a conversation that I had with someone here about the scam where i said uh he said talk about asking for a six digit code and i said sorry can't sell chair i died of sids which was you know i'm just tired of the scammers and he said you can't sell a chair because you're dead i'm like yeah i died from sids i told you in the earlier text message i don't get the six digit code and then he got really upset because he made a sids joke i think because i
Starting point is 00:13:25 wouldn't give him the password to my email because he's sending me like a gmail you know he's like sending my two-factor i like it better if he was like you know what you shouldn't play around with that man safe sleep is the name of the game it's about safe sleep saves a lot of lives but also flagging the back of a lot of heads i have a mid-century modern son who almost died of sids right yeah early 1900s but he's now he's 50 oh my gosh so i'm trying to figure out what mid-century modern is because you can't sell furniture especially i don't know if it's everywhere but in los angeles it's like oh yeah absurd everywhere i mean i'm guilty of it too i remember i was trying to get rid of like a china hutch that was like that i got like from a i don't know like just it was gifted through someone because they're like, it's an antique.
Starting point is 00:14:09 It's worth taking. And it was not going anywhere. And then I just literally said, it's mid-century modern. Someone came and picked that shit up in 15 minutes. Right. I always to me, I thought mid-century modern meant like a white lady repainted the dresser. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:27 That's all. She sanded down that trash and repainted it it looks nice you can get by on a technicality there you just have a white lady come by and paint your trash trash can yeah so that's what i've been spending too much time on today nice what is uh what's something you think is overrated all right every time i do this i have a hard time deciding i have but i have, what's something you think is overrated? All right. Every time I do this, I have a hard time deciding I have, but I have two, the first thing I think is overrated is nonstick cooking pans. Okay. I am, I am a stainless steel cooking pan guy. I am back. You got to just let your pan heat up properly. Your egg won't stick if you let it heat up properly. These things last forever. They're great pans. The-stick stuff eventually you're
Starting point is 00:15:05 like did i just eat aluminum oh yeah am i eating like you're eating like uh i don't know like little chips of stuff of wall yeah a little flex am i freebasing teflon right now some sort of non-newtonian like especially mid-century modern non-stick coating i think that stuff i think they just based it with lead and asbestos and merge that onto your pan yeah but i i love i'm all about give me these shiny shine let it heat up relax you got this guys i know it's simple and easy to cook an egg on a green pan or whatever just let the aluminum one yeah and just properly make sure you have like enough oil on it put some oil on heat oil you're good you can do anything on that thing the other thing is easier to easier
Starting point is 00:15:51 to clean because you can't you'll never have to be like oh can i put this on the stainless steel yeah you can fuck you can brush the fuck out yeah i got a i got a couple stain stees and i got some cast eyes and i'm good to go and i'm feeling good. Okay. And you know, when it comes to the cast, cast iron doesn't require the insane baby treatment that it used to because soap is no longer deadly,
Starting point is 00:16:12 which is just a great sentence. Oh, that's good. And so you can put soap on it now. Soap them up. Because soap also doesn't include whatever weird thing used to be bad for stuff. It's fun to be like,
Starting point is 00:16:22 remember the stuff you used to clean with? That's cancer. Yeah, right. Turns out that is just direct cancer right lead liquid cancer wild yes i had a roommate who i remember he like lost it on this person who was dating because they washed their cast iron with soap and that was like my first like venture into being like i don't need one of those if that's what i believe cast iron seriousness is a red flag in men predominantly. Anybody.
Starting point is 00:16:50 But cast iron seriousness amongst a guy who couldn't pitch a tent is, and I don't mean like get a boner. I mean like actually put a tent up. No, that's what we're kind of into these days. Making fun of these soy boys. This is my Viagra ripoff called cast iron. That's right. You don't even have to wash it cause you can't put soap on there.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Oh man. There you go. Get one zip and you're casting iron. So that was what I said was overrated that in the word content. Oh, come on, man. How else are we going to describe art?
Starting point is 00:17:17 I, I, I think that was the beginning of the end was when they, we decided none of, none of anything anyone created was art. Cause now you don't have to pay people for it none of anything anyone created was art because now you don't have to pay people for it like it was art imagine i'm gonna go to i'm gonna go to the louvre and and take a picture of some content yeah my favorite content creator probably martin scorsese oh my vincent van gogh mine a little carpenter by the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you. You know, the C in JC was for content.
