The Daily Zeitgeist - Biden’s Busted Budget, James Bond The Game Show 3.30.22

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

In episode 1215, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by musician Illingsworth to discuss… About 37% of American jobs can be done remotely..Bosses miss the office most, Biden’s new budget has no ambition…surprise!, That Convoy wasn’t shit, FINALLY! The James Bond game show and more! About 37% of American jobs can be done remotely..Bosses miss the office most Biden’s new budget has no ambition…surprise! ‘Ricky Bobby’ Causes Ruckus at Trucker Convoy, Watches His Buddy Get Arrested People’s Convoy Gives Up, Will Leave D.C. After 3 Weeks of Doing Absolutely Nothing FINALLY! The James Bond game show illingsworks.bandcamp.com/ LISTEN: RIP M.F. Doom (Prod. by Illingsworth) by Open Mike EagleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay 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

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. No, Karen, I don't think he should give his Oscar back. Anyway, hello to internet and welcome to season 230, episode three of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. It's the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, March 30th, 2022. What national day is it? It's so many. It's National Doctors Day. Not, I think, actual doctors. Maybe the show The Doctors. I'm not sure. I'll have to look into that. National I Am In Control Day.

Also, National Turkey Neck Soup Day. If you out there with the turkey neck soup recipes on deck, send them on by. Love to know more about it. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. Chef Bongi Flay, Chef Anthony Bud Dane, Chef Weed Gang Puck, Endo Lagasse, Gordon Roachsey, Alton Green, which stands because it's Alton Green. And also, yeah, we'll just keep it right there because some of the other names are problematic and we don't talk about some of those chefs but thank you to cwgvo on the discord for those wonderful weed chef crossovers because you know i love both those things but who am i joined with today oh you already know because we've been talking about it a lot and then even on the last show i was like hey join me tomorrow and maybe the next day and maybe a few consecutive days i am thrilled to be joined as my guest co-host today, the brilliant and talented podcaster, producer, comedian, actor, voiceover artist, singer, I mean, my amateur preacher at times, if you've heard his entire body of work, please give it up for the brilliant and talented Jacky Sneal. Unbreak my heart.

Say your Jacky's again. Undo the hurt you caused when you walked out the door and slapped Chris Rock. Uncry these knees. I cried so many nights. Unbreak my slab. Billy's eye and guys. Oh, what up, niggas? We back.

We back. We back. We back. I want to just let people know, you know, my sermon at the First Tabernacle Church of Christ is coming up. Tomorrow, we talking about why sex should be allowed. Everybody should be

knocking boots, man. You know, God amended some stuff. They just haven't put it to print yet, you know. Exactly. We can fuck. We can fuck before marriage now, y'all. Yo, people love his church, man. He goes, hey, man, We can fuck before marriage now, y'all. You know, people, people love his church, man. He goes, Hey man, we can fuck. All right. Now, you know what? I'm gonna let you get a couple more hours out of your Sunday. Why don't you go on home and do what you got to do? Yeah.

What's good? How you been? Sunday morning delight. What up, Miles? How are you? Is this today feels like a much calmer day. Yeah. Well, it all depends it's just it's funny to watch the people who won't leave the chris rock and will smith shit alone still like a few days after and you're like come on now really i saw i was telling you i saw an article from this like business website that said we spoke to three heads of hr to get their take on what to do if the chris rock will sm Smith slap happened in their office. And I'm like,

what in the fuck are, what are y'all doing? First order of business, get Will Smith and Chris Rock to work in your office. And then do absolutely nothing. Could you imagine that workplace? I mean, wow. And then they're fighting over Jada or some shit. Anyway, Jaquese, we are joined by a great guest. Somebody who's, you know, been on the show before. We tried to get him again. They're so busy. You know what I mean? They say, oh, hold on, man. Let me get my assistant to holler at you real quick. That day is not going a talented person. They're a brilliant emcee, brilliant producer straight from Detroit, Michigan, you know, where basically the greatest beat makers of that of my memory come from.

You know, people fuck around with the culture they know about Detroit. But I am thrilled and pleased to welcome our guest. to welcome our guest, Ellingworth! What's up, Ellingworth? Hello. I'm good, man. I'm glad to be here. If y'all want me to get into the real reason why I was not on before, I can. I know. I was... That's up to you. I set it up like that because I remember the day you were supposed to be on,

and we said, Gio, he hasn't called in. We don't know what's going on. And then tell us what happened that prevented you from coming on a few weeks ago. All right. I'm going to try to give the abbreviated version. Long story short. You can give the long story. I mean, it's interesting. If it's interesting, please, by all means.

Well, I'll put it like this. An unlabeled bag of candies ended up in front of my father. And my father is the type of person where it's like, if it's in my reach, it's mine. So he just indiscriminately ate these candies until they were gone. Only to find out later

that they had a little bit of the ganji ganj inside of them. And he had a rough he had a rough evening um i actually uh you know in many ways i am proud of my father but in that in that day in that moment i was very ashamed at his gullibility and just like level of like you are so naive an unlabeled bag of candy you just gonna eat every last right piece i mean i know yes is it

okay how many what are we talking like you you didn't even open this bag we're talking okay oh well you know i'm not i'm not gonna like act like I don't indulge from time to time. But this bag actually belonged to a friend. Okay. Wow. Who had left it around. You can just tell. The shit belonged to my friend.

Yeah, we hear cops, man. It wasn't mine, man. It wasn't mine. But no, like, oh, no. I was just going to say, like, it was left around him. As far as I know, there were as little as six pieces and as many as 20 in this bag. It was like a Ziploc, like a completely unlabeled, unmarked, you know, with. And you know how edibles look, man.

They don't look like any kind of store bought candy. They look very man made. Like, why are you just right? Doping these into your gullet? Also, the taste. It's not like you're going to eat it. Eventually, you're going to taste the weed. You can taste the weed.

And that's what prompted him to get in contact with me to find out what was going on with him. Because he was feeling real strange. Was he going through it? Oh, he was going through it. It was incredible from my perspective. Right. You know, I actually like this kind of this kind of fits in and like, you know, the pandemic health crisis or whatever. But we we I took him to the emergency room and, you know, they took his

information. We sat in there for about two hours and didn't get any help and i'm just looking at him i'm like man you'll be all right so we just we just dipped we just ended up dipping uh oh how long was he high for was he high all day i know he was high all day he he was probably high until like the next day or two days perhaps you know be careful this is great i saw i saw him a couple times and i'm like like yo man you are you know you're a little bit more verbal than usual like my dad is one of those like very like stoic i only say what i have to say type dads and he was just like are you talking a lot today what's going on oh yeah like laughing at some shit he's like look at that he was a little different but you know as soon as it got out of his system he went right back to like good regular non-verbal dad right right back to stoic statue dad that's the thing about edibles they all you know for me when the the the few minutes where i'm like did i take too