Starting point is 00:17:45 Yeah. That's right. Just content? Jesus Christ? Oh, hell yeah. What is, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated? Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:55 All right, everybody. I'm not good. Underrated, I think following sports is underrated. Following sports? It's fun to make fun of sports. You're doing a sports ball on here? I know sports is the biggest thing know every i know it's the biggest on here the biggest thing in the world sports the biggest thing in the world right probably
Starting point is 00:18:08 it's like the biggest thing that a lot of people like it's still underrated because everyone loves trash tv and terrible storylines with entitled rich people boy let me tell you about a little thing called sports uh this is the longest running soap opera in the history of the world. We are in season 90 of Basketball the Sport, if not more than that. We're in season 60 of everyone being allowed to be cast in Basketball
Starting point is 00:18:36 the Sport. And we're in season 180 of Baseball. The show Baseball goes so far back, there's dudes named Bird, like first name right exactly that's their legal name treeman and so sports the storylines are so good the people are so entertaining even if you don't like the sport if you don't like basketball it doesn't matter because you could get super into the people involved i'm not here i know what kind of coffee
Starting point is 00:19:03 jimmy butler likes to make out of a fancy espresso machine. This is insane things that I know about these people, but it makes it so good. It makes it so good. Yeah. But I mean, what are you,
Starting point is 00:19:14 you've been watching the conference finals? I watch the NBA. I don't even like any of the NBA teams more than any of the other ones. I just kind of root for whatever would happen
Starting point is 00:19:24 in this television show to make around me the funniest. I'm watching the conference finals in the NBA. I'm from Kansas City. They don't even have a team. So I'm like, it would be funny if Boston came back from 3-0 and then lost because I live in Los Angeles where everyone roots against Boston. That's their second favorite sports team is Boston losing. Yeah, 100%. And so that's hilarious to watch everyone panic about Boston.
Starting point is 00:19:50 Our second favorite team is whoever's playing Boston. Right, exactly. Everyone loves Miami. So it's so funny to watch everyone in Los Angeles panic that Boston, and then it not happen. It just feels great. It's so hilarious. Baseball, that's's almost baseball is more of
Starting point is 00:20:06 like an audio book than a tv show at this point but it it's just a funny long-running soap opera and you can jump in at any time and people be like this guy who used to be on the show was crazy and now he he's dead and now he's the coach right imagine if you're watching a soap opera and a guy shows back up and he's like i'm the director of the soap opera now right yeah you're watching a soap opera and a guy shows back up and he's like, I'm the director of the soap opera now. Right. Yeah. You died in a coma nine years ago. Also, this referee, scandalous behind the scenes.
Starting point is 00:20:34 He's talking so much shit with a burner phone. You can get so into this. You can be as deep or as shallow as you want into it. There's no entry level for fandom, for sports. You really, for a lot of them now, because the internet, you don't really even have to love the sport yeah no you could just be like look at me crammed down your throat these two huge football players have a podcast now what are we doing like it's just ridiculous it's a ridiculous thing i think it's underrated it's fun to make fun of sports ball of up is sports ball is a funny thing to say it's the longest running best soap opera uh uh ever yeah i'm good i i don't think saying sports ball is a funny thing to say personally i'm gonna i'm gonna tell our non-sports
Starting point is 00:21:13 loving listeners that let's let's just move on to a different stance find a new angle it's just like it it just feels like it's been done and you know sports fans in canada call it sports puck oh yeah oh you're doing a sports puck in kentucky they're like hey is that sports horse sport horse yeah it is actually and then i got a couple other underrated things i trash candy i love terrible candy everyone hates but that's not you know i love black licorice i love circus peanuts i love burnt peanuts anything that kids would throw away on halloween is like the stuff i love when you said trash candy i thought you were making another pun and i was like what is this trash candy is my drag name um no i love trash candy uh you know little trash cans you can eat fourth trash
Starting point is 00:22:07 can the one i don't need and i'm selling by letting a white woman paint it yeah all the candy people want to like throw away or hate they can't i love orange slot circus peanuts i do love those or i circus peanut i love it no wafers you like now i was gonna that was the one that was in my mind i was like no way this man's gonna make a wafers taste like you're eating an old baseball card and i don't hate it right you're like i love the gum that used to come with baseball i ate that when i was kind of gum when i was 10 my dad got me a pack of cards from 1988 the year i was born and i ate the gum that was in there and i like and then he's like like what why did i think it would be crumbles into dust right oh it does oh yeah the second you bite it it like cracks like the fucking like
Starting point is 00:22:50 salt and sea floor and then like you get like uh maybe one or two chews before it just turns to absolute it's like you're eating a vampire in the sun right but i love those those those candies maybe it was like a uh um i wish i hadn't brought this up in therapy once about the candy that i love but i think maybe it was a a hoarding defense mechanism where i thought i could get more if i liked what no one wanted like the bad stuff yeah wow and my therapist was like actually we're done for today or so i don't know yeah right also all that stuff is microplastics i hope you're good with that i am yeah yeah i use them to coat my cast iron i don't know i don't know that i believe that like
Starting point is 00:23:31 every piece of gum that you swallow like sits in your gut for i'm pretty sure that's been debunked like for 15 years yeah i'm pretty sure every piece of baseball card gum that i chewed dissolved into my mouth and just swallowed is still with me in some form. It's almost the equivalent of a steroid. Yeah, exactly. That ball that bounced off Jose Canseco's head, that just hit some old gum. That's why it bounced so much.