much is when you start feeling your heart beating right and you start feeling how slow it is or how fast it's going he's just like this is it i'm gonna be the first nigga to die from weed uh and that thought get buried in your head and that's rough man that's a rough that's a rough hour that's what i was that's what i thought was coming from my dad because you know he was I feel strange right my mouth my mouth is real dry right like this is all kind of like you know just the fact that he was telling me something about how he was doing internally was always strange like oh he's in trouble you're like oh shit he's telling his internal experience right now he's articulating his internal yeah he's giving me a glimpse into his inner world something's wrong like in case of emergency break glass it's happening yeah i mean

uh yeah it's a slippery slope but hey when you know how to use them great time one of my fondest memories of taking edibles was actually at the art institute of chicago last time i was in chicago just strolling through their fucking high as shit, listening to my music. And I was like, this fucking place is the fucking, this is it. Chicago, I love you. Oh, that's very much. All right. Well, before we dive into more stories with you, Illingsworth, let's just give people a little taste of what we're going to be talking about today. Just want to talk about just the state of remote work you know some people are still working remotes many people are having to go back but there's like an interesting sort of poll that

comes out just so we can get an idea glimpse into the mind of the executives and managers who are going back to the offices we'll take a look at biden's new budget proposal and buckle up folks for Disappointment Fest 2022. And we'll also talk about the convoy, that DC convoy that wasn't shit. They've decided to pack it up and we'll just kind of check in to see how that mission went. And finally, we'll discuss a new game show that's in the works based on James Bond. And, you know, just generally get excited about something like that because it's kind of a fun idea. But first, before we do all of that, Ellingsworth, please tell us something from your search

history that gives us a little peek into who you are. Oh, man, I'm kind of a nerdy person if the glasses didn't give it away. I mean, the listeners can't see the glasses, but maybe you can hear them. But the last thing I was looking up on the young Google search engine was how to remove a clock capacitor from an original Xbox. Whoa. Like the OG boys, the big blocky boys. Yeah, the old black boys. The big controllers.

Yeah. Wait, yeah, yeah. For what? Apparently, you know, a clock capacitor. So, like, in the original Xbox, it had, like, that dashboard just like, you know, the other game systems have. But, like, the time is kept by a capacitor on the motherboard. And these systems have been out for, like, decades at this point. And the clock capacitors are faulty.

decades at this point and the clock capacitors are faulty so after so many years they leak this uh poisonous substance onto the motherboard that destroys the system oh shit so like if you are into like the modding scene they suggest removing the clock capacitor in order to prolong the life of your original xbox system so i got like three of them. So I was like Googling how to remove them, like their location on the motherboard, how to easily get them off if you don't have soldering tools, which I don't at the moment, how to like, you know, clean off the fan and stuff inside the motherboard, stuff like that. Got you. You big into modding and using the old soldering iron? Kind of. I mean, I was way bigger into it back when that xbox first came out like i had like a little side hustle where i was doing like soft mods

yeah xboxes yeah pirate shit yeah pirate gay man i was a young criminal young criminal yeah definitely was selling burn games oh yeah you know what i'm saying that shit was great oh man i had that for my original playstation and i had to send it in so this is the 90s still right so i found like i don't know how i found it because shit i was under 13 right so i don't know and this again the 90s so information isn't as right that's what it had to be but i found it and found the address to isn't as right. That's what it had to be. But I found it and found the address to send it to. My mom let me send it, like, to Japan or some shit.

And it came back. I didn't have my PlayStation for, like, a month and a half. But it came back. And I was able to, boy, I played so much Dragon Ball Z, burnt games, and, like, so much dope-ass shit. Oh, man, it was great. Shout out to the pirated game life, the boot discs, the old Dreamcasts. I remember fucking nba 2k2 i played fucking burnt that fucked up that burnt

disc like it was nothing oh man that the dreamcast was one of the best ones because you could just burn those discs straight up without having to do anything i was there at best a boot disc at best you just needed a boot disc and then you could just toss them right in. You can toss them right in. Look, we're nerds, too. Man, the kids don't know, man. I just saw an article today saying PlayStation is doing like a Netflix type thing where basically you can't go through their whole catalog. You just pay for like a streaming, like $150 a year, and you can stream PlayStation 1 games on up from their catalog. And I'm like, man, you motherfuckers got it

easy. Yeah, right. That's been the theme of you being on here. I'm like, man, these motherfuckers got it easy. These motherfuckers got it easy. They do, though. And you said, for a second, I thought you said clot capacitor and not clock capacitor. I said, what is this?

Black to the Future with a Jamaican Dr. Brown? He's like, the clot capacitor. i'm sitting over here with a catheter yeah yeah yeah clock capacity anyway um what's something you think is overrated hmm friendship man friendship is overrated man all you gonna do is let your friends down they're gonna be counting on you to be responsible and listen to them and be considerate and look out for them. And inevitably, people just fail at that.

You know what I'm saying? Myself included. I don't say this with any kind of, you know, I'm not on a high horse. I don't have the high ground, Anakin. Right. You know?

So, hey, man, be a solitary lone wolf. Wait, what lone wolf what happened just fuck some people over something yeah what happened somebody fuck you over what's going on ellingsworth when are we not fucking people over you know i'm saying as human beings man you're right you're right yeah i mean listen i'll say this you know i i haven't had a roommate since I was 19 years old outside of like, you know, living with significant others or whatever. But I always say, man, I can't live with no damn friends, man. Like the best thing about friends is they go the fuck home. They go home eventually, man.

Like, you know, everybody up here talking about I want to be with my friend all day. I know I don't. I don't want to be with you all day. But most. Yeah, that's why I choose to be your friend so I can choose to leave it it really i get it will fuck your friendship up living with somebody and i know this wasn't really the thrust of what you were saying linksworth but what you're i feel what you're talking about your keys because i mean it's related it's the two friends i live related yeah you live with people you kind of need a cooling off period after you're done living with

them to be like that's right we're homies rather man, it's that motherfucker I used to live with. And it's just, yeah, it's, it's a different, a different dimension. Different dimension. Can I just add like an additional kind of overrated thing?

It sort of relates as well, but I think like, I think not slapping people is overrated. You know what I'm saying? Like just, just from what has come out of the last few days, like embrace the fullness of your humanity, man.

Like you don't have to have this like carefully manicured persona, you know, like what is right and wrong? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like all the, all the moralism happening right now. Sometimes you want to slap somebody and sometimes things that you say will get

you slapped. Yeah. Just be prepared to deal with what comes after. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, let,

let the man go listen i don't know how everybody else grew up but i grew up in a certain way where it's like yo some shit may get you hit so you watch your mouth yeah you watch your mouth you know can uh can elicit a response physical response from those around you. I mean, yes. Many people are not strangers to that world. But again, like you're saying, the hot take economy is in full swing right now. So, yeah, everybody's getting it right now.

It's the feeling of safety. It's the feeling of safety. I remember, and it felt like this to me. I shouldn't have let the hands go. I remember I was at ucb and somebody came in and started talking crazy and i was in front of all the white people and friends and shit and i let that shit i just like verbally said some shit but i let that shit go right and i was like man the safety you feel in these four walls right it's crazy and you know maybe that's what chris rock was feeling he was feeling the safety in them doby walls man and will was like you ain't safe nowhere bro right he's like you're not magneto in that plexiglass fucking jail cell homie i can't get to you i think i think i think also in getting

slapped you saw that he he he also understood like the contract that was made in there like yeah i can get slapped because he didn't try to fight back he didn't try to do nothing back it's like yep you know what i ate that yeah and that's just that it was wild to see boxing twitter get into it it's like i don't you couldn't even believe the lack of head movement from chris rock he's like somebody's approaching you like that come on now keep get your head out of the line now duck it like yeah chris kind of leaned into it i thought like i know he was laughing but bro keep your I see somebody walking up. I'm at least going to, like, put my chin up, bro. What do they say?

Protect yourself at all times. Right, exactly. I mean, like, it reminded me almost the first time you ever block up, like, your mom from smacking you, and then it looks like it's like a Dragon Ball scene where it's like before you be like, whoosh. Like, no, mom, I reflex reflexively now, no. I can fucking, I know how to do it myself. And they're like, what the fuck was that?

And that gets you beat even worse. That's when they learn how to restrict you. That's when they learn to wrestle. When I learned how to block my mom, that's when she learned head locks and arm locks. Finger locks. There's a shifting of the power dynamic that needs to be addressed in that moment and either they address it or they don't yeah they either accept that

like you've crossed the rubicon or they're like no this is mutual assured destruction actually my son we will all die in this chucky cheek yeah it's like i came ready to fight today uh what's something you think is underrated ellensworth underrated okay i'm gonna get back to normal stuff uh the tv show raised by wolves on hbo max oh wait it uh i don't know if y'all are familiar with that have y'all seen that i know of it but i've seen it oh okay if y'all are familiar with that. Have y'all seen that? I know of it, but I've seen it. Okay. Do y'all dig science fiction? Yeah. Yeah. To me, it is, you know, I guess we don't got a whole lot of things to pick from for science fiction on TV right now.

I might be forgetting some things, but I think Raised by Wolves is one of the best. First off, the actors on there are great. What else? First off, they the actors on there are great. What else? They tackle a lot of themes about parenthood, responsibility, forgiveness, consent, religion. They got all kind of ill concepts, ill costumes like the costumes on that show are very simplistic, but they fit into this world that they've built so perfectly. Right. this world that they've been built so perfectly right and man like every for me watching every

episode of that each episode left me with like oh i i i wish this was bingeable uh you know lucky for the people listening right now they have already completed two seasons that are up on hbo max so you can't i was watching it live waiting a, just cooking in my chair in between. Right. And now you all get to benefit from the work that I've done. And you just get to knock it down. Knock it all down. But then we'll be caught up. What's the show about?

Basically, it's like a futuristic human society where, like, it's split into two factions. One faction is very, like, technocratic and atheistic. And the other faction is, like, super duper religious duper religious and like Earth becomes kind of inhabitable. So they send out both groups, send out people to like go to this planet called like Kepler 22B to carry on the human race. Shout out Johannes. And so like for the the the Mithraic, the religious sect, like they actually send like a ship full of people in like cryo sleep or whatever. OK, the atheists send two androids with like embryos and they're tasked to like, you know, birth these embryos and the humans raise them up and repopulate this world. And so it kind of follows what happens with those androids and with like the religious sect meeting up on that planet and trying to like figure out how to, you know, make their way on the planet and, you know, hijinks ensue. I like that. Yeah. The added complexity of like religion and atheism and all that with the future. OK, no, it's dope. It's dope, man. I enjoy it. So I hope, you know know anybody listening that decides to check it out enjoys it as well raised by all right raised by wolves

not just a thing uh people's parents would yell at us uh when they came home okay cool well check that out uh super producer justin saying it's one of the creepiest sci-fi things i've ever seen okay i like that endorsement yes it's ridley Scott and his son, Luke, who made it. Okay. So Ridley Scott, he's got a bit of a degree there with the sci-fi shit. I'll say I like that. I like that resume. All right.

So check that out. We say that as if, yeah. And Ellingworth, he's starring in Raised by Wolves. So y'all catch him on that. All right. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk this news. 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.

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And, you know, I think a lot of the workers that have had a taste of remote work aren't that willing to snap back into this back to normal situation. And I first want to start off by saying, obviously, this whole work from home movement or reality has not extended to most jobs. You know, like a study that just came out recently says about in total, not to say this is how many people are doing remote work, but in general, this it's been estimated that about 40% of the jobs in America can be performed remotely without going into an office. Like if you really wanted to get real about it, but for the most part, most people are not in a situation that allows for that, especially depending on the industry that you're in or the type of work that you do.

But we spoke like about a week or two ago about how there's this huge push to go back to the offices, you know, partly fueled by commercial real estate because they're just getting absolutely destroyed because they're like, oh, no, people don't need offices now. Well, what the fuck? I developed all this land and nobody's using it. Could have been affordable housing, but nope. Joe Byron helped them get back to the office so I can collect rent. And you see that little bit of energy moving in that sense.

But there's this new poll that came out that shows that there's also this human element to pushing the work back to the office shift. And that's managers and executives, they just miss being the boss. And that's managers and executives miss. They just miss being the boss. Yeah. So in this poll that was done, executives, corporate executives are disproportionately into the idea of going back to the office. Like 75% of executives, they want to come back to the office at least three days a week compared with under well under 40% of the rank and file employees. And that's just in general. That number is a lot higher if you can work remotely yeah that's because working at home you you start to see your worth a little bit more because you don't have people breathing down your neck

you don't have people pretending like you know they are doing work when they're not. And then, you know, you don't have bosses, you know, just being in charge of you. You know, it's much easier to be in charge of you if I'm right in front of you than if we're hundreds of miles away or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. So that's 100% a part of the reason why. Also, man, what a terrible time to be pushing getting back to work. Nigga, gas is $6. Right. Six. Six. Man, what a terrible time to be pushing getting back to work. Nigga, gas is six dollars.