Starting point is 00:23:56 That's right. See, if you liked the TV show Baseball, you would know about a character named Jose Canseco who is more insane than any soap opera anyways. One of the greats yeah one of the great characters of all time the main hit home run for a different team with his skull that's right it's a header man it's a header yeah all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back hey i'm gianna Pradente.
Starting point is 00:24:26 And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions, like how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it? Like you miss a hundred percent of the shots you never take. Yeah. Rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Talk offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:25:30 I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling first-hand accounts, the seriesdepth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts,
Starting point is 00:26:05 the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.
Starting point is 00:27:12 This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. We're back. Yeah, so the debt ceiling crisis was averted as miles. You said it would be. You had a feeling on this one.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Guys, I've been saying this forever. I think many other pundits are like, they're going to do this every time. They're going to go, it's a fuck, it could be a disaster, but we're going to find a deal. We're not going to find a deal. Or they'll be like, there's no way we can back this kind of spending. We need to clamp down on spending.
Starting point is 00:27:58 We don't care if the economy goes into a shutdown. And they're like, actually, though, don't worry, we're going to find a deal. We're going to find a deal. They had to say one thing for their base and then another for the markets where they're like don't worry there's still going to be money but also for our partisan listeners at home we don't negotiate with terrorists or we're gonna get them to fucking roll back everything about the environment or whatever the things that the gop was going for so um you know we're here and it again true to forum the we've just all it would do
Starting point is 00:28:27 is arrive at a moment where the republicans would use their majority to basically cut spending that's all that's all that happens with these like debt ceiling fucking crises quote unquote is really it's like a time for dark money and other people to just be like hey why don't you guys like just avoid looking at this loophole really quick that allows us to get a lot of money to people that run hedge funds and things like that. Because a lot of the talk right now, depending on where you get your news,
Starting point is 00:28:53 it's like the GOP took an L or this is the best Biden could do. Thank God for Joe Brandon. Or it's like, or progressives are like, Joe Brandon completely fucked that up. Wow, what the fuck was that? The fact of the matter is, they just made it very hard to get food stamps now. Essentially froze non-military spending and gave away billions to the wealthy.
Starting point is 00:29:15 And that's really where we're at at the moment. It's important that we keep spending in the two categories of money. Non and non-non-military. Right. Yeah. The two places money can go absolutely i mean this is like when they like they can barely account for their own like like trillions of dollars in assets and like recently there's like a three billion dollar like miscalculation that they found and they didn't even make like no one even talked about it i would imagine they were calculating all the debt and then someone typed eight zero zero eight five into the calculator
Starting point is 00:29:49 showed it to someone and then that screwed up a comma somewhere and three billion dollars was lost 7734206 what is that go to hell oh got him but yeah i mean this is like i don't know about that one it's it's just like i think again when you look at like for example the biden and the gop agreed to not close a loophole that's basically a 50 billion dollar giveaway to the wealthiest americans like it's it's a pass-through loophole that allows people to use like a pass-through entity like a private equity firm or a hedge fund or law firms or medical practices to bypass a $10,000 limit on state and local tax write-offs. You know, the things everyone has access to, the things you
Starting point is 00:30:30 and I have access to on a regular basis. A medical practice. So because I'm writing off over $10,000. I feel like I can breathe again now that I can write off more than $10,000. Could you imagine? I'm writing off three quarters of my yearly salary right i mean and again like all like all that would need to happen for something like this would just be for like the irs to enforce the fucking laws but guess what the democrats and republicans also they they've just agreed hey you know what we can we cannot really fund the irs we can slash that budget down a little bit because basically means there's less hall monitors to pay attention to the tax cheat fuckery um so the people that end up winning the wealthy the people that end up losing people in need like if you're on like you know snap
Starting point is 00:31:15 program or let's say fucking student debt because now he's essentially codified the end of the student loan uh where he's basically saying payments will resume at the end of august so just just a rare win for the rich yeah it's good to see him back in corporations finally got one they've been on a long losing streak they hadn't won anything since earlier in the email yeah yeah so it's just like it's just like a really fucking you know it the wild thing is like right on the right wing they're like you know fucking mccarthy screwed us we're not gonna vote for this and the progress progressives in the democratic party like what a fucking clown show like you could have passed the fucking debt ceiling resolution in the lame duck session between the election and the like