Right. Six. Six, bro. Six. It just cost me one hundred and five dollars to fill up my tank the other day. And I almost I almost understood murder at that point. I was like, I want to kill somebody. I want to kill somebody. I want to hurt somebody. I've driven

sedans most of my life when I was behind a dude getting gas the other day. He said, put 60 on pump four. I was like, what? We at that level yet? To me, that's crazy. 60 to 50? What's gas in Detroit right now? Man, I don't even know,

man. I just have to pay for it. You know what I mean? I'm one of those people where it's like I have to go somewhere. So I just got to put the gas in the car when the car needs gas. I don't even look at it because it's like, what am I going to do the mental gymnastics for about what the gas is when I need it? Right, right, right. I need it. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? But just hearing somebody be like, yeah, 60 on four. That probably wasn't filling his tank up either like no i didn't fill his tank and he was in a fiat yeah for that fiat man it's a six gallon tank but yeah and on top of that you know it's a good point you know as obviously the cost of living goes up not many companies that are acknowledging that in their pay so no and some levels you're like yo it's like honestly with the gas and shit i'm making barely any money to go into work depending on what your wages are and i think you know this is this is kind of like this new cultural shift that's happening that you wish you know like even as a matter of policy you know the federal government's doing fuck all about climate change you could be like you know

what maybe we should we should actually encourage more remote work that's less people commuting that's one way to cut down on emissions but again because of those structures of offices and the egos of bosses they very much want to be in there and a lot of people point to the fact that you know executives and stuff have a very different work work life balance than the rank and file employees. So for them, going in the office is like, yeah, man, I go in fucking 40 minutes after everybody else does. I go to lunch an hour before everybody else does for two hours longer than most people do. And then I leave 90 minutes before everybody else. And it's great.

I love going to work. My office is in the corner. Beautiful. Yeah. Whenever I want to have affairs, I can bring people to the office. Can't bring nobody home. Can't bring nobody home, but I can bring them to my office. Look at this view, baby. Look at this view. When you were describing earlier the boss is missing being in office, I was thinking like, Hmm, maybe there's a business there. Like maybe we can get them to pay, to show up somewhere, to boss people around for a few hours out of the day to placate them so that we can still keep working from home. That's a fucking dystopia. Like imagine you had a job where you go to this place where CEOs have to pretend they have employees and you're a pretend employee at a job, but you still get paid.

And all you have to do is be like, Oh, right away, Mr. Roberts, I'll be right on the double. And they're like, I love this place.

You're like, I'm at Disneyland for CEOs. Mm. Hmm. Oh, there it is. Cause that's already like your job anyway, pretending like you fucking give a fuck and that you love what you do.

So like somebody I'm'm hanging with is like, my office wants us to start coming back in, and they're going to have to give me a $25,000 raise if they do that. And I'm like, first of all, $25,000 raise? I should have asked for that when I used to

work and shit. But like, that's exactly what, when you start talking in the time and cost let me tell y'all something your time is worth it all right your time there is one thing on this planet that you run out of not money i mean you know in general you cannot run out of money hold on i'm gonna get out your plan food you cannot run out of money. Hold on. I'm going to get out of your plan. You cannot run out of food. You cannot run out of, you run out of time. Yeah.

Everybody, every fucking living organism runs out of time. Your time is worth it. So if you don't want to sit in the car for 40 minutes on the commute, don't fucking sit in the car for 40 minutes on commute. Like, I mean, you got to live. I get that. I know it's more black and white. It's not as black and white but yeah man if your time is worth it ask to be compensated for your damn time oh yeah wrong

with that people need to ask you might get no don't yeah don't don't be afraid of hearing no that's for damn sure like yeah you know i don't i certainly don't i mean i know it's happened before but it's not often you hear people be like i got fired because i knew my worth when i tried to ask for it yeah but you know depending on your work yeah you might have a place you'd be like oh get the fuck out we're only here to exploit the fuck out of you hell no what your ass was shit i asked for a thousand dollars an episode to do the daily zeitgeist like she said no but i asked for it because my time is worth it i mean like i said i'm grateful for all the casper mattress discount codes that i do the show for.

I've got more mattresses than I know what to do with. But when I look at them piling up in my spare room, I say it was all worth it. You can jump off those. Yeah, man. You take the boxes and then you can make a fort. And then I make another job. I go to where I'm happy uh with the boxes and i pretend they're between the hours of five and nine so uh but yeah the other thing of the just

another thing they point out though with this like hybrid workplace thing is that they you know if they're not mandating physical preference or presence you know the people that choose to work remotely could suffer from basically a proximity bias where like the boss is like, well, these motherfuckers are in here and I know those other people work, but I don't see them. So maybe they don't need a raise or maybe they don't, you know, they're not going to get the kind of positive attention or whatever that the people who are coming into the office might experience. And in a situation like that, it's mostly people of color and women that are tending to want to work from home more than, you know, the demographic of just white male respondents to this specific poll.

So, you know, it's all shifting around us. But, you know, I guess someone someone needs to laugh at the boss's shitty jokes. Stroke that ego, I guess. OK, let's talk about the president, Donald Trump. I mean, Joe Biden. Sorry. Oh, damn. Damn.

See, I got another deal going because the Casper mattresses don't cut it. My pillow subscription just came through. But my president, my pillow, President Biden, has unveiled a new budget proposal. And I'll just say this, the only thing that remotely looks like a benefit to the working people is this new billionaire income tax, which is taking 20% off the income that's coming in at our over $100 million. That sounds pretty cool. But that's about it. That's the thing that got a lot of the headlines is like Biden is proposing this new wealth tax, like to finally make sure the billionaires are paying theirs. And typically when you hear that, the end of that sentiment is, so then the federal government has

money to actually spend on things that are a benefit to working people. But if we're claiming all that money from new taxes, then what the fuck is all this spending that's going on? Because I said, that sounds like the best part of this this there's no talk of fucking student loan forgiveness but you can be damn sure the pentagon is going to get an even bigger check than they did fucking last time to the tune of around 813 billion dollars health care child care get fucked uh there's actually more cash for cops, baby. That's what this fucking whole budget is about. And this is what happens, you know, when Democrats continue to govern only based on trying to

manipulate polling by triangulating their policies and getting independence or whatever. And again, it's because, let's be real, they're capable for capitalism. So there's no way they could do anything that would be actually be of a public benefit. There's just like this a lot of ideas that sound a certain way. But in practice, you're just seeing more money for the military industrial complex, more money for the prison industrial complex and less money for people. And none of the priorities in this budget appeal to the people that even fucking bothered to bail the country out on another Trump administration. But with the way the Democrats are handling, you know, their time and power, we're only, it looks like we're just delaying another Trump administration because there's basically like $2 for climate change. I mean, not seriously, it's like a,

like 50 billion or something, but pales in comparison of like what we act, the undertaking that needs to happen and it's just like this is the whole problem because right now democrats have this whole thing where the gop is so wacky looking their whole identity is based on just being like yeah but look at them over there that's not us and that's it that's pretty much their whole platform it's like well you could have that uh what are you going to do? Well, I'll tell you this. Believe them, boys.

Look at that. Look at that shit over there. They're fucked up, right? And they're pretty bigoted. It's like, well, I'm looking at your policies and you're spending more money on ice, not the fucking frozen water, but the customs or immigration enforcement ice than even Trump gave a budget to. Like, it's bigger ice budgets than even under Trump. So there's a lot of head scratching, but I think this wasn't a surprise to most people who looked at a potential Biden presidency and was like, let's not get too hopeful for

something super transformative here. It's pretty wild because, you know, look, in many ways, 2008 was almost like a different world to go right but the the certain things that obama ran on while they he didn't do them to the degree that like a lot of people had hoped like they tried to do the health care shit and you know they did it it's not as good as it could have been but like like there is like those big promises like that first year or so was spent doing that. Even Trump's whack ass, like those first couple of years outside of the wall. I mean, even this nigga put up like 40 feet a yard or 40 yards a wall like he put up some of the wall.