Starting point is 00:32:02 swearing in of the new class when you had the votes but you fucking didn't and now you have to sit down with these fucking creeps who are just going to make you slash more social spending which is the name of the fucking game and it really that really just gives cover to the democrats to cut social spending right which is what their corporate benefactors or corporate bosses want anyway right because a their bosses they're not gonna fuck up their their benefactors financial situation by throwing the economy into a fucking manufactured recession that was for damn sure so they're like all right so here we'll give you that loophole we won't we won't touch the tax the trump tax cuts it's just like there's nothing like so
Starting point is 00:32:43 where are you gonna to make this revenue from not much of there just a lot of cuts and shit like that so uh now the drama will be kicked down the road and we'll see if today i mean they're voting on it today the new york times is like please sign the thing now it's perfect i mean it's as best as we can do um but yeah right now mccarthy's trying to see if he has the votes because that could be the last little bit of drama uh that might hold this thing up they might ask for like every every classroom has a assault what rifle or something like that like they're like we we got to push this through yeah i mean yeah i mean like right now the you know biden and mccarthy have come together to basically like fuck off the wings of their party to be like, all right, you got enough people in your pocket because I got enough people in mine that we can push this budget through.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Like we can lose all of the Freedom Caucus freaks and all of the progressives. They can vote against it, but we can come together in the name of centrism to get it done. And now they're patting themselves on the back. And like some people like Biden does it again. And it's like, no, he he still got it sneaky joe i'm trying to slip right through it yeah it's so sneaky sneakers through it um all right america is rethinking the whole parking spot thing so there's there's a new book by a guy named hen Graber that's pointing out like specifically New York city could repurpose some of its 3 million curbside parking lots,
Starting point is 00:34:09 which would then provide like the amount of space that's taken up by parking in just New York city to put things in perspective is the area equivalent to 52 central parks. That's like, how is that physically possible? The area equivalent to 52 central parks. That's like... How is that physically possible? Because every street in the city is lined on both sides with parking. Everything is...
Starting point is 00:34:33 And there's no alleys in New York. Yeah. They don't have alleyways. But could you make 52... What is the proportion of central park to Manhattan? I'm sorry. I'm getting real nerdy here. I'm like...
Starting point is 00:34:43 Central park is about 1 52th of the amount of parking that there is, if you need to visualize it. That's actually really helpful. That's a good way to put it. Now I can picture it. Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't... You wouldn't be able to move the buildings around and create 52 Central Parks, obviously. But the equivalent
Starting point is 00:34:59 square footage is what they're saying? Yeah, equivalent square footage. You know how your intestines are like 7,000 miles long or whatever they are? That's what parking is like in New York City. You look at Manhattan from above, you're like, there's no way that my crap-a-watch could fit and do all that.
Starting point is 00:35:11 Now unwind it. It's 52 Central Parks. And then that makes the sidewalks where the trash goes. Right. Well, that is one of the things people are pointing out is it would make it possible for there to be proper trash storage so that you could actually you know put trash in new york city in containers no no it does not currently happen and it's why new york is synonymous with like having a horrible swarming
Starting point is 00:35:43 rat problem not only does it not happen, when you type that sentence out in the doc, a red squiggly line goes underneath it. That's how little New York has for trash cleanup. Just living in New York, there are these massive snow banks of trash on the sidewalk sometimes. It's truly wild.
Starting point is 00:36:02 I remember as a kid, we pushed our friend into it when we're walking because we're like dude when he gets next to it just fucking launch him into the and he disappeared we haven't seen him since just shouldered him if you don't do it on that opportunity you can do it nine feet later at the slightly larger yeah i think that i don't think this was an efficient way for cities to rebuild, but New York is, it has never quite fully burned down like, like San Francisco and Chicago like to do. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:28 And what happened when San Francisco and Chicago burned down those parts of the city have nice alleyways for storing trash. That's right. I'm not saying that's, I think maybe this parking thing's a better idea than purpose fire, but, um, well,
Starting point is 00:36:39 yeah, I'm not a city planner. Precision arson is your solution, Kyle, to every problem that we raised before we started recording. It really is. Everything from protecting our
Starting point is 00:36:52 democracy. The debt ceiling. Precision firing, now it's the debt sky. That's right. Which is the link. I think New York just got 9-11 and we got a police state. That's right. Lower Manhattan has like the best we could do. Yeah, but lower Manhattan has tons of places to store trash.
Starting point is 00:37:08 Yeah, that's true. You have to rebuild a lot and make these alleyways. And yeah, really, and really cool camera arrays that are just jetting up from everywhere to be like, what is this? Like, we're looking at you. We're looking at you, motherfucker. Nah, it's made everything safe forever. But so our writer, JM, kind of looked back at some some past examples we've talked about paris um we've talked about some cities in the netherlands uh zurich back in
Starting point is 00:37:33 1996 flat out stated there would be no more parking in the city like if a developer wanted to create new parking spaces they would be required to remove that many parking spaces from the city streets i love that that's like nightclub. It's like one in one out. Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah, the fire marshal's there with the clicker. Hey, sorry, man. Sorry. Need a few more out. Need a few more out. Just on a stool, holding a clicker. Click, click, click.
Starting point is 00:37:57 Paris has been removing street parking, replacing it with underground facilities. And last year, they passed a law requiring parking lots big enough to hold around 50 American-sized cars. love that we stand for something in the global community when they see american-sized cars it is the hot dog car from i think you should leave that's right right uh if it can hold 50 american-sized cars they're required to build raised solar panel canopies covering at least half of the surface of the parking lot which would be the equivalent of 10 nuclear power plants um so i don't know that's cool it seems seems like these are all positive ideas hey just with that you'd have
Starting point is 00:38:39 nice clear streets and the power of 10 nuclear power plants. Like, wow. This does sound like the meekest superhero origin story. Right. Solar man. He could be called like the Paris Accord because he was parking his Honda and accidentally got electrocuted by the solar panel. And now he's just pretty attuned to traffic flow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:02 And then Berlin, one neighborhood experiment with getting rid of parking spots all together and are like allowing bikes and scooters to occupy spaces that used to be exclusive to cars so this is all like these are great when you look at pictures of these places it's like here's what it used to look like and it's like an american city and now here's what it looks looks like and there's just like all these amazing creative things that they're doing with all the sidewalk space. And, you know, like they have things called bike highways in Paris that are just what used to be streets that are now, you know, parks with bike lanes going through them essentially in the US. So there are around 2 billion parking spaces in the country, which amounts to nearly seven parking spaces for every car, which seems like too many.
Starting point is 00:39:49 Guns in parking are a uniquely American problem. Yeah. That's got to level out if you just like get rid of Houston. Right. Yeah, maybe. Like all of those statistics. Like there was just a move at the, like when cars first became a thing,
Starting point is 00:40:06 like they encoded all these laws, these like zoning codes that mandated minimum parking requirements for real estate projects that basically said that when a new building goes up, there's a minimum number of parking spaces that need to be provided or like the city will fall or else. And like, everyone has been like that. It turns out that's not the case jackson wyoming a study found that there were 27 spaces for every home so there's just wait you're telling me there's
Starting point is 00:40:33 54 parking spaces in jackson wyoming that's right but it was actually like inverted at this time like when these zoning restrictions went into place uh the cool thing was like among young people like was driving like that was and like public transportation was like what the old people were into and used but like driving was seen as like individualistic and like you controlled your own destiny and like that's the the book on the road is like the bible for this shit but i don't know it feels like now we have an opportunity with a generation coming up that like doesn't even get their license at the same rate as ever before right and that think cars are shit um so it seems like there should be an opportunity here to roll
Starting point is 00:41:23 some of this shit back but it's just a just a matter of getting out from under this massive system. If there's one thing I've found, it's that Americans are generally receptive to wide sweeping change. So I think if this is presented on a local and a national level and they hear it from anyone they don't care for, they'll be in. This is something they'll jump on board for. They'll just listen to reason on this one yeah we have like these dumb fucking zoning laws and like the worshiping of parking spaces and we're i think we've talked about the past how cars are getting too big for fucking parking spaces because every car manufacturer is like people will buy bigger cars for more money so just make them fucking gigantic to the point you can't even park them
Starting point is 00:42:02 in the old parking spaces and a lot of that has to do with the national automobile dealers association because they're just like a massive lobbying group and they you know they're they got all the dealers on one page and like they definitely help push through a lot of that kind of stuff too that i don't have like a massively informed uh knowledge on this but i do know that tire companies like firestone were very big on sabotaging transit in los angeles oh yeah los angeles used to have like a huge amount of rail cars yeah like above ground like san francisco style rail cars and then they just pushed they were invested in by a company that was essentially funded by firestone and general motors that just was like we should get rid of all these and make it impossible to get around this. Because LA used to have so many more stops.