He put up a block's worth of wall like and and like the tax cut and shit right it is amazing that the biden administration literally has felt like and like i know they've done a lot of things i know when i say this on you know social media people say well actually so psych gang like stay out of my fucking mentions but like for the most part he hasn't kept any of the big promises that he said he was gonna keep like not even the ten thousand dollar like student loan no i mean let's not even forget the first one he's he's like two thousand if y'all come out and vote in georgia we got two thousand dollars for y'all they're like actually terms and conditions apply when you really add it up it's like there was a 600 I promised earlier.

How are you going to discount us on the stimulus? Right. So we have like this wild inconsistency happening. But that's just part of politics because that's what you do. You entice people to the polls and then you do what the corporate benefactors tell you to do because that's how this whole shit works. And, you know, they say shit, you's how this whole shit works and you know they say shit you know black lives matter but you know what here's more cash for the police because defund the police doesn't poll well so let's actually say that we'll we'll we'll acknowledge the catastrophic loss of black life at the hands of law enforcement by saying these things but in

practice we will actually just reinforce those institutions with more budgets uh and then they'll say like it's actually it's to reform the police and you're like to what reform they're fucking like they have like a voltron caliber guns yeah they got gundams yeah like are we for real like that's what's going to pull up to the next blm march is you're going to see some shit from fucking pacific rim with a fucking nypd badge being like disperse this is an illegal gathering and vaporizing people boston dynamics robo dogs right and they're like they're like we need to invest in our children and our education but here's damn near a trillion dollars for the military because these aren't the you know teachers aren't the people who fill our fucking coffers and And, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's really hard to see this.

And I know who can blame the Democrats, to be honest, because I'm just going to say this. You look at what happens with the Republicans. They're just out here just with their naked bigotry. And they're like, hey, man, they'll fucking shuck and jive and tell you that this we this is the america you're envisioning we're telling you straight up this is the fucking hell world we want to create for people like and they're still getting like 50 percent right they're like oh yeah yeah getting a lot of the vote brutalized that lgbtq community and like immigrants we love that and it's worth that i wonder you're in detroit right yes sir okay so like you know

it is sometimes i i wonder you know living in la you know the coastal elites uh or people from new york even being from chicago even though that's in the midwest like detroit still has a very coastal elitist vibe to it and i know detroit is a big city it's a liberal city and things like that but what what it but it very much feels like it's still out of the bubble in a way that like where i'm at is not um what is what is the feeling on a biden administration and some of the stuff that he promised and all these you know the the tax like do people outside because i think that's what republicans these, you know, the tax, like do people outside? Because I think that's what Republicans count on is. All right.

The New Yorkers, the Californians, they care about this shit. But a lot of people across the middle of the country are not caring or paying attention or anything like that. What is the vibe in like a Midwest city? Well, you know, I'm poor, so I'm around poor people. And there is a big feeling of detachment there's a big feeling of like the government does a lot of like top down stuff that we just have to fall in line with because oftentimes when certain laws pop up or certain mandates and it's like yo do y'all remember asking for this and it's's like, no. Some dude in the office was like, yeah, this will make things better.

Let's put it on some ballot. And we just have to get with it or get left. So in a lot of ways, I feel like people below a certain economic level, you don't even really get to feel the change because it's always just a constant, I have to survive. I have to survive. level you don't even really get to feel the change because it's always just a constant like it's violent i have to survive yeah i have to survive and there are things uh you know situationally

structurally that are making that difficult all the time right yeah and that's just the constant and there are a lot of people here like on the ground who are trying to do things within their own groups to like raise things up but like as as far as like feeling like the government is doing anything helpful to actual people i'm i'm not seeing it right yeah whoever's in office you know when you see like there was that tweet that went viral like over the weekend where someone's like i spoke to my very educated college you know graduate millennial daughter who's 30 she says oh yes all her friends are completely assed out and and aren't then don't believe that the the this administration or the the system as it is can do anything to help them is this true is this an

actual feeling going on you're like yes yeah because our decisions are being made by people with fucking forty thousand dollar freezers who have no concept of what a dollar is or what it means to live or what bills are and then they're surprised at the fucking they're like how's joe biden's polling numbers going down more because they're like i thought the kids we spoke to on that college campus were all smiles. Like, why are you really talking to working people and what they need? Because, you know, there was a lot of carrot dangling to the polls that appealed to people who said, you know what? Massive, like a break in having child care would ease up a lot of money for me. Being able to have like my bills be manageable because health care costs are coming down or prescription drug costs are coming down like those things would help but we see the fucking the foot dragging and

and it comes from democrats too like who are just as easily saying like i don't know if i want to vote for that bill because i'm basically a nascar with a bunch of pfizer stickers sponsorships on my back yeah so looking at you i just want to play this clip, though, from Republicans, because they are really, really, really like I said, they're really out here just letting you know, like, this is the fucking world that we're looking for, because they are really just coming out here with their proposals. is like this could be the new republican platform and this was on fox and even the fox news host was like hold on bro like what the fuck are you even saying that this could be a policy because rick scott is proposing that you know shit like social security or medicare those don't need to be like forever programs we can just like re-up them every couple years and make sure just do a vibe check on the country and make sure that we need those social safety nets. And even this dude on Fox was like, I'm huh. Now in November, the you recently put out an 11 point plan to rescue America. Two of the big points of which are quote,

all Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game. Even if a small amount, currently over half of Americans pay no income tax. It also says all federal... First of all, they don't pay income tax because they're not making enough to pay income tax. It's not because half the country's like Wesley Snipes or some shit. It's because they don't make the minimum. Okay, but we'll go on. Hey, everybody, even the poor people,

need to fucking have some skin in the game, not just their whole fucking existence. Legislation sunsets in five years. Hey, everybody, even the poor people need to fucking have some skin in the game, not just their whole fucking existence. Legislation sunsets in five years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again. So that would raise taxes on half of Americans and potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Why would you propose something like that in an election year sure well john that's of course the democrat talking points it's a no no it's in the plan it's in the plan but here's but here's

this thing about reality for a second so let's talk about medicare but senator hang on john it's not a democratic talking point okay so then he says OK, good point that that those are words straight from the text that I wrote. And it's a Democrat talking point to point out the craven nature of this legislation, I think, is what he meant. That's what he's talking about is the talking point, not the actual plan. The fact that, shh, motherfucker, you ain't supposed to be saying that out loud. Not with that in your voice. You're saying the quiet part loud, bro. You're so soft ass, empathetic, fucking Fox News news anchor ass get out of here this is fox news supposed to

fucking run with me i think it was funny that he was talking about people having skin in the game because he was definitely looking for blood in the game he looks like a nosferatu oh yeah my friends oh yeah he looks very vampiric he looks like he cheats at Dungeons and Dragons. That's even possible. That's the vibe of the fucking Rick Scott. All right. And I just want to check in with the convoy really quick. The trucker convoy we heard, you know, after the effect that it had in clogging Ottawa. You know, many Americans

were like, that's what we need. We need fucking truckers to fuck up the roads and keep people from getting to the hospital so then we can fight the mandates and Fauci and do away with the masks and freedom. And that's fucking, you know, that's us.