Starting point is 00:42:46 It's such a vast transit system. Yeah, if you look at the old layout of that old system, your eyes would water. And I mentioned this on a past episode. Growing up, you'd trip over
Starting point is 00:42:57 the old infrastructure in the street. And you're like, what the fuck is this? Was there a train here? Yeah. No, 100%. And it's like, the asphalt is revealing a little bit of the track. And then some? It's like, was there a train here? Yeah, no, 100%. And it's like the,
Starting point is 00:43:05 like the asphalt is like revealing a little bit of the track. And then some older person's like, that's when the trolley used to come through here. And you're like, no fucking way. Get away. Get in my Honda. It was like,
Starting point is 00:43:16 it would be from like long beach, Santa Monica. This is just super specific to LA, but like massive and sprawling all the way out through the valley and everything. Yeah. Just completely replaced. Cause because for some reason a tire company wanted more cars yeah yeah and even buses instead of the transit which are
Starting point is 00:43:32 a lot less efficient and harder to track and things like that yeah I think it was that and also just that it was like seen as cool like it really was cars were seen as cool I mean they still are early freedom you know you're 16 you can get out of your house and go somewhere on your own.
Starting point is 00:43:47 Go smoke pot by the lookout. James Dean. He's making sausage. Actually made him seem really cool. I just saw a statue of him up at the observatory. There are some US cities getting rid of the minimum
Starting point is 00:44:03 parking requirements. at least there's been 15 in 2022 alone um which it also has an impact on the housing crisis because when you like are building something that requires you to build a bunch of like find a bunch of parking spots for it it just like changes how you approach the thing it makes it way more expensive and then those costs get folded into uh the the cost to the builder oh wait no sorry folded into the rent or the price always um regardless of whether or not you they love to pass those savings on to you yeah that's right um just get you you guys want in on this too we're thinking about going in on some parking you guys want it all right why not We're thinking about going in on some parking. You guys want in? All right. Why not?
Starting point is 00:44:45 No. We have a big problem. That's right. Also, apparently we have a big problem with people murdering each other over parking spaces, which I wasn't aware of, but yeah,
Starting point is 00:44:57 it's an annual multi-dozen occurrence. Apparently it was weird. I took a guy's parking spot that he really wanted. He was really angry and then i tried saying no no there's seven of these for every car in america yeah he wasn't listening to reason that didn't calm him calm him down and you should have you should have an abundance mentality sir not a scarcity mentality there's a car i drove up to griffith observatory with my dog and we're hanging out up there and there was so little parking that people are like almost fighting each other to pay ten dollars an hour yeah yeah i had
Starting point is 00:45:31 that same experience and just turned around i was like well this has been a nice ride just drove off the edge of the cliff yeah i was like it just drove into the ocean that's what happened to the family no parking it just went right off the you know what kids how about we go to the ocean that's what happened to the odoyle family no parking it just went right off the you know what kids how about we go to the ocean and get our whole shit bit instead that's right rather do that than this crap but yeah it's like it really does bring the weirdest shit out of people because i feel like on the internet you always see videos of like people who like stand in a fucking parking space like with their hands on their hips and they're like no go around go around my husband's coming with the car he's coming with 45 minutes away yeah my husband's almost born and it kind of and i get so like fucking incensed by seeing those videos and i'm like i
Starting point is 00:46:20 like for what and i you can tell when you know how shit can go left in those situations because people are so fucking protective or exercise this bizarre fucked up sense of ownership i think chicago has like wild unwritten rules about chairing off snow spaces that you've dug out like if your car was if it snows around your car you're allowed to put a folding chair and keep that spot for the day if you've done the work if you've done the work or something like that and you know you know the thing about those unwritten rules is everyone loves them yeah when someone just throws that chair 40 feet and parks there you're allowed to key their car and take a shit on the hood so yeah zeitgang let us know what are the weird parking laws uh there has to be i feel
Starting point is 00:47:02 like there's a lot of this weird unwritten stuff that exists can you cover the sidewalk does a chair take a spot where you know i mean there's got it right it feels like city to city and town to town yeah because like i was always blown away like when i was in seattle recently how people just park on the wrong side of the road too like just they're like yep i don't know fuck it park on whatever side i want to to park this car and like as an like la person where we have just such fucking draconian like parking enforcement rules i'm like is that is that's allowed here in this musical town all right let's take a quick break we'll uh talk some shit about seattle off mike and then uh no no i'm just kidding. But what the fuck? They parted the opposite way? What's wrong with them?
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Starting point is 00:50:18 just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and's what i focus on from college to the pros clark and reese have changed the way we consume women's sports angel reese is a joy to watch she is unapologetically black i love her what exactly ignited this fire why has it been so good for the game and can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.
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Starting point is 00:51:17 Walked. You walked? Yeah. Typical. It's man. I wasn't on parental leave. I was walking to seattle and then i flew back just took like three months to go a really long time
Starting point is 00:51:29 wait why are you asking the question because i just that airport i was like there for a single day and that airport i ended up spending like two hours there and there's like hey this is duff mckagan from guns and roses like oh yeah yeah kind of blew me away there's just like yeah i like cities that don't have any famous people that they're just like hey this is bob mckendricks you know me do i are you the most famous guy from omaha i have no idea who you are celebrity pipe fitter. Duff McKagan, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Macklemore, all-star lineup. Darius Rucker. Oh, no, wait.
Starting point is 00:52:12 Oh, no, that's Nashville. You get Darius Rucker. I can't think of anyone I would more want to have ask me if my possessions have been with me the entire time I was parking than Macklemore. Yeah. Unless you got your things from a thrift shop. Hey, it was parking than Macklemore. Yeah. Unless you got your things from a thrift shop. Hey, it's me, Macklemore. I know you said that up top. Yay, that's been
Starting point is 00:52:31 me, Macklemore. That's me, Macklemore, the white guy who won the Grammy. Was it over Kendrick? Yeah, it's over one of the greatest, most persevering, long-lasting, holds-up rap albums of all time do you think they're like white rap bands who are like fuck yeah macklemore
Starting point is 00:52:49 i think there were old grammy voters who were who were like oh ryan lewis is an accessible name right right kendrick lamar i don't know about that. It's about this donut place. Yeah. All right. Pedro Pascal. Speaking of famous people, a lot of people were first introduced to Pedro Pascal in Game of Thrones and unintroduced to him or said goodbye to him in his character's most memorable scene in which he fights the mountain.
Starting point is 00:53:22 We're all rooting for him. And the mountain gets a hold of that noggin the hold of that melon and those face eggs yeah take those face eggs and uh pops them with his thumbs so he gouges his eyes out with his thumbs uh burned into my memory, my heart. So it became... Were you fucked up when Oberyn Martell died? Did you think he had a chance to? I guess I did a little bit.
Starting point is 00:53:53 I did as I was watching it. I feel like that scene of that is how all of Succession felt all of the time. Where you're like, oh, he's got a chance. Oh, it's way worse than I thought it could be oh my god not only has he lost but oh it's gonna work out for her oh no no no no no no wow shit's really on a roll heading into this one i bet it's just gonna keep going like this but yeah i think they did a good job of just like getting you in the cadence of the show
Starting point is 00:54:24 and like he was a hero and it felt like everything was heroic yeah yeah for sure it's both like a hard moment to watch and like wasn't fun at the time but also i think what made that show great is oh yeah like no no this is how history happens like the guy that you're all hoping for just because you like him doesn't make him invincible. Yeah, right. He felt a little more invincible too because he was outside of these major he was like a cool guy who didn't care about the main fight. He just sort of was like
Starting point is 00:54:53 and very, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's too happy. Anyway, so what were we talking about? That moment became so famous that he has recreated on the red carpet of a Game of Thrones event back in 2019. He looks like he was a little drunk when he did that. Just having a good time.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Got his thumbs in his eyes and his tongue out. He looks drunk as fuck. It's like he's like, it's as if Game of Thrones did like a collaboration with the Budweiser frogs. Or like the Budweiser was up guys. Cause he's sort of like doing like, I've never seen someone look more mid weather in my life. Um, Pedro anyways,
Starting point is 00:55:39 uh, you know, good sport. Uh, and in fact, such a good sport. Uh, he just revealed during a Hollywood reporter actor round table that fans
Starting point is 00:55:48 often wanted to take selfies, recreating this scene with their thumbs right in his eyes. The. Go. Like that. It's so horrifying. So invasive. Um,
Starting point is 00:56:04 and even wilder than that. And I can't believe that one person came up with this request, let alone multiple people. Maybe the first person posted it on the gram, and everyone was like, ooh, I need that on my wall. But he let them do this. Like they go, hey, is it cool if we flick it up, Pedro? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:31 Hey, can I put my thumbs in your eyes? Like I'm gouging them out. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, of course. That's what people ask people. Okay. Yes.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Okay. It was pre-COVID times. I hope we didn't know how disgusting everyone was. But yeah, he let random strangers shove their disgusting thumbs into his eyes just to snap a picture because he was, quote, so happy about the success of the character in the show. But because people are gross and their hands weren't clean, he got a bit of an eye infection as a result. It just cuts to like that paul rudd saying that's how you get pink eye situation right i think a similar thing uh happened with giancarlo esposito where he let too many people singe off half of his face for selfies
Starting point is 00:57:18 to where now he has some irreparable scarring yeah oh my god get too mad like Giancarlo do you mind if I I brought a bell half of it yeah I brought a bell shout out to that bell but yeah I guess I mean it's kind of it's funny because his like the lore of Pedro Pascal is like he's like a nice guy like everyone seemed to say that he's like really cool and nice or whatever but it's just funny it's like to the point that he will like let you rub your bacteria laden fingertips all over his ocular cavities um and you know we're just having a bit of an eye infection which also sounds like him playing off something really horrific right yeah like what was it like was it just worming its way out of his eyes in real time it was actually used as concept art for one of the zombies in the Last of Us because my eyes are so fucking far gone.