Great plan. But unfortunately, their anti-masker revolution has ground to a piss-soaked halt. And I'll get into the pee aspects of that in a second. But these people had a dream of uniting idiots across the country to fight the mandates. And they were even saying when they got to D.C., they were going to citizens arrest like just basically everybody in D.C. They're like, first, it's Mayor Muriel Bowser. We're coming for you.

D.C. Metro Police will citizens arrest you. I'm like, OK, well, maybe, you know, you might have a point there. We'll see. I don't know. I don't know what you're trying to do. But I don't know if you're going to get, you know, that plan will succeed. Trying to citizens arrest the police. Sure. And even some citizens citizens if we have to okay and i don't know for what now you can't just do it because you're pissed off about mandates but that's fine the thing is this thing was doomed from the start right because it's not just because

they had no real ideas or plans or situational awareness but i you know because their movement is based entirely on looking out for yourself and these people fighting the mandates, they're not altruists or altruistic at all. They just, you know, they, I think they just don't have that ability to sustain a morally outraged movement because it's starting off, they're starting with a bunch of nothing. They just saw that the world changed very quickly to adapt to a pandemic. It freaked them out. And then they said, no, this is, it's not me that can't fucking figure it out. This is the damn new world order. Sure. But when you check in, they spent three weeks and they didn't get shit done. First of all, the mandates were fucking winding down as they were approaching DC. So this idea that they were pushing back against some

draconian law, that kind of faded away. They met with like a couple politicians and even that didn't really do anything. And I just want to say, I say piss soaked because as these people were circling the beltway, trying to be like, you know, intimidate people first, they were like, couldn't believe that people were flicking them off. They were like, so many people have been flipping me the bird. I can't believe it. That's the problem with these people in this city. You can, they're just so rude. Then they're like, where are the bathrooms? We keep circling the beltway and we need to pee. A lot of these people that are pointed out, it's hard to get, find bathrooms, especially when you're in a giant ass convoy. Cause you're not going up like an interstate where there's like truck stops for everybody to pull over at so many truckers resorted to either peeing in bottles or just straight

pissing themselves to keep the fucking the point going and again you really you hate to see it and then by like sort of the last couple weeks the the organizers they were just like man we're losing control of this thing like the shit started splitting off into factions. It was getting violent. There was some dude named Ricky Bobby who had a Ricky Bobby t-shirt on who kind of started a counter movement within the convoy.

And then shit got so hectic, cops had to get called because one of his friends pulled a gun. The thing was chaos. So I don't know. I'm not sure if y'all were paying attention or surprised, but it's done nothing. No.

That came and went over here. Yeah. It's so funny. Like you were saying all of that and I've heard about it, but it's also to the point now where it's just like, there's always something. And like things, like some things like slip through the cracks and shit. And this was one that like slipped through the cracks and shit and this was one that like slipped through the cracks so this is literally like the first time i'm hearing any of all any of this yeah which is sad because right you saw the you saw the headlines and you're like

oh shit here comes this fucking carnival of stupidity coming for the streets of uh dc and the beltway but even then like everything was just the morale was all fucked up the all the money they raised like the organizers starting to get stingy with like who was getting fuel reimbursements and on top of that all the gas prices were going up so yeah uh it's hard it's hard when your movement doesn't really stand for anything you hate to yeah you know all right so rest in peace i love that somebody in the convoy was named ricky bobby though rest in piss hell yeah yeah that just feels like a funny thing that's like of course some guy just became known as ricky bobby who was starting a bunch of trouble within

it because he's like man i don't think the organizers know what the fuck they're doing and then like the organizer shut the fuck up like shut up ricky bobby and we're only calling you that because that's the you say we're wearing the same damn talladega knights t-shirt for fucking 16 days straight right but hey you know uh you got to respect the fandom all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk james bond the game show right after this. Ooh. 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 L.A.-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.

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Most of the time. And we're back. Just a quick question. I know, Ellingsworth, you like sci-fi. You've got an imagination. Jaquise, I know you like movies. You've got an imagination.akeese i know you like movies you've got an imagination do you ever watch films and have you ever watched like a like a human like a mission impossible type film a jack reacher james bond i'd be like yeah i think i could pull off that stunt

or like yeah i think i could jump all the time you know what i mean i think i would i think i would try and die immediately right that's what i say yeah no i think i would i think I would try and die immediately. Right. That's what I say. Yeah. No, I think I would. I think I would live as a kid. Did you? I don't know. I would always kind of look at stuff and be like, I wonder if I could actually do that. Like, I wonder like Indiana Jones films used to fuck with me. Like, I remember putting a fucking pole in the spokes of my own bike because I saw Indiana Jones do that to a Nazi in a movie and he flew off the bike.

And I was like, I got to see if that shit works. It worked, and I damn near fucking busted my skull on the pavement. Wait a minute. You put it while you were riding. You, like, stuck a fucking pole in your. Yeah, put a stick in the front. Yeah, no, I wasn't doing all that shit. Oh, yeah.

I wasn't doing all that. People think I'm smart. I'm not. Okay. You should have did the one where indiana jones shot an unarmed man that was could have been a much easier one that would have hurt you that's what i want to do yeah well i don't know i want to do the shit where i'm not i where you know i i'm not looking at the hero getting hurt and be like man i wonder what it

would be like to get hurt i was just more like i, I was in my mind. I was like, man, stop capping Indiana Jones. That shit don't work. And then I was like, fuck. I don't know what the fuck I thought. And yeah, it's too well. Speaking of, yeah, shooting the unarmed person. I mean, look, I can't, I don't have time to do the three weeks of police training to get a gun so I

can shoot an unarmed person. Come on now. I got, I got games to play, weed to smoke. But, you know so i i ask you this because there's this this this casting call went out for this new game show that i think amazon is putting out with some other production company but it's essentially testing people's 007 gangster with like physical fucking tests i'll just read this to you uh this is the sort of conceit of this uh this upcoming show quote it will take place at historic locations scooped

from seminal bond films meaning the icelandic glaciers from die another day and florida's seven mile bridge from license to kill they're all fair game contestants will compete for a cash prize of 1 million pounds hey because you know this is is keeping a James Bond or 1.3 million dollars. Although passing physical obstacles will be a major component. Ideal contestants must also demonstrate their intelligence by answering questions correctly to qualify for the next round. We don't know exactly what the tests are, but this is I just I like i like anything that takes somebody's like hubris and puts it to the test like remember joe's versus pros they used to be on spike tv oh not very vaguely okay so joe's versus pros were these like dudes who were like yo i'm the