Starting point is 00:58:11 Yeah. A lot of eye stuff with this guy. Anyways, a true hero who needs to work on his boundaries, I would say. And speaking of true heroes that need to work on their boundaries, Kyle, such a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist. Thanks for having me. Where can people find you, follow follow you all that good stuff uh i'm at kyle ayers on most things a-y-e-r-s you can kind of you know find me across the instagram i'm not really on twitter as much anymore feels a little different on there but instagram and and stuff
Starting point is 00:58:40 like that and um yeah i keep finding all these great blue checkmark accounts. I gotta... Yeah. You gotta just check the replies. You're gonna find... There's like an expert that had five accounts. Good for her.
Starting point is 00:58:53 Yeah, you find me on there. And if you're around at Los Angeles or Kansas City, I'm running this show that I have... I'm starting called Hard to Say. I have a rare brain disease condition called trigeminal neuralgia. It's like a degenerative nerve disease. I have, I'm starting called hard to say, I have a rare brain disease condition called
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Starting point is 00:59:30 So yeah, you know, follow me places. That's where you'll see about. Yeah. Go see him. And is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Um,
Starting point is 00:59:38 I haven't been, I haven't been on Twitter as much, but I got two tweets in here that I thought were really funny. One is from DJ RT IST IC. I don't know them, but they were in my, it says LA gangster rap in the nineties was insane. They would diss the hell out of their enemies for two verses,
Starting point is 00:59:52 then give you an eight bar saxophone solo, which I love. And then Jeremy smiles was this other one I saw. This is about succession. So I, you know, if you don't want to listen. It says, guy who thinks succession is about how Shiv is really cool and smart. They ruined it. They ruined literally the only female character on the show.
Starting point is 01:00:15 And for what? A stupid twist. And then this is guy who thinks succession is about Kendall overcoming his fear of water. Okay, first of all, that's it. Man loves some water. Okay, first of all, that's it. Man loves some water. Miles, where can people find you? What is the work media you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter, Instagram,
Starting point is 01:00:36 other app-based applications at milesofgray. You can also find me and Jack on our basketball podcast, No Longer Sad Boosties. Back to Mad Boosties. We just got our basketball podcast no longer sad boosties back to mad boosties furious boosties furious boosties yeah exactly uh and also if you like trash tv check sophie alexander and i out on a 420 day fiance um let's see let's see some tweets's see. Some tweets I like. The hype at the hype. It said me. So where am I supposed to sit? United Airlines in the cargo hold, you piece of shit. It's off a thread talking more about United Airlines.
Starting point is 01:01:16 It's another one. United Airlines. Time to check in for your flight. Me. Okay, cool. Let's do it. United Airlines. Would you like to select your seat?
Starting point is 01:01:22 Me. Definitely. United Airlines. Too bad, LOL. And then it says, where am i supposed to sit in the cargo i just like the last part because if someone who flies united a lot it does sometimes it's like do i do i have do i have the ability to am i allowed here no are you mad that i'm on your plane are you mad at me the person at the gate hissed at me like they just take turns being the bad one like and every airline oh yeah it's a miracle right who's the second worst airline although i feel like i know so many delta stands though i know a lot of delta stands but it didn't used to be that way delta wasn't i know that's what all
Starting point is 01:02:04 these people said and people be like yeah united used to be good i'm like i don't know man i'm just i just want to be able to sit by a window for not 7500 more kyle is your did you say who competing for who's the second worst because yeah yeah yeah the bottom tends to be the bottom in these situations i'm a royals fan so i understand how it works. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien Chalkin Smirk at Beanie Tuesday tweeted Robert Oppenheimer hands clasped behind his back standing in front of the newly
Starting point is 01:02:37 completed atomic bomb. Now I am become death destroyer of worlds. Another scientist who worked on the project. Me too. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website DailyZeitgeist.com
Starting point is 01:03:00 where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles is there a song that you think people might enjoy yeah this is a track called let go by kyle mcavoy uh mick jenkins i think it's produced by blockhead which is one of my he's one of my favorite producers if you like asap rock produce a lot of Aesop rock stuff. And it kind of sounds like a dope hip hop track,
Starting point is 01:03:28 but for the main menu of an animated puzzle game. Does that make sense? I feel like I'm playing Bubble Bobble or something like that. But it's also like a beat. And I'm like, wait, where are we going with this beat? But it's fun. It's called Let Go. So check this out.
Starting point is 01:03:40 Kyle McAvoy, Mick Jenkins, Blockhead. There you go. Well, you can find that in the footnote. The Daily Psych is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to y'all then.
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