best fucking hooper at my fitness club or like i was i was a you know i was a college prospect in football and they're like okay go against marshall falk you know what i mean they're like okay play one-on-one with brian scalabrini or something you know what i mean and they would just get cooked and it was always fun like this guy's like i'm the best hitter in my local baseball league and they're like all right go against this retired pitcher and they would just get fucked up and it was like all this show to kind of humble these people who had you know bigger ideas for what they were able to do so in my mind this is like i can already see like the the goofy contestants who are like way too confident in their skills and getting all fucked up in the first couple challenges this is putting me in the mind of like ninja warrior

right is a show that i used to watch back in the day i love shows like that we're just like normal people trying to do outstanding feats right and failing right yeah so yeah bring it on i'll check out the episode too that's the reason why i did uh tough mother because i'll be all i you know it's no secret i watched the challenge yeah and i was like man i can do that shit i can do a final like all the shit they'd be doing in there because they do like movie type like stunts and stuff for their challenges and things like that that's kind of what it's based off of so i was like all right what's the closest thing got because i'm too old to be on mtv now and nowhere near attractive enough but like i was like what's the closest thing i can do tough mutter let's go so go. So, hell yeah, I would do this. I want to.

Where to sign up? You got the sign up link? That's funny that you bring up the challenge because I was like, I know Jaquese would. This would be up your alley just to try your James Bond skills. Oh, hell yeah. I don't know if they're. Like, are you supposed to, like, clap a machine gun off on a jet ski or something? Like, how?

On the challenge? Yeah, no, no, no no no like on this show like if you're really gonna do your james bond shit like how i like i can't imagine it's really firearm centric because i would just present a huge safety risk you're like yeah and these amateurs shooting guns too from moving vehicles but the alcoholism challenge right exactly they're like more than all the women you got killed challenge how many women can you sleep with challenge oh there we go yeah they're like actually no this show is all bad they're like how many women can you disrespect challenge as james bond how many authorities can you you know not pay attention to the challenge though i like do you think i'm because

look i like the challenge too and i was texting you because i started binging i watched i cleared up i had dead weight i told you over the summer i stopped watching when dm passed away because that got too real for me i was like man dm passed away yes that was my like him ct and heard wow that was a love story for millennials you know what i mean and then when she passed away yes that was my like him ct and heard wow that was a love story for millennials you know what i mean and then when she passed away i stopped watching and then i got back into it and i the same shit was going through my mind you keys where i was like fuck man could i do one i'm like i could eat anything i'm not worried about any eating challenges i'll eat straight shit for a million i don't give a fuck like i'm i can do that it's the it's like the

long distance uphill running that terrifies me when i watch those challenges and like i see those especially in like the later ones are like this is the hardest one of all time and you got to go up and like run through the sahara naked i was like okay maybe not but yeah how did you feel going from i can do this to actually trying something like that i mean you know if i was in my 20s i probably would have been like i was like hell yeah i can do this i can do this i can fucking do this just let me just get me on the field now in my 30s my mindset is i can do this can do this. I just need about three or four months of training first. So like, you know, I've shifted my I've shifted my mindset where, you know, I can probably do some stuff, but I need to first see what exactly am I going to be doing and then train toward that. towards that so when i get there right then i can do it you know so like that's where it is now i i had to train for it you know because if i would have just went out there willy-nilly i you know it's like tough mudder was like nine miles 25 obstacle courses i wouldn't have lasted on the

third of that shit you know at low key they were like hey would you guys be open uh they're asking jack and i like would you want to would you want to be uh tough like do a tough mutter sponsorship they're like and and compete in the thing and jack and i'm like bro we'll die in the condition we're in they're like i'll do that shit send them to me there's like well they were like there's one coming up next week i'm like the fuck out of here i'm not gonna do no tough mutter in one week that's that's too short yeah oh that's like yeah like i heart to go ahead and give me another podcast and then uh and have tough mother sponsor me right and i'll be uh i'll be there we'll do a new podcast and then i'll quit the podcast as i call the challenge the chuggy olympics

the chug olympics for the old millennials uh and it's about two old ass millennials trying to get their bodies right to do a challenge or a tough mud or this james bond show i don't know it's good that's a good branded show come on sales it is it is ellensworth you and i mean you you gotta be there man just by proxy you were here you gotta be there you were here i mean i'm i'm at the point where i can look at the first challenge and be like oh maybe I can do the first challenge. I don't think I would be able to get past number two, though. When you watch Ninja Warrior, you're like, OK, I could do the little uneven foot thing.

I could get across that little uneven foot bridge. Maybe. Right. Maybe. I really want to try and get up that wall. You know what I mean? That ramp wall. That's usually at the end of stage one.

Oh, where you have to build up momentum and run up and pull yourself. Like a half pipe? Yeah, I can't do that. I got the bird chest. Tweet, tweet. I want to try. See, I just want to be humble. Tweet, tweet. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm sorry. Well, then maybe we'll just

stick to the James Bond shit. I still want to do the aggro crag from Guts. You remember that shit? Class fuck, yeah. I still want to do that shit. I still want to do the aggro crag from Guts. You remember that shit? Class fuck yeah. I still want to do that shit. I still want to do that to this day. I want to do that. I would do that. I would even go Legends of the Hidden Temple. Come on,

Olmec. I don't care how culturally insensitive this shit is. I'll kill that silver monkey, baby. Doing all that exertion getting all them jump scares to win like a stereo right exactly pretend you're in this video game or a bicycle what you got was a translucent cord phone for your room plus a uh a four-night vacation from outrigger hotels contiki in hawaii it's like always like outrigger in hawaii giving you a vacation i remember the first time i saw that i went to hawaii and i saw the outrigger hotel though all i could think of was like this was

a prize on every nickelodeon show was to come to this hotel. And my wife was like, yo, what the fuck are you talking about? I'm like, just let me have my elderly moment by myself. I'm like, I'm here at the outrigger. Yeah. Nickelodeon timeshare. You're right.

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I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I Okay, so that's going to do it for today. Illingsworth, thanks so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, celebrate you?

It's your birthday. Happy birthday, man. Yeah, March 29th is my birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday to you. Hell yeah. Happy birthday. Let's go.

Thank you. Thank you. Well, you can find me at Ill illingsworth on all social media that's twitter that's instagram you can find me at illingsworks.bandcamp.com for my music i just recently put out an ep with homeboy sandman called there in spirit i got a lace cut record out uh if you follow me on social media you can can find that very easily. Just dropped a song with Open Mic Eagle, Rap Ferrer, Still Rift, and Video Dave called Multi-Game Arcade Cabinet with some live bass on there by the homie Jordan Katz. Check that out.

It's on all streaming. Yeah, that's where you can find my stuff. Perfect. Yeah. Check out his band camp. Support the artist, Ellingsworth. Please. Will you?

And what's a tweet that you like or another work of social media you want to point people into their direction well i don't i don't necessarily have a tweet or social media i just been trying to like stack up some some great books okay wow so i just want to recommend some books to take us out real quick young man let me tell y'all about some books i've been reading i'm not fucking with these memes there's a book called laziness does not exist by dr devin price that's pretty dope it's about exactly what the title is about laziness does not exist you know dismantling the idea of like people having to be super productive to be worthy of existing so uh check that out uh the dilettante book by dan charnas um you know just started

reading that recently it's very incredible uh book for if you want to find out about like the life of jay dylan yeah and about like how he created the music like it has like technical aspects too and this one ain't out yet what do you mean like the way he was like chopping samples and slowing them down and what do you mean sort of kind of like it has like when you first get into it, it kind of has like some some technical diagrams to try to explain some of what he was doing as a musician. So it's an incredible resource for that. And also even like sort of his like offbeat drumming and stuff like that. Being like, this is what a grid looks like. And here's the hi-hats. like offbeat drumming and stuff like that being like this is what a grid looks like and here's the hi-hats yeah just a little bit before after i can't remember the name of the guy but like dan

collaborated with with a musicologist to come up with like a specific kind of like language and diagram style for the book to describe wow how you know things were like mapped out right musically it's really it's really interesting. Wow. And then a book I'm looking forward to is a book called mad, all capital letters by King cats. It's a photo book, photo and poetry book.

That's going to be on a paper street press company. I saw like a piece of it and it's very incredible. And I want people to check that out. I'll be posting about it when it's out for sure. cool see look at you educated bit our ignorant man i would i gotta check out that dilla book because i'm yes fuck i'm i'm dilla brained over here please check it out jakees where can people find you follow you what's the tweet you like oh you know what it is y'all can find me on these streets and in these streets and at jockeys neil on all the social media for the la or people who like to

travel to see shows and shit like that this will be in la on mother's day actually so bring your mamas bring your kids bring everybody uh at the Elysian Theater. I'm doing I'm bringing back Comedian Feud, which is basically just top comedians in L.A. playing Family Feud. And I'm the host. And it's very fun. It's a fun show. The comeback is going to be the Paul F. Tompkins family versus the Lauren Lapkus family. Oh, shit. And then we got Naomi I ikpar again doing a little stand-up set and five people from the audience will get a chance to play the winning team uh between tompkins and lapkus oh shit uh so yeah it should be fun mother's day at elysian theater come on out if you are in la or near la or you just want to come to la and see a show uh come do your fucking thing it'll be a good ass time uh i got some tweets i got two tweets they're all visual though okay but but the visual but the

visual of it is all recognizable memes right okay all right so we all know that meme where will smith is crying in front of pursuit of happiness right when he gets the job, right? Like, you know, the look of sorrow on his face. So that's the meme. And the tweet says, Will Smith if The Rock made that joke instead of Chris Rock. Will would have been like, God damn, I got to go up and smack this nigga. I'm going to just have a talk with him afterwards, backstage.

Yeah, we're going to go out here and settle this afterwards. Hey, The Rock, let me holler at you real quick. Yeah, what's up? Yeah, Rock. No, man. I just want to say I do be smelling what you be cooking, bro. Funny joke, man. Funny joke.

Yeah, man. That was from at niggas be wiling. That's the handle. And then one more from uh papa sombra both mine are rock related but uh we all know that visual of the rock after la la land didn't win and moonlight did and he has that look on his face yeah yeah uh so this tweet says chris rock's cousin, looks on in shock. Oh, man.

That shit had me dying. It had me fucking dying. So those are my favorite tweets. Shout out to those. Using memes the right way. Yeah, right. Let's see. Some tweets that I like.

First one from MazboQ. At MazboQ tweeted, Will needs to give back to Oscar. People who need to give back stolen land, wealth, resources, artifacts, etc. I saw this one. Yeah, that one hits a little bit differently. Another one is from Reductors, at Reductors tweeted, Silly goose.

This goose is actually very litigious and will sue for defamation. And it's just a picture of a goose. And then finally, I saw Cody Ziegler, Big Zieg, tweeted this thing. But the tweet that he retweeted, again, it's visual. I'll share it with the class that's on the screen. But this is a tweet from at JDebLee. And it says, how do y'all walk in shallow water? And it has two diagrams.

One is somebody walking straight up with the water at their knees. And the other option is to just duck your neck and shoulders low and be creeping so your whole body is under the water. I have to say I'm a low creeper. Yeah. I'm a low creeper. Yeah. I'm down with say i am i'm a low creeper yeah i'm a low creeper yeah i'm down with number two i'm a low creeper yeah i gotta be i gotta be bending down yeah there's but you know what the funny thing is the awkward shit about being like because usually i'm doing it because i'm like i'm cold i'd rather have my body submerged in all the water is when that inevitable moment like when you have to get out and like you just

suddenly emerge from the water like fucking godzilla and people are like what the fuck were you crouching in there the whole time it just looks fucking weird uh and then finally becca o'neill at becca underscore o'neill tweeted as a comedian american i feel and just let that tweet hang like that because there's so many think pieces going on right now. You can find me at miles of gray on Twitter and Instagram. Also, check out the new podcast with Jack and I, Mad Boosties, where we're talking all things Dorf on golf and the NBA. Shout out to my old heads who remember Dorf on golf. And also that premiere episode dropping tomorrow, Thursday, March 31st with our first guest, none other than this man right here, Jaquese Neal.

It's a good time, so check it out. Take a listen. Imagine, it's like Zeitgeist, but we're talking basketball most of the time. And the NBA let us use any archival clips we want. So it's kind of cool. Hell yeah. And also 420 Day Fiance. You already know about that.

Find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We got the Facebook fan page and the website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes footnotes there it is uh where we you know you can see all the stuff we talk about the articles and shit that we're reading talking about as well as the song we write out on now it's not often i have a producer on the show and also did a track with another guest who's been on the show. Obviously, Open Mike Eagle, been on the show many times. Ailingsworth, this is your second time. I want to say, I know you were just talking about the new work that you're doing with Mike, but I got to talk about a track that I was liking for a minute.

It was right after MF Doom passed away. R.I.P. MF Doom, doom which is mike you know spitting on one of your tracks one of your beats so this is an illingsworth and open mic eagle collaboration rip mf doom again if you oh man i love i love the beat thank you and that's to take nothing away from the the rhymes from mike but the beat is so good i love the fucking wonky production i love that distorted was like an organ sample? What is that going on in there? It's a sample of somebody singing.

Oh, and you just. Okay. And you really, really. I mean, some instruments in there, too. But like the main feature of it is like a guy singing some words. I can't say I can't say too much more because, you know, we got it. We got to duck the clearance. Exactly, man.

Keep it fair. Keep it fair use because it's being used fairly all.all uh so this is rip mf doom check this track out and yeah we'll be back later to tell you what's trending uh so tune in for that obviously this show is a production of iheart radio so for more podcasts check out the iheart radio app apple podcast wherever you get those podcasts we'll'll see you later. Take care. Peace and blessings. Bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden.

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